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1 THE aiQRXIXG OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, MAY. 9, 1D31 TAR 10 FEATHERS PUT DW DOCTOR 55 Malpractice Charge Is No Denied, While Facing Mob. VICTIM IS BADLY BEATEN Pby&ician in Only One Vndergar- mcnt Is Dumped From Auto on Busy Coruer. BEAUMONT, Tex.. May 8. Dr. J. S. Paul, 55, was confined to his home today with lacerated back and wrists and from nervous shock as a result of a beating administered by a mob of 15 masked men who afterward coated his body with coal tar and fin ished off with feathers. Dr. Paul wasj taken into the forests near this city last night where the punishment was administered. He was then brought back to the city in an automobile and dumped into the street in the heart of the business section in the midst of a crowd of Saturday night shoppers. A crowd quickly gathered about the nhvsician whose only Garment was a pair of drawers with the legs cut off about half way up the thigh and his coat of tar and feathers. He was bleeding from several wounds in the back made by the lash. Deed Evidently Reaearsed. Evidently Saturday night's pro arramme had been rehearsed. Two re- porters had been taken into the woods to see "something that would mane a L'ood storv. They were taken In an automobile at a corner designated by a mysterl ous telephone caller and driven into the forest blindfolded where they waited for the remainder of the party. After the whipping and tarring, the reporters were driven into the heart of the business section and told to re main on the spot for another chapter. But a moment elapsed when a closed curtained car slowed down and Dr. J. S. Paul was shoved on the street. Before the punishment was admin istered, the spokesman of the party told Dr. Paul the punishment was be cause of malpractice, and a number of Instances were recited. Dr. Paul did not deny the charges, but justified himself by declaring there were others as guilty as him self. The physician has been a resi dent of Beaumont for about 30 years. Sob Later la Arrealed. Following the return of Dr. Paul to the city his son Marvin, agted IS, was picked up on the street by police and taken to the station. An automatic pistol and 26 bullets were found on him. He was searching for someone responsible for the maltreatment of his father. No charges were made against him and he was released. A special grand jury will be called tomorrow, it was announced, and an investigation instituted. No arrests have been made and so far as known no member of the party has been identified. Dr. Paul said the mysterious party which called at his home told him , they were members of the Ku Klux Klaii. but no mention of organization or klan was made at the scene of the punishment. A cut on the head indi- cated that the doctor resisted when they took him from the home and a whack on the head resulted. Lacer atcd wrists also indicated he was shackled.- Dr. Paul has made no state merit concerning the events of the night. life in Persia, when he said "Philip Douglas left no monument that any one could see, but he wrote the name of Jesus Christ on the heart of every person he met." Tacy Wilkinson At kinson, a graduate of Pacific Univer sity, with her husband, had charge of j a large hospital in Harpoot. After death incurred in line of duty, Mrs. Atkinson, under indescribable hard ships, reached this country with ber orphan children. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Allen, formerly In charge of the Men's Resort at Fourth and Burnside. were for years in charge of a large work on the shores of Lake Vam in Persia. They, endured the horrors of the Turkish siege for months and when the siege was lifted they felt Impelled to return home to recuperate their own strength. As they were, re turning through India word came of the death of one of our relief work ers and Dr. Allen returned to Persia while Mrs. Allen continued alone with her children. From my personal knowledge of the Aliens, I know they do not count a minute of the time their own, but they are serving as whole-heartedly the cause of the Near East from their home in Walla Walla as they did when they were in danger of death from Turkish bullets or famine-caused diseases. Sophie, Queen of Greece, recently sent a check for one hundred franc to the Near East Relief in apprecia tion of our work for the Greek ref ugees at Batoum. This work was carried on personally by Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rambo