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PORTLAND, OREGON FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1931
PRICE FIVE CENTS
T
ENGLISH WAR MOTHER
LANDS TO WED YANK
NEXT-MOVE EHIH'Sr
DR. AYER DECLINES
NORMAL PRESIDENCY
PRICES FOR OREGON
PRUNES ARE REDUCED
BEACH RATE WAR
CAUSES FARE GUT
NEW MEXICAN TOWN
DESTROYED BY FLOOD
BRUMF1ELD BEGINS
LAST LAP OF TRIP
HAND OUT PLUMS
CHTL-D BOIi.V OCT OP WEDLOCK
X.IFE OF STC'DEXT TO THAT OF
EXECUTIVE PREFERRED.
OPEXIXG SCHEDULE FOR THIS
YEAR IS ANNOUNCED.
DELUGE FOLLOWS CLOUD
BURST; RESIDENTS FLEE.
GETS HOME IX AMERICA.
OREGON bEi
ORS
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Clyde Huntley of Oregon
City Revenue Collector.
C. R. HOTCHKISS IS MARSHAL
George U. Piper Is Chosen for
v 1 Customs Posl.
p N. WHEELER APPRAISER
Senators McXary and Stanfleld,
Working In Perfect Harmony,
Send List to President. .
THE OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington. D. C, Aug. 18. Recom
mendations for the principal federal
offices to be filled In Oregon were
made by Senators McNary and Stan
field today as follows:
Collector of Internal revenue Clyde
G. Huntley, Oregon City.
Collector of customs George O.
Piper, Portland.
United States marshal Clarence R.
Hotchkiss, Portland.
Appraiser of merchandise Edward
N. Wheeler, Portland, but formerly
of Stanfleld.
Federal prohibition director Dr.
Joseph A. Linnville, Carlton.
Roseburg land office Receiver.
Fred W. Haynes. Roseburg.
Dulnr Man I Hrconunndcd.
The Dalles la'ud office Register,
J. W. Donnelly, Arlington; receiver,
T. C. Queen, Dufur.
La Grande land office Receiver,
J. H. Peare, La Grande; register.
Carl G. Helm, Stanfleld.
Burns land office Receiver, John
J. Donegan, Burns.
Vale land office Receiver, George
M. Love, Vale. '
Lakeview land off ice Register,
Frank P. Light, Lakeview.
, In addition to these appointments,
Asa B. Thompson of Echo was rec
ommended for secretary of the farm
loan bank for the 12th district at
Spokane, a place which it is under
stood was set aside by this adminis
tration, for an Oregon man, Oregon
being In that district.
Harmony Is Reported.
In forwarding these recommenda
tions to the president today Senators
McNary and' Stanfleld said that they
desired it to be understood that they
had worked in perfect harmony at
all times in perfecting the slate. The
long delay, they said, was due, first,
to the fact that there were so many
good candidates to choose from' and
second, to the fact that important
legislative matters had been occupy
ing so much of their time in the last
few weeks that they regarded it In
bad taste to permit any other mat
ter to interfere.
Senator McXary, it was explained,
lias been compelled to give much time
to the hearings of the commission
on agricultural inquiry, of which he
is a member, as well as being de
tained in the senate constantly for
many days in his active efforts to
pass the farmers' finance bill. At
the same time. Senator Stanfield has i
.... "u lu
tioning of the new VSO.OOO.OOO live-
stock pool. I .
Situation to Be Studied.
It is understood that a surveyor
general for Oregon will not be rec
ommended until both senators have
had the opportunity to return to Ore
gon and study the situation first
hand. They have in mind, it wbs
eaid today, a man whom they regard
as especially competent to fill the
office, but are not certain that he
will accept.
Several important posts, not neces
sarily Oregon appointments but which
the two senators have at their dis
posal, are being held back. There
are reasons to suppose that these
places will go to several men men
tioned In connection with the places
filled today, including W. E. Clark
and John L. Day of Portland.
George E. Davis of Vale, who wa-s
tentatively chosen for one of the
Alaska Judgeships but lost out be
cause of a decision to fill all Judicial
vacancies in the territory with resi
dent Alaskans, is believed to be in
line for the first opening suitable
to his qualifications and training.
