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POKTLAXD, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HE FOR NAVAL
EDISON, 75, EXPECTS
15 MORE BUSY YEARS
FOREIGN DIPLOMATS
POSSE RESCUES MAN
HUNGRY AND FROZEN
DOSES OE POISON
KILL 5 CHILDREN
GERMAN CHANCELLOR
DEMANDS SHOWDOWN
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CENSOR FILM VILLAIN
FIGHT TO FINISH
INVESTOR HAS XO IXTEVTIOX
OF RETIRIXG.
MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS
DEATH VALLK1" WAXDERER 1 1
DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.
COALITIOX PARTIES FAIIi TO
PROTECT WIRTH.
FACE AttEV BOYCOTT.
NORTHWEST VDTE
IS FOR NAVY PACT
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D6ISR0P
SUPREMACY ENDS
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Arms Pact Eliminates
Old-Time Competition.
MERCHANT MARINE IS ISSUE
Whether America Will Attain
. Superiority Is Uncertain.
EVOLUTION IS ANALYZED
After-War Moitment to Avoid Co-
lossal I-ijx-nso of Building
Sea Craft Effective.
BT MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright br th N.w Tork Kr-nint Put.
Inc. Pubh.h.fl by Arrangement.)
WASHINGTON'. D. C Feb. 11
(Special.) The Washington confer
ence -was a milestone la evolution,
and Its ending affords a convenient
topping place to pause a moment
and take atock of the place in the
world which the United States now
has. This evolution in the relation
of the nations of the world to each
other has been going on very rapidly
alnce August 1. 1914. What might
have consumed generations of more
orderly history has been compressed
into a few years.
At ail times there Is a position in
the world which is called tne domi
nant power. In a more restricted
senoe. it is frequently spoken of as
"mistress of the seas." a phrase
which is reasonably accurate, inas
much as world dominance has prac
tically always gone hand-ln-hand
with naval and commercial domlna
nance on the sea. Germany's phrase
for this position was "the place In
the sun." It was that place that
Germany sought to take from Great
Britain; and it Is Germany's lack of
success and other Incidents attending
her effort that led to all the disloca
tion out of which we are just emerg
ing. ThVee Eleiaeata Fraad.
This position of dominance is com
posed of three elements of arme.l
force and economic supremacy, What
ever nation at any time ha these
three elements combined, has domi
nance. The three elements are, first,
supremacy In mercantile shipping;
second, supremacy n finance. In the
sense of being the greatest reservoir
ef wealth, and through that being
the greatest lending nation in the
world; and, finally, supremacy in
armed strength on the sea. What
ever nation combines these three has
the position that Germany coveted.
For close to two centuries it was
Great Fritain that held the position.
Germany wanted It and went after It.
She did not get It, but. as often hap
pens. It went, or at least started to
go. to a nation which was In the
beginning a disinterested observer,
namely, ourselves. America did not
covet this position nor envy It to
Great Britain. It was true there were
some who felt that in the course of
time, due to natural forces and
through the ordinary processes of
peace, it would leave Great Britain
and come to us. The late Ambassador
Page was one who saw this trend, and
he speaks of it In his letters, which
are Just now being published. Mr.
rase, however, had In mind an orderly
process of evolution. These orderly
processes were suspended and the
trend was enormously accelerated by
the war.
i-ewdias; Fewer Leave Brllaim.
Of the three elements of dominance,
the first to leave Great Britain was
that of the greatest lending nation in
the world. Before the war was more
than a few months old Great Britain's
necessities had caused her to call la
her money from all ojer the world.
Before the war was a year old she
had begun to borrow enormous sums,
chiefly from us. Very shortly we
ceased to be what we had always
been a borrowing nation. Before the
war we owed some li.OOe. 000.009 or
!. 000.000.000 abroad and used to pay
out about fOO.000.000 a year In in-1
ter-t. By the end of the war we had
completely -and strikingly reversed
I1.it position. Instead of our owing
m'oney to Kurope. Europe owed us
upward of $10,000,000,000, and we were
incomparably the greatest lending
nation in the world.
