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Oakland CENTS. W. U. IS DEAF TO OAKLAND WIRE PLEAS Eastbay Rated as Suburb as Most of Industrial Area Does Business Through S. Says Telegraph Head Claim of Fruitvale Branch Recognized, But Property: Values Too Exaggerated tol Build; C.

C. Denies Oakland is still a suburb of San Francisco, in the opinion of T. Cook, manager of the Pacific coast division of the Western Union company, according to statements attributed to him by a San Francisco morning paper today. After giving out an interview in which he is quoted as saying that most of the offices of Oakland's manufacturing concerns are in San Francisco. and that "exaggerated ideas" prevail here to property values, Cook left town on a weekend auto trip, and will not return until late tomorrow.

STATEMENTS DENIED BY C. OF. C. PRESIDENT. Cook's alleged statements were met with a flat denial today by 0.

H. Fischer, president of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, who declared that the chamber of commerce campaign to obtain improved telegraph service for Oakland would continue until satisfactory, I results are obtained. Cook made his assertions concerning Oakland in explaining his company's stand in refusing to expand telegraph facilities here over what they ha've been, practically, for the past 20 years. The fact, pointed out by the chamber of commerce, that Oakland, a city of 000 population, is served by one office of his company, while San Francisco and Los Angeles each fifteen or sixteen such offices, declared by Cook to have, be beside the point. Oakland, because of its proximity to San Francisco, is unlike 'other cities of its size." he said.

"For this reason it does not require the same servic as maintained in other large cities. "In spite of its large population it does not do very much telegraph business. The business districts are scattered, and most of the offices of manufacturing concerns are in San Francisco. "The only section in the bay which gives promise of requiring expansion is East Oakland Fruitvale. We have been kept from expanding there by the exaggerated ideas of property values that owners have.

It would cost us $12 a front foot, and that is more than we would expect the office to take SERVICE IN OAKLAND HELD VERY INADEQUATE. A "flat was made to these statements by Fischer. "I regret very much that Western Union officials is not better informed regarding Oakland and its industries." he said. "A couple of hours spent in Oakland would undoubtedly convince him of the utter fallacy of his statements. He would discover that a city of 300,000 people, with 28 miles of waterfront, with eight buildings such that Montgomery Ward three or four miles from the heart of the city, and with great Industrial plants such as Durant and Chevrolet three or four miles farther on, cannot be adequately served by one telegraph office.

ERRORS MADE THROUGH USE OF TELEPHONE. "The service itself, that Oakland has been receiving, proves that it is inadequate. Two thirds of the messages are telephoned, due to lack of messenger service. This means that a business house receiving an important message has no record of it. It also means that errors are made through confusion of words over the telephone.

Busi- ness competitors have been known to overhear such massages by means of crossed wires or wrong numbers. The company makes the practice, it said, of mailing the messages out later, but it constitutes itself the judge 89 to what messages are Important. "Messages telephoned to homes are given to any one who answers the phone. with the result that extremely private messages are often received by the wrong son. "This is certainly not' adequate telegraph service.

The chamber of I commerce intends to keep right after it until service commensurate with the needs of the city is provided." 450 Persons Saved As Blast Fires Liner BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE. CHRISTIANIA, Norway, July 26. -Soon after leaving, port, this afternoon the liner Bergensfjord caught fire after there had been an explosion in the after -engine, The liner anchored in a side-arm of Christianafjord and landed all of passengers. The damage -to the vessel is considerable. Publishing 1924, by Co.

20 PAGES NO. 26 Weather, Oakland and VicinityFair tonight and Sunday; moderate westerly winds. EASTBAY TO GIVE POWER AID TO SOUTH Water Shortage Cuts L. A. Electricity; Streets Are Darkened; Negotiate for Emergency Service Here Oakland and Alameda Steam Plants to Generate and Release Juice: Daylight Saving Plan 1 Is Suggested; Southern California cities are a suming "war time" aspects with the street lights and display signs darkened and daylight saving hours in effect, while negotiations Are being rushed for the sending southward from Alameda and Oakof power from local stations to relieve the power shortage.

According to Superintendent Joseph B. Kahn of the Alameda Municipal Power plant. negotia tions between that city and 1. Butler. power supervisor of Los Angeles, have been in progress for several days.

