OREGON STATE llBRARY
VOL. LX XO. 18,997
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Postofflce an Recond-Cla.s Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1931
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WES
HOLDSWH P
T
HAND IN SENATE
Regional Shift of Repub
lican Control Noted.
AGRICULTURAL BLOC STRONG
Penrose and Finance Com
mittee Are Vanquished.
FILM DIRECTOR DEAD;
2 WOMEN ARRESTED
PARTY SAID TO HAVE BEEN
HELD IX APARTMENTS. "
IPEHSHIHG CANCELS
EAST IS OUTNUMBERED
Out of Total of 00 Senators, S3
Come From States On or West
of Mississippi River.
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.
(Copyright. 1821, br The Oregonlan.)
' WASHINGTON. D. C. Oct. 9. (Spe
cial.) Events of the week Just closed
have brought Washington to the con
sciousness that a great evolution Is
going oh within the ranks of the all
dominant republican party.
.Control of the party slowly but
definitely Is falling into the hands
of the western elements. The process
of attrition has been so gradual that
few have appreciated Its extent. But
call them radicals or progressives as
you will. It came to be an admitted
Autopsy Surgeon In Los Angeles
Declares Al Stein Probably
Succumbed to Alcoholism.
LOS ANGELES. Oct J. Al Stein,
28. . assistant director for a motion
picture company, died In his apart
ments here early today from what the
county autopsy surgeon officially re
ported was "probably acute alcohol
ism," although two young women
were taken into custody by the police
on suspicion of murder and search
was begun for three men.
The police said there were indica
tions that a party had been held at
Stein's apartments Saturday night,
but it was not until nearly dawn this
morning that physicians and later de
tectives were summoned.
The young women, Mrs. Jeanne
Munroe, 22, said to be a motion pic
ture actress, and Mildred Frances
Bellwln, 22, a chorus girl, known pro
fessionally as "Millie Deal j s," were in
the Stein apartments when the police
arrived, the latter said. The officers
quoted the young women as having
stated Stein returned to the apart
ment late last night with three men,
who remained only a short time.
An autopsy of Stein's body was
under consideration tonight, as the
officers said the only outward sign
of violence was a two-inch scratch
on. his cheek.
Carl M. Stein, brother of the dead
man, asked the authorities for a thor
ough Investigation.
The detectives said they found in
Stein's apartment telegrams and no
tations on the case of Roscoe C.
(Fatty) Arbuckle, now awaiting trial
in San Francisco on a charge of
manslaughter, growing out of the
death of Miss Virginia Rappe, screen
actress, from injuries alleged to have
TRIP TO ENGLAND
fact today that these elements have
developed a etrength and a 'tj been suffered at a party given by Ar
which permits them to dictate Just. ., v...,
what the party shall or shall not do.
It is with something of a wrench
that Washington sees the control of
the grand old party drifting from the
restraining Influence of the con
structive east, out of the keeping of
the prim New England states and of
powerful Pennsylvania, which so long
have wielded a dictatorship over it.
Western Senator Win.
For be it known that Senator Ten-
rose and his all-prevailing nnance
committee have been compelled to
bend the knee to the so-called agri
cultural bloc, which is nothing more
than an organized group of the deter
mined senators of the west. Time
was when Senator Penrose at the
crack of a whip could have mustered
all the republican senators in line
and trained them in a chorus of
"ayes" which would have put through
any form of tax or tariff legislation
which he desired.
But that time is no more. The
west has- risen. The west is feeling
Its strength. The west has very
plainly told the east that it was the
west which gave the republican party
control of the senate, that it was the
west which produced nearly all the
new republican senators for this ses
sion and that when the republican
ticket last November swept every
state west of the Mississippi river.
with the exception of Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas, it welded a new
and powerful Influence for the west-
Party Control Is In Senate.
The situation in Washington def
initely has developed the fact that
party control at the present time rests
entirely In the senate of the United
States. The senate is all-powerful.
It can set at naught the best Intended
action of that more popular branch
of the national legislation the house
buckle at the St. Francis hotel.
