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PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1921
PRICE KIVE CENTS
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ALLIES ADVICE
10 G ERM ANY
Indemnity Conference
Total Failure.
Is
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French Troops Already Are
Within Six Miles of City
of Dusseldorf.
BERLIN IS TO APPEAL CASE
Dr. Simons Declares League
of Nations Will Be Asked
to Settle Difficulties.
EERLIN, March 7. (By the As
sociated Press.) The first contin
gent of French troops assigned to
participate in the occupation of Dus
seldorf was reported to have arrived
at Benrath, six miles southeast of
Dusseldorf.
LONDON, March 7. (By the As
sociated Press.) Negotiations over
the German indemnity were broken
today; action comes tomorrow with
the march of French, British and
Belgian forces into Germany and
occupation of a large section of her
richest manufacturing country.
The penalties to be inflicted on
the Germans by the allies for non
compliance with the reparations de
mands will include:
Cities to Be Occupied.
Occupation of the cities of Duis
burg, Dusseldorf and, Kuhrort, in
' the German industrial area beyond
the Rhine, by the troops of the
allies.
Imposition by each allied country
of such a tax upon German imports
a3 it may deem fitting.
The establishment of a customs
boundary under allied eontrol along
the Rhine.
The territory to be occupied is in
the heart of the great industrial
region of the Ruhr valley with
Essen, city of steel and munitions,
its center.
All Commercial Ports.
The three cities are commercial
ports into which flow the traffic of
the Ruhr iron region. These cities
adjoin the British zone of 'occupa
tion at Cologne. The American zone
is at Coblenz, 75 miles farther south,
and the French zone at Mayencc,
another 75 miles south. The pro
posed occupation does not involve
inarching inland beyond the Rhine,
except in the immediate .vicinity of
the occupied cities.
Germany will appeal to the league
of nations against action of the
allies in imposing penalties for non
fulfillment of her reparations obli
gations. Dr. Simons in his reply to Mr.
Lloyd George said:
"Germany is not a member of the
league, but she has signed the pact
of the, league, and I therefore an
nounce an appeal to the assembly of
the league of nations against the
sanctions with which we are men
aced." Dr. Simons regretted that the
German proposals had been miscon
strued. Disadvantage Is Cited.
"For us, just as for you," he said,
"the advantage of a provisional set
tlement is Deyona aouDt. ifut we
have taken refuge to suJi a pro
visional settlement under the pres
sure of your ultimatum, which
forced us to come forward with def
inite proposals. We should have
preferred to put before you a plan
of total arrangement."
He explained that he had no sec
ond proposal. He had been charged
to ask for a brief delay to get in
touch with the Berlin cabinet, but
he added: "We were refused even
this short delay.".
"From this fact," he continued, "it
appears there is no foundation for
the fear that we should want to
make use of the provisional settle
ment to reach a revision of the
.treaty after five years.
German Efforts Viewed.
"On the contrary, the German na
tion has undertaken its obligation of
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SUPPORT OF ITALY IN
ADVANCE IS LACKING
DELEGATES' ATTITUDE IS
PROVED BY CABINET.
AP
Movement Against Germany Is Xot
Actively Backed, According
to Rome Xewspaper.
LONDON, March 7. The Roma cor-
respondent of the London Times to
day quoted the Epoca as saying: th
Italian cabinet Monday approved th
attitude of the Italian delegates. It
emphasized, however, that the active
support of Italy could not be counte
upon in the event of a movement
against Germany.
PARIS. March 7. (By the Asso
elated Press.) Decision of the Lon
don conference to impose penalties on
Germany was received with deep eat
isfaction in French official circles,
where it always has been contended
ssooner or later force would be neces
sary to bring: Germany to a proper
appreciation of her position.
Belief was expressed by officials
that the allies will have a better
chance for collecting the indemnity
from Germany with armies well with
in German territory, than they would
have through long- negotiations.
