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. : NOV $is22 PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. LXI NO. 19,330 Entrd at Portland (Oregon) Postoffire bj Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 192- 30 PAGES PASTOR ARRIS IS. HULL WINS BUTTLE OF WITS REPUBLICANS SURE ITJl I 1 ENVOY QUINAULT TIMBER . BRINGS $1,700,000 OZETTE RAILWAY COMPANY BUYS INDIAN TRACT. STATE HAS 345,891 PM-fl niiAi incn urnrPQ Ulln il LOST RADIUM FOUND WITH ELECTROSCOPE PARTICLE WORTH $500 IS RECOVERED FROM STOVE. yunun ill vuiliu nr 238,4 44 REPUBLICANS AND II BATTLE OVEK EXCEPT FOR SHOXJTIXG, IS VIEW. mm TO WED W LHELM Reporters' Traps Are Evaded by Widow. LONG SILENCE IS BROKEN Knowledge of Murder or of Motive for It Denied. WITNESS STORY RAPPED Rector's Name Declared Still to Be Vnsuliled Despite Stories of Relations With Woman. NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J.. Nov. 1. (By the Associated Press.) Mrs. Prances Stevens Hall today gave her first Interview an interview planned by her counsel so that she might seek to extricate herself, in tho public eye, from the circum stantial net In which the unfolding of the Hall-Mills murder mystery has enmeshed her. Tor the first time since she was made a widow by the slaying of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and his choir leader, Mrs. Kleanor Relnhardt Mills, Mrs. Hali emerged from the seclusion she has maintained or Beven weeks, meeting a small army of newspaper writers in her home and subjecting herself to an hours bombardment of questions Trap Are Evaded. At the end she retired as she had entered the room, wan but composed. She had shed no light on the mys tery. She had fallen into none of the traps the cross-examiners pre pared for her. Hers was a negative story. It amplified but did not ma terially alter the statements previ ously made on her behalf by counsel and friends. Briefly, it was that Dr. .nail had started out to his doom, saying he was going on an errand of mercy to discuss with Mrs. Mills a hospital bill, which he was paying with church funds; that ha was slain by a person and for a motive of which she has not the slightest conjecture; and that her memory of him is un sullied by the ugly scandal in which his name has been involved. It was half past two o'clock when Timothy N. Pfieffer, Mrs. Hall's lawyer, escorted her into the quaint, library ef the big Hall home, where tbe reporters were waiting in ser ried ranks. He Introduced her and withdrew, leaving her alone with her ordeal of personal publicity an ordeal irom wWch she had said she had shrunk sliice youth. Attired in a gown of black canton, crepe, with a light scarf of black silk about her shoulders, she seated herself in an old-fashioned rocker and let her gray eyes rove over the strange scene her familiar library presented. Transcript Is Taken. The background of greenish gold wallpaper, hung with a medley of classical prints and portraits of an cestors; the mantel with its bric-a- brae vases, the antique book cases, one topped with a child's tinker toy all these were familiar to her. But the rugs, the chairs cluttered about the room, and n each chair sat a reporter. There were a score of men and two women. At a round mahogany table at her side sat two court stenogra phers to make a transcript of the interview. The reporters, matching her rov ing gaze with intent stares, saw a rather plump woman of 47, pale, ob viously tired and slightly nervous. Her gray hair was brushed back in a high pompadour that emphasized sli'ghtly the long oval of her face. Presence In Denied. She braced one hand on each arm of her rocker and the Interview be gan. "Have you any comment to make, Mrs. Hall," the spokesman began, "on that part of Mrs. Gibson's story (Mrs. Jane Gibson, the so-called eye witness of the slaying) in which she says you were present on the Phil lips farm on the night of September 14?" Moistening her lips, Mrs. Hall re plied: "What, comment could I make? Of . course that was not so, and that is all." "You were not there T' "I certainly was not." For an hour then one reporter after another volleyed questions at her, taking her over the story of her actions before and after the murder; quizzing her sharply for any possible knowledge she might have had of the rector's1 affair with Mrs. Mills; seeking some point at which an entering wedge could be driven Into her story. The questions started with one which concerned the story told, by Mrs. Jane Gibson, pig raiser, who claims to have been on the Phillips farm the night of the murders and to have been an eyewitness to the double slaying. Q. Have you ary comment to make. Mrs. Hall on that part of Mrs. Gibson's statement In which she said you were (Concluded on Fag 3, Column 1.1 Democrats Declared Whistling in Dark to Keep TTp Courage, in Face of Defeat. BT GRAFTON WILCOX. