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- c THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. OREGON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1S2L I 4 DECLARES STATE'S CASE AH INSULT !u: -; r1.it. (BrUoitad Km t Kit San Francisco, Deci 6. Charges that "one of th two minority members" of -Uh Roscoe Arbuckle Jury - told fellow y members at th commencement of delib erations that "she would cast her "ballot for conviction and would not change tt unto bell frose over, were made Sunday ,C night 'In a signed statement by August Fritsi. foreman of the Jury." 1 Fritsie's statement purported to tell Hthe "Inside story" of what the Jury did V during the 44 hours It was locked up and v unable to agree on a verdict is Arbuck Sie's manslaughter trial. . V Fritsie criticiced the prosecution- 4 for vuslasT Indecent" language with women on the Jury . and denounced Assistant District Attorney MUton ITRen bitterly. N He. said he made the statement as a k fluty to the public, despite an jment among members of the Jury not to S,make Individual rUtemftits. i None of the other members of the jury i, made any pertinent statements. i?TOTXI OK EVIDEXCE V Mrs. Helen Hubbard, said to have been t-leader of the "conviction contingent," x refused to answer any Questions what- k soever. " t V; Fritzie's. statement said: Vthe public . Sv "I believe, as foreman, that it is well yfor those Interested In the adminlstra . tion of Justice, that the citizens of San Francisco should have all the facta. "The 10 members of the Jury who . JJvoted on the last ballot for acquittal sfelt that they voted on the evidence - fully considering it alL V . "One of the two minority members re-fused to consider the evidence from the beginning and said ft the. opening of proceedings that she would east her bal vlot and would not change It until hell -5frose over. "The other was fluctuating, sometimes V easting a blank ballot, sometimes, voting for the defense and sometimes voting tor: the prosecution. Considering all the evidence It seemed to us that the proa- H eeation's ease was an insult to the in Ntelligence of the Jury. JprDJTT LIKE LANGUAGE . - , . 'I "It asked us to substitute conjectures tor facts without snowing what had been i. done and asked us to guess what might have been don and to guess one way 5only. . -- "Human liberty and American rights L should depend, not upon the guesses of V anybody, but upon evidence. . , "The one feature of the case that Cll ,ed some ""of us with disgust and caused Vus some surprise was that the presiding Judge refrained from action of disap-Jproval- of Deputy District Attorney ITRen's address to the Jury. Its lan Lguage and lnuendoes were indecent v,V "Why can not a case be tried without shocking the proprieties? Morals should surely have some recognition In the h courts, certainly in the district attor v aey office, . which Is supposed to rep present -the people. There can be no ex cuse for coarseness and vulgarities verging on obscenities. - This Is parti e JJularly applicable where women sit on .1 IS SET FOR JAN. 9 tOoatfamd ma Pas On ARBUCKLE'S RW . J declined to discuss today a report pub .liahMl here that ha had received tl- II I I II I S phonic, threats' at his home last night. ? Frits admitted h might hav some S statement to make in a "day or so," but' refused to affirm or deny that he had K been threatened, ft. A ft IT TO KV.K JTTTlCB v Arbuckle f aoes a federal charge of having liquor tn his possession and this k Prevented him leaving at once for his : i'Ua Angeles home with his wife, her mother and his sister. Vdy At noon. ' a-. Vlafc Iliw-W tA MftttMrtsftA tVal 1a vt iivwvivui sti iv.v m ill UkCl vvaHUiLK -Bath itlyHt lwlrArl In tViIm tAal : 4 They took one ballot. It stood 10 to Z ; V a man and a woman voting for a ver- . .4U'a M.ntv, mwvJt ft MUM - A A ; for acquittal. 5 At 11 o'clock the Jury for a third time f tasked to see Judge Louden-back. He was ' preached by Bailiff Harry -McGoverri and -.arrived at the Hall of Justice shortly V before 12. He cams into the oonrtroom 1 kvat the stroke of It and 10 MtrnvmAm laJor . Ithe Jury filed Into the courtroom and : into the Jury box. -s ft Jury Foreman Frits reported that it - - . . j$l.QO or $I006 MAY BE THE VALUE ' OF A GARMENT INTRUSTED TO OUR CARE THE OWNER IS PROTECTED BY OUR ORGANIZATION OF TRAINED SPECIALISTS AND OUR GUARANTEE id Arbuckle, Lawyers, Judges Jury Foreman t",' y -.-S- .' , " 3x was a "moral and physical Impossibil ity" for th Jury to agree. He told th court th Jury stood ten to two on their last ballot. . . - t Judge Lpuderback personally polled the Jurors and all reported a belief in the impossibility of agreement. , The Judge stated It had been his inten tion to hold them until 6 o'clock: Sunday evening but because of the unanimity of the opinion that an agreement was im possible he would discharge the Jury with the thanks of the court. He praised the manner in which they had conducted themselves and 'the first trial of the peo ple versus Arbuckle became a matter of history.