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PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
DIVORCEE SORRY FOR
CALIFORNIA MYSTERY
HOUSE MAY PROBE
BERGDOLL'S ESCAPE
ROOSEVELT MUD
BILL FIGHT BEGUN
IRISH ADMIT SINKING
'WRONG DONE' HUBBY
MAN IS PORTLANDER
OF BRITISH SUBMARINE
DAWES TO HOUSE
BAH ON STEFFENS
VANCOUVER WOMAN' SEEKS AN.
MRS. MAY CRAWFORD RECOG
NIZES "H. K.' 'AS HUSBAND.
KAHN INSTRUCTED TO CONFER
WITH PROSECUTOR.
SINN FEIN PAPER AT NEW
YORK PRINTS DISPATCH.
NVLMKNT OF DECREE.
DUIZ SLURS ARMY
MCL
UPHOLDS
1MEN ON JURIES
BEATEN IN HOUSE
V:
J lai
lions Wasted Under
Their Nose, Probers Told.
PARTISAN POLITICS CHARGED
Ex-General's Heated Swear
ing Heard by Women.
BUCK PRIVATE IS OUTDONE
Room In Uproar of 3ferriment as
Oaths Boom Down Corridors and
Lash Falls on Stay-at-Homesi.
Salt for Separation Mistake and
Due to Illness and Hallucina
tions, Says Petitioner.
VA.VCOCYER, Wash.. Feb. 3. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Emma Cotterill, to whom
was granted a divorce, from her hus
band November 29, 1920, is seeking to
have the divorce annulled on the
ground that she was 111 and nervous
at the time the decree was granted
and was not In her right mind. She
says In her petition that she feels
that a great fraud has been perpe
trated upon the court and a great in
justice upon the defendant, F. J. Cot
terill, her former husband, whom he
married in 1890 in Dover, Minn.
In her complaint filed In the su
perior court of Clarke county today
she alleges that about October 5 she
was taken seriously ill and suffered
nervous prostration, and during her
illness had mental - hallucinations
about ber husband. She Imagined
divers and sundry shortcomings on
his part, all untrue, and through her
weakened condition these hallucina
tions became real to her and she was
not accountable for her acts, she
says.
She started suit for divorce, which
was granted by' Judge Back November
29, and was awarded the custody of
the only living child. She has no
recollection whatever of what hap
pened, she alleges, but knows that
the charges she is said to have made
Bishop Sumner Censures
Chaplain Howard.
STAND HELD NOT CHURCH'S
Victim of Amnesia Passes Week in
Oakland, Cal., Hospital Sub
ject of Pscho-Analysis.
Mandamus for Use of Audito
rium Threatened.
WASHINGTON'. Feb. J. Another
broadside was let loose by Charles
G. Dawes today against the con
'Sressional methods of Investigating
the conduct of the war,
Attacking what he characterized
as a partisan attempt to blacken the
name of the American army because I asainst her husband are untrue.
of the blunders of a few, the former
brigadier-general I charge of supply BEACH TOGGERY SELECTED
procurement in r ranee declared
house committees could serve a more
useful public service by turning the
searchlight on the waste of millions
of government dollars, right under
their noses.
Women in the crowded committee
room did not prevent Mr. Dawes
from swearing like a buck private.
He strode about, hitting harder than
he was hit and swearing angrily
Mrs. Harding Prepares for Trip to
Florida This Month.
NEW YORK. Feb. 3. Mingled with
the pageant of prospective White
House gowns and millinery which
passed under the inspection of y.rs.
W. G. Harding today were light linen
frocks, brierht-hued shoes, umbrellas
ind Collars from which wern flnlerter
vh( h. .h. .. . . : I I . ....
" -" i5 HUCTimiimj oeien toggery wnicn sue win wear
reiiecuon on any section of the I on her visit this month t PinriH.
i. nuns ouim or wnicn ne was a
part. Chairman Johnson, a former
service man, told Mr. Dawes he
wished therei had been other wit
nesses as truthful and as unafraid
to talk.
Dawes Boons Forth His Oaths.
Mr. Dawes did not conceal the feel-
ing that he was having a good time.
At times the room was in an uproar
of merriment, and the echo of. oaths
swept down the long corridor as be
turned his wrathful language upon
critics or tha war who stayed at
home.
