SEGON STATE U22A? K6I V t AON VOL. LXI NO. 19,331 Entered at Portland fOrejron Postofflce as Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1922 26 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS SH LABOR AMERONGEN AWAITS PRINCESS' ARRIVAL MERMAID'S TORTURER GETS 35 TO 40 YEARS TAX CUT IN OREGON WILL BE REQUESTED STATE COMMITTEE TO ASK LEGISLATURE TO ACT. WAR ON PEON PANTS AT FRANKLIN OVER FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL TO TOLERATE NEW GARB. E MORGANS THA KILLED BY AUTOS IS LAID TO FRIEND COUNT BENTINCK'S CASTLE IN READINESS FOR GUEST. ANGRY CITIZENS CF ZR AS WILSON IS SENT BULLETS WHIZ BY m PERSONS IIR MURDER El Whole Nation Surprised by Extent of Defeat' 359 CANDIDATES BEATEN Costly Reforms Declared to Have Offended Property. LLOYD GEORGE SILENT Heunion of Coalition liberals and Asquithians Rtimored in Jjondon Circles. LONDON, Nov. 2. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Almost the entire at tention of the political world today was absorbed in the surprising re sult otj the municipal elections, 'n which labor suffered ah overwhelm ing defeat. The returns in 70 of the leading boroughs in the prov nices show that cut of 574 labor candidates only 215 were elected, while the conservatives elected 350 of the 450 nominated. In London there has been a s'm llar landslide. Labor had 573 seats on the old councils, but has only 253 on the new. Labor now holds only four London borough councils namely, Battersea, Bermondsey, Poplar and Woolwich as against 12 councils formerly held, while in 11 London boroughs not one labor representative was returned. The complete reversal of the suc cess labor had In 1919 in the muni cipal elections is undoubtedly a se vere disappointment to the labor ' party, and the question, on all sides Is whether it forebodes a similar landslide in the coming political struggle. No doubt the action of the Poplar council in paying exor bitant unemployment doles and the tendency of the labor party in gen eral to indulge in costly reforms In the services of janitatlsn, educa tion and poor relief which, however beneficial to the community, have thrown heavy burdens on the' rate payers, have frightened household ers into voting against labor. . Labor Party Dejected. There le this difference, however, between municipal and political elections, that In the former only a very email percentage of the voters go to the polls as compared with the political contests; hence, it is unsafe to draw inferences from the mu nicipal results. Nevertheless, the returns have caused a certain amount of dejection in the labor party and satisfaction to those po litical paTties opposing labor. Sir Robert Home, formerly chan cellor of the exchequer, in a speech at Glasgow tonight, expressed a be lief that the chief factor in the de feat of labor had been the women's votes, and he believed the same tendency would b0 shown in the parliamentary elections. Ex-Premier Lloyd George is still silent on hi8 Intentions, his silence giving rise to all "kinds of specula tion and rumors, among others that of his possible return to the liberal fold and the reunion of the coalition liberals with the Asquithians. Look ing at political history of the past six years this appears to be some, what far-fetched speculation,' but it is alleged that there are several u each camp favoring the idea if Mr. Lloyd George were disposed finally to separate from the conservative party. Mr. Asquith Friendly. Thla proposition leaves out of count what would happen to his conservative colleagues, like the earl of Balfour, who followed Lloyd George into the wilderness. An other question arises who should make the first move? Mr. Asquith, who is remarkably free from per sonal animosity, is reported to have no objection to reuniting the party under Mr. Lloyd George, but is dis inclined to make the first move him self. Tie whftle matter for the present remains in the realm of in teresting speculation. Mr. Asquiih, speaking again at Paisley tonight, replied to a ques tion' propounded by Sir Robert Home a few days ago as to whether Mrs. Asquith would be willing to join with labor in the event thai the Independent liberals and.labor ites combined would have a ma jority in the next parliament. Mr. Asquith rather parried the question and said that personally he would not join any government if the con ditions of adhesion meant eubmer.