The Sunday Oregonian., October 28, 1917, Section One, Page 21, Image 21

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..MAN DEAD, YET ALIVE
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DARE-DEVIL FLIGHTS THRILL
. OLIVER K. JEFFRY, OF PORTLAND
At One of the Eastern Camps Mr. Jeffry Went on a Series of Flights With
J. H. Hill, Chief Instructor.
Piss
Judge Tazwell's Legal Declar
ation Brings Prompt Denial.
PERFECTED VALVE-IN-HEAD MOTOR
FUNDS INVESTED IN BONDS
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James O'Neill, Who Went to Alaska
in 1899, LeaTins Cash in Bank,
"ow Said by Nephew to Be
in Seattle, XJuinarried.
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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, - OGTOBER 28 1917.
.Tames O'Neill -was declared legally
kad last Tuesday by County Judere
Tazwell. who. at the same time, di
rected the investment of O'Neill's es
tate, consisting of I6&3.42 cash, in lib
erty bonds.
It now develops that the money left
by O'Neill was withdrawn, from the
bank two years aaro by a woman repre
senting herself to be his widow.
The already complicated situation
m-as further confused yesterday when
It was teamed that O'Neill is alive and
residing in Seattle: that he Is an un
married, man and has never been mar
ried. Proof of Identity Required.
Interested attorneys in. the case are
not agreed that the situation involves
a. case of mistaken Identity. They do
agree that if the Seattle man is the
actual owner of the money supposed to
be in, the Portland bank, he will have
to prove that fact as well as disprove
the records of the court, which have
decreed him legally deceased.
James O'Neill left Portland In Janu
ary. 1899, presumably for the Alaskan
roldf ields. On the day of his depart
ure. January 12, he deposited with the
Portland Trust Company a cerificate
of deposit for $666.75, to be paid in one
year, issued by the Ladd & Tilton Bank.
Together with one year at accrued in
terest, this deposit now agrresates
$693.42. These facts were recited in a.
petition filed in. the County Court Au
gust 4. last, by C. W. UeGraff, secre
tary of the trust company, who asked
the court to decree O'Neill, who had
not been heard from since 1899, dead
in. a legal sense and appoint the trust
company special administrator of the
estate.
Funds Put In Liberty Bonds.
Acting, on this petition, Judsre Taz
well last Tuesday appointed the trust
company special administrator of the
estate and directed the funds invested
in a liberty bond. When Attorney A.
I". t'legel. Jr., attorney for Mr. DeGraff,
applied to the Ladd & Tilton Bank for
the money represented by the certifi
cate of deposit, he was informed that
about two years aro the funds had been
withdrawn by a woman who claimed to
bo O'Neill's widow. In consideration
of the payment of the money to her,
this woman gave the bank an indem
nity bond for its protection.
Yesterday James O. Dranga, of this
city, claiminjr to be a nephew of the
James O'Neill, who le-ft Portland in
1899, appeared In the case, having re
tained. Sanderson Reed as his attorney.
Mr. Dranga declares his uncle is alive
and now living in Seattle, has never
married and at all times knew of his
deposit in the Portland bank, which he
was permitting to remain undisturbed
.: an emergency fund.
ROAD CHANGE WANTED
WASHINGTON COUNTY RESIDENTS
ASK. BEAVKRTOX ROUTE
Data
Submitted at Meeting to
rrmentfd to Highway
Conutnlaftloii.
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EEAVKRTOX, Or., Oct. 27. (Special.)
In the hope of persuading: the State
Highway Commission to reconsider its
decision routing the West Side Pacific
Highway from Portland to Hillsboro
via Orenco, and to route it via Beaver
ton instead, a meeting of Washington
County residents was held in Beaverton.
this week.
County Surveyor Morrill submitted
data compiled by him from personal
investigation as to the length, grades,
elevations and amount of base necea
fcary to be laid tor hard-surfacing, of
three routes between Portland and
Hillshoro.
