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VOL. XXXIX "SO. 22
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Postoffice as Second-Clara Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1920
PRICE TEN CENTS
DEBS, IN PRISON GARB,
ACCEPTS NOMINATION
T
VICTORY 4.75 NOTES
YIELD 6.20 PER CENT
GRASSHOPPERS EAT
CROPS NEAR MAUN
ABOUT 100 ACRES DAILY IOST
AEAR CALIFORNIA LINE.
WELLS, PORTLAND,
TAKES 220 TITLE
WEEK BUSY ONE FOR
WOOD
S CAMPAIGN
REPUBLICAN
HOWELL BOY AIMS'
TO DEPEND OTHERS
Law Career Inspired by
Three Murder Trials. .
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS
PAID FDR BYTHREE
,51,180,042 Contributed
to General's Nomination.
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CHICAGO
PENITENTIARY RULES RE
LAXKD FOR CEREMONY.
INTEREST BASED OX COAST
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
COXCRESS DISPOSES OF IM-
. PORTAXT MATTERS.
HOOVER SPENDS $300,000
Committee at Night Inquiry
Gathers More Details.
JOHNSON BILL $200,000
Charge That Large Sum Is Taken
Out or Bank Night Before Vote
Is Bitterly Denied.
WASHINGTON, May 29. (By the
Associated Press.) Senate investiga
tions today of pre-convention expend
itures dealt largely with financing of
Major-General Leonard Wood's na
tional campaign and the Johnson
Hoover republican primary fight in
California, with further attempts in
between to get on the trail of the
McAdoo boom.
Holding its first night session and
sitting in all 11 hours, day and night,
the committee heard evidence that a
national campaign fund of $1,180.
042.20 had been raised for General
Wood and that the national campaign
fund for Senator Johnson approxi
mated $200,000. Charges that sup
porters of Herbert Hoover in Cali
fornia spent "at the lowest estimate
$300,000" in the primary fight there
against Senator Johnson also were
made.
Expenditures Are ai.174.019.
A. A. Sprague of Chicago was the
principal witness as to the Wood cam
paign. He identified himself as treas
urer of the "Leonard Wood national
campaign committee" and presented
a financial statement, which, besides
showing receipts, showed expendi
tures of $1,174,919.19.
Mr. Sprague's testimony disclosed
that the financing of General Wood's
campaign had been done largely by
three men Colonel William Cooper
Procter of Cincinnati; A. E. Moneil of
New York, and Mr. Sprague. Colonel
Procter, he said, advanced $521,000
and Mr. Moneil $100,000 in addition to
a contribution of $20,000. Two hun
dred thousand dollars were borrowed
from two Chicago banks on notes in
dorsed by Colonel Procter. Mr. Sprague
said he was a joint indorser of one of
the notes and expected to pay it.
Rockefeller Wn $25,000.
Total contributions were placed by
the witness at $358,768 with John 1.
Rockefeller Jr. of New York, the
largest contributor with $25,000. Mr.
Sprague said Colonel Procter expected
to get back his advances, but the wit
ness expressed "grave doubts that he
would," denying that there was an un
derstanding with any group of rich
men that the deficiences of $821,000
representing the difference between
the total expenses and receipts, was
(o be repaid.
Wilbur W. Marsh, treasurer of the
democratic national committee, was
one of the witnesses interrogated as
to the campaign for William G. Mc
Adoo, former secretary of the treas
ury. He told Chairman. Kenyon that
published reports to the effect that
the democratic national executive
committee had been assured last fall
that a $10,000,000 fund would be raised
if Mr. McAdoo was nominated, was
"an absurdity."
SIOOO Limit Proposed.
Mr. Marsh denied that B. M. Baruch
had promised to raise any such fund
and said that Mr. Baruch was at the
Atlantic City meeting of the commit
tee in question because the problem
of raisins $75,000 or $85,000 for party
headquarters expenses was under dis
cussion. "The people will be asked to fi-
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Recently-Adopetd Platform Is De
clared Without Sufficient Ap
peal to Working Classes.
ATLANTA, Ga., May 29. Eugene V.
Iebs today accepted the socialist
nomination for president of the Ignit
ed States, formally tendered him by
a committee from his party.
The ceremony was held inside the
Atlanta federal penitentiary, where
Debs is serving- a ten-year sentence
on conviction of violating the espion
age act, and the nominee was clad
in the blue denim garb of a prisoner.
