THE'. MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1020
CLARA
SMITH
HOLDS
TALES EXAGGERATED
Woman Accused of Murder
Criticises Press Unit.
CONFERENCE IS HELD
Ulegcd Slayer of Jake L. Hamon
Meets Her Lawyers In Fort Worth
Behind Closed Doors.
FORT WORTH. Tex., Dec. 24. (By
e Associated Press ) Denial that
. us had signed any statement what
.er since she left Ardmore except
-jr letters to her attorneys. And char-iterizing-
or purported Interviews by
i press association as "highly col
ed. exaggerated and in many
ices inaccurate." were made by
:s. Clara Smith Hamon, charged
. :th the murder, of Jake L. Hamon,
' , a statement given to the corre
. ondent of The Associated Press
ioard her train shortly before her
rival late today.
The statement was handed to the
rreapondent, who had accompanied
ir party from El Paso, by one of
?r attorneys, W. P. McLean Jr., of
.As city, with the following com-
.ent:
"This statement was signed by
rs. Hamon in the presence of nine
witnesses. Including ber attorneys. I
uarantee the genuiness of the signa
ire." Sheriff Garrett of Ardmore, Okla.,
here he is to take Mrs. Hamon to
ice trial, and his party left the train
t Benbrook, 10 miles west of here,
lortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon
ad proceeded to Fort Worth In au-
imobiles that were awaiting them,
hey drove immediately to the law
."fices of McLean, Scott & McLean,
. here a conference with Mrs. Hamon
as held behind closed doors.
Mr. McLean said their client would
main in Fort Worth with friends
itil she was "neuded in Ardmore."
Christian association, today Issued
a statement replying to the charge
of the Vatican that the organization
"corrupts the faith of youth."
"We have a number of Roman Cath
olic members hi almost every Y. M. C.
A. branch in the dominion and in
some cases, as in Quebec, the number
amounts to a considerable portion of
the membership, but these members
are as free to use only the facilities
of the institution they wish to.
"The relicrinus nrommme of the
association is entirely optional and I
is not thrust upon those -who for any
reason do not wish to avail them
selves of it. It is Quite true that the
foundation of the Y. M. C. A. is what
is known as the Evengelical Chris
tian basis, but there is nothing In
our programme aiming at proseyting
any who come into the nembership
and who hold different 'religious
views."
LET EUROPEANS
S , FARMERS
EBERT'S PAY . DOUBLED
GERMAN" PRESIDENT NOW GETS
$2800 EACH YEAR.
Head of Government Unable to
Sleet Hig-h Cost of Living and
Entertain Ambassadors.
WIILT SORROW REGRETTED
'. lara Smith Says Life Will Be Dc-
; voted to Atonement.
r BIG SPRINGS, Texas. Dec. 23.
; Delayed.) (By the Associated Press.)
, Consecration of her future energies
t a atoning to her family "for the
; 1VI IUW BUC 11, OUU UQ'
' .ermination never again to waste
J another hour of her life, were avowed
late today by Clara Smith, en route'
to Ardmore, Okla.. to answer a charge
cf murder in connection with the
death of Jake is. Hamon.
In an interview with the corres
pondent of the Associated Press last
ing nearly an hour, -she spoke
earnestly on religion' philosophy,
psychic research, art, fancy work and
most earnestly of ail her impressions
of Mexico, where she stayed three
weeks' before giving herself up to
the custody of Sheriff Buck Garrett
of Ardmore, in Juarez Wednesday
night. She sedulously avoided dis
cussing the charge against her and
mentioned Hamon's name only once
when she referred to her opposition
to his retiring from active life.
The interview which took place
aboard the train on which she is
traveling, was the first granted by
her since her surrender.
"I have just been reading some of
the many letters I have received from
my dear friends," she began. "I
wanted to tell you of the wonderful
friends I had in Chihuahua City.
They were deeply religious, though
not orthodox. They mothered and
fathered me as if I were a child.
They brought me flowers' and even
toys. When I sought to thank them
tbey protested that there was only
one benefactor and whatever they
did was done by Him through them
as friends. It was a great spiritual
lesson for me.
