FRIDAY, 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
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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. '
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