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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY, JANUARY 21. 1921. THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. OREGON HARDING IS OFF ON FLORIDA IP Officer Kelly on a charge ! of driving without proper plates. "I was demonstrating- to the young lady." Slattery told Municipal Judge ItOHsman this morning. "We-l-1. Tit have to let you go this time. But don't let it happen again. I hope you have good luck with your pros pect, commented the court. By Jack Royle VOn Board Senator Harding's Train, Jan. 21. (I. X. S.) President-elect Harding enjoyed today his first real opportunity to relate from the duties which, have .crowded. upon him since his return ..from Panamal He is looking forward eagerly to the first .real outdoor exercise he has had for nearly two months. EAGER FOB GOLF When he reaches St. -Augustine he will change Into golf clothes as soon as possible, and, weather permitting, will play 18 holes before boarding Senator Krellnghuysen's houseboat ne"xt Satur day night. . The conferences of "best minds" In Marion, it is known, have teen produc tive of much real-information and val uable advice t6 the president-elect, but 5 they have also placed a heavy demand on his time and energy. Men and women throughout the coun try have made strenuous efforts to be parties to these conferences both with and without invitations. Scores of mes sages have been pent Senator Harding asking for appointments and requesting . that in replying he rerrain irom men tlon of the request. MAHIOX HOME LEASED There is no question but that the ob ject of such messages was to make it appear that the president-elect had Issued an invitation without solicitation from the person granted the appoint ment. Some of the persons who were received merely 'to give- opportunity to present their respects, . have complained strenu ously after their' departure that the pub . licity given their visits Was inadequate to their Importance. -The itinerary of the Harding party through Chattanooga, Atlanta and Jack- . sonville is expected to lani.him at his destination . Saturday morning. The Harding home at Marion has been J leased to Millard Hunt of Marion. .Car Demonstration For Pretty Woman Gets Man Arrested A battered dealers' license plates on a machine driven by C. F. Slattery, by Whose side on the front scat sat a young woman customer, caused, the driver's ar rest Thursday afternoon by Motorcycle John R. Brown, 85, Old-Time Resident Of Portland, Dead John R. Brown, who died Thursday, January 20, at the home of his son, W. 13. Brown, 994 Minnesota avenue, was one of the oldest members of the Ma chinists' union in the United States. He was in his eighty-fifth year and had re sided in this country for 52 years, com ing from Portsmouth, England, his na tive town. For the past 20 years John R. Brown has resided in Portland. He Is survived by seven children, 15 grand children and 12 great grandchildren. His children are AV. E. Brown. H. . J. Brown, Miss A. K. Brown and Mrs. George E. Lawrence of Portland : Mrs. George K. Ryner of Yamhill ; John W. Brown -of Stevens" Point, Wis.; Arthur P. Brown of Biark Hawlt, pntario. Funeral services will be held at Cham bers' undertaking parlors Saturday at 2 p. m. The body will be forwarded to Port Huron, Mich., for interment. GREWSOME RELICS SHOWN IN COURT Service Extensions Boost Water Rates Pendleton, Jan. 21. Decision of the Pendleton city .water commision to lower the minimum water consumption allow ance from 5000 gallons to 3500 gallons and- increase the minimum charge from Ji.i'5 to $1.75 resulted from greater de mands for service extensions and a larger water supply for next summer, which will entail development of the springs at the head of the gravity sys tem, 18 miles up in the Blue mountains. Peete, sitting erect in her chair. Police Fear Raid By Bank Robbers A general order was issued this morn ing by Chief of Police Jenkins caution ing all patrolmen to be on the alert for bank robberies. The order stated that information had been placed In the hands of the police department that a gang of bank robbers was believed to be pre paring for a wholesale drive against the vaults of local banks. Special measures will be taken to safeguard against attacks. Los Angeles, Jan. 21. Awesome relics from the Denton "murder mansion" were shown to the jurors In the trial of Mrs. Louise Peete, charged with the murder of Jacob C. Denton, in Superior Judge Willis' court today. Tiny pieces of the bullet which killed Denton, the blood-stained canvas which bound his body, the revolver used by the slayer