The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, December 21, 1922, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextI araE'FO- OF WOO IS FULLY; SIGNED UP '" Willamette University,'" Salem, Tc 1. A few minute - before midnight pledgee o's the ! WClantti university forward paoveroent eroaaed the $l,25o, W goal with A margin whieit brought i he endowment 'to a. successful "dose. As early as 18 40 'It U assured that the pledging- would reach the desired j mark, though previous to the last three days the officials and directors . were - very anxious as to-the outcome. Th rally of the workers during this week 1h had much to do with, the finish. : Kxactly at 11:6S p. m. the whistle of ' i he Spaulding saw mill started blowing;, after the : WaBec hall victory bell bad pealed out the glad tidings. Many, of the churches, s factories, and - others : joined in tha-'genersJ celebration. . ; The student body, faoulty members and the friends of Willamette university hd gathered In tha chapel of Waller hall earlier in the eveening. After the newt of the victory .reached, them they : farmed a Una and marched through the business districts of fSaJem. The omen marchers carried Japanese lan--terns, the men carried- torches and every on bad some apparatus to make 3fse. - --. Willamette university will now be able ia pay off every obligation and be freed from debt. -r - ? Construction wilt be started on a new gymnasium, a central heating1 plant and other needed improvements will be made. It also means the Increasing of ths student body td ,1000 students vitalA the aeat five years- ' ttAisnra or tm nscats " (ummx. k. hoard rw v' Word was received In Portland from isalera Wednesday aight of the success of the Willamette university endow ment fund drive. With that amount raised the univers ity also will ret an additional (850,000 from the general education board of the Methodist Episcopal, church. The success of the drive was indicated at noon, when reports of the various com mittees were given at a luncheon at the Seward hotel.: i, ' At that time it was announced that $1,199,000 had been subscribed. - Tho to fM.1 sum had to be raised by midnight Wednesday in order to secure the ap propriation from tha Methodist board. , Portland won out Over Salem In the Contest to see whleh city could raise i300,000 first, raising f0O0 extra. Portland solicitors gathered SS9.999 J rice luesaay noon, Among wio gins announced Wednesday were : Meier Ac Frank, i60ti0;dd.-Wortman dt King. 20W)i Powers : Kumiture company, SlOOd; Imperial hotel, $1000; Benson hotel, "-$2500 1 "A. Friend,' $10,000, and Jirsw-Frederick Eggert.' $3000. . New Ladies' Cloak,-, Suit Find Formed Louis Spiegel and iWUlIam at Krause announced today , that they have formed a partnership Jo manu facture ladies coats and suits,-with headquarters on tho second floor of the Fleidner building. 10th and .Washing ton streets. Spiegel, wh bas been ttt the manufacturing business (or several years, will have Charge of the plant Krause, a resident of Portland for- 24 years, was for several years merchan dise manager of tne Eastern Outfitting company and : lust closed out Peter son's upstairs clothe shop .? for. that firm." The firm will -operate under the name of Spiegel-Kraue company. Prominent Merohant Is Found SHbt Dead Spokan; Waalu Deo. St-(t?..Pi Albert Benhamr- prominent .wholesale grocer, was, found Shot deed In bis apartment hero today, j The revolver which apparently had : brought about his death lay, by hi Side. -The fcul- lt entered through tho bade of the man's head and emerged above his fight' eye. - The police expressed Un certainty whether the death is murder or suicide. Benham recently was de fendant in a breach, of promise suit bare',. : ' ! . C02tfAKf GKT8 flXMPtXS ( Jeldnes Bros. V Co-, salmon brokers, war. allowed by Federal Judge Diet rich, today to take 480 sample