VOL. LX NO. 18.801 Entered at Port land (Oregon)
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WASHINGTON'S BODY
WILL NOT BE MOVED
TITLE TO MOCXT VERXOX IS
DECLARED C03IPLETE.
SENATE PASSES ALL
APPROPRIATION BILLS
WILSON SAYS PEACE
UNCLE SI WILL
TAPPED WIRE TELLS
ROADHOUSE SECRETS
WILL BE LIFE WORK
ALL OF CABINET
MEASURES TOTAL $6,500,000
AXD SET XEW RECORD.
FIRST PUBLIC UTTERAXCE IS
MADE SIXCE ELECTION.
PHOXE CONVERSATIONS TAKEN
TO REVEAL DEBAUCHERY.
AD
DISTRICTS FIGHT
ENDED BY HOUSE
Bill as Passed by Senate
. Finally Accepted.
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List Is Complete, Barring
Last-Minute Changes.
DENBY CHOICE BIG SURPRISE
Detroit Lawyer Not Even
Mentioned by Dopesters.
3 PLACES UNCERTAIN
It Any Switches Arc Made, Xavy,
Commerce and Labor Portfo
lios Likely to Be Ones.
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CABINET MEMBERS CHOSEN
BY EXT PRESIDENT.
Secretary of elate Charles
Evans Hughes, New York.
Secretary of the treasur:
drew Mellon of Pennsylvania.
Secretary of war John W.
Weeks of Massachusetts.
Attorney-general Harry M.
Daugherty of Ohio.
Postmaster-general Will H.
Hays of Indiana.
Secrttary of the navy Edwin
Denby of Michigan.
Secretary of the interior A. B.
Fall of New Mexico.
Secretary of agriculture Henry
Wallace uf Iowa.
Secretary of commerce Herbert
Hoover of California.
Secretary of labor James
Davis of Pennsylvania.
Descendant of Brother of First
' President Corrects Impression
Given in Address.
DOVER. Del., Feb. 22. Miss Har
riet C. Comegys, national regent of
the Mount Vernon Ladies' association
declared today the association would
not permit the removal of the body
of George Washington from Its last
resting place or the closing of the
tomb to the public
Referring to an address In Naia-
reth. Pa., last night by George Step
toe Washington, in which he Baid the
tomb belonged to the Washington
family and could be closed to-, the
public, she said: a
"The Mount Vernon Ladies' asso
ciation owns the tomb, mansion and
grounds outright. Its title to the 200
acres, including the burial plot, is
clear and cannot be upset."
PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Feb. 22.-
George Steptoe Washiitgton, a de
scendant of a brother of George
Washington, who made an address
last night at Nazareth, Pa., today cor
rected the impression that the de
scendants of the first president de
sired to bar the public from visiting
the tomb of George and Martha
Washington.
What Mr. Washington really said.
he declared, was that the burial
ground is not a part of Mount Ver
non but belongs to the family and
could at any time be closed to the
public, although the matter had never
been discussed and no doubt the priv
ilege that has been extended so long
would continue.
'I think the public should be per
mitted to see the resting place of
cur first president." he said.
FEW CHANGES ARE MADE
Multnomah GainsRepresent
ative in Shuffle.
MALHEUR GETS ITS OWN
Marion Reduced From Five to
Foir, Linn From Three to
Two; Tillamook Has One.
J.
fit. AfGrSTINE. Fla., Feb. 22. (By
thi Associated Press.) President
elect Harding has reached a tentative
decision on every place in his cabinet,
and .unless there are last-minute
changes it will be composed of these
men:
Secretary of state. Charles Evans
Hughes of New York, ex-governor,
Justice of the supreme court, and re
publican nominee for the presidency.
Secretary of the treasury, Andrew
W. Mellon of Pennsylvania, banker
and financier, member of a family
reputed to be among the wealthiest
In this country.
Secretary of war. John W. Weeks of
Massachusetts, ex-senator, and in
1915 a candidate for the presidential
nomination.
Harry' Dana-herty lnrd.
Attorney-general, Harry M. Daugh
rty of Ohio, who managed Mr. Hard-
tug's pre-convention campaign.
Postmaster-general. Will H. Hays
ef Indiana, chairman c the repub
lican national committee.
Secretary of the navy, Edwin Denby
f Michigan, ex-member of congress,
who has served as an enlisted man
In both the navy and marine corps.
Secretary of the interior, Albert A.
Fall of New Mexico, now a senator.
Secretary of agriculture, Henry
"Wallace of Iowa, editor of farm publ.
cations.
Secretary of commerce, Herbert
Hoover of California, ex-food admin
istrator and leader in various move
ments for European relief.
James J. Davis Chvifa.
