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TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, FORTXAND, OCTOBER 6; HWLS.
SIX JEWELERS ARE
UNDER INDICTMENT
Confessions of Gem Thieves
Brings Charge of Receiv
4 ing Stolen Property.
STONES SOLD FOR TRIFLE
Uealers, It Is Said, declared Pre
cious Bits Were S apphirea and
of Little Value; Grand Jury
Promptly Acta.
Six Portland jewelers were held to
answer charges of receiving: stolen
property in indictments returned yes
terday by the Multnomah County errand
jury. Those indicted are N. Solomon,
IKoland David. George R. TurnbuU. B.
lieingold, II. I. Mendelsohn and S. Du
biver. The indictments resulted from con
fessions . and statements made to the
grand jury by Alfred Housman, con
fessed diamond thief, and Vernon Tagr
eart, an admitted accomplice.
According to the story told to the
prand jury by Housman and Taggart,
the former stole a package containing
3 0 diamonds while employed by the
American Express Company on August
19. He gave some of them to Taggart,
w ho assisted him in disposing of them.
Jewelers Fay but Little.
Diamonds were sold to each of the
jewelers indicted, according to Hous
man and Taggart. The jewelers, they
taid, told them the jewels were not
diamonds but white sapphires and of
email value. The young men received
but a small amount for the diamonds,
they declared.
Because of the fact that the jewelers.
es alleged, told Housman and. Taggart
Te oiamonds were sapphires when
they must have known they were val
uable diamonds, the grand jury took
the position that the jewelers must
have known that the diamonds were
stolen property. One Jeweler who paid
rut a few dollars for one diamond is
eaid to have sold it the following day
for $300. The 10 diamonds were valued
at $2500.
Housman and Taggart freely con
fessed their guilt and are eaid to have
told the grand jury that they would
Plead guilty to the indictments re
turned against them. Housman was in
dieted for stealing the diamonds and
Taggart as an accomplice in helping
to dispose of them.
Other Indictments Returned.
"W. H. Devan was indicted for an
alleged statutory offense against glnls
In the Portsmouth district.
Carl Lind ,a Tacoma youth, was held
to answer a charge of stealing an
automobile.
t red . Koslund was Indicted for ag
alleged assault on Ted Smith.
George Abdie. a youth, was held to
answer a charge of stealing a purse.
R. Kearns was indicted for contrib
uting to the delinquency of Lydia
Hoffman, a minor.
A. Ammatuzzi was charged with as
caulting A. Quentien on August 18.
Several secret indictments also were
reported.
BOTTLE DRINKING BARRED
Soldiers at Fort Kearny Required to
Imbibe Through Straws.
CAMP KEARNY, San Diego, Cal.
The rising generation of American sol
diers, so far as it may be trained at
imp Kearny, is not going to learn
how to tilt a bottle upward and drain
its contents at a draught. Not that
orders prohibiting this practice make
mention of antipathy to the physical
attitude involved: they are sanitary
reasons. Tilting a bottle here cannot
lie associated with any improper con
duct, as the only bottled drinks for sale
are soda water and milk, but even
these hereafter must be imbibed
through a straw. Recent orders say:
"Paper straws will be provided for
pop and all soft drinks in all exchanges.
nnnking from the bottle will not be
allowed.
'Kxchanges will be equipped with
iceboxes or refrigerators," the order
continues, "and all milk will be kept
in these. An abundant supply of ice
will be provided."
Other paragraphs of the order pro
hibit the display of tobacco, cigarettes
or other advertising in the exchange
and the distribution of samples of any
kind.
hospital their original units were filled
and they were aent to strange com
mands. In this way the spirit and
loyalty that is developed in each divi
sion, making it a coherent body with
characteristics all its own, were threa- '
tened. Officers and men returning
from hospital went into the Replace
ment Division and then might go where
chance sent them, into new regiments
and new divisions, even into ew corps.
The military authorities soon saw
this was -destructive of morale and
were then faced with -an alternative
system.
A recently Issued general order pro
vides for a "Replacement Battalion"
for each corps. This is to be under
command of the corps commander, its
strength is not fixed but will vary as
circumstances require and it has only
a small permanent personnel. As
wounded officers and men of class A
are evacuated from hospital they go
to the Replacement Batta-ion of their
original division and eventually find
tneir way back home to iheir Army
family. Only when a division com
mander's requisition exceeds the num
ber of men of proper grade and arm
originally belonging to his division do
new men find their way In.
The plan has been worked out after
a careful analysis of British and French
casualties, with a view to determing
what percentage of casualties are
evacuated from hospital as of class A.
that is, men able to return to combat
troops and the Army authorities be
lieve that for the present at least it
will meet the situation that had arisen.
It tends to perpetuate the unit per
sonnel as far as possible and there also
are provisions by which both the com
missioned and non-commissioned grades
will bo to & certain extent filled by
promotion from within the division it
self.
WORLD RECORD SMASH
MOTORSHIP ABERDEEN BCT3LT AND
READY FOR SEA Is." 23 DAYS.
Grays Harbor Corporation Completes
Vessel of 4O0O Tons 'W ith Twin
Propellers., Challenges World.
