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THE MORNING Oik EG ONI AN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1931 3 DIVORCEE GRILLED MU PROB E Mrs. Obenchain Quizzed on Shooting of Kennedy. JURY RETURNS VERDICT includes fried rattlesnake at least " 1 1 n cfrjv. The students are instructed how to capture the poisonous reptiles alive, and after a batch are in captivity. Professor Ferguson superintends the slaughtering, "which consists of kill ing the snakes, skinning them and preparing them for the frying pan. "They make mighty fine eating," the cook said. "They taste similar toN fish and not unlike fried eels, which they resemble when cooked," she explained. Professor Ferguson stated that the boys eat them every year during the mountain camping in . the snake country. Coroner's Inquest Develops Broker .Mot Death From Gunshot 'Wound, Persons luknown. PEOPLE'S PLIGHT APPALS THOVSAXDS OF RUSSIAN'S DY ING OF STARVATION. LOS ANGELES. Aug. 9.--The de tails of the recent shooting of J. Belton Kennedy, a young broker, on the steps of his summer home In Keverley Glen, near here, were told to a coroner's jury here today. A verdict was returned promptly, re citing that Kennedy "met death from a gunshot wound Inflicted by persons unknown with Intent to commit mur der." While the inquest was in progress and for more than four hours Dis trict Attorney Woolwine conferred personally and without witnesses with Mrs. Madelynne Obenchain, the young divorced woman, who was with Kennedy when he was shot and who has since been held as a material witness. When Mr. Woolwine emerged from his conference he merely said that it was "vital to the case that what was said be not discussed," and declined to go further. He added that he would present the case to the L.03 Angeles county grand jury Thursday. Iturrh Talk at Length. A third conference was held while the inquest and the conversation with Jirs. Obenchain were in progress. Arthur C. Burch, the young man of Kvanston, 111., who was arrested at Las Vegas, Key., last Saturday, and has since been" held here booked for "suspicion of murder," was also taken from his cell and talked at length with Deputy District Attorney Keyes. The talk of Mr. Heyes and Burch was entirely separate from the conference of Mr. Woolwine and Mrs. Obenchain. Before Mrs. Obenchain was taken to the district attorney's office today ehe had retained an attorney. Burch lias also been visited by a local law yer, who it was said had been re tained by telegraphic message from Jiis clients at Evanston. Neither at torney took part in, the talks had by their -clients with the district attor ney and his deputy, although both were in another part of the district attorney's office, having been sent tfor, they said, when the conference started. Woman Talks Freely. Mrs. Obenchain talked, freely to newspaper men and women today for the first time .since the tragedy. She continued to decline, however, to say why she had summoned Burch here from Evanston. Both of them had previously stated that this was the case. Her statement dealt chiefly with her love for the dead man and with the conditions that had pre vented their marriage. "You know that in all probability you will be indicted for murder?" the young woman was asked. With her hand pressed to her heart ehe answeredl "I don't care what they do I don't care what happens to me. I thought too much of Mr. Kennedy and was too much shaken by the loss of him to think about myself." Mrs. Obenchain said she had not known until she read the .newspapers that she was under suspicion. Men Declared Seen. "It was staggering," she said, "to think I had been fooled this way, but it is a matter of entire indifference to me what they do or how they twist my statements." Mis. Obenchain repeated her initial ptati-ment that she saw two men in 1 foma bushes near the cottage at the '.line of the shooting, adding that she believed they were "foreigners." She said, that after the first shot f;he screamed and Kennedy cried out "Good night, Madelynne!" Then a second shot was fired; th men fled and she ran to Kennedy, took his hand and said: "Belton, speak to me!' For God'j Bake, speak to me!" Finding he was dead, she ran for help, she said. duration Not Anairrred. Other features of the interview ere questions which Mrs. Obenchain declined to answer, for example: "Did you or Kennedy have any foreknowledge, fear or premonintion that he was to be murdered?" "I would rather not answer that." "Did Arthur C. Burch, who is de tained here in connection with this case, have authority from you to use the name 'Mr. Obenchain' when he rented an automobile the night of the murder?" "I would not give any answer that vould reflect on Mr. Burch." Mrs. Obenchain said it was true she had summoned Burch to Los Angeles from the east, but said it was only through a natural desire to have a Jriend visit this city. Hratnrd Held Platonic. "My regard for Mr. Burch was en tirely platonic." she said. She denied she visited Burch in his room in a local hotel, although in vestigators declared ehe had been identified as a woman seen there :with Burch. Burch this morning refused to see newspaper men. Ho had a