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PORTLAND OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920
TRICE FIVE CENTS
RESOLUTE
GEMS ONCE OWNED BY
SENATE
TURKS KEEP CAPITAL
G. W. P. HUNT NAMED
MINISTER TO SIAM
WOOL PRODUCERS TO
RUSS ROYALTY SOLD
AS RESULT OF INDIA
COMBAT PROFITEERS
GROWERS ORGANIZE TO ' CUT
REGARDING ITALY
E
JEWELS STOLEX FROM PALACE
LLOYD GEORGE EXPLAIXS DE
FORMER ARIZONA GOVERNOR
AIXTIO.XED IX XEW YORK.
CISIOX OF ALLIES.
SUCCEEDS HORNIBROOK.
. OFF MIDDLEMEN'S GAINS.
SON
READOPTS
EAST IS AROUSED
BY Mf CHOICE
Wilson Appointment Is
Poorly Received.
ROBERTS
ALIENIST
VAT
BACKS CONFESSION
V
V
Notes on Adriatic Issue
Are Made Public.
PREVIOUS STAND MAINTAINED
Adjustment Sans U. S. Sane
tion Is Protested.
TREATY RECALL POSSIBLE
Premiers Hold Latest Pact Is "Fair
Settlement or Difficult and
Dangerous Question."
WASHINGTON. Feb. 26. President
Wilson in his reply to the British and
French premiers on the Adriatic ques
tion adheres to his Drevious decision
that unless the terms of settlement
are returned to the provisions of the
agreement of December 9 he "must
take under serious consideration" the
withdrawal of the treaty of Versailles
and the French alliance from the sen
ate. The response of the premiers -was
dispatched from London today, but
had not been received tonight in
Washington.
With the exception of this note, the
exchanges, including the December 9
agreement and the subsequent agree
ment communicated to Jugo-SIavia
last month by the British and French
premiers, were made public today by
the state department.
Joint Memorandum Cited.
The Joint memorandum of December
1. subscribed to by France, Great Brit
ain and the United States and which
it was supposed here settled the
Adriatic question, provided in sub
stance the following:
Istria was to have a frontier which,
while "widely overstepping" the rec
ognized ethnical line between Italy
and Jugo-SIavia, would have given to
Italy more than 300,000 Jugo-Slavs
and further extended eastward to
give Italy territory in the region
Albona, also Including Jugo-Slavs. A
buffer state between the Italian ter
ritory and Istria and the Serb-Croat-Slovene
kingdom, containing some
200,000 Jugo-Slavs as against 40,000
Italians, was to be placed under the
league of nations. The so-called
Assling region was to be permanently
demilitarized. There was to be a
free state of Flume under control and
lor future determination by the
league, with full autonomy for the
city of Fiume.
Italy o Get Islands.
The city of Zara was to have com
plete sovereignty under the league
and complete control of its own
affairs. The islands of the Pelagosa
group, Llssa and the small islands
west of it, LusBin and Unie, were to
pass to Italy on a demilitarized
status, with local autonomy for the
Slavs in Lissa. Italy was to have a
niandate over the independent state
of Albania under the league. Albania's
frontiers north and east were to be
those fixed by the London conference
of 1913, but the south was left for
negotiation. Greece was to have cer
tain territory, the lines for some of
which were to be left for negotiation.
The city of Valona and "such hinter
land strictly necessary for economic
development were granted to Italy in
full sovereignty.
These provisions were described in
the memorandum as affording to Italy
iuii eaiiiuaciion pi ner historio na
tional' aspirations." uniting the Italian
race and as giving her "absolute
strategic control of the Adriatic." The
conferees declared they had carried
"their concern for Italian security to
the point of neutralising the Dalma
tian islands and adjacent waters from
the northern border of the Reguso
region of Flume."
Italians ot Satinfiea.
Italy, however, had asked .for con
trol of the diplomatic relations of
5ara. dissociation of the city of Flume
from the free state of Fiume, connec
tion of the city of Fiume to Istria by
a corridor and annexation to Italy of
the island ofgosta. This plan, the
conference characterized as "counter
to every consideration of geography,
economies and territorial 'conven
ience." Explaining their reason for
arriving at the previous derision, they
declared: "Kconomic conditions being
equally excluded, there remains noth
ing but a desire for further territory.