"As I told them before I left, before
I entered Mexico I hated Mexicans
but I left in loving them, although I
saw much of the beautiful religion
I could not adopt for myself. They
believe in spirits. Although I do not
Bay that" my belief is wrong, I know
that I need my own level-headed
religion for I have one of my own
I am too much afraid of myself to
Jet myself dabble in the occult.
"When I get back to Mexico and
I intend to go there again to rest-
I shall teach my friends something
of ventilation, cleanliness and hy
giene."
When asked whether she ever
expected to resume her secretarial
career she replied:
"I have no plans; I know only that
I shall devote myself to making
amends to my family for the suffer
ing I have brought on them. I shall
never again waste even an hour of
precious time left me. I do not be
lieve people should ever retire from
active work. I have always opposed
any suggestion, that Mr. Hamon
should retire."
Her face still slightly drawn from
the strain of her recent experiences
took a new glow of animation as she
leaned forward and added:
"I believe that every one must grow
even during old age. When people
con t grow, it is their fault."
BOXD IS BEIXG CIRCULATED
Four of Five Wealthy Men Report
ed to nave Signed Already.
ARDMORE, Okla., Dec. 24. Fred E.
T acker, ex-state's attorney and local
real estate dealer, today began circu
lating a bond to provide bail for Clara
Smith Hamon when she appears here
to face a charge of murder in con
nection, with the death of Jake L.
Hamon. -
Mr. Tucker said that about 45 sig
natures had been already affixed,
four or five of which represent com
bined wealth of five or six million
dollars. He was circulating the bond
in her behalf and in behalf of her
friends, it was said. It was denied
.that any woman signatures were on
the bond.
(Copyright by the Nw York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
BERLIN, Dec. 24. (Special Wire
less Dispatch.) Without even
threatening a strike, President .Ebert
is getting 100 per cent raise, not in
his salary, but in his allowance for
expenses. President Ebert s annual
salary is 100.000 marks, or $1400 It
today's rate of exchange. In addition,
he has been getting the same amount
for so-called "representation" that
is, for entertainment and other ex
penses incidental to his office.
Obviously, the president cannot en
tertain the diplomatic corps very lav
ishly on such an allowance. In fact,
the chief of his personal cabinet,
Geheimrat Meltzer, made it known
that Herr Ebert had to dig into his
modest salary to help to defray strict
ly presidential expenses. Only the
independent socialists and the com
munists grudge the president the
modest rise. The communists are
sneering:
"Fritz Ebert has it almost as soft
as the Hohenzollerns, who are 'starVr
ing' abroad!"
Other interesting rises for Christmas
include an increase of salary averag
ing 100 per cent which the Prussian
assembly' has voted for Prussia's
Catholic archbishops and bishops.
The highest paid, the archbishops of
Cologne and Bresiau, have been en
joying a salary of a few cents more
than $500 a year, at the present rate
of exchange. This salary has been
raised to $1000, but it goes into effect
on April 1 next. Some people are un
kind enough to recall that is All
Fools' day The eight bishops of Prus
sia draw about $340 annually. They
will be paid $300, always provided the
value of the mark does not slip further.
It is interesting to note as a study
in relativity that .because of the en
forced closing of his restaurant and
American bar Herr Adlon has been
losing 100,000 marks daily, which is
equal to the annual salary of the
president of the German republic and
more than the salary of three Prus
sian archbishops.
Credit Extension Urged
Bureau Federation.
by
CHIEF SUBMITS PROPOSAL
Plan Provides for Handling of Se
curities of Other Nations by
War Finance Corporation.
CULT LEfiDEfl ACCUSED
WARRAXT ISSUED FOR HEAD
OF FREE LOVE CHURCH.
H!UIOX ESTATE I-S $47 7,460
. Two Life Insurance Policies of
$200,000 Each Listed.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 24. An inven
" tory of the estate left in Missouri by
the late Jake L. Hamon of Ardmore.
Okla., filed in probate court today
by Henry C. Page, public administra
tor, gave the total property holdings
In this state as $477,46$.
The inventory showed two life In
surance policies with a St. Louis com
pany. for $200,000 and. listed capital
stock in a Kansas City bank valued
at $la6.19a. and credit with a local
brokerage firm of $121,271.
Y.M.C.A. ANSWERS VATICAN
Religious Programme of Associa
tion Declared Entirely Optional.
