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PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
VETERAN SHOOTS 2.
THEN KILLS SELF
25,000 WILL CAMP
TRACES OF GLACIER
... FOUND IN SELLWOOD
GIRL IN PLAYFUL DASH
IS KILLED BY AUTO
U.S.FARMSNDW .
Oil S01D BASIS
72,328 REPUBLICANS
CHIEFS ACCUSERS
TO BEAT HIGH RENTS
REGISTERED IN COUNTY
SUMMER EQUIPMENT SAID TO
COST ONLY $90.
ROCKY STRIP ACROSS BIS
) TRICT IS EXPLAINED.
CHILD JERKS AWAY FROM
GRANDFATHER'S HAND.
TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTERS ON
BOOKS IS 99,435.
PREMIER VISIONS
PEACEFUL EUROPE
Lloyd George Is Tired but
DROP ONE CHARGE
Bullet Intended for Wife
Hits Mother-in-Law.
MAN CALLER IS WOUNDED
Bloodshed Follows Refusal
to Return to Husband.
ATTACK IS IN HOME
J. It. Cliamness Breaks Up Party
at Residence of Wife's Parents.
Friend May Lose Hand.
After many futile entreaties and
love notes to his wife begging her to
return to him, J. It. Chamness, 27-
year-old laborer, last night shot and
seriously wounded his mother-in-law.
airs. J. L. Cave, 102 Nebraska street,
and then shot and killed himself. The
bullet which hit Chamness' mother
in-law was intended for Mrs. Cham
ness. Harry 7 Post, a friend of Mrs
Chamness, will probably lose his right
hand from a third bullet fired by
Chamness. Mrs. Cave was sent to St
Vincent's hospital.
The triple shooting occurred at 102
Nebraska street, in the Fulton dis
trict, at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Chamness
and two other young women living in
the house were entertaining Post and
Elmer Payne, who live together at
68 Grand avenue. The two women
were Miss Nell Morrow and Mrs. Nat
tie Klatt. Besides the five in the
party, Mr. and Mrs. Cave and three
small children were in the house at
the time of the shooting.
Chamness ex-Service Man.
Chamness was an ex-service man
and married Miss Lorena Cave short
ly after he was discharged from the
army. During the war he was de
tailed in Liverpool, England, as a
military policeman. Chamness' wife
told Detectives Cahill and Drennan
after the shooting that their court
ship had been very stormy d their
wedded life more so. .She said her
husband had been neglectful, eruel
and inconstant, and that she had
finally left him shortly after theflrst
of the year when he beat her se
verely, blacked her eyes, and told her
he wished he had married a girl in
Liverpool.
Mrs. Chamness then left her hus
band and went to live with her pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Cave, 102
Nebraska street. Chamness imme
diately started a bombardment of
notes to her, pleading that she return
to him or at least see him occasion
ally. Desperate Note Is Scorned.
Yesterday morning a plea that she
meet him last night and couched in
more desperate terms than usual was
received. It followed several notes
sent almost daily and several threats
made during the week.
Mrs. Chamness scorned the note
and told her friends that she was
absolutely through with her husband.
She and Miss Morrow and Mrs. Klatt
went to a dance early in the evening
and were accompanied home by Harry
Post and Elmer Payne. Members of
the family said that Post had been
paying considerable attention to Mrs.
Chamness.
Tarty Is Disturbed.
Shortly before 11 o'clock the party
was disturbed by the violent barking
of Cave's dog. Payne went to the
door, followed by Post, and saw Cham
ness standing in the yard. He cau
tioned Post to stand back, but Post
went to the door. When he did so
Chamness fired the first of the three
shots. It hit Post in the right hand,
the .3S-caliber bullet fired from an
army revolver shattering the bones
badly.
