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saw. CITY EDITION lf All U f and Ift All Tram THE MARKET BASKET You are net prepared, mm yaw should b, to shop until , , you have glanced ever The Joornale Mar . set Basket. Whtlper It la variety, some CITY EDITION If AU Her and ft AU Tram -. THE WEATHER Tonight end Wednee , : Jay. rai ; a torts meetly southern . . . ' Minimum temperatures Monday:. . , Portland . New Orleans . M Frfrtle l , Nfw Tork t Los Angeles 4 8t Paul s..vi... 2 1: thing different or fronomT you aces, tha Market Peaket supplies the need. VOL XX. NO. 238. KaWM m aennd-Cavat Watte? t FwtoUie. rwtlM, Orwa PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, '1922 EIGHTEEN PAGES. . PRICE TWO CENTS M ntam awo "trwe. tajim rivt CUT Newberry Election Contest in Senate Will .Be FACTOR IN - f . . Campaign, With Other Issues Figuringi in ; ELECTIONS -By John M. Gletssner J VtiM,Xrww ftu'f Cecroo-s. y Waahlngton. Jan. lw Important quee tona cor-front congress aa the new year begins, tba settlement of which may ex- art an imporcaiii. m- i Cue nee on electlona J' next November. I Leaders of both parties have thaae elections la sight and succeeding itiontha will deter mine tha Issues on wbieh tha campaign will b ifL The Republicans tn No vember will co be fore the people (or tha firat time since their return to power. Tha entire membership of the In addition terms ft Diinnrrhrn I I na, a ' BB BB BB BB B OUUbllLULU BY SPROUL T Mount Hood Is Glimpsed In Phantasm Run over to Mount Tabor Park and step up to Crater Rock! j That little dinner-hour expedition ' is Ira possible, of course, bat it looked like a simple little jaunt this morning- when, despite a heavy haze. Mount Hood seemed to come down to Monta villa to visit. I 'Con jecturea aa to whether the vision wan a mirage or the product of some telescopic quality in the hase were rife among those who glimpsed the sight of CL 0. P. Leaders He Will Be on Way to Senate After Fu . neral; May Vote for Newberry. Seaater Bewberrjr liouaa la Is ba elected. of II Democratic and 17 Republican sen ator expire. Tha Newberry cue loom aa-a probable factor. This will come he fire Ota senate for settlement next week and a real old fashioned political battle la In prospect. If Newberry U seated, tha Democrats will use the fact : tn their plea for votes. rtomocrata, aided by a group of Re publicans, will seek Newberry's exclu sion and will endeavor tn force him to leatffr personally concerning the 12(3,000 which: it la charged he spent In the Mich igan elections. -IX RKrCBLICASS JOJ.T4 ' i There are IS Democratic votes counted against Newberry, and at least six Re publicans Borah, La Toilette, Kenyon. Norrta. Ladd and Nor beck. Other Re publicans believe that Newberry should defend himself. ' Tha margin of votlea tn Newberry's favor la small at beat, and tha Republican-' feeders-are concerned over tha out- ..aarhe. Tha decision should be reached tha latter part of next week, under the agreement to limit debate. . Tha tariff la a perennial Issue and the passage or a permanent measure la ex , posted with I tt a ahort time. The aenata finance aomrn'Utea will! shortly report out tha bin.- which ; previously paaaad the hduse, atv endeavor to obtain It early pasaaca. Democrats.' becked bv a coq- stderabl aectloa of public opinion, are ready to condemn the highly protective let lea contemplated by tha Republicans aa injurtoua to trade and prosperity, ftlfEVtri BUI. TACTOB X Tha revenue bin, naatlsfactortly even ' ia tvs epenaora. bmi tm ttoavatad to it mora nearly conform to tha wtahee oc tae administration,: President Hard Ing has signified hla I Intentloa of aak tr for ehangea when other, and more preaatng, auainaaa ta out of tha way. ' Democrats contend this measure favors tno rtcn. ! ', xne question of at ship subsidy la peadlag. rraatdent Harding within six , weeks will send, a special measure to ooogroaa. aaklng that a subsidy plan t m aaoptad and declaring that this U toe only means by which tha American ro re nan marina may bo preserved. Taia la eartaln to provoke debate for . ' ,B aeaate and hoase are far mora satis- iwa wiui uie aecompiishinenta of tha anrpping board under tha present ad salnlctratloav xna soldier bonua will come to tha , xrem again, members of both chambers ara preparing to Inatot that Prealdent i itaratng reoeem l pledge that tha bill . woura receive attenUon. made