VOL.. LIX-XO. 18,T18
Entered at Portland (Oregon
Postof flee as Second -Claw Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
UNCLE SAIVI MIGHT
BE BIT INDULGENT
Income Tax Payment May
Be Postponed.
SUGAR, FLOUR, MEAT
TAKE NEW DROP HERE
SWINDLE OF BM
READS LIKE NOVEL
BUDGET PLAN LIKELY
DESPITE WILSON VETO
MRS. L J. McKENNON
SUCCUMBS, AGED 98
oxe of oregon's oldest
citizens dies at la grande.
MR TO KNIFE IN
SEA RATES LOOMS
BAD WEATHER JINX
SHAKEN BY HARDING
E
DECIiIXE OF 5 0 CEXTS IS EX
PECTED TO AFFECT BREAD.
APPR.OPR.IATI OX S COMMITTEE
PREPARING TO ACT.
SKIES ARE BRIGHT AND SEA I
SMOOTH FOR VOYAGE.
POL CEM
N ADIT
PAY NG
LIQUOR
V
V
BUSINESS SORELY PRESSED
Several Lines Hard Hit in Re
adjustment Process.
ACTION THOUGHT LIKELY
Belief Is That Secretary or Treas
ury Will Officially Recommend
Deferment of Payments.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Nov. 19. Action by con
gress looking to postponement of the
next income tax payment due Decem
ber 15 seems possible. Information
to this effect comes from reliable
sources in the house of representa
tives, where tax and revenue legisla
tion originates.
Reports reaching Washington Indi
cate that the present economic re
adjustment calls for some leniency on
the part of Uncle Sam to tide over
business. To be pressed to pay when
the next installment of income tax
becomes due, in a little less than four
weeks, It is learned, would work a
severe hardshiD on several lines of
business hard hit in the process of re
adjustment.
It is intimated that the secretary
of the treasury, immediately upon the
reconvening of congress, will supply
the committee on ways and means
with data supporting the demand for
postponement and officially recom
mend such action. It would be quite
within the range of possibilities to
pass a resolution to that effect
through the house and senate before
the payments fall due, December 15.
Treasury Status Decides.
Otherwise, U is said, it would be
futile to expect the ways and means
committee to initiate action, as it
would Involve the" holding of hear
ings to develop the facta and prove
the necessity for such legislation.
Moreover, it is pointed out that the
committee would not feel authorized
to take the first step without know
ing from the secretary "how the gov
ernment is fixed financially" and
whether he will need the Income tax
payments to meet obligations of the
government falling due in the fu
ture. It is stated in authoritative con
gressional circles that there is no
lack of knowledge among members
of both parties of the demand for
nostDoniner payment, but it Is ex
plained that having that Information
even at first hand from prospective
victims of the situation does not nec
essarily arm the committee on ways
and means with license to proceed to
amend the statute without recom
mendation from the officials charged
with enforcement of the law.
SJo Debate Necessary.
This widespread acquaintance by
representatives and senators with the
state of affairs existing In business
and the crisis presented by the ma
turlng taxes is the basis for the con
fidence expressed In congressional
circles that immediate action by con
gress can be obtained upon the offi
cial recommendation of the secretary
of the treasury. The subject would
need no elucidation in debate, it is
said, and even that branch of con
gress charged with propensity to pro
longed discussion would find little
encouragement in this Instance.
Treasury officials are more keenly
alive to the predicament of business
and heavy taxpayers than even the
members of congress. It is said that
the "hard luck" stories which over
whelm the treasury people would mel
a heart of stone. The men come in
almost with tears in their eyes, to
complain that they have not the
money to pay the tax, that the banks
will not lend the. needed sums, and
that they face being penalized and
adding further to their debt to the
government.
New Angle Presented.
There-is a newangle to the income
tax payment situation. The drygoods
wo'ple have taken the initiative in an
appeal to congress to extend the pro
"visions o the revenue act which pro
vided crediting net losses sustained.
Omitting technicalities, the point is
this:
The revenue act provided that for
the period between October 31, 1918,
and January 1. 1920, net losses sus
tained might be deducted from the
net lnco:ne of the taxpayer for the
preceding taxable year.
