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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, TnURSDAT, OCTOBER 14, 1920 IRK ON FOSTER PROM SED City Tells Lents Improvement Will Be Made Soon. COSTS WILL BE REDUCED Municipal Paving IMant and Other Equipment Will Be Used to Cut Down Espouses. Assur.inrc that Foster road -B ill be mprovi-d from Kast Fiftieth street to Eighty-second street was given resi dents of the Lents district yesterday by the city council. Proceedings to set the wheels in motion which will make possible the beerinninjr of work on the proposed improvement early next spring will he instituted at once by City Commissioner Uarbur. l'"or years residents of the lents disM-ict have sought the improve ment of Foster road, which has been and still is under the jurisdiction of tiie county. County Also to Help. Last week, after hearing the pleas f a delegation from the district, beaded by F. I. Marshall, vice-president of the Mount Scott Improvement club. Mayor Baker called a joint con ference of members of the county board of commissioners and the city council. At the meeting yesterday the county commissioners through Com missioner Holman assured the city council and the delegation of prop erty owners that a sum of money suf ficient to frrade and pave a strip 18 feet in width will be placed in the county budget in December. Steps will be taken to have the Portland Railway. Light & Power company move its tracks from the eouth side of the roadway into the center of the street and assurances have been received by the officials of this company, that the costs of the Improvement accruing to the com pany as a result of this move will be paid. Coats to Be Small. The cost of grading and hard urfacing the remainder of the street, as well as the cost of constructing sidewalks and curbs will be dis tributed over a large assessment dis trict, thus bringing a low cost to the individual property owners of the district benefited. City Commissioner Barbur an nounced that the municipal paving plant would be utilized on the work and it is understood that the county will use its tractors, steam shovels and other equipment in bringing the roadway to the proper grade. By so doing officials believe that the final cost of the improvement, now esti mated at about J275.00O, will be much lower than the estimates of the engi neers based on contract prices. Before the improvement i-s made, it Is understood that-as many lateral sewers as possible connecting with the sewer In Foster, road will be completed. A resolution authorizing proceed Ings to take over the roadway as a city street will be introduced to the citv council next week,- it was an nounced and. as quickly as this has been successfully done, the neces sary steps to authorize the proposed improvement will be presented to the city council for final approval. All members of the council were present at the meeting yesterday and approved the general scheme as out lined by Mayor Baker and Commis sioner Barbur ticket and were wearing Harding and Coolidge buttons." His ideas on the political situation were garnered ."on the side." said Kckwall, because officially the Amer ican Legion went on record over whelmingly against the organization being associated in any manner with politics in the late convention. Resolutions favoring restriction of Japanese immigration to the Pacific coast and favoring an early and equitable settlement of the bonus question were among the major topics discussed at the convention, accord ing to Kckwall. One thousand one hundred and four delegates from every otate in the union, were pres ent, and the American Legion parade in Cleveland, one of the largest in the history of the city, was reviewed by Franklin D'Olier. national com mander. ' Addresses were delivered by General Wood. General Fayolle, rep resnting Marshal Foch. and Admiral Grant of the British navy. STDRHS' GUILT UPHELD COURT AFFIRMS VERDICT OKANOGAN COl'STT. OF Seattle Man Held to Answer Cliarge of Crime Against Girl Slayer or Wife. OLTMP1A, Wash.. Oet.i 13. (Spe cial.) Conviction of Douglas M. Storrs of Seattle bv a jury in -the Okanogan county superior court for a crime against Ruth Garrison, slayer of Mrs. Storrs, was affirmed by the supreme court today. The opinion, written by Judge J. B. Bridges, was concurred in by Judges Tolman and Fullerton and Chief Justice Holcomb. In a separate opinion Judge Mount dissents from the majority ruling. Referring to the allegation of the defendant that the trial court com mitted reversible error in refusing to permit counsel for the defense to in terviw the Garrison girl bfore or pending trial, the court holds that the question was within the discre tion of the trial judge and that there i no evidence to warrant assumption that it was not properly exercised. The higher court also sustains the trial judge in refusing to permit the Garrison girl to accept an offer of marriage made in open court by Storrs, the trial court basing such refusal upon the ground that the girl had been found insane by the jury at her trial for the murder of Mrs. Storrs. Other assignments of error are dismissed