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PORTLAND, OREGOX, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
U.S. OFFER TAKEN
EINSTEIN'S THEORY
OUSTED POSTMASTER
INTERVIEWS HAYS
$260,000 IN GEMS
TAKEN BY ROBBERS
DECOY LETTER IS USED TO
LCRE SALESMAN.
BOILERMAKERS' CLUB
IS SUED BY GAMBLER
OLD LAW TO RECOCT LOSS IS
INVOKED AGAIN.
ill
Tl
BAN
HARDING MASTERS
WIFE DENIES ALL
STOKES' CHARGES
Even Most Trivial of In
discretions Spurned.
GOES INTO DISCARD
UP BY
V
GERMAN
VOTED BY HOUSE
Senate Expected to Pass
GIGANTIC
SSUES
XEWTO.TS IAW OF GRAYITA
TION" ALSO DITCHED.
SUBMIT BRIEF, RESPONSE OF
DEPARTMENT CHIEF.
Cabinet Considers New
Reparations Move.
POLICY TO BE ANNOUNCED
Decision on Establishing Ba
L sis for Proposal Due.
JBIG NEED IS RECOGNIZED
Br. Simons Declares Government
Is Convinced It 3fust Fax
, to Extreme Limits.
BERLIN', April 22 (By the Asso
tiated Press.) A cabinet council will
meet tonight and tomorrow. The Ger
man government then will make
known .its reparations policy. The
foreign minister, Dr. Simons, made
this announcement in the Reichstag
today in speaking of the willingness
of the American government to trans
mit German reparations proposals to
the allied governments, in a manner
acceptable to them.
"The German government will have
to make a decision concerning the es
tablishment of a basis for propo
sitions. A cabinet council will meet
tonight and tomorrow the government
will make known its policy on the
reparations question.
Pay to Limit la Expectation.
' "The government Is convinced that
In drawing up this project it must
. go to the extreme limits of what the
German people can furnish in the way
of reparations."
The foreign minister added that the
impression in foreign countries that
Germany had underestimated her
own capacity and her possibilities
must gradually be dispelled.
In presenting the reichstag with the
American . note, he said it had been
received too late for consideration
by the cabinet.
.Mediation Held Possible.
The American government," the
foreign minister said to the chamber,
"has declined to act as an umpire.
but it has not declined to act ars
mediator."
The reichstag adjonrned) Immediate
ly after the foreign minister's decla
ration.
Opposition to Dr. Simons has been
(Towing since his return from Lon
don. It lias been based largely on
his alleged "inactivity or passiveness"
in connection with his conduct of
foreign affairs. President Harding's
refusal to mediate in the reparations
controversy found general approval
in parliamentary circles.
Bankers WcltoMt Prospects.
Banking circles welcomed what was
termed prospective American indirect
mediation and While the bankers said
they were not expecting any meas
nrabls reduction in the Indemnity,
they nevertheless believed that Amer
ican Influence would contribute large
ly to an early adjustment of the tan
gled issue.
The German newspapers were not
surprised at the American govern
tnent'a answer to Germany's note re
garding reparations, but they were
somewhat astounded ly the prompt
ness of the reply. The Tageblatt,
which is liberal in its views, said:
Sagacity Declared Shows.
Despite the confidence the Ger
mans have In President Harding, his
reply was what many of them had ex
peeled only further evidence of his
sagacity. Everything now hangs on
the German proposals."
The Vossische Zeitung said the re
ply was the only answer that could
reasonably have been expected. The
nationalist organs asserted that it
only confirmed their predictions and
reaffirmed that no nation and no gov
ernment would be willing to intervene
between the Germans and the victor!
ous entente.
r. S. ATTITCDE EXPLAINED
New Reparations Proposals Must
Be Acceptable to Allies.
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 22.
Any reparations proposals the Ger
nan government may submit to the
United States for transmission to the
allies must be of a character those
governments will be willing to con
fcider and therefore before being
formally presented to the powers as
whole, probably will be made clear to
the governments separately.
