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Entered at Portland (Oregon)
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POUT LAND OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
THREE PRIMARIES
SLATED FOR WEEK
California, Indiana and
Maryland to Vote.
U. S. BUREAU EXPECTS
GASOLINE SHORTAGE
STRIKERS IN HOSPITAL
IN IRELAND NOW 69
MURDER OF PORTLAND nniimrYTrn PTli I
woman iq QiiQPFpTFn rUllyuLAI Lll GIILL
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KILLS 5. INJURES 8!
POLICEMAN CRAIG SAYS CRIT
ICISM TOO GREAT TO BEAR.
INCREASE IN AUTOS DECLARED
35 31 ORE REMOVED EMPTIES
BELFAST JAIL.
BODY" IS FOUND ON ROCKS AT
TILLAMOOK HEAD.
EXCEEDING PRODUCTION. '
SENSITIVE OFFICER
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
BISHOPS ATTACK
'GODLESS' PROFITS
Methodist Episcopal Con
ference'Stand Firm.
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THREE CONVENTIONS LISTED
jUtah, Kentucky and Michigan
Ready for Sessions.
DELEGATION CHOICES UP
Republicans Will Choose 81 to Go
to National Meeting and Dem
ocrats VT111 Name 9 8. ,
six states titis week to
choose convk.ntio.k
dkli;ati;s.
At Primarlofi.
Rep. Dera.
Indiana 30 30
California .26 26
Maryland 16 16
Totals 72 72
At Convention!.
Rep. Iem.
Kentucky .......... .. 26
Michigan 4
Utah 8
Totals ...1 12 26
NEW YORK, May 2. Fifty-four
delegates to tho republican national
convention and 68 delegates to the
democratic national convention will
be selected In primaries and state
conventions to be held this week.
In addition, Indiana, which sends 30
elegates to each national convention.
will hold a preferential presidential
primary Tuesday, preparatory to the
republican and democratic state con-
ventions May 12 and 18, respectively,
at which the delegates are elected.
Utah republicans will hold a state
convention at Price tomorrow, at
which eight delegates will be chosen,
four district delegates and four at
large. Senator Hiram W. Johnson of
California, Governor Frank O. Low
den of Illinois and Major-General
Leonard Wood each have conducted
campaign in the state, although it Is
possible that an uninstructed delega
tion may be chosen.
Maryland Ready for Primary.
Sixteen delegates to each' national
convention will be elected at the pres
idential preference primary In Mary
land tomorrow. Senator Johnson and
General Wood are the principal
republican presidential contestants,
lectors also having the opportunity
to vote for uninstructed delegates.
There are no democratic presidential
contenders on -the ballots and the def
lates will go uninstructed to the
San Francisco convention.
Kentucky will elect 26 delegates to
the democratic national convention
at a state convention in Louisville on
Tuesday. The principal contest will
Tie between delegates wishing to go
to the national convention unin
atructcd and those pledged to Gov
rnor James M. Cox of Ohio.
California Votes Tuesday.
California holds a state-wide pri
mary Tuesday v?o choose 26 delegates
each to the republican, democratic
and prohibition national conventions.
Chief interest there centers in the
light between a group of republican
candidates .for delegates-at-large
pledged to Senator Johnson and an
other group pledged to Herbert Hoo
yer.
On the democratic ticket in.Califor-
Eia Henry M. Childeis of Los Angeles
who favors a liberal interpretation
of the national prohibition amend
merit, is running as a lone candidate
against a group of 26 unpledged can
tiidates. There is no contest in the
prohibition party, .the 26 candidate
Being pledged to the candidacy
Henry Clay iNeedham of Los Angeles.
There are four republican candl
dates in the preferential presidential
primary of Indiarfa on Tuesday. They
are Governor Lowden, General Wood
Senator Harding of Ohio and Senato
Johnson. The delegates to be chosen
at the state convention later will be
instructed for the presidential candi
date receiving a majority vote in th6
primary.
Drmocrlot Up in Indiana.
If no candidate received a major
ity, the state convention may either
instruct its delegates for any one
candidate or allow them to go to the
convention uninstructed.
