THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1923
APING
CE
BEING INVESTIGATED
Immigration Officers Check
on Alien's Story.
TALE NOW IS IN DOUBT
Members of Exclusive Club De
clare Probst's Story to Be
"Wholly Untrue."
PITTSBURG. March 20. Immigra
tion officers here were today check
ing' up the activities of lAugust
Probst, Swiss ex-waiter at the fash
ionable Rolling Rock club in the
Allegheny mountains near Ligionier,
who is fighting deportation proceed
ings at Ellis island.
Members of the club pronounced as
"wholly untrue" statements attribu
ted to Probst that wealthy relatives
of a Pittsburg girl were seeking his
deportation to prevent her marriage
to him, on the ground that he is in
sane. Its, was said at the club that
Probst had declared he was of royal
blood, and better than another Swiss
who was to marry an American
heiress.
NEW YORK, March 20. Ellis island
officials today expressed doubt con
cerning the story told by August
Probst, a Swiss butler, detained for
deportation on suspicion of insanity,
that he was the victim of kidnaping
to keep him from marrying a wealthy
Pittsburg girl. Probst, who has insti
tuted habeas corpus proceedings, is
expected to tell his story to Federal
Judge Knox tomorrow.
Probst in an affidavit declared that
he was formerly a butler in the Roll
ing Rock club at Ligonier, Pa., where
the romance was said to have begun.
He declared that three members of
the club kidnaped him at the point of
a gun, forced him onto a train and
told him to leave the country.
He insisted that he first met the
girl in the case, who was said to be
well known in Washington official
and social circles, at the club and
that she soon began to care for him,
as he did for her. Probst declared he
went to the girl's mother to tell of
his love and that the alleged kid
naping then took place.
fare and hotel bills. The relief in
sight for the taxpayers, said Mr.
Pierce, is an income tax which will
bear part of the state load; relieve the
real property of much of. its present
burden and force hidden wealth , to
contribute its share toward the sup
port of the government.
To while away time for ten minutes
at noon, all who had resolutions were
invited to read them, without debate
or comment. Here are some of the
suggestions:
Recall public service commission.
Cut out all road bonds for the next
20 years.
Abolish taxes -to provide mainte
nance for law and medical schools.
Resubmit millage tax to voters.
Make property owning a qualifica
tion for voting on bond measures.
Adopt federal income tax law, sub
stituting the word state for federal
government.
Abolish appropriations for national
guard, leaving military instruction for
schools.
To amend constitution making two
thirds majority a requirement.
Abolish 6 per cent limitation.
Limit salary of state officials to
$5000 and make no increase during an
incumbent's term.
Appoint committee to investigate
state institutions and recommend cuts
in budgets.
Prohibit issuing more bonds, and of
bonds unsold insist that they bring
par value.
These are some of the many sugges
tions read off in the confusion of
taking a recess. They were the ideas
which prompted about 150 men to
come to Portland to thresh them over.
None went beyond the reading stage
yesterday, but some of them will come
out prominently today.
CHARGED
TO ARBUGKLE JUROR
Prosecution Attempts to Re
move Sworn Member.
ZEY PROVOST IS FOUND
HOME PRAYERS TO START
SEMI-WEEKLY COTTAGE 3IEET.
IXGS OPEX TONIGHT.
KLAN PRAISES PASTOR
Check Also Presented to Methodist
Minister at The Dalles.
THE DALLES, Or., March 20.
(Special.) LT.he first public appear
ance of the Ku Klux Klan was made
in The Dalles Sunday night, when, at
the conclusion of the night services
at the Methodist church. Rev. D. H.
Leach, district superintendent, while
greeting friends in the rear of the
auditorium, was accosted by five
men who introduced themselves as
Klansmen.
They commended Rev. Mr. Leach
upon his sermon and presented him
with a check, the amount of which
was not made known. " Rev. Mr.
Leach's sermon had been purely
a doctrinal discussion, and bad no
bearing on the klan, it was said.
Methodist Services Arranged in
Connection With Gospel Cru
sade to Begin March 30.
FARM BUREAUS FORMED
in
State Organizer Visits Towns
Deschutes County.
REDMOND, Or., March 20. (Special.)
William Schulmerich, president of
the Washington county farm bureau
and representing the state farm bu
reau federation, has been in Redmond
the past week organizing Deschutes
county farm bureaus.
Mr. Schulmerich will organize bu
reaus at Terrebonne, Tumalo, Plain
view, Cloverdale, Sisters, Arnold,
Lower Bridge, Hoech. Grange Hall,
Pleasant Valley and Alfalfa, in Des
chutes county.
INCOME TAX IS FAVORED
(Confirmed From First Page.)
Strayer of Baker reminded the con
vention that this sort of promise had
been made before: that C. Schubel,
present and chairman of the com
mittee on order of business, had of
fered an inheritance tax at Palem
which he predicted would relieve
farmers, but, asserted Senator Strayer,
the Inheritance tax of Mr. Schubel
hasn't cut down taxes a nickel.
Mr. Spence uprose and offered to
permit Senator Strayer to write the
section in the grange bill which would
see that the funds were safeguarded.