of Baker. Nellie Cole and Mina Hinman of Forest Grove are now in- the Near East rendering the same sort of service as are the other missionaries and relief work ers. Thanks to the co-operation given us by the people of the state ex pressed both in material gifts and in human lives, no fewer than 2600 are l!ving in the Near East today who otherwise must have died the hideous death of starvation and exposure. If the statement Is true that it is more blessed to give than to receive, I am inclined to believe that Oregon has profited largely by her response to the Near East Relief appeal. Three years ago Dr. J. P. McNaughton, fresh from his imprisonment in Tur key, first opened the sympathies of Portland to the Near East appeal and ! made vivid to the Portland public the need which Ben Selling and a few others had been striving to impress upon us. He was followed shortly hv Mrs. R. S. M. Emrich. whose elo quent descriptions of the valor of the Armenians cave us a new angle irom which to view our heroic allies, ine Rmriehs' devotion to the Armenian nennle was attested when her husband recently died at tne neaa 01. one ui our relier expeditions, one ""u recently that it was her ambition tn return to Armenia with her boys, that together they might Invest their Hvo in the land made sacred to them bv the grave of the husband and father. These two are typical of tne speakers who during the four years have thrilled Oregon audiences with stories of heroic suffering for an ideal TnHicrnatinn against oppression, ad miration for those who love the ideals of liberty more than tney love meir own 1 ves: svmnatny practically c- nressed for thosei in distress these are some ot tne lntangiDie dui nuu things which have come to Oregon as a result of our having listened to the cry from the Near East. Cordially yours, J. J. HANDSAKER. T TO BE 111 BLUE BOOK Method of levying Taxes Is to Be Strict One. ANY DEVIATION VITAL If Letter Is Xot Followed, Any As sessments May Be Declared, to Be XuU and Void. ter times for the farmer appear un mistakably ahead. Optimistic, also, was the govern ment's showing of employment con ditions. Officials believed that April marked the turn and that the next survey would show a . healthy and noticeable improvement.' There is a widespread belief that Wall Street knows when better times are coming and reflects its knowl edge in the stock market. However that may be. certain it is that a period of increased industrial activity is almost invariably preceded by a re vival in the volume of trading in stocks and a general rise in values. Both symptoms are here. . After lying in travail for many months, the stock market has picked itself up without any preliminaries whatever and started upward. The volume of sales has been larger ever since and values have risen. The whole level of prices is higher. A7J S QUOTA SHORT NEflH-EflST WORK LAUDED WORK WIS AND PEOMJS T1IAAKED FOR AID. ARE County Cliairnian One of Chief .Factors of Success, Says J. J. Handsakcr, Director. PORTLAND, May 7. (To the Edi tor). During the past three years I have had frequent occasion to thank the Portland papers for their generous space for the Near East Relief. Your editorial in The Morning Oregonian entitled "Saving a Million Lives" is most timoly. as in response to an ap peal from E. B. Piper, now in New York, we are endeavoring to close up the China-Near East campaign, and also to obtain the largest possible amount of clothing for shipment early in June. Your editorial refers to the "amaz ing showing for organized benevo lence of Americans" shown by the an nual Near East Relief report just made to congress. There are many things which no annual report can show and yet which indicate more than any array of figures can show, the annual spirit of the Near East Relief. During my four years' serv ice as a state director, I have come into rather intimate knowledge of the inside working of the organization- in the state, nationally and abroad. Giving due credit to all other agencies, the county chairman of the Near East Relief is one of the chief factors in our success. Yester day there was in my office a man prominent 1n business and political life of the state, whose wife is one of our county chairmen. The success which has attended our campaign in her county and the other counties of the state is due in large measure to days of toil and sleepless nights on the part of those whose one reward for service is the knowledge that they are saving human lives. There