The names of no candidates for the
democratic presidential nomination
will appear on the ballot in Indiana,
although voters have the privilege ot
writing in names of candidates If they
desire. The name of W. G. Webster
of New York appears on the ballot
as a candidate for the republican
nomination for vice president.
The republican state convention in
Michigan to be held Wednesday will
name four delegates at large to the
national gathering. Chief Interest
there centers in the tone of resolu
tions expected to be adopted Indorsing
Senator Johnson. Although he won
the state primary presidential pref
erence by 44,000 the senator failed in
the popular vote to carry seven of
the 13 congressional districts. Of
the nine district conventions already
held, five pledged their delegates to
Johnson, while four districts named
uninfcU uctcU delegates.
Shot Intended to Effect Quietus
Only Wounds, and Victim Is '
Arrested and Put in Jail.
G. L. Craig, patrolman of the police
auto theft bureau, was placed in the
city jail under a. charge of disorderly
conduct as the result of an escapade
t his home, East Fortieth street and
Forty-eighth avenue, early yesterday
morning in which he shot himself
through the hand after telling his
wife that he was going to commit
suicide.
Craig was taken Into . custody by
Officers Nolan and .Wright of the
second night relief after his wife had
summoned the police station. The of
ficers reported that Craig had been
drinking.
Craig had been despondent for sev
eral days on account of some criticism
having been directed at him follow
ing his arrest of four boys on an auto
theft charge Thursday night. Charges
that the boys had been held incom
municado in the city jail when they'
had only been out for a lark in their
uncle's car were made and an in
vestigation was conducted, proving
the charges to be unfounded, the chief
reported.
Craig is said to have offered to re
gn from the force previous to the
alleged attempt at suicide. His res-
gnation, however, was not accepted
by the chief.
According to the police Craig wrote
note in which he declared his in
tention of shooting himself and said
he was despondent because of having
received nothing but criticism since
having been on the force.
DELEGATES TO COMBINE
Advantage of Western Ports to Be
Told at Convention.
SEATTLE, Wash., May 2. (Spe
cial.) Organization of Pacific north
west delegates to the foreign trade
convention will be perfected on the
voyage to the bay. city, it was an
nounced yesterday at the chamber of
commerce.
The majority of the delegates from
Vancouver, Victoria, ' Spokane, Ta
coma, iSellingham and Seattle are
goi,ng south on the steamship Presi
dent, which will sail by way of Vic
toria. Leaders in the commerce of
the Pacific northwest are determined
to focus the attention of the eastern
delegates on the increasing Impor
tance of northern Pacific ports, with
trade with the orient and Asia' one
of the chief topics for discussion at
San Francisco. The Pacific north
west delegates think the time oppor
tune to show the advantage, both in
distance and shipping facilities, af
forded by the northern ports.4
ENGLISHMAN, 126, DIES
Man Who Greeted Hero of Napo
leonic War Succumbs.
OMAHA, Neb,, May 2. (Special.)
Thomas Morris, aged 126, died near
Ainsley, Neb., today. He was an
Englishman and had records of his
birth in '1794.
He came to the United States 50
years ago in company with Charles
Mitten, whom he had adopted 20 years
before that date. He had lived with
Mitten since he became too old to
work.
Morris remembered the battle of
Waterloo and took part in the cele
bration which greeted the Duke of
Wellington upon the latter's return
from the Napoleonic war. Morris
never married, but remained true to I
his first sweetheart who died more !
than 100 years ago.
DANISH EXPLORER DOUBTS
Mikkelsen Thinks Amundsen May
Winter at Port Clarence.
COPENHAGEN, May 2. (By the
Associated Press.) Captain Ejnar
Mikkelson, the Danish Arctic explorer,
is doubtful whether Roald Amundsen,
the Norwegian Arctic explorer who
recently was reported to have arrived
at Anadir, Siberia, a trading post on
the Bering sea, can resume his ex
pedition this year, according to an
interview with Captain Mikkelsen by
the correspondent of the Berlingske
Tidende.
He believes it likely that Amund
sen will winter at Port Clarence,
Alaska, and continue his voyage of
exploration in the autumn of 1921.
