Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, August 03, 1920, Image 1

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    VOL. LIX NO. 18,624
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Postofflce as Second-Class Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST
1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
'S TIGER
COLUMBIA HIGHWAY IS
READY TO HOOD RIVER
GRARLIE
HAIL FARES
4 HURT WHEN AUTO
DIVES OVER 2 BLUFFS
CAR BACKS DOWN" GRADE AS
DRIVER LEAVES WHEEL.
MILLIONAIRE RED,
19 OTHERS, GUILTY
MR. HARDING COUNTS
ON OREGON SUPPORT
STATE'S LOYALTY TO REPIB
LICAXISM TRUSTED.
HOLLAND WILL TIE TO
PORTLAND WITH SHIPS
DUTCH SEEK PHOSPHATE
ROCK FOR FERTILIZER.
WILL ROAR TODAY
SUED FDR
E
EFFECT AUG. 20
SIMPLE CEREMONY MARKS
COMPLETION OF WORK.
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TAMMANY
CAN
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Freight Rates to Advance
Five Days Later.
PULLMAN AND BAGGAGE GO UP
Third of Wage Increase
Falls on Public.
ROADS COST U. S. BILLION
"cw Churges Estimated to Yield
$1,300,000,000 for Freight,
9283,000,000 for Passenger.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. CBy The
Associated Press.) New passenger
fares probably will become effective
August 20, and advanced freight rates
August 25, according to a programme
outlined tonight by A. P. Thorn, gen
eral counsel for the association of
railway executives.
Simultaneously increases in Pull
man, excess baggage and milk charges
also will go In force.
Railroad rate experts have begun
preparing blanket rate schedules in
creasing transportation costs on a
percentage basis. These will be pre
sented to the interstate commerce
commission five days before the pro
posed effective dates. Rate sheets
will be supplemented by printed
tariffs containing rates for all ter
ritories and on all commodities as
soon as the many details can be
worked out. Until this is done, local
rail officials will compute the new
rates and charges for their territories
by adding 20 per cent to existing
rates.
While this method would be un
usual, rail officials pointed to the
suggestion of the commission that the
higher charges be put in force "as
early as practicable."
Treasury Drain to End.
fly putting the increased rates into
effect prior to September 1 the drain
on the treasury under the guarantee
provisions of the transportation act
likely will be ended before expira
tion of the government's guarantee of
earnings. Officials estimated today
that by September 1 the guarantee
previsions would .have cost the gov
ernment approximately J650.000.000.
The government has been obliged
to continue the $75,000,000 monthly
rental payment in effect during fed
eral control and meet deficits, not
covered by the rental amount, sus
tained by individual carriers. In
cluded In these deficits is that por
tion of the $600,000,000 wage award
from May 1 to September 1. when
the guaranty expires.
This was officially estimated at
$206,000,000. Thus the people will pay
one-third of the increased wages for
railroad employes in taxes.
With the amount guaranteed the
carriers this year and the claims of
the lines for compensation under
their contracts with the railroad ad
ministration, the roads will have
cost the government approximately a
billion and a half dollans since De
cember 28. 1917.
Billion In Mew Yield.
Operation of the roads after Sep
tember 1 under the new rates will
yield, according to the experts, an
annual return or aoouc l,ssu,ouo,ooo. i
They believed the increased freight
revenues would total $1,300,000,000.
and the income from passenger traf
fic $283,000,000. Their estimates, it
was explained, were based on the
assumption that intrastate rates
would be increased correspondingly.
Need for increases in intrastate
rates was set forth in a report for
warded toda" to state railway and
public utility commissions by the
three state commissioners who sat
with the interstate commerce com
mission during the bearing and con
sideration of the rate case.
While tariff experts are working
on the general rate schedule, .the
carriers will make application to the
various state commissions for ad
vances in intrastate rates to corre
spond to those In interstate rates
20 per cent on passenger, milk and
excess baggage charges, and 50 per
cent on rates for sleeping and parlor
car space.