Pending a reparations offer possi
bly tomorrow as a result of the Ger
man cabinet council meeting tonight.
official comment was withheld. It
was known, however, that diplomatic
representatives here of the allied gov
ernments had exchanged opinions to
day on Secretary Hughes' reply to
Germany's appeal for mediation of the
reparations dispute and it is under
rtood that the situation had been dis
cussed informally by officials of the
tn'.ted States and those of the inter
ested European nations.
The declaration of Dr. Simons, Ger
man foreign minister, in the reichstag
that in drawing up a basis of its
T-roposition the German government
"must go to the extreme limits of
what the German people can furnish
in the way of reparations" ws in
terpreted here as an acceptance, in
principle at least, of the American
statement that the United States
ntards with the allies in holding Oer-
Suppositions "Long Counted Funda
mental Cpset and Discredited
by Scientists. '
PHILADELPHIA, April 22. The
Einstein theory and Newton's law of
gravitation were tossed into the dis
card as untrue by scientists at the
general meeting of the American
Philosophical society here today.
Results of experiments, outlined to
the scientists, if true, "disprove the
Einstein theory and upsets Newton's
law of gravitation," It was asserted.
Dr. Charles F. Brush of Cleveland
presented experiments, results of
which tended to show that gravita
tion acted differently with different
substances.
"If these experiments bo true, and
Dr. Brush is very careful in his ex
periments, it upsets all we have
known about gravitation for 200
years," said Dr. A. G. Webster of
Clark university.
"It is more revolutionary than the
Russian soviet."
Dr. Ales Hrolicka. curator in an
thropology at the National museum.
Washington, in another paper, said
the first man came to America about
10,000 years ago.
"Recent researches show," added
Dr. Hrolicka, "that the negro and
Mongolian had the same ancestry as
the white man. The difference can be
traced to the long period of separa
tion and other causes."
Efforts to create a high explosive
out of black molasses were under way
when the war ended, it was revealed
by Charles E. Monroe, professor of
chemistry at George Washington uni
versity.
AIL LIFE TOO FESTIVE
Federal Prisoners Are Removed
Owing to Sheriff's Policy.
KANSAS CITT, Mo., April 22. Or
ders to remove federal prisoners serv
ng sentences of less than one year
from the Piatt county, Missouri, jail,
were issued today by Judge Van
Valkenburgh after hearing com
plaints that life at the jail was a long
round of pleasure.
"The prisoners never work and the
sheriff treats them like they were
members of the family," a represent
ative from Platte City told the judge,
"The sheriff even deputizes them
and takes them on raids. It's more
like a perpetual lodge meeting than
a jail." he added.
SUPERVISOR IS RENAMED
Mrs. Agues Buckley Gets Clackamas
School Position Again.
OREGON CITT, Or, April 22. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Agnes Buckley, who has
been supervisor of county schools for
the last year, today was re-elected
for the coming school year by the
county educational board. She' re
ceives the maximum salary of (120 a
month for 11 months, and an expense
account of $60 a month for 10 months.
The board decided to employ an ad
ditional supervisor, to comply with.
the state law, but deferred the elec
tioi. of the second supervisor until
other applications are received. The
law provides that the county shall be
divided into supervisor districts of
not less than 60 scnool districts.
GAS KILLS ONE, HURTS 4
Residents of Town Forced to Seek
Safety When Tank Leaks.
BOUNDBROOK. N. J., April 22. One
man was killed and four persons were
overcome with phosgene gas which
early tcday began escaping through
a leak in the tank of a large chemical
company here and drove residents of
the town to places of safety. Earl
Fillman, employe of the plant, died
from congestion of the lungs.
Authorities said that there was
enough gas in the tank to kill the en
tire population of Boundbrook.
WINTER WHEAT IS GOOD
Recent Cold Period Does Some
Damage to Crops.
WASHINGTON, April 22. The con
dition of winter wheat is excellent in
most states, according to the weekly
domestic crop review of the bureau
of crop estimates. Some damage from
the recent cold was reported in the
Atlantic states and some fields in
eastern Kansas were said to be show
ing yellow.