Chamness then stepped around to
the east side of the house to a win
dow. The shot and the screams of
the women in the front part of the
house which accompanied it awakened
Mrs. Cave. She turned on the light
as she got up and then opened the
door. When Chamness looked in the
window she was standing silhouetted
in the dour and he evidently mistook
her for his wife. -
Woman DM Below Eye,
lie fired through the window and
the bullet struck Mrs. Cave on the
left side of the nose just oelow tiie
ie. First examination showed that
it w ent through ' and upwards and
can- out the side of her head. Doc
tors could not say how seriously she
was wounded. She fell but retained
consciousness, and although in a
great deal of pain, was able to talk.
She was hurried to St. Vincent's hos
pital in an ambulance, where her con
dition was pronounced serious bu not
grave. She win probably recover. .
Whon Chamness saw the wman
crumple- and fail to the floor he
turned his revolver on himself and
fired the third shot. It entered the
left side of his head, completely
pierced the brain and came out the
right Bide. He died instantly. The
coroner took charge of the body.
Whole Neighborhood Exrlted.
The whole neighborhood was thrown
in a turmoil by the shooting and th-5
s-reams of the women and children.
The' three children in the hous; were
sleeping in the dark room across
which Chamness shot when he fired
Mrs. Cave. Neighbors called the
Porest Preserve Camps Expected to
Bring Greedy Landlords
' to Time Quickly.
CHICAGO, April 20. Twenty-five
thousand Chicago families will live
in tents in the- forest' preserves near-j
the city during the. summer to Y0!.
paying high rentals, E. A. Better,
manager o-f the Chicago Tenants'
Protective league,, announced, today..
All plans for the tent cities have been
completed; he said; and' asserted that
a family co.uld.be equipped tp.Uve Jn.
a tent all summer for $90, or only
one month's rental for many flats.
The campers, he said, will be di
vided Into groups of 25 families each
and a chieftain will be appointed for
each group. No ,dogs .will be allowed
in camp but there will be no limit on
children, it - was -asserted. -
"This move will be the greatest
ever made toward beating the greedy
landlord,". Mr.. Potter . said- in an
nouncing the completion of plans.
"Twenty-five thousand vacant flats
in Chicago all summer will beat him
to a frazzle."
BURNS FREED BY JURY
"Not Guilty" Is Verdict in Case of
Shooting of James Phillips.
"Not guilty" was the verdict at 9
o'clock last night of the seven
women and five men who deliberated
on the guilt or innocence of John L.
Burns, alleged slayer of James H.
Phillips, since 10:10 Wednesday morn
ing. Circuit Judge Stapleton received
the verdict at that hour and dis
missed the jurors.
The trial concluded Wednesday is
the third which Burns had faced,
Jurors failing to agree in the first
two. In each of the previous cases
the majority was strongly, 'for con
viction, but lacked the two or three
votes necessary for unanimity of
opinion.
Burns was accused of shooting
James H. Phillips, special agent for
the O.-W. R. & N. railroad, on the
night of June 14, 1921, in the Albina
yards. Dan Casey, alleged pal of
Burns, is under death sentence for
participation in the murder.
AUTO CUTS OFF POWER
Entire California-Oregon Company
System Put Out or Order.
MEDFORD, Or., April 20. While
driving his new car on the Pacific
highway aoiith of Medford yesterday,
John Helman of Ashland , lost control
and ran Into an electric power line
pole at the side of the road, putting
the entire system ot the California-
Oregon Power company out of servic-i
for five minutes.
A high tension wire carrying 34.000
volts fell across a fence, setting it on
fire and Lawrence Coder of Ashland,
an occupant of the car, had his arm
painfully burned when the wire came
in contact with the machine. No one
was seriously injured, but the car was
badly wrecked.
300-FOOT FALL SURVIVED
Autoist Who Plunged From Cliff
Goes to Work as Usual Next Day,
HOOD RIVER, Or., April 20. (Spe
cial.) Wheeler Clark, young Mosier
man, although he plunged from a 300-
foot precipitous cliff along the Co
lumbia river highway three miles cast
of here last night, attended his duties
at the O.-W. R. & N. station at the
neighboring city today, apparently
little the worse for the narrow e
cape. Clark says he lost control of!
his car when a front wheel struck a I
bowlder at the side of the pavement. I
After the car had turned over several
times Clark was thrown out. Clark
was knocked unconscious when a
loosened rock struck him on the head, i
The automobile was a total wreck.
