The Sunday Oregonian., August 20, 1916, Section One, Page 12, Image 12

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, 4TJGUST 20, 1916.
G. W. EMBODY FILES
CROSS COMPLAINT
WIFE OF WEALTHY PORTLAND TIMBERMAN AND MAN NAMED IN
HIS ANSWER TO HER SUIT FOR DIVORCE FROM PHOTOGRAPH
ENTERED AS EXHIBIT IN CASE.
CITY'S EMPLOYES
FACING LEAN DAYS
Delayed Shipment
Sale of Summer
An Opportunity
for Men, Women
Man Who Figures in Matrimo
nial Tangle Described Very
Differently by Couple.
August Pay May Not Be Forth
coming Until October as
Cash Is Scarce.
DR. F. LENGFELD SUBJECT
FUND DOWN TO $66,000
1
SHOES
fee -'-tW'P-'! s .if'k
v w if I J
Husband Asks Tliat lie Be Granted
Divorce, as He Declares His Wife
Is Smooth, Designing and Ac
complished Adventuress.
In the divorce complaint of Mrs. Lil
lian Embody, filed three weeks ago !
against Charles W. Embody, wealthy
timberman, she charged, among numer
ous other thing's, that her husband was
wrongfully, ijealous of a man named
Lengf eld, a friend of her family, old,
blind: and infirm.
Mr. Embody, in his answer and cross
complaint filed yesterday, declares that
that man is Er. Felix Lengfeld, of San
Francisco, "one of the foremost chem
ists on the Pacific Coast, reputed to
be worth $250,000," that he is able,
hearty, active, healthy and energetic,
and not decrepit or blind. Further, he
asserts that Dr. Lengfeld is '52 years
old. three years younger than himself.
Dr. Lengfeld, Mr. Embody asserts,
had been unusually attentive to Mrs.
Embody, both before and since mar
riage, such attentions causing an es
trangement in 1915. Mrs. Embody
maintained that the separation in Sep
tember, 1915. was because Mr. Embody
had fallen in love with Helen Clark, her
niece, and desired a divorce that he
might marry the girl. Sweeping denial
Is made of these charges by Mr. Em
body. Arbitration. Offer Rejected.
Mr. Embody asserts that .the final
break came when he asked his wife to
stem the flood of presents and letters
she had been receiving from Dr. Leng
feld. She refused, and he offered to
leave the question of whether or not
his request was a reasonable one to
Mrs. Embody's three sisters': . She
flushed, he asserts, and replied:
"I don't care what my sisters say or
you say, I will not breahrmy friendship
off with Dr. Lengfeld for anyone; he
has been too good a friend to me In
all times of need."
To which Mr. Embody asserts he re
plied: "All right, my lady, if that is the way
you feel, Just go ahead and seo where
you get off."
Marriage relations were broken off
finally, ho asserts, following that in
cident, and the discovery, last Decem
ber, of his wife's life before marriage.
His discovery was such, be maintains,
as to causa him to believe he was
duped and imposed! upon.
Mr. Embody declares In his cross
complaint, filed by Attorney John C.
fihlllock. that his wife, before meeting
him, had become acquainted with Dr.
Felix Lengfeld in Chicago, where he
was then a druggist. She followed Dr.
Lengfeld to San Francisco, asserts Mr.
Embody, and lived at expensive, hotels
there at the chemist's expense.
Acquaintance Made In 1009.
Mr. Embody met his present wife in
November, 1909, on a train between
Chicago and Portland, persuaded' her
to stop over in Portland several days,
and promised to visit her in San Fran
cisco. He carried out his promise, and
in January, 1910, paid the visit, spend
ing a great deal of time with her in
Kan Francisco. It was then he met Dr.
Lengfeld, being told he was a, friend
of a niece and not of the present Mrs.
Embody.
Both exchanged confidences, Mr. Em
body learning that the young woman
had been twice married and had a hus
band from whom she was separated but
not divorced. At the same time she
learned that Mr. Embody was experien
cing domestic difficulties and was con
templating divorce. The woman pro
posed that both get their separations
and then marry, declares Mr. Embody.
In September, 1910, she came to Port
land. On June 19, 1911, the wedding
took place at Everett, Wash. Shortly
after the marriage. Dr. Lengfeld came
to Portland as a visitor of the Em
bod ys. That began tho trouble, Mr.
Embody asserts in his cross-complaint.
Friends' Twitting Humiliates.
Just before Dr. Lengfeld arrived, Mr.
