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VOL. XIjI XO. 11 Entered I at Portland Ore-n
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING.. MARCH 13, 1933
MODERN GIRL BLAMED (AMERICAN DEMAND
POLYGLOT PWfl
UGHES DECLARES
FARMER FOUND DEAD
WITH GUN BY SIDE
BS ARE USED
I FOR 'PETTING PARTIES' IGNORED BY ALLIES
HE DRAFTED PACT
fN RAND FIGHTING
MONEY 'TO BUY BRACES FOIi
LAD GIVEN AT VANCOUVER.
BREAST WOUND TAKES LIFE
OF LINN COUNTY MAN.
TO BE CALLED "SNUGGLE PUP
PIES" IS WELCOMED!
PRIORITY IN COLLECTING FOR
RHINELAND ARMY DENIED.
CHEMISTS CHANGE
-ilATUHE OFMETAL
BOM
ON ORIENTAL L1NEH
Final 4-Power Text Has
Only Minor Changes.
SENATE FIGHT SPECTACULAR
Senator Underwood Bears
Burden of Defense.
ANY ALLIANCE IS DENIED
Secretary of State Further Says
There Is No Reason for
Suspicion of Treaty.
WASHINGTON, D. C. March, 11.
The four-bower Pacific treaty. Its
purposes and possibilities, and, the
manner of it? negotiation, passed
through another, spectacular combat
of argument and oratory today on
the floor of the senate.
Throughout the battle of wits the
burden of defense was carried by
Senator Underwood of Alabama, the
democratic floor leader, and a mem
.her of the American delegation to the
arms conference. Ringed by enemies
of the treaty, largely of his own
party, the minority leader stood for
three hours in his place in the center
of the chamber and replied in kind to
the thrusts directed at him.
Among the weapons of argument
used by the Alabama senator was
letter, written to him by Secretary
Hughes, head of the American con
ference plenipotentiaries, replying to
charges that the treaty resulted from
a British-Japanese plan to allay the
embarressments of the Anglo-Japanese
alliance.
Draft Prepared by HuKbrn.
Mr. Hughes asserted that he him
self had prepared a draft of the
treaty after consultation with the
other delegates and that, with minor
changes, it became the final text as
signed and submitted to the senate
fcr ratification.
The secretary of state further de
clared "there was not the slightest
mystery about the treaty or basis
of suspicion about it."
He described it as "a straightfor
ward document, which attains one of
the most important objects the Amer
ican government has had in view
the maintenance of friendly relations
in the far east upon a sound basis."
"In view of this and in view of the
relation of this treaty to the results
of the conference," concluded Mr.
Hughes, "its failure would be nothing
short of a national calamity."
Duel Lacta for Hour.
The argumentative duel which fol
lowed the reading of the secretary's
letter and which interposed itself in
the senator's prepared address, was
fought for an hour between the
speaker and Senator Robinson, demo
crat, Arkansas, who originally had
raised the question of the origin of
the treaty and who declared that the
secretary's letter bad not dispelled
evidences that the four-power ar
rangement was inspired from London
and Tokio.
Other democrats then joined in the
questioning of their party leader, in
cluding Senators Reed of Missouri,
Glass of Virginia, Walsh of Montana
.and Watson of Georgia. . From the
republican side of the chamber their
efforts were seconded by Senators
Borah of Idaho and France of Mary
land.
Alliance Held -Not Contemplated.
. Hia support of the treaty. Senator
Underwood said, was actuated by the
same . spirit that prompted him to
vote for the treaty of Versailles with
its league of nations. He declared no
alliance was contemplated, but added
that he could see no objection even
to an alliance if it were based on ar
bitration rather than force and ef
iaced dangers that threatened Ameri
can interests in the Pacific To re
ject the pact because it does not bind
the signatories to employ force, he
asserted, would be to revert to the
reactionary philosophy of the past.
The democratic leader conceded
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Leaves Work at His Home and
Tragedy in Back Yard Fol
lows Almost Immediately.
LEBANON, Or., March 11. (Spe
cial.) F. M. Sherman, a well-known
farmer of Linn county, was found
dead in his back yard here today with
a shotgun by hi3 side and a wound
in his breast.