TORONTO, Ont., Dec. 24. Charles
W. Bishop, general secretary of the
national council of the Toung Men's
Flagrant Immorality Is Charged
and Children of Followers Are
Said to Go Hungry.
DENVER. Dec. 24. Hamilton Os
borne, chief of police of Denver, to
day asked District Attorney Foley to
file charges against Joshua Sykes.
known as "Jehovah," head of the cult
called the "Tabernacle of David,
which is alleged to have 600 followers
in Denver. Sykes is known in San
r rancisco.
The police chief's charges alleged
flagrant immorality and said chil
dren of church followers were hungry
and ate from garbage cans on the
way to school.
The doctrine of Sykes, alleged to
be taught to his congregation, as re
lated in the written charges of the
police chief, is that the minister for
bids marriage find that he has left
his wife to take up another woman,
named in the police charges.
Armstrong charges that "Jehovah"
is an exponent of free love and al
leges his teachings are a "menace to
the morals of the city of Denver."
SAN FRANCISetT Deo. 24. Joshua
Sykes was sentenced in San Francisco
on January 23, 1919, to 18 months
Imprisonment in the federal pen'
tentiary at McNeil's Island, Wash
ington, for conspiracy to obstruct the
draft law, but was released pending
appeal. Sykes was pastor of tho
"Church of the Living God" in Berke
ley, Cal., and several of his followers
were convicted with him.
OAKLAND, Cal Dec. 24. Joshua
Sykes was head of a religious organi
zation in Berkeley until a crowd of
citizens of that city, incensed at re
ports of his teachings and because
he tore" down an American flag,
burned his tent and threw him into
the huge baptismal font which was
a permanent feature of his tabernacle.
The Berkeley police had complaints
from husbands who blamed Sykes and
his teachings for breaking up their
homes. After defying all efforts to
make him move from Berkeley, Sykes
announced that he had a "vision-
that the city was to be destroyed and
advised his followers to follow :him
to Denver.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. Opening of
the markets of Russia, Germany and
other foreign countries to American
farm products through the handling
of securities of those nations by the
war finance corporation was sug
gested by J. R. Howard, president of
the American farm bureau federa
tion, today to the senate agriculture
and banking committees.
Mr. Howard's plan as outlined to
the committees in Joint session would
provide 'for the extension of credits
by having such securities as foreign
countries might be able to give for
the purchase of American farm prod
ucts handled by thewar finance cor
poration, either through selling them
to-American investors or by issuing
debentures based on such securities.
Mr. Howard emphasized that his
plan did not involve putting the treas
ury behind such credits.
In the case of Germany, the farm
bureau federation president sug
gested, that the American credit be
made a first lien on all the resources
and income of that country by taking
priority over the claims of the allies
for reparations. Such a step, he said,
would be possible under the Versailles
treaty and the only thing necessary
would be to obtain the consent of the
allied governments to the making of.
such credit a priority over repara
tions. The federal reserve board, through
Governor Harding. suggested to
Chairman McLean of the banking com
mittee introduction and consideration
of a bill authorizing federal land
banks to make direct loans to the
public for. agricultural purposes and
authorizing the secretary of the treas
ury to deposit funds with or purchase
the debentures of these banks. Such
a measure, the board said, would
prove more effective for the purpose
of making additional credit available
than a bill permitting the treasury
head to deposit earnings of the fed
eral reserve banks as a special depos
it to cover extension of such credits.
A bill of the latter nature has been
introduced by Senator' Hitchcock,
democrat of Nebraska.
W. W. Brauer, New York, who
claims. to represent the German gov
ernment with authority to secure a
loan of a billion dollars for the pur
pose of buying American farm prod
ucts, was present in the committee
room, but did not appear as a witness.
No date was set for another hearing
by either committee, hut members said
that additional hearings might be
held after theholidays.
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SUTHERLAND IS SLATED
(Continued From First Pa?e.)
BILL WOULD AID SEAMEN
Senator Johnson Introduces Meas-
l nre for Help.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. Compen
sation for injured seamen and their
dependents is proposed in a bill in
troduced Thursday by Senator John
son, republican of California. In' event
of total disability, a sailor would' be
allowed for life a weekly compensa
tion equal to 66 2-3 per cent of his
earnings, and for temporary disability
he would receive a like amount until
able to resume work.
