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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1919)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER . 7, 1919. TELEGRAM REPEATS ATTACKS Oil LUCAS Defense Makes Scathing Charges in Libel Suit. is ordered in a telegram received at the offices of the public service com ALLIES THREATEN mission 'yesterday from H. H. Aish- tci, regional director of the federal railroad administration with head quarters In Chicago. Under the order, which becomes ef fective at 12:01 A. M. next Monday, all lines using coal are instructed to re duce at least one-third in train miies by eliminating trains which can be spared with the least inconvenience to the traveling public Because of the general use of oil on the railroads operating in Oregon Field Marshal Wilson Confers With Marshal Foch. only those lines east of Umatilla will b affected by the order. 6 Ml ASfLlj J At DOCTOR'S CLAIM QUOTED Physician Once Bell Boy, Janitor, Barber and Palm Header, Asserts Aew&paper. In effect, the defense of the Port land Evening Telegram to the $50,000 libel suit brought by Alzamon Ira Lu cas reiterated before a jury in the court of Circuit Judge Tucker Fri day all that had been published in the columns of the newspaper con cerning Lucas and inferred regret that added intimate details of his life were unfamiliar to the newswriters at the time criticisms were launcl-c.I against the much-advertised "healer." Charges made by Cassius R. Peck, who, with Harrison Allen, represents the newspaper, in his opening address to the jury, were far more scathing and inclusive than those contained in the newspaper articles on which Lucas bases his damage action. Lucas' career was traced from birth to date, in substantiation of the accusations made against Lucas. 3gro Parentage Asserted. Against the contention of Lucas that he Is of mixed Hindu, French, Cherokee Indian and Holland blood, the Telegram asserts he was bornin Providence, R. I., in 1873 of negro parents, that his first marriage was in a negro church by a negro preach er, that he wrote a book in which he admitted he was of negro blood and that he swore in divorce proceedings that he was of the colored race. In the brief time that Lucas was on the witness stand yesterday afternoon he made a general denial of charges ot" the defense, contenting himself with saying broadly that they were "not true and not based on fact." Lucas' attorney, Nels Jacobson, in his opening statement to the Jury, de clared that the newspaper attacks had injured Lucas' character and bus iness, hurting him both individually and ruining his standing as a natur opathic physician, a psycho-analyst and minister of the gospel. After 10 weeks of the newspaper barrage, Lu cas' practice fell from $1000 a month to virtually nothing, his clients from 50 a day to from one to four daily, and Lucas was denied admission to public buildings, was ousted from his office in the Morgan building and generally avoided, it was said. Luras1 Claims Quoted. The defense maintained that Lucas had so conducted himself as to become a quasi-public person and the subject of legitimate public comment. There was no malice in the newspaper at tacks, it was asserted, and their only purpose was to rid the city of a man the newspaper owners were confident was "swindling" gullible persons, it was said. Claims as to his powers, abilities and past achievements were made by Lucas in Portland, quoted the defense, as follows: "That he is the only neu ronic, mental and psychical physician in Portland; that he knows more about , mental -And psych ical diseases than any person in the state; that he had prevented, within the year preceding publication of one of these advertise ments. 300 divorces. 207 suicides and i 124 people from going to an insane asylum; that he has studied and served humanity for ii9 years as a stu dent and teacher of anatomy, physi ology, dietetics. psychology, eco nomics, vocational guidance, psycho and psychic analysis, law, medicine, philosophy and religion; and that he is able to eradicate any detrimental habit known lo mankind and is able not only to prevent insanity, but actually to cure it." Once Bellboy, Is Charge. In fact, asserts the defense, Lucas attended the public schools in Santa Barbara, Cal., to and including the second year in high school, and has never attended any institution of learning since that time. High lights from the life of Lucas, as sketched by attorneys of the de fense are as follows: 1SS9 Bell boy in Baldwin hotel. San Francisco. lsmi to Gave so-called phreno logical readings, palm readings and fleiKtit-of-hand performances in mining towns of California. 1M3 to Janitor in courtroom at Sacramento. Cal. ISUA-lMMi Treated at county hospital. Sacramento. for blindness and pneu monia. 