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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1921. THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, OREGON 13 DR. SARGENTICH IS DEFENSE WITNESS AT MURDER TRIAL South Bend, Wash., Feb. 24. Dr. Splro Sargentich, former Portland physician, war veteran and Red Cross worker In Serbia, was put on the stand in the trial of J. Fred Welch, charted with dvnamltine the dredger Beaver, killing four members of the crew, including the daughter of one of the owners. Dr. Sargentich now resides in Tacoma. His testimony, offered by the defense, was for the purpose of explaining wild actions by Welch Immediately after the explosion j and statements at the time and within a few hours of the tragedy which Implicated Welch as the dyna miter. Dr. Sargentich testified that Welch might have been out of his head but admitted on cross-examination that much depended on temperament, saying a high strung man would be much more susceptible to hallucinations than one more phlegmatic. Welch has shown the utmost composure throughout the trial. Testimony for the defense is expected to close today without Welch taking the stand. C. A. Cjhase, a Tacoma chemist, testi fying for the defense, was positive that the explosion at the dredger was oaused by gasoline and that it was unlikely that dynamite could have burned the victims, though it! might have set off a gasoline explosion lie said that the gasoline might have been set off either by static electricity from a dynamo which had not been running for an hour, by fire tn a stove, by a lantern or by the men, who were smoking. uorvams .Lays nans To Improve Streets CorvalUa, Feb. 24. The city council has authorized the purchase of $5410 worth of street machinery. Including a tractor, scarifier and grader. Plans were discussed for the paving of Jackson street, in which work has already begun. Petitions for paving North Ninth street and opening Twentieth street from Rail road street to the Philomath road are under consideration. An extra police man to apprehend speeders was author ised. Any pretty young girl on trial for a great crime may as well get ready to sign a vaudeville contract. 87 1 Lot Bargains University Park 18 Minutes by Auto Direct Street Car Service An Opportunity of a Lifetime Sold on the World's Greatest Terms START Coe A. McKenoa Man, 80, Abput to Take His Annual 100-Mile Stroll Montesano, Wash., Feb. 24. When the frogs begin to sroak and pussy willows get fuzzy, the call of the road gets too strong for C. L. Carpenter of Montesano. He will be 80. years oid this summer. As soon as the weather is a little warmer and the tides are more favorable he will go from Montesano to North Bay and from there walk up the beach, 100 miles or more, to Cape Flatery and Neah bay. But who will go with him? An appeal through the local paper for a companion on the trip has met with little response. Probably it U because of Carpenter's reputation as a walker. For many years he has taken long trips and has cov ered the route of this spring's trip sev eral times already. He came to this county in 1878 and helped Bectionize a great part of the Harbor country. In 1891 he was em ployed by an oil syndicate in staking off claims along the coast and was with the government mineralogist who made the famous discovery that 8hi Shi beach had been "planted" with refined oil. That broke up the oil boom In that sec tion. Carpenter is a bailiff in Judge Sheek's division of the superior court. , Punish Those Who Bet on Individual Play, Says Landis Boston. Feb. 24. (I. N. S.) Penaliza tion of men who bet on individual play in baseball games as well as the organ ized, professional gamblers, was recom mended by Judge K. M. Landis in a let ter received today by Representative Hugh J. Laoey of Holyoke. The letter was written in reply to the request of Lacey, who asked for comments on his bill now before the legislature, designed to punish fraudulent participation In baseball games. Montesano Mill Is Operating Again Montesano, Feb- 24. After a four months' shutdown, the Fir Products mill opened Tuesday with more than 100 men on the payroll. 