VOL. XLI C 19,132
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Postoffice a. Scfon(i-clas Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1923
PRICE FIV13 CENTS
TAXPAYERS DECRY
CORVALUS STUDENTS
INJURED IN EXPLOSION
BLAST OCCURS DIRIXG CLASS
EXPERIMENT IN" CHEMISTRY.
ROBBERS LOCK UP
GROCERS IN ICE BOX
GRAND OPERA SINGER
GIRL IS
MORE THAN 75,000
TO PAY INCOME TAX
TIME FOR FILING RETURNS
EXDED AT MIDXIGHT.
WANTS HUSBAND BACW
EXPENSIVE FRILLS
Complaints on Higher Ed
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N
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FOR CITY SCHOOLS
HOLD CP ' MAX WAITS OX CUS
TOMER AXD SELLS BUTTER.
31 A DAME MATZEXAUER ASKS
CHAUFFEUR TO RETURX.
GEHAR G O
1
ucation Most Severe.
UMATILLA, MORROW HEARD
Regent of Agricultural Col-
lege Pledges Cuts.
SCHOOL IS HELD TOO BIG
"About $370,000 Can Be Saved by
. Closing Extension Work 'Ex
periment Stations Kit.
BY JOHN W. KELLY.
' PENDLETON. Or., March 15. (Spe
cial.) Here in Pendleton, where the
tax rate 'is 37.75 mills and where 75
cent wheat will bankrupt the richest
wheat county in Oregon, the tax in
vestigation commission today found
taxpayers prolific in suggestions as
to what to do with the tax problem.
As usual, on this trip in eastern Ore
gon, the commission found sharp com
plaint against the cost of higher ed
ucation and Its ramifications. All this
agitation accumulated to the point
where Walter M. Pierce, member of
the commission and member of the
board of regents of Oregon Agricul
tural college, placed himself on
record.
"Dear as the college is to my
heart," declared Mr. Pierce to the
crowd of taxpayers and officials of
Umatilla and Morrow counties, as
sembeled in the courthouse, "I will
vote to cut every frill and fancy from
the school. Every unnecessary cost
must be eliminated. The situation
with the taxpayers is becoming des
perate. There is the cost of the
schools and of roads. The gasoline
tax must go to 5 cents in two years
for maintenance. We'd better walk
than build more roads at present. I'd
rather have my land clear and stick
in the mud with my mules than be
owned by an insurance company in
the east.'
V
Slash All Around Favored.
Here is the way sentiment was ex
pressed at the hearing: Appropria
tions for county fairs can be passed
up for a few years; appropriations
for new buildings at the state fair
should be disapproved; appropria
tions should be withheld from the
Northwest Tourist association ' and
the Pacific International Livestock
exposition.
Abolish the 6 per cent tax limita
tion. The legislature will have to repeal
many obligations which forces a tax
levy.
About $370,000 can be saved by
closing the extension work of the
agricultural college.
College Held Too Big.
The agricultural college is too big
for the population of the state; the
college is trying to build up a school
for the Pacific northwest. Ontside)
students should pay a tuition at least
as high as-that charged in California
or Washington. If this causes a de
crease in outside students', it will also
reduce the cost of operating the insti
tution.' - "
Abolition of experiment stations
on this there is a difference of opin
ion among farmers and taxpayers.
Roy W. Ritner, president of the state
senate, suggested closing the experi
ment stations unless the fees of out
side students can maintain them. Cut
out the bug investigations this being
jroposed by Mr. Pierce.
Stop the bounty on coyotes Reach
the maurauders in other ways.
State industrial accident board
should be self-supporting, "receiving
no aid from the state.
Non-Taxable Securities Hit.
Close the affairs of the water board
in six months and dissolve the board.
Stop the issuance of non-taxable
securities. "
Wipe out county agents, county
demonstrators and county nurses.
While this has been repeatedly sug
gested, various county courts either
champion the retention of these -people
or else assert that too much pres
sure is brought on the courts to re
tain them.
An income tax is advocated nd
only one voice was raised against
this method of dividing the tax bur
den at today's meeting. Opinion, is
not a unit as to whether the tax
should be flat or graduated.
A sales tax was proposed by Dr.
