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VOL. XXXIX XO. 41
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Postoffice a Second-Clawi Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1920
PRICE TEN CENTS
DEMOCRATIC COUP
$192,853;696 ERROR
IN RATE RISE CHARGED
NEW LINE TO HELP
BAN PUT ON WHEAT
SALES TO LIFT PRICE
HARDING FOR LEAGUE,
TAFT REPLIES TO COX
CLEVELAND WINS
UNO EVENS SERIES
MAN FIRES AT BIRDS;
YOUTH, 21, IS KILLED
EVANGELIST HUNTING WITH
SENATE FEARED
HE'S NO BIGAMIST
MISCALCCLATIOX IX FREIGHT
INCREASES ALLEGED.
RATIFICATION WITH RESERVA
TIONS IS PREDICTED.
SON WHEN SLAIN. ,
ALDRICH
INSISTS
LUMBER
INDUSTRY
V
Republicans Lulled Into
False Security.
DANGERS 'NOW DEVELOPING
Harding Elected, Senate Re
fractory, Visioned.
OPPONENTS QUIETLY BUSY
Over-Con fidence AYriero Work Was
Necessary May Mean Loss of
Cppcr House Control.
OREGON1AN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, Oct. 9. Under cover of
nation-wide republican enthusiasm
over the presidential outlook for No
vember, the democratic leaders are
planning: some genuine surprises. -
While Will H. Hays, national re
publican chairman, and some of his
lieutenants are talking in large fig
ures about the terrific landslide that
is to sweep Warren G. Harding into
the White House, democratic manag
ers, quietly and with a Bmile. are
slipping out Into the country to grab
off a few seats in the senate with
the hope of doing much to dim the
glory of the great republican victory
expected to be flashed over the wires
three weeks from next Tuesday
night. 1
Republican managers have been so
busy reading the returns from Maine
and from straw ballots taken In all
parts of the country showing Hard
ing leading all the way from two to
one to ten to one that quite gen
erally they have forgotten that a re
publican president with a democratic
senate would bo considerably less
than half a victory.
Leader Too Confident.
Well, here is what has been going
on: Out in South Dakota the repub
licans nominated Governor J.'orbeck
for the United States senate and the
democrats named U. S. G. Cherry,
the tall Individual jvjth Jjlackjwhis
kers who nominated Gerard at" San
Francisco. Senator Johnson, demo
crat, declined to be a candidate again.
Everything looked easy for Norbeck
and the republican leaders took little
memorandum books out of their
pockets and calmly made' thiB nota
tion: "South Dakota, republican Benator,
gain of one."
Then those republicans who do
business at the spacious headquarters
in Chicago and New York shouted to
the rest of the country "It's all over
hut counting the votes." In the mean
time. However, a complication arose.
South Dakota has a very prominent
republican named Richards, who is
the author of the freak primary law
known as the Richards law. Rich
ards ran for the republican nomina
tion for governor and lost, but he
polled 30,000 votes.
Independent Now Menace.
a. snort time alter the primary
Richards discovered that he liked
running for office so wefl that .he
came out as an Independent ' candi
date for the senate, which interferes
seriously with the republican jros
pects for a senator in that state. Al
though there are no signs of an awak
ening either in -the republican head
' quarters in New York or Chicago, It
is admitted by those who are familiar
with the situation in South Dakota
that an independent republican who
can command 30,000 votes in the pri
maries in a state which is only nor
mally about 10.000 republican is some
what of a menace to the party out
look.
Wisconsin Outlook Hazy.
After the renomination 6f Irvin L.
Lcnroot in Wisconsin republican lead
er; again took one glance at the Wis
(Coniinuert on Pag 3. Column 2.)
Mot so a.A.
Kansas Court of Ind-uM-har Rela
tions Gives Opinion )n Grant-
ins: Modified Scale.