1 Publishers Meet Centralia. Wash., Feb. 24. A meeting of Southwest Washington newspaper publishers and job printers was held Sunday in Centralia. A WEEK BUYS A LOT ON ACMFIC S SATURDAY AT LIVE IN A TENT OR TEMPORARY HOUSE STOP YOUR RENT BUILD YOUR OWN HOME Peninsula property advancing. The business of Portland is moving down the river. Portland terminal is on the Peninsula. Thousands of men employed in Peninsula industries. Live in a progressive district. BUY NOW WHILE LOTS ARE CHEAP Salesmen on Ground From Daylight to Dark Take St. Johns Car to Lombard and Hodge Streets STAY FOR APPEAL PREVENTS HANGING Vale, Or., Feb. 24. An appeal was filed Wednesday In the George How ard case and Judge Dalton Biggs granted a stay of execution to the Malheur county boy, who was to have been hanged Friday for the murder of George Rj Sweeney, Vale tailor and salesman. This will give Howard several monthB more of life, whichever way the supreme oourt decides, as the case will not be taken up before that bod until it sits in Pendleton in June. A petition was circulated last week In Malheur county for signatures asking Governor Olcott to commute Howard's sentence to life imprisonment. It is not known how many signed the petition, but many refused and mad their re fusal known to others. The trial created more interest In Eastern Oregon than any other trial In the court's history. Funds for the appeal were subscribed by convicts at the penitentiary in Salem, where the 23-year-old prisoner was to have been hanged. The convicts raised S250. to which the Prisoners' Aid so ciety added $100. Commerce Students To Form Chamber University of Oregon, Eugene, Feb. 24. The majors in the school of commerce are planning the formation of a cham ber of commerce, with the Intention of becoming a part of the national associa tion of chambers of commerce, Barney Garrett of Hlllsboro is chairman and members of the committee are : Homer Mornhinweg, llalsey : Frank Miller. Al bany ; Ross MacKenna, Eugene ; George Lowden, Portland ; Wilbur Carl, Port land ; Ernest and Stanley Evans, Eu gene ; Victor Sether, Glendale ; Ruth Lane, Wanda Brown, Mildred Aumiller and Marjorie Stout, Eugene. Fire Does $15,000 Damage at Hoquiam Aberdeen, Wash., Feb. 24. The plant of the Grays Harbor Iron & Machine company at Hoquiam was damaged by fire Wednesday, the loss being $15, 000. The plant has been closed for several days on account of a strike, but this Is not known to have any connection with the fire. EACH; EXCEPT THE PENINSULA & Co.L Grapefruit Sans 'Squirt' Will Soon Make Appearance Washington, Feb. 24. (U. P.) The "equirtlees" grapefruit may appear shortly on the American breakfast table. The new product, designed to spare the eye from a citrus shower, is known as the tangelo. It is a hybrid, the offspring of the tan gerine and the grapefruit, but is more tender than Its parents. Springfield Fire Damage Is Heavy; Loss Held $20,000 Eugene, Or.. Feb. , 24. Fire which broke out in the Baker Jewelry store in Springfield about 11 o'clock Wednesday night destroyed that building and three others and damaged adjoining property, causing a loss estimated at $20,000. The Palace pool hall and the Wilson Jewelry and variety store, with apartments i on the upper floors, were practically gutted, while considerable damage was done to the Grays cash grocery by water. The latter stock was owned by Ralph Gray of Eugene, while the building occupied by the pool hall was owned by Charles H. Fisher of Eugene, i The Eugene fire department was rushed to the scene at once, and, with the Springfield apparatus, controlled the fire. The Odd Fellows' temple, adjoining the grocery store, escaped with slight damage. The equipment of the Palace poolhall was carried out of the building and saved. Ralph Gray announced to day that he will open in a new location at once. 350 Men Lose Jobs In Hillyard Shops Spokane, Wash., Feb. 24. (U. P.) Adding to nearly 350 unemployed at its Hillyard shops, the Great Northern rail way this afternoon announced a five week layoff for more than 600 men. Only skeleton crews will be retained. Work re sumes April 4. Underwood Objects To Losing Station White Salmon, Feb. 24. The proposed elimination of a station at Underwood during the winter months, suggested by railroad officials, is meeting with stren uous opposition by residents of th CORNERS 1 P. M. 4-ttlht St. district, and a delegation of Underwood people is expected shortly to wait on the officials of the S. P. & S., objecting to the move. Seattle Selected by