STORMS SCOURGE
THEATER COMPANY
SEESCONSPIRACY
MOBS SHOUT FOR
UNINJURED BY FALL;
HURT'WHEN TRIPS
L0T1 IS INDICTED
W00LMEN GAIN
IN RATES FIGHT
TUFT TO ENFORCE
SOUTHERN STATES
DEATH OF ABDUL
ANTI-TRUST 1
TAFT'S SISTER-IS-LAW MADE
DEFENDANT IN SCTIT.
FARMER DROPS FROM ROOF
UNHARMED.
SCCCEED IX HAVING CHICAGO
MADE "BREAKING" POINT. ,
"3
1
Death List Grows Ap
palling in Size.
TOWN AFTER TOWN WRECKED
Fatalities Will Amount to Over
100 in Gulf States.
TORNADOES STILL RAGING
Wires All Prostrated and News of
Suffering and Drath Is Received
Only in Meagre Form
From Country.
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Chicago and vicinity 21
I.aporte. Ind....- 2
HarriBburff. Ill ............. 1
I'armI, III 4
Toung's Crossing Tenn 5
Medina, Tenn g
Horn Lake. Miss jg
West Marlon. Ark
Wheatley. Ark i
Golden, Mo 11
Korest City, Ark 2
Plum Point, Ark 1
Jackson, Tenn 7
Hlllsboro, Tenn 3
SummersvlWe, Mo 2
Pittsburg. Pa , 4
Texas L'lty. Ill 4
fentervllle. Tenn 25
Kayettevllle, Tenn 15
t'addo Gap. Ark le
Oecherd. Tenn 2
Pulaski, Tenn " jo
Hartsell. Ala j 4
Hutitsville. Ala " 8
Uanvnie. Ala .1" 3
Mammoth Springs, Ark g
Harms, Tenn " g
Noblesville, Tenn 1
Clarksvllle, Tenn "J 1
Laconls, Tenn 1
Hells, Tenn a
Quito, -Tenn 8
Alton, m 6
Totl 200
ATLANTA, Ga., April 30. -At least 75
persona killed and three times that num
ber Injured and damages amounting to
perhaps 1.000,000-thls la the toll col
lected by a succession of tornadoes which
swept portions of Mississippi, Kentucky,
Arkansas, Alabama and Missouri last
night, today and tonight.
Wires are down throughout the stricken
districts and only fragmentary reports of
the tornadoes can be gathered. It Is
feared that the damage and loss of life
will be even greater than Indicated to
night. Hundreds are homeless and distress Is
widespread.
Wires are down throughout the district
traversed by the storm. This may be
responsible for reports of large casualties
from various Tennessee towns. It Is said
eight or ten persons are dead at Jack
son. Young's Crossing has five dead. At
F"ranklin one woman is dead and two
fatally hurt at Henderson.
Storm's Fantastic Tricks.
The storm played many fantastio
tricks. It hurled James Jackson, an
aeed man of Montgomery County, Ten
nessee. 20 yards from hie ruined house,
snapping his neck, and he was found
dead today.
It ripped 20 church steeples from their
belfries, stood them point up In the
earth and then hurled them Into tree
tops. It tore up the battlefield of Frank
lin, Tenn., as the cannon balls did in
the Civil War. After scattering all the
benches in the grandstand at Latonia
racetrack, Kentucky. t It whirled a fence
cantling through the front window of
Oeorge Tlbbett s house Into a pile of
dishes and through the kitchen wall into
the yard.
At recher, Tenn., a man and child were
burled under the roof of their home,
torn off by the gale.
The storm crossed the Mississippi
River many times In its wild career
through Dixie and at times tore patches
a mile wide over country an town, .later
narrowing Into a belt the size of a city
block.
An exact list of the dead and an accu
rate estimate of the monetary loss may
not be completed for many days, but
from all along the path of the storm
como tales of fearful loss of life and
whole towns and villages are completely
wiped out.
Storm Came From North.
The storm wave seems to have had Its
origin In the North, and swept from the
Lake Region south in irregular fashion.
At Franklin and In Hlllsboro, Tenn.,
there was much loss of life. The latter
town Is said to be virtually destroyed,
while at Centerville and adjoining vil
lages the damage is reported very heavy.