TOPEKA, Kan., Oct. 9. An asser
tion that the interstate commerce
commission made an apparent error
of $102. 853. 696 in the calculation upon
which it fixed the freight rate in
crease on western roads to give the
roads a per cent return was made
in an opinion granting a modified 30
per cent increase in Kansas intrastate
rates by the Kansas court of indus
trial relations, handed down here to
night. "The error is of such magnitude as
to challenge attention," the opinion
stated, "and brings up-'for considera
tion whether the basis used in the
analysis is correct. It may be said
here that the identical analysis ap
plied to other groups shows a result
within a fraction of 1 per cent of the
rate increase ordered by the inter
6tate commerce commission.
"The same valuation used in the
eastern district shows an increase of
38.705 per cent of increase 'in freight
rates to be necessary and a 40 per
cent increase was ordered by the in
terstate commerce commission. In
the southern district this calculation
shows an increase of 24.53 per cent
in freight rates and 25 per cent was
ordered."
The ' court then submits a table
showing that in the western district
the percentage of increase necessary
to yield 6 per cent -return on the in
vestment was 24.53 per cent. The
table then shows that the interstate
commerce commission allowed freight
Increase of 35 per cent, which would
net $631,354,595, or $192,853,696 above
that necessary for the 6 per cent
return.
HUMAN PEDIGREES URGED
Plan to Register Perfect Bodies Is
Advocated by Physicians.
ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 9. The In
ternational Alliance of Physicians and
Surgeons, the National Association of
Progressive Medicine and two other
affiliated bodies in annual convention
here today advocated a plan to have
bodies perfect in human beings reg
istered and pedigreed, the same as
high-class "thoroughbreds of the
lower animals."
Dr. H. Lorgenbesser of New York
was elected president.
RAIN WEEK'S FORECAST
.Normal Temperature to Prevail on
Coast; Pair In Rockies.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Monday are:
Northern Rocky mountain and pla
teau regions Generally fair, but with
a prooaouity ot ram Tuesday or
Wednesday, to be followed by con
siderably cooler weather.
Pacific states Generally fair in
central California" and unsettled, with
occasional " rains, . 'elsewhere; normal
temperature.
30 DIE IN PARIS WRECK
Fifty Injured When Express. Rams
Freight Train.
PARIS, Oct. 9. Thirty or more per
sons were killed and 50 injured today
when the Paris-Nantes express, ran
into a freight train. The accident
occurred about four miles from Mai-sons-Laf
itte, at the Paris suburban
station of Houilles.
Twenty-five or 30 Codies have been
removed, while not less than 50 in
jured have been transported to hos
pitals in Paris.
CAMPAIGN FUNDS TAXABLE
Contributors Cannot Deduct Dona
tions From Income Returns.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. Contribu
tions to political campaign funds are
taxable. Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Williams declared today.
In a statement he advised members
of all parties that they will not be
allowed to deduct amounts given to
campaign funds from their income
tax returns.
he
Route. Is. From. Portland
to New York City.
GIANT TERMINAL UNDER WAY
Project to Relieve Critical
Northwest Situation.
BOATS TO RUN TO NORWAY
Cargoes-Will Be Carried From Pa
cific Ports to Denmark and Re
turn; Millions in Backing.
Announcement of plans which, it is
believed, will entail vital and far-
reaching betterment of the shipping
situation in general and the lumber
situation in particular in the north
west through vthe establishment of a
steamship line operating direct from
Portland and other northwest ports
to a gigantic terminal known as the
Fulton terminal, located on the Jer
sey side of Greater New York and
now actually under construction, was
made yesterday by George Quayle,"
general secretary of the Oregon
state chamber of commerce. Relief
for the critical lumber situation in
the northwest Is in prospect for the
near future.
Plane have been in progress for
more than a year, initiated and spon
sored by Senator Thomle of Everett,
Wash., who was largely instrumental
in establishing the Norwegian line of
steamers in Everett and toward the
establishment of another line operat
ing from ports of the northwest to
the Fulton terminal. This line of
boats will also run to Norway and
carry commodities from the Pacific
coast, touching at the Fulton ter
minal, then to Norw:jv' with a re
turn cargo from Norway and Den
mark to New York and the west
coast.
