fe 84 Pages Eight Sections. Section One Pages 1 to 16 VOL. XL NO. 36 Entered at Portland Orejron Postnfflce a Second-Clana Matter PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTE3IBER 4, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS $500,000 APARTMENT , LOVE PIRATE. CITIZENS WIN PAROLE BETTER RAIL SERVICE TO COAST PROMISED LEAGUE KEEPS EKE ON U.S. ATTITUDE BRITISH TO PUBLISH IRISH REPLY TODAY OF HOUSE TO BE BUILT FOR YOUNG ROBBERS PLAYS MEW TRICK ALLEGED SIXTH AND MADISON SITE AL HALSEY BANK BANiDITS PLEAD RAINIER SPECIAL TO MAKE BEACH RCX DAILY. CABI.NET GOING TO SCOTLAND FOR CONFERENCE. READY OBTAINED. GIILTY TO CHARGE. HARDING ACHIEVES WAX FORGER MUCH III 6 MOW Congress Hampers Chief, Declares Writer. VITAL LEGISLATION HELD UP President and Is Disappointed Disillusioned. BIG THINGS ARE DONE Manifold Duties and Responsibili ties Often Quite Appall Man . AVbo Is Innately Modest. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. . (Copyright. 1021. by Tha Oregonlan.) WASHINGTON. D. C. Sept. 3 (Special.) Warren G. Harding tomor row completes his six months in the White House. It has been an eventful ix months, not alone for. the people of the United States, but for the pres ident himself. It has been a period, the president feels, of achievement, and likewise, perhaps, it has been a period of some disillusionment. Speaking frankly, congress has been a disappointment to the president. When he called the senate and house together in extra session last April he saw no reason why they should not enact the legislation expected of them and get away frim Washington by July 15. Mala Tuki Still Undone. But congress stand's in recess today, nearly five months after the opening of the session, with the main tasks till before .the senate and little chance that anything definite in the way of taxes or tariff legislation will be accomplished before the snow flies. Going into the White House with an I almost sacred regard for the three J legislational branches of the govern znent and determined that he would not "Interfere" with, the legislative branch in any way, President Hard ing has found it necessary several times to set congress on the right path, and has had almost continuous trouble in keeping it there. One lasting impression left by Mr. Harding's six months in the presi dency is the Innate modesty of the man. The magistracy of the nation has been a series of surprises to him. At times he has been quite appalled as the manifold duties and responsi bilities of the executive have unfolded themselves to him. -Only this week, however, the president expressed what is in his heart and what he believes to be in the heart of most of the American people. I have come to feel a new confi dence in myself,' said the president, "because of the capable men I find everywhere about me, who can take upon their shoulders a part of the great load that comes to any execu tive." Narrow Prejudice Avoided. While to many minds the great achievements of the president's first half year in the White House will al ways be his calling of the disarma ment conference to meet in this city in November, when it is possible that new relationship may be established among the nations that control the destinies of the world, others will always hold Mr. Harding's initial suc cess to have been his ability to bring to his own service and to that of the nation so many of the ablest men of the country. In the selection of these men the president was affected by no narrow prejudices. This is shown by the fact that with the single exception of Sen ator Hiram Johnson of California the prestdent sought the services of every man prominent in the race against him at Chicago last year for the re publican nomination. There is Charles Evans Hughes as (Cone lurt.d on Paae 3. Column 1.) NEWS EVENTS OF. WEEK ARE PORTRAYED BY CARTOONIST PERRY. . j j .1 : ' ' ' : . - - - ' ' ' - - - ,,,, . - , , : : : ),,,. ITTT - ...'