The territories coveted are admittedly
inhabited by the Jugo-Slavs. They
contain practically no Italian ele
ments." On that point the memorandum in
cluded a communication from Presi
dent Wilson to Premier Tittonl under
date of November 12. .which, explain
ing the American view, declared the
"broad principle remains that it is
neither just nor expedient to annex
as the spoils of war territories in
habited by an alien race, anxious and
capable of maintaining a separate na
tional state of irridentism exactly an
alogous in kind to that which justified
the demand of Italia itridentia for
union with the Italian state."
Mew Agreement la Made.
The new agreement between Great
Britain, France and Italy, dated Janu
ary 14, 1929, which President Wilson
-construed as having been arrived at
witheut participation of the United
States, after -he agreement of De
cember 9, was supposed to hart s.'t-
Valnables Smuggled Into U. S. in
1918 Declared Forfeited lor
Violation of Customs Law.
m
N' W YORK, Feb. 25. (Special.)
Jewels and paintings worth more than
$34,000 said to have been stolen when
the revolutionary mobe looted the
Russian czar's winter palace in Petro
grad were disposed of at a public
auction in the office of Thomas Mc
Carthy, United States marshal, in the
federal building this afternoon.
The valuables were smuggled into
this country early in May, 1918, and
were -seized by the customs authori
ties. The sale was conducted in ac-w
cordance with a condemnation order
which declared the jewels and other
property forfeited to the United
States for violation of the customs
law. Montifore C. Kahn of Elboren,
N. J., arrived here in 1918 on a Scan
dinavian liner with the stolen prop
erty and failed to declare the jewels
a$d paintings. He was convicted of
smuggling. He asserted that he bad
purchased the property from mem
bers of the revolutionary forces after j
the palace had been looted.
Included in the lot sold under the
forfeiture decree was a cigarette case
valued at 9-64, a strand pearl neck
lace worth (3840, a pair of diamond
pendant earrings valued at S1050, a
two-strand pearl necklace worth $12,
480; a two-stone ring worth $2688, a
solitaire diamond ring worth $1480,
four pearl studs and a lavallier worth
$1056.
There were seven paintings, said to
be over 100 years old, worth $3622, 13
paintings worth $133, two paintings,
probably copies, not over 100 years
old, worth $63.25, and three drawings.
Republican Mandatory
Proposal Not Fought.
THIRTY DEMOCRATS VOTE YES
Congressional Action Is Re
quired by Ruling.
ARTICLE TEN TO BE LAST
Secretary Colby's Appointment Is
Attacked by France and Reed.
Ashburst Defends.
CANADA ASSERTS RIGHT
Status in League of Xatlons Fixed,'
Says Duke of Devonshire.
OTTAWA. Ont., Feb. 26. Satisfac
tion that "the status of Canada as a
member of the league of nations has
been definitely fixed," was expressed
by the Duke of Devonshire at the
opening of parliament today.
This passage in the governor-gen
eral's speech was regarded as sig
nificant in view of recent protests
forwarded to' Great Britain by the
dominion cabinet against acceptance
by Great Britain of any modification
of the covenant, particularly the Len
root resolution in the United States
senate, which would prevent Canada
from - having a vote in the league
assembly.
VETERANS'AID SPEEDED
Parties Vie in House in Benefit
Legislation for Service Men.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. House re
publicans and democrats vied with
each other today in seeking to expe
dite additional legislation benefiting
the world war veterans, the repub
lican programme centralizing all bills
of that nature with the ways and
means committee finally being adopt
ed. The democrats urged creation
of a special committee and declared
republican leaders planned to send
the legislation to a graveyard. They
were answered by the statement that
the majority plan was acceptable to
the American Legion officers.
OFFICIAL FORGER, CHARGE
State Labor Commissioner Accused
in Xewberry Trial.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 26.
