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XX. NO. 123. S"
COLUMBIA
RATE CASE
AFFIRMED
Unanimous Decision of Interstate
Commerce Commission Ends
Quibbling by Rival Ports; In
creases Differential to 11 Cts.
Washington, D. C, July 29 .-r-
( WASHINGTON BUREAU
OF THE JOURNAL) Ob
struction and quibble over the
application of the Columbia
basin rate case decision was
ended by order of the interstate
commerce commission today,
which requires that the rail
roads shall not later than Sep
tember 28 put into effect the
differential in favor of Portland
and Vancouver as against Puget
bound.'
The differential established in the orig
Inal decision at 10 per cent is increased
to 11 per cent by today's supplemental
opinion. ; The earlier decision suggested
a 5 per cent decrease to Portland which
was accomplished by voluntary action of
the railroads, effective Jnly t. The rates
In effect July 1 are declared reasonable
and the full differential will be produced
by the increase to Puget Sound, which
was in part temporarily defeated by the
suspension order of. the Washington
state board of public works.
opinio is TNAjmiocs
The report contains litUe that is new
In reference to the principles of the case.
It is a reaffirmation of the former deci
sion with a brief statement that Intra
state rates in Washington were sus
pended by that state's action and that
upon further consideration of the rec
ord . the commission has determined to
order removal of existing discrimina
tions, as intended by the original opin
ion. The commission's opinion is unan
imous, but Commissioners Aitehison of
Oregon and Campbell Of Washington did
not participate. The opinion is by .Com
missioner Eastman, who penned the. orig
inal decision.
"The commission, after stating the is-
sues as summarised In the first opinion,
says :
TKXT OF OPINIO
"The complaints clearly alleged that
the rates between the Columbia River
basin described on page 823 of the or
iginal report, and Portland, Or., and Van
couver, Wash., whether interstate or in
trastate, were unduly prejudicial to
Portland and Vancouver ; and also that
tte rates between said Columbia River
' (Concluded on Pace Three, Column ThTee)
Klan Is Organizing
In Hood River; Some
Opposition Is Seen
Hood River. Or., July 29. Organisers
of the . Ku Klu.x Klan have been active
here for several days and report "pros
pects of securing enough names to war
rant issuance of a charter. At the same
Ume considerable opposition to the pro
posed organisation is developing among
influential citizens, who argue that local
conditions do not warrant such a secret
organization.
The local labor unions see in the move
ment an effort to break down their
solidarity and are' expressing opposition.
Present indications are that, even if a
local charter is issuirl. representative
citizens here will want to know much
more than they do at present of the
methods and objects of the Klan before
they will be willing to Join.
Shipboard Still
Unable to Get
$125,000,000
Washington. July 29. 1. N. S.) The
request for an appropriation of J125.
OtrO.OOO for the shipping board made by
Chairman Lasher on the house appropri
ations committee probably wilt not be
granted, it' was learned this afternoon.
It . v -as stated authoritatively that,
thus far. Chairman Laaker has been un
able .a convince the committee of needs
i'cr not more than $67,000,000.
Journal Plane
Coast Service
Today's Trip
Pilot Jack Clemencc
Seagull left Portland . . .2:20 p. m.
Thursday's Trip
Pilot Archie Roth
Seagull left Portland. . .1:30 p. m.
Arrived Astoria ...... .3:00 p. m.
'Arrived Hwartdr . . . . S:3& p. m.
Left Seaside 3:35 p.m.
Arrived back In Astoria 4:13 p. m.
Picked up passenger.
Left Astoria 4:13 p.m.
Arrived Portland 3:3 p.m.
LORDS IN A ROW
BRITISH politics which
have been bubbling since
the peace conference
have boiled over as a result
of Lord Northcliff e's visit to
America. The three chief
participants are Lord North
cliffe, publisher, shown at the
top; David Lloyd George,
premier of Great Britain,
center; Lord Curzon, foreign
secretary, bottom.
J
LORD NORTHCLIFFE
LAMPOONS CURZON
By Catted New)
London. July 29. The battle of the
Northcliffe press against Lloyd George
and Lord Curzon has not been without
Its humor. Far from betraying a spirit
of anger, the Evening News, for in
stance, lampoons the dignified British
foreign minister in recalling "the fa
mous jesting rhyme written about him
In his university days:
"My ume is Ceorje N'thn Canoa.