That provision was adopted to take
care of possible depreciations follow
ing the ending of the war. It was
supposed that if there was a slump
it would come within the period stipu
lated, but in point of fact it did not
fall out tbat way. The high prices
continued during the time specified
and the losses were incurred later
than the taxable year included in the
provision.
Losses Come Too Late.
The drygooas men now want con
gress to exter.d the limitation beyond
January 1, 1310, so that the provision,
designed for the benefit of business,
shall not bt vitiated because the
losses "hung fire" until it was too late
to take advantage of the beneficent
CCoacVuded to fas 2. Column ,)
Livestock and Other Farm Produc
tions Becoming Cheaper on
Portland Markets.
Another decline of 50 cents a barrel
in bakers' flour, which may eventual
ly affect the retail price of bread, wjs
announced by millers yesterday. No
change was made in other grades of
flour, but the market is naturally
weak as wheat prices continue to decline.
Sugar is still on the down grade.
With the eastern raw and refined
sugar markets lower, the California
refiners yesterday put into effect a
reduction of 50 .cents a hundred in
cane sugar prices and Portland job
bers immediately gave retailers the
benefit of the decline. The new local
price of refined sugar is 910.50 a
hundred.'
Livestock is becoming cheaper with
other farm productions and prices at
the Portland Union stockyards are
declining in line with markets else
where. Hogs have suffered more than
other classes of livestock in the
slump. During the afternoon trading
at the yards, shippers accepted bids
of $12.50 a hundred for the best grade
of hogs after having refused to ac
cept the ' same offers the day before.
On Friday of lajst week the same kind
of hogs was worth $15 a hundred.
Clever Trio Clear $2932
in Portland Plot.
PRETTY WOMAN IS INVOLVED
Certified Check Obtained and
Used in Deal.
ACTING IS WELL DONE
Attorney Is Unwittingly Made
Party Settlement of Sup
posed Theft Is Effected.
SCHEDULES ARE RESUMED
Southern Pacific Service Back to
Normal After Washout.
Southern Pacific passenger trains
are back on practically normal
schedules, following delays which
followed a washout on the main line
at Kennett, Cal., late Thursday after
noon. Incoming trains last night
were reported four hours late, but it
was believed at the local offices that
much of this lost time would be
made up and that they will not be
much behind time in arriving today.
AI1 out-going trains left on time.
Heavy rains released vast amounts
of rock and earth above the O.-W.
R. & N. main line about 36 miles
east of The , Dalles late Thursday
night, covering the -Columbia river
highway, knocking down wires and
bending the track. Trains were held
up until 7 o'clock yesterday morning.
MUNSEY BUYS2 PAPERS
Baltimore American and Star Ac
quired by Publisher.
BALTIMORE,' Md., Nov." 19. Gen
eral Felix Agnus, the veteran pub
lisher of the Baltimore American and
the Baltimore .Star, will announce in
the American tomorrow that on De
cember 1 the American and the Star
will pass under the control of Frank
A Munsey, owner of the Baltimore
News, the New York Herald, the New
York Sun, the New York Telegram
and other publications.
The American is one of the oldest
newspapers in the country.
Publication of the Star will cease
with Mr. Munsey's acquisition of the
properties and the plants of the News
and the American will be consolidated
in Mr. Munsey's publication plant.
The American will be continued under
the same name.
" A swindle by which one of the
leading banks of Portland was victim
ized out of $3032 and which rivals
the unfolding of a plot evolved by a
master of modern fiction has just
been revealed.
The bunko trio, two men and
pretty woman, worked with studied
accuracy and carried the plot through
to the finest detail without detection
They obtained $2932, after deducting
a $100 attorney fee.
Probably the most important and
dangerous role was that of the
woman, who appeared at the bank
and obtained a certified check in the
name of a prominent Portland man.
Chronologically, the swindle was
worked like this:
Visit Made to Attorney.
On November 1, an inoffensive-
looking young fellow giving the
name Frank Ford appeared at the
office of W. C. Nicholas in The Ore
gonian building. Ford asked the
lawyer if he would handle a rather
out-of-the-ordinary case, explaining
that he had been robbed of some
$3000 worth of liberty bonds, first
issue, while he was employed in
railroad construction camp operated
by Foley Bros., about 75 miles
outside of Vancouver, B. He de
clared that the man who robbed him
was in Portland. Mr. Nicholas agreed
to act as his attorney on a contigent
fee of $100.