MOTHERS' DAY POSIES UP
Founders Urge That Wearing- oil
Expensive Flowers Be Omifted.
WASHINGTON, May 2. Because of
high prices of flowes founders ofl
Mothers' day, Sunday, May 9, have
asked all who observe it to dispense I
with the customary white 'carnations I
onH dintilnv Ampriran flae-s instead 1
on May 8 and 9.
Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia,
president of the V.otner's association.
declares in the, announcement that
on Mother's day last year white car-1
nations were sold in Washington as I
high as a dollar each.
ALBANIANSARE IN REVOLT
Uprising Against Greeks Reported
in Wireless Message.
LONDON, May 2. An Albanian ris
ing against the Greeks has begun in
Epirus, according to a wireless mes
sags from Moscow, and Albanian
bands are massacreing the Greeks.
Enver Pasha, former war minister
and leader of the young Turks, the
message . says, has placed himself
at the head of the Turkish nationalist
movement.
FOUL' SWEATSHOPS SCORED
Brutal Exactions Either by
Labor or Capital Opposed.
STEADY COURSE IS URGED
Church to Fight Unflinchingly
Every Reactionary Move Wheth
er Within or Without.
DES MOINES, la.. May 2. Declara
tions against lawlessness, "confusion
and anarchy," and devotion to orderly
government were expressed today at
the Methodist Episcopal quadrennial
conference in the address to the 34
bishops delivered by Bishop William
V. McDowell of Washington. Prin
ciples for which the church should
stand, were set forth In the address.
A reactionary spirit in the church
will cause it to lose its leadership in
the "forward moving world," the bish
op declared.
Theddress did not discuss or rec
c-mmend specific acts of church legis
lation, but dealt with the relation of
the church to the religious, social and
economic conditions of the world to
day.
Foundations Held Distorted.
"Foundations are disturbed. Eco
nomic, social an-1 industrial condi
tions are volcanic. They go far be
neath mere questions of wages, hours
and profits," the bishop said. "They
reach the roots of organised life, the
basis of government itself.
"Everywhere free institutions are
threatened. The church must not fail
in the effort to preserve them. We
cannot give sympathy or approval to
bolshevism, whether of the aed-handed
mob or of the soft-handed sentiment
alist; to anarchy, whether of the street
or of the chair.
Steady Course Advocated.
"Between the destructive . radical
and the. urryleldlng reactionary; be
tween the anarchist, the bomb
thrower, the Ted terror on one hand
and the rock-ribbed contender for spe
cial privilege, feudal brutality and
domination of wealth on the other;
between wild radicalism and inhuman
stand-patism; between autocracy at
the top and anarchy at the bottom;
between tyranny of wealth and ty
ranny of strength, the church of Jesus
Christ must this day hold a steady
course, speak in clear tones and min
ister to order, stability and righteous
ness. Those who array class against
class, man against man in any manner
are foes, not friends of society.
In pointing out a great need of the
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Warning of Probabflity of Acute
Situation by End of Next
Summer Is Issued.
WASHINGTON, May 2. Warning of
the probability of an actual shortage
of gasoline before the end "of next
summer, as a result at the dispropor
tionate increase in- gasoline produc
tion to the number of automobiles in
use, was given in a statement issued
today by the bureau of mines. While
an increase in stocks at the end of
Februaray of more than 100.000,000
gallons or 20 per cent, as compared
with a year ago, shows that the sit
uation is not yet acute, it is probable,
the statement said, that before the
"summer season is over it will become
tight if indeed it does not become
short."
Heavy drafts were made in March
on the reserve stocks of crude petro
leum notwithstanding a 20 per cent
increase in production,. according to a
report today by the United States
geological survey.
The total increase in output of the
United States in March as compared
with March, 1919, was 6,000,000 bar
rels, but the increased consumption
made necessary the Importation of
6,500,000 barrels from Mexico. . An
additional 1,000,000 barrels was. drawn
from the reserves to meet the demand.
FATHER SLAYS FAMILY
Joe West, 4 0, Shoots Wife, Two
Children. and Self.
ROUNDUP, Mont., May 2. Joe
West, aged 40, shot and killed his
wife and two children, aged 8 and 9
and then shot himself through the
head, dying instantly.