It is proposed to connect the power plant with the Great Western Power company's cross-country lines and to send all surplus power south for use there over the lines of the Pacific Gas Electric company. The Key System Transit company's power station in Emeryville may also be pressed into service to mid the southland. according to H. D. Bell.

electrical engineer of the company. Butler issued A statement yesterday saying that the water shortAge all over California would. within the next month, make the power shortage felt even in the northern part of the state. He stated that he believed that, even though the Bay cities could assist the south at present to some degree, within a month the shortage the north would demand the local use of all available power. More than a dozen of the larger power plants in the southland are almost entirely out of service at present due to the low head ol water in the streams.

The shortage is daily growing worse. The Los Chamber of Commerce is the passage Angeles. of A state law establishing daylight savings. in a further effort to reduce the consumption of power for lighting. The Oakland Chamber of Commerce decided at Its last directors meeting to endorse the law if proposed.

The Berkeley Chamber of Commerce has also tentatively approved the project. Daylight savings is already In effect in several southern California cities through the passage of local ordinances. In Los Angeles the power shortage has compelled restrictions on the use of lights by theaters, and for display signs, and householders have been appealed to 80 temporarily discontinue the 18e of electrical appliances A8 much as possible. Ten Miners Killed In Coal Mine Blast BY UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO RIBUNE GATES, July miners were killed in an explosion at the Gates mine of the R. C.

Prick Coal and Coke company last night. The bodies were recovered early today. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. One and twenty men were in the mine at the time of the and all were accounted explosion, the ten who were killed. Six of the men killed were married, with large families.

S. F. Girl Killed as Cattle Upset Auto BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE. SAN RAFAEL. July Biglieri.

15, daughter of G. Biglieri. 166. Parker avenue, San Francisco. was killed last night when an automobile she was a passenger In ran into a herd of cattle and overturned three miles -north of San Rafael.

Four other occupants of the machine escaped serious inJury. Floods Wreck 10,000 Houses In South India BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE LONDON, July lives been lost, scores of towns inundated and thousands houses destroyed by floods in South India, according to despatches today from Bombay. At least 10,000 houses have been wrecked. the despatch said. and distress is acute.

Communications have been disrupted throughout the flooded Railroad tracks have been washed out and many bridges destroved. Exclusive Associated Service United Press International News OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY Woman's Tears Keep Her Out Jail Today- -She Goes BERKELEY, shed by Mrs. Marie G. Freitas, 32, of 9703 Scott street, Oakland, and the presence of her two smal children saved her from a jail sentence today when Robert she appeared before Edgar on a speeding charge. But the Judge instructed Mrs.

Freitas to leave the children at on Monday and to compose herself before that time. "Because," he announced," you are going to jail and all the tears in the world won't help you." Mrs. Freitas was arrested by Ofticer J. J. Fisher for traveling at! a clip of 43 miles an hour along San l'ablo avenue six months ago.

At the time of her arrest she gave the name of. Mrs. G. Rogers. A man who was with her and who said he owned the car gave his name as Charles Field.

A search for the woman during the past six months following her failure to appear in court resulted in her arrest yesterday on a bench warrant at her home in Oakland after several trips by officers had been futile because of a ferocious bull dog. which served as a guard, and also because of the fact that members of the family refused to open the door. WOMAN ADMITS BREAKING SPEED LAW. Mrs. Freitas admitted traveling beyond the speed limit.

She explained to the judge that there had been a party in her home and said that she was the only one of the group who had not been drinking and, as a was called upon to drive her home. She also resultis said that she had been told by I friends that case had been fixed" with the judge and that appearance in court was not necessary. want to get -this' over as quickly as possible," she declared this morning, as she appeared before Judge Edgar, a child clasped by either hand. "You are going to jail," an- nounced the judge. "What are you going to do with your children?" TEARS FAIL TO SOFTEN JUDGE'S DECISION.

The woman burst into tears and pleaded with the court to show her "mercy." But the judge remained adamant and instructed the woman to return at 9 o'clock morning, prepared to go to the county jail. The judge did not state how many, days would be given her. Harry J. Barnett, taxi driver of 923 Arlington avenue, Oakland, chose to serve two days in the county jail this morning because he did not have $15 with which to pay a fine imposed when he appeared before Judge Edgar for speeding. Barnett was arrested for making 32 miles per hour along San Pablo avenue.

