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TIIE ' SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DECE3IBER 17, 1 923 20, SALE OF PATRONAGE I HOUSE CHARGED .Checks and Papers Offered by Mr. Harrison. VIRGINIA MAN ACCUSED .-Representative Ousted Because ot ! Irregularities Heads Letters ; About Campaign Fuud. of the flour mills in the country is put at 25,800 barrels a. . year, whereas it was only 10,330 barrels at the end of 1914. During the war the producing capacity of the mills made a remarkable increase from the effect of which the mill people are suffering at present. The capi talization of the flour mill concerns at the end of 1914 totaled 8,390,000 yen of which 5,600,000 yen was paid up), but at present it has in creased to 33,700,000 yen (of which 16,900,000 yen is paid up). The slump in the rice market during the last few months due to the bumper crop this year , nas adversely ai fected the flour market. , Formerly, the flour -mills used mostly Japanese wheat in which 20 or 30 per cent of foreign wheat was mixed, but in recent years they have been obliged to reverse the percentage of mixture owing to the high price of the domestic grain. In some cases foreign wheat is used entirely in flour making. The im portation of 274,393 koku of wheat in 1914 has grown to 4,352,291 koku in 1921. WASHINGTON. D. C.,' Dec. 15. In :a parting shot at his republican foes 'just before they ousted him late to day from the house of representa , lives on the erround of election ir : regularities, Thomas W. Harrison, democrat, of the seventh Virginia "district, charged that the life of the republican party in his state Was baaed on nafrnnapp and then : proceeded to read letters which he declared "proved incontrovertibly" ; that patronage had been sold there. Amid the utmost confusion in the ; chamber Mr. Harrison declared that uaoLum oiemp, rejn eaeii lh.1.1 v 3 wi. the ninth district and republican national committeeman, was the ' dispenser of all patronage. ', Buying of Place Charged. Then holding aloft a handful of f letters and canceled checks, Mr. Harrison exclaimed: i "The people of the country do not ; altogether understand Virginia re publican politics. It is a pure mat tier of patronage, and a question of 'how they can feed at the public trough. Why, I have been hearing .all over the district of matters about ;the sale of patronage. I have been hearing that offices were sold for Jwhat money there was In it, and I ; have right here the incontrovertible 'proof that it is the condition we ;have been facing in Virginia." j Mr. Harrison asserted that "the .head of this whole business is the t distinguished member from the ; ninth Virginia district." i "lie is the disburser of all political , pat ronage," he added. "He is the man who has to give his indorse iraent to. anybody that applies, not 'only in my own state, but also, as (I understand, in other states, f "I picked up a few checks checks, i gentlemen, by the bushels. They are indorsed, some of them by Mr. ; Slemp and some of them by Mr. (Howard, as hla secretary." ! Mr. Slemp, interrupting, demanded the date, and Mr. Harrison replied l hat they seemed to run over a year, from December, 1920, to January, 1922. The checks "were not .made unto the record. Mr. Harrison said ? most of them were drawn to Mr. ..Slemp and Mr. Howard and signed ;iy B. R. Powell, whom he later de scribed, in answer to questions from the floor, as a patronage referee. Most of the amounts were under ' $100, he said, and several went to the v. republican national committee. J While he made no reply in the house, Mr. Slemp, in a statement to- night, said that neither Powell nor anybody else had been authorized J to collect money for the party or- t anization with the promise of of ' rice, and if this had been done it J was without his knowledge or ap- proval. . Representative Is Ousted. r The first of the letters read by J Mr. Harrison purported to have been t written by Mr. Slemp to Powell in answer to letters "in regard to the -collection of money for postoff ices." i "One must be very careful about this," the letter said. "It will bring the party into disrepute, which would be bad for everyone. We must preserve our stand with the poople and the administration." It was on the heels of Mr. Harri- son's speech, which republicans de- .r..-:ViQj ia art offnp tn r,anr . Slemp, that the house put off de- J ijate and voted 202 to 100 to declare ,i his seat vacant. With this done, it ; voted 201 to 99 to seat John Paul, ? n publican contestant, who was im- r mediately sworn in to serve until March 4. Mr. Harrison was elected ;rin November and will return to his GOVERNORS SEE MINE STATE EXECUTIVES TRAVEL MILE UNDER EARTH. BERLIN BABBLING POLA JEER Chaplin Engagement Rumor Accepted With Shrug. NOTHING BAD IS HEARD Film Actress, Like Everybody in Public Life,. Declared Sure to Be Talked About. Mr. Olcott Makes H4t With Pun About Being Buried in Re cent ' Landslide. BECKLET, W. Va., Dec. 15. After laying aside the cares of office, the governors of 11 states donned jump ers today at Glen White, near here, and descended 250 feet into the earth to inspect one of West Virginia's coal mines. Accompanying them into