THE MORNING OREGONIAN,. FRIDAY, APRIL. 7, 1923
OPERATORS
' STAND
DEFENDED IN HOUSE
Refusal to Negotiate With
Unions Is Upheld.
LABOR COMMITTEE BUSY
nniliirtv Indicates He Will Xot
Prosecute ir Owners See Fit
to Slake National Tact.
WASHINGTON". T. C April 6. A
defense of the bituminous coal oper
ators' position in refusing to nego
tiate a central agreement with the
miners' union was given by i. m.
WotklnR a sookesman for Pennsyl
vania producers, before the house
labor committee today in its inves
tigation of the coal strike, and at
the same time an intimation was
given by Attorney-General Daugrh
ertv, throuKh a letter from him,
which was read into the record, that
the mine owners would face no
nrmonuHon under anti-trust laws if
ihv Mln saw fit to fix national
wasea in the industry by such an
agreement.
Other developments today included
a statement by Secretary Hoover
upon his return from the west tnat
reports, presumably from non-union
fields, showed that bituminous coal
mined Monday after the strike had
been called amounted to 572,000 tons
and on Tuesday to 542.000 tons. He
declared, however, time was insuffi
cient to justify any deductions being
drawn from these figures in their
possible bearing on the question of
sufficiency of supply.
AVillillBncsK I Reported.
Chairman Nolan of the house
Investigating committee also made
public telegraphic messages irom
representative, operators in the cen
tral field which, he said, "were not
entirely hopeless" in their refusal to
accede to the committee's request to
renew interstate negotiations witn
the union.
"They did indicate," he stated, 'a
spirit of willingness to meet the men
In their own districts."
Mr. Watkins, in appearing before
the house committee, attacked the
United Mine Workers of America as
"setting up a smoke screen, familiar
union tactics," in charging operators
with breach of contract. The union
itself, he said, was breaking the
contract because it refused to meet
with mine owners in the great pro
ducing districts of the country out
side of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and
western Pennsylvania to fix scales.
DacRherty 'Writes letter.
It would be "financial suicide," he
added, for the group he represented
to continue making its wages on the
basis of the interstate agreement for
which negotiations had not been
begun, and he accused the union
leaders of "autocratic abuse of pow
er in calling the national strike.
The attorney-general's statement
of position was contained in a letter
to Representative Bland, republican,
Indiana, who had referred to re
peated statements by operators that
interstate wage agreements possibly
constituted violations of the Sherman
law. Mr. Daugherty stated, however,
that he considered it a "duty of oper
ators and miners to hold such nego
tiation," and he asked if, after tak
ing that position, it was "likely that
the department of justice would un
dertake a prosecution."
MARION VETERANS MEET
Forbidding of Sports on Memorial
Day Is Indorsed.
WOODBtrRIsr, Or., April 6. (Spe
cial.) Much interest was manifested
In the spring meet of the Marion
County Veterans association, held in
this city today. The morning session
was devoted to business, patriotic ad
dresses by State Commander Williams
of Gladstone, Mr. Hendershott of
Portland and Margaret E. Becker, de
partment president, of Portland. A
resolution was adopted indorsing the
act of the governor, president and
secretary of the state fair board for
bidding races, games and sports on
the state fair grounds on Memorial
day.
An elaborate banquet was served at
noon. In the afternoon Woodburn
talent gave a programme and me
morial tervices were held for 15 mem
bers who had died in the past year
In Woodburn, Silverton and Salem.
President Hudelson of Salem presided.
BANKER'S DEATH DENIED
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got off the boat I didn't see why I
should shield Stewart any longer,"
said Captain Reed.
"Didn't you tell William Stewart,
prosecuting attorney for Cowlitz
county, that only five people got off
the boat?" asked Mr. Langhorne.
"I did not."
"Are you sure?"
"I don't care if he was district
attorney of the state of Washington,
I never made any such statement.
That's plajn English, isn't it?"
snapped the witness.
Other Conversations Denied.
Captain Reed denied emphatically
other conversations Mr. Langhorne
questioned him about. Several of the
people mentioned were in court and
were brought to the witness stand
for the captain's inspection. The
captain denied ever having seen most
of them.