As respects the second element,
namely, supremacy in mercantile
shipping. Great Britain continued to
hold her dominance; in fact, she holds
it yet. At the beginning of the war
we were a negligible factor in the
world's mercantile shipping. We had
leas than 10 per cent of It. and Great
Britain had more than half of It. But
alto a true instinct for the essence
of the thing she was after. Germany
began to sink Great Britain's mer
cantile fleet. During the war the
German submarines destroyed close
to half of Great Britain's shipping.
Great Britain could not replace this
shipping as fast as the Germans de
stroyed It. She could not spare her
manpower for building mercantile
hips. Such manpower as she could
spare for shipbuilding at all went
into the yards that were building
warships.
AarrVa Cat era Shlpballalag.
In this plight Great Britain be
sought us to become a great mercan
tile shipbuilding nation. At her re
quest, and in order to heTo her win
tCoac.S4ial ea 1 . Coiuuia a.)
Tribute Paid Henry Ford as Friend
of Farmers Arms Conference
"Better Than Nothing."
WEST ORANGE. If. J.. Feb. 11.
Thomas A. Edison. Inventor and elec
trical wizard, has just 15 years more
of service for humanity in him.
This was perhaps the most impor
tant statement he made in his annual
Interview with. newspaper men today
on his 7Sth birthday.
Smilingly facing a little army ot
reporters and photographers, who
waylaid him oa his way to his labora
tory, he answered questions on every
subject the reporters could think of.
"I hope you will have several more
birthdays," said one reporter.
"I shall have 15 more." he said, but
he did not elaborate on the process
by which he reached this conclusion.
Hesitating before he answered as to
when be intended to retire, he replied
"Never. Asked on what he was
working, Mr. Edison said he bad sev
eral "hot irons In the fire." but that
he wasn't ready to talk about them.
The inventor placed Theodore Roose
velt at the head of a list of great
jnenjie had met. although he said he
had met the former president but
once. "I liked Teddy." he said, warm
ly. He picked Sarah Bernhardt as
the "greatest woman," declaring she
was still "full of pepper."
He thought his friend Henry Ford
would make a poor president, as that
was "not in his line," but declared he
would vote twice for Ford If there
were an election for the position of
"director of manufactures."
He said he would give Ford his full
support If the automobile man ob
tained Muscle Shoals.
I do not think he should go Into
It." he added. "He is too ambitious
and wants to help the farmer."
He declared he thought Ford would
not fall In his undertaking.
The arms conference Impressed Mr.
Edison as "good better than nothing
at all," but he declared in favor of
continuing naval preparations "ex
perimentally."
"We should experiment with the
most deadly gases and the biggest
guns." he said. "Not that we will
ever make use of them, but so that
we may be prepared in case some
other nation, through rascality,
should Attack us. I want all nations
to be prepared so that it will be so
terrible that the game is np."
The radio phone, he said, was the
greatest electrical development of the
past year, with the amplifier as a
close second.
HILL HELD GOOD MANAGER
Handling of Biz St. Paul Estate
Declared Successful.
ST. PACU Feb. 11 Louis W. Hill s
successful handling of his father's
f51.000.000 estate was urged as high
qualification for his administration
of hla mother's $11,000,000 estate in
probate court here today.
Seven heirs are opposing the selec
tion ot L. W. Hill as administrator.
They ask that the court name the
Northwestern Trust company, which
Is owned by the Hill heirs.
Counsel for L. W. Hill emphasized
that the latter's administration of
his father's estate never was chal
lenged. It was contended by counsel op
posing L. W. Hill that in the deed
transferring North Oaks farm as a
gift from Mrs. James J. Hill to Louis
there is no provision giving other
Hill children legal access to the pri
vate cemetery within the farm, where
the parents are buried.
OLYMPIA MAN IS ROBBED
Holdup Staged on Road Between
Camp Lewis and Capital.
TACOMA. Wash., Feb. 11. Automo
bile robbers this afternoon held up
B. T. Morrison, an Olympia, Wash
business man. on the highway be
tween Camp Lewis and Olympia and
robbed him of 1188.