The officers accounted for the pres
ence of these documents by the fact
that Stein had been assistant to Fred
erick Fishback, film director, who
was a guest at the Arbuckle party
end who later gave testimony re
garding It.
LEEDS JR. FINALLY WED
Gold Crown Worn by American
Youth- During Ceremony.
PARIS, Oct. 9. TBy the Associated
Press.) The ;final rites in the mar
riage of Princess Xenia Georglevna
of Russia and William B. Leeds Jr.,
formerly of New York, were carried
out today. Two religious ceremonies,
following the civil ceremony of Sat
urday, were performed.
The first of these, which was brief
and simple, took place at the Ameri
can Episcopal church of the Holy
Trinity, and the second, which lasted
one hour, followed at the Russian
church.
During the ceremony in the Rus
sian church the bride and bridegroom
wore large heavy gold crowns. At
certain parts of the ceremony the
crowns were held1 Just above the
heads of the bridal couple by Grand
Duke Dimitri and Prince Christopher,
GOVERNOR HALTED IN FUN
Columbia County Officers Say In
cident Was All a Joke.
ST. HELENS, Or.. Oct. 9. (Special.)
Detaining of Governor Olcott and a
party of state officials on their way
to the opening of the Toung's bay
bridge yesterday was in a spirit of
of representatives and it has shown t playfulness and was not due to ex-
only too well that it can veto virtu- cesslve speed, according to a state-
ally every act of the president If ft ment by officers here.
be so inclined. I Speed Officer Abbott drew along-
The realization has come to Wash- -side the automobile of Sam Kozer, sec-
lngton with greater force than ever, retary of state, at Deer island and
therefore, that the elements which I warned him to slow down and told
control a majority in the senate have
an all but complete control of party
plans and policies. It remains con
sequently for the present majority in
the senate, to whom President Hard
ing must look for the legislation of
administration plans, to preside over
the destinies of the republican party
In the next three years.
Analysis Is Illuminating.
Control and leadership of the re
publican party in the senate have
been so long vested in the east as to
have become traditional. This tradi
tion In Itself makes the new develop
ments difficult of realization, but Just
as surely as the party itself sprang
from the west, so the direction of it
la taking now its westward way.
Analysis of the situation among
the republicans In the senate, how
ever, is tremendously illuminating.
The republican strength today is 60
senators. Thirty-three of these come
from states bordering upon or lying
west of the Mississippi river. Five
more come from the middle-western
states of Indiana. Michigan and Ohio.
From New England and the east, in
cluding West Virginia, come 22 re
publican senators. es
Here we have a total of 38 mid-
western- and far-western republican
senators against an eastern repre
sentation of 22. If the mid-western
strength should at any time be count
ed with New England and the east
the Mississippi and far-western
Mates still would have a majority of
33 to 27.
Krpublleanlsatlon la Noted.
But this is not all
llcan sweep of last fall was an Indica
tion of a more republicanization of
the far west, the republicans of that
section will have an opportunity in
the next three, years to elect nine
additional senators. The republicans
of New England .and the east will
have an opportunity to elect only two
additional senators, with a possibll
liy of losing one or two In a state
like Maryland.
Tt Is not difficult. In view of these
him he was driving at a rate of 35
miles an hour. Mr. Kozer, it was said,
invited the speed officer to stop the
machine ahead, in which the gover
nor was riding. The governor's ma
chine, though not speeding, was de
tained for several minutes.
SALEM CHINESE STIRRED
Shoots
Gunman Robs Store and
Through Window.
SALEM. Or., Oet. 9. (Special.)
Salem's Chinatown was thrown in
a state of excitement about 4 o'clock
this moving when a Chinaman,
whose Identity was not learned,
robbed! a Chinese store, shot a hole
through one of its rear windows
and later sent a shot crashing
through a window at the home of
George Hun, a Chinaman residing in
another part of Salem. Nobody was
struck by the bullets. About 820
was taken from a store owned by
Hule Chong Yen.
Police search for the gunman, who
Is believed to be demented, was un
availing today. He is thought to
have come here from Portland,
MEDIATORS END QUARREL
Participation in Soldier
Ceremony Abandoned.