when It waa aneivao at Me request. I SKCTIOXAL FIOHT RICH , s The house will be tha scene of a bitter I pactional rgnt over the Dyer aati-lyach ing piik TMe meaaura mav fiarure in I tha afforu of tha Republicans to Invade i ma uemocrauo strongholds of the 8outK i , .a y.iuvu i tneee inmgs me senate, , ; baforo long, will have placed before it tba treaties growing out of the arms 1 conference. There Willi be long debate oa these, a fact that 'Is becomingly ln 1 creaalngly . apparent There ta wide dla ! aallsfactloa with the Factflc treaty, and 1 reaervatioaa to It already have been pre- i .pared. la addition there will be the Far tta rn treaty, certain to arouse crltl j dam from friends of China, tha naval re ! duotloa treaty- and a fourth pact per. talntng to Tap. ' ; Prealdent Harding la expected to sub ; mU all treaties at tha same time. aUecutive reorganlaaUon remains aa a I eampalga pledge to be redeemed. The i whole question of economy la eartaln to ! receive attention. Tba house will at ; vaea begin work on the supply bills when i It aeeeaablee, with tha pruning knife ! sharpened to eliminate every unneces ' i aary Item. -if I XXWBimBT TO BEAD BIS OX DEFE5SE TO BEXATK Waahlngton. Jan. I.ML N. a Sen- i a tor Truman H. Newberry will appear in me oanaia to answer personally Henry rord s charges that a huge "aluah fund" waa employed to secure hla nomination ui taw jsiciugwn primaries, it waa an- - 1 BonnoaO today. ! ixawoarry . naa already prepared a ' atAtemoBi ta aia darenaa which he la confident will satisfy moat of his Re- . pubUoaa colleaguea that be waa not per- , eonally rasponaibla for any wrongful i expenditure of money In tha Pord-New-, berry campaign, tt waa explained. ' Newberry wUI read tha statement to the senate after final consideration of the- Pord-Newbarry case la begun, by vaaatmoua conaent. probably on Friday, j Newbarrya decialoa to face hla aena I tonal accusers la expected. Republican leader stated, to remove tba last doubt J that be wlU be permitted to retain hla eat by aa ample majority of bis Re publican colleaguea Severn Trapped in Home by Flames , ; Lose Their Lives Aim Quebec. Jan. 1 (LS N. R Bevea paraona, Joeeptl Perron. 8r, his ' elate r-m-law, Mrs. Kdnaond Perron, aad - bar five children, pertened whan tha Par. row Jinnies teed. ' II milea from bore, burned today. Ptra followed tha explo atoa of a laaap filled , by mistake with gaenliao, ' i Mmood Perron and two other children , eonapee by Jumping fata a snow bank. Their clothing waa ta Caaaaa. . By J. Bart CaMpbell ! Waahlngton, Jan. a. (I. N. R) Wil liam C. Sproul of Pennsylvania as sured Republican leadera in the senate over the lonK-distance telephone today that within 24 hours after tha funeral of Boles Penrose he would be on his way here aa Penrose's senatorial suc cessor. Senator Watson of Indiana, one of the Republican leadera of the senate and a close peiKonal friend of Senator rn roaei waa among those who talked with Governor Sproul over the telephone from here. No doubt waa entertained by Senator Wgtaon or other administration spokes men mat Hptoui aad made up his mind to succeed Penrose by first reais-nios: as governor and then having 'himself ap pointee, senator by Lieutenant Governor tfeMleman. -who would succeed him : to the governorship. The closeness of the senate fttrht over the Ford-Newberry election contest waa id to have been the chief reason for the desire of the Republican leadera that I'enrose s seat be quickly filled. They admitted that they needed every votevthey can muster to keep Newberry ,ln Mm neat It waa learned that they ara banking on Sproul to Join the Re publicans who will vote to allow New. berry to retain his aeat The senate waa in session only a few minutes today. Meeting Dromotly at noon. Senator Lodge, the majority lead er, arose and said that the senate had learned with "profound sorrow of the death of Senator Penrose." He there- (Conchided oa Paa Two, Cehnan VTrm) ' DAYLIGHT BANDITS L oa .Wales CaX, Jau- L-r-f t V, B W " niKiragt oi persona tooaea oa m amasement and terror three automobile bandits armed with sawed -off shotguns tooay neid up and robbed Roy H. She wood and A. N. Tryk. collectors for drug company, at Sixth and Broadway, tha heart of tha downtown district- Tba oandita ara reported to tiava obtained tlO.000 In money. The bandits dashed through the street In a large touring car ana escaped. CHICAGO