Vni, T,I0 18 7f3 Entered at Portland l Oregon)
Wis. Ll-V -U. JO, IPJ Pctofflce ..Second-Cla.. Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1921
PRICE FIYE CENTS
'PREMIER OF SOVIET
BILL TO CENTRALIZE
TAX SUPERVISION UP
MOVIE MAN THROWN 0 fir
OUT AND THRASHED L ur
SWEEPING JAPANESE
RESTRICTION PLANNED
SENSATION SPRUNG IN IDAHO
LEGISLATl Hi:.
RUSSIA LOSING GRIP
UiXlXE IS REPORTED TO BE
BREAKING DOWN.
AERONAUTS FIGHT
AVERS ETHER IDGE
TEETH WOULD BE PUT IN COM
MISSION LAW.
HUNGER STRIKER'S HUSBAND
TIRED OF NOTORIETY.
MO HIS TO BUM
win com ncifrn TF1
INAUGURATION BAM
RETURNING
IMNLdUI. ndlLU iu
CRACK IRISH NUT!
WALLOPS
GO ERS
Lord Mayor Problem Put
Up to President.
ADVISERS AT LOGGERHEADS
Acting Secretary of State
Urges Deportation.
LABOR EXECUTIVE BALKS
OTCallaghan, Ca.sc Srfid to Have
Readied lmpaf Matter May
Go to Court.
WASHINGTON. Jan. U. Decision
a to the deportation of Lord Mayor
O'Callaghan of Cork, who arrived last
pt'K as a iiowawaT witnout a
sfuri, was referred today to President
Wilson.
President Wilson's advice was
sought at today's cabinet meeting.
He thus was called upon to decide
between the position of Acting Sec
retary Davis of the state department.
who has insisted on exclusion of the
lord mayor for attempting to enter
with a passport, and that of Secre
tary Wilson, who has refused to ac
knowledge jurisdiction of the state
department until the case has been
presented to it.
With the labor department declin
- ing to recognize jurisdiction of the
stale department and the state de
partment insisting on its right to or
der deportation under wartime pow
ers conferred upon tho president, of
ficials of the labor department today
said the case had reached an impasse
calling for the intermediation of the
president.
MATTE K MA V GO TO COURT
Right of Slate Department to l-r-ue
Order Questioned.
NEW TURK, Jan. 11. The legal
right ol the state department to issue
an order of deportatiou for Lord
U: or O'Callaghan of Cork, requested
today by Acting Secretary of State
Davis, will bo contested iu the courts
If necessary, counsel for the lord
mayor announced here today.
A statement Issued by the lord
mayor's counsel after a conference
with Lord Mayor O'Cailaghan as
serted that final Judgment in the case
rests with the department of labor.
"Tho decision of the state depart
ment that tho cave of the lord mayor
of Cork comes within the act of
March 11, 1918, was made without
any hearing of the lord mayor's case
and based upon the statement pre
pared by an official of the immigra
tion service at Newport News and
filed with the state department,"
says the statement. "The act of
congress on which this order was
issued was a war-time measure and
upon the declaration of peace with
Germany this law will no longer be
in effect. It is contended that the
spirit of the act does not cover the
case of the lord mayor.
"As the police officials were di
rected by the British military author,
ities to place him under arrest be
cause of his republican views, not
only would a passport be refused, but
he would be thrown into prison and
court-martialed, as trial by jury has
been suspended by order of the
British government and all trials are
held before military tribunals. He
came to make an appeal for the suf
fering people of Ireland. lie also
desired to testify to the conditions in
Ireland, and especially in Cqrk."
Official notification of the decision
of Acting Secretary of State Davis
asking for the deportation of Daniel
J. O'Cailaghan, lord mayor of Cork,
had not been received here late to
night The lord mayor stated that
his only information was based on
reports seen in newspapers.
DUBLIN DENIES LATE REPORT
Extension of Martial Law to City
Is Not Expected.