"I to t most superior person:
My hair sleek, sad smooth sty cheek ;
I dm at Blenheim twice
"He is a very fine orator." the News
continues, with a richness of imagery,
and the defect of this quality is a certain
orientalism, something that suggests the
habit of mind of. an eastern emperor, in
dealing with persons."
The Times' original editorial which
lad to the censure, called Cursoa "pom
pous and pretentious."
Two Aviators Killed
In Crashing Plane
Pawnee. OUa.. July 29. Eugene Rob
erts of Seattle. Wash-, and Harry Myers
of the city "stunt" aviators were killed
yesterday when their plane crashed to
earth from an altitude of 290 feet while
coming out of a nose dive. Young Myers
had climbed to the topmost wing and
became entangled in the guy wires. It
is believed Roberts lost control of the
machine, which burst into flames on
striking the ground.
Heat Kills 6 in 24
Hours in New York
New Tors, July 29. (I. N. S.--No
hope for immediate relief from the with
ering heat wave which has settled upon
the Atlantic seaboard is held out by. the
weather bureau today.
Six deaths have been reported in New
York during the 24 hours ending at 9
o'clock this morning.
N0RTHCL1FFE
SAYS CURZON
SNUBBED HIM
"It's a Lie," He Declares When
Shown Statement Dsaying
British Foreign Office Can
celled Invitation by Embassy.
By H. K. Reynolds
Washington. July 29. (L N. &) "It's
a Iter
That was the short and explosive com
ment of Lord Korthciiffe today when he
read an International News Service dis
patch from London stating that the
British foreign office has issued a
statement denying that Lord Curzon had
anything to do with the cancellation of
the invitation to Lord Northcliff e to be
the guest at the British embassy here.
REPUDIATES INTERVIEW
Lord Northcliff e today repudiated the
interview in which he was 'reported as
having quoted King George as informing
Lloyd George "You must stop killing my
subjects."
After reading the statement read by
Lloyd George in the house of commons
today. Lord Northcliffe sent Wick ham
Steed, his editor, to meet the press and
make this statement :
"Lord Northcliffe denies having made
such a statement."
Northcliffe, fresh from his morning
bath and with perspiration streaming
down his face, strode across the room
with his bathrobe flapping around his
legs as the reporter was admitted. The
publisher beckoned him into an adjoin
ing room and remained standing.
CALLS IT "UK"
"Be brief, young man," he snapped.
"I- want to get out of this heat. I can't
stand it"
The London dispatch, containing the
denial of the British foreign office of
.Concluded on Pa Eighteen, Column Two)
IS. STONE TELLS
Banff. Alta.. July 29.--U. P.
WsJfc Stone, tying in a fly tent on the
Si)3e of Mount "Eton, told the United
Press correspondent of the tragedy which
befell her husband, the president of Pur
due university, as they were climbing
that unsealed peak in the Canadian
Rockies south of here.
Mrs. Stone is being ministered to in
the tent while a raft is built on which
she can float down the Spray river to
Banff. She will recover.
"We were on our way to the peak in
the afternoon of July 15," Mrs. Stone
said. "The doctor was scaling a steep
precipice. A, projecting rock gave way.
either under his foot or at the pressure
of his hand, and he was hurled tnto the
crevasse below. He was slightly in ad
vance of me and I looked up just as
he fell. The piece of rock which gave
way accompanied his body to the bot
tom of the abyss.
"I saw the body turn over and over
in the air until it was lost to sight in
the depths below. Immediately I began
to descend in the hope of finding hla
body, if not to save his life."
Mrs. Stone described to guides the
exact spot where Dr. Stone's body fell.
She was unable to reach It. and rescuers
wUl have great difficulty in getting It
out of the abyss, if they are able to get
it out at all, it was said at the camp.
In her efforts to get to her husband's
body. Mrs. Stone said, she found herself
on a narrow ledge, unable to progress
or return. She had nothing to eat for
eight days, and drank only the drippings
from the rocks where a spring seeped
through. She slept only one or two
hours during the eight days, but was in
good physical condition.
