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VOL. LXI NO. 19.118 Entered at Portland (Oregon
X ' Postofflce as Scond-clas Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
4BANKXAPITAL RISES
E
SUFFRAGE IS UPHELD
BY SUPREME COURT
PRESBYTERIANS OUST
FRIVOLOUS MINISTER
1
WED FOR LOVE, SAYS
WIFE OF EIGHT MEN
BIG GARAGE FIRE
TRAPS 75 AUTOS
UUU
TO TWO MILLIONS
IS LAID TO MORSE
X. V. . NATIONAL PREPARES
FOR GREATER BUSINESS.
CONSTITUTIONALITY OF 19TH
AMENDMENT SUSTAINED.
BAPTISM OF DOG AND SAYING
GRACE IN FUN CHARGED.
WOMAN TO START SERVING
BIGAMY SENTENCE.
PRINCESS MAR
SEEMS
ROCKS
IS TO WED TOO T
3 Sons and 8 Others In
dicted for Ship Deal,
GOVERNMENT HELD CHEATED
Cash and Material Alleged
Obtained by Tricks.
McADOOS NAME IS USED
Gibboncy Also Is Said to Have
Vouched for Fine Condition of
Shipbuilding Corporation.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 27.
Charles W. Morse, New York ship
builder, his three sons, Ervin, Benja
min and Harry Morse, and eight oth
ers alleged to have been associated
with him in connection with war
time shipping contracts today were
Indicted by the federal grand jury on
charges of "conspiracy to defraud"
the United States and the emergency
fleet corporation.
Those indicted, in addition to Morse
and his sons, were: Colin H. Living
stone, ex-president Virginia Shipbuild
ing corporation and president of the
Boy Scouts of America; George M.
Burditt, attorney for the Morse in
terests, especially the United States
Transport company, Inc.; Nehmiah H.
Campbell of New York, assistant
Ireasurer United States Transport
;ompany. Inc.; Rupert M. Much; Au
gusta. Me., assistant treasurer Vir
ginia Shipbuilding corporation; W. W.
3cott, Washington, D. C, attorney for
Virginia Shipbuilding corporation;
r"liilip Relnhardt, auditor for United
States fleet corporation, at Alexan
dria, Va.; Leonard D. Christie, treas
urer Virginia Shipbuilding corpora
tion; Robert 6. White, assistant treas
urer Groton Iron Works, president of
the United States Transport company,
Inc.
Tiro Indictments Returned.
Two Indictments were returned, bujth
covering identical transactions and
accusing the same persons. One
charged a conspiracy to defraud the
United States and the other a conspir
acy to commit an offense against the
United States by defrauding the
United States shipping board.
A $10,000 bond was fixe in each
case.
In a statement Mr. Morse charged
that the "Indictment, which is terribly
unjust, as will be proved later, I be
lieve was obtained because of per
sonal feeling against me on the part
of Attorney-General Daugherty, and
certain present officials of the United
States shipping board."
Mr. Morse's attorney, Wilton J. Lam
bert, said that indictments against
Mr. Morse and his associates "would
never have been returned had they
been permitted to appear before the
grand jury," and that the defendants
all will be promptly acquitted as
soon as the "real and actual evidence"
,
k IB yi caeuicu.
I Forty Million Dollars Is Involved.
The contracts between the emer
gency fleet corporation and the Gro
ton Iron Works and the Virginia Ship
building corporation, on which the
charges resulting In the indictments
were based, involved an amount said
to approximate $40,000,000. Fletcher
Pobyns of Chicago, special assistant
to the attorney-general, who prose
cuted the Investigations for the gov
ernment, declined after the indict
ments were returned to estimate the
amount of money out of which, it Is
alleged, the United States was de
frauded, but it was understood the
sums which the government alleged
were misappropriated amounted to
several million dollars.
The Indictments charged the de
fendants specifically with falsely pre
tending to the shipping board and the
f'.eet corporation that the shipbuilding
corporations they represented would
be able to erect and equip from their
own funds shipbuilding plants of suf
ficient size to enable them to carry
.out contracts given them by the fleet
corporation and to proceed without
delay to the construction of vessels.
