VOL. I.X SO. 18,8
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Poslofflee as Seennd-ClRss Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 19S1
TRICE FIVK CENTS
CLARA SMITH TAKES fl R YS STAMPFI1F
$10,000 FOR CLAIMS, 11 J J uliimrLUL
POSSE IS OUTWITTED
BY ESCAPED; ROBBER
59TH ARTILLERY GETS
GAP
IN MINISTRY
40 CONVICTS ESCAPE
FROM TEXAS PRISON
PHILIPPINE ORDERS
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INTEREST IX HA3IOX ESTATE
MAX WHO GOT I
PORT-
COAST REGIMENT SCHEDULED
SEVEN RECAPTURED BY
POSSES SCOURING COUNTRY.
IS RELINQUISHED.
LAND LAST
.EE.
TO SAIL JULY 5.
SLAYING 4 MATES
IS LAID TP WOMAH
Life Insurance Carried on
All Husbands.
NEWMATES0U6HT
BIG WORLD
ISSUE
EYCORNANEW
BY MRS
SIM
Stream of Young Men. No
Longer Continues.
HIGH LIVING COST HELD BAR
Methodist Episcopal Bishops
Exalt Life Service.
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APPEAL MADE TO YOUTH
Conference Opens Behind Closed
Doors lo Formulate National
and World-Wide Policies.
The problem of finding enough
young men to fill up the ranks of
the ministry was the principal topic
of discussion at the semi-annual con
fircnce of the board of bishops of -the
Methodist Episcopal church, which
opened yesterday morning at the
First Methodist church. The confer
ence sessions are executive meetings
behind closed doors and policies of
national and world-wide importance
to the church are being formulated.
"Nearly all churches are finding it
hard to keep up the ministry at this
time." said one of the bishops at the
close of the afternoon session.
"Lack of adequate salaries for young
men. the increased cost of living and
other reasons have brought about this
condition, which has prevailed for
several years."
Toons Mu Needed.
Bishop Theodore's. Henderson of
Detroit, who was appointed by the
board of education of the church, to
visit conferences and talk to young
men on "Life Service," reported on
his work yesterday. It was as the
result of his talk, that the bishops
began to discuss the Importance of
"keeping a stream of young men com
ing into the ministry."
Bishop Henderson has the Methodist
students in high schools all over the
country appoint representatives to go
to conference meetings. At these con
ferences the bishop addresses the stu
dents on the value of "Life Service."
Be holds personal conferences with
them and explains the possibilities as
well as responsibilities open in the
ministerial field. The bishops whose
areas Bishop Henderson has visited,
paid many tributes yesterday to the
power of his appeal and the work
he Is doing.
One of the most important prob
lems of the conference Is scheduled
to be presented this morning. It is a
consideration of. the course of study
for .uctnoaist ministers and Is ex
pectcd to be thoroughly discussed, due
to existing differences of opinion,
Twenty-two Bishops Attend.
Twenty-two bishops are attending
the meetings, from ail parts of the
United States. Bishop Thomas Nich
olson of Chicago presided at the
morning session and Bishop A. W.
Leonard of San Francisco at the after
noon meeting. Bishops Charles B.
Mitchell of St. Paul and Ernest L.
Waldorf of Wichita will preside today.
The next meeting will be held in
Washington, D. C, It was decided
yesterday. The board will meet Oc
tober 26 and on October 27 the bish
ops will attend the unveiling of the
statue in memory of Bishop Francis
Asbury, the first American bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal church. Oc
tober 27 will be the 150th anniversary
of his landing in this country.
It was announced yesterday that
Bishop Lester H. Smith will come tr.is
full from India to represent the bish
ops of the far east. He is due to ari
rive in San Francisco in September.
His residence is in Bangalore.
Organisation Plana Considered.
Matters of organisation occupied
the board in the morning. Communi
cations and papers, which have been
received from all parts of the world,
were assigned to the three commit
tees, which comprise law and admin
istration, plan and general references.
All the bishops were present for
the opening meeting except Bishop
Joseph F. Berry of Philadelphia, who
will be unable to come on account of
ill health.
Bishop Francis J. McConnell of
Pittsburg spoke at the Reed college
chapel yesterday morning and Bishop
Edwin H. Hughes of Boston will speak
at Reed Monday morning.
Bishop Leonard will speak tonight
at Centenary WMbur church. The
SJd anniversary of the founding of
the Epworth league will be celebrated.
