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CONTROL WW 10 BOYS, 1 5, CONFESS THEY jSo st" IU i lIU Ull I LU ff 1 1 1 Photographed They Were -If i II Leaving the "Courthouse'- BY EMPLOYES! pi -3- II (', She Is 30. fl 1 I if, 'I III 5 i i 1 'tfk II' 1 111 Pis vrr Pi i ml n- I TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NfWI STANDS FIVE CENTS OWN WITNESS AT Frank iL. Ketch, Main Prop for Proecution, Is Charged With Aiding Clara Hamon to Escape; Girl Owns Interest in Estate. By Mildred Morris Courthouse, Ardmore, March 14. (I.

N. S. The second sensation of the Clara Smith Hamon trial was sprung this morning whrn Frank I Ketch, administrator of tho Hamon estate I and witness for the prosecution, was branded as an "accessory" after the murder of Jake L. Himon, by a member of state's counsel. J.

I Hodge, assistant county attorney, made the charge. Hodge protested vigorously against Ketch being "Kranted immunity" and against admission of his evidence. 1 "The evidence has shown that this man aided the defendant to encape after this alleged crime was committed. I object to his being granted immunity by the stalo and to his testifying in this esse. I have reason for this, your honor' declared Hodge.

PROTEST IS OTERBULED The court this protest. Hodge declared the county, attorney's office in tended-f I Wng a warrant againut Ketch if the defeffdant is convicted. "I was out of town the day Hamori was shot." said I arrived tn Ardmore at 7 :3 o'clock on the day lie was shot and my first Information concerning the tragedy came from a Ketch testified he went to the hospital and Hamon said to him: "Frank, I am never going to get Asked what Hamon had said relative to the defendant. Ketch replied: "The first thing I said to Hamon was, Where is sher "He said, 'It was an accident, DOE85T BELIEVE HAMOlt I said, 'You can't make me believe "He answered. 1 want it put out that It was an accident.

I want you to give her 5000 and get her out before my wife comes. Tell everybody it was an that my gun went ''I said, 'Your gun couldn't hace gone off. i file answered, 'I want it known as an accident' Ketch Identified the revolver Intro- duced In evidence as the one he removed from the right hand pocket of Hamon's overcoat. "Did you have a conversation with th ICorvluded en I'm Thr, Column Vmtri Harding Selections For Ship Board Head Narrows Down to 2 By Rarmoad Clapper Washington, March 14. (U.

president Harding has nsrrowed his choice for chairman of the shipping board to Jame A. Farrell, president of the Untied Stales Sttel c.orroratlon, ami It. A. Smith, New York shipping man. It developed today.

According to persons who conferred with the president, the announcement of the personnel of the new board and for- Imulation of a merchant marine policy, awaits the final choice of a chairman. Harding Victor Cabinet Post ARDMQR Good Bye, Bossy; Art Gives Milk (By United Hewn) March 14. Good bye, bossy! Henry Ford's dream of a "tin bossy" to produce milk may never be accomplished, but his original idea the poor at prices much lower than cow's milk' prices, will soon be realized. i i The authority for this Is Dr. Earl B.

Carr. X-Ray specialist of the New England sanitarium. 7 at Melrose, and the inventor of the new vegetable milk, who told the United News all about It In an interview Sunday. 7 ,7 The ingredients of this artificial milk are simple. Equal parts of ground raw peanuts and pulverized oatmeal.

Then add water and strain. Anyone can make it at home. Furthermore, according to Dr. Carr, fthe synthetic milk will contain nearly all the jhutritive properties of milk and may, in some respects be ahead of the cow product. The Only thing left to be done before the' mi He can be regarded as a perfect product is the securing of a flavoring extract which will give Dr.

