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VOLUME LXI.
THE DALLES, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1921.
No. 118.
CHIEF JUSTICE
E DEAD:
END AT 2 A. M.
NEVER RECOVERS FROM SLIGHT
OPERATION PERFORMED
LAST FRIDAY.
WAS 6 YEARS OLD
-WASHINGTON IN SORROW OVER
PASSING OF BELOVED
PUBLIC FIGURE.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 19 Talk of
a successor to Chief Justice White
of the supreme court today cen-!
tered on William Howard Taft, form
er president. Selection of Secretary
of State Hughes is also being dls
cussed.
By Herbert W. Walker
i united News Staff Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, May 19 Chief
Justice Edward Douglas White of
the United States supremo court
died here today at a. m.
The chief justice did not arouse
from the coma into which he sank
late Tuesday after an operation the
preceding Friday.
Mrs. White and two nieces, Miss
Anne Montgomery and Miss Mary(
Uioussard, were at his bedside when
tho chief justice passed away. A
Catholic priest was present also.
Justice White was 76 years old.
More than twenty-seven years he,
served on the supreme court bench
and he had been chief justice since .
1910. I
His death cast a pall of sorrow'
over official Washington. He was
one of the best loved men in pub-'
lie life. i
Whito was born in the parish of
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WALL STREET
SUSPECT ARRESTED
.ITALIAN HELD FOR SUSPECTED
COMPLICITY IN EXPLOS
ION CRIME.
By United Press
NEW YORK, May 19 A warrant
for the arrest of Guiseppe De Fil
ippo, suspected of complicity in the
Wnll street explosion September 16,!
was today issued by United States
Commissioner Samuel HitchcocK.
The warrant charges Flllppo with
attempting to destroy t a United (
States public building the "essay
office in Wall street by exploding
a bomb in front of it. j
Filippo is under arrest in Bay
onne, N. J., upon a warrant sworn .
out by Charles Stully, head of the
bomb squad of the department oi
justice.
Scully said that he had been told
by a witness that Flllppo was tho
driver of a rickety wagon contain
ing the bomb which killed 35 per
sons in tho noon day crowd. ,
CONCERTED BLUE LAW
DRIVE IS STARTED
PRESBYTERIANS AT WINONA
LAKE BATTLE ANTI-SAB-BATH
PROPAGANDA.
By United Press
WINONA LAKE, Ind May 19
A concerted drive for Blue Sunday
laws, a move to check wide-open
Sabbath agitation, was today started
here.
Church members of all creeds ana
faiths were asked to fight the "mil
lion dollar propaganda against our
Christian Sabbath," and to urge civ
il authorities to prohibit Sunday
amusements.
The blue law question was thrown
before the Presbyterian general as
sembly when the sessions opened
today.
BOMB
SQUATTERS FLEE F
ROM
HIGH WATER III
TEMPORARY RESIDENTS ON
FLATS MOVING; RIVER
RISES 2.3 FEET.
The rapid rise in the waters oi
the Columbia river during the last
several days has resulted in hurried
pulling of stakes and moving of
tents to higher ground by squatters
who have been camping during the
winter on the beach below the city.
Several small wooden shacks were
swept off their foundations last
night and carried down the viver.
Their owners had already moved to
safer localities however, and aside
from losing their shelters, were not
subjected to any great discomfort.
Caught in an eddy, one of these
shacks could be seen this morning,
lazily floating over what several
days ago was sandy beach.. Lace
curtains were still up at the win
dows, as if the owner of the house
had abandoned the shack in haste
during the night.
The river is still coming up, a
rise of 2.3 feet having been record
ed during the last 24 hours. The
water now stands at 30.5 feet, which
is already higher than it was as
any time last year. The river is ex
pected to go to the 35 foot mark
or above, before the freshet 5s over.
SHIP CLEARS WITH -NON-UNION
CREW
FIFTH OF- GOVERNMENT SHIPS
TO LEAVE COLUMBIA WITH
STRIKE BREAKERS.
By United Press
ASTORIA, Ore., May 10. Tho
freighter Eelbeck, fifth United Slates
shipping board vessel to clear from
Portland and Astoria with non-union
crews since the marine strike began,
crossed out of the Columbia here to
day. j The Eelbeck carried a cargo of
wheat for Leghorn, Italy.