Secretary of labor, jimea J. David
of Pennsylvania and Illinois, union
ex-steel worker, who has become the
highest official in the Moose fraternity.
If changes are made, they are most
likely to affect the appointments for
navy, commerce and labor, all of
which were understood to have come
to a decision within 24 hours.
In regard to none of these has
there been an exchange of formal in
vitation and acceptance, but in every
case the selections are expected by
air. Harding's associates to stand.
Assignment of the navy portfolio
to Mr. Denby, who is a Detroit law
yer, furnished the first real surprise,
for his name had not. been mentioned
publicly In connection with the place
ualll today.
Denby Conference Slated.
It was understood that from the
first he had been under consideration,
however, and was held in reserve for
just such a contingency as Mr. Hard
ing faced last week when ex-Governor
Lowden of Illinois declined to be
considered.
It was expected that before the
president-elect makes a formal tender
to Mr. Denby he will call him into
consultation and go over the naval
problems with him.
Mr. Hoover's name had been one
of the storm centers of the cabinet
list, many republicans urging his ap
pointment as secretary of state, in
terior, commerce or labor, and many
opposing It because of his stand in
favor of the league of nations. He
was the first national figure with
whom Mr. Harding conferred after his
return to Washington from the Chi
cago convention last year and later
Mr. Hoover went to Marion among
the first "best minds" to be called
Into consultation.
Another Job May Be Offered.
Should he refuse a place, he may
asked to mm a mmici
reorganisation of the executive de
partments of the government.
Regarding the labor portfolio also
there have been many recommenda
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Gotham Still Shovels Snow.
NEW YORK, Feb. 22. Holiday sus
pension of business downtown today
gave the city's army of shoveiers and
their tractors and trucks an oppor
tunity to ciear away much of the
snow which for two days had
hampered traffic City traction lines
were operating1 on a normal schedule.
STATE HOUSE, Salem, Or.. Feb. 22.
(Special.) In the .Interest of har
mony, the reapportionment Dill as
passed by the senate was adopted by
the house late this afternoon, the
house receding from the amendments
which It made at midnight Monday.
Here are the only, changes brought
about In redisricting the legislature:
Two new representatives are gained
by eastern Oregon and one by Mult
nomah county. In detail they are:
Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Klam
ath and Lake counties, now having
two representatives, have three.
Grant county, which was part of
the above large district, is made a
Joint district with Harney, which
was joint with Malheur. Now Grant
and Harney have one representative
under the new law.
Malheur county, heretofore a Joint
(Concluded on Page 6, Column 1.)
Legislation Tat Through in Less
Than 28 Minutes Following
Report of Committee.
STATE HOUSE. Salem, Or.. Feb. 22.
(Special.) The senate, in less than
28 minutes, tonight passed appropria
tion bills aggregating $6,500,000.
The total of these appropriations
was said to be a new record in Ore
gon, with regard to the amount of
money set aside for the conduct of
state departments, institutions and
Incidentals at any single legislative
session held in the history of this
common wealth.
Following the pasage of the appro
priation bills Senator Patterson,
chairman of the ways and means com
mittee of the senate, thanked the
senators for' the confidence they, had
expressed in the members of the body
handling the state's finances.
Other bills passed on third reading
follow: -
H. B. 124, by Norblad Relating to sal
ary of constable nf Seaside.
S. B. 3S3, by Lachmund Authorizing
board of control to exchange land now
used by state training school for boys for
other lands.
S. B. S38, by Edwards Relating to sal
ary of district attorney of Tillamook
county.
3. B. 232,. by Thomas To prohibit the
abandonment of railway lines.
S. B. 861. by Patterson To provide, for
protection of employers under workmen's
compensation act,
S. B. 382, by joint committee on banking
Providing limits and conditions upon
banks.
H. B. 346, by Joint committee on roads
and highways Authorizing and empow
ering state highway commission to con
struct or pave streets of towns.
:. B. 298. by Strayer To regulate Issu
ance by carriers ot Dins, ox lading and
livestock contracts.
B. 381. by Vinton Relating to extra-
diction of fugitives from Justice.
S. B. 384, by judiciary committee Pro
viding for release of dower or courtesy of
Insane perrons.
S. B. soil, by josepn Autnonzing and
providing fur a special election to vote on
measures enacted by the 31st legislative
assembly of the state of Oregon.
S. B. 378. by Lacnmund Relating to
compensation of state officers.
S. B. 343, by committee on judiciary
Harvard Delegation . Impressed by
Good Humor of President In
Leaving White House.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 22.
President Wilson today expressed the
determination to devote himself oa
retirement to private life to a con
tinuation of his efforts toward world
peace. He made his first public utter
ance since the election in receiving a
delegation from the Woodrow Wilson
club of Harvard university.
