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FINAL BLOW
S AT HAND.
Tell World Germany Has Given
Up Fulfillment; Let French
Come, Is Decision of Manyj
Unemployment Status Grave
Berlin, Aug. 25. Chancellpn Wlrth's
gorernment today was confronted with
the severest crisis since It took office
as a resul of the indemnity " snarl.
I If is learned that decisions of the
ijrravest importance are impending.
' Germany offered : to place 50,000.000
' gold marks at the disposal of the inter
allied reparations : committee as a
guarantee to pledge coal and " Umber
"deliveries, but M. Maucklere, chair-
man of the guarantees committee, re
jects it. Sir John Bradbury, British
representative on tile reparations com
mittee, who came to Berlin with M.
Maucklere to examine Germany's
pledges, was willing ot accept the of
fer, but he was overruled.
The cabinet was in session through
out the greater part of the night. Sub
sequently A. B. Houghton, American
ambassador, called upon Chancellor
"Wirth and made inquiries regarding
the situation. The chancellor made no
effort to hide the seriousness of Ger
many's position atid admitted that a
catastrophe confronts the nation. The
chancellor said that he feared It would
be too late to do any good even if a
five months' moratorium were granted
right now.
STIJfJiES SEES 'WIRTH 5
Later on Hugo Stinnes. the indus
trial magnate, called upon Chancellor
Wirth.
Belief was expressed that the only
thing that can save the present cab
inet from resignation is a flat declar
ation to the world that' Germany has
abandoned the "policy of fulfillment"
j thiit is, the policy of meeting the al
lied demands on Indemnity. Such a
declaration, it was pointed out. . weuld
give the Wirth ministry a united polit
ical front, regardless of all conse
quences, and even If . the ' French should
carry out their threat to occupy the
Ruhr coal fields with troops.
Following the recent speeches of
Premier Polneaf a of France, It is re
garded as certain in some government
circles that Fn&nce will send ber
troops Into the Ruhr within a very
'- abort time.- '- - ... ,
DEATH BLOW SEE3T -
'- The plunge In the value of the Ger
man mark -downward 00 points in a
single day constituted a death blow to
, German, industry. Many factories will
i' be forced to close town within - the
next fortnight,- throwing hundreds of
thousands of .workmen' out of em
ployment! Already there is much mis
ery among the working classes, and
there Is la growing disposition to be
lieve that increasing unemployment
will leadJ to dangerous troubles. '
' Twenty German marks of the normal
Value of 5 can now be bought for one
American penny. The sudden tobogan
fiing of the mark on Thursday Was at
tributed to M. Maucklere, who, " as
France's delegate on the reparations
committee, insisted upon French seizure
of all German state-owned forests and
coal mines and military occupation of
the left bank of the Rhine. M. Mauck
lere called these conditions "productive
guarantees."
PAXIC C35 PRECEDENTS
1 The new panic on the exchange mar
ket has exceeded anything that ever
. 'went before the rise In the prices of all
commodities is keeping pace with, the
rise in the value of the dollar. 'Butter,
meat and- sugar have increased SO per
ceut In 4S hours. Crowds are beleagur
ing the food stores.' It has become
necessary to restrict the hours of sales.
. The entire press has adopted a" roost
gloomy and pessimistic tone. "Germany
seems doomed to Chaos," said the
Lokale Anseiger today. 1
Body Is Identified
j By Fellow Worker
Pendleton, Aug.' 25.-- Tentative iden
tification of the body found Wednes
day . on the banks f the Umatilla
river , near here as j that of Walter
Scott, farm hand, was made here "last
night by a workman who said he had
worked with Scott. Officials are not
satisfied. howvr, and a description
of rather elaborate dental 'work will
be broadcasted today In a further ef
fort at identification. 1 Cleaner's marks
on the man's suit are also to be used.
SAYS BERLIN
Idleman Dines With Hardings
t h t 1 , n - . at
Local Man Is Back From Trip
if " "Warre, says 1 ,
i CM. Idleman, Portland , attorney,
paused, long enqugh after the opening
- phrase to smile t reminiscently .out : the
window of his office this morning. He
was ..telling the Enraptured Reporter
about his luncheon with Mr. and Mrs.
.-"Warren 0.f Harding . at 'the White House
f tw weeks ago.' -. 1 -''-. s .
. a 'Warren,' says-. .Tve get a little
office Out in Portland j where I manage
to malt a living, and Td rather be
there than in the president's chair."