Testimony thaiR. H. Fletcher, state
labor commv-iioner, wrote signatures
on Helme nominating petitions in 1918
without the knowledge or automa
tion of the supposed signers- was pre
sented at the Newberry trial this
afternoon.
Three Detroit witnesses foreswore
their signatures on petitions and then
the government produced three local
hotel registers bearing Fletcher's
own signature. A handwriting ex
pert pronounced them the work of
one man.
INSURANCE FOR ALL AIM
i
Bill Before British Commons Is
Comprehensive Ouc.
LONDON, Feb. 26. (C a n a a i a n
Press.) The insurance bill passed its j
second reading-in the house of com- i
mons yesterday. Under the bill in
surance would be extended'on a con
tributory basis to virtually the whole
of the employed population between
lie ages of 16 and 70. Industries may
become exempt by setting up special
schemes affording equal or greater
benefits.
The employers and workers will
contribute the same amount with the
slate supplying one-third. It is esti
mated that nearly 12,000.000 persons
will be affected. 1
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. The re
publican reservation regarding man
datories, attached to the peace treaty
last November over the opposition of
33 democratic senators, was readopted
by a vote of 68 to 4 in the senate to
day after administration leaders bad
withdrawn their opposition to it.
It was the first time a qualification
of the, treaty had been adopted with
the acquiescence of the democratic
managers and the first time more
than two-thirds of the senate mem
bership had voted together in ap
proving any reservation. The result
was not generally regarded as In
dicating a sudden break in the senate
situation, however, since the reserva
tion was one of those to which the
democrats had agreed in the recent j
bi-partisan conference to adopt with
out change.
Thirty democrats and 38 republic
ans were recorded in favor of the
reservation after Senator Hitchcock
had declared on the floor that the ef
feet would be only to recite a prin
ciple already established under the
treaty Itself and under federal laws.
It provides in substance that no man
date could be accepted by the United
States without the consent of con
gress.
ht four who voted in the negative
were Senators Jones. New Mexico;
Kendrick.- Wyoming; Walsh, Montana
and Williams, Mississippi, all demo
crats. Explaining his vote. Senator
Walsh declared he had "not the
slightest objection to the reservation
except that it was unnecessary." Sen
ator Hitchcock did not vote.
A new reservation, providing that
the ratification would not be binding
unless the president formally trans
mitted it to the other powers within
30 days after the senate acted, was
presented by Senator Brandegee ot
Connecticut, republican irreconcilable,
for future consideration.
Adoption of the mandatories reser
vation came after the treaty, laid be
fore the senate under a plan to keep
it continuously under consideration
until disposed of, had been subjected
to another all-da attack by its ir
reconcilable opponents.
Senators France, republican, Mary
land, and Reed, democrat, Missouri,
led the assault, the latter Injecting
a new element into, the debate by
criticising President Wilson's ap-
(Conciuded "bn Page 2, Column 1.)
Position Taken That Prestige oi
i British Would Have Suffered
Had Action Been Otherwise.
LONDON, Feb. 26. The decision not
to oust Turkey , from Constantinople
was reached by the allied supreme
council only after long consideration
of difficulties in the Turkish situa
tipn. Premier Lloyd George declared
In the house of commons today when
the question of the future of Turkey
was brought up for debate.
The influence which had decided
the peace conference to retain the
Turks in Constantinople, the premier
continued, had come from India.
Without the aid of India, Mr. Lloyd
George pointed out, Turkey could not
have been ' conquered, and nothing
could be more damaging to British
prestige In Asia than the feeling that
Great Britain did not keep her word.
He' promised, however, that when the
terms of peace were disclosed they
would be found drastic enough to sat'
isfy Turkey's bitterest foe "
COLORADO LEVEES BREAK
Imperial Valley, California, Men
aced by Floods From River. ,
CALEXICO. CaL, Feb. 26. The Col
orado river broke through, the OckeS
son levee late yesterday two and one
half miles south of the junction of the
Ockerson and Saiz levees. A second
break occurred this" morning three
miles south of the end of the railroad
on the levee.
Hundreds, of men and teams work
iig today were unable to repair the
treaks. Fifty thousand acres of ricli
land were being inundated by flood
waters, which are heading for a weak
point on Volcano lake levee.