Near Pulaski the death list reached 12,
with many Injured.
Tornadoes Followed Valley.
The tornado followed the Cumber
land valley, wrecking small towns and
destroying farm houses. At Ebenezer
18 houses were blown down. At Charles
ton the storm swerved up the Htawasse
River In the Tennessee Valley, destroy
ing much property.
At Fayettevllle 15 were killed, and
250 houses demolished.
At Cuba many houses were blown
(Concluded on Pace Three.)
Complaint Alleges Mrs. Taft and
Charles Murphy Want to Op
crate Playhouse Themselves.
CHICAGO, April 3a Mrs. Anna Sinton
Taft. wife of Charles P. Taft, of Cin
cinnati, and sister-in-law of President
Taft, Is made a defendant in a bill of
Injunction filed here today by Mort H.
Singer, president of the Lasalle Theater
Company.
The bill asks that Mrs. Taft, owner
of the theater property, be restrained
from Interfering with the theatrical com
pany's possession, and asks the extension
for five years of a lease which expires
tomorrow at midnight.
It la alleged that Mrs. Taft and Charles
W. Murphy, president of the Chicago
National League Baseball Club, have
entered Into a conspiracy to defraud the
complainant of his rights, and to operate
a theater for their own benefit.
DOSE OF MEDICINE FATAL
Irving Jj. Kandall Takes Too Much
and Dit f
Irving L. Randall, -48 years old, who
was a clerk employed In the hardware
store of N. C. Merges, 256 Russell street,
lies dead in his apartments above the
store, as the result of an overdose of a
sedative medicine. He was discovered
by his (trown daughter. Miss Elsie
Randall, a clerk with the Marshall
Wells Company, who made her home
with her father, at midnight on Thurs
day night in a comatose condition. She
aroused the neighbors and Dr. Curtis
Holcomb. of 129 Russell street, was
summoned and worked -over the man
almost constantly until noon yesterday,
when he died.
At an autopsy last night in the un
dertaking establishment of Dunning,
McEntee & Gilbaugh it was found death
had resulted from the paralysis of the
respiratory organs and the heart, fol
lowing the use of some narcotic What
he had taken was not discovered.
Mr. Randall had been a. resident of
Portland for many years. He was a
native, of Maine and had been employed
at the Merges store for a long time. He
has a brother living in Sellwood.
FAILS TO PROVE OFFENSE
Moore's Wife and Stowell Cleared
of Charges.
CHICAGO, April SO. (Special.) Myron
B. Stowell, prominent in Chicago social
circles and a jneraber of the Chicago Ath.
letlc Association, whose Invalid wife Is In
Portland, Or., and Mrs. George R. Moore,
wife of a prominent real estate dealer of
Indianapolis, Ind.. who were arrested a
week ago in a downtown hotel, were dis
charged by Municipal Judge Blake today.
"You admit you cannot prove that this
man and woman lived together In a down
town hotel openly as man and wife for
any period, can you?" queried the court.
"No," replied John Homer Lyle, repre
senting Mr. Moore, who is prosecuting his
wife.
"Discharged," said the court. There
was an air of mystery about the entire
case.
WOMAN HURT IN RUNAWAY
Mrs. W. J. Warner Leaps From Her
Bugfry and Suffers Broken Leg.
As the result of a. runaway accident
yesterday noon ait Gresham, Mrs. Walter
J. Warner, whose husband Is connected
with the Pacific Coast Syrup Company,
224 North Front street, and who lives at
751 Kearney street, this city, lies In the
Good Samaritan Hospital with a badly
shattered ankle bone.
Mr. end (Mrs. Warner had started on
their w;sfy to a ranch near Sandy. The
horses took fright and began to run. Mrs.
Warner became excited and unable to
control herself Jumped from the vehicle.
She landed on her feet but the Impact
wrenched her angle, breaking the ankle
bones and the bones in the leg a short
distance above the ankle.
The team was brought to a standstill
a short distance away and Mr. Warner
escaped unhurt.
PUSH EX-PREMIER IN BAY
Newfoundlanders Show Bond Their
Dislike by Bath.