- While the court record ended here the tale Just began to unfold. As the Jurors filed from the side door of the courtroom they were Importuned for "the inside story" of what had happened within the narrow confines of the three Jury rooms they occupied for they were twice moved, first Saturday night and again 8unday morning. JURORS TALK With a ban removed the- floodgates of speech were loosened and the jurors began to talk. Some reluctantly, others willingly, and the details of what trans pired during those two days In the Jury room began to get the light of day. There was but on exception. Mrs. Helen Hubbard would not talk. She was met by a friend at the door of the court room. "Get me out of her quickly," she said, and the friend took her down the rear elevator and out through police bead quarters into an alley. She declined to discuss the matter with reporters. But the other women felt differently. and what they had to say was received with special interest. This Is the first big criminal trial In which women Jurors have sat and their attitude was eagerly sought. There were five women on the Ar buckle Jury. Three of them, Mrs. Kitty MacDonald, Mrs. Dorothy CDea and Mrs. Adelaide Nelson, were for acquittal, first, last and all the time. Miss Ioulse Winterbum vacillated. She voted for acquittal and she voted for conviction, but she rather favored a -conviction. Mrs. Hubbard was for conviction from the start and never changed her vote. It was she who really "hung" the Jury. XXXXEXHY SHIFTS All the men wer for acquittal, except one, Thomas Kilkenny. Ha shifted his vote several times ; from "Innocent" to "guilty," but he was inclined to believe Arbuckle guilty, and the last ballot found him voting with Mrs. Hubbard tor an adverse verdict. Twenty-two ballots were taken, on paper, and many more orally. The first fiv ballots ran as follows : Not guilty. GMTty. Blank, t a l. 10 .2 10 3 , 3 On the first ballot Kilkenny, who has had considerable Jury experience, cast a blank ballot. Mrs. Hubbard, Miss Wln terburn and some person whose Identity never has been disclosed, voted "guilty." i: f I ? GENTLEMEN'S 3-PIECE SUITS DRY .CLEANED ; Including Minor Repairs 4" a vt n-i On the second ballot, which was taken immediately afterward the mysterious person changed to "not guilty." and Kil kenny voted "guilty." making th count 9 to 3 for acquittal. , Kilkenny shifted to the "not guilty" column on the third ballot and stayed there for the fourth also, which wa taken after considerable discussion, making the count 10 to ZJ Then, -after a long argument, a fifth ballot was taken, Kilkenny again : .shifting to "guilty" and bringing th count to 9 to S, where it stayed until this morning, when Miss Winterburn changed her vote to "not guilty," with the result that those figures were given to the court as the final stand of the Jury. THREE TYPES SHOWS Those hours of deliberations, of wrangling, of acrimonious dispute (for so they are described) afford an inter esting study in contrasts of the feminine Juror.. Three types of mind were shown, and, it may be said, three opinions. Two of these 'opinions - were set, for and against Arbuckle, th third vacillated, torn by the agonies' of conscience. - It Is this last person. Miss Winter burn, who is, perhaps, the most interest ing of them all In her creations to this duty which she felt lie so heavily upon her. She is a studious, cultured woman of. mature, age, possibly 40," . charmingly dressed, but quietly. She has seen and read much about men and things. She has undergone several severe operations as the result of an accideent, and thus was more conversant with medical terms than the others and understood the tech nicalities of the expert testimony. It is safe to say Miss Winterburn suf fered In that Jury room. So keen was her desire , to do her duty as she sav it and so anxious, was she not to do an lnjUBtio : that she was continually In a state of mental conflict. "I don't know what to do, ah told the other women. "Sometimes I think he is guilty and sometimes I believe him innocent. If I only knew more about the dead girl, About her character, I might be able to decide more clearly." So poignant was Miss Winterburn s thoughts as ballot followed ballot that she nearly collapsed. Saturday night, from mental strain. , "My conscience hurts me," she said to one -of the Jurors Saturday night after they had gone to their hotel. . " ; And this morning aha voted "not guilty"- after 'having