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TITE MORNING OTtEGOXlAX, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1922 T STATE COMPLETES t HEBRIH II CASE Defense to Begin Testimony 1 in Rebuttal Today. ALIBIS TO BE PRESENTED Efforts Also to Kc Made to Im peach Statements Already t Made on Stand. ' MARIOX, 111., Dec. 21. (By the Associated Press.) Aff.er eight days spent in the introduction of its evi dence, the prosecution rested today at the trial of five men charged with murder in connection with the slaying of 20 nonunion miners dur ing the Herrin riots' last June. The defense will open tomorrow. In the testimony of its last few witnesses the state completed its relation of the events from the time three mine guards were shot while driving in a truck from Carbondale to the Les ter mine on the morning of June 21, to the attack on the mine that after noon when three union miners were killed, the surrender-under a white flag the next morning of 4$ non union men in the pit, and the slay ing of 20 of the prisoners. All five defendants have been pointed out in court as having been seen with guns during the riots and several of them have been named as having shot down some of the victims. During the presentation of the state's case, four survivors of the tragedy have described on the stand the scene of horror which they said accompanied the killings. CroHK-Examinntion la Brief. The cross-examinations by the de fense have been brief and apparent ly designed to bear out its conten tion that the nonunion men in the mine and their employers had in cited the riots for the purpose of having state troops called out to protect the pits, that the guards in Pa mine were armed and that they !sregarded warnings that the oper ation of the mine would result in outbreaks. In their cross-examination, attorneys for the defense re peatedly referred to the nonunion workers in the mine and the guards as "scabs," "gunmen," "private de tectives" and "spies." A. W. Kerr, chief counsel for the defense, said he expected to prove that, the "guards or gunmen" were the aggressors in the riots and brought on any attack that was made upon them by their acts of provocation and challenge. He made special reference to the testimony of Donald M. Ewing, Chicago news paper man, and it is said that the defense will prove that the incident he related of the refusal to give water to two men shot at the Her rin cemetery never took place; that Bert Grace, a defendant, had no con nection with it, and that while Mr. Ewing testified that he reached the' cemetery at 10:30 o'clock, evidence would be Introduced to show that the bodies of the men had been re moved almost an hour crevious to that time. Testimony Under Fire. Mr. Kerr also stated that the testi mony of Dr. Shipman, who testified as an eyewitness of the death march from Herrin to the cemetery, would be impeached and evidence intro duced to show that Dr. Shipman was not there at alL He added that other witnesses would be introduced in an eltort to disprove testimony given by other of tho state's wit nesses. He further said that the defense would put on the stand hundreds of witnesses, farmers, la borers and others, who would testify that the defendants now on trial had no possible connection with the killings charged. The statement added that Mr. Kerr evidenced no bitterness because he said labor almost always expected it, but he took serious umbrage at the attitude of the press generally and particularly in the headline fea turing of the stories, while the case of "the prosecution was being put In." PEGGY BELIEVES THERE IS SAFETY IN DISTANCE. TREES TO BE PLANTED Noted Persons Will Add Beauty to University of Hawaii. HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 12. Special.) Hawaii has many tradi tions, but a new one was established here yesterday when Dr. David Starr Jordan, president emeritus of Stan ford university, planted a tree in the University of Hawaii grounds. Every celebrated visitor to Hawaii In the future will be asked to plant a tree at the university campus. A board giving the name of the tree, the planter and the' date of planting will be set up near the spot as each tree is, planted. Hawaii Democrats Celebrate. HONOLULU, T. H., Deo. 21. Four teen thousand pounds of meat, be sides poi, raw fish, and other foods were eaten by about 10,000 persons who took in the "luau" given by the democratic committee of Hawaii, on pier 10, to commemorate the vic tory of W. K. Jarrett, first democrat to be elected delegate to congress from Hawaii. Mr. Jarrett was the chief speaker of the day. XT . ft -1 m 1 vrsf f '$, -N - - & : - BODIES