E. K. Brodie Mentioned.
E. E. Brodie. editor of the Oregon
Clfy Enterprise and president of the
National Editorial association, ap
pears to have the edge on the- ap
pointment as minister to Slam, held
In other days by two other Oregon
newspaper men.
Dan V. Boyd of Enterprise, Wallowa
county, is expected to .land a diplo
matic post, although probably not
that of minister to Nicaraugua, for
which he has been an actLve can
didate. There -will be no appointment in
the district attorneyship of Oregon
for more' than two years.
It was learned today, hat Julian
Hurley of 'Vale has been appointed
to be assistant attorney in the An
chorage, Alaska, district.
Thomas C. Queen, appointed re
ceiver of The Dalles land office, has
been editor of the Dufur Dispatch
for several years.
In announcing the recommendation
of George U,. Piper for collector of
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Cupid Opens Gates at Ellis Island
and Woman Starts to Metal
line Falls, Wash.
NEW TORK, Aug. 18.i (Special.)
Cupid opened the gates of the United
States yesterday on Ellis island for
Miss Rose Alice Lewis, an English
girl, who had brought .with her lime
Lillian, her war baby, and who had
been detained a week. Miss Lewis
had given to the American consul at
London duplicate affidavits signed by
Edgar Hurston, an American soldier
of the American experltlonary forces,
now living in Metalline Falls, Wash
saying he will marry Miss Lewis. The
consul Inadvertently failed; to return
one of these affidavits, so when Miss
Lewis and Baby Lillian arrived here
on the steamer Ochita a week ago ad
mission to the country was refused.
When the immigration authorities
and social welfare workers on Ellis
island heard the girl's story and saw
she was of inherent gentility and
modesty, they telegraphed to Mr. Hur
ston in Metalline Falls. His answer
came today. It said:
"I love her and I love the baby, too.
Let them both in. I will marry this
woman and take care of the child."
The representatives of the Travel
ers' Aid society assisted Miss Lewis to
get baggage and baby on the after
noon train for Chicago and started
her on her Journey across the conti
nent foruhe final chapter of a double
war romance. v
"I met Edgar Hurston," she told
the immigration authorities, "at the
Nelson monument in Trafalgar square,
London, in front of the British war
office. Just before the armistice in
1918. I had my baby in my arms at
the time. Our acquaintance soon
reached the stage of romance and I
found that this gallant American sol
dier was really in love with me. This,
too, after I had told him all about my
previous engagement to marry the
father of little Lillian, an English
soldier, who was killed in action in
France. I will not give his name now
that he has died & noble death. But
we were never married. We surely
would have had God spared him to
come home from the war.
" 'This makes no difference,' said
Mr. Hurston.. I love you and your
baby as only a soldier can love the
sweetheart of a soldier who died in
the fighting.'
"I wanted to leave the baby with
my mother, but Edgar would have
none of it."
- Miss Lewis showed a letter in whicl)
Hurston recently wrote to her.
"I have sent two tickets for you
and baby. If you leave the baby we
have to go back to England and get
her," he said in the letters.
BURSUM IS NOMINATED
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N o w Mexico .Republicans Put Up
Successor to Fall.
.SANTA FE. N. M., Aug. 18. H. O.
fiursum was unanimously nominated
as republican candidate for United
States senator at the September spe
cial election by state republicans
meeting in convention here today.
The election was called to name a
successor to A. B. Fall, ex-senator
and ,now secretary of the interior.
Mr. Bursum is filling the place by
appointment of Governor Mechem
pending the election. '
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., Aug. 18,
The democratic . state convention
callerl to. name a candidate for the
unexpired term of Secretary of the
Interior Fall in the United States
senate to be voted on at a special
election to be held on September
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l'? t0day ""V m" WUh-
WILLIAM J. BURNS CHOSEN
Detective Agency Operator to Head
Governmental Department.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Aug. 18.
Appointment of Wlllam J. Burns as
director of the bureau of lnvestlga
tion of the department of Justice,
was announced today by Attorney
General Daugherty.
Mr. Burns succeeds William J.
Flynn.
"I have known Mr. Burns person
ally for 30 years and have, watched
him develop in his specialty," Mr.
Daugherty said. "He has severed his
connection with the Burns detective
agency and will come to Washington
and devote his entire time to the
service.
'The president and I have known
Mr. Burns for many years and know
his, dependability and efficiency."
