Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, February 26, 1920, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textr i I 1 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2G, 1920 ID LEASING BILL I PHOTOGRAPH INTRODUCED BY DEFENSE LV HAWLEY DIVORCE I TRIAL. SIGNED BY WILSON Millions of Acres Afc Opened to Development. OIL TRACTS AVAILABLE Rich : Deposits to Be Tapped, bin Government Will Take Royalty on All Production. TVASHIXGTOV, Feb. 23. Presijent w'ilson today signed the oil land leas ins bill, which opens up for develop merit millions of acres of land in the west. The total area of oil lands thrown open for lease under the bill is esti mated by the geological survey at more than 6,700.000 acres, while proved coal lands under government withdrawal total approximately SO, 000 acres, with 39.000.000 acres still to be Classified. Phosphate lands are estimated at 2,700,000 acres, with so dium and other mineral deposits equally as extensive. California with 1,189,200 acres of withdrawn oil and gas lands and Wyoming with 1,151,629 acres, led the other states in the extent and rich nss of their oil deposits. Of the six additional states containing govern - merit oil lands made available to lease under the bill, Louisiana, with 467. OHO acres and Arizona with 230,400 acres are considered, to have the most valuable deposits. Utah and Montana Doubtful. The Utah and Montana areas are estimated at more than a million acres each, but much of this land, jrovernment experts say, comes under the doubtful" classification. Onto. rado contains 222,000 acres and North Dakota 84.S94. In addition to these oil resources vast areas of oil shale lands in Colorado. Utah and Wyoming iuue avauaoie ior exploitation. The naval reserve oil lands in Call lornia ana Wyoming are not made TRIAL. ? ' ' .X&J j ' '1,' II r if4 II f fr: If l:4 TRAK PROVISION CUT FROiW ARMY BILL House Committee Yields Republican Leaders. to FIGHT IN HOUSE ASSURED Belief Is That Feature Should Be Subject of Separate Legislation at Kext Session. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. In ac cordance with the demand of repub lican leaders, the house military com mittee, by a partisan vote, today re fused to include universal military pointment would be for a period of lour years, but his assistants would be- regular army officers, assigned to tnat duty br the president All colleges and universities htT ing a two-year physical training course would be entitled to a reserve orricers" training corps, but It would be -required that the corps unit have as least loo men. Camps AlftO Authorised. The secretary of war also would be authorised to maintain reserve of ficers training corps camps. Grad uates would be eligible for appoint ment as reserve officers. Likewise the secretary would be authorized to operate camps for civilians, the grad uates of these also to be eligible for reserve officer appointments. The combat strength is authorized to be 250,000, the remainder of the force being absorbed in the supplv and administrative services, and the .Philippine scouts and unasslgned re cruits. The infantry force is fixed at a maximum strength of 110,000 men and 4200 officers, the cavalry at tv,ow men and 95 officers, the field uj uucrj at men and 1S00 or ficers, the coast artillery at 26,000 men and 1200 officers and the air service at 16,000 men, including cadet flyers and 1514 officers. A finance department Is established by the bill, its duties beinir strintlv that of disbursing war department tunus. Purchase and transportation are placed in charge of the Quarter maaier corps, put the business deal- f- training in the army reorganization bill, which will be formally reported Ings of the department are n la red in tomorrow by Chairman Kahn. Sharp charge of an assistant secretarv of opposition to ine reorganization pro' gramme is assured when the bill reaches the house floor and it may be attached earlier by a minority report. In rejecting immediate considera tion of the training plan, the commit tee voted that it should become the Staff Duties Indicated. xne general taff is limited to amies or "a general staff nature. its personnel being enjoined under me Dill "from assuming or engaging subiect of separate legislation to be 'n work of an administrative nature. framed by a "friendly" sub-commit- I In fixing the various grades of of- tee of seven named by Mr. Kahn, with iicers me bill provides for only one LEFT TO RIGHT MRS. MARJORIK HAWLEY. PLACD JOHVUnX awn MM. CLIFFORD