the mine were their wives. All wore the regulation miners' caps, with lamps attached. The governors came here from White Sulphur Springs, where they have been attending the 14th annual conference of the state chief execu tives, making the trip by special train, and being met at the station by the municipal band and a dele gation of citizens, who escorted them to Glen White. There were a few gasps from the governors' wives when it was an nounced that the party would be shot down a deep shaft and guided through the labyrinth of passages underground, but they made the trip bravely. Governor Olcott of Oregon was the first to step on the shaft elevator and as he did so remarked: "Many of us have been buried in the recent landslides, but never have so many governors been under ground once." Below ground the party rode a mile along the main gallery in coal trains and then returned to the sur-. face, being met by scores of school children, whom several of the gov ernors addressed. Then they re turned here, where they, were enter tained at luncheon by the chamber of commerce before departing for White Sulphur Springs for a social programme preceding the final ses sion of the conference tomorrow. said was: "Hand over your money." Neither of the robbers bothered to remove several dollars in silver and small change, being satisfied with the roll of greenbacks. A crowd of holdups descended upon Carl Proppe, 484 Lexington avenue, on Ninth street, between Lexington avenue and Bidwell streett he reperted. They surrounded him, each vpointing the muzzle of a nickle-plated revolver at him.- All they got was J3.50 and a check, upon which he will stop payment today. There were three robbers. Proppe said that a -darkened par lor was not the only place where three was a crowd. Two men held up the Ray drug Store, Third and Jefferson streets, but got nothing. " The proprietor, G. H. Ray, was In the prescription de partment and was held there by one, while the other searched for money. Ray!s store has been robbed before in the same way, so he does not keep any .money, on hand. . ; mmmimimmmimmmmsmmumimmwm w II; pfjaaininwnmnmiiinpai old seat in the new congress. IS ; PROFIT OF FROM $15,000 TO $20,000 LIKELY. ; Crowd at Final Snowing Declared 7500 and Affair Is Pro nounced Success. IS HIT BY - AUTO DRIVER ESCAPES WITHOUT OFFERING ASSISTANCE. Mrs. C. L. Hartshorne Crushed Against Signal Post; Driver Apparently Tries to Dodge. A faint-hearted motorist sped away without offering assistance Friday night after his automobile had struck Mrs. Callie L. Hartshorne, 848 East Everett street, and crushed her against a signal post of the Portland Railway, Power & Light company at East Twenty-eighth and Everett streets. She was taken to her home suffering from Injuries to her spine and may be hurt internally. Mrs. Hartshorne, after alighting from a street car. walked around the rear end. crossed the street and was stepping on the sidewalk, ac cording to Patrolman Lee of the east side police station, when the auto mobile jumped the curb and caught her against the post. She dropped In the snow. The driver escaped by driving down the sidewalk for half a block before taking the street again. No one got his number. He was apparently trying to avoid an accident and lost control of his machine on the slippery street. Mrs. Hartshorne is an employe of Olds, Wortman & King. She is 28 years old. ' In a burst of gaiety the Shrine i circus closed its doors at the audi- torium Friday night. More than 7500 i were preseift at the 11th and final i showing of the attraction, which at- traded well above 50,000 Port i landers to their civic temple. Proceeds from the two weeks, .' over and above the many heavy ex I penses incurred in production, will : run between $15,000 and $20,000, Hal Hutchinson, general chairman and ' ringmaster of the successful event, i predicted Friday night. "It's a loose estimate," he said. "We won't know for sure for sev J eral days the exact receipts, but it looks as though a! Kader will have her delegation at the Washing- ton convention in the usual style. If we haven't raised the money here, well, we'll go ahead and plan some- thins else." . ! The general feeling Friday night, however, was that the money was raised. Hard work and long hours it has meant for the scores who have taken part in the extensive show. l'"or the performers on the stage numerous as they were and good I as they were and all by unqualified admission, were quite outclassed, . when it came to work, by the fez- ' I topped gentry behind the counters - of the myriad booths. I Friday night's showing was by !' special arrangement after ten nights had shown no diminution in the t crowds which nightly packed the ". huge building. :- A feature was the disposal of a piano, a Victrola and a $100 mer7 i chandlse order to ticket holders. MASONS ELECT OFFICERS New Personnel Also Installed by Lodge No. 55. Officers were elected and installed Friday night by Portland Masonic lodge No. 55. Installation was in charge, of John B. Cleland, past grand master, as- "wsiwSf sisted by Henry -J I C. Weber, past master. - Officers named to serve the en suing year were: Worshipful mas ter, George Met tier; senior .war den. Donald H. Rowe; junior war den, Louis D. Fer guson; treasurer, Arthur O. Jones; secretary, Her bert J. Houghton; senior deacon. Loyal H. McCarthy; junior deacon. Hardy O. Howard; chaplain,' Floyd C. Lynch; marshal, Marshall B. Grenfel; senior steward, Harry Harvey; junior steward, R. Norman Tufford; tyler, Perley P. Kilbourne; organist, Richard Mar tin Jr. BY LARRY RUE. ,. (Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service. Copyright, 1922, by the Chicago Tribune.) BERLIN, Dec' 14. Film circles here have accepted the announce ment that Charles Chaplin is en gaged to Pola Negri with a shrug of the shoulders, as much as to say "She lived down in our alley." Of course, everybody was awfully happy to hear Pola was getting on so lovely and everything and she was "pretty as she could be and some people seem to like her acting and don't you think she deserves even more credit for having got where she is on her own merits, just like Chaplin, rather than to have been born with a fine sense of dis crimination between the utility of fish and butter knives. . "Everybody is hoping, don't you know, that the next marriage -turns out much happier than the last one, which did not take very well, and there is hope that it probably will, because, don't you think it is prob able that she will be much happier discussing custard pies with Charlie than she was in listening to her ex husband. Count Domski, telling how lucky she was to marry Into a fam ily like his?" Last afarriagre Platonic Nobody can sav a bad word nhnnt Pola, Everybody in public life like she is is sure to be talked about, anyhow. ui course, me newspapers a year ago made an awful lot about the failure of Navjocks, ex-heavywelght champion, to show any punch during the championship bout, blaming Pola, who was at the ringside bet ting against him. But the newspa per which published the article, ac cusing her of playing Delilah, got mixed up in court. As to her marriage with the count, it -was platonie as could be. and in fact, even her divorce failed to show anything sufficiently sen national to make a newspaper story which even a press agent m'ght mane something of. There s a lot of gossip among girls that she mar ried the count to show Fear Andra, a prominent mm star, who is en gaged to a German baron, that it is nothing in her young life, and it is just as easy to pick them large, but mis is tne sheerest gossip. Divorce Obtained Later. However, it might be remembered after the big wedding party in 1917, which was said to have been the most gorgeous party in Germany during the war, the count kissed her hand and went back to the an cestral hall without her. He did not like her being mixed up in a pro fession. A divorce was obtained through mutual consent without some orthodox charge of cruelty or desertion, or non-support, but mere ly incompatibility. You see, Pola is really not a Pole at all, but a Hungarian. Anyway, that is what sne told Vadasz. famous artist who has made several sketches of her. Her right name is no more Pola than his is Jones She told him it was Appolonia Ralu- pez, which is a Slovak name. How ever, she was born in Lodz, Poland, and she said she only knows one Hungarian word and that is slangy. When Vadasz was making sketches of her she said she was 25 years old, but the girls know she is more than that. Chronology Is Given. A chronology of Pola is as fol lows; In 3 912 she was in Warsaw, em ployed in an opera ballet, (this she told Vadasz). In 1914 she was in Berlin, engaged in a small film com pany. She made two films, which were unsuccessful. In 1915 she met Zelnik. In 1916 she was employed by Ufa and scored a hit in "Car men" with Lubitsch. She scored another success in "Judas." In 1917 she married. In 1918 the prima donna refused to play after the scenes were arranged by the -stage hands and the other actresses ready in three different plays. In 1919 she obtained a divorce. She met French marquis, whose social post tion she learned was no better than her ex-husband's. In 1921 she met Charles Chaplin in Berlin, and in 1922 in America. INCREASE IN DISTRIBUTION MADE IN YEAR. 15 Monthly Department Under Burghdufr Shows Good Results Since Division in 1921. An increase in all state game and fish distribution and a more effect ive enforcement of the game laws I the progress made by the fish nd game commissions since their division into separate - bureaus in 1921. Fines obtained irom game law infringers have jumped to a total of more than 2 times the amount obtained previous to the legislation that brought this departmental sep aration about. Ten times as many pheasants have been released, for shooting, from the government game farms. The distribution of trout fry has increased 400 per cent .The establishing of the game com mission as a separate bureau from the fish commission and the selec tion of Captain Burghduff as state game warden was the first step toward this new era of Oregon game administration. Captain Burghduffs report for 1922 shows that ' from under ZOO pheasants released from the pheas ant breeding farm in ISIS, by care ful breeding under the supervision of experts the number released has increased this year to obis pheas ants. ' The