In official circles the action taken
today was regarded as vindication of
the "French point of view. It was
stated French officials always had
asserted that too much talk and too
little action -would serve only to
stiffen the backs of the Germans. It
was contended by officials that a dis
play of force . was the only thing
which would convince Germany that
the allies were determined to collect
a just Indemnity.
MANY GENERALS DEMOTED
Officers Above Bank of Major
Drop Back One Grade.
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 7.
Failure of the senate to confirm nom
ination promotions of army officers
above the rank of major resulted in
the demotion of 11 major-generals to
brigadier-generals, 22 brigadier-gen
erals to colonels, -57 colonels to lieu
tenant-colonels and 80 lieutenant
colonels to majors, the war depart
ment announced today.
The following major-generals
dropped back one grade:
J. W. McAndrew, J. L. Hines, Henry
T. Allen. David C. Shanks. Adelbert
Cronkhite. George W. Read, Omar
Bundy. William M. Wright, Charles
H. Muir, Charles T. Menoher and Will
iam G. Haan.
AMERIOAtf GSODS REFUSED
Exports to Uruguay Beportcd Dam
aged on Arrival.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, March 7.
Many merchants here have refused
to accept delivery of American goods
consigned to them because. Instead of
arriving boxed as requested, they
came In bales and many articles
were broken. In some cases legal
action against the American export
ers has been begun.
El Dia published photographs of
broken bales and declared the situ
ation should receive the attention of
the United States authorities.
"Such occurrences," it declared,
"lead to strained commercial rela
tions between the United States and
Uruguay."
EARRYMORES LIVE APART
Separation Agreement Report Is
Confirmed by Attorney.
NEW YORK. March 7. Counsel for
Ethel Barrymore today confirmed re
ports that she had separated from
her husband, Russell G. Colt.
He declared that a separation
agreement had been executed by the
Colts, who now were living apart in
accordance with its terms. Miss Bar
rymore retains the sole custody of
their three children, but provision is
made for their father visiting them.
REALTORS ST0RM CABINET
rretty Little Homes Are Offered
for $100,000 Upward.
WASHINGTON. D. C, March "I.
Job seekers besieging the new cabi
net officers were Joined today by real
estate men, all eager to provide nice.
comfortable homes for the newcomer!
Three honored Secretary Mellon,
armed with pretty pictures of homes
they thought he would like to buy,
ranging from $100,000 upward.
He didn't buy.
BIG BARGE GOES AGROUND
Crew of C S. Xavy Craft Reported
in Xced of Provisions.
NASSAU. Bahamas, March 7. The
tTnitpH States navv water barire '
No. n ran aground Friday on Man
o'War reef' at the north end of Cat
Is'and, while going to Guantanamo.
Cuba.
An officer of the barge arrived
Sunday and report id the remainder
of the crew i.i need of provisions.
LEIPSIC FAIR IS OPEN
Exhibitors Number 15,00 0
and
Visitors Total 100,000.
LEIPSIG. Germany, March 6. (By
the Associated Press.) The Lelpsic
fair was opened today with 15,000'
exhibitors and 100,000 visitors, more i
than half of whom were buyers rep
resenting 25 countries. There were
about 100 American buye.-s. The
Americans bought chiefly toys and I
novelties. -
The fair is the largest in 800 years.
IT
RED
CAIO
SWEEP PETHDEHAD
Kronstadt Is Bombarded
by Soviet Forces.
CITY REPROTED IN FLAMES
Operation of Railways Halts
Under Martial Law.
RESERVES BEING RUSHED
Bolshevik Reinforcements' ITom
Moscow on Way; Battle En
veloped by Fog.
HELSINGFORS, Finland, March 7.
(By the Associated Press ) 1 ne
revolutionaries have begun bombard
ing Petrograd and eoviet batteries at
Systerlek. Revonnea and Tarbovka
were bombarding- Kronstadt, said a
dispatch from Vlborff.