Both breaks in the river levees are
below the Mexican border. Should
the Volcano lake levee give way the
water would pour into Imperial vat
ley. Trainloads of rock were being
rushed today to strengthen the levee
at points of danger.
Post Long Considered "Property'
of Oregon Filled After Ex- '
tended Vacancy. f
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. George W.
P. Hunt of Axixona was nominated
today by President Wilson to be min
ister to Siam. '
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 26. Former
Governor G. . W. IP. Hunt said today
he had sent to Washington his ac
ceptance of the appointment as min
ister to Slam. ...... . .
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, Feb. 26. The appoint
ment of former Governor G. W. P. Hunt
of Arizona as minister to Siam today
fills a post which has been held by
so many residents, of Oregon that it
had come to be considered the pecu
liar political property of that state
In the early '80s it was held for a
long period by the late Judge B. F.
Bonham, a resident of Salem. When
Grover Cleveland came into his second
term in 1893 he appointed John Bar
rett, now director-general of the Pan-
American union, to" the place. Mr.
Barrett was a resident of Portland
at the time of his appointment.
When Woodrow Wilson took office
n 1813, 'Senator Chamberlain secured
the post for Will H. Hornibrook, Al
bany (Or.) newspaper man, now locat
ed at Vancouver,- Wash. Mr. Horni
brook, however, wearied of the.jQb in
a short time and resigned,. whereupon
Alexander Sweek of , Portland was
recommended by Senator Chamberlain
and was nominated by the president.
The senate failing -, to act on Mr.
Sweek's confirmation during the ses
sion in which it was made, the matter
was not pressed. As a consequence,
the post has been vacant ever -since
the resignation of Mr. Hornibrook.
RESENTMENT IS GENERAL
"Wet" Element Seems Be
hind Latest Favorite.
LANSING'S LOSS OBSCURED
Viewpoint of Press Is That Man
Chosen Is but Subordinate Mind
to Woodrow Wilson.
AIR SCHOOLS ARE NAMED
Specialized Training in Army Ap
proved by Baker.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. Special
ized training for army air service per
sonnel is provided tpr in a programme
approved today by Secretary Baker,
and which includes the establishment
of the following service schools:
Pilot Carlstrom field, Florida, and
March field, California.
Pursuit Rockwell field, California.
Bombardment Ellington field, Tex
as. Observation Post field. Fort Sill,
Okla. .
Engineering Dayton, O. .
General school Langley field, Vir
ginia. Mechanic school for enlisted men
Kelley field, Texas.
Balloon Roos field, California, and
Lee hall, Virginia.
Airship (dirigible school) Brooks
field, Texas.
BAKER NOT CANDIDATE
Secretary Declines to -Be Delegate
to Democratic Convention. -
L WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. Secretary
Baker today declined to be a candi
date for delegate at large from Ohio
to the Democratic national conven
tion. , ': i;
The convention is to be held in San
Francisco.
ALLEGED PROFITEER WINS
Amendment to Food , Control Act
Held Unconstitutional. .
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 26. The amend
ment to tne .uever tooa-coniroi aw
was declared unconstitutional by
United States . District Judge Faris
here today when he sustained a de
murrer of the defense and dismissed
the case of the L. Cohen Grocery com
pany, which was charged with mak
ing an unjust profit on sugar.
The L. Cohen Grocery company was
accused of charging a wholesale price
of 19-8 cents a ppund for sugar sold
last November.
The court held that the amendment
to the Lever food-control act violated
the sixth amendment to the constitu
tion, which requires that all citizens
shall be informed, of charges against
them. ..
OREGON TO FIGHT WETS
Aid Given Maine In Opposing Ac
tion by Rhode Island.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 26. (Special.)