voted "guilty" for more than 24 hours. Mrs. Hubbard had no such misgivings. From several different sources a fairly accurate account of her attitude has been obtained as demostrated by what she said and what she did, in the Jury room. DISBELIEVES STORY When they firsi entered the room, she voted "guilty" twice in succession. Then a general argument ensued with every one talking at once. Another? ballot was taken, Mra. Hubbard1 still voting "guilty." Th general hullabaloo r suited in Foreman Frits suggesting a more orderly method, and each spoke In turn, giving his or her reasons for th vote. "I believe Arbuckle guilty," said Mrs. Hubbard. "I don't believe his story. I think it is an entire falsification, and I think, most of th other defense wit nesses ar liars." From that statement the readers may conjure a mental picture of Mrs. Hub bard. She is about 45 years old, the wife of a lawyer and. is possessed of a keen mind and a . tremendous amount of determination. Her rather -' portly figure, black clad, radiates considerable confidence in her own opinions. Her mouth is thin -lipped, her chin firm. ' No vacillation about Mrs. Hubbard. After the fourth ballot, on which she again voted "guilty, it was decided that no verdict could be reached until Mrs. Hubbard could be induced to at least admit the possibility Of Ar buckle's innocence, and Foreman Frits suggested that each person on the Jury talk with her. in turn, for a length of time not to exceed one hour, each. They might as well have saved their breath. There-was as much chance of moving her as of moving the Hall of Justice. In tact, instead of Inducing ter to change her vote, ah solidified the "guilty- votes. Both Kilkenny and Miss Winterburn were wavering i whan they began their orations with Mrs. Hub bard. ; But the conversations became monotonous and the two who went to argue, returned to .vote the same way j&rs. Hubbard was voting. ' Then th fireworks began. . Some one. man presumably, made an exceedingly nngnllant ; reference ; . to f "stubborn women" and' Mrs, Hubbard brought forth an - ultimatum. She faced her chair around onitt It presented its back to the Jury. -seised a newspaper and announced (hat th had mad op her mind and in-tet-ded to Stick to tt "if we -are here a thousand years." iTTBiFT MADE TO APFROaCH" ARBCCSXK JCROR, CHARGE HADE mm - VI m- lintM ma 6 tali San Francisco, Dec S. The San Fran cisco-grand. Jury will be asked by Dis- txkx Aoorney Matthew. Brady to start an Immediate investigation of an alleged attempt to approach and intimidate Mrs. Helen M. Hubbard of tit Arbuckle Jury, whose stand, for the comedian's convic tion resulted in a dlgagreement and dis charge ef th Jury. - Mrs. Hubbard in a statement charged that Cus Oliva. a commission merchant, knd Q. J." Irwin, an attorney and friend of Oliva's. approached her husband. T. W. Hubbard, an attorney, oa Saturday night and endeavored to get htm to com- municata with her in the Jury room by f .-. . : i J T - - s IP 'All m ; Above -Boscoe Arbuckle, with his attorneys. Left to right (seated), Gavin McNab, Charles Brarnan, Roscoe Arbuckle; standing, left to right, Milton Cohen and Xat Schmolowltz. Insert, August Fritze, foreman of the trial Jury, who was for acquittal. - Below, Jndge Tjouderback, who heard the caae. ; " tetter, urging her to acquit Arbuckle. Mrs. Hubbard also made a charge of intimidation against several of her fel low Jurors, Including -August Fritz, foreman of the Jury. Mrs. Hubbard further charged that acting Lieutenant of Police WBllam Lambert had .attempted to communicate with her in the courtroom. Lambert is said to be connected with Oliva in busi ness. All those mentioned by Mrs. Hubbard will be subpenaed to appear before the grand Jury, District Attorney Brady stated. i Charges were also made by Bailiff Harry McGovern that mall sent to Miss Louise Winterburn, the only unmarried woman on the Jury, whose vote is said to have -swung from acquittal to con viction several times during the course of the balloting, at the Hotel Manx while She was locked up, had been opened, read and sealed again. McGov ern is still 4n possession of the letter. Freewater Store to Be Given New Life Freewater. Dec 6. TheiJ. A. Schmidt Mercantile company, which has been in business her for th last 12 years. has passed into the hands of a cumber of business men and ranchers, and will be known In future as th Peoples Mer cantile company. The new company will be incorporated for 140.000. J. H. Hall, who formerly lived in Freewater bat who has been In Walla Walla for a few years, will be the manager. He, with E. P. Jensen. H. S. Murray, J.