Angelo Banducci, 226 South Fourth street, Richmond, entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of reckless driving preferred by Officer J. J. Fisher after the latter had fired four shots at him in a race of more than three miles. The case was set for trial next week. Radio Brings News Of Arctic Explorers BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE.

BOARD THE S. S. MILWAUKEE, nearing Hawks Harbor, N. July MacMillan expedition, locked in the ice floes Greenland for more than a year, is coming back to civilization, according to a radio message picked up today by the "United States cruiser Milwaukee from the Bowdoin, the exploration ship. The message indicated the Bowdoin 187 position miles and south said of the its last known, start would be made as soon as the ice breaks up.

Doctor Holds Slight Hope for Woolwine BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE, PARIS, July Lee Woolwine, former Los Angeles distriit attorney, who has been critically ill for a week with internal hemorrhages, has but a slight chance for recovery, Dr. Thanck, one of his French physicians, announced tonight. EVENING, JULY DEFENSE DAY FOES SCORED BY COOLIDGE In Letter President Rebukes Pacifists for Their Oppo-! sition to Movement for Preparedness and Peace' Condemnation of Purpose in Observing September Is Resented by Executive's! Letter Giving His Policy WASHINGTON, July Branding as "unfair and misleading" the methods being employed by certain pacifists organizations in opposing Defense Day, September 12, President Coolidge today rebuked the National Council for Prevention of War for its opposition to National preparedness. In a letter to Frederick J. Libbey, executive secretary of the organizaition, the President said, comment- i in setting aside the on the war department's plan; servance of national defenses that on he was' unqualifiedly sympathetic with the aim and purpose to make war, so nearly as might be, an impossibility in this world" but; he could not "detect any inconsistency in giving my approval to the program of defense day.

"I wish crime might be abolished: but I would not therefore abolish courts and police protection. I wish war might be made impossible; but I would not leave country unprotected meanwhile. The defense test seems to me a means to assure the fullest efficiency to the extremely modest defense force our country maintains. "Instead of being a military gesture, this plan is the exact opposite. It 1g a non-military gesture for the purpose of keeping down to its lowest point the professional military organization of the United States.

"It seems unfair that the plans for defense should be condemned out of hand, simply through the device of misrepresentation." CALLS ATTENTION TO ENDORSEMENT. The President's letter lated July 123, follows: "My Dear Mr. Libby: "Some days ago I received from yourself, as executive secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War, informing me that that organization 'is preparing for a campaign in behalf of world cooperation for peace to begin July 26-27, on the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the great war. It is intended to be a great outpouring of the genuine peace sentiment of America. We believe it to be in harmony with your own purposes as expressed on many occasions.

We respectfully ask your endorsement of the demonstration. "In reply by my direction the secretary to the President wrote to you saying: "'The President asks) me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of June 30, with the assurance of his most hearty sympathy for every practical proposal to minimize the danger of war. As you know, he has repeatedly exI pressed himself in this tenor, and you may be sure of continued ofland most genuine friendliness for every worthy and effective effort along these ALWAYS SYMPATHETIC WITH PEACE PLANS. Service "As is well known to all persons who have done me the honor to familiarize themselves with my public expression on this subject, 1 have been unqualified sympathetic with the aim and purpose to make war, so nearly as might be, an impossibility in this world. Doubtless this is a desire for perfection not to be realized without much earnest effort; to that effort when guided along feasible lines I have repeatedly pledged my assistance.

"It is now brought to my attention that your organization 18 profoundly concerned because of the assumption that the plans for 8 Continued on Page 2, Col. 8. U.S. Wheat Crop for 1924 46,000,000 Bushels Short WASHINGTON, July wheat crop. this year will fall, 46,000,000 bushels short of last year.