Spring wheat seeding was said to
be practically completed In South Da
kota and parts of Utah and Wisconsin,
BEAVERS BECOMING PESTS
Householders on Deschutes River
Complain of Fruit Trees Killed,
BEND, Or., April 22. (Special.)
Beavers ln the Deschutes river are be
coming so numerous that household
ers on the river banks have com
plained of fruit trees killed by the
industrious rodents.
No permits for killing beavers will
be asked unless all other means of
preventing the animals from causing
further losses of the kind prove un
availing.
DEPORTED AMERICAN HELD
Gale, Banished by Mexico, Now in
Hands of C. S. Officials.
LAREDO, Tex.. April 22. Linn A.
E Gale, an American, who recently
was deported from Mexico for rad
icalism, arrived here late tonight. He
was turned over by Immigration of
ficials to military authorities at Fortj
Bill Without Delay. -
GATES LOCKED 14 MONTHS
Three Amendments Adopted.
0'Callaghan Aid Denied.
RELIGIOUS REFUGE OPEN
Persecuted Aliens to Be Admitted
in Excess of 3 Per Cent Lim
itation, Now Arranged.
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 22.
After rejecting an amendment seek
ing to admit to the United States for
eign political refugees, the house to
day passed the immigration restric
tion bill substantially the 'same as it
went through last session. The bill
now goes to the senate, where repub
lican leaders said it would be passed
without delay.
The measure is designed to be op
erative for 11 months and would
limit the entry of aliens to 3 per cent
of the number of nationals of any
country in the United States at the
time ofj the 1910 census.
Three Amendments Adopted.
Three amendments were adopted by
the house. One would permit admis
sion in excess of the 3 per cent limit
of all aliens subjected to religious
persecution in their native land and
seeking refuge here solely to avoid
such hardships.
The second would admit children of
American citizens under 18 years of
age. Independent of the percentage
of limitation and the third would
give preference to the families and
relatives of American citizens and
ex-service men honorably discharged
from the army or rfavy regardless of
whether they had been naturalzed, in
determining the question of admis
sibility under the restricted total.
Amendment Causes Fight.
The principal fight was over an
amendment offered by Reprefitatlve
Sabath, Illinois, ranking democrat on
the immigration committee, to open
the gates to political refugees. This
was lost after a long debate which
was closed by Representative Mondcll,
republican leader, who said that, un
der it, even the German ex-emperor
could come here.
This question was bitterly dis
cussed. Representative Cockran, dem
ocrat. New York, insisting that the
ex-emperor would be met by strong
hands ready to throw him into prison.
Mr. Cockran declared that the one-
concluded on Page 2, Column 1.)
BADLY IN
Slyers Case Probably "Will Have
Airing In Senate When Jones
Nomination Appears.
THE OREGONIAX NEWS BTJReItJ,
Washington, D. C. April 22. Frank
Stott Myers, former postmaster of
Portland, removed from office by
Postmaster-General BMrleson, gained
an audience with Postmaster-General
Hays this afternoon. , He asked that
his case be reopened and that he be
permitted to answer the charges on
which he was removed.
The postmaster-general told him to
prepare a brief and submit it. There
are reasons to believe that the post
master-general will not reverse the
action of the previous administration.
The Myers case probably will receive
an airing when the nomination of a
postmaster for Portland reaches the
senate. . It Is believed that within a
short time the nomination of John M.
Jones, postmaster ad interim, will be
sent to the senate.
It will be referred to the committee
on postoffices and postroads, and
Senator Townsend. - chairman, will
grant Mr. Myers an opportunity to
be heard. At the same time the post
office 'department will be requested
to lay before the committee the full
report of the inspectors which caused
Mr. Myers' removal. While the for
mer postmaster contends that he is
entitled to see the charges on which
he was removed, others contend for
another reason that the postoffice
department should disclose the in
spectors' reports
It Is asserted that the patrons of
the Portland postoffice are entitled
to know the details of the charges
on which their postmaster was dis
missed from office. The department
it is understood, does not object to
revealing the charges, but does not
desire to do so voluntarily. If a com
mittee having official status will call
for the documents in the case they
will be forthcoming at once and both
Mr. Myers and the citizens of Port
land will be apprised of their full
contents.