BALL, DISPORTING THEMSELVES AT BARVIEW. OR. MM SEEN IN BEDROOM available for public leasing under the GIRL TELLS OF STRANGER'S uuicM me president shall so pre scribe. Efforts to open up this land were largely responsible for the blocking of the legislation in con- tress ior many years, the navy de partment vigorously opposing the leasing of the rich oil deposits in holdings in those states. The total area in California is 68,000 acres and that in Wyoming 30,000 acres. A very slight Dortlon nt th i oil reserves had been drilled before VISIT TO MRS. HAWLEY. Guard Admits Kisses and Says His Embraces Were .Returned by Plaintiff; Pictures Shown. (Continued From First Page.) the land was withdrawn h o'clock in the morning. He said It . mucin, anu unuer the leasing bill . there will be a readjustment of the en occupy the station at the look- vufc aim niiiie mere niigoi De notning wrong about Marjone hav ing been with Johnson, people drew unpleasant conclusions, 'You did not see anything very bad, did you?" asked Mr. Latourette. Dancing Girls Suspected. "Everyone draws his own conclu sions," replied the witness. "I draw mine and you draw yours. I found several young ladies at the beach who didn't dance," continued Cooper, "and. there were some respectable people there." "Then If a young girl danced you would look out for her?" asked Latourette. "Safety first," was the laconic I reply. Mrs. Fred W. Smith, of Los Angeles, a former resident of Meldrum, was at Bar View ourir. the summer of 191. 'Mrs. Hawley's conduct was cer tainly not very good," she said. "I cannot remember seeing her more than once or twice without Johnson. She wore a low neck gown with short sleeves at the beach dances and was very conspicuous. Johnson carried her baby to the train when she left." Mrs. JI. W. Kelsey testified that a good many people at Bar View thought Marjorte was out of place because of her conduct and her attire. Her daughter, Helen Kelsey, said Marjorie paid special attention to Johnson at the dances. She testified to having seen Marjorie, Mrs. Ball with Johnson and another coast guard in a res taurant at s:30 A. M., after a dance. and she afterwards saw Johnson with Marjorie on the trail coming down the old lookout station on a Sunday aiternoon. Little Fuaaea Reported. Miss Lena Schroeder, who is at present employed as domestic for Mrs. Hawley, the plaintiff, said she had formerly worked for the Hawleys In 1916 and 1917, and that Willard had treated her fine. "Did they ever have any trouble?" asked Harrison Allen. "Oh, just you know little fusses." She had to wash Mrs. Hawley's little white dog, she. said, and would bleach the canine out with bluing wa ter, washing the dog and putting rib bons on it. Willard also was fond of the dog, she said. Manvilie Robinson, whose name has been connected with that of Mrs. Ball, was a member of the life-saving crew at Bar View from April 14. 1917, to September 17, 1919. He entered spe cific denials to the charges of his in timate relations with Mrs. Ball and said that he and Johnson had been with the girls only twice, once on the night of the bonfjre, when they had left the house together before mid night, and another time when they had walked home together from a dance. He had called at the cottage with some clams but had not gone in. He said that Mrs. Hawiey conducted her self properly and he had never seen anything off color with her. He flat ly denied having remained at the Hawley house until 4 A. M. He was married September 23, 1918, and be came separated from his wile six months later. The defense closed its case this aft ernoon and the plaintiff began intro ducing rebuttal evidence. The deposi tion of Mrs. Clifford Ball, who is ill at her home in Portland, was taken tonight, and the case may be con eluded tomorrow, with the exception of the argument. Kiwi Are Admitted. Claud Johnson, who, according to several witnesses, was with Marjorie much of the time at Bar View, did not come to Oregon City to testify today. as was expected, but his deposition was filed. He testified that Robinson and Mrs. Ball were together until about 3:30 A. M. the night of the bon fire and that he was in the house with Mrs. Hawley until they came back to the cottage. He said he em braced Marjorie and that'she returned his embraces and that she kissed him in return for his kisses. "Would you aay the conduct .you have described was that of a lady?" he was asked. "Well. I think it was. There was nothing teetotally wrong about it. That is