DUBLIN. Jan. 11. Dublin castle
stated today there was no truth in the
published report that the authorities
contemplated the extension of martial
law to Dublin city and county.
Two statement concerning re
prisals were msde pnblic today. The
first, from British authority, explains
that the houses destroyed at Middle
ton, and Meelin, County Cork, were
not destroyed by fire, which would
have endangered nearby property, but
scientifically by explosives.
The other, from a Sinn Fein source,
asserts that not the military, but the
constabulary were responsible for the
institution of official reprisals and
proceeds to explain that clamor from
the constabulary brought about a
climax when the divisional commis
sioner of police at Limerick com
plained to Dublin castle that the mili
tary had no power to punish com
raunities under martial law and
threatened that if the "Kilcommon"
murders continued to go unpunished
ne wuuiu miiionw an mau aetaon-
ments of constabulary and leave the
country to the rebels
Thereupon, the statement adds, the
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Recent Violent Attacks by Extrem
ists in Communist Party Pre
cipitate Collapse.
NEW YORK. Jan. The Jewish
news bureau today made public wire
less advices from Berlin statins? that
Nikolai Lenine. nremierof soviet Rub-'
sia, was ill in Moscow from a gen
eral breakdown accentuated by recent
violent attacks upon him by extrem
ists in the communist party, who ac
cused him of "selling out the cause"
in his dealings with foreign finan
ciers. Including Washington B. Van
derlip of Los Angeles.
The message from the bureau's
Berlin correspondent said:
"At a recent meeting of the com
munists Ljenine delivered an impas
sioned speech. This, however, did not
hush them up and expressions such
as 'selling out the cause' have been
freely bandied about. Lenine finally
gave way under the strain of these
accusations."
The Russian soviet bureau in New
Vork today said it had received no
word of Lenine's alleged illness.
The message said three German
specialists were on their way to I
Moscow for consultation
BATHERS' SHOW BANNED
Feature of Shoe Men's Convention
Found Objectionable.
MILWAUKEE, Wis.. Jan. 11. The
Palm Beach show, with two score
bathing girls serving refreshments to
delegates, was ordered abolished to
day by District Attorney Zabel in
connection with the convention of
the National Shoe Retailers' associa
tion H C Towle, executive secretary of
the associations' committee, made the
following statement:
"The Palm Beach show is still
running, the cabaret going full blast,
and we are having a wonderful time,
only the waitresses are wearing regu
lar clothes."
The waitresses had been wearing
bathing suits, the district attorney
leam d from a number of shoe men
who objected. .
KANSAS NOW BATTLEFIELD
I'isht or Kon-Ptutiaana and cx
Service Men I- On.
SA LIN A. Kan., Jan. II. Non-partisan
league opponent united under
the American constitutional defense
league of Kansas, today btgan a cam
paign to defeat efforts of A. C
Townley and his workers to establish
the league as a factor in Kansas poli
tics. The 500 former service men who
came here yesterday to perfect organ
ised resistance to the non-partisan
invasion returned home today to meet
the league workers in the "grass
roots" with an orderly campaign of
"publicity and counter propaganda."
Townley's forces scattered to the
rural communities to resume their
membership solicitation.
WET WEATHER PROMISED
Winter's Lowest Temperature Thus
Far Is 2 7 Degrees.
Prospects for ice skating, snowballs
and plumbers bills went glimmering
last night when the barometer on the
roof of the custom house started
skidding down. At the same time.
the wind veered around from the east I
to the southeast, so warmer and wet
ter weather are a good bet for today.
A new storm is hitting in from the
UUUU.W, LUC " .1 . .-.1.1 I C .
ported, and storm warnings were I
ordered for all points on the Oregon
and Washington coasts.
The Iqwest temperature thus far
this winter was officially recorded at
8 o'clock yesterday morning, when
the weather bureau instruments
showed 27 degrees.
TAX RECEIPTS INCREASE
Income and Excess Profits $20.-
000.000 Greater Than in 1919.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 11. Collections
of income and excess profits taxes
for November increased by more than
$20,000,000 as compared with Novem
ber. 1519. according to reports made
public tonight by the bureau of Inter
nal revenue. Receipts were $70,212. -075
as against $49,740,220 for the same
month of 1919.
