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UNCANNY OUIJA SPELL
CLAIMS MORE VICTIMS
POLITICIANS EYE
'DIAMOND QUEEN' ENDS
LIFE; CHEATS ARREST
CIDER AND GASOLINE
MIXED IN TRAGEDY
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"NEVER AGAIN," SAYS
HANDS OF HEALER
LITTLE FILM STAR
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POISON PHIAL- EMPTIED
POLICE EXTER ROOM.
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DRUXKEX AUTOIST RUXS
DOWX AND KILLS W, SMITH.
MARY PICKFORD WILL DE
VOTE ' LIFE TO PICTURES.
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Letter Urging Sensation
al Defense Revealed.
COUP IS SPRUNG BY STATE
"Pastor" Forced to Admit
Outlining Testimony.
OVERT ACT HELD LACKING
. 'Make It Appear Legionnaire Was
Implicated in Raid," Is Ad
vice to Vanderveer.
BT BEN HUR LAMPMAN.
MONTESANO. Wash., March 5.
(Special.) Though in prefatory tes
tlmony he had asserted an interest
only in "absolute Justice -with both
God and man," Rev. Thomas T. Ed
monds of Seat'le, radical thought
- leader and paid investigator for the
accused I. W. "W.. who are on trial
here for the Centralia Armistice day
crime, was today forced by the state
to admit on the witness stand the
authorship of a letter which exoner
ated Warren O. Grimm, victim, from
any blame In connection with the
tragedy which wrought his death.
Written at Seattle, on January 4
1920, after Dr. Edmonds had for more
than a month been actively engaged
In investigating the case for the de
fense, and addressed to George F.
Vanderveer, counsel for the defend
ants, the private missive not only ab
solved Grimm, for whose murder the
accused are on trial, from any share
In an alleged attack upon the Cen
tralia J. W. W. hall, but suggested
trial tactics to circumvent this fact.
Grimm Not Involved.
"And while Warren Grimm was not
at this time Involved- in the raiding,
the western law of reaching for a
gun (underscored), or motions like
that, should apply," wrote Edmonds
to Vanderveer, tacitly declaring the
dead legionnaire guiltless, but sug
gesting a line of defense that would
appear to implicate him.
The defense has but a few witnesses
remaining and will close its case to
morrow. George F. Vanderveer, coun
sel for the accused, said that the de
fense might rest its case at the noon
adjournment.
When Dr. Edmonds took the stand
at the call of the defense, the state
ejmiled with Inward satisfaction. For
weeks the forgotten letter has been
in the possession of the prosecutors.
Defense Goaded to Make Call.
Throughout the entire length of the
case the state counsel has sought to
goad the defense into summoning the
secret service clergyman to the stand.
And he eat there, a nervous, vivacious
little man, yoluble and eager to
begin.
But in the current of cross-examination
that caught him, after he had
smilingly answered the queries of
Vanderveer, the witness tossed tur
bulently. He had admitted the letter,
led smoothly toward its identification
by Special Prosecutor Abel, and for
more than tan hour he strove to
modify and explain the statements he
penned for the private eye of the
defense.
In advocating his plan of defense,
Edmonds wrote Vanderveer that the
defendants and their case should be
likened to John Brown of Harper's
Ferry and to Lovejoy, abolitionist
martyrs, and heroes of the era pre
ceding the civil war.
Mask of Candor 1'rjtred for Defense.
"It would be a line of defense," he
Jiad written, "recognizing seeming
ly palpable, otherwise unexplainable
facts and so have the- strength of
truth."
He suggested in this missive," that
ef an investigator acquainted with
the facts, that "outside firing (out
side of the hall) be finally admitted."
He had further suggested that Elmer
Smith, defendant and attorney, who
counseled the I. W. W. be defended
as "not cognizant of any but strictly
defensive war measures.
He had advised a show of candor
that would combine "Abe Lincoln's
absolute honesty with your invinci
ble attack."
Under direct examination, Edmonds
testified that he is an ordained min
ister of the gospel, at present without
pastorate, and a member of the Pres
bytery of Seattle. He has resided in
Seattle since 1896, where he was at
one time pastor of Greenwood Park
church, and had been engaged in the
ministry in Alberta, Canada.
Absolne J untie-" ITrged.
