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6 TIIE MORXIXG OREGONIAX, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1921 PRINCESS FAT I MA BRAIDED IMPOSTOR Official Agent of Afghan Amir ". Denies Her Royalty. TWO MAYORS IN QUANDARY Courtesies Extended in San Fran cisco and Xew York Held Hasty in Light of Developments. SAN FRANCISCO, July 25. (Spe cial.) Is Princess Fatima, Sultan of Kabul, really a. member of the Af ghanistan royalty, and are her three sons. Sirdar Mohammed Hashin Kahn. Sirdar Mohammed Azim Kahn and Sirdar Mohammed Akbar Kahn, really Afghan princes? Was Mayor Rolph a little too hasty in -according them. an official reception at the city hall during their recent visit to San Fran cisco, without first investigating their true status as members of the Afghan family? Has Mayor Hy lan of New York city been guilty of the same oversight? It would certainly seem so in view of the statements made by Prince Mohammed Wall Kahn. official rep resentative of Amir Arman Ullah. ruler of Afghanistan, who says that lie has never heard of her. Prince Mohammed "Wali emphatically de clared that he has never heard of either the Princess Fatima Sultan,' or' of her three sons. He further emphatically declared that 'they have no connection with the ruling house of 'Afghanistan. -' Mayor Ralph Gets Into Action. The princess and her three progeny came to San Francisco June 25, aboard the Toyo Kisen Kaisha liner Taiyo Maru and engaged a palatial suite of rooms at the Plaza hotel. When rep resentatives of the various local news papers called upon her for any inter view it was discovered that she could epeak no English. Prince Mohammed Hashim Kahn, her eldest son, took upon himself the duty of interpreter end. speaking for the Princess Fati ma. related the story of their great ness in their native land. It went over big. The mayor learned that San Fran cisco was being visited by royalty and immediately made arrangements to: accord the regal visitors an ap propriate reception. Not content with the reception at the city hall, he further placed an automobile at the disposal of the royal Afghan family, and detailed a driver to show them ' the beauty spots of the city. Governor Minn Official Call. In order to do things in a really royal fashion. Princess Fatima Sul tan determined to call upon the gov ernor. They made the trip to Sacra mento for this purpose, but Governor (Stephens was not in the capital city at the time of their visit, so, instead 100 members of a Sacramento Moslem .association arranged an impromptu reception.. The princess and her three sons left San Francisco for New York on July 4, and upon their arrival in the east ern city were taken to the Waldorf Astoria, where reservations had been made for them through the local British consulate. Mayor Hylan, learning of the re ception accorded the family in this city, resolved not to be outdone in courtesy and he also gave them an official welcome to New York. Denounced as Impostor. But now Prince Mohammed Wall Khan says he knows nothing of Prin cess Fatima, or of her three sons, and consternation has settled upon th two cities, whose chief executives ere beginning to fear that they have feeen hoaxed by clever impersonators. ;But however that may be. Princess iFatima Sultan, while in San Fran cisco, eaid that though her sons were mot direct aspirants to the throne of Afghanistan, still their descent was parallel to that of the ruling Afghan monarch. She said that her grand father was Amir Mohammed Saman Kahn, the brother of the great grandfather of the present Amir. This would make her a cousin of Amir Arman Ullah, and advices from Wash ington state it is understood at the tsritish embassy that she has full title to that relationship. JUDGE COKE IS NAMED SMarshricld Jurist to Hear Case : Against Fisli Warden. ASTORIA. Or.. July 29. (Special.) Chief Justice Burnett of the state su preme court will appoint John S. Coke, circuit judge of the Marshfield district, to hear the arguments for the dissolution of the temporary in junction recently granted by Judge Kakin in the.case of D. S. Tarabo chi.i and six other purse seine opera tors against Carl D. Shoemaker, master fish warden and John Lar- en, deputy warden. The case has Deen set tentatively for August E. Prejudice on the part of Judge Eak in has been alleged as the reason for nsking for the naming of another juagb to preside at the hearing. 