The Stones started out Sunday. July
10, from the Alpine club house at Banff
to walk to Mount Assiniboine. a dis
tance of 44 miles.
Girl Bathers, Panic
Stricken, Flee From
School of Jellyfish
(By United News)
Hull. Mass., July 29. Hundreds of
bathers were subjected to agonising
pain and) thousands more were driven
panic-stricken from the waters at apd
adjacent to Nantasket Beach Thursday
afternoon by schools of poisonous rod.
jellyfish.
There were several narrow escapes
from drowning when girls tainted in
the water and had to be carried ashore.
Scores of others who were touched by
the poisonous tentacles of the jellyfish
ran from the water screaming hysteri
cally. All bathing between Allerton and
Kenberma and inside the bay came to
an immediate stop.- More than 150
bathers were infected.
Schaef f er Named
For Linnton P. 0,
Washington. July 99. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.)
The president today seat to the senate
the nomination of John B. Schaef fer as
postmaster at Linnton.
John B. ' Schaeffer has been acting
postmaster at Linnton. which, although
a part of Portland, has a separate of
fice, for several months. He ta promi
nent in Linnton political affairs and Is
one of the backers of the proposed rail
road between Linnton and Pni Head,
projected to replace the United Railways
tine: long inactive.
HOW
DOCTOR DIED
Contracts ,
For Roads
Are Placed
On reconsideration the state highway
commission today awarded the contract
for paving the Shedd-Halsey section of
the Pacific highway, in Linn county, to
A. D. Kern, whose bid war 1237.131 for
a five-inch bituminous pavement on a
seven-inch rock base. It was stipulated
that when the time came to pave north
of Shedd the contractor would agree to
provide rock at a price of $2.50 per
cubic yard.
Reconsideration was also given to the
bids for paving in the city of Oakland. In
which the city Is to cooperate, and the
contract awarded to the United Con
tr acting company for $12,078.
Other contracts awarded were grading
10.S miles in Lincoln county between
Chitwood and Toledo, A. Giebisch,
$83,411.
Grading and macadamising 2.7 miles
in Wheeler county between Fossil and
Cummings hill. D. F. Murphy a;
$35,132.
BRIDGE CONTRACT LET
Co.
On the agreement of the Union Bridge
company to take Union county bonds at
par in partial payment, the company
was awarded the contract to build the
Perry bridge on its bid of $26,900 ten
dered last month. The bridge company
also offered to build the two Catherine
bridges on the same terms at a cost of
$11,418. It was decided, however, to of
fer the contract to the lowest bidder on
the same conditions before definitely ac
cepting the offer.
A resolution was passed by the com
mission which has an important bearing
on the construction of stats roads
through municipalities of less than 2000
population.
Under the law the state can only stand
one half of the expense. The commis
sion has decided to put into effect a slid
ing scale under which towns of 250 pop
ulation or leas will only be required to
contribute 5 per cent. For each 200 of
additional population the price will in
crease at the rate of 5 per cent up to
2000 population, where the rate will be
50 per cent.
STATE WILL AID
In accordance with an agreement by
the town of Union to help the county In
financing the cost of paving through the
city the calling of bids was ordered for
the next meeting of the commission.
The state will pay one third of the cost
of a 16-foot strip through the city. The
city and county the remainder.
It was also ordered that bids would
be received at the next meeting for pav
ing through the city of Cottage Grove
when conditions were satisfactory. The
improvement of the John Day highway
through Condon Will also be advertised
in conformity with an agreement where
by the county and city are to pay
third of the
teeing the a
roent advanced to the advertising stags
was a two mile stretch in Wheeler coun
ty, between the national forest line and
Mitchell on the Ochoco highway.
BIDS CALLED FOR
The calling of bids was also author
ised for improving the Vale-Bore U and
Jamison-Brogan sections In Malheur
county.
On the Mount Hood Loop highway
bids will be called at the August meeting
for graveling the new sections of grade
which will be ready this fall.
George Detwtler of Summer Lake ap
peared before the commission and asked
that the matter of locating the Lake-vlew-Bend
highway through Summer
lake valley be definitely msde as soon
as possible. A reason, for urgency was
the establishment of an irrigation dis
trict. The commission said that It was
quite anxious to make the final loca
tion but had been waiting on the county
court to acquire right of way,
The next regular meeting of the com
mission will be August 30.