"I deeply sympathize with the vic
tims of the terrible tragedy but be
lieve that absolute justice is the first
thing with both God and man." read
a letter that he had presented to
state and county officials when of
fering his credentials as an investi
gator. In signing this introductory
epistle he had subscribed himself
"Tours for Justice, mercy and faith."
In direct examination, Edmonds
testified that he was engaged by the
defense and went to Centralia on
November 25. He was and is now
a member of the I. W. W. He had
not attempted bribery of witnesses.
To bim had been shown the door
fiequently in his quest for truth.
In one Instance a Centralia business
man had told him to get out quickly,
before he laid hands upon him.
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Another Man With Hallucination
of Persecution Hurls Brick
Into Postoffice Window.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6. (Spe
cial.) The uncanny spell of the ouija
board, which in a few days trans
formed the minds of three mothers
and a high school girl of 15 years.
residents of El Cerrito, from a state
of normality to that of madness, to
day claimed two more victims, one a
San Francisco policeman.
They are: Policeman E. H. Deane,
attached to the Potrero station of this
city.
C. F. Forre, now being held at the
county hospital at Martinez.
Clad in plain clothes and with a
revolver in his pocket. Policeman
Deane was arrested in Berkeley early
this morning as he was wandering
aimlessly along the street.
According to Policeman Richard
Dowling, who made the arrest, Deane
was acting in a strange manner.
Dowling reported at the police sta
tion that Deane had said that the
ouija board had told hira he was to
be arrested.
The arrest of Forre -was made after
he had hurled a brick through the
window of the postoffice at Mar
tinez.
His hallucination was that he was
being chased by federal officers who
were seeking to poison him. The au
thorities believe his condition re
sulted from ouija board machinations.
These were the developments today
in the tragic denouement of the at
tempts of two El Cerrito families to
peer through the mists that conceal
the spirit world.
Inquiry into the report that stu
dents were experimenting with the
ouija board was begun at the Rich
mond high school, which, before she
fell under the extraordinary influ
ence of the tricky device, was at
tended by pretty Adeline Bottinl, who,
together with her mother, Mrs. Susie
Bottinl, Mrs. Marie Moro and the tat
ter's daughter, Mrs. Josie Soldavini,
was committed to an insane asylum
yesterday by Superior Judge R. H.
Latimer of Martinez.
Citizens of El Cerrito, across the
Contra Costa county line from Berke
ley, where the peculiar epidemic
broke out, continued plans to stem
the practice in that community with
the idea of calling in alienists if
necessary.
Political dissensions among the
residents of El Cerrito comes to a
head as result of the Wednesday
night raid of Marshal McKinnon on
the Soldavini home, where th psychic
orgies were being carried on in dark
ened rooms behind barricaded doors.
Trans-bay department stores report
they have been swamped with buy
ers of ouija boards since the expose of
the El Cerrito believers.
CHURCH HEARING DELAYED
Petition of Mrs. Hulin to Enter
Controversy Opposed.
BOSTON, March 5. Opposition to
the petition of Mrs. Emilie B. Hulin
of New York for leave to intervene
in the controversy between the direc
tor's of the Christian Science church
and the trustees of the Christian Sci
ence Publishing society, was an
nounced today by counsel ' for the
trustees. A hearing on' the petition
was postponed-until March 13.
The trustees will oppose the motion
on the ground that the petitioner has
no standing, all possible questions
which might throw light on the sub
ject having been raised before the
master who heard evidence in the sev
eral suits now pending.
In the petition for intervention it
is asserted that the trustees should
be removed for misfeasance and be
cause they are not consistent believ
ers in Christian Science doctrines.
STOLEN SAFE DISCOVERED
Auto Used by Thieves Found In
Woods Near Oswego.
OREGON CTT, March 5. (Special.)
Some time Wednesday night a safe
was stolen from the Sears bicycle
shop in Hillsboro and a girl going to
school Thursday morning discovered
it a short distance northwest of
Oswego and reported to the authori
ties here.
Deputy Sheriff Meads went to the
scene and made a thorough investiga
tion Thursday. He found the safe
and a lot of papers around it. The
door had been blown off and the
valuable contents taken.