Carr's cow-less milk a pleasing taste. He admitted that the taste of the milk made thus far is hot especially pleasant, but said he expected experiments during the next few weeks would take care of this drawback. SiTjtyounaE tfteV- wer hanged Joy prison this morning for complicity in attacks upon crown forces 1n- Ireland. yi Thomas Wheelan and Patrick Moran, who were convicted of participating in the killing of British officers in this city on November 81 "bloody Sunday" were executed first, i The executions caused a tremendous sensation and have had the effect of quelling talk of further peace negotiations for the time being. Business was at a standstill.

Even the postoffice was Outside of Mount Joy prison many persons were gathered. Many 'knelt In prayer and sobs and cries of lamentation filled the air. Inside the prison, within a few hundred feet of the spot where the six condemned men met thefr death, was Arthur Griffith. Sinn Fein member of parliament, vice president of the Irish republic and head of the Sinn Fein organization. He is a prisoner.

Attempts to secure a reprieve for the six republicans failed. Word was received from London early today that the home office and the irieh office would not interfere. The authorities -then made the final arrangements for the. execution. It was decided that the merf should.be killed In pairs beginning at 6 o'clock In the morning.

After Wheelan and Moran two others of the condemned men were ordered to their doom at 7 o'clock and an hour later- at 8 o'clock the final couple met death.ii." The hipheat feeling was aroused over the execution of Moran, who was-, formerly head of the union of grocery clerks in Dublin. His friends declared that he had been convicted before a British military court on the- flimsiest kind of evidence and that the testimony of his friends, who swore to an alibi, was disregarded, Wheelan has two brothers in the United States. One of them is said to be a soldier in the American army. He was accused of shooting an English officer to death, on the morning of "Bloody Sunday," but evidence was given at the court martial that he was attending mass at the time 'he was alleged to have committed the murder. -a- Hamon Made Was Offered Carl Victor Little Courthous Ardmore, March 14.

(U. William I). Nichols today revealed to the United Press what he tried to tell the jury the other day -the power- Jake Hamon wielded, in5 national politics. Nichols was the political llteu tenant and adviser of Jake Hamon, whose secretary-protege. Clara Smith Hamon, is on trial for- Hamon's murder.

Nichols, witness for the state, gave the following testimony on Saturday concerning a talk he had with Hamon Just before he died "Jake Hamon told me to go straight to Warren and get some of his friends take care of." i His story was stopped abruptly In courts but here 1 the rest of it, he told today: i am going to make good on the dying request of Jake Hamon. I am going: to the White House to see President Harding in two weeks. WAWTS OMD TO KWOTf "Shakespeare said The el men do lives after them; the good ia often Interred with their He was right. SIX SINN FEUS HANGED BY BRITISH COAST MAN NAMED Tell Police They Broke Into Al berta Hardware Store, and They Are Suspected of Committing Other Robberies. The mystery of four early morning store robberies in Alberta district was solved at 4 o'clock this morning by Patrolmen Johnson and Blanchard, in the arrest of John Hughes and Isaac Enna, both 15 years of age, shortly after they had robbed the hardware store of 8.

Sal-monson. 663 Alberta street. In addition to confessing to the hardware store robbery the lads are fluid to have confessed the robbery of the Anderson Lloyd Grocery store, 710 Alberta street, on March 2 and 13 Alberta Pharmacy, got Alberta street, on March 8, and the Crout grocery, 1311 Sandy boulevard, about six weeks ago. 1 FISHIHG TACKLE STOLEX This morning the lads are alleged to have stolen 'about $600 worth of fishing tackle and ammunition- from Salmonson's store. They took 85 packages of fish line, seven fancy reels, 500 rounds of No.