OF AVIATOR S E Cowboy Said to Have Seen Wrecked Plane. DETAILS ARE LACKING . , Pacific-Atlantic Photo. PEGGY CAFFEE. Peggy Caffee, star witness for the prosecution In the famous "h'ammer murder" case of Clara Phillips, has decided, according to her friends, that a change of scenery is good for th-e health particularly if Clara Phillips is believed to be nearby and is desirous of well retaliating. In other words, Peggy has departed from Los Angeles and will hibernate in an eastern city Philadelphia. according to report Bill Traeger, Los Angeles county sheriff, has requested, the Philadelphia authorities to be on the .lookout for Mrs. Phillips. FLIGHT COUHSE IS LAID BRITISH AVIATOR TO CROSS AMERICAN CONTINENT. Sir Keith Smith to Make Start ' From London in April jn ". . Globe Circling Trip. WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 21. Sir Heith Smith, British aviator, virtually completed plans here to day for crossing the western hemi sphere on his 23,000 mile airplane flight around the world, which he announced he would start in London next April. After a conference with govern ment officials ' on weather and aerial conditions in North America, Sir Keith said he would cross the Pacific from Siberia to Alaska and follow the Canadian Pacific rail road across Canada, darting into the United States from Toronto to New York, and then returning to Halifax. He expects to reach this continent in his world flight about next June and complete, his trip in London in July. Sir Keith has under construction a special Vikers Viking amphibian land and water plane to make the flight. He will be accompanied by a pilot and 'mechanician. Food supplies sufficient for a fortnight will be carried. ,. The course as now planned will be from London to Lyons, France, to Rome, Athens, Cairo, Egypt; across Suez and the Persian gulf to India; thence to China and over seas to Tokio, the Kuril, islands to Siberia, the Aleutian islands and Alaska. The course will then be down the Pacific coast to Van couver and across Canada to To ronto. From Halifax, where : Sir Keith plana to go after leaving New Tork, he will proceed to St. Johns, ISewfoundland. His trans Atlantic flight is still in -doubt. . PRUNE CROP TOPS MARK Clark County Products Amount to Between 9 and 10 Million. VANpoUVER, Wash., Dec. 21. (Special.) Practically all of the 1922 prune crop has been delivered to the packers here, and a cheek shows the crop to be the largest ever produced in Clarke county. Be tween 9,000,000 and 10,000,000 pounds of dried fruit were grpwn by the Clarke ranchers, a record never be fore achieved. In some sections of the county the crop was practically ruined by the dry weather, but the short sections were counterbalanced by others where many acres of new prune trees have just come into bearing. The Washington Growers' Pack ing corporation has received 6,900. 000 pounds at its packing plant here. WOMAN GETS 5 YEARS Nan Johnson Paroled After Plea of Guilty of Manslaughter. Nan Johnson, indicted and once tried on a charge of Involuntary manslaughter for fatally running down Donald Foster, 8, entered a plea of guilty yesterday before Pre siding Judge Stapleton and was. pa roled after being sentenced to "five years' imprisonment. Miss Johnson was tried for the killing of the lad last January and the jury disagreed. Parents of the boy came into court with the de fendant yesterday and consented to the parole agreement, Judge Staple ton said. The woman was, paroled to Dan Powers, her attorney. Miss Johnson,, driving a powerful car, attempted to cross in front of a moving street car at the Intersec tion of Mississippi avenue and Sha ver street. She drove over the fender of the car and then crashed over the curb and Into the front of a store. It was after her car left the pavement that It struck young Fos ter and crushed him to death. Witnesses at the trial testified that she was driving at an excessive rate of speed. The date of the fa tality was October 17, 1921. RUSSIA SHORT OF WHEAT People Will Need Million Tons or Cereals, Says Nansen. GENEVA, Dec. 21 Russia will have a shortage of at least 1,000,000 tons of cereals this winter, accord ing to' the international committee of Russian relief, headed by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. Reports to the committee . from Russian sources declare that, as a result of thia shortage, food .relief will be re quired for 8,000,000 people, while the Soviets themselves cannot sup port more than 2,250,000. The importation into Russia of at least 1,00.0,000 head of livestock, especially horses, which have de creased CO per cent, is considered necessary to reconstitute the eco nomic situation. S. & .H. rrssn stamps for cash. Holmar. Fuel Co., coal and wood. Broadway 6353. 