the department of agriculture estimated today. The carry-over of wheat in the United States on June 30 was placed at 102,000,000 bushels, about the same amount as last year's, by an estimate today of the department of agriculture. CHICAGO, July today got above $1.50 a bushel at Winnipeg, the first North Ameri-100 can market to reach that goal. Chicago prices followed, breaking all high records for the season and i LEOPOLD AND LOEB FOUND SANE BY DEFENSE EXPERTS: DARROW CHARGES PERJURY Attorney Declares Detective's Testimony "Fabrication" to Intimidate Trial Judge Caverly ATTACK OPENED UPON STATE CHICAGO," July Associated Leased Wire) tests made for weeks by seven defense alienists show that neither Nathan Leopold nor Richard Loeb, slayers of 14-year-old Robert Franks, is insane, it was learned today. The defense, in fact, was barred by a plea of "guilty" from Tribune 26, 1924 TR: BUNE Cries at Birth Of Park Lion Call Police on 'Murder' Scare Not only do dogs have their day but likewise do lions, goldfish, and buffalo, not to mention pigs.

Was there ever a birth of a lion celebrated with so much official dignity, so many brass buttons, 80 much public alarm. as that of Little Rollo at the public 200 last night? Rollo's mother, Mrs. Marimba thinks. not. And Sergeants James Flemming, and A.

B. Smith. and Patrolmen Gus Stowell and George Morrison. concur. Dull care was hanging heavily about the precincts of Desk Sergeant Flemming at 3 a.

m. when the sleepy watch was stirred into activity by telephone calls bearing news murder. R. two, Barber, 5629 Ocean View drive. declared that as he was driving along the shores of Lake Merritt he heard a woman screaming as it the beating that was to come within an inch of her life had i overshot the mark by a foot.

Corroborative information was had from S. B. Hightower, 3633 Maple street. HEROIC DASH MADE BY HOMICIDE SQUAD. The homicide squad, unded the direction of Sergeant Smith, dashed from police headquarters with the siren of the patrol wide open.

Smith and Patrolmen Stowell had artillery trained to the right and left. Stopping at the lake to pick up Patrolman Morrison, the squad discovered that it was bound, not on a mission of death, but on one of life. Under the direction of Morrison, the squad reverently and silently tiptoed to the cage of the Bands at Snow's museum. There they found Little Rollo, half an hour old, calmly sleeping between the forepaws of his devoted mother. "Well, what was all the hollerin' about?" Sergeant Smith whispered softly in Patrolman Morrison's ear.

that," said Morrison, "that was the kid's father." As for the goldfish, Inspectors Robert Goodwin and Arthur Sanderson are on their scent. When last seen by those who scattered bread crumbs upon the water for their nourishment, Mr. and Mrs. W. S.

Childs, 3650 Mopkins street, the fish, 200 of them, all 14 karat, were attending school in Childs' back yard. The theft was reported to the police and Goodwin and Sanderson were assigned to investigate the case. "They used to keep a school of fish," the inspectors reported back at headquarters," and now they haven't any class." In San Francisco two men discovered that being -bitten isn't enough to obtain the remedy for being snake Principals the comedy are Joseph Lavesi, Secundo Munuetti and crate of Chinese pigs. The crate of pigs, en route from China to the ranch of H. D.

Kelly, San Mateo, fell from a truck in the vicinity of Potrero avenue and Army street, and the porkers escaped. In the fracas that ensued, police, pigs and public were hopelessly intermingled and Lavesi and Munuetti emerged from the mass with wounds. "Give it to us, quick! We've been hog-bit!" the two demanded, arriving at the Mission emergency hospital. "There it is," replied the intern coolly as he applied burning iodine to the stinging wounds. The buffalo may be nearly extinct in fact, but not in fiction.

All the favorite stories of rum runners, Chinese gambling dens, crime waves, and the like, with which the San Francisco police regaled themselves Lin leisure hours have given- way to the stories of how the members hunted buffalo in the city streets with motorcycles instead of mustangs and barley instead of butlets. Twenty-five of the herd in Golden Gate park escaped Thursday night and were rounded up with difficulty. In the rounding events transpired that, in the teling today, would have made Buffalo Bill's prairie career read like a prospectus for. A girls' seminary. National League R.