13-YEAR OLD WIFE
T
PATHETIC SPECTACLE BEING
STAGED IN OZARKS COURT
HOUSE. By United Prets
FARMIXGTO.V, Mo., May 19 Folks
in tho Ozarks hooked up their mules
today and drove into town to hoar
Letta Parson's story in court.
Most everybody in tho Ozarks
knows about Letta.
For thirteen years she was no
body's child, just running around
Farmington and tho countryside, with
out father or mother. She never learn
ed to read or write Letta is just
"po' white."
Then, shortly after her 13th bi;th
day, -John Parson, a wood chopper,
married her and brought her home
j to mother his two children.
. Letta is being tried for the alleged
murder of one of them. Five days af
ter she was married she blew the lop
of six-year-old Lily Parson's head off
with a shotgun.
j Tho child bride she didn't look it
i today, with her skinny pigtails and
her scared eyes says she didn't
"make out" to kill Lily. She says sho
was playing on the floor with the
children and didn't know tho gun wns
loaded.
'But Johnny Parson, her other step
child, says she killed his sister be
cause she acted up when Letta was
trying to comb her hair.
Then there are folks who say Letta
Isn't such a child as her 13 year
indicate. They say she was "gottin'
even" with John Parson because he
traipsed around with another woman
right after he married Letta.
There is a chance the Ozark folks
who know all about Letta won't get
a chance to bear her story. The case
COLUMBIA
OR
MURDER
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RELIGIOUS SECT
SEEKS ASYLUM
F
MENNONITES, CLAIMING PERSE
CUTION, START GIANT
MIGRATION.
20,000 LEAVE NORTH
FLIGHT GREATEST SINCE PAS
SAGE OF MORMONS FROM
ILLINOIS.
By United Press
ST. PAUL, May 19 Between 15.-
000 and 20,000 Mennonites will be
gin their exodus from Canada to
Mexico within the next three weeks,
railroad officials here said today.
They will spend more than $1,000,
000 in fares.
Negotiations for transportation
closed this week. Members of tho
order, who claim that they have
been persecuted by the Canadian
government, will seek asylum in
Mexico, their agents said.
Passengers, livestock, farm equip
ment and household goods will make
up special trains to move across tho
country from north tc south. ,
Not since the days of the flight
of the Mormons from Nauvoo, 111.,1
to Utah, has there been such a
massed movement of a religious or
der on the American continent.
They will settle in West Durango,
Mexico. The Mexican government
will give then free transportation
from the Mexican border. i
Rev. J. P. Wiebe of Saskatoon is
here arranging for the transporta
tion of hundreds of members of the
order from various parts in Canada,
SIBERIAN CITY CAPTURED
BY REVOLUTIONARIES
By United rross
1IELSINGFORS, May 19--The Si
berian city of Omsk has fallen be
fore an army of 40,000 Russian revo
lutionists, according to reports re-'
celved here today. Tho Red army,'
commanded by General Rueely, is
now marching on Omsk.
GIRL HIKES 40 MILES
TO INDIAN SWEETHEART
By United Press
DURANGO, Colo., May' 19 John
Miller, a Navajo Indian employed on
a ranch near here, yesterday sent
word to the Indian gin whom ho
was to marry that lie could not lay
off to wed.
Tho girl then began a 10-mile
journey on foot, leading a goat as
a gift to her husband-to-be, Sho
swam the flooded waters of tho La
Platta river.
The two will bo married tomorrow.
OM
MA
LLOYD GEORGE ATTACKS FRENCH '
PRESS AS THREATENING ENTENTE
AMERICAN AND BRITISH GOVERNMENTS BELIEVED IN ACCORD
ON SILESIAN QUESTION; "CHILDREN OF PEACE TREATY
NOT TO BREAK CROCKERY."
By A. E. Johnson
(United News Staff Correspondent)
LONDON, May 19 Lloyd George
has reiterated in terms that afford
no misconstruction, that Adelbert
Kerfanty and his Polish Irregulars
must be curbed, that tho Silesian
question must bo settled by tho
supreme council, and that the Ver
sailles treaty must bo upheld and
respected.
The premier cites American and
Italian sentiment as backing his de
mand for falrnesH to Germany under
the treaty, and scores in vitriolic
words the "truncated and distorted"
reports of his own attitude printed
by French newspapers.