Ford then went fully into his story
told how he had hidden the bonds in
his mattress in the construction camp
and found the mattress ripped open
one morning and the bonds gone.
Thief Is Declared Trailed.
He told the attorney that he had
traced the thief from the camp to
Vancouver and then to Seattle, keep
ing a close watch to prevent his sell
ing the securities and thinking that
he would eventually proceed to Port
land, where Ford had heard the mys
Chairmen of Other Congressional
Bodies Handling Expenditures
to Be . Invited to Give Aid.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Nov. 19. The appro
priations committee of congress Is
preparing to function as a budget
committee in spite of the fact that
President Wilson vetoed the bill
providing for a budget system at the
last session of 'congress. Chairman
Goo'd of the appropriations commit
tee. Is preparing a call for his com
mittee to meet in anticipation of the
approaching session of congress.
The chairmen- of the various com
mittees that have to deal with appro
priations, like the military affairs
committee, the committee on post-
offices and post roads, etc., will be
nvited to meet with the appropria
tions committea. This system will
center all appropriations in one com
mittee and will bring about the
principle of the budget system in the
absence of the law providing for It.
The committee will have to deal at
once with a huge deficit in depart
mental appropriations. The estimates
were vigorously cut in the last ses
sion in an effort to bring about
economy, but the various departments
have spent in advance of these appro
priations, creating one of the. largest
deficits in the history of the govern
ment
It is proposed to introduce a bill
for a budget system as soon as
congress meets. President Wilson
vetoed the bill last session because
it provided for a governmental fiscal
agent subject to removal by congress.
He regarded this as an invasion of
his great prerogative. A new bill
was passed to meet this objection,
but it was lost in thaj last days of
tne session.
British and ' Japanese
Would Cut Freights.
(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)
TODAY MAY DECIDE ISSUE
5 Children, 25 Grandchildren, 42
Great-Grandchildren; 1 Great-Great-Grandchild
Survive.
LA. GRANDE, Or., Nov. 19. (Spe
cial.) One of the very oldest of Ore
gon's citizens, Mrs. Lucretia Jane Mc-
Kennon, died this morning at 2
o'clock at the age of 98 years.. Mrs.
McKennon had often said that she
really believed that she was 100 years
ifage, but no record could be found
to verify her claim and as near as
known, she was born in Tennessee on
June 26, 1822. Later, the family
moved to Arkansas, where her hus
band. Harvey McKennon, died in 1871.
The aged pioneer has been present
at many weddings during her life.
and was -the mother of four sons and
three daughters, five of whom are
still living. They are: J. D. and L. L.
McKennon of ihis city. Dr. A. M. Mc
Kennon of Clarksville, Ark., Mrs. S. S. A. F. Haines Says Cuts Will Send
Berry of Portland, and Mrs. B. A.
DRY LAW MAY BE ALTERED
Supreme Court Decision May
Necessitate Amendment.
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Nov. 19.
Amendment of the Volstead prohibi
tion enforcement act may be neces
sary as a result of the recent decision
of the United States supreme court
legalizing movement of liquor in
tended for personal use. Representa
tive Volstead said here today.
"If the situation seems to call for
it. we can easily amend the law,
he said. ,
INVITATION NOT OFFICIAL
Request That Hardin? Visit Mexico
Xot From Obregon.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. The Mexl.
can embassy declared that it had been
authorized by General Obregon, pres
ident-elect of Mexico, to deny that
Elias L. Torres, who last Tuesday
extended to Senator Harding an in
vitation to visit Mexico, was acting
in behalf of the Mexican president
elect. This was announced in a statement
tonights
Conference to Be Held
Seattle by Lines.
at
TRADE HELD IN DANGER
President-Elect on Way to Panama
Passes Most of Day in Game
" of Shuffleboard.
ABOARD STEAMSHIP PARISMIX A.
