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TIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1921 T WOMAN DEFENDANT IN HAMON MURDER CASE. CASE TODAY E Defense of Woman Accused Allegations Highly Spiced in of Murder to Start. Stiilman Case. TRIAL MAY END SOON INDIAN IS CO-RESPONDENT Testimony of Alleged Slayer of Millionaire Bank Head Fights to Millionaire Xot Expected to Last More Than Half Hour. Establish Theory Youngest Child Is Xot Own Son. PROSECU ON RESTS STRIKIfilG CHARGES BACK OF DIM Hi x - ' - I ' - V 1 rl t :l : . r iiA::Mmi:m mm-:-- - . -' , lm m V -i MCirZ's f .f.zzzm . t i t i I ARD1IORE, Okla.. March 13. The state will rest its case In the trial of Clara Smith Hamon, charged with the murder of Jake L. Ha mo a, Monday afternoon, state's counsel announced tonight. Introduction of all state's evidence and testimony will be completed to morrow noon, or shortly after, state's attorneys declared. Four of the remaining chief wlth nesses to be summoned are Mrs. Jake I Hamon, Frank L. Ketch, Hamon's business manager; Erreta Dunlap. business associate of Hamon. and Sam Blair, newspaper man. Several minor witnesses also will testify. Ketch, Dunlap or Mrs. Hamon will be the first called tomorrow, Attorney-General Freeling said. Trial to Be Expedited. "We hope to expedite the trial as much as possible," he said, "and we hope the defense will show the same disposition. The case should be In the hands of the jury by late Thurs day or Kriday." In speaking- of the testimony of Clara Hamon. if she is called, Mr. Freeling said: "I am informed that her testimony will not require more than half an hour's time." Defense counsel has not Indicated to what length or upon what phases of the case the defendant will testify. Defease Issues Veiled. It is not definitely known on what issues the defense evidence will fol low. Defense counsel has said that it has several star witnesses. Its case, it has been Indicated, is that Clara Hamon shot Jake Hamon in self de fense and while Jake Hamon was drunk. After the jurors today arose from their cots in the dome of the court house, a refuge assigned to them as the "hotel jury." a treat in the form of a hike was given. Filing down the main avenue west, the Jurymen were seen, despite the age of the majority, to snap into a brisk pace. Door Is Kept Locked. The only method of ascent to the jury's quarters Is a narrow spiral stairway leading from the third floor of the courthouse to the dome. The door to the passage is kept locked when the jurymen are Inside, and they are then free to scamper in the dome the interior of which resembles an observatory. Mrs. Jake Hamon was reported In Improved condition today and it was believed would be able to testify to morrow if called. Clara Hamon passed the week-end In Axdmore and at Wilson. Photo Copyright by Underwood. Clara Smith Btmoi, seeretary of Jake I.. Hamon, Oklahoma oil million! re and politician, on trial lor her life. SEME TO FETE ItOUXD OF EXTERTAIVMEXT IS READY FOB GUESTS. Northwest Conference, Including Delegates From 19 Cities, to Open Today. MRS. McKEE UP FOR JOB Woman Recommended for Place on Workmen's Compensation Board. ABERDEEN, Wash.. March 13. (Special.) The Washington state delegation in congress has recom mended to President Harding for membership on the workmen's com pensation commission, Mrs. James S. McKee of Vancouver, Wash., formerly of Hoquiam, according to a special dispatch from the national capital. If appointed Mrs. McKee will succeed Mrs. Axtell, whose ' term expires March 15. Mrs. VcKee has also the Indorse ment of ex-State Food Commissioner Hebbard of Spokane and Guy Kelley of Tacoma. The position for which she is recommended carries a salary of $4000. VIENNA STUDENTS RIOT Professors Are Injured in Cele bration of '48 Revolt. VIEXNA, March 13. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Dr. Otto Bauer and two professors of the University of Vienna were badly injured during a student riot yesterday. The disorder arose from an attempt by social demo, cratic members of the student body to celebrate the anniversary of the 1S48 revolution. Dr. Bauer was speak ing in a hall which was invaded by students and the place was soon the scene of a fight. Two hundred un armed soldiers were called in and the students attacked them, driving them out. Police restored order after two hours. GUARD UNIT AUTHORIZED Headquarters Company to Bo Or ganized at Engene. EUGENE. Or.. March 13. (Special.) Instructions have Just been received by 'Major W. G. White, commanding the first battalion of the 6th Ore gon infantry, immediately to recruit a battalion headquarters company for this city. The company will consist of 41 enlisted men, whose duties will be to perform office work and carry on messenger and signal work. Eugene already has one company of Infantry and the headquarters staff, and it was hoped that the machine gun company for this battalion would be located here, but the latter has been assigned to Eoseburg. CHICAGO POLICE SHIFTED Shakeup Comes as Result of Two Political Assassinations. CHICAGO, March 13. As ths result of the political feud In the 19th ward, where two men were assassinated last week, the police department was given the biggest shakeup in its his tory today. Mors than 650 policemen. Including four captains, a number of lieuten ant and sergeants, were transferred under orders issued by Chief of Po lice Charles Flumorris. SEATTLE, Wash., March 13. (Spe cial.) Fifteen hundred itotarlans and their wives from 19 cities of Wash ington, Oregon and British Columbia will be guests of the Seattle Rotary club at the northwest district con ference of Rotary clubs to be held here tomorrow and Tuesday. The delegates began arriving this after noon. All that automobiles, banquets, dances, luncheons and receptions can do to make the time between con ference sessions enjoyable has been arranged. Approximately 300 Seattle business and professional men will devote the major portion of their time during the next three days to the entertainment of visiting Rotarians. Second avenue, from Yesler way to Virginia street, is gay with banners and emblems of Rotary, and many window displays take cognizance of the occasion. Wives of Seattle Rotarians will en tertain the wives of the visiting Ro tarians during the two days. One of the important events will be the tea given at the Yacht club Tuesday aft ernoon .after which win ne a iasnion revue staged by 25 models from the MaoDoueal-Southwlck company store, Preceding the tea the guests will be taken for a drive, starting at the Y. W. C. A. at 2 o'clock. The tea, Mrs. Robert H. Tlmmons of Wichita, Kan., wife of the third vice-president of the International Association of Rotary clubs, and Mrs. Nelson G. Pike, wife of the district governor, will pour. Washington women will be guests at luncheon Monday and Tuesday noon. They will attend a theater party at the Moore Monday afternoon where Will H. Cressy, noted Rotarlan, headlines the bill: the banquet Mon day night and the ball Tuesday night. Tuesday morning they will have for shonDinir. There Is to be an arter-session or the Rotarians which is attracting lots of attention. A golf tournament is to be held Wednesday at the Munlci pal links, Jefferson park. school boys decided they would play a few practical jokes on the girls. Young Rivenburgh and Peterson were of this invading party. At about the time the boys were planning a raid on the "eats," a neighbor peered out of a window and saw the forms of two men crouched behind a tree between her home and the LaRocbe home. She notified the police. Patrolman Simpkins rushed ont to the LaRoche home. As he crept to ward the tree he made out the forms of the two youths. He called upon them to halt, but they ran. Simpkins whipped out his gun and fired several shots in an effort to capture them. Patrolman Waddell joined in the chase and a few moments later both young Rivenburgh and Peterson were in custody. v RATE HEARING IS FIXED SHIXGLE MEN ASK COMMERCE BODY TO HEAR PLAIXT, HL SEW INTDTTSTRY IS STARTED IX JTXEAr DISTRICT. First Mill In Territory Capable of Huge Expansion Whenever Market Is Developed, WASHINGTON. March IS. Alaska Is manufacturing wood pulp, the de partment of agriculture announced to day, on receipt of samples of the first run from a new mill near Juneau in the Tongas national forest. Forest service officers declared that estab lishment of the mill marked another milestone of progress in pulp produc tion for the news print Industry. The miH is the first to b estab lished In the territory and is operated by hydro-electrlo power. It has a capacity of 20 tons of pulp a day, with power resources available for increas ing the output to z.iu tons, lister it planned to enlarge tne mill so as to make paper. Forest service officials said an area of the Tongas national forest con taining 8.000,000,000 feet of pulp man ufacturing timber would be placed on the market soon In response