conference "with John M. Curran, a Los Angeles attorney. A letter addressed to John B. Ken nedy, declared to be in the hand writing of Mrs. Madelynne Obenchain, his companion when he wa shot to death and signed "Mrs. J. Belton Ken nedy," was made public by District Attorney Woolwine today. The letter was undated, but was apparently written in Evanston, 111. Letter Indicates Quarrel. The text of the letter indicated ' the writer and its' recipient had quar reled, but were reconciled. Inves tigators said they would endeavor to ascertain what the quarrel was about and why it was signed in the manner elated. Search In the Beverly Hills section, where the shooting occurred, for a shotgun, with which, investigators declare, Kennedy was killed, con tinued today. American Relief Worker Tells of Conditions Where Devastation by War Is Complete. Pub- TAB ON HUNKS KEPT BY RESERVE" BOARD Governor Strong Testifies of Work in New York. COMMITTEE SEES RECORD Witness Denies That Interest Rate Forced Breaks in Prices of Commodities. poisonous spray residue before mak ing shipment, the department of agri culture held today in a ruling given to Senator McNary of Oregon. Fruit growers at Medford. Or., complained in a telegram that a, federal inspector from Seattle waa working a great hardship on the fruit districts of southern Oregon tey requiring them to remove this spray residue, which con tains arsenic, from their apples and pears. ' ''' The complaint was presented to the department of agriculture, which up held the inspector, and said that there were the best of reasons why this spray residue should be removed. In some Instances, it was pointed out by the department, persons have been made ill by eating raw apples con taining an excess of this chemical, while in some of the eastern cities food inspectors have condemned large consignments of the fruit. FREEDOM MOT EXPECTED PHILIPPINE COMPROMISE THOUGHT LIKELY. IS (Copyright by the New York World. llshed by Arrangement.) LONDON, Aug. 9. (Special Cable.) Refugees are pouring into Brest Litovsk at the rate of 2000 daily, ac cording to F. L. Thomson, who, since April, has been in charge of the Brest Litovsk-Pinsk area tor the American relief administration. Mr. Thomson, who has just arrived in London, de scribed the appalng famine condi tions in the country with which he has become familiar. "It is estimated," he eaid, "that at the present influx into Brest Litovsk fully 1,500.000 refugees will concen trate in this area." He added: "It is not into a land 'of milk and honey that they come, but one devas tated . through continuous war until there are no crops and very few houses left. In many cases these people have no place to live except in ramshackle dugouts. "Women have crawled up to me to beg for food. They were too week to stand. One old woman who was absolutely starving begged for two pennies to enable her to get to Brest so that she might confess before she died. None who has not seen this suffering can understand how ghast ly it is. "So awful are their hunger pangs that their bodies have swollen and become bloated. The cheeks are puffed out. Touch the flesh with your finger and only slowly does it return, as in the case of a punctured rubber ball. This bloated stage is the prelude to death, which, sufferers say is the happiest stage of all. It Is a pity to see women and children with bodies puffed out eo unnaturally. I found five little children in one dug out. Three were orphans. The mother of the other two used to walk 1-1 miles daily Into Pinsk, where she was lucky enough to be able to earn about four "cents a day. "I came across one town where the 10 wealthiest families were living on bread made of straw, mud and -grass. They were supposed to be well off, but I simply couldn't swallow the mixture. Other people by thousands are living on grass, which, with the roots is boiled in water to make a thin unpalatable soup. This particu lar part of the country has been in the midst of war since 1914. Until early this year the country was over run with vermin. This area, big as it is, represents only a small portion of the stricken country. People must be dying by thousands every day." POSTMASTER TEST DATED , Baker, Or., Examination to, Be Held on September 6. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington. D. C. Aug. 9. (Special.) An examination to select a postmas ter for Baker. Or., at a salary of $3200, was announced for September 6. by the civil service commission to day. The commission of the present postmaster at Baker expired April 19, this year. Other civil service examinations for September 10 were announced to se lect postmasters for Oregon postof fices as follows: Bandon, Carlton, Clatskanie. Con don, Creswell. Dayton, Drain. Gaston, Gresham, Halfway, lone. Jefferson, Molalla. North Powder. Nyssa, Rain ier. Sclo, Stayton, Wallowa, West port. Wheeler and Yoncalla. Howard J. Loncott was nominated by the president today for postmaster at Yacolt, Clarke county. Wash. WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 9. New York banks which obtained great sums in federal reserve loans during the money stringency last fall were c.osely supervised. Governor