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6 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. OKBOOW TUESDAY. JULY t$X lttl. 7i I 44 BODIES FR1 FRANCE ARE DUE THURSDAY Forty-four bodies of soldiers who lost their lives in France are due to arrive hi Portland Thursday to be shipped to destination. Of the group two are from Cortland : Private William W. Griffith Of Company G, 361st Infantry, whose next of kin is is Mrs. Emma B. Sliger, 1$1A JBskijrou street, and Private Frank B. -Prohaska, &th company. Marines, whose next of (Wir is Mrs. Amelia E. Riley, 1322 Kelly street. f fathers that arrived are : Private Gnarles S. Chism, Company H. 109th Infantry, Chehalis ; Private George B, Morris. Company B, 381st Infantry, .OBSflle, Wash. ; Private Grover C KckJey. Company Csmoany G. 361st In fantry, Enterprise, Or. ; Private Thomas I. Flores. Company 1. 307th Infantry Winchester, Idaho; Private 'Archie M. Malsey, Company F, 9th Infantry. Asotin Wash.; Private Allen F. Mai pass, Com pany K, ISth Infantry, She 1 ton. Wash. Private Alfred Mordhorst, Company L, 110th Infantry, Payette, Idaho; Corporal Frank J. Hamelium. Company F, 361st Infantry, Pullman, Wash. ; Corporal El titer R. Anderson, Company I, 361st Infantry, Tacoma, Wash. ; Cook Martin V. Charlaton. Company K. 361st Infan try. Brush" Prarie. Wash. ; Private Con rad Neff. Battery t, 14th Field 'Artil lery, Walla Walla. Wash. ; Private Ros imi E. Lolley. Company H. 308th Infan try, Weiser. Idaho ; Private Issac Hert tua. Company F, 18th Infantry, Castle Rock, Wash. ; Private Harry Ponder, Company G, 361st Infantry, La Center ; rivate Carl W. Bowers, Medical Detach- ent, 65th Field Artillery, Elaine, Wash. ; Private John A. Hughey, Company B, 313d Infantry, Burlington ; Private John E, Ansel, Company I, 321st Infantry ; Everett; Private Bert Stevens, Head Quarters Company, 3lst Infantry, Nor man, Wash. ; Private Carlton y. Knott. Company B, 808th Infantry, Cleark Lake, Wash. ; Private Topi C. Bair. Company 8. 305th Infantry Bay City; Private John Nelson. Company M, 361st Infantry, Astoria; Private Pat Beeman, Company r, 109th Infantry, Chelan ; Private Wil liam J. Johnson, Company A, 308th In fantry, Coeur d'Alene; Private Ray B. Taylor. Company K, 382d Infantry. Ju lietta, Idaho; Private John F. Dellinger, Battery C, 146th Field Artillery, Sand Point, Idaho; Private James B. Allen, Battery B, 10th Field Artillery, Spokane ; private George E Dean, Machine Gun Company 362d Infantry, Spokane; Pri vate William H. Martin, Headquarters Company, 1st Army, Spokane; Private Lewis G. Mas-kery, Company B, 34th- Machine Gun Battalllan, Spokane ; Pri vate Roy L. Myerhoff, Company D, 110th Infantry, Spokane ; Private Earl R. Scott, Company D, 32d Infantry. Cres ton ; Private Calvin L. Page, Company H, 161st Infantry, Wapato, Wash. : Pri vate Archie E Davis, Headquarters Com pany, 9th Infantry. Albany ; Private Jonas L. Deetz, Company A, 23d In fantry, Aurora; Private Omer O. Akin, attery C, 14th Field Artillery, Beaver pan; Private James M. Fountain, 55th Company, Marines, Ashland; Private frank H. Redfield, Company H, 305th Jnfantry,. Anchor; Private Josenh T. Holmes, Battery E, 65th Field Artillery, Medford ; Private Stephen A. Manning. 46th Company, Marines. Mount Anzel : FHvate Wayne C. Jackson. Company H, h Infantry, Newburg; Corporal Her man Laughlin. Company M, 23d Infantry, lamnui. ana Frivate Arthur T. Mallett, company tt, 313th Infantry, Mulino PHONE SPIES ARE AT (Con tinned Prom Pact One) service in which they were used and the number in each exchange group. The umuuse of this was for use in checking the revenue that would be de rived by the company from a unit rental charge, as Tomlinson contends snouia be made by the American company against the Pacific in place of the four and a half per cent of gross revenue of the company charged for the use of these instruments. These preliminaries out of the way. Major Babcock went back on the wit ness stand for further cross examination by Shaw, who at once plunged into an intricate discussion of "harmonic ring ing devices." "tone ringing." "selective ringing." the development . of "twenty party line