Retail Credit Men Spokane, F,eb 24. (U. P.) Seattle was picked here, at a convention of the Northwestern Retail Credit Men's asso ciation, for the 1922 meeting place. Port land and Tacoma swung behind the Se attle delegation and the selection today was unanimous. FACTO SAMPLE SH 286 Morrison St., Fifth Next Money.' Worth or Money Back Thousands of Garments to Be Sacrificed Don't Be Misled. for the Bis- Sitm with Hand Pointin to e-4rit 286 Morrison St.. SALE SALE ) Thousands of new spring garments. Hundreds of samples. Hundreds of winter garments, all to go on sale. The prices will be the gossip of Portland bargain shoppers. HUNDREDS OF NEW Spring Dresses In serges, tricotines, satins and silks. Values to 35.00, at only $14.95 and ! ' Spring Coats And a few winter coats, values to $68, to go at only $29.95 and $18.95 In serges and tricotines, samples, values to $50, fe Jersey Jackets and Jersey Coats Mostly all sizes ft. At $6.95 - V : WAISTS WAISTS 865 silk, satin, georgette, crepe de chine and tricolette waists, values to $16.50 (JJO QK to go this sale at only $3.95 and fDUiOtJ About 300 WINTER COATS, mostly odds each kind. Values to $8.95 and Money's Worth Wallowa Lake Is Completely Frozen; Skating Enjoyed Joseph. Or., Feb. 24 Wallowa lake is frozen over completely for the first time this winter and skating is enjoyed by people from the valley towns. The Ice Is as clear as crystal and rocks and fish may be seen many feet below the sur face. Public spirited young people have opened a reading room with 61 books and many magazines donated. 3D Bet. Fourth and to Corbctt Bid. 286 Beware of Imitation Factory Sample Shop Spring Dresses In taffetas, mostly samples, values to $50, to go in, this sale at only $18.95 HUNDREDS OF R.Y OP Spring Suits Also a few winter suits, values to $65.00, to be sacrificed at SPRING SUITS mostly (JJ" Q QK at DlOiU DRESSES, SUITS and and ends, one or two of $45 at only dT AA iDKUU or Money Back! Summer Camp Death Mystery Is Solved by Rupert Hughes Readers Follow with Excited ; Interest Noted Author's Development ! of Tragic Case of Clelia Blakeney, Found Frozen in Lake at Mountain Resort; Tells Dra matic Story in Great Novel; "Beauty," Now Running in The Red Book Magazine. The deep seclusion of the Adirondack, forests is giving up one of the strongest and most, thrillingiy tragic stories of the century. Clelia Blakeney, society favorite and amateur actress of exceptional talent, cel ebrated for beauty and a native wit. Is dead in singular and puzzling cir cumstances. The most painstaking search long failed to reveal trace of any clue to the cause of death. ? Miss Blakeney's dead body, clad only in a silk night dress, and her hair loose and flying a if she were running in the wind, was found In all its natural loveliness imprisoned In the ice close by the shore of one of much-frequented mountain lakes. Lying beneath the frozen surface of the lake, her face turned to the sky and her hands folded upon her bosom, with only a small wound upon her brow to suggest possible murderj the girl's body was discov ered by a rich young Texas mine owner named Larrick, one of the guests at the camp, Blizzard Hinder Search Between the time of Miss Blak eney's strange disappearance and the startling discovery of her body locked in the ice, a blizzard raged through the mountains. A desper ate search was begun for her as soon as she was missed, but the fierceness of the winter storm greatly hindered the quest of those who beat the mountain trails and on snowshoes carried the search to other camps. The Texan. Larrick,: nearly lost his life In struggling through the blinding blizzard and was himuelf waved from being lout by Minn Nancy Fleet of New York, who is famous aa an outdoors woman. After repeated failure to find any trace of Miss Blakeney in the mountains, Larrick turned to the lake. At the first visit it yielded no trace of the missing girl. Visiting; it again at a point where the wind sweeping around a point of land, had swept away the snow near the shore, he came unexpectedly upon the ghostly vision of the missing girl. Days had passed since her disappear ance, and her slender figure was en cased as solidly in the clear ice aa a gem in its matrix. Body la lee Catket Finding it impossible to chop the Ice away from the figure which lt Impris oned, a huge, oblong