Strong of the New York reserve .bank, testified today before a congressional commission. He introduced the confi dential and almost daily reports at the time upon "bank No. 6." which he identified as an institution which kept $130,000,000 in reserve loans, and was "engaged largely in specu lative operations." , John Skelton Williams, . ex-controller of the currency and chief of the reserve system's critics, when called before the commission recently referred to such a bank as having been unduly favored. "We ascertained the cause of credit demands because we wanted to know whether loans were justified," Gov ernor Strong saidi, "and if the money waa necessary to- legitimate needs of the business of a country, we fur nished it. - . WaraloK Sent Speculators. "If stock exchange loan accounts of banks appeared to be rising we would warn banks that reserve money was not lent for that purpose. One of those institutions estimated for us that it might need as much as $80,000,000 merely to handle export shipments of cotton. "Now the controller (Mr. Williams) didn't know these things. It didn't concern him, and I. for one, never discu&s-ed: it with him." Governor Strong said ho "hesitated to make the statement that stockj exchange loans would be restricted in the emergencies" because it isn't our function to control stock exchange movements, -and . . . market places where speculative risks are assumed have a place in the great economic fabric of the country." He repeated, denials that the in creased reserve interest rates forced breaks in commodity prices, andi said the reserve system "had fostered and increased the sentiment that pro ducers and business enterprises should be carried through the emer gency." . . Loan Expansion Xoted. He pointed to expansion of reserve loans, which took place during the period, as proving that the New Tork bank "far from restricting loane.ex tended crediits to theN point which has dTawn criticism upon us." - Governor Strong asserted that the lending in. 1920 of $240.000.0OO, from the reserve system for agricultural credits indicated that, by the multi plication of bank credits, probably $2,000,000,000 in first-hand loans to producers were extant at the period. He was excused until Thursday, the commission, which Is specially charged with an inquiry into agricul tural conditions, having summoned other witnesses for the intervening period. President of Island Senate Is Waylo Washington to Hear Commission's . Report. VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 9. (Spe cial.)--Conf ident that the report to b, made by W. Cameron r orbes and Major-General Leonard Wood, com prising President Harding s commis sion to the fniuppine isianas, win be one of .compromise, giving neither freedom to the Filipinos nor closer binding of the archipelago to the United States. Hon. Manuel Quezon, president of the senate of the Philippine islands, arrived on this coast Monday on the Empress of Asia, bound for Washington. D. C, to be-there to reply to the blunt points against secession, which are likely -to come out in the Forbes- Wood report. . "If the report favors secession thero will be a split in the Harding Dartv. and. on the other hand, if it claims the Philippines as a territory there will be. such dissatisfaction in the insular country that trade and commerce- "will be- at a standstill," was the summing up of the situation given bv Mr: Quezon. The senate president fears that the report will be against the seceding of the Philippines -on the grouna tnat self-determination is linked too closely with the interests of other nations and also for the reason that recently the vagaries of the banks and financial Institutions of that country, together with almost total collapse of some fiduciary Institu tions, has been taken as direct evi dence" that the country is unable to depend on itself financially. risli in Hood River Bite. HOOD RIVER, Or., Aug. 9. (Spe cial.) "I had the best fishing vears Sundav on the east fork Hood river," said Earl Franz, who, with a family party, camped on the ast fork of Hood river near the confluence of Dog river. "We did not begin fishing" until about 4 o'clock. The river at this point fairly tumbles along. It is a series of cas cades, with a little eddy at the foot ofaeach miniature falls. In each of these little pools a hungry trout was lawaiting the drop of our flies. They T .. ... - TO were Dig renews, sume ui m.r.i. inches long. I caught 13 fish and brother 15 in about an hour. Grading Equipment Received. KELSO. Wash.. Aug. 9. (Special.) Ray & Seydel received two carloads of grading equipment today for use on Iheir grading contract on the' Pacific highway south from Kelso and on the west side sewer contract. A large steam shovel was for use on the high way and an excavator and ditcher for the sewer project. A large concrete mixer also was received. Work will be begun on the sewer job at once and team grading is already under way on the highway. Read The Oregonian classified ads. BLISTER HALTS MAZAMA Roy AV. Aver Forced . lo Abandon Trip Through Central Oregon. BEND, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) A blistered toe resulting in a severe case of blood