Scheme Has Biff Backing.
..The iprojec.t -crystal iaed last week
through the announcement of the or
ganization of the International Char
terers - corporation in New York,
which is backed by some of the larg
est business and banking interests of
the east, including railway transpor
tation, together with some of the
larger financial interests of Great
Britain and Norway, according to
communications received by Mr.
Qualye.
Briefly, the facts concerning the
acquisition and development of the
Fulton terminal, which, it is said,
will immeasurably increase the ter
minal faeilities of New York and
greatly simplify the handling of lum
ber from the Pacific coast via -the
Panama canal through the Interna
tional Charterers corporation steam
ship line, are these, according to Mr.
Quayle:
Through the port of New York
passes more than 50 per cent of the
country's exports and imports, and
one-tenth of the manufactures are
located in the Greater New York
area. There is now a population of
approximately 8.000.000 persons with
in this area. Its -industrial develop
ment is increasing at a rapid pace
and it is a well-known fact that the
terminal facilities are entirely inade
quate for the economical and prompt
handling of the Immense commerce
passing through Its gates and con
sumed by its industries and popu
lation. Some of the largest business an'd
financial interests in New York have
located and are now developing an
immense terminal project, the Fulton
terminal, on the Jersey .side 61
Greater New York just across the
Hudson river from Manhattan Island,
extending from Thirty - second to
Eighty-second streets and comprising
(Concluded on Pace 4, Column 3.)
PICTORIAL COMMENTS BY CARTOONIST
- n the. clouds roll BY
ORDER CALLS FOR SELLING TO
END AT 5 P. M., OCT. 2 5.
Proclamation Issued by Association
Comprising Membership of
70,000 in 5 States.
WICHITA, Kan., Oct. 9. The Wheat
Growers' association of the United
States, with a membership of 70,000
in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas. Nebras
ka and South Dakota, has issued from
its office here a proclamation to all
Its members urging them to refrain
from selling any wheat after S P. M.
October 25 until such time as the
price of good wheat is raised to $3 a
bushel at growers" terminal markets.
Agricultural colleges, farm bureaus,
state boards of agriculture and simi
lar organizations are urged to co
operate with the association in its
effort to raise the price of wheat.
The proclamation is Signed by W.
F. McMichael, national president, and
W. H MeGreevy, national secretary.
The proclamation a'dds:
"We urgently invite national and
slate officers of all farm organiza
tions of the United States and Can
ada to adopt and indorse this proc
lamation and action and to1 take such
necessary steps to inform wheat
growers of this movement and in
duce them to act in unison and har
mony syith all- wheat producers
throughout North America to the end
that the price may be advanced and
(Concluded on Page 10, Column 4.)
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather. 1
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 65
degrees; minimum, 50 degrees.
TODAY'S Unsettled weather; probably
rain; southerly winds.
Dfiwrtments.
Editorial. Section 3, page 8.
Dramatic. Section 4. page 4.
Motion pictures. Section 4. page 2.
Real estate- and buildings. Section 4.
page 10.
Music. Section 4, page 6.
Churches. Section 6, page 2.
Schools. Section 5, page 10.
Books. Section 5, page 3.
Garden chats. Section 5. page 11.
Automobile news. . Section 6.
Women's Features. ,
Society. Section 3, page 2.
Women's activities. Section 4, page 8.
Fashions. Section 3. page 4.
Miss Tingle's column. Section 5, page 8.
Auction bridge. Section 3. page 5.
Special Features.
Oregon has millions of feathered tourists.
Magazine section, page 1.
Can a dead wife be Jealous.? Magazine
section, page 2.
Tbe beauty battle of the nations. Maga
' zine section, page 3.
Newe ot the frortd In pictures. Magazine
section, pas
Talks with Roosevelt,
page 5.