"Why didn't you report what you
knew to the county officials?" asked
Mr. Langhorne.
"Aw, I wouldn't tell the officials
anything," was the retort.
"And you searched the river for 17
ts after this, knowing what you
did?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"I wanted to satisfy myself that
Btewart wasn't really in the river."
Asked regarding a recent interview
with Mrs. Stewart, Captain Reed said
he had refused to discuss the case
with her any more.
"I was afraid of her," he declared.
"Why were you afraid of her?"
tasked Mr. Langhorne.
Death Declared Feared.
"I thought she wanted to kill me
nd was afraid she had a gun," said
tne witness.
"Did you see a gun in her posses
sion 1"
"So, but I was afraid she might
Iiave one. I tell you, she looked des
perate." "Like she does now?" queried Mr.
Langhorne, pointing to Mrs. Stewart.
"N'o, not like she does now," said
the witness.
"Now, captain, just when did you
change your mind, which you say you
had made up to keep quiet about what
you knew?" asked Mr. Langhorne.
"After I had searched the river for
17 days, I sent word to Mrs. Stewart
that if she wished to continue the
search she must send me 100 gallons
of oil," said Captain Reed. "She paid
no attention to the message."
"And that caused you to change
your mind?"
"Yes."
"I thought you said the effect of
the bank failure caused your change
of heart," said Mr. Langhorne.
"Well, it helped," said Captain Reed.
Captain Reed said he told his wife
about two weeks after Stewart's dis
appearance of his belief that Stewart
was alive. He told no one else, he
said, for a year.
On redirect examination Captain
Reed said that he had been asked by
about 300 persons regarding the
events at the dock when Stewart's
disappearance occurred. He had al
ways refused to give any information
when questioned, he declared.
PROBE OF OFFICER'S
DEATH IN PROGRESS
Ex-Ray Shows Colonel Beck
Killed by Shots. ,
FJSNS TO HEAR ORCHESTRA
CONCERT TO BE BROADCAST
TO NORTHWEST.
Programme, First of Its Kind, to
Be Rendered at The Orego
nian Radio Tower.
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memory course programme every day
on my husband s set, ana nave en
1ovd every number very much. I
heard her last year when ehe spoke
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will erlve radio concert tonight
for The Orrgoiilan.
before the schools, and when she an
nounced her first programme Mon
day afternoon I recognized her voice
immediately."
A big crowd gathered around The
Oregonian tjooth at the Home Beauti
ful show, where a radio receiving set
was installed, spent an enjoyable
hour listening to the select phono
graphic records being played in The
Oregonian radio tower many blocks
away.
MERGER OF BODIES URGED
Inion of Vancouver Chamber and
Club Proposed.
VANCOUVER. Wash., April. 6.
(Special.) A proposal to merge the
Vancouver chamber of commerce and
the Community club into one big co
operative society, with headquarters
in the new '$100,000 clubhouse of the
American Legion, was presented to
the chamber last night. Charles Watts
of the American Legion, who made
the proposal, declared the arrange
ment would be of mutual benefit to
both organizations.
The Community club, which was or
ganized by the American Legion, is in
need of financial support from the
business men, and it is believed that
a union of the two bodies would draw
many new members into the organi
zation.
Several members of the chamber
spoke in favor of the plan and a com
mittee was appointed to work with
the American Legion in putting the
plan over. Will Dubois, H. D. Warren,
John Elwell, H. J. Campbell and G.
M. Davison compose the committee.
E. M. RANDS NEAR DEATH
Well-Known ex-Xewspaper Man
Victim of Influenza.
OREGON CITY, Or., April 6. (Spe
ial.) E. M. Rands, well-known ex
ewspaper man, whose home is at
lands station, near Vancouver, Wash.,
,-ho is suffering from complications
of influenza, has been brought to the
ome of his sister, Mrs. John Spiger,
f Kisrhth and Madison streets rtia.
gon City, where he is very low, al
though this afternoon attending phy-
icians had hopes for his recovery.
Mr. Rands has been in a comatose
state for several days and unable to
Ice nourishment. Two mnntha aim
he was stricken with Influenza.
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BULLETS FOUND IN HEAD
Oil King, at Whose Home Tragedy
Occurred, Declares No Liquors
Served at Dancing Party.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 6.