560-21 Adv 20 Per Cent Off on Andirons Coal and Wood Grates M.J. Walsh Electric Co. 106 FOURTH ST, Bet. Washington and Stark Established 27 years. rfiijNTiiriTiTijiiitHiliiiMlflffiimiiiiiiiffitiiiiitfiitiiljfiiiluitiiiiiiiifiiijiiifiiililinillllllllllillM C AT-N -FIDDLE We were pleased to have so many friends visit our new Restaurant and Confectionery store yesterday. The admiration of Portland's well-appointed Res taurant and Confectionery store as expressed by the many visitors confirms our judgment that the best is none too good this thought shall always prevail in the service we render the public. Coffee Room Opens 7 A. JM. Eat your breakast here. Luncheon -will please you. We are just a little proud of the dinner served in the evening. Trianon Chocolates and a full line of , Christmas Candies for. your selection.. " CA T'N-FIDDLE Park at Alder Street : ' h (Two entrances) ' , "A good place to meet your friends" Whether Two Fliers Were Killed In Fall or Burned to Death . Is Hot Known. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21. The charred bodies of the missing avi ators, Colonel Francis C. Marshall and ' Lieutenant Charles Webber, have been four.d on the Papago In dian reservation about 75 miles northwest . of Tucson, Ariz., the Southern Pacific railroad officers here were advised this afternoon in dispatches from Tucson. Major George H. Brett, chief of the 9th corps army area air service, had just returned to the Presidio here from Rockwell field, San Diego, Cal., today when he received infor mation concerning the reported fate of the two officers. Accompanying Major Brett were five machines of a fleet of airplanes which, under his direction, have been searching for the missing fliers. Bodies Found by Cowboy. A cowboy, the advices stated, came upon thte bodies near what is known as Indian oasis. The bodies lay In the wreckage of the fliers" airplane. It was not known whether Cdlonel Marshall and Lieutenant Webber were killed when they crashed to earth or burned to death afterward. The message to the Southern Pa cifio said: . "Some cowboy found those two aviators near Indian oasis. Both apparently were burned to death. About 75 miles south of Tucson, on Papalo reservation. No railroad there. It is on a wagon track. Suppose airplane fell to ground and aviators burned to death." Colonel Francis C. Marshall, at tached to the staff of the chief of cavalry at Washington and a brigadier-general, who served with dis tinction in the woria war, and Lieu tenant Charles L. Webber of the air service left San Diego at 9:15 o'clock Thursday, December 7, for a flight to Fort Huachuca, near Tucson, Ariz. Colonel on Inspection Tour. Colonel Marshall had been on an Inspection tour of the cavalry camps throughout the country and had used airplanes extensively on this mission. He commanded a brigade of the first and second divisions in France from 1917 to 1919 and re ceived the croix de guerre with palm for distinguished service. Lieutenant Webber was an expe rienced cross-country pilot and was instructed to report by wire on his arrival at Fort Huachuca. Webber was 27 years old and a native of Denver, Colo., where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Webber, now reside. Webber entered the aviation school at Berkeley, Cal., in 1917, and was commissioned at Mount demons, Mich., in 1918. He served two years in the Philippines. Saturday morning five airplanes of the twelfth observation squadron located at Fort Bliss. El Paso, Tex., FOR THE LATE SHOPPER Give him a box of . A. Rich's Good , j j, ALL THE POPULAR BRANDS PIPES AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES AGENTS PARK & TILFORD'S CANDIES NEW YORK PARIS CIGAR STORES Sixth and Wash. Fourth and Morrison 143 Broadway Subscriptions taken for any mag azine published in the world. started an Intensive search tor the missing airmen. Thes,e planes were in charge of Major L. G. Heffernan. They were joined later by 15 mre airplanes. REPORTS JVOT CONFIRMED Colonel Heading Search Declares Stories Are Conflicting. NOG ALES, Ariz., Dec. 21. Colonel A. J. McNab, in command of opera tions in the Nogales sector in the search for Colonel Francis C. Mar shall and Lieutenant C. L. Webber, missing army aviators, said tonight that he had been unable to obtain any definite Information concerning the reported discovery of the avia tors' bodies on the Papago In dian reservation, 75 miles west . 