MOTHER OF STAR DIES
Parent of Wanda. Ilawley Suc
cumbs After Paralysis Stroke.
BREMERTON. Wash., Aug. 18.
Mrs. Martha S. Pittack, aged 51 years,
wife of Robert F. Pittack, ex-councilman,
and mother of Wanda Hawley,
motion picture actress, died at the
family home here today.
Death was the result of an illness
of 24 -hours, following a stroke of
paralysis.
NORTHWEST TAKES LEAD
Report on Savings Bank Deposit In
crease Issued.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington. D. C, Aug. 18. All of
the postal savings banks in the United
States, with the exception of two,
making gains of more than $10,000 in
deposits in July, are in the northwest.
They are In Seattle, Everett. Taco
ma, Bremerton, Bellingham and Spo
kane, Wash., and Astoria, Ob
BRITnlNllW
Parliament Will Be Ad
journed Today.
RECALL ANY DAY POSSIBLE
Premier to Mafce Statement
on Irish Situation.
NEW PROPOSALS RUMORED
Belief in Dublin Is That Dail Eir-
eann Will Xot Break Oft Ne
gotiations With Britain.
LONDON, Aug. IS. (By the Associ
ated '-Press.') Uncertainty over the
Irish situation has caused the govern-
ent to change its plans and instead
of proroguing parliament tomorrow as
had been intended it will mereiy be
adjourned until October 18. The
speaker, in the interval, will have the
power to convoke parliament should
Irish developments necessitate it. Pre
mier Lloyd George is expected to
make a statement on the Irish situ
ation Just before adjournment tomor
row. DUBLIN, Aug. 18. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Although the ' mem
bers of the Irish republican parlia
ment deliberated at Mansion House
fbr three hours this morning end"
came together again for three hours
tonight, there was no discussion of
the attitude to be adopted toward
Great Britain's peace proposals, and
the announcement made when trie
evening's session was concluded in
dicated that no decision relative to
peace can be looked for before Mon
day.
There will be no sessions of the
Dail Elreann Friday or Saturday, the
official announcement said. On Mon
day the-rlvate sitting of the parlia
ment will i resumed and the busi'
ness on the agenda will be the peace
negotiations.
It was the general belief today that
the Dail Eireann would not break off
the negotiations with Great Britain
and It was thought that some action
might be taken to approach Ulster in
an effort to secure her co-operation
in carrying on the conversations in
London.
Km 'Proposals Possible.
Should an entente between Ulster
and the Sinn Fein be reached, it waa
indicated yesterday, new proposals to
Great Britain might be made, and
there were observers who expressed
belief that the offer would take the
form of a proposition to enter the
commonwealth .of British dominions
as an independent state.
Members of the Dail Eireann were
astir early this morning and wore a
more serious look than ever when
they gathered at the Mansion House
for the day's meeting. They arrived
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ANOTHER GOOD REASON FOR HOLDING THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.
?0oH GAS.
3 DO M-.
-I Have Started Writings -Which
I Am Loath to Discontinue,"
Says Washing-ton Professor.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 18. (Spe
cial.) Because he preferred the life
of a student to that of an executive.
Dr. Fred C. Ayer of the college of
education. University of Washington,
today declined the offer of the board
of regents of the Oregon State Nor
mal school at Monmouth to become
the head of that institution.
'I feel very highly honored in being
offered the position," Dr. Ayer said.
"The . Oregon State Normal offers
many attractions to the prospective
administrator. It is the only normal
school In a state with distinctly high
teaching: standards; it has an excep
t'onally strong and well balanced
board of regents, who propose to give
the president an absolutely free hand,
and it is seemingly about to enter a
rew period of growth and develop
ment. All of this -stimulates the In
terest and challenges the effort of one
devoted to public education.
"On 'the other hand, the field of
school -administration in the depart
ment of education In a large univer-'
sity offers an opportunity for social
service and constructive research
which is worthy of the. best effort of
one given to study and teaching. I
have started a number of studies and
writings which I am loath to. discon
tinue, and I have a distinct faith in
the future development of the Uni
versity of Washington. I must add.
also, that I have found Seattle to be
wonderfully fine and hospitable
place to live in. Ixoking at the mat
ter from all sides, it seems better to
remain at the University of Wash
ington and continue as a student
rather than an executive in school
administration."