Embody left on a fishing trip. During
his absence he learned that his wife
and Dr. Lengfeld made overnight Jour
neys to Seaside and The Dalles, he
maintains. His wife convinced him
there was nothing wrong in the trips,
but he was humiliated; he says, by the
twitting of friends. '
Mr. Embody asserts he surprised them
in affectionate postures, and Mrs. Em
body's solicitude for Dr. Lengfeld's
comfort was too marked.
In summing up, Mr. Embody declares
his wife to be "a smooth, designing,
practiced, scheming and accomplished
adventuress."
Mrs. Embody has asked $750. a month
alimony, $3000 for attorney's fees and a
one-third interest in timber holdings
valued at $125,000. Mr. Embody as
serts that his total holdings are not of
greater value than $82,800, incumbered
to the extent of $65000. and that his
net worth is not more than $17,600.
LOCAL BOY NAVAL CADET
W. G. Ingram Will Leave Portland
September 1 for Annapolis.
William G. Ingram, son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Ingram, of 1028 East Wash
ington street, has been notified that he
had passed the examinations and re
ceived appointment to the Naval Acad
emy at Annapolis. Mr. Ingram was
the third alternate, the principal and
the other alternates failing in the ex
amination. He will leave September 1.
He was born at Pendleton. The first
year of his high school work was at
Gresham and the last three years at
Lincoln High School, where he was
graduated in June, 1916.
Telegrams from Senator Chamber
lain and from the academy announcing
his appointment were received simulta
neously, i
ROSSIS MAY RE-MARRY
MOTHER. NOW INCLINED TO CLEAR
NAME OF INFANT DAUGHTER.
Alleged Fear of ex-Husband, From
Whom Divorce Was Secretly Fro
enred, Said to Have Lessened.
Twenty-months-old Mar-Jorie Rossi
may yet have a legal right to her
name by the remarriage of Camillo and
Anna Rossi.
Another marriage will be preferable
to the machinations of court machinery
necessary to set aside the divorce de
cree secured by Mrs. Rossi three years
ago without the knowledge of her hus
band, Mrs. Rossi is now said to be
lieve, and her consent to the ceremony
is not unlikely.
Though Mrs. Rossi refused to marry
Rossi afrain, with a show of finality,
at the time her domestic relations were
aired in the District Court, she has
since experienced a change of view
point, and for the sake of her baby
girl may withdraw her refusal. That
Mrs. Rossi Is very fond of the young
ster has not been denied, but her re
fusal to give the girl a name was
prompted, she said, by fear of her for
mer husband, with whom she continued
to live for three years after the divorce.
That fear is not so strong now. The
TROOP AUXILIARY CALLED
Provision for Further Gifts to Boys
on Border Will Be Made.
All friends and relatives of the mem
hers of Troop A. Oregon Cavalry, now
at the Mexican border, are invited to
the meeting of the troop auxiliary in
the Portland Press Club rooms in the
Elks building Tuesday at 3 o'clock.
The auxiliary is little more than a
wbpU nld. but has been unusually ac
tive in providing little delicacies thaf
the ordinary mess taDie does not ai-
forii for the "boys at the front." A
quantity of laundry bags, one of the
thinge most needed, according to the
president of the auxiliary, Barnett H.
Goldstein, seven boxes of apples, and
a number of cakes were among the
things sent the members of the troop
Jast week.
jWk f lip
father is very anxious that he be, in
law. the father of the girl, and has
promised to be good to his wife, if only
he may have the companionship of the
baby. Mrs. Rossi has listened to his
pleadings and has told District Judge
Jones that she may remarry. If. then,
Rossi -fails to keep his promises, a
divorce would be an easy matter, but
the child's name would be cleared.
"I believe it can be arranged to have
Rossi examined without cost," said
Judge Jones 'yesterday, referring to the
"eugenic" examination required of men
contemplating matrimony, "and I will
marry the couple without any charge".
The onlc expense of the remarriage,
then, would be the $3 for the license.
The cost is a serious problem with
them, jor Rossi has not much money."
Cove Loses Pioneer Merchant.
COVE. Or., Aug. 19. (Special.) Da
vid H. Layne, the earliest pioneer mer
chant of Cove, now living, moved with
his family, today to Halfway, Baker
County, to ' engage in merchandizing
business. His son, Vernon Layne, grad
uate of the Cove High School, class of
1915, and whose teacher's examination
paper from Salem last month ranked
with the highest in general average,
was elected principal of Halfway pub
lic school for the 1916-17 term.
