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PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
U.S. AID OFFERED
TO AVERT STRIKE
BLOCK AT ASTORIA
SENATE CONFIRMS
HARDING'S NOMINEES
BROKER IS ACQUITTED
OF FORGERY CHARGE
JAT E. HOUGH OF SPOKANE
WINS IN FIRST TRIAL.
DEFENDANT SETS
STAGE FOR JURY
14 NEGROES REPORTED
SHOT IN RACE RIOT
EX-
OF
DESTROYED BY FIRE
NEW GERMAN CITY
JUGGL
$38,000 DAMAGE CAUSED BT
BIG BLAZE.
PRESIDENT FORWARDS NEAR
LY SCORE MORE XAMESl
TROOPS RCSHED TO . QCIET
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.
SEIZED BY ALLIES
Oberhausen, 6 Miles East
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Packers and Unions Get
Davis' Telegrams.
PRESIDENT IS AT CONFERENCE
Secretary of Labor Asks Two
Arbiters Each.
DEPARTMENT TO HELP
Attempt to Readjust Dispute Xow
Threatening Nation-Wide Walk
out Is to Be Made.
WASHINGTON. D. C. March 11.
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- x.io eciiacs ui Lite uctrai iiiiliil v.
labor in settlement of the controversy
. between packing house employes and
toe packing- concerns growing out of
proposed wage reductions were of
fered in telegrams sent tonight to the
unions and packers by Secretary of
Labor Davis. y ,
Secretary Davis, -who dispatched
the telegrams after a conference with
President Harding, also requested the
packers and the employes each to
designate two representatives, to meet
with department of labor agents in
an attempt to readjust the dispute
which threatens to develop Into a
strike.
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Lack of Wind Helps Firemen In
Gaining Control Auto Across
Street Set Aflame.
ASTORIA. Or., March 11. (Special.)
The worst Astoria fire in several
months for a time threatened to de
velop into a serious conflagration at
4 o'clock this afternoon and, before it
was brought under control, had de
stroyed the Hawes business block at
Eleventh and Bond streets, causing a
loss of approximately $30,000.
The blaze was caused by the range
in the Andrew cafe and soon spread
to the entire structure. The beat was
so great that a touring, car on the
opposite side of the street caught lire,
its top and upholstering beingj de
stroyed. The fact that there was no wind at
the time helped firemen confine the
blaze to the one building. The build
ing, which occupied a quarter of a
block, was owned by Mrs. A. E.
Hawes. who resided on the second or
upper floor. It wa. a frame structure,
built a number of years ago, and val
ued at about 120.000. It was prac
tically a total loss with but a small
amount of Insurance. The other losses
were:
Mrs. Hawes, household effects,
$1000; Andrew Cetina. restaurant.
$3000r Auto Marine company. $1500;
Bert Endicott, barber shop, $1000;
Owl shine parlors, $600; Ivar Samuel
son, shoe shop, $1200; Joe Endicott,
pool room, $1000.
Some of the stocks of goods In ad
joining buildings were slightly dam
aged by smoke and water.
of Ruhrort, Taken.
CUSTOMS POLICY IS ' FIXED
American Army Neither to
Help Nor . Hinder Work.
NO CHANGE AUTHORIZED
Commander of Force on INiine
Says Orders of Commission
.Will Be Followed.
WILSON ENTERTAINS TWO
Services Are Offered.
The telegram sent to Denis Lane,
secretary of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
North America at Chicago, which was
practically Identical In text with the
one sent the five big packers, follows:
"The federal government is deeply
concerned about the maintenance of
industrial activities in fullest under
standing and hopes there will be no
Interruption of the continuity of em
ployment In the great packing indus
tries. If the department of labor can
' be helpful in promoting understand
ing and can aid in any way to avoid
the cessation of operations, such
services by this department will be
Sven most gladly.
Kmployrrs' Request Similar.
"The whole problem of industrial
readjustment is of such widespread
public concern that the department of
labor, with" the knowledge of the
departments of agriculture and com
merce, requests that two representa
tives of labor engaged in the packing
Industry will report to this depart
ment to make possible such inquiry
Into the situation as may prove help
ful In leading to a just and satisfac
tory solution.