is in Portland today a large group of me,n and women, leaders in professional, business and social life, to whom 1 am free to go at any time, and whose services are given gladly as speakers, organizers or, in any other way. Thanks to the aid of these friends of the children, the story of Armenia has become a household word in the state. Measured in dollars and cents. Oregon's contribution of more than one-half million dollars the last four years equals, if it does not exceed, that of any other state in proportion to the population and wealth of Ore gon. Oregon's contribution of volunteer service, of money and of clothing is by no means her most valued gift to the Near East. Oregonians have as cheerfully laid down their lives as re lief workers in the Near East as did the boys in France. Henry Morgenthau, ex-ambassador to Turkey, in commenting on the heroic life and death of Frances Gage, ex-secretary of the Y. W. C. A., said "if ever a woman deserved sainthood. It was Frances Gage." Robert E. Spears, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreitrn Missions, paid the highest possible tribute to Philip Douglas, husband of a Portland girl. Eva &iilis Douglas, wlto .gave, up his GHOST WILL BE VIEWED SEPARATE GRAVE PREPARED FOR MEDICAL BEER. House Judiciary Committee to ti- amine Sir. Volstead's Strangle Hold Dry Measure. WASHINGTON, May 8. of John Barleycorn will congress again this judiciary -The ghost bob up in week at house committee bearings on Chairman Volstead's bill to keep him completely dead. Enemies of the departed plan to deliver a final whack. Considering U.e dry composition of the house, members predict that the new Vol stead measure designed to prohibit sale of beer to the sick will pass. A flood of petitions has reached Mr Volstead for and against the added restrictions. Doctors seem to h divided about fifty-fifty, according . tk. i.tt.ri nn medical beer. ittee agreed to hear them all, beginning Thursday, and then Mr. Volstead predicted, put i ih hill designed 'to put med ical beer in a grave all its own. ....... Mr Volstead's tighten m-nn measure.- three or four others affecting promotion .j . r.,hinh wnnld nermit Amer- une on. ...,, ,ho L. 1 n 1K1UU1 UtJ U'". lean siiiHo , . three-mile limit win u . . i. M.hnnt marine h,,t the Volstead committee will pass - ,. . , i . thA nroniDl on tne m ' , ,h, tion em"' w.v..- ,Bnf i.f Kill trunsiernnfc cu.v. ...... from the treasury to the department of justice. SOVIET CLAIMS VIWUKi Bandits Under Antonoff Reported Overwhelmed in Battle, Dial Mv 8. (By the Associated Press.) A Moscow dispatch today an t j ,h niiellins of the revolu ., ronvrment in Tambov, led by liuuai; -- ii,.u I. fi.neral Antonott, an commander. The dispatch said: Vrnm TambOV mo u" "' .. trm hnnria is reoorieo. . r r .en.n.11 Many UL iiiw were killed, among whom were all of .... mQ ; staff. All tne arma auu mo " 1 ,, ransport were capture- considered committee, of An Obituary. Eugene H. Kurtz, 4S7 East Thirty- fourth street, diea eariy J"ii morning following a sudden attack of pneumonia. Mr. Kurtz was born in Germany m 1S6J. oui came w "..o country at an early age. He resided in st I.ouis for some time, but moved to Portland about four years ago. During the last two years he waB employed at the Powers & Estes drug store. Mr. Kurtz was a member of the Masonic lodge and was formerly secretary of the Retal Clerks' asso ciation. He is survived by his widow and child, his mother residing in Germany and a number of more distant rela tives who are living in St. Louis. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Alleged Thief to Be Returned. EUGENE. Or., May 8. (Special.) Dick Lewis, who is charged with the theft of an automob'le from Ira Truesdale and with forging the name of E. E. Hyland. ost Valley lumber man, to two checks, was caught at Red Bluff, Cal., Saturday afternoon, according to word received by Sheriff Stickeis. Lewis and the machine will be returned to this city immediately. He is a bbxer and had been in train ing here for a bout, but had been employed in the n.U lot the Lost Valley Lumber company. Phone your want ads to The Ore Oiiian. lUia 7070, Automatic 56U-65. SALEM, Or., May 8. (Special.) Because of the Importance of the so- called budget law, enacted by the legislature .at its last session, a di gest of the act will be published In the Oregon Blue book, according to decision teached today by Sam A, Kozar, secretary of state. This law is an innovation In the method of levying