Morning Oregonian., April 21, 1922, Page 9, Image 9

THE MORNIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY. APRIL 21, 1922
ES URGED
TO KEEP
John A. Chaloner, Millionaire.
Launches Plan.
PORTLAND IS VISITED
Author of "Who's Looney Now?"
Telegram Is Proud of Asylum
Escape After Four Years.
"flow aic you going to keep 'em
down on he farm?
This all-perplexing problem has been
solved and Ha master is in Portland
He is John Armstrong Chaloner, mil
lionaire, disciple of the "back to cow-
barns for movies" policy and author
of the famous "Who's looney now?"
telegram which gained nation-wide
publicity years aeo.
Most men would hesitate to admit
that four years of their life had been
spent in an insane hospital. Not so
with Jon;. Armstrong Chaloner. H
admitted last night in his room at
the Imperial hotel that he wa-s proud
of the faot that he had made his es
cape from Bloomingdale asylum,
White Plains. New York, on Thanks
giving day, 1900, had evaded the au-
thor-'tits of the state and then had
fought for and won a decree of sanity
in the Virginia courts.
Kwave .Made From Asylum.
In the late '90a Mr, Chaloner
was experimenting with "mediumistic
trances." H's relatives and friends
united in the belief that he was in
sane and had him sent to the asylum.
Four years later he outwitted the au
thorities and made his escape.
"I went to Philadelphia and went
in hiding." he said last night. "Then
I went down in Virginia and won a
suit to establish my sanity. I could
not go back to New York, for there I
would be declared insane and sent
back to the nut house. The New York
authorities could not get me because
Virginia thought I was all r'ght men
tally. I had the edge on them but I
wanted to go back to New York. It
took me IS years of legal effort to es
tablish the fact with the New York
courts that I was not insane.
Guardian Is Thrown Off.
"Incidentally I got rid of my guard
ian and my allowance system and got
my million dollars that was coming
to me. Now I can use it as I fee fit."
Mr. Chaloner launched his plan to
win the boys of Amer'ca back to the
farm by holding motion picture show;:
in the barns.
"But how did you come to send your
'who's looney now?' telegram?" he
was asked.
"Well, you see it was this way."
remarked Mr. Chaloner as he laughed
and ran his hands through his gray
hair. "My brother. Bob, who was sher
iff of Dutchess county. New York,
fell in love with Lina Cavalieri, the
opera star. They .were married in
1910. I did not go much on Bob falling
for such a quicksilver proposition, 1
remembered that he always thought
I was crasy, so I telegraphed him
'who's looney now?'"
Estate Is Extensive.
Mr. Chaioner has an extensive es
tate known as the "Merry Mills" in
Cobham. Virginia. There he has ex
perimented with motion pictures and
has originated a plan for keeping
the farm boys ou the farm through
the use of motion pictures in the
barns. He is making a nation-wide
tour and talking to state officials and
educators regarding his plans.
He will leave Portland this morning
for Olymp.a, Wash., but plans to re
turn tonight for a 24-hour visit.
"You see this monocle?" asked Mr.
Chaloner, pointing to a glass hanging
from it string around his neck. "I
never wore that thing in public in my
life. I just use it in motion picture
shows when the lights are out and
no one can see It."
Obituary.
Mrs. Daisy Lee Brinkley.
Funeral services will be held today
at Fossil, Or., for Mrs. Daisy Lee
Brinkley, who died Wednesday after
noon on her way to a Portland hos
pital, accompanied by her husband,
Walter E. Brinkley, and two nurses.
Mrs. Brinkley was born February
2. 18S3, and lived near Fossil until her
marriage in 1JH15, when, for four
years she lived on the old Brinkley
place in Benton county. Or. In 1909
she and her husband took up a home
stead near Fossil, where they have
lived until the present time.
Besides her widower, Mrs. Brinkley
is survived by her son Harry and
daughter Margaret, her mother, Mrs.
Kllen Lee. and brotner, Frank Lee. of
Fossil; her sisters, Mrs. Rosie McCoy
of Ca-stle Rock, Wash.; Mrs. Bessie
Gage of Mitchell; Mrs. Fannie Hicks
and an uncle, George Bowley, of
Fossil.
Mrs. Bendlkte Gabrielsen.
LA CENTER. Wash.. April 20.
(Special.) Funeral services for Mrs.
Bendikte Oabrielsen, aged 6S years,
who died April 13 at the family home
in the Highland district, near La Cen
ter, were held Sunday morning at
the Highland Lutheran church, the
Rev. Peter Skartvedt officiating. In
terment was in the cemetery at High
land. Mrs. Gabrielsen lived in the
Highland district for 38 years. Sur
viving are her widower, H. C. Gabriel
sen, of La Center; two daughters, Mrs.