."". - -- -- -- -- -- T -T--TTTTtTTTTttTTTTT-T T - - ....................... ......, m-... -4 Permit for Excavation to Cost $10,- 000 Is Issued Project First of Kind Since War. Definite announcement that a $500, 000 apartment house will be erected immediately on property at the south west corner of Sixth and Madison streets by Donald B. McBride and Richard F. Wassell was made yes terday in connection with the Issuing by the city building aepartment of a permit for the expenditure of $10,000 In excavation. The announcement was considered significant in Portland building cir cles Inasmuch as it will be the first big downtown apartment house to be erected since the war. The plans provide for an elaborate structure, nine stories in height and containing 75 apartments, ranging in size from four to t,en rooms. The building will be of pressed brick and terra cotta finish and will have a beautiful roof garden. Messrs. McBride and Wassell an nounced that a portion of the financ ing of the project will be taken care of by issues of $375,000 of 7 per cent bonds, dated September 1, 1921, and maturing serially to September 1, 1933. The issue has been underwritten by S. W. Strauss & Co. and will be han dled by the Mortgage Bond company with offices at 205 Wilcox building. The work on the new apartment house will be started Immediately and rushed to completion, it was declared yesterday. It is expected that the building will be completed before next-spring. The building will cover 100 by 100 feet. The entrance will be: on Sixth street. ! CHECK-SIGNERJN -DEMAND Dozen Nebraska Towns Seek .Man Arrested in Portland. . OMAHA. Neb., Sept. 3. (Special.) Frank Elvourne, arrested in Port land, is charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. He is wanted in a dozen towns in Nebraska for cashing alleged worthless checks. Among the towns in which Elvourne s said to have operated are West plni Vnrfnllc. Winside. Wavne. Bea ver Oakland and Decatur. Elvourne is said to have posed as a farmer in all these towns and the checks cashed were presumably re ceived by him In payment for cream shipments. .. ' The girl with whom he rlcped when he left Nebraska is the daugh.- ter of a Dawson county, Nebraska, farmer. WOMAN "SPIDER" ON JOB Widow in Overalls Welds Cables 300 Feet In Air. . KINGSTON, N. Y.. Sept. 3. People who have been gazing curiously at the structural activities on a sus pension bridge 300 feet above Rondout creek were amazed todayto learn that a blor.de worker in overalls who welding cables is a woman. She is Mrs. Catherine Nelson of Jersey City a widow with two children, and is earning $30 a day. When her husband died she tried working as a stewardess on an ocean liner but found the pay too small and so obtained a Job in a machine shop. When the bridge contractors asked a company in Jersey City for its best welder she was sent to Kingston. She says she never is afraid or dizzy at a great height. WEATHER PROSPECT GOOD Sunshine Is Promised, for Both To day and Tomorrow. Portland people who plan to spend today and Labor day at the beaches or elsewhere will be gratified if the pre dictions of Observer Wells prove cor rect. Mr. Wells predicts better wther both today and tomorrow than that of the past two or three days. The rains of the past few days were local and largely of thunder-storm nature. Clearer weather and a slight rise in temperature are expected. Oregon Swindler Fools New Yorkers Again. OR! IPC CI linCn PDnPELTII' O rULlUt LtUUtU UnAUUT - Man Who Figured in Osborne Case Jumps $1000 Bail. IDENTITY LEARNED' LATER Criminal Gets Into Limelight After Friend Reports Loss of $500 to Handsome' Visitor. NEW YORK. Sept 3. (Special.) Sometimes when Charles H. Wax, alias Oliver Osborne, known in Ore gon as "The Love Pirate," slips through the hands of the police the weather is cold and stormy. At other times the humidity is unbearable. "Oliver," who gained such notoriety in the Rae Tanzer-James W. Osborne case, and whose genial face lends dis tinction to every rogues' gallery in the United States, was a visitor here a couple of weeks ago. He bounded lightly from one high spot to another, annexed a little coin, enjoyed the hos pitality of detectives at headquarters and then, with a wave of his hand and a lilting "razberrily yours" to the po lice, went away from here. Through an oversight or a teehni cality or something "Oliver" neglected to furnish the detectives a forwarding address and the police feel hurt about it. It has completely spoiled their Labor day for them. How were the police to know that "Charles Canby." arrested on a charge of stealing $500 from a "lady friend," was the Charles H. Wax or the "Oliver Osborne" being sought by the Oregon authorities and a flock of Uncle Samuel's sleuths? Action Lacks Clnbblneaa. It wasn't a bit clubby of "Oliver" to slip into town "incog" and then slip out again. Maybe "Oliver" was