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VOL. LXI-NO. li),367 Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postoffice as Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON. .ID AY, DECEMBER 15, 1922 26 TAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS B LEAVES HELPER OF YOKEL LANDED IN PRISON R. KELLER QUITS SANTA IS DOO'.O BY SOVIET.DICTS o RELIGIOUS HO AYS TAR GET OF RED CHIEFS. FORCING OF. WOMEN ON JURIES FAVORED JURY GETS STORY SEASIDE GIRL SUICIDE; SUITOR IS ARRESTED 5 GIVEN PORTLAND WHITE DAUGHERTY CASE OF HERRII RIOT TRU11R0E RER KHODY BEER, 18, EWOLVED WITH WEST IN KOBBEKY. RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED BY . COUNTY CLERKS. VERXA LYTLE, 16, DESPOND ENT, SHOOTS SELF. ft PARDON I Snow Plows Are Used to Keep Cars Running. COLUMBIA HIGHWAY CLOSED Blockade of Snow and Ice Is Reported. RAILWAY IS ON GUARD O.-W. R. & N. Also Sends Out Engines to Clear Tracks; Trains Hour or So Late. . WHAT SXOW AND WIND DID TO NORTHWEST. Portland blanketed in white. Plows used to keep street cars going. Railways follow suit. Columbia highway vir tually sealed and locked by snow and ice. Hood River paralized by blizzard. New snow hits Astoria. Total fall on Grays harbor brought to 13 inches. Pendleton has snow flurries with maximum of 10 above zero. La Grande mercury drops to 6 below zero. Vancouver has four inches of snow. Ice runs in Colum bia river. The Dalles again has zero weather and more snow. Co lumbia river frozen over. Walla Walla welcomes snow as relief from bitter cold. Ashland has ideal, sunny weather. Albany has three-inch snow. Corvallls students go home, as snowfall continues. Snow falls at Salem, but cars continue to run. Chehalis has more snow. Hourly temperatures for Portland yesterday afternoon were: Degrees! Degrees. 1 P. M. 195P. M 20 2 P. M 201(6 P. M 21 3 P.M. 217P.M 21 4 P. M 20 BY BEN- flUR LAMPMAN. When the good burghers went to bed, Portland was a city of conven tional gray pavements and sooty roofs. When they awoke their citv was clad in ermine, like a duke on his way to the coronation. A -raw and roaring blizzard from the east, freighted with a very superior grade of selected enow, had wrought the transformation by the simplest of natural processes. The ciang of the brandiBhed snow shovel, up from the basement for the first time this winter, rang through the town yes terday morning. Forthwith the street railway com pany, having in memory those oc casional storms which have grizzled the thatches of motormen overnight, dispatched a snow-plow or bo to parade importantly up and down the tracks. The shares tossed back the thin blanket of drift without effort. and various small boys prayed fer ently for tasks worthier of the equipment. But to the circumstance tf the snow-plows is officially cred ited the chagrined defeat of the in fant blizzard, as the Portland Rail way. Light & Power company bears witness Plows Are Ordered Out. "It looked as though wo might be in for a spell of weather," said F. I. Fuller, first vice-president of the company, "and so the plows were ordered out.' A sort of practice run, as it were. It was snowing then, but within an hour or two after ward the storm had ceased. If you choose to attribute this in some measure to our promptness, I shall raise no objection." The O.-W. R. & N. company, like wise prudent, sent a plow eastward to search for trouble in the deeper cuts, but as all incoming trains were delayed only an hour or so by the storm this measure was more precautionary than urgent. With the ending of the storm it was felt that schedules would speedily re turn to normal. Columbia Highway Blocked. It did not go so well with the Columbia highway, according to re ports which drifted into the city In the wake of the downfall. Late yesterday the great scenic thorough fare, which is as utilitarian as it is touristical, virtually had been sealed and locked by snow and ice, and the roadmaster had ordered both shovelmen and scrapers into action against the v hite drifts. Traffic was not entirely interrupted, how ever, at any time. Samuel C. Lancaster, who planned the highway, and who watches over it with indefatigable solicitude, re ported that frozen slush covered the pavement to a depth of 19 inches in sevtral places in testimony to the rough weather of the last week and that yesterday's tartar of an east wind had begun the shap- Prisoner Admits He Stood Guard Outside While Younger Boy Held Up Pearlman Store. Rhody Beer, 18 years old, con fessed partner of Herbert West, the "yokel" burglar, in the robbery of the Pearlman second-hand store at 148 Front street, was taken into custody yesterday by the