"I am sending a like request to the
employers and am acquainting them
with this request to you. Surely there
must be a Just solution, and the good
offices of this department are ten
dered in the hope of finding that so
lution so essential to the promotion
of the common good."
Ioy Is Streauona One.
Sending of the telegram followed a
day of strenuous work for the new
secretary in an effort to forestall the
first big strike threatened since the
new administration assumed office. ! darkness and fired four or five times
The action of Secretary Davis was J with a pistol at a distance of four
understood to have been taken with 1 feet.
the full sanction of President Hard-' The cries of Mrs. Hallen as she
ing. A memorandum left at the White I sank wounded beside her husband
House yesterday by Frank Morrison,' brought her father and mother from
secretary of the American Federation' their home, a few doors distant.
of Labor, was referred to Secretary
Baruch and Davis Take Dinner at
Home of ex-President.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 11.
Woodrow Wilson rounded out the
first week of his return to private life
tonight with a private dinner at which
B. M. Baruch of New York and Nor
man H. Davis, former Under-Secretary
of state, who has been retained in
the Harding administration as the
American member of the international
communications conference,, were
ruests It was said to signalize Mr.
Wilson's intention to keep in touch
with men and affairs.
The ex-president, it is said, ,1s now
fully established in his new home and
has suffered no setback in health. His
principal household diiflculty. his
friends report, has been to find room
in his new house for hia library of
some 8000 volume.
Mr. Wilson spends some part of
every day dictating to a stenographer,
attempting to dispose of a heavy cor
respondence, and, with Mrs. Wilson,
frequently takes motor drives In the
afternoon.
TACOMA MAN IS SLAIN
I'nldentificd Person Kills Harry E.
Hallen and Wounds Wife.
TACOMA. Wash., March 11. Harry
E. Hallen, 27, assistant superintend
ent of the Griffin Wheel company
he s was shot and almost instantly
killed and his -wife wounded twice
t .light by an unidentified man as
tho Hallens were approaching their
home.
Mrs. Hallen at a local hospital to
night could ascribe no reason for any
one seeking the life of her husband
or herself. The murderer, she said,
stood behind a telegraph pole in the
LONDON. , March 11. Oberhausen,
six miles east of Ruhrort and seven
miles northwest of Essen, has been
entered by the allies, according to a
central Aews aispmcii " x
Entry was made without incident.
FRENCH MILITARY HEADQUAR
TERS. Mayence, March 11. (By tho
Associated Press.) Major - General
Henry T. Allen, commander of the
American forces of occupation, will
follow the same policy regarding the
collection of customs along the
Rhine as on other problems connected
with the occupation, making the de
cisions of the Rhineland commission
his orders to his army, according to
information received here from Cob
lenz today.
General Allen, it was stated, wan
awaiting notification of the commis
sion's decisions.
WASHINGTON, March 11. (By the
Associated Press.) American forces
on the Rhine will take no part In
the collection of customs, but no ob
jection will be made to auoh. actiou
by the allies within the territory oc
cupied by them, it was learned Joday
at the state department.
No change in the status ot the
American force or Its role has been
authorized, but it was officially
stated that no obstacles would be
placed in the way of the allies in
carrying out their newly adopted
policy.
SIMONS BITTERLY SCORED
Ex-Secretary Hclfferick Resents
Offer Made at Conference.
BERLIN, March 11. Dr. Karl Helf
ferich, ex-so'etary of the treasury,
criticized Dr. Simons, the foreign min
ister, in the most violent terms at
Thursday's meeting of the foreign af
fairs committee! of the relchstag for
offering at the London reparations
conference to accept annuities for five
years, said the Vossische Zeitung to
day in giving details of the meeting.
Dr. Simons admitted that in making
D. K. Crlssinger of Marion, O., Is
Appointed as .Controller
of Currency. '
(Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 11.
Nearly a score of nominations were
sent by President Harding today to
the senate, which in turn confirmed
a number.
Possibility that the special session
of the senate, called to act on presi
dential nominations, might not end
tomorrow as 'has been expected was
indicated today by Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, republican leader, after
a conference with President Harding.
Senator Lodge said leaders would
not consent to a final adjournmen
until all matters on the calendar had
been disposed of. There was no an
nouncement from the White House to
day as to the date for the convening
of the special session of congress.