H. E. St. Louis 10 0 Batteries and 9 'Gone zales; Watson and Snyder, R. H.

E. Cincinnati 2 7 3 Brooklyn 3 10 1 Batteries--Benton, Sheehan and Wingo; Grimes and Taylor, R. H. E. Chicago 5 12 0 P'hiladelphia 1 7 1 Batteries--Keen and Hartnett; Mitchell and Henline.

offering an insane defense, Attorney Darrow, however, at that time asked the court for permission to present evidence as to the defendants' "degree of mental responsibility." "Physiological facts" tending to prove lack of emotion. and other usual mental twists, which they claim is accountable for the boys' acts and attitudes, will be shown in testimony by Dr. Glueck, Dr. Healy and Dr. J.

Whitney Hall of Chicago, defense alienists, according to authoritative information obtained today. (By Associated Press Leased Wire to TRIBUNE.) CHICAGO, July that the state's testimony which credited Nathan Leopold, with a desire to plead guilty before a "friendly judge" was a fabrication, Clarence S. Darrow. chief counsel for Leopold and Richard Loeb, struck hard today at this evidence. It was the first time since the boys pleaded guilty to the kid.

naping and murder of Robert Franks that their counsel had challenged the truth of any material fact brought out by the witnesses summoned by Robert E. Crowe, state's attorney. Youths Feel No Regret for Act; Consider Their Trial as Play HOME Edition Target of Gossip EDNA PURVIANCE, movie star, who played the leading role in Charley Chaplin's "A Woman of Paris," and became involved in court action as result of the shooting of Courtland Dines at a New Year eve party, has stirred gossip of impending marriage by becoming the millionaire's guest. PURVIANCE VISITS DINES IN DENVER Movie Star and Millionaire Deny Rumor That They Plan to Marry. PY UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE DENVER, July Purviance, movie star, and Courtland S.

Dines, Denver millionaire, held another dinner party last night, this time in the Brown Palace hotel in Denver and without the dramatie climax of the party held last New Year's Day in Los Angeles. Rumors "that Dines and Miss Purviance were here to be married were stoutly denied by both. Dines admitted he "had the greatest affection in the world" for Miss Purbut spoiled it all by ending his statement "for both of these girls," meaning both Miss Purviance and Mabel Normand, the other participant in the now famous New Year's party. Newspaper reporters who attempted to follow the party from Brown Palace taxicabs there soon left pile distance. Dines appeared to get the first amusement of the evening out of the presence of the press representatives when he roared with laughter nt their futile 0 keep pace with his machine." The climax of the marriage rumor came when a beautiful girl closely resembling Mabel Normand registered at the Brown Palace as "Miss E.

D. Packard, Salt Lake City." This rise to A story hat Misg Normand had come to al part in the wedding party. cater. however. It- was learned that Miss Packard was not Miss Normand.

Klan, Farmer-Labor Texas Vote Issues RV ASSOCIATES PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE. DALLAS. July Ku Klux Klan. the strength of the Labor element, and how Farmer votes the first woman to make the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination will receive, are the principal issues in the Democratic primary in Texas today. Mrs.

Miriam A. Ferguson, of Temple, wife of former Governor James E. Ferguson, and the first woman to seek the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, entered the race when her husband was unsuccessful in getting his name on the ticket. because he was once impeached from the same office. All of the candidates for the gubernatorial nomination except Judge Felix Robertson, who has announced he has the support of the klan, have at one time or an- other denounced the klan.

The gubernatorial are: I Judge Felix Robertson, Dallas; Eynch Davidson, Mouston; Mrs. Ferguson, Temple; T. W. Davidson, Marshall; State Senator Joe Burkett, Eastland; AdjutantGeneral Thomase D. Barton, Austin: State Senator V.

A. Collins, Dallas; W. E. Pope, Corpus Christi; George W. Dixon, Houston.

Scion of Hawaiian Royalty Dies at 101 HONOLULU.S July 26. Mrs. Kamaka Stillman, a direct descendant of the old Hawaiian royal line, died at her home here late last night. She was 101 years old. Read Wallace Irwin's Togo Letter in Tomorrow's Tribune James J.

Gortland, detective sergeant, drew the fire of the veteran attorney for the defense. After bringing out that all other conversation between the policecordeand some Leopold way, in had notes been or re- reports, but that the "friendly judge" remark, had not been put down in writing. or Darrow asked: PURE FABRICATION, DARROW INTIMATES. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE. CHICAGO.