block was sawed from the lake's surface and conveyed to the camp, where It was left in the low temperature outdoors. Leaning against the rough walls of a huge log cabin, this ghastly memento of a mys terious tragedy presented a picture probably never before seen. The dead girl appeared as one asleep In a glass cage. Her silken nightgown seemed to ripple about her figure, clearly outlining it in all its frail beauty, yet never suggesting that it bore even a featherweight's pressure ?mi.hh,? nc"'n- crystal. Through the Ice .little flawed and therefore well nigh perfectly transparent, the small wound ?.n 4th,6. forha could be examined, but UvemiiTd. XCept 10 Pecula- 8" filled trails and the banked ViJf d remlsea nave yielded not the faintest hint as to what manner, foul or accidental. Miss Blakeney came J2Jjei!vd.ea.t.hU u i" "cPted 'as a fact that she died on the first day of the storm, probably early in the morning before it came roaring down out of the north to blanket the mountalna, 2To Seen oa Tragic Day BJ?kJ!ney' """ not seen on the day of her disappearance, so far as is now.nL, " one of a numerous party which, because of the mild wln iVhJ?.d.A,leerd a.1 tn' remit camp f?eisL-1 4hJ",ua.1 J,m t V;arture for New York and its urban gay ery. ? Drty included, besides Miss Blakeney, Mrs. Koantree, the owner of the camp and hostess of the party; Larrick Roy CoykendaU. whose domes tic unhappiness has long been a topic of sympathetic gossip with his set ; Burnley, the painter of winter land scapes ; Randel the sculptor. Miss fleet, :Norry Frewin who was re sponsible for the presence of Larrick, and the various guides, chauffeurs and other servants usually found in a pre tentious mountain camp. All these, except two or three em ployes who were to be left to care for the earn p. were prepared to return to New York on the day of Mlsa Blake ney s disappearance, word having ar rived of the approaching storm. The camp, fifteen miies from a railroad, la easily accessible in the summer and autumn, but when heavy snow falls it la cut off from civilization. Maid Discovers Disappearance On the morning of the Intended breaking up of camp Miss Blakeney's maid carried breakfast to the noted beauty's room. It was then that her disappearance was discovered. Miss Blakeley's clothes were in the room Just as she had left them, the- maid said, when she undressed the night before. Her pet dog was in his usual place, sleeping on a silk skirt A wide open window, through which blew a winter wind to chill the room beyond comfort for sleeping, repre sented the room's only change from its usual condition. However, it did not at first cause any alarm. Word of Miss Blakeney's disappear ance soon spread to all the cabins oc cupied by the guests.. Few of them took her absence seriously. T,hey knew her to be of a mischievous nature and thought- she was hiding for the sensa tion she might be able to make at a time when all were hurrying to get to the railroad before the storm could block the way. . r :;: ; j Some knew' she preferred staying In the camp to returning to the city, and expressed the belief she. had concealed herself to compel, the others to go on without her. She would not be en tirely without companionship, pleasant companionship, were she to remain be hind, .' ;- Larrick Man ef Coarage Others explained Mlsa Blakeney's ab sence by presuming that, for a prank, she had driven to the station one of the trucks carrying the baggage, or that- she had walked down, the road and would await being overtaken by the - automobiles in which the party would travel the fifteen miles out of the wilderness. But Larrick was genuinely alarmed, and he was the only one In the party who might have been expected to re press fear. Before ho had discovered a cinnabar pocket and Urge wealth, he hsd been a cowboy and is famed among his new eastern friends aa a man of dauntless courage. In a Texas saloon he once wslked up to the muz zle of a gun drawn by a drunken and murderous plainsman and in coolly performing this feat of bravery he had probably saved the life of Norry rrewln and certainly had made the latter his much indebted friend. Out of this episode came larrick a Intro duction Into the rich and somewhat fast net of which Clelia Blakeney was the brightest ornament Quant Flee Death Hrane When the wind began rising at the