The weapon used was a .32-callber
revolver.
West and his family were living
with his wife's sister, Mrs. Sara Tyr
rell, and the little Tyrrell girl had
gone to a neighbor's house to stay
with their children while they at
tended a dance. On returning to the
house at 1:30 this morning she dis
covered the -bodies lying on the floor.
No reason is assigned for the act
except despondency, as it is said
West had been worrying over finan
cial matters. He had- been employed
by Thomas B. Easley on his ranch
and had been working steadily.
West, with his two brothers, for
merly operated a tractor outfit here
but he had been in Seattle for the
last two years, returning to Roundup
two months ago.
ZIONISTS ARE GRATEFUL
Britain's Acceptance of Palestine
Mandate Appreciated.
WASHINGTON, May 1. Sir Auck
land Geddes, British ambassador, re
ceived yesterday a delegation from the
Zionist organization of America, which
called to thank the British govern
ment on behalf of the American Jews
for accepting the mandate for Pales
tine which was awarded it by the
supreme council at San Hemo.
The ambassador was invited to ad
dress an extraordinary convention of
the Zionist organization to be held
in New York City May 9.
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George Murnaghan, Solicitor of
Omagh and Agent for Sinn
Feiner, Is Arrested. x
BELFAST, May 2. (By the Associ
ated Press.) Thirty-five more hun
ger strikers were removed from the
Belfast jail to a hospital today, mak
ing 69 who have been released in the
last, two days. There are now ao
hunger strikers in the prison.
George Murnaghan, a solicitor of
Omagh, was arrested by the military
today and brought to Belfast. He
was election agent for Arthur Grif
fith, founder of the Sinn Fein organi
zation, in Northwest Tyrone, at the
general elections.
Dr. Stuart, health officer at Beltur-
bet. County Cavan,.also has been ar
rested.
WOMAN INSTANTLY KILLED
Mrs. Sophie Fors. '43. Astoria. Is
. Victim of Auto Accident.
ASTORIA, Or, May 2. (Special.)
Mrs. Sophie Fors, 43, wife of Charles
Fors, Astoria contractor, was in
stantly killed at 4 P. M. today, when
the automobile in which she and her
husband were riding turned over a
few miles south of here. Mr. Fors,
who was driving the machine, at
tempted to pass a truck .while on the
way from Seaside to Astoria and
struck the soft sand at the edge of
the pavement. The machine was
thrown upon its side and Mrs. Fors
received a fracture of the skull.
Beside her widower, Mrs. Fors is
survived by two daughters. She was
a native of Finland.
TWO DIE IN PLANE CRASH
Pilot Takes Dad and Young Girl
on' Death Tlrp.
VALLEJO, Cal., May 2. A man and
a girl e'ght years old were killed and
another man seriously injured when
an airplane piloted by Charles Stoffer
Jr., went Info a nose dive here today
and fell 300 feet. The accident, it was
said, was caused by the engine going
dead while the pilot was preparing to
make a landing.
The dead are Charles Stoffer Sr.,
father of the pilot, and Josephine Sil-
vera.
The pilot had taken his father and
friends for a ride in his new air
f plane.
DUTCH TO MOVE KAISER
Preparations Made by Government
for Transfer.
THE HAGUE, May 2. (By the As
sociated Press.) Thorough prepara
tions for the transfer of former Em
peror William and his household from
Bentinck castle at Amerongen. to his
estate at Doorn are being made by
the Dutch government.
Dr. -J. B. Kan, who Is. charged with
guarding the former emperor, has in
terviewed Count Hohenzollcrn and
the members of his suite regarding
the change. He has also discussed it
with the burgomaster of Doom and
the captain of gertdarmie.
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Tornado Sweeps Country
North of, Chelsea.
MANY MORE THOUGHT DEAD
Farm Houses Lifted Into Air
and Demolished.
HORSEBACK RIDER VICTIM
Only Small Part of Stricken Area
Traversed by Rescuers; Mirac
ulous Escapes Related.
