TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1929 ACCUSED RETELLS STORY OF BOER Mrs. Phillips Sticks to Tale That Friend Helped. BATTLE IS DESCRIBED Women Said to Have Struck and Kicked Each Other in Fight Preceding Killing. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Nov. 3. Mrs. Clara Phillips retold today her story of the slaying of Mrs. Alberta Mead ows for which she is on trial for murder under cross-examination by Deputy District Attorney Fricke, sticking to her assertion on direct examination that Mrs. Peggy Caffee assailed Mrs. Meadows with a ham mer. She also insisted that Mrs. Meadows had admitted an intimacy with her hubsand Armour L. Phil lips. Defense Attorney Herrington an nounced he would not call Phillips es a witness and that he expected to be able to rest his case some time Monday. Mr. Fricke asked Mrs. Phillips, who gave her the information on which she based the charge she said 6he made to Mrs. Meadows that Phillips bought the latter a wrist watch and set of automobile tires. Witness Tries Escape. "Must I answer that?" Mrs. Phil lips asked her attorney. "Yes," replied Herrington. Mrs. Phillips said it was Mrs. Julian McElroy, a witness in the case. "Why did you hesitate in answer ing?" Fricke asked. "Well, Mrs. McElroy had the name of being a gossip in the neighbor hood and I consider her a good friend of mine." Reverting to the time of the slay ing on July 12, last, on a hillside drive, Mrs. Phillips said she and Mrs. Meadows struck and kicked and wrestled with each other and she was struck so many times she could not remember the number. She said she was sure Mrs. Caffee struck Mrs. Meadows more than once on the head with the hammer and that the (blows were hard ones. - Mrs. Phillips testified that she had talked over her family troubles with Mrs. Caffee during the Tues day afternoon and night preceding the murder. The witness stated that she had no intention of going to Mrs. Meadows' ' apartment that time although she knew "something was wrong." Her husband had been out all night, she said, and had refused to speak to her. Testimony Gone Over. Much of the morning session was occupied by the prosecution in tak ing Mrs. Phillips over her testi mony of yesterday step by step and in considerable detail. " Mrs. Phillips reiterated her testi mony, given on direct examination that it was Peggy Caffee who bought the hammer. The defendant denied that she had requested the sales girl to show her the "heaviest hammer she had," or that she had offered any objection to the one finally pur chased, "because it was not heavy enough.!' ID PRAISES PRESS SAVING OF FISH PLANNED PAN-PACIFIC CONSERVATION MOVEMENT IS LAUNCHED. Congress Dealing "With Impor tant Question Will Be Held in Honolulu in 1924. HONOLULU T. H., Nov.. 3. (By the Associated Press.) The res!u tions committee of the Pan-Pacific commercial congress presented its report yesterday, - recommending that the Ban-Pacific union call a conservation congress to meet at Honolulu in 1924 and take action to protect the fish and mammals of the Pacific ocean. The recommendation was based on the paper read before the congress by B. W. Evermann of the California academy of sciences. Other resolutions approved by the committee urged the Pan - Pacific union to investigate the desirability of organizing a permanent Pan-Pacific chamber of commerce, with the hope that the various governments interested would contribute to its upkeep and the cost of future con ferences. The transportation of habit-forming drugs through the mails was condemned in a recommendation iaid before the congress by the commit tee, still another urged the organi zation of a permanent Pan-Pacific commercial museum at Honolulu. The adoption of decimal currency by all countries bordering the Pa cific and approval of the Hwai val ley conservation project in China also received the indorsement' of the committee. More than 85 per cent of the world's coal reserves, estimated at 7.000,(100,000,000 tons, lie within the countries bordering the Pacific ocean, Bertrand L. Johnson, ge-ologist-in-charge, section of fore'gn mineral reserves of the United States geological survey, declared in a paper read today at the session. The Oregonian publishes practi cally all of the want ads printed in the other three Portland papers, in addition to thousands of exclusive advertisements not printed in any other local paper. Hostile Church Sentiment Is . Found in Toronto. CITY INTERESTING ONE Canadians Wonderful People, De clares Sir Arthur, Almost Tierce in Their Loyalty. Onr American Adventure, by Sir Arthur u'nan uoyie. (Copyright by ' Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1922, (or