Mr. Sherman and a neighbor, Henry
Meyers, had been engaged during the
day blocking up the rear of the
Sherman farm house. Mr. Meyers
was under the house and Mr. Sher
man got out and went into the rear
room ' to see if the foundatli was
solid. A few minutes later a shot
was heard in the rear of the house.
Mrs. Sherman and Mr. Meyers ran
out and they found Mr. Sherman lying
on his face in' the back yard with a
large hole in the chest and the gun by
his side with one empty shell and
the other barrel loaded. He lrad died
instantly.
For many years Mr. Sherman had j
been one of the most prominent small
fruit growers in this section and had
made many exhibits at the state fair,
where he had won prizes for his ex
hibits. He also had conducted the
Linn county exhibits at the fair and
had charge of the community exhibit
of Lebanon at the Linn county fair
last fall, which won the first prizes.
He is survived by his widow and
two stepchildren. He was about 60
years old.
HOSPITAL BILL REPORTED
$17,000,000 for Additional Facil
ities Provided.
WASHINGTON. D. C, March 11.
An appropriation of 117,000.000 for
additional hospital facilities for dis
abled war veterans is recommended
in a bill favorably reported todaay
by the house public buildings com
mittee.
As originally introduced by Chair
man Langley, the measure authorized
$16,000,000 appropriation, but. the
amount was increased by the com
mittee to take care of several addi
tional projects.
The bill as reported does not stipu
late where and how the money is to
be expended, this being left entirely
to the director of the veterans' bu
reau, who, under provisions . of the
measure, .would control all construe-:
tion work artd architectural plans in
stead of the architect of the treasury
department.
EIGHTv MILLIONS ADDED
Senate Increases and Passes Defi
ciency Appropriation Bill.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 1L--The
senate late today passed the de
ficiency appropriation bill, carrying
total of $136,895,000, or $3,358,000
more than was appropriated by the
measure as passed by the house. The
principal amendment added by the
senate was an appropriation of $27,-
468.000 for use in repayment of il-
cgally collected taxes.
.The bill supplies an - additional
$73,740,000 for tne use of the veterans'
bureau in vocational rehabilitation of
former service men. The measure,
which now goes to conference with
the house, went through the senate in
ittle more than one hour. Chairman
Warren of ihe appropriations com
mittee having urged speed because
of the need by the veterans' bureau
for the appropriation for soldier re
lief.
MISSING PILOT REPORTS
Aviator Scott Spends Night Lost
In Blizzard, Then Walks to Town.
RENO, Nev.;' March 11. Pilot Scott
walked into Delle, Utah, at 1:50 this
afternoon, after spending the night
lost in a blizzard, according to a wire
less dispatch' received at the Reno
air mail field. He was forced to
land yesterday afternoon when he
ran into a storm and in walking to
Delle was lost in the blizzard. He
was uninjured and his plane was not
damaged.
SALT LAKE CITY, March 11. On
foot and horseback, searching parties
from Cobar. . Cobre and Wendover
have been scouring the eastern Ne
vada desert for trace of Paul P.
Scott, mail airplane pilot, who left
Elko for Salt Lake City at 4:22 P. M
yesterday.
Casualties Are Placed at
About 600.
80 BELIEVED. TO BE DEAD
Troubles in South Africa Con
tinue Serious. '
CROWDED HALL WRECKED
More Strikers Clash With Police,
of Whom 19 Are Reported to
Have Been Slain.
(By the Associated Press.)
JOHANNESBURG, March 11. The
Rand Daily Mail today placed Fri
day's casualties throughout the Rand
at 600, or whom 80 were believed to
have been killed. The casualties
among the strikers were not known
A Scottish detachment was am
bushed at Benoni today by , strikers
hidden in a plantation, who sudden
ly poured a heavy fire into the sol
diers, killing IS of them and wound
ing 25. Most of the detachment were
ex-service men.
The trades union hall at Benoni.
near here, crowded with South Afri
can gold mine strikers, was bombed
by. an aviator today. The majority
of those assembled were killed and
the building was destroyed.