For once, however, prison rules were
relaxed, speeches were made, moving
picture men cranked their machines
and a half dozen newspaper men jot
ted down notes on what was said.
Under prison rules Debs could not
issue a statement, but he made a brief
speech in which he thanked the party
for the honor again conferred upon
him and expressed his regret that he
could do so little personally in the
campaign. The socialist platform
adopted recently in New York, Debs
said, "states the essential principles
of socialism." But he added that he
wished it "could have been couched
in a form to make an appeal more
effective to the working classes; that
it brought out stronger the appeal of
class; that it emphasized the need of
industrial organization."
I have never been afraid of being
too radical," Debs told his audience,
but I have of not being radical
enough." He urged that members of
the party express their views "with
out fear of consequences."
In another part of his speech he de
clared his sympathy for the Russian
revolution, which he termed "the
greatest achievement of all times,"
and continued: "1 regret that W e
convention did not avow allegiance
to the third internationale without
any qualification whatever."
SEVERE PANIC HITS JAPAN
7 0 Tokio Firms Bankrupt and
Many Lose Jobs.
TOKIO, May 27. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Promise of govern
mental assistance to banks and busi
ness concerns in good credit has had
an excellent effect on the markets
and the general financial situation
and "runs" on banks virtually have
ceased. Police statistics show that
there have been 70 bankruptcy an
nouncements by Tokio business
houses since May 1, of which 10 were
capitalized at half a million yen.
- Chemical and dye works were the
hardest hit. The Mogio - Gomei
Kaisha, employing 4000 persons in
Japan and abroad, has dismissed 80
per cent of its personnel as a means
of retrenchment. The Kanagawa
Savings bank of Yokohama has been
forced to close.
THE OREGONIAN'S NEWS
SERVICE FROM THE
CONVENTION'S WILL
EXCEL.
The Oregonian will cover the
news of both of the great na
tional party conventions to be
held in June in a manner not
approached by any competitor
in its field. Mark Sullivan,
premier political writer of the
nation, will send daily reports.
James J. Montague, known to
Oregonians and one of the
country's best writers on na
tional topics, will cover the
conventions for this newspaper.
Edgar B. Piper, editor of The
Oregonian, will telegraph home
his daily impressions of con
vention events. Full Associat
ed Press reports and special
feature stories will be received
daily and published in The Ore
gonian. It will be a covering
in a big way of great events.
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Delegates Coming From
All Sections.
MANY CONTESTS PROMISED
Managers Prepare for Actual
Convention Work.
HAYS TO ARRIVE TODAY
Chairman's First Official Act .Will
Be to Entertain Correspond
ents at Luncheon.
CHICAGO. May 29. Delegates to
the republican, national convention
from all sections of the country
flocked into Chicago today. A ma
jority of the early arrivals were from
southern states and a large propor
tion were negroes contesting for
seats.
The national committee's bearing
on 137 contests will start Monday
and the arrivals "buttonholed mem
bers of the party's governing body
at every opportunity in an effort to
present advance arguments for their
claims.
Campaign managers for the an
nounced presidential aspirants were
perfecting their plans for the actual
work in the convention. Shortly after
Wood headquarters announced that
Governor H. J. Allen of Kansas had
been elected to make the principal
nominating speech for General Wood
it was announced .that George H.
Walker of Seattle had been chosen to
perform a similar office for Senator
Miles Poindexter of Washington.
Chairman Hays Due Today.
C. B. Miller, acting secretary of the
rational committee, was busy arrang
ing for the committee meeting Mon
day. Will II. Hays, national chairman of
the committee, will arrive tomorrow.
Mr. Hays' first official act will be to
entertain the newspaper correspond
ents at luncheon, when he will dis
cuss with committeemen here the se
lection of a permanent convention
chairman.
One of the problems which confront
the committee is the reducing of
oversized delegations to a size which
will permit of their being seated in
the space reserved for delegates.
According to Secretary Miller, a
majority of these cases resulted from
attempts to harmonize factions in
various states, and when the delega
tions were asked to cut down their
membership to conform to the con
vention call, the same old problems
bobbed up again.
Managers All Confident.
