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VOL. XX. NO. 247. Entered l Second-CIai Matter at Portofflce, oruand. Orecos : PORTLAND, : OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER , 23, 1922. FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS ga-Cr ATC Foreign Cooperation Idea Is TaMng Firm Grip and Policy7 Bringing Both Parties In Accord as Plan Grows -By i David Lawrence - (Cfltryrisht. 122. by The Journal) Washington, Pec. 23, America for eign policy I developing--not chang ing. : The most interesting attitudes . are Being asaumeu by tli o le who i fought- for ami I those w h o fought 1 against a so-called "isolat i ic isolationist - poi No less a per- eon than PreeWent liaivut. xi k ii ecu i taboos the word i '"aloofness" in re TT It V. t ferring to the scope of American policy in the fu ture. Is this a break with the "irrecon cllables" ? Is it -the movement which killed ratifica tion of. the covenant of the League of Nations by the American senate? The answer given by administration People is an emphatic negative. And as proof of their contention they ask the people to go back to the, round room or March. 1919. signed by ap-r i-iuiunaieiy republican senators I under the leadership of Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts. 'SHOCLB LNVITE That document announced opposition to the covenant of the league "in the ,form now proposed," but under no cir cumstances did It denounce the prin ciple of international cooperation. In ,fact, it urged that peace between the allies and Germany be concluded and that the proposal for a Lea rue of . .-.iiviio w insure xne permanent peace of the world should then be taken up lor careful and serious consideration. It went on to say that it is the sense of the senate that the nationals of the world should unite to promote peace and general disarmament" Among the signatures to the round robin are Warren Q. Harding of Ohio, Senators Hiram W. Johnson of Cali fornia and William. E. Borah of Idaho and Frank Brandegee- of Connecticut. CiSOWS IX IMPOHTAlfCE Every move that the administration has made in foreign policy has been consistent with -that doctrine, it is contended., and there is a distinct ten dency ndwadays .to argue that the i .... - pose-has aiwaye-been the same, tMugft admissions, are that the , administra tion was not so Inclined to work out , its policy a year ago as it is today. In other words, the swing of the pendulum toward an interest in the affairs of Europe and the wold gen erally has been gradual. The need for an export market, the hope that farm products will get higher prices if Eu ropean economic power is restored, the . natural expectation that higher farm products will remove the .principal .causes of discontent ii. e Middle -iiu uuxnij me ciuei morn in 'the side of the Republican administra tion today all vthis has made the for eign situation seem as Important tie a domestic problem. f FATOB LE.4GCE Incidentally, the attitude of the league of Nations supporters ia not an uninteresting phase of the whole question: Two schools of thought fav ored the league as proposed by Mr. Wilsonthe people who believe it was a step in the direction of -world peace and an altruistic development of the American spirit of world helpfulness which came to a climax in the Euro pean war Itself, and the people who wanted the league established for eco nomic reasons. r The international bankers of the world, the business men and finan ciers of Wall street, the men vitally concerned with foreign trade.' all these interests both In the United States and European countries, saw in the league an instrument of economic coo per a - tion. The latter class was to no small -extent Republican in Its political af- filiation. SEE NECESSITY OF IT It is the economic school of thought which has succeeded today in bringing the facts of - international cooperation to the attention of the Harding ad ministration although the general de- : - k , ,.! -; . 1 . . , : ; langlement remains the same as it did ia 1920. ' The White House and department of 'state recognize the necessity of sitting in .European-councils for economic rea , sons. There are many who believe that this in itself wilf be satisfactory .to many i of. f he so-called pro-leaguers, especially . those who always claimed they were' never-committed to.