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TITE MORXIXG OREGONTAX, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922 5 'CHILDREN' GET - 126 FROM MILLION Parentage Denied in Will of Mrs. Teresa Bell. CONTEST IS IN DOUBT State of California May Get Bulk of Estate; Ancestry of t Five Is Mystery. SAX FRAXCISCO, Aug. 17. Whether there will be a legal con test over the peculiar will of the late Mrs. Teresa Bell, who left an estate of approximately $1,000,000 and who cut off five persons believ ing themselves her children with $5 each, was said today still to be a matter of considerable doubt with the executors. In the holographic document left by Mrs. Bell the startling state ment was made that she was not the parent of the five who believed her their mother. Besides certain bequests to- charity and friends. Mrs Bell, in her will, stipulated that if she had "any cousins'" the bulk of the estate was to go to them. In the event the "cousins" were not found, money amounting to more tlan $700,000 was to go to the state. inewiii set ionn. Contest Plans Reported. Following the reading of the will It was reported that the five who believed themselves the children of Mrs. Bell, all of whom are adults, would not contest. Later the e ecutora heard that T. F. Bell of San Francisco and Mrs. Muriel Bell Hos ter of Hollister, Cal.. two 'of her supposed "children," and John Bell, a nephew, of Santa Barbara, would attempt to break the will. The. will is to be filed for probate shortly, according to tire executors. At this time, it was said, the matter of whether there will be a legal battle over the document will be determined. The shadow of "Mammy" Pleas ant, one-time major domo in the household of Mrs. Bell, widow of Thomas Bell, a forty-niner who wrested a fortune in gold from the hills of California, crept onto the stage today to assume a conspicu ous role in the mystery of the Bell family a mystery which came to light Tuesday with the reading of the last will and testament of Mrs. Bell, a document in which she de nied she was the mother of the five children who had been 'reared in her home, and a document which hinted at and at .the same time denied rumored relationships of Thomas Bell. Sirs. Bell Dies at Home. Mrs. Bell died at her home here Monday. In her will ehe 'bequeathed $5 to each of the five children all of whom have attained majority. A third of the Bell estate she left to charity; a few bequests were made to friends and servants, while Mrs. Bell willed the residue of her for tune to her cousins, "if I had any," and if not, "to the state of Cali fornia." Cryptic paragraphs in the unusual testament intimated that, in years gone Mammy Pleasant had told Mrs. Bell of the asserted presence of another woman in the life of Mr. Bell and that Mrs. Bell had investi gated the rumor and discarded it as fabrication. "There was no such woman and no such relation with Mr. Bell," the will read. "After learning the true character of Mammy Pleasant I in vestigated as far as possible her statement as to their (the chil dren's) parentage and found it to be a mass of lies." Parentage Not Plvulg-ed. While the will states that Mrs. Bell is not the mother of the five children it does not divulge their parentage or throw any additional light on the mystery. Few persons in San Francisco had a more spectacular career than old Mammy Pleasant. the was born In Georgia a slave and came here in 1S49 with $50,000, realized from the sale of Cuban bonds, a part of the estate of her first husband. In 1858 she was reported to have met the famous John Brown in Chatham, a Canadian city, where she gave him $30,000 with which to finance his historic raid on Har per's Ferry, a raid which has been regarded by historical writers as one of the factors leading to the breach between the -north and south in 1861. She was known here as the friend and adviser of Thomas Bell during the late years of the 19th century. Her say in the affairs of the Bell household continued until 1892, the year of his death. She remained in the employ of Mrs. Bell until 1899 when she was ordered to leave fol lowing the alleged discovery by Mrs. Bell of a deed in her possession transferring property of Mrs. Bell to a third party. Mammy Pleasant died in 1904 at the age of 89 years. VARDAMAN REAL FI6HTER MISSISSIPPI BATTLE MOST REMARKABLE ONE. What ex-Senator Might Hare Done With Real or Workable False Teeth Nobody Knows. BY MARK SULLIVAN. (Copyright by the New York Evening Post. Published by Arrangement.) WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 17. (Special.) If you have enough equa nimity to take off your hat to the extraordinary and potent personal ity, no matter how much you dis approve the man's intellectual pro cesses, then you must pay tribute to James K. Vardaman, ex-senator, for the showing he made- in the Missis sippi primaries Tuesday. There can't be much doubt that if Varda man had been in good health he would havse won. As it is, he will now be one of two in the "run-off" primary. In this second primary, from the way the situation lies, it is probable that Vardaman will be beaten, but to be able to make such a showing as he has made against the formal opposition of ex-President Wilson, John Sharp Williams, Pat Harrison and practically all the other leaders of the state against the opposition, one might almost say. of the united intelligence of the state is conv'ne ing proof of a colorful and pregnant personality. You may not approve a man like that, but you are pretty sure to take notice of him. The nature of the illness which prevented Vardaman