Mrs. Harding smiled across the table
and the president nodded his head.
I understand, and I would also, but
I am here and there Is work to do f
THEr AKOlD - ITftlJESTDS gi f'i.
Perhaps, It Is well to interrupt!; the
" d Inner long enough r. to ' explain i that
Idleman. who was raised . in 'Marion,
Ohio, knew Harding as a Tonus -roan
and Mrs.- Harding as? the town belle
f in short ;dresses long f years- ago, and
. when, he" goes to Washington , C,
there is nothing more natural than
- that he should drop lit for a chat with
his old friends. - .,.-
- Harding will not run for the presi
Rival Cops
Clash;1 One
Cop Pin che d
Seaside, Aug. 25. When Greek meets
Greek there Is proverbially a slight
difference- of opinion, but when cop
meets cop, and one's a Seaside officer
and the other hails from the neigh
boring resort of Gearhart, it seems
that somebody's pinched. This situa
tion, not duplicated even by comedy
cops of screen, was staged on Broad
way' last night when a flashing double
play. Cop George Steelsmith to Cop
H. C. 'Vic" Aspland. netted Speed
Cop R. T. Shellenberger of Gearhart,
charged with operating snortercycle
without tail light lit and with but one
license tag.
The next scene was at the station,
very dramatic according o Aspland,
who haid Shellenbergetexclaimed.
"Before you go too far," and he
swished back his left lapel and showed
the nicest little Gearhart deputy mar
shal badge he ever saw.
"That won't do you any good here,"
Aspland remarked In his coppiest tone.
"It won't," came the thundering re
ply, "well, by God. don't you ever
come to Gearhart without a tall light'
As Aspland is unmounted little
chance exists that such episode will
be added to the scenario. Local .of
ficers are Jubilant at the capture, hav
ing been forced to listen to moans
from motorists, who charge that, oper
ating under stem old Judge Pager,
stickler for a 20-mlle limit, pursuing
Gearhart speed cops have molested
them inside Seaside limits.
Shellenberger said he came to Sea
side to get his tail light fixed. He
was released on his own recognizance
and ordered to appear before Judge E.
Abbott this afternoon.
newIHrin
phone suit plan
Salem, Or., Aug. 55. The public
service commission will in all proba
bility remain as a defendant in the
Duncan suit to compel a return to
lower telephone rates in Oregon. This
much was made clear by Commissioner
Kerrigan here : this morning, who,
however, explained - that " the form of
the answer which the commission
would substitute for that withdrawn
Tuesday has not - yet" been, agreed
upon. . The answer, however, will be
ready within the specified 19 days.
In the meantime it Is. expected, that
the commission will have moved for a
reopening of the entire telephone rate
question through an investigation on
Its own motion. A resolution to this
effect was introduced before;' the com
mission last week : by Commissioner
Corey,1 who refused to approve the
Kerrigan resolution providing for
withdrawal of the answer in the Dun
can suit, which he declared, to be not
the proper procedure.
Telephone .patrons, therefore, must
await the outcome of the legal battle
Instituted when the Pacific Telephone
ft . Telegraph company , elected to in
tervene in the Duncan suit unless a
formal- investigation into i"ne rate
question can -be -completed by the com
mission and a new . rate ocder handed
down in the meantime. f
With much of the evidence in the
rate controversy already in the hands
of the commission as a result of the
hearings conducted by the old com
mission, another hearing would be
largely a matter' of digesting and in-
terpreting this evidence by the newly
constituted commission, together with
such additional evidence as the reg
ulatory : body would consider neces
sary. Pass Passengers
Are Given a Low
Fare in Tacoma
Tacoma, Aug. 25. (U. P-' Street
car fare for pass patrons1 In , Tacoma
is less than 4 cents a ride, according
to a statement Issued by the Tacoma
Railway & Power company here to
day. More than 9000 weekly passes have
been sold this week, according to com
pany officials. This is an increase of
2000 over the- number sold whe'n the
system was inaugurated a month ago.
Last week 8100 passes were Bold and
233,290 rides were taken on them. This
gives an average fare of 3.68 cents for
the pass holder. i '
Weekly transferable passes lare sold
for a dollar each, with -unrestricted
riding privileges. '
dency a second time. In Idleman's opin
ion. Idleman said he was not quoting
Harding in making this statement, but
was convinced to his own satisfaction
by the president's attitude. Harding,
who dislikes violent contest, is beset
with critics on every, hand, Idleman
explained.'-.'v ; ''. ' V - '.