-the Wil- eon formula, but wanted some formula. . In place of the League of Nations to t promote : the peace Mr. Harding promised 'an association of nations." and he offers the four-power pact idea and international conference as the i best way to achieve that objective.,; He ; doesn't favor- rigid ' and. all-inclusive associations of leagues. COMUVG TOGETHER For economic cooperation that is a . practical question for which no specific formula baa been evolved except to do for American interests all that can be done wRhout committing the Amer ican people to an ultimate use of phy sical power to enforce obligations un dertaken. Those Uemocfats who favored 1 he League of Nations for altruistic rea sons anj those yrho favored it for economic- reasons are not opposing' the (Coachidad ea : Fms Iw. jCetamn Threel if -at mlA.I'U ) PR0GRAIV1 IS SUMiViARIZED BY PIERCE Governor-elect Tells Farmers He , Favors Slate Marketing Agency and 3 Cents Gasoline Tax, Other Plans , Are Given. -Lebanon. Or.. Dec. 23. Governor elect Pierce went on record before the state convention of the Farmers' union last night, as favoring the establish ment of a state marketing agency and the creation of a new stale office that of state market agent. This and other points made in Jhis address, he said, will form the basis for his message to the legislature on January' 8. He also will urge changes in the assessment laws to permit In clusion of approximately J2.000.000 in property, at present untaxed in assess ment rolls throughout the Btate. A severance tax on timber and min erals taken from federal lands, a graduated income tax. Increase of the gasoline, tax to 3 or 4 cents per gallon, and increased license fees for expen sive automobiles were among recom mendations, he said, he would make. As. a means of decreasing expenses he said he favored holding the state higher educational institutions to the limits of the millage tax provided" for their maintenance, which he would re tain, as well as that for elementary schools. Retention of the market road levy he also favors. The ' governor-elect is behind the present highway program, including the completion of the Roosevelt high way, he' said, and favors a paid state highway commission. Repeal of the law exempting from taxation notes se cured by land mortgages is to be sought, he said. Exclusion of Asiatics, as proposed by the American Legion, from holding land in any form In Oregon was given approval! -The proposed "truth in fab ric" law also was commended. . Mr. Pierce was enthusiastically greeted by the delegates and others comprising the audience of 700. Loud applause ensued as he outlined his prospective program as governor. - He Rpoko as one .'dirt farmer" to another An.- dealt at length on the problems of the farm. . -"Herbert Egbert of The. 'Dalles was elected president of the' union for the ensuing year. E. J. Rentel of Dallas was chosen vice preeident, and Mrs. G. B. Jones of Monmouth, secretary and treasurer. The following were elected to the executive committee: W. W. Harrah of Pendletbn, C. J. Whel lat of Cambridge, Idaho., A. R. Shum way of Linnton, S. V. Jackson of Springfield and P. E. Ingalls -of Duf ur. It was decided to hold the 1923 con vention at. Eugene., The twelfth annual meeting closed this morning. H. C. Jackson of Spring field was elected, state organizer. Prof. Hyslop, inspector of farm .crops of O. A. , C, addressed the union this morning. A. R. Shumway, Milton, gave the closing address. Ghostly Horseman Injures Policeman; Fugitive Captured i ; (By Tnited Nw) Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 23. Clad in flowing white robes, a figure galloped bareback on a dapple grey horse through Loring park; in the cold, gray dawn. , Citizens peered out and then Jumped back under the covers, One policeman was run down and 'trampled before two of his comrades could capture the ghostly horseman. It turned out to be HansDatteshell. 22, who had escaped from a sanitarium in his nightshirt. He had robbed a milk wagon driver of his team and when charioteering became too mo notonous he unhitched one of the nags and started on his wlid ride unin cumbered. - Mosquitoes Nip in Winter Pests Hide in Coal Bins t Copyright; 1822) New York. Dec. 23. Still another piquant phase of the coal famine has Just developed. It is nothing less than an epidemic of mosquitoes. V As In - the coal famine during war times, people from suburban districts who have been unable to lay in enough fuel, or whose carefully hoarded fuel piles have been seized by the fuel administration, are moving Into city-hotels. ; to a sizzling radiator-and ha mind free from care. Other .people. unable to afford, either coal or, hotels, or unable to get enough coal at any price have been driven to various sub stitutes. . . . , ,':Ai' SUBSTITUTES USED ' One- of these substitutes, of course, is coke. Many householders, especially many .landladies in the semi-fashionable vdistricts of New ; Tork. have had theie furnaces overhauled so that Har dings Plan Quiet Christmas Washington, Dec 23. L N.- S.) The White House was today gaily at tired with Christmas decorations.