Referring to investigations by the
house. Mr. Dawes said he thought the
people were sick of them.
"Why, there is no longer any news
in it," ha shouted. "If I was not
here, strutting around and swearing.
there would be no news In this. Don't
forget it was an American war, not
republican or a democratic war.
and the record of the glorious work
of our army will live hundreds of
years after your committee is dead
and gone and forgotten."
Penning; Held l'p sua Hero,
When the name of General Per
ahing was brought up, Mr. Dawes
could scarcely control his anger.
"There were hounds in this coun
try, he declared, "who tried to
spread the false news that Pershing
was at a theater the night of the
armistice. He was there, like helL
He was at his office, starting the
work of canceling vast war contracts
to save money. It will take 25 or 50
years for Pershing to get bis place
in history, but let me tell you the
time will come when every doughboy
overseas will be proud to say he was
one of Pershing's men.
You can give me all the hell you
want I like it. You kick because I
sold a lot of second-hand junk to the
rench government for 1400,000,000,
instead of keeping 40,000 soldiers
there to guard it while we tried to
peddle it. My conscience hurts me
sometimes when I think we charged
them too much."
Department Take Famishment.
Mr. Dawes said he was a repub
lican, but was broad enough to give
the war department full credit for its
work In getting more men to the front
than France and Great Britain put
there in the same period. Then he
Jumped on the department and de
nounced It for its refusal to' permit
promotion of men in the ranks. The
rule by which men, eager to go over
seas, but kept at home, were required
to wear silver stripes, he character
iced as one of the most distasteful
actions of the war.
The award of distinguished service
nvedals came in for a fiery attack.
It broke more hearts, he eaid than
anything else, because thousands of
men entitled to the medal were
passed by.
Mr. Dawes said it was all right for
congress to try to tind and punish
men who made mistakes in the stress
of the war, but told the committee
that it would get nowhere and the
public was not concerned with those
mistakes now.
"Hell' SrmUm Broadcast.
"And they are trying to say Per
shing permitted the sacrifice of
thousands of lives on armistice day.
It's the most damnable lie ever ut
tered. And it's all right to sit back
here, viewing from a partisan stand
point the work overseas, when if you
people so free to condemn had been
there you might have done Just as we
did or worse. Liquidation? Why,
hellmen we liquidated everything.
Mrs.. Harding expects to contirue
shopping until early next week. Leav
ing here, she will remain In Washing
ton a few days before going to
Florida.
She stayed in her hotel suite again
today, reviewing the offerings of
fashion's creators until just before
dinner this evening. Tonight she
went to a musical show.
STORM DESTROYS CHURCH
Methodist Landmark for 50 Years
In Ruins at Oysterville.
OCEAN PARK, Wash.. Fob. 3.
(Special.) One of Pacific county's
landmarks has ben removed by the
destruction of the Methodist church
at Oysterville by the hurricana Sat
urday.
The church was built more than SO
years ago and has been the scene of
labor for 'many of -the. outstanding
leaders in Pacific northwest Method
Ism. At one time the county seat,
Oysterville was the head of a large
circuit, but of recent years the church
has bee tv served by the pastors of
Ilwaco and Ocean Park. The present
pastor is Rev. J. Thomas Cowley.
B. A. GREEN PLAN'S ATTACK
Mayor- Gets Many Messages Laud
ing Decision N'ot to Grant Hall
to Radical Lecturers.
SIX HELD MAIL ROBBERS
Chicago JIan Said, to Have Con
fessed Share in Theft.
CHICAGO. Feb. 3. The arrest of
six men. one of whom was said by
the police to have confessed, today
revealed the theft of a mall pouch
containing 11700 in cash and securi
ties valued at about 135,000 from the
Auburn Park station of the Chicago,
Rock Island Sc Pacific railroad a week
ago.
The men were arrested in connec
tion with the stealing of mail pouches
said to have contained $500,000 from
the union station. No announcement
of the Rock Island robbery was made
until today.
SNOW DELAYS AIR MAIL
Public and official repudiation on
behalf of the Episcopal church, of the
statements made to Mayor Baker by
Chaplain F. K. Howard in the Stef
f era lecture controversy, was issued
last night by Right Rev. W. T. Sum
ner, bishop of the diocese of Ore
gon. Bishop Sumner further denied
that Howard was authorized to, repre
sent the social service committee of
the church, as the chaplain had inti
mated on Wednesday.