12 shells, 5000 rounds of .23 rifle shells, knives and other small articles, it is alleged, much this loot' having beeo recovered. Entrance was gained by kicking the screen off a small basement -vV thelr- 'night of the two, lads slept as soundly in two chaihs st police headquarters this morning as if they were snugly tucked in bed, and were not awakened by the constant string -of bluecoats who called to "admire" them lads will be turned over to the juvenile court. WEARS STOLES SOCKS At the time of their arrest one of the boys was wearing a khaki shirt and a pair of woolen socks stolen from the clothes line at the home of A. L. Hirsch, 906 Going street, After the.

boys their confession at headquarters Motorcycle Patrolman Jewell took one in hie side car to the east side to have him-point out stores which they had entered, as the boys could not remember the addresses. At East Thirteenth and Ankeny streets the motorcycle skidded -into the curb and one wheel was taken off. Hughes lives with his parents at East Forty-fifth and Alberta streets, and Enna at 1005 Thirty-sixth street north. For the second time within a year the dountry home of Blaine R. Smith, one mile and a half east "of Clackamas statiofo, was burned to the ground Sunday afternoon, entailing a loss of about $70,000, half of which, is covered by Insurance.

It has been estimated that the loss "to the house, will be approximately (35,000, a like sum being represented In the furnishings which were elaborate and costly. Smith was a fancier of Oriental rugs and had an extremely, valuable collection, most of which was completely destroyed. The fire, whjch is supposed to have started from a defective flue, was discovered about 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Smith, who was at home with her four' children, called upon, the neighbors for aid, but all they could save was.

a few pieces of furniture and personal effects. A call for help was sent to the Oregon City fire department, 4 mile away, but the firemen did not respond because they felt it was useless to make the trip as the house would be burned down before their arrival. KEW HOrSE BUILT The- new home was completed last October, being built after ire destroyed the former home about a year ago. The family took up residence Sunday night at the hotel Multnomah and ail went out to the place this morning. Smith is manager of the Monarch Fire Clay company.

"Precaution is the best fire prevention I know of," said Fire 'Marshal Edward Grenfell- this morning, when asked for suggestions as to methods to prevent country fires, 'far from fighting "A large number of country homes burn down because people never think about fire- jmtil after It starts. In the city we have building inspectors to watch the construction of a house' to eliminate fire hazards, and then if a defect causes a fire all the people have to do li to run to the telephone and they get protection. In the country this is not so therefore, it is necessary to take even more precaution. -y V-7'--' "It country home owners would place a three-gallon fire extinguisher on every floor of their house, they would have something to bring into action at once, and stop fire before it gets beyond control. At country homes where water is piped to the house it -would not be a bad idea to keep the garden house always connected up and ready for uee ARE BURG ARS HOME IS BURNED FOR SECOND Tim Union Labor Carries War Against Wage Cutst Put I nto, Effect Today by the "Big Five.

Packers Into Camp of the. Meat Kings. Chicago March 14. Union labor today carries ita. war against the wage cute announced by the "Big Five" packers sfcito the camp of the meat kings and announced that as the first.

in its counter attack a plan will be- presented for adoption by which it is hoped to enlist the aid of every farmer, in the United States. Briefly the uniorx plan promises support of union labor all over the country for farmer advocatfee of the Kenyon- Kendrick-rbill to provide governmental regulation tf the packing industry in re turn lor support against the packers. GOMFERS CALLS MEETISO The second step In the employes fight embraced plans for a meeting at the offices ot the American Federation of Labor here of representatives of the packing' house employes. This meeting-, called by Samuel Gompers for Wednesday will select two repreaenta-- tives to attend the mediation conferences in Washington and witt consider the general attitude of labor toward wage cuts. We shall siow the farmers of the country," said Dennis Lane, secretary of the Amalgamated Meatcutters Butch- erworkers of America, "just where ti2S packers are making false statements regarding wages paid in the yards and re-rent We shall ask the farmers to line.upArith In tlie fight, ilo return we shall offer'them jBntire support in their fight for enactment of the Ken- yon-Kendrick bill, which was sidetracked in the last congress after it been passed by the senate.

shall show that the cost of labor is less than .6 cent per pound of meat. a We believe we shall get their COO FE RATI VE PtAW GITEIT Armour St Co. announced the inauguration of a plan of cooperative manage-ment whereby employes will share ia knowledge of all the company's business, its management "and all matters of mutual interest." 'When organisation has been effected," J. Ogden Armour's statement says means win be provided for prompt and orderly consideration of all matters of mutual Interest, such as wages, hours of labor, working conditions. sanitary and safety measures, Election of a temporary committee to put the plan into effect in other Armour plants throughout the country will proceed immediately, the i announcement states.

