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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1922)
THE 3IOKXING OR EG ONI AX, "WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1022 4 SEELY EXONERATED BY COMER'S JURY Killing of Matsson Held to Be in Self-Defense. STORY OF SHOOTING TOLD Testimony of Witnesses Tends to Show Slain Man Was Con sidered Unbalanced. Vane H. Seelv. O.-W-. R. & NJ ; railroad guard, who shot and killed Hall A. Matsson in a rooming house ; at 42 Fremont street; Sunday after- - noon, was cleared of blame at "an inquest conducted Monday night In r tho courthouse by Dr. Earl Smith, cc-roner. Rlv Inrors after vlewinar the body verdict tnat ,' Matsson came to his death as a re - suit of gunshot wounds inflicted by ' Knelv. the latter belna; in the Der- - formance of his duty and acting in T-ri fit pnfM. Thfl ..verdict is not a verdict, Seely was released from custody, having been held by the nnlfr... clnca tha timA nf tlnm RhontlnST. Testimony of witnesses all tended ' to -show that Matsson exhibited that he was considered unbalanced J. D. Wright, motorcycle police man, who was one of the first offi cers at the scene of the shooting, told how Seely had led him and " another patrolman to the room where Matsson's body was found, and how the railroad guard volun tarily admitted the shooting. This testimony was substantiated by Dan Welch, clerk In the inspector's bureau at headquarters. Story of Race Told. Wayne T. Eld, a youth employed at the Fremont hotel, added a bit of information to the story of the . shooting by telling of a race be- ; tween Matsson and Seely through tho hall nf the hotel to the dead man's room. Henry Sarkels, a motor-car salesman, who had known Matsson for the last five years, ad mitted that his I'riend had acted queer since leaving the military service at the end of the war. Matsson, Sarkela said, had grown melancholy and retiring, and had studiously avoided the company or conversations of other-men. , Olga Lindella, a girl who resides at the Fremont hotel, and who was pres ent at the time of the shooting, told of the events leading up to the killing. Matsson, she declared, had acted queerly and oftentimes, in the six-all hours of morning, would break out into uncontrollable fits o5- laughter while alone in his room. W. S. Emery, a railroad guard, and J. Brown, watchman for a con struction company which is paving the Greeley-street cutoff, both told of the dead man's habit of carrying tha automatic pistol and of fights in which he had figured in the last few days. Clyde B. Clement, an em ploye of the Oregon Brass works, who stopped Matsson's assault on an elderly motorist a week ago, and who also directed Seely's attention to the man, gave his version of the events that indirectly led up to the shoooting. Seely on Stand.' Seely, plainly nervous and ill at ease, took the witness stand in his own behalf and told his story.- He had noticed Matsson for several days, he said. His attention had been called to the fact that the man carried a pistol. He had stopped the fight in which Matsson beat up an elderly autoist. Sunday afternoon he saw Matsson trespassing on railroad property and placed him under arrest, de manding to know where the pris oner kept his pistol. Matsson re plied that it was in his room, and at the officer's suggestion the two entered Seely's automobiU, which was parked near the railroad yards, and drove to the hotel.- When Seely stopped his machine Matsson leaped to the ground and dashed off to the hotel. Seely did likewise, catching up with Matsson lust as he was entering the room. Trunk Is Opened. Matsson first claimed that the listol was in a trunk. He opened the lid, looked for the weapon,-then made a remark that he had forgotten where it was. Seely's attention was temporarily diverted by a handful of mothballs which fell to the floor. A second later he looked up and saw Matsson standing beside a slicker hanging on the wall. "He was drawing out his auto matic and pointing it at me," the accused man said. "Quick as a flash I pulled my gun and fired twice. Matsson didn't go down, he seemed to move toward the door. I fired twice more." Deputy District Attorney Ham mersley, conducting the examination for the state, asked Seely whether he knew if he had the authority to make an arrest. When the latter replied that he had. a bitter legal dispute between Mr. Hammersley and Attorney Maeguire, represent ing Seely, followed. untez or fouce Jenkins ana Lieutenant Harvey Thatcher both swore to Seely's good reputation while a member of the police force. ROAD CENSUS UNDER WAY Extent of Vehicular Traffic in California to Be Found. SAN' FRANCISCO, Oct. 2. (Spe cial.) 