THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24. 1820.
OTHER ARRESTS
ARE EXPECTED TO
FOLLOW BLAINS
.I
Special Agent of Department of
, ; Justice Predicts Indictments
-gainst More Fleet Officials.
Seattle, Wwh., Jao. S4. (U, P.)
Indictment of Captain' John F.
Stain, of Seattle, former North Pa
cific district manager of the Emerg
ency Fleet corporation, will bo fol
lowed by other indictments of form
er: shipping board official, accord
ing to Walter C. Foster, special
Agent of the department of Justice,
in charge of shipping investigations
in the North Pacific dlBtrict.
' Captain- Blain was arrested at 2
o'clock Friday afternoon in his offices
in. tbColnlan building, as the result of
- two Indictments returned against htm
earlier In the day by the federal grand
Jury.. The indictment charged that
Captain Haln, while head of the Emer
gency Fleet corporation, received secret
4 commissions from the Stewart Davit &
Equipment company, a New York firm
that sold a great quantity of material
to the government corporation.
Caotaln Blatn posted $10,000 bail and
was released to appear for arraignment
before Judge Jeremiah weterer in tne
district court next Monday morning.
15DICTMEHT IS lOJTO
One indictment asainst Blain con-
tains 60 counts, which charge in sub
utance that the former shipping board
headjttaa an agent for the Stewart Davit
V Equipment company and wu iiv
terested In the pecuniary profits of that
firm in its sales of materials to equip
. Emergency Fleet corporation ships built
In Washington and Oregon.
The Indictment further alleges that
Blain had agreed to sever all connection
with any other business and that he
"feloniously, knowingly and unlawfully"
received for Jila own use about $17,500
as secret commissions, arising from the
sale of equipment to the Emergency
' Kleet corporation, of which he was at
., the time the directing head.
, The CO counts In this indictment detail
transactions by which Captain Blain
recoived the alleged secret commissions
which ranged from $51 to $1804.
TRE0051NG IS FAMED
The second indictment is substan-
' lially the same as the first, but is based
n different statutes. Federal agents
of the department of Justice allege that
Captain Blain split his commissions on
tb tavit company's sales with Frank
Tregonlng of the Tregohing Boat com
pany, local agent of the Stewart Davit
ft Equipment company. It Is declared
that Tregonlng turned over Blatn's share
Of the commissions to Mrs. ?. II. Boyer,
Blatn's mother-in-law, and that this
money later found its way Into the
shipping man's bank account.
- Captain Blain first settled in Seattle
in October. 1916. II was vice president
of the International Stevedoring com
pany and boiler surveyor In Washing
ton and Oregon for the American bureau
of shipping. He was" named Northern
r Pacific manager of the Emergency Kleet
corporation of the .United States ship
ping board on. May 1. 1917, which posi
tion bo held .until last April.
BLAIYS ARREST DOES NOT
SURPRISE LOCAL SHIP MEN
News of the legal action taken against
Captain J. F. Blain In connection with
the investigation of the shipbuilding In
dustry being conducted at Seattle by
the department of justice, did not come
aa a great surprise to local officials of
the Emergency Fleet corporation.
"WELL KSOVrV HERE
"In August and September, when the
House Investigating committee was delv
ing into the situation In the Northwest.
Captain Blain asked permission to tes
tify -before the body, but was refused,
it is said, on the ground that should
legal action follow, charges might be
made that Blain was to be given an
"Immunity bath."
Captain Blain is well known in Port
land, and he Is generally regarded as
the man who brought order and effl
olency.out of the rather chaotic state of
the 'government's steel shipbuilding pro
gram In the early stages of the game.
At m time Captain Blain was super
intendent of the'Oregon drydock. the pri
vate enterprise maintained in the river
next to the Willamette Iron & Steel
works. The dock was sold and towed
to- Puget Sound In 1918.
HAD YAB1ED CAREER
L He had a Varied marine career, being
I one time on the sea. and later with
Kastern shipyards. Including dram pa.
fHe was first head of both the steel
and wooden ship building industry In
the Northwest for the government.
" Later Lloyd J. Wentworth became head
of the wood ship division of the Oregon
district. Captain Blain remaining nom
inally tr charge of the Washington wood
ship production, and general manager for
Oregon and Washington of the steel
construction.