according to how people look at it." Before I would see the Hawleys ret my baby. I would say she wasn't Willard's," said Mrs. Marjorie Hawley to Mrs. Ralph Eddy, according to the testimony of the latter this morn ing. Mrs. Hawley had testified on direct examination that Mrs. Eddy tmima oi me noiaers of these wells. In withdrawn coal lands North r kota leads the other 12 states with more than 11,000,000 acres, although no ucpuaiis are not considered as val uauio as mose contained in the 2,800- wiv acres or Colorado, which are nn praised by the government at an av erage of J75 an acre, the highest valu ation for government coal lands in any siate. Idaho Has Moat Phosphate. The 7.23S,r15 acres in Wyoming, get the next highest appraisal of 53 an acre, the total valuation of nearly .M00.000.000 being the highest for any state. Other states with extensive government coal lands are Utah with 1.069,600 acres, Montana with 5,782, 216 acres, and New Mexico with 665,' 565 acres. Idaho ranks first in government phosphate lands, with a little more than a million acres, and Wvnmimr " n uwu.uuu acres, these de posits also being considered the rich est. ine areas in Florida, Montana and Utah range front 100,000 to 300,000 acres. Authority for the administration of ine on leasing law is placed with the secretary or the interior. On oil imd the leasing rate will be 5 per cent of the oil produced, and this may be icumiiueo in on or cash, as the gov ernment may elect. ror this year, at least, the govern ment is expected to collect Its roy- ttiii- III on. jonn carton Payne, chairman of me snipping board, who soon is to Decome secretary of the interior, re 4-cniiv rrcommcnaea tnis course to ine interior department, so the shin ping board would be assured of an on supply at fair prices. When he takes over the Interior department Mr. Payne is expected to carry out Vs own recommendation in the matter. CORDOVA. Alaska, Feb. 25. Blow ing of whistles and ringing of bells announced to Cordovans today that l'resident Wilson had signed the oil land leasing measure, opening vast oil fields in Alaska to development A few minutes later the long-expected rush to the Katalia and Yakutaga regions was in full swing. s Legion Auxiliary Planned. THE DALLES. Or.. Feb. '25. (Spe cial.) A group of local women have petitioned for a chapter of the wom en s auxiliary of the American Le sion, .visa i-ruuence atterson was chosen temporary committee chair man. Mrs. (Jeorsie Webber vice-chairman and Mrs. S. Burke Massey secre tary. The signed petition was sub mitted to The Dalles post of the American legion, which will send east for the charter. The membership committee is composed of Miss Helen Sohoren. Mrs. Georgie Webber and Mhs Kmma legenhngn. had taken this position in a hypo thetical case, and that she had agreed with Mrs. Eddy, who was placed on the stand to impeach the plaintiffs testimony. Christian Schuebel, coun sel for Mrs. Hawley, objected to the question propounded by Harrison Allen on the ground that it was lead ing, and Alien, who is not averse to having a little fun out of the case when opportunity offers, obsei-ved: "Counsel has forgotten what taught him when I was district attor ney here and he was my deputy.' Pictures Are Evidence. Marjorie was called back to the witness chair this morning to iden tify some kodak pictures that were taken at Bar View. One of the photo graphs was of Claud Johnson, a coast guard who was with her much of the time at the resort. Johnson was wear. ing Mrs. Hawley's wrist watch In the pnotograph and ehe admitted he had worn it two days and had returned It at a dance. I brought the films home," she said, "and Willard seemed to have slipped them out of the house. He as seen them time and time again." "What did Willard say to you about sending these pictures back to Bar View to the boys?" he was asked. "I do not remember any such con versation," replied Mrs. Hawley, "but it might have occurred." Mrs. Haw ley said when Willard was at the beach with her, he had taken about two dozen pictures. "I don't notice that any of the 24 pictures taken when Willard was there have Claud Johnson in them," said Mr. Allen. "You made no bones about having your picture taken with Johnson?" general the rank now held bv John J. Pershing and directs that the of fice shall cease to exist when vacancy occurs. Twenty-two major generals are au thonzed and 46 brigadier Promotions of officers, under the bill, me to o maae irom a single list and those detailed to the technical