"' "But -when he makes up: his -mind,
nothing can shake it, and he win fight
through the' present crisis to tha end.
Idleman's family have been "residents
of Marion for more than 10 , years.
His grandfather was7 the first judge
fn the town. He himself went to
school there and played in the alleys
with:, the others boys. 1 4 , .
HE IHEB !W ARREST -f
Harding's people lived in the ad
joining county,; Morrow,, but Idleman
met . and " liked . Warren . G. - Harding
while the latter -was-, still ' a young
man. and revery; .year - during the 3S
years he has been in Portland he has
returned - to Marlon at least once to
renew old acquaintances, among there
the Hardings. In the old days Mrs.
tUoauafM4 on Pas IfUMen. Colmu TwoJ
FORGERY IS
HINTED AT IN
GREEN CASE
One Signer of Initiative Peti
tion Can't Be Located at Ad-
. dress Given;. Another Found
to Have No Local Residence.
Indications of forgery were brought
out this morning in the G. G. Green
"fish bill' investigation being con
ducted before a referee at the court
house;
On the petition circulated by Mrs.
Caroline Herman, of No. 432 'Fourth
street, the name of F. A. Smith was
signed as resident at 464 East Mor
rison street. Mrs. F. H. Stuhr. who
resides at wthat number and has lived
there for a long time past, testified
that she had not signed the petition,
and that no one by the name of F. A.
Smith had lived at that number at any
time within her memory.
Mrs. Edith Faygue also testified that
her brother, E. H. Mowrey, whose
name was signed to the petition, came
to Oregon during the middle of last
March for a visit, remained here for a
short time and then went to Califor
nia, where he now is. He did not es
tablish a residence in Oregon and was
not qualified to sign the petition under
the terms of the statute.
MBS. HERMAJf TESTIFIES '
Mrs. Herman was on the witness
stand during the entire forenoon. She
testified she had been - a resident of
Portland for a number of years and
had first taken up petition circulating
some 10 years, ago when she helped
circulate the initiative petition for the
eight-hour day law.
She had been employed by G. G.
Green, she said, and had circulated
10 petitions containing 100 names each.
She had given the signatures, when se
cured, to Green, together with an affi
davit signed in blank to be attached to
each block of 100 names certifying to
the fact that she had secured the sig
natures, that she personally knew the
signers and that they were qualified
to sign. '
Mrs. Herman testified, she never had
possession of the petitions after she
gave them to Green, that, she did not
know how many of the names signed
represented qualified signers, ; other
than - from the statement of Joren
that they were running about "as
usual." which, meant that better than
half of them r were registered voters!
' W. Lair Thompson, 'who is conduct -Ing
the examination on the Green bill,
read Mrs. Herman name after, name
down through the long list submitted
by . her and in answer to his questions
she admitted she' did not know one "of
the signers personally, and knew
nothing of their qualifications other
than from their statements to her that
they were registered voters and resi
dents of Multnomah county. She also
testified that she had given Green no
authority to, include signers In her
petition who "gave their residence at
places outside of Multnomah county,
as had been done by Green. -
MAN WHO DEFIED
IS SHOT
Tacoma, Wash., Aug.-25. (U. P.)
Three youths, all under 20 years of
age,-were held in the city Jail today in
connection with- the shooting last night
of Frank : B. Kelley, on a downtown
street, when the latter refused to hold
up his hands. '
' ; Kelley was in the county hospital, a
bullet wound In his'hip. He was- oper
ated on shortly after the' shooting and
is expected to recover.
- The three boys held are Ted Carpenter,-
19 ; Don Carpenter, 1$, his
brother, and Alton Dugan, 17, all of
this city..
Sidewalk to Form
Part of Memorial
For Linn Pioneer
Lebanon, Aug. 25. A cementi side
walk on the east side of the high
school gorunds here will form part of
a memorial to Owen Kees, to cost
about (300, according to decision "Of
J. C' Booth. Mrs. Anna Bond Reed and
George H. Randall, a eommittee named
to decide upon use of money available
which was accepted by trustees of the
Santiam academy endowment fund.
The academy long, since eeased to
exist.
- The fund totals $3000. of which $1660
is interest which accrued during the
last 12 years on the original endow
ment of 11800. This endowment was
bequeathed to the institution by Kees,
a. Linn county, pioneer. . .