taxes, and unless followed to the letter any assessments under the act may be declared null and void Under the provisions of this law, it is unlawful for any county, city, town, port, school district, union high school district, road district, irrlga tion district, water board, dock com mission or any other public or quasi public corporation to levy in any year any tax upon property subject to tax ation unless an estimate shall first have been made of the total amount of money proposed to be expended by the municipal corporation for all pur poses during the fiscal year next en suing. Detailed Estimate Required. At the time of preparing and sub mitting its estimate of expenditures. each municipal corporation is also re quired to file in the office of the levying board a detailed estimate of probable receipts from all sources during the next ensuing fiscal year. including unappropriated or unex pended receipts and the estimated ex penditures shall be the estimated tax levy up'.'m the assessable property within tne municipal corporation for the next ensuing, fiscal year. After the estimates of receipts and expenditures have been filed,, the levying board is required to publish the same in a newspaper of general circulation, together with a notice of tne time and place of meeting when the estimates must be discussed by the interested taxpayers. This pub lished notice must be given at least 20 days in advance of the date of the meeting. The cost of publishing the notices and estimates are to be paid out of the funds of the municipal cor poration kept for advertising. Greater Expenditure Barred. Except to meet unforeseen emerg encies, no greater expenditures of public money can be made for any specific purpose than that finally ap proved and authorized at the public hearing. No tax can be levied by any municipal corporation except by direct vote 'of the people and at the public hearing, and then not to ex uccu me puousnea estimates and an additional 10 per cent thereof. Ihe law expressly provides that under its provisions no tax levy shall be made in excess of any limitations upon tax levies now imposed or which may hereafter be imposed bv tne constitution and laws of the state. Any tax levy not made in accordance with the provisions of this law will be void. The levying board of each munic- pal corporation is authorized and di rected annually to appoint a suitable number of qualified electors and free holders of the corporation equal to the number of the members of the levying board, who, with the members of the levying board shall constitute the budget committee. Oregon One of First I sing- Plan. . Officers, agents or employes of municipal corporations are disoual- ified from serving as members of the budget committee. By the terms of the law. the bud ire t committee is empowered to demand and receive from any officer, employe or department of the municipal cor poration any information it may re quire for the preparation of the budget and to compel attendance of any such officer or employe at Its meetings. Oregon, it was said today, is one of the first states in the country to adopt the budget law system, and Its operation probably will be watched closely by the more populous sec tions of the east.- The law will be come effective May 25. INTEREST RATE IS CUT (Continued From First Pagre. ) $2500 YET TO BE RAISED FOR CRATER LAKE HOTEL. . Chamber of Commerce Conducts Active Drive to Insure Pur chase of Concessions. MEDFORD, Or., May 8. (Special.) Medford has raised 4500 of her $7000 allotted stock in thejiew Crater Lake National Park company, whicn has taken over the Crater lake con cessions from Alfred L Parkhurst of Portland and will operate them this year. Hard sledding in the raising of the $7000 caused the Medford chamber of commerce to issue the following statement for publication in Medford: "The question as to whether the business men of Medford were back of the movement of improved facil ities at Crater lake was placed squarely before them at a meeting held at the city halL The chamber of commerce Crater lake committee had been successful in selling but $3500 stock of the Crater Lake Na tional Park company out of the total amount of $7000 which Medford citi zens were expected to subscribe. "After having the proposition placed squarely before them, approx imately $1000 of the stock was sub scribed yesterday and assurances given the committee that an effort would 'be made to assist them next week to sell the entire balance ($2500) to the business interests here. "The Crater Lake National Park company was capitalized at $40,000 and one half of its stock is being of fered for sale. The business men of Portland have subscribed $12,000. Governor Olcott has taken $1000. As Medford had claimed Crater lake as ber prized possession, the Portland men said you raise the balance In Medford and run it this year. Under these conditions Medford cannot af ford to fail. V. H. Vawter and George T. Collins have accepted the responsibility to maintain Medford's good name and have employed Carl Tengwald as manager and Secly Hall director of transportation, both experienced men whom the people or Meatora must back to the fullest extent. m 40r $0 0 Every Day Is "Mothers ' Day 99 ,,''ffllP,I, Lighten Her Burdens Through the Laundry Way May 8 was observed throughout the coun try as a day designated to re member and honor mothers. Wearing and sending of flow ers was a beautiful'tribute of yesterday, but how about to day Monday? You can continue your devo tion and kindness by ordering the laundry to call for the weekly wash, to be returned snowy white. Specialized methods have been employed to serve mothers, thereby blotting out those tedious tasks of wash day. This is a practical gift to be sure, and an economical one as well, but how comforting to know these heavy burdens' can be shouldered by simply providing.f or this service. A telephone call is sufficient. , - - Wff : TW improvement in. employment "and market conditions. The railroads, taking stock of earn ings and income, also have taken fresh heart for the future. A Febru ary deficit of $7,000,000 has been fol lowed by a March net income of ap proximately $30,000,000. Decisively, the railroad situation has turned for the better. Two Reasons Prominent. Two reasons which stand out prominently are: First Traffic has picked up. Second Reductions in operating expenses are developing. Still further increase in traffic and still further reduction in expense of operation are expected for succeeding months. Here and there, too, freight rates are being lowered on volume traffic between specified points. A cut of 3'a cents a hundred pounds in export grain freight rates has stim ulated "business with the farmer. The petition of building material producers for freight rate cuts also shows the trend of business belief that the present charges are too high for full and free development of commerce. , Vkeat Price Sent l. Buyers from across the eeas came Into the wheat market during the week in such force that the price of No. 2 red winter wheat has risen from $1.47 on VLpril 14 to $1.71 at seaboard. Corn prices also went up with increased export shipments. Bet- BROKEN BACK IS BETTER Insane Patient at Salem Declared . to Be Improving. SALEM. Or., May 8.7 (Special.) Mrs. Iva H. Hayes, a patient at the state hospital, who yesterday suf fered a broken back when she leaped from a third-story window of the in stitution, was somewhat improved to day, according to the attending phy sicians. The doctors said that the back injury had not produced pa ralysis and that the patient had - a chance of recovery. Mrs. Hayes has not gien the hos pital authorities any explanation of the incident, but they believe - she hurled herself through the ifindow with suicidal intent. Mrs.' Hayes was committed to the hospital-from Mult nomah county and had shown marked improvement in her mental condition. ROAD EMPLOYE ARRESTED Alleged Insane Man Said to Have - Threatened Violence. EUGENE, Or., May 8. (Special.) A man giving the name of Johnson, employed on McKenzie river highway work east of Blue river, was brought to Eugene last night and locked up in the county jail for investigation. Word was sent to Sheriff StlrkeH LaundAy Industry WW See Your Paper a Week From Today for Announcement 8 of This Series that Johnson had threatened to shoot up the road camp, and that he was thought to be Insane. He was tied up by memoers 01 u road crew. Mrs. George uroner. who ot Deputy Sheriff Croner, with the assistance of George Moody, hunter and guide of McKenzie' Briage, brought him part way to r.ugene. Halsey Pastor Weds. ALBANY, Or., May 8. (Special.) Rev. Raymond C. Smith, pastor of the Christian cnurch at Halsey, and Miss Helen Moore of this city, a teacher in the Halsey public schools, were marr nfed at the home of the bride's father here Friday evening. The ceremony s performed by Dr. D. V. Poling. pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Albany. Mrs. Smith