The action came close on the heels
of the revelation that at a secret
meeting of the city council, the
mayor's stand against allowing the
use of the municipal auditorium for
Stiffens" lecture, was heartily In
dorsed and supported by every commissioner.
The third Interesting development
of the controversy was a statement
from B. A. Green, attorney, that he
might Instigate mandamus proceed
ings to attempt to force the council
to allow the use of the auditorium,
and a counter opinion by Frank S.
Grant, city attorney, that It' couldn't
be done.
Bishop Sumner early In the morn
ing communicated with both the
mayor and Chaplain Howard, com
mending the mayor for his stand.
and censuring the minister for his
public statements and assumptions of
the day before.
A flood of congratulatory and com
mendatory messages from prominent
clergymen, businessmen and even
labor leaders, swamped the office of
the mayor throughout the day. There
was no change in the status of the
controversy. Mayor Baker reiterating
his statement that the municipal
auditorium would not be available for
any radical demonstrations.
The auditorium was tentatively
rented by the city for a lecture Feb.
ruary 7 on conditions m Russia by
Lincoln Steffens and Irwin St. John
Tucker, socialists. Thereupon the
occasion was advertised by its pro
ponents as a mass meeting to protest
(Concluded on Paso -. Column 1.)
Mrs. May Crawford, house mother
of the Hill Military academy annex,
last night telegraphed Oakland police
that "H. K.," the amnesia victim wan
dering about the streets of that city
last Tuesday is undoubtedly her hus
band. W. A. Crawford, formerly a
prominent merchant of Three Lakes,
Wash., who disappeared nearly a
year ago.
All circumstances of the case as
outlined by press dispatches received
yesterday point to him as being her
husband, said Mrs. Crawford, and, af
ter seeing a published picture of the
unidentified man, she is virtually cer
tain of his Identity.
In a telegram sent early last night
Mrs. Crawford asked the police of
Oakland for full details of tha man's
description, another picture of ftlm
and the entire statement of where and
how he was found.
Mr. Crawford, according to his wife,
left Three Lakes, Wash., March 20
last for Portland carrying a suitcase
belonging to a neighbor, Herman
Krieck. The suitcase was marked
with the initials "H. K."
At that time George W. Crawford.
16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Craw
ford, was seriously ill at St. Vincent's
hospital, and physicians believed he
would not recover. Mrs. Crawford
was prostrated with grief over her
son's condition, and Crawford, know
ing this, and being of a nervous and
highly strung nature, is thought to
have become unbalanced.
On his departure from Three Lakes
he took with him- a large sum of
money and bade goodbye to neigh
bors. .'
Some years ago he was known ps
one of Washington's wealthiest lum
bermen, but he later-sold his lumber
Interests and. engaged In the retail
merchant business at Three Lakes.
Ho was 60 years old at the time of his
disappearance.
A few weeks after his mysterious
departure from Three Lakes Craw
ford's son died, and Mrs. Crawford
became houss mother at the Hill
academy annex.'. Her son had, prior
to his death, attended the school and
was a member of the sophomore class.
.Although never having been an In
structor of mathematics, as the man
in custody of Oakland police Is said
to have stated he once was, Craw
ford, according to his wife, was ex
ceedingly well .versed in higher
branches of learning, and his mathe
matical knowledge extended to calculus.
Crawford had been In Portland sev
eral times and would be able to talk
comprehensively of the city. This Is
another point of similarity between
him and the stranger now in the
Oakland hospital.
Since receiving news of the finding
of the "mystery man of Oakland.
who is being held by authorities until
identification can be proved, Portland
police have been working on the the
ory that the man Is Alfred R. Pearson,
member of the American Legion, who
Report or Army Officers Making
Freedom Offer for $100,000
Urged for Investigation.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. Possibility
of a congressional Investigation of the
escape to Germany of Grover Cleve
land Bergdoll, wealthy draft dodger,
was revived today when the house
military committee Instructed Chair
man Kahn to confer with District At
torney McAvoy of Philadelphia re
garding the case.
A resolution proposing an inquiry
is before the committee.