Coastwise and inland steamship
companies and electric railway lines
are permitted under the interstate
commerce commission's decision to
raise only freight rates. Nothing
was said by the commission as to
passenger rates on the steamboat
lines, but the decision did say spe
cifically that the freight rate in
crease granted electric railway lines
was "not to be construed as an ex
pression of disapproval of increases,
made or proposed in the regular man
ner, in the passenger fares of elec
tric lines."
Commissioner Kile Heort.
We participated in the conferences
1n the same manner as members of
the commission," the state commis
sioners' report declares, "being in
vited to take part in the discussions
and express our views. Members of
the commission gave to the cause in
tense and efficient application, exam
ining and discussing It with the evi
dent desire to reach correct conclu
sions and apply the Increase In such
manner as to deal justly with the
whole country.
"The questions presented were nv-
AtWiuiiuUtd ou 4, Columa i.
Wife of Y' achats Mill Operator Scar
Death; Excited Husband Leaps
, From Embankment.
CORVALLIS. Or., Aug. 2. (Special.)
Two children and two women, one
of whom tonight was near death,
were injured last night when an au
tomobile driven by J. C. Carson,
backed over two embankments south
of Yachata and landed upside down
on the beach below. One of Carson's
daughters, aged 3, sustained a . cut
that nearly tore her ear away, the
other, aged 5, sustained a fractured
skull; Mrs. Carson, who is about to
become a mother again, was injured
internally so seriously that tonight
it was thought that she could not
recover, and Mrs. Carson's mother
sustained a crushed ankle.
Mrs. Kocher, a sister of Mr. Carson.
and her baby escaped injury when.
Mrs. Kocher, carrying the child, leaped
from the car as it started its back
ward race.
At the time of the accident the car
was ascending the grade on the
Florence-Yachats road. The engine
was "killed," when Mr. Carson tried
to shift gears at a point where the
road runs about 100 feet above the
beach and on the point of a bluff.
As Carson left the car to crank the
engine, the machine started backing
down the hill.
Carson made a run for the steering
wheel and managed to keep the car
in the road for about 50 feet, when it
turned off down a steep bank some
40 feet high. Reaching the bottom,
still upright, the car proceeded up a
short Incline and hurled over a pre
cipitous cliff onto the beach 30 or
40 feet below.
Mr. Carson, without realizing what
he was doing, leaped to the beach.
He escaped injury, but found the
rest of the party unconscious on the
beach. -
Dr. Leonard of Portland happened
to be near and gave assistance.
Mrs. Kocher had hurried to a
nearby house and telephoned Dr. Lin
ton of Waldport. This was the sec
ond car to plunge from the bluff near
Yachats last week. Mr. Carson oper
ates a sawmill near Yachats.
FLIER L0CKLEAR KILLED
Daring Aviator and Aide Crash li
Performing for Movies.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2. Lieutenant
Omar Locklear, noted "stunt" avi
ator, and Lieutenant Milton Elliott,
his aide, were killed tonight when
their plane crashed from a distance
of 1000 feet.
Locklear. who had gained the sobri
quet "Daredevil" because of his many
thrilling stunts in the air, was en
gaged with Lieutenant Elliott in per
forming a feat for a moving picture
concern. The accident occurred
the midst of huge oil tanks in the
La Brea oil field near here.
When 1000 feet high he was given
a signal by the motion picture di
rector and started into a nose dive
A battery of searchlights was playing
on the machine and fireworks were
being set off from the plane by Lieu
tenant Elliott. When he had dropped
to within 200 feet of the earth Lock
lear was seen to attempt to straighten
his plane out. He was too low, how
ever, and crashed to the earth.'
THREE MEN HOLD UP TRAIN
Robbers Escape With Loot Near
British Columbia Boundary.
