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THE OREGON DAILY JOUKHAU PORTLAND; OREGON. SEATTLE GIRL, 13, QUITS SCHOOL TO I 01 HER E f to ' because she didn't want to go school, pretty Florence Thereep. 13-year-old rnjaa, slipped away from her homj In Peatrle Thursday and boarded a' train for Tortland. But her family. became suspicious and hcn she alighted here at 1:15 o'clock ah waa met by detectives who held her at the request of Seattle authorities. ."No, there. Isn't a boy in. It at all,, she told Mrs. Myrtle 8. Keiser of the woman's protective division, who questioned her Thursday night- "Last night I didn't know 1 was coir In it, but I wanted to see l"ortland. an1 ao I came." Miiis Thorsen is Just five feet tall and neatly drrsscd. Her manners make her sem somewhat older and ahe seemed to ihlnk that a little trip to Tortland all alone waa nothing for a 11-year-old girl EIFECTED TO WORK "You've traveled before, then 7 asked Mrs. Kelaer. "Ob, yea. I waa. In Norway two years ago, and spent quite a while in New TorkV she replied. "I like it." She said ahe had never worked at a steady job, but she had enough money to bring her to, Portland. "I thought I could work here and get along," ahe said. , "What woulfl a girl like you do?" asked Mrs. Kelser. "Weli. I don't know. Anything." Miss Thorsen is it) 11 In grade school, she told her questioner. "But I didn't like It very well." she declared. HOMESICK OX TRAI 8he aald she was a little bit homesick on the train, and wrote her mother a let ter. When she was settled In Portland she Intended to write another telling "where she was, she told Mrs. Kclscr. "Well, don't you know your mother would come after you?" she waa asked. "Tea; But she was coming down here anyway, I rucm 1 11 have to go back to Seattle and go to school." .Police expect relatives of the girl to arrive here today to ta;ke her back home. She waa placed In the detention rooms of the woman's protective , division Thursday night. Reports on Date of v Genoa Conference Are Contradictory London. Ffeb. IT. (L N. & Contra dictory reports were received here today regarding4 the date for the opening of the International economic coaf erenc at Genoa. A Daily News dispatch from Rome aald that the - opening ; had been postponed until April IS. Later a dis patch from Rome quoted the Corriere D Italia as saying that the conference would not be postponed, but would open on the original date. March t. It was announced at the foreign of fice at noon that jno official notifica tion bad been received from Rome re garding postponement of the conference. It was admitted.-1 however, that the meeting may be delayed, following the preliminary conference of experts. Irish Bill Passes Second Reading; Is Victory for Premier LAST WITNESS i- E WILL MOOR CONTEST HEARD London. Feb. .17. (L N. S.) The Irish free state, act, conferring the powers of the Anglo-Irish treaty upon the pro visional government- at Dublin.- was passed by the bouse: of commons 'this afternoon upon second reading. The -vote was: For the bill. S02 ; against, 60. , This vote automatically rejects amend ments to the bill ' which bad been pro posed. The passage of the bill was a big victory for Premier Lloyd George. The political foes of the premier had made their supreme fight upon the meas ure and upon the premier s Irish policy Austen Chamberlain, government spokes man in commons, had plainly Intimated before the vote was taken - that if the bill. was defeated the Lloyd George cab- Inje.would resign forthwith. Call Conference to Approve Cable Pact WashinRton, Keb. 17. (I. N. &) The International communications confer ence will be called Into sessions next week to approve the Pacific cable agree- mentaached during the armament con ference and to attempt to allocate the remaining ex-German cables in the At lantlc, it was announced at the state department today. Sculptor Opposes "" Mt, Tabor Park for Roosevelt Statue Tnat Mount Tabor park was not a suitable place for the equestrian statute of Theodore Roosevelt was the opinion expressed by A, Phlmster Proctor, th sculptor. In a 'letter received this morn-' Ing by Commissioner 8. C Tier, bead or tnt Roosevelt committee. J rtans of the park and Its contour were sent to Proctor when It waa decided that the statue, donated to the city by Dr. Henry Waldo Cos, should be located on the crest of the mountain. Proctor state in hi letter that he la or the opinion the statue' is not big enough for the area and that the spot la too isolated from the