Fire Damages Vacant Store.
Fire, which the police believe of in
cendiary origin, broke out in a vacant
store building at Union avenue and
Ainsworth street last night. The dam
age was small.
Shortage Caused by Low Tax Two
Years Ago Still Hampers Offi
cials and Way Out of Pres
ent Difficulty Unsolved.
The city is financially embarrassed.
City Commissioner Bigelow, of the De
partment of Finance,, awakened to this
fact yesterday, when a report for which
he had asked was submitted by the
Auditing Department showing that
there is only $66,000 in the general
fund, with about $190,000 in obligations
outstanding.
One result will be that city employes
will not be paid for August on Sep
tember 1 and possibly not until Octo
ber 1. The payroll of $150,000 will have
to wait until sufficient money is paid
into the city's funds from the Tax
Collecting Department to meet the war
rants. When this will be depends upon
when the taxpayers pay the second half
of tneir taxes, which become delin
quent October 5.
Commissioner Bigelow was under the
Impression that the general fund bal
ance was about $150,000 and that this
would allow for the August payroll,
provided some of the July bills were
held off. These aggregate about $40,000.
For more than a year now the city
has been short financially, owing to
the fact that the Council two years ago
in an apparent endeavor to keep the
annual tax levy from going; beyond all
bounds cut the levy too low. By the
utmost squeezing the money was made
to stretch over the period between the
end of last year and the taxpaylng
time this year.
The shortage was then shoved along.
As soon as the second half of the taxes
comes in there will be money enough to
last until the end of the year, when
there will be trouble again.
City employes are much disturbed
over the prospects of no pay for Au
gust until the latter part of September.
Many say they have obligations which
have to be met. Laborers will be par
ticularly hard hit.
There is a chance that the Council
will agree to annul the ordinance now
prohibiting any city employe from mak
ing an assignment of salary. If this
is done, it is said there may be some
way of the employes getting their pay.
even though the city will be unable
under the law to issue any pay war
rants or other evidence of expenditure
as long as the money to meet the war
rants is not in the fund.
July bills for the city have not been
paid as yet and probably will not be.
It is expected they will be held over
until next month along with Uie payroll-
Commissioner Bigelow has not
decided definitely on this yet.
- High School of Five at Stake.
HALSEY, Or., Aug. 19. (Special.)
Peoria, on the Wlllamete River about
seven miles northwest of Halsey, is
discussing the advisability of a high
school In that school district. It is said
there have never been more than five
students in the high school classes and
some favor abolishing the department.
SEATTLE ARRANGING FOR EXHIBIT
, OF NORTHWEST'S LAND PRODUCTS
Large Assembly Hall and Street Will Be Used to Put On Big Show in Which Portland and Oregon Have Been
Invited to Participate Prizes of Considerable Value Are Offered.
t VIEW OF ARENA FOR SEATTLE LAND SHOW, IN WHICH OREGON HAS BEEN INVITED TO PAR- t
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SKETCH OF FIFTH ATEMB COVERED WITH CANVAS TO HOUSE EXHIBIT. j
SEATTLE. Wash., Aug. 19. (Spe
cial.) As a result of the successful
land shows in Portland in 1914
and 1915, following similar exhibitions
in Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis,
Seattle will stage its first exposition
of the soil for 11 days, from October
4 to 14.
The exhibits will be placed -in the
Arena, the city's largest assembly hall,
and Fifth avenue for a block will be
covered with canvas to make room for
machinery exhibits. More than 70.000
square feet will thus be provided for
the show.
Oregon has been invited to partici
pate, and Portland and Oregon day
will be one of the features of the pro
gramme. Idaho is to have an exhibit,
and Montana has already taken space.
British Columbia will make a display
of soil products and the Alaska exhibit,
now being assembled under the direc
tion of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce in co-operation with the secreta
ries of all commercial bodies in Alaska,
will present the best display of Alas
ka's horticultural and agricultural
products since the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Exposition of 1909.
Railroads Will Lend Hand.
Since Portland will not repeat the
annual Manufatcurers and Land Prod
ucts Show this year, Oregon has been
offered space at Seattle for a display
of fruits, grains, grasses and vegeta
bles. The railroads will also have an
important part In the exposition and
the exhibits of. apples will cover close
to 3000 square feet. --
More than $4000 will be distributed in
prizes. The best county .or community!
display from the Northwest will receive
$400 and an exposition banner an first
prize. Second and third prizes of $200
and $100 will also be awarded. This
contest is open to any commercial club.