Magazine section,
Pastor is jac-k of all trades. - Magazine
section, page t
Sculptor finds there is a better art com
ing. Magazine . section, page t.
Hill's cartoons, "Among Us Mortals,
Magazine section, page 8.
Addison Bennett's Oregon waterways se
ries. Section 5, page 1.
Bronze statue of Evangeline unveiled. Sec
tlon 5, page 7.
Ellin Inland is door to paradise. Section
5. page 9. -
Darling's cartoons. ' Section 5, page 11.
Botanical series on common weeds. Sec
tlon 4. page 3. -
Travel with Irvln Cobb is like comedy.
Section 3, page- 10.
, Politics.
Hover pleads for defeat of democrats in
speech at Indianapolis. Section 1,
page 4.
Political campaign war ma up this week
with tour o state by speakers. Section
1. page
Nation-wide straw vote forecasts landslide
for Harding. Section 1. page SO.
Representative McArthur declares radicals
leagued to defeat him. Section 1,
page 21.
Republicans, lulled into false security. In
dangerVif losing senate control. Sec
ion 1 page t.
Ex-'President Taft in reply to Cox declares
league will be ratified with reservations
if Harding is elected. Section 1. page 1.
United States d'ozes while allies grab warns
Harding. Section 1, page 9.
Republican aim Is to obtain power in con
gress, section l, page z.
Cox charges Roosevelt Jr. with misstate
ments regarding league. Section 1
page 2.
Mayor Baker cites Jong record of results.
Section 1, page 1 1.
Foreign.
President Wilson misled by Europe, de
Clares Premier Nlttl. Section 1, page 5.
Russia sealed to port-war tourists. Section
1, page 7.
Premier Lloyd George justifies police re
prisala in Ireland. Section 1, page 3,
National,
Red Cross is extending service. Section 1
pasje 6.
ffrs Aw --
Ex-President Expresses Bitter Dis
appointment Over Wilson's At
titude on Covenant.
.VANCOUVER. B. C. Oct. 9. Elec
tion of Senator Warren G. Harding
to the presidency of the United States
will mean the ultimate ratification of
the league of nations, with reserva
tions, and "the elimination of all fur
ther dispute," William Howard Taft,
ex-president of the United States, de
clared upon his arrival here today at
the head of the arbitration board of
the Grand Trunk Pacific railway.
Mr. Taft said that while he was
personally in favor of the league of
nations and was willing to accept it as
presented by President Wilson, with
article 10, he added that he was "bit
terly disappointed when the president
did not accept the reservations, voted
by the republicans, who, with a few
democrats, constituted a majority in
the senate. He said recent statements
of Lord Grey in a letter to the Times
at the time the reservations were un
der discussion indicated that there
"was no doubt that the United States
could have entered the league with
the consent of the other nations."
With Mr. Taft. as members of the
Grand Trunk arbitration board, which
is taking a valuation of the physical
assets of that line in connection with
(Concluded on Page 10, Column 4.)
Dmnetitir.
Ban. put on selling of wheat In order to
raise price to S3. Section 1, page 1.
Balloting for hall of fame closes. Section
1, page 6.
f 192.S33,A!tR error in calculatin-g freight
rate increases is alleged. Section 1,
Page 1.
Three arrests made In San Francisco on
on liquor theift plot charge. Section
1 page 22.
Farific Northwest.
Seattle offers four plans to cure industrial
Ills. Secftbn 1. page 20.
Sweeping changes noted in development of
coast " logging Industry. Section 1.
page 8. I
Neil Hart will be 23th to hang at Salem.
section 1, page 8.
Propagation of valuable sockeye salmon
reported success In Washington. Sec
tion 1, page 11.
Disaster to Oregon predicted from 3 per
cent interest MIL Section 1. page 10.
Olympia hlphuildln-g firm sued for more ,
tnan lu.uoo.uou by united states. sec
tion 1, page 22.
Alaska girl goes back home to teach. Sec
tion 1, page 4.
Commercial and Marine.