Nov. 19. (By Wireless to the Associa.
ted Press.) President-elect Harding,
shaking the bad weather "jinx" that
wrecked his vacation in Texas, sailed
toward Panama today under bright
skies and over a smooth sea.
Informer-Allowed to Take
Part of Booty.
MAYOR RESERVES DECISION
His steamship, the Parismlna, which poljce COPfeSS Bad JudO
left New Orleans late yesterday, I . .
mem, but une Kecora.
Hamilton of this city. There are 25
living grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren
and one great-great-grandchild.
Mrs. McKennon is the second La
Grande woman who had passed the
four score and ten mark to die dur
ing the last month, Mrs. M. E. Rob-
bins passing away October 7 at the
age of 97 years.
Business to Foreigners if
America. Does Not Act
AGED PAIR DITCH WRATH
Couple Married in 186 7, Divorced,
' Happily Reunited.
LINCOLN. Neb., Nov. 19. Their
faces flushed with the happiness
of a reawakened love, Henrietta
Schmailzl, 67, and Clemens H.
Schmailzl, 74, parents of 17 children,
forgot the divorce that separated them
five years ago and were remarried
here today. They were first married
in 1867. Mrs. Schmailzl was granted a
divorce in 1915, having charged her
husband with non-support and cru
elty. ,
When Mr. and Mrs. Schmailzl ap
pe&red for the marriage license today
they said they were as happy as they
were the day they were married, 53
years ago. Mrs. Schmailzl took the
Initiative. In nrnr.iirinir th. licAnsa.
Sho guided the faltering hand of her enle Canadian flour to undersell
The fiercest rate war In the history
of shipping is looming on the Pacific
and assuming the proportions of a
national issue, according to A. F.
Haines, vice-president and general
manager of the Pacific Steamship
company, who was in the city last
night on his way to Seattle. There
the question of economic peace or war
will be determined at a meeting this
morning of the Pacific west-bound
conference.
The overt act which threatens to
precipitate the rate war is the recent
withdrawal from the conference of
Mitsui & Co., one of the strongest of
the Japanese lines, and the Blue
Funnel line, operating in the trans-
Pacific trade under the British flag.
Offer to Cat Rates Made.
While the conference rate on lumber
from north Pacific ports to ..- the
Orient is $17.50. the Japanese are
offering to carry the lumber for $12,
Mr. Haines said. In face of a con
ference rate of $10 a ton on flour,
the Blue Funnel has announced a
rate' of $7, according to the Admiral
line manager. Canadian lines have
also suggested a rate of $7. he said.
steered almost due southward and
during the first 24 hours had covered,
almost 300 miles of the 1400-mlle
course- to ' Cristobal. Ship officers
predicted perfect weather would con
tinue. Mr. Harding slept late this morning
and after a brisk walk about the
deck settled down in the warm sun
light to read a book about Panama.
Soon, however, he became interested
in a game of shuffleboard being
played by newspaper men and could
not resist the challenge to join the
game. He practically spent the rest
of the day in playing shuffleboard
and other deck games.
Senator Harding and Mrs. Harding
attended a picture show and concert
given in their honor ' tonight.
The usual flying fish and porpoises
crossing the bow of the little white
steamer as she cut through the dark
blue waters of the gulf brought to
many of the party their first glimpses
of the marine life familar to those
experienced in tropical cruising.
The president-elect rested after the
strenuous day spent in New Orleans
yesterday.
"The Press" sheets from the wire
less room claimed his early attention
today, after which he "took it easy'
in the. social hall and on deck.
EYES CLOSED TO THEFT
husband as he signed the application.
Twelve of their 17 children are living.
TYPHOID GRIPS TOWN
Salem, Ohio, Has 789 Cases With
Less Than 10,000 Inhabitants
SALEM, O., Nov. 19. Seven hundred
and eighty-nine persons were today
suffering from typhoid fever in this
little city of less than 10,000 people.
Four emergency hospitals established
within the last few weeks were filled
with patients and the situation, ac
cording to R. A. Lamont, chairman of
the citizens relief committee,
desperate.
"We have not reached the peak of
the epidemic," he said.
BABE SCALDED TO DEATH
THE MAN WHO SELLS HOME BREW "MAKIN'S" MUST HAVE A COMFORTABLE FEELING
NOWADAYS.