Aggregate receipts of the bureau
for the month from all sources totaled
$187,084.94$, an increase of more than
$23,109,000 over November. 1919. but
the aggregate receipts from the begin
ning of the fiscal year, amounting to
$1,579, 083. $40, fell off by over $138.-
585.210 as against the corresponding
period of 1919.
FUNDS ARE ADVOCATED
Representative Mc.Vrthnr Favors
Appropriations, McNary Tariff.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Jan. 11- Representative
McArthur today appeared before the
agricultural sub-committee of the
committee on appropriations and
urged favorable action on the pro
posed item of $1,978,800 for co-operative
bovine tuberculosis eradication.
He also appeared before the same
sub-committee and urged favorable
action on the forest service estimate
of $400,000 for fire protection in na
tional forests.
Senator McNary appeared before
the finance committee in favor of his
amendment placing a duty in import
ed cherries, filberts and walnuts.
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Wflshinprnn s HrnTiTPfirs. serve without pay and would
Set Back by Harding.
ORDINARY PEOPLE JUBILANT
Cold Water Is Thrown on
'Get-the-Money' Campaign.
SOME HOTELS HARD HIT
Fashionable Circles in Capital Re
sent Calling Oft Plans for
Highly Expensive Show.
THIS OKEGONLAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Jan. 11. General satis
faction was expressed on Capitol hill
this afternoon at the message from
President-elect Harding, calling off
the elaborate inaugural ceremonies
which had been planned by a local
committee. Even the language of Mr.
Harding's letter to Edward Beal Mc
Lean, chairman of the Inaugural com
mittee, was lauded, some expressing
the opinion, smilingly, that the docu
ment should be properly among the
great state papers of the nation.
Of course, It must be understood
that most of the folk on Capitol
hill are non-residents, brought here
by reason of business and politics
and not at all in sympathy with the
commercial aspirations of this town,
which may be summed up in this
brief slogan, "Get the money."
All Expressions Favorable.
At the breakfast tables In most of
the hotels and cafes this morning
there was jubilation among the guests
as they read the interesting dispatch
from Marlon in the newspapers. All
expressions that were audible were
favorable, but it is taken for granted
that the veto of the president-elect
was not good news to those elements
of the local population who make
their living in numerous lines of
business.
It was bad news for tho hotels,
which, by the way, were said to have
as much to do with forcing the Hard
ing decision as any other factor. Al
ways opposed to any fuss and the
"shedding of official feathers," ai
Senator Larry Sherman termed it, the
president-elect was understood to
have been horrified when he heard of
the bill rendered to one of his neigh
brrs in Marion who engaged three
rooms in a Washington hotel for in
auguration week.
Bill Calls for 7.o.
The bill called for $750 and the
hotel would not accept the reserva
tion for a shorter period than a week.
When Mr. Harding learned of this
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Check Up on All LeTies.
STATE HOUSE, Salem. Or.. Jan. 11
(Special.) Herbert Gordon's bill to
put teeth in the tax supervising and
conservation commission law made
Its appearance today. The measure
which has the support of the Tax
payers' league and other bodies in
Portland, has been reviewed In the
columns of The Oregonian some time
ago. The principal purpose of the
bill is to promote efficiency in ad
ministration of government and econ
omy in the expenditure of public
funds.
Every tax-levying body in Multno
mah county will be subject to the
review of the tax eupervising and
conservation commission. At present
the commission is merely advisory
and can do nothing more than sug
gest. If the present measure Is en
acted, all tax-levying bodies in Mult
nomah county, 60me 80-odd. will be
compelled to submit a budget to the
commission, and the commission will
approve or disapprove of the items in
the budget. The commission will also
have control over the tax levy which
each of these bodies shall make.