Visiting K. of C. Are
Quests at Luncheon
At Latourell Falls
A party of about 10 Knights of Colum
bus were given lunch at Latourell fails
by the local committee Thursday at noon.
James A. Flaherty of Connecticut, su
preme knight of the order, accompanied
by many of the supreme officers, made
up a contingent of the party.
The train to San Francisco left Port
land at 4 p. m. amid a chorus of over 250
singing knights and ladles, the car of
President Flaherty decked inside and
out with Portland roses. The commit
tee of welcome was Patrick Bacon, J. N.
Casey. F. J. Lone rg an. A. C. Greenwood,
P. J. Hanley. A. B. Cain. D. J. Coman.
J. J. Burke. R, J. O'Neill. J. F. Slnnott
A. A. Murphy. K. P. McBride.
That Portland has more than a look In
for the 1925 convention was admitted by
all the visitors, and the session in San
Francisco to open Monday will have
among Its delegates many friends of
Portland.
Q. 0. P. Whip Cracks
In House to Bush
Its Program Along
By David M. Chares
Washington, July 29. (1. N. 8.) The
Republican whip cracked in the house
today aa a drive was started to com
plete the legislative work of that body
by August -, in accordance with an
agreement reached between President
Harding and house leaders st a White
House dinner last night.
The Republican leadership of the
house today sent out telegrams to all
absentee members ordering their re
turn to Washington in an effort to wipe
the legislative slate clean.
HOW IS THE ROAD
Are you planning a week-end
motor trip?
It so. you will find the latest'
information concerning the most
used routes out of Portland on
page t today.
For further information call
The Journal Travel and Informa
tion Bureau.
oest. the county rtinrin 1 iur wi
HIGH PHONE
RATE RAPPED
One Manager Testifies at Re
hearing That Increase Has
Boosted His Bill More Than
82 Per Cent; Many Are Present
Salem. July 29. Increases in telephone
rates ranging from 50 per cent to mors
than 100 per cent with no correspond
ing improvement in service rendered
fdrm the basis for complaints registered
by Oregon howelmen who are appearing
before the public service commission to
day in the interest of a downward re
vision of its rate schedule of last Feb
ruary.
The hotelmmn's delegation Is repre
sen ted by Lawrence A. McNary. Port
land attorney, and includes F. W. Beach
of the Northwest Hotel News; H. M
Branson, Morris and Madras hotels ; E
C. Cornell, Alexandria Court hotel
Mrs. E. J. Campbell, Campbell-Hill ho
tel; E. Robe, Hotel Hoyt; O. Hlte
Washington hotel ; C, I. Van Duyn.
Carlton hotel ; A. H. Meyers, Oregon ho
tel.
INCREASES EXPENSES
E. C. Cornell, 'manager of the Al
exandria Court hotel, the first witnes
to take the stand, testified that the re
cent rate order had increased hla tele
phone expense by 82.46 per cent, which
he declared to be unreasonable.
On cross examination Attorney Shaw
for the Telephone company brought out
the fact that the hotels had entirety es
caped the rate increase of December
1919, and had bean only lightly touched
by the order of May, 1919.
Cornell declared that a hotel should
be permitted to make at least 3 per
cent on Its investment, but thought 6
enough for a corporation the sise of the
Telephone company. Hs admitted,
though, that the corporation was enti
tled to a return on its Investment.
HOTEL GROWTH REVIEWED
The growth of the tale phase systems
in hotels from its small beginning of a
few years ago- was reviewed by Shaw,
who pointed oat that now a telephone la
every room is regarded as s necessary
convenience in every modern hotel. This
siinasiiif itition to Us natrons. Shaw In
sisted, should be paid for by the hotels
over outer patrons ox
BnTui lite 7rexTWT
hotel of Portland, told the commission
that bis telLpDiBl bill had been in-
(CooeMsd oa Pes Two. Cehuea that)
SLAYER REPRIEVED
AT GALLOWS' EDGE
Chicago. July 29 L N. S ) Carl
Wanderer's song in the county Jail took
on a new lilt today as he moved from
the shadow of the gallows back tnto the
cell where night has never fallen for
htm. The former army lieutenant who
la accused of murdering his wife, her
unborn child and a "ragged stranger"
was to have been hanged this morning,
but was granted a 90-day reprieve.