SLIDE BLOCKS BOULEVARD!
Auto Bumps Into Earth and 1st
Left for Night.
Terwilliger boulevard was blocked
last night at a point near Marquam I ',
Motorcycle Patrolmen Case and For
ken, who were sent to the blockade,
stated that the slide was about 50
yards long and six or seven feet deep. (
One small automobile bumped into
the tag end of the blockade and stuck
fast. Efforts to loosen it were futile
end the owner left it for the night.
Motorists are instructed to turn off
at the comfort station and come into
Portland on Hamilton avenue.
Police with-red lanterns were stationed-
at either end to prevent acci
DIVORCED
PAIR'
REWED
Goettens Conclude Separation Is I
Mistake After Little Time Apart.
VANCOUVER. Wash, Nov. 19.
(Special.) Walter F. Goetten and
Mrs. Clara M. Goetten, his ex-wife,
who were divorced less than sixt
months ago, came to Vancouver today
and were remarried, this time for all
time, they said. It was a mistake for
them to be divorced, they concluded.
and when they learned that they did
not have to wait six months to marry,
hastened to have the ceremony per
formed.
The law in this case is that neither
of two persons divorced can marry a!
third party witnin six months, but
may remarry the day of the divorce)
it they choose.
TICKETS'TO U. S. FORGED
Emigrants Stranded in France as
Police Hunt Swindler.
CHERBOURG, France, Nov. 19.
Two hundred and fifty emigrants 1
bound for the United States are J
stranded here penniless because the I
ocean steamship tickets provided them
by the supposed agents of a naviga
tion .company in Paris before they I
left by train , for Cherbourg proved I
to be forgeries.
The police were asked to arrest
man entrusted with the task of se-1
curing the tickets who is charged
with pocketing the money to the
amount of about 300,000 francs and 1
delivering the forged tickets.
t i : m ' : i t
i :
It NTH ,
l m . . '"Azv, . ;
. -J vai AS-VS. i
T 1 lf O' , IT
i , Aty.
t ,
A I
. - - - T
the American product in the Orient.
"The questioni" said Mr. Haines,
calls for a decision as to whether or
not we are able to tie up our boats
and allow the foreigners to carry all
our freights It is a national issue
in that our decision in this matter
is a decision on whether or not we
will have an American merchant marine.
Wir to Knife Possible.,
"Either all competitive lines must
be in the conference and must quote
the same rates, or we shall have war
to the knife. We must bring the for
eign lines to our terms or must meet
theirs. If the British and Japanese
was lines are allowed to underquote us in
the trans-Pacific trade, they will get
all the business, just as the British
merchant fleet is moving all the grain
from the Columbia river to Europe." -
Mr. Haines pointed out that in
meeting the rates of the British ves
sels in the grain movement to Eu
rope, the American vessels would
have a decided advantage over the
British in the fact that the Britishers
are obliged to make the first leg of
their voyage from the United King
dom to the Pacific coast in ballast,
while American vessels, carrying car
goes on their first leg of the voyage
to Europe, have at least a chance of
obtaining a little cargo there for the
retarn trip. He advocated reduction
of shipping board rates to meet for
eign competition in an steamship
lines, whatever, the immediate loss
through the low rate may be.
Child of 2 Walks Backward, Turn
bles Into Boiler.
BURNS, Or., Nov. 19 (Special.)
Two-year-old Ruth Smith died here
last night as a result of injuries re
ceived from falling into a boiler of
hot water which was standing on the
floor. The child was walking back
wards and, not seeing the boiler,
tumbled in.
She was badly burned about the
back and shoulders. The child lived
only a few hours. She is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Smi'.h,
prominent residents of Burns.
4 NATIONS APPROVE LOAN
V. S., England, France and Japan
Agree to Chinese Consortium.
NEW TORK, Nov. 19. Formal
approval of the new Chinese con
sortium by the governments of the
United States, Great Britain, France
and Japan, was announced here to
night in a statement issued by J. p.
Morgan & Co.
The company spoke on behalf of
the American banking group.
Opportunity Is Given Stool Pigeon,
to Spirit Away Liquor as His
Share, Says Witness.