As hsa3 of the latter, he visited Port
land at least once a week during his
Incumbency. Fred B. Pape Is assistant
district manager, In charge of construc
tion In the Oregon district. He resigned
April SO. 1919. D. M. Callls, formerly
. assistant manager for Washington, is
now district manager and A. S. Wooley
heads the construction work In Wash-
: ington as assistant
Emery Olmslead Named
Emery Olmstead has been appointed
federal treasurer of the Northern Pa
cific Terminal company of Oregon, ef
fective February 21, according to an
nouncement made at the offices of J. P.
O'Brien, federal manager of the com
pany, this morning. Olmstead will suc
ceed Lloyd L. Mulit, resigned.
Marriage Licenses
' Vancouver. Wash., Jan. 24. Marriage
licenses have been issued to the follow
ing couples ; Leon F. Chapln, 2, and
Xena M. Mann, 21, Portland : Charley
Warren, 22, and Inea Bolton. 21. Oregon
City; M. Mtnsky.'2. and Winifred Sul
livan, 25, Portland.
Coast to Coast Meet ,
Is ? Transferred to.
Centenary Church
Because of a lack of room In -the
First Nazarene church Saturday eve
ning, Sunday afternoon and evening
programs of the "coast to coast" con
vention of the National Holiness asso
ciation have been transferred to the
CenUnary M. EL church. East Ninth
and Pine streets, according to announce
ment made today.
The morning service will be held at
the Nazarene church. East Tenth and
Welcler streets, where the Rev. -"Bud"
Robinson will speak. This evening Rob
inson will relate his hospital experiences
at Centenary church, and there on Sun
day evening the Rev. Will Huff will
speak. ; Robinson will also apeak at the
services Sunday afternoon at Centenary
church.
SMITH ADiV
IINISTI
OF GULLIFORD ESTATE
Petition Seeking His Removal Is
Dismissed by Judge Tazwell
Following Conference.
Dr. C. J. Smith, former state senator
from Umatilla county and one-time
Democratic nominee for governor, was
vindicated as administrator of the es
tate of the late William C. Gulllford.
following a conference between attor
neys In Judge Tazwell's chambers late
Friday afternoon.
The petftion seeking the removal of
Dr. Smith as administrator was dis
missed. The adoption proceedings for
12-year-old ' Veona Constance GuUlford,
which were begun by Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob A. GuUlford, will be continued
with the understanding that Mrs. Lydla
Pattison, maternal grandmother, should
have the child.
18 GRANTED DIVORCE DECREES
Nationalities Conflict in Case Where
Woman Seeks Legal Separation.
- The divorce mill ground merrily In
Judge Stapleton's court Friday after
noon when 18 were released from mar
ital ties in the form of decrees by de
fault. Willis E. McElroy did not put In an
appearance to answer to the charges of
desertion filed by Elizabeth E. McElroy.
Mrs. McElroy testified that two weeks
after they were married her husband
was calling another woman on the tele
phone. A decree was granted.
A spirited nationality contest between
George Graham, deputy district attor
ney, whose Immediate ancestors hailed
from the hl'lands of Scotland, and
Judge Stapleton. who boasts of being a
descendant of the original St. Patrick,
marked the case of Mrs. Clara E.
Blackwell, a daughter of Sweden.
"What nationality is your husband?"
asked the Jurist after Mrs. Blackwell
had imparted the Information that she
was Swedish.
"He's Scotch-Irish," answered the
young woman. .
"If your honor please." Interrupted
Deputy District Attorney Graham. "I
would like to have the records show that
he s. more Irish than Scotch." ,
"The decision of this court Is that he
Is more Scotch and Irish and heaven
knows, that's a bad combination," or
dered the judge.
Mrs. Blackwell testified that her hus
band had an ungovernable temper and
that he compelled her to live In a two
room house wherein four people slept on
the floor in one room. The jodge al
lowed the decree.
Gets Verdict for $3000
A verdict for $3000 damages was re
turned Friday by a Jury In Judge Tuck
er's court In the case of Lowell R. Body
against J. C. Knuth. Body. 19 years
old, was suing for $15,000. He was In
jured April 23, 1919, when his motorcy
cle collided with an automobile driven
ty Knuth, throwing Body to the street.
Sues Light Company for $17,000
Suit for $17,000 alleged personal dam
ages was filed Friday against the
Portland Railway, Light & Power com
pany by R. G. Welch. In his complaint.
Welch states that a truck which lie was
driving was struck by a street car at
East Thirteenth and Bldwell streets
November "0.