V J. M. Burtenshaw f Lebanon will
take the place of Booth, who resigned
as a trustee. " ' "
Family Plea Saves
Cripple From Jail
Albany, Or Aug. IS. A plea that
he had made liquor only that he might
keep his family of three children together-
and that he had dismantled his
still at the time Sheriff Kendall and
Rev. Roy Healjr were Killed by Dave
F. West during; a raid last June, saved
John ' Johnson,'' a cripple, from spend
ing mix months in jalL Johnson plead-:
ed guilty to liquor charge yesterday
and was fined $59, the Jail sentence
being suspended. Liqwor vraa found on
his property la Albany while he- was
at Newport. On hts return he appeared
in court. - I . ' , ,
BANDITS
AGENTSSTAND
PAT AGAINST
SCHOOL BOARD
Directors Must Pay Jor Short
Rate Cancellation Before In
surance Due on Fire Will Be
Turned Over, Says Exchange
Members of the Fire Insurance Ex
change of Portland, which represents
98 per cent of the insurance agents of
the city, are today standing pat on
their insistence that the school board
must pay a minimum of 6500 for short
rate' cancellation of the lO-day'binders
of last February before they will pay
the $39,000 insurance due the board on
the Holladay school. They add that
the amount will be nearer $10,000 than
$6500.
The Insurance Exchange is what Di
rector W. F. Woodward in his attack
upon their methods termed the "inner
circle" of insurance men. The insur
ance men outside the exchange pos
sess a lower rating, according to mem
bers of the exchange. i
STORM POIXT OF ISSUE
It is the division of the school insur
ance to include this additional 2 per
cent of agents who are not within the
circle of the exchange, a division that
was made by the board in "the interest
of absolute equality in giving business,
that has roiled the insurance exchange
members who furnished the $6,000,000
binders ia force during the Holladay
fire, the cancellation of which is now
causing such a furore.
But to get to the story of the insur
ance men whom Woodward termed
"brigands." Phil Grossmayer, whom
Woodward accused of "hogging" $700,
000 of the insurance for himself "when
it was to have been divided among
some 200 agents, admitted getting the
business.
"But," he explained, "the insurance
committee went into conference with
the school board and got an order for
a large amount of insurance. Inas
much as the commission was not to be
taken up by the agents, but was to be
divided up in the exchange, ' and since
they wanted . to get covered as .quickly
as possible, and since my company has
the ' largest carrying capacity, the
committee placed some $600,000 or $700,,
000 with 'roe. I was not even in, the
Continued on Page Fifteen, -Coiwofii e
GASOLINE
FOLLOWING QUIZ
" Washington, Aug. 25. (I. S.)
The price of gasoline has dropped
steadily since Senator La Follette
(Rep.) of Wisconsin started a sena
torial investigation of the oil Industry,
it was reported today by a preliminary
report submitted to the senate by Sen
ator McNary (Rep.) of Oregon from
the manufactures committee.
10,000 Expected at
Vernonia RaiLFete
To celebrate the coming of the Port
land, Astoria & Pacific railway line
into the timber land" of Columbia and
Clatsop county, citiaens of Vernonia
will hold a jubilee September 9, ac
cording to information received by the
Chamber of Commerce today. Special
excursion trains will be run out of
Portland 'leaving at 8 a. m. A special
round trip rate will be arranged by the
S. P. & S. Vernonia expects to draw
10,000 people to its celebration.
Beebe Recovering
After Operation
General Charles. PV Beebe,' No. 713
King's Court, who underwent an op
eration at St. Vincents hospital Mon
day, is well on the road to recovery,
according to announcements from the
hospital and from Mrs. Beebe this
morning. By the first of the week he
is expected to be able to sit up and
prepare to regain his feet. Though 73
years old, this is General Beebe's first
illness aside from a-few colds. .
Games Today
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland vs. Vernon at Los Angeles,
2 :45 p. m. '''"" " ' . - "
San Francisco , at Salt Lake, 2 :30
P. m. ;.'""-'
Los Angeles vs. Sacramento, 3 p. m.
Seattle at Oakland, 3 p. no.
- SATIOXAL
At Pitt hts First cms: R. H.
Brooklyn ...100, 104 02 8 1 0
Hltatan ......6 22S 10O q 10 2
Batteries Grimes, Decatai and Miller; , Ad-
an xi Schmidt. . .
At l"itt; burl Second mar: R. H. K.