- F. Hansen, W. A. GoghiU, J. H. Moeller ana e. e. Marti nan d. , are the stock holders. ". j Toledo Eesidents ; Have Water Again Toledo, or., Dec. 5. Toledo's new pumping plant was in Operation Satur day, and th dty again has water In all sectlona During the flood of fwo weeks ago the high and flow pressure lines supplying the city from' Mill creek were washed out. If the pumping plant proves satisfactory the city may aban don the high line and use the pump continuously zor the higher portions or th city. East Is Warned of Coming Cold Wave fSy Caitod New York. Dec. 5. A cold wave, fol lowing a snowfall that lasted all day Sunday, will prevail throughout Monday, aooordinr to the weather forecast. The snowstorm was the first experienced by New York,, in fact th entire Atlantic coast. -; Sae TliUfcte v , ' TftrTafaats, fnvatde and tSrowlsv ChOdtea Th Original Food-Drink Foe A3 Agra I m -w i r GUILLOTINE IS (iO LONGER A JOKE TO BLUEBEARD IAIIDI By Hudson Hawley i . ' Caitcd Keva Staff CoRoawBduit Paris, Dec. 6. Bluebeard Landru is whipped. -Si j. : The assassin of trusting women. now eaBed ' by many the "monster of the Gambais villa," has completely lost his nerv since the jury round . him guilty and sentenced aim to loo his head on the guillotine, i ' , - j Hope has left him. He sits in his cell hour after hour, never speaking to his Jailers, scarcely touching the food brought to tempt him. exploring the depths of despair.- ! -. Landru'a Jailers predicted this change In hina, the only instance Of any one's forecasting a mood of this amasing man; During the two years that he , lay tn Jail awaiting trial his nerv was strongt his manner flippant or defiant. He Joked about the guillotine then, always Insisting, however, that he would never lay his head upon the "moon" the grooved block where tne murderers of France meet their end. Even in court during the loner days of stress when his fata was being pre pared by the prosecutor, Landru main tained Mm nerve, and utterly bewildered those who tried In vain to place him in this or that type of unusual mentality. But the Jailers always said that when Landru actually came to the gulllotin he would break. Now ho is fast losing weight. He sits with his head bowed, thinking of the hour when he will b called from his cell to pay with his own life for those of the 10 women and one - man whom he killed. The Jailers say he is seised with a terrible fear of that sharp, whin ing knife on th-scaffold. Landru has on more chance, but h bases no hope upon it. That chance lies In his appeal from tne decision of the Jury in the Versailles court. If the ap peal is turned down, however, he must permit the barber to shave off that proud beard and his head as well. His own suit and his leather shoes will be taken from him, and fie must put on the coarse woollen prison uniform and the awkward wooden sabots of the peasant. When his last hour comes he wQl be led out at dawn and placed In a narrow box-like arrangement, strapped to a board and tilted forward, face down, his neck directly under th blade of the guillotine. There will be a signal "Monsieur Paris" will press a .button and. Landru will be no more. 1). S. BUDGET GIVES ' (Oob tinned from Pus One) increase of $9700 over the current year. For care of Alaskan insane under con tract with th sanitarium company of Portland, $134,150, an Increase of 17100 over the present year. Quarantine station, mouth of Colum bia river, $11,000. DAWES TBIMS MILLIONS FROM U. 8. 12S BUDGET By H. x. Beyaeid v -Washington, Deo. 5. (L N. S. -Presi dent Harding today submitted to con- gross a definite and comprehensive-estimate of the financial requirements of the federal government for the next fiscal year. The national budget of 192J -th first in the history of the United Sutes calls for appropriations aggregating $3,505,754,727. This is a reduction of $462,167,639 under the estimated expendi tures of 1922, and $2.032,2S3.C3.S0 less than the sum expended by the govern ment In 1921. : -FIGUBES COMPARED 1 Estimated appropriations for 1923. submitted to congress today by the pres ident, were as follows : Legislative, $16,493,845.95, as compared with $17,196,203.93 for 1922 1 executive of fice, 3288.S&0, as compared with $228,380 for 1922 ; state department, $10,580,901.16. as compared with $10,637,760.09 for 1922 ; treasury department, $161,665,897.87, as Compared with $164,692,941.29 for 1922; war department. $360,500,923.47, as com pared with $338,536,062.41 for 1922 ; Pan ama canal, $4,241,174, as compared with $9,000,000 for 1922; navy department, $425,052,367.13. as compared with $425, 848,079.37 for 1922 ; Interior department, $33,130,865, as compared with $46,400. 