The intention of the defendants, It
was alleged, was to obtain large sums
of money from the fleet corporation
by falsely reporting that the sums
would be used for construction of ves
sels and to divert large sums from
ship construction for the erection and
equipment of plants and housing
facilities, and thus convert the funds
to the use of the shipbuilding con
cerns and themselves and to delay
ship construction.
Materials Also Involved.
The indictments further charged
that the defendants falsely pretended
that large sums of money were due
from the fleet corporation as progress
payments and obtained the money
when they knew it was not due.
Large quantities of material were
obtained from the fleet corporation
by the defendants for the construc
tion of vessels and later, the indict
ments charged the defendant sold
I ffreat masses or tne material and con
I Verted the proceeds of the sales to
Jiie corporations and themselves. It
lwas also charged that the defendants
I Induced the shipping board officials
to turn over to the Virginia Shipbuild
ing corporation such of the vessels
that woulfl he finished at the Virginia
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Assets Have Grown From $2,300,
000 to $20,000,000 in
Nine Years. '
The stockholders of the Northwest
ern National bank at a meeting held
yesterday voted to increase the capi
tal stock to $2,000,000. This, will re
sult in doubling the present capital.
The action has been contemplated
for more than a year, but has been
held in abeyance pending the 'filing
of his final report by the executor of
the H. L. Pittock estate; which was
done last week. The Pittock estate is
the largest stockholder in the North
western National and 1st the principal
owner of The Oregonian.
"The entire explanation of he In
crease In our capital stock is that our
business has outgrown ' our capital,"
said Emery Olmstead, president of the
bank, yesterday. "We are looking
forward to a steady development of
business in Portland and Oregon, and
for this reason an enlarged . capital
ization in keeping with the very
marked increase in our assets has
become desirable. For Instance, the
lumber business, which we believe
will expand very greatly within the
next few years, necessarily will haye
need for large financing. Along other
lines the wool, wheat and livestock
interests will require even greater
financial support. That is the whole
story. The new stock will not be
offered to the public, but will be sub
scribed by present stockholders."
The Northwestern National bank
was organized in 1913, at which time
it had assets amounting to $2,300,000.
These assets have increased rapidly
until now they are approximately
$20,000,000. Some of the most impor
tant business Interests In Portland
have stock in the Institution.
The directors of the bank are: A.
D. Charlton, Northern Pacific Railway
company; George H. Kelly, Whitmer
Kelly company; Natt McDougall, sec
retary A. Guthrie & Co., Inc., railroad
contractors; L. B. Menefee, president
Menefee Lumber company; Philip
Metschan, president and manager Im
perial Hotel company; C. A. Morden.
manager Oregonian Publishing com
pany; Emery Olmstead, president
Northwestern National bank; Freder
ick .P. Pittock, Northwestern Fidelitj
company; O. L. Price, executor H. I
Pittock estate; Edgar H. Sensenich,
vice-president; Mark Skinner, vice
president.
LONG SLEEP IN STORE
Soporific Tablets Taken for Poison
Thought Not to Be Fatal.
MADISON, Wis., Feb. 27. Ten days
of sleep, with an awakening at the
end of that time are in store foi
Clarence Harvey, 28, who, police say,
attempted to commit suicide here to
day by swallowing an overdose of
sleeping tablets which he believed
poison.
Hospital physicians say that the
man took enough of the drug to keep
him unconscious for ten days, but
they believe that he will fully re
cover.
MINISTER GIBSON WEDS
Wife Is Daughter of Former Bel
gian Court Official.
LONDON, Feb. 27. The marriage of
Hugh S. Gibson, the American min
ister to Poland, and Mile. Ynez Heyn
tiens, daughter of a former Belgian
court official, is announced in a Brus
sels dispatch to the London Times.
The Belgian foreign, minister, M.
Jaspar, and the minister of defense,
M. Deveze, attended the wedding re
ception and expressed to Mr. Gibson
Belgium's gratitude for his work as a
member of the relief . commission
early in the war.