THEATRE SOISKD Chicago. Jan. X. L N. a Two ban ana robbed Uie Columbia theatre, in tba heart of tha business district, shortly be fore noon today.' They overpowered noyo tsoyd, treasurer, forced him open a safe and escaped with 12000 cash. Before leaving they tied Boyd up with ropes. . HOLDUP IS SAN FRA If CISCO San Francisco. Jan. I. U. P.) Four man today robbed two messengers of the California Street Railway com Dan v of IU00. Tba robbery occurred at Jones and California streets. Tha four men eecaped in an automobile, license No. 104389. mmm Eiio TO 2 VICTIMS' SETTLEMENT my I 4 a 1 siiiviift miuw w acv awuiimu 4irj eta, v, rennsylvania Governor Assures U" great ow mountam u rortund-s The snow fields were In splendid per spective, but. the base of tha mountain waa equally visible seemingly far more so than upon clear days. It seemed al most that one might point out JU F. Pridemore on the porch at Government Camp. And the whole scene seemed to be brought so close that the Mount Ta- bcr-Crater rock suggestion, to those who nfted the condition, will appeal aa very reasonable. Man anUWife Tortured by Ban dits Who Invade Home and Demand Money; Get $400; Threaten Death If Police Called Railroad Extension in Central and Eastern Oregon Is Being Seriously Considered, Asserts Secretary of State ? Chamber BRIDGE OF GODS' CONTHACT IS LET Awarding of first contracts for con struction of the "bridge of the gods." automobile - toll bridge to span the Co lumbia river at Cascade. Locks, were announced today by the Bridge of the Gods corporation, the Interstate Con struction corporation of .Washington be ing given the job of putting in the piers on both the Oregon and Washington shores. The company's bid carried the pledge that -the work would be completed with- 90 days after work should be started. The entire project, it was announced, will cost around $450,000 and bo com pleted In 18 months. worK wm do sun-tea immediately on the piers of the Oregon side of the river and as rapidly as water conditions -al low work will be pushed . on the other side. R. R- Clark, a Portland engineer, will be In charge. Los Angeles, Jan. 3. (I. N. S.) Attacked in their homes here by three armed and masked bandits and subjected to t torture, when red hot irons " were placed against their bodies, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Churchill and daughters, Florence ami Mildred, and a guest. J. J. Jaqua of San Luis Obispo, CaL, were held pris oners in the house for three hours and then robbed of $400 early today, accord ing to a report made to the police., Churchill and his wife reported to the police that they were sitting in the front room of their home when three masked and armed figures invaded the room. - COUPLE TORTURED They demanded that Mrs. Churchill give them $500.- When she refused, the bandits struck her viciously and knocked her to the floor. Churchill flew to his wlfe'a assistance and waa pounced upon by the Invaders, who beathlm unmercifully. . The thieves again questioned the couple as to the whereabouts of their Railroads extensions in Central and Eastern Oregon, which are -being con sidered seriously by officials of two major companies, may aid rreatrv in solving the land settlement problem tn this state. 'said George Quayle, secre tary of the State Chamber of Commerce, looay. Quayle told of the interest in the wwk which the railroad companies again are manifesting at the third annual meeting lue siaie cnamber in the green room o me KnamDer or Commerce, A total of.5 delegates from, all sections of the state registered during the morning. Directors and members of the state organisation have been informed, ac cording to Quayle, that an exhaustive study of the Central Oregon country is being made by the .Union Pacific and that. renewed interest likewise is being buuwu pj me oiomnern Pacific. BRANCH tS GOOD SHAPE ine oranch of the Union faritt money. Unable to gain the information, I from Ontario to Crane has been nlar-.ri they heated irons and applied them to J In excellent shape and some new surveys the chests of Mr. and Mrs. Churchill. I have been made on the Natron cutoff" 1 ne f rnnrchllui" tvn Hflli.ht.ra tn Mm. I atairi rhiavU Tv. ..t, ... . - , ... - i i uc nui executives nave .L-pany with Jaqua, returned to the home 1 been shown that with the develoDment Heirs in Law Fight Over Millions Left 13 w Mi.c To t tt;h I UJ J.U10I