Oregon today agreed to join with the
state of Maine in opposing .an action
brought by the state of Rhode Island
to test in the United States supreme
court the validity of the -federal pro
hibition amendment. ,
Charles Hughes, ex-mernber of the
United - States supreme court; has.
been retained as counsel for the several-states
which have joined in de
fense of the amendment. Because of
Oregon's proposed part in the suit,
Attorney-General Brown's name will
appear among the lawyers associated
with Judge Hughes in the trial of the
case. -
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAIM
Washington, ' D. C, Feb. 26. (Spe
cial.) By appointing Bainbridge Col
by secretary of-state, President Wil
son appears to have created, a sen
sation almost sufficient to obscure in
the public memory the shocking meth
od by which Robert Lansing was
jarred out of the same post two
weeks ago.'
Eastern newspapers find as much in
the Colby appointment to thrill their
headliners and editorial writers this
morning ' as in the tarlier explosion.
T$e New York Evening World of yes
terday, so far as can be learned. Is
the only eastern -paper showing grati
fication over the new choice. The
Evening World's satisfaction, how
ever, is grounded in Mr. Colby's rec
ord as one of the nation's leading
"wets" which portends early partici
pation by the prohibitionists in the
anvil chorus,
Colby la Ardent "Wet."
Mr. Colby established himself in the
respect and confidence of the "wets'
when, as a member of the shipping
board, he made a determined fight on
the war-time prohibition bill, declar
ing that this nation could not build
ships successfully without an abund
ance of good liquor for the workers.
It is this fact doubtless which causes
the Evening World to remark:
"An able and successful lawyer, Mr.
Colby, has also been a staunch defend
er of the constitution against invasion
by national prohibition or any other
movement to restrict personal liberty
and state rights."
If the president's enemies are ea
ger to put him in another hole," com
ments the Baltimore Sun, democratic,
'they may consider Mr. Colby's nom
ination an opportunity for mischiev
ous acquiescence." w
Subordinate Mind Requirement, i
The New York Tribune takes the
view that it matters little, anyway.
who holds, the office, because, after
all, as shown by the Lansing corre
spondence, the duties .will be per
formed by the president. ' '
"I - Wilsnn ha, hpfn fn, nil
( tical purposes, his own secretary of
state," says the Tribune. "He has
shaped and executed his own foreign
policy. And. as he recently explained
in the Lansing correspondence, the
chief qualification is a mind which
will 'willingly go along' with his
own. It is entirely within his prov
ince to choose an agent and a coun-
Head of Federation Tells How For
tunes Are Made by Men Who
Neither Toll' Nor Spin.
BOSTON,- Feb.' 2. Woolgrowers
are organizing to save for themselves
and for wearers of woolen garments
millions of dollars now absorbed by
middlemen, Mtlo D. Campbell of Cold
water, Mich-, said in an address here
tonight. - . . '
Mr. Campbell, who is president ot
the National Wool Producers' federa
tion and chairman of the executive
committee of the national board of
farm organizations,, spoke " of the
Boston Wool Dealers' association
collecting the greater part of the
wool front the 60,000,000 sheep in the
country.
"By a mere technical camouflage
they buy the wool .of the farmer or
local dealer in the grease, and sell
it. to the mills as scoured wool," he
said. "The wool has not been scoured
by them. It goes to the mills as it
comes from the sheep.
"I am here to gfve. notice that the
woolgrowers . of the country have
learned by, sore experience how to
organize and how to deal directly
with the mills without building for
tunes each year for those who neither
toil nor spin." '!
SUCCESSION BILLS HEARD
Congressmen Explain Measures for
Presidential Disability.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Feb. 26. Representatives
Madden of Illinois. McArthur of Ore
gon and Rogers of Massachusetts ap
peared before the house judiciary
committee this morning and made ar
guments in subpart of their bills pro
viding suocession to the presidency by
the vice-president in case of the ab
sence or illness of the president.
These bills differ In form, but not in
substance, althoubh the McArthur
measure goes further than the others
in defining what shall constitute dis
ability. The hearing was attended by a
large number of spectators and news
paper men, and the members of the
committee showed Interest in the pro
ceedings. The hearing was adjourned
until .next Monday, when Representa
tive Fess of Ohio will be heard in
support of his constitutional amend
ment on the subject embraced in the
hills under discussion today.
Statement Held Rational
Despite Delusions Now.