Wanderer waa In the death cell .when
the news of the reprieve reached htm.
He was takes hack to the cell where
btg "daylight lamps" perpetually keep
out the shadows of night.
During the 90-day reprieve granted
Wanderer by Governor Small, a group
of alienists for the state will inquire
Into his sanity. If he is found sane
be will hang on September 29. It found
insane he faces life imprisonment. The
reprieve, was granted at the instigation
of William R. McCauley. state com
mander of the American Legion.
Police Sergeant
Shoots Attorney,
Attempts Suicide
Chicago. July 99. (L N. 8.) Police
Sergeant Harry D. Kellogg shot and
probably fatally wounded Lemuel Hack-
ley, an attorney, and then shot himself
Just before noon today la the courtroom
of Judge C. A. McDonald tn the County
building here. Ackley died a few min
utes later. Kellogg is only slightly
wounded.
Judge McDonald, who had just sen
tenced Kellogg to Jail for It days for
contempt of court, declared Kellogg
fired at him and hit Attorney Ackley
Instead. One of the six shots fired by
Kellogg, ripped Into the Jurist's bench.
The courtroom was thrown into wild
confusion. Several women fainted.
Spectators fought in their scramble to
get Into the corridor.
Auto Gentle, but It
Can't Stand at Curb
'Without Hitchin' '
Vancouver. Wash . July 99. Pro
T. P. Clark is the only Vancouver man
who at one time owned an automobile
that required hitching. At the time he
brought the first car to Vancouver the
salary ofsthe city clerk, who also acted
as police judge, was dependent on fees.
There wss an ordinance that prohibited
leaving a vehicle unhitched en the
streets, and when Clark stopped tnto the
postofflce. lea i tog hla ear unhitched, he
wss arrested, taken to the police station
and fined. Thereafter when he enter ad
forth he carried a toad stoker attached
to a fish line, which wss fastened. to the
car. and when he stopped hs care fully
laid the sinker on ths sidewalk to serve
as a hitching weight
BY HOTELMEN
FORESTRY IS
DISCUSSED BY
LUMBERMEN
Committee of U. S. Chamber of
Commerce Meets Representa
tives of Northwest Timber
Owners in Short Conference.
Problems of vital Interest to the lum
bar Industry of Oregon are being inves
tigated today at a conference hold In the
green room of the Chamber of Commerce
between the committee on forestry policy
of the United States Chamber of Com
merce and representative lumber opera
tors and timberland owners of the state.
The conference opened at 10 a. m. and
will continue till noon Saturday.
SEEKS INFORM ATI OX
The purpose of the committee is to get
first hand information on the forestry
question as a basis for a report on a
proposed national forestry policy to be
submitted for referendum vote to the
1409 business organisations composing
the United States Chamber of Com
merce. The lumber activities committee of the
Portland chamber sent invitations to
everyone interested in forestry prob
lems in Oregon and more than 100 lum
berraen and timber owners were present
at the opening session.
DISCUSS TREE PLANTING
Planting of young forest trees at so
average of 2,000.009 acres per year for
the next 75 years hi a part of the pro
gram of forest conservation outlined by
the national forest policy committee of
the United 8U tes Chamber of Commerce.
according to Dr. Hugh P. Baker of New
York, secretary of the American Paper
3 Pulp association. Dr. Baker was one
(CoBUansd es Pass. Two, Onhnan .Use)
JULY EXPORTS OF .
GRAIN SET RECORD
July records for exports of grain for
eign,: are again smashes snd the first
month for the new fiscal year eves Saps
the record set In 1929 by more than half
a mlkJIpa bushel. . With ths fSMdttsg to
day of the Japanese steamships Seine
Msru sad the Ryufuku Maru. carrying
599.99 bushels of wheat for the United
Kingdom, another day to go and an
other outbound cargo in sight the record
for the month just closing wilt set s
mark that wUl be hard to surpass.
Full cargo lota in off shore steamships
were arr carried in Japanese bottoms.