service" by the company In California, which Babcock designated ae "kitchen service" where the service was all outgoing from the instrument. Shaw finished his cross examination of Major Babcock at 11 -JO o'clock. After a few questions asked of him by J. P. Newell, in regard to testimony he had given in chief and a few asked by the three members of the commission, the major was relieved from his long siege in front of Mr. Shaw's inquisitorial guns. E. C. Willard. also a telephone engi neer of long experience, will follow Babcock upon the .witness stand 4a sup port of the Portland case. EXPERT CBOSS EXAMINED Attorney Shaw yesterday spent a long afternoon battering at the testimony of Major Babcock, given as an expert tele phone engineer in behalf of the city. Here and there the corporation's cham pion dented the armor of the city's ex pert, but when the end came at 5 o'clock the major was stilt fronting the enemy. To the observer who abut his mind to the Issues presented in the case en hearing before the commission it waa an interesting experience, more than anything else, to note the change that comes ovpr the attorney for the tele phone company when he goes into ac tion. Out of court, or in court when not engaged with a witness for toe ad verse side, he is a kindly and a courte ous gentleman, grave and dignified per haps, but with a winning smile, always ready to shed its sunshine about him at the' slightest provocation. SHAW IS CHANGED MAX HEARING CHARG MAD E Informed of anything they might have -i naa not oeen paying any at tentton to where they were sitting." Chairman Williams -suggested that tnose connected with the company sit on wfi Biue oi tne witness tame. We are working under a strain," he suggested. "I will be srlaii tn hive th.m An it Mr. Tomlinson will be any happier about ft," Shaw said. Then turning to Tomlinson after the swo witnesses naa moved over, he asked sarcastically, "Are you at ease now. Mr Tomlinsen?" To which the latter re plied, with due courtesy, "Perfectly, Mr ww ; u avoias tne appearance of evil ASKS FOB EQUIPMENT ' Tomlinson also asked that the com pany be required to furnish to him the total number of wl nf fnnamltt.M re ceivers and induction coils in use by the Pacific company in Oregon, the class of the development of a four-party line service would result in bettor service at less coat to the company, and conss quently to the subscribers to the company. Shaw, when he began his cross exsm- i nation, started at once to tear this fabric of theory apart wherever pos sible. He went into the profession el record of Major Babcock, year by year. developing that the major waa not a college graduate, and ail the other per sonal incidents of his personal career. Shaw attempted to draw from him an admission that he was personally and financially interested In .the "telechro nometer," a device for measuring the time period use of local telephones, and from the sale of which he would profit through the use of the semi-automatic service, imputations which Babcock de nied. Shaw picked at Babcock' a theory of heavier tolls for the heavy users and the toll Lines, leaving no chance nor opportunity untouched in his effort to break down, weaken or discredit the effect of the Babcock testimony on di rect examination. REFUSES RETAINER In the course of his cross-examination Major Babcock told of his former con nection as general manager of the North Electric Manufacturing company, a con cern formed in the East for the purpose of manufacturing auto-manual exchange equipment and the development of the telechronometer patents. This concern had been thrown into the hands of a re ceiver, Babcock said at the suit of the Western Electric company, the equipment-manufacturing child of the Ameri can Telephone ds Telegraph company, which had contended that the patents of the North Electric were invalid. Finally, however, the Western Electric had paid the North Electric company 8375,000 for the patents which it had insisted were worthless. Out of the wreckage Babcock said be had secured the telechronometer patent He explained that he had three times refused to accept a retainer from the city of Portland, had