75 WILL CLIMB PEAK lie Ialles and Portland Are to Ecnd Veterans to Hood River. HOOD RIVER. Or.. July 29. Sds ciaL) Registrations with Kent Shoe maker, chairman of the Hood River American Legion committee in charge of a Mount Hood camp and an ascent to the summit of the snow peak Sun- flay. Indicate that more than 75 will make the trip from here tomorrow. The Dalles Legion post telephoned yesterday that ten of its members will participate in the ascent. Mr. Shoemaker also had call from Port land, announcing that an additional party of five would arrive from there tomorrow ror the mountain party. Santlam Fire Reported. ALBANY, Or.. July 29. (Special.) The first rorest rlres in the Santlam national forest this season occurred this week, resulting from an elec trical storm in the mountains Sunday nigni. All were extinguished quickly colore tney had Become well started. In many cases lookouts saw the light ning strike and kept watch for smoke so that all the fires were discovered promptly and rangers put the firea out In a few hours. Threshing Begins .in Linn. ALBANY, Or., July 29. (Special.) Threshing is under way now In some sections of Linn county. Several out fits are at work and the grain is be ginning to come in to Albany. New threshing outfits are starting every day and within a few days threshing will be in progress in ail parts of the county. PRINCESS FATIMA'S JEWEL AND ROYAL SUITE AWE DIPLOMATS.' 'Ahr- V-" I r& --, - IX' j I ' - ; . . s i -'..... 1 . n : - - .. - V t& "i III 1 4 -I:- V- " j - . tM 4 at - II I. LEFT TO RIGHT FRIXCE MOHAMMED AZAM KHAM, 'PRINCE MOHAMMED HASHM, SONS OF PRINCESSj PRINCESS FATIMA AND PRINCE ZERDECHENO, CROWN PRINCE OF EGYPT. Princess Fatima, sultana of Afghanistan, shortly after her arrival in Washington, D. C, recently, proceeded to make a new friend) the friend being the pet cat of Peacock Alley in the fashionable hotel where she is stop ping. It all occurred at the dinner table, when kitty came snuggling up to the princess chair. . From that time on the princess passed to Tommy a portion of her dinner, and when she left the dining room the cat followed after, under the gaze of resident diplomats and sedate Washingtonians. EDUCATOR LEAVES CITY Y. M. C. A. EXECUTIVE VIEWS PORTLAND SCHOOL. Facilities for Training Students in Business Branches Inspected by AVilliam F. Hirsch. William F. Hirsch of New York city, executive secretary ' of the united Y. M. C. A. schools of the United States, left Portland last night to visit other educational institutions dn the coast, following a thorough nspection of the departments of the Oregon Institute of Technology, con ducted by the Portland association. The educator eaid he found all de partments of the Portland school in thriving condition, and expressed the view that its growth would necessi tate additional equipment. The rapid growth of the automotive school at Sixth and Main street, which s a part of the Oregon institute, was ob served, and notations will be made at national headquarters. Mr. Hirsch found that Portland has one of the most complete ana ei ficient schools in the United States. Instruction is provided in all branches of business. Most of the stuoenis here, it was learned, take their class work in day time, while the majority in the eastern Y. M. C. A. schools study at night. Approximately Z1"0 students were enrolled in the Portland Y. M. C. A. chool at various times . throughout last year. This represented a giiii of about 25 per cent over the pre vious year. One of the notaDie ieaiures ui i v-ork throughout the country, axr. Hirsch said, is the large number of students who become Christians. SUMMER TERM IS END'E'D 856 Students Enrolled by Uni versity of Oregon. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. July 29. (Special.) Summer-term examinations ended today at the Uni versity of Oregon and by tomorrow the campus will De pruciicnuj in serted by students. Both ' Friendly hall and Susan Campbell nail, tne men's and women's dormitories, win ho closed tomorrow, anu win noi open until the first of the fall term. Tr,Tio-ht wa.i tne last m&ai iu uc to served at Friendly hall, where most of the summer-term students have eaten. The term just closed is aeciarea oy University OlllCiaiS to nave uccii m most successful - ever held, -mere were 342 students enrolled on the Eugene campus, which was an in crease of 67 per cent over that of last year. At the Portland session there were 514 students enrolled, making the total for the entire session 856. All of these students were taking regular academic work, which can be applied toward a degree if entrance requirements have been complied with. Boy's Name Changed. ALBANY, Or., July 29. (Special.) A 14-year-old boy who as a baby was left on the steps of the home of Seid Back, for many years a prominent r-hineso merchant of Portland, was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C Gibson of Lebanon by decree of the county court here yesterday. He has been known heretofore as George Seid and by the decree of adoption his name was changed to George S. Gib son. On the night of July 2, 1907, the habv was placed on the Chinese mer chant's doorstep. The Chinaman kept the babv for some time and later the boy became a ward of the Boytr and Girl's Aid society of Portland. He has resided with Mr. and