This totaled 1.537.777 bushels valued at
91.921.409. Adding to this the parcel lot
shipments. Including flour, the total runs
well above 2.060.000 bushels with s valu
ation of 12.(71.019.
Complete totals for July. 1920, the rec
ord month until that Ume. as compiled
by the Merchants Exchange, show 1.497.
798 bushels, with a valuation of 94.159.
94S. While the volume of business for
the present month Is more than half a
million in excess of anything set afloat
from Portland, ths valuation is less, sa
the wheat market In July. 1920, wsa well
up In the air and the break did not come
until October and November shipments
ware ready to move.
August, second month of the cereal
year, will show up big. as there it s
large amount of tonnage listed for Port
land loading. Included in this list are
four Japanese steamships, each with
Capacity of more than 300,000 bushels.
There is more British tonnage on the
en route list, but exporters are reticent
about giving out the charters.
Grown Forces Chief
May Be Arrested
Dublin. Jury 29. (I. N. S.) A sensa
tion was caused here today when the
president of the supreme court issued s
writ against General Sir Nevil McReady.
commander-in-chief of the crown forces.
General Cameron and General Strickland
in an action which may Involve their
arrest. The action developed from an
order for a writ of habeas corpus Issued
recently and calling for the production
of two Irish republicans who had been
sentenced to death by a British court
martial. The men were not produced.
The Judge who issued the writ today
described the action of the military au
thorities as an attempt to resist the
courts by force of arms.
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Fire Patrol
Halted; Gas
Supply Gone
Eugene. Or.. July 29. Pending the ar
rival of a supply of Mgh test govern
ment gasoline from San Francisco, or
some other army headquarters, the army
airplane patrol of the forests of Ore
gon is to be discontinued, accord
ing to announcements made today by
the 91st aero squadron headquarters.
Titers are no p tsars on the patrol today,
and none will fly until the new supply
For the last weak or mora. It Is an
nounced, gasoline belonging to the states
of Oregon and Washington has been
used, but that supply has also run out.
It is not known whether the Washington
patrol will function. There are two sob-
stations In that state Vancouver and
Camp Lewis. It is known that there is
no gasoline at Vancouver.
Medford, July 29. Word has been re
ceived at the Medford sub-base of the
airplane forest patrol service to the
effect that that service, beginning with
today, will be suspended for sever
days in Oregon and Washington. The
reason for this temporary discontinu
ance Is not known. Despite the official
orders received here last week for the
discontinuance of the Medford base of
the service, except as a gas and oil
station, and the removal of the men and
planes to the Eugene base, no orders
have yet been received as to the time
for the removal, probably due to Influ
ence at work with the Oregon senators
to have the sub-base here continued.
BILLION IS WASTED
New York. July 29. (I. N. S.) A
billion dollars a year Is lost In the metal
trades industry owing to idle men and
machinery, according to a report of the
Hoover committee oa elimination of
waste in industry of the American En
glneering council, issued today.
This estimate does not include ths
value of materials that would be util
ized If the productivity of labor were
increased.
The metal trades badge tij Is operating
i a whole at only about 90 per cent
of normal output, the report states. It
is the largest manufacturing Industry
hi the United States aad gives employ
ment to two million workers. The value
of Increased possible product Km. even
In asl in si tlssss. would be mare
ts9saa,osa.
Instability of labor em ploy men t
tty nsssagemsm are given as the ma
r causes of waste sad non-production
Ths average J sartjr waste d ne to a vo Id -
abbs labor ruraotom is ntmt TV
009. according to the committee.
"We find an aggregate of two miM9bsi
elsewhere." says the report.
The metal trades investigation, which
Is part of a general report, of a com
mittee on Its national assay of industrial
wastes, was is charge Of Fred J. Miller
of New York, former president of the
American Society of Mechanical En
gineers, and William P Ferguson of
Philadelphia.
The committee found that the major
cause of waste was "unemployment of
valuable labor and equipment due. to
general business conditions which effect
other Industries.