AID TO FARMERS ASKEb
Senators Stanfield and Gooding
Are Among Callers on President,
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington. D. C, April 22. Senators
Stanfield of Oregon and Gooding of
Idaho were members of a party of
senators who called on the president
this afternoon to plead for financial
aid to the farmers. The president was
asked to recommend that the federal
reserve board be lenient in handling
the rediscounts of member banks as
a means of relieving the pressure on
the farmers.
, The t president replied m that the
plight or the agricultural, industry
had been the subject of much cabi
net discussion and said that he would
take the question, up with the con
troller of the currency. He said thS
policy outlined by the visiting sena
tors already had been suggested to
the federal reserve board and that
it was his intention to go into the
mater carefully wth tb.e government's
financial advisers.
NEED OF A BETTER MATCHED
Tair Invade Jewelry Shop In Heart
of Chicago and Make Away
With Diamonds.
CHICAGO, April 22. Lured' to a
jewelry shop in the heart of the
downtown district at noon today by
what the police declared to have been
a decoy letter, a diamond salesman
was robbed of gems valued at $260,
000. The two robbers Invaded the office
of Julius J. Reingold on the 15th floor
of a building at. Madison street and
Wabash avenue while Leroy Present
of the firm of Philip Present & Son
of Rochester, N. Y, was displaying
his wares. They bound and gagged
Reingold and Present and escaped
with the fortune in unset diamonds
the salesman carried with him.
After an investigation, the police
detained Reingold for questioning and
arrested his brother, Leo. Present
said that he had called on Reingold
on Tuesday when he was requested
to call again. Thursday night, he
said, he received a written message
that bore Reingold's name requesting
him to call this morning. Reingold
denied that he had written any such
message.
It was while Present was in Rein
gold's office that the two armed men
entered and took the wallets contain
ing his diamonds.
ALLEGED KIDNAPER WEDS
Hugh C. Van Amburgh, ex-Soldier,
Marries Tacoma Girl.
TACOMA, Wash., April 22. (Spe
cial.) Hugh C. Van Amburgh, former
soldier with many decorations, who
was acquitted 'of the charge of hav
ing kidnaped Arthur Rust, was mar
ried here today to Miss Bernice John
son of Tacoma, She was in court dur
ing the entire time Van Amburgh was
on trial for the alleged theft of the
son of W. R. Rust, millionaire mining
man and financier.
Van Amburgh lived for several
years in Portland with his mother.
As a dispatch bearer with the Ameri
can army he was decorated for brav
ery by three governments. He ad
mitted having kidnaped Rust, but said
the latter had a part in the affair,
designed to extort money from the
elder Rust.
NAVY CONVERTS AIRCRAFT
Flyer to Commercialize Aviation
Launched at Washington.
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 22. A
navy flying boat converted for com
mercial use was launched here today
by Secretary Denby In the depart
ment's campaign to dispose of about
1000 coast patrol flying boats to pri
vate owners, as .means of stimulating
public Interest in aviation.
The craft have been filled with in
closed cabins for passengers. They
are equipped with 400-horse power
Liberty motors, have a wing spread
of 72 feet, a speed of about 70 miles
an hour and are to be sold at about
one-third of the cost.
TEAM.
Colombia Treaty First Act
in Housecleaning.
MANY CHANGES IMPENDING
Reorganization of Govern-
.
ment' NOW in PrOffreSS.
LEADERSHIP PUT TO TEST
President and Congress Cnlte for
Remodeling of Tariff
Taxation Systems.
and
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
wjmiui , i, , i
WASHINGTON, D. C. April 23.
. , . .