1ku7-1S&0 Itinerant public entertainer In small towns of California. Nevada. Ore con and Wash inn ton. Added, lecture on bcs iroblom to legerdemain. Hum Barber in Bcliitignam. Wash. liMH Harn-stormer in "lluyle's Mat?lc ihow" but on its failure again itinerant entertainer and psychologist. liHiiNlWiT Kstablishes sell as ''healer" In Hozeman, Mont. ; Denver, Colo., where he attracted attention by founding 'L.imit le.sd Life Society" in which it was taught that man could live 10U0 years by follow lnc nib teachings. litns-lf14 .Married his assistant. Clara Oberdorfr. a white woman at Cheyenne, by colored clergyman in colored church before colored witnesses. Ordained min ister in Tabernacle Baptist church, negro, l.os Angeles. Convicted for assault and battery on Mary Mills, Boise. Idaho. Wife caused to straighten kinks from, hair by use of olive oil and curling iron. Brought unsuccessful $30,000 libel suit against Denver lix press. Practiced "healing" at Atlantic City, X. J., Nam pa, Idaho. "Pen dleton, Or., Dayton, Wash. At last named city sentenced to three months and fine of $U0O for criminal libel. At Walla Walla became infatuated with Ruth Jacobs, bor rowed $0000 from her mother. Rachael Jacobs and rstablisheti self in business in Seattle. Seattle bun refused his advertis ing and he was convicted and fined $lo0 for practicing medicine without license. Divorced wife and married Kuth Jacobs. November, lit 15, to date In Portland. Court adjourned until Monday morn ing with Lucas still on the witness stand. MOTHER, BROTHER TAKEN WALTER TABOR. ARRESTED AT WEED, DENIES CRIME. Mrs. Lester Tabor Is Found at Bray, Cal. Prisoners Are Removed by Sheriff to Yreka. WEED, Cal., Dec. 6. (Special.) Walter Tabor, presumably the brother of Miss Maud Tabor, whose body was found in the trunk at Lawton. Mich., was arrested here yesterday by Sher iff Andrew Calkins and his deputy. Mrs. Lester Tabor, his mother, was arrested and held at Bray. Cal. The pair will be brought 10 Yreka today. YREKA, Cal., Dec. 6. Walter Tabor was taken into custody at weed by Sheriff A. S. Calkins. His mother, Mrs. Lester Tabor, was detained to night at Bray for the sheriff. who said he was holding: them on tele graphic instructions from Michigan authorities in connection with the finding in a trunk at Law: jn, Mich., of a body supposed to be that of Miss Maud Tabor, sister of v alter Taoor. and daughter of Mrs. Tabor The sheriff said that tne telegrams contained the information that Michi. gan officers would come west, bring ing formal charges. Tabor, who was brought to the county jail last night, said he had a sister named Maud Tabor living at Lawton. out denied all knowledge ot her death, according to the sheriff, who quoted Tabor as saying that all he knew of it was what he had read in the newspapers. Sheriff Calkins said Tabor told him he had been visiting another sister in Oregon. After concluding the visit, he and his mother had traveled south ward in an automobile looking for a small ranch on which to settle, ac cording to the story told the sheriff. He had left his mother at Bray while he went to Weed to take railroad employment, he said. LAWTON. Mich., Dec. 6. Reports received here last night that Walter Tabor and Mrs. Lester Tabor, brother and mother of Miss Maud Tabor, whose body was found in a trunk in the basement of the family home here last Sunday, had been taken into cus tody in California, revived the dwin dling hopes of local authorities of clearing up the mystery of the young woman's disappearance four years ago. The Vnother and brother, it was es tablished at the coroner's inquest, were the only members of the family at home on the day Miss Tabor was last seen here and officials had searched throughout the west, finally adjourning the inquiry until next week in the hope of having them here as witnesses. So far the witnesses. Prosecuting Attorney Adams admits, have failed to produce evidence warranting ar rests in the case, nor has the manner in which Miss Tabor met death been definitely established. Mrs. Florence Tabor Critchlow, sis ter of the dead woman, and Joseph Virgo, Miss Tt.bor'8 close friend up to a short time before her death, are being held as material witnesses in the inquest. ULTIMATUM IS FAVORED BYRON FACES 6 CHARGES DEFENDANT GIVES CASH BAIL IX- SEATTLE CASE. New Indictment Involves Alleged Land Frauds In Wasco, Or., District Attorney Slates. SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 6. (Spe cial.) When Carlos L. Byron stepped into the federal court yesterday to give himself up in answer to an in dictment brought against him Decem ber 2, charging alleged land frauda, a long list of indictments involving By ron and Edward M. Comyns was moved forward another notch. Byron, who furnished cash bail of $2000, according to Assistant United States District Attorney Ben L. Moore, now has been indicted six times and in three different cities of the north west Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. The new indictment returned by the federal grand jury here Tuesday, ac cording to Mr. Moore, involves alleged land frauds against Wasco, Or., resi dents. Byron & Co., Mr. Moore said, are reported to have represented themselves as experienced locators of government timber lands and land of fice attorneys practicing in the gen eral land office and local land offices of the United States. Some $8000, Mr. Moore said, was purported to have been obtained from alleged victims about Wasco. Or., most of which money is sad o have been refunded since the federal grand jury investigation began. French