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to 515,000 IS PAID OUT FOR CLEAN-UP JUNK Hundreds of Child Workers Slave to Earn Money. SCENE, TYPICAL OF THOSE AT THIRTY-SIX DIFFERENT FIRE HOUSES, WHEN JUVENILE PORTLAND STORMED THEM ' WITH LOADS OF JUNK AS FINALE IN CLEAN-UP WEEK. : YOUNGSTERS TRY TRICKS tear of Iron Put in Paper to In ;rcase Weight But Same Paid lor Both Articles. Over $13, 000 was paid out yesterday by the 36 Portland fire stations for paper, rags and junk of various de scriptions to the hosts of child work ers who had slaved all week cleaning up Portland in readiness for Shrine week. It was the most notable , purchase, retail, of junk over known in Port land. Over 200 tons of waste paper alone was secured, one station having over four tons at 5 o'clock. A total expenditure of J9840 had lieen made by the fire stations on be half of the junk dealers association who furnished the funds. Hurry Calls Sent. At 4 o'clock, station after station Bent in a hurry call lor more lunas and an additional 16000 was dis tributed among the fire houses by three fire department automobiles traveling' with armed guards. Not a fire house in the city out an day had a long queue in front of it. sometimes stretching for a block or more, of youngsters with speeders, wheelbarrows, wagons and wheeled vehicles of every description, loaded with waste paper, castiron. bags of rags, old auto tires and junk of every poMsible description. The plutocrat of the children was an 8-year-old lad who wheeled a bar row up to fire station 23 with a load of tinfoil, and as the market price of tinfoil promised was 25 cents a pound, the youngster promptly "broke the bank." Cash reinforcements' had to be .made before the youngster could be paid off for his treasure-trove. Joke on Salesmen. It is whispered that there were youngsters who soaked their news papers in water, thus adding material ly to the weight, covering the Dunaie with new papers and at least one bundle of papers was found with a 2 pound slab of cast iron, buried in the papers. But the joke was on the juve nile salesman, for the price of cast iron, was precisely the same as that for waste paper. A note of tragedy was thrown into the jubilations of the junk dealers who had contracted to take over the purchases when the paper dealers an iiounced a cut of 5 a ton. Hundreds of persons drove to the fire stations with their machines full of junk for sale, while a large num ber turned over their accumulations to the American Red Cross shop. "May I urge that those who have not sold their various collections de liver them to the Red Cross shop at Third and Oak, or telephone us lion day, when we shall be glad to send the truck for them." eaid Miss Helen Whitney, secretary of the shop. Fire Kink Redncrd. "The sale by us of donated arti cles is now the only source of revenue that enables the Red Cross to con tinue its work. We realized over $5500 the last two months. One woman delivered to us yesterday two valuable gas stoves, while a business firm delivered to the shop an entire office equipment which was sold be fore noon." The associated junk dealers of Port land will etart hauling the accumula tions from the fire stations Monday. To enable the clean-up to be com pleted thoroughly, the fire department has extended a three-day blanket per mir this week for fires. "The hundreds of tons of paper sold will materially reduce the fire risk in Portland," said Fire Marshal Gren fell. SPORTSMKX LOSB EQUIPMENT IX $10,000 FIRE. PASTOR WRITES CHURCH aiEV. HAROLD" L. BOWMAN AD DRESSES PRESBYTERIANS JFfUns That Portland Offers Bi Held for AVork Causes Accept ance of Call. In a. letter aAMrsiyeri to the me prs of the First Presbyterian church iov. Harold. Leonard Bowman of Ch apo, the newly eievted pastor, ex presses his appreciation of the spiri which prompted the call. The feelincr that Tortland offered a bipr field for the "work he has to do, he writes, caused his acceptance. Rev. Mr. Bow man will arrive here in July. The communication just received by the church follows: My Tcar FYlends I icl that I am risrht In addressing: you in this way, for whil there are so few of you whom I know by Xoe. there nre a Roodly number of yo' horn I know ny Jotter and I feel tha in the spirit that you have shown toward us, I know you all. I cannot see how an: man could enter upon a new work wit the assurance of a greater cordiality awai ine him than that which you have i kindly