ST. JOHN'S. N. F, April 30. When Sir
Robert Bond, the ex-Premier attempted to
land today from a steamer at Western
Bay to address a political party rally, he
was met by a crowd of voters in sym
pathy with Sir Edward Morris' party and
warned that the electors of Western Bay
did not desire to hear him. The ex
Premier, however, declared his intention
of making an address.
The crowd rushed for the landing place
and In the confusion Sir Robert was
pushed overboard. He was not injured
and succeeded in climbing Into a rowtioat.
iHe returned to the steamer and made no
further attempt to land.
The incident is attributed o the intense
political feeling throughout the colony.
HEARST'S PAPER IS GUILTY
New York American Libeled John
D. Rockefeller, Says Jury.
NEW YORK, April 30. A verdict of
guilty of criminal libel was found to
day against the publishers of the New
York American by the jury in the trial
charging the publication of an article
libeling John D. Rockefeller.
Ex-Sultan to Be Taken
Away From Salonica.
MONASTIR HIS NEXT PRISON
Old Ruler Brutally Shot Favor
ite and Planned Massacre. '
TROOPS BLOCK PROGRAMME
Wild Populace Hears of Scheme and
Surrounds Villa Where Ruler
Is . Held, Clamoring
for Vengeance.
PARIS, April 30. Telegraphing from
Constantinople, the Matin's correspond
ent says that Abdul Hamid probably will
be transferred from Salonica. to Mona
stir, as furious mobs surround the villa
in which he is lodged, clamoring for his
head, and the troops have difficulty in
keeping them back.
"The former Sultan,," the correspond
ent adds, "committed an abominable
crime on the day of the entry of the
troops Into Constantinople. Mad with de
spair and jealousy, he shot dead his
favorite, a beautiful Circassian girl of
18 years.
"Certain that the end of his reign had
come, the Sultan had been Induced to
prepare for a general massacre on Sat
urday, the signal for which was to have
been the, firing of bombs.
"General chefket, howevier, learned
of the danger that threatened, and
hastened the entry of the troops."
TEWFIK FORMS NEW CABINET
Arsenal of Fanatics Seized Digging
for Abdul's Treasure.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 30 Tewflk
Pasha finally succeeded in forming a new
Cabinet to preside over the Turkish Em
pire, a task he undertook reluctantly.
The ministry follows:
Grand Vizier Tewflk pasha.
Minister of the Interior Ex-Grand
Vizier Ferld Pasha.
Minister of War Salah Pasha.
Minister of Finance Rifaat Bey.
Minister of Marine General Riza Pasha.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Rifaat
Pasha. -
Shelk-ul-Islam Ssia Iddin Effendi.
Minister of Public Works and Com
merceGabriel Effendi.
Minister of Agriculture Prince Mavro
gordato. Minister of Pious Foundations Mah
moud Ekrem Bey.
Minister of Public Instruction Hakka
Bey. . .
Mehemmed V. drove through the streets
in a democratic fashion today on his way
to the mosque to offer up the regular Fri
day prayers. The pomp that attached to
the function during the reign of Abdul
Hamld was altogether lacking and the
(Concluded on Page 4.
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But When He Stubs Toe Later, He
Sustains Serious Injury,
Breaking Kneecap.
Although he fell from the roof of his
barn yesterday and In' his 'fall turned a
somersault, landing squarely on his feet
and escaping from the accident without
even so much as a scratch. L. L. Wood, a
farmer, living near Layer's Landing on
the Columbia River, above Vancouver,
now lies in the Good Samaritan Hos
pital, the victim of a second fall that
may cripple him for life. When he had
recovered from the astonishment of find
ing himself standing on his feet, unhurt,
after such a fall through the air, he
turned, marveling, to walk away, and
as he did so stubbed his toe and fell,
this time breaking his knee cap.
The surgeons say that this injury is
one that in most Instances leaves the
victim with a stiff knee Joint. Mr. Wood
had been puting a roof - on his new- barn
when a scaffolding he had Improvised
gave way, precipitating him to the
ground below. He was brought to the
city yesterday on the steamer lone and
conveyed to the hospital in an ambu
lance from Holman's stables. Mr. Wood
said he did not know which to con
sider the most remarkable, his miracu
lous escape from the fall off the roof
or the astonishing accident when he sup
posed that he was safe on terra firma.