CALGARY, Alberta. Aug. 2. Three
men held up the conductor and pas
sengers on the Canadian Pacific train
running from Lethbridge, Alberta,
through Crow's Nest pass, at Sentinel.
! Alberta- British Columbia
uuunuary, eariy lonignt, ana after
dropping from the train as it slowed
up on a curve near Sentinel made
their escape, according to reports re
ceived here.
The men, who were believed to have
been passengers from Lethbridge,
conducted the entire holdup while
the train was running. The amount
obtained by the robbers was not
known, but was believed to have been
considerable. ,
BRITAIN MAINTAINS GRIP
Jury less Trials and More Police
Power Ireland's Prospect.
LONDON, Aug. 2. The cabinet at
today's session is reported virtually
to have completed the new Irish bill,
providing for trial without jiiry in
Ireland and giving the military and
police wider powers for apprehending
suspected persons.
The crown will appoint the high
justice and other court officials, who
will sit only in Dublin to obviate the
possibility of attack if court sessions
were to be held in remote localities.
I The government gave notice today
that it would introduce its bill, which
is expected to be discussed Thursday
and adopted finally Friday.
EXPERT SWIMMER DROWNS
Woman SaTed, Rescuer Supposedly
Seized With Cramps.
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 2. John
Pillar, former physical director of tne
Y. M. C. A. at Wenatchee. Wash,
an formerly light-heavyweight cham
pion wrestler of Montana, was
drowned 'in the Fnd d'Oreille river
near lone. Wash.. Saturday evening,
according to word received here to
day.
Pillar, with another man, sought
to rescue a woman swimmer, who
was in trouble, and is supposed to
have been seized with cramps. He
'as reckoned an expert swimmer.
The woman was saved.
William B. Lloyd Gets
1 to 5-Year Sentence.
$2000 FINE IS ALSO LEVIED
Communists Convicted of At
tempt to' Overthrow. U. S.
JURY RETURNS VERDICT
San Francisco Reporter Gets One
to Five Years and Must
Pay Fine of $1000.
CHICAGO. Aug. 2. William Bross
Lloyd, millionaire socialist, and 19
other members of the communist
labor party, tonight were found guilty
by a Jury of conspiracy to overthrow
the United States government.
The defendants received various
sentences, most of them getting from
one to five years in the penitentiary.
few being fined in addition, and
several being sentenced to one year
in jaiL
Lloyd got the heaviest sentence
one to .five years in the penitentiary
and a fine of $2000.
Max Bedacht of San Francisco, a
reporter, received one to five years in
prison and was fined $1000.
Others Are Sentenced.
Others sentences follow: L. E. Kat-
terfeld, Dayton, Kan., farmer, one to
five years in. the penitentiary; Lud
wlg Lore, alleged co-author of the
communist-labor party platform and
author of alleged radical publications,
one to five years in the penitentiary;
L. K. England, Moline, 1H., member
of the communist-labor party state
executive committee, one to five
years in penitentiary; Jack Carney,
Duluth, Minn., editor of "Truth" and
member of the party national execu
tive committee, one to five years in
the penitentiary and $1000 fine; Sam
uel Ash, Chicago lawyer, one year In
Jail; Dr. Oscar Jesse Brown. De Kalb,
111., one year in Jail; N. J. Christensen,
Chicago, one year in jail; Edwin Firth,
Indianapolis, printer, one year in jail;
S. F. Hankin, Chicago, one year in
jail; Niels Kjar, Chicago, one to five
(Concluded on Page 4, Column 3.)
AND THE
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Letter to State Central Committee
Expresses Confidence and .
. Urges Effort.
SALEM. Or Aug. 2. (Special.)
"Oregon has always proved faithful
to the republican cause, so we count
it a sure state," is a statement made
In a letter written by W. G. Harding,
republican candidate for president of
the United States, received here to
day by John W. Cochran, ex-secretary
of the republican state central com
mittee. "I have received & transcript of the
resolutions adopted by the state cen
tral committee of Oregon, and 1 beg
you, upon my part, to convey to the
members of your committee my warm
est thanks for this expression." the
senator says.