With the Colombian treaty out of the
way, the ground is now cleared for
the great new measures of the pres-
ent session, and aa the administra-
tion takes up the business of making
Its constructive record it is interest-
ing to make a survey of the field
before us. -
The wish of President Harding,
which he expressed ln asking the sen-
ate to take up the Colombia treaty as
the first act of his administration,
was based on two motives, both of
which were to clear the ground. He
wanted the Colombian treaty out of
the way, in the first place, as a pre -
lude, a sign of amity .and act of Jus-
tice combined, which should be the
opening move in his poljcy toward all
Latin America. His idea was that
before asking Mexico to meet the
obligations toward our citizens andluary 11, 1921, Sylvester asserts that
our nation arising out of the revolu- he has lost a total of f 1924 at poker
tlon we should first prove to Mexico
and to all Latin America our own!
disposition to live up to every possl- !
ble demand of justice toward them.
Cood Will Created.
president xiaraings secona motive
was one of housecleaning, so to speak.
, J ""
Ing fire for eight years and the con-
troversy with Colombia wnich it is
supposed to close is 18 years old
The first and most Important aspect
cf the field is the good will with
which President Harding starts in to
make the record of his administra
tlon. Vou can go up and down Wash
'nctnn In thA frennent rnnraMa with
every variety of man that we al: have bard- t0 be capable of producing elcc
without finding, even among the most trie power from the atmosphere, will
jealously partisan opponents, one who
tails to speak generously of the start
President Harding has so tar made.
For the most part this is just the
natural impression mada by the better
Sincere Effort Impresses Critics.
Even the most suspicious critics
have been moved to make generous
concessions based on President Hard-
ing's bearing ln public; on his pa-
tience ln the tremendous strain of an I
opening administration; on the firm-I
ness which has been difficult for a
man of his kindly temperament but
vhich he nevertheless achieves under
ha ennr nt natApm Inatlnn t rt An thm
.;u. ...i... ..i..
vuisciya vaitii iy en suuu
men for his appointments. This is an
effort which ln the nature of things I
cannot always be successful, and 1
which, therefore, is more Apparent to
those who watch the White House
closely than it can be to the public I
-.t large. Finally his critics have been I
impressed with the simple qualities
of truthfulness and directness which
shine vividly out of his transparent
ersonality.
President Real Leader.
pvnm this ascendency of President
Harding, in the Judgment of Wash-
ington, nows tne iirti important tact i
in any survey or tne neia. -mat. lact 1
is that President Harding is the
leader. No other individual and no
group seriously contends with mm tor I
this prestige. At the time of Presi- I
dent Harding's nomination the theory I
aa rtHl held that in the rennh-I
lican management of affairs 'Presi-
dent Harding would fill, so to speak, Elneln theory and Newton's law of rrav
the role of general maiger, and that I nation upset, pay scientists. Page 1.
the board of directors in the sameT2o.ooo m diamonds stolen by two rob-
picture would be the republican lead-
ers in tne senaio. ,
. . . .
This theory, it may be added, was
shared by several of those same re
publican senate leaders themselves.
In the campaign this theory became
one of the two or three major Issues
ln the shape of the slogan that Hard
ing was going to be "the creature of
a senatorial oligarchy.''
Oligarchy Theory Disproved.
This theory is now utterly dis
proved. As it has turned out. Presi
dent Harding has made just two ad
dresses to the senate, and in both he
has, if you choose to express it
colloquially, "put the senate in its
place." It is doubtful if there is any
parallel inbur history for this twice
repeated declaration or a president to
the senate and in the presence of the
senate there must be on its part no
expectation of any surrender of
executive prerogative.
The foreign affairs which President
Harding referred to will be one of
four fields in which, roughly, the im
portant business of the present ses
sion will divide itself. In this field
of foreign affairs President Harding
and his secretary of state are now
functioning with a free hand unem
barrassed by any such jeaous in-
S. Sylvester Declares Local Tnfon
Conducts Poker Games and Gets
Percentage of Winnings.