Chairman Cooper, organizer of the
tax-reducttpn movement, testified that
in making his rounds he found most
objection !to the educational machinery
of the state. He said that thousands
of men are giving up their homes for
the purpose of taxation and while he
favors an income tax, he wanted the
convention to reduce, as that was the
main thing, and he favored reducing
state expenses. The chairman wanted
it distinctly understood that he does
not want to close the schools. -
Sentiment la Tested.
Walter M. Pierce uttered the gen
eral accusation that the delegates
were striking at the Oregon Agricul
tural college. He called for an ex
pression of sentiment on the soldier
bonus, the elementary educational
millage, the market roads and others
and found few if any objections to
these. He justified the salaries paid
by comparing them with salaries for
similar duties in other states. He also
took occasion to answer a criticism
against the state tax investigation
commission, which some delegate said
was spending vast sums of money.
Mr. Pierce, a member of the com
mission, explained that the commis
sioners receive only their railroad
Cottage prayer meetings will be
held twice a week beginning tonight
in the homes of prominent Methodists
in connection with the gospel cru
sade, which will open March 30. The
prayer meetings will be held Tuesday
and Friday nights until the crusade
begins and after that in the mornings.
The meetings will be only a half
hour in length, beginning promptly
at 7:30 and will be for small neigh
borhood groups. Each home, where
the meetings will be held, will dis
play a poster in the window. Leaders
have been appointed for all the meet
ings. The morning meetings will be
held from 10 to 10:30 o'clock.
The tabernacle for the revival cam
paign is now being constructed be
tween East Second and Third on Irv
ing street. Tomorrow is volunteer
day and 200 men are expected to turn
out to assist in completing the build
ing, where Rev. George Wood Ander
son will conduct his six weeks of
evangelistic services. Dr. B. Earle
Parker, pastor of the First Methodist
Episcopal church, and Dr. Charles
MacCaughey. pastor of Centenary
Wilbur church, will . speak to the
workers at noon. The women of the
ladies' aid societies of the Methodist
churches will serve luncheon.
Among the homes where prayer
meetings will be held tonight are:
Rev. F. R. Sibley, 5329 Eighty-eighth
street Southeast;- Oscar Alderton,
1952 East Yamhill; Mrs. J. W. Likins.
615 Seventeenth street; Mrs. R. M.
Muirlins. 825 Overlook boulevard; Dr.
J. L. Hewitt, 555 East Washington;
Mrs. C. O. Horning. 345 East Glisan;
Mrs. G. L. Gregg. 774 East Burnside;
ij. r. tiogg, i5j r.ast rwenty-nttn i jj
north; Rev. W. J. Herwig, 1225 Tilla-ir
mook; Mrs. J. Leach. 1056 Williams
avenue; H. T. Mitchell, 126 East Six
teenth; T. L. Jones, 379 East Forty
rourth street Mrs. E. M. Wail, 239
East Fifty-seventh; H. Knox, East
Sixty-s!xth, near Forty-eighth avenue
southeast; L. Bentley, East Seventieth
and Forty-fourth avenue Southeast;
F. Finnell, East Sixty-first and Forty-sixth
avenue -Southeast ; L. Brook,
4704 Forty-third avenue Southeast; T.
J. Clark, 597 Eat Sixty-fourth North;
J. P. Pearl. 465 East Forty-fifth
North; M. T. Brown. 410 East Fifty
first North; J. T. Beech, 1424 Wisteria
avenue; Isaac Waring, 700 East
Fifty-eighth North; Geary Kimbrell,
544 East Fifty-seventh North; Dr.
Earl C. Robinson, 609 East Sixty-first
North; C. C. Miller, 748 Minnesota;
William Perkins. 217 Knott; Mrs.
Aletha Barnes, 191 Ivy; J. W. Day,
874 Kirby; John Winty, 296 Monroe;
William Gardner, 772 Grand avenue.
Witness Is Declared to Be Willing
to Return . and : Testify if
Transportation Is Given.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20. At
tempts of the prosecution to remove
Edward W. Brown, a juror, on the
ground of bias and prejudice, despite
the fact that he had already been ac
cepted and sworn, featured the ses
sion today in the third trial of Roscoe
C. (Fatty) Arbnckle on a manslaugh
ter charge.
A recess was called on two occa
sions during the day on account of
the Brown matter, the first to allow
the defense to prepare an argument
in the juror's support and the second
to allow the court to make an inde
pendent investigation and an an
swering arugment.
Assistant District Attorney Fried
man at the opening session announced
that the prosecution wished to ex
ercise its last peremptory challenge
on crown.
Food Law Violation Charged.
A supporting affidavit stated that
the juror, a grocer, had bean twice
prosecuted for alleged violations of
the state pure food laws and that he
held a prejudice therefore against
District Attorney Brady, the prose
cuting officer.
The defense attorney, Gavin McNab,
answered that as the district attor
ney was -cognizant of all the facts,
he should have .challenged Brown be
fore he was finally sworn and that
it would be a violation of the law
to excuse the juror at this time.,
Asked by the court if he held the
opinion that a juror could not be ex
cused after being finally sworn "even
if it developed that he was the de
fendant's brother," McNab replied
that the statute would positively
prevent the dismisal of such juror.
