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7, TAXES AND TARIFF ARE TO BE REVISED Idaho and now chancellor of the Uni HEALER LOCKED UP versity of Kansas, and recently was selected for a Rhoades scholarship. Both students received degrees of bachelor of arts. "Hih hftnnrB" era rofci i-o hv El Roy Agee of Kamiah, Nora Ashton of rtampa ana L,a. uessa wall or Moscow. "Honors" were won by Marion Byrns of Moscow, Gustav Carlson of Lewiston, Ambrose Johnson of Idaho Falls. Ralph Largent of Nampa. Ken neth Newland of Elk River, Felix Plastino (1920 football captain) of Pocatello, Ruth Scott of Moscow and Leonard Tost of Moscow. One hundred and sixty-seven stu dents received some scolastlc honor, ranging- from highest hoi.ors to B honors. Self-Styled Prince's .Wooing Interrupted by Police. Republicans of Congress Will Begin Hearings. TWO-GIRLS ARE PATIENTS NEW LAWS ARE OBJECT BERRY THOUGHT INSANE POLICE GIVE OPINION" OX YOUTHFUL ROBBER. Hindu Is Alleged to Have Asked Young Woman to Elope to East Indian Palace. Senate and House Committees Are Paving AVay for Legislation, at Extraordinary Sessiont THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1920 ON LAHC Y CHARGE WASHINGTON', Den. 8. Republican members of congress took the first steps today toward revision of tax and tariff laws at the extra session to be called soon after next March 4. Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee, an nounced that his committee would befrin hearings within a few days on revision of the tax laws, these hear ings to continue until January 6, when hearings will be started on tar iff legislation. Almost simultaneously with this announcement. Senator McCumber, Xorth Dakota, acting chairman of the senate finance committee, issued a call for a meeting of that committee for tomorrow, when plans will be made for hearings similar to those contemplated by the house committee. Hearings to Be Expedited. The senate and house committee alike hope to conclude their hearings by the end of the present session. The house committee. Chairman Fordney said, expects to be able to begin the work of drafting the new tax and tariff measures as soon as the extra session is convened. The senate com mittee's hearings are expected to be briefer than those planned by the house committee. Chairman Fordney's announcement followed a conference of the majority members of the committee. He said that as soon as the committee has had time to study the tax recommen dations contained in his annual re port. Secretary Houston would be asked to appear before the committee and explain his views more fully. The treasury secretary will be asked to designate an official to represent him at the committee's sessions. The com mittee's programme, the chairman said, will be announced from day to day as the hearings proceed. Definite Tax I'lan Settled. Chairman Fordney said that he had in mind a definite plan for simplifi cation of the tax on corporation in comes. One of his proposals is a flat tax on the incomes of all corpora tions "having no qualification or other modifying provisions." Mr. Fordney also said it was his desire "that the income tax laws be made so simple that a corporation will not have to hire an expert or a lawyer to figure how much it owes the government." The ways and means chairman de clared that a study of Secretary Hous ton's report had shown him that the "estimates for governmental expend itures are ridiculously high." Knt Imnten Held KxtrnraKliit. "I can go down the list of esti mates of the secretary and chop out approximately a billion and a quarter dollars as unnecessary," Mr. Fordney said. "Just for example, he wants J181.000.000 for the war risk insur ance bureau. I think that is a hun dred million too high. - - "With the proposed consolidation of the various soldiers' relief agencies into one bureau, we can save a hun dred million and eliminate 35.000 clerks in Washington. The secre tary wants $75,000,000 for rivers and harbors improvement. I do not think congress will grant any such sum this year." IS M D. W. FAIKCIiAlXIH THOUGHT TO HAVE FALLEN OVERBOARD. Relatives Ask Police to Search Lower Harbor in Case Man Swam Ashore for Doctor. Fear that D. W. Fairclaugh. aged 55, a watchman employed aboard the river steamer Wonder, fell overboard some time Tuesday night after be coming suddenly ill, was expressed by members of the family yesterdav when they asked the police to aiff them in a search for the missing watchman. Officers of the boat said that Fair claugh had been complaining of a severe headache as -the boat was a short distance below St. Helens, tow ing logs up the river to Portland. They assisted him to his berth. This morning, a short time before the boat reached Portland, it was found that he had disappeared. There was no trace of his clothing or any thing which might furnish a clew. The boat had not docked in the night. Mrs. Fairclaugh said that her hus bajid is an exceptional swimmer and she cannot believe that had he fallen overboard he would have been unable to swim ashore. She clings hope fully to the belief that he' swam ashore in an effort to find medical assistance, and has asked that search ing parties examine the river bank in the lower harbor. The police believe that Mr. Fairclaugh was drowned. Ir. Fairclaugh had lived in Port land for many years and was well known in the Sunnyside