of salmon out of a shipment of 1CM eases which the government has seized and condemned as unfit tor consumption Counsel for the firm said It waa de sired to test tha fish, and If found fit for use it is intended to Contest the oa.se. ' If tha government's report is found correct no effort will be made to resist, tha confiscation, and destruc tion. - - ', ' . HTSTE SAII.OM DIOWMB Paris, Dec. 11. .. X. - B.) Nine sailors were drowned today in a col lision between tho Norwegian steam ship Asturias and tha; French, ship Vindltls off St.' Nastrre today. " ASTOttI A FtTlfTi tOTEB Medford, Dec 2lThe Medford City council appropriated $500 for Astoria fire relief. TiEOTIlEfiSJlElli ' v ' ' ' '.-"v" - iPssSSlaaBp1 .. -''. Coadsned tM Pace OmeV dow as sha described it, waa eurtain- less and th entire room, wita tna oeo In tha corner, waa visibie, put as she bad said. c:':'c ".- r romtv riatrlet Attorney Mowrr ap- . .riiiinr this afternoon to credit the girl's tals than he dia last night, when she first ioia m or uu numtinv whan tha alder' Weir was ar rested and ehoutod his emphaUo de oid Cash Weir, Earrs' father. Wiled br." the girl oeeiarea ssmia test night, ana ner sxory onw nw Knt Mit r:aan weir, wno is . wm arrested la Ms boathouas last night at ths.foot of Belmont atreew no iausooa uproariously. - " -Ho bo. h decUfed. "What 3k. Sha's no good. h's Just mad because t told my son not to bava anything to do -with- her,".; . . -W.WVY-v..-," So When both t did' man and the young woman stuck to their stories through tha night. Under tha question ing nd requestioning datactJvea. tnara seemed little left to do except hunt down Earl Weir and get his version, BXWAKJ0 OP A0 BD- If Cash Weir- should ever be hanged, and, the prison chaplain, when the noose is around his nock, should ask him If he baa any remarks to make, he may declare ; : .'' ; - ; ; ewar bt dago red,' It makes oner talk too much." - The story of tha alleged murder came out When Helen Leafy the little roust about waitress from Omaha, Neb., who teili it waa deep in her cups, accord ing td her own tale. She went over tha details sitting in the matron of fice of the city Jail this afternoon, sue is a little over the medium height, with nlucked evebrows. bobbed hair and shabby Bhoes flapper of tha under world class. s : . : . . ; - 8he had been held mora or less of. a prisoner on Weir's houseboat ever since October 8, she stated. , BECOME EAST PBIEXDS "I was working in the restaurant at-Ko, S8C Kast Morrison street." she told police. "That's where I met Cash Weir. He said he wanted me to meet hie son and he brought Earl around. We became good friends. I went down to the boa tho use about 2 o'clock the afternoon of Sep tember 28 to see EarL There I met a gift about 15 years old, who said she had run away from home a few days before and. asked If aha couldn't stay aifliftlftifllftifiH we Ten it with values iOIOiOIOiOiOIC 'O .j " 1 . - . ... 1 ..... ' 5 o Ynf J Jsw e WE ARE NOT SATISFIED to have our garments only as good as others Our Coats, Wraps and Frocks Must Be Better Than .Others nor ire we content that they shall cost the same as others Without Prejudice to Quality, They Muot Sell For Less Than Others ef 4H e e e e e At V; i i c J Jv THIS CAN BE DONE only through the cooperation of the. U f various k departments of this great o ' to'- f o organization through intelligent, aggressive application,, backed by cap ital and encouraged by the large field of supporters who Use our products. -' . ' ' V : THE NEW GARMENTS ; HERE FOR THE , HOLIDAYS PROVE IT o , o o o o o .o o - S16 335 DRESSES For the Restaurants and the .Theatres" ; . v . ." . f,, -. 1 ; Taffetas, 'Laces, Gofg-ettes, Canton Crepe and their combinations 300 COSTUMES -Tor" the Party and the Evening Reception' Lovely " imported ' spangled creations,- of Q- satin naline and ceoixette orerdrapes . . . will 375 DRESSES . jFox Street and Business f Trieotines, Poiret Twills, Canton v Crepes and Metalasse. . . J& - o . i I - o . t i , j ) , . , M i e.