Press Expresses Belief That Coercion Is Necessary to Make Impression on Enemy. LONDON. Dec. '6. There was a per sistent rumor in the stock exchange yesterday that the supreme council of the peace conference had threat ened Germany that unless the final peace terms were agreed to, allied troops would occupy Essen and Frankfort. Up to this time the mar ket has not been affected b. the re port. Official announcement that Field Marshal Wilson has gone to Paris in response to "an urgent summons to consult Marshal Foch in connection with the peace treaty." is regarded by some morning newspapers as of con siderable significance. It is printed alongside the address made in Glas gow Thursday night by Andrew Bonar Law, in which he said he believed the allies had the power and if necessary will exercise it, to insure putting into effect the Versailles treaty by Ger many. It is suggested that steps to exert pressure on Germany may be imminent. V Itlmatnm Is Suggested. There has been enough solemn fin ger wagging at the Germans, wno have come to believe it safe to defy the allies." says the Daily Mail, in commenting on the situation. "A wise and merciful course would be t) tell them plainly that if within a. fixed time they do not comply with the al lied conditions and fulfill the treaty terms the blockade will be renewed." PARIS, Dec. 6. Coarcion is the only argument likely to make an impres sion upon the Germans and induce them to sign the protocol of the peace treaty, according to local news papers. It is said this conclusion was reached at the secret session of the council of five Thursday, at which Marshal Foch was present. It is reported that the marshal un dertook to execute the plan he drafted last June, the mere threat of which brought German plenipotentiaries to Versailles. During the meeting, says the Echo de Paris, Premier Clemenceau and Marshal Foch stated the unexpected departure of the German delegates from Versailles and the complicated points raised by the enemy left no doubt whatever about the necessity of taking action. Wilson Reaches Paris. The Petit Parisien says Germany considers it has gone too far and that an unofficial note has br.en re ceived from Berlin announcing that new negotiators will leave soon for Versailles. Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, chief of the British imperial staff, arrived in Paris today. The supreme council yesterday con sidered further the note to be sent to Germany regarding the protocol, but did not complete the document. The secret meeting held by the supreme council Thursday with Mar shal Foch and General Weygand, the marshal's assistant, in attendance, has provoked a great amount of speculation as to eventful military action. The American troops on the Rhine now number 12,000 men. No question has as yet arisen whether they would participate in . any action undertaken by the French and British. Paris Receives Reply. Germany's reply to tne allied note protesting against the increase of Germany's armament has reached Paris, according to the Temps. The reply has not yet been submitted to the peace conference del latea, how ever, the newspaper says. The plan for action against Germany drafted by Marshal Foch las- June, mentioned in the dispatches, v as ready for putting into effect in case the Germans had finally declined to sign the Versailles peace treaty. It contemplated a rapid advance into Germany from the occupied zone by the British, American and French armies. A drive of from 40 to 60 miles in depth all along the allied line was contemplateu. Cavalry was to have been employed, together with armored cars, to protect the infantry, who were to have been rushed for ward in motor trucks. FLAMES CAUSE OF PANIC SEWER GAS EXPLOSIONS SHARE BUILDINGS FOR BLOCKS. WASCO RANCHER IS DEAD Jolm l. Wliittcn Expires Suddenly at Dul'ur Residence. DI'FUR. r.. Dec. 6. (Special.) John D. Whitten, "3. an old-time resi dent of Wasco county, dropped dead in his home in Inifur yesterday. Mr. Whitten, who was a native of Ireland, for 3i years lived on his grain and stock ranch at Kingsly until about two jears ago. when he retired from Business and moved to Dufur. He is survived by his widow, one daughter and three sons. lie was first president of the Wasco County Farmers' union and for many years was one of the most prominent and well-known ranchers of the county. TRAIN SERVICE IS CUT Regional Director Orders Coal Vsers to Curtuil Service. SALEM. Or.. Dec. 6. (Special.) curtailment of trains on railroads vis ing coal, in Oregon and other states, RUM" EXPORTS ARE HEAVY Manufacture Brings Unusual Pros perity to Island of Martinique. ST. PIERRE, Martinique. (By the Associated Press.) The manufacture and sale of rum brought unusual prosperity to the little island of Mar tinique during the war. Hidden away ahiong the West Indies, this little French colony of 200,000 people so small that it is found with difficulty on most maps of the world sent its sons overseas to fight for the mother land, while the folks at home pros pered by raising sugar, coffee, cocoa and fanufacturing rum. This took place, too, during a period when prohibition was sweeping over America. Not only did