6f Tucson. Two reports today fixed the place where the bodies were found in two different sections of the reserva tionone at Indian pasis, southwest of. Tucson; the other at Covered Wells, on the road to Ajo, almost due west from Tucson and north of Indian oasis.' According to both re ports the charred bodies were found in the wreckage of a burned airplane. Defeated Candidate Gets Job. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Dec. 21 Stephen B. Davis, w-ho was nomi nated yesterday for solicitor in the department of commerce at Wash ington,' was republican candidate for United States senator in the fall election. He was defeated by Sen ator Jones. Mr. Davis had resigned from the state supreme court to become a candidate for senator. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative BROMO CJUININB tab lela The box bears the signature of E. W. Grove. (Be sure you get BROMO.) 30c Adv. T LAPP ArTIUOy HJ lp Xv BANK j& I . DEPARTMENTS SAVINGS CHECKING EXCHANGE BOND SAFE I DEPOSIT I Transfers! Just as the streetcar conductor gives . you a transfer to enable you to con tinue to your destination, so this bank offers a "transfer" to assist you in. reaching your destination in life. The transfer we offer is a savings account passbook. Opening, a savings account means " transferring " to the " car " bound for financial security. A savings account is the easiest and surest way to put yourself on a sound financial standing. Open your savings account today in this strong bank. Oldest in the Northwest WASHINGTON AT THIRD 16 1MH STILTON 5 BANK , I - - i ' i . . . 6 Portland's Only Real TOYLAND ! Visitors to Toyland to day will see a sight to sur prise them great heaps of new toys just received from Europe piles and piles of the most amusing mechanic al toys, dolls, steam trains, aluminum kitchen sets, tea sets, doll carts, games, real automobiles everything little hearts could possibly wish for. The greatest stocks of imporltd and domestic toys in the northwest are in Toyland at Lipman, "Wolfe's and here the lowest prices in Portland. Today begins the final two-day selling of these toys. Bring the children come today. Toyland Is In the Basement The Candy ThatMade Portland Famous "Rue de la Paix" Chocolates Made in Lipman, Wolfe's Own Candy Kitchen No finer candy in America than the famous "Rue de la Paix" chocolates, made right here in our own kitchens orders from all over the world keep our candymakers working at top speed to supply the demand. It's the real Christmas spirit that's expressed in a gift of "Rue de la Paix" chocolates and no gift is given warmer welcome. "Rue de la Paix" chocolates can be purchased in beautiful silk boxes, attractive baskets, hand-decorated tins and other novel containers. Other gift candies on sale are Aunt Sallie's Bitter Sweets Necia Chocolates Dipped Fruits and Nuts Glace Fruits On the Flrnt Floor Lipman, Wolfe & to. "The Floor of 10,000 Gifts" Unusual Gift-Things That All Can Enjoy Truly a wqnderland is the Sixth Floor there can be found almost everything one can imagine artwares, practical gifts, home gifts wide selection and moderate pricing. Chinaware Dinner sets in Haviland & Co., Edwin M. Knowles, Syracuse, Meakin's, John son Bros, chinaware at ' moderate prices. Rookwaod Hundreds of new pieces in this most beautiful of pot tery bowls, vases, book ends, etc., priced at $ 1 .50 and up. Choice gifts. 23-piece "Awaji" Tea Sets for $11.35 Glass Salad Plates $10 to $18 a Dozen "Weller" Jardinieres Smoking Stands Candy Jars Lamps Book Ends Flower Baskets Candlesticks Salad Sets Table Glassware "Libbey" Cut Class Chocolate Sets Fruit Compotes Door Stops "Pyrex" Glassware Carving Sets. Rogers Bros. 1847 Community Silverplate Electrical Appliances of All Kindi On the Sixth Floor Liliman, AVolfe & Co. i. Holiday Sale of Women's Gift Slippers at $ 1 .35 Heavy felt slippers for women each with thick padded sole. Trimmed with ribbon and pompons. Especially attractive and practical gifts for women. Sizes 3 to 7 J2 included. Special at $1.35. Women's quilted satin slippers with padded soles are special at $1.95. All wanted colors and trimmings. Footwear Section On the Second Floor Gifts for the Home New Davenport Tables $22.50 Mahogany-Finished Tables Now $16.88 $27.50 Mahogany-Finished Tables Now $20.63 $28.75 Mahogany-Finished Tables Now $21.56 Solid Mahogany Chairs $19.95 Substantial chairs with cane seat and back. Wonderful gifts. , Card Tables Special $2.39 Mahogany-finished card tables with leatherette tcps. - Height 2 7 inches ; top 30x30 inches. Serviceable table extra specially priced. On the Fifth Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. t"MercKandis of cJ Merit Only" -JiniiiiniwiiimiiiniiminuiiilitmiHjmnNmHin