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) i WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 1. With the national congressional campaign rapidly drawing to a close, republican party leaders are confident of victory at the polls next Tuesday. Although keeping the party fires burning hot In every state where there are spirited contests over house and senate seats, the repub lican leaders in Washington believe that the actual battle is over, and that there need te no concern from an administration standpoint about the house and senate remaining in republican control. Recent claims of sweeping gains by democratic chieftains are not dis turbing the administration hench men, who - declare that the most careful canvass of the situation In contested states does not warrant a pessimistic view from their stand point. Conservative republican leaders admit that the democrats may gain some house seats in New York, Ohio, Indiana, and perhaps. New Jersey, With a few scattering . gains else where, but they insist that the nouse win remain republican by a majority of at least 50. John T. Adams, chairman pf the republican national committee, said tonignt- that the democrats are whistling in the dark to keep up their courage," and declared that the facts did not warrant reports being circulated by democratic henchmen about an eleventh hour change In sentiment and a drift away from republican candidates. "A republican victory Is certain next Tuesday," said Chairman Adams. jCIJY DRY; SCHOOLS QUIT state aormai Adjourns Due to Breakdown of Water System. MONMOUTH, Or., Nov. 1. (Spe cial.) Classes in the Oregon Norma! school, State Training school and the Monmouth High school were ad journed yesterday for the remainder of the week as a result of a break down of the municipal water system, whijh has left the city virtually without water. Most of the normal school students left for their homes this morning and are to return for the resumption of classes next Mon day morning. City officials have summoned a water-line expert from Portland to take charge of making repairs. The source of the trouble which has cut off the water flow had not been located this morning. The municipal water supply is re ceived from Teal creek, 12 miles west of here. Heretofore the system has operated almost flawlessly. CAT'S ESTATE IIM COURT Eisjlit Persons Are Fighting Over $25,000 Left Pet, Now Dead. BObTO-X Nov. 1 A cat having aiea, jzd.oou Is thrown Into the courts for, disposition. Eighteen years ago Miss Ellen F. Barnard left her estate in trust for her pets seven cats, -two dogs", two canaries, a parrot and a cockatoo. "Mewsy,' a cat, survived all the rest, and stood in the way of succession to the estate by Mrs. Leslie Wood I Bond,' to whom it was to go on the I death of the nets. 1 Now, with the cat gone, eight! nephews and nieces, cirt off with 10 each, seek equal shares in the estate, contending that their aunt was of unsound mind and was in fluenced in making her will by Charles W. Bond, a lawyer, and by the subsidiary legatee, his wife. Trial of the contest began before a superior court jury today. PEON PANTS PULLED OFF Blue Toreadors Rouse Spokane High Sdiool Students. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 1. When Frank Bowley appeared at Lewis and Clark high school here today ar rayed In blue toreador trousers ornamented almost to the knee with red trimmings, fellow students unceremoniously deprived him of the unusual garments in a corridor. He escaped to the gymnasium draped In his overcoat. Six other youths, whose mani festations of international comity took less violent form, were, not molested. - ' Principal Hart professed no con cern oVer the situation. Beyond summoning the wearers into his office and asking what part o.f Mexico they hailed from, he took no action. BRITISH LABOR BEATEN 148 Seats Declared Lost -in Mu nicipal Elections. LONDON, Nov. 2. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The rout of labor was the feature of the municipal elections In a large number of bor oughs throughout England Wednes day. Up to an 'early hour this morning the returns were incomplete, but it is significant that In 10 of London's 28 boroughs the completed returns show that labor lost 149 seats which had previously been held by labor ites, In some instances their repre sentatives being completely wiped out. TO MM Ambassador Ricci Pre sents Resignation. COUNT SFORZA IS REBUKED Stay at Post, Is Plea of Premier Mussolini. UNIQUE ARMY PROMISED Action to Restore Order in Na . Hon Is Begun ; New Leader? Are Called Together. ROME, Nov. 1. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Vittorlo Rolandl Riccl, Italian ambassador at Wash ington, has presented his resigna tion, like ' his colleagues. Count Sforza, ambassador at Paris, and Senator Frassatl, ambassador at Berlin, wishing to leave Premier Mussolini free to choose his own trusted men for such Important posts. It developed today that Premier j Mussolini had sent a reply to the letter of resignation from Count Sforza, which was received yester day, reproaching him for his action and asking him to remain at his post. Premier Mussolini's letter to Count Sforza, ambassador to France, read: "I feel bound to regard as scarce ly friendly and very ill-timed ac tion your decision to resign before you have official knowledge of the direction I shall take in the mat ter of foreign policy, which I shall lay before the chamber, and which will In any case not be simply the sum total of sentiments, as you mis takenly suppose. . Envoy Asked to Stay. "I, therefore, formally Invite you to remain at your post and not to embarrass a government which rep resents the loftiest expression of the national conscience. "I shall be glad of a reply tj my telegram, reserving to mysejf a further decision In your case." Yesterday's excitement m Rome had Its repercussion in the prov inces. The communist - deputy, Guido Plcelrl, the leader of the com munistic and allied elements In Parma, had prepared with a group of his followers to resist the fas cist! in that city and was about to' open fire against them when the police and carabineers arrested him for his own protection, they de clared. He was lodged nl prison on the charge of unlawful carrying of arms. At Milan the fasclstl set fire to the printing establishment of the social ist newspaper Avanti and also set ablaze the headquarters of IS sub versive clubs. Nearly all the fascist! who had (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) WNML -ww" i , r"- &yy mmmp- Gat jw: ; f - -issvirrm Am i TOP-- .s sm Denl Includes 388,000,000 Feet Purchased at $5 and $3 for Each Thousand. ABERDEEN. Wash., Nov. 1. (Spe cial.) What was said to be one of the largest timber deals ever made in the Pacific northwest was con summated today in the Qulnault In dian agency headquarters when the bid of the Ozette Railway company, of which Alex Poison is president, for the huge Quinault lake unit of the Indian timber, comprising ap proximately 388,000,000 feet, was ac cepted by W. B. fcrns, superintend ent of the reservation and acting agent for the. big timber stand. The successful bid was for a straight tS a. thousand feet for -live and dead, cedar, Douglas fir, spruce, white pine and amabilis fir, and $3 a thousand for alii hemlock. This is said to be the highest price ever offered for a similar tract of timber In the northwests Total amount of the deal is ap proximately $1,700,000. The sale embraces approximately 69,000,000 feet of cetfar, 73.000,000 feet of spruce, 86,000,000 feet of Douglas fir, 162,000,000 feet of hem lock, 7,000,000 feet of amabilis fir, 1.000,000 feet of white pine, 310,000 linear feet of cedar, poles and an un estlmated. amount of Douglas .fir piling. , The tract sold today is the fourth timber stand to be released from the Qulnault reservation by the de partment of Indian affairs. The first, comprising about 305, 000,000 feet, went to the Aloha Lumber company a year ago, and Is already being lo'gged, a railroad tap ping the tract having been built. The second and third, sold last March and July, went to the M. R. Smith Lumber & Shingle company and the Hoby Bros., respectively. Each of these stands also contained about 305,000,000 fee. With the stand soil today, approximately 1,303,000,000 feet of Quinault Indian timber has been released. 8 CANADIANS DEPORTED Men "Beating Their Way to Cali fornia" Sent Back. BBLLINGHAM, Wash.. Nov. 1 Eight Canadians who said they had served with the Canadian fnr.v Hnr. ng the wdVld war were eWorted W the United States immigration authorities here today. They were charged with having entered the country illegally and said they were "beating their way" to California. Within the past two weeks more than 20 former soldiers have been detained by immigration officers. GOLD RESERVE MOVED Large Reserve Bank Holdings Put in Chicago Skyscraper. CHICAGO, Nov. 1. The great hoard of gold In the west, It was said today, had been moved into the pew skyscraper of the Federal Re serve Bank of Chicago. The exact amount behind the 42-inch steel vault walls was not announced. The bank's latest statement showed gold holdings of $516,737,187, al though a large part of it is held In Washington. - NOT DENTED YET. Multnomah Will Poll Heaviest of County Votes With Marion 1 and Lane Next in Line. SALEM. Or., Nov. 1. (Special. There are in Oregon 345,891 -persons at present qualified' to go to the polls and vote on November 7, ac cording to registration of the fig ures tonight made public by Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state. Of these, 238,444 are republicans, 99,477 are democrats, 3046 are pro