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PORTLAND OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1920
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PROOF OF OVERT
WILSON TAKES RIDE
ABOUT WASHINGTON
DRY AGENTS BATTLE
CONGRESS COUNTERS
ANY SOLDIER RELIEF
FILM STAR GETS
FRIENDS DETERMINE.
TO RESCUE TREATY
SHIP'S CREW IN. DARK
SPLENDID STATE
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MOST OPPRESSIVE TAXATION
IX WORLD HELD RESULT.
REPUBLICANS AXD DEMOCRATS
JOIX IX MOVEMENT.
SOVIET REIGNS EN
POLITICS CHARGED
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GRIMM NOT SHOWN IN RAID
1. W. W.- Declared to Have
Failed to Make Point.
DEFENSE OFFER REJECTED
ffcftiniony as to Meetings in .Which
Plans Arc Said to Have Been
Made Against Reds Halted.
BV BEX HIT. LAMPMAJ.
MONTESANO, Wash., March 3.
(Special.) Definite refusal to admit
proof of an alleged conspiracy against
the Ccntralia I. W. W. until the
nection of Warren O. Grimm be
proved, was handed down in superior
court this afternoon by Judge John
111. Wilson, presiding. ,
This recurrent phase of the trial of
the ten I. W. W. aroused of Grimm's
murder during the armistice day
parade tragedy came to its focus at
noon today, when J ml pre Wilson for
the third time ruled such evidence
Inadmissible.
After the ruling George F. Vander
veer, counsel for the accused, made an
offer of proof, which entered the
records, in the absence of the jury,
and which was declined by the court
in conformance with the earlier rul
ing.
The statement made by Vanderveer
respecting the alleged proof that Cen
tralia business Interests did conspire
against the I. W. W., threaten to raid
their hall and otherwise evict them
from the city, has no bearing on the
trial itself, was not heard by the jury,
and is merely for the guidance of the
supreme court in reviewing the case
if an appeal should be taken.
Evidence I-atlls, Says Court. '
i The strife between counsel for state
and defense, as to the admissibility
ef testimony concerning the purport
ed plot, occupied nearly the entire
session. During the forenoon session
and until the noon recess, Judge Wil-i
on heard the arguments, which cen
tered about the question of whether
Cirimm knew of the purported raid or
had committed an overt act before
lie received his wound.
"The court is of the opinion that
the evidence falls far short of being
sufficient to show an overt act on
tue part of the deceased," ruled Judge
Wilson,' "and there must be a con
certed act shown on the part of the
deceased before any act of the co
conspirators, or alleged co-conspirators,
can be shown which would af
fect the shooting or justify the shoot
ing of the deceased Grimm."
Vanderveer offered to prove, by the
testimony of a number of witnesses,
the following allegations:
That on June IT, 191!, there was or
ganized in Ccntralia a branch of the
employers' association of Washington
Jknown as the Citizens' Protective
league, and that Y. B. Hubbard of
Ccntralia was chosen as its organiza
tion head.
That addressing this meeting was
George F. Russell, manager of the
atate employers" association, and that
Russell told the assembled business
men that steps must be taken to com
bat the radicals, particularly the I.
V. W., who seemed to be better or
gan ied than the employers.
That on the evening of October 20,
1J19, a meeting of this league was
Jield in the Elks' clubrooms, Cen
tralia, with William Scales as chair
man, and that at this meeting discus
sion arose concerning means of rid
ding the city of the I. W. W.
That Chief of Police Hughes of
Ccntralia and Councilman Saunders
addressed the assembly and said that
they had consulted the prosecuting
atttorncy and the city attorney and
had been informed that the I. W.' W.
Mere within their lawful rights in
maintaining a hall and could not be
removed. .
Committee Reported Chosen.
That William Scales, chairman, said
that he did not favor violent action,
but that no jury would convict men
who did raid, the hall.
That K. B. Hubbard declared that if
he were chief of police he would rid
Centralia of the I. W. W. within 24
hours and that he branded Henry,
labor representative, who refused to
serve on a committee, as a "skunk"
because he declined to be party to the
plan.