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The work is being done in about 25 counties, whose authorities are co-operating In the work, m Last month at several centers in the state a check on the number of vehicles using certain -roads dur ing 16 hours of each day, for two or three-day periods, was taen. This month the census will be I taken as to character of vehicles 1 instead of quantity. The figures are calculated to show which kinds of vehicles pre dominate on certain . roads, and comparing these with the cost of the upkeep of tha highways, the wear and tear of each Individual kind of vehicle can be determined. CONVENTION PLANS LI KHORASSAN DELEGATES TO BE HERE IX AUGUST. Entertainment of 30,000 Visitors Discussed at Meeting in Of fice of Gus C. Moser. General plans for the entertain ment of 30.000 visitors who will be in Portland next August when the international convention of the Dramatic Order of Knights of Khorassan is held in Portland were discussed at a meeting held Mon- - ti- committee. - Phil Metschan. chairman of the finance committee, reported that members of the local temple of the order had subscribed about . $15,000 of the convention expense. -It is estimated that about $50,000 will be necessary and a campaign to raise this sum will be. waged during, the week beginning October 23. . Mr. Metschan aid members of the gen eral committee will meet within the next few days to organize the cam paign. Headquarters for the convention will be in the Multnomah hotel, where the imperial representatives to the convention will be housed. The hotel committee, headed by Milton R. Klepper,, will meet with the . hotelmen's association at its next meeting to discuss rates to be charged the convention- visitors. Mayor Baker has been placed in charge of the parade which will be held the first night of the conven tion. WIFE OF DEPOT AGENT IS UNOPPOSED FOR MAYOR: Plenty of Water for Washday Will Be Main Plank in Plat form, Says Candidate. MADRAS. Or., Oct. 2. (Special.) Four women were nominated to run for office in the coming city elec tion at a caucus held 'here tonight to name a citizens' ticket. The meeting aiso placed the stamp of its approval on the candidacies, of three men. - "Plenty of water for wash day." will be the principal plank in the platform of Mrs. Grace Shugert, wife of the depot agent here for the Oregon trunk line, who was nominated for mayor. Mrs. Shugert defeated W. E. Johnson, present city recorder, for the nomination. She will have no opposition. Two women will be in the race for the city council. . Mrs. D. Arney and Mrs. M. Ek Snook being chosen to run with C. 15. Roush, the only outgoing member of the coun cil to be renominated. Mr. Housh is a local merchant. Bernard Ramsey was nominated for recorder, Mrs. Lizzie - Green for treasurer and F. H. Green, br hus band, for city marshal. Interest in the caucus was high and mary per sons attended. ----- FOUR INJURED BY AUTOS ACCIDENT TAKE PLACE DUR ING RAIN STORM. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wightman, Charles Donaldson and G. C. Thompson jAre Victims. Four persons were injured -by automobiles during the rain early Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wightman, 474 College street, were crossing Sixth street going west when the automobile of C. F. Lathrop, 1178 Greeley street, traveling south, struck them. Mrs. Wightman suf fered from shock. Her husband re ceived bruises. Both were taken to Goo'd Samaritan hospital. Lathrop is a patrolman on the second night relief. At 7:20 o'clock at Fourth and Madison streets, the automobile of J. H. Moody, route 2, box 187, struck Charley Donaldson, 206 H First street,, knocking him to the pave ment and bruising him. . He was treated at the emergency hospital. Donaldson steppe'd from the curb into the path of the. machine. At 8:15 o'clock on the same cor ner Cecil B. Heher, 736 East Thirty nnth street North, was driving a car that struck G. C. Thompson, 321 Fourth street. Thompson was only scratched and did not require med ical attention. MRS. WATSON DECLINES Appointment to .Fill Out Late Husband's Senate Term Refused. ATLANTA, Ga.. Oct. 2. Mrs. Thomas E. Watson, wife of Thomas E. Watson, United States senator, who died last Wednesday in Wash ington, today declined appointment as temporary successor to her hus band until ths general election on November 7, when the nominee