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v . , . V Smile Chromcle THE WEATHER THE FORECAST Occasional rain THE DALLES, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1921. No. 96 Maximum 55 Minimum 34 I :rglSggj - VOLUME LXI. d 1 It rW FLAYED BY GOOD BIG BUSINESS MEN 8H0ULD PUT CORPORATION ON ITS FEET. MORE MONEY ASKED REPRESENTATIVE CAN'T UNDER. ,STAND WHY NO PROFIT IS 8HOWN. niiinnuin nninii S 1 Hi ; By United Prers , , WASHINGTON, April 23 Tho W shipping board's affairs are in such a muddle that President Harding . should appoint 'the biggest business ; men he can find to put tho board ,L on a profit making basis, Represen- ' tatlve Good, chairman of the house appropriations committee declared today. Good sharply attacked the .board's request for two more big appropriations, totalling $170,000,000. "I can't understand how a corpor ation with assets of moro than .$2,000,000,000, greater than tho United States steel corporation, can not be run at a small margin of profit at least," said Good. "The board would have been bankrupt long ago if it had not been for huge appropriations from tho treasury." CAMP LEWIS TO OFFER FREE MILITARY COURSE By United Press WASHINGTON, April 23. States and locations of citizens' military training camps which will this sum mer offer free military training for 30 days to civilians between the ages of 16 and 35, were today announced by the war department. The list in cludes Camp Lewis and the San Francisco presidio, opening July 6. The training will be for citizens "of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and Califor nia. MESSENGERS SHOT BY BANDITS, RETAIN "MONEY By United Press KANSAS CITY, 'April 23. William Roer and George Plummer, messen gers, were shot today when they rw sisted an attempt to rob them of 19,000, which they were taking from the Armourdale state bank to meet the payroll. Tho injured men retained tho money and fled to safety in an automobile. JOHN P. YOUNG, PROMINENT COAST EDITOR, DIE8 By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 John P. Young, 43 years managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, died today from paralysis. He had been 111 10 days. HAYWOOD, SOVIET PUBLICITY AGENT RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVES IN VITED I. W. W. LEADER TO ACCEPT JOB. By United Press CHICAGO, April 23. "Big, Bill" Haywood, I. W. W." leader under se tence to 20 years In the Fort Leaven-! worth penitentiary, Is now propagan-1 da director for the Russian Soviets, 1 District Attorney Clyne today sald. Clyne, refusing to divulge his source , ot information, said that Haywooa went to Russia at the invitation and solicitation ot Lenin and Trotsky,1 Russian dictators, , Representatives of the Russian rul ers came to the United States to se (Continued m Fan I.) 'pTniroi ripr 10 FEATURED By TWO KINDS OP CHICKENS YOUNG WIFE ON STAND DENIES ALL CHARGES OF IN FIDELITY. By United News NEW YORK, April 23. Chicken3 In the fashionable hotel apartments of W. E. D. Stokes and young wom en hanging about the hotel Benton do- ing her violence, were the moving factors in the final departure of Mr3. Helen Elwood Stokes from her aged millionaire husband's board, she de clared when she finally took the wit ness stand here Friday to deny his charges of infidelity on her part. Sotkes kept 45 chickens in the apartment, Mrs. Stokes declared and the resultant barnyard atmosphere was such that she relished her meals much more when dining out with friends. IMartin W. Littleton, Mrs. Stokes' attorney, said the counter-claim against Stokes delinquency suit would include allegations that it was neces sary for tokes' butler to escort Mrs. Stokes about the premises to protect her from a young woman friend of the aged millionaire who had threatened to disfigure her. iStokes admitted his relations with other women, according to the counter claim, the charge being made not for a delinquency but in support of a cruelty charge. "You can slap your wife in the face with a statement as well as with the hand," said Littleton, emphasizing the anguish which he said the young wife suffered as a result of the husband's actions. Mrs.. Stokes unqualifiedly'denied im proper relations with her cousin, Hal Billig, George Schroter- and Edgar A. Wahace and denounced as utterly false the testimony of various ser vants, witnesses