- ' sioiror slackening in either legisla tion or administration of the 11b- . eral principles and policy. Lloyd George Rapped. ' Premier Bonar Law in his speech today, contrary to rumors, rather refrained from personal invective or indulgence in sharp replies to the attacks of Lord Birkenhead, Win stoi Churchill and others, although he was somewhat sarcastic at the expense of Mr. Lloyd George, whom he compared to a drummer in the army, serving a useful purpose in time. Mr. Lloyd George, he re marked. 4 the drumming better Uutn anyone, but when the charge h$bA and some had fallen and oth ers were in the hospital, a drummer (CtfAUitai en 2. Column 2.) All Efforts to Get Interview Re garding Forthcoming Wed ding Prove Fruitless. AMERONGEN, Holland, Nov. 2. (By the Associated Press.) The im pending arrival here of Princess Hermlone of Reuss, bride-to-be of former Emperor William of Ger many, Is not creating any excite ment. The princess is to be a guest at Count Goddard Bentinck's castle, the one-time kaiser's first residence in exile. The lord of the manor himself no longer resides in the castle, having gone to Switzerland in a huff after a quarrel he is reported to have had with the local authorities over taxa tion. The present resident of the castle, who will act as hostess, is Count Bentinck's daughter Eliza beth, who in 1920 married Captain Siguand von Ilsemann of William's entourage. Both the village of Amerongen and the precincts of the castle are wrapped in rural quiet, in strange contrast to the buzz of pedestrian and vehicular traffic when William was a resident here. The correspondent of the Asso ciated Press was not challenged today when he crossed the bridge over the moat leading to the castle. The only person visible was a gar dener who was tidying the lawn. All efforts to interview occupants of the castle, however, were vain, questions eliciting a cold but polite nessage from the footman, who de livered them, of regret that those inside would be unable to see a newspaper correspondent. A few hours later a large motor truck, loaded with trunks and hat boxes, entered the castle gates, and it was assumed by the townspeople that Hermlone would spend the night in Amerongen castle. ELECTRIC SHOCK FATAL Body of McMinnvllIe Young Man Found la Street. McMINNVILLE, Or., Nov. 2. (Special.) Charles F. Trawin of this city was killed last night, ap parently by an electric shock which he received from an arc light cable. The young man's body was found on Grant street by citizens returning home from a meeting. It was be lieved he had taken hold of the cable by which the light is raised and lowered and that a short circuit had been completed. His hands were, flesh-torn and his clothes muddy. The young man was the son of Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Trawin of Mc MinnvllIe. He is survived, alsb, by two brothers and a sister. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at the Baptist church. Dr. L. W. Riley, president of Linfield college, and Professor E. S. Gardner will officiate. . PEOPLE FIGHT FOR COAL Three Cars Mysteriously Dumped Furnish Opportunity. BUFFALO! N. T., Nov. 2 Several hundred men, women and children of Cheektowaga today fought Le high Valley railroad detectives who were defending three carloads of anthracite coal which had been mys teriously dumped near the Williams street c'ty line when a freight train came to a stop. Fourteen-year-old John Disskow skl was wounded when the detec tives opened fire after they were bombarded with coal thrown by persons carting off the fuel. STEEL RAILS ORDERED Southern Pacific Lets Contract for 75,000 Gross Tons. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Nov. 2. The Southern Pacific company haa placed an order with eastern steel plants for 75,000 gross tons of rails, valued at between J3.000.000 and J4.000.000, for delivery in 1923, it was announced by the company today. Approximately 50,000 tons will be used on the Pacific system of the company, providing a total of 330 miles of rails in the west. BIG DIVIDEND DECLARED Stock Distribution Announced by Steel Foundries. NEW YORK, Nov. 2 Directors of the American Steel Foundries today declared a stock dividend of 18 per cent, equivalent to $6 a share on the outstanding common stock, payable December 30 to stockholders of rec ord December 9. Dividends on common and pre ferred stocks are not due until De cember. It was stated that no change in the d'vidend rate was planned. CHILE GETS $18,000,000 Bid of New York Bank Accepted by Government. SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 2. (By the Associated Press.) The Chilean government today accepted the bid of the National City bank of New York, an associate corporation of the National city' bank, for a loan of $18,000,000. The loan will issue at 81, will bear 7 per cent interest and mature in 20 years, with a 2 per ceftt amor tization after two years. New Yorker Is Caught in Fighting in Italy. FUSILLADE IS HALTED Unpopular Deputies Flee to Save Whiskers. PATES - BEING SHAVED Fascistl, Seeking Amusement, Put ... National Colors in Paint on Luckless Heads. BY RAYMOND FENDRICK. fCm'caso Tribune Foreign News Service. Copyright, 1922, by the Chicago Tribune.) ROME, Nov. 2. J. Pierpont Mor gan of New York was a witness of a communist attack on members of the fascistl. Mr. Morgan was on a train en route from Paris which on leaving Rome ran parallel to a train carrying members of the fascistl. In the northern part of Rome com munists fired at the fascistl train and bullets whistled above Mr. Morgan's car which, however, was not hit. i Fascisti officers stopped the fusillade. Socialist and communist deputies have begun fleeing from' their homes here, not to save their lives, but to save their whiskers. The fancies of the thousands of young fascisti who are still un mobilized have turned to lighter things now that their serious work is finished and they have started chasing communist deputies, shav ing their pates when caught and painting the national colors . on them. The first of the deputies sought was Signor Bombacci, who is called Italy's Lenin. He escaped, but the fascisti caught his secretary, who sported a luxuriant forest on his chin. That disappeared and like wise all the hair on his head. Then his bait pate was painted with red, white and green str'pes and he was exhibited from a balcony to a boot ing mob. Tar and feathers are not popular in Italy, due" to the cost of tar and to Italy's lack of petroleum . The fascisti are trailing the rad ical deputies, who are more fearful of red, white and green headaches than real danger. MUSSOLINI'S DAY 15 HOURS Premier Expects All of Ministers to Work Equally Hard. ROME, Isov. 2.-r(By the Asso ciated Press.) Benito Mussolini, the new premier, in addition to working 15 hours daily "exacts" this is a favorite word of his that all his ministers also shall work hard. To each member of his govern ment .Mussolini has allotted a task. (Concluded on Page 2, Column 4.) IT MAY SOUND I . i " (0W LA 01 ES A&to , 111 ' ill 1 If ) GENTLEttEH BY , U I ilk I I If f I IDOJNG "THfJSE V VI 1 I I 1 rft whAy:aliad VlVlll M 1 I lK Hat I wYu. liP If III It I I ACTUALLY' Court Expresses Re Could Not Be T cjl'm ia ; Is Slowly CQV i MTSKEGOy Cicbc' 2. Amid the cheers o 'hdf -c angry cit izens crowded?1 intv surrounding the circuit court c oers here to day, Raymond E. Wilson, confessed abductor of 12-year-old Rosalie Shanty, was sentenced to imprison ment at Marquette for 35 to 40 years. The court expressed the re gret, a life term could not be im posed. . Thirty minutes later Wilson was on his way to prison, heavily guard ed by deputies who feared they might be unable to cope with the crowds. The kidnaper disposed of within 12 hours after his arrest, Muskegon tonight turned to the relief of the child mermaid, who was reported slowly recovering from mistreat ment and exposure at a farm house near Dublin, Manistee county. Mckenzie pass closed 1 7 Inches of Snow Reported ia Highway on Mountains. EUGENE, Or., Nov. 2. (Special.) Snow to the" depth of IT inches was found in the road at the sum n it of the Cascade mountains on t'i McKenzie hiss way yesterday. Jccor.ing to word telephoned to the lffjceif the Cascade national forest 'here. T,e highway will be closed to iraffc from this time on, as It iwonld be impossible for cars to buck through t?.e deep, wet snow, said forest officials- While rain has been falling in the valley it has been snowing in the high altitudes, according to the foresters. 