Epworth league members of Portland
will attend by chapters and Dr. Will
lam Wallace Youngson will preside.
Bliihopa Guests nt Lnneheena.
Luncheons for the bishops are being
erved in the First Methodist church.
The district superintendents and offi
cials of the Portland area met with
the board yesterday and today the
pastors and their wives will be with
the bishops at luncheon. Bishop W.
F. McDowell of Washington, D. C,
spoke at the luncheon yesterday.
The 22 bishops, who will be in
Portland for the meetings, are:
Ernest G. Richardson, -Atlanta; Wil
liam Burt, Buffalo; Frank M. Bristol.
Chattanooga:. Thomas Nicholson, Chi
cago; William F, Anderson, Cincin
nati; Theodore S. Henderson. Detroit;
Robert E. Jones, New Orleans; Luther
!. Wilson. New York; Homer C.
tCuncludcd Zu Pago TC Column 1.)
Settlement Effected by Attorneys.-!
Young; Woman Still Has
Considerable Revenues.
LOS ANGELES. May 12. A settle
ment was effected today by which
Clafa Smith Hamon relinquished all
claim to the estate of Jake L. Hamon,
of whose alleged murder she was re
cently acquitted by an Oklahoma
jury, it was announced by her at
torney, J. B. Champion.
"An agreement," the attorney said,
"has been signed between Frank L.
Ketch, administrator of the estate of
Jake Hamon. and Clara "' Smith
Hamon, whereby in consideration of
(10,000 cash she relinquishes all
claim to the estate of Hamon, the
agreement recognising as valid cer
tain rights which the records show
are vested in her.
"These are specified royalties and
leases in the Hewitt Oil company in
the Healdton oil field and other oil
interests in Stephens and Cotton
counties from which Clara Smith
Hamon is drawing revenue. These
interests are recognized in documents
signed by Jake Hamon."
The attorney said "present rev
enues" from these holdings were "am
ple" to take care of his client.
Old-Time' Battle Against
Liquor Re-Enacted.
MEDICINAL BEER ABHORRED
New York Doctor and Vol
stead Exchange Hot Words.
AIR-TIGHT LAW DEMANDED
Witness, Asked Why Cereal Bcver
ajres Not Good for Invalids, Puts
"Kick" In Reply.
Roy Gardner,
render, Clia
ing Len
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20 I. W. W. WIN FREEDOM
Counts Against Men Accused of
Hindering War Efrorts Set Aside.
ST. PAUL, May 12. The United
States circuit court of appeals today
set aside the first of the four counts
in the indictment on which 25 mem
bers of the Industrial Workers of the
World were convicted and sentenced
to varying terms in the Leavenworth
federal penitentiary frbm the federal
district court of Kansas.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 12. Twen
ty of the 27 members of the I. W. W.
convicted in the federal court in Kan
sas City, Kan., in December, 1919, and
sentenced to varying terms in the
Leavenworth penitentiary, will be
freed as a result of the- decision of
the United States circuit court of ap
peals in St. Paul today, the United
States district attorney's office an
nounced.
The men were indicted for alleged
activities in the wheat fields of Kan
sas and the fields of Oklahoma in
1917. when, according to the charges
brought by the government, an effort
was made to Interfere with the gov.
ernment's prosecution of the war by
setting fire to wheat fields and de
stroying oil wells.
I0WAW ON WAY HERE
Steamer Reported to Have Left
New York 17 Hours Tate.-
In the face of strike ' conditions
which have tied up practically ail
shipping in New York harbor, the
steamer lowan, of the American-Ha
waiian service of the United American
lines, steamed from New York at 10
o'clock yesterday morning for Port
land via way ports, according to in
formation received yesterday by the
Columbia-Pacific Shipping company,
local agent for the United American
lines.
The lowan priginally was scheduled
to leave New York for the Pacific
coast at S o'clock Wednesday after
noon, so she got away with only 17
hours' delay and is practically on
schedule.
CITY'S POSTAL CASH GAINS
April Receipts $8000 Over Last
Year; Seattle Loses Heavily.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington. D. C, May 12. Portland
was the 32d postoffice in the country
in point of receipts in April, showing
a total of $169,633 as against $161,798
in April last year.
Seattle was the 24th, showing a
heavy loss, however, over April of last
year. Seattle's receipts were 183,92S
as against $203,569 in April last year.