Jail Sentence Suspended for Mute
J. B. George, 64-year-old deaf mute,
was given a six months suspended jalj
sentence Friday morning by Presiding
Judge McCourt. George pleaded guilty
to the charge of contributing to the de
linquency of a 17-year-old pupil of the
deaf school at Salem. Pleas for len
iency were entered by B. S. Tillinghast.
superintendent of the school. George
was paroled into the ' custody of Bud
Hastings of Lents.
Prof. Garner, Great
Scientist, Is Dead
Chattanooga, Tenn.. Jan. 24. Trof.
Richard Garner, the famous scientist
of the Smithsonian institution, . Is dead.
Prof. Garner challenged the interest of
the entire scientific world some years
apo when he claimed to have discovered
tho monkey language.
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VINDICATED
COURT
OUR ROBBER ES
ARE CONFESSED,
POLICE DECLARE
Drug Store and Garage Holdups
Are Explained Alleged Ad
mission of 3 Men in Custody.
Four daring robberies, all commit
ted in the last three weeks, involv
ing approximately $1000 loot, were
cleared up by police detectives Fri
day with the arrest of three men,
two charged with robbery and with
carrying weapons. The third is held
for Investigation.
Confessions from Charles Langdalc,
27, and Robert Hall, Implicating the
third , man. Russell Higglnbotham, were
obtained by Captain .Harry Circle and
Lieutenant Jack Goltz. The two men
admitted to Goltz, police say, that they
held up the Fashion garage, the Nob
Hill pharmacy. Frank Nau's drug store
and a filling station at Thirteenth and
Burnslde streets.
Headed by Goltz, Inspectors Howell,
Tackaberry. Phillips, La Salle. Leonard,
Morak and Hellyer rounded up the men
Friday afternoon.
WIVES HEAR OF CONFESSION
At the' same time three girls, two of
them married to two of the men and
the third said to be the sweetheart of
the other, were brought to the Inspec
tor's office and questioned. When It
became known that their husbands had
confessed, the two young wives sobbed.
Three thousand dollars In cash was
offered to him by one of the men. Golts
said, if he would allow him to es
cape. The offer and the apparent alarm
over his arrest, and other Information
brought out at the investigation, led
the inspectors to believe that one of the
men Is wanted in the East on serious
charges.
The Fashion garago. Tenth and Taylor
streets, just across the street from the
Central library. wa. held up at 10:40
p. m., January 1. a d $60 was taken from
the till. R. MorrlTr., night clerk, and
H. Berbert, 1204 East Main street, were
in the office.
ROB DRUG STORE
Just one week later, at 4 :10 a. m.. on
January 7, Frank Nau's drug store.
Sixth and Alder streets, was held up
and $70 taken from the till, $18 and a
watch taken from John C. Brockman,
night clerk, and $10 taken from Louts
F. Heuer, Camas, Wash., a former em
ploye of the store. Two men entered
the store requesting a package of "pre
cipitate," and when told there was none
In stock pulled guns and ordered those
present to the back of the store, where
. they were robbed.
On January 13, at 9 p. m.. F. M. Win
niford, clerk in' a Standard oil filling
station at Thirteenth and Burnslde, was
robbed of $30 of his own money and
$100 of th . company's money. '
LOOT IS 1ECOTERED
On pretence of purchasing chewing
gum. two men entere.l the Nob Hill
pharmacy. Twenty-first and Glisan
katreets, at 10 :20 p. m., January 16, ob
taining four wafchee, two diamond rings
anu $36.
Only three watches were found in the
possession of the thre men arrested.
They have not been identified by their
owners yet. Four handsome Ivory toilet
sets were also seized as evidence, but
have not been accounted for. The two
diamond rings which were taken in the
Nob Hill pharmacy hold up were sold,
according to the Inspectors, who may be
able i trace them.
Several other robberies committed In
the last month may be traced to the
men later op, according to the police.
Victims of the four "jobs" which have
been confessed, are expected to come to
police headquarters today to identify
the men.
'Flu' Oases Found
In The Dalles Mild
The Dalles. Jan. 24. The influenza
started this year at the same time It was
first noticed last year. Last year's epi
demic was of the pneumonia type, this
year's the intestinal. Cases so far re
ported are not violent. Should the
spread continue, drastic measures will
be. taken. Every pupil in the public
schools must either submit to vaccina
tion, show a physician's certificate of
successful vaccination within seven years
or remain away.