for the husband, tending to show that there had been such intimacy. t PSYCHOLOGISTS TD CATCH CRIMINALS EFFICIENCY BUREAU IN CRIME TO ASSIST BAFFLED POLICE. By United News . CHICAGO, April 23. If the coppers. cannot catch 'em, maybe the profes sors can. To this end the bureau of criminal analysis will shortly file incorpora tion papers. It was announced here Friday by Prof. Robert H. Gault, head of the psychology department of Northwestern university. Together with Prof. Gault in this" new crime bureau which will solve crime waves and police inefficiency by scientific application of studies in criminology, will be H. H. Coodard, Columbia uni versity, New York, Sanford Bates, Massachusetts commissioner of cor rection, August Vollmer, chief of po. lice of Berkeley, Cal and several others." "The bureau will act as an efflclen-j cy expert in crime," said FredericK 1 B. Crossley, secretary of the Nortn western university law shcool. "If a city is suffering from a crime wavt an inefficient police force, or a lax Judiciary or all, and wants a cure, without knowing the exact root nf the malady, it can apply to us for ut sistance. The bureau can place at the city's disposal scientific men with practical experience In criminology." VOLUNTEER WHO CLOSED . GAS TANK LEAK IS DEAD By United Press BOUNDBROOK, N. J., April 23. Earl Fullman, one of the volunteers who closed the leak in the phosgene ( gas tank, Is dead today from lung con gestion. Four others are in a serious condition and scores of residents are recovering from tbe effects of being "slightly gassed." ' BIG JEWEL THEFT SEEMS FRAME-UP REMOLDS urn U PRESENT LURED TO OFFICE BY MESSAGE BROKER DENIES. PECULIAR ANGLES ROBBERY PERFECTLY TIMED MAY BE WORK OF INTER NATIONAL GANG. By United Press CHICAGO, " April 23 Julius J. Reingold, owner of the Relngold jew elry company and his brother, Leo, are held by the police for question ing in connection ,wlth the theft of a wallet containing. $260,000 worth ot uncut diamonds. The wallet was tjak en by two bandits from LeRoy Pres ent, a salesman woh was displaying his wares in the Reingofd office yes terday. I By James Kilgallen (Unite Press Staff Correspondent) CHICAGO, April 23 "J. J. Rein- gold. Call 9:30.'i Finding this note in his mail box at the hotel, Leroy Present, eastern diamond merchant, made the call. The moment he laid out his $260, 000 worth of diamonds on the table before Mr. Relngold, a diamond broker, two bandits entered the es tablishment and, at the point of guns, seized the gems and disappeared. "Something aueer about this -3ob." said Chief of Detectives MlcH&'ei Hughes Friday, night. "I'm beginning to think I was 'framed,'" said Present, who is jun ior mejpber of the Rochester, N. Y., diamond house of Phillip Present and Son. The perfect timing of tho robbery, the simplicity with which tho thieves escaped from the fifteenth floor of a building in the heart of the down town district and a number of pe culiarities in the methods of tho thieves combined to make the case one of the most mysterious ever brought to the attention of the po lice. Present told the United News he was mystified at tho summons to Relngold's establishment as he had been there 24 hours before and was unable to effect a Bale. Reingold denied authorship ot tho message left at Present's hotel. The police were puzzled over the fact that both Reingold and Present carried money when taken to the station for questioning. They said tho bandits did not search their clothes. Both men were detained. Another mystifying factor was that Chicago agents of a well known insurance company said thoy receiv ed word a few days ago that mem bers of an international gang of (Continued on Pago H.) s ARE STARVING APPEALS SENT TO WHOLESALE HOUSES FOR FOOD MEN, DESPERATE. By United Press BIRMINGHAM, April 23 Tho situ ation in the Alabama coul field?, whore thousr.nds ot strikers and fam ilies aro destitute, was today char acterized as "alarming" by Brigadier Slmonson of the Salvation army. i Simoneon said that tho coal min ers are "starving and desperate." Representatives of half a dozen lo cal unions of the United Mine Work ers aro canvassing for food and money in Birmlngban today. Joseph Smith, representing the union at Republic, Ala., 'appealed to I wholesale bouses for food. "We aro, in bad need and must have foodj IILL STRIKING M