Two routes, he said, have less than a
S per rent grade from HWlsboro to
Portland with the exception of a 300
loot stretch in Multnomah County at
Bertha, where it is about 5 per cent.
Another route, he reported to the
meeting, eliminates all railroad cross
ings .except the one in the city limits
of Beaverton.
C. J. Rose, of ITuber, presided at the
meeting, and Day Gray, cashier of the
Bank of Beaverton, was secretary. A
delegation will be sent to take up with
the Highway Commission the data
leathered as to the three routes.
"HUMAN FLY" IS SWATTED
Major Refuses Permit for Exhibi
tions of Recklessness
Charles Willi?, who gained the title
"Human Fly" by scaling the Failing
building wall, has met the end of his
dare-devil career in Portland. Mayor
Baker has refused to permit him to do
any more stunts.
When Willis, who is only a boy of 19
years, scaled the Failing building the
Mayor got anxious and ordered him
down. Yesterday the Mayor turned
down Willis' request for permission to
Jump from an eighth-story window into
a life net and to do some stunts on a
wire stretched across a street about
eight stories above the ground. "If
anything should happen to that boy,"
fsnid the Mayor, "I'd b conscience
stricken all the rest of my life."
REED FINANCE PLAN NEW
t-tuilcnt Council Adopts Unit System
for Handling Funds.
A new plan adopted by the Reed Col
lcee student council that will affect the
M-hol student body is the unit system
of l'innni'e. This places the financial
end." of the various organizations upon
A unit basis and freates a general treas
ury to control all funds, dues and dis
bursements. It is a new system, estab
lished on account of the lax methods of
linance exercised during the pat year.
All money paid, by the organizations
of the student body will go through
this unit treasury, and the payment of
i;ll expenditures will be made through
it. Ivan Elder was chosen treasurer.
Auxiliary ot Co. K to Meet.
The auxiliary of Company E. Third
Oregon, will meet Thursday afternoon
In Room H, Public Library, at 1:30
o'clock;. Important business will be
transacted and a call has been sent to
all members to attend.
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ALL of the thrills Incident to the
daring maneuvers of the moet
skilled war aviators have just
been experienced by Oliver K. Jeffery,
Portland business man, who is now vis
iting: the various aviation camps in the
East. Mr. Jeffery Is particularly in
terested In flying as he has organized
a company in Portland which is manu
facturing parts for airplanes and has
turned out several complete machines.
At one of the Eastern camps Mr.
Jeffery went for a series of flights
with J. D. Hill, the chief instructor.
Their machine was put through all the
most difficult "stunts," which before
the war were regarded as the dare
devil performances of professional ex
hibitors, but which are now practiced
as necessary tactics in air fighting.
Mr. Jeffery has written at length of
his experiences in a letter to a Port
land friend. Additional interest in his
account lies in the fact that Mr. Hill
is well known in Portland where he
lived for several years and ep.gaded in
the automobile business. Here Is Mr.
Jeffery'a letter:
. Aviation Life Liked.
"Mr. Hill and I flew in a Curtiss JX4
type machine, and as he is the chief
instructor we were the first of eight
machines to get off the ground. The
field is one mile square and after
circling it several times reached the al
titude of 3500 feet. The field and
buildings looked very small but de
cidedly clear, the country around was
very level and a beautiful view. Mr.
Hill had stated he was going to show
me some real flying and he sure did.
tricks of the game that a few months
ago were rank suicides. Directly he
throttled down the motor and poking
me in the back said, 'here goes for a
loop-the-loop, don't know if we will
get over or not.' Well, I did not know
Just what would happen if we did not
go over but had a pretty good idea that
we could at least hit the ground pretty
hard, but hollered back to go ahead
that I considered myself In good hands,
and then presently away we went, a
slight drive first, a climb, then sud
denly my weight seemed exceedingly
light on my feet, which were on the
steering gear, and the seat.