- .li i'. with me. Z didn't say s'he could and I left. , , . - 'At; 7. o'clock i in 'tha avenine"!- fa-. turned to see if Earl was there yet.' As i sxeppea aown the stairway l neara loud voices, and was afraid there was a drunken ntrty aboard. I aooked througrh the .window, which 'had no cmtaina, and saw Cash Weir and the girl on the bed. He had torn part of her clothes away.? I stooped down and watched, through a knothole Just under the -window, . l,"' -v , " , " ' Thin'I heard Earl sten-onto the boat and X ran and bid.: Cash let fart in and X watched again. They worked over the girl with water and then Sari sent Cash tor the launch. arl wrapped her up. ; Both men aeemed bewildered. but they finally put . hef in the launch and went north down the -rtver. -. ; ii SHX IV AS TBBIFID v. 1 i "Right after the murder I -ran home.'! she ' said. "Karl had a date with, me that night, but he didn't show up. 1 didn't go out at all the next day stayed home. X couldn't get that sight out of, my mind, bow the girl's eye rolled back as aha craameo. : "The second night Earl came. He walked around the room nervously, picking tip a brush on the bureau ana then dropping it and picking up some thing else. I was crying on, the bed, It didn't seem to occur to bim to aBk why. .Then I lumped Up " Here the girl clasped her bands to her heart, demonstrating how she acted at Um time. , - - . - s -.. i "And cried, Eart Weir, Why did you loll that girir He Seised me by the throat and choked me whispering. roa't shout so loud.' People wui bear you. : He told -me be would (kill me if X ever told, and when ha had choked me more he threw me back on the bed. SATS CASH VISITS 2LKH - "The next day cash Weif came to my room. Ha said Earl had told bfam that ! knew, and he said he was go lng to "put roe out of the way if ever breathed a word to anyone. After that Earl and Cash seemed to be afraid to leave me alone. Finally, October 8. they made me go down to the. houseboat id live. They locked me in, and pretty Soon they moved , the boat out into the river and anchored it, whtr there was no way tor me to get off. r "They left me there for four dayl without a bite to eat. About t o'clock the mornln of the fourth day Cash brobght me Some sandwichea f Then the houseboat was moved tip to ftoes island, and' Chris Orewell, this crippled man up there, tied it up. "X was prisoner there for a long time. One day I got Chris to take lime up up -town. I was afraid to ro alone. because Cash said he would kill me if he -found me there. A man stopped me on . the bridge and asked if I wasn't Helen Leary. He said Cash hSd thraauhed to put me out of the way because I was winning .the love and devotion of bis son. X turned back, afraid. Y SHE SAKRICADEX DOORS , "After this, on three nights in suc cession, : someone tried to break into the houseboat. - X barricaded the doors and kept them out.. Chris helped roe some.; Then Dorothy and Loom la, known on the waterfront, came m one day and said Cash had told; them they could have the houseboat free of rant If they would board me. "It was one nla-ht when with Dor othy and I had taken too .much dago rea tnat i told about the murder. . ; disinterested persons reported the facts to police, having heard "Dor othy" and Helen Learv talk over the case. The two were wondering: wheth er they should report it to nolice. Helen Leary said this afternoon she neueveo: she could point out the place where she and Ear! Weir, were driving when,. Weir is said to have leaned 'over and whispered to her, "I can . almost see- toe, piece - where the body: ;Wae nroppeo in the river, with stoneavo it to keep it down." She cannot recall the same Of the road, but would recog nise it If driven over it. she said.