Decision Is Promised.
The court was under the opinion
that his decision, which is expected
tomorrow morning, will be somewhat
of a precedent. - ' .
The Brown development halted the
selection of a second alternate juror
and the starting of testimony taking.
In the expectation of both sides this
alternate would have been selected
early in the session and one or more
witnesses would have been nearo oe
fore the session concluded had not
the Brown motion been made.
Zey Prevost, missing prosecution
witness, is in New Orleans ana will
return, to San Francisco to testify
if transportation is furnished her,
according to a telegram from her
read in court by Assistant District
Attorney U'Ren. He announced
transportation would be forwarded
immediately.
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Here are suits that are up to date
and a step ahead in N real value.
-Suits that even at today's prices
are marked below their real worth.
Finished and unfinished worsteds
in a good selection of styles and .
fabrics for Men and Young Men are
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Redmond Advances Salaries.
REDMOND, Or., March 2. (Spe
cial.) Approval of the work being
carried on at the Redmond union high
school was expressed by the board
of directors, which at- a recent meet
ing voted to offer contracts for the
next year to the entire teaching staff
at the central school. Salaries for
the coming year of the majority of
the teachers were advanced.
Every large city has one newspaper
which, by universal consent, is the
Want-Ad medium of the community.
In Portland It's The Oregonian.
VICTIM TO BE EXHUMED
iODY OF G1KL SHOT TO BE EX
AMINED AT EL, PASO.
Fred McClure to Be Arraigned To
day on Murder Charge Ga-
Man Is Involved.
rage
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EL PASO. Tex., March 20
hodv of Miss Louise Freentzel,
a week ago, and for .the death of
whom Fred McClure of Cleveland, O.,
is being held, is to be exhumed to
morrow so that pictures can be taken
to show how she was killed. Accord
ing to polfce the bullet which caused
her death entered the back of her
head, ranged upward and came out
her right temple.
McClure will be arraigned on the
charge of first-degree murder, it was
said today. According to McClure,
Miss Freentzel killed herself in his
car after a quarrel.
Police officers charge : Danny Mc
Comber, garage owner, where Mc
Clure kept his automobile, with being
an accessory after the fact. They de
clare that McComber washed the Mc
Clure car and removed several of' the
blood stains on the car after it had
been returned to his garage. Similar
charges have been lodged by the au
thorities against Clarence Vanbergen,
brother-in-law of McClure, who lived
with him.
McClure is married and his wife
resides in Cleveland. O. He worked
in Cleveland and Cincinnati an
Tucson, -Ariz., as a newspaper circu
lation manager before coming to El
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BEN SELLING
Leading Clothier Morrison at Fourth
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Creswell Farmers Organize.
CRESWELL, Or., March 20. (Spe
cial.) The first meeting to organize
a local unit of the farmers' union
was held Saturday afternoon at the
American Legion hall and was ad
dressed by E. E. Oaks of Springfield,
county organizer: Mr. Berkholter of
Coquille, a 'member of the organiza
tion in his county, and F. A. Sikes
of Corvallis, editor of the Farmers'
Union News. The object Xt the
organization is to obtain marketing
facilities-for farmers for their grain
and produce and to enable them to
purchase supplies in large,, lots. A
meeting will be held later for per
manent organization as several of the
local farmers signed cards-.
Near East Fund $4000,
SALEM, Or., March 20. (Special)
Approximately $4000 for the near
east relief has been subscribed by
residents of Marion county, accord
ing to a report prepared here today
by J. J. Hansaker, field secretary for
this work. During his stay here Mr.
Hansaker has delivered a dozen ,or
more addresses and has visited many
sections of Marion county. His re
port was made to W. E. Rambo. The
churches, and Sunday schools, partic
ularly, have been liberal in their
support of the movement, Mr. Han
saker said.
Assistant Surgeon Troie Resigns.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C, March 20. F. A.
Troie, assistant surgeon of the United
States public health service, now at
Portland, Or., has been ordered to
duty at Angel Island, Cal. W.
Frank, past assistant surgeon,
hospital duty at Portland, has
signed to take effect April 21.
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Assessments Ordered Paid.
' VANCOUVER, Wash., March 20.
(Special.) George B. Simpson, judge
of the superior court, today ordered
the receiver for the Columbia Dairy
Products company to pay the sum!
of $717.01 to the department of labor
and industries, assessments which
should have been paid when the com
pany was in active operation. This
is a lien on the property ahead of
everything except taxes.
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VANCOUVER, Wash., March 20.
(Special.) Conrad Gablehouse, brought
back here from Nebraska for desert
ing his 17-year-old wife and infant,
was today placed under $1000 bonds,
compelled to contribute to the support
of his wife and to remain in the
jurisdiction of the court.
Glee Club to Sing at Ilwaco.
, ILWACO, Wash., March 20. (Spe
cial.) The Woman's Glee club of Pa
cific university will appear here in
concert Friday night at the, high
school auditorium. A home talent
play, "Deacon Dubbs," will be pre
sented Wednesday night at the Work
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