The fortress of Krasnoya Gorko,
the dispatch added, was participating
in the fight, but owing to the fog.
it was not known on which side.
It was stated that General Kozlov-
skl, rebel leader, sent an ultimatum
Friday ordering all communists to
leave Petrograd within three aays,
falling which the city would be
bombarded.
LONDON, March 7. The Central
News correspondent at Helslngfors
reported that many of the residential
and business quarters in Petrograd
were in flames.
Troops Sent to Petrograd.
The soviet government, the mes
sage continued, was aespatcning i
large number of troops from Moscow
to Petrorrad to assist in restoring
order. The Petrograd rebels, it was
added, were planning to extena xo
hese troops a friendly reception in
the hope of winning them over.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele
graph from Helsingfors said 7,000
men from Kronstadt were marching
on Petrograd. Tne soviej oiticiaio
have sent Chinese and other artll.lery
o meet them. Soviet troops tried to
get In contact with the rebels across
the Ice near a suburb, but the cruiser
Petropavlovsk shelled and routed
them.
A Warsaw dispatch to the Times
said a peasant revolt of unusual pro
portions was spreading in the govern
ments of Tambov, Voronezh and
Kursk under Antonoff, an ex-regimental'
commander of the red army.
ccordlng to General Savienkoff, head
f the former Russian political com
mittee here.
Antonofrs forces have seized Grjazl,
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HAINES BANK VAULT
. BLOWN BY ROBBERS
LOOT $2500 IX CURRENCY AD
LIBERTY BOXDS.
Safety Deposit Boxes Rifled and
Losses Will Run High, Say
Officials of Institution.
BAKER, Or., March 7. (Special.)
Robbers broke into the vault of the
bank of Haines this morning about
o'clock and made away with cash and
currency to the amount of S2S0O and
Liberty bonds to an unknown amount
The safe was untouched.
C. W. Wright, cashier, had received
the cash from the Citizens Nationa
bank- of Baker at a late hour Satur
day night and had not taken (be
trouble to open the safe, but had
placed it Inside the vault door. The
robbers blw the door from the vault
with dynamite, took the currency
y found and rifled safety deposit
bcxes of bonds and valuable papers.
Bank officials have been unaDle to
check up on the losses in the deposit
boxes, but it is believed they will run
high.
G. W. Vanderwall, Haines farmer,
reported the loss of $3700 in Liberty
bonds, and there are other bond hola-
ers with whom officials - nave ueen
unable to get in touch. '
Price Anderson, deputy sheriff, was
dispatched to the scene from Baker
but as vet no trace of the robbers
has been found. Two shots were, re
quired to open the vault, and the in
side of the bank was littered with
debris when the bank was opened
this morning.
This is the second time the bank
has been robbed within the last two
years.
FARM WAGE SCALES SET
$40 to $60 a Month Established in
Inland Empire. '
SPOKANE, Wash., March 7. Farm-
era of various sections of the inland
empire have met . nd established wage
scales averaging $30 a month for
spring farm hands, it was learned
to Jay' at the city employment office.
More than 100 farmers In the Har
rington wheat district voted to pay
150 a month for spring help, while at
Connell the wage was set at J45 to
$55 a month and In the Walla Walla
district $40 to $60 a month. The fig
ures include board and room.
Fifteen calls at the local office for
farm hands were filled this morning
and ten more requests for workers
were received. -The unemployment
situation has been relieved to such
an extent that many of the men are
refusing to accept the $45-a-montb
jobs.
RESTAURANT MEN WARNED
Dime Held Enough for Coffee and
Rolls or Pie in Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 7. The dime Is
a fair price for coffee and rolls or
pie, the council committee on the
cost of living announced today.
The committee is discussing an
ordinance making it a misdemeanor
for a restaurant to serve less than
one-fifth of a Pie to a customer.
ATHENS DECORATED
FOR ROYAL WEDDING
BOUMAXIAX PRIXCE AXD
GREEK PRIXCESS TO WED.