BreoMya ... JM 421 OOfl 8 14. 0
PKUbur-, . . . , . -OOO 200 613 fl U 1
Bttri3 Cadore mod. DeBerry; daxner,
Hamilton-aad Gooch. , . . ' ,
: Boston at Cincinnati, postponed ; wet
grounds. ; 4 :- v 't-
' ' AMERICA?? ''.-'''' i "
" At K Tnk rt same:' A H.' .
t. -.i:.-..oi ooa ooo s is i
New Tertt OOO 01 1
! , BatUnes Sltoeker aad Serererd; Hoyt sad
Rrhanc.
At Xew Tork Srrorwl fame: " -: S. H. E.
St l,Bvm-..., . - 1 lt 1S 5 IS 1
v.. soi aoe oo- a. a 'm
Batwrie Iai, Vaa tWer I"Ynitt. i'ajue
and 8n;talfc Bam, Jooa ana Ocbmnt-
i At Boetoa . R. H. E.
tlwland - . .- i . . 006 00 0i O 2 O
RMtmi ....100 141 20w- t IS
Batteries Boone sad O'Neill; Qui bo,
-aarda mad KmL - -,".
- Chicago at Philadelphia, ooxtooned j
rain, . - ' k " -
Grand Jury
Reports, But
It's Secret
The Multnomah county grand jury
reported to Presiding Circuit Judge
Evans this ' afternoon a few minutes
after 5 o'clock, handing him several
secret indictments. ,
That among these were indictments
lik connection with the investigation of
alleged fraud in precinct 201 is pre
sumed likejy, inasmuch as the present
grand jury ia believed not to have
taken up any other business since the
investigation began. Also, the present
grand jury dd the investigating dur
ing its term. The former grand jury
did not leave anything over to report
upon.
The investigation was the result of
wide discrepancies discovered between
tfee Hall-Olcott recount and the origi
nal official count. '
PORTLANDERS ARE
ASTORIA'S GUESTS
j By Fred Lockley
Journal Staff Correspondent.
(Astoria, Aug. 25. The . committee of
U0 of the Portland Chamber of Com
merce is proving that business is not a
obld-blooded proposition.
i Approximately 100 Portlanders turned
up at 7 o'clock this morning at the
AXler street dock to go aboard the
Georgians- on the Portland Chamber
of Commerce excursion to Astoria. The
committee in charge of the excursion
consisted of the following well-known
members of the Portland Chamber of
Commerce : O. C. Bortsmeyer, Clay
Mtorse, Lionel Mackay, Joseph Loeb,
Fj L Kagel, E M. Welch and B. Lee
Faget
'"What we are seeking to accom
plish," said O. C. Bortsmeyer. chair
mian of the excursion committee, "is
ta practice as well as preach Chris
tianity in business. In other words,
we are going to Astoria not only to
see her modern docks and shipping fa
cilities but we are also going to prove
tot the residents of Astoria that we be
lieve in Astoria and her wonderful fu
ture. '"Astoria is not only the pioneer city
oi Oregon and the West but it ison
of the most wideawake and progressive
eijties of the West. With her salmon,
her timber, her shipping and her dalry
tmg Astoria cannot fail to grow and
prosper."
-4Astorla hosts took the visitors for a
trap along their waterfront and also
.through the residence section of As
toria as "well as on Coxcomb hill to
girve an idea of Astoria's wonderful
shipping, facilities. . .They later served
a salmon dinner, at which W. D. B.
Etoclaon. H. L. Hudson, traffic manager
ot the, Port of Portland, and D. Charles
MacCaugaey, pastor of the " Centen-nsry-WHbur
Methodist church, extend
ed Portland's greetings to Astoria
(tonchded on Page Three. Column Three)
Oregon in Favor of
Modifying Dry Act,
Straw Vote Shows
(Oreaon is for modification of the
Olstead act by a small majority, ac
cording to the -national poll of the pro
hibition question how being conducted
b3f the Literary Digest. The Oregon
vejte on the three plans suggested by
that periodical is ; Modification of
tbie act, 4743 ; strict enforcement. 4315 ;
repeal of the 18th amendment, 1220.
The national figures as stated in
this week's issue of the Digest are:
Modification, 322,328 : strict enforce
ment, 302,515, and 162,632 for repeal.
iWhile the "vote of the Pacific Coast
states on whether or not there should
be) a bonus for ex-service men is fav
orable to the bonus, the national vote
la i against such a plan by a majority
ofj approximately 8000. The vote in
the Coast states- is 37,217 for and 31.