GUARD OF HONOR DISMISSED
UNIDENTIFIED AUTOIST
RUNS DOWN GIRL, 18
EVA HUNTIXGTON SITTERS
FRACTURED SKULL.
England Fails to Reply to
' General's Inquiries.
SEVERAL, ALIBIS SUPPLIED
American Officials In Paris Fear
Unfriendly Interpretation Will
Dc Placed on Incident,
PARIS. Oct. 9. (By the Associated
Press.) General .Pershing will not
go t6 London to lay the congressional
medal on the tomb of the British
unknown soldier In Westminster
Abbey, and If the ceremony is held
another American officer will be
designated to represent the United
States.
This announcement came tonight
from a most authoritative source.
Lack of time available for the trip
between now and October 20, when
General Pershing sails for home, is
the official explanation for his de
cision to abandon his visit to Eng
land. It is learned, however, that
fayure of the British war office
either to fix a date for the ceremony
or until late yesterday to give any
explanation for not replying: to re
peated inquiries from the American
embassy officials, is the chief reason
for General Pershing's decision.
British Fail to Reply.
General Pershing came to Europe
for the purpose of laying the con
gressional medal on the tombs of the
French and British unknown sol
diers. The Washington government
so informed the British government
early in August and again when he
sailed. So far as can be learned,
no answer was received to either.
Since his arrival in Paris, further
Inquiries have been made at the
British foreign office, through the
medium of the American embassies
in London and Paris. One of these
Inquiries developed the explanation
that such ceremonies usually took a
long time to arrange.
The specially trained battalion
from the American forces on the
Rhine, which acted as a guard of
honor at the Paris ceremony and was
to have proceeded to London, returned
to Coblenz this afternoon after hav
ing been held a week in Paris.
It is known that American offl- I
Three Persons Also Are Injured in
Overturning of Machine Near
City of Gaston.
Eva Huntington, 18, daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. C. F. Huntington, 4835 East
Sixty-first street Southeast, was run
down last night near East Eighty
fifth street Southeast and Foster road
by an unidentified automobile, whose
driver sped away without stopping to
render aid. She was taken to the
Good Samaritan hospital In a critical
condition.
Miss Huntington, in company with
an aunt, Mrs. Henry Smith, 5625 East
Eighty-fifth street Southeast, was on
her way to church. They had come
from Mrs. Smith's home and were
about half a block away, walking
along the dirt strip beside the pave
ment, when the small automobile
struck her squarely. One wheel was
said to have passed over her . head.
The machine was pursuing an erratic
course, and the driver was thought to
have been Intoxicated.
A physician from the city emergency
hospital was called. After he had ex
amined the victim and rendered first
aid, he said her skull probably was
fractured, which was the report of
her injury given from the hospital
later on.
Three persons were Injured yester
day afternoon when an automobile
driven by A. H. Nichols of Dayton
overturned on the paved highway be
tween Gaston and Yamhill. Mrs. Julia
Brock of West Salem was taken to
the hospital at McMinnville suffering
from serious bruises and possibly a
skull fracture; Miss Emma D. Long
of Dayton suffered bruises about the
head and face, and Mrs. Nichols was
cut and bruised.
Harry P. Coffin of the public safety
commission arrived on the scene
shortly after the accident. Accord
ing to his report, Mr. Brock had
driven his machine off the pavement
and was making an effort to get back
on the road again when the wheels
turned on the bank and the vehicle
was overturned, pinning the occupants
underneath.
DOG CAUSES BOY'S DEATH
(Concluded on Page 2. Column 3.)
Animal Pulls Lad in Front of Gun
as It Is Fired.
BILLINGS, Mont., Oct. 9. Dragged
in front of a shotgun in the hands of
Floyd Smith, professor of the Red
Lodge High school by his bulldog,
Joyce Kellum was shot and killed at
his father's ranch near Red Lodge
Saturday afternoon, according to a
dispatch received here tonight.
Joyce, who was 14 years old and a
student at the Red ' Lodge High
school, and Professor Smith went to
his father's ranch to shoot ducks.