That at the close of the meeting
the chairman announced that a com
mittee would be secretly appointed to
deal with the situation according to
its own methods, and that a commit
tee of 10 or 12 was accordingly ap
pointed.
Vanderveer offered further proof
with respect to a meeting of the
Lewis county trades council where
, the rumored raid was discussed, and
proof that Harry Smith, brother of
the defendant, Klmer Smith, was pres
ent at the meeting and reported the
discussion to Elmer Smith.
That following this meeting one of
the officers of the trades council re
ported the discussion to Chief of Po
lice Hughes of Centralia and was told
that the business men of Centralia
had decided to run the I. W. W. out of
own and raid their hall.
That after the meeting of the com
mercial interests on October 20 a
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Conspiracy Evidence
Stopped by Court.
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Dr. Grayson Says Much Good Re
sults From Outing in Balmy Air;
Executive Enjoys Trip.
WASHINGTON, March 3. Lured by
balmy spring weather, the first of the
season, President Wilson went on a
motor jaunt about the city today. It
was the first time he had left the
White House grounds since he was j
pui to Dea, a very sick man, nyc
months ago today, on his return from
his interrupted western f speaking
tour.
Mr. Wilson told Mrs. Wilson and
Rear-Admiral Cary T. Grayson, whp
accompanied him, that he felt as
though he had been away from Wash
ington a long time.
For more than an hour the presi
dent drove, through the city streets
and the capitol grounds, where he
waved a friendly greeting to Senator
Horah of Idaho, one of the hicf op
ponents of the peace treaty. The sen
ator returned the salutation.
The president was recognized by
many persons and returned their
greetings as the White House lim
ousine rolled along at an easy gait,
escorted by another machine carry
ing secret service men.
Passing the vicinity of a market
house, the president, who delights al-
conways in reading signs when he is
motoring, saw a large sign q"w"B
pork at 3
cents a pound. Although
he has given much serious considera
tion to the high cost of living, the
president remarked to Mrs. Wilson
That brings it home to you when
you see a big sign like that."
I "Deliirhted and much benefited by
his trip," was the way Dr. Grayson
characterized the president's attitude
when he returned to the White House.
The president. Dr. Grayson, said
probajly will not go out driving
every day for a time.
Almost ideal weather prevailed for
the president's ride. The car was
kept closed throughout the trip, how
ever. Photographers were prohibited
from taking photographs.
FAMILY'S PLIGHT PITIFUL
Father in Jail, Daughter Dead,
Otliors III With Influenza.
EUGENE,' Or., March 3. (Special.)
Martin Clark, who is alleged to have
slain Charles L. Taylor here last July,
was allowed yesterday to attend the
funeral services of his daughter Ethel,
17 years old, who died recently from
the influenza. He was escorted by
Sheriff Stickels to Springfield, where
the funeral took place, and later was
returned to jail.
The girl had been working in the
telephone exchange to help provide
for her mother, brothers and sisters.
All others of th family are down with
influenza. Citizens of Springfield
say that the entire family of eight
people, counting the mother, have
been, forced, because of their pov
erty, to occupy two beds while .11.
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OUIJA RITES ARE WEIRD
Human Hair and Money Are Burnt
Offering to Spirits.
MARTINEZ, Cal., March 3 Three
men and two women arrested today
in a house in El Cerrilo, near here,
while.conducting strange rites over a
ouija board, were brought here to
night and held on insanity charges.
City Marshal MacKinnon or El Cer
rilo said the prisoners had clipped the
hair of several small children who
were with them in the house, and
were burning it as an offering to spir
its. Previously, he said,, they had
burned $700 'in currency, also as an
offering.
The five were booked as Mrs. Jen
nie Morto, Mrs. S. Botini, Charles Sol
davini, -Richard Roe and John Doe.
U. S. NOT PARTICIPATING
Xavy Connection With Affairs
Dardanelles Denied..
LONDON, March 3. There has been
no intention, and there is none now,
of American naval participation in
the Dardanelles, according to an
nouncement here. The normal Amer
ican force in Turkish waters com
prises six , destroyers and the Gal
veston and Scorpion.
Two destroyers were recently sent
to the Black sea to relieve two others
and remained temporarily at the re
quest of Rear Admiral Bristol, who
feared they might be needed for
refugee work in consequence of the
bolsheviki reaching the coast.