of a special democratic primary of Octo ber 17 will be elected. The Atlanta Constitution tonight published a story to the effect that there is a "probability that the gov ernor Tuesday will announce the temporary appointment of Mrs. W, H. Felton of Cartersville as ad in terim successor to the late Senator Watson." There was no confirma tion from Governor Hardwick, who has announced he will make public his appointment tomorrow. Mrs. Felton was a close political friend of Senator Watson. State Traffic Fines $7956. ' SALEM. Or.. Oct. 2. (Special.) Fines collected in Oregon during the month of August as the result of the activities of the stats traffic officers aggregated $T956, accord ing to a report prepared here today by the state motor vehicle depart ment. Fees collected by the traf fic officers totaled $3781. These in cluded $3631 for regular licenses. $147 for duplicate licenses and $J for special licenses. MRJITHURfflE FROIVI WASHINGTON Lawmaker Defends Con gress and Administration. NOTEWORTHY ACTS CITED Oregon Representative Calls At tention to Tariff Measure, Bud get and Various Other Laws. C. N. MeArthur, Oregon represent ative in congress, arrived in Port land Monday night from the natiorral capital and from now until Novem ber 7 will devote his energies to his campaign for re-election from the 3d Oregon district. Mr. MeArthur spent several weeks here during the recent congressional recess, but re turned to Washington a month ago for the wind-up of the session. "No congress since the reconstruc tion days following the civil war has had to face a greater variety of serious legislative problems than has the 87th congress," said Mr. Me Arthur. "When we were called to gether in extraordinary session in April. 1921, we were charged by President Harding with the duty of l'fting the tax burden, revising the tariff, restoring peace and legislat ing toward a return to normal con ditions. The task has not been an easy one, yet the record made by this congress is good. "The American farmer one of the principal victims of deflation and falling prices was first assist ed by the emergency tariff measure and more recently by the McCura-ber-Fordney act. Congress also assisted the farming and livestock interests by reviving the war finance corporation and starting it off with a revolving fund of a billion dol lars. These important pieces of legislation have saved American agriculture from ruin. "Among the early acts passed by thit congress wa: the budget meas ure. The riot of waste and extrava gance during the world war period had laid a heavy burden upon the public treasury, but, thanks to the earnest co-operation between the executive and legislative depart ments, the first year under the bud get the fiscal year ending June 30, 152: shows a reduction of $1,750,- OOC.0O0 as compared with the ex penditures of the last previous year. During the same period the publtc debt was decreased by more than a billion dollars. ' "Congress has gladly and gener ously met tbs country's obligations to the disabled veterans of the world war. Appropriations totaling more than a billion and a half dollars have been made for this purpose since the armistice one-third of that amount for the current fiscal year. "Among the other noteworthy measures may be mentioned: The tax revision act; the national high way act; the immigration extension act; acts to prevent profiteering in coal and providing for a coal fact finding commission; the foreign debt refunding act; the act granting independent citizenship to American women who are married to foreign ers; and the act authorizing new rivers and harbors projects. This last named act authorizes the ex penditure of more than $6,000,000 on new Oregon projects. "I have not had time to formulate any campaign plans, but please say for me that I am seeking re-election upon my record of four terms of continuous service and also .upon the record of the present congress and the Harding administration." At the Theaters. Pantages. T ACTUAL count, questioners received replies to their queries written on all kinds of paper sealed in envelopes and sent up to Alexander, "the man who knows." Alexander is headlining at Pantages this week, in fact he is the entire show with a few other acts thrown in to entertain until the man of mystery makes his appearance. Fortunately the other four acts are good and possess qualities of en tertainment and amuse the crowd. The crowd deserves a paragraph. Monday it was a record crowd in point of size ana eariy arrival. At 2 o'clock the lower