EXPLORER TAKES SCOUTS
Two Boys to Go .on Expedition to
Antarctic Reg-Ions.
LONDON, Aug. 18. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) - Two Scotch Boy
Scouts will embark shortly on a
cruise of adventure such as their com
rades throughout the world daily
dream about, for Sir Ernest H
Shakleton, the Antarctic explorer,
has selected them from among ten
competitors to accompany him in his
coming Antarctic expedition as cabin
boys aboard his ship, the Quest.
The youths are Patrol Leaders J. W
S. Marr of Aberdeen, age 10. and
N. E. Mooney of Kirkwall, in the
Orkney islands, age 17.
The Quest will sail at the end of
this month to be gone two or more
years.
V0LIVA AGAIN OFFENDED
Second Woman Arrested for Violat
ing- Dress Ordinance.
ZION. 111., Aug. 18. Mrs. Elizabeth
Naden of Zion was arrested today by
Policeman Parry for wearing a dress
the neck of which was cut so low as
to "partially show or expose the neck
and shoulders of the wearer lower
than the Juncture of the pit of the
neck with the clavicle, or collarbone.'
She is the second woman to be ar
V"I
iint
rested since Wilbur Glen Voliva. o
seer of Zion, Issued his edict against
alleged indecent dress.
VUrY VCOUU E.NTF?rWSL
TEH-F- OVH?
Cut Five Cents JBelow Last Year
and About Half Cent Lower
Than California Demand.
SALEM, Or., Aug. 18. (Special.)
Opening prices for this year's crop
of prunes were announced here to
day by the Oregon Growers' Co-opera-live
association. A schedule of prune
prices given by the California Prune
and . Apricot association was an
nounced at the same time.
Analyzed on an average basis, the
prices announced by the Oregon asso
ciation are about B cents lower than
those of last year, and are approxi
mately one-half a cent a pound lower
than' the .prices demanded by the
California growers.
The actual selling price of the Ore
gon growers, after deducting the
boxing charges, follow: 30-40s. 10
cents; 40-60s, 9 cents; B0-60s, 74
cents; 60-70s, 64 cents; 70-SOs. 6
cents; 80-90c, 494 cents; 90-100s, 4
cents; 100-120s, 3. cents.
The prices announced by the Cali
fornia association are: . 30-40s, 11-4.
cents; 40-60s.. 9 cents; 60-60s. 7
cents; 60-70s, S cents; 70-80s. 6
cents; 80-90s, Shi cents; 90-100s. 4
cents; 100-120s, 4 cents.
Estimates place the California
prune crop at 200,000,000 pounds, of
which approximately 84 per cent will
be handled by the California associa
tion. The northwest crop has been esti
mated at 22,000,000 pounds, the ma
jority of which is Italian prunes. The
crop of Petite prunes will not exceed
2,000,000 pounds, it is said. The Ore
gon Growers' association expect to
handle 60 per cent of the Oregon
crop, while the Washington Growers'
Packing association of Clarke county
will handle SO per cent of the prune
crop of that state.'
HOLD-UP MEN GET $9000
San "Francisco Robbers In Auto
Escape With Payroll.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18. Out
laws this afternoon held up Walter
Mayers and George Beban, paymas
ters, and escaped with $9000, the pay
roll of the American Can, company,
which they were transporting from
a bank to the factory here. The rob
bers escaped in an automobile.
Three men participated in the rob
bery, which occurred on a busy street
in the Mission district. Both the rob
bers and the paymasters were in
automobiles. One machine drew
abreast of the other and while one
man remained at the wheel, two
others, masked, covered the men con
voying the payroll.
Mayers and P :ban were relieved of
the money and the outlaws' car sped
away.
CANADIAN RECRUIT SINKS
Freight Steamship Goes Down in
Collision With Mashinonge.
QUEBEC. Aug. 18. The Canadian
government's freight steamship Ca
nadian Recruit was sunk off .Stone
Pillars at the Traverse in collision
tonight with the steamship Maskl-
I nonge of the Dominion Coal com-I
nong
I pany's service.
Railroad Turns on Boat
and Bus Line Owners.
ASTORIA TICKET NOW IS $1
Intermediate Points Also Get
Reductions. '
I
FINISH BATTLE PROMISED
W. F. Turner Says Competition Is
to Last as Long: as Cash Is
Available in Till.