Frank admission that Jim Marshall,
a known bootlegger and stool pigeon,
had been permitted to carry 12 quarts
of liquor from the police station as
his reward for giving information
leading to the arrest of two bootleg
gers and the possible breaking up of
gang of bootleggers disposing of
liquor smuggled into Portland from
Canada was made on the witness
stand yesterday by George W. Russell
ana Frank W. Huntington, patrolmen.
These two officers, both veterans
on the Portland police force, had a
hearing before Mayor Baker yester
day on charges of conduct unbecom
ing an officer. At the conclusion of
the hearing Mayor Baker took the
case under advisement.
Spies Held Necessary.
For two hours Patrolman Russell
told the story of his relations with
the stool pigeon, interjecting general
observations of police duty from time
to time and pleading a defense for his
action solely on the basis of having
used poor judgment and having failed
to inform his superior officers of his '
plan of handling the case.
The use of stool pigeons in handling
liquor cases, according to Patrolman
Russell, while an unwise practice, is
necessary.
Every stool pigeon must have his
pay," testified the police officer. "He
must receive it either in money or in
the stuff that he is monkeying with.
Every officer in every police depart
ment in the country handling such
cases knows this and expects to re
ward the informer. I know that the
paying of a stool pigeon in liquor is
bad. He should be paid in money."
Superiors Are Exonerated.
When suggestion was made by
Mayor Baker that superior officers in
the police department were partly
responsible for a man walking out of
the police station with 12 quarts of
whisky, the amount Marshall is said
to have admitted taking as his por
tion of the spoils, Russell took the
entire responsibility for the deal.
"I don't want to make a grandstand
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Lan" TZTU
Terminals Are Inspected.
Accompanying Mr.. Haines on his
trip to Portland was Hugh Gallagher,
general eastern agent of the Admiral
line, who has charge of the company's
office in New York. Mr. Gallagher
has also been representing the Ad
miral line at Washington in confer
ences with shipping board officials
While here, Mr. Gallagher made a
thorough inspection of the various
municipal terminals, and familiarized
himself with the shipping facilities
provided here during the last six
years while he has been on duty in
the east.
Mr. Gallagher has been in close
touch with the principal railroad traf.
I fic men of the east and gives it as his
opinion that an agreement will soon
be reached for the restoration of
transcontinental import and export
rail rates, so that Pacific coast ports
can compete with those of the Atlan
tic for trans-Pacific business origi
nating in the territory east of Chi
I cago.
Wharfage Charge Opposed.
He also said that Portland and Se
attle would obtain a greater propor
tion of the business originating in the
east and now moving to the orient
through Atlantic ports if the wharf-
I age charge o au cents a ton now
made by these ports could be elimi
nated, because no such charge is paid
by ehippers who route their freight
through the Atlantic ports.
In repeating his advocacy of the
enforcement of section 28 of the Jones
j merchant marine law, Mr. Haines said
last night that 0 per cent of the
i trans-Pacific freight now moving out
of Vancouver, B. C, originates in the
United States and that , only 1 per
cent . of the rreignt leaving i-acmc
coast ports originates In Canada.'
1" Moriwaki, manager of Mitsui
& Co.'s Portland oirice, said last
night that he had rece'ved no in
structions regarding reduction in
rates on trans-Pacific lumber ship
ments. All shipments sent out under;
(Cpnoluded m Face X. Column 2.)
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 56
degrees; minimum, ul degrees.
TODAY'S Occasional rain; southwesterly
winas.
Ex-marlne denies wholesale killing of Hai-
tien bandits. rage 2. .
Germany protests system of mandate
awards used by league. Page 6.
National.
Action by congress postponing next income
tax payments possible. Page 1.
Appropriations committee preparing ' to
adopt budget system despite Wilson
veto. Page 1.
British rule in Ireland characterized
actual terrorism. Page fi.
Labur federation council .takes stand against
radicalism, page z.
Dnmmafif...
Favors to British firm by shipplnf boarl
are charged. Page 3.
Washington state grange master convicted
on halt of etiarges and told to apolo
gize and taKe reprimand. Page 2.