Henry E. McGinn, ex-judge of the
circuit court, and his legal associate,
thin" wne rught and w0n a
verdict of I1S00 for Sol Swire as
.double damages for money lost at
gambling in a card room conducted
by Joseph Mozorosky- wno s ln the
county jail for failure to pay the
judgment Invocation of a law which
has remained dormant on Oregon
statute books for nearly CO years
threatens to become a popular method
of recoup,n mbIlnr losses'
S. Sylvester, represented by Attor
neys McGuIrk and Schneider of
Gresham, filed suit in the circuit
court yesterday to recover from the
I Boilermakers' club, the local union or
boilermakers and Its officials, the
sum of 31924 which he alleges he lost
at poker ln the club-rooms and a
similar amount as damages, as pro
vided under the law, a total of 53848.
The statute, designed to Curb gam-
Bllng, provides a
method for the
loser, protected from prosecution for
a; alii ui j u k l. I VKaill i v j-1 uiu avorco
a(. op fnm th6se wtn
wnom he payed or tne proprietors of
card rooms who received a percent-
affe from the winnings. Though yes-
terday's suit was only the second to
be filed, numerous others were said
to be under contemplation since the
success of Attorney McGinn's action.
wives being moving factors in many
! cases, and business depression a spur.
I In his complaint Sylvester asserted
I that the Boilermakers' club was or
I ganized to finance the local branch of
j the International Boilermakers union
and that in so doing It has conducted
1 at Second and Alder streets poker
games every night and day for the
last three years, the proprietor club
and union getting a percentage from
I the winnings.
Between January 25, 1518. and Jan
I in these club rooms,
Named as defendants "along with the
club and union were Joe Reed, repre-
I sentative in Portland of the Interna
tlonal un'"' an u? Bt2 ,
I r"nrev and Frank Poehler. officers ln
. , b and unioni
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HLAIMt IU IKT btlMtKAIUH
Hubbard's "Atmospheric" Inven
tion Will Be Put to Xew Test.
SPOKANE, Wash., April 22. The
"atmospheric generator" which Is
claimed by its inventor, A. M. Hub-
be tried out In an airplane soon
I Hubbard announced today. Experi
ments leading to the test have been
atartcd and arme(1 guards have becn
I the han(rar t0 keeD awiiv
1 "
I Hubbard's "atmospheric generator"
I is said to have been used in the op-
eratlon of a motor boat in Seattle
about a year ago. It Is claimed by
Hubbard that his generator can be
made to develop any horsepower de-
sired,
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The Weather.
degree: minimum, 44 agreea.
tODAT'S Rain; touthwestcrly winds.
Foreign,
Germany accepts U. 8. offer to pus on
reparations proposals. Fags 1.
Mikado may seek settlement on Tap.
, m ' . . , t slnn Fela
leaders and government into negotia
tions. Pags -.
London Times declares America's reply to
Germany only ons possioie. lago o.
Bright star shines in England's coal crisis.
Fags 3.
National.-
Harding masters gigantic Issues. Page 1.
Immigration bill pasacd by houts. Page 1.
OaMjd B--B t0
F-.Amh,,..dors Hill and Wilson may be
renamed. Page 3.
President Harding like any other goiter
fage o.
Railway loucs laid to iron, steel and coal
profiteers. Page 4.
Hoover asks for funds to assist Industry
Pago .
Domestic,
Haywood reported on I. W. W. mission to
' kerf churKea. P, ,
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Pacific Northwest.
Hough bond trial precipitates rfl
Pago 14.
Sports.
Pacific -Coast league results: At Port
land 4. Sat l.aKa : at Seattle is,
Haeramemo 7; at Los Angeles, Vernon 0.
San Francisco 6; st han Krancuco,
Oakland 4, Los Angeles 2. Page 10.
Tournament each week arranged for tennis
players. Page 10.
Everything all set for relay carnival at
Seattle today. Page lu.
CroBs on way to Portland to box Gorman.
Page 10.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat prices make further advance in
' northwestern markets. Paso 19.
Prospects of tariff action stimulates wheat
. buying at tnicago. i-ago i.
Stock and bond prices are strong and
higher. Page 19.
Lumber rate rise ordered by shipping
board. Page 12.