UOiOi Ui XJ.J-U 6L Paul. Jan. a. (L. N. a) What Is expected to be a long drawn-out legal battle between the children of the late James J, Hill and Mrs. Hill, widow of the "Empire builder, over the adminis tration of the letter's $18,000,000 estate. win , start here m Ramsey county pro- beoirt..Wadaaoa:w Bix of the brothers and sisters araiara f were notified. r to be united tn opposition to ixiuia.w. i flvtn er.u4mn W- a..,, to the Churchill home -Immediately fol lowing a telephone. can for aid. The neighborhood is being scoured. Mr. and Mrs. Churchill were removed to the Receiving hospital. They are se riously injured and burned, surgeons sua. at i this time. They were immediately held up at the point of guns and marched into the "torture room." HUSBAND BEATEN The thugs then forced Mrs. Churchill to disrobe, according to the police re port, under threat of attacking her daughters if she refused to comply. Churchill, injured, again sprang to his wife's assistance and waa dubbed into unconsciousness with a revolver butt. The bandits started a systematic search of the house. Under a carpet In the bedroom 'they found $400. Mildred Churchill, one of the daugh ters, attempted to interfere. . Shut up or ril knock your teeth down yonr throat, one of the bandits told her. Other threats were made. police oar TRAIL. - Tha men remained another hour and then nedK;ireatenlB: ; to return and the peace opposition Hill of St. Paul, who has asked the court to make Wm administrator of his moth er's eatate. " . : . Members of the family refuse to dis cuss what they eonrider to be a family affair. ' James N. Kill of New Tork has ar rived here with a group of New Tork attorneys. He will be supported in the court battle by Mrs. E. C. Lindley, Mrs. George T. Slade, Mrs. Michael Gavin, Mrs. Emil Boeckman and Walter J. Hill. Mrs. Samuel Hill of Seattle, Wash.. Is the only Hill heir said to be taking sides with Louis W. Hill. Ownership of "North Oaks." the mil lion-dollar Hill farm, deeded to Louis W. Hill by bis mother shortly before her death, waa said to be the principal cause of the controversy. TATE. AND ViLLS I TO FIGHT IT OVER INDIANA BANK ROBBED Waverly. Ind.. Jan. I. fl. N. S.V Two masked bandits shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon held up and fobbed the Waverly bank of between $1400 and $1500 in cash. Mike Breen Perhaps Fatally Hurt When Struck by Motorist Harry . WiUa and Bill Tate, the riant colored heavyweights, are going to set tle ,tne question of supremacy next Fri day evening at the Milwaukle boxing commission in a scheduled 10-round con test The bout will be free to those who at tended Monday afternoon's fiasco. Spec- of new irrigation districts there will be a toal annual tonnage estimate of 3,500, 000 In the Central Oregon territory and this does not take into consideration the timber and other offerings of this vast district." . The interest in the road building pro gram that may be under consideration arose from a discussion of the land set tletnent problem. Quayle said that the land settlement question was becoming more serious each year with the devel opment of more irrigation projects. The secretary said : ' . "tt is not my intention to spread pes simism, but a word of caution must he givan in regard ta settlement in view of the .development of irrigation districts. SETTLERS E8SENTIAL Jt does not tar to omnl irrin. tioa districts, prepare them fbrcuitrra tfcwjand . bay tba Water. , rights, msseee. aaa - made - unless tha -district -has settlers. Other- districts should not be laid out natl we hay tha present dMa tricts settle. We are not ready for the state to issue bonds for -new districts because it will be hard to tell where we will be at the end of five years when the bonds come due. "Oregon now has 1.010.000 acres of land In Irrigation districts and 1.900.000 (Concluded, aa Pate Tiro, Cot tuna Three) EYE ON ELECTION Yarik Princess Aids Russia TVRINCESS ' CANTACUZENE, granddaughter of . General Y Grant, at her desk in the headquarters used by the general during the Civil war and where she is now directing her work as chairman of the central committee on. Russian relief. The headquarters are located ; opposite the State, . War and Navy bunding, Washington. - j 0 Kj 1 t I .aS?,sJ LONG-BELLTO m LLS, TIMBER Deal Involving $15,000,000 Re ported Near "Conclusion for Oregon and California Prop erties; Hammond Denies: It SOLDIERS BATTLE STORE ANNOUNCES .NIOBSIWAST A FIVE-CQff LOAF 3MamjfSM4&- if; . Moba held this citar In : reign f terror through out' tho entire night.