hibitionists, 3755 are socialists and 11,169 are in the miscellaneous col umn. Multnomah, with 112,668 persons registered, will poll the heaviest vote. Second is Marion county with 21,038. Lane is third with 17,837 and Clackamas is fourth with 17,308. Jefferson with but 1415 has the smallest registration. ' Other county registrations, as. an nounced by Mr. Xozer, follow: Baker, 7078; Benton, 6983; Clat sop, 8074; Columbia, 4819; Coos. 9529; Crook, 1656; Curry, 1727; Des chutes, 4175; Douglas, 9778; Gilliam, 1966; Grant, 2654; Harney, 1756; Hood River, 3361; Jackson, 12,458; Josephine, 3627; Klamath, 6780; Lake, 1871; Lincoln, 4284; Linn, 11,- 124; Malheur, 3902; Morrow, 2205; Polk, 7386; Sherman 1835; Tillamook, 4550; Umatilla, 12,504; Union, 7252; Wallowa, 3135; Wasco. 6495; Wash ington, 13.69J; Wheeler, 1469, and Yamhill, 8501. PRINCE TRAVELING INCOG Cousin of King of Italy and Aide in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 1. Prince Almee, the Duke de Spoleto, a cousin of King Victor Emmanuel of ItalyJ accompanied by an aide of equal rank, arrived in San Francisco to day from the east and registered on the secret register of a local hotel. It was learned from official sources. The prince, who is credited with being one' of the chief advisers of the king, is to Sail with his aide tomorrow on the Pacific Mall liner President Wilson for . Shanghai, where. It Is understood, he Is to be attached to the Italian consulate for two years. The prince is 22 years old and was in the Italian war serv ice in the world war. . No reason was given for 'the prince's attempt to keep his visit to San Francisco secret. MOSES HELD SCIENTIST Preacher Tells Stand in Libel Suit Against Zion Chief. WAUKESAN, 111.. Nov. 1. Moses was a scientist four thousand years ahead of his time, the Rev. Thomas Nelson asserted today in rebuttal testimony In his criminal libel suit against Wilbur Glenn Vollva, overseer of the Christian Catholic church in Zion, 111. Nelson declares false many claims and Indecent re marks which Vollva attributed to the ex-elder in Voliva's church and now leader of the independent fac tion opposed to Vollva In Zion. Many of his lectures and remarks were taken from scientific journals and from the Bible, Nelson asserted. He said he had nuoted Moses and j that' Vollva had misconstrued and luisieiJiciieuteu 1110 gidicujcuu. Vlin.M Man. 41, Confesses to Attacking Girl, 12. PRE A SWIMMER KIDNAPED Be; 'Throws Her Into Wa . fter Brutal Assaults. COMlTION IS SERIOUS Complications From Mistreatment and Exposure in Swamp May i ' Cause Death of Lass., (By Clilcapo Tribune Leased Wire.) ' MUSKEGON, Mich., Nov. 1. With in 24 hours after Rosalie Shanty, 12-year-old diving girl of Muskegon, who was kidnaped Sunday, had beenj found on an abandoned railroad track near Dublin, Mich., virtually nude and critically ill, Raymond Eugene Wilson, 41 years old, was captured in Grand Rapids, Mich., and made a confession to abduct ing and attacking the child. Wilson was captured in Grand Rapids tonight after posses had scoured the country In the neigh borhood where the girl was found and had traced him to his home. Violence Is Prevented. He was brought back to Muske gon in an automobile, which also carried deputies who questioned him iilosely throughout the return trip. This delayed the arrival in Muskegon and in all probability prevented mob violence because. when the sheriffs party reached Muskegon, the streets were prac tically deserted. In a statement to officials, Wil son confessed that he had gone to Muskegon Friday night to visit Mr. and Mrs. Archer, 533 Easton street, with whom he spent the night. '. He had planned to attend a dance at a roadh'ouse near Muskegon Sat urday night, he Said, but returned to the town when he found that the house was closed. On the re turn trip he passed Rosalie In front of the roller skating rink and point ing her out to Mr. and Mrs. Archer, said: "There's a little girl I used to have a lot of fun with at the bathing beach last summer." He then asked her to take a ride in the car, but she refused. Mysterious Woman Met. Sunday morning he met a mys terious woman at the corner of Ottawa avenue and Easton street The woman told him, he said, that her daughter, a chum of Rosalie's, was sick, and asked him to bring the little girl to her there, he said. He then met Lloyd and William Fix, 12 and 14 years old, who showed him to the Shanty house, he declared, where he learned that the child was at Sunday school. Driving to the church, he met the girl. Boys Identify Wilson. The two Fix boys identified him as the man who took Rosalie away in an' automobile, and if the girl is too ill to be moved from Dublin tomorrow he will be taken there for Identification. Wilson is characterized by the police as a degenerate. Rosalie was found by Joseph preeski, a farmer.