Nominations confirmed by the sen
ate today were:
D. R. Crissinger of Marlon, O., to
be controller of the currency.
Fred Morris Dearing of Missouri, to
be assistant secretary of state.
Elmer D. Ball, reappointed assist
ant secretary of agriculture.
William J. Keville of Boston, to be
United States marshal for the district
of Massachusetts.
William S. Culbertson of Kansas,
reappointed to the tariff commission.
Captain Charles B. McVay Jr., to be
chief of the navy bureau of ordnance.
with the rank of rear-admiral.
Ernest Lester Jones of Virginia, re
appointed as director of the coast
geodetic survey.
Ex-Representative John J. Esch of
Wisconsin and Mark W. Potter of New
York were nominated to the inter
state commerce commission and their
names were reported favorably, but
final action waa not taken.
Other nominations sent to the sen
ate today by President Harding but
not acted on included:
William H. Joyce of Los Angeles,
renominated to the federal futm loan
board, and Clarence C. Chase of New
Mexico, to be collector of customs for
district 24; Colonel Gustav Lukesh,
for membership on the Mississippi
river commission; Chaplain John
Thomas Actonto, to be chief of chap
lains of the army, with rank of colo
nel, and Medical Director Edward K.
Stitt, to be surgeon-general of the
navy. '
Smedley D. Butler, Logan Feland
and Harry Lee were renominated to
their present rank- of brigadier-general
in the marine corps.
Defendant, Alleged to Have Sold
Forged Securities, Is Scored FlimitUre AgeC! 3S It
Dy prosecuting lawyer.
SPOKANE, Wash., March 11. (Spe
cial.) Jay E. Hough, junior member
of the defunct bond brokerage house
of Milholland .& Hough, was acquit
ted today in the superior court of the
first-degree forgery charge. Involving
$100,000 worth of Liberty county, Mon
tana, bonds. The firm was alleged to
have sold spurious securities to James
F. Callahan of Wallace, Idaho.
The case has been on trial all t
week, in the superior court. In his
closing speech Prosecutor Meyer
branded the defendant as a faker and
a liar and declared that the Colonel
Squires letter, ordering' a seal from
the Spokane Stamp works, was a con
coction by Hough to complete a link
in the chain of his defense.
Hough will go to trial next Monday
morning on a similar charge, but on
an information charging him with
forging a Teal irrigation district bond.
Hough's partner .committed suicide
when the alleged crime was disclosed.
Hough was returned to the jail fol
lowing rendering .of the verdict to
await trial for forgery of three other
bond issues, which the defunct firm of
Milholland & Hough, of which Hough I
Was Fatal Night.
SHOOTING SCENE IS VISITED
Both Hamon and Girl De
clared Doomed by Disease.
DYING STATEMENT CITED
Doctors Say Victim Blamed His
Companion for Shooting and
Other Quarrels Recalled.
ARDMORE, Okla., March 11. Clara
Smith Hamon, on trial her.e charged
with the murder of Jake L. Hamon
tOdaV returned tn th hnfM rnnrns or-
was junior partner. Is said to hava j cupied by herself and Mr. Hamon and
sold to Mr. Callahan,
Mr. Callahan is declared to have
lost approximately $400,000 through
the sale to him by MilhollanI &
Hough of forgtd securities.
Testimony of Hough at the trial.
In the presence of the jury re
arranged the furniture as it was on
the night of the shooting.
Interest was intense when Dr. Wal
ter Hardy under cross-examination
said that Hamon was suffering from
which began last Monday, tended to cirrhosis of the liver when he was
show that only under death threats
of John B. Milholland, his partner, did
he forge the bonds. Hough declared
that on two occasions Milholland
threatened his life if he would not
sign them.
Trial of Hough on the three forgery
charges still pending against him will
begin at the next term of court, it
was announced. The date of the
court's reconvening Is not known.
EX-EMPRESS IN RELAPSE
Information of Brother's Death
Brings on Heart Attack.
DOORN, Holland, March 11. When
ex-Empress Augusta Victoria of
Germany was apprised today of the
death of her brother, Duke Ernst
Gunther of Schleswig-Holsteln, she
suffered another severe heart attack.
The physicians attending the ex
empress considered her condition at
the time of the duke's death, late in
February, too serious to permit her
to be informed of it.
