The Oregon daily journal., November 21, 1918, Page 2, Image 2

THE . OREGON . DAILY JOURNAL, PORT LAND, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER h: 2U 1918.
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CONVICTS
PRAISE
WORK
OF
GUARD
AT PE
NiTENT ARY
Remarkable Tribute Paid Officer
Lee Morelock for Devotion to
Duty During tpidemic.
MURPHY IS ALSO LAUDED
I'Mt's Hell to Die in Prison,"
? Say Grateful Men Who Are
" Nursed Back to Health.
J Balem. Nov. 21. One of the most re--markabl
tributes ever paid to an era-
Aploye at the state penitentiary Is con
S talned In an article prepared for pub-
llcatlon by the convicts. The tribute Is
&pald to Lee Morelock. a ruard, for his
5 unselfishness and devotion to duty dur
X ins; the epidemic of Influenza which la
Snow raging at the Institution. At one
2 time 125 convicts were down with the
7 disease and eight deaths have occurred.
, s The article, which is signed by 125
a convicts, also praises the efforts made
J by Warden Murphy for the care of the
sick prisoners. But to Guard More-
" look credit is given for saving the lives
. T of many of the men, who say they are
3 thankful because "it's hell to die la
, prison." The article says:
J "Realising that officials and guards of
prisons are usilMly considered as with
it out heart in their treatment of convicts
. the Inmates of the Oregon state peniten-
rtlary desire space In your paper In which
to make known the conditions existing
5 In this prison during the severe epl
' demic of influenza now raging. '
1 Murphy Orders Qoarantlne
5 "When the first cases were made
known Warden Murphy gave orders
5 that every prisoner having symptoms of
2 the disease should be Immediately trans
ferred to the hospital, thus checking its
A ravages before gaining much headway
5 the first big reason why our death rate
T has been so small when compared with
m other prisons where the sick are forced
X to remain In their cells during an epl
demlc on account of lack of hospital
' ' space. Aside from our hospital regular.
H the Bertllllon room has been utilised and
l;1-the auditorium also, aftef removing the
; seats.
t "The only guard we have had In our
g over-crowded sick rooms has been Ofr
, fleer Lee Morelock. Help in the hospi
'i, tal has depended solely on volunteer ln
ii mates, of whom all but two succumbed
? to the flu within a short time. Mr. More-
lock. reallslnV that somethln had to
be done immediately, presented himself
to the hospital steward (an inmate) wiin
the Interrogation: 'Can I help outr
From that time on. the first in the
history "of the prison, we were presented
with a dally example of what a guard
would do, having a. real interest at heart
ror the unfortunates surrounding nun.
From 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. every day Of
ficer Morelock performed every task im
aginable which becomes necessary in a
hospital full of sick people. He swept
and mopped floors, made beds, ran er
rands for the helpless, and repeatedly
insisted that convalescents, who would
attempt to help clean up the mess of a
hemorrhage from a weaker member, get
off their feet and Into bed. Not a thing
did he overlook or hesitate a second
in doing, in the meantime Jollying up
the lates case. or, perhaps a little later,
doing all in his power to ease some poor
unfortunate through the last agonies of
death. Men die hard in prison.
Action Is Unprecedented.
"Tou, outside, may think that is
nothing more than a part of official
duty. It is far from that. We, inside,
know better. It is a miracle to us. Some
of us have been in a dozen or more
prisons, and such a thing as a guard or
official doing as Mr. Morelock has done
for the past 20 days, with no other
tkmih than that nf ilnlnar th hem-
less, is an unheard of thing in prison
annals.
"We appreciate It, and as we have no
other immediate way of expressing our
gratitude to Warden Murphy and Officer
Morelock. we. hope you will allow us
space in which publicly to express our
thorn Ir a
"Incidentally, it may be stated that
Mr. Morelock Insists Uiat oiner attend
ants worked like Trojans, especially the
tiwnifoi itwurii uid to them all credit
it due, and that he merely helped out a
little in a nlnch. sure: we Know now
tha all keDt at it until the last mln
ute, doing wonders, but that detracts
nothing from the fact that Mr. Morelock
in the nrobable cause of a few dozen
mAiA fit 11 hpJnr alive today, who. oth
erwise, would have passed to the Great
Beyond. And It's neii 10 cue in prison.