Joyce held a heavy bulldog beside Mr.
Smith, who was kneeling. Mr. Smith
fired one shot as the dog, becoming
excited, leaped in front of the gun,
dragging Joyce with it. The full
force of the shot struck the boy.
JUSTICES OF PEACE ,
. HAVE POOR MONTH
SEPTEMBER FIXES OF AUTO
ISTS TAKE BIG DROP.
Only One Columbia County Court
Is Able to Show Increase
in Personal Receipts.
-ST. HELENS, Or., Oct. 9. (Special.)
September, as compared with Aug
ust, was a bad month with the Jus
tices of the peace along the highway
in Columbia. county If their September
receipts, compared with the August
receipts, can be taken as an Indica
tion. Only one Justice of the peace was
able to show an Increase in the per
sonal receipts of his office, and that
dignitary was Judge A. L. Clark of
Rainier. During August the Rainier
Judge collected 8114.50 as his fees in
speed cases, but in September his
business was better, for the county
court allowed his claim for 8221, an
increase of 8106, or almost 100 per
cent.
In marked contrast to the increase
of Judge Clark is the decrease of
Judge M. F. Hazen, who presides in
the St. Helens district. His Judicial
fees on speeder cases for Augtlst
amounted to 8223. In September the
Judge drew down only 8"6, a decrease
of 8167 from .previous month.
It is rumored that the slight mis
understanding between Sheriff Wel
lington and Judge Hazen has not been
amicably adjusted and possibly the
increase in the fees of the Rainier
justice and the 400 per cent decrease
in the fees of the St. Helens justice
can be attributed to the misunder
standing and fhat speed offenders are
taken to Rainier instead of being
brought before the St. Helens justice.
That there is no favoritism between
elens just:
Ides at C
cated by the fact that Judge Craft of
Clatskanle received 858 in fees, an in
crease of only 82 over the St. Helens
justice. However, Judge Clark at
Rainier collected 8114 more than the
combined fees of the other two high
way justices.
With the winter months near and
traffic lighter, it is expected that the
fees will show a further decrease.
However, each justice has collected
sufficient fees to tide him over the
dull winter months and they can rest
easy until the spring motorist season
begins.
The Justices' fees as compared with
the fines are approximately 20 per
cent.
the St. Helens justice and the judge
who presides at Clatskanle Is lndi-
BATTING GIANTS
EVEN UP SERIES
Carl Mays, Yankees' Ace,
Victim, Score 4 to 2.
EMIL MEUSEL LEADS ATTACK
Smashing Triple Smack Gets
Yankee Hurler's Goat.
RUTH SOCKS OUT HOMER
AVIATOR FALLS TO DEATH
Attempt to Change Planes Fatal to
Lloyd Reese of New York.
REGINA, " Sask., Oct. 9. Lloyd
Reese of New York, an aerial per
former, fell 400 feet to his death yes
terday afternoon while attempting to
pass from one airplane to another in
mid-air.
The accident occurred in full view
of several thousand spectators at
Lakeview airdrome.
WE HOPE THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE DOESN'T OVERLOOK ANYTHING.
.Concluded ua Page S, tuluiua 4.)
Controversy Over Harrlsburg Road
ways Closed by Peace Pact.
- HARRISBURG, Or.. Oct. 9. (Spe
cial.) Through the -mediation of
neighbors the long-standing contro-
If the repub- J versy between Frank Lynch, 'Wilbur
Hoyt and Tom Lowell over the loca
tion of roadways was brought to
a close. Yesterday articles of agree
ment were signed by all parties con
cerned which provides for amicable
adjustment. The matter had been
taken to the courts and two trials
were pending, one of which was set
for hearing on October 26.
So bitter had become the quarrel
that neighbors feared violence, hence 1
their timely intervention. I
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Big Babe, With 40,000 Clamoring,
Forgets Mangled Arm and
Writes History With Club.
BT GRANTLAND RICE.
Staff writer of the New York Tribune.
NEW TORK, Oct. 9 (Special.)