Meads noticed tracks of an auto
mobile near and followed these. The
road where the safe was found was
an old wood road and evidently the
car had no lights and the robbers
lost their way. Meads followed the
trail and found the car In the woods,
where it had been abandoned. The
car had been stolen in Portland.
FOREST PATROL BOOSTED
Chinaberlain Speech Delayed, but
McXary Amendment Is Adopted.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, March 5. Because of the
treaty situation in the senate Senator
Chamberlain was compelled today to
defer his speech -urging a complete
airplane forest fire patrol for the
northwest.
The senate agricultural committee,
however, adopted Senator McNary's
amendment providing $60,000 for the
forest service's portion of the cost of
the airplane patrol system. The com
mittee also increased the appropria
tion for forest air protection under j
the Weeks law from $75,000 to $100,-
Republican Convention
Election Tuesday.
8 DELEGATES TO BE CHOSEN
Instructed or Uninstructed,
Wood Sure to Benefit.
DEMOCRATS UP. IN AIR
Impetus Given "Wet" Edwards
Starts Scrambling of Bourbons
to Look for Combinations.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, March 5. Political in
terest in the republican presidential
contest is centering in New Hamp
shire, where, on next Tuesday, eight
delegates to the Chicago convention
will be chosen. It is a foregone con
clusion that the eight delegates.
whether pledged or uninstructed, will
be for General Wood, thus permitting
him to count the first primary
strength. The next delegates to be
chosen by a state as a whole will be
in Minnesota. March 15, where an un
official primary will be held. Twenty
four delegates are to be named and
the indications are that Wood will
get these, although both Lowden and
Johnson are giving him a hard con
test. Johnson Has Own Way.
On May 16, North Dakota will vote
and is expected to select 10 delegates
for Hiram Johnson, who has every
thing his own way in the state, other
candidates having kept out as re
quested by a recent state convention
of republicans.
South Dakota will name ten dele
gates March 23, but it cannot be said
with any degree of certainty who
will get them. There are reasons to
believe that Wood, as the major can
didate by reason of having been in
dorsed by the date convention, will
be the beneficiary, but both Lowden
and Hiram Johnson are making a
hard fight. Johnson is spending the
week in the state and is addressing
large audiences.
April 5 the voters of Michigan will
go to the polls. Wood and Johnson
appear to be the leading candidates,
due partly to the open activity of the
newspapers in behalf of one or the
other. The Johnson strength grows
largely nt of the campaign made for
him by ti. Detroit News. The state
has SO delegates.
Political Poll Taken.
The New Tork Sun is publishing the
result of a poll taken among the
county chairmen of every state on the
presidential contest. The result Jn
one state is given each day. Up to
date it is as follows:
Alabama, 14 delegates, Lowden.
Arkansas, 13 delegates, Lowden.
Arizona, six delegates. Wood.
California, 26 delegates, Hiram
Johnson.
'Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.)
WORST BLIZZARD
'You'll Xerer Take Me Alive," Are
Last Words $30,000 In Uncut
Gems Found in Handbag.
NEW YORK, March' 5. Antoinette
Bonner, who acquired the interna
tional sobriquet of "the diamond
queen" when she was brought back
from Paris in 1914 with Joseph B.
Kislinger to face charges of large
Jewelry thefts in New York, ended
her life dramatically today by drink
ing poison as she was being placed
under arrest in Kislinger's office
here, charged with theft of diamonds
valued at $2000. '
"You'll never take me alive," she
cried as she snatched a poison phial
from her handbag and swallowed the
contents.
Kislinger also was arrested on a I
charge of acting in concert with the
woman in the theft of diamonds from
a New York concern.
In Miss Bonner's handbag the po
lice found uncut diamonds valued at
$30,000.
FLYER REACHES EUGENE
Major Lanphler Makes Trip in
Fast Time Through Storms.
EUGENE, Or., March 5. Major T.
G. Lanphier of March field. River
side, arrived in this city at 6:30
o'clock this afternoon from Camp
Lewis, Wash., in a Sopwith SE-5ma-chine.
Major Lanphier's time from Camp
Lewis was two hours and 15 minutes.
He reports flying , through six rain
storms on the journey. The machine
used by Major Lanphler was the one
in which Major A. D. Smith made the
flight recently from San Diego to
Camp Lewis and who expects to "hop
off" early tomorrow if weather con
ditions are favorable. Major Lanphler
expects to leave here at 9:30 o'clock
Saturday morning for March field,
stopping en route at Red Bluff, Cal.;
San Francisco and possibly at Fresno.
