THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL', PORTLAND, OREGON
TUESDAY, DECEMBER .. 21, 102v.
CARELESS DRIVERS
DECLARED CHIEF
ACCIDENT
CAUSE
Carelessness and inexperience on
the part of automobile driver will
be met by far more stringent traffic
regulations being read into the ordi
nance governing motor vehicles un
less there is a greater decrease of
accidents in Portland, declared Mu
nicipal Judge d Rossman Monday
night, speaking before automobile
owner and operators in Library
hall" in "the fourth of a series of 12
lectures being , conducted by the
National Safety council.
"There is usually a traffic violation
at th bottom of every accident," de
clared the judge, emphatically, speaking
as one ho has to deal with practically
every violation of this kind occurring
on Portland streets. 'The fact that there
are fewer street car accidents, means
that the street car company has taught
its motormcn that It pays to know he
rules of the road and to be expertly
familiar with the operation of their
vehicles. -
MA5T ARE AVOIDABLE
"Were automobile owners as expert a
vast number of apparently avoidable ac
cidents now of daily occurrence would
never happen."
Judge Rossman said that of the eases
coming' to his attention,, carelessness
was responsible for the majority, with
Incompetence to operate a machine as a
secondary cause. - i-
In the 13 months preceding December,
120, there were 19,408 arrests for vio
lation of the traffic ordinance a figure
greater than the combined . population
of Astoria and Albany. Speeding, said
the judge, is not responsible for as many
accidents an, the public has been led f.o
suppose. Of 72 accidents occurring last
Saturday, more than a third were caused
by failure to yield the right of way.
' As a proof of his contention that
street cars are becoming less and less
at fault In accidents, the judge said that
of the 10.038 accidents during the past
year, only 1000 were caused by street
cars, redestrians struck by motor cars
and other vehicles usually suffered in
between intersections, said the judge,
who gave the percentage for Portland
as 90 per cent of total injuries bo sus
tained. The percentage for New York
is 82 per cent. . Accidents of this kind
totaled 7000 this year.. -
"What we need is a more careful ex
aminations for drivers," declared Ross
man, in conclusion, "if incompetence is
a great factor' in rolling up accident
lists, then we should , move to reduce
that hazard by testing automobile drlvf
era witn the same care exercised by
street car companies in testing their mo
tormen. Drug addicts and habitual users
of intoxicants of any kind should abso
lutely be barred from participation' In
motor car operation, and if I had nay
way about it they would never get a
license."
G. E. Spencer of the Oregon School of
Technology, Illustrated his lecture, on the
engine by a series of slides, showing the
various types of motors and the assem
bly of their several parts, as weU as
salient features of magneto, muffler and
manifold construction. H. H. Herdman,
chairman of the local branch fthe Na
tional Safety council, presided at the
meeting. . i ' '-
Youth Beaches for ' -Wheel;
Car Tumbles
In Ditch; Two Hurt
Impulsiveness or fright resulted in the
injury of two persons and the wreck
ing of an automobile late Monday after-,
noon on Canyon road, according to the
police.
Miss ' Helen Stackhouse. 17, 171 East
Eightieth street, and Robert L. Stevens.
17, 693 Wasco street, are in the Good
Samaritan hospital. Miss Stackhouse
has a sprained, hip and severe bruises
on her back. Stevens suffered a frac
tured leg and injuries to his side.
The accident occurred when Stevens
grabbed the stearing wheel away from
Miss B. Linebarger, 187 Stout street,
when a collision with another automobile
seemed inevitable. He turned the wheels
with such abruptness that the car
swerved from the .read and overturned
in the ditch. Miss Linebarger was un
injured. Although the collision was avoided,
the accident which occurred was prob
ably more serious than if the cai.1 had
collided, according to Motorcycle Patrol
man Mobley.who investlgatedthe ac
cident. - -
Five Men Injured ;
TT1 a j m "I
wnen auio jl aires
; Plunge Over Bank
' Five men from the Whitney logging
camp near Bay City were injured about
1:10 o'clock this morning when brakes
on a heavily loaded automobile in which
they were riding failed to hold on the
long grade on , Kelly street, allowing
the machine to leave the road and roll
over three times down a steep embank
ment near Hamilton avenue.
J. Skin and A. J. Anderson, driver of
the machine, were badly cut and
bruised about the head and body and
were taken to St' Vincents hospital,
where it was said this morning they
would recover. William Wise, J. Car
ter and S. B. McGillicuddy were cut
and bruised about the head and were
treated at the emergency hospital. 4
Wheels, parts of the machine' and
baggage were scattered for over 200
feet along the side of the embankment.
The men were ' returning to Portland
after the closing of the logging camp
when the accident took place. Baggage
they were carrying in the machine was
scattered' along the road for two blocks.