"I found myself throwing my head
back as in turning a back flip to help
the machine over. Well, that one sec
ond or so that one is hanging upside
down looking into space below, seems
years. We got around perfectly I
thought, but Instructor Hill said we
did not go over just level so again we
looped, and I am frank to say each
gave me a little heart flutter and even
upon righting ourselves 1 found I was
lost completely as to direction, even the
ground.
"I thought I knew a little about the
flying game and have had some ex
periences, feeling that the loop-the-loop
was simply a dare-devil stunt, that
anyone could do it with sufficient nerve
to undertake and expected at some
time to try it in my own machine, but
all I have ever experienced is little
when this master of the sky began
side slipping, nose dives and the death
defying tail spin will dwell lightly on
the wing eliding and nose dive.
Machine on Kdge.
"I'pon making a turn instead of
banking your machine to hold it fairly
level in the course of the turn we
simply cut a right-angle turn without
any banking, thus throwing ths ma
chine directly on its edge, the right
plane aimed directly at the ground, the
other skyward. It throws the persons
in the machine so tight against the
side of the fusilage, I marvel that the
pilot could move the control levers at
all. Then off goes the motor and a
sheer drop of 600 feet through space.
In reality it Is but a few seconds and
seems only a few feet you fall but an
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eternity of time. Then the clever pilot
catches his machine by using his power
and rights it so smoothly that there is
not a particle of strain. Then we again
regained our altitude of 3500 or 4000
feet. We took a plain, simple nose dive
corkscrew, simple to this man who is
the most skilled instructor in flying
perhaps, in the world today. Our nose
turned directly groundward and with
full 150 horsepower we started down
ward, spinning like a drunken top and
diving like a shooting star. I counted
to 18 spins, then my brain became mud
dley, our aniroid showed a drop of 800
feet and I should judge we made 30
turns. He then caught the machine in
a graceful bank and telling me to take
it and fly to an altitude of 4,500 feet,
which I did.
"The air was exceedingly choppy and
had I been the Judge we would never
have attempted to fly in it at all. Com
pared with his driving we tossed
around like a cork at sea. Being un
used to a good machine I invariably
gave it too much aileron. However,
my bonelreads did not worry him so I
continued flying for about 20 minutes
until we attained an altitude of 4500
feet. He then took the machine for
a tail spin. This maneuver Is one very
essential in battle flying in France as
it is the greatest decoy used in air
fighting today, being the natural
course a machine takes when the pilot
Is killed. After a shot from an enemy
machine which has the commanding
position, the driver enters this tail
spin and falls a sheer 2000 feet then
rights it and makes his escape.
Machine Climbs Ifnnt.
"To enter this position Hill put the
machine in a climb of about 80 degrees
then shut off the motor holding his
elevators up and the rudder hard over.
Away we went backward, down, down,
down,' into space, the nose of the ma
chine upwards and apparently steady
but the tail making huge circles below
you. It is the most unnatural position
possible to get an ' airplane into
and also to get it out. The action of
recovery I can only compare with auto
racing on a skidding turn where you
turn the wheels the opposite way from
which you want to go. The airplane
flounders a moment then the power is
applied and at that second the ele
vators ascend. We dropped through
space 1250 feet. I turned around and
forced a smile upon my face but it
was really a .smile of gratitude that
it was over instead of Joy. Even yet
if a machine enters this position under
1000 feet altitude it is almost certain
death to the unfortunate aviator. We
then took a short cross-country flight
and back to the field where Hill asked
me to make the landing, but by this
time ten other machines with pupils
were in the air below us and I was
positively afraid of getting one. He
landed us within 50 feet of a marked
spot as lightly as a falling leaf.
"J. O. Hill has flown for 24 years,
formerly for the Thomas School of
Ithaca and for one year training men
for Uncle Sam. He has not had a
single accident but many narrow es
capes. Once while flying with a cadet
on his first flight, at a height of only
1500 feet the lad became paralyzed
with fright. His muscles became tense
on the control with the machine headed
groundward. The harder Hill would
pull or shove the tighter the lad held
on and it began to look to Hill like
sure death. Answering my question as
to what he did, he modestly answered.