CHANCE FOR SHAM REYEALEO
Defense Witnesses, However,
Assert I. W. W. Is IrrationaL
STIR CAUSED BY TROOPS
State Asked to Present lies was
for Call Vandorvccr Makes
Threat of Qultuns.
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CABLE SERVICE HALTED
tceaclaoed Pa. 3, Column 1.)
Break in Canadian Line Across Pa
cific Reported.
VANCOUVER. B. C, Feb. 26. No
cable operated across the. Pacific
ocean today, the Canadian-Australian
cable having been rendered useless
by a break between Fiji and Norfolk
island, about 800 mires from Auck
land. '
Today's break was the first in the
Pacific cable since 1914, when the
German cruiser Nurnberg destroyed
the cable instruments at Fanning
Island.
The break will be repaired within
a, week, it was thought her.
' HITTING ALL THE ROUGH SPOTS. : ' !
BY BEN HUR LAMPMAN.
MONTESANO. Wash, Feb... 2.
(Special.) Through the clouded mind
of Loren Roberta, 21, one of the ten
I. W. W. defendants on trial here In
the Centralla Armistice day murder
case, move hallucination and delusion,
impelled by the dementia praocox
type of Insanity, according to testi
mony brought forward today by the
defense, which allcgei that the Grand
Mound youth is mentally Incompetent,
Chief ot these delusions testified
Arthur Calhoun, prominent alienist of
Seattle,- Is Robert's contention that
George F. Vandervcer, counsel for the
accused. Is In masquerade against the
defendant and that he Is none other
than Colonel Brlce P. Pisquft, recent
commander of the spruce dlvicion In
the northwest.
Sk.mml.C Held Poeelble.
"He believe, that Vanderveer U
Colonel DIsque." testified the alienist,
cayed by the defense, "and that the
entire courtroom la being operated by
wireless."
Under stringent cross-examination
by W. H. Abel, special prosecutor. Dr.
Calhoun admitted that the test of the
insanity In Roberts' case is based
upoo, the accepted truth of tho de
fendant's own statements regarding
bis delusions, and that he might. In
certain instances be shamming. But
the alienist contended that the ..1
dence entire, coupled with the man
ner of the subject, had convinced him
that Roberts is In the earlier stage
of dementia praecox.
CenfeMion Held Ratl.nal.
Under further cross-examination Dr.
Calhoun testified that, from an ex
amination of the confession, uttered
by Roberts and taken down steno
graphically. the defendant seemed not
to have been insane at the time th.
statement, were made, but to hav.
been a. rational as any normal per-,
son.
The move to establish proof of
Roberts' alleged Insanity and to In
validate the confession, made by the
defendant came at the close of testi
mony brought forward to complete
the alleged alibi of Eugene Barnett.
defendant, after a portion ot the
morning session had been devoted by
the defense to protests against the
presence of federal troops In Monte
sano. Brain far Trews A.kra.
Judge John M. Wilson, presiding,
has requested Herman Allen, proie-
cuting attorney for Lewi, county, to
1 produce the Information upon which
The Weather. I k il hi. nlA. fot nrcenfy In sum
rESJERbXYS Maximum temperature, ! monlng a company of the 6th United
TODAw:m'niTm- ,V d"re"- State, infantry from Camp Lewis.
TODArb Ram and coder; moderat , . . . ..,,
winds, beoominc northnv i which arrived yenterday. Th tt
, Fore if n.
Soviet bids for peace, offering- democracy
and assumption of old foreign debt.
Page 14.
Turkey keeps Constantinople as result of
India's Influence. Page 1.
Lentne, master of Russia, sure of success
of soviet government. Page 2.
, National.
8000 offteers cut out of army bill est.
mates. . Page 2.
Kail brotnernoods present memorial.
rase 4.
Wilson resolute in reply to premiers oa
Adriatic jssue. rage l.
Mandate reservation to treaty adopted
without opposition. Page 1.
President's appointment of new secretary
arouses east. Page 1.
Georse w p. Hunt. Arizona, appointed
minister to Siam. Page h
Dometttic.
Gems stolen from Russian czar's palace
sold at auction In New Tork. Page 1.