OLD MURDER IS REVIVED
Man, as Result of Divorce, Is Ac
cused of 48-Year-Old Crime.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Feb. 27.
Forty-eight years after the killing of
Peter Mooney, fit Rome, Ga., George
Nichols, a well-known citizen of Tus
caloosa, was arrested . today in con
nection with the crime.
George W. Favors, a Birmingham 1
attorney who swore out the warrant
for Nichols' arrest, announced that I
alleged disclosures .in proceedings in
which Nichols obtained a divorce
from his wife, led to the request for
the man's arrest.-
$1 BOAT WHITE ELEPHANT
Boston to Return Its Submarine
Chaser to Navy Department.
BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 2". The -city
of Boston spent a dollar for a sub
marine chaser and now wants to re
turn the boat and get its dollar back.
Mayor Curley said today that the
chaser purchased from the navy de
partment In the administration of ex
Mayor Peters, for conversion into, a
fire' boat, would be returned to the
government because of expense in
volved in plans for. alteration.
FATHER PAROLED TO SON
Scout Knocks Parent Down When
He Strikes Lad's Mother.
KANSAS CITT, Feb. 27. Harry
Solomon, a blacksmith, 44 years old,.;
was paroled to nis 14-year-old son,
Oscar, a boy scout, in municipal
court here ttfday.
Testimony showed the boy had !
knocked his father down yesterday
when the father struck the boy's
mower. j
Opponents Grow Stronger
Than Advocates.
SPIRIT OF GIVING LACKING
Republican Leaders Anxious
to Forget Question.
PRESSURE IS RESENTED
Harding Sticks to Demand for Bill
Carrying Specific Taxes to
Raise Revenue.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright by the New York Evening Post,
Inc. Published by Arrangement.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 27.
(Special.) Bonus Is pretty thor
oughly on the rocks. There are three
possibilities: First, to leave it
where it is now, and not pass any
measure; second, to pass it through
the house in some undesirable form
and let it die in the senate, or be
vetoed by Harding; third, to pass the
bonus bill with 'a vague clause to
the effect that the money shall be
paid out of any moneys or securities
that may be received from foreign
debtors.
This last would not amount to any
thing and would not be in good faitih,
becau&e no well-informed 'person ex
pects to get from our debtors in the
near future any such sum of money,
as would make an Impression on the
amount needed for the soldiers' bonus.
If the soldiers who want the bonus
are to wait until the money from our
foreign debtors is actually in our gov
ernment's till, they will wait a long
time. If President Harding sticks to
the position he has held In the past.
he would veto a bonus bill with the
foreign debt clause attached on the
ground that it would not provide the
money directly, ana w6uld be in the
nature of doubtful faith to the, sol
diers.
Republicans Would Drop Bonus
If the bulk of the republican lead
era could have their way probably
they would like to drop the bonus bill
and forget it. It has ceased to bavo
any political value to the party. The
opposition that has been stirred up 4e
more potent now than the advocacy
of it.- Those among the ex-soldiers
and others who want the bonus have
been placed in a position where they
have to fight for it.
If the bonus should come now, it
would come not in the spirit of a
generous gift; it would come, rather.
in the spirit of something forced out
of an unwilling . party. Everybody
knows that a gift which is not a
gift at all in spirit, but is forced
out of the giver unwillingly does not
give rise to emotions of gratitude,
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Decision Rendered by Justice Bran
dels Unanimous Challenge
Comes From Maryland.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Feb. 27. The
constitutionality of the women's
suffrage or 19th amendment, was
sustained today by the supreme court
in a unanimous decision Tendered by
Justice Brandeis.
The challenge came from the state
of Maryland, where Oscar Leser and
others sought to prevent the regis
tration of two women- as qualified
voters in Baltimore. -"Leser and his
associates contended that the consti
tution of Maryland limited suffrage
to men; that the legislature of Mary
land had refused to ratify the
women's suffrage amendment and
that the amendment had not become
part of the federal constitution.
The Maryland state courts sustained
the amendment.
The contention that an amendment
to the federal constitution relating
to -additions to the electorate cannot
be made without the consent of the
state, the court disposed of by refer
ence to the 15th or equal suffrage
amendment, declaring that "one can
not be valid and the other invalid."