- Po lice plan to take her on a tour off the reads leading down the river. This Incident happened about a week after the crime, according to her story. The girl said she wrote a letter to the police not long ago, but was afraid to send it for fear Carl Weir would discover it. , "Captain" Weir Is known up and down the waterfront and has been picturesque figure for years. ' Known to the police and the harbor- patrol as a. good-hearted man of Inoffensive habits, he has often given temporary aid -to the down -and -outer, finding re fuge and food for him lfcla floating noma.: . . SEEIT OlBtf IDEyTlTT j Ttolice were working on clues as to the identity of the girl who was al leged to have been murdered. : Many stories ot vanished children came to police neadanarters from distraught parents, ' one report was . from n Xents of a gtri answering the description wno ouaappeareo lata in September. Helen Ieary, however, stated that the girl on the houseboat told her. she was from, "somewhere up In wash ington." She spoke of her brothers and - said she left home because she had a quarrel with her mother; . ; ' XfABTSOV COKlTJtMEl) i Washington, Iec at. (U- jp.) Nel son T. Hartson of Washington' state was confirmed as solicitor of Internal revenue by the senate late today, iProposed Storage: Of Logs in Oswego Lake 'Unnecessary' . i "n L ... . ..? .Testimony tending to show .that the project of the Oswego , Log vBooa company, . which proposes to buil a runway from Oswego Uketo the Wtt lamett river ana store togs in tne iase for consumption. In Portland markets, la unnecessary as a public service, was brought out today . during the exami nation of Theodore B. Brown, forest engineer and - lumber manufacturer. Tha hearing of the request of the boom company . waa . resumed this morning before tha public service-commission. - Brown becupied the stand during the entire forenoon. . He . was V introduced a witnesa by the Oregon Iron ' A Steel company, which owns the ripar lan rights to; the property along the lake shore which the boom company wishes -to uUUae for the runway. The steel company is opposing the plan. $ Brown testified that there was an. abundance of available land both in Oswego and Portland vicinity for lo cating such a project without damag ing residential sites ot pleasure places. He ' said that now the Wheeler and McCall booms. With combined capaci ties of a million feet, were only storing 300.000 feet of lumber, and that from f. S16 600 COATS 52 For the DriTrarid the : Chilly, Damp Evenings . y Superior tirades of Bolivias. Suedenes, Veldynos, and Velours, mil . full sflk-- "JT ' lined ; some with- deepr fur f "1 ? 4 ' avJL collars 320' TOPCOATS of the New Sport Type For the College Girl , . ; s New-Tork -Seattle - Man-made throughout of rich jSI C ' e2C mannish tweeds and mixtures ulU - . jy e 1U , .'''"ai-':."' eesMrV-. San Francisco , Los Angeles X 145-147 BROADWAY, PORTLAND ' e THE COZY HOME ; : owes a large part of i tff cheerf ill comfort to the sturdy Char ter Oak Stove. ; This emblem a -- - t has meant economy of fuel and a maxi mum of .heat, since, , grandfather "was a boy, in hundreds of thousands of homes.. isherwood; Stove Company "'SOLElJISTItlBTJTOItS T this it would appear no additional stor age space was needed immediately. It was developed that the southern Pacific, which in 1920. hauled from the district affected, by . this project. 