Woolgrowers organizing to save millions
abaorbea- by middlemen. Page 1.
Authority for raid without proper war
rants lost by Ialrym pie's crusaders
Page .
Pacific Northwest.
Public service commission denies trolley
extension to terminal. Page 5.
Conduct of Mrs. Hawley at beach is up
held ny friends. . Page &. 1
Alienist holds Roberts' confession rational
despite present delusions. Page JU , j
w Commercial sad Hiu-ine.
Stronger demand from California for Ore-' wireless.
HQUSER DONOR OF $2000
women g Building- Fund at Slate
University Is Enriched.
UNIVERSITY OP OREGON. Eugene
Feb. 26.-(Special.) The announce
ment of a pledge of $2000. one of the
largest ever mad) for the Women's
building fund, from Max H. Houser
of Portland, was made today on the
campus after receipt of a letter from
Mrs. George T. Gerlinger of Portland,
regent of the university, who is in
charge of the fund.
This makes the. second recent a-ift
of 200. the other being from the
Theodore B. Wilcox estate of Portland.
General Pierre Koques Dies.
' PARIS. Feb. 26. (Hava..) Gen
eral Pierre August Roques, former
minister of war, died today. He wa.
born in Marseilles December 28. 18S6.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
has responded that It will assemble
its proof of necessity and make
proper showing to th. court.
Dr. Calhoun told of four examina
tions of Roberta. The first of these
wa. conducted by himself, after
which he asked that the state appoint
other alienist, to assist. The second
was made by Dr. E. R. Ahlman ot Ho
quiam, summoned by the .tate; the
third by Dr. William House of Port
land, summoned by the state, and the
fourth was made at noon today by "
Dr. Calhoun.
When Dr. Ahlman, called as alien
ist by the state, made his examination
of Roberts, testified Dr. Calhoun, the
defendant had been asked why he
Jumped from bed ten or a dosen time,
each night.
"If you were In my place you'd get
up, too." the answer was quoted. "If
you had electricity shot through your
bed you'd lump up, I bet."
"Fake Jary," Is Drln.len,
At the same examination, testified
the alienist, Roberts made the state
ment that the whole courtroom wa.
framed." that the Jury was a "fake
Jury" and the entire court proceeding.
were being malignly controlled by
g-on potatoes. Page 21.
Damage to Kansas wheat lifts Chicage
corn market. Page '1L.
Stock market recovers from Its recent d-
presslon. Page 21.
Switching engine, for municipal terminal
, ordered purchased. Pag. 20.
Allocation -of veaael. to handle phoapbat.
reek carg.es is, a.k.d. Pag. 20.
Sports,
Influenza-almost .poll, card for Wednes
day night. Page 12.
Series wilt decide city basketball Cham.
. pionahip. Page 12.
Beavers are now sure of a first basemen.
Page It. ,
Portland and Vicinity.
Incendiary word, charged to McNutt.
Pag. 13.
Youth of 18 gets tour-year sentence.
I Pag. 14.
Bit of star drama enacted In circuit court.
Pag. 13.
Highway builder, speeding up work ta
many sectloD. of Oregon. Pag. 20.
S.nator Walter M. Pierce sponsors dlvld.4
session of legislature. Pag. 11.
County offer disrupts city plan (er eon
tagiou. hospital. Pf. 19,
Calhoun testified further that when
Dr. House of Portland examined Rob
erts the defendant refused to answer
most of the questions and laughed at
hi. interrogators. "You're trying to
get something on me," he was quoted
as having said. "I think you're fak
ing," Dr. House said, according to the
testimony. "Sure," laughed Roberts.
The fourth 'examination, made at
noon today, opened when Roberts
sauntered into the Jail room where
Dr. Calhoun and Vanderveer were
awaiting him. The defendant glanced,
at the I. W. W. couneel.
-So you're here, are youT" he wa.
quoted a. having ..Id. "You're just
the bird I wanted to see. Take off
your coat. You've been framing on
me long enough. I'm not going to
land it any more."
"Tell me why you are against me?"
(Concluded ea Pag. i, Column 11
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