ABERDEEN, Wash.. Oct. E. The
wooden "speed ship" Aberdeen launched
last Saturday night at the yards here
of the Grays Harbor Motorship Cor
poration after 17 '4 days of work, is
ready for her trial trip, and imme
diately thereafter will be turned over,
complete, to the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration, having been fully constructed
and ready for sea in 236 days, smash
ing every former world's record.
The nearest approach to the time
made on the Aberdeen that achieved
on the steel steamer. Crawl Keys, built
at the Encorse yard of the Great Lakes,
Engineering Works in 29 days. The
Crawl Keys, however, was a single
screw seamer, while he Aberdeen, a
ship of 4000 ons. has win propellers.
When the Aberdeen entered th
watr last Saturday night, she was 95
per cent complete as to hull and super
structure and 38 per cent complete as
to machinery. Her engines have been
installed in six days, which is five days
The Emergency Flee Corporation has
faster than the previous world's record,
already challenged the shipyards of
the world to equal the record made
on the Aberdeen and the motorship
corporation managers and workers
have declared they will hang up a new
record if their present record is either
equalled or beaten.
IRA POWERS DIRECTOR
CMTED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN
KIRES FIRST CBS.
SOLDIERS TO HAVE BONDS
Discharged Fighting Men Protected
by War Department.
CAMP KEARNY, Cal. Definite ar
rangements whereby a discharged sol
dier who has made allotments from his
ray for the purchase of liberty bonds
but has not completed the purchase
may obtain either bonds to the amount
of his payments or a return of the
money paid in are provided in orders
from the War Department, recently
published here.
Other sections of the orders provide
for the delivery of the bonds to a per
son other than that originally, desig
nated by the purchaser, at his direc
tion, but specifically eliminate any
broker or speculator who "is known to
be pecuniarily interested in the bond."
"Sale, transfer or hypothecation" of
liberty bonds "not yet delivered by the
Government to the soldier is prohib
ited..
BRITISH SOLVE PROBLEM
Replacement Measures Designed to
Preserve Vnits Morale.
HEADQUARTERS AMERICAN ARMY
JN FRANCE. (Correspondence of the
Associated Press.) The problem of
keeping the combat units of the Army
up to full strength, or replacement as
it is technically termed, has been a
rerplexing one to the military authori
ties. Here the experience of the French
and British did not answer. Their sys
tems oi replacement are based on dif
ferent conditions than those that con
front us. Both are fighting virtually
at home while we are overseas. .
Originally it was planned to create
one replacement division for each
corps. This was to be a fully equipped
find organized division fed from a depot
division as men were drawn from it to
fill the combat divisions. Theoretical
ly this was perfect, but problems of
Tnany kinds began to develop in prac
tice. First in time of need it was
Been that a completed and trained
division could not lie Idle, but inevitab
ly would be drawn into the combat
troops, thus destroying the essentia
replacement reserve.
Then came a question of personnel
and morale. A very high percentage
of wounded soon are able to return to
. the front but, under the proposed sys
Jem when tbey were discharged from
Publicity Headquarters Established In
Rorthweatera Bank Building;. Drive
Will Resin November 11.
Establishment of publicity headquar
ters in the Northwestern Bank build
ingtoday is the first gun in the united
war work campaign which begins No
vember 11. Ira F. Powers has been se
lected director of- publicity.
This drive is the result of a decision
by the National officials of the Y. M.
C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the Jewish Wel
fare Board, the Salvation Army, the
the War Camp Community Service,
American Library Association and the
Knights of Columbus to ask the public
for aid at one time,
"These organizations, "said Mr.
Powers, "are all working for the same
cause, safeguarding the morale of the
American soldier, the one thing which
can be counted on above everything
else to defeat the Hun.
"The merging of their campaigns
will save thousands of valuable hours
on the part of patriotic men."
Mr. Powers also announced that the
direction of the local publicity would be
n tne hands of a committee or cabinet
composed of the publicity represents'
fives of each of the organizations in
terested. Practically all maintain per
manent organization in Portland,
EXPERTS LECTURE ON WAR
University of California to Aid Draft
Registrants.
BERKELEY, Cal. Lectures on war
subjects and personal hygiene will be
given for the benefit of draft regis
trants by University of California ex
perts at the request of any local ex
emption board, it was announced at
the university.
In approving this plan Adjutant-Gen
eral J. J. Borree started that local
boards should not overlook the oppor
tunity offered by the university to help
their draft registrants. '
Americans Study German.
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN
FRANCE. (Correspondence of the As
sociated Press.) Many American sol
diers in France have taken up the
study of the German language. Some
say they are eager to talk to the Ger
man prisoners and others explain that
they desire to be prepared to speak
German when they reach Berlin. Nearly
every American company has one or
more individuals who speak German,
more or less, and the boys study Ger
man during spare moments. After two
or three months in France many Amer
ican soldiers are able to speak soma
French.
War Savings Samps Bought Heavily.