-, While Christmas will be observed with strictest simplicity, because of Mrs. Harding's illness,: the mansion, however, has been banked beautifully with holiday greens, mistletoe,' holly wreaths and flowers. In every window Mrs. Harding had placed a holly wreath. Intertwined with" ribbon. The "sickroom and pri vate parlors have been loaded with green fern, palms and roses There will be no Christinas tree nor house guests at the White House this year. Mrs. Harding does not yet J. eel well enough to entertain even : her closest friends and for that reason plans a very quiet Christmas day. She hopes, however, to be able to eat Christmas dinner with the presi dent in one of the private dining rooms on the first floor For the last two days messenger boys literally have flooded the White House with gifts. The presents, re ceived from friends all over the United States and a few in foreign countries, have been hidden away, until Christ mas day; when it is expected the pres ident and Mrs. Harding will be UP early. t 5200,000 THEFT Santa Fe. N. M., Dec. 23. (I. N. S.) Police today arrested seven men who arrived in this city early this morning in a large Cadillac automobile bearing a Colorado license. The men were taken into custody while eating breakfast on suspicion of being con nected with the $200,000 federal reserve bank robbery in Denver last Monday. The men all claimed Denver as their home and denied any knowledge .of the sensational holdup. Denver, Colo., Dec. 23. L N. ST.) Mrs. B. L. Douglas of this city, mother of one of the men' arrested in Santa Fe as suspects in the Denver federal reserve bank robbery, : told police tor day that her son had hired oat early this week to drive,, party: of men to California. ' ' V? ' ' ' Police also learned at a local agency that the Cadillac- car had been sold to J. L. Barrett last Monday. Barrett was in the party held in Santa Fe. Local police place little credence in the Santa Fe arrests. Republican Deputy Is Given Castor Oil By Fascisti Group Rome. Dec. 23. (V. P.) A body of Fascisti today gave a dose of castor oil to the republican deputy, Conty, because of his attacks on' the Fascisti. An eye witness declared the group entered Conty's house, cut the -telephone wire and handed him a bottle of the oil. saying: - "Drink." Conty calmly raised the bottle to his lips and swallowed the dose. He then politely inquired if his visitors de sired anything else. They said "no," so he courteously bowed them out. $10,000 Loan Fund Gift Is Announced University of Oregon, Eugene, Dec. 23. As a ersult of a Christmas gift made today to the University of Ore gon endowment fond by Mrs. Alice W, Wrisley of Asbury. N. J., a friend of the institution, between $50,000 and 3100,000 : will be available shortly; as a student loan fund. Mrs. Wrisley' s gift $10,000 in cash, will be utilized, according to the terms of the benefac tion, as a guarantee fund for stu dent loans. - they may burn coke there Instead of coal. . , In outlying towns, such as Montclair, N. J-, fashionable suburb, where, by the way. Princess Anastasia, formerly Mrs. William B. Leeds, is spending the holidays the .coke 'idea was greeted with particular enthusiasm. Wealthy residents laid in a good supply of coke and settled back to enjoy the extreme ly crisp winter, evenings. , Simultaneously : both in the city' of New Tork and suburbs people began to look at one another in amazement. Level headed business men awoke in the middle of the night to listen un believingly -; to a familiar bum and asked If they were crazy or whether they were - really mosquitoes in the house in thei middle of' winter. The truth was all too soon apparent There certainly were mosquitoa in- the t Continued mm Pas Tw, Cotsmn Tml; SUSPECTS NABBED TWO WEIRS ARE CHARGED WITH CRIME First Dergee Murder Is Laid to Father Son Is Held Acces sory After Fact; New Evidence Is Declared to Be Damaging. Helea I.eary, aader persUteat eaes tics In r hanged her story comewhat today, aad made it stronger against the two Weirs, If that is possible, ae- eordlar to detectives. Most important of the ehaages, Mrs. Leary says that whea she came eewa the stairs of Cash Weir's hoaseboat 4a night of September St heard screams, she rashed dowa aad into the hoaseboat, instead of- speaking throafb the knot hole as she bad formally declared. Cash Weir, 63-year-old riverman, was charged with murder in the first degree, and Earl Weir, his son, was charged with' being an accessory after the fact, in complaints filed in the municipal court today by Deputy Dis trict Attorney John Mowry. The official charges were made to forestall a writ of habeas corpus filed in circuit court not half an hour before by B. R. Lundberg, attorney for the eider Weir, in an attempt to .get h to client out of jail. The writ alleged that Cash- Weir haa been confined since midnight De cember 20 without a conrt order, with out charges being placed against him. and generally "without due process of