What is believed to be the largest con
crete dome in the world has been built
on a Copenhagen theatre, belpg ISO feet
in diameter.
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or if you were wakeful
last night or the night
before, its time to think of
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A boon to those who like cof
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Sold by Grocers
Try a iinryoull ftndfThereS' a Reason
Made by Postum Cereal Co. Battle Creek,Mich.
Vancouver Judge
Sentences Bed to ;
State Penitentiary
Vancouver, Wash,, Jan. 24. Judge
R. H Back. Friday denied the motion
of attorneys for a new trial in the, case
of Mike Hennesy. found guilty of a vio
lation of the criminal syndicalism law,
and sentenced Hennesy to from one to
ten years In the state penitentiary.
Attorney J. F. Emlgh, associated with
George F. Vanderver, for the defense,
gave notice of appeal. Hennesy's bail
was fixed at $2000.
In the case of Leo Brooksier and Rob
ert McAdams, also found guilty of vio
lation of the criminal syndicalism law,
no notice of appeal has been given.
Ouards from the reformatory at Monroe
are expected soon for the prisoners.
OR. FRANCIS BAILEY,
PIOER
AT
Passing Recalls Early Hardships
of Doctor in Making Rounds
Among Patients.
HUlsboro. Jan. 24.
Dr. Francis Alon
zo Bailey, for nearly
56 years In medical
practice In Wash
ington county, died
in tfeto Mtv at 11 -an
P Friday morning
I ,i't pneumonia, being 111
but five days. Dr.
the real scholarly
men of the North
west, and he is one
man who sacrificed
sCjyig a political career for
uiai oi medicine.
He was an orator
not second to the late Colonel E. D. Ba
ker, and In the early history of Wash
ington county delivered speeches for
Senator Nesmlth.
Dr. Bailey was born in Hardemann
county, Tennessee, January 28, 1839, the
son of William L. and Mary Wilkinson
Bailey, and he was a grandson of Gen
eral Frank Wilkinson of the War of
1812. He received his early education
at Woodland academy and Lebanon col
lege, Tennessee, graduating in his sev
enteenth year.
GETS COLLEGE DEGREE
Before his eighteenth year he went to
St Louis. Mo., and entered Pope's Medi
cal college and received his degree be
fore he attained his majority. When
the Civil war broke out he was a cadet
connected with the hospital service in
General Price's army. In the Confed
eracy, but was not required to take the
oath of allegiance to the South.
In the spring of 1864 he signed as a
surgeon on a Hudson Bay steamboat
and went up the Mississippi and Mis
souri rivers to Montana, and crossed
Into Oregon, arriving in Washington
county. October 20, 1864.
His early practice in the county was
one of hardship. He rode to his pa
tlents dally on horseback and carried
his medical case In his saddlebags. He
frequently was obliged to swim his
horse across streams and more than
once was compelled to build a raft in
order to reach the home of a patient.
ACTIVE AS LODGE MAN
He was honored with the presidency
of the Oregon State Medical society,
nd was regent for O. A. C. He became
a member of Tuality lodge, A. F. and
A. M., of this city, in 1881. and was a.
pest grand master, representing his
lodge in the grand body a number of
years. He was mayor of HUlsboro sev
eral terms and was Instrumental in se
curing the Carnegie library.
He is survived by a widow and the
following children : Dr. Francis J.
Bailey, Hillsboro ; Dr. A. B. Bailey,
Selling building, Portland:- John W.
Bailey, vice president of the Hillsboro
Commercial- bank, Hillsboro : Miss Eva
Bailey, at home, and Dr. Thomas C.
Bailey of Portland.
I The funeral will take place Suiday
I afternoon at 2 :30.
Shipbuilders' Bill
Rushed in Senate
Washington. Jan. 24. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL)
The senate has passed the Jones bill,
for the relief of wooden shipbuilders on
equitable claims, after practically all
committee amendments had been reject
ed, the purpose being to guard against
dubious claims. The estimated expen
diture under it Is $15,000,000.
PHYSICIAN
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GERM AN REMAINS
APATHETIC OVER
EX-KAISERS FATE
Former Press Supporters of Em
peror Make No Comment on
Demands of Allies for His Trial
By Frank Mason
Berlin. Jan. 24. (I. N. jS.) All
indications here are that Germany
does not care a rap what becomes
of the ex-kaiser.