The plan will divide all Armour plants into four main divisions the beef, pork, production and mechanical divisionseach department under these divisions to be divided into voting precincts. Each precinct will elect one committee man to represent It on a divisional committee. The divisional, committee in turn will elect three representatives to serve on a general conference board. Secretary Lane of the" meat cutters characterized the by Armour Co. of a plan of cooperative management of that company's plants throughout the country and the intimation that Swift Co.

will shortly adopt a like plan, as plain bunk." "There's no more chance of the men standing for thia than there Isjof the packer allowing the men to elect diA rectors of the company," Lane said. Employee of packing plants in Chl- (Omclnded ea Pace Elevsa. Cohunn Faar) ADVMICE III BEEF hits craiEiis By Hyman II. Cohen While prospects of a general strike of union packers as result of wage cnts loomed today, the price of meat advanced in the Portland market. "The public ia again the sufferer and al-.

ready prices are cent to i cent a pound higher for beef in the wholesale market, with-retailers i Instances, advancing their prices 3 to cents a pound. While butchers attribute the advance In the wholesale price of "beef to a very strong market for. cattle in the stockyards and a higher price range there, the livestock market was actually sagging tij price just at the same moment that butchers were advancing their wholesale price on beef. The meat trade here is very much excited gardhig the probable strike of employes in the packinghouses It is claimed ly the retailers that the packers are the ones that will benefit "by a strike, because it will allow them to dispose their huge surplus of pork products as well as keep the price of beef to the extreme limit the Lenten season, when, because of the law of supply and demand, the market usually shows a loss. Small Country Is Warned Not to Communicate With Kronstadt, Island Fortress and Strong-j hold of the Russian Rebels.

Helsingfors. March 14. (0. A virtual ultimatum from the Bol-sheviki -was received by; the Finnish government today. The; Finns were warned not to communicate with Kronstadt, stronghold of the Russian rebels, v' i -Reports told of increasing agitation against the soviet government with important defections in Southern Russia and Siberia.

Oranienbaum, a port west of Petro-grad. was said to have capitulated to the rebels Saturday after two days of hard fighting in which- the Red casualties reached 400 dead and 1300 wounded. TOWX DESTROYED The town itself was destroyed, largely by the heavy firing on both sides. Sailors who landed there were en route to Petrogfad by land, their progress covered by an artillery barrage from Kronstadt" Icebreakers were cleaving a way' into Petrograd for the warships seised By the revolutionaries. Tairfboff, in Southern Russia, cast off the soviet commissaries.

Indirect word from; Harbin- said Red soldiers were Ac sertrBe-eucotam and allocking to, the reyoiutioneiry Omsk1, and Krasnoiarsk were centers of that movement. RATIOKS T9T CREASED i Meanwhile Moscow said to making gigantic efforts to overcome the resentment of Rubs tan citizens, appeasing the workers by increase in food and clothing allowances. An increased ration was distributed in Moscow and Petrograd. Fifty thousand pairs of shoes collected by the government were "Issued to workers. 8erioup street fighting in Moscow was reported by the Finnish embassy.

Other sources stated that General Budenny had thrown his lot with the recolution-ists. taking- 120,000 cavalrymen with him. f- i -J 150 SOVIET COMMISSARS CRUCIFIED, SAYS REPORT (By Univenal Serrtce) London, March 14. According to a dispatch from Riga, a general strike has been declared by Petrograd workers. They are demanding the immediate convocation of the constituent assembly.