It . pointed out that the validity of
the 15th amendment had been recog
nized for half a century.
'xThe suggestion that several of the
36 states which ratified the 19th
amendment had provisions in their
state constitutions which ' prohibited
the legislatures from ratifying, could
not be entertained, the court held,
because the state legislatures de
rived their power in such; matters
from the federal constitution which
"transcends any limitations sought to
be imposed by the people of a state."
The remaining, objection that the
ratifying resolutions of Tennessee and
West Virginia were inoperative, be
cause adopted In violation of legisla
tive procedure in those states, may
have been rendered "immaterial," the
court declared, by the subsequent rat
ification of the amendment by Con
necticut and Vermont. Tbe contention
was disposed of, however, on a broad,
er ground, the court said, adding that
the secretray of state, having issued a
proclamation of the ratification of the
amendment by the legislatures of 36
states, the amendment to all intents
and purposes had became a part of
the constitution. As Tennessee and
West Virginia had power to ratify,
and had officially notified the eecre
tary of state that they had done so,
their action " was binding upon the
secretary, and upon being certified by
that officia, had become conclusive
upon the courts.
The court announced In disposing of
the case, which had been brought on
appeal on a writ of error, that it
granted the petition of the parties
for a writ of certiorari, but the de
cision today so thoroughly disposed of
the objections urged, there seemed'in
the opinion of the court (Officials, no
probability that any argument could
be presented which would cause the
court to change its (Views.
Another attack upon women's suf
frage was disposed of by the court
today, in an opinion handed down by
Justice Brandeis. It came from the
courts of the District of Columbia,
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THEY FEEL JUST LIKE COMMON PEOPLE DO.
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Brookllne, Mass., Church Also Re
moved From Denomination and
Court Fight Seems Near.
BOSTON, Mass- Feb. 27. At a
stormy meeting of tbe Boston Pres
bytery, the ruling body of the Pres
byterian denomination for Greater
Boston, the First Presbyterian church
of Brookline was removed from, the
denomination and It3 supply pastor,
Edwin Curtis, was denied admission
to the Presbyterian church as a min
ister. The many charges against the pas
tor included allegations that he had
on several occasions eaid grace friv
olously and in one instance baptized
dog immediately after officiating
at a funeral.
Officials of the church- said tonight
that further steps would be taken
possibly in the civil courts.
To support the charges that Mr.
Curtis said grace in a frivolous man
ner, affidavits were presented from
people who lived at the same board
ing house as the pastor. On one oc
casion, It was alleged, Mr. Curtis said:
"O, Lord, we thank thee for the
salad."
.On another he said:
"Lord, we thank thee for the Erench
fried potatoes."
A deposition by two women church
members declared that after returning
with them from a funeral Mr. Curtis
became Interested In a dog at their
home. He took a glass of water, the
deposition stated, and sprinkled some
of the water on the dog's head,
saying:
"Buster Porter, I baptize thee a full
fledged Presbyterian."
MAYOR FORBIDS SPOONING
Chehalis Executive Sets Out to Bet
ter Morals in Picture Hquses.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Feb. 27. (Spe
cial.) Spooning must cease in Che
halis moving picture houses immedi
ately, by direction of Mayor T. J
Long, acting as censor for the local
shows. "No spooning" must be thrown
on the screen at each show nightly
and violators of the ultimatum will
land, outside the theaters unless they
desist from the practice.
Mayor Long today also notified .a
local house that had booked Mrs, Roy
Gardner, wife of the mail robber, and
the Gardner-films, that the woman
will not be allowed to appear In Che
, halls and the pictures cannot be
shown.
CARLINE ACCEPTS OFFER
S 0-Year Fight for Municipal Own
"" ershlp Ends in Detroit.
DETROIT, Feb. 27. The SO-year
fight for municipal ownership of the
local street car lines was virtually
concluded today when stockholders
of the Detroit United railway agreed
to accept the city's offer of $19.S50,O0(
for their properties.