SUMMARY OF SLASH IN FARES
BY SPOKANE, PORTLAND
fc SEATTLE RAILROAD.
Reduced fare on the railway
between Portland and Astoria
will be 93 cents; between Port
land and beach points', $1.48;
round trip, 12.78. The war tax
will increase these to $1, 11.60
anxl $3, respectively.
Corresponding reductions In
fares will be effective for inter
mediate points.
Children under 6 years of age
will be carried free; those be
tween 6 and. 12, half fare.
Present rates are: Between
Portland and Astoria, one way.
$3.89; between Portland and
Seasido. one way. 84.59; from
Portland to Astoria and beach
points, season round-trip, 1648.
'Officials of the Spokane. Portland
& Seattle railway, after finding red
figures on their ledger all summer,
hve donned their fighting togs, and
in order to give real battle to busses
and boats operating between Port
land and Astoria and Seaside have
reduced rates to the lowest level
reached since the Astoria &. Columbia
River railroad started operation be
tween 20 and 25 years ago.
W. D. Skinner, traffic manager of
the company, yesterday slashed fares
from Portland to 'Astoria, one way,
from 13.89 to $1, including war tax:
and from Portland to beach points
from 14.59 to $1.60. including war tax.
The round trip rate to beach points
will be $3, including war tax.
Not only are the reduced rates to
be effective between Portland, As
toria and beaches but corresponding
reductions will be put In for inter
mediate points, it was announced.
Cot Declared I navoldable.
"We are doing this to avoid ex
termination, and no to put anyone
out of business," declared Mr. Skin-
ner- "Our losses have been so heavy
that we could not avoid taking ac-
uon. we nave carried very few peo
ple to the coast points this season,
due to the busses and boats. In pre
vious years we could hardly take
care of the crowds, and many times
we were required to hold the trains
until more cars were available. Sea
side on Sundays and on many other
occasions held crowds so great that
in the efforts to get into the cars and
obtain seats, many crawled through
the windows, and the police had to be
called to avoid personal injuries.
"This season we at no time havi
had more than a half trainload oi
people. We are now showing out
teeth and will fight."
Mr. Turner. Approves.
Mr. Skinner was not unsupported
in his action he has the backing and
approval of W. F. Turner, president
of the rdad.
"We are in the transportation
business to serve the people," de
clared- Mr. Turner. "We are here
to stay. The bells of our trains will
be ringing as long as the money In
the big till lasts. Mr. Skinner has
authority to meet any and all cuts
in rates that the boats and bus lines
make. The people will have use of
our steel equipment to beach points
if we have .to carry them free."
Children will have to pay but one
l.alf of the new fare rates.
When the season opened, the Har
kins transportation company made a
fre of $1.50 on day boats to Astoria
snd this was later cut to $1. An
agreement" was made with the bus
lines operating between Portland and
coast points, to issue round-trip fares
at a lower rate.
. Rates Are Cut.
The fares were then, brought so
low that people visiting the beaches
either took the day or night boats or
the busses in preference to spending
three times the amount of money on
passenger trains.
Both steamship companies and bus
agencies say that there will be no
change in their rates immediately.
The bus men contend that Individuals
will prefer to ride by auto and see
the highway, and that no great de
cline In their business will be noticed.
Mr. Skinner of the Spokane. Port
land Seattle, estimated that during
the season his company has lost ap
proximately $150,000 through the
agencies of the boat lines and the
auto stages.
While officials of the railroad coin-
t pany contend that t
J ' ing to put anyone
that they are not try-
out of business,
iCoocluueil en Pake 3. Coiuuiu X.)
300 Inhabitants Escape to Hills,
Many in Xnghtclolhes ; "o
Lire Loss Reported.
LAS CRJL'CES, N. M.4 Aug. 18. The
town of Hatch. N. M.. 38 miles north
of here, was destroyed today by a
flood, following a cloudburst early
todasx according to reliable informa
tion received by the chamber of com
merce today. The 500 residents
escaped to the hills.
The cloudburst struck Santa Teresa,
a village in the foothills two miles
west of Hatch, shortly after 3 o'clock
this morning. Only one dwelling was
left at Santa Tereza.
Two hours later the wall of water
rushed down the arrovo into Hatch,
the men residents assisting women
ana cnuaren to tne nius,- many oi
them forced to flee in their night
clothes; abandoning everything.