sore. It may be that he felt, with his picturs In a JLlace "of Jionor in the "rogues' " gallery, he should have been recognized and in a manner be fitting a man of his record and rep utation. " When "Oliver" was arrested as Canby he told the police he came from the far west, was undergoing a temporary financial strain and that all would be well. ' It was true that he came from the far west. What "Oliver" neglected to mention to the police was that he had been released from prison in Salem, Or., to visit his sick mother in New York state and had failed to return. At the lineup In headquarters none of the sleuths in the masks and rub ber heels recognized "Oliver." So he was released on $1000 ball, and, after obtaining several adjournments in a magistrate's court, decided New York was too hot in summer and went away. , "Oliver" has always been a most careless person. He will leave a place and through a clerical error will forget all about settling up lit tle score and obligations. In this instance he dispensed altogether with the formality of squaring his $1000 ba.il bond. - So after "Ol'ver" had gone the po lice called up the federal authorities and asked them if they knew any thing 'about a man who called himself Canby. What do you know about him?" asked the federal authorities. 'Not much," ruefully admitted the local sleuths. '.'He told us he was a relative of old General Canby, who was ambushed and slain years ago by the Modoc Indians in a lava bed somewhere or other." Have you got him?" Inquired the federal authorities, breathlessly. 'No." admitted the police, and then (Concluded on Page 9. Column 1.) Judge- Sentences Three to Year In Aentiary, but Allows A. Schultz. Irvin Wright and R. W. V boley of Corvallis pleaded guilty in tate circuit court here this afternoon to a charge of attempting to rob the Halsey State bank and Judge Kelly sentenced each of them to serve one year in the state penitentiary and then paroled them. The parole was granted only after eight prominent residents of Benton county had testified to the previous good character of the boys and the fact that it was their first offense. The three young men, all about 21 years of age, were involved in an at tempted robbery of the Halsey State tank a few weeks ago during which Henry Schultz, brother of one of the defendants, was killed by Lee Walton, deputy sheriff at Halsey. The four had been seen near the bank trying to break into it and after they be came frightened away a posse gath ered and when the car came back for a second time and failed to stop on Walton's order he fired with a shot gun at close range. The shot killed Henry Schultz and wounded Wright and William Schultz, the latter only sliglitly. The car sped on. William Schultz and Wright were arrested the next morning in Corvallis and Cooley later at Blodgett. LIBRARY SESSIONS CLOSE Portland Woman and Eugene Man Anions Association Officers. - SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 3. Judson T. Jennings of Seattle was elected president of the Pacific Northwest Library association and Olympia, Wash., was awarded the 1922 conven tion at the closing session of the as sociation's annual convention here to day. Other officers elected were. Miss Anne Mulheron, Portland, first vice president: Miss Pauline Madden, Port Benton, Mont., second vice-president; M. H. Douglass, Eugene, Or- secre tary; Miss Elena S. Clancey, Tacoma. treasurer. BOLT HITS SWEETHEARTS Lightning Kills Engaged Couple .Year Whitehonse Grounds. WASHINGTON. D. C, Sept. 3. Frederick S. Houseman, 26, and Miss Leona Shepherd, 19, were killed by lightning yesterday when they sought refuge from a thuder storm beneath a tree near the White House grounds. Houseman, a veteran of the 29th di vision, was engaged to Miss Shepherd. The storm was accompanied by high winds which caused much damage to the trees along the streets of the capital. : DESPONDENT GIRL SUICIDE 19-Year-Old Miss Shoots Self in Head; Love Affairs Blamed. POCATELLO, Idaho, Sept. 3. Miss Cleo Sorensen, 19, of Rexburg, Idaho, shot herself in the right temple in a local hotel at 3:50 o'clock thia morn ing, dying at 7 o'clock. In company with Hilda Warren of Idaho Falls, Miss Sorensen arrived on an early train, registering under assumed names. Despondency over love affairs, told In a note to her mother, is declared to have been the cause. MOSLEMS HARASS GREEKS Advance Toward Angora Delayed by Counter-Attacks. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept 2. (By the Associated Press.) The Greek advance toward Angora has been de layed, owing to counter-attacks of the Turks, who have occupied moun tain positiona dominating the Ilija river. Withdrawing slowly, the Turks are counter-attacking to cover the re treat of their main forces to the east of Angora. Spokane, Portland & Seattle Road Says Low Fares May End at Any Time. Announcement was made last night by W. D. Skinner, traffic manager of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle rail way, of a new plan whereby better service will be furnished to Seaside and other resorts reacned by this l'ne. The company expects to add a train daily by running through to the coast one of its Rainier locals. It will also continue the Saturday-to-Sunday spe cials as long as travel Justifies it. People wishing to take advantage oX the low fares to the beaches had best do so without undue delay, for there is no telling how long the present rates will .continue; it Just depends upon the volume of traffic Mr. Skinner said. xnus rar" said Mr. Skinner, "the people have flocked to our trains In such numbers that it really has called for capacity equipment. Today we had to borrow five coaches from the Union Pacific system to take care of the throngs going to Astoria and the beaches. "How long the crowds will con tinue we do not know, of course, and we are simply watching the situation, with a view to caring for whatever business there is. We plan to run one of our locals to Rainier through to Seaside daily when the daily spe cials are taken off, and we will keep on the trains carrying Saturday crowds to return Sunday night as long as Justified in so doing. ' "As to the prevailing low fares, I cannot say how long they will last Certain It is that , they cannot last long should business drop off much. We must have a very large volume of business to continue these rates." The river steamer Iralda, on the run between Portland and Astoria, will tie up after the Labor day trip, according to announcement yester day of Laurence Holman.' owner and operator on the run. Mr. Holman said the season had been a successful one and that he will prepare the steamer to re-enter the run next spring. Whether or not the rate war in which the Iralda fare was reduced to 55 cents has any connection with taking the steamer off the run is a matter of conjecture. Emmett Rathbun, general manager of the Harkins Transportation com pany, - operators of the steamers Georgiana and Undine on the Astoria run, declared last night that there will be no change in his company's service. "We are an established company operating on an all-year basis," eaid Mr. Ratbbun, "and we do not propose to withdraw our service when the cream of the season's traffic is over. Our rates will remain the same for the present and I do not anticipate that they will ever return to the old high rate. "We are keeping our steamers on the regular run and intend to through out the winter." PANAMA'S GRIEF PERSISTS Mourning Loss of Coto Reaches Propaganda Stage. PANAMA. Sept 3. Colonel J. J. Morrow, governor of the canal zone, has addressed a note to the Panama government charging that the pro jected closing of all business on Labor day, as an expression of public mourning for the loss of the Coto district, on :he Costa Rican frontier, Is "anti-American propaganda." He declared this attitude on the pr.rt of the government might lead to disturbances. FAIR WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures Near or Somewhat Below Normal Predicted. WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 3 Weather predictions for the week be ginning Monday are: Rocky mountain and plateau re gions' and Pacific states Generally fair, with temperature near or some what below normal. Arms, Covenant Changes and Mandates Up. , ARTICLE 10 iS RETAINED Canadian Proposal for Elimi nation Is Defeated. COMMITTEE IS NAMED Texts to Be Drafted to Remove Obligation of Members to Aid in Some Military Actions. GENEVA, Sept 3. (By the Associ ated Press.) The extent to which the Washington conference in November occupies the attention of those par ticipating in the work of the league of nations was demonstrated today during discussion of disarmament and amendments to the covenant, while hope of satisfying the United States on mandates was reflected In the council's