extended to Mrs. Bowman and mywlf. The breaking of ties here is, as you may imacine. a difficult ta?.k. One heart-strings become so entwined tha they cannot be wrenched away without pain. Nevertheless, our feelinpf in regard to the opportunities and fellowships ' that await us there is heartening. I want ynr to feel that while I am coming there to h pastor and preacher, my ideal is to above everything else a friend with sue Intimate ties of understanding and affec tion that distinctive barriers of pulpit and pew, clergy and laity, may be obliter ated. I feel that God has a great work there. That conviction has been the prime fac tor in my decision to accept the call. In eager submission to his dynamic leadership we can together do that work. We shall want to keep our plans virile and practi cal, our ideals stimulattngly high, and our contract with God close, and continu ous. During those two months which pre cede the beginning of our work, may Mrs. ( Bowman and I have tnc help of your prayers that we may be fitted for the work and that the coming relationship may be one of lasting love and abundant profit for the kingdom of God. With eager anticipation of your wait ing friendship and our prospective task, 1 am vour friend and pastor-elect. . HAROLD LKUNARP BOWMAN. - f'rn LiH! i 1 7' 7fTz&zzzi , M-vi,' DAREDEVIL TRIG IS TO VISIT PORTLAND New Adventures in Aviation Promised Here. STUNTS ARE HAIR;RAISING CHILDREN LIMMi IP TO SELL ACCIMILATIOXS OF WASTE PAPER AND OTHER ARTICLES. .Man to Co From One Machine to Another IVhile Both Are Speed ing 60 Miles an Hour. Major Kenneth Marr star of many an aerial fray In France, is planning new adventures in aviation. He was in Portland yesterday visiting some of the friends he made when he was here in advance of the army "flying circus" and told them it was his intention to bring to Portland in three weeks trio of the most noted stunt mejt in cloud lire. Among the promised exploits of. the air will be the transfer of one of the men from one of the machines' to an other while both are speeding at SO miles an hour. Among the "common or garden" va riety of sensalions that Major Marr promised will pe aerial acrobatics in which one or Tiifirc tf th men will E Trapstiootiiiff .Tournament Is Kc- mi iikod ATier Excitement of Blaze Subsides. The explosion of an oil stove at 1:30 yesterday afternoon caused a fire that razed the Portland Gun club. The loss was estimated at $10,000 to $15,000. Yesterday was the opening day of the annual Oregon state trap- shooting- tournament and 12 or 15 scatter-gun devotees were in t the main room of the Everding; park structure when the explosion occurred. None were injured but they were unable to s&ve any of their be long - njrs as the flame3 swept the club house. The clubhouse was built in 1917. Pres id en t H. B. Ne wlan d of the Portland Gun club said that at least 20,000 rounds of shells had been con sumed in the fire, a large stock being on hand for the three-day tourna ment. Many sportsmen lost their guns and other valuable articles which they had left in the locker- oom. respite the fire, the tournament was continued after the excitement had subsided. There was $2000 insurance on the building. E. Bowen this week began the erec tion of a new drug store. The new $35,000 city hall will be" begun the coming week and M. Ray & Son have arranged to build a large store build ing on the highway in the west part of town. The American Export com pany is building one of the largest mills on the lower Columbia. Resi dences are badly needed. GIRLS WIN ALL DEBATES Successful Season in Forensics Is Brought to Close. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, May 22. (Special.) With the double victory of the women's debating teams of the . University of Oregon over those of the University of Washing ton last Tuesday night, this institu tion closed its most successful season of forensics in recent years. The women made a clean sweep, winning all of their four debates with Wash ington and Oregon Agricultural col lege, and the men won eight out of ten. Those who participated in varsity debates for the men were Kenneth Armstrong, Wilbur Carl, George Black, Ralph Hoeber, Paul Patterson and Remey Cox. all of Portland; Elmer Pendell, Waverly, N". Y. ; Don Davis, Nyssa, and Ernest Crockatt, Spokane, Wash. The women who debated for Oregon were Pthel Wakefield. Long Beach Cal.; Elaine Cooper, Wanda Daggett and Jennie Maguire, all of Portland, and Edna Sparling, Victoria, B. C. ASSISTANT DEAN NAMED John Stark Evans to Join Faculty of University in Fall. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, May 22. (Special.) John Stark Evans, professor of piano and organ n the university school of music, who s now studying in New York on years leave of absence, will return next fall as assistant dean of the school, it was announced by Dr. John J. Landsbury, dean, today. Mr. Evan will have charge also of the courses in the summer school here this year, while Dr. Iandsbury handling the university's summer work in Portland. He is expected back in Eugene about Juno 9. Building Boom at Rainier. RAINIER, Or., May 22. (Special.) A building boom has struck Rainier. The Odd tellows are putting up lHrg two-story building and George Fraternity Elects Members. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, May 22. (Special.) Phi Theta Kappa national honorary women s commerce fraternity, has just announced the election of seven neV members. The girls elected are Hilma Honkanen, Seaside; Ethel Gaylord, Tillamook; Marion Briggs, Hermiston, and Marian Weiss, Marjorie Stout, Dorothy Lowry and Lulu Rasor, all of Eugene. POLK COM INDIGNANT CITIZENS ANGRY AT CHANGE OF WEST SIDE HIGHWAY. Meeting Insists Comrgission Should Follow Route 1Oc.atod by Oregon Legislature. DALLAS, Or.. May 22. (Special.) That the West Side highway should be built through Polk county on the route located by the Oregon legisla ture, if built at all, was the unani mous decision reached here last night by a meeting ot citizens that filled the Commercial Club auditorium to, overflowing. The meeting was called by the Independence Business Men's club and the Dallas Commercial club. The action of last night's gathering is the outcome of long pent-up dis satisfaction with the highway com mission in not following the law re quiring th West Side highway to be built from McMinnville to Dallas, thence . to Monmouth, Independence and Corvallis. The original commis sion had prepared to build along this route, but a later commission decided to follow the route direct from Mc Minnville to Monmouth and Corvallis, leaving both Dallas and Independence on stub roads. Humors that the highway commis sion will terminate the Salem-Dallas post road at Rickreall and leave Dal las off any paved highway, unless the county court shall accept the Mon-mouth-Corvallis route, reached Dallas and Independence this week and called forth the big meeting of pro test. Oscar Hayter of Dallas has been appointed to represent the two clubs in future proceedings. dell. This is the first of the estates of nine victims of the wreck to ap pear in the Multnomah county courts. That this appearance heralds the beginning of a score or more of dam age actions against the railroad is indicated in the assertion in both cases that the chief part of the estate is "an unliquidated claim against the Southern Pacific." The claim was all that was left by the son, Robert.but Mrs. Grace O. Arundell left personal property valued at J1400. "Turk" Declared Stigma. That constant reference to him as a "Turk" has succeeded in prej udicing the jury against him, is the contention of John Arlic in a motion for a new trial in his suit against the Oregon-Washington Railroad &. Nav igation company, filed in the circuit court yesterday. The jury on May 3 found for the defendant. VETERAN BROUGHT BACK ExCanadian Soldier Accused of Tliree Forgeries. ABERDEEN", Wash., May 22. (Spe cial.) Ray Waxbom, wanted here on a double charge of forgirtg checks to the amount of $380 and stealing the automobile of John Harris t Cos mopolis, has been returned to the Harbor from Salt Lake City by Deputy Sheriff Hamra, and transferred to jail at Montesano. Waxbom served in a Canadian regiment during the war. With Waxbom, Deputy Hamm brought back C. B. Brecher and E. C. Meyers,- who were picked up in Han Francisco and who are wanted here on bad check charges. hang by one foot or hang from the un derstructure of a racing plane. If the necessary arrangements can. be made one of the performers will climb from a speeding express train or racing automobile to a passing aeroplane, catching its body with his hand as it flashes by. The stunts will be used by Major Marr to inaugurate the official open ing of the new field or the Oregon, Washington & Idaho Airplane com pany close to the old fair grounds. And the stunts will be emphasized as showing