explained to the city attorney his full connection with hie Seattle company and had only con- aentea to come to the assistance of Port iana UN'S CLAIM IS CALLED FALSE at the direct recuest of Mavor O Vs itni-i - at'A U . l r , t a i Monday that personality vanished with I welTo, anTnrtha, 'he resented the imputation of dishonesty That the "Mrs. M. Murray.' serts her kinship to Luther Pagan, re cently killed by a Hood River posse after he had wounded J. T. Miller and abducted Miller's wife and daughter, is an Impost or, seeking the property of the dead man, to the statement made today by Mrs. WlUena K. Murray of Portland The Portland woman declares the Hood River woman Dears no relation to Fagan, whose real name, she de clares, was Johnnie Carey, and whose mother was the local woman's sister. "I just wish to say that if there is any insurance that Johnnie's little boy should have It. so that he win not have to go through the life of misery bis father did. Johnnie has a wife and a little son somewhere," the Portland aunt said. "I had always loved Johnnie more than anyone else on earth. There is a cherished memory which leaves noth ing now but heartaches. I had always hoped to see him again. I had made a nation-wide search for him. I am sure he has been greatly wronged and that stories told about him are false. Luther was not a criminal and a des perado, but a fine, lovable man and a veteran of the war overseas, too. 150 OPIUM the commencement of his cross examine tion of Major Babcock. The smile went away from around his lips and out of his eyes. He became a human steel trap Bet for the unwary foot of the offending witness, waiting for the slight est slip, cruel and relentless, and he knew what he was talking about, and what he wanted the witness to say. If he trapped the major, as he did once or twice, he gnawed and gnawed at the hurt with no gleam of compassion. JIaior Babcock in his direct testimony had advanced several engineering theo ries and' had applied these to the facts surrounding the Pacific company and its rendition .of .service in the Oregon field. He had insisted that the plant and equipment of 'the company in Ore gon was obsolete and inefficient, large ly because of the control exercised by the American Telegraph & Telephone company and its refusal to permit the use of modern equipment by its sub He had also advanced the general theory that, should, It be necessary to readjust rates in order to give the com pany a fair return, such a readjustment should be made as would throw the heavier burden upon the big users of service, who bought something of value in a business way as a result of the service given, and upon the toll lines where the user received directly valu able service in exchange for his money. wnue tne lighter burden should be spread over the middle class user of the resi dence phone. . He had also insisted that the substi tution of semi-automatic exchangee and that Shaw had cast upon him by the trend of his cross questioning. To this Shaw retorted that there was no basis for such feeling on Babcock's part BABCOCK'S THEORY ATTACKED Shaw went into particular and individ ual points of Babcock's testimony in chief, drifting into extremely technical questions baffling to any one not highly expert in the art of telephony. He at tacked Babcock's theory of putting the major weight of the rate burden on the heavy users and the tell line patrons and bored into him with intricate ques tions about the economic effect of estab lishing higher toll rates between Port land and the various cities within its normal telephone radius. He wanted to know whether the major wanted to advocate the increase of the toll rate between Portland and Salem from 40 to 65 cents or between Portland and Pendleton from $1.60 to $2.25 and his Insistence on this line of Question ing finally drew Tomlinson to his feet in protest, to point out to the commis sion that Babcock had not suggested any Increase in toll rates but bad proffered the theory that a readjustment should be made if any were to be necessary over the old rates existing prior to the commissions recent order of March 1, under which readjustment the toll lines would bear a greater proportionate bur den than the small residence users. TAKEN IN FIGH1 Seattle, Wash.. July 26. (I. N. S. Following a pistol battle In the Streets of Ballard, a suburb, police early this morning took more than 8150,000 worth of opium, the largest haul to be made ! in this territory In many years. Do mingo Echanes. 