police. The arrest was made at Beer's home, 368 Cable street, after West had implicated the older boy in one of his several robberies. The police went to Beer's home and .surrounded the house. Beer evidently saw their approach, be cause he attempted to escape by climbing down over the roof from the second story and dropping to the snow-covered ground. He dropped almost into the arms of one of the officers. Beer did not deny participating in the hold-up of the Pearlman store. He said he stood guard out side while West did the actual work of the robbery. A suit of clothes found in Beer's possession was identified as one stolen from the Bialkin store at Sixth and Oak streets. The suit, he said, was given him by West following the robbery of the Pearl man store. The yokel did not im plicate Beer in crimes other than the one. Beer served a term in the refoTm school at Salem and has not been a stranger to the police since his release from that institution. He became acquainted with West when the two were in the reform school. SALEM, Or., Dec. 14. (Special.) Herbert West, 15, who yesterday was arrested in Portland charged with a series of burglaries, was formerly an inmate of the state training school . for boys, from which institution he was released last August. After leaving Salem West went to Idaho, where he passed some time with his mother, Mrs. D.. J. Sloan. There he pur chased a revolver and later went to Portland. Officials at the training school said West would pass a high intelligence test. DENVER PLAGUE ABATED Smallpox No Longer Epidemic in Colorado City. DENVER, Dec. 14. S nallpox no longer exists -in Denver in epidemic form, according to a Joint state ment issued here today by health officials. Ninety-five persons died of the disease in November, while only 13 have died in December, most of the deaths being due to attacks of black smallpox that developed last month, the statement asserts. Curbing the epidemic, according to the statement, has been due to the fact that practically the entire population of Denver has been vac cinated, including the pupils of all schools and colleges. All public vaccination stations were closed here today, as these no longer are needed. AID FOR TEUTONS URGED Appropriation for Food Pur chases in America Proposed. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 14.--Appropriation of $70,000,000 for re lieving famine conditions in Ger many and Austria was proposed in a resolution introduced today by Representative Newton, republican, Missouri. The resolution, which declares the people are in despair, provides that the fund be expended for. purchase of food supplies in the United States to be distributed by the American Red Cross with the assistance of Red Cross organization-. in Ger many and Austria. DRIVER GETS SIX MONTHS Reckless Motorist Sent to Jail in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14. A sen tence of six months in the county jail was imposed today ton John Rhodes as a lesult of his convic tion on a charge of recliless driv ing of an automobile. Rhodes was arrested after an ac cident in which Sigel Webb, his companion in the nachine and son of Attorney - General Webb, was killed. FRANCE TO ACT ON PACT Washington Naval Agreement to Go to Parliament Soon. PARIS. Dec. 14. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The Washington naval agreements will be submitted to the French parliament for ratifi cation immediately after the cham ber reconvenes early in January. M. Raiborti, minister of marine. made this announcement in parlia ment today during discussion of the marine budget. JAIL INMATES ESCAPE Two Gain Freedom While 60 Oth ers Remain in Cell. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14. Two short-term prisoners walked out of the city Jail here today after saw ing their 7ay through steel mesh window and getting into the Jail corridor. Sixty other prisoners in the tank remained behind the bars despite the inviting opening left by the Impeachment-Hearings Dubbed "Whitewash." COMMITTEE IS IN UPROAR "It's Insult," Shouts Vol stead; Subpena Ordered. CHARGES TO BE HEARD Minnesotan Who Made Accusa tions Characterizes Testi mony as Comic Opera. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 14. Representative Keller of Minnesota refused late today to participate further in the hearings before the house Judiciary committee on the impeachment charges brought by him against Attorney - General Daugherty. Characterizing tne hear ings as "comic opera performances," ho declared he would be untrue to his responsibility as a member of the house if he assisted further in a "bare-faced attempt to whitewash Harry M. Daugherty." Immediately after he announced his withdrawal, the committee in open session and without leaving its place voted to go on w'th the hearing, to subpena Mr. Keller as a witness, put him under oath and question him as to the basis for his charges of high crimes and misde meanors against the attorney-general. Later he was summoned for mally by the house sergeant-at-arms to appear before the com mittee at 10:30 A. M. tomorrow. Committee In Uproar, This turn in the proceedings came with dramatic suddeness and was attended by a tumult and uproar seidom witnessed In a congressional committee room. After absenting himself much of the day, Mr. Kellet appeared with a typewritten state ment in his hand and announced he desired to read it to the committee. He was refused the opportunity, but later made public the statement which dealt in detail with his rea sons for refusing to go on and em bodied a demand that the committee favorably report his resolution to the house so that, he might present his evidence "to an unbiased com mittee in the proper way." Mr. Keller came into the commit tee room after a brief suspension of the hearing, requested by Jack son S. Ralston, counsel for Mr. Keller, so that he might confer with the Minnesota representative. When Mr. Keller asked to be heard, Paul Howland, counsel for Mr. Daugh erty, demanded that they proceed with the hearing in the regular order agreed upon unless Mr. Keller desired to give testimony, in which event he should be sworn. Sir. Keller Insistent. Announcing that he did npi have to be sworn, Mr. Keller said his statement had to do with the "con duct of this hearing" and he de manded the right to read it. Is it your object to lecture the committee?" inquired Representa tive Goodykoontz of West Virginia. (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) Pro-Christmas League Takes Up Cndgels in Defense of Myth , of Old Krriss Kringle. BY GEORGE SELDES. (Chicago Tribune Foreign -News Service. Copyright, 1922, by the Chicago Tribune.) MOSCOW, Dec. 14. After abolish, ing the myth of the stork some "time ago, communist leaders and teachers today began a systematic pro gramme to ruin the reputation of Santa Claus. Throughout ' Russia this Christmastide a'battle against all religious holiday making" has been begun, being sponsored by such men as M. Stananoff, a leading anti religion writer, and groups like the central committee of the -communications union and the league of com munist youths. The efforts to abolish Santa Claus will be followed by a campaign against the religious significance of Easter, Passover, Yom Kippur, in fact, all Christian, Jewish and infi del holidays alike. Besides hoping to give Santa Claus a death blow, the communications union platform calls for the aboli tion of angels from Christmas deco rations. "Angels are symbols used to en slave the child's mind," said the protocol, which asserts that holi days leave a psychologically bad im pression on children due to decora tions and legends of "decadent re ligions." To counteract this a pro gramme of music, theatricals and anti-religious speaking is suggested. "Instead of figures o religious plays it is suggested that political satires be shown the children." It is planned to take over the Moscow theaters on Christmas eve, when, in stead of Santa Claus and Christmas trees, the children will be Bhown satires on the Lausanne conference, the Kerensky regime and bourgeolse life abroad. The pro-Christmas league has ar ranged "counter religious move ments," with parades, carnivals, torchlight processions and anti-religious speaking. The league aims to institute a "rational or com munist Christmas." WOMAN WAYLAID IN DARK Attack With Revolver Has Marks of Mistaken Identity. An attempted holdup, or a case of mistaken identity? This is the question police at tempted to solve last night after Mrs. A. Culton, 627 East Twelfth street North, reported that an un masked man had halted her in Stan ton street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth . streets, about 6:30 o'clock, with tho cry: "I've got you now," at the same time shoving the muzzle of a rJokel-plated revolver against her side. Mrs. Culton screamed, she told police, and the man fled in such haste that he slipped and fell twice before he disappeared, going south in Twelfth street.. She described him as being about 30 years old, about 6 feet 8 inches tall and weigh ing about 150 pounds. He wore a gray cap and dark overcoat. FLIGHT SOUTH CONTINUES American Seaplane Now Nearing Brazilian Capital. ' MARANHAO, Brazil, Dec. 14. (By the Associated Press.) The seaplane 3ampaio Correia II ar rived here today from