The proposition now goes to the
voters at a special election April 15,
and city officials are confident it
will be ratified..
Vast Crowds Pour Into
London for Holiday.
THRONGS WAIT ALL NIGHT
Long Vigil Undertaken to Get
Glimpse of Briq!e.
FOOD IS TAKEN ALONG
Rodman AVanamaker of New York
Sends Pair of Silver Candle
Sticks as Present.
LONDON, Feb. 27. (By the Associ
ated Press.) Vast crowds have been
pouring into London to add their
numbers to the ttiousands vho will
make a holiday of Princess Mary's
wedding day. Until late tonight the
workmen were putting the last
touches on the decorations and com
pleting the reviewing accommoda
tions in the neighborhood of West
minster Abbey and many people were
wandering about watching, notwith
standing a blustery wind, with occa
sional showers.
In front of Buckingham palace
those who were determined to miss
nothing paraded up and down. After
midnight the numbers steadily In
creased at all points of vantage, evi
dently prepared to spend the night in
waiting for the morrow's ceremony.
A majority of them were women and
a large proportion obviously were
provincials. Some carried stools on
ivhlch, when they had chosen their
halting places, they settled for the
night, wrapped closely against the
rain aud wind.
Whitehall Favorite Location.
Whitehall, with wide thoroughfares
and .broad sidewalks, was one of the
favorite , locations of the sightseers
and "here many intend passing the
night with well-stocked food baskets.
But there was not a place along the
route of the procession but had Its
quoa of enthusiasts awaiting con
tentedly a cflance to see the bride
going to or returning from the abbey.
The official arrangements for the
ceremony remained unaltered, except
for a slight prolongation of the cere
monies within the abbey, on account
uf which the procesffn thence to
Buckingham palace after the mar
riage will be' about 20 minutes later
than originally fixed.
Special Train Provided.
The special train which will take
the bridal couple on their honeymoon
to Weston Park, Shif nel, will leave
Paddington station at 4:15 P. M., and
arrive at 7:10 at night. The weather
prospects were not propitious. A
rainy type of strong southwest wind
prevailed tonight and showers, per
haps thunder, were declared probable
during the day, but without condi
tions likely to necessitate any altera
tions in the arrangements. '
Plans for the wedding breakfast
were complete tonight The company
will number 170. As the famous state
banquet room is not big enough for
all of them the bride and bridegroom.
the king and queen and about 100 of
the principal guests will gather here,
while the others will be accommo
dated in the state ball and supper
room which practically adjoins the
banquet room. Round tables, each ac
commodating 12 persons will be used
and the guests will be seated at ' 1
o'clock.
Many Gifts Received.
Princess Mary and Viscount Las
celles spent the morning receiving
a number of individuals and depu
tations whose offerings swelled the
vast collection of gifts which already
is overflowing the state rooms of
Buckingham palace.
To each visitor bringing a present,
the princess expressed, her thanks.
During the last fortnight she has
voiced dozens of these acknowledg
ments daily, rushing from the receiv
ing rooms from time to time to' give
her dressmakers opportunities for the
necessary trying on of her many new
gowns.
Among the gifts received today was
a pair of siWer candlesticks from
Rodman Wanamaker of New York,
presented for him by Colonel George
Wood, a personal representative in
London. Princess Mary , thanked
Colonel Wood, and said the candle
sticks would be placed among her
choicest possessions ancf would always
be greatly treasured.
Most of the presents received by
the bride are of a useful character.
One mammoth necklace, loaded with
jewels, is so ponderous and heavy
that it has earned from Prince George
the designation of "Mary's serial neck
lace," as it will have to be worn in
installments. This gift recalls a re
mark made aside by the late King
Edward to a member of his party
when given a similarly weighty pres
ent in India: "Now, get a crane and
let's take it home."
The precincts of Westminster ab
bey and Buckingham palace were
thronged today with the curious who
took advantage of the spring-like
weather ta look over the wedding ar
rangements or await the chance of
seeing the bride or bridegroom at or
leaving the palace doors. The weather
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Drinking and Cigarettes Are De
clared to Be Cause for Some
of Her Trouble.