the United States and Great Britain. Released by North American Newspaper Alliance.) ARTICLE IX (Contiued). They have stretched a wire rope, or several, over-the broad expanse of the whirlpool, and they .run a small car across it with passen gers. It was an alarming sight for us to see our whole family in this small box suspended hundreds of feet above that dreadful place. How ever, they made the double transit in all comfort. It looks a frail thing, however, and I only pray that some terrible disaster may not oc cur there some day." It was down here that 'poor Webb lost his life. The people who found his body say that there was no wound upon it, and that death must have been caused by absolute exhaustion and heart failure from the buffeting which he had received. From Niagara I passed on to To ronto upon Sunday, May 14, leav ing my party behind with the agree ment that we should join again on the way to Detroit. Something had greatly wearied me. and all this part of my pilgrimage seems like a gray dream, broken only by vivid patches while I was on1 the plat form. Our friends the clergy had been preparing trouble for me in Toronto, and there was hostility in the air, which had found some ex pression in the press and a good deal in the pulpits. Canon Cody distinguished himself by a sermon in which he mourned my falling off from the days when I used to write detective stories, and declared, from the profound abyss of his ignor ance, that nothing worth knowing had ever come through spiritualism. Press Found Responsive. The reviewers treated me splen didly, however, and my meeting, though it suffered a little in size through the clerical attacks, was still very large and representative. The press reports next day were also very good and one of the pa pers had a review of the scientific work done upon ectoplasm which was ahead of anything I have seen in the London press. I spoke for an hour and three-quarters, so I had some excuse for feeling ex hausted. My references to the un fair and ignorant attitude of the clergy were always received with loud applause. I have had the good fortune to encounter a very high circle in Toronto who have been developing upon their own lines with remark able results. I learned much from them, but there are reasons why I should not mention their names, as their work is still only half com pleted. I found their revelation a very satisfying one, abounding in evidence and giving me a good deal which was new. I have seldom re ceived a greater accession of strength and wisdom. They t&ve found in their work that unde veloped spirits need continual checking and watching, but a com plete test lies in the words, "I be lieve in God." If a communication by word or writing is coming through, that is the password which never fails. It is, perhaps, the same test which St. John meant, for when he said, "Test the spirits," he pre sumably had something definite in his mind. Trlbnte Paid Canadians. The head of the circle, whom I will Call Mr. Stone, had lost a rela tive and was grieved to hear that he was still in darkness, even though several years had elapsed. He had a vision of him, bronzed in color and rather swollen in features, looking very unhappy. He was told that prayer would help, and he prayed with such fervor that in a short time his brother's spirit was actually over the line which separates dark from light. This happy event was an nounced to each of the four who composed the circle separately, so that when they met they found that each had received the glad news. The next stage immediately after the dark, in which one may be sub merged so long, it is said to be the garden stage, where one recuperates before going higher. All the teach ing contained in volumes and vol umes of typed reports seemed to be very lofty and definite. I spent some hours in driving round Toronto, which has greatly extended and improved since my first visit, nearly 30 years before. It has a massive solidity, which is essentially Canadian. They are a wonderful .people, strong, unbending, obstinate; good friends andi danger ous enemies. The insensate hostility which many American newspapers have shown to the British empire has deeply alienated them from their neighbors and they are almost fierce in their loyalty. Nowhere else in all my travels have I had "God Save the King" sung as the termination of my lecture. Noted Railroader Met. I had the pleasure of meeting some of the Canadian officers whom we were privileged to entertain dur ing the war when a Canadian divi sion was stationed at Crowborough. Another person of interest whom I met was Sir Donald Mann, who drove the Great Northern