The report of the robbery was made
to Sheriff Morris here, who sent dep
uties in an automobile to apprehend
the outlaws
The robbery occurred on one of the
heaviest traveled roads in the state.
Morrison reported that he was driv
ing toward-Olympia, when the rob
bers accosted him, forced him to stop
at the side of the road at the point
of a gun, and then systematically
went through his pockets. He gave
the sheriff a fair description of the
men.
SETTLERS' AID PROPOSED
Senator Mi-Nary Plans for Year's
Extension of Payments.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Feb. 11. En-
tryraen on government projects who)
are unable to meet 1923 installment
payments would be given a. year's ex
tension. In the discretion of the eecre-I
tary of the Interior, under a bill ln-
troduced in the senate today.
Chairman McNary of the senate Ir
rigation committee presented the!
measure.
RAIN ON COAST .FORECAST
Considerable Cloudiness and Nor
mal Temperatures Expected.
WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. 11.
Weather predictions for the week be
ginning Monday are:
Northern Rocky mountain and pla
teau regions: Normal temperature;
unsettled and occasional snows.
Tacific states: Considerable cloud
iness, occasional rains; normal tern
peratur. "
Senators of Three States
United on Treaty.
BORAH LIKES PACIFIC DEAL
Attitude on Other Agreements
. Not Disclosed.
REST BACK ALL PLANS
Policy of leaders Is Shown in In
terviews Idahoan Ex
plains Decision.
THE OREGON IAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington. D. C, Feb, 11. All of
the senators from Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho will support the naval
treaty and all but Senator Borah of
Idaho will vote down the line for the
rest of the treaties, according to in
terviews given out today. Senator
Borah appeared to be undecided about
whether he would back any oT the
treaties other than the naval pact.
"I am In favor of the naval
treaty." Senator Borah said. "As to
the others. I have pot had time to
study them In the light of the presi
dent's address."
"I am for the ratification of these
treaties and I believe it would be a
misfortune should they be rejected
by the senate. Such action might lead
to serious consequences," said Sen
ator Polndexter of Washington.
General Effect Discussed.
"It is not to be expected that any
adjuatment of great policies of state
such as are involved in these treaties
should be entirely satisfactory in
every detail to' many people, but the
general effect and policy involved
should be the determining factor. I
believe this to be in the case of these
agreements, wise, and beneficial. I am
sorry they do not leave us with im
pregnable fortifications at Cavite and
at Guam, not, of course, to be used
for offensive war or for aggression,
but as guarantees of peace and as
security of defense.
"However, it has been Impossible to
obtain the necessary support to ac
complish this. For years I have been
urging it both in the senate and with
the executive branch of the govern
ment. Many ot those who are now
most Insistent upon this policy, at
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Man Without Country to Appear in
Role -of "Bad Man" Sought to
Placate Governments.
NEW TORK, Feb. 11. American
motion picture producers announced
here today that, if the "man without
a country" will consent to play the
international villain they will make
him the highest salaried person In
the movies. -
The announcement was prompted,
it was said, by recent threats of for.
sign governments to "ban the films
of producers who use one of their
nationals as the villain In a picture.'
It has come to a point where Uncle
Sam Is .the universal "goat," they
said, as the United States is almost
the only nation to refrain from of
ficial action against the casting of
one of its citizens in an unpopular
role in the cinema.
The consul-general of China re
cently asked for seats at a private
showing before censors from several
states of a"super picture," now
showing in Broadway. He explained
that his government probably would
wish to protest the use of Chinese
characters as villains of the play.
In another picture recently filmed.
the unpopular roles were assigned to
natives of Abyssinia. The Abyssinian
government promptly lodged a pro
test, threatening to bar all such pic
tures from that country, and from
other countries where it had influ
ence. Mexico was the latest to put Its
foot on the display of "propaganda,"
pictures, when G. S. Senguil, consul-
general of the Obregon government.
informed American producers that
"the government will find it neces
sary to stop the importation to Mex
ico of all films produced by com
panies which may continue to manu
facture films derogatory to Mex
ico, even though the latter may be
destined to other countries."