STRIKE DECLARED ENDED
Sacramento Electricians Vote fori
Return to Work.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.. March 3.
Electrical workers in Sacramento em
ployed by the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph company, voted today to
return to work tomorrow, the past
president of the local- union said.
The union statement added that
Sacramento had been considered as
the key city during the strikTe. and j
the action taken here probably would i
be followed eewhere in California. :
The men had asked for an increase
of pay. About 40 were out here, most
ly linemen.
RED CAPTURES REPORTED
Officer Prisoners Taken at Odessa
Xumbcr 1503.
LONDON, March The red forces
in the capture of Odessa took prisoner
1503 officers, including five generals
and 217 colonels.
This information was received here
Igday. bx wireless Uam Jlostu.
Bolshevik Chiefs Live in
Palace of Czars.
BAYONETS IN KREMLIN HALLS
Lenine's Communist Rule Not
Real Communism.
MONEY CAN BUY ANYTHING
Equality of .Material Possessions Is
X o n-E x I s t c n t Proletarian
"Bourgcoise" Fast Developing.
BY LINCOLN ETItE.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
RIGA (by courier to Berlin), Feb.
26. In wartime France, England or
Germany no man could obtain for
love or money more than a specified
maximum of food, fuel or the house
hold requirements. In wartime and
revolutionary Russia, ruled by a com
munist dictatorship, any man with
enougn, mousana ruuie notes can buy
all the food and warmth he desires.
inrougnout the war, dwellers in
London, Paris or Berlin affected by
war conditions (and that meant prac
tically everybody) were freed of pay
ing rent by a moratorium. Residents
of Moscow and Petrograd are still
obliged to pay rent and at a far high
er figure than in pre-war days.
Impotency Held Proved.
These two incontrovertible facts are
evidence that an all-powerful bolshe
vik in the communist government has
in two years installed a lesser meas
ure of communism in actual practice
than existed in the belligerent Euro
pean countries during the war years.
To my mjind this is one of the se
verest, albeit the most rarely men
tioned, indictments of the bolsheviks'
vast communistic programme, since
it reveals their impotency to attain
their, initial aim the abolition of
classes. They claim, however, that
when the war blockade and country
revolutionary uprisings no longer ha
rass them they will soon overcome
speculation and other evils that fos
ter inequality and thereby menace
realization of communism.
Soviet Arguments Set Forth.
They argue, moreover, that inas
much as existing abnormal circum
stances make these evils unavoidable.
their temporary toleration by the so- I
viet government shows the latter's
realistic grasp on the situation,
which in turn demonstrates its ability
to govern. They point out that the
revolution meaning, of course, the
bolshevik revolution of November 7,
1917 was not expected to establish
communism overnight. It was merely
expected to establish the dictatorship
of the proletariat as a first step to
ward the socialist commonwealth
sought by the disciples of Karl Marx.
The dictatorship of the proletariat
means simply the forcible seizure by
the industrial workers and peasants
or small farmers ot the national gov
ernment and national wealth, includ
ing all organs or production. In other
words, the propertied classes are dis
possessed in favor of the non-propertied
class.
Capital Still Accumulated.
In order that the dictators in the
mass of workers and peasants shall
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Liglrts Switched Off and Sailors
Hurl Missiles When Search
, Begins.
NEW YORK, March, 3. Government
agents were victorious in the first
pitched battle to result here from
enforcement of the prohibition law
and'tWay triumphantly gave the cus
toms" authorities 537 bottles of
cognac, seized aboard the Italian
steamship President Wilson. Besieged
on all sides uy many members of the
crew, who switched off lights far
down in the chip's interior and
smashed bottles by flinging pieces of
iron, a half dozen men from the office
of Thomas, E. Rush, inspector of the
port, finally carried the liquor off the
ship.
John Sterling, one of the inspectors,
went aboard the President. Wilson to
day and found some of the men armed
with saw-edged brass knuckles. He
failed to find any more liquor, how
ever, and came off the ship unmo
tested.
Albert Holkensen, who led the raid
ing party, received threatening tele
phone calls today from men who re
fused to reveal their identity.