- She wore no underwear and no hat, only a little dress, which had been torn to rib bons. She was completely dazed and could tell nothing of her ex perlences with the man who ad- ducted her. - "I want to go back to Muskegon,1 she murmuredr and sank into a coma tose condition, out of which she has since Intermittently come and gone back Into. Girl Wander. 24 Honrs. The little girl' is in a serious con dition and fears even for her life are entertained. She is believed to have wandered for more than 24 hours alone in the waste land before she was found. Dr. Earl Fairbanks, who attended her, says that she had been attacked many times, and that these, complicated by the rigorous exposure through which she has gone, have brought about a serious condition, one from which she may not recover. Once during ' a lucid interval, when questioners pressed her for information, she smiled a little smile and said: "He even threw me into the water. I guess he wanted to drown me. but I could swim oo good for that." Then when she was pressed for more details, she slipped away Into a dead faint again. MRS. HARDING IMPROVES Wife of President Recovers From Recent Slight Relapse. WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 1. Mrs. Harding was said today at the White House to have recovered from a slight relapse she suffered a few days ago and to be able again to sit up for brief periods several times a day. The relapse, It was said, was caused by a cold. It was not con sidered serious, but her physician, Brigadier-General Oharles E. Saw yer, thought it best that she remain i In bed several days. Reed College Professor Traces Mineral Lent by Doctor to Woman Patient. The efficiency of the electroscope in the finding of lost radium par ticles was illustrated yesterday by a successful search conducted by Dr. A. A. Knowlton, professor of physics at Reed college, in the resi dence of Mrs. F. L. Nitsch, 3221 Sixty-third street Southeast, in which a piece of radium smaller I than a pin-point and worth more than J500 was detected by the in strument and recovered from the j ashes in the kitchen stove. The ra Hum particle, owned by t-l rT I. ,. Imnlant In a I plaque which Mrs. Nitsch used for tne treatment oi a nastn uiwi, nv. . had been thrown away by mistake. So sensitive is the electroscope that, in determining in which part of the Jiouse the radium particle had been lost, it instantly recorded the pres ence of radio activity on being in troduced into the kitchen, following which it was necessary only to sift the stove ashes for the melted plaque. The search was instituted by an Insurance company, which had is sued a policy covering the valuable mineral. 1 U. S. DEBT TO BE PAID British Chancellor of Exchequer Promises Cash to America. LONDON, Nov. 1. (By the Associ ated Press.) The new chancellor of the exchequer, Stanley Baldwin, de clared tonight that his first duty will be to settle the debt to the United States. "He made this an nouncement In a speech at Cardiff when he alluded also to the neces sity of a prompt settlement of the reparations problem. Regarding the amount owing to the United States, he said: "It is a heavy debt but we have told America that we are respon sible for it to the last penny, and we are going to pay It." TAX EVADERS SENTENCED Four Cotton Manufacturers Are Guilty of Cheating Government. GEENVTLLE, 3. C Nov. 1. Four South Carolina cotton manufacturers who pleaded guilty today In the United States district, court here to a charge of evading the federal in come tax law were sentenced to orison by Judge H. H. WatKlns. Campbell Courtenay and St John Courtenay of Columbia were each fined $10,000 and sentenced to eight months in the Greenville county jail. Ashmead Courtenay and Henry Rutledge Buist of Charleston were each fined $3000 and given Jan sen tences of three months. FAIR VOTE UNANIMOUS University Park Community Club Indorses Exposition. A unanimous vote for the 1927 exposition and for the measures in behalf of the fair to appear on the ballot at the coming election was rAr-nrded last night at a meeting at University Park Community club, after Mayor Baker had made an ad dress explaining the project. Thomas L. Willis, president of the club, presided at the meeting, which was attended by some 600 persons. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 53 degrees; minimum, 38 degrees. TODAYS Fair and warmer; northwest erly winds. . Foreign. , Pastor arrives at Doom to marry ex- Kalser.