city. The letter sucrest that the triangular plot at Nineteenth and Washington streets or a place In the south park strip in rroni or the Arlington club be used. To consider th suggestion of the , sculptor a meeting of the committee will be held next wek, Pier said. i After, four weeks of heated litigation. the last -witness left the stand at 11 o'clock this morning in Circuit ! Judge Tazwell's department in the I. K. Moore will contest case. The Judge announced that his time would be taken up with other matters and that he would put off hearing arguments of attorneys for at least a month. Mrs. Greta Moore Thompson, contest ant, was on the stand most of the morn lng as a rebuttal witness in her own be half. She said she had- never bad a pair of silk stockings as long- as she lived with her father, L. K. Moore, and her stepmother, Mrs.. Jessie KJrod , Moore, which, was virtually up to the time of her marriage. Mrs. Thompson was disinherited by her father, and Mrs. Moore received the en tire estate. A redivlsion is asked by Mrs. Thompson. Attorneys for Mrs. Thompson today marshaled many .little incidents of the Moore home life in. an effort to show that Mrs. Thompson was neglected by her stepmother, and that her stepmother, in turn, influenced, her father to he in different to her. Mrs. Moore admitted on the stand that she had told her stepdaughter that L. K. Moore was about to leave the first Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Thompson's mother, at the time the first Mrs. Moore died. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore of Mojo, Or., were called to the stand and testified that they had never known a man to grieve as L. K. Moore grieved at the time of his first wife's death. He would never have left her, they said. The two Moore families lived ' together above a little store in Grass valley at the time. ; Cotton Mill Strike Shows No Change (Br United Xewsi ' Boston. Feb. 17. Dispatcher from the New Hampshire and Rhode Island cot ton mill strike centers to the United News failed to show any noteworthy de velopment today, and the situation, so far as any prospect of settlement is con cerned, is at a deadlock. . ' - Funeral of Pioneer Of Mt, Tabor District To Be Held-Saturday Maria Lavina ' Rathbun, widow of Lieutenant James & Rathbun and pion eer of the Mount Tabor district, died Thursday at her home. 129 East Fifty fifth street south. - Funeral services will be held at 11 o'clock: Saturday morning in the chapel of the East Bide Funeral Directors. Mrs. Rathbun was 78 years old. r. She was bora in Perry, 111. .With her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Os- born, she crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852. She attended the Willamette uni versity. In 1863 she married Lieutenant Rathbun, then stationed at Fort Yam hill. Lieutenant Rathbun died 17 years ago. Four of their fiv children are liv ing-: May I. Rathbun. E. J. Rathbun and Dolly L. Hudson,. all of. Portland, and Guy J. Rathbun of Olympia, wash. T. W. 8TCART " W. W. Stuart, Civil war veteran, born in Salem, Ind, en December 24. 1(38. died .Wednesday in Portland, where he had made his- home for the last two years. Before moving to Portland Mr. Stuart and his family resided for many years hi Hastings, Minn. He was a member of Teller post No. 89, Dakota lodge No. 7, A. P. and A M.. of Hast ings. He waa married in 1860 to Nancy I Theta Nine Fraternities 1 With Low Grades Are on Probation J. Corn well of Louhrvflle. Kv. Four of Alpha Ta Ohms the children, besides Mrs. Stuart, sur- I Via r-i u . vive: wunam -mormon stuart, airs, i -nh Ri rw.it meopatra Juymaa, Mrs. own a May Acer 1 Sigma cfci and Floyd. Stuart Oregon Agricultural College, -Corvallis. Feb 17. Nine fraternities ex the col lege have been automatically put on probation because scholastic averages last term were lower than the student body average of Mil Chi Alpha ; Pi lead the men's fraternities with an av erage of 88.93. The average of men In fraternities was 85.61. for women-' in so rorities. 85.S7; women, not in frater nities. 88.43 ; men not in fraternities. 83.45. Following were the grades received : Chi Alpha Pi t . Scm PU Kprilon . Pi Kappa Alpha Phi. Signs Kappa - Kappa Delta Sigma Sigma Alpha Epsiion Alpha- PI IVlta Alpha Sigma Phi . , Delta l pilon Theta Delta Ka nramt No Phi Delta. Theta- .,, Heaven .-...... Gamma Sutma Eappa lambda Chi Alpha Kappa Sigma Kappa Theta Rho . Sigma Nil 8itma iigmma Omega T'peilon Obi .. SS.84 .. S7.7S .. SS.52 SS.ST . . SS.22 . . 