In short, the bill will centralize the
tax levying in the hands of the com
missioners, and this one organization
will be the directing genius and be
responsible for the total tax rate.
with the exception of the state taxes
paid in Multnomah. The scope of the
commission is so broad that it em
braces the budget and levy of Port
land, of the docks and Port of Port
land commissions and of all the school
districts, the library association, the
county budget and, in fact, every
thing. Selection of the members of the
commission is placed in the hands of
the governor. The commissioners arc
to serve without compensation, but
will be allowed $5000 for the com
mission to maintain an office.
Part of the duty of tho commission
will be to collect statistics on the
financial 'standing of every tax-paying
body within its jurisdiction. These
statistics will cover the bond issues,
the assessed valuation, the taxes col
lected and where the money has been
spent.
For the benefit of the taxpayer, the
bill is one of the most constructive
to make its appearance in any legis
lature for several years. Presumably
there will be opposition to It, for
some of the officials of tax-levying
bodies may take offense at a measure
which will subordinate them to the
Judgment of the tax-supervising and
conservation commission.
SUIT FOR MILLIONS FILED
Brother of Late Colonel Slaughter
Sues Relatives.
DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 11. W. P.
Slaughter, brother of the late Colonel
C. C. Slaughter, has started a suit for
$3,000,000 damages, alleging breach
of contract and slander, against four
nephews and a niece.
All the defendants are children of
the late Colonel Slaughter, who left
a 51C 000.000 estate.
STUFF, MR. HARDING, TREAT
Moliou Picture Maker Taken to
Woodslied and So Beaten That
He Loses Consciousness.
DANVILLE. HI., Jan. 11. Harry
Birch, motion picture camera man of
Chicago, was thrashed here today by
Ernest Harrington, whose wife is on
a hunger strike to force her husband
to become a church member. Birch,
it is said, went to the Harrington
home and attempted to gain admit
tance, saying Harrington had given
him permission. An attendant asked
Harrington about it.
"No," he answered; "throw him out."
Birch was told to leave tho resi
dence. t
"We are getting enough notoriety
as it is, and 1 don't want fool pic
tures of me going all over the world,"
said Harrington.
He took Birch to the woodshed and
administered such a beating that the
victim lost consciousness. When he
recovered Harrington was gone and
two strangers directed him to a doc
tor. UNIONS WARN PROFITEERS
Offenders in Vienna Are Liable to
Be Hanged.
VIENNA, Jan. 10. Threats to hang
profiteers on lamp posts were made
by members of several unions at a
conference today. The conference
had been called by the chancellor to
devise means of checking rising
prices.
Notice was served upon the govern
ment that unless it could show before
the end of the month that measures
had been taken which would suppress
profiteering members of these organ
izations would "take the law into
their own hands and hang them to
lamp posts."
AUTO TRICKERY CHARGED
Police Search for Man Accused of
Passing Bad Check at Medford.
MEDFORD. Or., Jan. 11. Medford
police are searching today for a man
giving the name of Arnold R. Carol
posing as a jewelry salesman, wno
obtained a new automobile yesterday
from a local company by offering a
heck for $1800 on the Ladd & Tilton
bank of Portland and a note for $260
After Carol had left for Ashland in
the car, the company found that there
was no money in the Ladd & Tilton
bank to his account. Police authori
ties up and down the coast have been
notified.
POST WILL BE ENLARGED
Slather Field to Have Biggest Air
Service Garrison.
SACRAMENTO, CaJ., Jan. 11. Under
plans which have been approved at
Washington, Mather field, east of this
city, will become the largest air serv
ice garrison in the westrn depart
ment of the army, with five air squad
rons and approximately 1000 men, it
was stated unofficially at the field
today.
'EM ROUGH!"
Man Who Branded Officer
as Weakling, Floored.
LETTER TO WIFE RESENTED
Lieutenant Farrell Accuses
Hinton of Falsehood.
KL00R DENIES REPORTS
Balloonist Offered His Body to
Hungry Fellow Aviators Is
Story That Caused Row.