Speaking of Major Smith's flight
south, Major Lanphier expressed the
hope that favorable weather would
prevail for the "hop off in the morn
ing. Should Major Smith reach
Eugene early enough tomorrow, it is
probable the two will make the flight
together south, Major Lanphler said
tonight.
EAST SIDE CHURCH BURNS
St. Andrew's Edifice at Ninth and
Alberta Destroyed.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the upper story of the St. Andrew's
church and school building. East Ninth
and Alberta streets, shortly before 1
o'clock this morning. The loss is
practically covered by insurance. The
structure was built in 1908 and cost
$25,000.
Father T. P. Kiernan, pastor of the
church, upon entering the church to
rescue the sacred vessels, found the
sacristy locked. He stated that he has
always kept it unlocked, but did not
say if he suspected anyone of having
been implicated in the origin of the
fire.
The lower floor of the. building is
divided into class rooms and the up
per floor was used for church pur
poses. No one was in the building
when the fire broke out, but church
services had been held during the
evening.
OF WINTER HITS MIDDLE WEST (NEWS ITEM).
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Body of Victim Dragged to Charles
Blum Garage Near Tillamook
and Covered With Rags.
TILLAMOOK, Or., March 5. (Spe
cial.) The body of Walter Smith, son
of a rancher of Miami, near here, was
found today in a garage owned by
Charles Blum, a rancher who lives
on the Miami road. The body had
hen covered with articles of old
clothing and a trail in the dirt indi
cated where it apparently had been
dragged about 300 feet from a spot
where Smith's wagon was found to
have been wrecked and his horse
badly injured.
When questioned by officers Blum
is said to have confessed that Smith
had been killed In a collision between
his vehicle and an automobile driven
by Blum. Blum told the officers he
had been drinking hard cider and
was so badly intoxicated that he
knew nothing about the details of the
accident, which happened at a curve
in the road. Blum declared that Smith
also was Intoxicated.
An inquest will be held.
FINNS GIVE SELVES UP
Convicted Astoria Men to Start
Serving Sentence.
ASTORIA, Or., March 5. (Special.)
A. J. Partan and W. N. Reivo. ed
itor and business manager, respect
Ively, of the Toverl, a local Finnish
daily, left this evening for Portland
to surrender to the United States
marshal and begin their two-year
terms in the federal prison at M&
Neil's island.
A large crowd of Finnish social
ists was at the deoot to bid them
farewell. The two men were con
victed in the federal court in Port
land on a charge of violating the
esnionaire act by selling seditious
literature. Their case was appealed
to the higher court, with the result
that the conviction was affirmed in
each instance.
COAST MAY GET TONNAGE
More Ships Conditionally Prom'
ised by Shipping Board.
WASHINGTON. March 5. Ad
ditional shjpping board tonnage may
be allocated to Pacific coast opera
tions as a result of complaints lodged
with Chairman Payne of the board
today by Senator Phelan of Cali
fornia. . -
The senator said -later that Mr.
p.vna had agreed to call on the
board's representative at San Fran
Cisco for a statement of conditions
alone- the Pacific coast and, If the
complaints of a shortage of bottoms
which have reached the Benator were
verified, would take steps to send ad
ditional craft from the Atlantic
where a surplus exists.
SWEDEN TO BE MEMBER
Affiliation With League of Nations
Voted by Chamber.
STOCKHOLM, March 5. The first
chamber of parliament today voted
86 to 47 in favor of Sweden entering
the league of nations.
The lower house Thursday voted
152 to 67 in favor of Sweden's
entrance.
Barnes Asks Huge Loan
to Float Sales.
EUROPE SEEKS PRODUCT
Max H. Houser. Lauded for
Work on Grain Board.
HIGH PRICE LAID TO USER
Situation Explained to House
Rules Committee by Head of
Federal Corporation.