Rena Lober of Auburn, Wash.; Miss
G. K. Gabrielsen of La Center; five
sons. Herman, Edward, Jacob B. and
Martin Gabrielsen. all of La Center,
and Alex Gabrielsen of Ridgefield;
two sisters, Mrs. J. Olsen and Mrs.
H. Johnson, both of Cathlemet, Wash.;
also four brothers.
D. C. Thompson.
D. C. Thompson. 615 East Seven
teenth street North, a resident ol
Fortland for the past two years, died
of apoplexy at his home yesterday.
He was 62 years of age.
Mr. Thompson had been Pacific
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coast representative of the R. T.
Jones Lumber company of North Ton
awanda. N. Y. He was an Oddfellow.
He is survived by his widow, three
daughters, two brothers in Helena,
Ark., and a sister at Muskegon, Mich.
The body is at Finlejr"s chapel. Fu
neral announcements will be made
later.
W. Irving Latimer.
Funeral services for W. Irving
Latimer, who died Tuesday night at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ed
ward I. Whitney, 715 Wayne street,
were held yesterday afternoon at 3
o'clock under the auspices of Oregon
commandery No. 1, Knights Templar.
The body will be taken to Big Rap
ids, Mich, for burial. Mr. Latimer
was 85 years old and was formerly
a prominent figure at Washington,
D. C.. where he was private secretary
for Julius C. Burrows, representative
from Michigan in congress. He came
to Oregon about 13 years ago.
Elzy B. Chapman.
ROSEBURG, Or., April 20. (Spe
cial.) Elzy B. Chapman, a prominent
resident of the Glide vicinity, died
yesterday at his home. He was born
in Eouglas county November 7, 1865,
and passed practically all of his life
on the farm where his death occurred.
He is survived by his wife and two
children, Mrs. E. J. Wach and D. L.
Chapman, both of Glide. Funeral
services were held at Glide this aft
ernoon. Mrs. Henrietta Judkins.
Funeral services for the late Mrs.
Henrietta Judkins, wife of A. B. Jud
kins of Portland, who died at Salem,
April 16, were held from the East Side
funeral parlors April 18. The service
was conducted by Rev. Jacob Stock
er of the Clay-street Evangelical
church. Mrs. Judkins was E7 years of
age at the time of her death. -She is
survived by her widower, a sister,
Mrs. Albert Bruns, and a brother,
George Stetzel, both of Portland.
FLAG TOUBHEY IS TODAY
WOMEN GOLFERS OF PORT
LAND CLVB TO COMPETE.
Four New Holes on Rose City
Course Are to Be Opened To
morrow Afternoon.
Women golfers of the Portland Golf
club will compete in a flag tourna
ment today. Some 30 of them have
entered! the tournament, which first
was dated for last week, but had to
be postponed because of rain.
In the flag tournament the players
handicap is added to par for the
course and. the piayer then, uses this
total number of strokes' in playing
the course. A flas is set where the
pjayer plays the last stroke allotted,
and the one getting the furthest dis
tance aroundi the course in the allot
ted number of strokes wins the
tournament. Golf balls are prizes for
the winners today.
This also is the last day for the
women players to qualify for the
annual spninig handicap tournament.
The Qualifying scores also will de
termine the players' places on another
ladder tournament to be started next
week.
Four new holes are to be opened on
the Rose City course tomorrow after
noon. The holes are the secondi
third, fourth and fifth. In place of
the permanent holes which will be
opened for the first time tomorrow
the players have; been using tempo
rary ones running through the center
of the course and inside the racetrack
oval. The new holes- are outs'ide the
oval and will greatly relieve the con
gestioru A bulletin has been 'placed at th
first tee to direct the players over
the new holes.
Election Pamphlets Printed.
SALEM, Or., April 20. (Special.)
Printing of the first of the 18 sep
arate pamphlets containing the state
ments of the various republican can
didates for state and district offices
at the primary election May 19 was
completed today. Copies of this pam
phlet will be mailed to voters in
Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood
River, Sherman, Wallowa and Wheeler
counties.
Americas
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Volume of business to Get Volume, I have to give
Value. Then Volume follows Value just as sure as
night follows day.
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LEAGUE BIG THirJG.
SAYS LADY AS
America Ought to Join, De
clares Visitor.
EUROPE IS "SAD' SIGHT
United Staters Not to Be Blamed
if She Draws Back in Horror,
Admits Dinner Speaker.