Chairman Kahn announced he not
only wanted an Investigation of the
escape, but favored a "most thorough
and sweeping" investigation of the
allegation, reported . to have been
made by Bergdoll In Germany, that
h- had been offered his freedom if he
would "come across to some Amer
ican army officers with a bribe of
3100,000."
Representative Johnson, republican,
South Dakota, said he was "in hearty
sympathy" with the plan to investi
gate Bergdoll's charges and escape.
Declaring Germany had imprisoned
two American sergeants, "perhaps a
little over-zealous,'" in their desire to
capture a slacker, Mr. Johnson ' de
clared that the German government
at the same time was asking the sym
pathy of the American people regard
ing payment of indemnity.
"Germany Is In no position to ask
our sympathy in view of what' has
Uiken place," he added,' "and wouldn't
get any If I had my way."
All Highway . Plans for
Year Threatened. '"
VOTERS' DECISION DEMANDED
Commission Forces Show
Down in Legislature.
COMMITTEE TO DECIDE
Question in Honse Promises to Be
One of Most Vital of
Present Session.
HOME GIRL-WIFE'S PLACE
New York Brides Under 16 Cannot
Be Kept in School.
NEW YORK. Feb. 3. Girls who
marry under 16 cannot be forced to
continue in school, it was decided to
day by Magistrate Harris on a test
case.
The magistrate said he thought
husbands were entitled to ave their
wives at home.
(Concluded on Page 4, Column 2.)
ROBBERS SLAY VICTIM
Bricklayer Slabbed to Death as He
Opposes Invaders.
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 3. Alex
ander Holmes, bricklayer, 60, was
stabbed to death at his home here
today when he resisted robbers who
called upon him to deliver his money.
Holmes staggered to a neighbor's
house, furnished a description of bis
assailants and died. -
OLD MAIDS NEED MONEY
Funds Necessary li. North Carolina
Home Is to Be Used.
RALEIGH, N. C, Feb. 8. This city
has an "old maid's home." but no
funds to run it. '
The will of Miss Emma Green, pro
bated yesterday, left the city a house
and its furnishings for the use of
"destitute old maiden ladles."
AMERICAN TAXPAYER: "CHEER UP! SEE WHAT WE GOT FOR WINNING THE WAR."
Salt Lake Pilot Postpones Trip.
Cheyenne Pilot Lands.
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 3. With a
snow storm prevailing in this region.
Pilot Smith of the air mail service,
scheduled to leave for the east today.
was compelled to postpone the trip.
It was also reported at the local
landing field that Pilot Knight, who
left Cheyenne, Wyo., tod!rV for Salt
Lake City, had been forced to land at
Rock Springs and wait until the
weather clears.
16-STORY FALL SURVIVED
Structural Iron Worker Escapes
With Sprained Finger.
NEW YORK. Feb. 3. N a t h a n
Cohen, structural iron worker, who
plunged from the top of a new "3-
story build'ng in Broadway yester
day, reported for work this morning.
His fall was broken by a . heavy
canvas debris receptacle, stretched
from the fifth tier. His little finger
was sprained.
MAIL AIRMAN IS KILLED
tg' property in France, as this com-
ittee has tried to show. The Junk
a couian l aeu waa given away
It waa cheaper than burning or bury
IBg It. They pinned one of those
medals on me. but It had a damned
iCoaduded on Page 3. Coiuma 2.)
K. M. Stewart and Mechanician
Fall With Plane Near Chicago.
MINNEAPOLIS. Feb. . K. M. Stew
art. Chicago, pilot In the Minneapolis
air mall service, was killed Instantly
tcday when the plana he was piloting
fell three miles out of Mendota, near
here, according to Information sent
here. - Tha mechanician was Injured.
STATE HOUSE, Salem, Or., Feb. 3.
(Special.) With political combina
tions and trading on one hand and the
state highway commission voicing op
position on the other, the Roosevelt
highway" bill threatens to upset the
state road programme. There was a
showdown In the state house tonight
when the highway commission de
clared that if the measure is passed
by the legislature it will be referred
to the people, and, if thus held up.
the road work for 1921 will have to
stop.
At this time the situation, which i
delicate, rests with the bouse com
mittee on roads and highways. A
adverse report on the Roosevelt high
way bill will probably mean its de
feat on the floor, while a favorabl
report will undoubtedly mean It's
passage. The measure has already
been Passed by the senate, and Sen
ator Hall, one of the authors of th
bill, said tonight that he had 29 vote
in the house pledged to its passage,
Cards Laid on Table.