After their visit the delegates
stated, they were "deeply impressed
with the great heart of the president
and deeply touched by the president's
faith in the ultimate accomplishment
of his efforts towards peace and by
the almost brilliant good humor' with
which he is leaving the White House."
He received the group in the com
pany of Mrs. Wilson in his study. He
said he would leave to historians the
task of interpreting the events of the
Paris peace conference.
If he ever devoted himself again to
writing, he declared, it would be along
impersonal lines.
Robert C. Stuart Jr who beaded
the delegation, told the president that
the club, he represented wished upon
the anniversary of the birth of Wash
ington to extend their greeting, to
"you. the great American of our gen
eration," and that inspired by Wilson
ian ideals, the club purposed to per
petuate the ideals to which the presi
dent had given concrete expression.
Mrs. Wilson, who was standing be-
Equality for Alt Under
Mandates Demanded.
NOTE SENT LEAGUE COUNCIL
Oil Resources in Near East
Declared Main Issue.
ACTION ASKED BY BRITAIN
Paris Reports Council Considera
tion of Slandates Has Been
Postponed Until April.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 22. (By
the Associated Press.) Equal oppor
tunities for citizens of all allied and
associated powers, whether members
of the league of nations or not, in
former enemy territories to be ad
ministered by the allied governments
under mandates is insisted upon in a
side the president, apparently mucu.'note dispatchtd Dy the state depart-
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the colfege men! expressed a wish to the leaue council Pris-
that she might make a speech, but
said she would not because she never
had.
CARUSO REPORTED BETTER
Most Favorable Day Passed Since
. Relapse, It Is Announced.
NEW YORK, Feb. 22. Enrico Ca
ruso, seriously ill here from pleurisy
and heart trouble. Passed the most
favorable day since his relapse.
This was announced tonight.
The note went last night to Ambas
sador Wallace, who is to present it
tomorrow. State department officials
described it as being virtually iden
tical with the one sent to Great Brit
ain last November by Secretary Colby.
That note was couched in firm lan
guage. Mr. Colby took issue with
the British position that mandate
agreements and treaties were to be
considered only by members of the
league, and declared that the United
States as a contributor to the victory
(Concluded on Page 7, Column 3.)
Record Held as Evidence In Cases
Arising Out of Raid Upon
Black Cat Tavern.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 22. (Spe
cial.) By means of a tapped tele
phone wire leading Into Black Cat
tavern, the ' notorious resort on the
Bothell road, near Lake Forest park,
which was raided last Friday , night
Lby Sheriff Matt Starwich and a party
ui picKea deputies, every telepnone
conversation carried on by persons
in the tavern for the last several
weeks was recordea.
Night and day a federal govern
ment operative sat at a table in a
shack nearly a mile distance from
the roadhouse, and with a telephone
headgear strapped to his ear re
corded every conversation verbatim.
The record read like a dime novel.
With the record In hand, the sheriff
and Malcolm Douglas, prosecutor,
were enabled to lay grave charges
against the alleged proprietors, for
mer Policeman D. N. Schoonover and
Aaron McSparen, as well as to bring
proceedings against the alleged prop
erty owners, Mr. and Mrs. James
Lechnane, to close the place under
lock and key.
Two agents of the federal govern
ment were under surveillance follow
ing the discovery that the tapped
wire evidence was being tipped off
to a private detective agency and was
"leaking" to persons under suspicion.
The evidence showed that the tav
ern was being used as a d've of the j
worst character, frequented by per
sons notorious in underworld, and ,
that, on one occasion, the daughter
of a prominent merchant was lured
there, mistreated and induced to enter
a life of shame.
Every effort was, made to locate
the relatives of the girl in time to
save her, but they could not be found.
Later she was understood to have
been rescued by her father, who was
conducting a private search elsewhere
at the time she was in the Black Cat.
Against D. N. Schoonover. former
Campfire Girls Discover
Unidentified Victim.
2 BULLET HOLES IN HEAD
Dead Man Hidden Beneath
Brush by Roadside.
POLICE PICK UP CLEWS
No Weapons Found Nearby and
Nature of Injuries Preclude
' Possibilities of Suicide.
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PRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING AND MEN WHOM IT IS ANNOUNCED HE HAS ASKED TO ACT AS MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET WHEN HE STEPS INTO OFFICE UPON HIS INAUGURATION MARCH 4.
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tit,. I Harry M. !: hrrfy trt Ohio, aMoraey general. No. 2 Andrew Mellon of Pennsylvania, secretary of treasury. No. 3 Warren G. Hording of Ohio, president-elect. No. 4 Henry Wallace of lows, secretary of sarrlcaltnre.