The President Wilson arrived from
Trieste Thursday and government
agents conducted searches at various
times. It was revealed today that li
quor was found in the fire room, the
cook's quarters, the bakery, the quar
termaster's room and in the bilge.
When the three inspectors entered
the firemen's quarters about 80 men
were in their bunks. The crew re
garded them indifferently and were
aroused only when the searchers
found suspicious lumps in the bunk
mattresses, three of which contained
30 bottles each, and from beneath
fa.lse bottoms in the men's lockers
and from behind a bulkhead 21 bottles
were produced.
Suddenly the lights were switched
off and the framework of an iron
bunk was hurled among the bottles.
Then the men leaped from their bunks
and in a moment the quarters were in
confusion. The crew shouted and
fought, but the inspectors, taking ad
vantage of the gloom, edged their
way througltthe door, where the light
switch was finally turned on.
Holkensen thereupon sent for as
sistance and when three more inspec
tors arrived, the crew was driven
aside and the liquor seized. Holken
sen,. Sterling and Christian Schmidt
also seized ban Domes oi cunt
aboard the steamship Morro Castle
and Monterey from Havana and 150
bottles of Bacardi rum on the Steam
ship Manmar, fror- Antilla, Cuba. The
rum was found oeneath 150 fathoms
of anchor chain, so heavy that it could
be moved only with a steam winch.
ROYALTIES DOUBLE TAXED
Authors, Artists and Composers
Must Pay Full Rates.
WASHINGTON. D. C, March 3.
Royalties received by authors, artists,
composers and others cannot be
classed as dividends and are subject
to nominal tax as well as surtax. In
ternal Revenue Commissioner Roper
ruled today.
Dividends are subject to taxes paid
by the distributing company, being
a part of the corporation's profits, the
commissioner explained, while roy
alties constituting an expense of the
paying concern, are subject to taxes
levied on those benefiting from thenu
France to Probe Contracts.
PARIS, March 3. The chamber of
deputies has appointed a commis
sion to examine into -contracts made
by the government during the war.
Representative Garner Says Bond
Issue Would Decrease All
.Government Securities."
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3.
Appeals for financial relief for former
service men were' countered today
before the house ways and means
committee by. statements that any
money grant, necessitating iurtner
bond issues, would be an additional
burden on taxpayers.
Representative Hull, democrat, of
Tennessee, said $800,000,000 increased
taxes must be raised to meet present
war expenditures without granting
cent to the service men.
"With a bonus we would be forced
to establish the most oppressive sys
tern of taxes in the world," he added.
Members of congress will not be
blacklisted if they oppose additional
soldier legislation, Edward H. Hale
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars ofj
the United States, an organization
of 750.000 men. told the"committee. A.
discharged officer had written the
committee that "the attitude on sol
dier legislation will be closely scru
tinized and the soldier vote will be
mobilized before the next election,
"Does this forecast a blacklist by
soldiers similar to the blacklist of
the American Federation of Labor,
because members oppose their de
sires?" Representative Rainey asked,
and Hale replied in the negative.
Representative Garner, democrat,
of Texas, said a bond issue in the
immediate future would decrease by
10 per cent the market value of pres
ent government obligations.
"This alone would result in an ac
tual loss of $2,600,000 in the value
of property held by millions of peo
ple," he said.
Solution of the problem is for the
ingenious minds of the committee
members. Jack Singer of Jersey City,
senior vice-commander of the same
association, declares.
"If financial aid is within the power
of your committee we want you to
do it, but if it is not, we don't ask
the impossible," Singer commented.
MEEKER TO WRITE BOOK
Chamber of Commerce Is Asked to
Contribute Photographs.
ABERDEEN, Wash., March 3. (Spe"
clal.) Ezra G. Meeker, blazer of the
old Oregon trail and who has twice
crossed the continent with an ox team
and a prairie schooner, is, at the age
of 90 years, preparing a book for pub
lication, according to a communica
tion received by the Aberdeen cham
ber of commerce.
Mr. Meeker has asked that the
chamber send him photographs and
local data regarding the city which
he can incorporate in the volume.