Soviet officials have been expelled from office by the strikers. The Copenhagen Politiken reports that Russian exiles arriving there declare the soviet power has been overthrown at Kiev, Tambov and Orel. It is said 150 soviet commissars vrere crucified at Czaritzin. It is declared that Kronstadt has a 10-day supply of food. i AMERICANS SAID TO BE SENDING FOOD TO REBELS By Karl H.

To a Wlegaad TJniTerMl Sertiua Staff iComapondent Berlin, March .14. That America Is supporting the 'counter revolutionary movement at Kronstadt against the soviet regime is a report printed here. American aid, at least to the extent of sending provisions to the revolutionists. Concluded cm Pat Here. Column Six 1 Washington, March (U Radical changes in the organization and operation of America's battle fleets, involving a strengthening of Pacific defenses, have been 7 discussed between President Harding and his advisers, it was learned today.

While no definite plana have been made, suggestions which would Involve making the Pacific fleet the major one, the building of additional bases on the Pacific coast and further fortifications of the Pacific have been put forward. Reinforcements Are Eeceived by Allies; More Area Is Object Paris, March 14. (1. 1 N. Reinforcements of allied troops are arriving continuously at Duisburg and it is believed that the allied military authorities are- preparing to occupy the1 German city of Mulheim.

said a dispatch to the Petit Journal today. -Mulheim la between i four and five miles east of Duisburg and the same distance from Essen. DEFENSES KLAMATH CHEERED Klamath Falls, 14. TheJ'irst State and Savings bank reopened its doors this- morning amid the wild clamor of hundreds of automobile horns and -the cheering, of a majority ot the population of the city gathered for the occasion in hbnor of Captain J. W.

Siemens, president of the A school holiday had been declared and. the children participated in the parade, reaching the length of the city, bearing appropriate, signs. With the conclusion of the parade the people gathered before the doors of the bank, where Mayor Wiley, Marshall Hooper, assistant state bank examiner. Captain Siemens and Horace Manning, an attorney, made stirring speeches. No such enthusiastic demonstration has ever before, been seen here R.

s. Howard of the Iadd A Tilton bank of Portland, here for the said "In all my experience as a banker I have 'never known anything like this. This is the spirit that carried the boys over the' top in France Harding AwaitSr KerdifigHarvey Washington. March 14. (U.

President Harding' far awaiting assurance from the British government that Colonel George Harvey will be acceptable as American ambassadcrr to London before sending Harvey's 'nomination to the senate, it wae learned today. These assurances have not been received and it is virtually therefore, that Harvey's nomination will not go to the senate -w In making ambassadorial appointments, it is customary to make" formal Inquiries of the government to which the ambassador-Is -to go-as to his acceptability. The replies to these inquiries are favorable except in extreme cases. Harding baa assumed that Harvey wilt be acceptable as evidenced by the fact that his appointment has been decided upon. Clash Results Prom Government Victory In French Election Paris, March lt-d.

N. A clash occurred In front of the city hall early today while adherent of the government were rejoicing over the i defeat of communist and extremist candidates for. the chamber of deputies by government candidates ia the election yesterday. The rioters i were dispersed before there were any serious disorders. The Socialist 'newspaper Humanite- attributed the defeat of the 'i communists and Socialists to "the lies of the government." 77 -The-' government supporters among 'the newspapers expressed surprise at the sixe of the government's majority and referred to the election result as "a national victory over Bolshevism." Handshakers, Pie Hunters, Like Flood Urdwaat Senrfee) Washington, March .14.

The open door policy inaugurated, by President Harding at the White House is causing the chief executive all kinds, of tribulations 'and forcing him to work nights after each heavy day of receiving hundreds 'of callers. Already there- is" talk around the executive office of. rearranging plans to curb yie jam of visitors from all over the country: desperately eager for "Just one -word" with the new president With the latchatring always out, both the president and Mrs. Harding are kept busy each day from 9 in the morning until' long after dark" handshaking and talking with men and woipen who come here on every sort of mission imaginable, Most of them, of course, are Job-hunt-ers. In the memory of the oldest attaches of the executive mansion there never has been such a lineup at the pie counter following a change of administration, -v Men and women who happened to know a friend of a friend, or went to school with one of the president's sixteenth cousins, are here to take out claims on every -job from ambassador to custodian of the White House dog.