Lloyd George's indictment of tho
French press, it may be said, is a
more important phase of the contro
FRANCE IGNORES
IN
PROTEST AGAINST ENTRANCE OF
UNORGANIZED TEUTONS
INTO SILESIA.
BUND REMAINS FIRM
NATION CANNOT REMAIN NEU
TRAL IF GERMANS INVADE
DISPUTED COUNTRY.
By United Press
PARIS, May 19. Ignoring Britain
in the Upper Silesia controversy, th
French government today sent a noto
to Berlin protesting against the en
trance of unorganized German bands
into Silesia.
The note intimated t hat German)
should close her frontiers.
By Webb Miller
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
PARIS. May 19. Premier Ur'land nt
France today reiterated his statement
of Saturday, flinging down tho gaunt
let to Great Britain.
"I stand on what I said Saturday. '
he declared after reading Premier
Lloyd George's warning of yesterday.
"There's nothing in the Versailles
treaty saying the Germans shall get
the rich mining district of Upper Si
lesia while tho Poles get the remain
der." Briand made his statement prior to
entering tho Palais Bourbon to make
a defease of his foreign policies.
"It's only a littlo flurry of bad
humor on the premier's part," lie said
with a smile. "It will pass soon there
is no harm in it. I don't care to en
tor into a controversy with Lloyd
George, but France cannot remain
neutral if Germain is permitted to
invade Upper Silesia."
WASHINGTON, May 19. Colonel
George Harvey, American ambassador
to London, will attend the meeting of
tho supremo council which is to take
up tho Silesian boundary dispute, it
was definitely stated at the state de
partment today.
MAIL ROBBERY FOILED;
SUSPECTED MEN ESCAPE
By United Press
SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 19
What railway mail servico officials
believe was an attempt to rob tho
mail car of Southern Pacific pas
senger train No. 10, east bound, was
today frustrated when two men
were discovered in tho car. Tho
train was stopped and the men fled
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 Train
No, 10, tho San Francisco Ogden ex
press, carried the bulk of tho Sun
Francisco mail for tho east, accord
ing to Southern Pacific officials.
versy than appears on tho surface.
"With all respect to tho French
press," he declared, "I would say
that tho habit of treating every ex
pression of ullied opinion which
does not coincide with their own
opinion as importance is fraught
with mischief. That attitude, Is per
sisted in, will bo fatal to any en
tente." This is not the first time that
Paris newspapers huvo aroused the
ire of Lloyd George or, for that mat
ter, of the statesmen of other coun
tries, who wero attempting to solve
international difficulties under tho
unfortunate and ill advised Interfer
ence of tho semi-official press in
BRITAIN
W
GERMAN
DEMAND
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FARMERS TO ASK CITY
FOR AID IN BOND
CAMPAIGN
SUCCESS OF ISSUE IN FORTHCOM
ING CAMPAIGN BELIEVED
ASSURED.
Business men of Tho Dalles have
gone to tho farmers of the county for
aid in putting over some enterprise
where the cooperation of all was nec
essary for luccess.
Now the tables aro turned, and the
farmers are coming to tho city for aid
in putting over The Dallcs-Callfornln
highway $800,000 bond issue.
County Judge J. T. Adkisson today
announced that he will call upon the
chamber of commerce for a series of
mass meetings to be held at the court
house or in other convenient places,
when prominent farmers and leaders
of rural communities will appeal to
city residents to help put over tho Is
sue. Judge Adkisson believes that the
bond issue, if left entirely to the
farmers, would go over in big shape,
but tho attitude of people in the city
has so far been apathetic. The vote
of residents in The Dalles will pass
or defeat tho bonds, and the county
court desires to arouse interest so that
every voter will register his prefer
ence. Judgo Adkisson beliovos too much
attention has been given to the coun-
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WORRIED BY BILL
GRAIN PRICES ON BOARD OF
TRADE DROP; FEAR ABOL
ISHMENT. By United Press
CHICAGO, May 19. Grain prices
dropped on the Chicago board of trade
at tho opening today, duo to tho suc
cess of legislation in tho Illinois as
sembly, which, if enacted Into law,
will abolish this great grain market.
July wheal opened off -'c at 110i
and quickly lost an additional ic. Oth
er wheat quotations allowed a sim
ilar los... Corn and oats wore off fron
3-4c to lc.