FOUR IRISHMEN TO HANG
Scute nee of Firth Young Man Com
muted to Imprisonment.
DUBLIN, March 11. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Five young men
Bernard Ryan, Patrick Boyle, Thomas
Bryan, Frank Flood and Dermott
O'Sullivan have been sentenced to
death by hanging by courtmartiai
after conviction of high treason in
carrying on war against the king.
The trials were connected with the
ambuscade at Drumcondra in Feb
ruary.'. . The viceroy has commuted the sen
tence of O'Sullivan to life servitude
on account of his youth. O'Sullivan
is only 17 years old.
FRITZI IS AGAIN FREED
For Third Time Comic Opera Star
Wins Divorce Decree.
WATERBURY, 'Conn.. March 11.
Fritzi Scheff Anderson, comic opera
star, was granted a divorce today.
Her husband did not contest the case.
This makes her third divorce.
IT MIGHT BE WELL TO HAVE A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION FIRSTA
Davis, who familiarized himself with
the situation before attending the
cabinet meeting at 11 o'clock.
Another Conference Held.
The matter was discussed at the
cabinet meeting and this afternoon
the president placed the entire mat
ter in the secretary's hands.
Secretary Davis later conferred with
Secretaries Wallace and Hoover.
Before going into the cabinet meet
ing. Mr. Davis said he believed "it is
the duty of the department of labor
to do all it can to assist In avoiding
a strike," and in making public' the
telegrams tonight Mr. Davis declared
the situation was serious and Justi
fied eWry possible effort to avoid an
actual strike.
SIOUX FALLS. S. D.. March 11.
Sheriff Shanks and four deputies
broke up what appeared to be a riot
at the John Morrell Packing com
pany plant this afternoon when
ctrike sympathizers and strikebreak
ers clashed at quitting time.
Both crowds had previously been
searched, but according to reports
several of the strikebreakers sue-
ARMY LIST AGAIN FILED
Promotions Sent to Senate Lately
Will Be Returned.
WASHINGTON, March 11. Secre
tary Weeks has sent to the president
for transmission to the senate a long
list of junior army officers for pro
motion to grades up to and Including
captain, identical with the list sub
mitted by President Wilson, which
failed,of confirmation on objection of
Senator McKellar, democrat. Ten
nessee. The promotions were made in ac
cordance with the law. Secretary
Weeks said - today, and could be
changed only if the law were
changed.
SEA BABE NAMED HARDING
Boy Born on Voyage Christened In
Honor of President.
NEW YORK. March 11. The first
bov born at sea and named for Prcs-
ceeded In getting out of the plant ,,,, Hardin reached America today
on the steamer Santa Marta, where
he made his appearance inauguration
day.
He was accompanied by his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. James Dougherty
of Brooklyn, who sailed from Colon
oa March 3.
with 'guns.
CHICAGO. March 11. Belief that
President Harding would find a way
to avert a strike of stockyard work
ers ' was expressed today by Dennis
Lane, secretary of the Amalgamated
Order of Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North. America, when
Informed that the matter had been
brought before the president at a
cabinet meeting In Washington, D. C.
Tere was no letup in the prepara
tions for a possible strike, however,
and Mr. Lane reiterated his belief
that the men would vote to strike if
the wage cuts and changes in work
ing hours announced by the packers
were put Into effect.
OMAMA, Marcli 11. Members of
the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen's union toaay were
under instructions to go to work the out a hitch, and he was the proudest
iCuucuueti oa rt 2. Comma S.J PUP in Wahintfton In consequent.).
LADDIE BOY IN NEW JOB
White House Airedale Carries Pa
pers to President.
WASHINGTON, March 11. "Laddi!
Boy" qualified as White House mes
senger as well as mascot today, car
rying the morning papers to Presi
dent Harding at the breakfast table.
The Airedale has been working on
the "stunt" several days, but this was
the first time he got through it with-
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operated on for the bullet wound and
could not have lived two years longer;
that Clara Smith Hamon herself Is
suffering from a serious malady from
which she probably cannot recover
and Introduction through Dr. Hardy
of Hamon's alleged dying statement
in which he said, referring to Clara
Hamon, 'That is the woman who did
the business. She got me while' 1
was lying on the bed just about as I
am now."