. '"Oregon has always proved faith
ful to the republican cause, so we
count it a sure state. It is none the
less appreciated for this reason; on
the contrary, its steadfastness to the
cause of republicanism has endeared
that state to the republican heart,
which always looks to you with con
fidence for your contribution to
victory.
"Cherishing this feeling, we sahll.
as usual, this year count Oregon in
the republican column, and 1 trust
that no efforts will be abated, how
ever promising the outlook may be,
to assure the largest and most com
plete victory.
"Please give to the members of
your committee ray cordial greetings
and best wishes."
The letter was signed personally by
Mr. Harding and will be forwarded
to the republican central committee
by Mr. Cochran.
GEORGIA GROWS SLOWLY
Gain in Population Smallest in
History of State.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Georgia's
1920 population, with the exception
of one enumeration district not re
turned by the supervisor, is 2,893,601,
the census bureau announced today.
Ten years ago the population was
2,609,121. The rate of growth for the
ten years was 10.9 per cent, the
smallest in the history of the state.
Wood River, in Madison county,
111., whose population was announced
today by the census bureau as 3476,
has show-n an increase of 4038.1 per
cent .during the ten years. This is
the highest rate of growth shown by
any place in the United States thus
far in the 14th census. Two vil
lages were annexed by Wood River,
which in 1910 had a population of 84.
The population of Moscow, Idaho,
will be announced at 10:30 A. M. to-
i morrow.
MORE HE EATS THE THINNER
12,000-Ton Steamer Eemdijk Will
Carry Passengers Through
Canal to Europe.
Definite decision has been reached
by the Holland-America line to es-
tablish a service between Portland
and Holland, It was announced yes
terday by representatives of the com
mission of public docks, who enter
tained F. M. Volk and C. Van de
Stadt, officers of the line, Friday
and Saturday.
The first vessel of the new line to
call here, the 12,000-ton Bteamer
Eemdijk, is now on her vay to the
Pacific coast and is scheduled to ar
rive here in September She is last
reported as sailing from Rotterdam j
July 7 for New York, Philadelphia
and San Francisco.
Messrs. Volk and Van de Stadt vis
ited San Francisco and after spend
ing two days here , went to Astoria,
and from there to Seattle. The an
nouncement of a selection of a Port
land agent for the line is expected to
be made shortly.
In addition to carrying freight, the
Eemdijk ' and other vessels of this
line will also have accommodations
for passengers. At present there is
no passenger line operating through
the Panama canal between the two
American coasts.
The principal cargo to be taken by
the Eemdijk is phosphate rock, re
ported to be much in demand as a
fertilizer in the Netherlands. She will
bring no inward cargo.
This line of Dutch steamships has
. . . , .1.-1
operated formerly only between the
Atlantic coast and Europe,
BABY NARROWLY ESCAPES
Go-Cart Dragged Three Blocks by
Car, Infant Unhurt.
RACINE, Wis., Aug. 2. A go-cart
containing a two-year-old child rolled
off a sidewalk here today and its
handle was caught by a passing in-
terurban car.
The cart was dragged three blocks
before frantic pedestrians' signaln
stopped the car. The infant was un
harmed. TRAIN DERAILED, 5 HURT
Great Northern Cars Go Off Track
at Wilson Creek, Wash.
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 2. Five
trainmen were Injured when the
oriental westbound Great Northern
passenger train was derailed at 10:45
A. M. today near Wilson ureen, wasn
No passengers were hurt, accord
ing to reports received here. The
extent of the trainmen's injuries was
not known.
HE GETS.
Democrats of New York
Gather for Convention.
SMITH TO BRING ON FIGHT
Lansing Dropped to Escape
Wrath of Wilson.