19 Policemen Are Killed.
Casualties in the-fighting between
the striking miners and police had
reached 32 killed and 57 wounded by
9 o'clock Friday night, when the fir
ing was continuing. Of the 32 killed,
19 were policemen. By 11 o'clock,
however, the streets had become de
serted and the town was uncannily
quiet. The public was forbidden use
of the streets. .
The heaviest casualties In the dis
trict were believed to have been suf
fered in the extreme eastern section'
of the Rand.
General Beeves,' commanding the
Witwaters Rand, has ordered the pub
lic to remain . indoors from 7 P. M.
until 6 A. M.
- Moat of Striken Armed.
Jeppe, a suburb adjoining Johan
nesburg, was seething with strikers
this afternoon. Most of the men were
armed and some carried bombs. They
are credited with planning to hold up
the police in that area so as to pre
vent them from reinforcing other
points, particularly Fordsburg, where
intermittent firing was continuing
today. At Brakpan and Denoi the
strikers apparently had obtained the
upper hand, at least temporarily, and
numbers of dead and wounded were
lying in the streets.
Vast crowds were still, in the
streets (presumably after martial
law had been declared, -as recounted
in a previous message) and firing
was heard every few minutes.
It was" reported from Benoni that
an airplane was shot down, the pilot
being killed.
MOVE HELD REVOLUTIONARY.
Strike Issue Reported Eclipsed by
Threat Against State.
LONDON, March 11. The general
strike called by the miners' leaders at
Johannesburg is in reality a revolu
tionary movement, according to the I
Capetown correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph. The strike issue has been
eclipsed by the threat against the
state, he said. 1
There was some speculation over
Premier Smuts' delay in proclaiming
martial law, but it was understood he
was actuated by fear that such a step
would precipitate a conflict in which
the strikers, who were mainly Dutch,
might be reinforced from the veldt.
The Johannesburg correspondent of
the same newspaper reported that
numbers of Ditch farmers in' the
Boksburg and Benoni districts- had
joined the strikers and formed mount
ed commandos which attacked Benoni.
The Times' Johannesburg corre
spondent, ontheotlierhajicascribed
(Concluded on Page 2, Column 2.)
Chicago Parents Hold Indignation
Meetings Over Dangers That
Sons Encounter.
BY MARGARET DALE.
CHICAGO, March 11. (Special.)
Parents of the male flapper are hold
ing indignation . metings throughout
Chicago to protest against "vamp
ing" of their poor defenseless sons
by sweet young things still in their
'teens.
How to euro "petting parties," the
popular pastime of the younger gen
eration everywhere, it seems, occu
pied most of the discussion at the
convention of social hygiene associa
tions, at which were' represented the
Chicago woman's club, the woman 9
city club, the parent-teachers' club,
and other prominent women's organi
zations. The girls are to blame for all the
petting" or snuggle-pupping that is
going on, it was decided.
Dr. Rachaelle Yarros, chairman of
the convention, voiced the sentiment
of the gathering when she said:
"It is always the girl who leads
the way, either for good or for ill.
If she does not maintain the stan
dard, how can one expect the boy to
do so? She holds the situation in
her hand. It is she who started flap
perism and it is she who must end
it." .
To Miss Lillian Collier, young and
pretty proprietor of the Wind Blew
Inn. credit is due for coining "snuggle-pupping"
as a new word for fu
ture dictionaries.. Since she used it
in court recently after the raiding
of the center of Bohemian activity
in Chicago, it has been generally ac
cepted here as a synonym for "pet
ting."
"There is no snuggle-pupping at
the Wind Blew Inn," she announced
so emphatically that she was allowed
to keep her place open until it was
(Concluded on Page IB, Column 1.)
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 43
degrees; minimum, 64 degrees.
TODAY'S Occasional' rain
southwesterly
winds.
Departments.
Editorial. Section 3. page 8..
Dramatic. Section 4, page 6. ' .
Moving picture news. Section 4, page 1. '
Real estate and building news. Section 4,
page 10-
Churches. Section 5. page 2,
Book. Section 5, page 3.
Schools. Section 6. page 6.