law." .. GIRL CALLED J AXE DOF. The unidentified girl alleged to have been murdered by Cash Weir and buried in the river with the help of his son. Is named in the murder com plaint, as "Jane Doe." The crime of "accessory after the fact," of which Earl Weir is accused, may be filed against any "helper" in a felony case. It is punishable by from one to five years in the penitentiary. ; : Startling evidence. corroborating Hel en Learys story of the crime has been obtained, Mowry said. GOES TO GBAKD iCBT J The case will be laid before the grand jury at the earliest possible moment? - A midnight jail conversation alleged to have taken place between EarJ Weir ana 'the LeaTy"woa -4nay eend.Caa Weir to the gallows and may result-in imprisonment - for the younger man. The alleged conversation, held in the hidden recesses of the city jail, where the couple believed themselves safely secluded, is said to have been overheard by the police. Here is the perported con versation : . "Why did you say when you were arrested at Rainier : 'Have they found the 'body?'. Mrs. Leary asked Weir. "I wanted to find, out if they'd got the goods-on me," Weir replied. REPUDIATION ASKED Then the man urged the woman to repudiate her story. "There ia' only one way out of your story," Weir said. "Say you were drunk and didn't know what you were talking about. That'll let you free, too." "I couldn't- do that ; then I'd have to go to the Cedars,"- the girl protested. Then followed some low words which the police could not catch. After a while the woman eald in a Higher voice: "You know yourself the girl was mur dered In the houseboat. You were there. Why do you deny it?" "You don't suppose I'd say to the police, 'Oh yes, I did it, do you. They'll have to prove it, and anyway, I, ain't going to make no spiel." . With the additional evidence against the men, Mowrey again confronted them at. a late hour, and attempted to break them in their adamantine de nials of all knowledge of the crime. YOUTH IS DEFIAST Young Weir, however, when told that the conversation had been overheard, maintained his air of stolid indiffer ence. He denied making the state ments which the police told, him they had overheard, and seemed un worried by the fact that he ia going to be charged with murder. - ' The story told by the Leary woman on which hinges the fate of the two men is one of- the most sensational in local police- annals. On the night of September 23. the woman said, she heard loud voices from the Weir houseboat, and on look ing through a small hole, saw Cash Weir attacking an unidentified 15-year-old girl. Then she 'heard Earl Weir's foot steps, and when she peered again through the crevice, the two men were disposing of the girl's body. : The girl most nearly answering the description given by Helen Leary,' the accuser, was Ellen Se lander of Tacoma, a 15-year-old girl who ' fled from her home September S. This clue was short-lived, however, as a dispatch from Tacoma to The Journal Friday night reported that the Selander, girl is now in the welfare home at "Everett, where she ia training - to become a nurse. ' - . TACOMA GIRL FOUND Tacoma, ' Dec 23. (U. P.H-Ellen Selander. Tacoma girt, who police for a time yesterday thought might have been, the one . murdered in' a house boat orgy on-the Willamette riven is ire Seattle at the present. "- This an nouncement was made today by E. M. Selander, father of the girt. J "I found Ellen In Seattle about a week - after she disappeared - from : her - home ? on September 3." said Selaiider. "At pres ent she is taking a nurse's training course in one of the Seattle hospitals." ARREST IS ORDERED 1 Attorney .General Acts to Visit , Justice on Hooded Gang Who Kidnaped, Murderer 2 Men; Situation Tense; All Armed. Mer Rouge. La., Dec 23. (I, N.' S.) Attorney General Coco issued a war rant for the arrest of T. J. Burnett, Spyker, La-, this afternoon on a. mur der charge after short conferences with members of the department of justice staff and pathologists who ex amined the bodies taken from-Lake Lafourche yesterday. The two headless bodies taken from Lake Lafourche have been officially identified as those of Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards, according to a statement made by Attorney General Coco this afternoon after the pathol ogists made, the examination. The method of identity was not dis closed by the attorney general who stated that It might, be used as evi dence at the public hearings set for January 5. which he will conduct per sonally., Townspeople here openly charge Kit Klux Klan members with the deed. Bastrop, the seat of the parish gov ernment, however, is pro-klan. Its people assert that the klan as an or ganisation could not have had any thing to do with the crime. The feeling created by these pro and an ti -klan factions