It was at this point that the state
highway commission, having been In
vited to attend a meeting of the house
committee, laid its cards on the tabl
face up.
"If you propose to chang the p'la
of road work, as Is indicated by th
Roosevelt highway bill," announce
R. A. Booth, chairman of the highway
commission, "then give the- Roosevelt
highway Its just percentage of funds
wtth other roads, place all the fund
in the hands of engineers and wipe
out your highway commission."
The Roosevelt highway bill has de
veloped into the big current Issue o
the legislature. The Roosevelt high
way proposition was originally ap
proved by the people and calls for
32,500,000 of state money, to be
matched by a similar amount of fed
eral money, for a coast military and
sccnio highway.
Clause la Stricken Out.
Not one cent of the state money
was to be expended unless the gov
ernment went 60-50. This contin
gency clause has been stricken put
by Senators Hall and Norbiad. and
the bill in Its present shape calls for
setting asldo of 32,500,000 for this
road, the money to be paid by direct
taxation.
It is the contention of the state
highway commission that to specify
a certain sum of money for a certain
road is an unfairness to all the other
roads in the state. There remains
under the 4 per cent limitation of
the state, about 39,000,000 which can
be raised. .The proposed 32,500,000
for the Roosevelt highway would
have to come from this sum, and
would, consequently, cripple the road
programme and prevent all other
roads on the state map from getting
their fair share of the road money.
Cont Put at $25,000,000.
Chairman Booth said that the sum
specified in the bill is a drop in
the bucket; that the Roosevelt high
way will cost about 325,000,00 to com
plete and that unless completed it
would be foolish to undertake it. If
the Roosevelt highway Is considered
a military road, then, argued Mr.
Booth, the" federal government, and
not the state should be called upon
to build it. Proponents of the bill
also urged It as a scenic road, Mr.
Booth replied that there is scarcely
a road In Oregon that is not scenic.
If the Roosevelt Highway bill Is
passed, it will give preference to that
coast road over the John Day high-
was. The Dalles-California highway,
the Crater Lake road, the Mount
Hood loop, the Ashland-Klamath
Falls highway and other roads which
are now in the process of construc
tion. Coast Held Not Neglected.
There has been no neglect of the
coast section by the highway com
mission, asserted Chairman Booth,
I there are now roads connecting the
coast with the Pacific highway and
there has been substantial progress
on the Coast highway. Approximately
$10,000,000 has already been spent
or under contract for the north and
south and the east and west roads
of the coast. More has been spent!
for the coast section than any other,
with the exception of the two main
highways.
"If," said Mr. Booth, "in the course
of a splendid exposition of the road
work, "you take the road programme
out of the hands of the commission
and throttle the efforts of the com
mission and belittle Its work, then I
pass the responsibility up to you.
We are the trustees of the greatest
sum of money ever placed fn the
hands of Oregon citizenry.
"If there is only $9,000,000 mors of
funds available under the 4 per cent
llmltat'on. and 32.500,000 of this
Engineer or Erin Invented Projec
tile That" Sent Craft to Bot
tom, Says Cable.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3. The Sinn
Feiner, a local publication, today
printed a dispatch purporting to have
been cabled fiom Dublin, saying that
the British submarine K-5, which
sank In the English channel, off
Lands End, twe weeks ago, was de
stroyed by "Irish seacraft."
The destruction of the submarine,
it said, was brought about by an
"electrically-controlled projectile, re
cently Invented by an Irish engineer."
The dispatch read:
"Dublin. Ireland has struck her
first blow against the British navy.
On January 20 Irish seacraft operat
ing near the spot where Archbishop
Mannix was seized last year, sighted
the enemy submarine K-5 and de
stroyed It. The submarine, one of the
largest and most powerful in the
British fleet, was blown to pieces.
How this victory was accomplished it
Is not permissible to tell at th's time
other than to say that a new weapon,
somewhat In the nature of an electrically-controlled
projectile, recently
invented by an Irish engineer, made
it possible.
"The sinking of the K-5 waa Its
first practical test. The British army
of occupation here continues its cam
paign of frightfulness. Nevertheless,
talk of peace continues, but the pros-
Gallagher Says Farmers'
Wives Would Suffer.