Postal receipts for April at 50 of the
largest offices totaled $20,592,611, de
crease of $1,848,708, or 8.24 per cent
from the same month last year. The
postoffice department said railroad
and express strikes in April of a year
ago had forced merchants and others
to send many shipments by mail.
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 12. The
days when the drys were battling to
bury John Barleycorn were re-enacted
today before the house Judiciary
committee, except that a few friends
of John's family appeared to protest
against Chairman Volstead's plan to
cut off, even for medicinal purposes,
the heritage of beer.
Plenty of drys were on hand and
Dr. J. P. Davin of New York, who
pleaded for the use of beer as medi
cine, received noire too cordial treat
ment. In fact, he was roughly han
dled by Volstead, who challenged the
physician's ability to explain any
thing, and on another occasion de
clared the witness was using "a con-o-inmai-aHnn
of words that mean
nothing."
Outstanding in the testimony was
the statement by Oliver T. Remmers
counsel for the Anheuser-Busch com
pany of St. Louis, that the firm's pol
icy was "beer for all, or beer for
none." He requested an Investiga
tion of "favoritism and failure" in
the dry law enforcement, and declared
that the firm stood four square for
law enforcement, although unalter
ably opposed to prohibition.
Drya Want Airtight law.'
Dry leaders said there were many
leaks in . the stocks of liquors and
urged the committee to' make the
Volstead law airtight. Dr. Davin.
however, resented the move by Mr.
Volstead to "dictate to physicians"
what they shall or shall not pre
scribe, and urged the committee to
await consideration of the bill by
the American Medical association
next month.
Mr. Volstead sought to establish
why it was not possible for physi
cians to made meuicai oeer oy using
cereal beverages and alcohol. He
asked Dr. Davin several - questions
along this line, none of which ap
parently was answered to the satis
faction of the 'committee chairman.
who finally blurted:
Look here, you're trying to evade
(Concluded on Page 2. Column 3.)
I, May 12. All
trace of Boy Gardner, reported sur
rounded near Napa, was believed
shortly before noon to hav,e been lost,
according to the Solano county sher
iffs office, where Sheriff Harris of
Napa county had just been a visitor.
NAPA, Cal.. May 12 A posse of
deputy sheriffs and ranchers earlier
today was reported to have trapped
Roy Gardner, escaped mail robber, in
a- thickly wooded spot in Gordon can
yon, near here, and to have been wait
ing a favorable opportunity to close
in on Gardner and bring him out dead
or alive.
Gardner escaped June 7, 1920, by
jumping from a train near Portland
after he had been convicted of an
$87,000 registered mail robbery at San
Diego and had " received a 25-year
term in McNeil's island penitentiary.
Following his escape, Gardner went
to Australia and recently returnJd to
Napa, where his wife resides, to give
himself up, the sheriff's office said.
He was advised,' however, through a
guarded telephone conversation with
his wife that he could expect no con
cessions and he immediately disap
peared again, with the posse in close
pursuit.
At the time Gardner escaped the
train was pulling Into the East Port
land depot. He was In charge of fed
eral officers and was on his way
north to McNeil' island to begin serv
ing a prison term. Two Chinese were
also In custody of the officers.
Gardner whipped a revolver from
the pocket of a guard as the officers
and their prisoners sat in a compart
ment of the train. One of the Chinese,
Tom Wing, handcuffed the officers as
Gardner held them at bay with the
weapon. The two then slipped from
the train and the officers were unabie
to "attract members of the train crew
and gain their release until the train
had left the east side station.
The Chinese was captured soon after
in local Chinatown, but although a
wide search was made for Gardner, he
could not be located.
HEIRESS BRIOE OF YOUTH
Action to Break Dowry of $100,000
to Klamath Woman Pends.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., May 12.
(Special.) Anita Labaree, central
figure In the will contest in which
the son and daughter of her former
husband, Oscar G. Labaree, are seek
ing to break his will making her the
sole heir of his $100,000 estate was
married in Yreka, Cal., x.May 4, to
Elmer Lowery, rancher of the Bly dis
trict, in Klamath county, it was dis
closed here today. The will contest
is now pending in the circuit court
here on appeal from the county court
which rejected the claims of Ben
Colonel E. D. Pearee, at Present in
- Command, Is Not Expected to
Accompany Troops.
TACOMA, Wash., May 12. (Spe
cial.) The 59th coast artillery regi
ment at Camp Lewis will sail from
Tacoma on July 5 for Fort Mills.