In. case of death, the beneficiaries
would receive premiums ranging from
35 per cent for the widow, 25 per cent
for a single chilu and 15 per cent for
each additional child, the rates being
based on the earnings of the deceased
at the time he 'was injured.
Klamath to Have Xew Park.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Dec. 24.
MSpecial.) Purchase of eight acres
on the west snore or Lake Ewauna,
for a park site, was announced by the
city park board. The price was $11,-
500. The board plans to beg'n Im
provement of the site next spring.
S. & H. green
Holman Fuel Co.
Adv.
stamps ror cash.
Main 353. 560-21.
Edlefsen's wish you Merry Xnias. Adv.
training and natural bent, are good
lawyers, often yield to the temptation
of the quicker short cut to a compe
tence offered by clients who want
things that can be accomplished
through personal acquaintance at
Washington rather than the Blow
profits and greater drudgery of prac
ticing law in the true sense.
Sutherland Real Lawyer.
Senator Sutherland could ,not do
this even if the temptation of a
quickly earned competence presented
itself to him. He is so truly a lawyer
In the old-fashioned sense and his
mind has so long moved In the groove
that he could hardly get out of it if
he would. Furthermore, he is tem
peramentally one of those men whose
sense of taste would always prevent
them from trading successfully upon
personal relations.
Moreover, the persons who have
been familiar with Senator Suther
land's career from its beginning in
the mountain villages of Utah know
that the ambition which has always
pulled him is not a fortune, and not
even a competence, but eminence in
the law. This last he has. I have
been told by one who overheard the
words that Elihu Root once spoke of
Senator Sutherland as one of the
three greatest lawyers in America.
That is a position a man gets only
through loving the law as a science
and making It his mistress. ,
Corporations Seek Services.
Great corporations come to Senator
Sutherland.. Without any great tur
moil of conscience, but simply as the
expression of the natural law that
governs his mind, he takes their cases
only so far as those cases present
thorough problems of law. To the
degree that the clarifying processes
of his mind are valuable he serves
his client, and doubtless Is adequately
paid for the service.
I know, however, that occasionally
these corporation clients feel a little
disappointed. Their disappointment
is due not to any lack of Senator
Sutherland's knowledge of the law,
nor to any defect in diligence on his
part
The disappointment is due to the
difference between what somo corpo
ration clients expect from an ex-sen
ator in the way of personal persua
siveness with judges or with the
heads of departments and what Sen
ator Sutherland as a lawyer is will
ing to give and has it in his nature
to give.
Some Clients Disappointed.
Even clients who do not expect
from the lawyers they retain any
thing even faintly improper may
sometimes have a sense of disap
pointment in failing to get from Sen
ator - Sutherland that heartiness of
advocacy, that partisan and exclus
ive devotion to his client's side of
the case that lawyers of a different
temperament can give.
Senator Sutherland's mind is more
intent on the abstract law in the
case than on the persons involved,
and his major purpose is that the
legal problems Involved shall be
brought out to a true conclusion.
Snnator Sutherland will show ero
tlon and glow with warmth and en
thusiasm over the successful appli
cation of a legal principle to a dif
ficult set of circumstances rather
than over any personal victory or
advantage- to himself, or -to his
clients. -
In gossip about appointments Sen
ator Sutherland is mentioned in con
nection with two cabinet offices and
one other position.
He is frequently suggested as sec-:
retary of the Interior, because he
knows the west and more particular
ly because he is familiar through
long personal experience with the
conservation of the nation's mineral
lands, forest and grazing lands. 7
He is even' more frequently men
tioned for attorney-general. That
mention rests on the sound basis of
the probity and ability which he would
brine to the highest purely legal
office in the executive branch of the
government. . . ' ,
Place on Bench Possible.
The third suggestion is that Sena
tor Sutherland may not be In the
cabinet, but'will'be appointed to one
of the four'vacancles in the supreme
court that are sure to occur during
Senator Harding's administration. All
the friends of Senator Sutherland
who know his career and the bent of
his mind are confident that this last
would be his personal; choice.
A man who has known him since
he first began practice - before a
justice of- peace in little mining vil
lages in the Rocky mountains ex
pressed the belief that, consciously or
unconsciously or both. Senator Suther
land has always been drawn by that
goal which Is attained by scholarship
and thoroughness in the law rather
than by great finanical success.