floor was packed, boxes and every seat, and the balcony was jammed by 2:30 P. M. The crowds have been like that all along the triumphant march of Alexander in this flyer in vaudeville. Alexander had decided to retire when that other wzard, Alexander Pantages, made him an offer so satisfying as to monetary returns that' Alexander. "the man who knows," consented to a tour. The engagement was to have been for ten weeks and in every city he has done such phenomenal business that managers have held him over for two and three weeks and the original ten weeks' booking is now in its twenty-seventh week. Alexander disclaims supernatural power. In fact, he announces along somewhere in his fascinating and interesting informal chat that he lays no claims whatever to being able to do anything that anyone in the audience could not do equally well, provided the one in the audi ence devoted time and study and concentration to the subject of psy chology and history and power of the mind. When he makes the slate writing test Alexander still maintains that unaided he has never been able to receive written communications and various folk, disinterested Portlanders, and by no means "plants, such as are sometimes carried by magicians, do their part in helping Alexander demonstrate. He has a tremendous sense of humor and he is a person age of physical and mental charm. He has a great gift of personality and a ready, nimble wit which easily fills conversational gaps and makes his running commentary a huge delight. As the act develops the audience grew tense and rapt, and these flashes of comedy from Alexander relieved dramatic situations. He walks along the aisle and calls names or addresses, answering questions and invariably he receives affirmation of the correctness of his answer. He paints pictures of people called for on blank can vasses, and he puts on a remark able demonstration in slate writing His act is further enhanced by the appearance of the attractive Nartell. twins in interpretative dance and in another interesting oriental dancer. Mile. Valeska. These three maids assist later as pages and add their clever bits to a notably fine performance. Alexander is an American of Irish parentage and received his training when a youth in India. He has studied and traveled the J world over and Is recognized by, the world of science as the peer of psychics. His demonstrations in psychic phenomena are little short of awe-inspiring and are constantly amazing. He holds a special mat inee on Thursday for women only, to which girls under U will not be admitted. On this occasion he will give away as souvenirs a number of his original luminous oulja boards, oriental gazing crystals, ex tensive horoscopes, books on oc cultism and spirit paintings. Alexander says . in explanation of his act: "It is true that since the dawn of spiritualism there have been many true and many fraudulent mediums. j;t is my object to mystify and entertain." He certainly does both mystify and entertain. - V The rest of the - bill includes Billy "Swede" Hall in an original and humorous characterization of Hilda, a Swedish elevator operator. Bob Robison and Renee Pierce in a clever singing and talking oddity, Austin Goetz and Fae Duffy in a matrimonial episode of comedy, and Joe Carson with Kitty Kane in scenic novelty of melody and rhythm. - This bill will change next Sunday. LEGION MAY RL?N CLUB COMMISSION INTENDS TO ABANDON PROJECT. Portland Post Discusses Advis ability or Assuming Respon sibility of Undertaking. Operation of the Oregon Ex-Serr ice Men's club at West Park and Taylor streets by Portland post of the American Legion was discussed at monthly meeting of the post Mon day night at which James J. Cross lev, commander, announced that ths soldiers' and sailors' commission of the state intends to abandon the project on October 15. A resolution was adopted asking the commission to continue its work at least until November 1 and if possible until January. Cassius R. Peck. Arthur M. Geaxy, Dr. J. G. Abele and George L." Rauch were appointed on a committee to investigate the cost of operation of the club and the feasibility of the legion taking over the proposition. Tho property is leased' at present to Portland post, which is asked to ac cept a $3000 liability for furniture in the two buildings if it decides to continue the club. Food and lodging are being provid ed at the club for disabled veterans taking vocational training and other homeless ex-service men at cost la qlean, home-like, cheerful surround ings. If the post