Steady deflation continues on stock
change, page a.
anyone to sutler lor my action. x
was overly anxious to clear up this
gang of bootleggers operating with
Canadian liquor shipped in on boats
from Canada, and I overstepped my
bounds."
It developed n the case that pre
paratory to making the arreet Russell
had permitted his informer to nego
tiate for the purchase of three cases
of liquor. The patrolman drove the
owner of the liquor and his informant
from the Union station to East
Twelfth and Division streets.
Bootleggers Found Armed.
Here the stool pigeon and William
L. Gilbert, also known under the
name of Hamilton, who is now serv
ing six months with another bootleg
ger as a result of the arrest by Rus
sell and Huntington, walked to Gil
bert's home, where the liquor was
Two men and three boys now held for big cached.
mail robbery. Page 4. During the absence of the two men
Russell communicated with the uni
formed officer on the beat including
Division street, and informed him of
the plans, requesting him to hold
himself in readiness. . v s
Before the liquor was brought from
the Gilbert hdme and placed in the
automobile, Marshall, the stool pigeon,
came out of the house and directed
Russell to drive the car to Clinton
street, where it was dark, also telling
the police officer that the two boot
leggers had .45 automatic army pis
tols, which they threatened to use in
the event that any interference from
police or federal officers developed.
Uniformed Help Called In.
Marshal! then returned and aided
in carrying the liquor from the house
to the automobile, in which it was
deposited. Russell drove the machine
from Clinton to Division street, where
he told the bootleggers that he would
stop and pay for 'the liquor. Instead
of paying for the liquor he placed the
two bootleggers under arrest, calling
on the uniformed officer to ride on
the running-board of the machine on
the trip to the police station.
At the police station Russell testi
fied that he escorted his prisoners to
Hardlug enjoys day at sea. Page 1.
Mining congress goes on record in favor of
repeal of excess profits taxes. Page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
Mrs. L. J. McKennon dies at La Grande
at age of 98. Page 1.
Pretty Russian girl, exiled from Vladivo
stok, seek wedlock in United States.
f Page 5.
Proposed land bill hits Washington aliens.
Page 6.
S. A. Adams, Insurance manager of Seattle
company, arrested for forgeries. Page 10.
Fire rages as man peacefully sleeps.
Page T.
Sports.
Commerce defeated by Lincoln, T to 0.
Page 12.
Line-up and attack switched by Aggies.
Page 12.
McCormick would like fight with O'Dowd.
Page 13.
Jaunting cart makes hit at horse show.
Page 12.
Commercial and Marine. '
Wheat and bakers' flour prices lower in
local market. Page 19.
Extreme decline of ten cents in Chicago
wheat market. Page 19.
Stock list suffers severely with heavy sell
ing. Page 19.
Steamer Eibergen chartered to load wheat
tor Europe. Page IS.
Portland and Vicinity.
Policemen admit-paying informer in liquor.
Page 1.
Anti-saloon league to stir up drys. Page 10.
Further decline in lumber prices unlikely,
says New York business man. Page 9.
Pacific Ice Cream Manufacturers' associa
tion
Page T.
Sugar, flour and livestock prices take new
decline. Page 1.
Bitter war over ocean, rates In sight, de
clares manager of Pacific line. Page 1.
Husted' A. Waiters, slayer of Policeman
Palmer, placed under X-ray at St. Vin
cent's hospital. Page 4.
Dr. Lovejoy admits hope to sell land when
sanitarium plan was inaugurated.
Page 6.
Swindle of Portland bank out of $3032
reads iiKe novel. rise i.
Two cows bring $2000 each at stock show.
Page 18. .
i the office of sergeant .cms, in corn
ice uream aiwuiaciurtn associa- . mnri KnUad arid the
holds annual election of officers, mand of the moral squad, and the
liquor, consisting Ol quarts anu.
one bottle partly filled, was carried
to the same office by Marshall.
Patrolman Huntington, also under
fire, did not participate in the arrest,
but was in the office of Sergeant
Ellis when the men were brought in.
The testimony of Russell showed
that he took the liquor and deposited
it outside the door of the sergeant's
office, in the hallway. From this ,
(Concluded on Page 2. Column 1.)
if