Mrs. Gibson the last six months. Legion Hall to Be Built. ALBANY. Or.. July 29. (Special.) To provide a hall in Lebanon for the use of the Lebanon post of the Ameri can Legion and possibly an armory for the medical unit of the Oregon national guard - formed recently in that city the Lebanon Stock company will be formed. Articles of lncorpora tion for the company were filed ii the county elerk's office here yester day. The capital stock is $6000 and the incorporators are Dr. Joel C Booth, iu command of the new mili tary unit with the rank of major; Dr. Roland B. Miller, in charge of the dental work of the unit with the rank of captain; Glen P. Wallace,-in charge of the administrative work of the unit with the rank of captain; Roy E. Poe, John R. McKnight, Macy Pew therer and Fred Kerr. All of the in corporators reside at Lebanon and all are veterans of the world war. FRATERNITY MEN SCORE Greek-Letter Folk Make Higher Grades Than Others at Whitman. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla. Wash., July 29. (Special.) Frater nity men and women made higher grades than non-fraternity students at Whitman during the college year 1920-21 just closed. The fraternity men and women made a group aver age four points above the non-Greeks, the Greeks received an average of 80.54, and the non-Greeks. 76.87. The Greeks not only did this, but were above the college average,-which was 79.78. This is an unusual occur rence. The report also shows that the women, as usual, made better grades than the men, the women averaging five points higher. All women in col lege averaged 82.21, while the men's group average was 77.43. Wake-elita, a sorority, with a mark of 84.80, made the highest average, and were close ly followed by Kappa Kappa Gamma, .26 of a point lower. Phi Delta Theta led the fraternities, their average being 79.01. CHILD PARALYSIS HITS 4 Infantile Disease Takes One .Life and Three Others Are Affected. CONDON, Or.. July 29. (Special.) Local physicians today said that there were four cases of infantile paralysis in Condon. The infant daughter of Mrs. Bob Kackley. age 3 years, died Wednes day. The disease appears in a serious form. Frightened Horse Drags Boy. ALBANY, Or., July 29. (Special.) Hurley St. John. 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. St. John of Shedd, had a narrow escape from death Wednes day afternoon when he was dragged more than 100 feet by a frightened horse. He suffered a broken ankle and many bruises. The boy was rid ing a horse which was pulling bales of hay up into a warehouse at Shedd. The horse became frightened and when it jumped the boy was thrown off. His foot caught in the harness and he was dragged until the horse ran to the end of the rope, when a portion of the harness broke. Salem Man to Wed. TACOMA, Wash., July 29. (Spe cial.) James Ray Lamb, Salem, Or., and Mary Hendrickson, Amboy, Wash., have received a marriage li cense in Tacoma. Phone your want ads to The Ore gonian. Main 7070. Automatic 560-95 Babe Ruth's home runs dorit travel "faster over the fence than I travel for a package of OST TOASHES um&mmJjmm$ asms. FILL DESERTING HOMY MILWATJKIE AVENUE SLIDIXG OUT ALONG RIVER. Engineer Estimates That $30,000 Will Be Xecessary to Prevent Loss of Street. Disintegration of a fill comprising part of the roadbed of Milwaukie avenue from Insley avenue for about 500 feet south is causing a serious problem for the departmentof public works. The city engineer estimates that it will cost $30,000 to rebuild the road and insure its permanency. The fill has begun to slide out from under the roadway along the course of the bluff line above the river. A wooden sidewalk on the west side of the avenue has become unsafe for traffic and portions of the street have been barricaded to prevent automo biles from passing over weak spots in the pavement. - The city engineer has decided that cement retaining wall is needed to save the road from giving way. A cement sidewalk also will be needed to replace the wooden structure. .The property immediately adjoining the cave-in will not stand the cost of the improvement as it is river banks and bluffs, and Commissioner Barbur says that he does not wish to establish the precedent of taking the money out of the general fund. It is planned to map out a large improvement district, extending south along Milwaukie avenue to the city limits to bear the cost of putting in the retaining wall. The cost will probably be $7 to tS a lot. FINES TAKE HAT MONEY -Mabel Poole Complains That Judge Blocks -Wardrobe Purcliase. "Honest, Judge, all I had were two drinks of hard cider. Maybe it had a little kick, but I wasn't drunk, no, sir." This was Mabel Poole's explanation I of the circumstances which led to her arrest on a charge of intoxication. N "But as I understand it," Judge Rossman replied, "you were brought in here crying and staggering. I