WOMAN TRIES SUICIDE
Mrs. Susie Staley Takes Poison I
After Quarrel With Husband.
Mrs. Susie Staley made her third
attempt at suicide last night. Hos
pital attendants said she was having
severe convulsions from the poison
she had taken and might die before
morning.
Mrs. Staley is the wife of Mack E.
Staley, truck driver, living at 3618
Fifty-second street Southeast. She!
had been despondent for a long time.
She was said, to have had words with
her husband last night.
She first was sent to the emergency
hospital and later to St. Vincent'B
hospital.
ENVOY ARRIVES IN BERLIN I
New American Ambassador Met by)
Entire Embassy Staff.
BERLIN. April 20. (By the"""Asso-
ciated Press.) Alanson B. Houghton,
the new American ambassador to Ger
many, arrived in Berlin today to tike j
up his official duties.
He was met at the station by the I
entire staff of the embassy. '
"HOOT" GIBSON MARRIES
Helen Johnson, Vaudeville Actress,
Bride of Movie Actor.
RIVERSIDE, Cal.. April 20. Ed
mund "Hoot" Gibson, motion picture
actor of Los Angeles, and Helen
Johnson, vaudeville actress, were
Optimistic.
SUCCESS COUNTED CERTAIN
Great Results Expected
Genoa Conference.
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GERMANS COME TO TERMS
Favorable Action on Part of Rus
sians All but Sure', Press
Representatives Told.
GENOA, April 20. (By the . Asso
ciated Press.) Facing- BOO newspaper
correspondents ot virtually all the
nations, the British premier today,
after announcing that the Germans
would accept the conditions imposed
by the allies concerning the Eusso
German treaty and that the Soviet's
reply on the general Russian question
would be such as to permit of further
hopeful negotiations, declared his un
shakable conviction that the Genoa
conference would prove a great suc
cess. He believed that it would restore
harmony in Europe and was su
premely confident that before ad
journing it would adopt an agreement
whereby all the nations of Europe
would bind themselves not to, commit
acts of aggression against neighbor
ing countries.
"Such a pact," he exclaimed, "is an
essential to the favorable issue of this
conference; without it, I believe, the
conference will be a failure."
Premier Appear Tired.
Mr. Lloyd George seemed fatigued
as he entered the famous royal pal
ace, where the first and only plenary
session of the conference was held
April 10. He found the green baize
tables, which before were occupied
by the conference delegates, now
crowded to overflowing by the writ
ers, who were glad to be present at
a quiz which promised to disclose
tr, some extent the future of the con
ference. The premier's decision to talk to
the press was an outgrowth of the
system at the Washington conference,
where it was the custom of the lead
ing delegates to receive the news
paper men daily, which worked so
well.
Removing his winter overcoat, with
which Mr. Lloyd George seeks to
avoid the April chill of Genoa, he
rather wearily stroked his thick
white locks. His -first word gave dis
appointment "I came not to make a
speech, but rather to answer ques
tions and so clear up misunderstand
ing," he said, but immediately added:
"God is in his heaven and tl.e con-
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Moraine of Ancient Ice Field Is De
clared to Have Been Discovered
During Excavations.
That the moraine of an ancient si
cier lies across the eastern part of the
Sellwood district, and that this gla
cier was the means of depositing the
rocky strip across that district, which
has been disclosed by digging sewers
and making other excavations, was
the declaration yesterday of John W
Campbell, 1573 East Fifteenth street.
Mr. Campbell, who is now retired
after a number of years devoted to
merchandizing in Portland, has long
been interested in the study of geol
ogy and kindred topics, and he yester
day summed up his observations re
garding the Sellwood glacier and the
terminal moraine.
