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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND; OREGON ERIDAY. APRIL 22, 1021. kEDJUSTIu IT OF RAILROAD RATES EXPECTED SOON Early readjustment of freight . rates over transcontinental tail line Is anticipated by H.' E-i liounsbury, general freight agent of ifre O-W. R. & N., who ;returned this, morning from two Eastern rate conferences. - Reduced rate should become efT fectivft in from 30 to 60 day on through traffic. - At the meetings, which'- were held In New . York, the. traffic executive of transcontinental lines proposed to the executive of Eastern lines that they concur in rate for import andexport freight movements so that Pacific ports would be placed upon a. fair competitive basis with Atlantic and Gulf ports. It was also proposed that the Eastern line concur in . special rates to meet water competition. Interooastal vessels operating through the Panama canal are tutting heavily' into the . business of transcontinental lines. "Both ther Eastern and transcontinent al lines realize Jha necessity for changes In .ratea on numerous commodities now moving heavily toy water," said Louns- bury Kastern lines are also beginning to res Use the plight of Pacific ports jn obtaining freight from Eastern terrl tory." ' . - - : : Lounsbury explained that Several of ' the Kastern lines which do not serve porta on the Atlantic and Gulf, have co operated with transcontinental 'lines in making special rates on through move ments. This, he says, is ' forcing - the Kastern lines to at least jrlve considera tion to concurrence in the rates pro posed by the transcontinental lines. The Kastern line traffic officials are Kiving consideration to the concurrence and it Is the belief that they will permit a readjustment of the rates. MUST GO THE LIMIT, i. -: SAYS VON SIMONS ' !- continued Prom rise One) : mit indemnity proposals which Itanos and Oreat - Britain can consider. The Fehrenbach cabinet was disposed to take another chance with i the allies. : 1 While Secretary Hughes stated that the United States cannot act as reparations- umpire, the note . was Interpreted as friendly. It was believed also to hold a promise of posbibla future mediation if the allies would agree to it. llOHT 03T VOX SIMOJfS Foreign Minister Von Simons was the center of a fight' which began last night when party leaders met to discuss the repaartlons ' problem. Von fiimons ' was attacked by rhilip ; Scheldemann and ' Helf ferich for the correspondence with , America; ' - - - ! Scheidemann and the others held that the appeal .was hopeless and could only bring further troubles on the country. It was admitted today that the for eign office had tried to Induce the Vat ican to act as intermediary in corre spondence with America. - The pope declined to act, basing the' refusal on the fact that he has not diplo matio relations with the United States. COSqjLlATOllT MOVE SEKX ': A conciliatory move by Germany was seen todays in a note to tho allied re parations - council td begin immediately the reconstruction of devastated France. The- note, pot yet delivered, made the tolfer. as "an advance of good will." Germany's proposal to a country with which she 'is si ill at war was prompted ty three considerations. They were : "A United States senator," through an intermediary, assured the foreign office that a German appeal would hava a .-chance. t. Laoring Dresel. - American representative-here, told Foreign Minister Simons last week that an appeal could not be considered as "wholly hopeless." beqct.sts kot BECEIVED The United States government noti fied Dresel that none of several reported mediation requests had reached Wash ington. The Germans assumed there upon, that America was awaiting some such note, cpen-mindedly. . , - On the highest! authority, it can, be stated German officials are certain no government will be created here to agree to the present demands of the allies. " ! ' . Tk iantitv nt the "United States senator" who suggested America would be open to an appeal to mediate was not made known. Speculation' among Ger man officials brought In . the name of Senator Mccormick who risited Europe last winter, i : j . FRANCE HAD HOPED FOR FLAT REFUSAL BV V. S. By Ifewton C. Farks i Paris, April 22. (I. N S. The for eign office let it be known this after noon that the French governments Is pleased with President Harding's reply to Germany s meaiauon appeal, uioogn U,was added that, France had hoped for a Categorical refusal instead of a quali fied rejection which invites a new Ger man offer and leaves the door open to American mediation. ' r ! "The German note Is generally re garded as a last attempt by Berlin to "stall" and delay negotiations; thus averting France's . coercive f measures planned for May .1. France, however, according to all' in dications, Is absolutely determined to put those measures into action. Pre mier Briand will submit them tomorrow at the conference with Lloyd George at Hythe, England, i