Undiminished confidence was re
flected in the announcements tonight
from the Louden, Wood and Johnson
mn nuct-rs The I .nivfli'n g.nmn omr.Ko-
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I sized an announcement hv .Tsirnli Ira
nian of Oklahoma that the delegates
from that state would vote solidly
for Lowden.
Hoover Headquarter Active.
The Hoover headquarters took on
added activity with thearrival of a
large force of workers from New
York. There was a steady stream of
callers at Harding headquarters.
Mayor Thompson today appointed a
committee to welcome the republican
national convention delegates. It was
announced that 2000 automobiles and
six bands had been placed at the dis
posal of the committee.
A full - fledged vice - presidential
bo .1 was launched today with the
arrival of Samuel Adams of Green
wood. Va.t editor of the American
Fruit Grower. Mr. Adams is the first
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COMMENTS IN SKETCHES BY CARTOONIST
Figures Computed Over Assump
tion That Issues of Bonds Will
Be Held to Maturity.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. May 29.
Victory liberty loan notes of the 4
per cent issue were well in the lead
of all other liberty bond issues in
interest yields based on Pacific coast
market quotations at the close of the
week's transactions at noon today, ac
cording to the weekly table of the
federal reserve bank of San Fran
cisco. Yields are computed on the
assumption that the issues will be
held to maturity, as follows:
First .liberty loan, 3 per cent In
terest; market price $91.75. approxi
mate yield, 4 per cent; first liberty
loan 4s, $85.75, 4.95 per cent; first
liberty loan 4 Us. $86.87, 5.16 per cent;
second liberty loan 4s, $86.25, 5.01 per
cent; second liberty loan is, $86.87,
5.25 per cent; third liberty loan 4 Us,
$91.25, 5.59 per cent; fourth liberty
loan 44s. $S7.87. 5.28 per cent; Victory
liberty loan 4s, $96. 6.20 per cent;
Victory liberty loan 3s, $96. 5.18 per
cent.
PRICES FALL IN OKLAHOMA
Sugar, Butter and Milk All Take
Tumble at Once.
TULSA, Okla., May 29. Foodstuffs
showed a decline here today. Sugar
dropped from 30 and 35 cents a pound
to 22 cents a pound and creamery
butter declined about 20 per cent.
Milk prices also tumbled.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
61 degrees; minimum, 45 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds.
Departments.
Editorial. Section 3, page 6.
Dramatic. Section 4, page 2.
Moving pictures. Section 4, page 4.
Real estate and building. Section 4,
page 8.
Music. Section 4, page 6.
Churches. Section 5, page 2.
Schools. Section 5, page 6.
Books. Section 5, page 3.
Garden chats. Section 4, page 5.
Automobile news. Section 6.
Women's Features.
Society. Section 3, page 1.
Women's activities. Section 4, page 7.
Fashions. Section 5, page 4.
Miss Tingle's column. Section 5, page 5
Auction brid-ge. Section 5, page 4.
Special Features.
Three cities, in Portland GO years ago.
Magazine section, page 1-
Putting Jazz in the fashions. Magazine
section, page 2.
Government employs rival grand opera
artists. Magazine section, page 3.
News of world as seen by camera. Maga
zine section, page 4.
Modern Canute rules waves. Magazine sec
tion, page o.
Startling revival of witchcraft beliefs.
Magazine section, page 6.
Admiral Sims story of the sea victory.
Magazine section, page 7.
Man In moon welcomes earthly visitors.
Magazine section. Page 7.
Hill's life sketches. Magazine section,
page 8.
Oregon forests hold wealth in herbs and
woods. Section 5, page 1.
Darling's cartoons. Section 7, page 7.
Song birds revet In Willamette village.
Section 4. page 5.
Pioneer residences make way for com
merce. Section 3, page 5.
Foreign-
Pre-elcction mud is thrown by German
press. Section 1, page 4.
Money now one of the cheapest of Russsian
products. Section 1, page 7.
National.
Mark Sullivan discusses effect of presi
dent's Oregon telegram on party. Sec
tion 1, page 6.
Soldier relief bill is passed by house. Sec
tion 1, page 6.
Senate campaign inquiry merely discredits
presidential primary. Section 1, page 2.
Events of Importance feature past, week
in congress. Section 1, page 1.
Both democrats and republicans attack
Armenian mandate request. Section 1.
page 3.
Domestic.