today," he said. THREE ARMED MEN BANDIT SUSPECT SIX PATIENTS AND SEVERAL NURSES HELD OFF BY 'GUNS. PARTY IS CAPTURED NEFF, ALLEGED CROOK, HELP LESSSHOT THROUGH BOTH LEGS. By United Press CHICAGO, April 23 Three armed men today forced their vay into tho St. James hospital and kidnaped Frod .Neff, bandit suspect. Six patients and several nurses were held at bay at the point of re volvers. The police re-captured Neff and his three liberators two hours later. Neff is in a helpless condition, hav. ing been shot through both' legs wnen a garage was robbed. , 13 YEARS LONG TIME TO WAIT FOR KISS, IS VIEW By United Nows iNEVV YORK, April 23. The way Frederick Richardson views the mat ter, 13 years is a mighty long while for a bridegroom to wait for a kiss, a caress or a tender word Indicating af fection. His wife Florence, whom he wed in 1908, having failed in those matters, Richardson avers in a peti tion for annulment, he veiily believes she does not love him. Richardson, -treasurer of a manufac turing company, complained that when he tried to kias his bride just after the ceremony, sho repulsed him, ordering him not to get mushy. Tho honeymoon Was klssless and their life together for the next IS months, pre ceding their separation was quite as unromnntic. PASSOVER FEAST TO BE WINELESS RED WINE CAN'T GET FROM WAREHOUSES TO RABBIS. By United News NEW YORK, April 23. Tho feast of tho passover, celebrated annually by 1,500,000 JewlBh residents of New York with free uso of rod wine, sam. tioned by civil law and required by the religious tenotn of tho orthodox faith, is going to bo a more or less arid feast this year doBplto tho le gal protection afforded by tho Vol stead law. Police Commissioner Enrlght was told to set out and make Now York bono dry. Ho lins dono it, or is doing it so thoroughly that the red wlno cannot get from tho warehouses to the rabbis or from tho rabbis to the.'r communicants. Wholesalers with permits to sell Kacramental wine havo refused be cause their shipments have been seized regardless of the law. And a delegation of rabbis who visited po lice headquarters in protest were told taut "there Is so much contraband stuff going out in tho guise of sacra mental wino that pollcomen must live up to their ardors to seize every drop of tho stuff they seo being transport ed." REHEAR. NG CF COLUMBIA BASIN CASE, DENIED By United Press PORTLAND, April 23. The Inter slate Commerce Commission' today threw out petitions for a rehearing of the famous Columbia basin rate case, submitted by Seattle, Tacoma, Everett and Astoria, according to t, despatch to the Port Commission from Washington, D. C. Preferential frelgh. rate from the Inland Empire to Port, land will remain In effect. LOWER WAGES AND RAIL RATES ARE NOW FORECASTED CUT, NOT LESS THAN '10 PER. CENT BY THE FIRST OF MAY. (Chronicle's Washington Bureau.; WASHINGTON, April 23 Lower wages on nil railroads of the coun try followed by lowered freight rates aro now In sight. The wage reduction will be an nounced, according to semi-official information, between now nnd May 1, by the United States railroad labor board, which Is now hearing the fi nal arguments of the contentions re garding wages. The cut will not be loss than' 10 percent, ahd may be as much as 15 percent, but no more. The length of time to be consumed In tho argument may delay the decision a day or two, but in any event it is expected to be made In May. Following this it is expected that the railroads themselves will volun tarily ask for reductions on certain lines of freight with tho belief that additional traffic will result, and a greater income will be stimulated for the railroads, and this with the low. ered cost of operation will begin the restoration of normalcy in transpbrta. tion. ILabor leaders are prepared for this reduction in wages -and while there will be vociferous objection, the new wages will be accepted and tho rail- roads will make extraordinary ef forts to stimulate Increased freight and passenger business to put into uso the now idle railroad equipment, which has reached the highest levels known in the" history of railroading. It is intimated in official circles that should- the railroad executives not apply voluntarily for 'reduced rates on certain lines of freight and passenger traffic, step3 will be taken to havo tho Interstate commerce commission