in the majority opinion as being without sufficient merit to Justify reversal of the verdict ren dered by the Jury after what the finds was a fair trial of the GROW MORE ROSES SAYS MAYOR BAKER Slogan Is Contributed to Club's Campaign. Ad from agVin. From San Francisco Gillies has written to the Tacoma city council asking that his original plan of a 24-story rail and ocean terminal .. n i .1 ...... .4 tn ,.....,... i-... U,;.U on , international hydro-electric terminal system extending from Portland, Or.. 10 Vancouver, a. J. tits letter was ordered "placed in the files" and the whole council smiled. Gillies wants to include a hotel, to be one of the largest in the west, in his terminal scheme. He signs himself as president of the Consolidated Am ericanadian Terminal association and gives his address as the Argonaut hotel. San Francisco. When Gillies first presented his plan he was taken seriously by a few persons. ROSEWAY WINS APPROVAL court case. 'S JUDGE EXPLAINS JENSEN & VON HEKBERG INJUNCTION. If Counsel Had Properly Repre sented Facts to Court Order Would Have Been Refused. CHUMS VOTE BH BILLS 14 STATE BODIES TAKE STAND ON MEASURES. Single Tax and Fixing Legal Rate of Interest Amendments Are ""- Unanimously Opposed. -Returns from various chambers of commerce throughout Oregon on the stand taken on the initiative mea sures before the voters in the coming election, were announced yesterday tjr George Quayle, general secretary cf the Oregon state chamber of com merce. While the state chamber it self cannot declare itself either for r against any of the measures, due to the fact that less than 50 per cent of the counties have reported, the summary gives an interesting angle on how the measures are regarded throughout the state. . Both the single tax constitutional amendment and the amendment fix ing the legal rate of interest were unanimously opposed by the 14 cham bers of commerce which considered these two measures. The compulsory voting" and registration amendment was also snowed under to the tune of 12 to 2. Seven organizations favored the Port of Portland Dock Commission Consolidation bill, while only one was opposed to it. The state market com mission act was approved by nine or ganizations and voted down by four; the Roosevelt Bird Refuge measure was approved by eight and opposed by six organizations, and the consti tutional amendment fixing term of certain county officers was approved tseven and opposed by four. TRAINMEN FOB HARDING Y. A. ECKWALL, LEGION DELE "' GATE, TELLS OF TRIP. fcawtern States Overwhelmingly i Republican, Portland Attorney Believes, After Observations. :' . W. A. Eckwall. Portland attorney and one of the eight delegates from Oregon to attend the nr. tional con 'yen t Ion of the American Legion held ut Cleveland, Ohio, September 27 to : 29, arrived in Portland yesterday, after an extended trip through the eastern states. Kckwall reports that as far as he . is able to judge the eastern states are overwhelmingly for Harding in the coming presidential election. . In fact, he says, republican leaders in the states of New York and New Jersey are so confident they are bending their entire energies toward return ing a republican majority to congress. ..'Everybody along the route was for Harding," declared Eckwall. "The men whom I met on the trains, in 'the lobbies of hotels and substantial 'business men with whom I talked in the different cities were all for Hard ing. A surprising thing to me was the fact that a large percentage of the trainmen were i- h the republican "The order fdr the injunction never would have been issued last Saturday iif counsel had properly represented the facts to the court." Such was the statement in the courtroom yesterday afternoon of Presiding Judge Tazwell to one of the attorneys, counsel for the local union of the American Federation of Musicians, now involved in contro versy with union organists in some of the Jensen & Von Herberg the aters here. The attorney appeared yesterfiay to ask for an order permitting the with drawal of the $1000 securities given when the musicians' union on Satur day obtained a temporary order Re straining the union organists from playing in the Jensen & Von Herberg theaters until the return of the writ on Thursday afternoon. The restrain ing order was dissolved by Judge Tazwell about two hours later that same evening. "This Is the security given when the injunction was signed Saturday evening," explained the attorney. "Yes, I know that," replied Judge Tazwell "but that order would never have been signed if the facts had been properly represented to the court." The date for hearing on the appli cation for the injunction has been changed from today to Monday morn ing at 9:15 o'clock. PRISON GUARD IS CONVICT John Roner Goes to McNeil's Island for Auto Theft. jonn .ouer, wno once drew pay as a guard at the McNeil's island fed eral prison, will return to the same institution under a different status as a convicted automobile thief, sen tenced to serve 18 months within, the walls he once patroled. Federal Judge Bean passed sentence upon Rouer yes terday, following a plea of