from reaching the reward that might have attend- j ed a personal campaign was the I occasion of many of the rather1 pungently personal remarks - that , characterized the contest. During ! the campaign Vardaman remained; campaign in conspicuous retirement. Inas- for rabble rousing oratory was for merly his chief campaigning asset, this disposition to remain in seclu sion was the subject of a good deal of speculation. Finally it got into the newspapers. One of the New Orleans papers, in dispatch from Jackson, a few before the primary, said: "Mr. Vardaman has not delivered a public address during the cam paign, and it' is now certain that he will not attempt to do so. His managers assert that he. is not in the field because his false teeth are a handicap to speaking. The op position claims that physicians have warned him to avoid any form of excitement because of his blood pressure, and that wholly aside from the loss of his teeth, and Inability to get artificial - teeth to fit his lower jaw satisfactorily, he could not make a speech even if he tried to." In the same key was a remark in a speech made by Vardaman's op ponent, Hubert P. Stephens. Steph ens said: "I have always hereto fore believed that Jim Vardaman's strength lay In his hair; but now I have found it is in his teeth. Considering Vardaman's capacity for hydrasyllabic vociferation when he was in the senate, there are so many possibilities for humor In the story of his present silence, imposed upon him by inability to get a set of artificial teeth adequate to his mechanism for vocalization or vo cabulation, that one feels moved to pass the story on to the paragraph ers of the national press, and let them, so to speak, chew on it. BEAUTY SEEKS DIVORCE MOVIE GIRL OBJECTS TO BE ING STOOD ON' HEAD. Player Says Husband Spends Most of His Salary of $800 Month for Drugs. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) ' LOS ANGELES. Cal., Aug. 17. Marvel Rea, Mack Sennett beauty, ied a topsy-turvy life, according to "a divorce action filed today by the young woman. In her married name, that of Mrs. Marvel L. Wells, she sued Henry Page Wells, charging that her husband stood her on her head. The couple, according to the com plaint, were married little more than two weeks when he stood her on her head. They married on Oc tober 25. 1918, and separated No vember 15, it is -said. Miss Rea charges her husband with spending most of his salary of 5800 a month for narcotics. She rays he was arrested several times on a drug charge. Once, the com plaint recites, Mr. Wells threw his wife into his machine and raced hrough the streets at a high rate of speed. SLAYER'S ARREST ASKED Prosecution of E. "Halvorseii Is Sought by Garrett Brothers. BEND. Or., Aug. 17. (Special.) Demand for a warrant for the ar rest of Edward Halvorsen, in con nection with the killing of William H. Garrett, near here, the night of July 1, was made in Bend this after noon by L. r. McMahan of Salem, attorney for Garrett's brothers, when he appeared before Justice of the Peace Gilson. Garrett was shot to death by Hal vorsen, whose story, told on the wit ness stand when an inquest was held r i n .Til! v 3 In RpnH wn a marie th ! basis for a verdict in which Halvor sen was held to have been acting in self-defense. Examination made at Silverton recently, after the body had been exhumed, showed, a frac ture of the skull above the right temple and a contusion at the base of the skull. These reported in juries, which were not mentioned during the inquest, are understood to constitute the chief points which must be explained before relatives will be satisfied with the disposition made of the case. Garrett's brothers were told earlier In the week by District At torney Moore that he did not con sider the facts submitted to him sufficient t warrant reopening the investigation. CALF IN AUTO WRECK Driver Tries to Pacify Machine and Hits Animal Ditch. in VANCOUVER. Wash., Aug. 17. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. E. Schultz bought a calf from a neighbor and were taking it home in their auto on the Pacific highway last night. The calf would not ride quietly, so Mr. Schultz, who was driving, at tempted to pacify it. When he looked ahead again the car was headed for a ditch. Rather than upset the car he struck the ditch squarely, but with such force that he was thrown through the windshield and Mrs. Schultz was thrown out, suffering a dislocated shoulder. The only injury to Mr. Schultz was a skinned nose. The calf was not hurt. Pear Picking Under Way. SALEM. Or., Aug. 17. (Special.) Pear picking in the Wallace or chards, which are the largest in the Willamette valley, was begun to day. Paul Wallace, owner of the orchards, estimated that he will get approximately 300 tons of fruit from the 65 acres. Practically all of the pears have been contracted to local canneries. Phone your want ads. to The Ore-p-onian. Main 7070. Radio Telephone Headsets Why Holtzer - Cabot Radio Headsets? Because Holtzer Cabot have been making telephone Headsets for years. Because Holtzer Cabot Telephone Headsets are used upon seventy-five ' per cent of Uncle Sam's warships for gun-fire direction and all inter com m u nication purposes. Because Holtzer-Cabot Headsets are superior not only in how they're made, but in what they do. You should Insist upon Holtzer Cabot. . Sold by all responsible dealers The Holtzer-Cabot Electric Co. Boston, Mass. LOVE HEALER HALED INTO CHICAGO COURT Well-Known Women Said to Have Been Dupes." MAGNATE FILES CHARGE Keligious Cult Declared to Have Promised to Make Homes Divorce Proof. CHICAGO, Aug. 