Philippine Inlands, according to or
ders received at the headquarters of
the 31st coast artillery brigade from
the war department at Washington
today. ' - ,
The entire regirftent, which numbers
approximately 1000 men and officers,
together with a number of officers
who have been transferred to the 59th
regiment from Puget sound coast de
fenses will sail for the Philippines,
the orders said.
I he 69th regiment now is com
manded by Colonel E. D. Pearce, but
it is understood that another officer
will take the regiment to the Philip
pines as Colonel Pearce has been or
dered to report to Fort Leavenworth,
Kas., in September to attend the army
service schools there.
The officers, which have been as
signed to the 59th regiment from
Puget sound coast defenses Include:
Captains Lewis J. Bowler and Thomas
R. Parker and First Lieutenants
Nathaniel A. Burnell, Charles F. Wil
son, Halvo H. Myrah and Lee E.
Gray. First Lieutenant Edward W.
Hendrick has been assigned from the
Columbia river defenses. First Lieu
tenant Verne C. Snell from San Diego,
Captains Philip A. Biejil. William G.
Brey and Louis D. Farnsworth and
First Lieutenant Ruppert E. Starr.
The officers from San Francisco and
San Diego will sail for Camp Lewis
on the transport which leaves San
Francisco July 1, the orders provide.
COMPLAINT MADE BY FIFTH
Prisoners Mutiny, Charge Guards,
Get Guns and vThen Make
Dash for Liberty.
Arrest Made in Honolulu for
Los Angeles Police.
OTHER DEATHS CHARGED
Murder of Brothcr-ln-Law and
Child of One of Spouses In
cluded in Allegations.
PORTLAND RADIUM LOST
Quantity of Precious Element Is
Reported Missing.
CHICAGO, May 12. The $6000 tube
of radium lost in. an elevated train
here and which was reported found in
a street car in Kansas City, Is still
missing, the local representative of
the insurance company handling the'
adjustment, announced today.
Other mysterious disappearances cf
radium throughout the country, at
least one a day for the last ten days,
are reported by this company! which
is said to insure the greater part of
all the radium In the United States.
Losses have been reported from such
widely, separated points as Portland,
Or., Oklahoma CHy, and Toledo, O-,
aggregating $40,000.
DAUGHERTY AIDE, NAMED
New Y'orker Nominated as Assist
ant Attorney-General.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May . 12.
President Harding today nominated
William Hoppin of New York to be
assistant attornev-seneral in charare
Labaree ana nis sister ana neic, tne of eustoms cases.
.lll vsllil . .
HONOLULU, T. H., May 12. (By
the Associated Press.) Mrs. Paul Vin
cent Southard, also known as Mrs.
Lyda Meier, was held by the police
here today on orders from Los An
geles in connection with the deaths
of four of her husbands, a brother-
in-law and a child of one of the men
to whom she was married.
'Paul Southard, to whom she was
married in Los Angeles last Novem
ber, told he police here she tried to
get him to take out $10,000 worth of
life insurance. Southard is a petty
officer on the U. S. S. Monterey, sta
tioned at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Insurance Carried on All.
Insurance of, which she was the
beneficiary was carried on the lives
of all the five men whose deaths are
being investigated.
Mrs. Southard, according to the
police, has agreed to return without
extradition. Papers for extradition are
being prepared.
Divorce Is Asked, With
Another Man in Mind.
INTENDED MARRIES ANOTHER
Husband at One Time Ready
to Make Agreement.
HOUSTON. Tex., May 12. Thirty-
three of 40 convicts who escaped from
the state penitentiary at Hunlsville
today were still at large tonight, al
though hundreds of armed officers
and citizens were ecourhig the coun
try within a radius of 75 miles in an
effort to apprehend them.
Seven have been recaptured. Posses
closed in on four others just before
nightfall.
Two guards, were shot, one probably
fatally, when the outbreak occurred.
Six of the men obtained pistols and I
stormed the front gate of the prison,lw . .
then charged guards on the Inside ofOlJT IS ONLY OBSTACLE
tne prison walls and broke Into the I
armory, obtaining shotguns.
About 25 shots in all were fired by
the convicts. The guards returned
the fire, but as far as is known no
convicts were hit.
Reports to the warden's office this
afternoon said 25 others were sur
rounded by a posse. Eight more were
being pursued as they headed toward
Houston, the reports indicated.
will valid.