Many Costly Gifts Are Received by
Fair; 3Iinisters Are to Be
Ont of Town on Day.
ATHENS. March 7. Elaborate
preparations are being made for the
wedding Thursday of Crown Prince
Carol of Roumania and Princess
Helen of Greece. The city is be
flagged and illuminated in anticipa
tion of the visit of Queen Marie of
Roumania, Prince George of Greece,
and bis bride and other members of
the royal families of the two coun
tries who will arrive Wednesday.
Prince George of Greece and Prin
cess Elizabeth of Roumania were
married recently In Bucharest
The civil marriage ceremony will
be held at 10 A. M. Thursday and the
couple will ride In a gilded carriage
to the cathedral where the religious
ceremony will be performed.
Prince Carol and hie fiancee have
received many costly gifts, including
400,000 gold francs from parliament
and many elaborate costumes, laces
and embroideries.
To avoid embarrassment It was an
nounced today the allied ministers
will be out of town Thursday.
BRITISH CLAIM CONTESTED
American Company Seeks Wireless
Concession in China.
PEKIN, March 7. The United States
minister, Charles R. Crane, will hand
the government a statement today
informing It that the directorate of
the American Federal Wireless com
pany has ratified the agreement en
tered Into by iti representatives and
the Chinese minister of communica
tions for the erection of a high power
wireless plant at Shanghai.
The United States is virtually mak
ing this a test of the British claim
to a monopoly in wireless construe
tlon in China.
TOBACCO GROWERS REBEL
Plan to Curtail 1921 Crop in Ken
tucky Is Abandoned.
LEXLOTON. Ky March 7. Plans
lor curtailment of the 1921 crop of
burley tobacco were abandoned by
the Burley Tobacco Growers, asso
ciation at its annual meeting here
today.
The reason given was that It was
impossible to get SO per cent of the
growers . the district to sign the
pledge.
FILM MONOPOLY LOOMS
Belgium May Dominate Movies Be
cause of Tax Hostility.
BRUSSELS. March 7. The govern-
men plans to create a national mov-
nfe pic-tare organization to buy from
the producers and lease films to mov
ing picture theaters.
The decision Is the result of the
hostility of film concerns to the law
subjecting films to censorship and a
tax of one sou a meter.
fH
LAWMAKERS WILL
E
Harding to Call Special
Session Soon.
DINNER CONFERENCE HELD
Views of Party Leaders on
Various Problems Sought.
CABINET TO MEET 'TODAY
Turin, Taxation, Peace Resolution
and Disarmament, Probably
Topics to Be Discussed.
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 8.
President Harding announced early
today that the special session of con
gress would be called not before
April 4, and might be a week later.
The announcement was made after
a White House dinner which repub
lican leaders of congress attended.
The conference lasted four hours and
the president said thealegislative pro
gramme had been discussed.
The president said this was the be
ginning of a programme of co-opera
tion. Various subjects were dis
cussed, he a.$Jed, in an attempt to as
certain the most Important to be
taken up by the next congress.
It was exactly midnight when the
conference finally broke up.
After his guests had departed, the
president came out on the front por
tico of the White House to talk to
the newspaper correspondents, about
50 of whom were present.
Work Ins; Programme Aim.
"We discussed a taxation pro
gramme for the session," the presi
dent said
"We were trying to determine
which was the real pressing business
for congress, emergency tariff legis
lation or a complete revision of the
tax schedules.
We passed the matter up for further
conference after there had been a
canvass of the committees in charge
of that legislation. It means that in
stead of going into a session of con
gtess without knowing whither we
are going, we are trying to canVass
the whole situation and arrive at a
programme.
"This is the beginning of the pro
gramme of co-operation between the
president and congress. It is an early
step in the fulfillment of what I be
lieve the best policy of conducting the
government, bringing the fellows to
gether and getting them acquainted
with each other's views."
Army Casually Discussed.