0LC0TTS TO BE HONORED Republican Women to Entertain Governor and Wife Tonight. Governor and Mrs. Olcott will be guests of honor tonight at a ban quet to be given at the Chamber of Commerce,. Oregon building, by the women members of the republican state central committee's executive committee. The committeewomen will be assisted by the Multnomah county central committee, the chair. women of the Olcott-for-governoif committee. Jt J, The programme will include sev eral political speeches and musical numbers. HOME WRECKED BY BOMB Eleven Inmates of Building Nar rowly Escape Death. GLOBE, Ariz., Nov. 22. Eleven persons escaped possible death here today when the house occupied by the families of Albert Rabogliatti, a moving picture theater owner, and his brother, Dominice, was almost completely wrecked by an explosion, believed by the police to have been the result of dynamite placed under the house. Faust, 6-year-old son of Albert, suffered a broken arm, and two other sons were bruised. Another was injured. PRETTY, BUT IT CANT ACTUALLY BE DONE. Body Appointed by Governor Ol ' cott Preparing Report Advo cating General Reform. SALEM, Or., Nov. 2. Recommen dations for legislation intended to decrease taxes in Oregon will be made to the legislature next Jan uary by the state committee on tax investigation appointed last year by Governor Olcott under an act of the legislature of 1921. The recom mendations are summarized in a re port made to the governor today. A final report is now being prepared. Recommendations to be made to the legislature are: . State income tax,, equitable pri mary assessments, supervision over local expenditures in the many units of government that have taxing power, consolidation of state de partments, organization of a statis tical bureau, sinking fund for the redemption of all bonds issued for public purposes, law to prohibit fil ing on water power sites for specu lation, ' that all payments for in heritance taxes be converted to the irreducible school fund and a rec ommendation against . further issue of tax exempt securities by the sLate of Oregon or by the United States. The members of the committee ap pointed by the governor are I. N. Day, chairman; Henry E. Reed, vice chairman; Coe A. McKenna, secre tary; C. S. Chapman and Charles A. Brand, all of Portland. Various misunderstandings rela tive to taxation are ironed out in the report. t ARMORY DESK ROBBED Attempt Made to Steal National Guard Payroll Checks. What is believed to have been an attempt to eteal the payroll checks of the service company, 162d infan try, Oregon nationa. guard, resulted in the theft of $55 from the desk of Captain R. M. Conner some time yesterday afternoon. The checks for the soldiers had been locked in a small army safe and placed in Captain Conner's office. About noon Captain Conner went to, the bank to cash a check for $55 and, return ing to the armory, he placed theT money in a drawer in his desk. When he returned to the armory last night he found the door open end his desk broken into. Papers were strewn over he place and the 'fconey was gone. COTTON CROP ESTIMATED World Production for Year Held About 16,750,000 Bales. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 2. World production of all kinds of commercial cotton for the current year will apprpach 16,750,000 bales, according to figures compiled by the census bureau and made public today. From present Indications, a statement by the bureau adds, the world crop will be about the same as last year. American production for this year has been figured by the department of agriculture at 10.135,000 bales. Consumption during the year ending July 31 aggregated 20,047, 000 bales of the world's supply, ac cording tc the bureau's reports. World stocks on hand on that date I were given at 9,536,000 bales. California Leads All in Mortality Rate. LOS ANGELES WORST CITY General Increase From 1917 to 1921 Is 28 Per Cent. MISSISSIPPI IS LOWEST South Carolina and Kentucky Are Next Smallest, With 4.3 Deaths to 100,000 of Population. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 2. (By the Associated Press.) There were 10,168 deaths from accidents caused by automobiles and other motor vehicles, excluding motor cycles, during 1921 in the death reg istration area of the United States, comprising 34 states and containing 82 per cent of the country's popu lation, the census bureau announced today. That was an increase of 1065 over 1920. The death rate for 100,000 population was, 11. 