NEW YORK. April 20. In honor
of Lady Astor, who described herself
as a sort of connecting link between
the English-speaking peoples, more
than 850 men and women, scores -of
them leaders in sundry fields of labor.
attended a dinner tonight under the
auspices of the English-Speaking
union.
Presiding was John W. Davis,
American ex-ambassador to the court
of St. James, who showered Lady
Astor with compliments.
In her speech Lady Astor put in
a good word for the accomplishments
of the league of nations, whicn sne
thought enough to make every wo
man in America want to Join it in
some form or other, particularly
those who had sons in the war.
England Opposed to War.
"It is the memory of the anguish
of the mothers and fathers who
watched for four years which gives
me the courage to speak plainly here
tonight," she said.
"It is all very well to hear people
talk of European entanglements, but
the world is already tangled, and ve
have to think of a plan to disentangle
ourselves. No one could think that
English fathers and mothers with
nearly 800,000 sons who will never
return would want to join in i
league which entangled them or any
one else in war. The English know
enough about wars never to want to
fight or to see anyone else have to
fight.
Washington Conference Cited.
"These mothers and fathers think,
as I feel sure the fathers and mothers
of America do, that the safest way
to get out of wars is to join some
sort of an association of nations for
peace. The Washington conference
showed us what can happen when
great countries with great ideals get
together. That misrepresented and
much-desp"ised league of nations has
already prevented three small wars.
It has registered over one hundred
treaties. It has repatriated nearly
400,000 prisoners not a bad record
for only half a league."
At the outset Lady Astor said she
usually spoke from the heart, as it
had been a safer guide than her head
"I have been asked what my visit
here was for," she remarked. "Cannot
a person come home without being
suspected or deep ana ulterior mo
tives? I may tell you at once I am
not on a mission to promote a better
understanding between England and
America. No person, however keen,
can do much in that line. Things
which are worth while are made by
something better than missions or
treaties. They are made only by
great ideals."
Lady Astor said that if America
draws back with horror when she
looks at Europe, she does not blame
her, for certainly Europe is "a sad
enough sight."
But she did not believe that stand
ing back is the right way to help or
that any part of the world can truly
go forward while another part suf
fers desperately.
Lady Astor believed Great Britain
and America should have the largest
navies "because they will certainly
use them more as policemen than as
fighting forces."
LAND DEAL HELD FRAUD
Suit Brought to Abrogate Sale and
Recover Money Paid.
Return of $4067 paid on 394 acres
of land on the Columbia river, within
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Multnomah county, and cancellation
of a note for the remainder of the
purchase price of $19,717, on the
ground that the . land wars sold
through fraud and Ms so low that it
is flooded annually, are demands
made by Mr. and Mrs. George A. Swan
in a suit filed in the circuit court
yesterday against J. W. Morrow.
The plaintiffs were Canadians at
the time the deal was made, June 15,
1920, and were unfamiliar with real
estate methods in the United States,
they assert. They say that they were
informed at the time of purchase that
not more than 75 acres of the land
ever was under water, and that the
remainder was 24 feet above the
high-water level.
The purchasers discovered that 140
acres were under water all the time,
they say, and that most of the land
remaining was only 14 feet above
low-water level, while the annual
river rise is about 20 feet. They paid
$3500 in cash and gave a note for
thHa raa-a "7 fn.- na rc.
mainder of the monev asked, on I
which interest of $567 was paid, it is
alleged.
MURDER STORY TARGET
A. J. WESTON SAID TO HAVE
TALKED OF SELF-DEFENSE.
Alleged Slayer of R. H. Krug De
clared Also to Have Intimated
Intent to Kill.
BEND, Or., April 20. (Special.)
"T'rw rn tna wrnno1 ciHa -f the hafS
but I'll show 'em I did it in self-defense,",
was the statement made by
A. J. Weston, accused5-murderer of
R. H. Krug of Sisters to Bailiff San
ders, on the day Weston was locked
up in September, 1920, according to
the testimonv given here this after-
in ntrniHt .rtllf YtV SattHprfi Tn
cross-examination the defense paved
LUt W.J iUl 111 LI Htoi-u
In rr i D of i m nn V fmm a Infill TPnOrtfiT
who interviewed Weston on the fol
lowing day and wa-s iniormea uy mc
nrisorer that he intended to make a
"straight defense."
Slowly wheeled into court this aft
ernoon in an invalid's chair, Joe Wil-
r W.einn anil nf
George Stillwell, admitted technical
nnAnn-.nl;n- i tho allftrPft ppimp. was
Drougnt irom tne nospiiai iy
for the state.