LONG, HARD TRIPS ARE CITED
Bill
Declared Defeated
Compulsory Clause.
by
MRS. KINNEY LOSES PLEA
pect of an early cessation of hostil
ties appears very- remote."
Clatsop Womun Declares Sex Does
Not AVant Service as Much as
Denial bj- Men Is Resented.
SLEEP-WALKER IS HURT
Somnambulist Takes Third Fall in
Recent Months and Breaks Leg.
For the third time within the past
few months, somnambulism has sent
Isaac Mclntlre, aged 45, to the hos
pital. His last sleep-walking expe
rience occurred yesterday morning,
when he fell from the window of his
room, 300 East Morrison street, to
the pavement 30 feet below. He suf
fered a fracture of the right leg and
cuts and bruises. He was taken to
St. Vincent's hospital.
According to police records, Mc
lntlre has been taken to the police
emergency hospital on two occasions
previously from Injuries sustained by
falling while walking In his sleep.
Again yesterday morning he was
Btrlcken with somnambulism and
pitched headlong out of his bedroom
window while wandering about In his
sley.p.
PRICE PUT ON KIDNAPER
$5 00 Reward for Would-Be Ab
ductor of Arthur Rust Is Posted.
TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 3. W. R.
Rust today posted a 3500 reward for
the arrest of the man who kidnaped
his son, Aethur Rust, Tuesday, In an
unsuccessful attempt to obtain 323,000
ransom.
Descriptions of the automobile used
by the abductor were today mailed to
cities on the Pacific coast.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
iConcluded on Pace 3. Column 2.)
The Weather.
YESTERDAYS Highest temperature, 50
degrees! lowest. 41 degrees; cloucly.
TODAY'S Probably rain; westerly winds.
Foreign.
Nine police killed In Irian ambuscaae.
Page j.
Germany united on indemnity recusal
Page 4.
National.
Chile-Peru dispute menace to America.
Page 4.
House may probe Bergdoll's escape. Page 1,
Early tariff vote in senate fixed. Page 2,
Johnson's Immigration bill, passed by
house, burled by senate, rage a.
ruin tells Inquisitors war inquiry is par.
tisan attempt to blacken army, rage l.
MrArthur's MOO.000,000 road aid bill
pected to pass nouse on .Monuay. rage a.
Naval board says battleships still eurpasa
ulanes ana suDmannes. nsa it.
TH.h .Ink British sunmarine, says Blnn
Fein papers. rage i.
Domestic.
Labor board quits worn until aaonaay.
Page 2.
Legislatures.
House defeats plan to extend Jury service
to women, rage i.
Dry workers want more arastio ji
- Paige 6.
Senate approves bill to create logged-off
land improvement qislticis. rage o.
Slicing Clackamas county proposed in Din.
Page .
Idaho house committee wields ax freely
on first Of DUaget uiiib. rage .
w.ohina-ton senate votes to legalize in-
round boxing bouts. Page 13.
Oregon governor"a salary declared, farclal
Page 1J.
Roosevelt road bill threatens whole high
wtf programme. Page 1.
raclfie Noathweat.
Divorcee, sorry for wrong done husband,
asks for annulment of decree. Page 1.
Four auspects quizzed in Aberdeen bomb
ing attempt. Page 10.
Sports.
Franklin hoopers again top league. Page 12.
Darcy up against hard fight tonight
Page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
All wool markets have healthier tone.
Page 21. v
Tight money causes wheat selling at Chi
cago. (Page 21.
Changes In stock market generally down
ward. Page 21.
Marine engineers to discuss pay cut.
Page 20.
Ryozo Aaano, managing director of Toyo
Kisen Kalsha, inspects Portland ship
ping terminals, rage --o.
Portland and Vicinity.
City commissioners Justify action In revo
cation of Borelll soft drink permit,
page 11.
Single tax system proves failure In Ed
monton, Alta. Page 22.
Safety-first drive declared aucoess. Page 22:
Bogus dance fee report is probed. Paga 10.
City council backs mayor on ban on Stef
fena. Page 1.
"H. K." amnesia victim held at Oakland,
Cal., identified by Portland woman aa
husband. Page 1,
Pupils Increasing, more schools needed.
Page 4.
Oregon retailers plan to eliminate Jobbers.
Page -u.