205 for 1922; Indian service, $32,558,077, aa compared with $4,400,205 for 1922; pensions, $252,350,000, as compared with $265,600,000 for 1922; postoffice depart ment, $3,412,000, as compared with $3, 241,750.55 for 1922 ; department of agri culture, $46,860,668, as " compared with S4s.34H.559 for 1922 ; department of com merce, $20,675,326.25, as compared with $17,265,060 for 1922; department of labor; $6,564,632, as compared with $4,904,835.75 for 1922 ; department of Justice, $18,605. 556, as compared with $15,779,238.60 for 1922; shipping board and fleet corpora tions, $50,501,500, as compared with $73, 959,000 for 1922 ; United States veterans' bureau, $385,921,702, as compared with $230,572,62 for 1922 r other independent omces, zz,ss7,ooi, as compared with $2L675.S35-for 1922; District of Colum bia, $27495,476.75, as compared with $2259,712.99 for 1922 ; reduction in prin cipal of th public debt, $363,338,800, as compared with $387342.200-in 1922; In terest on the public debt. $975,000,000. total exclusive of postal service payable from postal revenues, $3,224,875,593.53, as compared with J3.197.807.962.10 for 1922; postal service, , payable from cos tal revenues, $576,239,066, as compared wiin av,032,ii)2 for 19Z2; total, includ ing postal service, $3,801,114,659.53, as compared with $3,771,900,514.01. URGES tKAYY LEGISLATIONS' In addition to paying before congress the Itemized . list of estimated expendi tures and the report of Brigadier Gen eral Charles G. Dawes, the director of th budget, th president recommended legislation In connection with the 192$ navy appropriation bill, with a view to the "eventual automatic release of $100, 000,000 now held in the naval supply ac count of th navy department This transfer of funds was curnrested -to th president by General Dawes for the purpose of providing a portion of th run as necessary to strike a balance be tween receipts . and - expenditures for 1923. In - the budget as submitted . to congress, the estimated expenditures for INFANTS v IIMUDS ASK FOR : OREGON 600.000 CrSHfer. AsoUlmitationa Ttir Substituted i lfniwsrtil extract m Powder . .MaCsaimgWvUihngPtcstata c 1922 exceed th . receipts, by approxi mately $150,000,000. -- The budget was summarised by "th president as follows : " . Total receipts 1321, actual. $5,614,932, 960-91 ; 1922. - estimated. ' $3.943.453,663 ; 1921. estimated. $3,338,182,750. v Total expenditures (including reduc tion in principal of pubUe debt) 1921 actual, $5.538,040,689.30 ; 1922. estimated. $3,967,922,366; 1923. estimated. $3,505,764.- 727. xoess of expenditures -1921, esti mated, $24,468,703; 1923. estimated. $167, 5n.97T. . - - : - TBxceaw of receipts 1921. actual. $86, S92.271.C1. ; - These amounts ar exclusive of postal revenues and postal expenditures paid from postal revenues.) - The report of General Dawes was not concerned only with, the setting forth of 'the estimated -needs of the govern ment during the coming year, but it dis cussed th entire problem. of appropria tions and pointed out how savings hav been and could be effected through the proper operation and development of th budget act passed by the last extraordi nary, session of congress. DAWES SCOBES, CUSTOM " Dawes scored the custom of making "deficiency" appropriations, declaring that the "method of appropriating money heretofore followed : has resulted in a condition of things under which it is im possible for either the executive, con gress or secretary of the treasury to have before them a true picture of the fiscal . condition "of the government at any particular time,,". "Although congress has by stringent penal law prohibited the creation of de ficiencies and clearly indicated that, its annual -appropriations were intended to limit th amount to be expended for such period, yet millions -of dollars have been annually spent by the departments above the estimates submitted at the beginning of th fiscal year, and tn recent years, due to th' great sums appropriated in connection M'ith the war, hundreds of millions of dollars .have been so ex pended by : the departments, a course made possible, by deficiency and supple mental appropriations, the existence of revolving funds and unexpended bal- Dawea expressed confidence that the estimate of expenditures for 1923, upon which the budget Is based, "will not" be increased except through appropriations Initiated by congress or by the execu tive as a result of emergency or of un forseen conditions arising after the preparation of the budget. BASED OX ACTUAL HEEDS Th budget director asserted that the "wide indefinite and fluctuating margin between the expenditures of any given year and the appropriations requested by .congress to cover the same period, would be prevented by the establishment of a "system by which requests for ap propriations are based upon the actual need of money for disbursement during the fiscal year for which the appropri ation is made." "The more rigid the system