number of trout fry planted in 1920 was 6,000,000, while this year's total shows over 24,000,000. Fish hatcheries throughout the state ve increased from five in 1920 to 15 at the present time. Trout eggs ready for hatching in 1923 number 30,000,000. As fines for game violations, $34,104 was collected from 756 con victions by the deputy game wardens throughout Oregon. FH ROBBERIES STAGED HOLD-UP MEN MAKE RAID ON LOWER WEST SIDE. Lane Pupils Increase 4 78. EUGENE, Or., Dec. 15. (Special.) The number of persons of school age in Lane county when the census was taken last month was 11,921, according to figures announced yes terday by E. J. Moore, county school superintendent. The number of males was 6018 and females 5903. The number enumerated last year was 11,443, showing an increase this year of 478. "JJ ! $190 R . HiiLff His v ilk,;- - .: "J Hi BUS W. -"UHHI 1 Monthly. jKs;!;it . Wi 13 trhlf J.SiJ jffrtfTTPK I Jill $975 $395 tfrmm umm $75 " V&FJJP $595 .MT I l5 Cash. $12 Mo. ( 1 $395 . . $38 io C ash Jj JJtl( $38 '10MOB'h,yfS $45 JL flf $38 W $45 jfllk. ill iliS .Am IsMlII febai mm - ,t $575 Model $435 $10 Cash, $9 Monthly The Wonderful Magnet That Has Drawn Piano Purchasers to the Schwan Piano Co. 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The coroner's jury returned a verdict of "death as the ' result of burns received in the burning of his home accidental." Floden. 71 years of age, a native of Norway and graduate of the Uni versity of Kansas, had taught school many years in this country and for some years conducted a drug store Tacoma, Wash. He lived alone on his ranch and was a profound student. RABIES CASE SUSPECTED liufus Ward, Rancher, Dies Mys teriously In Ontario, Or. ONTARIO, Or., Dec 15. ("Special.) Rufus Ward, a rancher whose home was near New Plymouth, Idaho, died here this morning at the Holy Rosary hospital under cir cumstances which have baffled the physicians called to care for him. Ward was found unconscious at his home and New Plymouth physicians brought him to Ontario, where Dr. W. J. Reese was consulted. Ward never regained conscious ness and from his actions the physi cians decided that lus was suffering from rabies. A postmortem exami nation was made today and still the cause was not determined. 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Anti-social operations were can' ducted by hold-up men Friday night singly, by pair and by cfowa; A single robber held up A. Am son, 687 East Morrison street, at Twelfth and Taylor streets. Arn son told the police he lost a watch and $7. The fellow asked what time It was. When Arnson pulled out his watch he did not look at it but into the muzzle of a revolver. Without question he dropped the watch into the outlaw's extended hand and did not verbally object to the removal of the cash from his trousers pocket. George Carruthers called the po lice to the grocery store he conducts at 474 Jefferson street. He said he had been held up by a pair of men about 40 years old and the cash reg ister looted of about $200. Car ruthers and his brother were alone in the store when the men entered. One held a big blue revolver, the other a nickle-plated one. All they NOTES OFFERED IN COURT Ex-Bank Officers Accused of Per mitting Excessive Loans. BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 15. (Special.) Notes signed by S. B. Burnham, R. W. Faris, A. S. Whitway and O. S. Faris. aggregating $67,600 have been introduced into evidence in the fed eral court trial of former Overland National bank officers. The govern ment attempted today at their trial in the federal court to show that the money was borrowed for use of the Western Construction company. HIGHWAY BOARD UPHELD Commission May Condemn Lands In Towns, Court Decides. SALEM, Or.; Dec. 15. (Special.) The state highway commission, un der the laws of Oregon, has author ity to condemn lands for right-of-way purposes within the boundaries of incorporated towns and cities. This was the ruling today by Judge Percy Kelly of the Marion county circuit court. Some time ago the state highway commission, through its attorneys, started proceedings to condemn cer- taln lands in the town of Jefferson for highway purposes. The defend ants filed a demurrer to the com plaint, in which it was alleged that the state highway department was without authority to condemn lands for highway purposes within an in corporated tfiwn or city. Kiwanis Club Elects Officers. THE DALLES, Or, Dec. 15. (Spe. clal.) Election of officers of The Dalles Kiwanis club for the ensuing year was held at a meeting last night. H. S. Rice was chosen presi dent; F. S. Gannett, vice-president; J. T. Henry, treasurer; L. Barnum. district trustee; J. B. Kirk, J. B. Kil more, Ben R. Letfin, T. H. West, A E. Crosby, L. A. Schanno and John G. Odell. directors, .and Dr. B. C. Olinger, past president. For the re lief of Astoria, Kiwanians voted to give $1 a member, which would amount to $60. This money will be sent to the Astoria Kiwanis club foi distribution. ' - You Can Do It Better With Gas IX A Ff Pill IK'S V'llllff3llfe.SSfi : MARKET IS OVERSTOCKED Flour Jlilling Industry in Japan Said to Be in Difficulties. TOKIO. 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