The Berlin press, including monarch
ist arid reactionary newspapers, have
made no ppeclal mention of the former
emperor for a week. There Is not a
newspaper maintaining a correspondent
at Amerongen, Holland, where the erst
while war lord is now living in exile.
Even now, when the allied press is
filled with dispatches bearing upon the
case of the former German ruler, the
Berlin newspapers have been only re
printing British and Dutch telegrams
without comment.
Not a single political writer of prom
inence has come forward as the cham
pion of the ex-kaiser. In the vernacular
of the public "William's cause Is as
dead as a door nail and ancient history
in Germany."
HOLLAND SAYS IT WON'T LEND
ITSELF TO NATION'S SOLIDARITY
The Hague, Jan. 24. The official note
of the Netherlands government In reply
to the demand of the allies for the sur
render of the ex-kaiser for trial Is dated
January 21, and reads :
"By a note Verbal dated January 15,
1920, and handed to her majesty's envoy
In Paris, the powers, referring to article
227 of the Versailles treaty, request the
Netherlands government to deliver unto
their hands William of Hohenzollern,
emperor of Germany, in order that he
may be put on trial.
"In support of this request they ob
serve that if the emperor had remained
in Germany the German government
would have been obliged, according to
article 228 of the peace treaty, to hand
him over.
NETHERLANDS AID ASKED
"The powers, quoting as premeditated
the violations of international treaties
and the systematic Ignoring of the most
sacred rules of the law of nations In
numerous acts committed during the
war by the German authorities, trace the
responsibility, for at least the moral
responsibility for these acts, back to
the former emperor.
"They express the opinion that Hol
land would not fulfill her international
duties if she refused to associate with
them to the best of her ability in pur
suing, or at least not impeding, the pun
ishment of the crimes which have been
committed.
"They draw attention to the special
character of their request as having In
view not a judicial accusation, but aV
act of high international polities, and
they appeal to Holland's respect for
right and love and justice not to cover
by her moral authority the violation
committed by Germany of the essential
principles of the solidarity of nations.
HOLLAND NOT A PARTT
"Her majesty's government has the
honor to observe forthwith that the obli
gations which might have resulted for
Germany under article 228 of the treaty
of peace "cannot prevail In order to de
fine the duties of Holland, which is not
a party to this treaty.
"Her majesty's government, actuated
or. Its side by imprescrl pliable reasons,
cannot view the questions raised by the
request of the powers otherwise than
from the point of view of Its own du
ties. It has been absolutely foreign to
the origin of the war and has main
tained, not without difficulty. Its neu
trality to the end.
"It finds itself, therefore, confronted
with the facts of the war in a differ
ent position from that of the powers.
It refuses energetically all suspicion of
wishing to cover by Its sovereign right
and its moral authorlhr violations of the
essential principles or the solidarity of
nations.
DISCLAIMS SUCH DVTT
"But it cannot recognize an interna
tional duty by associating itself to the
powers In an act of high international
politics.
"If in the future an international
jurisdiction were created by the League
of Nations competent to judge in a case
of conflict on facts qualified as crimes
punishable by statute preceding these
facts. It rests with Holland to associate
herself with this new system.
"Her majesty's government cannot in
the present instance acknowledge any
other duty than that imposed by the
ua of the state and national tradition.
llu
Now neither the constitutional Uw of
the state, based on universally recog
nised principles of ! law. nor aa honor
able tradition centuries old, (which has
made of this country at all timet a ref
uge for the vanquished in international
conflicts, allow the Netherlands gov
ernment to accede to the request of the
powers. '
To withdraw from the former em
peror the benefits of the laws and this
tradition would be contrary to law and
the honor of the nation, respect for
which is a sacred duty.
"The Netherlands people, actuated by
sentiments to which the world's history
baa done Justice, cannot betray the faith
of those who have confined themselves
to the nation's free Institutions.
"Her majesty's government would fain
believe that the powers will recognise
the soundness of these considerations
which are above any personal apprecia
tion and which moreover appear so per
emptory that they cannot reasonably
give rise to erroneous impressions as to
Holland's attitude.
(Signed) "VAN KARNEBECK."
FRENCH NOT "INTERESTED"
ABOUT HOLLAND'S REFUSAL
Paris, Jan. 24. (L X. S.) Holland's
formal refusal to surrender the ex-kiser
to the allies for trial was received in
differently by the French press.