3S2 against, While the national vote is
394,903 against and 382,913 for. Onepf
thie features of this vote is the fact
that in-the segregated count of wo
men's votes the boi.us s favored by a
majority of almost 10,000. The wo
men's vote alone is 32,060 for the
bomus and 22.857 opposed to it.
Gas Blast Ifatalj
Blaze Results, 3
v I- " Stores Destroyed
i - '
Muskogee,; Okla., Aug. '25. I. N.
S.J Jk gas explosion in a drug store
atj Haskell.- Okla., near here today re
sulted to.' thel death of Ezra Dickey,
22, , and the complete destruction of
three store buildings and a hotel.
Property loss 'was estimated at 370,000.
It i was feared - that others would be
found dead when the debris was
cleaned up, '
A match cast into a gas main caused
the explosion. The rear wall collapsed,
bwryin Dickey beneath the debris.
Washington's Coal ;
: Mines WiU Eeopen
Seattle. Aug. 25. Members of the
Washington Coal . Operators' associa
tion In joint conference with officers
of J the United Mine ; Workers, have
agreed to the reopening of the mines
in i this state on" the terms laid down
in ! the recent Cleveland' settlement.
- ' I 7 ' ' 1 ; ';
Shipment of Pears ;
Hits New High Mark
Medford.: Aug, 25. The record , for
fruit shipments from Med ford - was
broken yesterday when 23 carloads of
pears were billed out over the Southern
Pacific railway, - t ' .-.'
PARK FIEND!
BEATEN OFF
WOMAN
Threat to Use Gun Futile; Con
tractor's Wife Grapples With
Brute, Escapes, Gives Alarm;
Police SurroufldNeighborhood
A battle In which woman's, physical
prowess proved more effective! than
her quick wit this morning routed a
man supposed to be the "Columbia
park fiend" who has been terrorising
the Peninsula district for several
weeks, when he attacked Mrs. A. B.
Racine, 2055 Van Houten street, as
she waited at Wall and Fessenden
streets.
The man; exposing himself to view in
the brush nearby, called to Mrs. Ra
cine.
"Keeo awai or III shoot." she cried.
holding her hand in a bag In threaten
ing manner.
"1 m not afraid of guns, the as
sailant replied, and ran toward! Mrs,
Racine. He grappled with her and she
struck him several blows before "she
could break from his hold and run.
screaming, to Portsmouth avenue and
Fessenden streets where her husband,
a contractor! was at work.
Her screaming sent the fiend scurry
ing into the brush and a cordon of
police and deputy sheriffs at once be
gan searching the neighborhood, ; sup
posedly hot on his trail. Mrs. Racine
is at the St. Johns police sub-station
examining suspects arrested. Thus far
none of the several taken in. the ! hunt
has been identified.
Mrs. Racine described her assailant
as five feet nine inches tall, of dark
complexion, wearing dark grey ! coat
and dark trousers, with a dark ! tele
scope hat. The description, except as
scrlptlons of the Columbia park fiend?
who is supposed to .be of sallow com,
plexion. .
The attack this morning occurred
just before 9:30 o'clock while Mrs.
Racine waited at the corner to keep
a Dusiness engagement.
Three actual assaults and three at
tempted assaults have occurred In the
vicinity since August. 10. - ?f.'i
More hot weather is in prospect for
Portland during the next three days.
according to . the forecast of the' dis
trict ' weather office, . although K. L
Wells, district forecaster, said that
temperatures . were not expected to
mount quite as high as Thursday when
a mark of 92 degrees was recorded.
Thursday's - high" temperature ! was
the climax for the present wave: of hot
weather in the opinion of the-weather
forecaster. The record high mark for
the season, was 95 degrees, recorded
July 2. -
Continuance of the hot weather , will
permit the majority of Portland's popu
lation to plan excursions Into the Coun
try and to parks and bathing resorts
during the week-end.
' Other places in the state where high
(Continued on Page Fifteen. Colamn One)
Food Expert Tells
What Is Bad and
What Is Good to Eat
Grape fruit' for breakfast contains
even greater terrors than a mere
squirt in the eye and If your liver is
sluggish, patronise the fruit vendors
freelS1.
These and many other facts about
diet were absorbed by a capacity au
dience of Portland people who heard
Paul O. Sampson, food and diet ex
pert of Los Angeles, lecture at the
Peoples theatre Thursday evening un
der the auspices of the Rotary and
Ad clubs. " ;
Am to the grape fruit. it's all in
when you est it, and Sampson holds
that it should not be taken" as a morn
ing appetiser before breakfast, for It
. .nr' (hot MV TlTOVf! COStlV tO
the health to take acid fruiC Instead
the acids should follow- consumption
of - starchy foods so that a normal
hm!y-,i TMptinn miT take nlace.