residential district. The family home is at 12a East Thirty-ninth street. SCHOOL ROLLS INCREASE Attendance at "Willamina SO Per Cent Larger Than In 1919. WILLAMINA, Or., Dec. 8. (Spe cial.) The building of the new rail road, the rapid development of the surrounding country, and the advan tages offered to homeseekers, have resulted in a larger school enrollment than for many years. If the registration continues to in crease as it has in the past, a larger teaching force will be inevitable. According to the clerk's records the enrollment has been Increased 30 per cent in the last year. HONORS ARE AWARDED Xanipa Woman and Moscow Man Premier Students In Idaho. UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, Moscow, Dec. 8. (Special.) "Highest honors in scholastic work at the University of Idaho, during the year 1919-20, were achieved by Eula Badger of Nampa, and Ernest K. Lindley of Moscow, it was announced yesterday. Lindley is the son of Dr. K. H. Lindley, Xeroier president oi the University of Attorney for Defense Declares Lad Has Shown Demented Ten dencies for Years. Belief that Hubert M. -Berry, 21-year-old youth who assaulted and at tempted to rob H. H. Vine, a Third street pawnbroker, Monday noon, is hopelessly demented was expressed yesterday at police headquarters after police and reporters had questioned the youth at length. That the boy has shown strong ten dencies toward insanity for years, and the further fact that it is a he reditary trait, was the explanation offered yesterday by W. P. Richard son, who has been retained by the boy's family to defend him on the robbery charge. Mr. P.ichardson said the youth had been discharged from the navy because of his mental condition and that he had been in trouble many times as a youth because of this came mental affliction. In his cell at the city jail yesterday Berry complained of a severe head ache, and at times he rubbed the base of his skull as though he were in severe pain. But he continued to talk wildly of crimes he had committed. It was believed that officials today or tomorrow would call in an alienist to give Berry an examination before he is taken before the grand jury for investigation. SOLICITORS AH E FINED WOMEN SAY PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE NUISANCES. Two Men Declared to Have Made Attempt (o Get Into Houses Without Invitations. Edward O. Rapier and Otis M. Cropp, photograph solicitors, were fined $25 each on disorderly conduct charges yesterday by Municipal Judge Rossman after women witnesses from the Hawthorne district had testified the two solicitors had made nuisances of themselves. According to the testimony of Mrs. John Gillard, 1161 Holgate street, the two men came to her home and Rapier was especially insistent upon getting inside. She said he refused to state his business, but kept en deavoring to get in through the front door. She became alarmed, she said, and slammed the door in their faces. When they went to the home of a neighbor she called the police and had them arrested. According to Deputy City Attorney Stadter, considerable complaint has been received at police headquarters concerning these photograph solicl- police have been instructed to arrest j an inose w no maite nuisances oi themselves. Other prosecutions for disorderly conduct will follow similar incidents, Stadter said. EUGENE ACQUIRES LAND Municipal Aviation Park' Soon Will Be Established. EUGENE, Or., Dec. 8. (Special.) Deeds to a greater portion of the tract of land selected as a municipal aviation park have been filed in the office of County Clerk Bryson by O. H. Foster, city attorney. The city now holds title to all of the land except three or four small tracts, which, it is said by city offi- cials, are not entirely necessary to acquire if it is impossible to obtain title to them. Twenty-two deeds were placed on record and the consideration, accord ing to the revenue stamps, ranges from less than $100 to $4000. The people of Eugene, at a special election last May, voted $25,000 bonds to cover the purchase of the land. NEW IDAHO JUDGE NAMED Appointment of Attorney Comes as Surprise in Official Circles. BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 8. (Special.) Governor Davis announced Tuesday his appointment of W. F. McNaughton prominent attorney of Coeur d'Alene, to be judge of the sixth judicial dis trict, vice Judge Dunn, who was elected to the supreme court at the general election in November. The appointment will become effec tive after January 3, when Judge Dunn will assume his duties on the supreme court bench. The appoint ment came as something of a sur prise in statehouse circles. Two other known candidates for the place were Captain Albert H. Connor and Guy Martin, both of Sand Point. Christmas Trees Shipped South. HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec 8. (Spe cial.) The first shipment of Christ mas trees from this district will be shipped from Parkdale this week by P. Hale, a resident of the upper valley. Mr. Hale will ship a carload each of young firs to San Francisco and Los Angeles. He will supply trees also to Hood River and eastern Ore gon points. The trees shipped south will range from six to ten feet in height. Students Want Honor System. UNIVERSITY" OF OREGON, Eugene, Dec. 8. (Special.) A student move ment to have the honor system adopted in the school of commerce has been started by the seniors of that school. The plan will be voted on by the commerce majors and it has been approved by Dean E. C. Rob bins of the school of commerce. Yakima Valley Ships Products. YAKIMA, Wash.. Dec. 8. (Special.) Yakima valley shipments of hay so far this season totaled 8110 cars, grain. 