"The only thing remaining is an
understanding with Holland on the con
dition of internment," said the Echo
Do Parts. "Perhaps it is a matter of re
joicing," commented La Victoria. "Had
Napoleon died obscurely in America from
cancer of the liver instead of being
martyred, the Napoleonic legend would
not have been so powerful."
Illinois Educator
Urges Adequate Pay
For Good Teachers
The established position of education
as the keynote to the arch of American
ism and the urgent necessity of Its
maintenance by salary increases suffi
cient to hold qualified teachers jn school
and college faculties were emphasized
by Dr. Francis Wayland Shepardson.
director of the department of registra
tion and education of the state of Illi
nois and for many years a member of
the faculty of the University of Chicago,
who was a Portland visitor Friday.
On his western tour Dr. Shepardson
is visiting a number of colleges and uni
versities. He came to Portland directly
from the Unlverrlty of Idaho and Whit
man college and left Saturday" morning
for Eugene. During his stay In Port
land he was the guest of Charles H.
Carey, a college mate of earlier years,
who entertained for him at dinner Fri
day evening at the Arlfngton club.
President Sproule
To Reach Portland
About Wednesday
William Sproule, president of tho
Southern Pacific system, will arrive In
Portland about Wednesday, according
to advice received by local officials this
morning. Announcemeats last week In
dicated that he would not be In Port
Ipnd until the first week In February,
The change In plans Is believed to be
a result of the announcement made Fri
day morning that the Southern Pacific
lines north of Ashland would be re
leased from the Northwestern regional
control to be consolidated with the
Southern Pacific lines under control of
W. R. Scott, federal manager. In the
central western district. February 1.
Phone Users Would
Buy Whole System
Hood River, Jan. 24. Following re
fusal of the Oregon-Washington Tele
phone company to consider proposals to
put all telephones throughout the val
ley on a flat rate of $2 a month and to
abolish the 5 cent toll between Hood
River and Odell, an effort will be In
augurated to purchase the plant by the
users. A deputation representing 60J
users met with officials of the company.
Wives Win Utvorces
Oregon City, Jan. 24. Effie Louise
Montgomery received a divorce Friday
from Charles A. Montgomery, custody
of a minor child, and alimony of $30 a
month. Blanche Kiecken was granted
a decree from Henry Niecken.
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LARGE LOAN TO
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Nations Should Get Busy Toward
OPPOSITION IfJU
Helping Themselves Instead of!re to formulate some Pun that :
Being Dependent, Is Belief.
By David Lawrence
Copyrighted 1920
Washington, D. C. Jan. 24.
European governments and bankers
haven't yet got over the notion that
the United States will participate in
a huge pooling of "w ar debts and get
behind a comprehensive scheme
whereby a general loan is floated
that absorbs all the big bond issues
of the war. And insofar as the
private bankers of Europe have
joined with certain American bank
ers to bring about an international
financial conference at The Hague,
to ba called by tho Chamber of
Commerce of United Statee, it ap
pears to be extremely unlikely that
the treasury department will look
upon such a project with approval.
In fact, some pronouncement is ex
pected to be issue " by Secretary
Glass in the next few days, outlining
our government's position.
GRADUAL RECOX8TRUCTIOJT
The Chamber of Commerce has a com
mittee at work on a report whiih will
answer the invitation made to. It to call j
the international . conference. Whether
It will be approval or rejection depends
largely upon the attl.ude of our own gov
ernment, and while there are soma in
Washington, not only representatives of
American banking groups but European
institutions as well, who still Imagine a
-comprehensive scheme can be launched
to finance the world Curing 'the trying
days of reconstruction, the prevailing
sentiment on the part of those who would
naturally have to get back of the plan
to make It effective Is far from favor
able. The trend seems to be to say to
Europe that financial reconstruction can
only be accomplished gradually and that
the paths of relief lie through the ordin
ary processes of commerce and such
foreign trade corporations as can be
created under the Edge bill.
ALL WA5T AID OF X. S.
If It were not for the fact that Euro
pean bankers have shown a clumsy hand
In dealing with the situation there would
be much more favorable consideration
given to their proposals, but nearly every
scheme brought forth has in It the ear
marks of what the average American
would, call "getting out from under and
leaving the bag to America to hold."