The International News Service la able to give the following details of tha military and economic plans which await only the British premier's approval: They Include the occupation of an area north of Dusseldorf (big industrial city on the Rhine) along the left bank of the river Llppe. -it la still unde cided whether, the town of Ramm is to be occupied. i Turning at an sngle at Hamm, the line of prospective oipatlon- runs back to the Bhine, passing through Unna and following the left bank of the river Wupper. It includes the Important town of Klberfeld, -center of the German tex tile industrials. Occupation of the Im portant railway stations of Dorston, Lunen, Unna and Ilagen is provided for In Marshal Koch' scheme. I2.S0 TAX OK COAL As for the economic plan. It ha been decided to levy a tax of only 10 gold marks (normally $2.60) on each ton of coal, feu it Is feared by the economic expert that a severer tax would cause tne German engineers and technicians to quit work, in which case the French would be able to' supply engineer for only one tenth of the MS mines In the district to be occupied. M0Z0R0SKY SAYS HE PREFERS JAIL TO PAYING DEBT REPLY IS GEIXMAX SNUB, DECLARE LONDON PAPERS London. April 22.-(t. N. S.) Lead ing London newspapers, while refrain ing from editorial comment on Presi dent Harding's refusal to fix1 a repa rations total for Germany, Indicate through their headlines that they inter pret the American president's reply as a snub to Germany. The general "head line view" appears to be that the reply Is "a curt advice to the Germans to pay." . i The Daily Kx press compares the Ger man appeal to President Harding to the ex-kalser's famous handwritten plea to .President .Wilson In 1918. The paper describes the Berlin note as an Ingenious move, but adds: "it is certain that the allies will not be content with a mere postponement." i f - Other morning, papers refrain from editorial comment on the German note. Linn Void Warrants Total '$204,713.96 Albany, April 22. Showing total void warrants in the sum of 1304,713.88, the report of the audit of Linn county books, conducted by F M. Redfield, county auditor, has-been made public. No plan has been announced by the court, but it is expected that a measure will be placed on the ballot at the June election em powering the court to meet the deficit by tax' or bonds. ; "1 11 rot in jail before I'll pay this fellow Swires a cent." Joe Moxoros ky, gambling jeweler, stated em phatically this morning'. - "I haven't anything to pay him with if I wanted to." h said. Then arter a moment of hesitation added as an after thought, "except a dime I won from the boys in there in a blackjack game." Mozorosky waved his hand towards the county jail cell from which he had just been called by the jailer. BECEIYES WlBSlSO "Swire didn't tell the truth," he In sisted. "He didn't lose 1800 or anything near it in my place. 1 don't see how the jury could take his word alone against the word of all my acquaint ances.' The prisoner's whisker have been al lowed to sprout uninterruptedly since he waa jailed. for not paying the $1600 the jury in Judge Stapleton'a court or dered him to pay Sol Swires, and he scratched . them reflectively as he re marked : . . "You Jcnow a good friend of mine came to me the other day, since the trial, and warned me to look out, that his wife was planning to sue me for $5000 in an attempt to get $10,000, a the law provides that a gambling loss re covered at law shall be automatically doubled. CITES LAWYER CREDIT "Does my friend want to sue me? I should say not. He didn't lose $5000 at all. He was scared about it himself. His wife just saw a chance to make a lot of money. "They say that at the end of 10 day I can take the pauper's oath and prob ably I will. I sura haven't got any money. The jewelry store belonged to the estate my father cut me off with $1 and I hadn't paid : anything on it since taking It over. "Dan Powers haa gone to Salem to ap peal Stapleton'a decision on my writ of habeas corpus." i "By the way," Moxorosky added aa he turned to return to hi cell, . "Swire didn't win that case. Judge McGinn won it. Some talker!" MRS OKES ST! STAND-DENIES ALL (Oonrtauod from Pscs On f on-instance, that she never knew either before or after her marriage Mrs. De Anquine. who ha testified Mrs. Stokes was with Edgar. Wallace at a Long Beach hotel. The name of George Schroter. Denver. Colo., mining engineer, mentioned : as one of the corespondent In Stokes suit, was then brought In. , "George Schroter Is one of the men ydu are charged with misconduct with." said the interrogating attorney. . "Where did you meet him?" MET BEFORE MARRIAGE At the Aneonia prior to my mar riage." "Did you ever take an automobile trip with him alone?" "Absolutely, net," retortea me .wit ness, slightly raising her voice. "Where did you meet him after your marriage?" "He motored down somewhere to see us. I think it waa to Long Branch." Martin W. Littleton, chief or her coun sel, then