Various phases of the slaying here of
Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Ward Beck,
assistant commandant of Post field,
Fort Sill, Okla., early Tuesday morn
Ing in the home of Jean P. Day, oil
man and prominent attorney, were
being developed today by county of
ficials. Forrest Hughes, county at
torney, declared he was investigating
possible "hidden angles" of the trag
edy.
X-ray photographs settled; the ques
tion as to whether Beck was shot,
Shattered fragments of a bullet were
disclosed In the head of the army
officer. The bullet appeared to have
entered near the top of the had
above the right ear.
Day has declared he struck Beck
over the head with the revolver he
obtained after he returned home and
found the aviator attacking Mrs. Day.
The revolver was discharged acci
dehtly. Day asserts, protesting that
he did not intend to kill Beck.
Liquor Anle Investlgrated.
The liquor angle also was being
investigated. Coroner McWilliams
announced be found bottles and
sliced oranges scattered about the
room in which Beck was slain.
Mr. Day declared today that noth
ing: stronger than non-alcoholic apri
cot cordial had been served at the
midnight dancing party in the Day
home preceding the tragedy.
Lieutenant-Colonel Beck was sober,
Day said he believed.
County officials were trying to de
velop another phase of the killing.
It was why Beck, with the reputation
of an army officer to uphold, did not
leave the Day home after Day, as he
asserts, passed through the room on
his way upstairs to get his gun.
. Beck Aware of Dangrer.
On this point W. R. Withington,
evidence man for the county attor
ney, said:
"Beck knew, according to state
ments which have been made to the
police by both Day and his wife, that
he was caught in a position which
would justify Day in taking his life.
He must have known, when Day went
upstairs, that he had gone for a
weapon.
"Was it that he thought that he, an
unarmed man. no matter in what
physical condition he might have
been, could overcome a man with a
revolver and the moral right to shoot
to kill?
"Did he think that on account of
his old friendship with Day that the
oil man would overlook his betrayal
of confidence.
"Did he believe, from an intimate
knowledge of the family, that the
affair might be hushed up or
smoothed over?"
OFFICERS AND MEN SHOCKED
Beck's Character Always Above Re
proach, Says Commander.
FORT -SILL, Okla., April 6. The
killing of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul
Ward Beck, assistant commandant of
Post field, came as a shock to officers
and enlisted men here, who were the
comrades of the daring aviator. Com
ment on the case has been reserved.
Both officers and men, however,
made it plain today they found it
hard to believe the charges made
against Lieutenant-Colonel Beck.
'I can say that Lieutenant-Colonel
Beck was the finest son an old gray-
haired mother ever had," declared
Brigadier-General Ernest Hindes,
commander of Fort Sill. "He was one
of the finest soldiers I have ever
came in contact with and, as far as
I know, his character has always been
above reproach."
Major R. B. Paddock, a relative of
General Pershing, who accompanied
Lieutenant-Colonel Beck to Oklahoma
City Monday and was at the Day
party there, declared Beck was never
a coward.
'He never hid from anybody," said
Major Paddock. "He faced death as a
matter of duty in the air and on the
ground too many times to play th
role of a coward dog, regardless of
the position he was found in."
riME TO PONDER GRANTED
Accused to Escape Jail Term if He
Names Who Ieft Liquor in Home.
On the excellence of John Bukov-
chik's memory depends a 30-day jail
sentence. Should his recollection fail
him altogether and he find himself
unable to recall the name of the real
owner of 80 pints of moonshine
whisky found in his home by deputy
sheriffs, he will serve 30 days in the
county jail as well as pay a fine of
$250. Should he remember the name,
the Jail term will be suspended.
This was jthe unusual Judgment of
District Judge Bell when Bukovchik f
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wao umugiu uciuic ,11111, 'i' r .
with being the distributing agent of
an active bootlegger.
Bukovchik lives at the head of
Quimby street, where Twenty-eighth
street would intersect were the j
streets cut through, just below fash
ionable Westover terrace. When
Deputy Sheriffs Beeman,' Schirmer
and Wolfe paid him an informal call ;
they discovered the 80 pints neatly
wrapped up and ready for delivery.