Grange, farmers' association, county or
community organization. Land compa
nies, corporations or thevrailroads will
not compete for this prize. King Coun
ty, in which Seattle -.is located, will
make some excellent displays in the
contest, but will not enter in competi
tion for the prizes. The scoring will
be based on 1000 points, as follows:
Number of varieties of products, 300;
quality of products, 400; attractive ar
rangement. 300.
In this big contest products displayed
must be grown In 1916 with the excep
tion of corn, clover Beed - and wild
grasses, w-hich may be from the 1915
crop. 1
' Corn Prlxea Offered.
Another feature at the land show
will be the division set aside for ex
hibits of corn. The Seattle National
Bank lias offered a grand sweepstakes
prize for the best ten ears of. Dent or
Flint Corn. The best single ears of the
same variety will - also come la for
Men's assorted Oxfords, black, tan
and patent leather val- nn
ues to $4.00, this sale, I "u
per pair A
Men's Oxfords
450 pairs Men's Tan and m r
Black Oxfords, $4.50 yD
values, per pair
Scout Shoes
Men's and boys' Scout Shoes of
heavy elk skin, regular e 4"V Mr
S3-0f values, this Rale M m'tO
per pair
One lot of boys' Scout
Shoes, values to $2.50
this sale
sale, S:
I'M
Mary Janes
Mary Janes, in patent, dull leathers
and white, and patent with white
soles, regular $3.00 val- m r
ues, this sale, per pair
at only $1.95 and -L
Sport Oxfords, with rubber or ivory
soles and heels, tan and white with
tan trimmings. Regular m qc
$3.50 and $4.00 values, I J
this sale
White buck button
Boots, regular $4.00
values
$1 .95
Freight embargo and slow de
liveries brought delayed ship
ments of merchandise that must
be moved quickly to provide
room for early Fall stocks.
Thousands of storekeepers in
all lines have sustained heavy
losses resulting from the freight
embargo.
This is clear evidence of our
loss ana your earn, witn a1
chance to buy clean, fresh,
standard quality Shoes and Ox
fords for men and women at
prices that establish a new rec
ord in this big organization.
Big assortments, choice sizes
and popular styles in PLAIN
and COLONIAL PUMPS.
CROSS STRAPS and BOW EF
FECTS, OXFORDS WITH
LEATHER AND RUBBER
SOLES, CANVAS OXFORDS
and PUMPS, KID BOUDOIR
SLIPPERS in colors. A range
of dull, patent, Russian calf,
black kid and a variety of fancy
combinations with high and low
heels in hand turns and Good
year welts.
The sale s ta r t s tomorrow
morning and it's a sale that
will linger long in your memory.
Up to $5 Values at
50c, 95c, $1.45
$1.95 and $2.45
WOMEN'S
OXFORDS
Women's assorted Oxfords, not
all sizes, tans, blacks, patents
and suedes, values up to $4.00,
this sale
50c
Women's kid and velvet Gypsy
Button and Lace, val- m n r
ues to $3.50, this sale I
at only
Cloth top, short vamp, button or
lace, patent vamps, checked
cloth top, very showy, also
black. Regular $4 m n C
values?, this sale. Der I ''
pair, only.
Ladies' white canvas Pumps, two
strap and plain, values up f nn
to $2.50, this sale at only, I utJ
the pair JL
CanvasSportPumps
White canvas Sport Pumps, with rub
ber or leather soles. Regu- .
lar $2.50 values, this sale
for only A
White canvas button Boots, just the
thing for outings. Regu- gf fast
lar $2.50 values, this sale, -f
per pair at J
Gray and white canvas lace Boot, with
black trimmings, value
$4.00, this sale, the pair
at
Kewpie Pumps in two-tone
ivory and gray, values up
to $4.00, this sale, per pair
only
Women's black satin
Pumps, $3.00 values, this
sale
effects.
$ld5
$1 .45
JL
Sale Starts Monday at 9 A. M. j
iSckmnleOlioG
I 129 4ih St.bei.ljWashington& Alder
Store
PASTOR'S SON IS SHOT
lAD AT PLAY IS ACCIDENTALLY
HIT BY STRAY BILLET.
special awards. Prizes are offered also
for the best 100 ears of any variety.
After the conclusion of the exposition
the corn exhibits, will be forwarded to
St. Paul for the second corn show in
December, which is to-be staged by the
First National bank of that city.
The premium list has also provided a
special cash prize of 1160 as first and
$75 as second prize for the best indi
vidual farm exhibit. Pears, peaches,
apricots, plums, evaporated fruits,
prunes, sjrapes, nuts, onions and pota
toes also come in for special awards.