-. Heavy fietachmenta of soldiers battled the mobs In an, effort to elear,ta streets and reatora. order. Ke?TorltTaa.tXai"?.) t-cent loaf f bread came back today. The Atlantic Pacific .Tea stores aa- notnaced that at its "BOou atorea througk- The soldiers fired on the moba aadlout the country tha' standard iiu tnf used tha bayonet. I weighing 14 ounces wlU be" sold for i armored ears are patrouing the streets I cents. today. A. B. Hammond haa aold all tha prop- erty of tha Hammond ' Lumber eom- paay to the Long-Bell Lumber eomnany.' of Kansas City for 91&.O00,000, aad actual ' transfer is being concluded at a con- . f erence in San Francisco between Ham-' mond and R. A. Long of tha Long-Bell , Interests, according to apparently well- founded reports, which, however, ara de nied by officials of the Hammond Lorn- - ber company. ; -1 Tha reported sale Include aoane of the ', largest Umber holdings on tha Pacific coast, thousands of acres In Oregon and California. vt ; It Includes the big Hammond miUa at" Astoria, Mill City on the Santlam river, ahd tha famous redwood "mill, said ta be . the largest in the world, at Eureka, CaL ' It includes the Hammond lumber ships, 1 one of the best equipped fleets tn a single ownership. It include the big ' Hammond distributing yards In Loa Angeles and other California eiUea. RAILROADS INCLUDED " - - It includes logging railroads built to connect Hammond timber areas with Hammond mills. ' Aa timber owner, railroad operator, miller, ship operator and retailer. Ham- mond made it possible In a way fre quently spectacular to control his en tire bustnea from the tree to the con- ' sumer. - The sale doea not Include tha Missoula Mercantile company of Missoula. Mont., eald to do a business of $LaO0.0O0.a year, - George B. McLeod. Portland manager - for tha Hammond intereata. said today 1 that reporta of tha deal were Incorrect. . . "There has been no sale of tha Uam- . mond company to Long-Bell nor' la any pending.- aald McLeod. 'Both are Urge companies oparaticg along alznUar ltnea, which may have given' rise to tha re- portav-! . t. . wr.-.v , ,. . The transaction ia recarded as mark ing tha deftnlte removal of major op eration by the Long-Belt cornpany from tna eoutnara Una field, where tt haa long been -one t tba iargeat operating icerna. to tae wcaiara rtr Held. It Is taken aa a oonOnaation of the pre diction that Southern pine will be closed out la a. decade aad. that operators la Southern plne will, one by one, brine Up to noon two men naa been killed and many wounded. Crowds of men, drunk with whiskey seised in looted atorea, fought the po lice' and soldiers until a dosen armored carr drove op on -the sidewalk and threatened to run' them down. Tho crowds dispersed nfy to gather in some new quarter. Time and again the aol diers charged with fixed bayoneta or fired volleys over- the heads of the rioters. " v butter xrotnr nr sroxANii Spokane. Wash., Jan. X. Retail nrioas of butter dropped 4 cents a pound Tues day, ta Spokane,-the new prices being 41 ana f cents. The price has declined f cents In three weekm, Wooleaala batter prices are 40 cents for wrapped and 41 oenta zor carton butter. Prisoner Is Dead; ! Fellow Convict Is . Held for 'Murder1 Walla Walla, Wash.. Jan. S. Jack Powers, state penitentiary prisoner from Spokane county, is dead and Joe Carlo, a fellow prisoner from Spokane, ia being held for hla murder, aa a result of what prison officiate believe was a fight be tween the two at the state prison this morning. . 1 Both men were committed in . 1S21 Powers March, 3. for grand larceny, and Carlo April It, for second degree burglary. Powers bad a previous record at Montana state prison at "Deer Lodge, and at Spokane city and county Jail. carlo served two years at Bakersf leld, CaL, for burglary., He haa vagrancy records In San Francisco and other Cali fornia citlea and Seattle,- Wash. Little hope waa held out today for the recovery of i Mike Breeh, 54, who struck at Sixth ahd Yamhill streets by an automobile driven bv George H. Rouse, an advertising man with offices in the Merchants Trust building. Mon- More Soldiers Say They Saw Mai. Opie; Kill 3 Doughboys :'.