Washington's Seventy Years of Prog
ress" Is to be the title. Some of my
friends think I am undertaking a
pretty big job for my age," says Mr.
Meeker, "but with co-operation by the
citizens of the state, 1 hope to com
plete my volume."
RELATIONS UNDER ARREST
.orgcry Charge Made Against Man
Arranging Bail..
LA GRANDE, Or., March 3. (Spe
cial.) While at the courthouse this
afternoon making arrangements to
put up $500 bail for his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Marie Gillum of Boise,
Idaho, who was charged with the
larceny of a dress from a local store
here Saturday night, Ed Kivette was
arrested 'on a warrant from Wyoming
officials for forgery.
Kivette has been in a number of
scrapes before, it was said.
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MaryPickford Divorced in
Nevada Court. '
SOBS BREAK INTO STORY
Tale of Desertion Related by
Queen of Movies.
OLD CLOTHES ARE WORN
Name of Douglas Fairbanks Men
tioned in Connection With
Actiou for Separation.
, SAN FRANCISCO, March 3. (Spe
cial.) Mary Pickford, queen of the
screen, and "America's sweetheart" is
no longer the sweetheart of Owen
.Moore, ajso of the movies, and erst
while identified as "Mary Pickford's
husband."
Love and matrimony in the photo
plays may be one thing, but in real
life they are another, for petite Mary
has divorced Owen. It was all done
quietly in the district court at Minden,
a little town near Carson City, Nev..
Tuesday of this week. '
Mrs. Moore had been stopping at the
Campbell ranch, near Genoa, Nev.,
since February 15. It is not far from
Minden. Reports are that Moore had
lunch in Minden Monday, but he was
not in evidence Tuesday and was rep
resented in the divorce proceedings
only by a lawyer.
Tears Dim Mary's Eyra.
Me was not there to see the tears
trickle down the cheeks of "Little
Mary" as she told her tale of domestic
woe and Informed the court that the
man who had appeared with her in
many a loving scene before the cam
era had deserted her and gone his
way.
The court proceedings were all over
in. a jiffy and the officials did not
even know until the next day that
in granting a divorce to Mrs. Owen
Moore they were really dealing with
one of the most famous of America's
movie stars. The plaintiff went into
court dressed in old clothes, the press
dispatches say very old clothes, and
that may have had something to do
with it. " s
The public had no hint that the
marriage of Mary Pickford and Owen
Moore was not a love match of the
lasting kind until Mrs. Douglas Fair
banks announced that she and her
acrobatic spouse had agreed to dis
agree. She mentioned no names, but
she hinted a powerful lot, and the
hinting led to the linking of the name
of Mary Pickford with the troubles
of the Fairbanks.
Mrs. "Dour" Not Enthusiastic.
"There has been so much gossip for
the last 18 months," said Mrs. Fair
banks, "I think the time has come to
end it. 1 cannot defend any woman
with whom my husband's name has
been linked. I will not malign her.
She is associated with my husband in
business. That, of course, is no con
cern of mine. I have made up my
mind that I will no longer be a shield
for her."
Now, America would not have
thought of associating its "sweet
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Moderate Hope Held In Success of
Averting Deadlock Shoals Now
Rapidly Approaching.
WASHINGTON, March 3. While the
treaty debate dragged on in the sen
ate today without action, the treaty's
friends began a final determined ef
fort to rescue it from the deadlock
toward which all leaders agree It
again is headed.
Republican and democratic senators
joined in the movement, but they were
only moderately hopeful of success.
They addressed their efforts to the
republican reservation to article 10.
long the storm center of the whole
treaty fight.
The subject technically before the
senate all day was the Shantung res
ervation, but it got only a passing
mention. Among other things, the
Adriatic question again was brought
into the debate, while Senator Reed,
democrat, of Missouri, enlivened pro
ceedings with a bitter attack on Sen
ator Hitchcock of Nebraska, tho ad
ministration leader.
The course of President Wilson In
condemning the proposed Adriatic set
tlement was approved by Senator
Borah, republican, Idaho. He declared
the executive was right in asserting
that the United States could not Join
in "European settlements unless they
were to be based on a new rule of
Justice In International contracts.