corps are to remain permanently in inose services. Enlistments in the regular army are fixed At nn nv trdn l trie Ont ion nr til rAPrnlf Th toe 1 rious erarifeK nf n1iMtd msn r tnft to the president s discretion and sub ject to his changes at any time. Pay or enlisted men is fixed at $30 to $75 a manth, with a provision abolishing? ine present laws or continuous serv ice increases and substituting: a flat 10 per cent Increase in base pay tor eacn nve years of service. an agreement of the leaders that its consideration would not be blocked after a thorough inquiry had been made concerning costs and economic effects. This investigation is expect ed to delry action on the question until the next session. With this temporary disposal of universal training, the committee voted 10 to 6 to report the reorgani zation bill, providing for a maximum peace-time army of 17,700 officers and 299,000 men, including the Philippine scouts and unassigned recruits, definite tactical formation of army is prescribed. This feature is among the principal causes of sharp opposition by the minority. Battle In House Afcaured Supporters of universal training plan to offer amendments to force house action on the question, but op ponents of the scheme hope to frus trate these attempts through parlia mentary tactics. Announcement of the committee vote on its reiection of training. virtual reversaf of its previous de cision, was withheld beyond a state- mnt that- tha rltvltifnn wftft 11 t rt 5 Four democrats and seven republicans T" 0 ADMITTED TO MKMBER. were understood to have voted against I l-iiid tv iut?diciv rsr r r-i the plan to become effective July 1, 1 - I r. t, ... . The reorganization bill recognizes " ""'" " -iuru, u., aviation as a fourth arm of the army, and professor LeIIIa Andrews nf Oklahoma Gain Recognition. Spring Styles Let your new Spring Suit be of good quality. It will give you the most for your money in faithful service, besides the satisfaction you will get from being truly "dressed up." Mathis clothes are carefully hand tailored smart in style up to the minute. You will feel exceedingly well dressed the moment you put them on. Priced,$30, $40, $50, $60 and up New Dobbs and Mossant Hats mathis- Spring Shirts and Neckwear MEN'S WEAR Mathis Corner, Fifth and Morrison with the infantry, cavalry and artil lery, each headed by a major-gen eral. The tank corps Is included in rrfr. .ervlce become, a senarate CHICiOd TiVh T- wm than J00O applicants were electedfel- . . h rr,t wi,h lows of the American College of rny vwi mo iviuuii. -j.4 i. . uilVSlCliiUa. Uf. II IkH W I (1 or rtflfTK I i J : j i j I ' I siciaiis iuuit . vLuer ew .i.ea, uve,uAeU Iordi m,r and Professor Leilla Andrews Medical science ha prepared a bul JMi-fnth? iSrTSTnS of the diversity of Oklahoma, today wark against some of the effects of i weic auuiuiea to memuersnip in ine ... , " . American College of Physicians, the liberal provisions ior Duiiamg UP I D.on . . u j . .u , r .he hill, including manv of the ree. body. which is meeting with the con ommendatons advocated by guard gress on internal meaicine. officers. The reserve officers' train- I Dr. V. eld was admitted in recogni lng corps in schools and colleges and tion of her studies in proper feeding the citizens' reserve are continued. cf . nremature and undernourished The strength of the national guard chilliren. It was held that her efforts poison gas In event of another war. It was demonstrated today by a series of addresses. The starfish has no nose, bnt the is unchanged by the bill, but to en- had resulted in a permanent aid to ' Nobody Can Tell When You Darken Gray, Faded Hair With Sage Tea. Grandmother kept her hair beauti fully darkened, g'issy and attractive with a brew of sage tea and sulphur. Whenever her hair took on that dull, faded or streaked appearance, this simple mixture was applied with won derful effect. By asking at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur compound, you win get a large bot tle of this oid-time recipe, improved by the addition of other ingredients, all ready to use, at very little cost. This simple mixture can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair. . A well-known downtown druggist says everybody uses Wyeth's Sage end Sulphur Compound now because it darkens so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been ap plied it'a so easy to use, toe. l'ou simply dampen a comb or soft brush and draw it through your hair, tak ing one