It was Intimated that ill-feeling
toward Mexico had been Inflamed in
Central and South American coun
tries by pictures in which the Mex
ican was portrayed as villain.
"The trouble rests largely in the
fact that pictures do not reach those
countries until several years after
they are made," one producer ex
plained. "When the United States
and Mexico were at odds, in the years
following 1916, the Mexican was a
favorite character for the villain
role. Now. although the two coun
tries are friendly again, these ancient
pictures are being dumped on the
Central and South American market
and Mexteo objects.
'A similar situation exists In China;
in fact, in all foreign countries
which depend upon the United States
for their movies."
John Mitchell, Crawling on Hands
and Knees, Bursts Into Tears
When Party Arrives.
LONE PINE, Cal., Feb. 11. Joh
Mitchell of San Francisco was foun
yesterday near Darwin, CaU after
having been lost in Death Valley for
11 days without food or water, ac
cording to information received here
today. His feet were so badly frozen
that physicians said amputation
would be necessary.
Mitchell was found crawling on his
hands and knees near an old wagon
trail. He had. taken three hours to
traverse one-half mile and he said he
would have given up before h
crawled another half mile. He was
12 miles from the nearest habitation,
The day before he was found h
crawled to a deserted cabin, in which
hn found a little tea but no food
He was so weak it took him fou
hours to build a fire. He used a stone
to break wood for the blaze. His
feet had burst from freezing. He
cut 'off his shoes and wrapped his
feet in an old blanket. After he had
left the cabin he tried to use a broom
for a crutch but it failed.
When he saw the searching party
that found hira he raised his hands
upon his head, called to them and
then burst into tears.
The first question asked by the
rescued man was in reference to his
brother, George, who became . lost
when he aid. He did not know his
brother had been rescued. George
was taken to Keeler Thursday and
posses then started out to find John.
One of the posses made the rescue.
John Mitchell said he had spen
much of the time during his wander
ings following mirages.
TOMORROW IS HOLIDAY
Governor Issues Proclamation at
Request of Bankers.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 11. (Special.)
Governor Olcott today issued a proc
lamation declaring Monday, the day
following Abraham Lincoln's' birth
day, a legal holiday.
"An urgent request has come to the
executive department of the state of
Oregon from the Portland Clearing
House association that Monday, Feb
ruary 13, be declared a legal holi
day within this state, inasmuch as
the day preceding, Sunday, February
12, is the anniversary of the day of
Abraham Lincoln's birth," said th
proclamation.
"It is represented to the executive
department." continued the oroclama
tion, "that complications may ensue
In event the said day of Monday, Feb
ruary 13, is not declared a legal holi
day. There seems to be a difference
of opinion among attorneys of the
state as to whether or not such day
is a legal holiday under the statute.
Epsorh Salts Package to
Be Analyzed.
MOTHER IS PROSTRATED
Tacoma Firm Said to Have
Prepared Medicine.
AUTOPSY TO BE MADE
Woman Preparing to Take Dose
- Herself When Effects on Lit
tle Ones Are Noted.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Feb. 11. (Spe,
clal.) The lives of five children ot
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rhodes of Kla
ber, in southwestern Lewis county,
were snuffed out within an hour
early this morning after they had
each taken what was supposed to
have been a dose of Epsom salts, ad
ministered by their mother.
Mrs. Rhodes -.had planned also t9
take a dose of the medicine, but de
ferred doing so. , Later the children
began to grow deathly ill and go
Into convulsions, all of them dying
in agony.
The names and ages of the children
were: Verda Louise, 10; Edward Lee,
9; Marie Anna, 8; James Oliver, 6,
and Vernie, 3.
Woman Alone at Home.
Mrs. Rhodes was alone at home,
but hastily telephoned to Chehalis
for a physician. So fast did the poi
son work, however, that before Dr.
Slelcher reached there all were dead.
Mrs. Rhodes was pi'ostrated with
grief.
Mr. Rhodes was In Pacific county
on a timber cruising trip near Toke
land.
The package containing the powder
was bought at a neighborhood store
at Curtis from E. J. Carlson. It was
la,beled "Epsom salts packed for the
West Coast Grocery company.