WASHINGTON, March 5. Five mil
lion barrels of federal grain corpora
tion soft wheat flour will be sold on
credit In Europe soon unless congress
authorizes $50,000,000 loans to finance
the sales, Julius Barnes, head of the
corporation, told the house rules, com
mittee today. He said he now had
authority to make the sales on credit
but hoped the loans would be au
thorized. The flour now held, at American
ports and for which the corporation
asks $10.75 a barrel, is "the cheapest
in the world," Mr. Barnes told the
committee. He added that "every ef
fort had been exhausted to sell it for
cash," but that American housewives
would pay higher prices for the hard
wheat flour.
"Why are the prices of flour going
up?" asked Representative Fess, re
publican, of Ohio.
, Housewives Demand Best.
"The last year crop yield was a pe
culiar one," answered Mr. Barnes.
"There was a small yield of the strong
wheat and a big yield of the soft
wheat. Flour made of the soft wheat
could be obtained for domestic use at
all times at the exact reflection of
tire government guaranteed price of
wheat.
.'The pressure for a different kind
of flour by the . housewives led the
millers to bid up the "brlces and In
North Dakqta in five months the hard
wheat price was increased 60 cents a
bushel above the guarantee."
Charges of the Spokane, Wash.,
grand Jury alleging wheat price
manipulation by grain corporation
agents were mentioned. Mr. Barnes
said he had asked the ciepartmeut of
justice to make a thorough inauirv.
The grand Jury report was a state
ment on economic conditions In the!
Pacific northwest, Mr. Barnes said
and recommended that "the president
powers that do not exist." He
added that the corporation had not
bought wheat or flour at more than
the guarantee price.
Max H. Houser 'Honest Man."
Max H. Houser, vice-president of
the corporation and in charge of its
work in the Pacific northwest, named
In the Spokane report as interested
financially in several grain compa
nies, was declared by Mr. Barnes to
be "an honest man." Houser, he said,
had dissociated himself voluntarily
from the companies In which he was
interested, as far as possible, but
"could not withdraw his capital In
vestment from the companies." Being
thus unable to withdraw completely I
from these concerns, Mr. Barnes said,
Houser kept out of their conduct and
gave 'all earnings above 6 per cent
on his investment to charity. This
was "a fine exhibition," Mr. Barnes
declared.
In connection with the flour stocks
of the grain corporation, Mr. Barnes
said that the advertising campaign
to promote domestic sale of the soft
wheat product had "failed," and that
the stocks are "blocking" many
American ports. With warm weather
It will deteriorate rapidly, he added.
The $50,000,000 appropriation for
food relief, he continued, "would not
put us in the market for a single bar
rel of flour," and the entire fund
would be used for sale of the product.
Legislation in such a form would en
courage other countries to contribute
to the relief fund, he said. Falling
the appropriating measure, Mr. Barnes
asked congressional Indorsement of
sales, on credit, adding that "he might
have to act without such sanction.''
Europe's Needs Great.
Holland andAustrla each need 200,-
000 tons of flour, Mr. Barnes said he
had been advised. Other countries,
including Armenia, Hungary and
Czecho-Slovakia, need more than 75,
000 tons, he said.
EX-SERVICE MEN AIDED
American Legion War Risk Office
Adjusts Claims of Many Kinds.
Ex-service men, who have any
claims against the government rela
tive to allotments, liberty bonds, lost
discharge papers, travel pay or any
lmilar complaints, will receive the
aid of the American Legion through
the state war risk office of that or
ganization. The office is also handling hun
dreds of reinstatements of govern
ment war risk insurance for ex
service men. All ex-service men who
have allowed their insurance to lapse
can have It reinstated through the
payment of two monthly premiums
at any time before July 1, this year,
or within 18 months from the time
they were discharged from the serv
ice. .
"I Wanted to Be Free," Declares
Actress,' and Describes ex-Husband
as "Charming, Genial."
LOS ANGELES. March 6. Mary
Pickford will never marry again, but
will devote the remainder of her life
to motion pictures, according to an
Interview she gave at her home here
tonight to the Los Angeles Times.
This was the first statement she
made to the press since her divorce
Tuesday at Minden, Nev, from Owen
Moore.
Miss Pickford said:
"I sought a divorce because I want
ed to be free. Mr. Moore is a charm
ing man, and most genial but there
are many Instances where even two
genial persons cannot agree. I went
to Minden three weeks ago with
mother. I had not planned to get a
divorce at that. time. I was nervous
and unable to work at the studio and
wanted a rest. I was informed that
Mr. Moore was not so far away,
working on location.