Braganca. This completes another leg of the flight from New York to Rio Janeiro being attempted by Lieutenant Wal ter Hinton and his companions. THIS IS GOING TO BE QUITE A Oregon Association Takes Action After Snappy Discussion hut Little Opposition. After a snappy discussion in which little opposition was voiced, the as sociation of county clerks of Oregon went on record yesterday as favor ing compulsory Jury duty for women, just as for men, or else abolition of the present law leaving the matter optional with the woman whose name is drawn. The resolution was rererred t0 the association's legis lative committee for further action. The -clerks proclaimed against the present election provisions which permit a voter to change registra tion on election day. This arrange ment, under which the voter has the privilege of switching from one party to another, "vitiates the primary," declared the resolution adopted. It recommends that the law be changed so there may be no change of party affiliation after the primary registration period ends, 30 days before the election date. Floyd D. Moore, clerk of Polk county, was elected president of the association for the ensuing year, succeeding Joseph W. Beveridge, Multnomah county clerk. C. K. Mc Cormick, clerk of Union county, was elected vice-president. R. M. Russell, of Lane, and J. W. Hunt, of Colum bia county, were re-elected secre tary and treasurer, respectively. The new president immediately appointed the legislative committee for 1923 as follows: R. S. Bryson, Lane county; U. G. Boyer, Marion county, and H. A. Kuratla, Washing ton county. The president and sec retary are ex-officio members of the committee. There was general approval among the members of the plan under which this year's convention was held. This provided for no formal addresses and other programme fea tures. The members merely as sembled and proceeded to discuss and dispose of business matters and proposals in which they were inter ested. In this way all business was disposed of in four-sessions, morn ing and afternoon, held Wednesday and yesterday. The association adopted numerous resolutions, some of which were re ferred to its legislative committee, while a few are to be referred to the state convention of district at torneys which convenes today In Eugene. One resolution referred to fie -committee favors abolition of the double election board system and return to the. old method under which counting of election ballots does not begin until 8 o'clock in the evening. Objections to the present arrangement were to the effect that leaks with reference to the way the election is going are noted. One resolution urged abolition of the present dog licensing law and provision merely that dogs be as sessed as any other chattel. Another expressed disapproval of the Tor rens system of recording real estate ownership and transfers. The plan of having registration books opened immediately after the primaries, in the month of July instead of Sep 'tember, won approval. The convention concluded at 5 o'clock yesterday. HELL'S HALF-ACRE FOUND Region Is Located Officially in State of Wyoming. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 14. Hell's half-acre was located today and located officially. It is in Wyoming and would be given to Natrona county for park purposes under a bill introduced by Representative Mondell, republican leader, who hails from that state. JOLT TO SOME OF THE BOYS. Prisoners With Bloody Heads Driven About. M03 MEMBERS IDENTIFIED Witnesses Recount Finding Bodies Tied Together. ONE IS HANGED TO TREE Throng of Armed Marchers Tor turing Workers Pictured at Trial of Five Men. MARION, 111., Dec. 14. (By The Associated Press.) The march of several hundred armed men, driving before them through the streets of Herrin six bloodstained prisoners and the later finding of 20 bodies was described to the jury by sev eral -witnesses today at the trial of five men in connection with the riot. . Before a tense audience which packed the somber, dimly-lighted courtroom to the doors and over flowed into the stairway leading to it and the corridors below, witnesses for thestate pointed out three of the defendants as men they had seen with weapons in their hands the morning of the tragedy. Six of the bodies, according to the testimony of J. Marshall Lentz, a Herrin real estate dealer, and L N. Lentz, his brother, who is a black smith and a member of the United Mine Workers of America, were bound together with a single rope about their necks. Fourteen other dead or injured victims were found just outside the Herrin city cem etery on the outskirts of the town, they testified. Ropes Tied