MATTICE, Ont.. Jan 11. The long
trek to civilization of the three Amer
ican naval balloonists came to a
dramatic climax here today when
Lieutenants Farrell and Hinton came
to blows over statements alleged to
have been made by the latter in a
letter to his wife. .
When they arrived at 2:20 after a
IS days' journey from the Hudson
Bay company post at Moose Factory,
near where they descended December
14, :he three aeronauts, bound in a tie
of friendship through their facing
of death together, were apparently
inseparable.
An hour later Lieutenant Farrell
sat in the log cabin home of H. P.
Williamson, clerk in the Hudson Bay
company store, telling of the party's
adventures.
Farrell Ready to Quit, Report.
He was shown copies of news dis
patches, among them a letter alleged
to have been sent by Hinton to his
wife and published in New York
which said:
"Mr. Farrell fell from exhaustion
several times. Wanted us to cut his
throat and take his body for food and
asked us to go on and let him die. but
we decided to stick and die together.
I was the only one that did not ex
press my feelings and kept :.
cheered up.
"The third day, after Farrell had
offered up a prayer and was apolo
gizing for his sins, I smiled to the kid
and said: 'Just think what all you
will have to tell your little kids some
day, Kloor.' Farrell said: 'For God's
sake, Hilton, what shall we do?"
"I said: 'You heard a dog bark,
didn't you?' (Answer) 'Yes.'
" 'Well, we are following a stream,
aren't we?'
" "Yes.'
Hinton Urges Farrell Ob.
" 'Why, I haven't even started to
take it seriously yet. But if you don't
stop your damn foolishness, brace up
and keep your troubles to yourself,
it will be serious. "
Hinton then came in. He told Far
rell he should not continue to talk to
newspaper men, as he had dispatches
from the secretary of the navy for
bidding them to talk until an official
report was filed.
"You rat, you have been talking
yourself," Farrell snapped back. He
then accused Hinton of writing false
reports, referring to the letter.
Letter Said to Be Exaggerated.
Hinton replied that the letter had
been published without his consent,
but that its contents evidently had
been exaggerated. Farrell then went
into another room to apologize to
Mrs. Williamson for his language.
While he was gone, it is said, Hinton
declared his remark about exaggera
tion was made only far Farrell's ben
efit. Farrell returned. More words
passed. Then Farrell took off his
coat and struck Hinton on the jaw.
Hinton was sent sprawling over a
table. Newspaper men and others
stepped between the men.
The men left the cabin separately
and went to a special train for Coch
rane. Doable Crossed, Says FarrelL
Asserting that he had been "double-cross"
in regard to the writing
of letters for publication, Farrell
said:
"I wrote a letter to Frank Bent,
commissioner of contracts of New
York, and he (Hinton) asked me to
write on it that it was not to be
published." He added that Bent was
an intimate friend and evidently had
done as he requested. He said he
thought Hinton and Kloor wrote their
letters under the same agreement.
The ballonists will remain here un
til tomorrow as guests of C S. Way,
divisional superintendent of the Ca
nadian National railway, whose pri
vate car has been placed at their dis
posal. The time of departure has not been
announced. Enroute to New York,
the party will make only one stop,
at Toronto.
Hinton Xept Warm.
Lieutenant Farrel said tonight there
was much "quibbling" among his com-
panions and himself during the three
days they were lost in the woods. He .
said he wa in Detter pnysical condl-
tion than either of his comrades and
at night he would lie on the exposed
side of Hinton to keep him warm.
"As a matter of fact," continued
Farrell, "I could have licked both of
them and could do it now."
Farrell said he held no grudge
against Kloor, who during the days
in the bush, he said, had remarked
that he didn't want to die, as he had
"too much to live for."
The party left Moose Factory De
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Lawmaker Would Keep America
for Americans and Make West a
White Man's Country.
BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 11. (Special.)
Introduction by Representative Van
de Steeg of Canyon county of a con
current resolution against Japanese
immigration was a sensation of to
day's session of the legislature. It
purports to make a definite and clear
cut declaration to the world, and
particularly to congress of how Idaho
stands on the Japanese question.