Purchase of Pistol Related.
Through W. W. Meyers, an Okla
homa City hardware .salesman, the
state introduced testimony that Clara
Hamon had, under the name Clara B.
Smith, purchased the pistol exhibited
in court as the" one from which the
fatal bullet was fired. Dr. E. C Sar
low, an Ardmore eye specialist, told
the jury he had seen Clara Hamon
with a similar weapon a few days
before the shooting.
Mike Gorman, active vice-president
of a bank in Ardmore, testified he
also had seen Clara Hamon in Jake
Hamon's office with what appeared
to be a small pistol pressed close to
her employer's side. Mr. Gorman
said the incident occurred in 1815
and that Clara Hamon ran when he
approached.
Kelly M. Roach of Oklahoma City
testified that on the evening Mr.
Hamon was shot he had delivered to
him a life insurance policy for $200,
00 and had taken two drinks of
whisky, which Mr. Hamon had there.
Self-Uefrnoe to Be I'rgrd.
He denied Hamon was Intoxicated,
the defense pressing hard on that
subject. The defense counsel has in
dicated it would attempt to prove that i
Hamon was shot while making an
attack on ClaraHamon while he was
intoxicated.
In his opening Katement the prose
cutor said the woman had maintained
illicit relations with Hamon for years;
that she had quarreled frequently
with him, and five years ago had
threatened to shoot him. Two weeks
before the shooting, the prosecutor
asserted, she had purchased a pistol
when Hamon announced his intention
of leaving her, becoming a church
member and devoting himself to his
family.
Several witnesses were introduced
by the state after the opening state
ment. Clara Blamed, Hays Doctor.
Wounding of Policeman Causes
Outbreak Attack on White
Child Starts Excitement.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, March 12.
Fourteen negroes were reported to
have been shot in race rioting which
broke out here late last night, follow
ing the shooting of a policeman by
a negro who was being searched for
firearms.
The rioting- was an indirect result
of an attack by a negro last Monday
on 11-year-old Marge Ferneau.
All of the victims were said to
have been injured In the fighting In
the Yellow Springs street district,
where, within a short time after the
trouble started, large crowds were
milling about the streets and heavy
firing had started.
State officials immediately ordered
out the entire fourth regiment, Ohio
national guard, and troops wers
rushed- to Sprlngrfirfcl from nearby
cities by railroad, traction and au
tomobile trucks. Officials announced
that the city would be placed undvr
military control as soon as the troops
arrived.
Both negroes and officers took po
sitions behind trees and buildings,
firing at each other with the scant aid
of nearby street lights.
Police arrested a white man whose
name could not be learned, who was
scattering dynamite Just outside the
negro section.
At 1:20 o'clock a local national
guard company with a machine gun
mounted on a motorcycle went to
Euclid avenue, where it was reported
a band of negroes had formed and
was marching into the city.
The first contingent of national
guard troops arrived here shortly
after 2 o'clock, and Immediately
mounted machine guns around the
Clark county jail.
At 1:30 o'clock this morning the
firing had ceased and the city was
reported quiet. Large crowds of
whites which had been on the streets
early in the evening had been dis
banded by the police. At one time
the crowd made a move toward the
city hall and the jail, but was
broken up.
Mayor Westcott ordered all busi
ness houses to remain closed Satur
day. Citizens were ordered not to
carry firearms.
Patrolman Ryan will recover, it
waa said.
Police declared the situation could
be keit under oontrol with the addi
tional troops. Many negroes have left
the city.
Charges Against Auto
Dealer Sensational.
B.M. COLLINS TRIAL CLOSES
Jury to Get Jacksonville Case
Some Time Today.
W. H. JOHNSON ON STAND
Request by Defendant for Iuls
Oath on Payment of Notes Is
Alleged In Court.
Briand Returns to Paris.
PARIS, March 11. M. Briand re
turned to Paris from London this eve
ning scores of officials and cheering
crowds' greeting him at the station:
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Dr. Walter Hardy, proprietor of the
sanitarium to which Hamon went
when shot, was called. He said Mr.
Hamon came to his sanitarium, pale
faced, and threw his arms around the
doctor and kissed him on the fore
head. "I'm shot," Mr. Hamon replied to a
question. Dr. Hardy said, "by Clara
Smith, I told you she would do it.