"Weston was like a man leading a
little child around." was Wilson's tes-
timnnK ree-arfiinsr the relations of
Weston and Stillwell.
"Mum's the word, it had to be
done," Weston told Wilson as the two
started for home after the inquest on
tiie aay uiai -i "& o 1
found in the ruins of the hermit's
cabin. Tne witness saia, unaer ;iuo!
examination that he had planned to
get Weston lor causing miu -u
in thn Multnomah county
jail more than three years ago.
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LICU LUAI. , toLU, uu .
-i An hpfni-p the alleged
murder, and had taken his pistol and
dog, informing tnem tnav jvrug
inid.fB.ini, with his moonshininer op
erations, and that he intended to keep
lim away lr ne went io me iicimcn
iary for life.
PENN STATE DEFEATED
Corvallis Debaters Win Contest
From Visiting Eastern Team.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis, April 20. (Special.)-
The Penn State college debate
team, on its western Invasion, met
defeat at the hands of the Oregon
Agricultural college team last night.
The Corvallis three-man team was
made up of John C. Gray of Santa
Ana, Cal., E. V. Abbott of Ashland
and Paul Knoll of Corvallis, all men
who had previously proved them
selves on the forensic platform.
This "was the first meet between the
debaters of the college and a far
eastern team. 1
The leader of the Penn State team
was Elliot Overdorf, president of the
senior class, presiding officer of the
student governing body and a four
year varsity debater. The other
members of the team were R. S.
Adams and W. E. Romig, leaders in
campus activities in the Pennsylvania
college.
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HIO CONCERT TONIGHT
PORTLAND HOTEL ORCHESTRA
TO PLAY NINE SELECTIONS.
Popular Music to Be Sent Broad
cast From Wireless Tower of
The Oregonian.
BEDTIME STORIES WILL BE
SENT BROADCAST.
"With the co-operation of Miss
Anne M. Mulheron, head of the
Portland public library. The
Oregonian will include bedtime
stories for children as a fre
quent feature of its radio serv
ice. The first of these stories
will be sent out next Monday at
7:30 o'clock and it will be fol
lowed by a similar story Friday
at 8 o'clock, beginning The
Oregonian's radio programmes
on these two nights.
The sitories will be told by
young women who have made
children's stories a pleasant fea
ture of the juvenile department
of the public library. It will be
the first time bedtime stories
have been sent out by radio
in Oregon.
Nine selections, consisting of dance
music, solos and a reature, will com
prise the concert by George Olsen's
popular Portland hotel orchestra to
be sent broadcast by radio from The
Oregonian tower tonight between S
and 9 o'clock.
This will be the third of a series
of popular music .concerts which
Olsen's orchestra will play Friday
night each week for the vast radio
audience throughout the Pacific north
west and along the Pacific coast.
These concerts have been received
with so much favor by radio fans
and have been attended by so many
large listening-in parties over the
city and in other communities that
The Oregonian has seen fit to con
tinue them as a Friday night feature
indefinitely.
The high light of tonight's pro
gramme will be an improvision of
George Olsen's own inspiration, called
The Wedding of the Saxophone and
Trombone." This is - a combination
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selection embracing repartee, singing,
instrumental solo and ensemble; It js
a burlesque wedding party m which
the guests and participants are liv
ing musical instruments. The chief
parts will be taken by Kilfeather and
Olsen.
Two instrumental solos grace the
programme. "Roses of Picardy"
(Wood) will be a cornet solo played
by F. L. Rice, and "Saxophobia"
(Weidcroft), of course, a saxophone
solo, will be played by F. E. Elliott,
the same artist who played the saxo
phone solo last Friday night. "Saxo
phobia" will be played by request.
The first number of the concert will
be "After the Rain" (Shrigley), and
"Virginia Blues" (Mainken) will be
played second. It also is by request.
"I Found the Bud Among the Roses,"
an Olsen arrangement, will come next,
and "Pick Me Up and Lay Me Down
in Dear Old Dixie Land" (Ruby)
will be fourth. The fifth and sixth
numbers will be the solos, and the
seventh will be the feature. The last
number on the regular programme
will be "Venetian Love Boat" (Kohler).
. If sufficient time remains in th
hour allotted The Oregonian for
broadcasting, another number, by re
quest, will be played. This will b
"The Little Old Log Cabin in the
Lane."
A radio programme will enliven ths
tig irrigation project conference at
Pasco, Wash., this afternoon, and a
series of magnavoxes has been in
stalled to distribute the different con
cents which will be sent broadcast.