guilty un der the federal motor vehicle act. It was charged that Rouer stole an automobile in Thorpe, Wash., and drove it to this city where he sold the car. According to Deputy Federal District Attorney Flegel, the prisoner once carried an I. W. W. membership card and has been sought until this fall in the vicinity of Hillsboro, Or., for thefts of belting, aggregating 4000, from harvesting machinery. RETAIL GROCERS ELECT Washington Merchants Close An nual Session in Everett. EVERETT. Wash., Oct. 13. The Washington Retail Grocers & Mer chants' association at its closing ses sion today unanimously selected Se attle for its 1921 meeting. Three members of the board of dl rectors whose terms expire were unanimously re-elected as follows R. L. Cunningham, Spokane; B. W Ludington, wenatchee, and Abe Ber ridge. Seattle. These, with other dlrec tors, in turn re-elected the executive officials, who are: E. C. McRavy, Mount Vernon, president; C A. Blod gett, Spokane, vice-president; J. A. Myers, Everett, treasurer: T. John son Stewart, Seattle, secretary. Organization Unanimously Favors Proposal to Change Name of Sandy Boulevard. 'Get a slip from your neighbor and grow a rose bush of your own" was the slogan which Mayor Baker con tributed to the Ad club's rose-planting campaign in an address delivered at the luncheon of the club at the Benson hotel yesterday noon. The club went on record as unan imously In favor of changing the name of Sandy boulevard to Roseway. The meeting was devoted to discus sion of the new roseway and plans for the cultivation of new rose stock. W. E. Conklin, director-of publicity of the club's rose-planting campaign. announced plans for holding rose win dow displays in the down-town sec tion and giving four-minute speeches the various theaters to encourage the planting f roses throughout the city. He said that a cup would be offered for the best window display during the campaign. Good Advertlftinff Sen. The campaign of the club, said H. H. Haynes, chairman of the rose way committee of the organization, who acted as chairman of the day, will be in co--operation with the city's rose-planting work, the purpose be ing to get citizens to unite with the city in putting out thousands of rose slips for the beautifying of the city. The general sentiment was ex pressed that the beautifying of the city in that way and the changing of the name of Sandy boulevard to Roseway would mean more probably than anyone other thing for the ad vertising of the city throughout the country. Mayor Baker and Commissioner Pier both spoke in favor of lining the boulevard with roses and making it one of the most beautiful drives of the city. Business Likewise Noted. The planting of roses was viewed from a commercial standpoint by Jesse A. Currey, Pacific coast repre sentative of the American Rose so ciety. ' He said that the year before the war 16.000.000 rose bushes had been imported from Europe and that last year this had been cut down to 300,000. He told of the growing popularity of the Portland rose and the chances for this city getting a bigger share in the business of grow ing rose bushes and cuttings for com mercial purposes, a business which he characterized as a 75 to 100-million-dollar industry in the country. A practical demonstration of the method of cutting slips to plant was given by J. G.- Barker, president of the Swiss Floral company and a grad uate of the Switzerland Garden uni versity at Geneva. He also showed the big growth of rose here as compared with the average annual growth in the east ern states. COMMISSION WILL MEET MT. HOOD LOOP, TO BE CO. iSIDERED TOMORROW. iT YOUR Kind of a Piano Is HERE Threat of Government to Divert Funds to Some Other State Will Gain Attention. To consider the Mount Hood loop, a special meeting of yie state highway commission will be held tomorrow. The meeting will be a conference be tween the commissioners and federal officers and delegations of business men. While the commission is com mitted to- building the road to Gov ernment Camp and expects to let con tracts next spring from Sandy to Zig-Zag, Commissioners Booth and Kiddle are not particularly enthu siastic over constructing the rest of the proposed loop from Government Camp around the mountain to the Hood River county side. Last summer the two commissioners made the trip on horseback and were not impressed with the project, being of the opinion that the road would cost a vast sum and that it would be better to build roads which will de velop the state before resuming the loop project. Chairman Benson was inclined to the eame opinion at the time, but there have been recent de velopments which put a new face on the project. According to the federal people the appropriation set aside to assist the construction of the Mount Hood loop will be diverted to the Rainier road or some other place if It Is not spent on Mount Hood. The highway com mission has been of the impression that the money was appropriated for Oregon and that if it was not placed on the loop it would be available for co-operation on state highways. The situation to be considered by the commission at the