Out from the shadow of the Ozark
foothills, heavy with the graveyard
odor of cypress and the ghost flower
that lured Sam Houston from the
white race to the red, the Giants
bludgeoned their way to an even
break in the series today Just as they
were in the -act of sinking for the
third time. Score 4 to 2. For 16 in
nings Carl Mays. Kleagle and Cen
turion of the Ozarkian guard, held
them in the hollow of a hand big
enough to palm one of the water
melons some excited planter sends
each year to the president.
Starting as ar back as last
Wednesday and running through the
seventh Inning of today's exciting
test. Mays had not only held the baf
fled Giants runless but helpless and
hopeless as well. Leading I to 0 at
the start of the eighth inning, with
his big foot upon their broad red
necks, the Tarzan of the Ozarks was
Just in the act of emitting a victorious
anthropoldal gurgle when Emil
Meusel of the Giants slipped up from
behind and soaked Carl on the head
with a long trlplo to left. This
smashing blow knocked Carl's heart
from its ancient mooring between the
fifth and seventh ribs.
Carl's Ooat Rlrat.
After this Intercostal Jab. Carl of
the Ozarks was no longer In the same
frame of mind". His goat was bleat
ing far from home as Giant after
Giant stepped up with a toehold and
took a running slam at his waning
stuff. It was bing-bing-bam with
Shuffling rhll Douglas of Tennessee
proudly proclaiming the superior con
tour of the Biue Ridge mountains to
anything the Ozarks had to offer,
for Shuffling Phil with his slight
stoop and his whirling spltter was
on the crest of a conquering wave.
He had everything but a kind word
from Miller Hugglns and the Yanks
as he whiffed eight Yankees and held
them in easy check.
It was at this point that the big
heart-Interest drama of the scries
stepped In and crowded out the salient
facts. Shortly after high noon there
was a terrific uproar in a certain
sanitarium as a burly figure over
powered four doctors and five guards,
tore the big Iron door from its hinges
and bolted in the direction of the
Polo grounds. "Stone walls do not
a prison make nor iron bars a cage."
Not with the great mandarin of maul
hearing from far away the plaintive
call tof his clan crying aloud In the
wilderness for the big mace to re
port. Rath Cets Ovation.
tnd so it came about that shortly
before game time, there went up
from the packed stands the rolling
thunder of 40,000 voices, bellowing,
barking, bounding from pillar to post,
as this mandarin, with his right elbow
swathed in tape and rubber, stalked
upon the field. You guessed it. Babe
Ruth returned to his people for one
of the greatest ovations that ever j
tnunaered us iriDuie over the rieia.
If the gullotine had removed his head,
his huge torso would still, in the act
of falling, have turned and whirled
in the direction of the game that
to him is 100 per cent of all existence.
And having broken bondage and
arrived, it then fell to Babe's lot
in the final Inning to establish a
record that has never been ap
proached. You have heard before of
sluggers hitting home runs to the
left-field bleachers, the center-field
bleachers, the right-field bleachers or
over the fence. But Ruth is te only
man in baseball history that ever
hit a single home run into both
grandstand and bleachers, covering
two sectors through the tremendous
power of his blow.
Bambino Gets Home Hun.
The Giants were leading, 4 to 1,
through their closing rallies against
Mays, with one out in the ninth as
the bambino sauntered up. Douglas
cut a low curve over the plate and in
spite of his bandaged elbow and its
two-;inch slit, the Babe let fly with
everything he had. The ball, winging
its way to right center, struck the far
right-field tier of the upper stands
with such astonishing force that it
bounded far over into the right-field
bleachers as 40,000 male and female
lungs, sounded the tribute of the tribe
to the old-fashioned qualities of game-
ness and brawn which were about all
that counted in the early days, when
to be "thewed like an auroch bull"
counted for more than writing "A
Mid-Summer Night's Dream."
In spite of a mangled elbow that
looked like a veal cutlet, breaded, the
' (Concluded go rate 10, Column t.)
SHIP SUNK, TWO DEAD
IN DOUBLE COLLISION
LAIRD LIXER ROWAN GOES
DOWN OFF SCOTLAND.