About Neck. ' Marshal Lentz, the first of the two to take the standV testified to seeing a crowd of several hundred men passing before his house in Herrin early in the morning of June 22, the day of the killings. He said that the crowd was shouting and singing and looked like a mob and that "about six prisoners with bloody heads were being driven ahead." Later, he said, he had gone with his brother through the woods at the edge of the village. "What did you see in the woods?" he was asked. "Fourteen' men who had been shot down :and some armed men," and added that he had then gone toward the city cemetery. "What did you find there?" asked Delos Duty, state's attorney. "I found six men in the middle of the road tied together with ropes about their necks. Three of them were still breathing, I think." Body Hangs to Tree. "Did you see anything else of the wounded or dead men?" 'Yes; we drove down the road in an automobile and saw four more dead one of them was hanging - to a tree." Mr. Lentz said that he could not Identify any of those he had seen with guns except Herbert Walker, who is not one of the defendants (Concluded on Pajje 4, Column 3.) Victim Found in Mother's Home With Pistol and Book at Side; Howard Bain Held. SEASIDE, Or., Dec. 14. (Special.) Miss Verna Lytle, 16-year-old Sea side girl, despondent, due to an un fortunate love affair, committed suicide at her mother's home at 10 o'clock this morning. Howard Bain, 18-year-old railroad-yard helper, who had been keeping company with the girl, was arrested by Chief of Police McCauley as the boy was preparing to .leave this city and placed in jail. - While doing kitchen work the girl's grandmother heard a pistol shot. She hurried to the front room and found the girl lying on the floor with a bullet hole In the right tem ple. Beside her was a pistol, which her mother had hidden from her yes terday, and a book which she had been reading on the lounge. Coroner Hughes of Astoria was summoned. He pronounced death due to suicide. The girl's father committed sui cide 10 years ago. The mother, Mrs. Belle Lytle, is a teacher in the pub lic schools here. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at the Methodist church. BRITAIN MORE HOPEFUL Continued Improvement in Ex change heers People. LONDON, Dec. 14. (By the Asso ciated PreiiS.) The continued rise of sterling exchange yerterday was displayed prominently by this morn ing's newspapers, some of which en thusiastically anticipated a reduc tion of prices of food and cotton importations from America. This view the newspapers bolster by citing the opinion of Premier Bonar Law, as expressed in the house of commons last night, that unless some great disaster in for eign- affairs occurs Great Britain will soon enjoy better trade. HARVEY IS COMiNG HOME Anxious About Wife's Health, Ambassador Plans Vacation. LONDON, Dec. 14. (Ey the Asso ciated Press.) The American am bassador, Colonel George Harvey, is returning to the United States almost immediately for a short visit. The reason ascribed for his visit is his anxiety about his wife's health, which has been unsatisfac tory of late, and the ambassador desires to give her a much needed rest. CLERK INWPAN KILLED Sailor Stabs Englishman Fatally on Yokohama Street. TOKIO, Dec 14. (By the Associ ated Press.) William Pepper, an Englishman employed by the Cana dian Pacific Railway company in its trans-Pacific steamship service, was stabbed to death on the main street of Yokohama today by a Japanese whom he had discharged as a mem ber of a launch crew. The slayer surrendered to the police. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 23 degrees; minimum, j. degrees. TODAY'S Fair: continued cold; winds mostly easterly. i Foreign. Santa Claus doomed by soviet edict. Page 1. Bonar Law advocates all-round debt cancellation. Page 3. Heal war wounds is Harden's plea. Page 10. National. President said to be negotiating, with powers for warship limitation. Page 2. Representative Keller, accuser, bolts Daugnerty case. age i. New farm credit Bystem demanded. Page 2. Japan fulfilling treaty on arms. Page 3. Domestic Fleet of planes to join manhunt. Page 1. Mr. Olcott raps klan activities. Page 14. Herrin mine riot depicted to jury. Page L Pacific Northwest. Astoria cheered by Portland's pledge of neip. rage n. Court action against phone company or dered. Page 5. Seaside girl suicide; suitor arrested. Page 1. Pacific northwest foreign trade con ference urges aid for Astoria. Page 4. Trunk murderer freed after ten years. Page 1. Sports. Stanford coach pins faith on new star. Page 14. Politicians rule big league convention. Page 14. Commerce quintette may leave league. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. Grain prices reach new high mark for season. Page 24. Stock and bond markets firm. Page 25. Port of Portland dredges may help re build Astoria. Page 12. Surplus wool sold at sealed bid sale. Page 24. Heavy trading In government bonds at New York. Page 25. Boston wool market unusually dull. Page 24. $3,300,000 spent on electric works. Page 25. Portland and Vicinity. Blizzard dresses Portland in white. Page 1. State road map petitions are many, Page 13. Compulsory Jury . service for women urged by county ciema. fa.ge 1. Recalcitrant members of Housewives council flay Mrs. Othas. Page IS. Storm and Astoria fire delay 300.000 de velopment drive. Page 18. Highway commissioners to resign soon. Page 28. Helper of yokel is arrested. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 12. - Portland relief fund for Astoria reaches $32,089. Page 13. Judge Morrow in favor of pardoning trio. Page 5. County fudges and commissioners in dorse highway commission's work. Jesse Webb, Doomed to Die Once, Is Freed. 11-YEAR TERM IS SERVED Man's Reform Is Complete, Says Acting Governor. JOB ALREADY OFFERED Prisoner Leaves Penitentiary With $2000; Circumstances of Killing Recalled. SALEM, Or., Dec. 14. (Special.) Jesse Webb, who on the night of June 20, 1910, murdered "W. A. John son, a rancher, in a room in the New Grand Central hotel in Portland, to night walked through the gates of the Oregon state penitentiary a free man. In his pocket he carried "the cherished document which he had expected for years a pardon bear ing the signature of a sympathetic acting governor and the seal of the grea,t state of Oregon. In. presenting the pardon to Webb there was enacted one of the most impressive dramas ever staged in the local prison. Roy W. Ritner, acting governor. played the role of Santa Claus, while Webb was the other principal. The audience was composed of members of the state board of control, news papermen and penitentiary officials. Webb Called Into Office. Webb, who was busy in the print ing office when the acting governor reached the prison, was summoned into the office under the pretense that he was responsible for a dis crepancy resulting from the sale of tickets for the penitentiary min strels. "Can you explain how this dis crepancy occurred?" queried Acting Governor Ritner, as he peered squarely into the eyes of the pris oner. "No, sir, I cannot," Responded Webb in a low tone of voice. Then with the explanation that he intended to present the prisoner with a small gift, Acting Governor Ritner drew from his pocket a blank pardon. On the dotted line he affixed his signature, which meant so much to Webb. The acting gov ernor then' handed the pardon to Webb, who stood almost motionless as tears filled his eyes. Prisoner Loses Voice. Members of the parole board and prison officials clasped the hand of the prisoner, but he was not able to talk. For fully two minutes he' stood as a clay statue, apparently unaware that he was a fnee man after confinement behind the cold gray walls of the prison for more than 11 years. Then followed the realization of the strange ceremonial. His face brightened and with unfaltering step he moved a few feet forward and clasped the hand of Acting Governor Ritner. "I want to thank you with all my heart," said the recipient of the pardon, "and you may rest assured that you never will have any reason to regret your action." Job Is Offered Webb. Webb then shook the hands of the prison officials and newspaper men, after which he walked slowly from the room to his cell. Tomorrow, with more than I20O0 In his pockets, Webb will leave Salem for Seattle and later will go east, where he has received aa offer of a position. This money was- ac (Concluded on Page '5, Column 1.) SCENIC OREGON ROADS. Not one Oregonian in a thousand realizes the diver sity of scenery offered by his state to the motorist. He has journeyed through the gorge of the Columbia and along the Pacific highway, but he knows nothing of the attractions of the "American Alps" in the Wallowa coun try, the sparkling lakes, crammed to the brim with game trout, dotting the Cas cades, or the story of cosmic upheaval presented by Pic ture Gorge in the John Day canyon. And even though he has heard of some of these, he has but a faint idea of the roads which would take him there. For this man, and for the easterner who knows nothing of Oregon's scenic charm, a section of The Ore gonian New Year Edition will be devoted to entertaining articles, profusely illustrated, answering the questions, "Where? What? When? and How?" (Conoiuded on Page 15, column 4.) fugitives,