85.97 . . S5.M , . 85.72 . . S5.71 . . S5.7 . . S1S.34 . . S5.29 . . 85.28 . . 84.71 . . 84. SI . . 84.43 .. K4 84.04 .. 83.SS . . 83 8 .. 83.58 .. 82.00 . i 82.57 . 81.49 .. 81.26 ........, . . .... i The, retail shoe dealers of the state also will meet in Rose burg on these days and Oregon Industries - week, general over the state, will fe especially celebrated here. ) Merchants have been offered Oregon manufactured products. . Citizenship fienied y To emptedAliens . Che halis. Wash Feb. 17. Wednesday ciflzensbip was granted to Wilhelrn Kummtr and Carl John Vassmer, Ger many : Axel Magni Hoard, and Per Ous taf Sundberg,-Sweden; Antonio Turre, Italy; Francis Stone Xindley. Harry Dellman . Linn and Richard Kdward Kelly. Canada; George WlllUm Lover - idge. England; John Michael .Doyle, Australia ; Abraham Youdovitch, Poland ; Charles Volmar Larson, Finland ; Chris tian Eberhard. John Staoavey and EmU Haltiner. Switserlaad. and George Ethe- mion Cachlanotia, Greece. William Busek and Wincenty Lech. Austria, were denied with prejudice, both having claimed exemption as aliens. - FRIDAY, . FEBRUARY 17rf 1922. Student Takes Pills; Nearly Wrecks Self Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallia, Feb, 17. Taking pills almost wrecked R. Waddell of Tacoma. Wash., a resi dent in the men's dormitory. Tuesday night Waddell attempted to cure a had coid and headache by taking pills ha found in the room. His roommates were forced, to snmmon assistance to keep the victim from injuring himself while in a delirium. He was removed to the college hospital, where he quieted down enough to sleep. - SB. fiAKBT J. ICELLY Funeral servioes for Dr. Harry J. Kelly, dentist, who died Thursday in his home, 1137 . Williams avenue, will be held at 11 :3Q Saturday morning in Fin- ley's parlors. Dr. Kelly Is survived by two sons, Walter and Mathew ; a daugh ter, Tberessa B. Kelly, and his father, Walter J.' Kelly, all of Portland. OSCAR TURNER DECLARED NOT VUILTT OF HOLD-TJP Oscar Turner, negro, had no part in the robbery of Elmo Avery in the Eu reka Social club. Fifteenth and Lovejoy streets, November 18, a jury in Circuit Judge Gatens' court decided after 15 minutes or deliberation Thursday ' after noon. Most of the evidence submitted by the state pointed to James Raglan, another negro, as the actual robber. Raglan held up Avery when the latter refused to lend him $5, the state claims. Turner was the "outside" man, it was main tained. , , Raglan and Turner were arrested a few hours after the holdup. Turner at that time claimed he was the owner, of the gun used by Raglan in the robbery. Sultan's Dignity in Way of lReconciling, Turkish. Differences Commissioner Pier Resumes His Duties MAN ASKS $2808 DAMAGES BECAUSE HE WAS BEATEN TJP William P. Lord claims that he went Into the shop at 408 East Clay street op January 30 to ask an explanation of why he had been short changed, as he alleges. He asks $26,500 damages because the proprietors, N. Berti, A. Berti-and G. Quilicl, are alleged to have shot him in the leg and beaten his face with a ham mer. (Special Cable to The Journal and Chicago l Jau t news) (Copyright. 1922) Constantinople, Feb. 17. The sultan's dignity stands in the way of a. reconcili ation between him and the Angora re gime. Yusuf Kemal, the Nationalist foreign minister, is here, having been commis sioned by the national assembly to pre sent the Nationalists' terms to the gov ernmenu The conditions are considered accept able by government officials in Constan tinople but they fear the sultan will re fuse even to see Yusuf as he has de clared repeatedly that -the Nationalists must accept his orders and that it would be undiginified for the caliph to discuss conditions with his own subjects. The Nationalists propose that Constan tinople should be the executive center while the- national assembly should re main the; legislative -power. 'The sultan. under the -conditions, would appoint the cabinet ministers, hot the navy, army, interior and justice portfolios should be Plans for Keeping Up Pacific U. Discussed Pacific University, Forest Grove. Feb. IT. "Not for a minute have we' thought that Faclflo university will close Its doors or that Its standard will be low ered from' what they are now, despite the rumors that have gone about within the last week." is the substance of chapel talks given by H. K. Wit ham. president of the Associated Aluml of Portland; J. B. Alley. Mrs. Kdyth Toiler Weather red and M. T. Potts of Portland. They told of plana of the alumni to Carry on the endowment campaign, which has not been abandoned. Commissioner S. C. Pier, who has been ill (or several days with grippe, reported at his office for a few hours' work: to-; day. The commlsioner said.thatiwh.lle, he was still suffering from the 'illness there were certain matters that had,' to be cleared up, ! J, ' " . 