F. W. Vincent, president of the tax
payers' league, who also charged the
educational field with "too much pa
ternalism." with playground instruct
ors and what-not. '
Notwithstanding that 32.3 per cent
of the taxes of Morrow county are
delinquent, Samuel E. Notson, district
attorney for that dist?t, opposed an
income tax, the elimination of exten
sion work, county agents, demonstra
tors or economy in any of the schools,
high or low. He asserted that it
would be better to eliminate some
thing else other than the playground
instructors.
Mr. Notson was anchored to the
idea that it isn't possible to shave
down expenses anywhere; that there
is no apparent way of finding reve
nue save on real property.
According- to Dr. I. U. Temple of
Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.)
Flying Glass Cuts Two Freshmen
Severely, AVhile Others Suffer
Minor Casualties.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis, March 15. (Spe
cial.) R. G. Fulton of Bend, fresh
man in mechanical engineering, re
ceived ' cuts on ' the face and eye,
caused by flying' glass, as the result
of an explosion of carbon disulphide
during an experiment by a class in
the chemistry laboratory today.
Kenneth B.HolIingsworth of Mc
Minnville was cut near the eye and
received a scalp wound in addition.
Others received minor scratches and
cuts. Students quickly extinguished
a fire which epread across the lab
oratory tables. The injured' men were
taken to the college health service
and treated.
The explosion occurred during
lecture by Dr. Waiter Scott, professor
of chemistry. ,
BONDS CACHED IN STOVE
Coal Bin Yields $7 5,000 Worth of
Stolen liberties.
WINCHESTER, Va., March 15. The
corner of a liberty bond1 protruding
from the door of the stove into which
he was shoveling coal led to the dis
covery by R. A. Mitchell, railroad
agent, of about $75,000 in bonds con
cealed in the station coal bin. Some
of the bonds were registered in the
name of officials of the Grottoes, Va.,
state bank, and-part, at least, of the
cache was believed to represent loot
taken from that institution when it
was robbed June 30, 1921.
Two-thirds of the bonds recovered
were registered, the remainder being
railroad and industrial issues'. Mitch
ell said he had been scooping up
papers with the coal for several days
and he was speculating today as to
what may have been the intrinsic cost
of the station fire during the recent
cold spell. -
NURSEMAID ON RAMPAGE
Plate-Glass Windows Smashed With
Poker Following Dismissal.
Indignant at being "fired," Eliza
beth Stinson, nursemaid, grabbed a
poker and shattered two valuable
plateglass windows in the home of
P. S. Durkheimer, 850 Northrup street,
according to a; complaint mad 4, to
Deputy District Attorney Driscoll
yesterday. A warrant was issued,
charging the young woman with "ma
licious and wanton injury to prop
erty."
Mr. Durkheimer said that Miss
Stinson had been employed for about
two weeks, when she developed a pro
clivity for all-night absences and
when asked for an explanation had
told her employer that it was "none
of his business!"
OFFICER ARRESTS WIFE
1 Traffic Policeman Halts Woman
Driver Who Cuts Corners.
OAKLAND, Cal., March 15. W. H.
Garratt, traffic policeman, appeared
on the police court records today as
the complaining witness against his
wife for cutting a corner at the cross
ing where he was on duty.
- He halted the offending driver be-
fore discovering her identity, but ar
rested her anyhow and ordered her
to proceed to the police station. She
obeyed and deposited $10 bail out of
her own purse, but failed to appear
in court when her case was called
today.
Police Judge Tyrell said that if she
failed to be on hand tomorrow her
bail would be forfeited.
POET'S FARMJS MARKED
Catskill Mountain Place Will Be'
Dedicated to John Burroughs.
MONTREAL, March 15. The old
farm in the Catskill mountains where
as aboy John Burroughs, poet and
naturalist, began his studies, will be
dedicated to his memory on April 3,
the anniversary of his .birth and his
burial. Ormiston Roy of this city
today announced completion of plans
for the dedication of the naturalist's
former home as a John Burroughs
memorial field, set apart as a liter
ary shrine for the American people.
In conformity with Burroughs'
wishes, the big boulder about which
he used to play will stand as his only
monument.
RELIEF SHIP .AGROUND
Western Glen, With Supplies for
Russia, Hits Xear Odessa.