poisoning caused" Roy W. Ayer, head of the Mazama party which is camping at Diamond lake, to seek medical treatment at Klam ath Falls, Kenneth Frazer, a member of the party, reported '.here today. Ayer has been expected in Bend, but was finally located at the Klamath county seat. Mr. Ayer Is a bookeeper at" the United States National bank and lives at 689 Everett street. He h long been a leading member of the Mazama club and Is a past president of the organization. He was leading a Mazama party on a trip through central Oregon when the accident oc curred. FREED AMERICANS U G FRONT ER Released Moscow Prisoners Leave Soviet Capital. RELIEF WORK INCREASES OH Mendel Duslproof Wardrobe Trunks tJ " Mercliandi so of c7 Merit Only Agents for Kule Kul . Pla) Suits .. Fourth Floor of Pope Issues Invocation for Aid by - Nations of Earth to Put Down ' Menace of Famine. WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 9. The state department was informed today by its representatives at Riga and Reval that Americans who. have been incarcerated at Moscow were on the way to the frontier yesterday. They are expected to arrive .at Jamburg this evening. RIGA, Aug. 9. (By the Associated Press.) On the eve of the arrival of representatives of the American relief administration and soviet Rus sia to discuss American relief plans, the soviet government today issued statistics tending to show a greater effort to combat hunger than in other ."amine years. Itellef Said to Progress. According to these statistics soviet relief is progressing well and claims are made that it is- possible, with limited Russian facilties to trans port food. From June 26 to July 20 it is cjbimed 50,000 peasants, who have been forced to live on grass have officially migrated to fruitful Siberia by the Moscow-Kazan rail way, while 41.000 already have been transported on the Volga river. A message received here today by the American Red Cross from Reval, Esthonia, says that Charles R. Crane, ex-United States minister to China, and four associates arrived at Reval last night on their way from China to the United States. Pope Pleads for Russia. ROME. Aug. 9. An Invocation to divine providence to hasten the end of the tremendous scourge that is afflicting Russia is contained in the appeal of Pope Benedict for aid for the starving and plague-afflicted Russians, made in his letter to Car dinal Gasparri. the papal secretary of state, inviting all Christians and civilized peoples to contribute gener ously to this cause. The pope, in his letter, instructed Cardinal Gasparri to lay the subject before the governments of the vari ous nations for their "prompt and efficacious common action in the name of the love of the Divine Re deemer, who gave his blood to make us all brothers." "Thus people," the letter continued, "although separated from us by bar riers raised by long centuries, are, because of their calamity, near our paternal heart." The New Pacific Embroidery Packages With hand-made work at such apremium it is really worth while to see the many lovely things qne can do with a bit of floss and an embroidery needle. 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Billy Sunday, the evan gelist, who has been living so quietly at his Odell country home for the last two weeks that local folk .did not know he had arrived for his usual summer vacation, will give his annual sermon to Hood River folk at the As bury Metihodist church next Sunday morning. The evangelist remains popular with his Hood River neigh bors and the yearly sermons pack the big church to its capacity. The board of the church already is making preparations to handle a large crowd next Sunday. ' Vancouver Has i ire. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Aug. 9. (Special.) The residence of A. D. Davison, opposite the Harney school, was damaged by fire early this morn ing to the extent of $1000, according to an estimate made by Assistant Fire Chief Preston. The- Davison family was away from home and a neighbor saw the flames and smoke issuing from the building. He tried to call the firemen by telephone, but failed to obtain the connection. He put in the alarm by going to the sta tion in an automobile. Officials Inspect Crane." VANCOUVER. Wash.. Aug. 9. (Special.) Mayor Kiggins. City Councilmen Atkinson and Roans, Port Commissioner McCoy and Mechanics Wheaton and Kimball went to Port land today to inspect a $6000 40-ton locomotive crane which Hotey & Co. wish to sell to the city for construc tion work on .the. new municipal docks. ' ' CLEAN FRUIT DEMANDED Westerners Ordered to' Remove Residue of Arsenlc: Spray. . THE OREGONIAN NEWS. BUREAU, Washington. D. C Aug. 9. Shippers of fruit in the west must remove the Woman's Burns Prove Fatal. SPOKANE, Wash.. Aug. 9. Mrs. Sophia 0,Broadovich. who was burned yesterday while tending a still in her home, it is said, died today as a re sult of her Injuries. KML When Jji You m$ iWv Leave "A- "k T"Ar ; ; r p-a Skaggs United Stores h' , Money-Saving Cash Stores I 1 r Ill STUDENTS EAT RATTLERS I'ried Reptiles Served In Forestry Camp of Pennsylvania College. BELLFONTE, Pa.. Aug. 9. (Spe cial.) 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