The president said army and navy
natters had been discussed "vjry
casually." The failure ol tne appro
priations bill had been referred to, he
said, in considering what the special
session would have to handle.
Ratification of the Colombian
ticaty was mentioned, said the presi
dent, but he Indicated that there had
bten no decision.
Opposition to the re-enactment of
the Payne-Aldriuh tariff law as a
stop-gap measure until a new law
could be enacted developed at the
conference, according to some of
i loose aiicnaing.
Chairman Fordney of the house
nays and means committee, was said
to have laid before the conference
his plans for tariff revision and the
proposal to re-enact the Payne
Aldrlch law met with some opposi
tion from senators present.
Tariff Situation Muddled.
One member of the house said the
legislative situation in so far as it af
fected tariff revision was more
"muddled" to his mind- than It was
Lefore the conference. He referred
to differences between Chairman
Fordney and Representative Long
worth of Ohio, member of the ways
and means committee, over tariff re
vision, but whether these were aired
at the conference was not made
clear.
Chairman Fordney was said to have
presented an equalization tariff plan
to protect American industry de
signed to place foreign goods on the
American market on a par with the
wholesale prices of similar Ameri
can goods.
Harding's Hobby Disclose.
President Harding, beginning his
talk, filled with phrases common to
a printing plant, said he "could not
decline an assignment.",.
"1 have always had a reverent re
gard for these people of the press,"
be added, "and I confess I have a
higher one tonight than I ever had
before. 1 knew that those who make
the newspapers and journals were
exceedingly bright and ever alert and
I have lately come to know that they
know more than executives, congress
and cabinet put together."
Mr. Justice Day confessed to a
hobby for reading and read an article
on hobbies. Sir Auckland Oeddes
said his hobby was tramping In wild
places and .Madame Galli-Curcl gave
an illustration of her pet hoboy by
singing "the shadow song" and
"Home, Sweet Home."
Mr. Hoover talked of feeding hun
gry European children and General
Lejeune admitted that his hobby was
the United States marine corps.
HARDIXG'S HOBBY DISCLOSED
President Would Help i'ellow Who
Is Down and Out.
! WASHINGTON, D. C, March 7 In
a short talk ton'ght at the National
Concluded oa X'ase 2, Column
(MEN
II APRIL
IMMORALITY CHARGE
CAUSES HOUSE RIOT
WOMEX EMPLOYES DECLARED'
SLANDERED BY COURT.
Legislature Takes Steps Toward
Impeachment and Abolition
of District Court.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 7. In a
resolutlc declaring that "the splen
did body of young womanhood em
ployed aa clerks and stenographers
of the legislature had been basely
slandered" by John W. Wade, in In
structlonos to a grand Jury today to
Investigate the morals of the legis
lature, that body in a riotous session
called upon the Judge to prove his
charges or retract his statements and
started legislation to abolish his di
vision of circuit court
Resolutions declared Judge Wade
had given currency to "baseless ru
mors and Insinuations that . . . .
young women applicants for positions
with assembly were under the ne
cessity of compromising themselves
as preliminary to their employment."
The house read twice a bill which
would abolish the first division of the
Pulaski county circuit court. A com
mittee had been appointed to take
steps for Judge Wade's impeachment.
The resolution was adopted quietly
in the senate, but when Introduced in
the house the scenes became riotous.
Speakers stood on tables while they
hurled epithets at the- judge. Mem
bers clamored over chairs and desks
seeking recognition from the speaker
and added to the cheers which greeted
every anathema flung at the court
were showers of papers torn to bits
and thrown from the galleries or the
floor.
Word of the stormy session reached
the senate and that body recessed to
permit members to visit the lower
house.
HOOVER CLASSIFIES BEARS
Secretary Advocates More Scien
tiflc Grouping of Bureaus.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 7.
Division of authority among govern
mental departments and bureaus ex
tends even to the bears of the United
States, Secretary Hoover declared to
night In an address before the Na
tional Press club.