Designated by title as a resolution
"protesting against the extension of
the rights of citizenship to subjects
of Japan," the document calls upon
congress to enact no laws and enter
into no treaties that would grant
further rights in America to the
Japanese, and demands that in any
treaties or agreements with Japan
the United States recognize the right
of any state to enact its own anti
alien land laws.
No general tcrmavaro used. It i"
not directed against Asiatics or for
eigners in general, but against Japa
nese It Is Qualified by no condi
tions based on laws of other nations
but definitely states its purpose to
be preservation of "America for
Americans and the great west as a
white man's country"
Only students, teachers, merchants
and their servants are excepted from
the sweeping prohibition asked. The
author says he will soon introduco
bill to give Idaho an anti-Japanese
land bill carrying the same definite
terminology and positive purpose.
AMERICAN SLAIN BY JAP
Chief Engineer of Cruiser Albany
Killed at Vladivostok.
TOKIO, Jan. 11. Newspaper dis
patches received from Vladivostok re
port that the chief engineer of the
American cruiser Albany was shot by
a Japanese soldier while he was re
turning to his vessel at 4 o'clock this
morning.
The American died shortly after
ward. WILLIAM SPR0ULE NAMED
Vacancy in Federal Reserve Bank
Filled bv Reserve. Board.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 11. William
Sproule, president and director of the
Southern Pacific company, today was
appointed by the federal reserve
board of Washington a class C di
rector of the federal reserve bank of
San Francisco.
He will fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Edward Elliott
FORD GAINS IN RECOUNT
'Recanvass of Votes in Michigan
Contest Progresses.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. The re
count of votes in the Michigan sena
torial contest between Senator New
berry and Henry Ford tonight showed
a net gain for the latter of 551 votes.
Of the 220O precincts in the state
the votes of 597 have been recan
vassed.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
41 degrees', minimum, 27 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; increasing southerly
winds.
Foreign.
Two of returning balloonists fight over
report or adventure in lener to wiie.
Page 1.
Japanese ambassador at London blame
American naval policy fcr oriental prob
lem. Page 2.
Greeks win victories over Turkish national
army In Asia Minor, rage
Socialist exposes treachery of communism.
Page n.
National.
Question of deporting lord mayor of Cork
put up to President Wilson. Page L
Harding's ban of elaborate Inauguration is
blow to gougers in capital, rago a.
Existence of Immigration emergency on-
Droved, say senators, mgu a.
Daniels declares time is ripe for cut in
navies. Page 6.
Domestic.
Lenine, premier of soviet Russia, reported
to be breaking down. Page L
Make-up of Hardinfs cabinet la still very
uncertain, rage i.
Slaughter of bison herd Is protested. Page 3.
American farmers now organizing biggest
business enterprise in world. Page 2.
Pacific Northwest.
Defrauded mlninr man of Idaho wishes
leniency for accused bond dealer. Page
10.
Sweeping Japanese restriction proposed by
Idaho -
Legislature.
Three bills introduced on fish and game
Page 1.
Bill to put teeth In tax levy supervision is
up. Page 1.
Educational bill first to be introduced in
Washington legislature. Page 5.
Norblad s bill seeks to make purse seines
Illegal. Page 17.
Sports.
Devere is slated to give Langford good run.
Page 1- f
Xwo minors put u auvisory
boards. Page 16.
Portland Gun club holds trap and target
shoot at Everdlng park Page 16.
Commercial and Marine.
Low orlces offered for potatoes for ship-
ment south. Page 23.
ExDort buying and milling demand lift
wheat at Chicago. Page 23.
Speculative stocks are forced higher.
fage -o.
Controller denies fraud
m shipyards.
Page as.
Steamer. Eastern Ocean Osaqumslck and
Kile chartered for Portland cargoes.
Page 11.
Portland and Vicinity.
Horror of Chinese famine described.
Page 14.
Department of public works has shakeup
as result of defective sewer Page 21.