July 26. How Nathan Leopold, and Richard Loeb reacted to the consequences of their conspiracy was brought out at their hearing by police officers. Remorse was never expressed by either of the boys, detectives said. Reporters who questioned them last night found thein sentiments unchanged. "I do not feel sorry for myself for what I did," Leopold was quoted as saying.

"I did it, and that's all. myself in this jam and it's up to myself to get out. "I have great feeling for my father and brothers. But myself. No! Life is what we make I appear to have made mine what is today.

That's my lookout and nobody's else." Loeb was questioned regarding his disinterested attitude in the courtroom. He said he was merely acting natural, 'I'M A SPECTATOR AND FEEL AS ONE." "I sit in the courtroom and watch the play as It progresses. When the crowd laughs, I laugh. When it is time to be serious I am that way. I am a spectator, you know, and I feel myself as one.

"You can tell the the outside there is no faking or pretending. I have watched you reporters across the table and you laugh, smile, yawn, look bored and all the other things. Why should I be different?" It is from the demeanor of the youths that the alienists for the state partly expect to prove that they are sane and mentally responsible, Drs. William O. Krohn land Harold Douglas Singer said.

"Anyone who recognizes social rights as Leopold did must also recognize individual rights--the individual rights to life," the experts said. "He must sense the worth of actions, the worth of values. If he kills, robs another of an individual right, 'he does so with understanding and malice. "It he weigh ounces he can weigh pounds." By GEORGE R. HOLMES.

International News Service Staff Correspondent, CHICAGO, July 26. "Legally sane, perhaps, but pathologically queer." That, In substance, it was learned today, will be the peg on which the attorneys and alienists will seek to hang their contention that Nathan Leopold, and Richard A. Loeb not go to the gallows but should be confined in prison for the rest of their natural lives. The weird moral code of young Leopold, built up on the strange foundation that "murder is no crime, the crime is 'in getting caught," was spread upon the records of this unusual trial today, and the attorneys for the young (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2.) "Isn't it true that this who, story of conversation in which you said Nathan hoped for a prison sentence by a plea of guilty before a 'friendly judge' was a pure fabfor the purpose of intimidating the court?" "It is not," declared Gortland.

Aside from this attack. on Gortland's testimony of yesterday the short Saturday session was rather perfunctory. A clerk added a bit of evidence to the chain of circumstances the state claims shows that the boys tried get a second ransom letter to Franks' father by for leaving it on the telegram rack of a parlor car in a Chicago depot Darrow started his cross-examnation of Gortland drawing out a history the sergeant's work in the police department, which proved to have been chiefly and stenographic. "You have been called on, then for twelve years to take from accused persons?" asked Dar row. "That correct," said Gortland.

He explained he usually took these by direct dictation on a typewriter. "And you did that in this case?" "No, sir, I made notations," said Gortland. TRUSTED MEMORY FOR DETAIL, SAYS WITNESS. Darrow called for these notations. Some of the notes were in shorthand and others in writing.

"You carried some of these things in your head for a week before reducing them to writing?" asked Darrow. "That is correct," said Gortland. The witness said he had never written up into a report any of his conversations with Leopold. Have yon notes" on their first conversation?" he was asked. "No, sir." "On the second one?" "No, sir." Gortland said he started about a week after his last interview with the defendant "to write up an account of my whole connection with the case." He produced a document of several typewritten pages WITNESS TELLS HOW NOTES REFRESHED MEMORY.

showing a maximum advance today of cents. WINNIPEG, July the first thirty minutes of trading this morning wheat prices took another boost of 6 cents over yesterday's close and July wheat reached and October $1.45. For the first time In many days exporters were in the market and were buying heavily. ST. LOUIS, July 26.

-Hogs crossed the $10 mark today for the first time in two years in this market, selling as high as $10.10 per pounds in the stockyards. The advance in corn and wheat is held responsible for the sharp rise of the past few days. Gortland said he wrote the shorthand notes at his home and the typewritten sheets at the state's attorney's office. Gortland said he refreshed his memory from these notes right along, but had not consulted them yesterday before taking the stand. "I went over them Thursday night," he said.

was, asked to explain the actual process by which he refreshed his memory from notes. He took some of them and illustrated. "The first notation here on this paper is about confessing," he said. "The next one is about Gortland pointed out his records (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1).