- CONSTANTINOPLE. March 15. The
American relief administration food
ship Western Glen has been aground
since last, night on the beach, 25
miles south of Odessa. It was re
ported the vessel is not damaged.
Deputy Dondooi, chief of the Italian
Red Cross in southern 'Russia, in an
appeal to all civilized nations to aid
in feeding Russia, today paid a tribute
to the rapidity with which American
grain is being distributed in the fam
ine regions.
PIPE LINE T0CUT MELON
Kansas Concern Is to Pay $3 on
Each Share April 29.
INDEPENDENCE, Kan., March 15.
The Prairie Pipe Line company de
clared a dividend of $3 a share.
It will be payable April 23 on stock
of record March 31.
Schools May Stay Shut
Another 18Days:
ORDER WILL BE ENFORCED
Health Officers Are to Be
Supported in Campaign.
PARADES VOICE PROTEST
Xumber of Cases of Smallpox Less
Than Last Year, hut Vigilance
Is Xot to Be Relaxed.
TACOMA, Wash., March 15. (Spe
cial.) Unvaccinated Tacoma children
may take another enforced vacation
of 18 days after the present suspen
sion of school is over if one small
pox case exists, according to Dr. Paul
A. Turner, state director of public
health. Hs announced his determina
tion to stand by Dr. Joseph P. Kane,
Tacoma city health officer, who en
forced the vaccination order' even
with the guns of the anti-vaccination-ists
turned, upon him.
Dr. Kar.e likewise received letters
signed K. K. K. warning him that if
he did not relent in his fight that he
would meet with disaster. He turned
the letter over to the police and kept
right on the job. The Ku Klux Klan,
through the kleagle of this district,
said that the organization was not
responsible for the threat.
Bankers Make Protest.
While Dr. Kane and his assistants
are vaccinating poor children at the
city clinics, the anti-vaccinationists
are holding indignation meetings.
adopting resolutions and threatening
court proceedings. Dr. E. J. Brown,
Seattle physician, who opposes pre
ventive measures against smallpox.
addressed a meeting of several hun
dred persons here tonight. The audi
ence was made up entirely of per
sons who oppose, vaccination because
of religious or other scruples. They
have banner carriers parading the
streets . arousing opposition to the
vaccination order.
Smallpox has taken a toll of one
death in Tacoma in the last two
years, and in every month of that
period the city was suffering from
a smallpox epidemic, if the state
board of health Vuling that five or
more cases constitute an epidemic
be accepted literally, according to
figures obtained from the city health
department records today.
Cases Fewer This Tear
The records show that in Novem
ber of last y9ar there were 25 more
cases of smallpox in Tacoma than
there are today. A table showing
the number of smallpox cases in
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wA cokcivvY I :t J W VSv
Highwaymen Get $60 and Make
Escape After Warning Woman
Xot to Give Alarm.
While one holdup man was locking
A. Horn and his son, Ernest P. Horn
in the refrigerator in the rear room
of their grocery store at 640 East
Main street, his confederate rifled the
cash register, politely greeted Mrs.
M. T. Smedley, a customer, and sold
her a two-pound roll of butter.
The two thieves escaped in an au
tomobile with cash - amounting to
about $60, and the police are con
fident ' they are the same men who
held up and robbed F. M. Maus of $20
in his drug store at 394 Sixth Btreet
on Tuesday night at about the same
time. ; "
Only three .persons were- in the
Horn, grocery when the two hold-up
men entered. - They were Mr. and Mrs.
Alex Horn and Ernest P. "Horn. Both
of the thieves drew revolvers and
forced the three into the rear room,
where one man ordered them into a
large refrigerator and the other one
turned his attention to the cash regis
ter. Only the two Horn men could
get inside the refrigerator and Mrs.
Horn was allowed to remain outside
ins man holding her at bay with a
gun took a bank book, a check book
and a bunch of keys from her apron
pocket. .
It was at this juncture that Mrs.
Smedley . entered the store and mis
took the robbers at the cash register
for a friend of the Horns. She asked
for a two-pound roll of butter and the
man handed it to her, taking her
money. Mrs. Smedley then left the
store and did not know it was being
robbed until the police went to ques
tion her about the description of the
robbers.