Father and Son in
Narrow Escape on
Hill at Hood River
Hood River, Nov. 21. Roy Shulta of
Petosa and his father. W. Shultz of
Stevenson, Wash., narrowly escaped
death or serious Injury last night, when
a small automobile in which, they were
rldln overturned on the Mosier hill.
where the roadway runs along a bank
200 feet straight up over Hood River,
The car tipped toward the bank in
stead of the precipice. The father was
thrown clear of the car, and the son was
held beneath It. Both were Injured about
the head and body. The rear end of
the automobile gave out and caused the
trouble. Young Shultz Was driving from
Wisconsin. He says the road between
Mosier and Pendleton was the worst of
the trip.
FOOD ADMINIST!
URGES CONSUMPTION
E
OF OREGN CRANB
RRIES
Canned Product Requires Use of
Less Sugar Than Fresh Fruit
and Is Delicious, Says Ayer.
Use more cranberries, which are an
Oregon product and of which there Is
an abundant supply, urges W. B. Ayer,
Oreuon food administrator. A sample
can of cranberries was presented to Mr
Ayer Wednesday by D. W. Williams,
sales manager for the Pacific Cranberry
Growers' exchange, and pronounced by
Mr. Ayer and his assistants as being ex
client.
'This home-grown product is de
licious," said Mr. Ayer, - and should oe
popular with the Oregon public. The
cranberry bushes planted in Oregon and
Washington five or six years ago are
Just coming Into heavy bearing, and this
year's crop was an exceptionally fine
one. For the first time we now have
home-grown canned cranberries in the
Oregon market. As all commercial can-
ners have been allowed sugar In order
to save the fruit crops, the canned ber
rles are sufficiently sweet for the aver
age taste and to be used In pies without
additional sweetening. Housewives who
find their sugar allotments a little
scanty for baking purposes will find
that the canned cranberries require
much less sugar than the fresh ones
and restaurants, delicatessen and baker
ies will find the canned product excel
lent for pies and sauces without addi
tional sugar. Because the food admin
istration is desirous at all times of hav
ing home products used, and to have
the public utilise all surplus home
grown crops, it urges that patrons of
restaurants, bakeries and delicatessen
call for cranberry pie and cranberry
sauce, and that housewives utilize this
product in their homes. By so doing
the public will be helping to save
home-grown surplus crop, and those who
have tasted the splendid cranberry prod
uct of the Northwest will attest that it
will prove no hardship."
DR. EQUI IS GUILTY
OF DISLOYALTY
FOUND GUILTY OF
OPPOSING TYAR WORK
Dr.
Unfinished Alameda
Naval Base Will Be
' Sold by Government
Chester J. Hogue returned Wednesday
morhteg from Seattle and resumed his
position as secretary for Oregon of the
West Coast Lumbermen's association.
Mr. Hogue left this position last sum
mer to be chief engineer in the construe
tion of the 125.000.000 steel shipyard at
Alameda, Cal., for the United States gov
ernment. The project was abandoned when it
became apparent that the war was about
to dose, and according to Mr. Hogue the
Improved site and a large quantity of
machinery .- and - building material are
sow offered for sale by the government.
Approximately $5,000,000 had been spent
on the enterprise at the time it was
abandoned. The site consists of 158
acres. Over 19,000 piles have been
driven and much of the foundation work
finished.
Charles Edwards, who has acted as
local secretary of the West Coast Lum
bermen's association during Mr. Hogue's
absence, will continue In charge of the
spruce division of the association.
Cold Caase Grip and Iaflasasa
LAXATIVE BROMO QUIXOTE Tablets ram
the (tin. Thr is only on "Bruno QqIbIm."
C W. GROVE'S licmtnr on boa. 0c A (It.
Soldiers Seeking- . :
Lost Boy Fail to
Find Trace of Him
The entire territory surrounding
lower Estacada was searched without
success Wednesday from carry morning
until dafk by 200 soldiers from the
spruce division at Vancouver barracks
for the 5 year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis H. Thompson of IMS East Nlna
teenth street.
The child disappeared Wednesday of
last week and although the Clackamas
river near Estacada has been dragged
and searching parties have been scour
ing the countryside for a weak, . no
trace of the boy has been found.
The territory where the boy Is sup-'
posed to have wandered away Is cov'
ered with heavy underbnish ard the
soldiers explored It thoroughly, the men
walking about six feet apart. 1
THE TELEPHONE OPERATORS' UNION
will give, a dwclnf party Thursday
evening, November at, at Cotillion
hall. We assure you the time of your
life. .
COME AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS
Marie Equl
(Continued Proa Pit Out)
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" l M"rUgh and Our S0 Orian
scurrilous or abusive language about
the naval or military forces with intent
to bring them into scorn and disrepute;
That she did the same thing In refer
ence to the flag of the United States;
That she uttered language Intended to
incite, provoke or encourage resistance
to the United States.