I am going to die. I am weak and
I want to go to bed."
Dr. Hardy said he immediately
took Hamon to the elevator, upstairs
and to bed.
"Doctor, take my right hand. " I
want you to promise me you "never
will reveal how I was shot except in
open court," Dr. Hardy quoted Hamon
as saying.
Bloody Clothea Dixpla'yed.
Dr. Hardy said he undressed Mr.
Hamon. As Attorney-General Freeling
displayed the bloody underclothing
Hamon wore and a gown he was
placed In at the hospital, both Mrs.
Jake Hamon and Clara wept into
their handkerchiefs, the widow aloud.
Attorney-General Freeling asked
that court be suspended for a tew
minutes while the Jury examined the
garments. The defense objected and
was overruled.
Mrs. Jake Hamon was unable to
compose herself and her son ledger,
sobbing, from the courtroom.
It was the first time Mrs. Jake
Hamon had seen the garments. Pre
vious statements by Hamon's friends
had indicated they had been burned
to keep the widow from seeing them.
VUlt of Girl Brief.
Dr. Hardy said after the operation
Hamon rallied and had the use of his
faculties.
He said Clara Hamon came to the
hospital end was permitted to see
Hamon alone.
"She did not stay more than two
minutes, maybe three." Dr. Hardy
i.nid. After Clara left. Dr. Hardy ald
' iConcluded oo i'au 7, Column
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S ITlfrhest temperature, 48
desreeis: lowest, 38; cloudy.
TODAY'S Occasional rain, continued cold.
northerly winds.
Foreign.
New German city I seized by al.its.
Paee 1.
War wltn Franco Is German prediction,
Page .
Captain Twohy' telln of feat" of secret
service men in war iime. r .i.
Pctrograd all day utidcr terrific fire from
Kronstadt fortress. Tae 2.
National.
Senate confirms Hardlnff's nominees.
PBe 1.
Industry in ireneral U considering pay
cuts. Page 2.
United States mediation offered to prevent
packer's strike. Fa(?e 1.
William J. Burns, famous detective, to
head federal secret service. Page 4.
Wilson's historians take varied angles.
Page 4.
Columbia basin rate war revived by Wash
ington. Page 3. :
Chairman Benson asked to keep job.
Page 6.
Pacific Northwest.
Block at Astoria destroyed in $30,000 fire.
Page 1.
Broker Is acquitted ot forgery charge.
Page 1.
Recent legislature makes changes In
schedule of benems under woramen a
compensation law. Page C.
Defense In Dunn case clings to theory
that girl who accused teacher wanted
to escape cJasaes. Page o.
Ex-President Johnson admits Juggling
Jacksonville bank's funds. Page 1.
Domestic.
Railway wage cut is attacked by unions.
Pago S.
Matron to desert youthful husband. Page 5.
Clara Hamon arranges furniture of hotel
rooms as It was on night Jake Hamon
was fatally shot Page 1.
Race rioting breaks out In Springfield.
Mass. Page 1.
Witness In divorce trial recalls Mrs. Stokes
Carmen-like pose in studio. Page 6.
Stones are money In Island of Yap. Page 2.
Sports.
Walter McCredle touch oa budding
Page 1
Beavers.
Seattle aquatic coacu ,,wr ... ro.iu. handed Johnson a check for
x age j..
Dave shade's victory over Jimmy 8torey
In Tacoma, Wash., raises hia stock in
Portland. Page 13.
McMlnnvlIle. Baker and Salem l.igh school
basketball teams win. rage i.
Commercial and Marine.
Wool shearing begins in northwest with
no buyers in field. Page SI.
Export buyers take advantage of wheat
prlco slump at Chicago. Page 21.
Stock welling ' is heavy with further
decl'nes Page 21.
Port of Portland commission will float
bond issue of $WJ0.000. Page 15.
Portland and Vicinity.
Good-will delegation of chambers of com
merce of Mexico visits Portland. Page 8.
Nation-wide investigation of telephone
company is suggested by Mr. La Koche.
Page 7.
Agreement to keep taxes down for three
years proposed by Herbert Gordon,
Page 8.