In the 'matter of a lasy, liver, fruit
Is recommended to wne me ajijieuw
and condition, that unruly organ. But
all these things will be unavailing if
k,Tman tn nnf ruf refined flours Out
of their menus and adopt a whole
wheat bread substitute. ' q
Eagle Boat 38 Due
;'Satiiiayi Morning
Eagle Boat 38; with the Portland
naval reserwists aboard, t s f-due to
arrive In the harbor Saturday morning
at 10 o'clock, according ta a radiogram
received this afternoon " from Tatoosh
Island. The training ship for the re
serve force left Portland August IS for
isjiav rrniu in th waters of South
eastern Alaska. She is officered and
manned solely by Portland reservists.
, .
Marion Davis, High
In K. of P., Passes
La Grande, Aug. 25. Marion Davis,
high in Knights of Pythias circle in
the state, died this - moaning at Hot
Lake Sanitarium . foil wing a long ill
ness. .His former wife has been I 111
for some time in a Portland hospital
front serious injuries suffered in at
automobile wreck. - s-
WARM WEATHER
IS TO CONTINUE
Man Who
SqfdGun
Identified
Phillip- Rbsumny, north end second
hand store ' owner, sold the gun that
killed' Alvin Price in a Columbia river
highway stage near Goble, Or., on
August 21. ' - '
- This is the charge made against
Rosumny today in. a complaint sworn
to by Police Inspector Abbott follow
ing the identification- of the man made
by George Reberlo, insane slayer ot
Price.
- Rosumny's store in the New Huston
hotel . building at Sixth and Kverett
streets, and the man himself were
identified by Reberio late this morn
ing and ; the slayer stuck to his iden
tification in spile of -repeated denials
made by Rosumny. . .-,
KTJTKEB IS CLE ABED
An investigation conducted this
morning by Sheriff Wellington" and
Deputy Sheriff Hatfield of Columbia
county and Police Inspector Abbott
cleared Abe Kutner. north end pawn
shop proprietor, of the suspicion which
had been attached to him by police in
searching for the place where Reberio
got the weapon.
v. With Reberio, the three officers this
morning -visited Rosumny 's shop,
"I got it here, ..with 60 cents and a
watch chain and fob." declared the
slayer. . " r
Rosummy admitted that Reberiu had
been there Monday asking, to buy an,
automatic gun, but that he had gone
away . without, any when he was told
there was none in the shop. . - -
FIXD TWO. OTHER REVOLVERS
Reberio Insisted that Rosumny
showed him several revolvers which' he
toojt from a safe. Abbott ordered Ro
sumny, to open his safe where two re
volvers" were found. '
"He showed me those, too," Reberio
immediately declared. ;
"But I didn't sell him any," the
shopman protested.
Rosumny has no -license to seH-firearms.
H is charged with selling fire
arms without registering them. It is a
misdemeanor. . .
Kutner, who. was informally accused
by police, of selling the weapon, based
on a description of the location and
the merchant furnished by Reberio, is
completely cleared sof suspicion by to
day's developments. Kutner has been
subjected to much embarrassment by
the developments In the case.
Reberio Is at present being held in
the county jail for safe keeping, pend
ing a further investigation today by
the Columbia county officials. ... v
Man of Vancouver,
Handcuffed. Escapes
' ,W.11. . Wall. . -nr 1 ' , .
George Martin 24, of . " ;Xveri
Wash., escaped from a travi .. guard
Thursday night while .be.rig . taken
from the O-W. R. ft N. station to the
state penitentiary . here to begin' a
sentence of from three to fifteen years
for, robbing the R. W. Carmack store
at Camas. A posse of 12 prison
guards -with - bloodhounds "is .seeking
him In "the region of the Walla Walla
river about six- miles - west df -hcre.
Martin escaped by ducking under a
car on a aiding at the railroad station
and eluded , pursuit . by - crawling"
through the high glass in a field be
tween the, Inland Kmplre highway and
the United States Veterans hospital
grounds. The bloodhounds lost the
trail last night, " but picked it up
again early this morning. The pris
oner was handcuffed. It is thought
he has little chance of eluding the pur
suers. He has a record of' having served in
the. state prison here for burglary in
the second degree, 'in the reformatory
at St. Cloud, Minn. for grand larceny,
and in San Quentln, CaL, for Jailbreak
lng in that , state. He recenUy broke
from the county jail at Prosser and
was later taken at Vancouver, Wash.