- Page 1. Italian ambassador to America realcns. Page 1. National. State public commissions to allocate can, Pago 8. House candidate, must file election ex penses Page 2. Republicans wire of a good majority. Pagel. Domestic. New Tork election to make or break pres idential booms. Pago 21. Psy-.hio monument proposed by Doyle. Page 7. Sister says Clara Philips once attacked her. Page 4. Mrs Hall breaks long silence but out wits reporters. Page 1. Girl, 13, attacked; degenerate caught. Paea 1. Presidential boom promised as reault of election In Mew lorn, rago . Pacific Northwest. Ma-ket solution in Oregon sought by ex. nerta. Page 9. Oninault timber brings Jl.700.000. Page 1. State has 345.891 qualified, voters for Nr-vember i election, x-ase x. rvwrt and Eddy flay Pierce record. Pace 10. Certificates of necessity urged for traffic control, i-age n. Sports. Baoson Tech. beats Washington high, 6 to 4. rage jo. Walker beats Brltton. Page 19. King earns draw with Darcy. Pago 1. Commercial and Marine. Wheat sharply higher in all northwestern markets. Page zs. Bond prices sag with heavy offerings. Page 28. Market marked by irregularity. Page 29. Portland-oriental trade increases In ac tivity. Pago 16. Grain prices climb to higher levels. Page 29. Portland and Vicinity. School bonds sold to bank at 100.04. Page 28. Chamber committee recommends $200,000 publicity fund. Page 15. Large crowds see health pageant again. Page 10. Los raditim found1- with electroscope. Page 1. Motlev group of aliens to be deported. Page 17. Bull Ran accident Is fatal to two. Page 2. Minister praises school measure. Page &. Daughter of ex-Kaiser on Hand for Ceremony. SURPRISE GIFT IS PLANNED Wedding Gown of Princess Ordered From Berlin. GUEST LIST IS GUARDED Rites Are to Be Simple in Con trast to ex-Ruler's First Marriage, It Is Said. DOORN, Holland. Nov. 1. (By the Associated Press.) The Duchess of Brunswick, daughter of ex-Emperor William of Germany, accompanied by her suite and Pastor Vogel of Potsdam, arrived in Doom this even ing. Pastor Vogel is to celebrate the religious ceremony when Princess Hermlone of Reuss and William are married. Count von Moltke, who fills the office of "marshall" of William's tiny court, curtly refused today to give any information whatever re garding the arrangements for the wedding. That certain discrimina tion is to be exercised, seems to have been shown by the fact that. George Sylvester Viereck. well known as a German-American publicist, arrived here a few days ago and dined with' William at the ex-emperor's special invitation. The Dutch authorities are equally as secretive as the mem bers of William's entourage. Rumors Are Numerous. There are a number of rumors afloat which it has been impossible to verify. Included among them is one to the effect that Princess Her mione has never left Doom castle since her arrival there and will only leave for the sake of appearan'ces next Saturday, returning on Sanda.V; for the wedding. It has been learned that ex-Crown Prince Frederick William will arrive here tomorrow? at noon. POTTSDAM, Germany, Nov. 1. (By the Associated Press.) Despite ex-Emperor Williams' expressed wish that no present be sent on the occa sion of his marriage to Princess Hermlone of Reuss, a big surprise gift is being ' prepared in former court circles here. Cook Is Selected. Each day brings details regarding next Sunday's event at Doom and these are eagerly read by the mon archist colony In Potsdam. Frau- lelne Geornltz, who presided over the Imper'al kitchen here for dec ades, has been engaged to prepare the weddinz- breakfast at Doom. She also formerly superintended the household of the royal princes when they were enrolled In the cadet school at Plauen. The property deed to'be signed Sunday morning will bear the first official designation of Princess Hermlone's future title. It is understood this document w'll provide for a strict division of prop erty between the ex-kaiser and his bride, since William's children will not be beneficiaries under the ap portionment connected with his re marriage. Princess Hermlone's wedding dress has been ordered from a. lead ing Berlin establishment, this being (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) IS YOUR TIME WORTH $10 A MINUTE? Unless it isn't don't bother to peruse these paragraphs. If you insist upon your rights then here's the lay, as old John Silver used to express himself. One minute of your time may easily be worth $ 10 to you. Beginning Sunday, and in each big Sunday issue there after, The Oregonian will publish a drawing, a sketch, or a cartoon without a title. Before you will be placed the vision of the artist, sans the usual caption. If you write and submit the best caption, in the opin ion of competent judges, for the Sunday picture you will i receive by return mail a J check of $10. There are no strings attached to the offer. Like Andy Gump, it is collar- 1 less. T Watch for the first of the ten-spot series, appearing in I the next issue of The Sunday t Oregonian. Entrants in the t caption marathon should send f their inspirations to the Title t Contest Editor, The Orego- J nian. First in Superior Features t The Sunday Oregonian t A Nickel and a Nod 1