Indications of manipulation of wheat mar
ket arouse farmers Section 1, pa-ge 2o.
All grains are firmer at Clritago with light
country offrings. Section 1, page 23.
Professional veiling weakens Wall street
'Stocks. Section 1, page 23.
Record's for grain shipments! from north -
wee porta are broken. Section 2,
page 22.
Oriental markets wait proper advances
from Pacific coast. Section 2. page 22.
United States engineers In Portland en
thusiastic over waterway developments.
Section 2, page 22.
' ports.
Pacific roast league results; Portland 2,
Oakland 3; Vernon 7. Salt Lake 3:
Sacramento 1, San Francisco 0; Seattle
11-2. L.os Angeles 2-2. Section 2,
page 3. '
Aquatic murks are being lowered each
year. Section 2. page 2.
Indians land hard on Brooklyn's star
twirlers. Section 2. page 1.
Oregon university eleven beats Multnomah
club, 7 to 0. Section 2. page 2.
Cleveland defeats Brooklyn 3 to 1 and
evens up series. Section 1. page 1.
Olympic committee hotly denounced by
Thelma Payne, back from Belgium.
Section 2. page 4.
Promoters always sure of McCarthy. Sec
tion 1, page 3.
Minnesota eliminated by Northwestern
from ig ten football race . Section 2,
page 2.
Stanford football outlook gloomy. , Sec
tion 2, Page 3.
Miss Alexa Stirling of Atlanta wins wo
men's national golf title. Section 2,
page 4.
Football interest at CorvalHs never mora
keen. Section 2, page 4.
Portland and Vicinity.
Dr. Wiley scores refinement of cereals.
Section 1. page 13.
Alleged bigamist insists he's not guilty
despite proof police say is conclusive.
Section 1, page 1.
Thousands see biggest fire-prevention pa
rade ever staged in Portland. Section
1. page 14. .
Eighty business men to make eastern Ore
gon trade trip. Section 1. page 18.
California ready to finish Crescent. City
Grants Pass highway. Section 1.
page 10.
Municipal council appeals to voters to ap
prove extra 3-mill tax proposal at
November election. Section 1. page 11.
Musicians' union tries to 'get Injunction.
Section -1. pa-ge 10.
New steamer line to aid lumber industry.
Section 1, page 1. .
PERRY ON SOME TOPICS IN THE NEWS.
Brooklyn Pitchers Are Hit
for 5-1 Loss.
CQVELESKIE IS AIR-TIGHT
Boisterous Crowd Makes Lots
of Noise at Game.
AUTO GIVEN ' JOHNSON
Battle Howl of Tribe Echoes Back
and Forth, but Not Loud
Enough to Drown Bats.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.
Baseball Editor New York Tribune. '
CLEVELAND, O.. Oct. 9 (Special.)
The Cleveland Indians removed the
dusty blinkers from their batting eyes
today and In the midst of a terrific
uproar stopped the peppery dodgers
by the elastic count of S to 1 while
30.000 ecstatic fanatics raised the
merry dickens from beginning; to end.
Stanley Coveleskie took on a long
and winding parade of Brooklyn
pitchers and then' outpitched the en
tire caravan by a decisive edge.
Your Uncle Wilbert Robinson called
on Cadore Mamaux, Marquard and
Pfeffer in turn but unfortunately he
had no one to call on who could break
through Coveleskie's baffling: defense.
The earnest Pole again employed
his copyrighted score of five hits and
one run which he adopted as his of
ficial output in the first game of the
series. Fair enough for a trademark.
Seriea Stand Even Now,
As a result of this sprightly turn,
the standing is now two games for
Brooklyn and two for Oleveland.
The crowd . today was riotously
rampant and boisterous.
The big crowd came in cheering
and whooping things up and it never
stopped.
