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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, DECE3IBER 9, 1917 EMINENT SGIEimst OR IMPOSTOR HELD HUNS PRESENT AT HINDUS' MEETINGS lted the German Consuls in Genoa, Manila and Rio Janeiro, and met Har Dyal,' former instructor at Stanford University, in Berlin. Dyal and an other Hindu, according to Jodh, at that time had considerable influence with the German government and were the only two Hindus permitted to take part in the deliberations of the German Foreign Office. "Before Har Dyal left Berlin for Constantinople," the statement says, "he told me I was to return to America and remain in San Francisco, assisting Ram Chandra in the Ghadr movement. I was to inform Ram Chandra that the German government waa ready to give financial help and that everything German Officials Clearly In Involved fn Anti-British Plot. "Marquis E. F. de Reymonte Said to Be Officer in Aus trian Army, Investigated. Sixth at Washington TRY TO GET IN! PROMINENT OREGON CITY RESIDENT CELEBRATES S3D BIRTHDAY ANNI VERSARY. STAR WITNESS TESTIFIES TALE RIVALS BEST SELLERS AMERICA'S IDOL OF SCREEN AND STAGE 10 i Facts Disclosed by Jotlli Singh Link Conspiracy Activities in San Francisco and Many Other Cities. SAX FRANCISCO. Dec 8. Prominent German officials regularly attended meetings of the Indian Revolutionary Society in Berlin when ways and means were considered for overthrowing Brit ish rule in India. This and other accusations linked al leged German Hindu plot activities in San Francisco with similar activities in Manila, Berlin, Genoa, Shanghai and other places are incorporated in a docu ment filed in the United States District Court here today. The charges were contained in a copy of testimony given by Jodh Singh, accused of having conspired to ferment a military uprising against British rule in India, and who recently pleaded guil ty in preference to testifying as a Gov ernment witness against his 31 fellow defendants on trial here. Plea Was Understood. Jodh petitioned the court for permis sion to change his plea. He said he was not aware of the nature of his plea at the time it was entered. The United States Attorney declared this to be un true, and in an affidavit filed today appends a copy of- Jodh's testimony given before the British military court in Singapore in 1915, as evidence that the witness was aware of his rights. Jodh was considered one of the prose cution's star witnesses. It generally is believed that the copy of Jodh's testi mony at the Singapore trial is a fore cast of what his testimony would have been at the trial here. According to Jodh's statement he was in Berlin three years altogether up to 1910 At one time he remained in that city for one month. During this period, his statement said, he met several prominent Hindus. "These men," ac cording to Jodh, "are principal leaders in the society known as the 'Indian Revolutionary Society," with headquar ters in Berlin. Germans Attend Meetings. "They hold regular meetings which are attended by some of the principal German officers and other Germans who have been to India." After chronicling his wanderings in Europe and America during which he met many persons who, he alleged, were concerned in the plot, Jodh de scribes a visit to the German consular office in San Francisco as follows: "In San Francisco I visited Ram Chandra (one of the defendants). Iwai told that the German Consul had some information for me, and that I was to call for it. Accordingly, I called and the Consul made over JS80 to me, stat ing that Gupta (another defendant) had asked him to pay me the amount.- "The Consul also gave me a message in figure code on a piece of paper, say ing that it was to be handed over to tho Consul at Shanghai." Arm Scheme Recalled. "One important fact that I have for gotten to mention is that before Boehm left for Manila he told me he had seen the German Consul, from whom he had gathered that a. quantity of arms and ammunition was actually dispatched to India, and asked me if I knew any thing of the 'arms scheme.' "Soon afterward I called personally upon the Consul to receive the $8S0. After satisfying himself that I was really in the plot "he asked me if I knew anything about the arms scheme. , I said, 'No.' He then consulted a list. It was in German and I noticed it re ferred to arms. I also saw that cer tain arms were dispatched to Mexico. I could not find where they were sent." The Boehm referred to wascon victed in Chicago of participating in the conspiracy. Jodh. accnrilinar to his statement. vl- Have a Complexion of Real Beauty Let Stuart's Calcium Wafers Drive Away Pimples, Blackheads and Those Yellow, Muddy Disfigurements. PROVE THIS WITH FREE TRIAL. jP Mrs. John G. Porter. OREGON CITY, Or., Dec. 8. (Special.) Mrs. John G. Porter, one of the prominent residents of Oregon City, who has resided ' here for 50 years, celebrated her ' 83d birthday anniversary Tues- ' day. Mrs. Porter received many , gifts, including beautiful flow- , ers, and scores of congratula- tlons found their way to her. ' Many of the old-time residents called at her home. J Although 83 years of age, Mrs. Porter takes a deep interest in the war and other affairs of the day. i In 1862 Mrs. Porter accompa- nted her husband from Portland, 1 Me., by Way of the Isthmus of j Panama, to California. In 1868 they moved to Oregon City. Mrs. Porter is residing at the home where she has spent so many years with her daughters. Miss Fannie G. Porter, principal of the Failing School, Portland, and Miss Kate I. Porter, also a Port land school teacher. would be done to promote the object of the Ghadr party." CORN SHOW DATES FIXED Addresses and Demonstrations to Mark Folk County Event. DALLAS, Or., Dec. 8. (Special.) Ar rangements are being made by C. Moore, R. Baker, Ray Walker, C. Bar rick and H. Hirschberg, a committee from the Business Men's Club of Inde pendence, and Mrs. Winnie Braden. secretary of, .the Dallas Commercial Club, for the second annual Polk Coun ty Corn Show.