was formerly employed in the office of the county school superintendent here and has been teaching in the Halsey schools the past year. Labor Plans to Hire Agent, SALEM, Or., May 8. (Special.) At special meeting of organized labor called for next Tuesday night the pro posal to employ a business agent foa the several crafts now represented in Salem will be discussed. Local union leaders said today that throup-h the employment of one business agent the affairs of the organizations would be concentrated, and considerable money would be saved to the individual crafts. " Campaign for Funds Planned. CENTRALIA. Wash.. May 8. (Spe cial.) Final plans for a drive which will open tnttorrow to raise $lu.000 for the purchase of part of the Borst tract on Fords Traiiie as a site or a public park, were laid last night at a meeting held by team captains, who received their instructions and sup plies. About 30 teams will canvass the residence and business districts for subscriptions. In addition to the canvass, all clubs, church societies and fraternal orders will be solicited. Five clubs have already pledged $50 each. Florence to Buy Road Bonds.' EUGENE. Or.. May 8. (Special.) The citizens of Florence have in formed the Lane county court they will buy $20,000 of the county's road bonds, so that this sum may be ex pended in the completion of the road from the North Fork to Florence and thence to Cushman. The road down the North Fork is a part of the pro posed state highway from Eugene to Florence and is to he built with funds provided county. equally state CONVICT, STABBED, DIES Bnrglar Serving 10-Year Sentence Killed by Fellow Prisoner. SAN QLTENTIN, Cal., May 8. Rugus Acosla, serving a ten-year sentence in the slate penitentiary here from Orange county for murder, was stabbed last night by a fellow pris oner, Manuel Lopez, from Fresno county, and died within a short time, prison officials announced today. Lopez Is 24 years old and has served two years of a five-year term for burglary. Graduation Order Rescinded? WASHINGTON. D. C, May 8 Sec retary Donby has announced that he has rescinded a recent order providing for the graduation of the lSl'S naval academy claws six months before the regular date. He said he decided to give the class the benefit of the full senior year. 7&WE A LTH oftieWEST DANCINGtaughi All New Steps and Popular Dsitfs Guar anteed in F.ljcht Three Hoar Lewsons. Ladies $2, gentlemen $5. De Honey's beau tiful academy. Twenty third and Washington. Beginn:ers" clase starts Monday and Thursday evenings. Advance c 1 a s ses Tuesday and r noay evenings, a to 11:30. Plenty of de sirable p a r t n ers and 'practice; no em barrassment. We teach you to dance; There is a reason. I. earn in a real school. Phone Main imo. Private lessons all liouis. 1 lr5?M af IHE SPELL UF 1 HE JLAND , T eruarantee to others do not THE great achievements of the West have as a stage or background the great achievements of nature. It is a setting of mountain, sea, and skv: sunsets and drifting plains. The beauty of. the West, the appeal -of its varied scenery, and the vieor of its life draw people from all parts of the earth, holding many of them here , ' in its spell to add impetus and energy to the enterprise of the land- , V In reckoning the wealth of the West the natural ' y ; advantages of the country must be counted in as "a tangible asset. Throughout the year its' - resorts are thronged with visitors, its mountains and valleys and coast line fulfilling the expecta tions of those who set out in quest of health, wealth, and recreation- THE .BANK OF CALIFORNIA, N. A A NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Reserve System Third at Stark Street PORTLAND . OREGON 1 ; ' " - Do qou enjoy Uictrola ballads and dance music? UICTROLA records for May include the following captivating ballad and dance numbers: "rF;yomm,"IuIIaby duet, and "Slue Jeans? sung by Peerless quartette 85c Angels We Call Them Mothers Down Here," sung by Henry Burr, and "Over The Hill," sung by Charles Hart 85c. "Make VeUereS and "Some Little Bird," medley fox trots by the great Paul White man's dance orchestra 85c vMazie"znd "Answer," fox trots by All Star Trio with orchestra 85c "Kiss a Miss" and "Romance" a fascinating pair of waltzes 85c Take a small Victrola on your "vaca tion to the mountains or seashore. Genuine "Victrolas, $25 to $1500. Convenient terms on any Victrola, Sherman Jtlay & Go Sixth an4 Morrison Streets PORTLAND Oppose PoMofics SEATTLE TACOMA SPOXAf