Automobiles. Section 6. t ..
Music. Section. 4, page 5.
Flowers for home and garden.
Section 4,
page 9.
Women's Iture.
Society. Section 8, page 1.
Women's activities. Section 3. page 10.
Auction bridge. Section 3, page 6.
lillss Tingle's column. Section 5. page 4.
Fashions, Section 3, page 4.
Madam Richet's column. Section 5, page B
Child welfare column. Section 5, page 7.
Special Features.
One chance in ten for elopers. Magazine
section, page 1.
Quarrel about beauty and clothes.
Maga-
zine section, page 2,
Millionaire waits for "The Pink
Lady.
Magazine, section, page 3.
News of world as seen, by camera.
Maga-
zine section, page 4.
Oregon Romance four centuries old.
Maga-
zine sectiom, page o.
Rent for one flat $55,000. Magazine sec
tion, page 6.
'The Man Killer." fiction feature. Maga
zine section, page 4-
Hill's cartoons, "Among Us Mortals." Mag
azine section, page 8.
Color schemes affect health. Section 3,
page 11.
Famous tapestries pawned. . Section 3,
page 4.
The Heart of Little Shikara." Section 4,
page 8.
Darinas cartoons on topics of the day.
Section 5, page 7.
.Foreign.
Bombs used in fighting in Rand. Section
1, page 1. -
Ousted secretary raps Lloyd George. Sec
tion 1, page 6.
English poke fun at American films: Sec
tion 1. page 15.
Ex-cabinet official defends Indian policy.
Section 1, page 6.
Returning of bodies of American war
heroes nearly completed. Section 1,
page 5
Polyglot party on Oriental liner
Lamp man. Section 1, page 1.
American demand disregarded by
writes
allies.
Section 1, pape 1.
National.
Naturalization law change is proposed. Sec
tion 2, page 3.
Wm. Hughes honored by newspaper men.
Section 2, page 2.
Washington capital enjoys variety. Section
1. page 15.
Fate of arms conference work lies in dis
position of four-power treaty. Section
1. page 4.
Hughes declares he drafted four-power
treaty. Section " 1, page 1.
Harbors bill soon to be presented to house.
Section 1, page 3.
Bonus notes declared best of securities.
Section 1, page 2.
First Billion Gold Marks of Ger-
; man Indemnity Distributed
by .Signed Agreement.
PARIS, March 11. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The allied finance
ministers signed an agreement this
afternoon for the distribution of the
first billion gold marks of German
reparations. The agreement diregards
the American claim of priority for its
expenses in connection with occupa
tion -of the. Rhlneland, so far as the
actual sharing of this money is con
cerned. It recognizes the claim, how
ever, by a special clause which states
that all the agreements on this ques
tion : are subject to American rights
as the various governments may es
tablish them, the finance ministers
contending that they do not have the
power to decide this question.
" The ministers decided after long
discussion that the question was not
for the repararations commission to
decide, because that body was acting
solely under the provisions of the
treaty of Versailles, to which the
United States was no longer a party.
Consequently it was decided that the
question was one for the various gov
ernments concerned to settle.
The finance ministers also con
cluded that it was impossible for them
In any case to reopen the" long and
difficult deliberations which resulted
In the present agreement, so they
could only reserve the American right
and leave the question for diplomacy
to settle. ,
The agreement provides that the
expenses of the armies of occupation-after
May 1. 1921, shall be di
vided as follows: One hundred and
two million . Belgian francs to Bel
gium; 2,000,000 to Great Britain and
460,000,000 French francs to France.
The distribution of deliveries in kind
by Germany in 1922 will be on the
basis of 65 per cent to France and
(Concluded on Page 16. Column 2.)
National.
Fourrpower pact believed in peril. Section
.1, page 5. . - - "
Domestic.
Chemists change tungsten into helium and
. - disprove old laws. - Section 1, page 1.
Modern girl blamed for "petting parties."
Section lt page L
Mrs. Asquitn defies British dry element
Section 1, page 6,- ;
Egyptian prince visits New York. Section
3, page. 10.
Pacific "rthwet.