Southwestern "Washington will be well
represented In the exposition and ar
rangements have been made for some
fine displays of prunes and potatoes
with other " products from Clarke
County.
Ferullo's band, now playing an en
gagement in Portland, has been en
gaged for the 11 days of the exposition,
and other attractions will be provided
to give daily features while the show
is in progress. The dairy interests of
Seattle have taken October 7 as their
special day.
Five i department heads from the
Washington State Agricultural College
at Pullman will be in daily attendance
at the exposition. Professor C. I.
enway officiating with the rig service.
Lewis, head of the horticultural de
partment of the Oregon Agricultural
College, will act as one of the Judges
for Seattle's first Jand show,
Screama of James Mount. 11, Frighten
Away Tvro Men Iodnlglna; In Tar
get Practice In Woods.
"While playing in the brush with two
other boys near East Forty-second and
Mason streets yesterday at 1 o'clock,
11-year-old James Mount, son of Rev.
Harry N. Mount, pastor of Vernon
Presbyterian Onurch. received a gun
shot wound in the right knee. The
man who fired tne shot is unknown.
The boy left his home at 1025 East
Nineteenth street .North for a lark In
the woods. With him were Carl Miller
and Harold Cobb, neighbor boys of the
same age. Their view of the road was
hidden by brush when an auto drew
up and stopped. They heard the voices
of two men, then the firing of a small
callbered rifle.
A bullet sped through the brush
and struck Harry Mount in the right
knee. Just below the cap. imbedding It
self in the bone. He screamed, and the
boys heard the auto start down the
road, presumably when its occupants
were alarmed by the result of the fir
ing. None of the boys caught a glimpse
of the men.
Supported by his friends, the In
jured boy walked to a nearby resi
dence, and rr. L. C. McCabe, of 801
Alberta street, was summoned. Dr.
McCabe took them hqme in his auto
mobile. City Detectives Hellyer and Tacka
berry investigated. They found a tin
can placed as a target upon a stump
by the roadside.
Rev. Mr. Mount is absent on a visit
to the East. His son is being cared
for by Dr. McCabe at the Mount residence.
street. She gave her name as Mrs. F.
Pollard, but withholds all other Infor
mation. Telling Tojo that she wished to ad
Just her clothing, she entered a rear
room of the store. Tojo became sus
picious and followed. He says he sur
prised her in the act of ririlng a
bureau drawer that contained $3u0 in
fold and currency. She eluded his
grasp and ran from the store, he also
said, coins falling from her hands as
she fled. Tojo and others in the vicin
ity chased her for a block before she
was captured.
She answers to the description of
the eldest of the pair, say the police,
but was unaccompanied yesterday.
On her person was found a card
taken from the store of S. M. Baker, "22
Washington street, where a similar
trick was worked several days ago.
Close questioning by Detectives Snow
and Coleman met with an obstinate re
fusal to answer. She declined to tell
where she lived and denied the thefts.
She is charged with larceny.
The word 'Rd" occurs 4,527 times In
Holy Scriptures, IO.'.isj times In tiio OM
Testament and times In the New
Testament.
MRS. F. POLLARD IS CAUGHT
Suspect Surprised by Alleged Vic
- tint and Held by Police.
One of the two women who have
been reported as victimizing small
merchants in various parts of the city
was apprehended yesterday while
working, it is said, the same ruse at
the store of T. Tojo, 49i Washington
The Baby food
That's
Always Safe
There's sickness for your
baby in old milk there's
trouble for you in sour milk.
Summer complaint comes
nearly always from rawcow's
milk and summer com
plaint carries off more ba
bies than any other cause.
There are only two ways
to keep your baby safe and
well this summer. One is to nurse him yourself. Your
milk can't sour or spoil or carry germs. The second way
is to give him
Nestles FooS
(A. Complete Food
Nestje'o 8 safe, because you add
only water and it is ready.
Where one mother used Nestle's
seven years ago five use it today.
As the "Better Babies" movement
prows, so also grows the use of
Nestle's.
Nestle's is the milk of healthy
cows in clean dairies. The parts
too heavy for your baby are modi
fied those things your baby needs
that are not in cow's millc are
added. Reduced to a powder,
packed in air-tight cans, no germ
or sickness can get near it. You
Not a Milk Modifier)
add only fresh water, and you
may know that you are giving
your baby health and strength in
each bottle of Nestle's Food.
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