Upon the request of the conference
committee The Oregonian will be
gin sending at 4 o'clock and continue
until 4:30:
RAIL TRESTLE IS BUILT
Logging Company to Move Camps
to Main Body of Timber.
ASTORIA. Or., April 20. (Special.)
A new trestle 150 feet high at the
highest place and 1700 feet long has
just been completed by Harry Mc
Cormack, contractor, for the Colum
bia & Nehalem River railroad above
the David creek logging camp. This
will enabie the Kerry Timber com
pany to move its David creek and
Sunnyside camps to the main body of
timber in the next two months or so
and will put them within two or
three miles of the main line of the
former Eccles line.
The trestle has a reverse curve and
is part piling and part bent work.
The cost was slightly more than
$30,000.
costs no more
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Minstrels, Comedy, Solos and Kn
semble Numbers of Xovelty
Presented for Audience.
Real honest-to-goodness minstrels
featured the opening section of the
Ad Club Follies at the auditorium
last night. Charles F. Berg was the
interlocutor with Phil Jennings.
Clarence Porter, Tommy Luke. Tom
King, A. K. Houghton and E. N.
Strong as end men.
This part of the entertainment
contained considerable snappy com
edy patter and songs, the outstanding
vocal hit being the "Plantation
Lullaby" sung by A. K. Houghton.
Another of the worth-while Folly
numbers was "Danceland." In this
offering some splendid dancing, both
solo and ensemble, was introduced by
Alys May Brown, Elizabeth Bimrost.
Florence Schwab, Thelma Layton,
Betty Forbes, Grace Tobias, Doris
Reddick, Ann Wade and Nan Lovitt.
"Folly Six" consisted of an original
sketch by Ernest M. Welch and Fred
L. Carlton.
This was followed by what the
audience obviously voted the most
entertaining offering on the pro
gramme 'Ad Land: A Magazine
With Cover and Six Pages." This
was. a novel, snappy and very divert
ing number, introducing the Com
munity Silver Girl, the Palm Olive
Girl, the Holeproof Girl, the Motor
Girl, the Lucile Girl and the Spirit of
DJer Kiss. In the last named the
breath of life was instilled in the
spirit by the almost professional toe
dancing of Miss Jessie Merriss. Iler
work was a solid applause winner,
and it merited the approval of the
big audience.
In the midst of the entertainment
Rollin C. Ayers, president of the
Pacific Coast Advertising Clubs asso
ciation, was introduced for a few
brief remarks on the proper pirit in
advertising.
The closing folly was "Melody
Garden" with Miss Ethel Hutchinson
in "Dance la Jazz," A. K. Houghton
in "The Sheik," Miss Evelyn Drcwery
in "Good-bye, Shanghai," Miss Mar
garet Masonek in "Dear Old Oregon"
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PORTLAND PARTY LEAVES
Conference on Columbia lln-.ln
Project to Be Attended.
A party of Portland.- unrtrr the
leadership of K. E. Favillc, head of
the agriculture commltlre of th
chamber of commerce, left lust nlBht
for Pasco, Wash., to attend a con
ference on the proposed Columbia
basin reclamation project. About a
dozen prrsons were in the iarty. In
cluding Frank Andrews, II. W. Chlldis
Clay Morris. O. M. Plummer. II. L,
Ward. K. N'. Welnbaum. IVroy Heath
,'rton. W. D B. Imdnon and C. L.
Hawley.
Kepreai-ntat ;ves from Onion Wash
ington, lunho and Montana will at
tend the gathering.
The conference will consider ap
plying to congress for a upcclal com
mission to make a report on th
project.
AUTO ORDINANCE KILLED
Traffic and Parkin nrgulattoQ
Opposed by Merchant.
MEDTORR Or.. April 20. (Sprlal.1
Bccau.se th tMisinrns nin of th
city are dlvUird in spntirnrnt n
vhethcr Medford should have traf
fic regulation and parkin ordinance
to relieve automobile contention in
the business dintrfct, the city council
killed the pending ordinance thfa
week, which was on Its second read
in.
The council has parsed, as a health
and sanitary measure, an ordinance
requiring all dairies or indtvid ua la
peddlinaf or selling milk or cream at
retail to take out a city licenwe. Kai-ti
application must contain a true state
ment in writing" of the dairy or prem
ises where the milk or cream Is pro
duced and how the cow or cows ara
kept.
Juniors Present C'liiss Play.
REDMOND, Or., April 20. (Special.)
The junior class of Kedmond Union
hlph school presented it annual clans
play, "NothinK But tho Truth," at th
gymnasium, clearing several hundred
dollars. The play was presented with
a $?reat deal of ease and was in every
way finiwhed.
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