F. M.. Sherman, prominent farmer of Linn
- county, Oregon, ssiaui at his home. Sec
tion 1, page 1.
Hood River Applef Growers association
holds annual meeting. Section 2, page 10.
State institutions of Washington to be
made eelf-supporting. Section 1. page 6.
Oniy two state Institutions face deficits.
Section 1, page 7.
Assignments made in highway patrol. Sec
tion 1, page 8.
Marion tax league asks drastic economy.
Section 1, page 16.
Ku Klux Klan members perform errand of
mercy. Section 1, page 1.
Young man runs for auditor in Idaho. Sec
tion 1, page 7. -
Sports.
Gibbons-Greb fight to raw big crowd.
. Section 2, page 2. V
Babe Ruth is pride of two Monels. Sec
tion 2, page 4. V',
Great lecord set by UnLyei y oL Tiv,t
basketball team.' Section ag
Oregon ball coach to' cut u --va c;u
Suction 2, page 3.
Portland boy elected capw r- r i
soccer team. Section 2, '
Cold rain keeps Beavers in
page 1.
California holds interclasi
tion 2, page 3.
Open title again in goif
page 4.
University of Oregon
athletic neids. Sect! . .;
Pacific coast ring and ..,.
pete in Portland. S t!
Free try for goal on 'i.'i!
tion 2, page 1.
Commercial' -.
Coffee prices are atf -i
supply available. ' :u u.
Chicago wheat ralii? r m
Section 1, page 1
Bend market aver .-. r j hp.h
Section 1, page , .. .
New direct service T .-u
month. Seotlon . t
if
1 tt.Ta
. .mted
,Bi- IS.
'sslon.
week.
i f '.irt this
d orient
r. i, page it.
-.or. High
i . . oce. bec-
Wheat shipment
about equally '
Wall street feelf
dividend-pa v! :
tion l,page 1
Port!
Police up in a.
tion 1, pagi
Con-tractors ef i
president. , -Six
republican
tion 1, pag '
Grand opera r-.:
page 12.
Tax com mi? - u
4U1
L o; idea. Sec
. ney. Seattle,
; 13.
i rnorship. Sec-
jh. Section 1.
astern Oregon.
tour
Section 1. ;8f it
Basis of Nev Vr nHone cut Identical to
Oregon d cun i, page 13.
I. L. Patterson .naunties platform for
governor.- ijecticn 1. page 9.
Land-clearingiemonstration attracts Poet
land men and farmers. Section 2,
page 6. p
Lampman Writes of Voy
age on Taiyo Maru.
THREE-MILE LIMIT FOND LURE
Ere Thirst Is Slacked Sea's
' Billows Upset Desire.
SCHLADANG IS NEW BEAST
Animal More Prodigious Than
Jumbo Held Out as Bait to
Hunting Instincts of Tourists.
BT BEX HUR LAMPMAN.
OX BOARD S. S. TAIYO MARL', Feb.
28. (By Mail.) Tn watch the Golden
Gate dwindle against the skyline and
merge at last with ocean is to feel
a friendship for the white gulls that
follow. There are birds of the same
clan, of a feather, on the green fields
at home. Here their brethren convoy
us far out at sea, wheeling above our
wake in the prosiac pursuit of scraps.
Masefield it was who called them the
souls of departed mariners. A som
ber and beautiful fancy. For the
sake of the fantasy, as for their
fluent grace, one must forget the
errand they are on forget the crass-
ness of the purpose that wings them.
with such minimum of effort, in the
lee of the liner. When they have
fallen back toward the mainland,
hundreds of miles away, the last bon
voyage will drift with the wind.
We are a polyglot company, com
mitted to a diversity of ventures in
distant ports. Japanese diplomats
returning from the disarmament con
ference; American tourists eager for
the mystery of the orient; blase
Britons bound for India or Australia;
Tuskegee savant of many degrees
intent upon the further improvement
of travel; commercial emissaries who
go again to banishment in lands
where men sicken and die between
dawn and dusk; a flaming blonde
from Calcuta, known to every har
bor of the east races and creeds and
colors merged in one passenger list,
and fraternizing at shuffle-board.
Whim of EuHt Answered.