"Then I determined it was the op
portune time. I had no knowledge
beforeifand that Mr. Moore would not
contest the case, so I Immediately em
ployed a lawyer and died my com
plaint." Miss Pickford said she intended to
continue her motion picture career.
"Some people think my divorce was
obtained to permit me to marry
again," she continued. "This Is not
so. I merely wanted to be free. Mr.
Moore and I have been separated for
three years and I have wanted a
divorce for many years."
FORCE TO TURKEY, REPORT
English and French Papers SSay
Allies Will Occupy Constantinople.
LONDON, March . The Dally Tele
graph today makes a feature of a re
port that the allies have decided on
the military and naval occupation of
Constantinople in consequence of the
treatment of the Armenians by the
Turks.
The newspaper's version of the re
port represents Great Britain as de
termined to occupy the Turkish capi
tal and says she has Invited France
and Italy to co-operate and that their
replies are awaited.
PARIS, March 6. On proposals by
Premier Venizelos of Greece the u
preme allied council has decided upon
energetic action at Constantinople,
backed by military measures, cays
Pertinax, political editor of the Echo
de Paris. He says orders appear" al
ready to have been given to British
military and naval forces in the vl
cinity of the Turkish capital.
1 KILLED
FOOD RIOT
Arrests for Profiteering Lead Mob
Into Conflict.
LONDON, March 5. Serious riots
at Munich and Straubing. 75 miles
northeast of Munich, arising from de
mands for complete freedom in the
distribution of foodstuffs, are reported
in a Central News dispatch from
Berlin.
Arrests by the profiteering court
lei the' mob Into conflicts with troops.
One person was killed and many In
jured. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
fi2 degrees; minimum, 46 degree
TODAYS Fair; easterly winds.
Foreign.
Holland definitely refuses to surrender ex
kalier to allies. Page 3. .
U. 8. relief party besieged by Turks for
days. Page 6.
National.
Senate leaders plan for final conference
with president on treaty. Paso 2.
Barnes aaka loan to float sale of flour
spurned by American housewives.
Page 1.
Politicians eye New Hampshire where po
litics open up Tuesday, fairs 1.
Expense of grain-corporation probe allowed
by bouse committee. Pass 21.
First target In war on prices Is shoe
profits. Page 1.
Premiers want American aid In settle
ment of Adriatic controversy. Pags 3.
Domestic.
Uncanny ouija spell claims two more vic
tims. Page 1.
'Diamond Queen' commits suicide, cheating
arrest. Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Slier Mill company wins damages, amount
to be fixed later, rage 13.
Cider and gasoline mixed in tragedy at
Tillamook. Page 1.
Grimm absolved by paid investigator for
I. W. W. Page 1.
207 miles electric trackage added to Chi
cago. Milwaukee St. Paul system.
Pags 2.
State-wide campaign In behalf of school
tax meaaurs assured. Psga S.
Daughters of American Revolution open
annual conference at Albany. Page 14.
Sports.
Vancouver, Wash., likely to obtain baseball
franchise in Paclfio International.
Page 1-'.
Jefferson coach protests score In gams
with Franklin. Page 13.
Alex Trambltas will step Benny Leonard
four rounds today. Page 12.
Commerce and Marine.
Full cargo of flour sold for shipment to
Egypt. Page 21.
Corn lower at Chicago, owing to more
favorabls weather reports. Page 21.
Movement of phosphate through Portland
promises to be Important. Page 13.
European line vessels to stop at Now York.
Pag 1-1-
Portland and Vicinity.
Jury Is selected for labor communists' trial.
Page to-
Baptist ministers of Oregon start cam
paign for i,4.10.000 fund. Pags 10.
Wonderful, Is tribute paid to work of
James M. Hickson. bealer. Page 1.
Engineer .Laurraard outlines ambitious
scheme of civic Improvement. Peg 11.
Dr. Norden elected exalted ruler of Elks
In keenly contested race. Pag 7.
Bandannas link dycamlt suspects with
car bandits. Page 4.
picture of hubby No. 1 haunta hubby No.
2, even In court. Page 14.
Forestry officials back Chamberlain's ef
forts for Isrge aerial patrol. Page s.
List of school texrhooks selected for cur
rent year by city leathers. Pass li.