There was, for instance. In ths orig
inal petition which was signed by vari
ous bankers, asking for an International
gathering, a certain suKgeetion that in
asmuch as the United States had loaned
110.000,000,000 to the allies and a large
part of that was taken by Great Britain
and reloaned to Belgium, Italy and other
allies, the government of the United
Kingdom ought not to be obliged to 1
stand back of those loans, but ought
to beable to shift them on the countries
themselves as a responsibility direct to
the country which originally loaned the
money, namely United States.
CAUSE OF DAMAGE
Thus America would not have to look
to the government of Great Britain for
those billions, but to smaller countries
whose powers of rehabilitation would
have to be awakened by a prodding
America, Instead of a prodding Oreat
Britain. That scheme, whether or not
it had the hacking of any responsible
groups In England, did as much damage
here as any one proposal and served
to make persons In authority look with
much less enthusiasm and Interest on
the new plan for refinancing the debts
of the world.
There Is no question that the govern
ment here recognizes how closely inter
woven American prosperity la with the
early reconstruction of Europe, but the
European bankers seem to have a mis
taken notion about the extent to which
That Fateful
5ach time that some evil was done a card
with the fateful number, 13, was found at
the place where it happened.
What did it mean? Was it some mysterious
organization that thus proclaimed its ability
to laugh at the law? See
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Coming Jo leading picture theatres
i tie public generally would buy foreign
loans nowadays, as compared with the
way way purcnaaea liberty loans dur
ing the war. The cost of handling ?
large foreign loan would be
enormous.
The many people who gave their services
free, such aa four-minute men and the
woraera in every state, city and town,
would not be available gratis and the
expense of selling the loan itself Is bound
iom neavy burden. , ,
;Mr8T HELP THEMSELVES
With newt, moreover, of uncertain no-
lit leal conditions in Europe the appetite
of the public for foreign loans Is not
altogether a certain quantity, but the
j various committees at work here on the
American people who served the world
so splendidly during the war. when the
future oi civilisation was in the bal
ance.
Whatever plan Is evolved, however,
must, in order to get even ths moral
support of our government. Involve no
new commitments on the part of the
American government and must be of
such a character aa to reveal marked
progress toward better schemes of tax
ation Inside Euroiiean. countries than
have been put in effect during the war.
There Is a feeling here that Europe Is
not bestirring Itself quite enough and
that America will not bo helping maU
ters much by giving Europe the Idea
that on this side of the Atlantic Is a
prop that will never be removed.
E COURT TO
ARGUMENTS IN
Pair of Cattlemen Charged With
Murder; Another Stockman Ac
cused of Cattle Rustling.'
Salem. Jan. 24. The caxe of the State
vs. Ilolbrook and Paddock, two cattle
men charged with the murder of a
sheepman, on appeal from the circuit
court of Klamath county, will be ar- '
gued before the supreme courl hera
February 11. Another case of more than
ordinary Interest on the court's Febru
ary docket la :ut of the State vs. W.
Z. Moss, wealthy Harney county cattle
man, charged with cattle rustling.
Hearing In this case Is set for Febru
ary 5.
Requisition papers from the governor
of Montana for the extradition of Scott ,
Jones, wanted in Gallatin county, Mon- '
tana, on a charge of grand larceny,
were honored by Governor Olcott Fri
day afternoon. Jones has been held at
Portland.
Newton VanDalsem, state director for
vocational education, returned Friday
after a two weeks' absence In Oakland.
Cal.. where he attended a conference Of
state and federal officials connected
with teachers' training In trades and In
dustries. Three deaths from accidents In Indus
tries are recorded In the list of 3!l acci
dents reported to the state Industrial
accident commission for the week end
ing January 22. Of the accidents re
ported 82 were subject to the pro
visions of the compensation act. 21 were
from firms and corporations that have
rejected the provisions of the set and II
were from public utility corporations
not subject to the provisions of the act.
The fatalities reported were: William
C. Billings, foreman. Bend ; James A.
Colestock, watchman, Salem ; George
F. Dless, braketnan. Eugene.
Dies in Home He
Had Kept 73 Years
Kalein. Jan. 24. T. L. Davidson, 12.
died here Thursday night In the house
in which he made his home upon first
locating In Salem In 1847 and In which
he had continuously lived for 7$ years.
He was for many years actively Inter
ested in civic movements and politics In
Salem and Marlon county. He wan a
member of the Masonic lodge and an
Elk. Mr. Davidson was county Judge
of Marlon county at one time. Funeral
services were held this afternoon.
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