To many of these the voyage is a
casual one. They speak of Chinese
cities, of fetid ports along the coast
of Asia, with the off-hand familiarity
of custom. Trade called them years
dgo, pressed them into her service,
and holds them in bond today. To
visit the east is to sign, they say, an
impalpable but potent pledge to an
swer her whim again and again. They
know the outposts of our commerce
as a cigar salesman knows his ter
ritory. The vastitude of the Pacific
either plagues nor perplexes them
it all. Long .since they accepted the
doctrine of human sovereignty. The
ocean is no more than a highway
from city to city, a cosmopolitan
thoroughfare. They have lost some
what by this sophistication, for it
cannot be well to forego that funda
mental awe of the blue circle of
horizon which drove the ancient
Mariner to madness.
Dressed in a little brief authority,
braided and serged, men made a fic
tion of their acquaintance with the
sea, of the mastery of their ships.
These crowded, so the phrase ran,
the seven seas of the world. To the
landsman arose a populous picture,
a concept of white sails and trailing
smoke, of elbow to elbow fraternity
on the ocean. Yet their multiple
commerce is lost in immensity as
motes in a mill pond. This is a sea
lane. Before, behind, at either hand,
but ever beneath the horizon, are
craft such as our own, chattering
over the wireless as boys whistle in
the dark. For four days of fair
weather not one of them hailed the
Taiyo Maru by so much as a distant
glimpse in passage. The ocean is j
the ocean, mysterious motner, whose
breast is the resting place of conti
nents. Doubtless she laughs boom
ingly at that figment of the crowded
seas, at our extravagance of phrase.
Not so long ago, as ships reckon
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Delegation Appears in Full Regalia
and Deed of Charity Creates
Great Sensation.
VANCOUVER. Wash., March 11.
(Special.) Three mclfibers of the Ku
Klux Klan created the sensation of
the season today by calling at the
county courthouse on a mission of
mercy this morning.
The three members, masked and
clad in full regalia, appeared at the
courthouse and went into the office
of the county sheriff and asked Frank
Cornelius, deputy, to escort them to
the office of Miss Janet Worden.
county nurse.
Arriving there, they gave Miss
Worden $45 with a note stating this
money was to be used for buying a
set of braces for a poor crippled boy.
By having the braces, the lad has a
chance of overcoming the effects of
infantile paralysis, doctors believe.
Miss Worden had already collected
6 towards the braces and had a
telephone call from a man stating he
would donate the entire amount. Miss
Worden will r.ow use the $6 for a pair
of shoes to go with the braces and
if the telephone caller makes good,
the money will be used to help an
other cripple in the county.
.In less than a minute after the
members , of the Ku Klux Klan ap
peared in the courthouse, business
was suspended and every clerk and
official flowed into the hall to get a
glimpse of them. Their mission fin
ished, they ieft quietly and drove
away in an automobile, leaving a big
crowd gasping with wonder.
INDIAN R0ME0 CAPTURED
Louis Hawks Caught in Effort to
See His Juliet and Locked Up.
SOUTH BEND, Wash., March 11.
(Special.) Louis Hawks, an Indian
boy in Bay Center, a small town near
here, will not try to play Romeo any
more. Wednesday night he tried to
see Ruby Wilson, a white girl, in Bay
Center with whom he tried to run
away some weeks ago. He made his
call via a window.
Just as he was crawling in, George
Wilson, the fatrher of the girl, cov
ered the dismayed Romeo with a shot
gun and marched him to a nearby
milk house and locked him up. The
next day he was taken to the county
jail, where a charge of burglary was
placed against him. He later was
released on bail.
Mr. Wilson prevented the marriage
of his daughter to the Indian boy
some weeks ago by chasing the couple
to South Bend.
MAH0NEY RING IS CHEAP
Wedding Band of Slain Woman
Valued at 15 Cents.
SEATTLE. Wash.. March 11. Fif
teen cents was the value of the wed
ding ring James K. Mahoney placed,
a little more than a year ago, on the
finger of Mrs. Kate Mahoney, for
whose murder he was convicted and
sentenced to be hanged. This was re
vealed today when appraisers of the
dead woman's estate filed their final
report and appraisement in superior
court here.
