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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1921. V - DAUGHTER MEETS MOTHER; 31-YEAR E - The Dalles, April 22.- Thirty-one years aro a mother In Denver worked to support herself and her two ba - bles. - She had left her husband be cause with him she was unhappy. In ;Jealous rage he took in custody the oldest child, a daughter, and fled. Thursday the mother and , daughter - were reunited in The Dalles. The daughter brought children of her own to prattle on the knee of the woman who for so many years grieved 'for her ". lost baby. FATHER TOOK CHILDBE5 As Mrs. J. Mathwlg. Mrs. OhleEschla ' per lived in Denver, It was while 'she ' was working, with the children in the care of another woman, that the two ' youngsters, one an Infant son, -and the daughter, who Is now Mrs. Joe an Dong. wrre taken by the father. '.. The children were placed with a boys snd girls' aid society home In Denver.. 1 The boy was later returned to the mother because of his Infancy, .but the girl was placed for adoption with an , other family, whrre, the authorities of .the aid society, Mrs. OhlegscbJager de clared, refused to telL : Mjrs. Ohlegachlager was married again and came to The Dalles. SOX E2CLISTED IX AEMT ' Harry Mathwlg, the boy, enlisted in . the army when the trreat war began and, being stationed In Denver, began search . for his sister. Through the old records of the aid society, the family with whom . she had been placed was located- This family consisted fit Mr. and Mrs. Dench, now living in Astoria, 1 .- Young Mathwig continued his invest! gations, and last December located Mrs. Dong in Denver. , The reunion here Thursday followed. Mrs. Dong probably will go to Astoria to meet the Dench family again before re turning to her home In Denver. Gervais Physician Says Prohi Agents '' Fired on His Auto - Salem. April 22. Dr. H. O. Hickman, a physician of Gervais. upon appearing . in the Justice court here Thursday to answer to a threatened charge of speed ing, told Judge Unroth that while on - his way to call on a patient Wednesday i night he was stopped by shots fired by anti-saloon operatives headed by F. ' W. Snyder, special agent. He said his .' car was ransacked for liquor, that he - was chided for driving too fast and told to appear in the Salem court. J -Dr. Hickman's story was corroborated by Z. I. Riggs, Salem druggist, who,, blinded by the lights of the officials' ' car, crashed into the machine driven by the physician. J . " Dr. Hickman said the officers failed , to produce a search warrant. Snyder was silent regarding the case further than, contending that -he had ample ' authority to stop the physician's car, and does not need : search warrants to ransack automobiles. i U,No liquor was found by the officers Find Unused Still . Secreted in Brush, But Not the Owner Medford. April 22. In the brush along Bear creek, outside the city limits. Sheriff Terrill and deputies Tuesday night fcund an unused still and coils ly ing in a grain sack, where it had been concealed by Its owner. The owner was not located. , The same night Medfords night police were told a passenger on a late arriving train had two suitcases of boose.. The stranger Jumped into a taxi cab, which drove away before the police could act Later they arrested Bill Sham, the taxi "drivar, on a charge of Intoxication, and he was fined (25. Prof. Woody tp Leave V. of W. 1 ' University of "Washington. Seattle, i April 22. .Professor Clifford Woody of the college of education at the Unlver sity of Washington has accepted an . offer to become professor of education and director of educational research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Skh Tcrtrred Miss Sscp Mothers Rest After Cuticura SEPARATION NDS I ',, , 1 " 1 : l ! 73crtCe4vS I MALTED ;milk. j isiasiy and apj3eiizino; . as -well as .., very nour- Insist ujjon ; Borden V'ai your drugU fill 15 't Mil i Postal Workers To Be Furnished With Revolvers ' Postal employes transporting valu able mal; from stations to the main postofflce or from the main office t the raOroad station, will henceforth be armed with revolvers, according to an order from Will H. Hays, post master general, received by Postmas ter John Jones early Thursday. About 12 men on the Portland postal force are affected by. the order. The postal : department . has also offered a reward, not to exceed $5000, for every mail robber captured. ,; Eugene postal authorities have been notified that arms and ammunition for Eu gene employes are enroute. Driver (Nabbed; on Charge of Sending Dope Through Mail - i i . ; Sending poison through the mails is the charge against Herman Rosenbloom, South. Portland butcher