34. and his wife, Mary were arrested and charged with dealing in contraband drugs. Police white cross agents mad the raid and caught the Echanes couple dealing with three opium runners In a machine. The runners opened fire and the police replied, keeping up the ex change of shots until the machine had disappeared. he picnic. One ef the features of the athletic pro gram arranged Is a tug-of-war between from Oregon City and Van Tbe team having the strongest pull will win a $50 cash wise. To accommodate the crowds two spe cial trains win leave the Union station at 8 : and 9 a. m. Another Brumf ield Glue Is Discovered Bend. Or.. Jury 26. A new trace of supposed Dr. Brum field was tele phoned to Bead this morning by a woman living nine miles out on the Bend-Burns road. A man in a small roadster, with a beard of a week's growth, inquired of her In regard to telephone connection. When told that the phone line ends at MUHcan. he asked If he must go through that place to reach Burns. Sheriff Roberts and State Officer Nixon are in pursuit B A PIT OBTAINED $4 Axel Nelson. 470 Overton street re ported to the police this morning that be was held up at Twelfth and Hoyt streets Monday night by a bandit and relieved of $4. a puree and several Swed ish pocket coins. Nelson said he could not furnish a good description of the highwayman. 110.000 IN PLOT TO 'FIX' PLAYERS Chicago. July SC. (X. N. 8.) Sifting of the charges made by Baa Johnson, president of the American hiagua. that Arnold Rothsteln of New York paM $10.00) for the copies of the c safe sals ef Eddie Cleette. Joe Jackson and Clauds Williams la the lsit world's series scandal, was to begin today with the return to the city of State's Attorney Robert K. Crewe. It is expected that a new grand Jury Investigation of Roth stein's alleged connection with the plot to "fix" the series will be launched. Trial of the Indicted ball players and gamblers was believed nearer the dose today aa the result of the decree of Jtidare Huso M. Friend admitting as evidence the confessions of Jackson: Clcotts and Williams. So Important a victory for the state ts this considered that attorneys for the prosecution Bo day were revamping their plans and It appeared likely that but few more wit nesses for the state would be called. An early end to the trial is not In sight however, despite the apparent nearness of the completion of the state's It will indicated that in aa at- the Utaeronra of 1 1 illClilrrmljlBW The Sign of a Service Outside Merchants To Attend Grocers' Picnic Wednesday Members of the Portland Grocers' and Merchants' association will lock up their shops Wednesday and forget dull care la the joys and revelry of the annual pic nic at Bonneville. Allied associations from Hood River, Oregon Jflty. Van- Fake deputies are abroad In King county attempting to collect poll tax from delinquent residents. Dance Wednesday Sight 25c STEP OUT. MEBBT ME! And Bring a Merry Maid.. A Jey. osa Fox Trot, a Dreamy Walts Await Tea at Columbia Beach DANCE Excursion in the Moonlight TONIGHT (Tuesday) BOAT BLUE BIRD with Billy Webb's famous colored jazz orchestra just returned, better than ever. Boat leaves Morrison street dock 9 P. M.t returns at 11 :45 o'clock. ' Public Invited d mission 50c, including tax nd checking. Dance under management of Montrose Rifhsrler. 27l282930 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Alder- OlGUffettY Month-End Clearance Sale It never happened before that V . Every Trinimed Transparent Braid and Straw Hat in the Store at One Price - 150 Sport Hats While they last $1.45 First Floor Umbrella Department 50 Colored Silk Umbrellas, Formerly Coq $10.00 Month-End Sale Price Only Dyo . Don't overlook reading our-Ad in next Sunday's papers about our August Fur Sale Tit U. 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