CONTEST IN OKLAHOMA
Gore,' Anti-League, Is Running
Against Ferris, President's
Backer, for Senate.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Aug. 2. Marion and
Trail's End, two well-advertised po
litical resorts in Ohio, are to be par
tially eclipsed for a day. Political
interest is temporarily transferred to
New York and Oklahoma where im
portant events are to take place to
morrow. The AmnnF-a n V..., "V 1 . .
, , " ' ,
in state convention tomorrow to draft
platform and possibly to designate
candidates for the state ticket, al-
hough there is considerable oppo
sition toward attempting to advise
the primary voters as was done by
the republicans in their state con
vention last week.
Whatever the convention does to
morrow there will be serious party
embarrassments. It is already fore
casted that Governor Alfred E. Smith
s. to be made the dominating figure
with a view of showing that Tam
many Intends his renomination. Gov
ernor Smith is anathema to William
Randolph Hurst, who is not in any
too pleasant a mood toward the
democratic party anyway.
Hearst Opposes Smith.
By featuring Smith it is expected
that Tammany will draw the fire of
Hearst at once and possibly result in
the Hearst papers f'ghtlng the entire
state democratic ticket on the theory
that to help any democrat to gain of
fice is to help Tammany. For a few
days after the San Francisco conven
tion it looked like Mr. Hearst might
get back into line for the democratic
party.
The Hearst papers began to praise
Governor Cox and give their interpre
tation of Cox" views on the league of
nations covenant, which were de
clared to be much the same . as
Hearst's. Cox visited the white house
and pledged himself to the Wilson
programme and Hearst editorials
ever since have dealt only with events
in ancient history.
Another problem is whether the
convention shall give prominence to
the name of Robert Lansing, who was
deposed as secretary of state because
he called the cabinet. together during
Mr. Wilson's illness. For a few days
Charles F. Murphy, Tammany boss.
considered designating Lansing for
United States senator, but is said to
have been induced to drop the former
secretary of state in the interest of
harmony.
Wlls in Wrath Frnn ii.
President Wilson, it was pointed
cut, would be sure to take offense
at the Lansing designation and micht
take it all out on Governor Cox as the
Tammany presidential candidate.
George R. Lunn, former socialist
mayor of Schenectady, who broke the
unit rule in the New York delegation
and cast his vote for McAdoo to the
last ballot, also is expected to have an
eruption tomorrow that will' give
Tammany and the national ticket
some uneasy moments. Lunn is run
ning for the democratic ticket nom
ination for United States senator ind
Intends running whether Tammany
designated another candidate or not.
The Oklahoma contest tomorrow is
between Senator Thomas P. Gore and
Representative Scott Ferris for the
senate seat which Gore had held ever
since Oklahoma was admitted to
statehood. Gore, though a democrat,
has opposed President Wilson on al
most every important measure In the
last two congresses.' He also voted
for all kinds of reservations to the
Wilson league covenant and at no
time supported the pact as submitted
by the president.
Gore. Gets Audience.
He is running for renomination on
his record of independence, and Fer
ris, who is a member of the house
and was formerly chairman of the
public lands committee, seeks the
nomination as a straight-out admin
istration candidate. The national ad
ministration and all of the federal
office-holders are behind Ferris, but
Gore, a blind man, has been getting
the audiences in the primary cam
paign. The light is expected to burn in
the White House until very late to
morrow night awaiting some sort of
news from Oklahoma City, because
Mr. Wilson will take the renomina
tion of Senator Gore keenly to heart.
DEATH ENDS LONG SLEEP
Head of Spokane Bank Succumbs
to Strange Malady.
SPOKANE. Wash'.. Aug. 2 Thomas
H. Brewer, president of the Fidelity
National bank of this city, died early
today of what physicians diagnosed
as Bleeping sickness.
Mr. Brewer had been ill for about
two months. .