LONG FLIGHT0N TODAY
Taconia-Sau Diego Jump in One
Day Is Planned.
SEATTLE, Wash., March 3. Major
Albert D. Smith, United States army
aviator, today received . permission
from Washington, D. C, to attempt a
one-day flight from Camp Lewis,
Tacoma, to San Diego. Major Smith,
who is at Camp Lewis, said over the
telephone today that he would start
at daybreak tomorrow.
Stops will be made for fuel, oil ana
water at Eugene, Red Bluff, San
Francisco, Fresno and possibly Los
Angeles. Arrangements will be made
for quick Bervice at the stopping
points.
Major Smith will attempt the flight
In a DeHaviland plane. In a recent
flight to Seattle from San Diego he
used a Sopwith machine. In coming
north he was seven and one-half
hours in the air between San Fran
cisco and Seattle.
DANCE SHOCKS CHEYENNE
"Shimmy" Style of Step Too Much
for City Authorities.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 3. There
will be no more "shimmy" dancing
in Cheyenne if the city administration
has power to stop it. according to a
statement by Mayor layior mis aner-
noon.
"There is no intention to Interfere
with decent dancing, saiu me .",
but we are not going to stand for
anything else. If you want to see two
insane looking people. Just watch a
couple standing still on a dance floor
and squirming as they stare each
other in the face. Public opinion
wou Id etoD all dancing if this thing
is allowed to go too far. We purpose
to put the brakes on."
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTKltDAV'S Maximum temperature, ot tne committee on manuiai lurera,
'0 d;Rree; minimum. 41 il-sreei. Df which he Is a member.
TODAY S Rain; southerly wind.. Hld Qronna offered It, he could
Foreign. J hardly have asked with a strniBht
Kunslan iiovlet telgnu In splendid slate i I face. iti pointed out. that the au
palace ot czars, rage 1. I (hory be IofIged ln ,nc committee on
National. .! manufacturers w hen he is chairman of
Grain probe delay declared to be pol.tlea.
move. Fage J.
Wilson takes nna inrouin
streets. Fase i.
Friends of treaty are determined io averi
dead or. 1-agB 1.
Bond issue for roldler relief countered In
congress, rage j.
DnmeMtio.
Prohibition as-nts ram Italian aieam-r.
1'ace l.
Mary Pickford gets divorce. Pac 1.
New ambassador to United Plates from
Japan savs bnamuns io ...
hands and that Japanese will not
swerve from policy. Tags 2.
Socialists here to bulla, not to aesiroy.
says Morris Mliiquiu i iw i.
Paelfle 'ortliwet.
Governor Hart not to limit special seasloo
of legislature, rage v.
Washington stats mprems coun nom.
phone rates noi an emergency, t ase ..
Hood River "hero leaves mdi irau.
Page 5.
Court holds I. W. W. rail to snow oven
set by I.leutensni t .rim m in anesu
raid against hall and conspiracy evi
dence Is stopped. Page 1.
Slier Mill company sues federal govern
ment tor 4-J,miv aamaKca. r K7 o.
Rports.
Lincoln trouncea jeriereon score ot .
to 11. Page
Commercial and Marine.
Only 30 ears or onions are soia in siaie.
Page
Scarcity of corn receipts strengthen Chi i
cago market, rage
Wall street stocks atieeieo tj iurtner
credit restrictions, rage .-a.
Staamer Nespelem renamed Kobert Toung.
rage
Portland and Vicinity.
Judge Thomas Crawford seeks unpledged
trip to democratic eonveniion. rsge l
Proposed substitute censorship measure In
troduced in city council, rags n.
Business men plan eastern excursion.
Page 12. .
I Zoning plan ordinance is lsld over 'for two
weeks. Fage IJ.
150.000 Christian Science alienation penta
gon Ulsmiseeu. rsss o.
L. F. Eckert to make enori 10 nnn out
.today who maae marges on wnicn
grand jury indictment for profiteering
is based. Page 8.
Eleven jurors pas-ed In trial of three com
munists, rage 8.
Alliance sain to have slated postmaster n
succeed Myers. Page IS.
terchurch worjd movement la outlined.