Up to this morning the package
Mrs. Rhodes used had not been
opened, the seal being broken for the
first time by her.'
Shipment Recent One,
Mr. Carlson of the Curtis store said
he had received the shipment of salts
only recently and other packages had
been sold in the same neighborhood.
No other casualties were reported.
Deputy Coroner .Weisinger left for
Klaber this afternoon and brought
the bodies to Chehalis.
Count? Attorney Allen and Sheriff
Roberts later left for the scene of
the tragedy to make an investigation.
Carlson will be warned immediately
to recall all packages of the salts
that he has sold and. the fatal packet
will be obtained for analysis by chem
ists. Mr. and Mrs.' Rhodes are mem
bers of pioneer families of the upper
Chehalis valley.
RAYMOND, Wash., Feb. 11. (Spe
cial.) Five children of Mrs. Edward
Rhodes of Klaber, Lewis county, died
at their home In Klaber today, after
the mother had given them what is
believed to iave been doses .of sul
phate of zinc by mistake for Epsom
salts. The children expired in agony
an hour after the supposed medicine
had been given them.
SOVIET COURTS PRODDED
More Speed in Trial of Political
Offenders Demanded.
MOSCOW, Feb. 9. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Accusations against
all persons under arrest for political
offenses in Russia must be made
within a fortnight, and .within two
months all persons under arrest must
either be freed or turned over to the
courts unless special permission tor
further detention is received from
the central executive committee it
self. This is stipulated in the decree
published by the central executive
committee today, announcing offi
cially the passing out of existence of
the ail-Russian Cheka, the soviet
secret police and judicial organiza
tion.
NOTED BARITONE IS WED
Joseph Michael Schwa rz Takes
Mrs. Clara Selcken as Bride.
NEW TORK, Feb. 11. The mar-
iage or josepn micnaei senwarz.
baritone of the Chicago Grand Opera
company, and Mrs. Clara Sielcken.
widow of Herman Sielcken, the "cof
fee king," was secretly performed
last night.
The bridegroom's publicity agent
announced the wedding today.
FORD GETS MOTOR PLANT
$8,000,000 Check Turned Over for
Unco In Property.
DETROIT, Feb. 11. A check for
$8,000,000, bearing: Henry Ford's sig
nature, was turned over today to
Ralph Stone, receiver of the Lincoln
Motor company.
This completed the transaction
whereby Mr. Ford becomes owner of
the Lincoln property, sold at auction
laat Saturday.
Impassioned Plea for Support
Dumfounds Factions in Reich
stag: Vote Put Off.
BERLIN, Feb. 11. (By the Associ
ated Press.l Chancellor Wirth has
met one of the most critical parlia
mentary situations of his career by
forcing a "show-down" with, the
reichstag in connection with the im
pending vote on four resolutions cen
suring the cabinet for its policy dur
ing the railroad strike.
The coalition parties failed to pro
tect the chancellor by sending a sup-
porting resolution to the president's
desk, leaving him at the mercy of
tho four opposition motions proposed
by the nationalists, the German peo
ples' party, the independent socialists
and the communists.
Although each resolution was cer
tain to be defeated by the votes of
the present government bloc, it was
realized that collectively their effort
would have spelled parliamentary dis
aster for Dr. Wirth. as the moral
stigma carried by them would not
have been neutralized by the indi
rect -majority support given to the
chancellor by the clericals, the major
ity socialists and the democrats, who
could muster sufficient votes to de
feat the opposition'a attack on the
cabinet.
"Visible impatience with this pas
sive attitude by his principal support
brought Chancellor Wirth to his feet
just before the hostile resolutions
were put to a vote today. His voice
quivering with emotion, the chancel
lor in an impassioned plea demanded
that the reichstag give him a tangible
and unequivocal expression of its confidence-
without which he and his
cabinet colleagues could no longer
conduct the affairs of the govern
ment. . '
A negative result of the votes on
the four opposition resolutions, he
declared, would suffice to make the
cabinet position untenable.
: This unexpected attitude dumb
founded both the opposition and the
government parties and the latter
scurried about in a hasty effort to
draft a resolution of direct approval.