Simon Benson's Dream Fulfilled
After Eight Years or Diffi
cult Construction Feats.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. Aug. 2. (Spe
cial.) With a simple ceremony the
last shovelful of paving on the Co
lumbia river highway between Hood
River and Portland was spread at 4
o'clock this afternoon. As Hood River
county officials, members of the pav
ing crews and motor tourists crowded
around the big truck that dumped
the last "hot stuff" and posed for a
photocraph. C. A. Bell, pioneer logger
and hotel man, called for three cheers
for Simon Benson, chairman of the
state highway commission and father
of the great highway, who demon
strated the feasibility of the great
highway by donating $10,000 for con
struction of a mile of road at Shell
Ruck mountain, declared by many
to have been impossible. An Oregon
convict crew turned the first earth
at Shell Rock on May 23, 1912.
The following people motored over
to see the paving finished: Mr. and
Mrs. C. A. Bell, Judge L. N. Blowers,
A. K. Cruikshank, Leslie Butler, Tru
man Butler, C. W. McCullagh, E. E.
Bratt, H. G. Ball. Mrs. H. G. Barklage.
Miss Marjorie Wissinger, Bert Head
and Joe D. Thomison of Hood River;
W. P. Smith, engineer for the state,
and H. T. McElvane, divisional super
intendent of the paving concern, were
also present.
Long lines of motor tourists await
ing completion of the road evidenced
the popularity that the comparatively
new gateway has already gained. Li
cense tags carried the names of Illi
nois, Michigan, Washington. Califor
nia and Colorado.
The paving of the Columbia river
highway is now completed and a new
era for the Hood river valley and
mid-Columbia was predicted by the
local men as they drove home and
passed Wau Guin Guin. where the
state's first strictly tourist hotel Is
being projected, and where. It was
remarked, Simon Benson is again
pioneering.
PULM0T0R RECORD MADE
Young Man Kept Alive
!4 Hours
by Instrument.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Aug. 2. After hav
ing been kept alive with a pulmotor
24 hours, Robert Stansbury died at the
city hospital today.
He underwent an operation on his
ear late yesterday and while on the
operating table stopped breathing.
His heart continued Seating and a
pulmotor was brought into use.
. Physicians asserted that this was
the longest Instance in which a pul
motor had been-used continuously.
AUTO PLUNGES 300 FEET
Twin Falls Realty Man Killed in
- Snake River Canyon.
TWIN FALLS. Idaho. Aug. 2. C. L
Green. 60, Twin Falls real estate
dealer, was instantly killed late Sun
day, when he was carried in his car
over a 300-foot drop off a grade in
Snake river canyon, near Blue Lakes,
three miles north of here.
His wife and two other persons had
left the car to walk up the grade
shortly before the accident occurred.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
76 degrees; minimum. 56 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair. . cooler. northwesterly
winds.
Foreign.
Ultimatum served on soviet by Roumanla-
Page 3.
Canton declared to have announced open
rebellion. Page 3.
National.
New York democrats convene today.
Page 1.
Passenger fare increases effective August
20, freight rate rise August 25. Page 1.
Domestic.
Conspiracy to stampede public into buying
clothing so as to boost prices Is charged.
Page 5.
Cox urged by republicans and democrats
to take strong position on league of na
tions. Page 2.
William B. Lloyd, millionaire communist,
gets one to five years' sentence. Page 1.
Senator Harding assured of Bteadily grow
ing support in west. Page 2.
Ponzt hailed an "greatest Italian" as he
continues to pay investors in full.
Page 6.
Charles Chaplin sued for divorce. Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Denial of cKlrenshlp to Japanese advo
cated at Tacoma hearing. Page 4.
Owens Is iron man of recaptured outlaw
quintet. Page 4.
Four hurt when auto backa over two
bluffs. Page 1.
Mr. Hardinsr counts confidently on sup
port ot Oregon. Page 1.
Simple ceremony marks completion of Co
lumbia highway. Page 1.
Six Clarke county lawyers seeking superior
court bench. Page 7.