MISKOGEE, Okla.. May 2. Five
persons are known to have been killed
and at least eight badly hurt in a tor
nado which swept ' the countryside
north of Chelsea lata today,
The storm, which swept a wide
path, struck just before dusk, reports
reaching here said.
The known dead were:
Mrs. John M. Rlggs.
Mrs. Henry Purcell and infant.
Lewis Madden.
Rothaway.
Tornado Kills Man e
The storm, according:
florae.
to reports
from Chelsea, originated
mile north of that town
west and north.
about one
and swept
ncatucra naa not traveled more
than two miles of the stricken area
late tonight.
With the exception of Madden, all
of the known dead were farmers who
were killed when their homes were
destroyed. Madden was riding horse
back ajong a country road when the
tornado struck him.
Other reports told of a tornado at
Lusta. Okla., several miles east of
Chelsea and about 12 miles northwest
of Choteau, Okla. All telephone and
teiegrapn wires to nearby towns
were down, but passengers aboard
trains which had passed through the
storm-swept area declared that from
a distance they had seen houses
picked up by tho wind and dashed
back to the earth.
Firnwfi Family Injured.
k Three miles north of Chelsea, Otis
Ragan. living with his three children
in a brick farmhouse, terrified by the
roar or the storm, gathered his chil
dren about him and huddled together
in a corner of a room, waiting for the
tornado to strike. The farmhouse
was demolished. As the walls were
lifted the four fell outside into the
yard. Debris showered down upon
tnem. ah were badly hurt.
Almost the entire population of
Chelsea watched the storm as it
swept its path of destruction almost
a mile from town.
Tonight as many of the injured as
could be brought to town were being
cared for in a Chelsea hotel.
More Caanaltlea Kxpeeted.
The opinion was expressed in Chel
sea that daylight would greatly add
to the death list. Only a small por
tion of the devastated area had been
traversed by searchers at midnight,
it was said.
Many narrow escapes were reported.
Among those who weathered the
storm safely were Walter 'Sutherland
and eight friends who were riding
in a wagon with Sutherland when
they saw the storm approaching
Sutherland hitched his team to a tele
phone pole and the party ran a few
yards ahead and fell face forward in
a ditch. The storm passed overhead
without injuring any of them. The
honses and "wagon were carried away.
Searching parties left Choteau late
tonight seeking victims.
PRISONER SAWS WAY OUT
Jack Perry, Held on- Bootlegging
Charge, -Breaks Jail.
BILLINGS, Mont., May 2. Jack
Perry, known as "Calgary Red,"
wanted in Canada to serve a ten
year term for assault and robbery,
and held here on .a bootlegging
charge six months old, sawed his way
out of the county jail in broad day
light this afternoon.
He is still at large.
A United States deputy marshal Is
due in Billings tomorrow to take
Perry to Helena, where he was to
have been turned over to the Cana
dian authorities. Perry was originally
sentenced at Calgary to serve two
years and receive 30 lashes for as
sault and robbery. He appealed to
the supreme court, which raised the
sentence to 10 years. Perry escaped
from prison there and is believed
to have come directly to the United
States.
FLIERS OBSERVE ECLIPSE
Moon's Occultation Is Watched at
Height of 3 Ys Miles.
NEW YORK, May 2. The eclipse
of the moon tonight was observed
here by Lieutenant W. J. Tilton an,d
W. H. Cushing of the Rockaway
Beach naval air station at a height
of nearly three and one half miles.
They ascended in the naval hydro-
I airplane No. 9, remaining in the ait
one and one-half hours.
The observations were made at the
direction of the navy 'department.
Coroner, in Spite of Note to Hus
band Indicating Suicide,
Scouts Self-Destruction.
ASTORIA. Or.. May 2. (Special.)
The body of Mrs. Ruth Anderson, 29,
of 390 Russell street, Portland, was
found today on the rocks at Tilla
mook head, and Coroner Hughes, who
spent today investigating, said that
he believed she had been murdered.
She left her home in Portland Friday,
and It is believed that she was killed
that nignt.
Coroner Hughes believes that the
woman's wounds could not have been
self-inflicted. The injuries consisted
of a fractured skull, a deep gash
over the left eye, and bruises about
the face.