'Wonderful,' Tribute Paid
to Mr. Hickson.
LITTLE CHURCH IS CROWDED
Halt, Lame and Blind, With
out Charge, Treated.
NO MIRACLES PERFORMED
Men and Women, Voting and Old,
Rich and Poor, Freely Totify
to Benefits Received.
They brought the lame, the halt, the
blind, sufferers from all of earth's
ills multitudes of thcni to Grace
Memorial Episcopal c hurch, East Sev
enteenth and Wcldlir streets, yester
day and, with faith, laid them St the
feet of James Moore Hickson for heal
ing by the laying on of hands.
They brought men and women of
all grades of society, rich and poor,
acd and young, bancs In arms and
toddling children, afflicted with prac
tically every ailment known lo man
kind, and besought him, who says h
is only an Instrument In God's hands,
to heal them.
From every 'direction, as early as
7 o'clock yesterday morning three
hours before his ministrations were
scheduled to ben In men, women and
chldren began arriving at the rhurcit
In all sorts of conveyances and In all
stages of physical distress. 8non the
little church was surrounded by the
eager multitude, awaiting the arrival
of him who, they prayed, would lay
the healing hand upon them and
did they dare hope? dispel their pain
or effect a cure of their Infirmities.
Prayer for Olarrs I rgrd.
After what must have seemed to
the sufferers and their dear ones as
interminable time, he who lays on
his hands In the name of God and
Jesus of Kasureth for the curing of
bodily Ills, as well as the quickening
of the spirit and the mind, appeared
and, In simple manner, gave assur
ance from the steps of th church
Hint he would afford all their turn
and asked them to have patience and,
meanwhile, devote themselves tu
prayer preferably for others than
themselves.
Then he walked Imck into th
church and, mounting to the chancel,
took hia seat. llov. Oswald V. Tay
lor, rector of Grace Memorial, and th
man to whom most of tha credit is
due for the presence of Mr. Hickson,
spoke briefly. Introducing th man
upon whom all eyes were centered.
Hymns of faith were sung and then
the healing powers of God wr ex
plained. "God Is ever ready to heal th body
and Is not waiting until you rise to
his level," said Mr. Hickson. "Look
up to him In faith, believing, and you
shall' be healed. It was the wlnhof
the Master, who hlmn'lf went about
this earth doing good, that the church
should transmit his power to the sick
and afflicted. Kor the first 400 years
this mission wan fulfilled, after which
it was lost; but It has been re-established
and today It Is your privilege
to be blessed physically.
plrltnal Life fr.xaitra.
"Put, while It Is God's will to heal
the body and ho fa always on the side
of health and wants his peopls to b
well. It Is not alone tha physical Bid
of life to which I call your earnest,
prayerful attention today. The spir
itual life Is all Important and, whll
you wait here for th healing touch
of body, let your faith look up to God
and, as much as posxible, forget your
self In the prayer that he will hal
others.
"I want to make It perfectly clear
that I lay no claim whatever to hav
Ing any power within myself to do
this work It Is only through th
grac of God that It cat. b done; h
gives the healing current and I trans
mit it for him, even aa an electric
bulb is but th agency through which
a powerful light may shine."
Mr. Hickson alxo emphasised th
policy of the church In thanking God
for the other works of healing that
are being accomplished dally by
physicians and surgeons, who, h said,
are doing a great good In relieving
human suffering, through remedies
and means given by the Almighty.
The main auditorium of th church
was filled to the utmost with afflicted
people and thon who attended them,
while outsld th crowd surged
against the cordon of police, com
manded by Sergeant Brothers, eager
to press their way within.
W orst Cases Taken Klrst.
"I will take the worst cases first
snd the children," announced Mr.
Hickson. "Tou will be glad to se th
children."
And he descended from th chancel,
followed by the clergy. In robes of
black and white. Stopping beslds sn
old man sitting In a wheel chslr. the
bealer laid hands on his head snd
uttered' a prayer; a rector adminis
tered a saintly blessing, whii h
upon whom all eyes wer fixed moved
on to the next sufferer, sn sged
woman, whos wrinkled, drawn fac
bor ampl evldenec of pain suffered
for years, and reepated a prayer for
her.
If any present had come expecting
to miracles performed before
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