railway through the prairies and over the Rockies, an amaziner feat when one considers how few towns were on the road in fact the line went first and the towns followed. He looks the man for such a job, broad and square, cut out of granite, with a powerful, impassive face and two eyes which from under their droop ing lids miss nothing which- passes. If all else failed him he could find a job as the iron man of affairs in the movies. I also met at the lec ture one of the orderlies who had served under me in the Layman hos pital in the south African war. Spiritualism is in a curious condi tion In Toronto. There are six or eight small churches run upon a low plane, which will, I hope, unite and rise to a higher one. There is a good deal of indifferent medlum sihip, mostly of a very worldly for tune-telling order. Apart from this there was a society calling itself "The Twentieth Plane," which is best known because a member of it. Dr. Watson, wrote two books upon it, one under that name and the other, "Death Is Birth." The medium was a Mr. Benjamin, a young Jew, whose communications are undeniably lofty, though they are disfigured by that use of great names Shelley, Coleridge, even Sappho, which is possibly the fault of the control rather than of the medium. The actual messages are all on a high plane, though vague and unevidential. 7,480,201 IN LONDON Population" of Greater City Is Highest on Record. LONDON, Nov. 3. Some interest ing figures on the population of Greater London are disclosed by the latest census, which gives the total number of inhabitants as 7,480,201, the highest on record. In the county of London alone the numbers have increased from 959, 310 in 1801, to 4,484,623 in 1921, the latter figures being made up of 2,071,579 males and 2.413,044 females. The males have decreased in the last ten years by 64,762 and the females increased by 17,600. The proportion of females to 1000 males has risen from 1127 in 1911 to 1165 in 1921 and there has been an in crease of 25,922 ip widows during that period, attributable largely to the war. The ratio of unmarried females to 1000 unmarried males has increased from 1138 to 12S7 in the age group of 20 to 29 and from 1413 to 1886 in the age group of 30 to 39. Building Activity ' Continues. CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 3. (Special.) Indications are thatCen tralia's 1922 building activity will continue into the winter months. Three permits for new homes were Issued this week by the city clerk, nno in V. A. Graham for 412 West Warm Clothes- and a warm welcome Boys' Suits with two pairs of Knickers $9.85 The splendid quality of these two knicker suits, their painstaking tailor ing throughout and their warm woolen fabrics, have made them the most popular juvenile suits in Portland. Popular in price, too although their Real Economy is lasting. Boys' CTcoats $10 $12.50 $15 $20 Big, roomy overcoats, belted mod els with convertible collars, tai lored in the styles Dad wears ! A complete assortment of styles, weights and fabrics will be found in my store for boys. f I hh' 1 ' ftr ill -1 1 2& iv gzr ' wit! l 1-Tvv? SELLING MORRISON AT FOURTH Portland's Leading Clothier for Over Half a Century Center street and two to Lloyd Jenkins for the 700 block of West Cherry street. Each will cost about $2500. A. D. Monoghan has started construction of an apartment house on West First street. ' i in. i iii i iii urn i i 'Hi III ill hi ill l l ll 1l' ' . I l II Mill Mfllll iijiiiihiiil inn lu.uuiiji m I ' Remember Its Thrall on the Stage? Mi f 1 Wtf Great! But Now See It on the Screen-- the new piquancy of little Ming Toy, who "don't think China don't feel China don't know why for Hell God ever put her in China." Yesterday offered as a slave on the Love Boat at Shang- P hai. Today sought as wife-slave in San Francisco's China- 1 ' " town caught in the whirlpool of color-conflict when V 'J white man and yellow love her. Delightful, poignant, r winking, woping, smiling, sobbing little Ming Toy some- ' . . A ik -' times you'll cry over her, sometimes laugh. a J ' . j 'X-&ss MUSICAL PROLOGUE U 'f ''Kefsssjp rfS-A AND CHINESE OVERTURE ' ;I VYwfekt fit - BY KEATES AT 't&Wk, Vi I jMf M : x.Wh 'AVM ff CONCERT AND CONTEST f' I I y xM' ;" " ' ' -f ':&'v if n ur Mammoth rgan h y t$f'&l! .' ii (1) Raymond Overture. ..A. Thomas i 11 ' I I Jbrfk lM&J- - " v'A - ' " -VTl SSHH I l (2) Lovers' V a 1 s e (by Portland M f 1 'i i ' y yS?' ' ' " " '!' . IIIIV5 composer). . . EmU Enna II ;-s r:!lA&'JKJ? (klS (5) UbeTty Grand Chorus-Sing- Mf.' lJA 1' N.'lS-JLOVERS' VALSE and JUST llB f Am SOTt " T?SlSs6V( Jrv?iSVffi?,!! 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