COPPER TRUST IS PLANNED
William E. Corey Said to Be Back
of Big Combination Scheme.
NEW YORK, May 1. After recently
conferring with 40 of the leading cop
per men, William E. Corey, president
of the United States Steel Corporation,
has under way a plan for combining
the big copper interests of the country,
according to the World today.
Henry H. Rogers and the Amalga
mated Copper Company and United
Metals Selling Company, with a num
ber of strong independent interests are
said to favor the project.
The combination is suggested with a
view to regulating production, elimi
nating competition and introducing
further economies in the industry.
CANADA RESERVES TIMBER
Government Will Control Cutting In
90,000.000-,cre Tract.
WINNIPEG, Man., April 30. The Do
minion Government has decided to re
serve a belt of about 90,000,000 acres of
timber land running south of the Crow's
Nest line of the Canadian Pacific Railway
to the international line, and from 50
miles east of the British Columbia bound
ary line into Alberta. The government
will control the cutting of lumber on this
land, which will amount to about 12.000,
000 feet per year for the next 60 years.
WESTON BEHIND SCHEDULE
Fierce Storms of Fast Few Days De
lay Veteran Traveler.
MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo.. April 30.
Edward Payson Weston arrived here to
niit. He is considerably behind his
schedule, being delayed by the high winds
I of the past two days..
WITH LIQUOR MEN
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Deputy Auditor Includ
ed in ForgeryCharge.
GRAND JURY RETURNS REPORT
Reinsteirf and Breslauer Must
Explain Petition Episode.
ARRESTS EXPECTED TODAY
Investigators Also Score Employ
ment Agencies and Ask That Li
cense Held by Hansen's
Office Be Revoked.
Indictments against Sam Lotan, Deputy
City Auditor, as well as against Maurice
Relnstein and S. Breslauer, brewery em
ployes, were returned by the County
grand Jury yesterday afternoon follow
ing a rigid inquiry Into the mutilation of
the Excise Board petition in the City
Auditor's office on the night of April 19.
Following the indictments bench war
rants for the arrest of the three men
were issued out of the Circuit Court, but
have not yet been placed in the hands
of the Sheriff for service. Arrests doubt
less will be made today.
Ijot-an Indictment Surprise.
Forgery in changing a public docu
ment Is the technical charge against the
three men. The Indictment of the brew
ery employes was expected, but there
were many who believed Lotan would
succeed in establishing his contention
that he was made an Innocent victim by
the other two men. The Jurors, how
ever, in the light of the circumstances
presented at the investigation, were not
inclined to acctpt Lotan's story as wholly
true. No distinction Is made between
Lotan and the other two in the indict
ments. The indictments are combined in one
document of a voluminous nature. Lo
tan's name beads the list, with Reln
stein named second and Breslauer third.
Sixteen typewritten pages are covered,
this being necessary in view of the tech
nical mature of the charge.
Alterations Are Shown.
The ext of the initiative and referen
dum law under which the petition was
circulated and the list of alterations In
the petition charged against the three
alleged conspirators are included. The
document was drawn up by District At
torney Cameron. It is said that the
greatest care has been taken to prevent
technical Inaccuracies which might afford
attorneys for the accused men basis for
quibbling and delay.
As yet the indictments have not been
made officially known. They were pre
sented to Circuit Judge Morrow at 4
P. M. by Deputy District Attorney Vree
land, together with the final report of
the jury, which had Just completed the
April term. In accordance with the prac-
(Concluded on Page 10.
Shipments Can Now Be Made to the
Windy City From West and Then
to East at Dow Cost.
CHICAGO. April 30 (Special.) In the
effort to establish Chicago as a great
wool market, the National Wool, Ware
house & Storage Company has encoun
tered some queer obstacles in the rate ad
justments from the West. The Eastern
and Western railroads have at last agreed
to "break" the wool rates at Chicago,
making rates In from the West and rates
out to the East, instead of the through
rates which now exist from the produc
ing centers to the Eastern markets.
This action has been taken despite the
protest of the Eastern wool buyers, for it
Is in accord with the new ratemaking
principle the railroads are trying to es
tablish, which is that of "breaking" the
rates at important centers.