VV". V. Herrick, Vancouver, Wash., profes
sor, is believed suicide. Page 5.
Sports.
Cup tourney at Portland and Waverley
clubs in second round. Page 12.
Vernon and Salt Lake race neck and neck
for pennant. Page 12.
Two thousand anglers hold picnic. Page
13.
Vardon calls this his last golf tour of
America. Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
Flour goes down 80 cents at Portland as
result of sensational wheat drop.
Page 19.
Beef cattle go down at i-ortiana yards.
Page IS.
Stock market loses following advance at
New York. Page 10.
Wheat goea up again at Chicago. Page 18.
Portland and Vicinity.
County commissioners have no authority
to repair approaches to Morrison-street
bridge, aaya District Attorney Evan
Page. 10.
Municipal court reports total of loll
taken in fines in one day. Page 11.
Milk bill framers to hold hearing today.
Page 20. '
Holland to tie to Portland with line of
steamers. Page 1.
i Increased market sougbt for wcUr&
uod. Page IS.
Mildred Harris Charges
Comedian With Cruelty.
MARRIAGE SECRET 4 MONTHS
Husband Refuses to Look at
Christmas Tree.
$750,000 FILMS TIED UP
Court Restrains Disposal or Pic
lures Xow lie lug Made; Wife
Asks Share of Property.
LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Aug. 2. (Spe
cial.) The storm that has hovered
over the Charlie Chaplin household
for months past broke suddenly late
yesterday afternoon when Mrs. Mil
dred Harris Chaplin filed suit for
divorce on the grounds of extreme
mental cruelty and bodily injury.
This action had been expected for
long time. She told a friend last
March that unless her husband re
turned to her she would go to court.
Mrs. Chaplin, in the suit, also asked
that her husband be restrained from
disposing ot his interest in certain
motion picture films and that he be
required to account to the court for
sums received by him on her ac
count during their married life and
that if such sums are Insufficient to
enable her to live in her present sta
tion of life, to make such order as
the court seems equitable and just.
Restraining Order Issned.
A temporary restraining order was
issued by Presiding Judge Jackson
and made returnable before Judge
Taft on Monday.
Mrs. Chaplin's complaint, as filed
by Attorney W. I. Gilbert in 14 pages
of typewritten paper, expounded the
numerous incidents in her brief mar
ital life that she said brought sor
row and a nervous collapse upon her.
The charges, in brief, were that their
marriage on October 23. 191" was kept
secret for four months at the re
quest of .her husband, who, she said,
stated that if news of it became pub
lic it would seriously interfere with
his professional career.
Mrs. Chaplin also charged that four
weeks after the marriage she was
taken to a hospital as a result of a
nervous breakdown. News of the
marriage leaked out and. as a result
of the publications, she said, she suf
fered by her husband's course of con
duct and criticisms regarding her
film contract, which so upset her
nerves that she was again confined
to her bed.
Abase Charted to Husband.
Following the incident, her hus
band frequently stayed out until 2
and 4 o'clock in the morning, the com
plaint averred, and oftentimes all
night. On the first Christmas eve
following their marriage, she said,
she was still confined to her bed
but arose against her physician's
wishes to be with her husband, but
her illness compelled her to return
home at midnight, and he refused to
take her home. She declared it was
about 5 A. M. before he returned.
She sa'd that following this episode
she went to New York upon the ad
vice of her physician and though
without funds, her husband, who was
earning more than $100,000 a year, de
clined to send her any money in ex
cess of $250. A baby was expected In
their family, so she obtained furni
ture for the nursery, but Mr. Chaplin,
upon receiving the bill, became very
abusive and insisted he would not pay
it, Mrs. Chaplin alleged, and that she
then arranged to pay for It by in
stalments. She further declared that
when they were married it was
agreed that Mr. Chaplin pay her $30
weekly for expenses, but that he up-
(Concluded on Pace 6. Column 5-
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