was told you nad a crying jag." "Just hard cider, judge, honest. I was crying because I didn't like to be arrested when I wasn't guilty: That's" enough to make any body cry. isn't it? And if I was staggering. I must walk that way naturally." "Maybe that was green apple cider." the judge opined. "I'll fix a fine of I 110." Out in the corridor after she had I paid her fine, Mabel said they had ' been rushing her lately. "Three times I've been down here now just in a couple weeks, and the judge fines me so heavy I can't buy myself a new hat. It makes a bad im pression on the judge when you show up in court three times with the same hat." NON-PARTISANS PLAN TO ORGANIZE HERE H. H. Steaflard in Portland to Sign Up Members. INITIATION FEE TO BE $14 League Expected to Elect State Of ficers and Take Part In Xext Campaign. H. Steallard, organizer for non-partisan league, has ar rived here, and in about a month he expects to have a statewide conven tion held, probably. In Portland, when the Oregon supporters of the move ment will perfect a state organization, adopf a state programme, and go out to tell the people about this pro gramme. Mr. Steallard, who is at the New Houston hotel, has been in town a couple of days, arriving from Wash ington, and his business now Is to get in touch ' with some 200 people who have written to the national head quarters for light. TJnder the new plan, the fee for joining the league is $T4, of which $4 goes to the national headquarters. The other $10 is retained here to finance the organization. Formerly initiation cost $16 and it all went to national headquarters, save the percentage which went to the organizer for his labor. Programme Is Outlined. Mr. Steallard said he presumed the programme for Oregon will be sim ilar to that for Washington, which is: 1. State-owned powder factory, packing plants, canneries, eugrar factories, cream eries, ra'lk condenserles, terminal elevators and flour mills. 2. State-owned warehouse and storage What Critics Say: DAVID WARK Stea Masterpiece SrAV fn V ; "sa , . : , "Handsomely and artistically done . . . magnificent : . . that indefinable TOUCH THAT MAKES LrRtJjU'tTJi SUPREME in motion pictures." The N. Y. Mail. "Scenes that might have come from the BRUSH OF BEARDSLEY. -. . . "Dream Street,' in popularity, should be a MAIN STREET OF THE FILMS." The N. Y. Sun. "It is superb. . . . MOMENTS ONLY A GREAT SOUL COULD PRODUCE . . moments of INSPIRATION. . These are not Burke's, but Griffith's, the ablest director of motion pictures in the world." S. Jay Kaufman. - and 35 cents at the l ii L '- r t l it '-- A V : TO Mam l' '"Tir SSX-W" .',-.P'-ryw-'S-'-.T:r''iT' " T', plants for eggs, fruit, potatoes and other farm products. 3. Exemption of farm improvements from taxes. 4. Rural credit banks operated at cost. 6. A more equitable system of grading graln. 9. State-owned and distribution of water power. 7. Equal taxation of property of rail roads, telegraph, telephone, electric light and power companies, and all public util ity corporations as compared with that ot other property owners. Wealth's Conscription SooKkt. Among the national demands which the Oregon branch of the league is ex pected to supportjs the following: "We demand that the. conscription of wealth begun by the government through Income and excess profit taxes ehall be continued and ln creasedv that surplus wealth may be compelled to pay the money cost of the war." When the state organization is per fected, the league will take an active hand in the politics of Oregon.' To start its programme, the first thins necessary will be to get control of the legislature and the governor's office, so to this end the league will either have a ticket of its own, or will make up a ticket by recommending certain candidates friendly to the cause. As Oregon is overwhelmingly republican, the presumption is that the league will dally with candidates of that party who seek the legislature. Mr. Steallard respectfully declined to re veal the names of any of the 200 Ore gon people who have urged the intro duction of the league here, nor would he even indicate the active spirits in the movement. National Programme Plan. Each state is to work out its own programme, explained Mr. Steallard. but eventually the league will spread until it covers the country, and then a national programme will be sprung. "North Dakota," asserted the or ganizer, "is in good financial condi tion. The taxes are not excessive. The reason so many banks closed lately was simply because the farm ers couldn't pay their debts, and this is the same condition which pre vailed elsewhere and caused other banks to close. North Dakota is being fought by the money power, which refuses to buy the 6 per cent bonds of the state, and the sale of these bonds is necessary to carry out big state undertakings. The bonds are now being sold