- i.t,' . - '-: , ; ticket will Kj. .k .tv. I nuKuuswn. jan. a lu. r.i More F-nighFs m7esT HSer Ipecta- candidTte lor TZTSSS. LtJL By Lawreaee MarUa Washington, Jan. J. (U. P. Con gress today set out on a long road, at the other end of which lies the congres sional election of 1922. Between now and next amnmev. whan tators who retained the stubs of their j the legislators must go home to make tm-m .v. . i 1 , I r i j ,, . auiuiwn. . , .llror) KCUCnU 1 coo UW UKUUOllI UI m&H ATI hlH)1 I & I i-.- . . , . I . . . . -ianiBrKn kwi, wm in iuen care oi i jr iuth me popular decision of next under the first come, first served rule. November as to the political makeun of Tk. J . . .. . I . . - v i. w ikuiuuo o re-siage ine contest I u next congress. was reached following a lenrthv diacua-l Tariff, further tax revision, the K.. VII- I , . . 1 w - -" day night Breen waa taken to the . lne managers- or the prtn-ioerry case, treaties growing out of the emergency hospital and this morning he I r i"lcI tutui, me memoers oi i umarmameni conierence, xoreign debt Va. with shooting down soldiers in France, reached Senator Watson of Georgia today. William D. Gtllle? Richmond. Va, wrote "I saw Major Opie take a rifle from a soldier on the morning of October , IS IS. . and . shoot another soldier. . I W removed to St. Vincent, hosplta, I TlLlPj-1 !i.,ubid7r wkedy thoeadlO ii ilnt He has a fractured skull. Rouse was driving south on Sixth street and had Just passed the intersec tion of Yamhill street when Breen stepped in front of the machine and was struck by the fender, traffic investigat ora reported. Root Borne Robbed Of Valuable Wines Utica, N. Y.. Jan. . tt P.) The home of Elthu Root at' Clinton. N. Y, waa robbed of a valuable stock of choice wines by thieves who. entered the place while Root waa at the arms conference in Waahlngton, according to an adver tisement in a Utica newspaper offering Viooo reward ror information leading to the arrest and conviction of the thieves. GoodTogsBelieHungerPangs tt m tt tt .; tt ... a. .; tt tte.at; . si., tt' Girl Spurns Charity, Asks Job E. C McFarland, chairman of the Port land Boxing commission. Oeorge Moore, manager of the Mil waukle arena, will, arrange a prelimi nary card of three or four bouts and will pay the participants out of his own pocket. The "return bout is beine stared to give the fans a run for their money. The principals concerned admit that the fans did not get a run for their money, and the statements made-at the conference Tuesday morning bring to light a mis understanding over the instructions. The managers of the princiDale and the commission representatives met this afternoon at 4 o'clock to draw no an agreement The original purses of the boxers will be paid over to them .following their re turn engagement Friday night. -I nose noiding stubs to tickets can ret them exchanged at the Olympic gymna sium any time after 10 o'clock Wednes day morning. these are some of the problems Just aneao. PAUSE FOR PENROSE - Pausing today out of respect to a de parted colleague. Senator Penrose, both houses were to get to work tomorrow on whatever legislative programs their leaders had - mapped out There waa some uncertainty about the program. In the senate the foreign debt refunding bill, which- Prealdent Harding marked "urgent in his mwssga .jeema hope lessly bogged In the finance committee. Tariff revision has beep In progress for many months, but the senate finance committee today seemed no nearer com pletion of. the measure than it waa last November. MORE RETI8I01C BXTfTED Meanwhile, there ia talk in the bouee of beginning at once a "scientific tax revision, to . supplant the temporary" tax bill, passed recently. Many con gressmen' report that business, or tae a tea later. William E. St John of Lynchburg. Vav charged, he saw Major Opie shoot down a ' runner, - the maa .dying' in stantly,., i ..