Charles Anderson, the woman's hus
band, arrived at Seaside today and
identified the body. He said that
be had not seen her since he left
for work at 7 A. M. Friday, but that
he had received a letter from her,
mailed at Seaside, Or., in which she
said she was going to kill herself.
The manner in which Mrs. Ander
son went to Seaside has not been
learned, although it is presumed that
she caught the morning train from
Portland. Tho coroner was unable
to find anyone who saw Mrs. Ander
son after she left Fortland. The spot
where the body was found is desolate,
rocky, and three miles from the
nearest inhabited dwelling, although
there are summer houses, now empty,
nearer at hand.
There were no cliffs close by from
which Mrs. Anderson could have
jumped. The body was a short dis
tance from the water, so that ap
parently it Could not have been dashed
on the rocks by the waves. The lettet
written to her husband, which h
understood as a suicide note, must
have been written by the woman after
she knew that she was to be mur
dered, if she was murdered, and pos
sibly was written in the presence of
the murderer.
Mrs. Anderson had lived for the past
week with her husband at the apart
ment of Mrs. Etta Young, 30 Russell
street. S'he disappeared from home
Friday afternoon. Coroner Hughes
last night asked the police to inves
tigate her domestic relations. In
spector Mallett Interviewed Mrs.
Young, who 'said she knew nothing
of the domestic affairs of the couple.
She saw Anderson Friday night and
Saturday, however, and said he
showed her the note in which the wife
said she was tired of life.
LIVING UP J08 PER CENT
Detroit Leads in Increase Ovcf
1914, Says Labor Department.
WASHINGTON, May 2. Cost of liv
ing frgures in 14 American cities,
obtained by the department of labor
for December, 1919, as compared with
December 1, 1914, put Detroit at the
top of the list with an Increase of
108, per cent.
Norfolk, Va., ranked second with
107 per cent, while Portland, Me., took
first honors by trailing the list with
a percentage of 91M:- Increases for
other cities were: Boston, 92; New
York, 103; Philadelphia, 96; Baltimore,
98; Savannah, 98; Jacksonville, Fla.,
102; Mobile. Ala., 94; Houston, 101;
Chicago, 100; Cleveland, 9i; Buf
falo, 102.
IMMENSE STILL SEIZED
11,000 Gallons of Mash Taken by
Federal Authorities.
PEORIA. 111., May 2. Federal pro
hibition officers last night seized
11.000 gallons of mash to be used for
making whisky on a farm near here.
It is claimed this is the largest
still seized in the country.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Jha Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 56
decrees; minimum, 44 desrees.
TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds.
ForeiffB.
French government to fight strike to na
tionalize railways. Page 2. .
Irish hunger strikers now in hospital total
69. Page 1.
France is pleased with aeord of allies over
German policy. Pace
Three dead and 102 hurt in May day ficht.
Paxe 4.
Revolt of Mexican labor is confirmed.
Par 4.
' National.
Bureau of nTines warns of impending xaso
y Hue shortage. Page 1.
Domestic.
Three states to hold primaries this week.
Pace 1.
Liquor openly so:d in "protected'" New
York barrooms. Page Z.
Tornado deals death in Oklahoma. Page 1.
Harvard Liberal club at Boston rejected by
associated organization. Page 4.
Bluebeard believed to be imaginative.
Page 6.
Methodist Episcopal bishops attack "God
less profiteering." Page 1.
Partfic Northwest.
Action In Poindexter request to withdraw
from Oregon primary awaits legal opin
ion. Page 1.
Sports.
Coast league results: Port'and 1, San
Francisco 11: Seattle 4. Los Angeles 6;
Oakland 6-10. Sacramento 1-2; Vernon
9-3. Salt Lake 3-3. Page 10.
Jack Pobochanka sets fast mark In city
championship swim. Page 10.
Four Portland inter-city teams min open
ing games. Page 10.
Portland and Vicinity.
Northwest pastor may become bishop.
Page 5.
State bank groups begin system of co
operative work.. Page 17.
If worm ignores jesus, cecay is pre
dicted. Page 7.
Aladdin company begins manufacture of
ready-made bouses. Page 16.
Guernseys rank with best, among breeds
ot Oregon dairy cattle. Page 16.