Wood's campaign financed by three men.
Section 1, page 1.
Railway engineers slated to walk out to
day. Section 1, page 16.
Delegates to republican convention now
gathering in Chicago. Section 1, page 1.
Liberty loan 4i bonds at market price
will yield 6.20 interest. Section 1,
page 1.
Methodist Episcopal church conference
held progressive. Section 1, page 3.
Debs in prisons garb formally accepts so
cialist nomination for president. Sec
tion 1, page 1.
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Organization of Campaign to Elim
inate Pests Started Klam
ath Region Also Hit.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or. May 29.
(Special.) Grasshoppers are destroy
ing: rye and crops at the rate of 100
acres daily in the Malin district, near
the California line, says E. H. Thomas,
Luunij agncuiiurai agenu 1 no in
sects are now hatching: and have only
become active in the last few days.
Their attacks have been scattered
over such a wide area that they are
not at once noticeable and ranchers
have been slow to realize the great
injury that is being- done.'
A mass meeting will be held to
morrow at Malin to co-ordinate all
forces for an extermination campaign.
Arsenic mixed with bran and molasses
has proved effective in destroying the
pests.
Grasshoppers have also appeared on
the marsh lands around upper Klam
ath lake in numbers and threaten to
destroy from $20,000 to $30,000 worth
of crops if not checked.
HEIGHT RECORD BROKEN
Pilot and Four Passengers Ascend
19,856 Feet.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex., May 29. An
other world's record for altitude was
said to have been broken at Kelly
field yesterday, whe,n Lieutenant
Harry Weddington took a D Haviland
airplane to a height of approximate
ly 19,856 feet with four passengers.
Domestic.
Politics glows in North Dakota. Section
1. page 4.
Convention recrod held by Chicago coli
seum. Section 1, page 12.
Pacific Northwewt.
Nugent is In control of Idaho democrats.
Section 1, page 8.
Stockmen hold convention at Burns. Sec
tion 1, page 11.
Salem Shrine club to be host June 23. Sec
tion 1, page 9.
Grasshoppers attack crops near CaMfornia
line. Section 1, Page 1.
Sports.
Oregon captures northwest meet. Section
2, page 1.
Willard Wells of Portland, wins Ameri
can 220-yard hurdle title. Section 1,
page 1
Coast league results: Portland 6. Sacra
mento 3; Seattle 3-6, Salt Lake 12-3;
Los Angeles 2, Vernon 3; San Francisco
o, Oakland 4. Section 2, page 2.
Rival suburbs of Irvington and Alameda
rark to meet on Multnomah field dia
- mond June 4. Section 2, page 3.
50 games listed on semi-pro card today
and Monday. Section 2. page 3.
Shannon, whom Benjamin is to meet. Is
one of foremost ligM weights. Section
2. page 3.
Oregon ends year leading northwest. Sec
tion 2, page 3.
Next two months filled for golfers. Sec
tion 2, page 4.
Dundee not eager to fight Leonard. Sec
tion 2, page .
All-star scholastic team picked for 1920
season, section J, page 4.
Aggies have fond hopes for 1921 baseball
. season. Section II, page 6.
Junior tennis players to have title play
mis weeK. section z, page o.
beat t He Crystal Swimming club team
takes P. N. A. meet. Section 1, page
1M.
Commercia I an d M ari ne.
Wheat will not be traded In on local board
at present, beet ion 1, page 10.
Chicago corn averages higher owing to
Argentine reports. Section 1, page 19
Railway stocks strong feature of Wall
street market. Section 1, page 19.
Twelve large vessels listed by one com
pany for Portland harbor during June.
Section 1 , page 1 8.
Portland and Vicinity.
"Advertise Oregon" now necessity, declares
Julius L. Meter. Section 1, page 15.
Mowell boy intends dedicating life to de
fending others against circumstantial
evidence. Section 1, page- 1.
D. J. Cooper appears elected delegate.
Section i , page 1 1 .
Father CHara gets transfer to Eugene.
Section I, page 10.
am ail nnnrt (ri-inH VAaiti Kit f A a. U.
I tsiators most active zor programme,
I Section 1, page 14.
j Office of constable declared parasitical.
I section 1, page t.
i Mannix to protest seating of McCam&nt
1 as republican delegate. Section 1,
page to.