During the present week there has
been more jor less organized urging
that "even-- if Senator Sutherland is
later to go on the supreme bench he
should first be made attorney-general
at the outset of the new administra
tion. The theory behind this urging is
that this appointment would give the
office of attorney-general the color
of character and legal ability thai
ought always to be maintained for
it; that such .an appointment would
be quickly appreciated by the public
and would be a most valuable addi
tion to the momentum of favorable
recognition for the outset-of the new
president's administration.
So far as comparisons can be made,
the attorney-general is that one of
the cabinet members in whom char
acter and unimpeachable reputation
are most important.
Office One of MoBtJOifflcult.
He has to do with the enforcement
of the law, with advising congress
as to the constitutionality of pro
posed statutes and with the appoint
ment of federal judges. Every attorney-general
is constantly under as
sault for favor, leniency In enforcing
the law, . for pardons, for compro
mises; also the attorney-general pos
sesses a power which there is always
a temptation to use for political in
timidation. He is, of. all . the cabinet
appointments, that one who ought to
be most free from subjection to polit
ical presu re, and from the suspicion
of a political motive or any motive
other than that of pure justice and
clear reason.
senator Sutherland is British, b
birth. . When he was a few months
old he was brought to Utah. His
father was a m'ning man who later,
by virtue of his qualities of helpful
ness toward hio neighbors and com
mon sense, came to be accepted in
the irregular way of frontier com
munities, as the law-giver of the lit
tle towns where his occupation took
him. ' ..
Frontier Practice Is First.
Senator Sutherland himself was
trained in the law at the University
of Michigan, and began his practice
in these same frontier communities,
where law was accepted and obeyed,
not because U was printed in the
books, but because it' appealed to the
common sense and instinct for jus
tice and for the right of the strong
men who made up those communities.
In those courts 'a ' lawyer could not
win his cases'.merely by quoting legal
maxims he had to go further and
convince the rough common sense of
the community that these maxims are
merely the ancient crystallizations of
fundamental Justice uin human rela
tions. It is noteworthy that a number of
the best lawyers in the senate have
come up from' this kind of training
democrats like Senator Walsh. of Man
tana and Senator Thomas of Utah,
and republicans like Borah of Idaho,
as well as Sutherland. Later in his
career Senator Sutherland became a
leading lawyer of Salt Lake City, and
as such was counsel for the Union Pa
cific and the Oregon Short Line. He
participated in writing the constitu
tion! and the fundamental laws of his
state at the time it was admitted to
the union; still later he served a term
in congress and came to the senate in
1905.
Code Is Prepared.
The high spots of his career in the
senate were the laborious work of a
committee, ofjvhich he was the head,
which reviewed, condensed and
brought up to date and codified the
entire body of civil and criminal stat
utes passed by the national -government
since its beginning. Almost any
lawyer would admit that, other things
being equal, this colossal work alone
would make a unique fitness for the
office of attorney-general.
SenatorSutherland was also chair
man of the committee that-wrote the
federal workmen s compensation law
which has been a model for half the
states of the union. Finally, in a way
probably not less important, the help
Senator-Sutherland gaveto Senator
La nollette in the passing of the Sea
men's act was one of the high spots In
his career in the senate. The passage
of the Seamen's act was one of the
greatest victories of recent years for
humanitarian principles of human
freedom as against the convenience
of prpperty interests.
' Tendency Is Conservative.
Senator Sutherland had always
been thought of as belonging to the
conservative rather than the progres
sive wing of the republican party,
and when he was quick to see the
application of fundamental principles
of Anglo-Saxon law to the circum
stances presented by the Seamen's
act, the enlistment of his advocacy
made friends for the act amour con
servatives who had confidence in him
and who pould not otherwise have
won. 1
It is probably because 'of this In
cident that the Seamen's union iii now
one of Senator Sutherland's .clients.
Probably it accounts for the fact that
among the men you occasionally meet
in tne anteroom of Senator Suther
land's law offices is. that venerable
mariner, Andrew Furuseth, one of the
unique of his generation, who went
to sea before he went to school, came
of leadership of his guild by, virtue of
his natural gifts, learned to read
after he was 30 and is today one of
the most interesting commentators of
tne pnnosopny or History that it is
profitable to hear.