"The polar bears are under the de
partment of commerce; the grizzly
bears are under the department of
the interior and the brown bears are
under the department of agriculture,
he said, and added 'that he had
growing conviction that there should
be a more scientific grouping of bu
reaus.
VIVIANI SPECIAL ENVOY
Ex-Premlcr of Erance to relicitatc
Harding and Discuss Issues,
PARIS. March 7. (By the Associat
ed Press.) Rene Vivianl, ex-premier,
will sail for the United States on
March 19, on an official mission from
the French government to President
Harding to extend felicitations of the
government and reaffirm its friend
ship. ,
It was understood he will discuss
outstanding questions, the most prom
inent of which is the French Indebt
edness to the United States.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather,
YBPTKRPAT'S Maximum temperature.
54 dnBrii'.n; minimum. 44 degrees.
TOUAT'S Fair; northwesterly winds.
Forrlfn.
Allien ccln advance further Into Ger
many. Pace 1.
Anti-red armie. bombard Petrograd.
Page 1.
Athena decorated for weddtnf of Greek
princes and Roumanian prince. PaKe 1.
Italy's active support Is withheld from
further German occupation. Paire 1.
Secret consistory is an imposing affair.
Page 4.
National.
Northwest senators aim high In seeking
committer appolntmenta. Page S.
Friends of General Pershing urge him aa
active head of army, page .
Costa Rica orders withdrawal of Its forces
from disputed territory, rage
President announces special session will
be called early In April. Pago 1.
Japan's mandate over Tap has reservation.
Page 2.
Domestic.
Dispatchers say they are overworked and
passengers uvea piacea in uanger.
Page 7.
Court'a charges of Immorality causes
stormy scene in Arkansas house. Page 1.
General Wood detailed by president to
make atudy ot Philippines. Page 8.
Supreme court suatalna Burleson In with
drawing mailing privilege from Mil
waukee Leader. Page 6.
Pacific Northwest.
Robbers blow open vault of Bank of
Haines. Page 1.
Appropriation bills In Washington legls
lature psomlse
Page 14.
to break all record.
Jce North, notorious Victoria citizen, often
in jail, elected yuim vuiuuuaaiuocr.
Page 14.
v.,. Df accused woman at Medford In
hands of Jury. Page 7.
Sports.
Duffy-Murphy bout is being negotiated as
main event of March 17 card. Page 13.
Canadian vets suffer second defeat at soc
cer this season. Page 12.
Marty Krug doped to Join outlaws.
Page 12.
Boxing proposal rejected by legion.
Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
Hop growers want higher tariff on im
ported hops. Page 21.
Chicago wheat lower with prospect of re
duced exports to Germany. Page 20.
Stock selling heavy aa result of allies'
action. Page -1.
Joseph N. Teal reviews work of shipping
board. Page 20.
Portland destined to become greatest out
let to orient and principal Pacific
cuast port. Page 20.
Four ships will carry Portland flour to
Europe. Page 20.
Portland and Vicinity.
Yamhill county asks J3O.UU0 road loan.
Page 22.
New board of motion picture censors out
lines rigid policy. Page 10.
Revenue officer is on trial for man
slaughter. Page 11.
Woodburn murder auapect captured here.
Page 1.
Jchn Bruno retracts atory that woman was
present when he killed Harry 1. O.
Pawluk. Page u.
Dark plot to kill teachers' tenure charged.
4a
LVOODB URN KILLING
SUSPECT IS JAILED
Harry Staben Is Captured
in Portland.
GUILT REPEATEDLY DENIED
Youth Convicted of Theft by
Yoder's Testimony.
REVENGE THEORY IS HELD
"Dutch Wilson, Pal of Prisoner,
Also Arrested at Oregon Cily,
but Is Later Released.
Harry Staben, suspected of being
implicated in the murder of S. J.