CHICAGO WIFE
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FINDS NEWiORI
PITFALLS DEEP
By Sydney B. Whipple
United Nrw Stiff Corrwponrient
New York, Dec. 21. Lucille Emma
Brooks Is the wife of a Chicago in
surance man John Walter, Brooks.
Her husband belongs to that great
group of citisens commonly called
the respectable "middle class." leu
cine is 35 years old, a good looking
woman, not over dressed, not painted,
not of the Broadway type. She is
a woman you might tsee any Sunday,
leading her children Into church.
Bub you would not notice her any
more than you would notice hundreds
of similar women. '
But Mrs. Brooks stepped out of the
middle class respectability long enough
to land in the -Brightest of New York's
most unsavory limelight. She is held
as a material witness in the killing of
Police Lieutenant . Floyd Horton, who
died in a Broadway gun battle. She
was the companion of three, men who
waged, a pistol fight to the death from
a motor car. She was herself wounded.
One of her companions was killed.
BISBASD GIVES COMFORT !
Her middle class, respectable husband
met her for the first time since the af
fray, . in the criminal courts building, j
while she was on her way to the. district
attorney's office. She was handcuffed j
to-one of the other members tf the
murder car quartette. The handcuffs
hurt . her wounded arm. But -In this
nightmare scene, her husband told her
he would soon have . the handcuffs off.
and that she would go home.
Lucille plucked the aigrettes from her
hat "Here," she said to John, "take
these. They don't look well on a woman
who is Kolng to jail."
Til keep them. ' You'll wear them
agjin soon, he said.
Tne district attorney was more inter
ested in knowing who killed Lieutenant
Horton - than he was in knowing how
a woman f -Lucille's type came to be
associated in a holdup, an attempted
robbery, a running gun fight, and a
murder. But Mrs.-Brooks didn't know
who killed Horton. She was dazed. It
was this way : .
"PALTY" IS PLA5XED
Mr. Broqks was in Chicago. He had
fold John Kavanagh, superintendent of
the apartment house where she lived, to
look after her. Kavanagh did. He sug
gested a party, one of those quiet affairs
where a crowd of four go out to see
the siffhts.iNlcholas and Joe La reach.
two friends of Kavanagh, went along;
too. They knew where you could get
'-it."
They went to a saloon In the tender-
Wife Finds Mere
$150,000; Hubby
Calls It Bad Luck
Chicago, Iec. 21. (L N. S.) Some
folks might figure themselves lucky
to find 8130,000 in bonds, for which
no owner has been discovered, but
Carl Jagger of Gary. Ind., whose
wife picked up 8150,000 worth of.
treasury certificates in a Chicago
taxicab last May, -is beginning to
think it is bad luck. ' .. -
Federal authorities declare the
bonds became income when they ma
tured -September 14. Hence Carl
may have to pay an -. income tax.
Cari did not earn the bonds ; . his
wife found them. Inheritance tax
due the government, $51,000.
Lawyers have discovered that
Carl's wife had no legal right to re
move property from a common car
rier. -. They threaten a writ of re
plevin to restore the bonds to the
taxicab company. If they get the
writ, Carl says, he will be 850,000
shy because five of the bonds, worth
$10,000 each, have passed from his
possession.
The net result is that, if all these
things happen, Carl may find him
self $101,000 or more in debt.
loin one of those "soft drink" places
where, if you are known, and some
times if you're not, you can get prune
iuice. doctored into something resembl
ing the real stuff. They had. several
drinks. , .f
Then they went to a saloon in West
Fifty-eighths street and had some more.
Kavanagh wanted to go home-by this
time, but Lucille didn't. So they went
to One .Hundred Forty-seventh street,
where they had some more. It was
easy ' to get Kavanagh " disappeared
from the party about this time, Lucille
said. -
SAYS SHE WA,S "DAZED"
Theh coming down town it all hap
pened. Joe Lareach stopped the car in
which they had been cruising from sa
loon to saloon, and went into an apart
ment house. She says she was "pretty
well dased" by this 'time.
She rfemembers hearing several shots.
She remembers something hitting her
arm. Then, she says, everything Went
black. . .
It was during this time that her
companions; halted in an attempted
holdup of an apartment house attends
ant and pursued by Lieutenant Horton,
who finally leaped to the running board
of their car, had unlimbered their ar
tillery. Horton fell from the car mor
tally wounded. As he lay in the street,
dying, he pulled a slip of paper from
his pocket and made a note of the num
ber of thexcar.
TBIO TRACED BY POLICE ,
The men drove to their garage, hur
ried Mrs. Brooks to her apartment, tool
the body of Joe Lareach, killed 'in the
exchange of bullets, to his home, and
tried to efface the bullet holes in ' the
body of the machine.