camp, forewarning the party of the storm, all who were determined to re turn to New York hurried away In the motors. Larrick and Mrs. Koantree, remaining behind nervously continued the search for Miss Blakeney. They battered down the floors . of locked closets, sent guides hurrying to distant ramps, searched all buildings, ex plored the woods round about the camp, and raced along the trails call ing the name of the mmslng girl. There was no leaning of effort after tha storm fu m m. i .. i, ...t, fury,' but It soon rendered hopeleHS fiininii to irao me gins move ments. Bhe had disappeared aa com pletely as if the earth had opened and wallowed her. it was evident that when she left the room, if. Indeed, she had .left, she wore only her thin night rown and light slippers, made for In ioor wear. During his search Lar .rtck's mind kept turning all the while to the lake,, but It had disappeared under a shroud of snow. He hoped someone would get through to the camp word from New York that Miss Blakeney had - turned up there safe and sound. Texan Keeps Death TlgU. Then, after days of torturing worry, came his dreadful discovery of the body and its strange removal to the camp, where Larrick, they say, wit night after night In Ms room In a death watch that would strike terror hito the heart of a man less brave. Through his window he kept guard over the ghostly statue of Clelia Blake ney In its icy shroud on the moonlit veranda of the main cabin. With him In the camp were Mrs. Roan tree. Miss Fleet, who In rising alarm, returned from the railroad to the camp In the storm, one t.f the nrtlsta, whose health forces him to life in the mountains, and a few frightened and helpless servants. From none of these has any explana tion f the crime been obtained. The death of the famous beauty promises to offer for months to come one of the most exciting and puzzling of mys- Trageay Presents Many Qaettlena. Tlf S"llta TJ ! I " ,, . Bleep from her room and, wandering iui "!, uie 01 acciuentai drown ing! ftp A A hla V... . . . . 7 , r 1 "omewnai inscrutable girl have a morose eecond nature which l.i h ...... - . . j, y - w ucnkivjr J1CT - Waa she the victim of a murderous attack bya Jealous suitor, of whom, it Is declared, there were at least two in tn CfLfnn nn s t Kom n - i . whose attentions, it is admitted. Miss uwww; uiu hoi. uiscourage I Did aom nnit,m,n a M . her frankness of manner With all sorts aim uunnmonj or people, and arouned by the lure of her great beauty, enter her room, alarm h an i . ... , ... ...... -.).. ltLJIIIK wi consequences of his act, murder her tiiu ..-.i 1 7 jiCr mwijt io me lake 7 Or d d this young woman,' known to be daring up to a certain point, meet her death in one of the deta:h.-d cabins which huddle about the camp's main cabin. Tho male guests In the camp each had a separate cabin. I Friends Ssrrey Yletln's Career -,&ut. f i,h m frt". Impenetrable When innitf fill iA i . " , Meanwhile, n tMiss Blakeney's circle In New York her friends discuss her career with a view to finding In it some key to the anlminfi f . T . mystery. She had wealth at, A " admitted she was fond of Larrick u xhmh oj ner.: witn CoykendaU toward -rr.wtawiI'arm'Vn'Vh: later wki nf k- it i . v Y v . - i. ii , 1 1 Lire vi- ously It had been. 8he had no known enemies. -. wV . j ma uum or (jiena Blakeney stands, so far as it has been revealed by Rupert Hughes. This r.ov dramatist, essayist, psychologist and soldier. hnu 1 i i number those of any other author in America, has kept concealed the great surprise which will explain the trag edy. Much remains to be assembled Sn5i,et Jwn concerning the life and l" vi me unror lunate young woman and all the members of the gay circle in which she moved. When that is done the mystery will be cleared away. Persons Informed regarding Mr. Hughes' methods of Invextlgatlon and aware of his genius for narration await with abated breath his Hprlnglng Of his surprise. His stories always abound with the unexpected snd his reveletlon of the mystery of the death of Clelia Blakeney will carry a thrill which wtll reach throughout the read ing public. The progress towards the solution of the mystery will be detailed by;Mr. Hughes in the next Installment of hi greatest story "Bestity," in the March Issue of -THE KKL BOOK MAGA ZINE, on sale today at all newsstands. Adv. C in