reduce tho freight unci passonger rates on Its own motion, under tho power conferred upon it by tho Esch-Cummlns law. AGED MAN HAS TWO WIVES; NEVER AGAIN, HE SAYS Bv United Now NEW YORK, April 23. Spring' Is horo but Roacoo iRclch, a romantic youth of 71), positively will not gut. married again, Reich, tottering on a cane In Judge Martin's Kings county court, in a querulous volco pleaded guilty to mnr rying ono wife too many, such wn& his romantic ardor, but promised not to complicate matters any further t given another chance. Wll'o number one was living In Eus ton, Pa whore Rolch used to bo county auditor, when ho married Mr3. Augusta lio'lmund, "At your ago a man ought to reallzo that one wll'o is all ono man can care for, at ono tnno," said' tho Judge. "Your courage may bo ndmlrablo but I can't say as much for your common sense." Sontenco was suspended. EXCLUDE f S URGES OLCOTT GOVERNOR DISPATCHES URGENT REQUEST TO OREGON CON GRE88IONAL DELEGATION. By United Press SALEM, April 23 Govornor Ben W, Olcott today dispatched to tho Oregon delegation in congress an ur gent request for enuctmcnt of rigid Japanese exclusion laws, Tho lcttor was sent east following receipt of an appeal from Governor Stophons of California. "I feel very strongly on tho Jap aneso question," Olcott said, in part. "I sincerely hope that tho federal government will tako a strong po sition In tho matter and Insist upon rigid exclusion, which, I believe, mum eventually bo the only solution of this blr; problem." FARMER LESS THAN THIRD OF CflEDITS DUE NATIONAL FARMERS' UNION DE NOUNCES RESTRICTIONS TO TILLERS OF SOIL. LOSE $7,000,000,000 FREIGHT RATE" INCREASE8, MID DLEMEN'S PROFITEERING, LOANS CONDEMNED. Chronicle's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, April 23 In the report of the committoo on compara tive credits, adopted today by a mass meeting of the National Farmers' union, it is alleged that the farmers of the country have sustained a loss of $7,000,000,000 on their products and have only received $2,000,000,000 in credits from the federal bank sys tem when they aro entitled to $7,000,000,000. The chief causes given for the -giant loss are: unnecessary profiteer ing of middlemen; arbitrary restric tion of credit by the federal reserve bank and unreasonable increases In railroad frelcht rates. The report declares that tho total re-discount of the fcdornl reserve bank was $14,000,000,000, and of this total, agriculture received 14 per cent, manufacturing 21 percont, mer chandising 2G percont and specula tion nnd miscellaneous 34 percent. Of primary deposits of all banks, agriculture furnished 50 percent, la bor 20 percent and other business 30 percent. Tho contention is advanced that K because of those facts', agriculture was entitled to $7,000,000,000 Instead of only $3,000,000,000. Recommenda tion was made that tho law be so amended ns to requlro tho. reserve bank to allot credit in proportion to the resourcea and deny credit to speculators. Tho rlso In freight rates as farm prices tall, was denounced as a flagrant extortion. JAPAN WILL MAKE YAP CONCESSIONS EVERY NATION INTERESTED IN REQUEST TO OREGON DEL EGATION. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 23. Japan prepared to multo concessions to tho United S'atos In Its dispute over Yap Island, according lo uuthorilalivo opin ion hero. This will not bo dono for somo time, however. Despite Toklo roports that Japan will remain obdurato In Insisting upon tho validity of Its mandato aver Yap. it is learned hero that high Japaneso aulhoiltlos aro Indued to the view that every nation Is vitally Interest ed In tho Yap issue, and that Japan eventually must mako concesulons. AVENGER OF DAUGHTER IS GIVEN $100 PURSE By United Press DENVER, April 23 Georgo K Thompson, avengur of his 15- year-old daughter, Jessie, was today tho recipient of a $100 purse, tho gift of Jurors who ro- H turned a vordlct ot not guilty In K Thompson's trial for killing his brother-in-law, Al Reese, who bousted ot his assault on Thonip- son'H daughter. FARMER ALLEGED TO HAVE INSULTED GIRLS, RESCUED By United rr HARRISBURG, Ore,, April 23 R. M. Carter, a young farmer was to- duy rescued by doputy sheriffs from a mob of 60 meu ,lntent on applying a coat of tar and foathers. Carter is alleged to have insulted school girls. He Is married and bus several children. I i