Lowery Is said here to be barely
out of his teens. His parents a!
ranchers in the Bly district. He hai
been employed on the Labaree rancl
during the past year, friends said,
John J. Tigert of Kentucky was
nominated -to be commissioner of edu
cation and William E. Lamb of Illi
nois to be solicitor of the department
of commerce.
BIG BERRY CROP ASSURED
Small Fruit Prospect in Marion
County Is Bright.
SALEM. Or May 12. (Special.)
A big' crop of loganberries and straw
berries is promised here this year, ac.
carding to S. H. VanTrump, county
hortbjulturai inspector, who recently
completed a survey of the berry sec
tions of the county. '
Peach trees, he said, had not yet
recovered from the freeze in 1919, but
the crop will be much larger than that
of last year. The Italian prune crop
was somewhat affected by recent
rains and Mr. VanTrump said it was
too early to estimate the damage.
SILESIA IS TO BE EVADED
U. S. Envoy at Council Ordered
Not to Discuss Question.
WASHINGTON. D. C, May 12. The
United States will refrain from any
discussion of the Sileslah question be
fore the allied supreme council should
that subject be considered, it was said
today.
Instructions to Ambassador Harvey,
it was explained, are to take an ac
tive part only in the consideration of
questions involving American interests.
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LOS ANGELES, May 12. The arrest
at Honolulu today of Mrs. Lyda Meier
Southard and who Is charged with
murdering her fourth husband. Ed
ward R. Meier, at Twin Falls. Idaho,
was the outgrowth of the theft of
a diamond, with suspicion pointing at
the woman, it was said here today by
V. H. Ormsby, a deputy sheriff of
Twin Falls.
Ormsby. who came here three weeks
ago searching for Mrs. Southard, said
details of the charges were in the
possession of Frank Stephen, prose
cuting attorney at Twin Falls.
Departure I Learned.
The deputy sheriff said information
that Mrs. Southard had come to Los
Angeles from Twin Falls was sup
plied by Mrs. Mary James of the
Idaho city, who was said to have ob
tained employment here for the sus
pected woman and to have lived with
her for a time In Los Angeles.
Shortly after he arrived here Orms
by said he learned the woman, then
known to him as Mrs. Meier, had
married Paul Vincent Southard, chief
petty officer on the U. S. S. Monterey,
now in Hawaiian waters, and had
gone to Honolulu with him.
Ormsby said he had cabled to South
ard asking If he ever knew a woman
named Lyda Meier and had received
in answer a denial that Southard had
known a woman of that name, but
had known an Ida Meyer, a school
teacher In the east.
Trip to Honolulu Planned.
There Is no charge against the
woman here. Ormsby, when he cabled
the Honolulu authorities asking that
she be arrested, gave bis temporary
address as the "sheriffs office. Los
Angeles."
The Idaho officer said he would
leave soon for San Francisco, where
bis wife, also a deputy sheriff, would
join him. and they would go together
to Honolulu to take Mrs. soutnara
back to Twin Falls.
TOLEDO TO FINISH PAVING
City Makes Many Improvements in
Last Few Months,
TOLEDO, Or., May 12. (Special.)
Weather permitting, Charles JlooK.
contractor, expects to complete the
paving of Main street in Toledo within
the next ten days. This will be Lin
coln county's first paved street. Dur
ing the last few months several
marked Improvements have been
made In Toledo, among which are the
organization of the First National
bank and the erection of a fine two
story concrete building, the purchase
and fitting up of the old Lincoln
County bank building as a Masonic
room and office building, equipping
the lower floor of the Andrews build
ing in a modern combination pool.
confectionery and restaurant enter
prise.
Other accomplishments are the or
ganizatlon of a chamber of commerce
with 150 members and the fitting up
of elaborate rooms in the Akin build
ing.
DANCE HALL LAW F0UGH
.fosters From Mc.Mlnnvllle lrge
Anti-Bluc-Lan- Fund.
W1LLAM1NA, Or., May 12. Posters
from McMinnville are reaching all
towns within a given proximity ap
pealing for aid to carry on the flgh
tor an initiative amendment to tne
city charter In favcr of the dance
hall.
The posters read in part as fol
lows:
Anti-blue law fund. All money
taken in goes to defend the citizen
ship of McMinnville against unjust
and arbitrary Infringement of the
personal rights of the individual."