James Clapp, a bus'ness man, bed
ridden by long illness, was carried to
the hills by neighbors. So far as
learned there was no loss of life.
Dean Goddard of the New Mexico
College of Architecture and Fine
Arts and Tl.omas Brownlee have in
stalled a radiograph to keep the of
fice of the local chamber of commerce
advised of the situation.
Tonight from three to seven feet
of -water stands in the stricken vil
lage. Officials of the United States
eclamation service and railroad men
say there is no way to drain tne
water off except to dig a deep canal,
as the town lies in a basin below the
leel of the arroyo.
One hundred and fifty of the resi
dents are being cared for with sup
plies sent under charge of relief com
mittees from the Las Cruces cham
ber of commerce. Farmers, armed
with shotguns, are guarding the bank
of the Rio Grande south of here to
prevent raising of the floodgates. The
farmers insist that raising of the
floodgates would ruin their crops
without being of material benefit to
the flooded district.
Patrick F. Campbell, cashier of the
bank of Hatch, telegraphed tonight
that the town and vicinity were com
pletely under water and that every
business and dwelling house was de
molished. He said federal aid was
essential,
WOMAN MURDER SUSPECT
Reformer Jailed When Child Born
to Cnmarried Daughter Disappears
ADRIAN, Mich.. Aug. 18. Mrs.
Mattie Kirby of Hudson, for many
years a prominent temperance and
law enforcement worker, was arrest
ed on a charge of murder and lodged
in Jail here today in connection with
the alleered disappearance of a child
born July 4 to her 20-year-old un
married daughter Alice.
No burial reoord is on file in the
county. The mother of the child also
is held for investigation.
Mrs. Kirby. mother of four daugh
ters, is president of Lenawee Woman'i
Christian Temperance Union and
field agent for the state organization.
REINDEER MEAT ON SALE
San Francisco Firm Gets 30,000
Pound Shipment From North.
SAN FitANCISCO. Aug. 18. A ship
ment of 30,000 pounds of dressed rein
deer meat has been received In San
Francisco from Nome, Alaska, by a
firm of wholesale butchers here and
will be on sale tomorrow In retail
shops.
An announcement issued said this
marks he opening of a new Industry.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 74
degrees; minimum, 60; clear.
TODAY'S Fair; northweaterly winds.
Foreign.
Soviet and America aeree on famine relief.
Page 2.
British parliament to adjourn and wait tor
developments in Ireland. Pase 1.
National.
Oregon senators hand out plums. P afire 1.
Wheat loan complaint is declared to be
without cause. Pare 3.
Home brew clause holds up beer legisla
tion. Page 2.
Administration expects railroad bill to
solve national unemployment. Page 2.
Three army officers scored in Bergdoll
case. Page 3.
Share In economic burden demanded of
railroads. Page 4.
Scores of changes in tax bill slated.
Page 12.
Tnmestlc.
English war mother lands to wed Yankee
ex-soldier. Page 1.
w Mexico town destroyed by flood fol
lowing cloudburst.- Page 1.
Pacific. Northwest.
Prices for Oregon prunes reduced. Page 1.
Dr Ayer' declines presidency of Oregon
Normal school. Page 1.
8 ports.
Spilt heats In all of grand circuit features
Page 10.
Pacific Coast learu results: At Salt
Lake 7, Portland 1; at Sacramento 3-0.
Seattle 5-5; at San Francisco 2.
Vernon 11:- at I.os Angeles 9. Oak
land 12. Page 10.
Anglers' tourney will begin today. Page 10.
Pacific northwest ' golf team la selected
Page 11.
Women's net tourney narrowed to tour.
Page 11.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat buying prices in northwest again
reduced. Page 19.
Heavy selling carries Chicago wheat
lower. Page 10.
Ralls firmest feature of stock market.
Page 19.
Dutch steamship will load 131 tons of
Oregon bacon for Europe. Page IS.
Portland and Vicinity.
Beach war rate causes fare cut. Page 1.
License rush begins as deer season draws
near. Page 0.
Coffee house license granted Greek In
recognition of war service. Page 8.
East declared market for cedar shingles.
Page 13.
Brumfield begins last lap of return to
Roseburg. Page 1.
Federal patronage list causes no surprise,
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Discrimination in telephone toll rates
charged. Page 8. (
School board dlscuatea general economics.