is serious, in the opinion, not only of citizens of both places, but also of Captain Cooper, commanding Company G of the Louisiana guard, and of federal In vestigators who traced the vanished men into Lake Lafourche. ARRESTS EXPECTED People are looking to Governor Parker for the next move, and they predict this move will be a declaration of martial law and orders to the troops to make other arrests and start the wheels turning for an investigation by a grand jury.. At least 20 arrests are expected, and some , of the most influ ential men are reported to be involved. (Concluded on Paga Two, Column. F!t HOLIDAYS 1 ERIN Dublin. Dec. 23. (I. N.'"' S.) The holiday season in Ireland was ushered in today with a -terrific wave --of vio lence. The city has bee in panic for nearly 24 hours with bomb ' throwing and revolver fusillades. Free State government offices and outposts were attacked time after time throughout the night. The attacking Republican irregulars adopted the tac tics of North American Indian fight ers, firing from cover and then taking flight. ' Large forces of Free State troops were on patrol duty, but the. attacks were so scattered that the ' Free Staters had difficulty in coping with the irregulars. The civilian population was thrown into terror. t The violence extended from TJublin to Cork. Eight civilians in Cork were wounded when a bomb was thrown at a military lorry. Slain Union Miner Was Unarmed, Say Defense Witnesses Marion. I1L, Dec. 33. (I. & S.) That Gordy Henderson, the union miner, first of the three union men killed, the afternoon of June 21 at the Lester. strip mine, was unarmed at the time was the . main point empha sized by the defense witnesses at the trial here today of five men indicted for murder June 22. Two more farmers took the ' stand and - told stories of iiltreatment and threats of the guards. George Dug bar. 80 years old and deaf, got the first real laugh of the trial. He stern ly refused to have anything to do with the attorneys, for the state. 'I don't want to be; cross-questioned," he said, when Senator Otis -Glenn endeavored to start cross-examination. "AH you want to tell ia what the. defense wants and not what we want," shouted Senator Glenn into his ear. "I told you all I know. It's on the rbook now and I don't want to be cross- questioned. he said. ' ?. "All right." said , Senator Glenn. "Under the circumstances I won't go anv further.' r - - ' Court adjourned at 10t20 a. m. until January 2. - , Chinese 'Slave GriP .TakeriFrom Captors San Francisco. Dec. 23. (U. P.)-r Tong ,Et, Chinese : "slave : girl, ii resetted from - her captors in China town today after she dropped a- note from- her prison : room pleading -for help. 1 Waiting for mi." jmmm"1 i um'." Cu- m Christmas Was Made for Children Chrisf mas was made for childrenfor thai Child That in the manger lay, , S God made this Day. Then let no little hands be left unfilled, And let no children's laughter now be stilled, This is thet children's vd.ayv of all theL year. , v Not your own children; only, held so" dear : i But. those neglected -ones- -to them (belorigs As well, this day, of songs, ; V - - And jollity, ancltoys;and "foolishness." A fragile doll in a too-soon-soiled dress, A ?silly toy that will be broken oh, - ' What does it matter' that they, will-not last, These toys?; Their 'memory'wiU last; .Don't give Warrn1d6thing, sen!sifele, as in the past; 1 But something foolish, useless,' happy, gay ! Not you, but just the childrenrown-this Day. Bandits Kill Man; -Take $20,000 Cash i -' ' - . f - r f. a - - -' ; " nil -. i Pittsburgh., Pa.. Dec. 23. (I. N. S.) Four masked 'bandits today held up an automobile bearing Ross Dennis, paymaster f or Vhe -Pittsburg Coal company,' and three guards.' shot and fatally injured Dennis and escaped with' $20,000 in cash ' which - was the Christmas payrolls being taken to the miners at Beadling, 20 miles , from here.' The bandits escaped.- Dennis was rushed to a '.Pittsburg hospital in a -dying condition. "He died shortly afterward. . , -: Man Pays for Meal Withes BiU From - Denver Mint ' Loot " Baftimore, Dec. 23. (I. -X. S. A $5 bill handed Jn to pay-a 'meal check, at a downtowtr lunch room, was iden tified f tbday "as 'fiaviti beeh - patl of the haul tnade' by bandit -Who -'Monday ; shot ' and f Silled the- federal re serve guard m Denver and stole 9200, ooo m nrrency.a' " ' - - t-: ' ' The eashler at the lunchroom was so buajr that .lie did-not-note the serial number of the aote until .after lie had grven , the cuatotne ' his change ' and others-in line had stepped up-and paid for theisvmeala. - ah. - : -The'money-was turned over by, the lunch room to, the -federal authorities and has been definitely identified-: as parti of rthe 3200,000 takferv from the Denver mint. ' - - - ' Santa Cldus UUUUMJM" ' r r Mary -Carolyn Dayies; Ex-Kaiser Short of Cash; Hocks Picture ' (By Cnitcd 'Ntwi - ! , Doorn, Dec. ' 23. Kaiser ' Wllhrlm, short of Christmas money, has '"hocked" the w'eddinc picture of himself in a field marshal's uniform,' and his bride, the Princess HermlneC who- is wearing the famous- Hohemollera diadem. " It is stated -- thatv an American - picture agency bought the world's- rights to the picture, for , 10,000. , - , ,.r-- j-.a.cK ui ;pouy - , - j .