The total value of the estate, which
had been previously estimated at as
high as $200,000, was fixed at $24,
266.23. The Mahoneys were married In
February, 1921. and In August Airs.
Mahoney's body was found in a trunk
at the bottom of Lake Union here.
The state charged Mahoney killed her
for her property. He is held in the
county jail here, pending an appeal
to the supreme court from his con
viction. SWINDLERS OBTAIN SUIT
Cleaning Shop Persuaded to Hand
Over Clothes to Wrong Man.
The College Cleaners, 194 Union
avenue north, reported to Inspectors
the loss of an expensive suit of clothes
yesterday ' afternoon through the
scheming of two "good looking for
eigners." One of the men called for a suit,
saying his name was Brennan. While
in. the shop he obtained the name on
a suit tag. A short time after he left
another handsome foreigner called
for the suit bearing the tag that had
been examined by the first. He paid
charges and took it with him. Thirty
minutes later the real owner called.
The police said the game has been
worked in Portland a dozen times
this winter.
Alchemist's Dream Is
Realized Partly.
TUNGSTEN BECOMES HELIUM
50,000 Degrees, Hotter Than
Sun, Is Heat Used.
OLD LAWS PROVED FALSE
Conditions Existing on Stars Are
Reproduced and Melal Trans
formed Into Another Phase.
CHICAGO. March 11. Transmuta
tion of metals, sought throughout the
ages, has finally been accomplished,
it was announced in a paper read to
day at a meeting of the middle wct-
ern sections of the American Chemi
cal society at Northwestern univer
sity. Tungsten, which Is used In the fila
ments of electric light bulb, has been
definitely and permanently changed
into another element, helium, through
treatment In temperatures of between
50,000 and 60,000 degrees, lt was de
clared in a report on experiments con
ducted by Dr. Gerald L. Wendt and
C. E. Irion, working at the University
of Chicago.
Metals Cmm Be ( kaaaed.
"It mean that the alchemists who
tried to turn the baser metals into
gold were right on one point that
the nature of metals could be
changed," aald Dr. Paul N. Leech of
the Chicago section of the chemical
society, in commenting upon the pa
per. "But of course it has nothing
to do with the assertions of scalawags
that the baser metals can be trans
mutated Into synthetic gold.
"It does, however, blast the theory
that the atoms of element, sup
posed to be absolutely indestructible,
cannot be broken up by men. lt
opens a vast new field to science and
may result in many far-reaching and
important sclentiflo developments.
We cannot yet foresee what these de
velopments may be, of course. Up
until 1895 It waa believed that no
decomposition of elements was pos
sible.. At that time, however, it was
discovered that radium which is one
of the about 90 known elements, nat
urally decomposes into lead. Nature,
however, performs that change and
until Dr. Wendt and Mr. Irion com
pleted their experiments, man has
never been able to produce a similar
result.
Heat Hotter Thaa Son.
"The heat developed to break down
the tungsten atoms and change them
into helium is the greatest ever
known hotter than the nun or than
the hottest star known to astrono
mers. "The heat of molten steel Is about
2000 degrees; the temperature of the
sun is about 9000 degrees and of some
of the hottest stars is about 30.000
degrees.
"But these scientists have, by
means of 'artificial lighting,' aucti as
r. Charles P. Steinmctz recently pro
duced, developed the hottest known
spot in the universe.
"Astronomers have long known
that while in general the materials
which compose the sun and stars are
the came as those known on earth,
the list of substances and chemical
elements becomes shorter and shorter
when the hotter stars are examined.
"On the brilliant rwhlte or bluish
stars? which are masses of gases at
about 30,000 degrees. only the
simplest elements are present. They
seem to consist entirely of the gases
hydrogen and helium. The heavier
metals, such as iron, are not present.
Metals Become iases.
"To determine whether this was
due to decomposition by the great
heat, Wendt and Irion' reproduced
conditions such as are on the stars or
actually succeeded in reaching a tem
perature twice as high as that of the
hottest star and found that ordinary
(Concluded on Pa 2. Column a.)