Senator Sutherland's acquaintance
with Senator Harding began when the
former was a veteran in the senate
and the latter a novice. From 1915
until 1917 both were members of a
little friendly group of 12, who al
ways had the same lunch table in
the senate restaurant. Last summer
Senator Sutherland spent a good deal
of time at Marion and probably he
was as close as any other man to
Senator Harding's decision in the
field of principle and do lev. 1
But it is the permanent Qualities
of Senator Sutherland's mind rather
than the accident of his acquaintance '
that has given rise to the speculation
about Senator Sutherland as attorney-general
or as a justice of the su
preme court.
ONCE FAMOUS STAR DEAD
Retired Actress, Known World
Over, Passes Away in Pasadena.
PASADENA, ' CaL, Dec: 24. Mrs.
Sophia Monson, once an actress of
world fame, died at her home here
today. 78 years'old.
Mrs. Monson was the last surviving
member of .the original cast at the
Norwegian "National theater, estab
lished in 182 by Ole Bull. She was
lifelong friend of Ibsen, and was
said to have been the first octress In
America to play "Nora" in "A Doll's
House."
Mrs. Monson formerly lived in San
Francisco. She left one son. Dr. Fred
erick Monson, explorer.
BRITISHERS 1 FAR
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Message Received From
Cope Polar -Expedition.
PARTY LEAVES FA LK LANDS
All on Board Ship Reported In
Good Health Voyage Held
Most Remarkable One.
LONDON, Dec. 24. John L. Cppe,
commander of the British imperial
Antarctic expedition, has sent the fol
lowing message from Port Stanley,
capital of the Falkland islands:
"Sailing from here December 20
with full equipment and dogs. Hope
to land at Graham's December 25. All
the party well. Expect to hear from
us In 18 months. Good-bye."
- Commander Cope, with four com
panions, purposes spending 18 months
in surveying and charting the west
ern shores of Weddell sea and in sci
entific work in the Antarctic The
party will live in tents and huts and
will depend for fresh meat on seals
and penguins. - '
EXPLORER'S COURAGE PROVED
Commander Cope's Reputation for
Bravery Established.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24. Jules Verne,
by the wildest stretch of his imagina
tion, never conceived of an adventure
in the realm of fiction more thrilling
than that undertaken by the British
imperial Antarctic expedition headed
by Commander, John Lachlan Cope,
who, with five ships and their crews,
started in September, 1920, on a five
year quest to solve the riddle' of the
great unknown South Polar sea
Cope's reputation for daring and
bravery, was established when, as
surgeon and biologist of the Sir Er
nest Shackleton expedition, he and
eight of his comrades In misfortune,
all hope of rescue abandoned, Hyed
for two years in a little hut estab
lished by the intfepid Scott, amid the
icy wastes of Ross island. They were
marooned when the Aurora, the Maw
son expedition ship of 1916, was
driven away from them during a bliz
zard. Their final rescue constituted
one of the most Interesting chapters
in polar explorations.
The expedition, backed by $750,000,
has for its purpose the circumnaviga
tion of the Antarctic continent, a
dash to the South Pole, the explora
tion of more than 1200 miles of ter
ritory never before trod by civilized
man, the discovery of new whale fishing-
o-rnunds. the studv of weather
conditions and the extent of South
Polar mineral deposits, especially of
manganese, coal, granite, marble and
rubies. Confmander Cope declared
before sailing that for six months of
the year the climate of the northern
area of the Antarctic is no more rig
orous than that of Alaska or Siberia.
Cope's ship, the Thor I, left Eng
land on September 28, 1920, and from
Norfolk, Va., where the commander
stepped aboard her, on the following
October 26. The Thor I on the way
to her base stopped at Montevideo
and then , went to Deception islands,
in the Falklands, where motion pic
tures were made of whales disporting
themselves at sea and being har
pooned for their ambergris and bone
and oil. Late in October, 1920, a sec
ond ship left Cardiff, Wales, for the
Falkland islands. Three whalers of
7000 tons each and one whale catcher
il of 200 tons also accompanied the ex
plorers from their base.
The' personnel of the expedition in
cluded also N. a. Leater, navigator;
TOiomas W. Bagshowe, -geologist;
Captain George H. Wilkins, chief of
the scientific staff, who accompanied
the Stefansson expedition in the same
capacity, and 120 men. An airplane
called the Kangaroo and so con
structed that It can land on the ice
by means-of skids, was to be em
ployed in the dash to the South Pole.