The house, however, finally voted to
defer balloting until Wednesday. Dr.
Wirth, it is asserted. Ban safely count
on a decisive vote of approval on his
railway strike policy. -
The session supplied a second sen
sation when the independent socialist
leader, Herr 'Dittmann, demanded an
investigation of Hugo Stinnes be
cause of the latter's alleged attempt
to barter the German railway system
to an ..English banking syndicate in
return for a gold loan. Stinnes'
friends came to his assistance and
action was prepared.
MURDERER IS CONVICTED
Jury Recommends Life Term for
James Slagle, Wife-Slayer.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Feb. 11. (Spe
cial.) James Slagle was found guilty
of murdering his wife tonight by the
verdict of the jury, which has heard
evidence in the -case for the past
week. The jury found him guilty of
first-degree murder and recommended
life imprisonment. .
The jury retired from the court
room at 4:30' P. M., but did not begin
deliberations until after dinner, about
6 P. M. Slagle's attorneys defended
him on grounds of insanity.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 88
degrees; minimum, 34 degrees.
TODAY'S Unsettled, probably with oc
casional ram; southerly winas.
Departments.
Churches. Section 5, page 2.
Books. Section 5, page 6.
Schools. Section 5, pge 6.
Automobiles. "Section 6.
Women's Features.
Fashions. Section 5. pages 1 and 4.
Miss Tingle's cofumn. Section 5, page 6.
Madam RJchet's column. Section 5, page 1.
Child welfare column. Section a, page 3.
Special Features.
Girl must be hypnotized to be herself.
Magazine section, page 1.
Last etronghold of slavery. Magazine sec
tion, page 2.
'Flesh of My Flesh," fiction feature. Mag
azine section, page 3. !
Nws of -world as seen by camera. Maga
zine section,, page 4.
A song of the Columbia river highway.
Magazine section, page 5.
Human machine said to break. Magazine
section, page 6.
Girl who wouldn't marry ball player now
changes mind. Magazine section, page 7.
Hill's cartoons "Among Us Mortals. Mag
azine section, page 8.
Woman of 20 elected -to parliament. Sec
tion 5, page 3.
Darling's cartoons on topics of the day.
Section 5, page 7. ,
Home construction and arrangement. Sec
tion 6, page 8.
Foreign.
British sentiment Indorses arms treaties.
Section 1, page 5.
Tardieu fears Genoa conference will fail.
Section 1, page 4.
German chancellor demands showdown.
Section 1, page 1.
Armed men patrol border of Ulster. Sec
tion 1, page 3.
New pope pays tribute to American in
itiative and generosity. Section 1
page 3.
XationaL
Congress liable to go beyond agreements
in reducing army and navy. Section
1. page 5.
Race for naval supremacy ends. Section 1,
page L
Yap cable treaty signed in Washington.
Section 1, page 4.
Senate foreign relations committee con
siders arms conference Pacific treaty.
Section 1, pags 4.
All northwest -senators to support naval
treaty. Section 1, page 1. ,
Domestic.
Metropolitan museum of Chicago assailed
as low art center. Section 1, page 9.
Peavey questioned in. Taylor murder. Sec
tion 1, page 2.
Edison, 75 years of age. expects 15 years
more of activity. Section 1, page 1.
Railroad and mine union leaders to confer
on alliance proposal. Section 1, page 2. 4
Posse rescues Death Valley wanderer hun- j
u and frozen Senttr- xa& 2
Very Rev. Mr. Hicks Gets
Request to Quit, v
REPLY TO BE WRITTEN SOON
Next Move of Right Rev. Mr.
Sumner Awaited.
CHURCH IS DIVIDED
Some Episcopals Declare That Pas
tor of St. Stephens Is Popu
lar With Congregation.
The formal demand of Bishop Wal
ter Taylor Sumner of the Episcopal
diocese of Oregon that the Very Rev.
R. T. T. Hicks resign from his posi
tion as dean of. the diocese and of
St. Stephen's pro-cathedral, effective
March 1, was received by the dean
yesterday by mail and the dean re
iterated his previous announcement
that he would not comply with the
demand. Dean Hicks said that ha
had not yet made a formal reply,
but that he would do so within the
next few days and then would await
the bishop's next move.