Multnomah delegation to reply to Hume's
tenure charges tonight. Page H.
Wonderful labor - sawing preparations
evolved for busy housewives. Page 9.
Stock of nitroglycerine and yeggmen's
tools found in SL Johns room and two
men arrested as suspected safe-blowera
Page ii.
Committee forms to finance Improvement
of Crater lake as great tourist attrac
tion. Page j
Road commission anxious to speed con-1
ntructton of scenio Mount Hood loop.
1'as
MEDFORD, Or., March 11. (Spe
cial.) After a day full of sensational
testimony on the part of tho state,
including the admissions of wrong
coing by William H. Johnson, ex
president and cashier of the wrecked
bank of Jacksonville, the case against
Benjamin M. Collins. Grants Pasa
automobile dealer, ex-clty clerk of
Medford and ex-cashier of the bank,
will go 'nto the Jury's hands Satur
day morning, following the court's
charge. The closing arguments had
been completed when court adjourned
late this afternoon.
Collins, who is being tried on a
charge of aiding and abetting a cash
ier to defraud a bank, took the stand
this afternoon and challenged the
testimony of Johnson and other state
evidence. It was expected that the
jury will take considerable tme in
its deliberations.
Records Declared Withheld.
Gus Newbury, attorney for the de
fense, asserted the state had failed to
produce all the records in the case.
The courtroom spectators gasped
with astonishment when William H.
Johnson, on the witness stand for the
state, testified tn part as follows:
"On October 17, shortly after the
bank was closed, Collins came to see
me In the county Jail and after a short
conversation told me that the bank
examiners were pressing him for the
notes ho owed. He also owed me
personally $2800 for money which I
had advanced Mm. He suggested
that he would pay this $2800. not all
at once, but In partial amounts. $104
before the end of the week If I would
swear falsely about his notes being
paid."
Default Is Alleged.
' Questioned further about the
alleged transaction, Johnson testified
he "let the proposition go by default
as I was not in any position to accept
cr reject and any payments he might
make on what he owed me would
have been acceptable. I do not think,
however, that I left tho Impression
that I would swear falsely."
Previous to this testimony, John
ton testified that he had made fic
titious deposits in the bank books to
cover up overdrafts of Collins and
that tho latter had requested him to
extend credit so ho could carry on
h's automobile business at Grants
lass and eventually pay the notes
due.
Johnson also identified a ledger
sheet with pencil notations showing
that Collins actually owed $7.',",..".U
when the ledger figures showed only
$27.60. The witness admitted tills
procedure was taken to deceive the
bank examiners.
Outward Appearance Calm.
The ex-bank president testified
freely regarding the tangled web of
finance surrounding the operation ot
the now closed institution, and main
tained a calm outward appearance,
except when telling of the alleged
jail conversation with the defendant.
He identified checks and notes as ren
dered by Collins. Some of the notes
were drawn in 1914 and 191 i and the
defense objected to their entrance us
exhibits on the gr..und that the stat
ute of limitations had expired. Tho
court overruled the objections and ex
ceptions were taken.
Much of the evidence given by
Johnson was linked with the retire
ment of the defendant as cashier of
the same bank.
Upon cross-ext -ulnation Johnson
said that ho honored eight drafts
sent by Collins from Grants Pass and
credited to Collins' account, as far
as he remembered. .The defense then
$500,
signed by Collins, on a Grants Pass
bank, which was not credited on tho
ledger sheet known as "Kxhibil A."
Other Checks Offered.
Other checks sent by Collins, soma
credited, some not, were offered as
evidence. The checks were drawn
on the First National bank of Grants
Pass to cover sight drafts. Objcc-(
tions of the state were overruled.
Johnson said that Collins told him
also he was "working diligently to
pay off his obligations to the bank."
The defense also offered another
large number of checks sent by Col
lins to the Bank of Jacksonville for
payment of sight drafts and deposits.
The usual objections were offered by
the state.
The checks would tend to rcfutf
the allegations of the Indictments an.!
wipe out the overdraft on which it i
based, the defense alleged. The couri
ruled the checks were admissible.
The first witness called waa Mar
shall Hooper, assistant superintend
ent of banks, who declared tho cause
"of the wrecking of the Hank ':
Jacksonville was due to laive ovcr-
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