103L- 000,000 feet of lumber, during this year had hauled only 60,000.000 feet of lum ber. : girls cuoars St50 ; .The chorus of the girls polytechnic school is entertaining shopping- crowds In the downtown stores this afternoon. singing; Christmas carols in some Of the- popular-: stores- and restaurants. Tbe girls win sing Friday In the school building. Miss Minetta Magers, Instruc tor, jxained the 100 elngers of the class. TO BBTTjB TIOlATOltS" Herbert West and Ilhody Beer, young desperadoes who confessed to several highway, robberies recently, "will be re turned to the, state training' school to day by state office it waa announced by Sheriff Hurlburt, No trial is neces sary nine both of the lads are parole violators from the training school In Salem. -' - - . ' , TO RAISE HC1.I. Bulkheads In the aft end of the wrecked steamer Welsh' Prince, sunk in! the lower Columbia riVer last May, have been completed and pumping op erations will begin in a few days In raising that half of the hulL Pumps are how. being installed 'and .several tests have already been made. It is anticipated that th first section wiU be raised by the end of tbe year. lmpeacliment Case . Gomes to an End Washington, Dec. 1WI. N. . The impeachment .proceedings before the house judiciary committee against Attorney General Harry M.- Daugherty came to an; end this afternoon after tho taking of rebuttal evidence from officials of . the - department of Jus tice. After bearing of the last of the government witnesses,! the committee went? l;;to"'executtve . e.ion to, con sider when a formal report on . tlo proceetlSngs should be made to the house. It is not expected this report will be ready unUl next month. Baket.? rcy tlHOeorgo Williams, convicted Friday of manslaughter for ths death of Tern Paine." was sentenced by f Judge Cuatav Anderson to not more than live years la the state penl- " tentiary and was fined tlOOO. Th TTninn finh vtrh.rT haa received 100.000 silver trout ears from Seattle to plant in Wallowa lake. - Broadway Pavilion SPECIAL HOLIDAY DANCES NEW YEAR'S EVE ; Bis Entvrtainment and Dance Until 2 1 30 A. M. CHRISTMAS INSPIRATIONS Convenient terms always extended Piands low inpriGe but uarant eed in 'A AN ARTISTIC BENCH WITH EVERY NEW PIANO ' - 1 . aiitF as 59) dainty in size, charming : in appearance.: . . . . ' UPRIGHT VIANDS guaran teed, 350 and 375 up. CERTAIN OTHER iAN0 Splendid instruments, at a wide i range of prices. There is the Al drich at 445, an excellent piano s very modestly priced.. There is i the worideritil little fStrohber at 350 just the piano 'to'delight the heart of a little girl; or to fit in a small corner in a bungalow t or apartment. There are many' other instruments, PLA7ER cPIAN0S--We carry a number of excellent player in-" stramehts, prices from 395 up. 1 STEIN1VAY ' PIANOS P--Atttt all, tiiereris but one Steihway! 1 Steinways are pricedat from 925 I up. Your Steinway, as well as any PLAYER piOLL G&INETS-- s Really needed, where there is a Pianola or player piano, to care properly for player rolls. Cabinets from 22.50 upward. . v D Ud.AR X PIANOS Out of ' the Pianola has grown the mar ; velous Euo-Art piano. It not only 1-'' " plays all standard player-rolls -it riot only may be played by the ; .fingers, as with any other nstru , ment but it also pkys rolls that ; the ; masters themselves created, Come in and let us tell you more S . about the DuojArt piano,jvhich ; coiries in the. Steinway pianfor jT ,: and also in' the Weber, Aeolian, : bteck, Wheelockand StroucL i f - VLAYER 0LLSHtre is an other present ideal at Christmas: i si few rolls, ; chosenand given cs acdy as you would give popular or standard books. They range in price from 75c to $t.ko. r ' ; other pianb,Tnay be obtained for ! " Do you know that we can cut f. t - . tf 4 !:..': J - - e-'. ' . ' as utue as one-tentii down, and player rolls to orderr -1 he cost is the balance over a broad period. nominal---iJSually 3.00 per rolL I - i I '. - - . v Orwhy hotsotveitmtfcd k 't " An 'order on Sherman, day & Ca. JorIrigh class musical merchandise of any ' -"' description is redeemable at any cftbe Sherman, day cV Ca stores on tbe Coast. -' 7 Smr &.G00 ' t Sixth and i Morrison Streets ; PORTIJAND-l' r I . I . Oppxsite Postofficc SEATTLE - - TACOMA - "SPOKANE Xftk asdGllaa, TerUaad jTl iJti) ' ; L ? V J w ? V V ! S 5 V V 5V..? V.S V:V?V'V:sf:V!V!v!V:V?