- .... . . The -three men asked to be called be fore -the-.senate committee, ' which sumes hearings .tomorrow oh charges of illegal- hangings aad' killings in tha A- E. F A -girl approached the manager of! a Front street hardware store. "Your windows are dirty." aba aaid. "Will yon let ma clean them? . The girl waa well dressed and her speech waa gentle. The manager did not see the desperation ha her eye, an he smiled In the manner of one who can't be bluffed. "Sura," ho said. 1 The manager waved his hand . "back there," and the girl reappeared withi a pall. "How mucb you going to charge raeT Inquired tha man. to show that ha could play this game. too. ' Wee!I. how much to tt worth? Win you. give me a dollar for itr - i The manager ' was now vaguely alarmed. "Look here do you really mean you're going to wash, those win dows r- . . - ... . ine man oegan to lear ror nia repu tation aa a gentleman. "Well, you're wn now would U aOOK -XOr you clean the windows with all these men standing round? We've got a man for that sort of thing. What do you want wsouiorr itttm vrre . "Well, Tm up against it and I've rot 1 1 W 1 1 QflTl HftTIT1 m to do somethlni-!' I avia AAA Two dollars rattled before the girl "There. said tha manager- "but m not going to have you washing windows." - She aobbed. then seised her hat and coat and ran out of the store away from tho $2. - - . . Then tt dawned upon the man that tn these days respectable clothes, aa' wen aa ragged ones, may cover a starving stomach. " , " ; -, . "Run out and atop her, he cried to two of the clerks. TU find a Job for her homehow." : After awhile tha clerks came back. Up to. Third street and down to the water front aad north and south they had nun ceo. - . - - , - ; But thejsdid not Ss4 Uat jrjri. . , 'The commission's attitude on tha mat-1 farmers, or somebody In their section ter shows that every effort is being of the country, is not satisfied with the made to give the Portland fans clean present ' tax law and wants more , re boxing and to run the gam in a proper vision. and orderly manner In this state. - Senate leaders spent the day canvass This will probebly be the first time in Ing the situation created by Penrose's the history of the ring where two bat- death and preparing to make committee tiers of the calibre of these have agreed I shifts necessitated by that event to battle out the questiou of sunremacvi Tho senate is under agreement to without compensation other than the some diacussion of the Newberry case original purse. r Jthia week. A vote is expected " this Tom Louttit, who refereed the fiasco month. Monday azternoon. haa been agreed upon aa toe reieree tor ine coming bout 235 :Meii Report at Muiucipial'Woodyard Two hundred -and thirty -five men -reported .this morning for. work at tha mu nicipal woodyard. . foot of Sheridan street A-1 W. Jones, director of the city employment agency, announced. . The men- work. In three-hour shifts and In payment receive three meal. tickets. and the, price jot . a bed for the .night The wood cat-win be. sold to . various public organizations. - Crowd Waits Vainly For Wedding: Bride HI, Asserts Pastor Chicago, Jan. L L K. a-iChlcaro society Is bewildered today by circum stances surrounding 'the sudden post ponement of the wedding of - AJlister Mccormick- and Miss Mary ' Landon Baker, which would have united two of the most prominent families in Chicago. The wedding was Called off while the fashionable Fourth Presbyterian church was packed with gueata whose ears were awaiting the - first strains of the wed ding march. ' . ... According to announcement made from It... W TW MM . . M . tor or tne cnurcn. the marriage a postponed because of the sodden nerv oua coUapae of Mlas Baker. It waa declared . ahe had been in for several days. ' ' 'Members of both the VcCormlck and Baker families refrained from any state ment, other than "the " announcement by tne rather or Miss Baker that her con dition was unchanged and-that tt la im possible to "give any information: about thestatus of .the matter." i Carbuncle Fatal to len.G. Jackson ciarksburg. Va..' Jan. . L jc.'s.V-i. uiooo poiaoaing irom a carbuncle rsnaod the death today of -Stephen G. Jackson. widely knows lawyer, former trustee of tne jmi aipaa .Delta raw achool frater nity of Yale and former member of the athletic council of West Virginia uni versity. ., . , CnarhWal en Pate Twt, Catena rear) JAPAN TO BE TOLD TO QUIT SIBERIA . By AI L. Bradf erd Waahlngton. Jan. I. (U. P.WTha Aniertcanr' government' win demand that Japan evacuate Siberia whan tba que- -tion of the domain of Siberia -Is taken up by the arms conference. i The opposition of tha United States to - the con tinned military , occupation by Japan of Siberia is much the same aa '. was the opposition of this government to the Anglo-Japs n we an lance, which new been scrapped for the tour. power Pacific pact. - Alleged communications between France and Japan, made pvblic by rep- ' resentauves or the Chita government and purporting to show collusion betweea -the two powora la Siberia, were aUB being discuss d here today. Ragardlaee of the authenticity of these decunaeata. at is known that soma time ago tha stats -department received a report from one ' of its represaatativaa la the Near East that supports part of the pi saint charges that la, that arrangements wars mads to send the Wrangal uO-BoUbsvUr, forces to Siberia to cooperate with the Japanese. 