Bishop Sumner expressed the belief
yesterday that it was now for the
dean either to resign or to be re
moved from his position. He declined
to say whether he contemplated tak
ing- action in a church tribunal or in
the civil courts to oust the dean in
case the latter continued to defy the
bishop's request.
Plans Not Announced,
"Those things will be decided when
the time comes," said the bishop.
'Until other action is necessary I
do not care to announce any pro
gramme of action."
On the request of members of the
pro-cathedral parish, it was an
nounced that a special parish meet
ing had been called, in accordance
with Jihe church canons, to be held
Tuesday night, February 21, at 8
o'clock in the parish house to consider
the action of the bishop.
Bishop Sumner reiterated his posi
tion that the pro-cathedral is the
bishop's chapel and that consequent
ly he has the right to remove Dean
Hicks at his pleasure. He contend
ed that the pro-cathedral had been or
ganized as a bishop's chapel and had
never been incorporated as a parish
and that consequently he had the
supreme power.
Limitations Declared Known.
"This is no new subject and the
matter has been up on previous oc
casions," he said. "I myself was a
dean in Chicago for nine years pre
vious to coming here and I conse
quently know what the limitations of
a dean are."
On the other hand, Dean Hicks '
referred to an article in the consti
tution of the diocese which provides
for the establishment of a pro
cathedral upon the designation of the
bishop until such a time as a cathe
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Domestic.
Foreign governments threaten to boycott
films In which nationals appear as vil
lains. Section 1, page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
British Columbia cedar shipments to orient
increase. Section 1, page 7.
Nonpartisans and liberals of Idaho effect
consolidation. Section 1, page 7.
Sheep men close annual convention. Sec
tion 1, page 8.
Abuses found in Washington state hos
pitals. Section 1, page "17.
Washington state democrats gather at Se
attle for convention. Section 1, page 8.
Doses of poison kill five children. Section
' 1, page 1.
Sports.
Tex Rickard held to- face grand jury. Sec
tion 1, page 10. v
Major clubs to demand pep from pitchers.
Section 2, page 3.
Paddock consistent track performer. Seo
tion 2, page 4.
Friendly rivalry to enliven swimming meet
sfjULiuii , page j..
New diving rules declared absurd. Section
2, page 2.
Golfers to elect officers this week. Section
2, page 3.
Staging of mixed bout of boxer and
wrestler planned. Section 2. page 4t.
Multnomah quintet beats Walla Walla
Y, M. C A. Section 1. page 1.
Aggie five again defeats Oregon. Section
2, page 1.
Records smashed at indoor meet. Section
2, page 3.
Commercial and Marine.
Oregon winter onion season drawing to
close. Section 1, page 18.
Wheat averages higher throughout Chica
go session. Section 1, page 19.
Tone of stock market uncertain and trad
ing light. Section 1, page 19.
Recovery in grain market rapid. Sect km
1, page 19.
Water front employers elect officers. Sec
tion 1, page 18.
f Portland and Viclnrty.
$323,141 needed to f ill chest. Station 1,
page 13.
Auto stage terminal will be open to pubiic
inspection next Thursday. Section 1,
page 14.
Indictment of Dr. "is. E. Wayson declared
to be Irregular. Section 1, page 16.
Hospital only hope for narcotic addyrt.
says Mayor Baker. Section 1, page 14.
Police accused of winking at law. SeefTon
1, page 14.
Mrs. Roy Gardner target of women's clubs.
Section 1, page 12.
Bishop Sumner and Dean Hicks fight to
. finish. Section 1, page 1.
Gubernatorial candidacy formally anwunced
by Speaker iean. section i, page iz.
Edwrd Gibson, screen daredevil, defends
film stars at Hollywood. Section 1,
page 13.
Portlanders pay tribute to Lincoln. Section
1, page 15.
County pay system blamed for troubU
with warrant shaver. Section 1, page
Five o'clock burglar believed to be kiiler
Section 1. page 16.
Weather report, data and forecast. Section