From the wool-producing sections of the
West, however, the rates are in need of
ironing out. From parts of Utah, for ex
ample, it has been discovered that it is
cheaper to back haul wool nearly 1000
miles to Los Angeles and then reship
from there to the Eastern markets, than
It is to ship direct from Utah.
MR. SCOTT'S DECLINATION
f Text of Letter to the President on the
Mexican Ambassadorship.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, April 30. The following letter
was obtained for publication today:
"Office of the Associated Press. 195
Broadway, New York, April 23, 1909 To
the President: Since you did me the
honor several weeks ago, to offer me the
Embassy of the United States to Mexico
the appointment to be made some
months hence I have carefully consid
ered the matter and have reached the
conclusion that I must decline the honor.
"It is solely the state of my own busi
ness that induces me to this conclusion;
for I assure you that I am deeply sen
sible of the honor as well as of the com
plimentary manner m which the offer was
made.
"It has seemed proper and even neces
sary that I should make an early decla
ration of my decision, in order that my
name, bo kindly suggested by yourself
for this highly honorable distinction,
might not stand as an obstruction to such
future action in the premises as the
President may desire to take. Very re
spectfully, "HARVEY W. SCOTT."
TO ARREST DELAVAN SMITH
Owners of Indianapolis News to Be
Served With Warrants.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 30. Stewart
McNamara, assistant of the United
States District Attorney for the Dis
trict of Columbia, arrived here today
and said that tomorrow Delavan Smith
and Charles R. Williams, owners of
the Indianapolis News, would be served
with warrants following on the indict
ment charging them with libel in con
nection with the Panama Canal pur
chase. Mr. McNamara said that Messrs.
Smith and Williams would be taken for
preliminary hearing before Judge An
derson, of the District United States
Court in this city.
TIRE BURSTS, DOCTOR HURT
Four Teeth Knocked Out, Flesh Torn
and Jawbone Fractured.
WALLA WALLA. Wash., April 30.
(Special.) While stooping over a tire
which an automobile demonstrator was
pumping full of air at Prescott today. Dr.
F. W. Reese, of this city, received a blow
from the bun-sting tire which lacerated
his cheek and fractured the bones of his
face. A steel outer case struck him in
the face, breaking four teeth and leaving
a bad gash, which was later sewed up at
the St. Mary's Hospital. Fred Leahy, the
demonstrator, suffered a badly bruised
arm.
SHOOTS IN POLICE COURT
Armenian Takes Law Into His Own
Hands at Detroit.
DETROIT, Mich., April 30. Dr. G. K.
Boyajian, an Armenian, today shot and
fatally wounded his nephew, Harotoon
H. Gaspinian, while the latter was be
ing arraigned in police court with his
aunt,' the physician's wife, on a statutory
charge.
Dr. Boyajian then turned the revolver
on his wife, and fired the two remaining
bullets at her. One missed her entirely,
and the other penetrated th crown of
her hat.
CHIEF FOR NORTHERN ROAD
fe. A. James to Be Manager of Al
berta & Great Waterways Route.
- WINNIPEG, Man., April 30. New York
capitalists behind the Alberta & Great
Waterways railway have appointed E. A.
James, former manager of the Canadian
Northern Railwry. general manager of
the new road. It will be thtost north
erly railway in America, and connects
Edmonton with an immense territory
tapped by the natural waterways from
Fort McMurray to the Arctic Circle. The
road has been' guaranteed $20,000 a mile
by the Alberta government.
Continue Policy of
Roosevelt.
BUT BY DIFFERENT METHODS
Wickersham Declares Purpose
of Government.
INNOCENT NEED NOT FEAR
Attorney-General Says Roosevelt
Awakened People, Now Taft Will
Vigorously Kn force Laws
and Prosecute Guilty.
NEW YORK, April 30. The Sherman
anti-trust law will be enforced by the
Taft administration. Rebates will be
prevented so far as possible. The work
of the Roosevelt regime In this direc
tion will be carried forward with vigor,
though by different methods. Attorney
General Wickersham announced this to
day in an address before the New York
bar.
Roosevelt Awakened Them.