In spite of the great liberty loan
drive that was in progre- during the
month of September and the intensive
soliciting then under way, the Port
land Post Office sold during the month
war- savings stamps amounting to
$313,166.84, according to tha monthly re
port of Postmaster Myers. Total eales
of war savings and thrift stamps since
December 3, 1917, now amounts to $2,
S13.52S.08 in the Portland office.
"cw Trail to Pike's Peak.
COLORADO 'SPRINGS. Colo. The
building of a new trail to Pike's Peak
is under way. tinder the supervision of
the United States Forest Service. The
completed part of the trail reaches
nearly to the timber line. It follows
an easy grade, but gives travelers a
view of the chief scenic features of the
region, including the "bottomless pit"
and the great crater standing: east of
the peak. .
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Yes, it's here,, installed, tested, proved
and in action and it's one of the most
remarkable instruments ever turned out
by the Ilope-Jones-Wurlitzer Unit Or
chestra people.
It's been under construction for nearly,
two years, and has taken five months to
install. We might have told you about
it long ago, but preferred to wait until
everything was ready for you to hear.
It is specially designed to suit the
sound conditions of the Majestic Thea
ter, and playing tests during the past
two weeks have demonstrated its un
equaled sweetness and purity of its tone.
But the organ is no more remarkable
than the organist Mr. Wendell O'Day
-who enjoys a national reputation for
his almost uncanny ability to interpret
on the organ every emotion depicted on
the screen. He has been brought to
Portland at great expense to help carry
out the Majestic policy of giving always
the best obtainable as well in music as
in pictures. He will be ably assisted by
Portland's most popular local organist,
E. H. Hunt.
The usual magnificent photoplay program is
aa follows:
'The Prussian Cur
An authentic expose of German spy conditions,
and the experiences of
Captain Horst von der Goltz
One of the Kaiser's leading agents, who him
self plays the leading roles
Programme of Opening Con
cert Today at 12:30
ltARCH--"The Diplomat". ....Souaa.
BERCEUSE. . f .Godsrd
MAJKSTIC SINGINO RCHOOtr
Inaugurated at the suggestion of the United
btstes Ciovernment.
TESriRA MIA Becuccl
The Gerinsns claimed supfriority tn wait
composition. This beautiful Italian number
shows tha allies aa superior tn music as in
battle.
THE STORM A Musical Interpreta
tion ST MO PS IS Sundown In a beauti
ful valley. Btrds railing. A harp
sounds faintly, snd a mother's
iimaoy softly sung. Morm ap
proaches breaks in all its furv
and dies away. Chimes are heard
and from the village church
arises tha strain of "Th Lost
Chord."
Sunshine Feature Comedy
Official War Review
Pathe News
TODAY
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BOY INSTANTLY KILLED
ROBERT EDWARDS. 13, STRUCK BV
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN,
OrvUle Xi. Waters. Asjed 8, looses Life
la Fall at Northwest Steel
Company Yard.
Robert Edwards, 13, bo not Mr. and
Mrs. C. D. Edwards. 1568 Fifth street,
was killed instantly yesterday by an
inbound Southern Pacific electric train
at Third and Miles streets. A coroner's
Jury will investigate the accident to.
morrow.
The train struck the lad while he
was waiting: to board It at a flag sta
tion. Ueputy Coroner Goetsch toolt the
bodv to the public morgrue.
Orville L. Waters, 38, of 34 East
Fortieth street. North, died yesterday
afternoon from injuries sustained in a
fall in the Northwest Steel Company's
yards. He stepped off a 40-foot staff
ing and fell to the ground, fracturing
his skull.
Mr. Waters is survived by his wife.
He had been in the employ of the
Northwest Steel Company six months,
as a shipwright
JAPANESE TO INVESTIGATE
Oriental Professor to Study Psy-
chplogy in United Slates.
TOKIO, Japan. Dr. Matatare Matsu
moto. professor of literature at the
Imperial University and a specialist on
psychology, has been delegated to pro
ceed to the United States to study the
recent ororress of experimental psy
chology, especially the application of
psychological researcnes to military ai
fairs. Dr. Matsumoto will sail for America
next month and remain there one year.
He is connected with the committee for
investigation of experimental psychol
ogy applied to military affairs organ
ized by high officers of the Japanese
navv. From the United States Dr.
Matsumoto will visit Canada to inspect
the conditions of re-education of tha
soldiers crippled tn tha war, and later
will proceed to England, France and
Spain for study.
Farmers Back: Temple Plan.
SPOKANE. Wash. The plan to build
a temple of agriculture in Washington,
L. C, at r, cost of 11,250,000 ss the
headquarters of all farm organisations
in tha United States has been given the
Indorsement of executive board of the
Farmers' Union of Washington and
North Idaho. The matter was con
sidered at a recent meeting of the
board held here.
Phono your want ads to Th Orego-
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"I had been troubled for a long time with
chronic constipation and never found any
thing that gave me the natural relief that
'Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin has." (From
a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by Mr. I.
Rosenthal, 6 y. 28th St., New York, N. Y.)'
Nearly every disease can be traced to
constipation. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is
a combination of simple laxative herbs with
pepsin that quickly relieves constipation and
restores normal activity. It is gentle in its
action and does not gripe. - -
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