the possibilities of the air plane in its most dangerous ventures, as compared with the safe, exhilarat ing commercial brand of flying car ried out fo Portlanders by the pilots ofvthe Oregon company. War Honors Gained. - Major Marr first became known to Portland when he came here to com plete arrangements for the victory loan "flying circus." Prior to that time he had acquired an international reputation as one of the organizers of the Lafayette iscadrille, later as a crolx de guerre winner after he had officially downed three Hun fighting planes in midair. It is reported that other planes fell victim to his machine gun, but were not officfally observed. But as to his record, Major Marr is as communica tive as a clam. He served four years in the French flying service and after that was transferred to the American flying fprces. l.orkleara Prat, Duplicated. "The men I shall bring to Portland will include 'Daredevil' Campbell, Frank Clark and Ray Goldsworthy." said Major Marr. "We hope to be here in about three weeks. I have purchased the planes used by Lieu tenant Locklear in his motion picture exploits and the men I have under contract will tiuplicate any feat of Locklenr's and probably will excel most of them. ' i Victor Vernon. recently elected manager of the Oregon Airplane com pany, conferred with Major Marr yes terday and promised to have the new field in condition to accommodate a crowd of at least 50,000 persons. DRY GOODS MEN TO MEET Merchants From East and Great Britain to Visit Portland-' Portland department store owners, will leave for San Francisco eoon to attend the first western convention ot the National Retail Dry Goods asso ciation, the meeting taking place In the Golden Gate city June 2 and 3. Following the business of the con vention . merchants of the east and Great Britain who were present at the sessions will journey up the coast, arriving in Portland for a two-day visit June 13. While in San Francisco delegates to the convention will be the guests of the San Francisco Retail Dry Goods association and kindred civic bodies. Winlock Council Orders Paving. CEXTRALIA. Wash.. May 22. (SpeciaL) Construction of five miles of cement sidewalks and considerable street paving, to cost over StOO.OOO. was ordered this week by the Winlock city council. Pouring of concrete will begin in about a week on tho Winlock - Cowlitz - Toledo highway, five miles of which is being paved. Bolivia Requests Port. LA PAZ. Bolivia. May 22. Bolivia, it is declared in apparently reliable quartews here, will propose to Chile that she give Bolivia the outlet to the sea desired by this country, at a point anywhere within the former Bolivian littoral. Bolivia engaging to construct the necessary port works. Biggest Egg Contest On. ' COTTACjE GROVE. Or., May 22. (Special.) The annual spring biggest egg contest is on. The first contribu tion is a production by a Rhode Island Red, owned by Fred Saltsman. The egg weighs four ounces and measures KVt by 7 ' inches. - A RAIL DAMAGE CASE LOOMS Results of Bertha Collision Seen i in Arundell Petition. Petitions for letters of administra tion in the estates 'of his wife and five-year-old son who were killed by his side in the Southern Pacific were filed in the probate division of the cfrmit court yesterday by C R. Arun- $500 Damages 'Awarded. Damages of $500 for the death of Mrs. Minnie Jaeger in an automobile accident were awarded J. F.- Jaeger against Giles E. Sanderson, proprietor of "Sandy's .Kodak Shop," by a Jury in the court ot Circuit Judge Gatens yesterday. Mr. Jaeger asked $7500. asserting that his wife's death was due to the careless driving, or exces sive .speed of Mr. Sanderson, whose automobile collided with the one in which Mrs. Jaeger was. riding at East Thirty-third street and Sandy boule vard on October 26, 1919. Trunk Full of Liquor Seized. Patrolman Cameron, who is sta tioned at the union depot, reported to Captain Moore that he had con fiscated a trunk filled with whisky which had heen checked to Portland from' Seattle. The policeman is now looking for the owner, who has so far failed to appear and claim his prop erty. x English educators have found that tho increase in motion picture thea ters has been followed by a decrease lu the circulation of cheap literature. TOMS OF tJADQA&QisfJp StCfogeJo T the dawn of the Christian era was built the k. tomb of Rome's great emperor Hadrian. 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