Prize Is Awarded v
For Glide in Plane
(By Tnited Xes
Clermont Ferrand, France, Aug. 25.
M. Douchy has been declared winner of
the 10,000 francs prise in the motor
less airplane, contest conducted - from
the summit of Puyedome. Douchy
made a flight of six kilometers in 4
minutes 4T seconds. - t
?irusg3LBxwtEp af rent
y- h e wspaperrf eatnre.
lMtr tHe Motor ar enabled the Portlaiid caravan
n&eiraweek'aTjtiiissiOn
p5StSeindr?iexfonEh
.USSunday.-Journal Automotive section next Sunday-?;
ptbryllbWilHaMt
Tfa"ei S onday Journal
N.P.
TRAN
HITS SLIDE;
THREE
Engineer and Two 'Unidentified
Hoboes Victims of Wreck
NearWymeryWashV Early in
Morning; Coaches Leave Track
Seattle, Aug. JT5. (U. P.) Three per
sons were killed, one was seriously in- .
jured "and a score of passengers ; se-.
verely shaken when the Northern Pa-t
cific North Coast Limited, -.westbound,
plunged into a landslide near
Wymer, Wash-in the Yakima canyon,,
early today. . . - j. .
The dead :
Engineer W. A. Jones, Pasco, Wash.
Two unidentified Aoboes.
Fireman T. C. Arnold was badly in
jured. ' t , -
The train was, 90 minutes late and
was running at high speed when - It
struck the slide. The engine baggage
car and five, coaches left the track.
This is the fourth .crash the North
coast Limited has suffered in as many
months, three of them being within the .
last three weeks. " Two crashes oc
curred ' near Butte, Mont., one with a
local passenger train and the other
with a freight. The - third occurred
south of Spokane, and the fourth todajr
in the Yakima valley.", , ': ' S -',
Railroad officials were investigating -the
wreck today while wrecking crews
cleared the tracks. Northern pacific
trains meanwhile . are being routed
over the Milwaukee lines. .':':: ' -i-,, -
SEPARATE RAILWAY
PEACE PLANS FAIL
New York Aug. 85. (J. N. S.) ,
Negotiations of the VVVlllard group" 1
of railway . executives representing ,52
American railroads and the chiefs of
the five railroad brotherhoods, for set-,
tlement of ' ; the " 'Vaiiway 1 shopmen's
strike have collapsed, It was officially
announced, this afternoon. 'y
A statement telling of the breakdown
of the negotiations was Issued. by a
sub-committee of five - rsjlway execu
tives representing - the - Association of
Railway Eseeativea. It was -eigaed try
President Daniel Willard f the Balti
more ft Ohio; A, H. Smith of the New
York Central ; Hale Hold en of the
Chicago, Burlington- ft Qudncy ; M. . .
Maher f' the Norfolk ft Western, and
W - J.; Harahan " of : the ' Chesapeake ft
OhIO:;;-'-. j-yi''V .'-f-S. -
FHEIGHT MOVEMEKT FALLS
'BEHIHD CABINET IS ,TOM
Washington, -Aug, 25.--U. P.V In
formation from government sources ,
that the railroads of the country are
'optlnuTd on f'agff Klftren, Vlamn Tht)
Hustoii and Party ;. ;
' Are Declared Safe
. ' .' ,'" ' '
Washington. Aug. 2a. (U. P. The
steamer Mo jive with Assistant Secre
tary of Commerce Huston aboard "rede
out of the typhoon', which was sweeps
ing the far Western Pacific last night:
and Is now safe.- according to word
received here today,. .-A.' coastguard,
radio dispatch which was turned over '
to the commerce department stated the
vessel had survived the typhoon : and'
Is now proceeding on its journey, '..'v jv :'
Quick Thinking !g
Saves Man's Life
Beaverton. Aug. 25.--Quick thinking'
Saved Louis Beggi from a horrible fata
yesterday while he was discing his
field north ,f . Beaverton- The s team
bolted as he stepped , back to -pull
weeds, .. Beggi grabbed ' for, , the.' reins. :
stumbled and fell in front of the discs -but
managed to roll to safety... The ,
horses ran a inile to the - barn -and :
were bruised -In attempting to enter. .
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