tackles the re sponsibility, it would remodel sev eral of the rooms so that regular meetings could be held there and probably would arrange for meals as now served In the post rooms at Fourth , and Washington streets. There would be no rent. By unanimous vote, the post de cided to send the Pacitic Legion, state nublication of the oreranlzation. to every member of Portland post during 1923. Pages of local post news will be carried In the maga zine. Entertainment was furnished at the meeting by J. W. Palmer, Miss Ruth Linrud, Everett Craben and Mrs. Palmer under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian associa tion. OIL TAX IS MEXICAN ACTION IS TAKEN TO PROTECT INDUSTRY. Only Federal Government Can Fix Levies on Petroleum, Secretary Decides.- fBy Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 2 An important decision bearing upon the interests of American oil men in Mexico has Just been- rendered by Alessio Robles, secretary of indus try, commerce and labor in the cab- net of President Obregon, accord ing to official advices received here today from Mexico City. The decision holds that the spe cial state tax of 2 per cent upon all productions of petroleum In the state of Vera Cruz, levied by the state legislature, is illegal and the state authorities have been notified that H must not be collected. This piece of legislation, which is only one of a series of radical measures adopted by the Vera Cruz state legislature, had considerably worried oil and other interests in Mexico, as the right of the state to tax. it was feared, easily might be extended Jo such a degree as to be come contiscatory. "Only the federal government can fix taxes upon petroleum," the opinion of Secretary Robles declared.- It added that since the "tax ation of oil products belongs ex clusively to the federal government, the state of Vera Cruz has no right to promulgate the law or to take steps to levy the tax." The announcement of the deci sion by the Obregon administration is interpreted, both in American and Mexican circles, to mean that the Mexican president is determined that nothing shall be done to raise needless obstacles to a better un derstanding between the American and Mexican governments. Hard Luck, After Long Pursuit, Relents. Gastav Wilde, Bootlegger, Fs capes Term in Jail. OLD-MAN HARD LUCK, who has hung about the neck of Gustav Wilde, local longshoreman, followed him right into the courtroom of Federal Judge Wolverton Monday, but there turned tail and fled, and for the first time in many months Wilde experienced a bit of good luck. He got off with a fine In stead of going to jail on account of his bootlegging activities. The story that Wilde told Assist ant United States Attorney Baldwin was enough to rouse that official's sympathy. Wilde has a large family. Several months ago he fell and broke an arm and was out of work for six weeks as a result. Then his eldest daughter died, bequeathing him her two small children. His wife fell ill-and two of his children contracted the measles. aThe future looked black indeed. Wilde sought to maks ends meet by doing a little bootlegging. He purchased a supply of wine and moonshine. He operated for a week, but, lacking the skill of ths experi enced bootlegger, drew the atten tion of federal agents to his home. Saturday night he was foolish enough to Bell a sleuth a pint , of moonshine for $1.60 and a quart of wine for 75 cents. For this he went to Jail. Monday morning Wilds appeared before Judge Wolverton and pleaded guilty. And the Jurist, Impressed by Attorney Baldwins statemen.. broke the jinx that has been pur suing the longshoreman and let him off with a $250 fine instead of a jail sentence. T. W. LAWSON IS MISSING Boston Financier's Absence Cause of Worry to Sister. Bv Chicago Tribuna Leased Wire.) BOSTON. Oct. 2. Thomas W. Lawson has disappeared. Follow ing the announcement of financial wreck of the former "copper King came the news today that he sud denly left the home of his sister, Miss Mary Lawson, oi soutn west Harbor, Me., and vanished. Miss Lawson said yesterday that her brother bad left her home on Sunday night and that sne had no idea as to his destination. . She ad mitted that he was 111 and said she was worried. Mr. Pierce Addresses Farmers.- IMBLER, Or- Oct. 2. (Special.) Walter M. Pierce, democratic candl date for governor, Saturday night addressed 150 farmers on ths sub ject of taxation. He pictured every Union county farmer as facing a critical situation. 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