17. Albert J. Moore, self-styled "love healer," to day was brought into police court to face charges of deception in practice of a religious cult in connection with thousands of dollars he is said to have received from some of Chi cago's most prominent women to "heal their homes'" and make them divorce proof. Moore, given the title of "doctor" by his followers, is head of the Life institute with headquarters in a building known as the institute's temple. According to information placed in the hands of the city prosecutors, the institute specialized in home healing and held meetings in its temple regularly. Delegations were sent from the temple to various homes and after a few days of spe cial services and incantations the home was pronounced divorce proof and the occupants were prorried that they would live happily ever after. Ice Cream Maker Acts for Wife; The complaint against Moore was sworn out by W. W. Talbott, head of the city's largest Ice cream man ufacturing concern, and who said he was acting for his wife. ' rormai hearing of the .case was set for next Tuesday. Moore was said to have received $2900 from Mrs. Talbott. The spe cific charge is that he violated a city ordinance against practicing de ception in any public or private gathering of a society, religious cult or organization. Several other prominent women have been mentioned In the case and it was said by city officials that Mrs. James Henry Cartwright, wife of the associate justice of the state supreme . court, would testify that she paid Moore about $2000. Deception Is Denied. Moore saia today that there was no deception and nothing illegal about his life institute. He said that he originally had been a mem ber .of a well known religious body, but had bolted with a number of others who held his beliefs and opened the institute. He declared that the funds he had received from society women were simply gifts trom persons who held his beliefs. He produced typewritten testi monials bearing the names of many of the city's most prominent fam ilies and declared that he would produce the originals if he is brought to trial. Mrs. Cartwright was present to testify against Moore when the case was called, but a postponement until Tuesday was granted when Moore's attorney pleaded for time to prepare a defense. Mrs. Talbott, also in court, did not fully approve her husband's action, for she remarked to newspaper men as she left thct Mr. Talbott "shouldn't prosecute Moore." BEER IN 1924 PROMISED (Continupd From First Page.) store beer and light wines has ar ranged for referenda on the ques tion in Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts and California. The object is to have the result of the referendum in each congressional district and in the state at large .accepted as in structions by the senators and con gressmen for their votes on the question of modifying the Volstead act in the next congress. In these and other states the asso ciation also is fighting for the elec tion of wet senators and representa tives wherever the situation offers- a fair prospect of success. In Nebraska the prohibition ques tion figures prominently in the con test over the senatorship. Senator Hitchcock, democrat, is wet, and R. B. Howell, the republican candi date, is a dry. Hitchcock appears to have made peace witn the Bryans. Charles Bryan is the demo cratic candidate for governor and his brother William Jennings is re- What is to be desired? And how may it be realized? In a series of short talks we shall endeavor to tell you how you may reach a sane conclusion in the selection of your bank. - - . Does not the important part that banking plays in your particular business and in business in general warrant careful consideration of what so many treat lightly? For instance, one says, "When selecting a bank, I always take the oldest one." . Another: "I always select the largest." And another: my banking with a bank of a certain name." How did you determine your present banking connection? It will profit you to study and analyze our statement. Call, phone or write for it. 65 of Deposits in Cash and Bonds 27 increase in Deposits since March Statement LEADING ALL PORTLAND BANKS IN PERCENTAGE OF INCREASE v ' interest on savings accounts and time deposits. 3 interest on special savings accounts, subject to check (minimum balance $500). No charge for collection of out-of-town checks. No service charge for checking accounts OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAYS until 8 o'clock. ported to be scheduled to speak for the entire ticket. Beer and light wines also will be an issue in Missouri, where Senator Reed, democrat, wm xaKe the wet side against R. R. Brewster, the republican candidate for senator, who defeated a beer and light wines opponent in the primary. In Wisconsin a bone-dry slate has been put up against La Follette and his associates in the republican pri mary and inV majority of the con gressional districts prohibition is an issue. In a score of other states and more than 250 districts there are wet candidates making . campaigns on a beer and light wines platform. "Congress can amend the Volstead act if it so desires," said Ransom H. Gillett, general counsel of the anti prohibition association, "to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquors containing more than 70 per cent of alcohol. As a practical measure my contention is that the act should be amended to allow beer of 4 or 5 pel cent and wine up to 10 per cent They are not really intoxicating Stronger liquors ought to be barred Victory Held Possible. "We are working