-. a . - . , ' Even though 'the :body' of his sup poeed 15-year-old victim is never found, j Cash" Weir can ' be bound . ver "to the ! grand; Jury, and.-:iif- an Indictment is returned, tried .on a' first degree mur der. charge,'. District . Attorney- SUnley Myers-said today, af terpen exhaustive study of supreme ecurt rulings rand a survey of the evidence in the posession of the police. in the Weir aee.-, The point of law. Involved in. the case the" police have prepared against-Wen-Is the proof of the corpus delicti.. A! current, misunderstanding of this le gal phrase , has - developed ' a popular fallacy, that It ,1s -neceesary.. to' "pro duce .the body" In every murder trial, or establish- through' some material" ex hibit that a crime was committed, t-. . xv 7 A yr r r-n i a w eiriyiay pe i rieqny . , " i'iii i. in ji lx. l, ' LIGHTER IS 18 MONTHS Notorious Character Sentenced on Conspiracy Charge; Nar cotic Violation- !to Be , Passed tfn Later; Pal Sent to Jail. . Dave Lightper,' 18 months at Mc Neils Island, and then deportation to Roumanta. B. A. Brown, 10 months in the coun ty Jail and 1500 fine. - . Roumanian cltlsenshlp and two other narcotic convictions on which he has not yet been sentenced saved . Dave Llghtner from getting the maximum penitentiary- sentence ' for "conspiracy tills morning at the hands of Federal Judge : Frank B. , Dietrich : of golse, Idaho.; The maximum penalty under the conspiracy statute 1 two year. Before passing sentence the judge said he was going to take ato con sideration ; the fact that Llghtner was ' yet to be sentenced by . Federal Judge R. S. Bean for two infractions against the narcotic law.' - , If Judge Bean feels that a heavier penalty should be-imposed against this defendant, he wilt .still have oppor tunlty to do so when passing judgment , upon the other convictions,'' said the court. - ' i " -- " . Brown wa granted a stay of execu tion until January f to permit Mm -to enjoy the holidays with his wife and baby. ' - - , ;-.; -' - ; . , -HIGHJACKCIV BAILORS Llghtner was convicted , of -' a con' spiraey to violate the Volstead , and narcotic laws by bringing 32 ounces of cocaine. 9, pounds of opium' and 18 cases of liquor ashore from the Jap anese liner Belgian ' Maru. 'During the trial it developed that , Llghtner, E. A. Brown, W. K Hardin and Ivan El claeya had "highjacked" the Jap anese crew out of tlie -contraband. In sentencing Hardin, last Wednesday the Judge ' said the ' men were not only. (Concluded on Pica Fi. Columa Fvur) SHIP, WITH AIL ON BOARD, LOST - Fishguard. Wales. ' Dec. 23. (I. N. 8.) The steamship Maid of Delos wss reported Jost 4 today- off Stockholm islands with all on board. Assistance has been sent. - . . .,, . Native' Talk Didn't . Lower Prices: for. Americans in Berlin '. Chehalla. Wash., - Dec, S3. -German nativity and ability to speak' the Ger man language fluently failed to save Mr. and Mrs. 'John H. Hansen from the 'fate of other American cltlxens who visit Germany. -The JIansens found themselves forced to pay double for everything they bought. They are. visiting their ' daughter, Mrs. W. A.' Schoel, here. Foreigners, they say, are not permitted to remain at a hotel more than 48 hours, the government contending ' that this : is necessary to prevent outsiders from diminishing the food supply. The farming class, they report, appears to bo the best situated in the land. During the six months they were abroad butter by the pound ranged. Jn lrlce from 80 to 2000 marks. All German Weir Prisoners Now Out Berlin. Dec 23. tU. P.) The laat four German war prisoners in Fran-- were released at Toulon today and will reach Germany Christmas eve. . iNQ juegai oar way . The exact ' meaning of the phrase, corpus delicti, i. the "body of the crime. For - the purpose - of securing a conviction for any felony. It is neces sary to establish two legal (acts, first that a crime has been 'commuted, and second .that., the accused and no other person: committed ' the crime; : - The proof of this first fact la the corpus delicti, or fbody of tbe crime." The rules of -law . observed today, sup ported by supreme, court . decision based on old English common law and subsequent ruling in the early , courts of -America, admit of two methods of establishing Va corpus delicti. - " This may be done either through CoMladd m Psa Two, Colusa Threa)