to In quiries from prospective paper manu facturers. Canning Outlook Dlscneed. DAYTON. Or, March IS. (Special.) The Commercial club of Dayton held open house meeting last evening at which interesting addresses were delivered by Professors Hewitt and Bell of the Oregon Agricultural col lege and Mr. Bryant of Bryant & Co Portland, on the canning outlook for 1921. There was a good attendance of representative business men ef the community. Police Mistake Jokers for Experienced Burglars. High School Bora Arc Handcuffed for Trip to Jail. Railroads Held to Favor Inmber Shipments Xew Basis of CI targes Sought. SEATTLE, Wash., March 13. (Spe cial.) Complying . with a request made by shingle manufacturers rep resenting about 100 mills, the inter state commerce commission has set for hearing in Seattle next Tuesday a complaint filed by the shingle men, charging the railroads of virtually the entire country with discrimina tion in freight tariffs and demanding a readjustment that would compel the carriers- to make new rates no higher than the lumber rates from the north Pacific coast to all points in the United States. For many years the railroads have maintained a differential against shingles and in favor of lumber. Un til last fall the differential was 10 cents per hundred pounds on ship ments from the north Pacific coast to the central west and eastern mar kets. The general percentage Increase In freight rates made by the rail roads on August 26 Ias.t increased this differential to 1314 cents. To points in Oklahoma the differential has been even larger and now aver ages 24 cents. If the differential, which they de clare to be arbitrary and unnecessary, is wiped out through favorable action on the complaint, shingle manufac turers assert, the greatest handicap to the marketing of the red cedar shingles of the Pacific northwest will be removed and a market for the product created that will cause a tre mendous boom in shingle manufacture. POtTGHKEEPSTE, N. T., March 13. (Special.) John E. Mack, guardian ad litem for Guy Stiilman, the 26- months-old child who has become the central figure in the divorce action started by James A. Stiilman, presi dent of the National City bank, said today he was prepared to fight to I the finish to establish the legitimacy the boy as the son and heir of Mr. Stiilman. It was learned today that Mr. Still- I man in his complaint not only asKS I for an absolute divorce, naming reai Beauvais, a half-breed Canadian I guide at their camp as co-respondent. but asserts that he, Mr. Stiilman, is not the father of Guy. This Is the explanation of the un usual fact that a child is named with I his mother as defendant in a divorce I action. The docket at the special I term of the supreme court here shows I that the action is James A. Stiilman against Anne U. Stiilman and Guy Stiilman. With these developments, the di vorce action itself is overshadowed n interest by the question of whether Mr. Stiilman will succeed in proving I that Guy Stiilman is an illegitimate child. If he does prove that conten- I tion. the boy naturally will be cut I off without -sharing with the three other Stiilman children, Anne, James and Alexander, in Mr. Stillman's estate, which consists of many millions. Bitter Battle Expected. The extraordinary nature of the charges and the millions of dollars at stake indicate that if the case comes to trial it will be rougnt bitterly. Although the linking of a legiti macy issue with the divorce action is I unusual, it is not new and is amply provided for in law, as shown in section 1760 of the code of civil pro- edure, which reads: "Where the action is brought by the husband, the following regula tions apply to the proceedings: 1. The legitimacy of a child, born or begotten before the commission f the offense charged, is not affected by a judgment dissolving the mar riage, but the legitimacy of any ther child of the wife (meaning any child born after the offense charged by the husband in his divorce action) may be determined as one oi tne ssues in the action. (That is, as one of the issues in the divorce action.) In the absence of proof to the con trary, the legitimacy of all the chil- ren begotten before the commence ment of the action must be pre sumed. Plaintiffs Hlehts Maintained. "2. A judgment dissolving the marriage does not impair, or other wise affect, the plaintiff's rights and Interests in and to any real or per sonal property which the defendant owns or possesses when the Judg