In the preliminaries the fajas not
only said it with flowers but with
automobiles, for after a big floral of
fering . naa been hung around Tris
Speaker, someone presented Doc
Johnston with a car.
lBis fourth game was a return to
the flur of old-fashioned world ser
ies days berore the crooks began to
ply. their trade. The battle howl of
the tribe echoed back and forth across
the park and when'the Cleveland as
sault began upon Leon Cadore in the
first inning, this battle howl In
cieuat;u in volume, attaining nnisv
heights.
But as loud as n was the racket
was not sufficiently sonorous to
drown out the ratanan of Cleveland
bats. The Indians chased Cadore. and
Mamaux in quick succession and by
the time Rube Marquard had been
released from custody on the charge
of scalping tickets the contest was
over with Coveleskie at the top of his
stride.
Headlong assaults in the first and
third innings turned the trick. There
was no fiddling or sparring this time
on the part of the Cleveland slug
gers. They got to Cadore before Leon
knew that war had been .declared and
before the second inning was over
the trickling shower was cooling his
seary frame,
Brooklyn Assault Stemmed.
Mamaux followed and stemmed the
tide. With the temperature soft
enough to leave overcoats back home,
the sky was blue enough to write
sonnets about it if any sonneteers
were so inclined as blue as Brooklyn
hearts after Cleveland's opening sa
lute. Covey evidently knew this
game was vital to Cleveland's hopes.
It meant a landslide If he failed and
until his mates gave him a four-run
lead he turned the Dodgers upside
down with his terrific speed and his
fast breaking spitter.
For three Innings he rolled back
Continued on Page 3, Column 1.)
Charge of Shot Lodges In. Back of
Head at Close Range; Sports
man Excited.
'"YAKIMA. Wash.. Oct. 9. Arthur
Bulgin, 21, son of Rev. E. J. Bulgin,
widely known evangelist, was shot
and instantly killed about, 8 o'clock
this morning while hunting with four
other men on the Burlingame ranch
about two miles north of the town
of Outlook in this county. Rev. Mr.
Bulgin, father of the young man, was
one of the hunting party.
According to telephone messages
from Sunnyside, young Bulgin was
killed by a charge from the gun of
another member of the party who in
the excitement of getting up a covey
of birds fired a charge of shot into
the back of Bulgin's head at close
range.
Young Bulgin's wife is in New York
and his mother is in Chjcago. it was
stated. He was a singer of ability
and came to Sunnyside with his
father two weeks' ago to assist the
latter in a series of revival meetingt,
in which he led the singing".
The acting coroner at Sunnyside
tonight stated that Ralph Lyons, a
member of the hunting party with
Arthur Bulgin at the time he was
killed, had made an affidavit that to
the best of his knowledge and belief
a shot from his gun killed Bulgin.
ARMY POLO PLAYER HURT
Lt.-Col. Spike Hennessey Thrown
.From Pony Last Minutes of Play.
LOUISVILLE. Ky., Oct. 9. With the
victory won and only a few minutes
to play, F. B. "Spike" Hennessey,
lieutenant - colonel. Camp Jackson.
S. C, was thrown from his pony and
dragged across the field today during
polo same with the Camp Knox
team. The officer's head struck the
side boards and he was unconscious
when taken away. At the Camp Knox
tsaspital it was thought that the in
juries were serious.
The Jackson team won, 12 to 0, and
clinched the polo championship of
the 5th army corps area.
NOBLE WINS RUSTIC LASS
Baron-to-Be to Wed Daughter of
Village Blacksmith.
LONDON, Oct. 9. Announcement of
the betrothal of the Honorable Luisjand marked ner the following Satur
Chandos Francis Temple, master of
Klnloss and heir presumptive to the
title of baron of .Kinloss. to Miss
Kathertne Jackman, a country girl of
moderate' means, is made in the Dally
Mirror.
The bride-elect is the daughter of
the village blacksmith, whose cottage
and forge are just outside the gates
of the Kinloss homestead.
The report has created a sensation
in this city.
MONTANA LACKS COAL
Mines Asked to Supply State Deal
ers Before Shipping Kast.