1 Chamber Prepares For Big Smoker i Transformation of; the main dining room of the Chamber of Commerce was taking place today tn preparation for the smoker which will be held there this evening under the auspices of the Com mittee of 100. An old-fashioned bar was being arranged at one end and an arena was being- roped off in the center for three four-round boxing bouts. SIXTY-DAT SENTENCE Antone Morris and Mike South pleaded guilty today before Judge Bean to sell- ins moonshine at their soft drink estab Ushment at 65 North First street and were sentenced tp 60 days each in jail. uoutn iuiea uie- Dot u as,- srhiie Morris presided behind the bar, ' collected the money and attended, to ? arrangements. Morris is ill at his home wdth influenza and was granted a 10-day stay of execu UUU, ... i. STILL BRINGS' liOtf tVUci V A fine of $500 was Imposed this morn ing by District Judge Deich on Ed Marty,. 1974 East i Alder street, wlsen Marty pleaded gujlty to being the owner of an active 35-gallon still and 150 gallons of mash found at his home. Deputy Sheriffs Beeman, Schirmer and Wolfe,, who made the raid, located nine gallons of moonshine with the still. TWO SEEK DITOECE9 Oregon City. Feb. 17. Divorce suite were filed here Thursday by H. F. Way against Grace A. Way, and Ina Iteming ton against Joseph Remington. The Ways were married at Dunedin, New Zealand. March 28, 1908, and the Remingtons at Napavlne, Wash., 0?lo- ber i. 1931. SOLD GINt FINED liot For selling: a-in in his apartment Frank Sheehan was fined $250 by Jude Bean this morning, bheehan pleaded guilty. CHARLES BECKER Silverton, Feb. 17. Delbert Reeves post. American Legion, held a military funeral today for Charles Becker, logger. accidentally killed in the Silver Falls camp Monday. Becker saw service at St. Mihiel and in the Meuse-Argonne fighting. . Owner of Property Gams Small Sum By Going to Court Now that the claim of John Maleski for additional damage from the city for the extension of Interstate avenue has been settled in court, authority will be asKea or the city council to enter the assessment for the project on the lien docket, A. G. Johnson, assistant com missioner of public works, said today. According to the estimate of the city engineer, Maleski was allowed $289 dam ages to, his property by the extension. This waS protested and taken to the cir cuit court: The jury decided Thursday that the award should be $450. The dif ference will be made up from the general fund. Johnson said, as it would cost more to reapportion the asssessment in the district.. By law all assessments for street ex tensions must be paid before the exten sion can be made. The proposed exten sion of Interstate avenue is a diagonal from Fremont street to Delay and Mor ris streets, and one from Prescott street to Mason street, eliminating jogs in the avenue at both places. The estimated cost of securing right of way and award ing damages is approximately $52,000. Gresham to Have Big Sing Tonight A community sing under the ausnicea of the Business Men's club will be held in Gresham this evening. The Union High School orchestra will play, and the taring? will ba ted hv H W Rlmn, Judge G. wl Staple ton wUl make an ad dress on TJommnnity Singing as one of the elements in the development of community spirit. SCOUTS MAKE BIG PLANS . 'Albany. Or.. Feb. 17. Plans for or ganisation of 20 Boy Scout troops in Linn county, with a total membership of 600, are being made by Scout Executive E. E. McWain. The county has five troops, including one organised Wednes day at Lebanon; three 1st Albany and one at Halsey. WOMAN IS ACQUITTED Boise. Idaho, Feb., 17. Mrs. Margaret Crossley, charged 'with shooting a neigh bor, Mra Effie Patten, with intent to kill, was freed by a Jury at Caldwell at midnight Thursday. The defense was temporary insanity. The shooting i the result of a protracted neighborhood feud. RELIEF FCNDS.S0C6HT Kelso, Waah Feb. IT. it C New berry, field director of 'the Near East relief. Is m Ccmilrs coanty supervising the campaign for funds, f Kelso is asked to support IS orphans. Castle Rock and Kalaroa 10 each and Woodland 7. reriiouft Situation Avoided by Girl "Oh, Elsie, 1 in worried to death. The boss has been so cross lately. I am afraid he will fire me. That would be nothing less than a calamity and I don't know what I'd do. Mr. Brown said 1 was retttnr nervous and cross and that I had better quit dancing all night. 