'I shut off the motor so ha could hear
me, then I reached over and patted him
on the shoulder and quietly said,
' "Your're all right, old man, now Just
relax and let me take it.' " He eased up
Instantly but they were only 30 feet
above the ground and straightened the
machine out just in time to skirt the
ground and make a fair landing. But
can you Imagine quietly reaching over J
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car. that embodies the 25 years'
manufacturing experience of
C. W. Nash.
No car has ever been given 'a more
enthusiastic reception wherever shown.
. And here it is.
In simple truth it is a fine car.
The perfected six cylinder valve-in-head
power plant develops unusual
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And the body real beauty there
handsome and graceful. A double
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It's Nash designed, built 93 per cent
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The unusual pressure brought to
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Burnside at
touching xand reasoning with a man
while dropping to death at a dizzy rate
of speed? I think most of us would
have been inclined to use a club ou his
head.
One Officer Killed.
"J. D. Hill has turned out 40 skilled
flyers, 32 of whom are now competent
United States Army flyers. Of his
pupils all still live except Officer Mead,
who burned to death in his machine at
Buffalo, and Lieutenant Meaker, who
was killed in France in battle. When
asked if he was anxious to go .to
France he said in a slow, easy manner,
'Yes, but you see I could only perhaps
get two Hermans or so and then get
killed myself, whereas by doing my bit
here in a year I can turn out 60 com
petent men, each can get two or more,
making 120 dead flyers less for Ger
many.' "At the camp there has been several
fatal accidents but only one minor one
while flying. One needless life was
lost in a careless manner. While turn
ing the motor a cadet put his head in
the path of the propellers which turn
1600 revolutions per minute. The first
round split the skull open an if it were
an ax. the second turn striking on the
back of the neck, instantly breaking it.
It seems carelessness exists regardless
of how much caution is drilled into
these boys."
MAYOR DIDN'T BREAK LAW
Fire Apparatus Called by Telephone,
Kot by False Alarm.
There ia a law against turning in a
false fire alarm, and Mayor Baker care
fully averted breaking this law Friday
in calling out three pieces of apparatus
to attract a crowd for a street meeting
in behalf of the liberty loan.
He did not turn in an alarm, but
telephoned to two fire stations asking
them to send apparatus' to Fifth and
Morrison streets. The machines came
with their shrill fire horns, and so did
the crowd. And it waa a fine, well
attended liberty loan meeting that fol
lowed the departure of the apparatus.
Press Club to Nominate.
To nominate officers for the year
members of the Portland Press Club
will hold a meeting Monday evening,
Here the New Nash Car
is the Nash Six, the
car with the perfected
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Distributers for
Tenth
October 29. at 8 o'clock in the club
rooms. The election will be held No
vember 5, the polls being open between
10 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'cIock
in the evening. Only active members
may participate in the meeting and the
election. . -
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CHILD GETS SICK,
IF CONSTIPATED
Look at Tongue I Then Give Fruit
Laxative for Stomach. .
Liver. Bowels.
"California byrup of Figs" Can't
Harm Children and '
They Love It.
A laxative today aavea a alelc child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time irom play to empty their
bowels. whic become clogged up wita
waste, liver geta sluggish; stomaofc
our.
Jook'at the tongue, mother! if coat
ed, or your child la listless, doesn't eat
heartily, full of cold or has aore throat
or any other children's aliment, give a
teaspoonful of "California fey r up of
t?i&," then don't worry, because it ia
penectiy harmless, and in a few hours
ail this coostlpation poison, sour bile
and lermenting waste will gently move
out of the bowels, and you have a well,
playful child again. A thorough "Inside
cleansing'' is otttimea ail that is neces
sary. It should be the first treatment
given in any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for a bottle of
"California Syrup of Figs." which has
fun directions for babies, children of alt
ages and for grown-ups plainly printed
on the bottle. Look carefully and ee
that it ia made by tne "California J
Syrup Company.". Adv.
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Orders naturally will be filled strictly in
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