Jersey jubilee opens today. Page 16.
Sensitive policeman attempts suicide.
Page 1.
Mortgage is burned by Trinity church.
Page 3.
One hundred and fifty bakers of r5rt:and
go out on strike. Tage 9.
ON PHIMAHY-LIST
Withdrawal Request Will
Wait Legal Opinion.
SECRETARY KOZER UNDECIDED
Refund of Fee for Printing,
Partly Done, Also Asked.
AFFIDAVIT IS AT SALEM
Specific Precedent of Law
Which to Base Decision
Declared to Be Lacking.
Upon
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SALEM. Or.. May 2. (Special.) Al
though confident in his own mind that
a candidate -for president of the
United States who files for nomina
tion in Oregon at, his personal re
quest may withdraw his name from
the contest at any time prior to the
primary election, Sam A. Kozer, as
sistant secretary of state, today an
nounced that he had decided to refer
to Attorney-General Brown the affi
davit of withdrawal submitted by
Miles Toindexter of Washington, to
gether with a request for a written
opinion as to whether such with
drawal would be legal and proper un
der the Oregon statutes.
With no specific precedent upon
which to base a decision, Mr.
Kozer has assumed the position that
a candidate for president of the
United States who files at his own re
quest has full and complete control
over his acts until such time as tho
purpose of his declaration becomes
effective and, therefore, in the case
at issue he would have a legal right
to withdraw his name from the nom
inating ballot at any time prior to
the holding of the primary election.
Legal Ruling; la Awaited.
Mr Kozer made it plain, however,
that this Is merely his personal opin
ion, based upon an examination of
the statutes, and that nothing short
of a legal ruling from the attorney
general would suffice to guide his
future action with regird to the Poln
dexter withdrawal.
Mr. Poindexter's formal affidavit
supporting his request for withdrawal
from the presidential contest in Ore
gon was received at- the offices of the
secretary of state here yesterday. The
affidavit sets out that "because of
pending legislation of vital import
ance his immediate return to Wash
ington is imperative and will prevent
him from carrying on an active cam
paign in Oregon."
Concurrent with filing the request
for withdrawal application also was
made for the . return of $300 paid to
the secretary of state for the printing
of three pages of Poindexter litera
ture in the voters' pamphlet.
I'amphlrta Already Printed.
These pamphlets, with the excep
tion of those to be assigned to Mult
nomah county, have been printed and
tfls return of the money to the Poin
dexter headquarters has been held in
abeyance pending an opinion of tha
attorney-general. .
The only law found by the secretary
of state relating to the nomination of
candidates for president and vice
president makes no provision for
withdrawal, and consequently a court
opinion may be necessary to establish
this apparent mooted question. This
law reads:
"When candidates for the offices of
president and vice-president of the
United States are ' to be nominated,
every qualified elector of a political
party subject to this law shall have
opportunity to yote his or her pref
erence on his or her nominating bal
lot, for his or her choice for one per
son to be the candidate for nomination
by his or her political 'party for the
office of president and one person for
vice-president of the United States,
either by writing tho names of such
persons in blank spaces to be left on
said ballot for that purpose, or by
marking with a cross before tha
printed names of the persons of his
or her choice, as in the case of nomi
nations of candidates for state and
district offices.
Ballot Printing Considered.
"The name of any candidate for a
party nomination for president or for
vice-president of the United States
shall be printed on said ballots upon
the written request of such candidate
filed with the secretary within the
time provided for filing petitions of
candidates for nomination for slate
and district offices, or upon the peti
tion of 1000 of his supporters who are
registered voters in the state of Ore
gon of tho political party to which
said candidate belongs.
"The names of such candidates for
party nominations for president and
vice-president of the United States
shall be printed on the official bal
lots for the primary nominating elec
tions of their respective political par
ties, and shall be marked, counted,
canvassed, returned and proclaimed
in the same manner and under- the
same conditions, as far as the same
are applicable, as the names of candi
dates for nomination for state an
district offices."
The above section of the elecLion
laws, according to the secretary of
state, makes full and complete provi
sion as to how a candidate for presi
dent or vice-president of the United
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