ment is rendered. "3. Where judgment Is rendered dissolving the marriage, the defend ant is not entitled to dower in any of the plaintiff's real property or to a distributive share in his personal property. Mr. Mack declares that the burden of proof was on the plaintiff in prov ing that the child in question is ille gitimate. In this connection it was said that Mr. Stiilman lived with Mrs. Stiilman for a year and a half after the 'boy Guy was born and that the first, publio record of the divorce action is of September 13 last, when Supreme Court Justice Morschauser appointed Mr. Mack as guardian ad litem for the boy. The legitimacy of this child Is cer tain." said Mr. Mack. "Until his Il legitimacy is established not only by the greater weight of evidence but beyond a reasonable doubt, the court protects a child in its good name with the same care as It protects a person charged with a crime." Four Children In Family. It was learned yesterday that Guv was born in New York City two years and four months ago, at the end of 1S18. He is now with his mother. Of the three other children, Anne is the oldest. She is 19 years old and is now in a finishing school. James is ( :) t f l - ' . -Aw A S - 3r f When Heifetz arrived in London, the London Daily Telegraph said in its columns, "Heifetz has arrived, following his records, and, be it said, he them." Records by Heifetz are really Heifetz. He is still abroad, but you actually hear him when you play his Victor Records on the Victrola. Victrolas $25 to $1500. New Victor Records demonstrated at all dealers on the 1st of each month. plays exactly like The Victor nca. u.. ptx. erf Victor Talking Machine Co Camden, New Jersey 'ssliio w a ci vi a? jrvrar' tlkJ lTiWJ I WiWtrf This trademark and the trademarxect word" Victrol a" identify all our products. Look under the lidl Look on the label I VICTOR TALKING MACHINE COt Camden, N. J. UV,nnl.A K Pnlnn.1 f C T?n 1 1 Oil A A 1 1 , -.- v . ' UI ..uucr ao auoui commander at Fort Wright. PRACTICAL Jokes are all right in their way, but there are a couple of high school youths who are firmly convinced that there's too much "kick" to the backfire if the Jokers happen to slip a cog. These students are Jack Riven burgh, 674 East Everett street, and Eldon Peterson, 1655 Bast Morrison street, who were taken for burglarB and fired upon by Patrolman Simp kins of the Sunnystde station before they were taken Into custody and se curely handcuffed as hardened crimi nals. A high school sorority was holding a session at the home of Dorothy La Roche, daughter of W. P. LaRoche, ex-city attorney, 2845 Sixty-second street, southeast. A group of high CONDEMNED MAN IS CALM Warden of Prison Resigns Bather Than Hang Murderer. WALLA WALLA, Wash.. March 13. (Special.) John Schmidt, Seattle murderer, under sentence to hang April 1 at the state prison, Is calmly awaiting the end. He -has refused to see the prison chaplain, saying that what will happen will happen regard less of what he says or does. A new rope for the execution has been re ceived from San Quentin prison, but Warden Drum Is making no other ar rangements for the execution, leaving that to his successor, William Potts, who takes office ADril 1 the date of the execution. Warden Drum Is so firmly ODOosed to capital punishment that he re signed rather than hang Schmidt. BANK OFFICIALS MEET Discussion of Garnishment Deci sion In Xorth Dakota Denied. BISMARCK, N. D March 13. Offi cials of the Bank of North Dakota conferred yesterday following an nouncement that the state supreme court had decided that the Bank of North Dakota is subject to garnish ment as are private institutions. De nial was made that the garnishment case was considered. P. W. Cathro, director-general of the bank, refused to express an opin ion as to the effect of the decision upon the future of the bank until he had read the decision. . Aged Singer Is Dead. LOS ANGELES, CaL, March IS. Mrs. Jenny Kempton, 85, who won international fame as a contralto singer more than half a century ago, died today at the home here of her daughter, Mrs. Roth Hamilton. She had been in falling health for about two years. ten Mr. Stillman's complaint declares that the actions he alleges took place in Camp Stiilman at Three Rivers. Province of Quebec where Fred Beauvais. the corespondent, was em ployed as a guide. The hearing on Mrs. Stillman's ac tion to amend her answer to her husband's complaint, which was ad journed from last Saturday and was to