Keed of exercise la urged on men. Page
15.
Increasing attendance insures success of
Portland's automoblie show. Page 24.
Morris to blame for wrecking bond bouse,
declares Etheridge. Page 1.
Oregon wheat growers plan co-operative
marketinc aasociatloa. Page 22.
Bond Hou.se ex-President
Alleges Betrayal.
PART IN JUGGLERY IS DENIED
Accounts Declared Straight
at Time of Resignation.
FLIGHT ALSO IS SCOUTED
Prisoner Says Dollar for Dollar
Will Bo Returned to Investors.
Sensational Charges Loom.
John L. Etheridgc. ex-president of
Morris Bros., Inc.. held on charges
connected with the crash of tho wide
ly known bond house, broko silence
last night in his first detailed inter
view since his return to this city,
moro than a week ago, and in so
doing made definite declaration that
he holds Fred a Morris, his suc
cessor, responsible for the plight of
the firm and tha creditors.
"Whatever happens, ' said Mr. Eth
eridgc, ' tho creditors will recelvo dol
lar for dollf r. Nobody is going to
lose through transactions with the
firm. They will bo repaid to the cent,
for I am determined to take it out
of Fred Morris' financial hide."
Betrayal Is Charted.
Since his return to Portland from
M nnoapolis, where he was arrested,
Etheridge has declined all specific)
discussion of the wrecked bond house,
saying he would make a statement
in duo time. Last night, on the eve
f his appearance before Robert F.
Maguirc. master in chancery, tho ex
president of Morris Bros., Inc., nar
rated his version of the affairs that
preceded the closing of the institution
and the bankruptcy proceedings in
which it now is involved. Tbo inter
view was given in the office of W. P.
Laitoche, counsel for Etheridge.
In this statement Ltlicndge as
serted that Fred B. Morris, who as
sumed control after his resignation,
not only betrayed him but tho cred-
tors as well, and gave emphatic as
surance that the entire story of tho
firm would be told in court, exposing
the alleged perfidy of Morris. It was
presumed that this mornings session
in chancery, at which both Mr. and.
Mrs. Etheridge aro summoned to Ap
pear, will feature the graphic expose
promised by the ex-president
Etheridge Denies Flight.
Etheridge declared that he did not
flee from Portland, but left only upon
the insistent pressure of friends and,
for the good of the firm, when faced
with a newspaper revelation of his
past prison record, and that at the
time of his departure he had every
reason to believe that tho firm was
solvent and that it could bo safely
left to the charge of Mr. Morris.
He declared that Morris assured
him that the Edmonton bond deal
would be satisfactorily arranged, that
all necessary credits had been nego
t'ated for and that Morris himself
would advance 100,000, calling upon
h friends for other large sums, if it
developed that the institution needed
finances. At the same time, ho nar
rated, Morris assured 'him that hla
(Etheridge's) equity in the firm was
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HIGHLIGHTS OP OREGON
LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
Senate.
Bill introduced providing for
placing automobile transporta
tion corporations under juris
diction of public commission.
First salary bill makes ap
pearance. Granting foreign banking cor
porations operating in Oregon
permission to make loans on
basis on capitalization of par
ent institution. Two resolutions
referring to voters the question
of repealing 6 per cent limita
tion tax law and life of millag
taxes.
Free text books for all pupils
attending grade schools.
Elimination of driftwood from
Oregon laws relating to 2 per
cent limitation on county road
bond issue.
Bill prepared making foreign
bonds subject to taxation and
relieving local municipal secur
ities from assessment.
House.
Senate meets in joint session
in house to hear Governor Ol
cott read his message to legis
lature. Sixteen bills and one reso
lution introduced in house.
Referred all governor's vetoed
bills relating to roads or high
way commission to house com
mission of roads and highway.
Anticipated settlement of
Rogue river feud predicted
through introduction of bills
said to be approved by all par
ties to controversy.
Measure to control tax-Ievy
lng bodies in Multnomah by su
pervising commission.