WHEN AUTO CRASHES
CHICAGO BANK ROBBED OF $10
000, BUT MONEY IS
RECOVERED.
By United Press
CHICAGO, May 19 Three hunk
robbers, Hoeing after holding up tho
Division Statu bank here, were cap
tured today when their auto turned
over, Ono bandit was wounded by
polico fire. A fourth robber escaped.
Four men entered tho bank short
ly after it had opened and drove
the officials into a rear room. They
then scooped up all the money in
sight, about J10.00U, and fled. They
wore chased by tho police In a ma
chine. Tho robbers' car overturnod
as It rounded a corn or, Tho four
men started to run.
Tho polico shot William Dun-jaui
and captured two others. Tho fourth
man held up another automobile and
made his escape in it. Tho loot was
found in tho overturned machine.
i
IMMIGRATION BILL SIGNED
By United Pre
WASHINGTON, May 19 Presi
dent Harding late today signed the
Immigration bill.
QUARANTINE FOLLOWS
DEATH FROM TYPHUS
By United Prers
NEW YORK, May 19 Ellis island
wus today put under quarantine, fol
lowing the death of an Immigrant
from typhus. More than 1700 Immi
grants who might have como In con
tact with the disease, wero return
ed to Hoffman islund, whoro they
will be confined under obserratlou
for 21 days.
CHICAGO
MARKET
BANDITS
CPTURO
P
ANAMA
ASKS
SOUTH AMERICA
TO INTERVENE
DISPLEASED WITH ULTIMATUM
OF U. S. REGARDING COSTA
RICA DISPUTE.
SENDS FORTH ENVOYS
PANAMA MINISTER LEAVES FOR
WASHINGTON WITH
REPLY.
By United Press
PANAMA, May 19. Panama" today
appealed to South American nations
to intervene In nor controversy with
the United States over disposition of
a strip of Central Amciica claimed,
by both Panama and Costa Rica.
The government sent envoys to
Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Chile to
"nsl: those countries to domnnd that
final disposition of the disputed pro
vince be left to a commission from tho
Latin-American na'ions and tho Unit
ed States. At" tho same time, 'Secretary
of Foreign Affairs Garay sailed for
Washington, presumably with an ans
wer to Secretary Hughes' ultimatum
directing Panama to vacate the dis
puted territory.
It was reported Garay would request
further consideration by United
Statos authorities, politely refusing
to vacate until the request was grant
ed. STANDING OF POLICE.
BOOTLEGGERS' LEAGUE
By United News
NEW YORK, May 19. Latest
scores of tho New York polico force
vs. all New York bootleggers, six
weeks contest:
Police: 3,000 arrests; 453 indict
ments; 1,7!' 4 aralgnnients; four con
victions. Bootleggers: 2S dismissals
by grand jury, sly acquitted by Juries;
407 discharges.
POLICE CAPTURE
YOUTHFUL YEGGS
BOYS FOUND IN JEWELRY STORE,
POUNCING ON SAFE COM.
BINATION.
By United Preen
PORTLAND M::y 19. -Two youth
ft'l safecracker-, were last night, cor
nered in a loi ul jewelry store, busily
pounding awa at a sale. Thoy aro
Frdo Dargcff, 10 and Frank Blrdsall,
17. Thoy said I hoy camo from San
Francisco a week i'go. They confessed
to the rohbory of a largo drug storo
slnr.o arriving.
The youthtul yeggs gained ontranco
to tho jr-wolry storo through a sky
light, puwhod the knob off tho safe
and woiv endeavoring to knock in
tho combination when hu pollen broku
In tho door and cap u rod thorn.
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T
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STRANGLED TO DEATH
CORONER'S JURY INVESTIGATING
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF
CHILD.
By United Press
DE BUQUE, Colo., May 19. Tho
"spirit baby" of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Mayor died of strangulation, accord
ing to tho vordict today of a coroner's
Jury. Tho Infant's body was exhumod
from tho back yard of tho Mayer
home, after neighbors had reported
tho douth to officials,
Mayors assorts that tho Infant was
born of spirit, through Immaculate
conception and not of fiend und that
thoy had roculved a message from tho
"great beyond" that tho child had not
long to live. No arrests have been
liiuiU', but tho polico aro Investigating.
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