under which continuous attention to the con duct of the business of government is made, mandatory on the part of con gress and the business administration, the more efficient will be the conduct of the government," Dawes said. CAUSE OF BED TAPE "In th well managed organization the closest contact between the source of Information and the power which can compel corrective action is always main tained. What we call "red tape" in government business- largely results from lack of contact between those sen 3hl of errors In administration and those in authority responsible for their correction. The less cumbersome the machinery for the transmission of the executive will and the closest contact between those associated with It and the president himself, the more effective will be the functioning of the govern ment: as a business machine." ; Dawes suggested that coordinating agencies such as he referred to should bo created from th body of existing employes, and not by legislation "where their,..- personnel, would necessarily, be built up by outside appointments." 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It all comes about from the tact . that ' two Japanese liquor smugglers wer arrested on shipboard, taken forcibly ashor by customs inspectors and sent to Jail after conviction in th federal court v Now the immigration , department,' which has the Job: of keeping undesir able aliens out of the country, is pow erless to act until the prisoner get out of JalL J By,, that time th ship y that brought them into Portland will be well on its way back to Japan, which means the United States must pay for the de portation of the smuggler PINO 25 CASES ' ; The 25 cases of "Scotch" whiskey found aboard the Japanese steamer Den mark Maru, prompted the little gam. After locating , the whiskey th customs-officials arrested Jchitara Kuma, quartermaster and Tsuman Kono, fire man, and charged them with illegally possessing liquor in the United States. The customs Officials relieved - them selves, of further responsibility by pre senting the evidence i to the United States attorney and by-signing a com plaint before th United Stat com missioner. The commissioner soon dis charged himself, by issuing a warrant for the arrest of the men and turning the warrant over to the United States marshal. ... The marshal's worries were not long lived, for' within -a short time he had the defendants removed to the federal corridor of the county Jail. ACTIOS IS BAFID Friday the United States attorney ab solved himself of further responsibility when he took the -two men before th United States district court. The court's aqiion was the quickest of all. tt taking the Judge only a few seconds HINDQUARTERS FOR CFllUSTM LIGHTS C. P. Scott &Co. ' Electric Supplies, Fixtures, Wiring . 306 Oak St. - " rr? EACH than, half price. ; We do not guarantee -, all - subjects to be in stock long. 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Just ' because- the prisonets effected a technical landing in the United States Is no sign they can stay here, says th Immigration office. Now tt Is up to the Immigration department to deport th, aliens when they are released from JalL KuKluxKlan Faces fieceivership With Arrest for, Leaders . - ,. . . j ; - (Br Cntomal Brtk) : Philadelphia, Dec 6. Receivership tor the Ku Klux Klan and possible crimin al action against Edward Young Clark and Mra Elisabeth Tyler probably will be the next move on th part Of thou- BWIUI V ........Jin n mv ..w . v - m -m from the organisation after th nation wide exposures of the klan's working. F. W. Atkins, former .grand goblin of the Atlantic domain who admits h was fird." is" authority for the statement, ppophesylng legal action. His announce ment closely followed word from At, lanta that "Imperial Wisard" Simmons had taken to the mountains for his "health," Clarke Is said to have been left tn full control of th tottering klan. 1 . - " I' Atkins said: "Receivership is my Mea el what should be don. The other grand goblins who were fired ' at th same time I was will help in exposing the true state of affairs. Whether we will also file criminal charges will de pend on the concensus of opinion." Mtt.TflV OTITJ rSLLOltS ELECT Milton, Dec. 5. At th last meeting of th If O. O. F. lodge the following offi cers wer elected : Noble grand. 8. R. Ramsey ; vie grand, C A. Bliss ; finan cial secretary. W. E. Dawn: recording secretary, C M. Truesdale; treasurer J. F. Craddick. 5 c RECORDS PHONOGRAPHS Guaranteed Brand New YKO-HS FACTOBT B1BECT TO TOTJ Half Price and Less "Don't throw your money away. What you save her will pur chase the balance of your Christmas gifts and leave a balance in th bank. It's worth investigating. 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