strand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears; after an other application or two, it is re stored to its natural color and looks glossy, soft and beautiful Adv. Boy's Presence Resented. "Sly goodness alive," exclaimed Mrs. Hawley. "don't people at the beach have their pictures taken with lots of people they never saw before?" The witness testified that she had written to Willard about John Brown, aged 16 years, with whom she had walked down the beach on her way home, and upon receipt of her letter Willard had called her on long dis tance telephone and said: "What do you mean by running around with that man over there?" When she returned home- she ex plained to Willard that Brown was"i only a boy, and Willard replied: "Oh. then he wasn t a great big man like I am." Mrs. R. W. Kirk concluded her tes timony this morning. She had seen Johnson and Marjorie at the train when the latter was leaving for home. On cross-examination she explained she was able to fix dates of occur rences by the fact that the Kirk guinea pig had been killed by Man vilie Robinson's dog. Her little girls had placed the dead pig in a box and consigned it to a watery grave In th bay, but 'the pig and its coffin be came separated and the animal floated away. Attorneywor the plaintiff at tempted to show that while the coun try was at war it was not unusual for women to go out of their way to be nice to men in the uniform of th United States. 0 "1 do not understand," said Mr. Al len, "that it is the duty of all th life guards to love ail of the marriei women at the beach. It would not even be proper for Charley Latourette to do it under the same circumstances." Mrs. Mabel Morton of Portland, who occupied a cottage adjoining that o the Hawleys, said that the plaintiff dressed conspicuously and that she had recognized Manvilie Robinson' voice at the Hawley home about mid night. She came home one night about 11 o clock and found Winnifred Ball crying on the porch of the Hawley cottage, and the little girl said th maid left her alone in the house. She said the maid came in about 20 min utes later. courage formation of state troops humanity. Professor Andrews gained recognition will be given companies recognition inrougn ner worn on of 60 until July 1, 1921, after which blood diseases of children, declared the minimum requirement will be 5 to be of "an epoch-making character.' men. I The medical nrofpsslon Is one nf the It Is also prescribed by the bill that v,.j., i,j .j v, , . . , tlfe guard of any state "may include ""dest worked and the least paid of sueh detachments or oarts of units as a" Professions, accoramg to UT. J. tL may be necessary to form tactical Byrne of New York, associate secre- units when combined with troops of I tary-general of the college of physi- original enlistments in ine guaru -It i9 not uncommon for a lawyer would be for three years, with the f f 10 mooo and re-enlistment period being for one .v t-w vear. excent that men who served in frequently surgeons obtain large the army within the last two years sums for ' their services," said Dr. may eniist for a one-year period. I Byrne. "I seldom heard of such All Equipment Furnished. thing among physicians. They sim- the a-uard reserve I P? ar not PalQ wnal iney - are CXITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF RAILROADS SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD Electric Lines Ticket Office Will Move Enlistment in would be for either one or three years, under regulations prescribed by the secretary of war. All equipment, in cluding animals, would be furnished by the federal government, and regu lations for paying- guard members for weekly drills would be more liberal. When the state troops are called into federal service, as during the Impression that the surgeon is a great. world war, their discharge from fed- er benefactor than the physician 8 L 71 fk T ,woul" T Dr. Byrne defended the old-fash-carry with It their release from state 1,1' jt . service. I ned country doctor, saying he was The chief of the militia bureau, un- I often better qualified than many of der the bill, would be a guard officer I the newer products of medfcal'scbools. of at least ten years' service. His ap- ' One hundred physicians from more worth. Nine times out of ten the physi cian makes the diagnosis before the surgeon performs the operation. The surgeon merely carries out in stuctlons. Yet among a great many of the laity there seems to be the March 1st to IDA M. 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