3TEXT SERIOCS TXTXX The impending dlacuaaion of tha Si berian question may prove the medhna ' for the next serious turn toward a crisis in the conference. ' - This, tn substance, ia uaderatood to - ' be the position of the American govem ment on the continued Japanese mQi tary occupation in Siberia ; - - 1 That Japan has d right to keep 7 her troops there.' - - 2 That Japan by continuing ber milt- ' tary occupation of Siberia ta violating the open door. - I That Japan by this oceupation Taia, at least In effect, violated the agreameat -under which the American and other 'allied troopa Intervened ta Siberia, la - August, ms. to evacuate Or echo-Slovak (CetMOaded aa Pact Twe. Cataaaa Oacl zechenyi Will Begin Mims . oome ' n aa va : . iyes PricecutGrin -.$t - tt :. W, . tt , tt. ' n. Washington, Jan. 2. (L N. &V Count I ! Lastlo . SscbenyL husband of Gladys Interest of Fund To Be Held Monday i (By TJanad Ken) New York Jan, . Plams for a "Wil son hour," to be held from noon to 1 o'clock on Monday, January It, have been announced by Franklin LV Roose velt national chairman for the Woodrow Wilson foundation. :'.-.-' This ceremony win mark the begin ning of a campaign of raising a fund of 11.0ua.ouo or mora wiui which ta ntw 1 awards- In- Wilson s i bubs for J gusbed public aervice- The session of congress today lasted I Vanderbllt tm expected soon to take up but five minutes because of Senator I his datiea aa Hengarian. anlnister to the Penrose's death. . I United States. The count ia in Waah- ingtea awaiting formal notice of his ap- - f I nointmant The atate deoartment 'noti fied the Himgariaa government several by Is Put Back In.Life Walter S. Dickey May. Succeed Has - ' . ' Gather.' around. Prices of folks, to hear good butter, errs, 'bacon. lard, tobacco, cigarettes and cooked oe- weeks ago that Cotmt Sschcoyi was ae-. J reAU dropped today, r ceptable-, This Is no palaver- of' tha ni nfi ssliiml optimist who aeaks in columns of reac- If Latter Resims PiiitPIacetv itli vil " : w 4l - f: ' : ti3 ' " ft i - -r : - ueii-in iuixy jau Kansaa CSty;. Mo, Jan. U. P.)-i Wklter 8. Dickey, Kansas City pubHsher and Republican leader,' . may be ap pointed to the place of Win H. Hays in President Harding's cabinet. If the post master general resigns to enter the mo tion picture Industry, the Kansas City Post declared tooay. 1? : The Poet aaid it based the story on Information from Washington to . local Republican 'poUtkal circles. '" - Charles W. Purdin. slayer of his former wife and H. S, Sigsby in tha worn home. 441 Eaat Forty -seventh atrbat, Frt- i day night was so far recovered from the effect of his attempt to asphyxia ta him self with gas that be was- removed from Hera are . the -figures, becinnlna with batter. Jt' dropped in price. to tha con sumer k ceftts. dragging down the cost to the ridiculous rum of 45 cents a sound. -- - . -, Cause: Importations- of the product from Australia and New Zealand aad probable, shipments from Denmark' . Tobacco hit . the downward . trail it hardly seems possible cigarettes drop ping cents a thousand and tinned St Vincent's hospital this afternoon and placed in a cell In the eincrgency hospital I tobacco a gross. These are whole- in the dty 3aIL- i 4-. I sale pries cuts, but of course, now that the retailer wlH get it cheaper; be can lower his prices. Chewing ., tobsocav dropped t cents a pound. Bacon weat down 1 cents aad lard cent- .,- ' . Tha best eggs were quoted at from 2 cents to S cents less a dosen. Beat stses and fresh are down to 4a and tt cents aad another t cent drop is das Wednes day. ' ,. . -.,- Certain cereals of the alleged pre-. digested sort dropped abeat 24 eeats . a package. '- .-'.- But here, folks, is a sour note. - ' Some of the restaarants stiO charge an extra five cents for soft drinks from which the tax haa been removed; that la, they do unto tha paeon calls atten tion at the cashier's counter to the error -of the waitress who made out the site.