W'CORMICK ROW
I HAS CHICAGO AGOG
Vessel, Which Strikes West Camnk,
Is Hit by Clan Malcolm in Fog.
1 8 Reported Missing.
BELFAST, Oct. 9 (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Damaged by one ves
sel In a dense fog off the southwest
coast of Scotland and then sunk by
another coming to its aid, was the
fats early this morning of the Laird
line steamer Rowan, plying between
Glasgow and Dublin. Thirteen of the
Rowan's crew and three passengers
are missing. Two passengers died
after being rescued by vessels which
responded to the wireless S. O. S. call.
An official statement says that the
Rowan carried 93 persons. Including
the crew, 77 of whom are accounted
for by the four vessels which went
to the Rowan's assistance.
Aboard the Rowan was the Ameri
can Southern Syncopated orchestra
composed largely of negro players
who had been touring this side of
the water since 1919.
One of the men who died after be
ing taken out of the sea was Pete
Robinson, the drummer of the or
chestra.
The accident was due to a double
collision in the north channel oft
Corsewall point. The Rowan first
collided with , the American steamer
West Camak helped in the rescue
work, afterward putting Into Glas
gow with 26 survivors. Captain Don
aid Brown of Glasgow is reported to
have gone down with the Rowan
Three other vessels also answered the
call and completed the work of res
cue as far as was possible.
The Clan Malcolm, which rammed
the Rowan amidships, was damaged
only slightly.
The syncopated orchestra, " which
went to London in June, 1919, gave
performances there and in the vicin
ity until two months ago, when they
made a tour of Scotland.
The steamer West Camak, a ship
ping board vessel operated by the
European-Pacific line, departed from
Portland August 23 last with a cargo
of wheat, flour and general merchan
dise for London, Glasgow and Liver
pool. Only part of her cargo was
loaded here, the remainder being
taken on at Puget sound ports.
The West Camak arrived here
August 19 last from Antwerp and
other European ports via San Fran
cisco, with general freight.
15 YEARS GIVEN ROBBER
Sinn Who Got $2150 From Store
In Alerleen Is Convicted.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 9. (Spe
cial.) H. A. Lund was convicted yes
terday of robbing tne Climax Cigar
store of 82150 in July, litis, and was
sentenced to troni one to 15 years in
the state penitentiary. Lund escaped
to California and stayed in Los An
geles until a few weeks ago.
On the return trip on the out
skirts of San Francisco, Lund Jumped
from a train going 30 miles an hour
and escaped, oniy to be recaptured a
few days later and returned here.
Frank Smith, Aberdeen, arrested
two weeks ago, was found guilty of
criminal assault and sentenced to
from one to ten years in the state
prison.
LONGER SKIRTS LIKELY
American Association Indorses De
cree of Purls Designers.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9. Directors of
the Associated Dress Industries of
Am.rirn have bowed to the decree of
Parisian designers and indorsed the
longer skirt.
"This means that manufacturers of
dresses all over the country will take
un the matter in their respective or
ganizations for individual action,"
said David N. Mosesshon, executive di
rector. "It is believed that by spring
the new length will be considered es
tablished and publicly approved."
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weal her.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 72
degrees; minimum. 4 degrees.
TOIAT'S Fair; gentle northwesterly
winds.
Ferritin.
Japaneae Island, dot south Pacific. Tare 2.
Laird liner Rowan sunk; IS missing In
double collUlun. Page 1.
Magyars continue advance in Austria.
Page 4.
National.
West ha. whip band In Republican party.
Page 1.
Pntneat le.
McCormlrk row has Chicago society agog,
rage 1.
Film director dead: two women held as
murder au.pecta. Page 1.
Cape of railroad, rut before people by
William Sprout, president of the South'
ern Pacltic. rage 17.
Farlfie Northwest.
Justices of peace of Columbia eountr
have poor month. Psse 1.
Two brothers from eaat visit Brumfleld
in cell. Page 3.
Dr. Stanafleld'a successor to be .elected
outside of Methodist conference.
Page 12.
Sports,
City golf tourney elimination matches re
sumed. Page 10.
Ruth's homer faila to win for Yankees.