The north end of this terminal
moraine, says Mr. Campbell, is be
tween Nehalem and Miller avenues,
and its south end lg near Ochoco ave
nue. Its east side, he said, is just
west of Crystal Springs creek, and its
western limit is a curving line com
mencing near the intersection of Ne
halem avenue and East Seventeenth
street, thence curving to the south
west to near the intersection of East
Sixteenth street and Tacoma avenue;
thence south to Umatilla avenue and
southeast, crossing Marion avenue.
and on to the city limits. This em
braces a territory about half a mile
north and south and of varying width
to nearly 1000 feet at Its widest point.
"East of these limits, on Tacoma
avenue, where the city laid a water
main into Sellwood," said Mr. Camp
bell, "is the silted-up bed of an ancient
lake. Here the terrain is clay, sand
and gravel.
"West of the limits of the moraine
as above described the country is
clay, sand and gravel, so that this
moraine is entirely isolated from any
other rock formation.
"It is composed of what is known
in geology as 'till' or boulder clay, a
compound of boulders more or less
worn, clay, gravel and sand mixed to
gether without any degree of order
or semblance of stratification."
Mr. Campbell has declared that
thousands of years have passed since
this moraine was forced into position!
during which the weather has been it
work forming a soil over the surface
in which trees and other vegetation
has grown and decayed.
His conclusions are that the glacier
which pushed up this Sellwood moraine
came down the Johnson creek valley.
A short distance east of Willaburg,
he asserted, the valley still retains
the U-shape typical of a valley eroded
by glacial action.
"The west end of the valley was
filled with sand and gravel after the
glacier had ceased its activities," said
Mr. Campbell "and later the creek cut
its way through this barrier, forming
the V-shape peculiar to valleys made
by water erosion."
Describing the "fourth ice period,"
Mr. Johnson said that on this conti
nent the ice cap extended south far
enough to cover the northern third
of the state of Washington at ordi
nary elevations. On higher elevations
along the Cascade mountains, he says,
the ice cap extended south through
Oregon and well into California. This
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ATM OTHER SHOCK.
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Driver in Sharp Swerve Unable to
Bliss Three-Vear-OId Youngster.
Rear Wheel Passes Over Body.
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Edith Schumaii, 3 years old, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schumann,
991 Corbett street, died within five
minutes after she was struck by an
automobile driven by F. B. Carothers,
2182 East Morrison street, just before
7 o'clock last night." The accident
occurred on Corbett street, midway
between Bancroft and Lowell streets.
The girl's grandfather, O. P. Samp
son, 991 Corbett street, was leading
her across the street by the hand.
Carothers, who Is employed by the
Pierce-Arrow company, was driving
north rv-hr .trt Th. man r,rl
child had already crossed the first
streetcar track and were out of the
path of the automobile when the
girl playfully jerked away from him
and ran back toward the curb.
Carothers turned sharply to the
right, but the child ran into the iront
wheel of his machine, was knocked
down and run over by the rear wheel.
The grandfather and several ' wit
nesses, together with Carothers, car
ried her into her home. She died be
fore medical aid could be given her.
Carothers himself called the police,
and Patrolman Forken hurried to the
scene. Carothers said he was driving
between 12 and 15 miles an hour
when the girl ran against his car.
and all witnesses substantiated the
statement. O. P. Sampson, the grand
father, admitted that the driver was
not at fault.
Carothers was ordered to remain in
town in the event a coroner's inquest
was ordered.
BULLETS HAIL FROM FIRE
Little Girl in Play gets Off Explo
sives Stored in Home.
BOISE, Idaho, April 20. When Ab
igail Riebe, 14, felt the summer sun
shine and ba'lmy breezes yesterday
afternocn she thought summer had
arrived and started a premature
Fourth of July celebration with fire
crackers in . the bedroom of her
father's home. Five hundred rounds
of ammunition were stored in the
bedroom and Abigail's celebration
had this result: The house was badly
damaged by flames; Abigail, her
father and firemen - had close calls
from exploding cartridges.
Pandemonium reigned in the neigh
borhood of the Riebe home, but
luckily no one was struck by the
bullets.
EVANGELIST IS FOUGHT
Opponents Burn Banner Advertis
ing Meetings at Elgin.