wagon driver, who was arrested Thursday by Post office Inspector Welter on a warrant from the Idaho federal court. Rosenbloom j is alleged . to have sent three packages of morphine powders through the ; mails to Meridian, Idaho, to Mrs, May Sullivan, a former Portland woman, who went to Idaho to live .with relatives in order to break herself of the drug habit. According to Welter, Mrs. Sullivan could not resist the craving for drugs, so she wrote Rosenbloom, requesting he send her a supply. Relatives intercepted the package and notified the postal de partment. Bonds were fixed at $200. An order removing Rosenblom to Idaho for trial will be asked. The morphine which Rosenbloom sent by mail is classed as a poison. !..;.. Alexander Elected To Head 5th Oregon The members of Headquarters com pany. Fifth Oregon, . elected Captain James F. Alexander to command it, at a regular' meeting held Thursday night at the armory, t Captaiir Alexander was commissioned a second lieutenant in the old Third Oregon in 1916 and went to the border. He was commissioned a captain when overseas in Prance with Company C, 162d U. S. infantry. He was afterwards transferred as com mander of the First replacement com pany in France. The scheme of the re organized regiment contemplates the headquarters company being made up of specialists such as bicycle men, tel egraphers, intelligence' . group, snipers, wireless operators and others. It will have 65 men, ail of whom will be armed with pistols. ; Ten win also have rifles. Naval Ships Can't Visit Columbia Now Washington, April 22. WASHING TON BUREAU OF "THE JOURNALS secretary or .Navy Denby, replying to the suggestion from the Portland Cham ber of Commerce, has informed Senator McNary it is not practicable to detach vessels of Pacific fleet from training to visit ports of the Pacific. Training will continue until June 4, after which part of the fleet will reqquire docking. If opportunity offers later on to send ves sels up on visits of recreation and court esy. Secretary Denby says the Columbia river wilt7 be remembered. ! Vv F O R WOMEN and MEN and Nv BOYS and GIRLS and the HOME 'JANE DOE' GIVES PROMSE RELEASED : "Jan Doe, "the mysterious woman shoplift r, was virtually freed Thurs day by District Judge Richard Deich when he announced from the bench that "sentence would be con tinued in -this case." With a heavy blue veil over her face and furs about her neck, all of which helped to conceal her Identity, "Jane Doe" appeared in court for trial at 2 o'clock. After giving the woman a few words of advice and securing a promise that she never again would enter the department store in which she was caught shoplifting, the court released her. i . "After "Jane Doe" was caught last Saturday it required two men and a woman house detective to get her into the elevator and to the office. She told ; Judge Deic.b Thursday Bhe had read the newspaper accounts ' of her arrest, and said she could not recall attempting to cut her wrist with a pen knife or any other instrument. "I was very excited," she said, 'and prob ably did things which 1 cannot remem ber.' When arrested "Jane Doe" had a gold barette,' military s- hairbrush shaving brush and two packages of drugs which she had stolen. Since the time of her arrest she re fused to reveal her identity. Wednes day she confided in Judge Deich, telling New $25 to $50 In all the clothing world, we know of no house which has gone to such lengths to meet the public viewpoint as the Kirschbaum shops. Their whole Spring output of fine clothes is priced without profit enabling us to offer values at $25 to $50, which we believe are without equal. To prove it only compare! Phegley & Cavender Cor. Fourth and Alder Sts. him she 'had once been the wife of a wealthy Denver man. but that she had been forced to support her second hus band with the fortune left by her first until she row has nothing. : Worry over her financial condition was given as the reason for resorting to shoplifting. Scappoose to Have Additions to Bell Telephone Service Scappoose, Or., April 22. A dozen men are installing two additional circuits of the Bell telephone system in Scappoose, and a local station will be opened in the Watts & Price store, to connat with the local telephone lines. This will give im proved service between Dinnton and St. Helens. ,- The city council has employed R. R. Clark of Lewis & Clark; Portland, to make survey of the city, establish grade's and set back lines preparatory to building sidewalks and Improving streets in general. The S. P. & S. rail road is making extensive improvements to crossings. Slab Wood Prices Drop La Grande, April 22. A decided drop in prices of slab wood over those of last year was revealed when bids were opened for the fuel supply for the La Grande schools. The low bid this year was $6.90 per cord delivered to the school buildings, while last year the low price was $9 per cord delivered. The contract for 535 cords was let at $6.90 to J. D. Fitzgerald, a saving of $1123.50 over last year's prices on that amount There has been no retail price, cut ins wood here. Clothing Prices ' X. Reduced Rates on I Unr efined Copper Sustained by Board Washington, April 23.