Pas. 10.
Batting of Giants evens up series. Par 1.
Lincoln to play Benson Tuesday. Page 10.
Commercial and Marine.
Another steamer l added to Portland
rain fleet. Page 11.
Portland and Vicinity.
Flint for fortune won by lata Mr. Hume.
Page 4.
Contempt for law held spirit of ace.
Pane 18.
Pastors urge care in preventing tlrea
Page 18.
Foiamatton as feature of fair la urged
Page 10.
Bankers declare future Is bright. Page 17.
Farmers advised to seed grain early.
Page 18.
Unidentified autolst runs down girl.
Page 1.
Mayor Baker, back, aya hospital site will
be sought at once. Page 4.
Wife's New Cult Blamed
to Certain Extent.
SEPARATION IS ANNOUNCED
Woman Is Daughter of John
D. Rockefeller.
LONG STAY ABROAD ENDS
Purt Synthetic Psychology Took In
Breaking rp Homo Causes
Society to Wonder.
BY H. R. RUCK.
(Copyright. 1021. by The Oregonlan. )
CHICAGO. Oct. 9 (Special.) Chi
cago society, shocked by the very
cold and extremely formal announce
ment this week that Mr. and Mrs.
Harold McCormick. the former hed
of the International Harvester com
pany, and the latter a daughter of
John D. Rockefeller, were no longer
living under the same roof. Is won
dering now Just what part In all of
this domestic Infelicity Mrs. McCor
mlck's new school of "synthetic psy
chology" Is to play.
Mrs. McCormick came home the
other day after eight years of exile
and study In Switzerland, announcing
that the new psychology was calcu
lated to make all things better. The
most startling announcement she was
quoted as making was this: "f am
a psychologist and I believe in free
dom of action. My psychology does
enable, me to understand my husband
very fehoroughly and my children.
"It enables me to keep in touch at
a', times with what my htraband and
children are doing, however great the
distance between them."
Sehool Is JX'rrdrd.
It was sen at once that the pos
sibilities of such a school oT psychol
ogy were infinite. Wives have been
wanting Jo know what their hus
bumls were doing all down through
the at;es, mid it whs certain that Mrs.
McCormick's school if it could guar
antee such a vision would be swamped
with students from the very start.
But has this "synthetic psychology"
met Its first tent? According to the
friends of Mrs. McCormick, If Mrs.
McCormick could have looked any
lonely night from her chateau in
Zurich throiinh utterly negligible
space to the McCormick country
place at I.a.ke Forest she would have
beheld through synthetic if not
through sympathetic eyes the figure
of a man pacing back and forth.
JOUKII1K iUI- IIIC tUMlfMll.i'llllip KJl
wire and children and for that, do
mestic completeness which only a
woman In the home can give.
If Mrs. McCormick, with the gift
of the new cult possessing her mind i
and soul, could have seen this, he
said, she would have shaken her head
sadly and murmured to herself that
synthetic psychology had an appeal
(Concluduu on TajT's 3. Cnliiiiiii 2.)
jS 'V
H.
f. Wells.
H. G. WELLS TO COVER
COMING BIG CONFER
ENCE FOR THE ORE
G ONI AN.
A group of American news
papers, of which The Ore
gonian is one, have engaged
II. G. Wells
to come to
: this cou ntry
and cover the
proceedings
in the world
conference on
limitation of
armaments ai
Washington;
the biggest
' event since
the armistice.
II. G. Wells is an outstand
ing figure among present-day
writers and authors. He speaks
to the greatest audience of
any living writer. His articles
on the world conference will
make history. They will be
reportorial, critical and con
structive. They will begin dur
ing the week preceding the
conference, when Mr. Wells will
write three articles, and there
after during the conference
there will be five articles a
week. They will be telegraphed
from Washington to The Ore
gonian and the other news
papers in the group and will
be published simultaneously
by all.
There will, be other special
services from this great con
ference, but nor.e will ap
proach the Wells series in lit
erary or historical importance
and interest. In this field, only
The Oregonian will have the
II. G. Wells articles. Watch
for them.
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