the exports of this beverage increase from approximately 4.090,900 gallons in 1913 to 5.862.500 gallons in 1917, a gain of more than 40 per cent, but the value of the ex ports increased from approximately i.3S5,000 in 1913 to "iS.933.000 in 1917, a gain of about 315 per cent. Exports of sugar, however, de creased from 39.089 tons in 1913 to 20.748 tons in 1917. The production of sugar cane was increased during the same period, but the islanders found it more profitable to use the product in the manufacture of rum than to export it. From 1914 to 1917 imports of molasses used in the manufacture of rum increased from 1S57 tons to 847 tons. Reading Gaol to Be Closed. LONDON'. Reading Gaol, in which Oscar Wilde wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol and part of "De Pro fundis." is to be closed. . Lights Extinguished and Burglar Alarms Set Ringing Police Used to Control Crowds. NEW YORK, Dec. 6. Hundreds of theater-goers were thrown into a panic last night by an explosion of sewer gas in the White Light district which blew the tops off a score of manholes. Blue flames leaped above the pave ment, and police reserves had to be summoned to control the frightened crowds. Hundreds of persons in adjoining buildings rushed Into the streets be lieving that an earthquake had oc curred. Windows were shattered for blocks and electric lights throughout the region were extinguished. The ringing of private burglar alarms added to the confusion. At Broadway and Twenty-seventh street , a wide cracK appeared in tne sidewalk. Several persons were severely in jured by flying glass. A building occupied by the War Camp Community Service in West Twenty-seventh street was badly shaken and practically all windows broken. . The heavy plate glass windows in the New York Telephone company building in Broadway were shattered. The explosions continued for nearly an hour. Carloads of sand were used to ex tinguish the blue flames escaping from the sewers. The sand was poured down the manholes until the Are was smothered. FEAST PROMOTES CROPS Festival Thought Safeguard Against Famine. WICHITA. Kan. The Seneca In dians at Chelsea. Ok la., recently held one of their greatest of annual "green corn feasts." or feast of the first fruits, a kind of thanksgiving festival which, they, have observed n a 27,000,000 horsepower is employed on American farms today 4,500,000 more than is used in all the other industry of America combined. 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Many perished from starvation, but their prophet told them that they would be blessed with a bountiful corn crop the next season, and they would never again suffer from famine they rendered thanks to the Great Spirit and celebrated the event with a "feast of the frirst fuuits." . Accordingly, when the "roasting ears" were ready to eat they gathered themselves together for a big feast of green corn, followed by prayers, music and dancing. The story goes that bountiful crops followed from year to year, always celebrated in the same way, and they have never yet failed to raise sufficient corn to sup ply their needs, so far as food is con cerned. The old-time Indians believed that (should they fail or neglect to cele brate and give thanks as they had been commanded. another famine would follow. While the younger members do not believe that there is any special virtue in the celebration, they still observe it as a time to get together, renew old acquaintances and enjoy life, looking forward to the event just as the white do at Christmas or the Fourth of July. The celebration is usually held in the mountain fastnesses of the Sen ecas' reservation in Ottawa county, near a good spring, on the banks or near the famous Sowskin river, and lasts from three to five days. The people come from all parts of the reservation, bringing a bountiful sup ply of green corn and other things to eat. A large fire is started in the center of a large circle, made up of men. women and children. A huge pot or boiler is placed on the fire and filled with the green corn. While it Is cook ing the religious rites, peculiar to the tribe, are curried, put. - after .which come the feast, followed by the music and the gaieties. Everything is carried out in an or drely manner with seldom any dis turbance, but should ony young Sen eca get unruly he is promptly taken in charge and tied to a tree at a safe distance away and given time to "think it over" while his friends and relatives proceed with the feast and the ceremonies. MANY BARKISES WILLING Candidates for German Presidency Spring Up Like Mushrooms. BERLIN. (By the Associated Press.) Candidates for nomination for the presidency are making their appearance, though the next presi dential elections in Germany are pre sumably some months away, certainly are not set as yet. The latest to be mentioned. by himself, is Adolf Panmscake of Hamburg, wno has an nounced that he will accept a call to run for the office if he hears it from 'men and women of all camps." To further the "call-' Herr Dam aschke has affixed a list to his dec laration of willingness, to be signed by all those who favor him. 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