Wife Refuses (o Admit Illegitimacy
' of Child, but Offers to Waive
His Estate Claim.
LithiiaiMa Claims Recognition.
WASHINGTON. D. C. May 12.
Mexico has officially recognized the
renublic of Lithuania, it was an
nounced today by the Lithuanian in
formation bureau here.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
ARSENIC FOUND IX VICTIMS
Fly Paper Alleged to Have Been
Soaked to Obtain Poison.
BOI9E, Idaho, May 12. (Special.)r-
The arrest of Mrs. Lydla Southard to
day was alleged to have brought to
light one of the strangest criminal
cases In the history of Idaho."Authori
ties in many cities and in many states
have been trailing the woman for
months. Insurance companies have
been endeavoring to define, through
experts, the causes that result in
the sudden and mysterious deaths of
her numerous husbands. ,
Nothing has been left undone to
prove that she was directlt responsi
ble for a series of deliberate mur
ders, well and carefully planned. Her
arrest was expected at Los Angeles
through a deputy sheriff from Twin
Falls, who left for the place several
weeks ago, but she had left that city
and had gone to Honolulu. It was
said that the arrest was finally made
possible through the naval authori
ties, for her last husband Southard,
was a naval officer. They were mar
ried November 20, 1920. .
' Lydla Southard is a Twin Falls
county girl, about 30 years of age.
the daughter of prominent residents
of Twin Fails county, where she was
raised and attended school. She was
married to Edward Doolcy of Filer.
He was her first husband.
According to the authorities the ac
cused woman's plan was to marry,
have her nusband carry heavy In
surance, do away with him and col
lect the Insurance. It was known
that she collected at least $5500 In
this manner. Some of the policies
were paid by the Idaho State Life In-
(Conclodcd on Pare 2. Column 1 )
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
73 iltgren; minimum, if. cloudy.
TOUAX'S Fair; northerly lads.
Forei rn.
Poles In Silesia mean Dullness, sayi Kor
finly. Insurgent leader. I'ase 3.
Woman accused ot murdering tour hus
bands, r age 1-
Domeat le.
West Virginia towns In terror aa bullets
rain. Fage 4.
Convicts in Texas stale prison charge
guards and escape. Fagu 1.
Fosse outwitted" by escaped mall robber.
Fage 1.
Clara Smith settles Hamon estate claims
-for $10,000. Page 1.
Rail labor admits defamation charge is
unproved. Fage 3.
Strikers offer to aid Alaskans. Page 14.
Another marriage In Mrs. Stillman's mind
when divorce first was asked. Fage 1.
National.
Republicans plan Innovation in south.
Page 2.
Drys stampede Barleycorn's ghost, rage 1.
Julius Kruttschnlu tells ' congressional
committee wagea are wrecking rall-
roaoa. Page 2.
Borah opens war on naval moasure. rage
14.
Trail of gold lost In Bergdoll's kitchen.
Page f.
Faclfie Northwest.
Fruit men facing big loss on crop. Tags A.
Aledford chemist held responsible tor
deain of nls wile, rags a.
Fifty-ninth coast artillery ordered to Phil
ippincs. l'age 1.
University student election is held. Page 2
Kportft.
Pacific Coast league results: At Tortlnnd
1, Vernon 4; at San Francisco o. Sa'i
Lake 9; at Los Angeles 1, Sacramento ;
at Seattle 5-18. Oakland 1-9 Page 1-'.
Rocky Kansas invited to fight here.
Fag 12.
Record attendance for Dempscy-Carpen.
tier bout assured. Page 12.
Ellison's 1J rotary golfers win match.
Page 13.
Commereial and Marine.
Wool prices steadier In northwest and
buying continue Page 21.
Favorable crop reports depress wheat at
Chicago. Page 21.
Stocks aell lower with firmer money rates
Page 21.
West Ivan leaves after paying 11000 (int.
Page 20.
Enforcement of aeetlon 2S of merchant
marina law opposed. I'aga 20.
Swlftscout gets charter for wheat
Page 20.
Portland and Vlrinlly.
Let England and Ireland settle, their own
dispute, is plea. Page 0.
"Count" Kenosky. bnmlman for N. Sulll.
- van, missing. Uemauiia return ot inonej.
Page 10.
Bishop fjid gsps In ministry big world
Issue, l'age 1.
CItv's venture into sewer woik Is costly.
'rase 11.