here and there $500 or $1000 at a time, like liberty bonds. The league formerly did not go into local politics, but was forced to do so in self-dfense. County for patrons who have been unable to get in Direction of Jensen and yon Herberg commissioners -would squander money and .the league would be blamed.1 ' Oregon Plana Secret. How far the league proposes oper ating in Oregon, Mr. Stealard did not say. However, the plan is to first call a state meeting and have state officers and organization perfected; then seek members through educa tion, and then get ready for the pri maries next spring, when nomina tions for governor and the legislature will be made. "Our programme." observed Mr. Steallard, "is a matter of education. The ignorant will not support the programme, but those who have been educated to the principles involved, do so." GIRL REPORTED MISSING Attempt at Suicide Is Followed by Departure From Home. After her mother had snatched a cup of poison from her hands as "she was about to drink it last Sunday. Phyllis Burns, 18 years old, 124 North Seventeenth street, disappeared from her home Monday and has not been seen nor heard of since, according to Mrs. Grace B. Nickerson, an op erative of the women's protective' di vision. According to the reports in the hands of the police, Miaa Burns went away from home Sunday noon and returned Monday noon. Her mother said she acted as though stupefied and either had been drinking or had been drugged. She is said to have left her home suddenly and gotten into an automobile with four or tive young men. Mrs. Nickerson's report says that Miss Burns first went away with Jack Clifford, 19 years old, 748 Pettygrove avenue, last Sunday. Clif ford's family denied this yesterday over the telephone and said he had been at home constantly. Autoist Has Narrow Escape. JUNCTION CITY, Or., July 29. (Special.) Andy Veadich, driving his own auto along the high pass road west of Junction City, had a narrow escape from death. His car turned over three times and went to the bot torn of a gully 160 feet deep. Three others in the car jumped to safety, while the fourth man stayed but sus tained only a few bruises. A truck which came along shortly afterward gave assistance . and hauled the auto up so that it was able to return to Junction City under its own power. Four reasons why -we are showing "Dream Street" after it has already been shown at Uie Heilig: 1. Because we are able, to show it to you at POPULAR PRICES matinees 25c and evenings 35c. 2. We consider this one of the world's greatest pictures. 3. We do not believe you were properly informed as to its character when it was previously shown. i. We know you will appreciate an opportunity to see it when you find out what kind of a picture is. CECIL TEAGUE PRETTT BLONDE CAUGHT FORGER SUSPECT, FUGITIVE, IS ARRESTED IX TEXXESSEE. Passing of Bad Checks in Oregon and Washington Involving Large Sums Charged. SEATTLE. Wash., July 29. (Spe cial.) Mrs. C. E. Wesley, known in police circles as "The Beautiful Blonde," has been arrested in Mem phis, Tenn., for return to Seattle on a charge of forgery. Mrs. Wesley left Memphis two years ago while extra dition proceedings were being heard before the governor of Tennessee, and had been a fugitive until her rearrest in Memphis a few days ago. Mrs. Wesley and her husband, known as "Jim the Penman," were believed to be responsible for passing forged checks amounting to thou sands of dollars which appeared throughout Oregon and Washington cities a few years ago. A charge of forgery was filed against her in con nection with one check passed on a Seattle bank, and Lieutenant of De tectives Justus was sent to Memphis, wnere sne was under arrest, with a warrant of arrest. During the extradition hearing she disappeared and forfeited $500 cai'j bail. Previous to her escape she had obtained her release on a habeas cor pus writ due to delay of the local authorities in filing charges against her. She was rearrested when the complaint was filed. Wesley is in jail at Trenton, Tenn., according to information received, but Seattle police officials state they have no charge against him. although he Is suspected of being an accomplice in, the check forgeries. He is known under a dozen aliases throughout the United States and is eaid to be a dan gerous bad-check operator because of his chirographic ability, which gained him his cognomen of "Jim the Pen man." All Veterans to Use Club. BEND. Or., July 29. (Special.) Clubrooms of the American Legion In Bend will be open to members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Spanish American War Veterans and all Vet erans of Foreign Wars, it was decided last night by the house committee. At tbe Wnrlttmer and In Concert Tomorrow at li30 P. M. PROGRAMMES Raymond Overture Thomas If You Could Care Darewski Prelude , ..Rachmaninoff Kentucky Home Weeks