One of the closest Iff ends of- the president, who has been trymg to act as a buffer between the executive and these thousands of suddenly acquired friends, said today his attempts to block the rush of job-grabbers was absolutely futile. Seek QuaUty-Beyonft Pretty. Face, Advises John D. Jr. March 14.J.

N. A young man should pray Sor divine guidance while selecting a wife and not be carried away by a pretty face, John D. Rockefeller Jr. believes. tiscusajrtg the subject of ")iow to choose: a life partner" before the young men's Bible class of the- Fifth Avenue Baptist church.

Mr. Rockefeller said that when a young man goes courting he 'should consider his sweetheart's religion 1 nationality and -station in life, but especially her common sense. He does not believe In carriages between different religions and nationalities. The young- multi-millionaire recalled the sorrowful, marriage of5- Samson and Delilah and pointed to the, American divorce courts, which, are "shamefully full." INSTDKES" SUIT New Tork. March 14 (U.

Evidence concerning, Edgar T. Wallace, wealthy San Francisco oil man named W. K. Stokes in a separate suit for divorce now pending, was tentatively admitted today by Supreme Justice Finch the trial of Stokes' present "suit, oyer-the objection of Mrs. Stokes' counse.

During the long, neated argument over the. admissibility of the evidence regarding Wallace, Attorney Smy the, associate counsel for Stokes, stated that with the introduction of this 1 testimony, Stokes' ncase "will be practically completed." Bonds of $30,000 For Building Union High School Lost Sandy, March 14. The Sandy union high school board reports elections held in Cottrell, Kelso Sandy, Bull Run, Cherryville, Firwood and Dover districts snowed under the proposition to issue $30,000 Jn bonde for a union high school building at Sandy. Kelso's opposition was' strongest and Sandy "gave the most ballots in' favor of 'the proposition. Many who voted against bonding said they wanted the schooL, Alex Hein's foot was crushed at the Strack mill.

He was taken to Good Samaritan Portland, Mrs. George Perrett's mother, Mrs. Acheson of Portland, is visiting the Per-rett family. Woman's Headless And Legless Body Is Found in Eiver Belton. Texas, March 14.

N. Nude and decomposed, the headless and leggless body of a young woman, tied securely in a tow sack; is in possession of -officers here today and search is being made by posses for the slayer; while fishermen who found the mutilated body in Little' river late Sunday are dragging the river in an effort to retrieve the head and legs. Both legs had been-, removed from the body, apparently with a saw. The white, soft hands inclined officers to believe that woman was very refined and unusea a hard work. There were no marks of identification about the body.

judging from most of the testimony tn this case. However, I want the whole world to know the powerful Jake Hamon as I knew him. "Jake Hamon, whose wife is a relative of the Hardings. was one of the most powerful men In the Ilepublican "Hamon first favored the nomination of Major General Wood. But Wood appointed a political enemy of Hamon's as one of his chief lieutenants.

Jake Hamon then broke with the general. "Andy King of Boston, one of the leading Wood boosters, tried to prevent the but Hamon told him vehemently: I'm through wiLh Leonard i RULED STATE. CO jrVESTIOX "Hamon was i elected national committeeman in the March primaries. Hs uled the Republican state convention at Oklahoma City shortly afterward. The convention decided that Oklahoma's delegates to the i Republican nation convention would boost Governor Frank Lowden of Illinois.

"At the little conference in room 914 at the Blaokstone hotel on the nieht he. ii 11 1 1 1 (Concluded on I'gt lUerea. Columa tn).