Three Portland boys going to naval acad
emy and one to West Point. Section 1,
page i.
Portland assuming world leadership In
outdoor rote culture. Section 1, page 13
Conference of American Legion represen
tatives caned lor June 12. Section 1
' page 14.
Portland to honor soldier dead today.
section i , page
PERRY ON SOME RECENT NEWS EVENTS.
m
Local Athlete Defeats
American Hurdlers.
PERFORMANCE IS SURPRISE
Former Columbia Sprinter
Now Olympic Possibility.
MERCHANT WINS SHOT PUT
Eight Men From Pacific Coast
Score More Points Than
V. S. Meet Winners.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. Hay 29.
(Special.) Jess 'Wells, captain of the
Leland Stanford track team, whose
home is in Portland, Or., won the in
tercollegiate championship of Amer
ica on Franklin field today in the 220-
yard low hurdles event. Wells' per
formance came as a surprise in view
of the fact that at the start of the
final heat he was pitted against Earl
Thomson, the Dartmouth timber top
per, who had earlier in the afternoon
set a new world's record of 12-5
seconds for the 120 high hurdles. The
best Thomson, who is of Canadian
birth, could get was a second to Wells
In the low hurdle race, which was
won by the Stanford representative
in the remarkably fast time of 23 4-5
seconds, the best time he has ever
shown in that event.
Aside from winning: the low hurd
les championship, making- hfm the
strongest contender for this event to
compete in the Olympics at Antwerp
this summer. Wells finished third in
the 100 yard dash. He had qualified
to compete in the final of the high
hurdles, but at the advice of Coach
Slaloney decided to drop out of the
fast field and reserve energry for the
220 distance. It proved to be bene
ficial for the Portland athlete, as he
beat the field by yards. Watt of
Cornell, had been picked by experts
to win the 220 timbers.
Coast Total In' Lara-eat.
The University of Pennsylvania
track and field team won the inter
collegiate championship by a score of
30'As points, in the closest contest
ever staged by the association.
Princeton was second with 29 points.
Dartmouth third with 24; Cornell
fourth with 20; California fifth with
18Vi and Stanford sixth with 15. The
eight men representing the two
Pacific coast universities scored 33M
points, sufficient to have won the
meet had they been competing for
one institution.
Wells was the busiest athlete of
the afternoon. He started early by
placing in the century semi-final
after which he immediately placed in
his semi-final heat of the 220 hur
dles. Then, as time wore on, he
placed in the final of the 100-yard
sprint and also worked up to the
semi-final of the high hurdles. To
finish it all he carried off first prize
in the low timbers as aforesaid.
Of the 15 points scored by his
three-man team from Stanford. Wells
contributed eight "while Templeton
finished second in the high jump and
third in the broad. Kirksey, of Le
land Stanford, who had been picked to
win the century, suffered from a
strained muscle in his semi-final
trial and dropped out.
Merchant Wins Hammer Throw.
John W. Merchant, who had been
expected 'to break the intercollegiate
hammer throw record of 15 feet
inch, failed to do so although he
won today with a heave of 159 feet
2 inches. He placed fifth in the
running broad jump. Merchant is a
resident of Marshfield, Or., compet-
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K"EEP YOOV Or"W CHVCXE-t s
ft
Agreeruent as to National Water
Power Policy Among Matters
of Greatest Interest.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, "Wash
ington. May 29. The week In con
gress was marked by several big
events. One of special note was the
final agreement on a national water
power policy for the United States as
embraced in the water power bill,
the conference report on which was
accepted by the senate yesterday.
During the week congress received
the president's message asking au
thority to accept a mandate over Ar
menia.The message was received
with coolness, indicating at once that
the proposal would be rejected.
Another measure passed by the
house provides for vocational rehabil
itation of persons injured in industry
under a system of federal supervision
in co-operation with the states. The
bill already had passed the senate.
The budget bill was finally agreed
upon by conference of the two houses
and the national budget system will
soon become an actuality.
A measure passed by the house and
sent to the senate provides for tne
exemption of liberty bonds up to
$125,000 from war profits taxes for
a period of two years following the
president's proclamation of peace.
Thereafter for three years liberty
bonds up to $50,000 would enjoy the
same exemption.