1 was so dazed 1 couldn't say a thine. I haven't danced for ages. That's the .sad thine about it 1 haven't any clothes to wear anywhere, so I have been staying home evenings trying; to make me a party dress out of some goods I bought at a sale. . And 1 am no seamstress. Sewing- makes me so nervous, and 1 am worried half sick because ) have about ruhied my material." ' "Cut out the sewing. That's what makes you nervous. The boss objects to that because 'you can't work so well. You will save money by using your evenings for pleasure. "And you should buy your clothes at Cherry's, 349 Morrison Street. You don't have to pay the whole amount at once, you know. No first payment is required for the next 30 days, then small Tionthly payments. They are open on Saturday nights, too, until 8 o'clock. Cherry's have the entire second floor at Park and Morn son St. Entrance, 349 Morrison, center of the block. Take eleva tor." Adv. SPECIAL SALE SATURDAY ALL Draperies PRICE CASH ONLY KO EXCHANGES AFTER GOODS HAVE BEEN til home 'FURNISHERS wo-WrFTrY ST! raff (MM MM Picture Owners of New York 'Adopt Morality Clause Albany, (Br United N N. Y Feb. 17. The New Picture Theatre has written a caliph on the recommendation of the moralUy cIaUfle into ltB constitution. the Na.tiona.Met3' ami- the remainder gro to the f olowers of ihe sulUn. while the I York State Motion grand vizier would be appointed by the Owners association council of ministers. Poiucare Cabinet . Policies Approved Ab a result of the Arbuckle and Tay lor cases and the unenviable publicity accorded the motion picture business through the scandals now becoming pub lic, the theatre magnates wiiVrefuse to exhibit any films featuring; "any person guiltily involved, in any immorai, inde cent or notorious affair, or whose chief bid for fame is notoriety. Following this decision the assocla- Parls. Feb. 17. X N. S.) An unani mous vote of confidence was given to the chamber of deputies, upholding the S . ,Jl- premier on both foreign and domestic P 'V CT 2- policies. The vote places the chamber ' ' ' ..v " squarely behind the premier in his ef forts to have the Genoa economic con ference postponed and his conditions for an Anglo-French treaty of alliance. Sheriff Convicted Of Neglect of Duty Ardmore, Okla. Feb. 17. (X N. S.) Sheriff Buck Garrett of Carter county was found guilty today by the Jury which heard the ouster suit brought against 'him. ' He was charged with neglect of duty, wilh permitting Viola tions of the prohibition laws and failure to suppress gambling and immorality. unfortunate position as one of the cen- i ters of attraction of the Taylor case. Roseburg Host to State Conventions Roseburg, Feb. 17; A large delegation is assured from Southern Oregon to the retail merchants' convention in Rose burg, February 20-22.- Roseburg bus! ness men who have Just returned from a trip to the Southern Oregon cities say that the cooperation and enthusiasm there assures a large .delegation to the Icoseburg meeting. More business men will leave for the northern part of the state today to advertise the convention. A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE Shows at 11, 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 n NsV ; y 7 ' a .. v w v v nr' 1 V A: - t V ? - - " - , , t v LAST TIMES TODAY "3 LIVE GHOSTS" (NOT A GHOST STORY) NEW SHOW TOMORROW A JOHN M. STAHL Production "THE OF - SONG LIFE" i i "SONG OF LIFE" is the master work of the man who made "The Child Thou Gavest Me," also with Richard JHeadrick the child star. v i.. ' ';' ;r -iy. . '.-v- A DRAMA OF DISHES AND DISCONTENT - " With RICHARD HEADRICK, GASTON GLASS, GRACE bARMOND, GEORGIA WOOD THORPE AND A BIG CAST A Picture for Wives, Mothers and Every Mother's Son of Us X -t ADDED ATTRACTIONS: iScreenland .News, Yitagraph Cbmed 'THE MESSENGER" Knowles' Players m .tar ca.t J 2Y -f'SP ever auem- t3 V 4 & 3? bled: Florence - LSSffSfkK Vidor, Madge Sfi Wffe W' Bellamy. Theodore T S I Roberts, TullysMar- ' rJ' Hughes, Charles Meredith, tf Edward Martindel, Mathilde fiftjSr Brundage, Gertrude Claire. jSlSc An epic of the weaker sister drama of love and youth an in dictment of bigotry, hypocrisy and sham religioc a picture that marks a new epoch in the screen art. At the TOMORROW TIMES TODAY IN PERSON L