As soon as she was outside the rob
bers backed out of -the store, warning
Mrs. Horn not to make any noise:
When they were gone Mrs. Horn re
leased her husband and son from the
icebox and the police were immedi
ately informed. Although motorcycle
officers and detectives scoured the
vicinity for an hour they could find
no trace of the pair.
Mrs. Smedley said the men were
between the ages of 20 and 25 years,
both about the same height and
weight. They were about 5 feet 6
inches tall and weighed about 145
pounds. Both wore overalls, arroj
shirts, short dark coats, slouch hats
and one carried a heavy automatic
pistol. The other used a small nickel
revolver. This description tallies
closely with that' of the pair who
robbed F. M. Maus the previous night.
Robbers just as impudent and calm
also broke into the house of E. F
Piatt, 534 Clifton place, early yes
terday morning, it was reported last
night. They jimmied a side window
and went first to the pantry, where
they drank two quarts of milk, one
and one-half pints of cream and ate
some cola cniCKen tnat was In the
tee box. - Afterwards they stole "a
watch valued at $160 and $5 in money.
Farmers' Union Meets.
SWEET HOME. Or., March 15.--(Spe-cial.)
A farmers' union meeting was
held Saturday at the Sweet Home high
school building to transact business.
The next meeting, will be held
March 25.
AN OPERATION OR A COURSE OF "TREATMENT?
Appeal of Expectant Mother Has
Little Effect, Because Spouse
Declares He Is Through.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15.
Margaret Matzenauer, grand opera
singer, today .appealed to her hus
band, Floyd Glotzbach, Del Monte
chauffeur, to return to her at once
because she was expecting to become
a mother. Glotzbach separated from
the diva some days ago because, he
sa'd, life in the circles grand opera
stars occupy involved living "on
skim milk and applause."
'A San Francisco newspaper to
morrow will -print a copy of the
telegram in which the diva made, her
appeal. This message was sent to a
friend of Glotzbach with a request
that her plea and the information- on
which it was based be laid before
the chauffeur husband.
Glotzbach brought an automobile
load of tourists from Del Monte to San
Francisco early tonight and with the
air 'of a business-like professional
chauffeur, began "to look around for
passengers for the return trip to the
beach resort. - .
' He would make -no direct comment
on his wife's telegram.
Told of a statement attributed to
his father-in-law to the effect that
Glotzbach had not left of his own ac
cord, the grand opera star's hus-band
said:
"Let them talk.
"When I said I was through and
back here to stay, I told my story.
"The letters and the telegrams cer
tainly knock that story about be"ing
kicked out into ' a cocked hat. I
haven't had any quarrel with anyone.
"Why all the fuss, if I'd rather
drive a motor for wages than to play
Faust to Margarette with the old
man, Mephisto. lurking in the back
ground? Hasn't a man a right to
earn his own living? I wasn't built
for a caddy. I'm too healthy to loaf
around the' lobby of a theater."
JOPLIN, Mo., March 15. Shown
dispatch from San Francisco in which
Floyd Glotzbach. her husband, is
auoted as saying he sticks to his
original statement that he was
through with the limelight," Mme.
Margaret Matzenauer, grand opera
star, tonight still maintained an at
titude of regarding the situation as
a "joke."
She was much less talkative than
last night, however, when she talked
freely with newspaper men.
Referring to the late dispatch from
San Francisco, Madame Matzenauer
said the interview "resembles a fan
ciful creation of a reporter." ,
The language is not my hus
band's," she stated.
She was reminded that even if the
language was not that used by Glotz
bach, the fact remained that he was
back on his old job of driving a sight
seeing motorcar.
"Well, what of that," she countered.
If he wants to drive someone else's
car that's his business and I haven't
the slightest objection."
No." she replied, when asked if a
divorce had been suggested.
She sent a long telegram to her
lawyer in New York telling of her in
terview and asking his advice. She
refused to divulge what her lawyer
advised.
Madame Matzenauer left tonight for
( Concluded on Page 2. Column 4.
Spirit-Hunter Traces Fires
to Lass.
ACTS DONE IN DREAM STATE
Discarnate Intelligence May
Have Directed Arson.
SLAPS ARE DISCOUNTED
One of , AVitnesscs Said to Have
Been Particularly Susceptible
to Strange Influences.