have been held before Justice Morshauser In the special terms of the supreme court at Poughkeepsie at 11 o'clock this morning, had not been started by half past five o'clock this afternoon and at that time Justice Morshauser closed the day session of his court. Attorneys Fall to Appear. Mr. Mack, guardian ad litem for the Colonel Ballou stated he had de tained Major Brown at Fort Wright before allowing him to proceed to Sacramento last February in connec tion with the disappearance of a $500 liberty bond of the post hospital fund. A court of inquiry, however. Colonel Ballou stated, was unable to fix re sponsibility for the disappearance of the bond. Major Brown had no family with him at the fort. He is about S5 years old and served with a fighting unit In France, fort officials said. He was believed to have an invalid wife in San Francisco. 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL WINS boy Guy, was in court all day, but High School Student Awarded Gold none of the attorneys for Mr. and Mrs. Stiilman appeared or communicated directly with the court. Justice Morshauer explained that in a case of this sort an argument of a motion to amend an answer It was not necessary for the attorneys to appear in court at the hour or even on the day to which the motion is adjourned. He said they might with propriety appear before him at any time in the future or not at all. Neither are they under any obligation to notify the court they will not ap pear at the time for which the case is set. In case of their failure to ap pear the justice merely drops the case off the calendar for the day. It is a matter for the opposing attor neys to settle between themselves. The failure of the attorneys to ap pear to argue the motion disappointed a large crowd which filled the court room in anticipation of seeing emi nent counsel argue in a case of such monetary Importance and widespread Interest. 8. H. green stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co.. coal and wood. Main 153, 560-21 Adv. MAJOR BROWN MISSING Desertion of Fort George Wright Snrgeon Is Suspected. : SPOKANE, Wash., March 13. Ma jor Roy A. Brown, for a year senior officer of the hospital corps and post surgeon at Fort George Wright, near here, has absented himself from his station at Mather field, Sacramento, and has "probably deserted," accord ing to a telegram received here from western army headquarters at San Medal for Best Essay. GOLDENTJALE, Wash., March 13, (Special.) Faye Mulligan, junior stu dent In the Centervllle, Wash., high school, was the winner of a gold medal offered by Mt. Adams lodge No. 95, Knights of Pythias, at Cen tervllle, for the best essay on "Amer icanism." The contest was decided by a committee headed by Judge Nelson B. Brooks of Goldendale. Faye Mulligan Is 15 years old, daughter of Mrs. L. F. Mulligan, post mistress at Centerville. She is very active in all school functions, a mem ber of the girls' basketball team and very fond of athletics in general. She has also won honors at the Washing ton state fair and the Klickitat county fair as a member of the cooking club. Knights to Protest Deposit. . NEW TORK, March 13. Knights Of Columbus executives will be re ceived by the Canadian parliament Monday to declare their protest aga'nst plans of the Canadian gov ernment to Institute regulations re quiring large deposits by all foreign fraternal Insurance organizations, it was announced here today. Caruso to ,Slng, Says Wife. NT5W TORK. March 13. 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Net tleton, ex-speclal agent of the United States treasury, and mother of Clark Nettleton, president and publisher the Post-Intelligencer, died yesterday at Klrkland, Wash., aged 88. Best grades coal Prompt deliver). Diamond Coal Co. Bdwy. 3037 Ad. mmmm t -,naa si";? '. '1 i v :. W i - - COME! CLASS TONIGHT. COTILLION HALL. Health and cheerfulness make beauty of mind and body. Dancing in a pleasant atmos phere to the strains of g o p d music Is one of the best recrea tions known. It exercises the body clears the mind. If you don't dance you are missing one of life's greatest pleasures. Come tonight, learn the new steps. SPECIAL ST. PATRICK'S DANCE MARCH 17. RINGLER'S DANCING ACADEMY. Montrose M. Rlngler, Mgr. Studio, 14tb, off Washington. Bdwy. 3380. Valuable Service to the public is rendered by the drug store which keeps its doors open at night for the emergency calls of sickness. 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