The goal was expected to'be reached
in a flight of from 20 to 30 hours in
stead of a tortuous journey of many
months on sledges.- The 1 night was
to be undertaken in Summer and was
not to be a non-stop journey.
The Kangaroo carried, besides five
men, fuel, a sledge, cameras and food
for one month and this weight was
expected to handicap the fliers in
crossing a mountain range with peaks
11,000 feet high which rise as
natural -obstacles to the pole. The
start was to be made from the great
-Hce barrier at the Bay of Whales. The
total weight of the plane, occupai
and equipment was 12,600 pounds and
it was to be driven- at an average
speed of 93 miles an hour. The party
was to Include, besides Commander
Cope, Mr. Lester, as navigator;
George H. Wilkins Jr., photographer
and surveyor; Thomas W. Bagshowe,
geologist, and one other man. The
airplane was also to carry 30 dogs,
Canadian "huskies." Several other
planes and an extensive wireless sys
tem, by means of which it was hoped
to keep in touch with civilization at
all times, were to be held in reserve.
Commander Cope, before starting
south, said that while the Thor I was
circumnavigating the lower part of
the continent, her sister ship, sailing
from Cape Ann, would go around the
Bay of Whales and the upper part of
the continent, completing the circle.
The other planes, meanwhile, were to
be utilized on shore. They have a
cruising radius of 1000 mils, but the
first year were to be sent out only 250
miles for the establishment of new
. , o'-j h fnilowlne year
sent out-an additional 250 miles. The
Thor was scheduled, according to
Commander Cope's plans, to return to
New Zealand In 1926. at about the
same time that her sister ship re
turned to South America.
"Previous Antarctic explorations
have been adventures," said Com
mander Cope. "This one Is a scien
tific and commercial proposition, me
Kior-t of our enternriBH 10 -
v. fh mineral wealth with
which we are sure the South Polar
regions abound." In addition to tne
minerals previously mentioned, he
said that Antarctica was rich in gold,
silver, copper and lead in the chain
of mountains that rise like gigantic
sentinels guarding the secret of its
vast and icy polar fields.
City of Montesano Sued.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 24. (Spe
cial.) To compel issuance of war
rants In payment for a fire engine
delivered last month, the American
La France Fire Engine company yes
terday instituted suit against the city
of Montesano. Mayor Cheney, who
has refused to issue the warrants,
says payment for the engine would
put the city in debt beyond the 1
per cent of assessed 'valuation limit
allowed by law.
. Vancouver Plant Extends.
VAvroUVER. Wash.. Dec. 24.
rsnaMai .1 The Vancouver Woolen
mills at Main and Second streets, is
making alterations on tne kotiu
floor of the plant to install a shirt
making department. The cloth will
be woven by the company in its mills
in thn northwest and shipped here.
It Is expected that the machinery will
be in place by February 1. About 25
more operators will be employed.
Tonth, 18, and Girl, 15, TVed.
VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec 24.
(Special.) Elery A- Cummins, 18
years old, of Newberg, Or., and Miss
Juanita Underwood, i years or age,
of La Grande, were married here to
day. The boy Is a son of W. F. Cum
mins of Newberg, and the girl Is a
daughter of Mrs. Bella Underwood of
La Grande. Wash. Both were pres
ent and gave their consent to the
marriage.
To every home in this city, this great home
furnishing store wishes a bright and merry
Christmas and a joyous and prosperous New
Year! "Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward
Men" is the spirit of the day and we enter
the New Year with this principle guiding
our business policy. .
'San Francisco.
Dear Eleanor:
.Today we toured the city- on the street ears. San
Francisco has all kinds of patterns rad aires la
street ears. Here is a little cable car, the only
kind that can climb certain hills and not tret oat
O 0 of breath. We stood outside on Its platform and
Q watched the city sink below us as we climbed up -
a very. steep hill. It was really very Intcrestlnffl
Bates' at Hotel Whit
comb from S2.00. .4M
: outxlde rooms. Write for
folder containing map
city. .
H. VAX HOKNK,
Mir.
- Hotel Whitcomb
Civtt Center " , .
, SAN FRANCISCO .