No. 5 lohn W. Weeks of Massachusetts, secretary of war. No. 6 Herbert Hoover of California, secretary of commerce. No. 1 A. B. Foil of New Mexico, secretary of Interior. No. 8 Edwin Denby ( Michigan, secretary of
auivy. No. Jsanes J. Ula of 1'eaurlTuls, secretary of labor. No 10 WIU H. Hays of lldius, postmaster-Keneral. No. 11 Charles Kvass Hughes of New York, secretary of atata.
With two bullet wounds in the head,
the body of an unidentified man, airVd
25 to 30, was discovered on the sum
mer camping grounds of Mrs. J. K.
Hoffman, on the Barnes road about
two miles west of the city limits, at
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon by girls
of the Chahcohyaa Campfire circle.
who were hiking over the hill under
the leadership of Mrs. A. H. Feldman,
1023 East Lincoln street.
The coroner's office was Immedi
ately notified, as well as the sheriffs
office and police bureau, and early
last night Deputy Sheriffs Christof
ferson and Schirmer, Police Inspectors
Mallet and Swennes and Deputy Cor
oner Goetsch went to the scene of
the probable murder, searched the se
cluded spot carefully and found traces
of what they believe to have been a
struggle to the death between the
murdered man and his assailant.
Body Beneath Fir Tree.
The body was found beneath a
large fir tree and about B0 feet from
the summer camp of Mrs. Hoffman,
owner of the apartment at 705 Davis
street To the rear of a tennis pa
vilion and Just a few feet from an
electric pump, frequently in use, it
was learned, the fight had apparently
taken place before the first shot put
an end to the battle.
The body was dressed In a blue
serge suit witu oiacK-aiia-wnue
striped shirt. The man is believed to
have been of the clerical class by
Deputy Coroner Uoetach, who said
that the murder had been committed
within the last three days. Judging
from the condition of the body.
One of the bullets had entered the
man's forehead and penetrated the
skull, while the other had entered
Just in back of the left ear and
emerged on the other side. Neither
of the two bullets was found, but
the belief of the sheriff's office, as
well as the police bureau, which is
aiding in search for the persons re
sponsible for the crime, is that they
were fired from a .38-callber auto
matic pistol.
Blood Serpsae Traced.
The body was reclining at full
length when discovered, the hat being
about 20 feet distant and In a small
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Went her.
TESTERDATS Maximum temperature,
AO degrees; minimum, 3H dvg-rrea.
TODAYS Rain; fresh southerly winds.
Foreign.
Montenerro-Serhis hoi war reported be
gun. Page 2.
Prussian landtag election Is menace to
German democracy. Page 4
National.
United States Insists on equal rights for
all under league mandates. Page 1.
Americans have wandered tar from Wash
ington's Ideals, says Kansas represen
tative. Page 3.
Help for ile.giaos urged by pre.ldenL
Page 2.
Labor seeks right to organise freely.
Page 6.
President Wilson says peace will be life
work. Page 1.
Japan gives way, practically settling Lang
don Incident. Pag 7.
Domes tic.
Harding decides on (ull cabinet make-up.
Pag 1.
Removal of Washington's body from
Mount Vernon npt to be permitted.
Page 1.
Legialatnres.
Districting fight Is finally settled by house.
Cage 1-
Blll giving motor Herns money to Port
land U defeated. Pag 6.
Senate passes bill asserting till for state
to dry lake lands. Pag 8.
Direct primary bill saved from sudden
death In Idaho senat. Page 6
Short and ugly word freely bandied by
Senators Joseph and Moser. Page 7.
Road bills to -drag to end of session.
Pag 7.
Senate passes all appropriation bills.
Pag 1.
Parlfle Northwest.
Municipal railway suit up today. Pag 5
Tapped telephone wire gives Seattle sheriff
startling evidence of Vic at iliac Cat
tavern. Pag 1.
bports.
Legion not fooling in boxing proposal.
Pag iz.
Card I completed for tonights boxing
show. Pag is.
Six basketball games remain in scholastic
league. Pag 11.
Commerelal and Marine.
Care ef hide surplus problem for north
western dealers, rag l.
Nawsco line to observa first anniversary of
its lutercoastai service, l ags 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland pays homage to Washington.
Page 11.
Hibernians, with aid of police, prevent
radical lectur la Ilibernla hail.
Pag 4.
Sods of Revolution would keep un-Ameri
can speakers out or scnools. Pais 9.
State to rest today In Lotisso s second
trial. Pag iu.
Party of eastern lumbermen touring
nortbwost au to arrlv la Port, an J
this morning. Pag IV.
Woman dry agent's prisoner acquitted In
liquor case, rag is.
B'nal B'rlth electa D. Soils Cohen head
Page 13.
Body Indicates murder in woods. Page 4.