- " This corn show will be held in Inde pendence December 21 and 22. Pro fessors Hyslop" and Larsen, of the Ore gon Agricultural College, will place the awards and will give lectures on seed selection and cultivation of corn. E. B.- Favelle. editor of the Western Farmer, will also speak. Miss Edna L. Mills, emergency home demonstration agent of Polk, Yamhill and Washington bounties, will give public demonstrations on preparing va rious corn products. Notwithstanding the unfavorable sea son, more good corn was grown In Polk County this year than ever be fore. The corn acreage of this season showed nearly 50 per cent increase over last season. A Lovely Complexion Lends Life and Vivacity to All Occasions. There are scientific reasons why the calcium sulphide in Stuart's Calcium Wafers is a most wonderful skin beau tlfier. It works in the blood, enriches' it, purifies it. gives to the skin a power to convert impurities into a harmless sub stance that is carried off invisibly. But best of all Is the host of pretty girls and matrons who have rid their coi plexions of pimples, boils, eczema, acne, and other eruptions by simply using Stuart's Calcium Wafers. You will find them on sale in almost every drug store in the U. K. or Canada at 50 cents a box. Get a box today or send the cou pon below for a free trial package. Free Trial Coupon. V. A. Stuart Co.. 4U6 Stuart Bid.. Marshall, Mica. Send me at once, by return mall, a free trial package of Stuart's Calcium Wafers. Name., Streeti City.. State Adv. RABID COYOTES NUMEROUS Stockowners Alarmed and Two Men Are Attacked. LAKEVIEW, Or., Dec. 8. (Special.) Rabid coyotes are again. a menace in this valley, and ranchers and stock owners are becoming alarmed at the many depredations that are belni? reported. Z. T. McCabe. who Is haullntr wood from Thomas Creek to this city, was attacked by a rabid coyote this week while in the timber. He escaoed be ing bitten by killing the animal with his ax, the only weapon he had. Frank Hammersley, rancher of the West Side, while returning to his home was followed for more than a mllq by a coyote showing every sign of being afflicted with rabies. He was unarmed, but on reaching his ranch he shot the animal. Albany ex-Mayor Gives Four Sons. ALBANY, Or.. Dec. 8. (Special.) P. D. Gilbert, a local merchant and ex-Mayor of Albany, will soon have four sons in the service of their coun try. Walter Gilbert and Glen Gilbert, who were Albany High School boys, enlisted in the Fifth Company, Oregon Coast Artillery, of this city, and are with the company at Fort Canby, Wash. Earl D. Gilbert, who is Just older than these two boys, will enlist in the United States Navy Monday. The oldest son. Leland R. Gilbert, who was formerly Second Lieutenant of the local militia company and Is now city editor of the Morning Astorian at Astoria, also has tendered his services and expects to be in active service by December 15. J VERSARY. t s" "it y1""""' ' ; j f T i - " " 4 I ' v J X If I " - ! i i j V - i, . X - t ti : "JX't t 'A i t - J t ' - zJ? f J l 'Doctor" Says He Is Native of Rob- f ia, Major In British and Colonel in- . Kuropatkin's Army Papers-Are Called Forgeries. Is Marquls-Colonel-Doctor Edward F. de Reymonte an Impostor, an Austrian alien enemy or a subject of Great Brit ain? It is ud to the Federal authorities here, including the offices of the United States Attorney, the United States Marshal and the Bureau of In vestigation, to solve this complex prob lem. Reymonte was arrested at Oregon City yesterday by Deputy United States Marshal Tichenor and Is being held for a thorough Investigation. Otto Rose, a German, who was taken Into custody at the ame time, declares Reymonte is an Austrian and an officer in the Austrian armv. Revmonte In sists that he Is a subject of Great Britain and tells a story that makes ordinary fiction tame reading. Keymonte affirms that he is 2 years old and a native of Russia. He de clares he came to the United States five years ago, took out his first citi zenship papers In New York City and says he only recently was refused a commission in the United States Army as he could not speak tho German language." Reymonte says he was graduated from the Royal University of St. Petersburg and by reason of his knowledge of medicine served as Major n the medical corps in the British army in Egypt, afterwards serving as Colonel, also In the medical corps, in the Russian army under General Kuro patkin in the war with Japan. Corslcan Wealth Claimed. Reymonte further toid the arresting officers that he is heir to large hold- ngs In Corsica. He says he was robbed of 35000 in the East a few years ago, and this caused him to come to the Pacific