5, com pared with 10.4 in 1920. California led all states in the death rate, while among the cities of 100,000 or more population Los Angeles led. There was about 28 per cent in crease in the automobile death rate from 1917 to 1921, while the actual number of deaths in 27 states for which data are available increased 41.2 per cent. Deaths in the reg istration area by years were an nounced as follows: 1917, 6724; 1918, 7525; 1919, 7968; 1920, 9103; 1921, 10,168. - Rate ia Cities Increases. The rate for 100,000 in the cities was 15.8 last year, an increase of .8 over 1920. Total deaths ini the cities numbered 4415 last year, an increase of 299 over 1920. By years the deaths in these cities were as follows: 1917, 3207; 1918, 3609; 1919. 38081 3920, 4116, and 1921, 4415. OtMbe 34 states in the registra tion area, California had the highest rate, with 24.4 for 100,000; Con necticut was second, with 15.5, and New York third, with 15.4. Mis sissippi was the smallest rate, 2.6, while South Carolina and Kentucky both had the next smallest, with 4.3. The largest increase in the rate for 100,000 for the states was in California, with 3.3 more than in 1920, while New Hampshire showed the biggest decrease in the rate, with 2.8. Twenty-six of the states showed increases, seven decreases, and one, Pennsylvania, showed no change. New York Deaths Lead. New York state registered the largest number of deaths, with' 1632, an increase of 222 over 1920, while Delaware had the smallest number, with 17, a decrease of 62. The rate for 100,000 and the num ber increase or decrease in that rate as compared with 1920 Bhows: California 24.4, increase 3.3; Colo rado 12.6, increase .23; Montana 8.3, increase .2; Nebraska 7.9, decrease I; Utah 11.5, increase .2, and Wash ington 14.5, increase 1. In the 66 cities, 40 showed In creases in the Fate, while the re maining 26 showed decreases. Los Angeles had the highest rate, with 27.1 for 100,000, an increase of 3 for 100,000 over 1920. The smallest rate was reported by New Bedford, Mass., with 7.2, a decrease of 1.8 from 1920. Albany showed the largest in crease in its rate, over 1920, with 15.5, and Houston was second, with 11.6. Memphis had the largest de crease, 11.2. New York city had the largest number of deaths, 885, an increase of 112 over 1920; Chicago the second largest number, 669, an Increase of 97, and Philadelphia third, 100, a de crease of 36. COAST HEALTHIEST PLACE Oregon Has Next to Lowest In fant Mortality In Country. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 2. Cali fornia. Washington and Oregon are the three healthiest states in the union from an infant mortality standpoint, while San Francisco car ried off the palm for three consecu tive years, ending with 1921, for having the fewest deaths of infants bom alive of any city of its size in the nation, the state Doard of health said today in a special report. Washington and Oregon even excel California when it comes to an absence of health risks to infants, the report said. Although the Seat tle deaths were two for each 1000 last year, whereas the San Francisco deaths were 61, the Washington in fant has what might be literally termed "the best chance in the world" for gurgling his or her way into the pinkest and healthiest sort of childhood. In Portland there were but 48 infant deaths to each 1000 of the population last year, and the state of Oregon at large is almost "neck and neck" with Washington in the race for first honors as the infant's paradise. The ability of babies to keep cool during tho summer months and the old Pacif'c coast standby "climate" are given as the principal reasons for the healthy babies. Pittsburg, Pa., shows the highest Student Body Votes to Cease . Demonstration Against Tor eador Trousers. Sartorial freedom and tolerance won at Franklin high school yester day when the student body, by a vote of 510 to 427, decided to recog nize the rights of peon pants and Spanish skirts, and to end the dem onstrations against the wearers of these alien nether garments. An impassioned defense of tore ador trousers by a factulty member, a half dozen stirring addresses by leaders of the student body, calling for freedom in dress and costume won the day for dress radicalism. Following the