The householder explained their pres
ence, saying that "someone" ihad left
them, but that for the life of him he
could not recall the name or address
of the stranger.
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Snappy Music.
0-30 I. 31. TO 3 A. SI.
Today's Musical Program
in Symphony Hall ,
The following- will appear in the musicale to be given in Sym
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welcome. No charge for admission.
Elsie Worden, Violincello )
(Pupil of Christian Pool)
William O'Neil, Piano
(Pupil of Lillian Jefferys Petri)
Harold C. Graham, 'Baritone
(Pupil of Taglieri)
30 Minutes With. Ornstein
(On the Kna.be Ampico.)
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Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Kelly of Ta
coma Side With Captain Pelx
otto, Contesting Separation.
TACOMA, Wash., April 6. (Spe
cial.) Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Kelly
of Tacoma side with their daugh
ter's husband ' Captain Eustace M.
Peixotto, United States army, in a
suit for divorce brought by the war
bride in Keno, Nev. They sustain
Captain Peixotto In his contention
that his wife Is not a duly qualified
resident of Nevada and is not en
titled to a divorce there, according
to messages received in Tacoma from
Reno.
Miss Kelly was a runaway war
bride. She and the dashing Captain
Pelxotto fled to Olympia in a taxi
cab from Tacoma, closely followed by
the bride's mother, who arrived Just
a moment after the ceremony had
been performed by an Olympia min
ister. Captain Peixotto was 32 years
old then and one of the iiandsomest
young officers at Camp Lewis. He
is now stationed at an army camp
in Georgia.
An attack on the jurisdiction of the
Nevada courts in the divorce suit
brought recently by Mrs. Peixotto
has been launched by the defendant
in a motion to quash service of sum
mons. The contention of the defense
is supported by affidavits of the
defendant, his brother, Edward D.
Peixotto, attorney of San Francisco,
and the plaintiff's parents, who assert
that Mrs. Peixotto is not a bona fide
resident of Nevada, but is in Reno
for the sole purpose of obtaining a
divorce.
The motion has been set for hear
ing' in the district court in Reno
April 8. At the same time a motion
for alimony pendente lite interposed
by the plaintiff will be entertained
by the court. The plaintiff, it is
said, had not received a cent from
her husband in the past ten months,
and since coming to Reno has been
compelled to seek work to Bupport
herself and young son.
SNOOPING OFFICERS HIT
DRY IiAW NOT MADE FOR DES
POTISM, SAYS JUSTICE.
Dissenting Member in Seizure Case
Thinks Portfolios Might Be Mis
taken for Liquor Bags.
HELENA, Mont., April 6. Passage
of the prohibition amendment to the
federal constitution "did not inaugu
rate a reign of legislative despotism
to be carried out by snooping consta
bles or peace officers," according to
dissenting opinion handed down
yesterday by Associate Justice Albert
J. Galen of the supreme court in the
case of the state against Louis Mullen
of Deer Lodge.
Mullen, carrying a handbag from
which the neck of a demijohn 'was
protruding, was arrested by a Deer
Lodge officer. The lower court re
leased the defendant, but ordered the
liquor destroyed and the bag and
demijohn sold. The appeal was from
this decision, claiming unlawful
search and seizure. The action of the
lower court was affirmed by the su
preme court today, Justice Galen
only dissenting. In his opinion Jus
tice Galen said in part:
"Under the decision every person
who carries a container for liquids
may be subjected to an invasion of
personal rights and privileges; the
messenger who flies from the dairy
with pasteurized product of the cow,
in basket or bottle, to the infant in
the nursery, as well as the druggist
clerk who carries a demijohn or flask
which cheers the expiring moments
of the sick or aged on their hospital
cots.
'My brothers at the bar had best
discard their green bags and port
folios for fishnets, in order to avoid
inquisitive constables attracted by a
bulging bag."
High School Gyms Under Way. .
SCIO, Or.. April 6. (Special.) Vol
unteer labor is being solicited to as
sist in building the new high school
gymnasium. Several teams have been
at work hauling gravel the last few
days. Numerous changes were made
in the original plan tor tne building
and it is thought that other altera
tions may be made which will save
$400 to $500 on the building material
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