HELENA, Mont., Oct. 9. The Mon
tana railroad commission telegraphed
all coal producers in Montana today
calling upon them to give Montana
dealers preference in coal shipments,
instead of shipping the coal to east
ern states.
The board declares Montana con
sumers are already beginning to guf
fer from lack of coal. The operators
are declared to be far behind in their
orders to Montana dealers.
DRAGNET MAY SNARE REDS
Plot to Overthrow Government
Promises National Arrests.
CHICAGO, Oct. 9. Arrest of men
said to have been connected with the
alleged plot to overthrow the govern
ment, disclosed by seizure of two
radicals here Wednesday night, has
been asked of federal agents in
nearly, a dozen cities.
Agents in Los Angeles, Denver, St.
Paul, Kansas City, New York and
other places are expected to make
arrests, it was said today.
Federal agents were sent yesterday
in search of certain men in Illinois
and Indiana.
Portland Police Declare
They Have Proof.
BAD CHECK TRAIL ADMITTED
Ex-Navy Lieutenant Asserts
He Never Heard of Girl. '
DRINKING BOUT RELATED
He Rcmemlicrs Passing Phony
Money, but Xo Seven-Day Court
ship, Says ex-Officer.
In face of what local officials as
sert is positive proof of his guilt as a
bigamist, Glenn T. Aldrich, ex-lieuten
ant. United States navy, and con
fessed bad check passer of Chicago,
still maintained his innocense of the
bigamy charge in the city jail yes
terday. ,
Telegraphic dispatches from Chi
cago, supplemented by letters from
the Chicago police department, accuse
Aldrich of marrying Miss Lillian
Dombrow, 18. of 1168 Wesley avenue.
Oak Park. 111., August 28 last, and of
his second marriage, 10 days later, to
Miss Esther Carlson, also of Chicago,
at Great Falls. Mont. The second
marriage occurred September 7.
"I never heard of this Dombrow
girl before this minute," Aldrich told
a reporter for The Orcgonian in the
city jail yesterday. "1 admit I was
on a two-weeks' drunk in Chicago,
during which time I passed 'phony'
paper for about $1800. but I have no
recollection of marrying any girl
while I was drunk."
Seven-Day Courtahtn Chanced.
In spite of this denial the Portland
detective bureau yesterday received
information that Aldrich married the
wealthy Oak Park girl after a whirl
wind courtship of less than a week.
He met the girl at a week-end house
party, according to Chicago advices.
day night.
He represented himself to Oak Fark
residents as a lieutenant-commander
in the navy, the information states,
and told his bride that he was under
secret orders from Secretary Daniels
of the navy department to leave at
once for the Pacific coast to investi
gate the Japanese situation.
Reports received by the Portland
police Bay that all the expenses of an
expensive wedding were paid by Aid-
rich with spurious checks. A big wed
ding party at the Hotel La Salle coal
in the neighborhood of $f.00. He paid
it with a check which, it is alleged,
was later protested by the bank on
which it was drawn.
Tnxt Company Holds Check.
After the wedding, Aldrich, in the
uniform of a lieutenant-commander,
drove up to his bride's home in a
limousine with a liveried chauffeur,
information from Chicago discloses.
The machine was the property of the
Franco-A merican Auto Livery com
pany which, it is alleged, cashed his
check for $400.
After Aldrich left his alleged Chi
cago bride, three days after the mar
riage, he came west. At Great Falls
he married Esther Carlson. He admits
this marriage and asserts he had been
engaged to her for a year.
After he had left his Great Falls
bride and gone to Seattle, he wrote
to his Chicago bride, according to a
report from Chicago, and told hia
first wife he never wanted to see
her again and for her to get their
marriage annulled. This letter is de
clared now to be in the possession of
the Chicago girl.
Montana 'Wife Faithful.
Deputy District Attorney Deich
questioned Aldrich at length yester
day afternoon, but ne would givo no
information of any character con
cerning his alleged bigamy. He says
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