"You all know," said Mr. Wicker
sham, "that the attitude of a very
large part of this community towards
some of the laws enacted by Congress
was, prior to six or seven years ago,
one of indifference when not of hostil
ity. There was a prevailing impression
that many of the laws dealing with
economic subjects had been passet to
be pointed to with pride rather than
to be enforced. Then there came a
rude awakening. The last administra
tion set to work with vigor, with en
ergy, which was accompanied at times
with newspaper clamor, to enforce
these laws. Business men who eight
years ago- had V;t read the Sherman
anti-trust law toVa.y know it by heart;
and railroad men and shippers alike
have an iiY&te personal acquaint
ance with th Verstate commerce act.
Sanit Methods ot Needed.
'The work of the preserf jftjninistra
tion is none the less important than was
that of the last In continuing, to enforce
the laws, in endeavoring to effecft.ite the
interest of the people, in preventing the
things which the people have come to be
lieve to be inconsistent with the welfare
(Concluded on Pape 4.)
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 6S
degrees; minimum, 38 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; northerly wind.
1'oreiffii.
Great rejoicing in Holland -at . birth of
Princess. Page 3.
Sultan Mehemmed embraces friends -whom
Abdul Imprisoned as spies. Page 4.
Relief from America for Armenians; esti
mates of dead too low; Page 2.
Mob at Salonica shouts for blood of Abdul
Hamld. Page 1.
National.
Democratic supporters of protection pro
voke Tillman's satire. Page 1.
Army engineers estimates for Columbia
Jetty and Celilo canal. Page 5.
Attorney-General declares Taft policy to
wards trusts. Page 1.
Politics.
Drys carry three Indiana counties and
lose one. . Page 4.
Rose and Dickie debate on prohibition at
Chicago. Page 4.
icnest ic
Mrjs. C. P- Taft. and Murphy, baseball man,
accused of conspiracy to defraud theat
rical troupe. Page 1.
Tornadoes in Middle West and South cause
nearly 200 deaths and wreck several
towns. Page 1-
Storms in Chicago and vicinity cause 50
deaths and great devastation. Page 3.
Snow and frost in Middle West destroy fruit
and other crop. Page 3.
San Francisco will give warm welcome to
Jap squadron. Page 1.
Treasury officials testify to drawing of
bribe money by Calhoun iront mint.
Page 5.
Thornton Hains testifies in Captain Hains
defense. Page 4.
Aunt of man killed by Johnny Davidson
demands death of girl. Page 4.
Railroads yield to woolgrowers demand for
rates to Chicago. Page 1.
Sports.
Coast League scores: Portland 1, Oakland
5; Ban Francisco 4, Sacramento 3; Ver
r. on 3, Los Angeles 2. Page 7.
Northwestern League scores : Spokane 3,
Portland 0; Seattle 5, Tacoma 1 ; Van
couver 4, Aberdeen 1. Page 7.
Pacific Northwest.
prosecutor Pugh ordered to give up grand
jury notes or go to Jail. Page 6.
Albany College girls win championship de
bate. Page 6.
Railroad Commission orders express rates in
Oregon reduced. Page 6.
Commercial and Marina
Oregon may only have half a bop crop;
Page 17.
Wheat opens strong and then breaks at
Chicago. Page 17. .
Stock speculations dull. Page 17.
General trade shows marked improvement.
Page 16.
Big cargo of grain bags brought by steam
ship Alesla. Pae IS.
Portland and Vicinity.
Lotan. Relnstein and Breslauer indicted for
forgery. Page 1.
Barber Asphalt Company gets Hawthorne
avenue paving contract. Page 10.
Faimer uninjured by fall off barn stubs toe
and breaks kneecap. Page 1.
Bad coffee brings slaps for wife, who sues
for divorce, page 10.
Executive Board orders plans drawn for
Madison bridge. Page 11.
Board of Trade practically decides to go out
of business. Page 18.
Mayoralty candidates believe Lane will en
ter run after primaries. Page Li.
Thomas Greene demands to know why dis
charged detectives were not, treated alike
by Civil Service Commission. Page 12.
Francis I. McKenna predicts statewide pro
hibition will follow keeping excise board
petition off June ballots. Page 11.
Judge Hunt takes motion of John Hall fcr
new trial under advisement. Page 18.
Portland breaks records in building pernuit
of month. Page 10.
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