HALIFAX, N. S., March 15. (By the
Associated Press.) Mary Ellen Mac
Donald, foster daughter of Mr. and
Mrsi Alexander "MacDonald, was the
ghost of Antigonish, Dr. Walter
Franklin Prince, scientific ghost
hunter, declared in a report on his in
vestigation of the "haunted" MacDon
ald home at Caledonia Mills, made
public tonight.
At least Mary Ellen set the mys
terious fires which were among the
chief , of the ghostly manifestations,
Dr.- Prince said. He held that she
was not "morally culpable," however,
as she was in an "altered state of
consciousness." and did not realize
what she was doing.
"There is the possibility, supported
by a body of evidence," the report
said, "that this altered state wag
brought about by a discarnate intelli
gence. This Is a theoretical possi
bility, whereas the external facts
seem certain."
X Slapa No Girl's.
Dr. Prince indicated that the braid
ing of the cows' tails and the shifting
of farm stock also probably was a re
sult .of Mary Ellen's altered state of
"consciousness."
The slaps that Harold " Whidden,
Halifax Herald reporter, and P. C.
Carroll, detective, claim to have suf
fered from a ghostly hand, after the
MacDonalds had been frightened out
of their home, however, were not
traced to Mary Ellen's hand.
Their experiences, said the report,
"were probably of a supernormal
character, which does not necessarily
imply that the supernormal cause
was spiritualistic. It may have been
owing to a psycho-physiological cause
which is perfectly natural, though im
perfectly normal."
Doubt C'ust on Blows.
In other words. Dr. Prince implied,
Whidden and Carroll might have
slapped each other or might merely 1
have thought they were slapped.
Dr. Prince's summary of his report
follows:
"My visit of six nights and five
days at the house, in the vicinity of
Antigonish, N. S., which has attracted
so much attention, ended Alonday 1
morning. It is difficult to condense
report of some 7000 words into a
much briefer statement, and only the
salient points can be mentioned.
"Apart from the statements of
Signor Marconi and other experts, I
have proved that the wireless wave
theory cannot be true unless the
waves are endowed with intelligence,. and bu, m persona.
to know just when people are in the It finally was killed. An exam
house with a dislike for the upper inaUon reveaied the fact that lt had
part of the room walls, with a re- . ,,,,. , . ...
v . 1 been suffering from rabies,
pugnance to having persons see them1. ...
break into flames, and with ability I
to transport cushions from one room j
to anotner ana tne iie.
"The fires were undoubtedly set by
hurnan hands, judging by the unmis
takable signs left in the house.
Burn Are Not High.
"The burns are never found' on the
wallpaper higher than the reach of
a ierson five feet tall, which is the
heigiit of the girl in the family. Over
the bed which fills one end of a room
they are never higher than such a
person kneeling could reach, and in
muddy c-r snowy weather one would
not stand on tihe bedi.
"Other slightly higher places on the
woodwork were always set on fire
by pieces of cloth, which could etasily
have been tossed. In a recesa over a
door where a fire occurred were
found the fragments of a glove, un
disturbed and in the midst of them
a match where it could not have been
prior to the fire, nor have been placed
there after its extinguishment.
"The fires avoided starting before
witnesses, as there was no occult
reason for doing, and avoided all
parts of the dining room and parlor;
visible from the meeting place in the j
ktichen.
Liquid Found on Beam.
"An odorless, inflammable liquid was
found In a bottle on a beam which
produced the described effects on wet
paper. Other indices were found
pointing to the same conclusion,
namely, that a person five feet tall
secretly performed the acts as oppor
tunity offered.
"The various witnesses were .un
doubtedly honest in believing that
the acts could not have been thus per
formed, but my acquaintance with the
errors of observation and of memory
on the part of intelligent persons
dealing with a large number of de
tails in a matter quite new to them
has often demonstrated that such
testimony may be vitally in error.
"But I am of the opinion that the
girl was not mentally culpable. Shti
U mentally -exceedingly young for
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Increase Over Xumber Who Made
Out Statements Last Year
Is Expected.
The income tax troubles of some
thing more than 75,000 citizens of the
state closed last night, at midnight,
which was the final time upon which
an income tax statement could be filed
with the collector of internal revenue
without penalty.