STATE HOUSE, S;ilcm, Or., Feb. 3.
(Special.) Extension of Jury serv
ice to women in tho state of Oregon,
as urged by Mrs. Kinney of Clatsop
county, was defeated In the house
today by a vote of 34 to 23.
Mrs. Kinney, at the request of the
Portland Woman's club. Introduced a
measure which was saved from do
feat earlier in the week only by be
Inir Dlaced on the table. A substitute
bill changing the word "persons" for
"men" in the present jury law was
offered, and U was this measure that
went down to defeat today after more
than an hour of oratory, In which the
majority of house members partic
ipated. "When a woman Is charged with a
crime she faces a jury not of her
peers, for sho faces a Jury of men,
and they may or tht-y may not be her
peers," said Mrs. Kinney. "A certain
woman, speaking to nio on this bill,
said that sho was rot particularly
anxious to serve on Juries, but she
did not want the men of this state
to tell her that she could not serve
on Juries. That, 1 believe is the feel
ing of many of the vomen in Oregon."
Wlvra of Some I'laht Hill.
Representatives Carter and (Jalla
gher. who opposed passage, asked
Mrs. Kinney If any women's organ
izations were behind her bill. The
only organization which had officially
approved the bill. Mrs. Kinney re
plied, was the Women's club of Port
land. 1'cfea.t of tho bill can be charged in
part to several wives of representa
tives, for Representative Kubli in
formed the house that Mr. North, his
seatmate. had been called to the tele
phone to h.ar his wife instruct him
to vote against tho bill or not come
home.
Representative Gordon explained
that his wife was opposed to the bill
and his brother. Representative Gor
don, voted against the bill on tho
same recommendation.
Country Women Cited.
"So far as I am concerned." an
nounced Mr. CiallaBher, "It will take
more than the word of a few society
. . i j H r : .. . nm ih.u
women of l ortianu, a mio a ...vj
may be, who have political ambitions,
to make me voto for this measure. So
far as I am concerned, I want to hear
from the women who live back in tho
forests In Malheur county, who. if
this bill passed, would be forced to
leave their babies and their homes
and enter stuffy, smoky Jury boxes,
there to remain for perhaps weeks. I
refuse to fasten Jury duty on women
of Oregon unless they tell me that
they are willing to accept It."
Representative Sheldon explained
that clubwomen of the state had re
quested a Jury bill giving women me
ntlrn riirht for Jury eervice. a
bill
,ki,.k ho would support, but tho bill
before the house, he said, was com
pulsory and therefore he was opposed
to its passage.
A quest'on as to whether Jury serv
ice was a duty, a right, a privilege or
a penalty was raised by Representa
tive Bennett, who held that the pro
ponents of the bill were not certain
what jury service constituted. He held
that it whs a duty, and a painful one.
which should not be forced. on women
of this state.
Two Fight for Bill.
Representatives Belknap, Richard
and Lynn used oratory in an effort to
obtain passage of the bill. The vote
on this measure is as follows:
For Aleen, Belknap. Davey, Fisher.
Flint, Hopkins, nosrora, iiunter.
Hurd. Johnston. Kay, Mrs. Kinney.
Lee, Looney, Lynn, McDonald, Fierce.
Powell, Richards, Roberts, Stone,
Westcott. Woodson.
Against Beals, Bennett, Caraner.
Carter, Cary, ChlKis, ii.gDert. t .etcner.
Gallagher, - Gordon of Mu.tnomaii.
Gordon of Lane, Hammond, nindman.
Hubbard. Hyatt, Korrell, Kubli, La
Follett, Leonard, Marsh, Martin, Mc-
Farland, Miles, Miller, North, Over-
turff, Perry, Shank, Sheldon, ShU-ia,
Sloan, Teinpleton, Wright and Speaker
Bean.
Absent Acheson, Burdlck and
Wells.
RITZVILLE SAFE ROBBED
Burglars Get $23,000 in Bonds ml
Other Securities.
RITZVILLE, Wash., Feb. 3. Nego
tiable notes worth 310.000, liberty
bonds ownd by employes and other
securities to a total value of $15. Out
to 318,000 were stolen by burglars. '
who cracked the safe In the office
of the Mlers-Shepiey department store
here last n'ght, It was discovered to
day. J'o arrests have been mt-do.