CLEVELAND. Feb. 27. Girls who
anticipate a happy wedded life should
marry for love and. not for home or
money is the advice given by Mrs
Jenny Semmen, who tomorrow will be
taken to the Marysville reformatory
to serve an indeterminate sentence
for bigamy.
She admitted that she married eight
men without obtaining a divorce from
any of them.
"I wouldn't advise any girl to marry
unless she knows what she is doing,"
Mrs.' Semmen eaid. "I married when
I was 18, hoping to get a good home.
"My first-husband was a teacher of
languages in Nashville, Tenn. I got
him through a matrimonial paper. I
didn't love him and in looking back
I realize now that I never loved any
man. But I wanted a good home, so
I went with him to Nashville.
"We lived together about a year
and I found out he was a crook. Even
on our honeymoon he got a number of
books in Cincinnati he never paid for.
I learned later he had been sent to
Sing Sing prison for 19 years.
"My next husband was a bartender.
We lived together for about 12 years.
He got to drinking too much and was
very abusive, so I left him In Mead
ville, Pa.
"My third was a waiter, whom I
met in a restaurant in Buffalo, where
I was employed.
"Then I married a tenpin setter at
a bowling alley.
"My fifth husband was a coffee
house proprietor in Buffalo. Then I
married a chef, a laborer and then
a fake detective. He In the reform
atory now.
"Drinking and cigarettes were the
cause of some of my trouble. I'm
converted now and I mean to be per
fect hereafter.
"I advise every gJrl not to marry
for a home or money. I see now that
the happiness of married life must
come through love."
Mrs. Semmen, who Is 42 years old,
said she never heard directly from
any of her husbands after she left
them. "They may all be living for
all I know," she said.
CIGAR CUTTERS BANNED
New York Health Board Takes Step
Against Common Device.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27 Health Com
missioncr Copeland today notified
District Attorney Banton that "no
cigar cutter for common usage shall
be manufactured or used - in any
public place in the city of New York."
This follows a resolution of the
health board.
SOCIALIST TO BE SEATED
New York Assembly Votes to Take
in August Clatessens.
ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 27. By a vote
of 34 to 5 the New York assembly
voted tonight to seat August Clates
sens. socialist.
Clatessens was twice expelled from
the lower house of the legislature.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60
degrees; minimum, 30 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds.
Foreign.
Princess Mary hign In public favor. Page 4.
Princess Mary to wed today. Page 1.
German military and naval secrets fall into
hands of Japanese government agents.
Page 1.
National.
Bonus measure seems on rocks. Page 1.
Charles W. Morse indicted for big liquor
fraud. Page 1.
President will-- be urged to devote two
days to seeing Columbia basin project.
Page 3.
Supreme court upholds woman suffrage.
Pago 1.
Harding to appeal for subsidy today.
Page 8.
Substitution of radio for phones scouted.
Page 6.
Fight on treaties launched In senate.
Page 2.
House Leader Mondell will ask that action
on soldier bonus be delayed. Page 6.
U. S. rights put above states' rights In fix
ing rail rales, i-age 2.
ljomeetic.
Society broker, wanted on $1,000,000 fraud
charge, caugnt. rage i.
Wed for love, says woman bigamist who
married eight. Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Uquor exporting thrives in British Co-
lumoia. ra.Kt w.
Supervision of land distribution by Idaho
proposed to prevent "steal." Page 7.
Sports.
Six titles annexed by Portland's amateur
athletes. Page 14.
Days of play-ball near. Page 14.
Rules are adopted to curb seconds.
Page 15.
Commercial and Marine.
Milling wheat in northwest sells at high
est point of season. Page 20.
Profit-taking sales unsettle Chicago wheat
market. Page 20.
Successful sate of new Dutch issue stim
ulates bond market. Page 21.
Nine vessels to take cargoes for Mccor
mick Lumber company during March.
Page 13.
Trading in stocks broad and active. Page 20
Federal reserve bank notes improvement
in business. Page 20.
Portland anil Vicinity.
Success for chest is promised by group cam
paign. Page 9.
Weather report data and forecast. Page 13.