confronted Mrs. Stokes with the testimony of Moseby and Beard, a former butler and chauffeur, respective ly, in the Stokes household, both of whom have sworn that Mrs. tokes went to meet Schroter when the latter came to North Branch In the middle of July, price tag! V7lIAT'S there genuine or shoddy value? r Is it' the-carefully thought-out price of the reputable merchant who figures clean-cut values for you? Or is it just bait for easy selling; of worthless apparel? ' j Thej only sensible course is; go to. the. clothier whose reputation rests on years of straight dealing, who safeguards your interests and his by carry- "& V"V t J ui diauuaiu menu 'I Our patrons have shown confidence in our pricing of clothing because they know it's worth it 1 Our big fashion display of men's and young men's spring clothing, fea tures these two prices mk lifl :.X: tmiP&jw Our Nationally Famous Kuppenheimer Suits and Lion Service Suits ; 's.. ' V Exclusive Kuppenheimer House in Portland Morrison at Fourth, , i : S. & H. Stamps Given 1911, and that she had "put her am around Schroter' neck and kissed blm. Is that true?"'asked Littleton. "It Is absolutely false," calmly re sponded 'Mrs. Stokes. "Was he ever alone there V "Never. He came with Mr. Stokes on Mr. Stokes' invitation." "It waa testified," continued Littleton, "that you led Schroter into a house and to a room with sliding doors which you drew together and that you were with him there for quite a time. Is that true?" . "No.- . - - : -i. ; "Did anything like that ever happen?" "Never." - f -i - Later on. Mrs. Stokes said she ouldn't recall ever having telephoned Schroter, that she never addressed him informally and that he didn't call on her while 6 he was ill at the Ansonia. BUTLER AXCERS HEB ' The witness, who displayed a calm de meanor during most of the Questioning-, showed considerable anger in denying a buUer's testimony that she had dis cussed the probable inheritance from her husband. "That is a malicious falsehood, a trumped up story," she exclaimed. . At the time, , when, according to the testimony of one witness for Stokes, she had been driven to Long Branch with Schroter and a Mrs. Kearney, Mrs. Stokes was in Colorado, she declared. This was In 1817. She said she first met Edgar T. Wal lace in San Francisco in 1904, at the Ume of the big fire there. . In the preliminary questioning by her attorney, Martin W. Littleton, Mrs, stokes denied there ever were any Im proper relaUons between herself and Wallace, the corespondent upon whom Uie plaintiff based his hopes of proving sufficient grounds for divorce. Stokes had presented several witnesses who declared they aaw Mrs. Stoke in Wallace's New York apartment. IDENTIFIES SEASIDE PICTURE Littleton, showing a seaside picture of Wallace and Mrs. Stokes, asked the witness if she could identify It. "Yes," said Mrs. Stokes. "It was taken by my mother on the beacb when we were in San Francisco in 1906. My mother, sisters, brother and myself had gone to California from Denver and we were stopping at the Palace hotel, where I was introduced to Mr. Wallace by a Mrs. Key Ptttman. He afterward joined us on the beach." "Were you ever out alone with Mr. Wallace?" ; "No, never." "When did you next see him?" "In Denver. He called at my mother's home and others were present wheu I saw him there' ADMITS PRESENT OF BliiG Mr. Stoke then said Wallace had given her a beautiful ring, but that she had never considered it an engagement rins;. "I gave it back to him and never fiw him again until three weeks ago when I came from Denver," she said. Four of Stokes . witnesses, the chief being Genevieve De Anqulnaa, have testified theyvsaw Mrs. Stokes in Wal lace's apartment. Mrs. Stokes declared she had never met the De Anquinaa woman, in Wallace's apartment or else where. TELLS LIFE STORY j Mrs. Stokes ynfolded her complete life history. She told of her girlhood In Denver, of going to a , girls' semi nary in Washington, D, C. for a year, of a subsequent trip to Europe for seven months, and finally of her sub sequent debut in Denver society. 150 DOCKMEN WALK OUT ON ASTORIA JOBS (Contained From Pas. One) ens this afternoon from Portland and will complete the loading of the lumber cargo in time for the steamer to sail Saturday on arrival of the passengers from- Portland. STIUKK HALTS LOADING OF . SCHOONER AT ST. HELENS St Helens, Or., April 22. The steam Schooner Ceiilo, loading at the MeCor mlck mill here and scheduled to leave this evening. Is tied up by the strike of longshoremen. A dozen or more men have been employed in handling the car go, and none went to work this morning. All is orderly here. The men em ployed are St. Helens residents. All are members of the union with headquarters at Rainier, where 42 members live. The local tsecUon of the union comprises 17 men. Rainier longshoremen, when employed here, have been 'paid $1.75 a day for board and lodging. St. Helens men have been denied this added pay. The majority at Rainier, however, was