ELGIN, Or., April 20. (Special.)
Opponents of T. H. Osborn, an evan
gelist, who has preached to crowded
houses here for the last three weeks,
Tuesday night set fire to a large ban
ner advertising the meeting. The fire
department and volunteers put out
the blaze.
It was said the evangelist had re
ceived letters inviting him to leave
the city.
Federal Aid Averts. Panic
, in Agriculture.
CRISIS IS DECLARED PAST
Livestock Dealers Only Ones
Still in Distress.
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I UUVJU UilUrO
EXPECTED
Continuance of Lending Money to
Rural Districts Said to Be
Poor Government Policy.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright by the New York Evening Post,
Inc. Published by Arrangement.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 20.
(Special.) Up to the immediate pres
ent, the moat important single factor
among those which have operated to
pull the country out of the economic
distress of six months ago has been
the advancing of government money,
through the war finance corporation,
to persons in distress through holding
farm products at prices lower than
the cost of production.
The testimony is universal that the
farmers and the local banks and busi
ness men in farming communities axe
now safely past the crisis that men
aced them during the latter part of
1&'21. They are not wholly happy, of
course, because the prices of farm
products are still lower than the high
peak of two years ago. Moreover,
while the prices of most farm products j
have gone high enough to permit
liquidation without great loss, there
are still a few farm products so low
that the prices represent an unpleasant
contrast with the cost of production
Livestock Industry Hit.
This is particularly true in some
branches of the livestock industry.
The period of bringing livestock to
maturity and sale extends :.ot over a
single season, hut over several sea
sons, and some holders who bought
and fed livestock at the prices of two
or three years ago are not wholly free
from distress.
This, however, is about the only
field in which the change both of
actual conditions and of psychology
has not been complete. It is not
merely that the distress of six
months ago is ended. What is even
more important is that a progressive
distress, which would have become
steadily worse, and which would have
ended, without any doubt, in a wide
spread feeling of panic, has been
averted.
Many local banks in the farming
districts have been saved from bank
ruptcy, and the farming and business
communities attached to those banks
have been saved from the intense and
prolonged trouble that would have
followed. Many farmers and other
holders of, farm products have been
saved from foreclosure.
Crisis Is Averted.
The operations of the government
have by no means restored every
person to what was his position dur
ing the 1920 period of abundance, and
some farmers and others whose cases
were the worst have not been saved
at all. But speaking in general terms,
the whole psychology of the country
has been altered. The most compe
tent judges of such matters now be
lieve that we have not only escaped
a crisis, but that the country has
actually been started on a period of
prosperity. The degree of this pros
perity in the near future may not
attain the proportions which the most
optimistic expect.
It must be restrained in some de
gree by the conditions of international
trade. But it still remains true that
we are securely started on a course
of rising volume of business. Among
the factors which add to this are the
weather and other crop conditions in
the farm states. There has been a
frost in California, which has affected
some of the fruit crops, but aside
from that, throughout the country
as a whole the start of the coming
farming year is described in terms of
great enthusiasm by persons who
watch such things closely.
Rain Is Sufficient.
There has been moisture wherever j
it was needed in better proportion
than during any spring the past five
cr six years.
The psychology of the farmers is
favorable. They feel easier as to the
present and more assured as to the
future. .They are disposed to plant
large crops. Their disposition is to
be economical about expenditures. As
regards both farmers and workers,
there is a disposition to save, and the
I available fund of capital in the coun
try is increasing rapidly. All these
conditions will come to the front in
congress . shortly when the question
arises of what to do about the con-
I tinuance of the war finance corpora
tion. The lending of money on farm
products was instituted last July, and I
its statutory period was one year
What will be done about continuing
it' must become a subject of debate
I and legislation in the near future.
One course would be for the gov-
(ernment to cease lending more money
and to abolish the war finance cor
poration except for the purposes of
collecting the money that has been
Ratio of More Than Three to One
Is Shown. Over Democrats,
Who Have 23,128.