' The police took Horton's notes. And
inside of six hours, Nicholas Laresch,
Kavanagh and Mrsf Brooks of Middle
West respectability were behind the
bars. , .... f ;
"I am sure my wife had nothing to
do with the shooting," said -Brooks
after Lucille had told her stjry. "And
1 ant convinced of her honesty. , Every
thing I have, even the shirt on my back
if necessary, will be used for her de
fense. I am firmly convinced that she
had no previous connection with those
people." ,
Middle class respectability can't stand
the strain of New York "aoft drinks"
made "out of prune juice, caramel and
grain alcohol.
Commission Approves
Express F i r m Union
Wathington, Dee. 2L (L N. S.) The
interstate commerce commission" an
nounced Monday afternoon that It had
approved and authorised the consolida
tion of the express transportation busU
ness and the property devoted to that
business by the Adams, Wells Fargo,
American and Southern Express com
panies to be merged Into the American
Railway Express . company. The com
mission rejected the recommendation of
many state railroad commissions, who
I fought the proposed merger.
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The Western Union Is Installing about
875.000 worth of new telegraph equip
ment at Yakima.
UNIFORMITY
FOR
TA C
SLOGAN
OF FOUR STATES
' -"Traffic uniformity for the North
west" is the slogan governing the
efforts of the committee composed
of secretaries of state from Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana,
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now in runi&uu wuriung ur maiur
traffic, regulations j for four states.
The work of the committee extended
late into Monday : night and the
greater part of today was given over
to final consideration of recont-
the Portland po-
mendations made J by the traffic
committee.
'Captain Lewis of
lice department heads a committee an
traffic composed of Chief Jenkins of
the .Portland police department; L D.
Conrad, superintendent of motive power
for Washington t Lieutenant Carr of the
SeattleHraf f lc bureau, and T. A. Raf
fety, chief inspector; for Oregon. , This
committee has recommended a system
of uniform signs for state highways,
the prohibition of parking on paved
highways of the four states, uniform
lighting laws, Identical arm signals, the
limitation of the width of the load to
eight feet, with lights on all loads ex
tending more than three feet to the
rear of the vehicle, and mirrors on all
motor cars to insure clear vision to the
rear. " . '
The general executive committee, com
posed of the four secretaries of state,
with Sam Kocer as chairman, la pass
ing upon recommendations made by this
traffic committee as well as making
formal recommendation of other meas
ures which Will be submitted to the leg
islatures of the four states at coming
sessions. The executive committee has
definitely gone on record as favoring a
uniform traffic law, more and greater
reciprocal privileges between the vari
ous states for the convenience of mo
torists, the operators' license law as is
now in effect in Oregon, the 18-year
age limit law, the uniform license year
law (which will probably result in a
calendar year being taken as the license
term, with fee amounts left to the dis
cretion of each state), uniform road
signs,' speed laws and rules of the road,
lights on all vehicles, the Oregon gaso
line tax of 1 cent a gallon- for the
maintenance of good roads, and punish
ment for automobile thieves with no
less than a prison sentence.
In the discussion of theft precaution,
Secretary of State Charles T. Stewart
of Montana said there was a strong
leaning in his state toward the old
vigilante method" of dealing with those ,
Who pilfer their fellows' transportation.
He said that while traffic laws did not
bother the state of Montana in any
great measure, there being ' enough
room there for plenty of elbow space,
still, something should be done in his
state to eliminate the man who once
stole horses land now steals cars. !
y Money for Irish Sufferers ; i
To give aid to the suffer., s in Freland
the Ancient Order of Hibernians has
started a campaign for funds, that will
be inaugurated at the mass meeting to
be Held in the, Hibernian hall Wednesday
night The campaign is directed by a
cc mittee under the direction of Dr.
Andrew C. Smith and John K. Murphy. :
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At these new, low pricesyes, the lowest in years: .
A Mighty Purchase and Sale of Oregon City
Woolen Mills Blankets, Indian Robes, Men's
Shirts, Trousers and Bathrobes
Many at far less han today's, wholesale cost
Prices Astounding
Due to our record ' purchase of surplus
stock at tremendous priee concessions.
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Savings Stupendous
The maker takes the loss, we take a profit
smaller than usual you take the gain.
Warm Heavy Blankets
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$4.85
Fine Indian Robes
$4.85 $6.85
These j blankets are
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but all are full size for
double beds, and none
have - any - defects that
will interfere with their
war m thror practical
wear. Colors are gray
and khaki.
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These are the famed Oregon City Blankets of
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Oregon City bathrobes are
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noted for their beautiful Indian
patterns and colors, their
warmth and wearing qualites
and their rich trimmings. Some of the
very finest are included, at this price,
very slightly imperfect and at
Men's Wool Shirts
$3.95
$4.
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About One Third the' Regular
Selling Price
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Lowest prices in years for
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Vicuna, oxford and
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