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NEW YORK. May 12. (Special.)
It was learned today from a source
In close touch with the marital
troubles ot Mr. and Mrs. James A.
Stillman, that Mrs. Stlllman was the
one who forced the. Issue that brought
them Into the divorce court. She was
moved. It was raid, by a desire to
gain her freedom In order to marry a
man in the same social plane as the
Stlllmans.
Mrs. Stlllman, as her friends have
said right along, had been suffering
from loneliness cauied by the bunk
er's neglect. The banker passed much
of his time away from home, althouuh
there was no formal separation, even
after the birth of Uuy Sllllman, at the
end .of 191J. It was not until the
spring of 1910 that arrangement were
started for a divorce.
Branvnia Affair Itrrallral.
At that time .Mrs. Stlllmans al
leged affair with Fred Keauvala. the
Indian guide named as co-respondent,
had ended. She was , said to have
gone to her husband and told him she
was willing to renounce the claim of
her aon Guy to his share In the Stlll
man estate If her huaband would al
low her to get a divorce.
According to reliable information,
Mr. Stlllman agreed to let his wife
obtain a divorce, but Insisted that ah
take Uuy with her and Admit ht us
not the boy's father. Mi. Ktlllman
then went to her lawyers, who dis
cussed the possibility of getting a di
vorce in secret In this country or in
Paris. It was said, but finally had to
admit that there wit no way by
which Mrs. Sllllman coJld get a di
vorce and at the same time settle the
question of Guy's legitimacy.
Taper Served on Boat.
As Mr. Stillman was determined ttt
to admit the legitimacy of Guy and
permit him to bear the family name If
he could avoid doing so. according to
the story, it was impossible to gJ
through with the plan for Mrs. Bull
man to get the divorce.
Then, In July, 1920, as she was mil
ing for Europe on the OImplc with
Guy, Mr. Stlllman was Served with
papers In her husband's action for dl-
force against her, charging the boy
Guy, was illegitimate. In September,
Justice Morschauser appointed DHniel
J. Ulcason of Pouglikcvpsic as referee
and John E. Mack of tho same place,
guardian ad litem for Guy.
Aaiee May Be Mentioned.
Two months later, tho man well
known sociilly, whom it is now said
Mrs. Stillman expected to marry after
divorcing Mr. Stlllman, announced his
engagement to another woman. They
were married recently and arc In th s
country. The first hearing of tha
Stillman case was held In New York
month after this man's engage
ment was announced. His name has
never appeared In the court papera
or the testimony In tho case, but It
was said today it might be mentioned
at subsequent hearings.
The next hearing. May 1, may ba
held In Mr. Ulcason s law office In
Poughkeepsle. Mr. Gleason, who
lives In Millerton, near Pouglikcvpsic,
s said to prefer to have the hcnrltiKS
at his own office, but counsel for
Mr. and Mrs. Stillman would rutlier
hold them in New York.
Doetor'a Ktlilea at Iue.
Dr. Hugh IIukbcII of Buffalo, win
estifird at the last hearing, May i.
that Mrs. Stillman admitted to hlin
that Fred Deauvais and not Mr. Stlll
man was the father of Guy, probably
will continue under direct examina
tion at the next hearing. Then it 3
will be croBP-cxamined by attorney
for Mrs. Stillman, and Uuy. Among
other things, he will be crons-cxam-Ined
as to his theory of tho cthlrs of
physicians revealing confidential ln-
formation Imparted by their patients
Further details of r. ltuncll'
testimony were learned today. After
lawyers for both sides had argued
a long time as to whether his testi
mony could be admitted. Kcferee
Gleason asked the physician:
"Was this conversation between you
and Mrs. Stillman privileged or was
It notr m
!ra-nttvt Anawrr t.lven.
Dr. Russell replied In the negative
and was ordered to tell.
Dr. Russell said also that In April.
1918, he received a telegram from
Mrs. Stillman. who was In New York
asking him to meet her at tho Mute!
Iroquois in Buffalo with Juno and a
ticket to Boston, saying she wis In
"great trouble."
Ir. Russell said he met Mrs. Still
man. lent her the money uml fcwuiil'i
the ticket. Later she returned to Hut-
falo from Boston and m.ule lb"
aDeged confflon to Ir. UiihselL
According to Dr. Kuf-ill no n'lvl.
her to "make a c'tsn hreuM of ever .
It
(Concluded on i'ue 2 Lulutn