Page 15. '
Arthur L. Flnley ordered by court not to
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IN PROBE DELAY
Investigation of Grain
Board Hits Snag.
GRONNA'S MOVE QUESTIONED
Reed Resolution Held Up in
Committee.
ATTACK ON HOOVER SEEN
Author of Mote Denies L'hurgr,
Saying He Sees Tno Sides to M
cry Case and Wants Justice.
O P. E G O N I A N NKWS BUREAI,
Washington, March 3. Frnator Rerd't
resolution, provldinc for an lnvetlE
tlon of tho United Slates Crsln cor
poration, with particular reference tt
certain charges contained In a report
of a federal grand Jury sitting at
Spokane, was hung up today In ths
senate committee on contingent tx
penses.
It could not be learned at the offices
of the committee, of mhlrh i"enstor
Caldrr of New York is chairman, how
soon a report will be made. It Is
understood, however, that a report
will be forthcoming shortly upon
which the senate will order the in
vestigation. There is such a strong; odor ot
politics about the resolution that
there was a disposition generally
around the rapltol today to discuss
It as a political move. It was com
monly referred to as an attack on
Herbert Hoover, as the result of a
bipartisan understanding to which,
however, only possibly two or three
democrats and as many republican!
are parties.
Ileed Dea Ira Inference.
Senator Reed, however, disclaimed
that there was politics In it, assert
ing that he always recognized the
possibility cf there being two aides
to every case. Political significance
was seen in the fact that the resolu
tion came from Senator Reed of Mis
souri, instead of being Introduced by
Senator Uronna of North Dakota,
chairman of the Semite committee
of agriculture, who was the natural
sponsor for such a resolution.
In laying before the senate the re
port of the Spokane grand Jury or
such parts of It as were carried In
a dispatch published Sunday in a
Washington newsper. Senator Fer
nald of Maino suggested an inquiry
by the agricultural committee. That
Senator Gronna. republican, should
have yielded to Senator Reed, a demo
crat, to introduce the resolution looked
to most observers like a cunning
piece of politics.
'To have Senator Gronna offer tha
resolution mignt have looked like '
republican attempt to sshsII th work
ings of a federal wartime organisa
tion hl'h operated by the authority
of President Wilson under o ers
vested In him by consress. Ry being
permitted to offer the resolution. Sen
ator Reed gains the advantage of Ret
ting the Invest igdtion Into the hand!
powerful committee on agri-
powerful committee on agr
culture, to which an Investigation uf
this character properly belongs.
Senator Gronna being a member of
the committee on manufacturers will
be able to apply the probe to til
officers of the grain corporation quit
us freel;' as if the agricultural com
mittee of which he la chairman sen
to condi.i t the Investigation.
Senator Gronna Is- suspected of
longing to get Herbert Hoover a-nd
Julius Barnes, president of tho grain
corpoiatlon, before him for soma
sharp questions. Knrnes was appoint
ed by,Hooer Willi the latter l
head of the food administration, and
Senator Gronna has shown a very
cordial dislike for both men.
It was a statement by liarnes re
cently which upset the Gronna bill
to repeal the government wheat guar
antee and changed hat was designed
for a dagger thrust at the grain cor
poration into a boomerang. The North
Dakota senator thought he was mak
ing a strong play to the farmers
when he Introduced th bill, but after
the publication of the Karnes Mat,
ment h was denounced by wheat
crowers throughout th length and
breadth of the land and was com
pelled to resort to the unusual pro
cedure of withdrawing his bill, after
It was reported out.
Hoover May Supersede ft Best.
At any rat this investigation will
be followed closely with the expecta
tion of developing more partisanship
of mixed varieties than has ao far ap
peared iln any other inquiry. Herbert
Hoover's unlabeled presidential boom
is likely to be mora of an issue than
the manner of handling of th wheat
crop.
Mr. Hoover and Mr. Barnes will not
be without friends if the investiga
tion Is carried on by th entire com
mittee, because there are several sen
ators on the commltte who have con
siderable respect for both of them.
Senator McNary of Oregon is especial
ly close to Mr. Barnes, to whom h
pa gone several times to serine l-
(Cuauuiiwd a I aii li, lu.uinu I.)