Delay to vesoels clearing at Astoria brings
protest. Page 19.
Portland and Vicinity.
Unrest gnaws at Britain's heart, says
visitor from Scotland. Page 13.
Streetcar tracks on First street to be
repaired. Page 9.
Road work awards to Do made today
Pago 11.
Class work In cooking at Girls' Polytechnic
school interests many women. Page Is.
Authorities believe they have man who
figured In blowing of bank. Page 2u
Boilermakers' club sued for gambling
losses. Page 1.
Judge Rossman grills I. W. W. ln municl- I
pal court. Pag I. ...
CHAPERON ALWAYS THERE
Witness Says Other Women
Threatened to Mar Beauty.
CHICKENS AT HOME ANNOY
Xot One of Co-Rcspondenls Ever
Kissed Her 'or Did She See
Their Rooms, She Declnifs.
NEW TOP.K. April 22. (Special.)
Helen ElwooJ Stokes told her Mory
today; girlhood in the west; the curi
ous, swift courtship of the gnarled
faccd, silver-haired old man; the
marriage, their parting. Cloved hands
clenched, blue eyes alight, slender
body trembling, sho told It so softly
it was all but lost in the rumble of
street sounds floating through the
courtroom window.
W. E. D. Stokes listened, hulking
head reared, pencil racing over sheafs
of paper, lie had panted In aftir she
had begun. He tossed his hat upon
the table, coughed once or twice,
squirmed into a chair behind his
counsel, gulped at a coughdrop and
listened.
liad she been writing a book Mrs.
Stokes would have divided her story
ln two "I deny," "I charge." With,
the first title she stamped all the ad
verse testimony of Intimacy with the
band of co-respondents. She did It
with a weak quaver of "absolutely
false" or "oh. mercy, no!"
Choice Gives Stokes.
But her second story was more com
plex. . Most extraordinary of Its chap
ters was the indictment made todsy.
She was asked why sho deserted her
husband to go to Denver. There wern
many reasons. He kept some 4.1
chickens In his apartment at the An.
sonia and the "filth" disturbed her.
Then she blurted out:
"I went to Denver to give him a
chance to choose between his first
wife and me. He would let ms
know."
The first wife Is Mrs. Thillp LyUig.
who divorced Stokes. She is the
mother of "Vv'eddlu," Stokes' eldest
son. From all reports her estimate
of her former husband Is not flat
tering.
Krrrylhing Is Denied.
Axicle from the arbitrary division
ruggesteil. her story Included a deli
cate picture of hrr solicitude for the
children; her exemplary modesty;
her innocence of anything and every
thing, no matter how trivial, tho
stenographer's note book has recorded
to her detriment.
The court room equivalent of stago
fright made Mrs. Stokes more Inter
esting ptctorially. She seems anxious
to Impress favorably. Frequently sho
smiled, although her full, red Up
quivered. At embarrassing questions,
she giggled nervously, blushed and
murmured faintly, "Oh, mercy, no."
Even her "absolutely false" had not
tho strength of, the printed words.
Tho witness stand was directly op
posite the table occupied by Mr.
Stokes. To spectators, tno contrast
between the principals was accen
tuated by their nearness to each
other. On the stand was a young
woman, with delicately cut, unwrln
klcd features of youth. A trim trico-
tlne suit fit snugly over her firm .
figure, a sable fur piece was flun
over her enouiuors wun ucsiKnm
carelessness. A velvet hat, graced
with a gleaming glass pin, snuggled
over her red hair. Silk stock inns
showed far above tho tiny, lilgh
hcelcd slippers.
Stokes' Fare Is Floshed.
At the counsel table sat an old man,
in a basgy 'black suit, low collar,
black bow tie. fni-e flushed, persrlr-J
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More than in any other
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cific coast motorists centered
in the proposed inland route
to California, threading its
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has made definite announce- i
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the public will welcome this
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in colors on the title page of
the automobile section, ap
pears a topographical map of
Oregon, clearly defining the
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way to our southern sister.
t
This map, the first authori
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