too great for the local men to overcome when the strike vote was called. When the schooner Wapama was loaded here recently It is said the cost of loading was S500, of which approxi mately was for the extra pay. NON-UNION MEN LOADING LUMBER SHIP AT WAUNA Wauna, Or., April 22. Wauna has not been affected by the strike of waterfront employes except that the Crossett West ern Lumber company is loading :the steam schooner Pacific at its dock with its own help. The Pacific arrived this morning. The steam schooners Helene and Tam alpais, which were being loaded at the mill by Imported longshoremen from the mouth of the river, were completed Thursday night and sailed, the men re turning to their homes. Several vessels are expected at the mill next week and all will be loaded by mill employes should the strike continue. Closing Exercises At K. of 0. School -The closing exercises of the winter term of the Knights of Cohimbus- eve ning school will be held in the school auditorium," 290 Grand avenue north, at 8 tonight, when certificates will be given students who have completed courses. F. J. Lonergan will address the students and their friends on the educational pro gram of the Knights. Karl Kilpatrick of Eugene, director of the extension di vision of the University of Oregon, will make an address on "Adult education." A musical program will be given under the direction of Frederick W. Goodrich. i SHEET MUSIC SALE Specials in popular and classic music all day Sat urday. Come, witli the "jrowdi - to our " musical floor, the seventh. Clackamas County To Spend Big Sum On Market Roads Oregon City, April 22. Market roads of Clackamas county will receive about $100,000 worth of Improvement this year, according to estimate announced by the county court Thursday. The court has designated the road from Jack's bridge, eouth of Marquam on the old Oregon City-Sllverton road, to a Junction with a proposed highway from Oregon City to Molalla, as a market road. Land own ers along the stretch have agreed to do nate enough land for the market road, according to the court.' The market road from Sstacada to Firwood will receive . an. apportionment of $15,671 for the work of surveying and establishing the highway, with the con dition that those interested in the con struction of the road settle the damages Incurred by the road's establishment. During the year roada will receive ap portionments as follows ! Market road No. 1 Appropriated $5685.76 ; balance left over from 1920, $29,314.24. Total, $35,000. Market road No. 2 Appropriated $21,000; balance left over from 1920 to apply on Mt. ,Hood loop, $13,273.71. Total. $34,273.71. , Market road No. 3 Appropriated $6000; balance left over from 1920, $5943. Total $11,943. Market road No. 4 Appropriated $10,000: balance left over from 1920, $2412.64. Total, $12,412.M. Market road No. a Appropriated $15,571.86. . ; J N. Teal Reviews Shipping Board at City Club Luncheon - Joseph N. Teal, speaking; at the Port land City club luncheon in the Benson hotel this noon, made a plea for the younger generation to take an interest In the merchant marine and outlined the work of the shipping board from its or ganisation to 1920, when it operated 1684 hip, .with a tonnage of approxi mately 11,000,000. He made a' plea for the adoption of a national policy that would continue the efforts of the board in building up an American merchant marine to "carry the flag on the seven seas and into the ports of the world." "The shipping board served ' during the war." he stated, "and we must not allow our shipping to become extinct. We should operate the Leviathan, now tied up in Hoboken, if for no other rea son than to show our determination to keep our' place on the sea. "The work has been started and It i for the younger generation to carry it on as nobly as they carried our stand ards on the field of battle." Girl Long Missing, Reported as Being Seen in Portland Where is Gladys Kvelyn Scott, 16, whose father, 2713 Rockefeller avenue, Everett, Wash., has searched the United States over for her during the last three years? When Gladys was 13 she disappeared with a woman giving her name as Lula May Scott, though sometimes known aa Lula May Evans. Twice this year the father has received letters from his daughter, asking for money to return home on, and each time he has hastened to send it. He believes whoever has power over the girl opened the letters and got the money. One letter was postmarked Tacoma, though the girl is reported to have- been seen in Portland. D. A. R. Demands : Release of Yankee ' Held by Bolsheviki Washington, April 22. (I. N. &) Efforts for the release of Captain Em mett Kilpatrick of the Bed Cross, who; is held prisoner after capture by the Bolshevists, were demanded today by the congress of the Daughter of the American Revolution. .Reforms at Kills Island were also de manded by tha D. A. R. in a resolution adopted today. ,j president -Harding's Pan-American policy is indorsed and tha president congratulated