and a belt buckle, cuff button and a plain gold wedding ring taken from a finger of the slain man, were produced in court by District Attorney Woolwine during the testimony of Earl Piatt, an undertaker WOMAS 18 CALM Mrs was unmoved at the sight of the ex hibit. She watched the grewsome relics tieine insnected and handled by the jurors, but no trace of emotion flashed across her face. Public Defender Aggeler, representing Airs. Peete. objected to the introduction of several of the exhibitions on the ground that sufficient identification had not been made. His objections were overruled ty Judge Willis. Piatt was held to testify as to the con dition of the body when he removed it from the Denton mansion basement. His testimony was corroborated by Police Detective Canto. Dr. Frank Webb, a professor of anat omy in the University of Southern Cali fornia, was the next witness. County Autopsy Surgeon A. F. Wagner and Pro fessor Arthur Maas were also in court for the prosecution. WILL VIEW CRYPT Doctors Wagner and Webb made re peated examinations of the body. Maaa made a chemical examination of the di gestive organs in a search for poison. He testified that Denton was instantane ously killed by a bullet, which pierced the spinal cord at the back of the neck The musty wooden crypt in the silent basement ot the "murder mansion" which for months held the body of Den ton was to be viewed today by the jury. Pretty Mrs. Peete, accused by the state as having, single handed, dragged the lifeless form of Denton, a wealthy mining promoter, down a narrow stair way into the basement of his palatial residence and crammed it in the crude sepulcher, where it remainded undiscov ered for more than three months, was to accompany the 12 jurors and court officials this afternoon on their weira trip of inspection. HCSBAKD 8TASPS BY Meanwhile the 27-year-old defendant faces the Jurymen, mostly gray haired. retired ranchers and farmers, with a confident smile on her round and dim pled face. At her side sits her semJ- in valid husband. . The Peetes' marital life has been stormy, marked by several separations Land a divorce suit filed by him whicn . . . . wifkilvawn Tint later, nuwever, w njutun.-". Peete firmly believes she is guiltless and faithfully remains close to her in the courtroom and pats her hand whenever she is flayed by prosecutors. j The Peetes have a 4-year-old daughter Betty, who daily romps around the yard of their home in an outlying section of the city, ignorant that her mother is 'on; trial for murder. 'CHARGE IS LIE,' DECLARES SCHWAB and the ap-U U. S. Foreign Trade Breaks All Records In Year Just Past Washington, Jan. 2i: (U. P.) Amerij can foreign trade for 1920 was the larg est ever known, the department of comj- nrni todav. Exports fot 1920 totaled $3,228,000,000. compared with $7,920,000,000 for 1919- The 1920 figures were more than three times aS large as for 1913. a pre-war year. i Imports for 1920 totaled 55,279,000.000, compared with $3,904,000,000 for 1919 The 1920 imports were almost threee times as large as in 1913. December exports were $720,000,000. against $667,000,000 for November and $681, 000.000 for December. 1919. Im ports this December were $266,000,000, against $121,000,000 for November and $381,000,000 for December last year. New Tork, Jan. 21. (L N. S.) Charles M. Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel corporation former director general of Emergency Fleet corporation. peared before the Walsh senatorial investigation committee today and unqualifiedly denied that the ship pins board had been charged with $260,000 for I his personal expense during October, 1919. CHARGE HADE OX OATH This charge had been made under oata by Colonel E. H. Abadie, former comp troller general of the shipping board. When the congressional committee which is investigating activities of the shipping board resumed its sessions. Schwab and Eugene R. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, 'and Paul D. Cravath. an attorney for the corporation, were on hand. Schwab declared that Colonel Abadie's charge was "absolutely, unmitigatedly and maliciously false." 