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Dentist Keeps Smiling,
but Silent on Crime.
TRAIN MAKES SPECIAL STOP
Taxi Used to Rush Prisoner
From County Jail.
SHERIFF TRIES SECRECY
Alleged Slaj-er of Russell Likley to
Be Smuggled Into Roseburg
by This Morninff.
Dr.. R. M. BrumfleldRoseburg-mur-der
s'uspect. was placed aboard the
frhasta Limited at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, homeward bound, where
he must face a Jury for the slaying
cf Dennis Russell, Douglas county
woodsman. Brurnfleld's right arm'
was manacled to the left arm of Dep
uty Sheriff Webb of Douglas county.
At 3:40 o'clock in the afternoon, the
prisoner was hurried out of the
county Jail and rushed Into a closed
taxicab which stood waiting at the
lfth-street entrance.
The taxi swung down Salmon street
to Fourth, turned north on Fourth
and speeded through a maze of traffic
toward the Vnion station.
Prlnoner Is Put Aboard.
By preatrangement with the South
ern Pacific company, the taxi went
to the railroad yaj-ds at the foot of
Fourth street, and It was there the
Shasta limited stopped for a moment
after leaving the station, and per
mitted the Douglas county officials to
place their prisoner aboard. .
Less than a minute after the train
had been brought ' to a hal near the
end of the yards. Sheriff Starmer.
Deputy Sheriff Webb and the prisoner
were safely seated in a Pullman draw
ing room. None of the passengers
knew that the train had been stopped
for that purpose.
Sheriff Starmer made every possible
effort to keep, the time and manner
of his leave-taking a secret, as he
was determined to arrive with his
prisoner at Roseburg unannounced.
Brumfield Waives Farewell.
But there were several persons
about the courthouse who saw the
taxi and its prisoner-leave the build
ing, and Dr. Brumfield waved a fare
well to those who peered from the
doors and windows as the machine
sped down the street.
It was reported around the court
house that Sheriff Starmer planned
to take his prisoner a short distance
beyond Roseburg and make the trip
into the home city by automobile
from the south. Whether or not he
has an arrangement with the South
ern Pacific to stop the Shasta limited
at some town a few miles south of
Roseburg could not be learned def
initely, but It was rumored that such
was the case. In that event, local
officials said, the prisoner will be
safe in the Douglas county Jail be
fore Roseburg citizens are astir this
morning.
i xtegaraiess or any report which
Dr. William House, alienist, may
make as to Brumfield's mental con
dition. District Attorney Neuner, who
will prosecute Brumfield. will pro
ceed on the theory that the man is
and has been sane and mentally
normal at all times.
Prosecutor to Proceed.
"There is nothing else to do; no
other way to look at It so far as
I can see," he asserted In a statement
Issued at the courthouse yesterday.
"I intend prosecutfng on the theory
that Dr. Brumfield Is the slayer of
Dennis Russell, that he was perfectly
sane at the time, and that the crime
was committed for the sole purpose
of collecting, heavy Insurance which
was held on his own
life.. There is
no other motive; no other way in
which the crime can be explained."
Mr. Neuner denied with emphasis
that Dr. House submitted a report
of his examination of Dr. Brumfield
at the county Jail early Wednesday
afternoon. He said he 'expected the
report to be mailed to him at Rose
burg. A. N. Orcutt. who, with Dexter Rice
of Roseburg, will conduct the defense
on behalf of the accused dentist, ar
rived in Portland early yesterday and
attended a conference with the pris
oner and District Attorney Neuner in
the office of District Attorney Evans
Mrs. Brumfield Faithful.
They all announced later that there
were no new developments. Mr. Or
cutt declared his- main purpose In
coming to Portland was to bring word
of cheerto the prisoner from his wife
and three sons. Mrs. Brumfield In
tends standing staunchly by her hus
band, the latter was told, and this
news tended to put him in a cheerful
frame of mind throughout the day.
Ever since he arrived In Portland
Brumfield has talked frequently of
his wife and three sons and his main
anxiety for wanting to return quickly
to Roseburg was in order that he mighr
be near them.
Mr. Orcutt ws willing that the
bars be let down slightly yesterday
in much-sought Interviews with the
prisoner, but Brumfield continued to
smile and forget to answer. Just as
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