Of the 99.435 persons registered in
Multnomah county according to the
official count completed yesterday by
Deputy County Clerk Gleason 72.328
are republicans and 23,428 are demo
crats, showing a ratio of more than
3 to 1.
Tfie proportion of women to men
registered as democrats' is consider
ably greater than the proportion reg
istering republican. Figures- show
43,171 male republicans, 29,157 female
republicans, 13,403 male democrats
and 10,026 female democrats. Those
registering as Independent are next
is number to the democrats, muster
ing 2007 names. Prohibitionists, with
615 registered, are next.
Persons registering with no party
affiliations number 657 and socialists
total 500.
The table of registration for the
primaries shows:
Party Male. Frmnle. Totat.
Republican 43.171 2D. 1.17 72.3-.'S
Democrat 13.402 10.02(1 23.42X
Independent 1,324 6X3 2.0U7
Prohibition 234 8S1 B1."
None 174 857
Socialiat 841 W 00
Grand total 99.43J
It will be noted that the prohibi
tion party is the only one mustering
more feminine registrants than mas
culine. DALLES CHINAMAN KILLED
Negro Seen Running From Scene
of Murder Arrested.
THE DALLES, Or., April 20.
(Special.) Chang Hong, 60, Chinese,
thought to be a member of the Hip
Sing tong, was found dead in the
entrance to a store on First street
at 8 o'clock tonieht.. Slim Turner.
27, negro, was seen running from
the scene and is held as a suspect. A
revolver was found a short distance
from the body, apparently thrown
away by the slayer. Two chambers
contained exploded shells and a third
shell bore the imprint of the hammer
but had failed to explode.
Two bullets had pierced the body
of Hong,' one penetrating the heart.
They had been fired into his back.
No. motive for the murder other
than tong affiliations was assigned
by the police tonight. Hong was vio
lating an order of the mayor issued
last November following a tong up
rising that all Chinese must be off
the streets by 6 o'clock.
Late tonight the police arrested
a Chinese as a second suspect. The
oriental had arrived here from Port
land about 8 o'clock. He is believed
to be a gunman of a rival tong.
EX-EDITOR DROPS DEAD
Charles Nickcll, Formerly of Med
ford, Passes in California.
MEDFORD, Or.. April 20. (Special.)
Charles Nickell, one of the best-
known pioneers of southern Oregon.
formerly editor of the Medford Tri
bune and until seven or eight years
ago a resident of this city, dropped
dead at his home In Oakland, Cal.,
today.
A telegram received by his daugh
ter Mrs. Louis Ulrlch, of this city an
nounced Mr. Nickell's death.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TODAY'S Fair; winda mostly southerly.
YESTBRBAT'S Maximum temperature, .1
degreea; minimum temperature. 40 de
grees. Foreign,
Irish labor issues ultimatum to dall.
Page 2
Hundreds killed, thousands wounded. In
Serbian explosion. Page 2.
Lloyd George confident conference will
restore harmony in Europe. Page 1.
National.
United States farms now on sound basis.
Page 1
Better times held dependent on reductions
In costs. Page 9.
rnmn "Lewis troops to be scattered.
Page 8. i
Domestic.
Twenty-five thousand renters plan tent
city near Chicago. ' Page 1.
General Semenoff, freed on ball In New
York, suddenly disappears. Page 6.
Lady Astor declares league Is big thing.
Page 9. .
Pacific Northwest.
Spokane reapportionment conference op
posed. Page 0. .
Sports.
Lardis' view Is wrong, says Klepper. Page
14.
Bears and Vikings meet In big crew race
today at Seattle. Page 15.
Pacific Coast league results: At Portland
2. Oakland 8 (11 Innings); at Seattle ,
Vernon 4; at San Francisco 6. Sacra
mento 4; at 1.03 Angeles L Bait iaice .
Pag 14.
Chicago Cubs defeat Red Sox. Tags 14.
rammercial and Marine.
pacjflc rate war breaks out again. Page
21.
Low-grade wools bought by mills. Page 22.
Use of armies to produce material wealth
declared needed. Page 23.