3JOT FOR SHOP CONSTRCCTIOPS Schwab, under cross-examination, ad mitted that the voucher for $260,000 as personal expenses was paid to him by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, but that "no part of it was charged to ship construction." "No, it would not. I would have no knowledge of the subsequent steps of the voucher in "the office of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. . , "I want a denial of this awful insinua tion as quickly as possible." said Schwab. "No man can say that he saw any ac tion on my part that' would arouse suspi cion that I was working for myself or my corporation. I gave my, life to the government's eause. i "I am deeply grieved at these stories ; so grieved that 1. can hardly express my self.': ! i -DITT GET DOLLAR A YEAR -Although anxious to render what war service he could, Schwab stated, he pointed out to the president that the emergency fleet proposition wotild not be the proper place for himself, because f his shipbuilding interests, but that the president prevailed upon him for accep tance. "I never even took the dollar that the 'dollar-a-year men were to get," Schwab testified. - It was arranged that the steel mag nate, after entering his brief, but gen eral and emphatic, denial, should give his testimony in detail next Tuesday or Wednesday. . VIOLENT FIGHT ON DUBLIN OUTSKRTS Loses Both Feet in Railroad Accident In Albina Yards With his right foot cut off just above the ankle and the left foot so badly crushed it had to be amputated later, Elwood N. Goodrich, 40, Twenty-fourth and Adams streets, was taken to St. Vincents hospital by the Ambulance Service company, after being crushed between two freight cars in the Albina Vardn at 6 o'clock this morning. Good rich, who is a switchman for the O-W. Ft. & N.. was fixine a coupling, when the train backed up. throwing him be neath the moving trucks. Besides the loss of both feet. Goodrich suffered a fractured right arm and severe cuts and bruises. He is married. fill. Neglect"' Of NOT niggardliness but mismanagement is behind the fact that thousands of our disabled soldiers of the Great War "are still' waiting, exploited, neglected, forgotten, for the draft of honor to be redeemed." The Public Health Service, according to Harold A. Littledale, of the New York Eve ning Post, is months behind in dealing with urgent appeals from disabled soldiers needing treatment, as is also the Bureau of War-Risk Insurance in pay ments. The Pittsburg Chronicle - Telegraph quotes Colonel Frederick "vV. Galbraith Jr., Na tional Commander of the-American Legion, as saying that "10,000 disabled veterans are quar tered in cellars, poorhouses and insane asylums." The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST this week, January 22, 1921, presents facts that will astonish the American public and which have been incorporated by the American Legion in a dispassionate memorial to the President, the President-elect, the Congress, and the people of the United States. The cause of the present regrettable condition and a remedy for it are carefully- shown. Other important news articles in "THE DIGeIsT" this week are : The New Italy (With a Full Page Map in Colors) To Sell Europe Our Surplus "On Tick" No More Railroad Strikes-If" Germany's Air Aims Tidal Power at Last , A League to Improve Posture The Coming Age of Fiber Our Grandfathers' Favorite Opera" Here Again Why Prohibition Is Not Enforced The Vatican and the Y. M. C. A. Should the Clergy Pay Full Fare? European Iron and Steel in 1920 Flying in a Hurricane Over the Caribbean The Young Idea Welcomes "Movies" in the Schools Puss, the Sphinx of the Fireside A Lean Year for Pay Envelopes A Gentle Hint to Cuba Fewer Lynching v Is All Quiet Along the Adriatic? Best of the Current Poetry , Topics of the Day ' Many Interesting Illustrations, including Cartoons IS A CHILD'S LIFE WORTH $10 TO YOU ?, When Herbert Hoover wrote to The Literary Digest in October, telling of the desperate condition of three and a half million chil dren in Europe, and of the threatened interruption of the work of his organization because its resources would be exhausted in January, he said that he had asked other American organiza tions to lift the further responsibility of this work from his shoulders, but that up to that ime none of them had felt able to assume the gigantic task. The Literary Digest was profoandly stirred by the call of this great emergency and decided to consecrate its entire energy to the task of arousing the American people to uphold Mr. Hoover's hands in this life saving work. We immediately published in our issue of October 30 an editorial appeal entitled "The Slaughter of the Innocents,'' and called for prompt subscriptions by our own readers and Americans everywhere to the Child Feeding Fund urgently needed, starting the Fund ourselves witlt a large cash contribution. On the very first appearance of this appeal President-elect Harding gave a wonderful impetus to the Fund by his splendid telegram of endorsement and his contribution of $2500 to care for 250 starving children. We published the appeal in more