Repairing of 20 west side streets pro
posed. Page 13.
Page 13.
County clerk refuses list of employes pat
ronizing warrant, shaver. Page 12.
Ku Klux Klan Initiates more than 1100
candidates. Page 8.
judge Lowell again fails to keep date to
speak. Page 12. .
Rits hotel raided on chari? of violation of
gambling and prohibition laws Page 12.
Northwestern National bank increases cap
ital slock. Page 1.
Oregon Motor Car Com
pany Building Burns.
LOSS IS PUT AT $35,000
Gasoline Explosions Add to
Difficulty of Firemen.
15 CARS ARE RUINED
Origin of Flames Vndetermined.
Alarm Sends Large Amount of
Kquipnient to the Scene.
The garage and storeroom of th
ola Oregon Motor Car company at the
northeast corner of Park and Davis
streets was swept by fire early this
morning with an estimated damage
of $35,000 to the building and the
75 cars believed to be stored there.
The building also was occupied by
the U. S. Electric company and W. C.
Garbe, formerly head of the W. C.
Garbe company, Inc., which previously
h&d handled the Studebaker agency,
was said to have had 22 cars stored
In the garage.
Fifteen of thp automobiles were re
duced to masses of junk.
The flames, the cause of which was
not determined, started some time be
for midnight, but the first alarm was
not turned in until after 12 o'clock.
By that time the blaze had gained
such headway that it was found neces
sary to send in a second alarm and
most of the firefighting equipment on
the west side of the river responded.
The work of fighting the fire was
hampered by several explosions, pre
sumably of gasoline stored in tanks
in the garage. '
Building la of Concrete.
The building was of concrete and a
two-story structure. When the fire-,'
men arrived on the scene the fire
was a spectacular one, with sinolie
pouring from most of the windows.
Their work was made dangerous at
every step by the chance of the fuel
oil blowing up at any time.
The .blaze was brought under con
trol at about 1 o'clock and it was
titer, estimated that the damage would
not exceed $35,000 and that some of
it would be covered by insurance.
The flames were discovered by the
night watchman, who was reported
to have said that he thought that
the fire had been burning about an
hour before he discovered it.
Flume Center In Driveway.
The flames appeared to center In
the two driveways that open on the
Davis-street side of the building. It
was there that the firemen had the
greatest difficulty.
All of the windows in the upper
part of the buildine were broken hy
the heat and neither the exact
amount of the damage to the build
ing nor the amount of insurance car
ried on the structure could be
learned.
It was eaid that the loss on Mr.
Garbe's cars would be at least par
tially covered by insurance. His
machines were reported to have es
caped the worst of the blaze.
There were about 75 cars in the
building, according to the best avail
ble Informationrbut how the property
was divided among the other two con
cerns occupying the structure was
not known.
KAISER GIVES NO MONEY
Picture of Self Only Contribution
to German War Sufferers.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
BERLIN, Fen. ,s7. (Special by
Wireless.) a picture of himself In
full uniform is the only contribution
ex-Kalser Wilhelm feels able to
make to the fund for German war
sufferers.
His reply to the appeal of the as
sociation for war victims and or
phans, published today, has aroused
general indignation. Count Hohen
zollern wrote:
"I am really sorry to hear of the
misery of these sufferers, and regret
my inability to help owing to the
calamity of the exchange. Just
think, I am only getting Hi guides,
for 100 marks and I am hardly able
to buy the necessities of life because
of the high cost of living in Holland."
AUTO GRINDS EAR OFF
Andy Erickson Is Caught by Ma
chine in Sand Pile and Injured.
MARSHFIELD. Or.. Feb. 27 (Spe
cial.) While held down by an auto
mobile which he was trying to extri
cate from a sand pile, a fast-revolving
wheel burned Andy Erickson's ear
off so near bis head that the attend
ing physician amputated the small
part that was left.
Mr. Erickson and companions were
forced from the paved highway be
tween Marshfield and North Bend and
their machine stuck in sand which the
Southern Pacific is using to build up
its roadbed. While helping to push
the machine the driver reversed and
Mr. Erickson was caught
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