Clyde G. Huntley, collector of in
ternal revenue, estimated last night
that the total of returns filed would
be slightly in excess of the 75,000 filed
last year. He said that the total tax
represented would be in the neigh
borhood of $18,000,000, compared with
$28,000,000 last year. The aggregate
he said, would be less this year owing
to exemptions and lower salaries.
Approximately 10,000 tax returns
were received at the office during yes
terday by mall, and it was estimated
that the total of receipts today of
reports mailed yesterday would be
even greater.
At the offices in the custom house
there was not the rush yesterday and
last night that was anticipated, al
though it was found necessary to keep
open until about midnight to take
care of belated ones who wished to
file their returns. The number of
those making returns yesterday at the
office was much less than on either
of the preceding two days.
HAT ABLAZE AT FUNERAL
Woman Candle-Bearer Seta Fire to
Millinery; Panic Averted.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., March 15. A
woman's hat caught fire during the
funeral services for Mrs. Victoria
Czysz and her daughter Helen in the
Sacred Heart church this morning.
The accident occurred to Mrs. Mary
Swiderski, one of the 150 candle
bearers. Prompt action on the part of a man
standing beside the candle-bearer
prevented a panic among 1500 people
in the chhrch. He snatched the
burning hat from the woman's head
and stamped out the flames but not
before her hair had caught fire and
she was burned about the face. Mrs.
Swiderski was carrying a two-foot
candle. .
CUSTOMER STEALS RINGS
Robber Requests Jewels, Draws
. Revolver, Leaves Calmly.
SPOKANE, Wash., March 15. Three
diamond rings, valued at $850, were
stolen this afternoon from a local
jewelry store by a pseudo customer,
who told the proprietor,- P. Saffron,
that he wanted to see the "best he
had." When the three "best" rings
were produced from the safe, the
visitor reached down as if to pull a
handkerchief from his pocket, but
withdrew a revolver instead.
While crowds outside passed the
store, the robber calmly tore the
rings from the pasteboard cards,
pocketed them, and walked out.
VIENNA BEAST RUNS WILD
Jackal, Suffering From Rabies,
Attacks Pedestrians.
VIENNA, March 15. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) A full-grown jackal
ran wild, through the streets in the
heart of Vienna last night, terroriz
ing the population. The beast pur-
l nrifstrla.na rhnrrinff rierht and
ftJDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maxlmutrt temperature, 46
degrees; minimum, 35 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds.
Foreign.
Royal troops hold all of Fordsburg. rage 7
Kamonn de Vslera lsues manifesto launch
ing new Irish policy. Page 5.
Earl of Derby suggested as next premier.
Page 15.
Girl is declared ghost of Antigonish. Page 1.
National.
Treaty opponents give up prolonged fight.
Page 6.
Bonus bill action hinges on Glllett. Page 5.
Election In- Maine may be Indication of
political trend. Page 6.
Domestic.
Georgo Jay Gould sues for share of es
tate. Page 3.
Arson la suspected In Chicago fire: Page 2.
Police hunt chef in circus murder. Page S.
Afghan princess eager to get home. Page 2.
Grand opera singer wants husband back.
Page 1.
. Taclfle Northwest.
Freshmen of Oregon Agricultural college
injured in chemical explosion. Page 1.
Tacoma schools to be closed until small
pox Is stamped out. Page 1.
Alaskan surveys planned this year. Page 8.
Washington urged to seize chances. Page 9.
900 Oregon voting preolncta get counting
boards. Page 15.
I Dufur orchards to be reorganized. Page 8
Taxpayers decry expensive frills. Page i.
Sports.
Jiu-jitsu wizard to get test tonight.
Page 14.
Big Jim Thorpe dispels ennui of Beavers.
Page 14.
Commercial and iMarlne.
Period of lower rates believed in sight.
Page 22.
Portland gains 27 steamship lines during
last two years in foreign service.
Page 21-
Wh-at trade slack in coast market. Page
22.
Chicago wheat depressed by Liverpool ca
bles. Page 22.
Portland and Vicinity...
Harry Davia convicted of peddilng nar
cotics. Page 4.
Revenues of Portland Railway, Light A
Power company increase. Page 13.