consideration of the Ameri can reply to the principal powers on that question. Tfce note was not officially before the council, but the representatives of Great Britain, France, Japan and Italy have the text of the note, and after reviewing the main features all agreed progress had been made to ward settlement. Washington's Aid Aaked. The Washington conference was re. ferred to by M. Noblemaire, French delegate, to the amendments com mission, who held that revision of the pact should be discussed In Washing ton with the representatives of the United States before anything should be don to prejudice the question. The council, however, decided to proceed to consider amendments. The council rejected the Canadian proposition to eliminate article 10, and adopted a suggestion by A. J. Balfour 'of England to appoint a committee to draft texts momiying the article to remove the obligation of members O participate in military action to guarantee the territory of other members. Hunt, Pepin. Van Hamrl Named. Sir Cecil J. B. Hurst, England; M Penln. France, and Professor J. A. Van Hamel, Holland, were selected. The discussion of disarmament also reflected the sentiment of several members not to participate In any action In advance of the Washington conference. H. A. L. Fisher. British member, led the opposition to the demand for immediate application of some measures of publicity such as were proposed at the assembly last year relating to the disclosure of their armaments by tht various na tions. Conference In Favored. The disarmament commission de cided to recommend to the assembly that an International congress on pri vate manufacture and traffic in arms be held. It also decided to recom mend that all nations be asked to furnish statistics of armaments. Advocates of uninterrupted action by the league contended that work begun now might be useful at the Washington conference, and that, In any event, the object of the league and the purpose of the Washington conference being the same, parallel efforts could do no harm. The commission left it for the as sembly either to fix the date of the international conference on arms or leave it open to be decided by the council. Objection Is Raised. Objection was raised that the coun tries might refuse to give informa tion regarding armaments, but It was pointed out that the covenant pro- (Concluded on Page 2. Column 5 ) London Report Calls Answer Flat Refusal to Accept Offer of Dominion Status. LONDON, Sept. 3. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The reply of the Dall Eireann to Mr. Lloyd George, now In the hands of the British premier, will be given out tomorrow for publica tion, although the British cabinet has yet to take it under advisement. This was officially announced to night at Dublin. Reports from Scot land Indicated cabinet members are en route to Inverness, where a cab inet council will be held. Whitehall has been the scene of lively activity by the ministers whom the premier's summons found in Lon don. General Sir Nevil Macready, commander of the troops In Ireland arrived at Gairloch, Scotland, today on a destroyer from Dublin to confer with the premier. The press association saya that the Sinn Fein reply Is regarded In gov ernment circles as a definite rejec tion of the government's proposal of a dominion status. The situation, ac cording to the press association, is considered grave. DUBLIN, Sept. 3 (By the Asso elated Press.) So convinced Is the Irish public generally that negotla lions between the Dall Eireann and the British government will result in peace that it la taking little or no in terest in the coming and going of messengers between Dublin and Scot land, where the latest reply to the British peace proposals was delivered to Premier Lloyd George. Letters ar generally looked upon now as merely the necessary stages in the long parley. It was arranged that the Dail's last letter to the British prime minister, delivered Thursday night should be published simultaneously In Dublin and London Sunday night, but at the time this arrangement was made it was not known that Mr. Lloyd George intended to call a cabinet meeting at Inverness to consider the letter and possibly the British government's re ply to it. CHARLIE CHAPLIN SUED $10,000 Fee Sought by Intervener In Divorce Case. NEW YORK, Sept. 3. The com plaint in a suit against Charlie Chap lin, served on him while he was pos ing here