formal discussion of the peon pants at the general as sembly held for that purpose, the students filed back to their class rooms, and by secret ballot made known their will. In the future any dress, however fantastic, will be al lowed on Franklin campus as long as that dress conforms with ordi nary conventions. As a result of yesterday's decision peon pants' popularity soared and stocks diminished in downtown clothing stores. One large estab lishment reported that no. less than a dozen youths, evidently high school students and two of whom ,were known as Franklinites because of Franklin pins, purchased especially colorful and picturesque pairs of peon pants. Campus rumor asserted that peon pants will be the most popular attire when school opens next Monday morning. A dozen girls are reported to have said that, now the ban has been removed, they would take to Spanish skirts. Yesterday's discussion of the peon pants problem by the high school students would have done credit to many a legislature. Barbara Blythe, Frank White and Marveldare Fel lows, leaders in student body work, pleaded for unity among FranK llnltes and an ending of the vio lence,'' hatred and discord engen dered by the demonstrations against peon pants .and Spanish skirts. Professor Rodwell of the science de partment spoke In behalf of peon pants and denounced the direct ac tionists who resorted to violence in their attempt to drive the toreador trouser wearers from the school campus. According to prominent Franklin students, the peon pants war is now over, and no further demonstrations will be staged against the wearers of these costumes. JUDGE MARTIN FAVORED Choice as Presiding Jurist of Customs Appeal Court Likely. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2. Appointment of George E. Martin, associate judge of the United States court of customs appeals, as pre siding judge to succeed Marion De Vries of California, resigned, was said in high official circles tonight to be under serious consideration by President Harding. No new appointments to the court are expected until after the com ing elections, but Judge Martin, who is from Ohio, is declared to be at present the most likely choice of the president for the office of pre siding judge. For the other vacan cies of the court advisers of the president are understood to have urged the selection of Representa tive George M. Young, republican. North Dakota. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Th Weather. -YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 52 degrees; minimum, 39 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. Foreign. Amerongen awaits arrival of princess, ex-kaiser's bride-to-be. Page h Bullets whistle past J. Pierpont Morgan's train. Page 1. British labor la overwhelmed. Page 1. National. Miller and Smith close in New York. Page 2. Autos In year kill 10,108 persons. Page 1. Candidates tor house report nominal cam paign expenditures. Page 2. Domestic. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle defends famous Davenport brothers. Page 6. Pegy Caffee killed Mrs. Meadows, says Mrs. Phillips. Pago 1. Torturer of mermaid geta 35 to 40 years. Page 1. Wedding contract is found on youthful elopers. Page 3. Warrant ready for service by Investi gators of Hall-Mills double murder. Page 3, Beveridge'A drive in Indiana real revela tion to readers. Page 8. Finehot seems choice tor Pennsylvania governor. Page 4. Pacific Northwest. Washington state voters apathetic. Page 7. General tax reduction in -Oregon to be asked by state committee. Page 1. -Olcoit denies he ever favored higher taxes. Page 15. 8porte. American ieague may see managerial shakeupsi Page 18. Jefferson blanks Commerce, 0 to 0. Page 10. Commercial and Marine. Another advance in local flour prices Page 26. Foreign loans and rails lead in bond ad vances. Page 27. Trade excursion to South America . planned. Page 26. Spectators' retreat for decline clearly in dicated. Page 27. Large holo found in dredge Portland. Page 14. Grain market gives way to pressure. Page 26. Portland and Vicinity. Catholic children at health show. Page 20. Wife of American fights exile order. Page 19. Democrats roused by citizens' ticket. Page 13. War on peon pants at Franklin over. Page 1. Edsel .Ford here for conference. Page 4. Everything ready for fair and bridge