European sales manager appointed for
wheat growers' association. Page 22.
Chfago wheat rallies on expected foreign
buying. Page 22. :
Bond trading larger with prices Irregular.
Page 23.
Price movements in stocks erratlo. Page
22.
Portland and Vicinity.
President-elect Weir will confer with trus
tees of Pacific university next week.
Page 6.
Seventy-two thousand, three hundred and
twenty-eight republicans registered In
county. Page 1.
Cnlef Young's accusers drop on charge.
Page 1.
Traces of glacier found In Sellwood.
Page 1.
Alleged vendors of narcotics held. Page 7.
State highway commission sets truck hear
ing. I'age i.
Girl In playful dash killed by auto.
Page 1.
Clew to spot where RuKSell Hecker killed
Bowker is found. Page 4.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 22.
Ku Klux Klan presents $50 to Evangelist
Anderson In recognition of work. Page 8.
Mother-in-law shot by deserted husbsnfl
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Failure to Prove Others
Also Marks Hearing.
CASE TO CONTINUE TODAY
Allegation of Intoxication at
Fires Is Withdrawn.
SOME WITNESSES ABSENT
Prosecution Expresses Hope to
Have Testimony Given Later.
Some Take Mr, Young's Side.
Withdrawal of cVe serious charge
brought against John E. Young:, chief
of the Portland fire bureau and fail
ure to substantiate several other
charges made in the document signed
by A. L. Pullen, Inspector In the fire
marshal's office, yesterday featured
the first day of the public hearing.
During the progress of the hearing,
which will reconvene this morning at
9:30 o'clock, 29 witnesses were called
by the accusers. Of this number sev
eral turned the tables and made ex
cellent defense witnesses.
Mayor Baker, who, with other mem
bers of the council, "sat in" with City
Commissioner Bigelow, who is con
ducting the hearing, broke into the
proceedings during the afternoon with
the suggestion that there be a thor
ough "housecleanlng" In the fire de
partment. If the morale were as low
as reported by some fire captains who
were called as witnesses.
C hange Is Declared deeded.
"If the captains, lieutenant and
battalion chiefs of the department
are not obtaining discipline, it's time
to change them," declared Mayor
Baker. "Testimony Is being offered
here to show that the morale of the
Are bureau Is at low ebb. I don t
believe that it Is. I believe that Port
land has a good fire bureau.
"But after ail la said, the bureau Is
as good as the battalion chiefs, cap
tains and lieutenants make It, and if
the morale is not good. It Is time for
the commissioner In charge to re
move some of these officers. As mayor
of this city, I won't sit here without
making a protest and permit the bu
reau to be ruined in an effort to
convict one man."
Wltnrss Reported Absent.
A. V. Klegel, appearing with Milton
It. Klepper for the prosecution, de
clared that several Important wit
nesses had failed to appear and that
it was the hope of the accusers that
they could bo located before the case
is resumed this morning.
"B. F. Dowell, ex-flre chief, Is one
of these witnesses, and the other Is
Miss Athyl Sumerlln. Both have
made depositions containing some
very serious charges," said Fie (tel.
"We have been unable to locate Miss
Sumerlln, but hope to have her here
tomorrow."
Secret Hearing la Denied.
It developed that Miss Sumcrlin.
accompanied by her mother and At
torneys Klepper and Flegel, called on
Commissioner Bigelow Wednesday
and requested a secret hearing. The
request was denied. Commissioner
Bigelow explaining that he wanted
the whole affair threshed out In the
open.
When Wallace McCamant, chlel
counsel for Chief Young, learned of
the meeting, he entered emphatic
protest against Commissioner Bige
low hearing the witness In the pres
ence of counsel for the accusers, when
attorneys for the defendant wcro not
notified.
Commissioner Bigelow explained
that he did not know what the youni;
woman wanted when she went to his
office and that he had denied the
private hearing.
Two Charge WIIMrana.
When the hearing opened yester
day Attorney Flegel requested per
mission to withdraw the charge of
intoxication and disorderly conduct
brought against Chief Young at the
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