Robbers lock up grocers in Icebox. Page t.
Mere than 75.000 to pay Income tax.
Page 1.
Suspects vanish In Descamps case. Page 9
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 22.
Motor interests distuss new law. Page 4.
f 0,000,000 is asked tor city's schools. Paga 1.
Urgent Building Needs of
Portland Outlined.
BONDS FOR $3,000,000 PLAN
Tax Levy of $1,000,000 for
Next 3 Years Proposed.
BOARD TAKES NO ACTION
Special Meeting Called for Muii
day, When Committee Report
Will Bo Considered.
An outline of urgent building needs
of Portland schools, estimated at
$6,000,000, and recommendation that
this amount be raised by a bond Issue
of $3,000,000 and a tax levy of $1.
000,000 at each of the next three
school elections, was submitted to the
school board last night by U'c com
mittee on education, composed of Di
rectors Frank I Shull, chairman,
and W. J. II. Clark.
The committee also recommended
the discontinuance of swimming
pools, orchestra, band work, two and
three-year commercial courses, and
adult instruction In schools at the
expense of the district at the close
of the school term in June. Tht
would save the district a total of
$66,500 a year, according- to tho com
mittee's report.
!V Action Taken.
No action was taken on the report
by the board last night, but tho sub
ject will be discussed fully and will
be acted upon at a special meeting
of the Bchool board at 7:30 P. M.
next Monday.
Immediate needs of the district, as
outlined in the report, place building
requirements of elementary schools at
$1,500,000, high schools at $1,000,000,
and equipment at $406,000.
The report of Directors Shull and
wniark presents full details of the dis
trict's actual needs in new buildings,
additional rooms and improvements,
replacements and equipment. No com
ment on the report was made by
board members last night, but it Is
understood that the recommendations
are fully .approved and that a much
greater amount of money for build
ing purposes would be desirable, fof
the district is far behind in its build
ing pragramme, they say.
Hecommrndatlona Are Kxplalned.
The following is explanatory of the
recommendations of the committee of
education with respect to the most
urgent building needs for the next
year, as made In the report:
"Northeast high school (Roosevrlt)
The congested condition of the pres
ent high schools and the use of nu
merous portables also In considera
tion of the increase in number of
high school students this fHlI, niiika
it neceysary to provide for another
high school. The location recommend
ed Is in the neighborhood of the Fern
wood school and adjoining some ten
acres or more owned by the city for
park purposes. This location happens
to be one that will best serve the dis
trict that Is not now supplied and, be
ing adjacent to the city park, makes It
necessary to buy no more than five
acres instead of 10 or 15 if iocuted at
another point. ..
"Benson While this iichool un
doubtedly needs more than the unit
No. 1 which Is herewith provided. It Is
felt that the addition recommended
will be all that could be expected at
this time.
"Kranklin This school, built fur
about 900 pupils. Is now taking care
of at least 300 more than was intended
and an addition should undoubtedly
be provided.
Building; Held Disgrrous,
"Girls' Polytechnic This is the old
high school building on Morrison
Btreet and is considered by the fire
marshal the most dangerous of any
of the frame buildings and should be
discontinued at the earliest ponnlble
date. The school district owns sev
eral acres of land at East Twenty
fifth and Couch streets and we rec
ommend that a new building be con
structed on this site, so that no new
land will be required. The old build
ing can be used for administration
purposes and save considerable money
which is being expended for rent.
"Grade Schools (new buildings)
Under new buildings we have placed
Beaumont, Duniway, Gregory Heights
and Scott. These are now all sup
plied entirely with portables, and the
superintendent recommends five addi
tional at Beaumont, six at Duniway,
six at Gregory heights and five at
Scott. We do not deem It advisable
to continue erecting portables, but
consider each of these locations Is
now entitled to a permanent building,
for all of which we recommend the
cottage type.
"We do not believe the Ilolhuiay
school should be rebuilt, but that a
cottage type building should l
erected on the east block and the old
building be removed from the west
block, which will give a playground
We recommend that In the Overlln
neighborhood a cottage type hullilinc
of six rooms be constructed instead
of placing any portables there.
"Additions are recommended at thr
following:
"Oeorfre Now consintH of h twi-
tConcluded on i'atfe 4, Column 3. )
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