with the 'wet' leaders in congress and everywhere throughout the country, and believe it :s entirely possible for 50 stal wart drys to be thrown out of con gress this fall. "At present 25 per cent of the members of congress are unalter ably dry." Twenty-five per cent are openly wet. The remainder are waiting to see how sentiment de velops in their districts. If it de velops rapidly enough, it is entirely possible that the Volstead act will be amended by next summer. This would vbring back wholesome beer and wines, destroy the bootleggers, put an end to the circulation of their deadly stuff and save nun dreds from death by wood alcohol and other poison." Representative Volk'Of Brooklyn said that there was a majority In congress1 already in favor of mod ifying the Volstead act, provided the members of congress would vote as their consciences dictated. "The Volstead act would be re pealed this fall if the members of congress all voted the way they drink." he said. "That act of big otry would not remain on the stat ute books more than a few weeks longer if they had the courage of their thirst." MILL PROPERTY IS SOLD Transaction Involving Half-Mil lion Announced in Seattle. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 17. (Spe cial.) Sale of the Hammond flour ing mills to the recently organized Seattle Flour Mills company1 of which Moritz Thomsen is president, is announced. The sale involves the main plant of the Hammond com pany on the Seattle tidelands, a plant at Pendleton and a third at Spokane. The properties have an estimated value of not less than $500,000, but the consideration in the deal has not been made public. Negotiations have been in progress for some time and yhe transfer will be made on approval of title ab stracts. The Thomsen milling interest al ready include the Centennial mills in Seattle, Spokane and other north western points. .Thomsen recently resigned the presidency of the AI bers Milling company, a position he accepted to effect the financial re organization of that concern. At a meeting of the Albers company di rectors today, George Albers was re-elected president. ' j NAVY OFFICIAL ARRIVES Admiral Gregory in Astoria on Tour of Inspection. ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 17. (Special.) Admiral Gregory, chief of the bu reau of yards and docks of the navy department, arrived this' afternoon from Washington, D. C, and will spend a couple of days here inspect ing the Tongue Point naval base property and conferring with Lieutenant-Commander Church relative to development of the station. Tomorrow - Admiral Gregory will be taken on an automobile trip to Seaside and other beach resorts. The admiral will visit all the other naval stations on the coast. Receiver Denman Gets Big Fee. The sum of $90,000 has been awarded William C. Denman, re ceiver for the Coos Bay Lumber company, for his work as receiver of the company and his reorganiza tion of the corporation. An order for a final fee of $20,000 has been signed by Federal Judge Wolverton. Mr. Denman previously had been paid $70,000. The court also ordered the discharge of Denman and his fellow receiver, Frederic T. Boles. The -reorganized corporation is doing business as the Pacific States I Lumber company. I "No matter in what place I reside. Broadway and Stark. EARLY PRODUCTION OF COAL IMPORTANT Government Hopes to Avert Trouble Next Winter. PRICE CONTROL PLANNED Legislation Expected of Congress Designed to Make federal and State Situation Secure. WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 17. (By the Associated Press.) Early resumption of coal production in the union fields covered by the Cleve land agreement was looked to today by. administration officials to avert fuel troubles next winter. If the miners in those fields re. turn to , work within a few days. Secretary Hoover declared, there should be no serious shortage of coal next winter, although there may be some minor inconveniences. Pro duction of approximately 10,000,000 tons ' of coal eekly, made up of about four-fimis bituminous and one-fifth anthracite, will be needed, according to -Federal Fuel Distribu-r tor Spencer. Even with adequate production, Mr. Hoover asserted, action by con gress will be necessary to enable federal price control temporarily and to facilitate distribution of an thracite and to supply needs of the northwest. "With the resumption of mining," he said, "the price situation will be quickly over. While there will be some control of distribution and prices necessary temporarily, the matter will quickly adjust itself." Collapse of the fair price agree ments made with producing operat ors, however, when the union mines resume production, was indicated by Mr. Hoover. There would be then 75 or 80 districts, he explained, to hold into line as-lo prices by volun tary means which would be an "in feasible machine." Nevertheless. Mr. Hoover declared, the results of the fair price agree ments thus far have constituted a "remarkable showing" with 70 per cent of the coal now moving being handled under the established maxi mum of J2.20 to $2.75 a ton. Diffi culties in the price situation, he as serted, arose from the other 30 per cent, which gave rise to the charges of profiteering while operators ob serving the agreements were pass ing up from ?8 to $10 on every ton sold. Emergency price control legisla tion, which, it Is understood. Presi- HAZEL WOOD fine Pastry delightfully "different" HAZELNUT CREAM PIE A crisp crust filled with rich, creamy custard con taining chopped hazelnut. 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