Coast, where, he says, he prac ticed medicine for a time at Aberdeen. Before coming to Oregon City, a few weeks ago, where he found employ ment as bookkeeper in a paper mill office, he was located at the Hotel Fed eral, Third avenue and Pine street, in Seattle. Included among Raymonte'a personal effects seized by the Deputy Marshal were a sword Reymonte claime he used during the Soudan campaign in Egypt, an electric flashlight, a complete hypo dermic outfit, a pair of aluminum "knucks" and countless papers, lnclud- ng a passport from the British Consul at Cairo, and various other similar cre dentials issued in France. He ex plained the possession of the "kuncks" by saying he found them necessary for his protection against the Arabs while he was in Egypt. Membership Certificates Pound. Among other papers found in Rey- monte's possession was a highly litho graphed certificate of membership of St. Petersburg Commander", No. 30, of Moscow, Knights Templar, to whloh Is affixed his signature as one of the of ficers. Mixed in among a number of letters was also found a printed leaf let with a likeness of Reymonte and carrying beneath it the inscription: "Marquis Edward F. de Reymonte, M. D., Ph. D., D. D. Member of Board of Regents, Carnegie University, Dover,. Del." Other official documents accredited him with membership in the Academy of Physics, of New York City; Wash ington Association of Druglcss Physi cians and the Naturopathic Society of America. Independent of the representations of Reymonte's companion. Rose, whom he regards as a pronounced alien enemy of dangerous propensities. United States Marshal Alexander Is satisfied that Reymonte is an impostor. This belief is strengthened by tne fact that the handwriting on most of the official papers taken from Reymonte shows a pronounced similarity both in the text and the. signatures. The Marshal is of the opinion that all of these papers are rank forgeries. COTTAGE GROVE COMMERCIAL CUP ELECTS. Roy Smith. Presidents C. A. Bartell, secretary. COTTAGE GROVE, Or.. Dec. 8. (Spe cial.) At the annual meeting of the Commercial Club Monday night Roy Smith was elected president and C. A. Bartell, secretary. Mr. Smith is presi dent and manager of the Cottage Grove Manufacturing Company and Mr. Bar- tea is proprietor of the Oregon Hotel. Other officers elected were: K. K. Mills, first vice-president; George O. Knowles, second vice-president; G. M. Hall, treas urer; worth Harvey, c. M. Shinn, Gott fried Graber and Elbert Bede, members of board of trustee. SPRUCE DEAL IS OFF PRICE ASKED DECLARED TO BE TOO HIGH. F. Boatln Interests Hold Several Ex ceptional Tracts In Coo That Operators Considered. MARSHFIELD, Or.. Dee. 8. (Spe cial.) A recent attempt by Coos Coun ty mill operators to obtain a. spruce supply from the Coos Bay Coal & Tim ber Company, of which Frank Boutin, of Wisconsin, is the principal stock holder, fell through because of the al leged excessive price which tho com pany asked for stumpage. One- mill manager interested in the prospective purchases said the Boutin Interests de manded $10 for the timber. Under the circumstances the deal was abandoned, although several capitalists vere on the ground to close the deal. The Boutin interests own several very fine sections of spruce timber in the vicinity of Beaver Hill, and the legs could be delivered from several different directions to tidewater tribu tary to Coos Bay. and also into the Coquille River, where three mills are sawing aeroplane stock. The latest In formation Is -to the effect the timber may be commandeered by the Govern ment, since the available supply of first-class spruce, contiguous to the mills, is not great. There are large bodies of spruce ad jacent to the Umpqua River. In tha vi cinity of Reedsport and Gardiner, and these may be opened before the Win ter is ended. VARIED DRAWINGS PLEASE Exhibit In .Library Attracts Atten tion of Students. An exhibition of drawings and da- signs, sketches in nencll and charcoal water colors and bas reliefs, occupies the whole of the topmost floor of the Central Library. The work Is the prod uct of the University of Oregon art classes. The greater number of drawings are studies in architecture. Some of the works most familiar to Oregonians are shown In photogravure and free hand drawings. . Other drawings present plans for model structures, courthouses, prisons, libraries and public buildings of every type. - gome excellent sketches . pf living BURKE IN The Land of Promise Starting TODAY. Ki It , - i t L 4 v- . ; if A , - - I v . - a r -'if-' -la t "' - A fT v 'T--t r. A. f - - . ' f '' - i ' " '.'lb ';-r-; -'tj ,f-., - ..:i' "..,', . -.."" " x - "s, . 1 i .-1 i .. -CAN YOU SING?- The novelty of "Patrons Chorug," recently introduced by us for the first time in any motion picture theater, has proven wonderfully successful. Attend any day this week and yon . will find a pleasant surprise awaiting. "WON BY A FOWL" A GROUCH ROBBERY KEYSTONE models are on display. All the work shows confidence and finish and should attract much attention from students and artists. Clatsop Youths Enlist. ASTORIA. Or., Dec . (Special.) Seventeen Astoria young men today joined the Naval Reserve. All but three enrolled for duty as gunners on merchant steamers or transports ply ing the barred ton. 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