- (WASHING TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.) The Interstate commerce commission to day. In a decision written by Commis sioner Aitchison, sustained the proposed reductions in rates on unrefined copper from Utah andf Nevada to San Fran cisco bay via the Western Pacific, which will provide a usable outlet in connection with water lines to Eastern refineries. Suspension of these reductions several weeks ago created apprehension among Northwestern interests that if the sus pension were confirmed the railroads might increase the rates from Montana smelters to Puget Sound and the Co lumbia river and force the product of the Northern mines to move by an all railroad route to the East. The new rates to California ports are comparable to those in the Northwest and are held to be remunerative, al though an involuntary reduction from approximately $34 per ton to $6.50, while the, all-rail rate to New York is $22. No Action Against Land is Washington, April 21. (U. P.) No ac tion toward the impeachment of Judge K. M. Landis, Chicago, because he is holding the two offices of federal judge and national baseball arbitrator, will be taken' by the house judiciary sub committee unless new charges are pre ferred in the house. Representative Dyer, chairman, said today. Cepyricht, lr21. Xlrachbaum, Company SxZ- G. T. Cochran Hears White River Water Rights Contests The Dalles. April 22. George T, Cochran, representative of the state water board is conducting the hearing of claims in regard to water rights on White river in southern Wasco county, involving about 140 .contests. The cir cuit court room was filled Wednesday and Thursday with farmers who will be affected by the water board's final decision in the matter. . . The important claimants for the White river water are the Pacific Power & Light Co., which has one of its principal power plants on the stream, an the Wapinitia Plains Irri gation company to 400 second .feet of water. - Cochran will continue the hearings FuMVal Men's and Young Men's New Spring Suits and Overcoat $25 330$3S e?40 USE JSf! Broadway her until an the major water rights in Wasco, county have been adjudicated insofar as the administrative powers of the state ; water board extend. - J Incite Her. William Vance Freewater." April 22.The Freewater Federated church at Its annual meeting sent a unanimous invitation to the Rev. William - Vance, professor f history in the college of Idaho, at Caldwell, to be come pastor. The pulpit, has been Va cant since the death of Rev, George C. Weiss. U -!. Raid Victims Forfeit Ball , Salem, April 22. Jim Lee; and Hee Him, taken ' In last , Saturday night's raids conducted2 here; by officials of the Oregon Anti-Saloon league, failed to ap pear In court Thursday, They were charged with having liquor and opium, smoking paraphernalia in their posses sion. Bail amounting to $51 posted by ' the accused men-was ordered forfeited. is my selling principle which is made possible only because of the fact that I save $10,000.00 a year on low UPSTAIRS RENT. 1 sell for CASH and thereby ' eliminate CREDIT losses. I have no need of expensive " fancy fixtures to attract the - customers the quality of my V SUITS takes care of that. I run no clearance sales, be cause my suits are' at the so called "Clearance Sale" prices a)l the time. ' . MY STAIRWAY SAVE DOLLARS at Alder Cat-ty Corner From Pan tages .-. ' .- -.1 '. . - . . - .-. - . ... . 1 , - ' '. ii . it. - fd CIGARETTE S Ford 'Gag BUT Wins In Michigan House Lansing. Mich., April 22. (I. N. S.) After a bitter debate the .Welch bill to rnussle Henry Ford's Dearborn Inde pendent, was passed by the house Thurs day by a vote of 75 to 15. Tbe bill cre ates the new crime of "general libel" and carries a penalty of $1000 fine or a year's imprisonment. Medford Kmploys Rea Frineville, April 22. R. W. Rea of this city has been appointed chief en gineer of the Medford Irrigation district and will leave for Medford about May 1. Rea was chief engineer on the Ochoco project here durinK Its construction. The Ochoco dam recently filled to its capacity and overflowed Into the spill way s Mlairs . "No Charge for Alterations" ' - P i.OhlHimil.TmVi.S.l I mh Lisgitt tt Mnti Tobacco Co.