on the ratification of the Colombian treaty in another resolution. Protests against the "shameless race control propaganda" is urged In a reso lution. Introduced by Cathryn Smith Johnson of Pasadena, Ca!., who pre sented a resolution urging the Daughters to Increase the birth rate of the country. ' Delegates are balloting today to se lect eight vie presidents-general, and a , registrar-general. Among those up for the offices of vice president-general are Mrs. John , Trigg Moss, St. Louis; Mrs. Singleton M. Ashenfelter, Silver City, N. M., and Mrs. Catherine Camp bell of Kansas. Bath House Tender RunDown and Badly Injured by Motorist H. Peasley, 33, an employe m the bath house at Bhlpherds Springs, was run down and badly injured at 4 o'clock Thursday, morning at Thirteenth and Washington streets by an automobile. The driver escaped after the accident. Although there were several witnesses to the accident, no one has reported the number of the automobile to the traffic department, who so far have been handicapped In locating the driver. Peasley was taken to the Netherlsnds hotel, where It i reported he is suffer ing from injuries to his back and spine. Elsie Kramer Dares Cops 12 Times and j TherThey Accept Mrs. Elsie Cramer is in Jail again. For some . reason the police did not bring Mrs. Cramers 6-year-old daugh ter to the station this time, as they had done on other occasions. Mrs. Cramer is fond of strong drink. A peculiar thing about the particular kind of kick she gets out of moomhine is the spirit of bravado and contempt it engenders in her a contempt directed specifically at the police. Thursday night she called the police 12 times and dared them to arrest her. The police got tired of answering her challenge and finally brought her in. j . : . ... Eastern Tourists to Pay Portland Visit A special train of tourists from East ern cities, traveling under direction of the Brooklyn Kagle. will spend the day July 26 in Portland, according to in formation received by the Chamber of Commerce this morning. The party is returning from the Hawaiian islands mhere they witnessed the opening of the new national park near Honolulu, They will return to New Tork via the North ern route. There will be about 125 members. AUTOMOBILE TOPS Read This and Drive Right In Roadsters $15.00, $18.00, $21.00 Five-Passenger Cars $20.00, $23.00, $26.00 Seven-Passenger Cars . . . . $30.00, $35.00, $38.00 AUTO TRIMMING CO. 409 Davis Street ' I Between Ninth and Tenth If she doesn't care for cream centers For particular folks who don't Wee creams, there's the special Vogan Superla package. Just chocolate covered caramels, nougats, toffee and other delicious "crunchy" and "chewy" kinds. Look for the brown Superla package. -JAt better dealers everywhere. Vogan Candy Company rnrtisnn nasms Biifiisms ' 1st Los Angeles Adds Its Indorsement to Portland Fair Plan The. JjOs Angeles : Chamber of Com merce is the most recent of Western business organisations to applaud Port land's plan -for the Atlantic-Pacific Highways Klectrlcal exposition in 1923. A resolution . received by the ex. position committee from Sylvester I Weaver, president, and Frank Wiggins, secretary, of the toe Angrelea. chamber commends Portland for staging: a great exposition wherein - the peoples- of the world are invited to participate and ob serve the triumph of commerce, pros perity and progress of the past cen tury." t . - A; letter head produced by the ex position committee contains In colors a view-of the anticipated world's fair with vita environment of city, waterways, Mount Hood and other" peaks. . Brown in Charge Of River Patrol At Oregon City Oregon City. April 22. K. l. Brown and four wardens arrived I at Ore gon City Wednesdsy from the upper Clackamas to patrol the Willamette against commercial fishermen. The river at Oregon City haa been formerly under the supervision of the fish commission, but with the cooperation of Brown and his men it is expected the poachers who have been making- raids on salmon wllii nets will be broken up. . The warden believes that stories of large hauls of fish being taken from the river arc exaggerated, and that the reason sportsmen have not been mak ing catches Is because there has .been no run of salmon to date. However, he . believes the freshets from recent rains will attract the fish end there will be good snort soon. .04 Oh, Boy! Suits $10 mr7 i f:, WW ' FRIDAY AND SATURDAY -A better special than last week's Juat 70 in this lot. 1 The sizes are limttod, mostly 10s to ISs. . The qualities are beautiful. We bought them to sell for 118.60 to 922.60. borne line serges included. Hurry I - - JAZZ CAP FREE WITH EACH ONE 143 Sixth St. Near Alder Back Again Tomorrow ; After a year's absence from the screen the most popular girl is here again tomorrow. iMMGSMllJlI COMING TOMORROW REID WALLY -THE LOVE SPECIAL LAST TIMES TODAY CHARLES RAY IN- -THE OLD SWIMMIN' HOLE KEATES, the Wonder Organist, ALWAYS S JZXK- VON HEEBERG HT AS MOONLIGHT ; i ft