special meeting is whether the state will arrange to continue the construction of the loop or permit the government money to go to some other state. NEW LIBRAHIAH SOUGHT CONTROVERSEY PREVAILS AT MEET OF DIRECTORATE. W. PLEDGED AID PUBLIC SERVICE BODY MEM BERS GUESTS OF PRCXARIANS. F. Woodward Declares Member of Local Stafr Should Be Given Promotion. Mild controversy prevailed last night at the monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Portland library association, when Director W. F. Woodward protested a report of the administration committee indors- ng selection of a chief librarian from eastern sources. The resignation of Miss Zuiema Kostomlatsky, created the situation and its attendant dis cussion. "What outlook have we to offer members of our staff who are trained here, who toil loyally for the good of the library, if we deny them the promotion that is customary in ordin ary business circles?" asked Director W oodward. 'May I ask if you have any definite suggestions to make?" inquired Di rector Montague, chairman of the ad ministration committee,' which pro ferred the report. 'No," said Director Woodward. "All this Is tentative. But I have in mind the fact that Miss Bailey, some years ago. was forced out of our library service because, as she told- me, no hope of ultimate promotion was ex tended. She is now with Columbia university." Director Woodward lost his point when the remainder of the board ap proved of the administration commit tee's1 report, authorizing Director Brewster to scour eastern centers of culture in quest of a competent libra rian. With but little debate the board declared armistice day, November 11, to be a holiday for the service, with the central library open only for reading from '2 P. M. to 9:30 P. M. Branch libraries will be closed all day. - .. Speakers at Luncheon Promise to Help City Progress as Port of Pacific. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 13. (Spe cial.) The Prunarlans at their week ly luncheon today had as their guests E. V. Kuykendall and Frank R Spin ning, members of the public service commission, and Herbert E. Flagg, engineer connected with the commis sion. The commission met in Camas and the guests were brought here for luncheon by Floyd A. Swan. Members of the commission spoke very highly of Vancouver and pledged their sup port to assist Vancouver in her ef forts to progress as a port of the Pacific. Edward M.-'Cousln, traffic attorney employed by the port of Vancouver commission, spoke of the needs of Vancouver and told of what Is being accomplished toward a differential rate to Vancouver. Mr. Spinning said many state contractors were delayed this year by cement shipments to such an extent that many of them failed or lost money, with the result that it is now difficult to get con tractors to bid. The United States board of engi neers will be in the city next Monday and may be guests of the Prunarians. The luncheon will be held Monday in stead of Wednesday so that the engi neers may attend. WILLAMINA SEEKS GYM School Children and Parent Teacher Body Pledge Support. WILLAMINA. Or.,' Oct. 13. (Sp clal.) One hundred pupils In Willa- mina schools have pledged themselves to the task of working to secure funds to build a gymnasium. This has been tried In years past, but in dications point to realization this season. The parent-teacher associa tion has pledged its support. If present plans are adopted the district will erect a $2000 building. 6. A H. green stamps for eaan. Holman Fuel Co. Mala, Hi. SIA-2L BULGIN FUNERAL IS SET Services .' for Victim of Hunting Accident to Be Saturday. The funeral of Arthur Bulgin. 23 accidentally killed near Outlook Wash., while hunting with four com panions on the Burlingame ranch October 9. will be held at Finley's undertaking parlors Saturday at 3 P. M. Young Bulgin was a singer of note having formerly been a member of the Gallo English opera company and was lately a baritone in Trinity church. New Tork. He came west to assist his father. Dr. E. J. Bulgin. in a series of evangelist meetings at Sunnyside, where he lead the singing. His wife, Helen Chase Bulgin, is in New York at present and his mother is in Chicago. Besides his parents and widow, young Bulgin is survived by one brother, William L. Bulgin, of Port land. Interment will be In the. Port land crematorium. STREET CAR DRAGS MAN Fred W. Gardner, 37, Believed to- Be Fatally Injured. Fred W. Gardner, 37, of 1002 East Madison street, sustained Injuries which may prove fatal when he was struck by a Sunnyside streetcar at East Twentieth and Morrison streets early yesterday afternoon. He is at St. Vincent's hospital with, internal injuries. Gardner was riding on the step of an auto delivery truck driven by A. E. Morris, a driver for the Barker Baking company. The truck turned sharply at the corner to avoid col lision with the streetcar, but Gard ner's coat caught on the rear end of the car and he wu dragged for near ly SO feet. RUSSIAN CALLED HOME Austria Wihtol, Oregon City Musi cian, Stars on Trip to Riga. OREGON CITT. Or.. Oct. 13 (Spe cial.) 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