Heavy Penalty Is Faced
The jury reached its verdict quickly.
The case was given into its keeping at
4 :45 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. It
met and organized at once, and at 6
o'clock went out to dinner. It recon
vened at 7 o'clock and returned Its
sealed verdict Into the hands of Bailiff
John Knight at 8:25 p. m.
The maximum penalty of the statute
under which Dr. Equi was convicted is
imprisonment for 20 years, or a fine of
$10,000, or both fine and imprisonment,
ior each eount upon which she was
xouna gunty. sne tnereiore races a
maximum imprisonment on all five
counts of 100 years, or a fine of (50.000,
or both. There is no minimum punish
ment provided by the statute.
Witness Taken Before Court
Pearl Grayson, who recently appeared
as a witness for the defense in the case
of Dr. Kqul, was taken before the mu
nicipal court Wednesday afternoon on a
charge of vagrancy preferred by Offl-
of the defendant that ahe cease her nun- cr miner and Morgan. Claiming that
lie addresses and activities in so far as her arrest was "spite work" on the
they might deal with the chanres made Part of the authorities, she asked that
In the indictment, pending the final dis- ner caBe conunuea until rnaay,
position of the case." when George Vanderveer, who has been
I have never been disloyal." Dr. Equi representing Dr. Equl. will appear at
answered. "I have never said anything ner counsel.
against tne nag. i nave never said any.
thing against the government, and I can
not promise not to make any speeches,
because I never have made any such."
"xnat is the verdict of the iurv"
Judge Bean reminded her, and she an
swered :
Apology It Demanded
"1 cannot help that. They will know
better some time.
"There is one thing more." she con
tinued. "Barney Goldstein, who calla
. i....u. rcierrea 10 me yes- - man's social station and
, uuimwi woman, w nen I i i .i,.v.k
ikucoinn tfn vviuw iu txiiB country lO
sit in Judgment upon an American wo
man and makes such remarks as that
about her, I think that the court should
require him to make public apology to
me.
"That Is a matter not for the court."
judge Bean replied.
"I win take care of it personally
men," Dr. it qui answered, as she sank
back into her seat. "My brother will
be here in a few days.
Out in the corridor the defendant con
tlnued her remarks to a mingled crowd
I of friends, peace officers and -curious
spectators.
"I have never been disloyal," she said
"My father became a citlsen when he
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DANCING
www n.kHHV.n ran nrniifFiia -
7" 21- J hav two brothers fighting BtJirt Monday eve., Nov. n, and rhura
In France. I have been hounded and day eve., Nov. 21. All dances taught
persecuted because I was fighting for
the poor and the oppressed. They did
not search Henry Albert' bouse. He
is rich, and when the Indictment comes
in against him- it will not have eight
counts.
Promises to Write Book
"I have been hounded by head hunters
for years. They said they would get
me. No one could get away from such
a frame-up as I had against me.
"I have stood it a long time," she
continued. "No man has ever qties
tloned my loyalty to my face. If any
one does. If anyone ever questions my
loyalty or my virtue I will shoot him.
That is my statement. Ton can put it
In ths paper. If any ever questions
my loyalty or my virtus there will be
the biggest little shooting you ever saw
and I don't care what happens to me, or
who it hits.
"I am not going to appeal," she said.
"I am going on over. I have been remem
bering all these things. I know the
men you have not arrested. I am going
to put It all In a book while I am at
San Quentln."
Three Counts Withdrawn
After the verdict had been read and
the Jury had been polled, each affirm
fng that the verdict was his own, J. E.
Fenton of counsel for the defense, asked
the court for 30 days in which to pre
pare and file a motion for a new trial
This was allowed without objection
rrom United States Attorney Haney.
There were eight counts in the Indict
ment as found by the grand jury. Three
of these counts were withdrawn by the
court because the testimony of the gov
ernment did not sustain them, and dl
rected verdicts of not guilty were re
turned as to them. These were
That Dr. Equi spread false reports
and made raise statements with intent
to Interfere with the operation or suc
cess of the military and naval forces of
the United States.
That she uttered disloyal, profane
scurrilous or abusive language about the
form or the government of the United
states.