Voder, Woodburn garage man. early
Sunday morning, was arrested in
Portland yesterday afternoon and po
lice and deputy sheriffs then centered
their activities in an effort to cap
ture ""Dutch" Wilson, known pal of
Staben and suspected of being impli
cated in the brutal slaying of the
Woodburn man.
When Wilson was arrested by Con
stable Fortune at Oregon City last
night, however, and Chief Bovcy of
the Woodburn police was notified of
the catch, Bovey Issued orders to re
lease Wilson. Bovey refused to give
any reason for ordering the release
other than to say, "I did not want
him."
Stabra Held AH to Blame.
Local offlcals who had been watch
ing developments were of the opinion
that Stabon was believed to be solely
responsible for the murder, although
he protested that he had not been
in Woodburn for three months and
had passed Saturday night in Port
land. Staben was arrested at Fourth and
Madison streets by Deputy Sheriff
Mollenhour, ,
The deputy recognized Staben as he
was passing on the street, having ar
rested the boy more than a year ago
for the theft of an automobile and
tires from Toder'a garage. If he was
implicated in the murder at Woodburn
Saturday night revenge was his mo
tive, said investigators.
Prisoner Offers Alibi.
Although Staben insisted that ha
was in Portland Saturday night and
suid he could prove a complete and
!.atlsfactory alibi, Deputy Sheriff
Morelock and Chief of Police Moffitt
of Salem said that three reputable
Woodburn citizens - saw Staben at
Woodburn Saturday night a short
time before Yodcr was murdered.
Staben was sent to Jail on the testi
mony of Mr. Yodcr and a Miss Alice
Skeen of Woodburn. According to
Chief of Tollce Moffitt, Woodburn
residents saw Staben watching the
Skeen home during the early part of
Saturday night. Their theory was
tha'. he had Intended killing both the
girl and Yodcr.
If Staben was Implicated in the
murder, he at least was not the man
who rented the automobile from Vo
der, The theory of the Salem officers
was that another man, not known to
Yoder, rented the machine, procured
Yoder's services as a driver, and
drove with Yodcr down to the cross
roads, where the murderer lay in wait
and climbed Into the machine.
Itevrnge Theory Advanced.
The revenge theory was held to be
the most plausible one yet advanced,
bee a sum of money In Yoder's
poc- Jremained untouched, thus dis-
creu, jig tne roDDery tueory.
ATl. Lawson, a Portland resident.
reported to the police detective bureau
yesterday that he picked up a young
man wearing a khaki uniform and
khaki leggings shortly after noon
Saturday and carried him as far aa
Aurora. He picked up his unidenti
fied passenger near Canby.
During the ride between Canby
and Aurora, Mr. Lawson was telling
his passenger about the Salem auto
stages and about how he had once
brought some passengers Into town
when an auto stage broke down.
This was the story which Yoder's
murderer gave when he hired the
automobile in Woodburn late Satur
day night. In view of this fact, the
police detectives believed that Yoder's
slayer was the man whom Mr. Law-
son took as far as Aurora. This pas
senger told him he was going to
Salem. The man who rented the
Yoder machine also said he was going 1
to Salem and might possibly come to
Portland later In the night.
Ccreful Investigation! Blade.
Deputy sheriffs a-d police detect
ives made a careful investigation at
Vancouver and the army barracks,
but there was nothing to Indicate
that the slayer might have been a
soldier, they said yestcrc'ay. They
made a careful check on all soldiers
who were away from the barracks
Saturday night, but no clew was ob
tained which might aid in apprehend,
ing the murderer or mur. rers. '
Deputy Sheriff Morelock said that
as soon as he heard that Yodcr ha,
been murdered Saturday night his
suspicions were directed toward Sta
ben. Thei., when he learned that
Staben had been seen in Woodburn
that 'night, ho and other Salem offi
cers directed their entire efforts to
vi -.rd apprehending the ex-convict.
Staben, It was said, had threatened
Yoder's life because tne latter had
procured his conviction as a tire thief.
"Before God, I swear I never killed
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