President's Relief
Plan for Railroads
Embodied in Bills
Washington. July 29. (I. N. 8.) A
bill to carry out the president's plan far
funding the railroad debt to the gov
ernment and extending assistance to the
railroads through the war finance cor
poration to the amount of 99o9.0O0.00S
wrnm Introduced In the senate oday by
wnsior iwwnsena tv. sai ca. ) a sim
ilar bill was Introduced In die house to
day by Representative Winslow (R,
Mass), chairman of the house interstate
commerce committee.
Kills Herself for
Sailor Sweetheart
Seattle. Wash.. July 29. (L N. .8.)
Because her sailor sweetheart left her
about two weeks' ago and did not write,
Myri Dixon. 29 years old. committed sui
cide last night by drinking poison. El-
pon Strickland, the sailor, went to Texas,
and his failure to write to her led the
girl to become despondent, according to
a note Miss Dixon left addressed to her
mother.
THROUGH IDLENESS
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A EE DEFENSE
FOCUSES ON
MYSTERY MAN
Witness Sees Unidentified Man
Hastening From Murder Scene
When Screams of Accused Are
Heard; Pedestrian Runs to Car,
WHO SCORED TODAY?
Mrs. Bertha Gegne For defense ?
Mrs. Ages was grief stricken sat
wanted to go to her husband. Was
prevented. For stats Light was- tit
in Ages house when she reached
street.
Thomas Jewell For defense: Sil
ver watch waa in Agee's trouser pock
et on foot of bed few minutes after
murder and bracelet lay on floor. Ar
ticles were later found under dining
room window outside. Turned on ail
tights in bouse, except those In parlor.
Disturbed back side of Agee's bed by
moving pillow before officers arrived.
Did not remember whether It waa
sshssed up before. For state Light
burning in house, probably parlor
when he. arrived.
Gordon E. Colgan For defense:
Ssw man wearing dark overcoat
nlng from Agee house.
A star chamber session Thursday in
Circuit Judge Morrow's private cham
bers, to which newspaper men were not
admitted, and of which little could be
learned this afternoon, came, to light
about 2. JO o'clock today, when District
Attorney Walter Evans made the fol
lowing statement :
' Yesterday Chief Deputy District At
torney Joseph Hammersley told me that
a motion for a directed verdict made by
John Comer, dsfenss attorney for Mrs.
Ana Louise Agge. had been denied, fol
lowing the dosing of the state's case.
Evans asked newspaper men if they
bad been advised of the transaction,
which apparently was being kept quiet
by Judge Morrow and Collier. Judge
Morrow is said to have said that he did
net want to hear any argument on a mo
tion for s directed verdict tn open court,
but to have allowed the argument In his
chambers behind dossd doors,
No announcement waa made of this
session Thursday.
When Judge Morrow Was interviewed
by newspapermen this afternoon he re
fused to commit himself, savins : "You
sill hsv to consult ths record." Re
porters were unable to elicit any further
1 statement from him.
While
direction eTUfe ?res home" Off the
morning of June 11 a man wearing a
black overcoat and carrying his hat In
his hand, walked rapidly up Willis bou
levard, frequently looking behind him.
then turned south on Portsmouth and
broke tnto a run.
This man; whom the a Iter nays for
Mrs. Ann Louise Agee chstm was Agee's
murderer, was seen by Gordon K- C4
gan. fireman, who waa ohsttiag sal Us a
(C chaise a Pes Ibrae, Ct
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GIRL IS MISSING;
CASE MYSTERIOUS
Weird and mysterious circumstances)
that surrounded the disappearance of
Khyllla Burns, 19, of 194 North Seven
teenth street, op Monday, dssain to
day as the search for the girt Is son
tinued under the direction of the
muss's protective division of the po
lios department.
The girl's mother reports that her
daughter left home Sunday In company
with Jack Clifford, 19, of 749 Pottygiove
street. and that she wss sway until Mon
day noon. At that time the girl ap
peared at the house in a stupor that
could only have been Induced by nar
cotics or intoxicants, it is said.
Suddenly the mother discovered the
gtri lifting a bottle of poison to her lips.
The mother dashed the potion from the
girl's hand and upbraided her. A shaft
time later Phyllis slipped out Of the
house and clambered Into aa automo
bile with four men. She has not been
seen since.
The Clifford lad is at home, his mother
declares, and was not with ths gtri. she
says.