parade tomorrow night. Page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Pace 2S. Peggy Did Killing, De clares Mrs. Phillips, ; STAR WITNESS IS ACCUSED. Battle on Road Is Described by Defendant. FATAL BLOWS DENIED Woman Companion Is Charged With Wielding Weapon When ' Victim Seemed Winning. LOS ANGELES. Nov. 2 Peggy Caffee wielded the hammer that beat the life out of Mrs. Alberta Meadows, according to testimony given here today by Mrs. Clara Phillips, accused of the orime. Peggy Caffee was the state's star witness against- Mrs. Phillips and accredited with being the only eye witness to the aireged slaying by Mrs. Phillips. Mrs. Phillips told the events lead ing to the killing of July 12, of Mrs. Meadows' alleged statement that she was preparing to run away with Armour Phillips, husband of the accused slayer, and of a fight that followed between her and Mrs. Meadows, and said that when Mrs. Meadows was getting the best of the fight Peggy Caffee rushed in with the hammer. "Peggy came with the hammer and struck at Alberta and beat her with it, and everything went black before my eyes," was the dramatic climax of her testimony. Huxband'a Accusation Denied. The defendant first related tifr, peningg on the Friday preceding is slaying. That night, she said, h husband. Armour I Phillips, ac cused her of "spending the nisrht with a man at Camp Baldy." She said that she denied this and asked Phillipa who had told him that Phillips, she said, replied that it wa Mrs. Julian McElroy. The next day, Mrs. Phillips con tinned, she followed her husband t Mrs. McElroys home and there) heard him repeat the accusation, but that time declaring that Mrs. Mea- dows was his informant. Mrs. Mc Elroy, she said, told Phillips th charge was not true, that she her self was with Mrs. Phillips at the camp. Sob Corrobatea Mother. Mrs. McElroy, who testified to the same effect earlier in the day, also asserted she had made accusations against Phillips concerning his ac quaintance with Mrs. Meadows. She said that members of both Phillips' " and Mrs. Meadows' families had "begged Armour Phillips to ceas his attentions to Alberta Meadows." Julian McElroy, eon of the last witness, corroborated his mother's testimony about the conversation the Saturday before the slaying and also that he had heard Phillips say that he had "planned a trip" with, Mrs. Meadows. McElroy added that Mrs. Meadows had told him that Mrs. Phillips thus gave her ver sion of the slaying. It was a tale of jealousy and aU leged false accusations which, ac cording to the defense contention, caused her to go into a "brain storm" on July 12 last, the day Mrs. ' Meadows was beaten to death with, a hammer. Circumstance Are Detailed. Mrs. Phillips detailed the circum stances leading to the arrival of herself, Mrs. Caffee and Mrs. Mead ows at the hillside spot where the slaying occurred and told of how the three talked over the relations of Mrs. Meadows and Mr. Phillips. According to her testimony, Mrs. Meadows admitted that she loved Phillips and was preparing to go away with him. "Then she slapped me and w fought, and we fought," said the witness, and went on to tell the details of the struggle. Finally, she said, Mrs. Meadows had the best of it and the witness had called Mrs. Caffee. And Peggy came with the ham mer and struck Alberta and beat her with it, and everything went black before my eyes," she said. Her attorney halted the direct ex amination at that point. "Take tha witness," he said to the deputy dis trict attorney, and cross-examination began at once. Mrs. Phillips was so discomposed, however, that little headway was made for som time with the cross-examination. Elder Sister Testifies. ' Miss Ola Weaver, an elder sister of the defendant, earlier in the day had told the jury that at various times, when the family was living in Texas, her father would enter a room where some member of tha family happened to be, bringing a knife with him, and would ask the) relative to kill him. She eald she had overlooked these Incidents in her direct testimony yesterday. She also said that the defendant, Mrs. Phillips, had been "abnormal" from childhood and had been sub ject to such convulsions or fits as she described in her direct evidence. After these attacks, she said, the (CoAclutlcd oa fage 2, Column 2,1 (Concluded on rage 2, Column 3.)