than three hundred leading newspapers throughout the United States and telegraphed to more than two thousand newspapers urging their editorial support, which was royally given. Immediately following this nation-wide appeal, which The Digest has continued intensively and without interruption every week for three months, the heart, and mind, and proper pride of America responded to thej call the members as well as 'the officers of other great benevolent organizations felt that this was also their opportunity, the difficulties which Mr. Hoover had previously experienced disappeared, and he found it possible to complete a consolidation of eight of the greatest relief organizations in the country for a combined campaign to collect the $33,000,000 needed to feed the starving children of Eiwope and to -provide medical supplies and work.. State and city organizations were quickly formed in every part of the Union, and the money began pouruhg in from fhe American people who are now. thoroughly kroud. Nearly half of the total $33,000,000 is now raised; but tne other hal is urgently needed within the next 30 days to be effective. Remember, $10 saves the life of one child. Every American whose eye rests on these words should not let a single day pass without sending a contribution for,, this life-saving work. We are asking all our readers to coope'rate in every possible way with the local organi zations and to send their contributions to their State Treasurers instead of direct to The Literary Digest, because it is impossible to continue printing the long lists of contributors in the over crowded' columns of The Literary Digest. Give generously and give promptly to this emergency relief to' save the' lives of Europe's starving children. The name and address of your State Treasurer is John Daley, 522 Selling Bldg., Portland, Or. BRITAIN GOBBLES i'P SEA CARGOES, MAIUNE MEN SAY Washington, Jan. 21. (I. N. S.) British and Norwegian shipping- inter ests are "gobbling: up" freight shipments that ought to go to American ahip own ers, because of the "procrastinating and uncertain" poncy or the united sstaies shipping board, Frank C. Munson. presi dent of the Munson Steamship company, charged in an address before the conven-j tion of the National Merchant Marin association, today. Munson said 1.500. 000 tons of American shipping is tied up in American ports because of the ship ping board's fAilure to readjust frelghtj and tonnage rates 1 to conform rhorfl closely to foreign competing shipping interests. ' ! It casualties lxndon. Jan. 21. (I. N. S.) A violentbattle between Sinn Felners and ;iiilitary policemen , has been fought near Dublin, according to an incomplete telegram received this afternoon from the Irish capital. was Indicated . that the were heavy. A heavy force of Sinn Fein era pre- oared an ambush outside of jDublin for crown forces, prise. In the battle that followed bombs were used on both sides. Reinforcements of Black ) and Tains were rushed from Dublin and the at tackers were caught in a trap, but. most of them were able to escape. A constable was ambushed near Blexham and shot to death. . sur- but were taken by rifles and , $27,000 for Roads Minor forest roads and trails will be benefited by 127,000 extra-allotment from the Washington, D. C, office this year, according to information received by District Engineer P. 11. Dater. The money has been held back ai contingent and will be used In Oregon iafld Wash ington. 1 Explosion Kills Three Baltimore, Md., Jani 21.-j-(U. P.) Three men were killed today in an ex plosion of 50 hand grenades at the army ordnance depot at Curtis Bay. ' Ef f icierit Aufo Repair Prices Are maintained by us because our workmen know exactly what we are paid 'or the Job we are doing on your car. They know that prolonging the job discredits them, :. We Give a Price Guarantee Cook & Gill Co., inc. 11th at Burnside St. PTTi TT7" TV 'T" PTT.I OT1 'toil W - u :. -. -:. - - January 22d Number on Sale To-day News-dealers 10 Cents $4.00 a Year The FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (PebBaben f the Fanem NEW Standard Dictionary). NEW TUUS I will niizke the largest reduction in Tailor-Made Suits for Men ever made in Portland. Suitings of high class woolens that formerly sold at $70, now at $80.00 and $85.00 Suitings 7, $90.00 and $100.00 Suitings at leiiry is -.A;: Sold and made with strict un derstanding that it. must fit and be perfect in every detail. , My stock consists of fabrics that are all wool and the selec tion is without a doubtone of the best to be seen. $ Ql) 324-326 Morrison Street I Tl Portland Hotel Block 8b 4 "