The passage of a bill for the re
habilitation of persons injured in in
dustry already has been mentioned,
and in view of recent attacks made
by President Gompers of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor upon the
present congress, it is worthy of note
that during the wetk the Johnson
Nolan minimum wage bill for govern
ment employes was passed by the
senate. The house disposed of it
some time ago.
Senate and house conferees reached
agreements on the army and navy
appropriation bills and the senate
passed the sundry civil bill, carrying
appropriations totaling $440,500,000. -
A favorable report was ordered by
the senate agriculture committee on
the McNary bill placing an export
embargo on sugar and it was agreed
to take up the Gronna packer bill in
the senate on June 5.
Failure of the house to override
President Wilana'a veto of the Knox
resolution leav. the peace status of
the United States and Germany where
it has been since the armistice was
signed, and nothing can be done until
.the White House either moves to ne
gotiate a new treaty or sends the old
one back to the senate.
WEEK GENERALLY FAIR
Xornial Temperatures to Prevail
in Pacific Coast States.
WASHINGTON. May 29. "Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Monday are:
Northern Rocky Mountain and
plateau regions Generally fair with
a rise to normal temperature after
Monday or Tuesday.
Pacific states Generally fair with
nearly normal temperatures.
AGRICULTURAL BILL WINS
Senate Adopts Conference Report.
Measure "ow Up to President.
"WASHINGTON, May 29. The sen
ate today adopted the conference re
port on the annual agricultural bill,
receding from its proposed amend
ment which would have eliminated
the free distribution of seeds by mem
bers of congress.
The bill now goes to the president.
FEDERAL BUDGET PASSES
McCormick-Good Bill Now Goes to
President Wilson.
WASHINGTON. May 29. With a
record vote 'the house adopted late
today the conference report on the
McCormick-Good bill providing for a
federal budget system.
The bill now goes to the president.
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LIFE WILL BE DEDICATED
Lad Plans to Wage War on
Circumstantial Evidence.
YOUTH VISITS PORTLAND
Reported Threats Against Life of.
Defendant in Leuthold Case
Are Discredited.
Out of the harrowing experience of
facing three different juries on a
charge of murder, 15-year-old Harold
Howell has reached one firm and un
shakable determination.
He is going to be a lawyer and de
vote his life to criminal practice.
And when, in years to come, other
boys or other men are held on charges
of murder through circumstantial evi
dence alone, he is going to use all his
energy and all his talents toward pro
curing for them that same verdict
which came recently like a benedic
tion to his ears "not guilty."
Fair-haired, and with full, frank
eyes wherein no sign of fear can be
seen to lurk, this lad of the woods
told a straightforward story of his
lack of connection with the murder
of 16-year-old Lillian Leuthold in the
little town of Bandon last July, and
for which crime he was three times
tried and held in jail for nearly ten
months until the third Jury pro
nounced him Innocent and gave-hrfnv-.
J his freedom.
Youth Is YinMing- Portland.
Accompanied by his father and
mother. Harold is visiting for a few
days in Portland with close friends
of the family. He will return this
week to Monmouth where he plans to
enter school this fall and continue
the schocil'sjr which was brought to
a dramatic interruption last summer
when he was placed under arrest and
charged formally with the murder of
Lillian Leuthold.
"It's an awful thing to have this
smirch on my life, but I am deter
mined to live it down and amount to
something," insisted the Howell boy
as he discussed the case which at
tracted widespread attenti through
out the state.
"I know in my own heart I am
innocent, and I honestly believe that
some time in the future the truth
about the murder will become known
and those friends of the girl and her
family who- now condemn me will
then know that I have said nothing
but the truth from first to last.
Prartlce of Liw la Goal.
"I have made up my mind to be
come a lawyer because I believe I
can do more for humanity by de
fending others who are charged with
murder on circumstantial evidence
alone, as I was. To me it seems a
horrible thing to accuse any person
of murder on nothing but circum
stantial evidence, as I was accused."
So far as his .intended legal train
ing is concerned, Harold has already
taken rapid strides toward a general
knowledge of the law. As he dis
cussed the case frankly and without
hesitation, time and again he would
refer to the various bits of evidence
either for or against himself and dis
cuss it as to its value in establishing
"a reasonable doubt."
"From the very day I was arrested
until I left the stand for the last
time at the third trial the prosecu
tion never fried to impeach my tes
timony nor did they attempt to black
en my character," he asserted. "I was
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