36 cars and potatoes. 1451 cars, according to railroad figures. The total value of such shipments was estimated at $3,888,725. There's much prestige accompany ing a gift from Frtedlander's. 310 Washington. Fifty years in Portland. Adv. . . - SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 8. (Spe cial.) Two young men students of the University of Washington, who feared tor the safety of two girl friends, to whom they were said to be engaged, caused the arrest of R. C. Pondexter, self-styled professor and prince of India," and magic healer, of 215 Twenty-fourth avenue, it was learned today, just as the "prince," it was alleged, was preparing to dodge a white woman who said she was his wife here and. according to the police, fly with the younger of the two girls to his "royal palace" in Hindustan. The girk .who had gone to the "prince" with her elder sister to get treatments for minor diseases, be came frightened at Pondexter's alleged proposal, It was said, and in formed her student friend of the "professor's" intentions, with the re sult that today the. "healer" was held by the superior court in bond of $3500 to answer a charge of grand larceny. Students Quarrel With Prince. The arrest followed a stormy meet ing of the "prince" and the two stu dents in the home of the girls' par ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Fanson, in the outskirts of Auburn, Wash. Details of the circumstances alleged to have lead up to Pondexter's down fall were made public for the first time today by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Claypool. According to Claypool, the "prince" made his first appearance in Auburn some weeks ago, ciad in a red turban and long, flowing robes, and bedecked with quantities of massive, though cheap, jewelry. He knocked at the Fanson's door. When Mrs. Fanson appeared, the "prince" is alleged to have informed her: "Madam, I am sent here by the Lord. There is someone ill in this house. I have come to cure her." Mother Admits Illness. Much astonished. Mrs. Fanson is said to have admitted that her two daughters had, or thought they had, some minor ailments. The "prince" entered and extended his left hand to Fanson, who had come from an other room, and explained that princes of India always greeted friends with the left hand, because it was nearest the heart. Fanson bade the "prince" be seated that they might talk it over. During their conversation, in which the "prince" was alleged to have divulged that he was imbued with the remark able divine power to heal the sick and wicked, the two Misses Fanson, one 19, the other 20. and both un usually attractive girls, entered the room. "Ah!" exclaimed the "prince," ac cording to Claypool, "I perceive that this beautiful g'rl is one who is the most ailing." . He pointed to the" elder daughter. Healer Makes Mistake. "No," said Mrs. Fanson, "my young est daughter is the one. Neither is very sick, but the younger one is worse." The "prince" then informed the Misses Fanson, it was said, that he had devine power to see through their bodies," that he had already detected what their ailments were, but that before he could administer treatments they would have to come to his sana torium and be more thoroughly ex amined with the aid of crystals. By a sort of 'mesmeric power, Poin- dexter was said to have convinced both parents before he left that treat ments' were necessary to save their daughters' lives. So "magic" was he that according to the authorities he separated the couple from $00, with S5 additional for each daughters ex amination. He was said to have ex plained that they were not to mention the affair to anyone because he had cut his price. Burns CJub Elects. BURNS, Or., Dec. 8. (Special.) At the last meeting of the Burns Commercial club officers were elected and the mattervof an increased ap propriation for the Harney county experiment station was discussed. A committee was appointed to draft a SICK HEADACHES Mrs. Johnson Suffered from Both and Tells How She Corrected Them. There are many kinds of sick head ache. Some forms are incurable but nearly all cases can be greatly re lieved by proper treatment. Some fault i'n the process by which the body changes the food we eat into blood and tissue causes poisons to form and when this accumulates- suf ficiently there is an attack of sick headache. That is why they are periodical rather than constant. The tonic treatment has corrected many cases of rick headache and thousands of grateful women can give a statement similar to that of Mrs. William Johnson of ITo. 1710 Eddy street, San Francisco, Calif. "My stomach was in bad condi tion and seemed to get worse all the time.'" says Mrs. Johnson. "I had some bilious attacks and sick head aches. I had heartburn and at times would be dizzy and feel faint. My ap petite was poor. I was extremely nervous, especially at night, and was unable to get to sleep for hours. I had no ambition and was tired all the time. . "I tried different remedies with no benefit. 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