That she by word or acts supported or
favored the cause of a country with
which the United States was at war,
Five' Counts Are Listed
Dr. Equl was found guilty upon the
five remaining counts of the Indictment,
which were:
, That she caused, or attempted to
cause. Incited or attempted to Incite, In
subordination, disloyalty, mutiny or re
fusal of duty in the military or naval
forces ;
That She wilfully obstructed Gt at
tempted to obstruct the recruiting or en
listment of the military or naval service
of the United States:
That she uttered disloyal, profane.
In eight lessons ladies
$4, gents $5. The only
school teaching the en
tire evening, 8 to 11.
Every step and figure
of all dances thoroughly
taught. Separate step
rooni and extra teachers
for backward pupils.
Plenty of practice. No
embarrassment. You will
meet refined people and
are sure to learn correct
ly. One lesson from us
is worth six in the aver
age school. A printed de
scription of all dances for
pupus.
ADYAWCED DA3TCIWO CLASS
starts Tuesday eve. at 7:S0 sharp. Join
these new classes, where you will learn
from first-class instructors and meet re
fined people. Strictly private lessons all
hours. Lady and gentlemen Instructors.
Select dancing parties every Tuesday
and Saturday eve. Best music. Popular
prices.. Pay us a visit. Phoner Main 7656.
BIG DANCE
GIVEN BY THE
Highland Social
Dancing Club
Sat. Evening 8:30
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11TH A5D ALDER STREETS
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TODAY
FOR THE FIRST TIME
IN ANY THEATER,
"INTOLERANCE"
IS TO BE PRESENTED
AT POPULAR PRICES.
POSITIVELY
NO INCREASE
IN OUR ADMISSIONS
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STARTING
SATURDAY
Until Friday Midnight
ETHEL BARRYMORE
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A Breezy, Happy-Go-Lucky Farce Jut the
,. Dope to Drive Dull Care Away.
Other Attractions
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FURS
A wonderful assortment
of Foxes, Wolf, Lynx
Muff Sets, Throws, at
25 Off
WHITEHOUSE
342-344-346 ALDER STREET
Extraordinay Special
$2.95
100 Petticoats
In jersey topped and silk
ind taffeta.
STARTS TOMORROW MORNING AT 9 0?CLOCK
QUICK 'DISPOSAL SALE?
Never before has this shop made such huge reductions at this time of year! Owing to the suspension of normal
shopping during the epidemic, we are so heavily overstocked we are compelled to sacrifice every garment in
the house in order to decrease our TREMENDOUS Stock. MAKE YOUR SELECTION EARLY.
HUNDREDS OF
GARMENTS NOW PRICED
and
LESS THAN FORMER
SELLING PRICES
11
SUITS!
SUITS.
Materials include such approved fabrics as velours, de laine, silvertones, tri
cotines, wool poplins and serges. Every wanted model, plain tailored, pleated,
semi-fancy and novelty styles; many with large collars of taupe, wolf, beaver
and seal. A wide range of colorings. Reductions follow:
A Fr Values
3)19. li) to $32.50
1Ofi 'TP For Values
bZy.Dlo $45.00
39 DRESSES
Inctadmg Dresses of jersey, Georgette, taffeta,
creps de chine, fomlard, serge and (PI O CA
checked sUks. Values to 40. . . M-silsUV
qo f For Values
dsJaJesCD to $55.00
$42.75
BROKEN LINES
FROM STOCK
For Values
to $67.50
For Values
atiJ.OU to $77.50
dCft CH For Values
JU to $92.50
WAISTS" S5to a a nc
The Tery latet models in
crepe de chine, Georgette! all
new shades; sixes 36 to St . .
SIX EXTRAORDINARY COAT PRICES
kolivias. velours and broadcloths. Plain tailored-models
and Coats with large fur collars, belted and half -belted styles. Newest colors included.
gizes at the great reductions which follow:
For Values to
545.00
For Values to
S59.50
For
$28.50
Values to
$18,75
PCi. f J $35.00
to
$29.50
$39.50
All
Values to
GACk CA For
Pe7.JV $69.50
CC7 It A ft Values
PJ i ,JJ S65.00
to
HRFLSSES GREATLY REDUCED
Lovely models of silks, satin taffeta, fancy worsteds, ergeS and other materials. A collec
tion of unusual distinction, elegance and serviceability. Pleated tunic, urphce braid and
. j e :u mA .m.mm MinT fiMutiful colors. All sixes at the
cord trimmed. Some with girdles and sashes.
reductions as follows:
$20.00 Dresses S13.65 $30.00 Dresses 19.05
$25.00 Dresses $16.65 $35.00 Dresses $22.65
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$40.00 Dresses S 24.65
$47.50 Dresses..... $29.65
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