for a portrait minus flat shoes, derby and mustache, was filed In court today. The suit Is brought by Fred E. Goldsmith, who seeks $10, 000 as a fee for Inducing the defend ant to pay Mildred Harris Chaplin $100,000 in settlement of alimony claims. Goldsmith said the question was whether his services were a necessity to his client, who was still married to Chaplin when she retained the lawyer. Chaplin claims they were a luxury, the attorney Bald. TWO DIE INAUT0 WRECK Bodies of Brothers Are Discovered Underneath Overturned Car. TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 3. F. H. Burglehaua. a nurseryman of Sumner, and his brother, T. W. Burglehaua, an insurance agent of Seattle, were killed in an automobile wreck on the Hood canal highway, three miles from Quilcene, last evening. No one saw the crash that caused their deaths. A passing motorist saw the bodies under the car, which apparently had overturned on a hill. The bodies were taken to Port Townsend. RETAIL FOOD PRICES UP Increases in 11 Principal Cities Shown by V. S. Report. WASHINGTON. D. C. Sept. 8 Re tail prices in August showed In creases over July prices in 14 principal cities, according to statistics made public today by the department oi' labor. In Philadelphia prices Increased per cent; in Chicago and Washington, 6 per cent; Kansas City, 4 per cent; Salt Lake City and Denver. 1 per cent Grand Jury Indicts Jerrod Peabody for Crime. FATHER SEATTLE FINANCIER Indorsement of $198 Check Is Specific Charge. YOUTH IS IN COUNTY JAIL Father Is Director In Federal Re serve Sjtem Alleg.Hl Auto Thieves to Be Tried. Jerrod Peabody,' son of C. E. Pea. body of Seattle, head of the Puget Sound Navigation company and direc tor of the federal reserve bank, was Indicted by the Multnomah county grand Jury yesterday on the charge of forging an Indorsement to a $1(1 check. Though the young man was thrown In the county Jail several days ago. efforts to avoid publicity In the affair because of the promi nence of his family met with iucc until the action of the grand jury ysterday. The boy's mother Is said to be on the verge of a nervous collapce. Up to yesterday It was reported that tha father had refused to go to the rescue of his son, who had run away from home at an early age and had been a wanderer much of his life. Ho has a pretty wife and baby who are re ported In stringent circumstance be cause of his arrest. The young man bad been driving a Tillamook stage and more than $130 due him Is said to have been seised by 'a garage for alleged repairs, leaving Mrs. Peabody virtually pennllca. Brothers ( one to nrne. Brothers of tne young man are ac tive In their efforts to straighten out his affairs, and may succeed in mak ing restitution and avoiding prose cution on the charge. The Indictment charges forgery of the indorsement of A. L. Carpenter" to a check for $IS! on the Wlllamlna bank. Tnls cnera was lost by a passenger on the stage line for which Teabody was driving It was cashed at the Linn clothing store In payment for a hat and suit of clothes and change was received by a young man. It is asserted that the clothing store employes Identified Peabody as tha man who cashed the check, though he stoutly denied the charge. The suit was tried on Peabody and Is said to have proved a poor fit. The check was cashed July 21. Young Peabody has never been In trouble before, according to District Attorney Evans, and bears a good reputation except that he Is restless and seldom has worked at one job more than a month or so. He Is a mechanic. Indictments by the grand Jury yesterday are expected to result In the breaking up of a gang of al leged prowlers and automobile thieves. Robert J. ("Fat") Raymond was Indicted on the charge of larceny of automobile tlrei from an at side garage, and also Jointly with Merrill E. Daws, charged with the theft of silverware, etc., valued at 1105 from Virgil L. Hamlin's hoir.n on June $. 1921. Boy Remanded to Juvenile C'onrt. Irving Pope, aged 17, Is Mid to have been connected with the opera tions of this alleged gang but was . too young for grand Jury action and was remanded to the Juvenile court. Daws and his wife, line I Dawa, were both Indicted on a c) arge of re ceiving stolen properly. Their home at 600 Woodworth avenue Is said to have been the rendezvous t r the gang and the place where the "split" of stolen articles was made The ap- Concluad on l'atc Collunw. a L