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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1915)
TTTE OltlSGONTATT. TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1915. 11 WORK IS BEGUN 0(1 COUNTY HIGHWAYS Tim Concannon, Foreman of Gang of Men, Starts Opera . tions on. Sandy Road. OLD SURFACE IS REMOVED 6-team Holler Willi Spiked "Wheels Helps Prepare Highway at Kast Hghtj--sccond Street for Coating of Mixture. To Tim Concannon, a brawny young foreman for the Warren Construction Company, fell the honor yesterday of starting the first work on the paving of 70 miles of Multnomah County high way under- the tl. 256, 000 bond issue. Mr. Cpncannon, with a. road gang of seven men. went out to the intersec tion of the Sandy road and East Kighty-second street, where the city boundary ends, shortly before 8 o'clock in the morning. There a bis steam roller was waiting for them. It took about 15 minutes to stud the back wheels of the steam roller with wicked-looking spikes about half a foot long and a couple of inches thick. Then the word was given. Al Wes jsenger, engineer of the roller, tooted the whistle and opened the throttle, and the road work was under way. The purpose of the spikes in the wheels of the roller is to loosen the present macadam base of the Sandy Koad. This base Is about a foot thick. As loosened it is shoveled off to about three inches in thickness, a little fresh, clean rock is strewn on it, and then all is ready for the "hot stuff," or paving mixture. Foreman Concannon and his men treated about 400 feet of the road with the spiked wheels yesterday, but after they get really started they will go at the rate of 1000 feet a day. Behind them the "hot-stun" layers will put down approximately 900 feet a day of tine, new pavement, under favorable circumstances. Cap W. Turner, who will superin tend the "hot stuff" men when they start; their part of the work tomorrow, was out with Foreman Concannon, making preparations for speeding up, when his turn comes. Dave Bond, driving wagon No. 406, brought out the first load of crushed rock. CLUB HOflORS 'WILSON DAY' Bliss DeGraff to Talk to Progressive Business Men Thursday. At the last meeting for the Summer of the Progressive Business Men's Club on Thursday at the Multnomah Hotel, "Wilson day" will be fittingly cele brated with the United States Senators from Oregon as guests, together with Mayor Albee and Miss Grace De Graff, principal of Kenton School, as the speaker of the day. Her subject will be the "Peace Conference at The Hague." It will be the last meeting of the Summer season and it is promised will be the biggest and the best. Webber's Juvenile Orchestra will furnish music. Miss De Graff took an active part in the epoch-making effort of the women of the world to draw attention of bel ligerent, as well as neutral, nations to thoughts of peace. G. F. Peek, president of the Union Abstract Company, will be chairman of the day. The annual beach excursion has been postponed, and will not be given on June 26, as previously announced. Ar rangements for a later date will be made. Thursday, too. is another ladies' day. WIFE DESERTER IS JAILED E. AVallingford llets 10 Months for Leaving Bride. Just a week after he was returned from California on a charge of wife de sertion. James E. Wallingford was sen tenced to 10 months in the County Jail by Circuit Judge Gatens yesterday morning. Wallingford pleaded guilty to the charge. On May 9. 1913. Wallingford married Miss Hilda Carson at Tacoma, and came to Portland. After they had lived, here a short time Wallingford failed to ap pear at his home and his bride became alarmed. Through another woman he was traced to Yreka, Cal., and arrested. Wallingford is said to have admit ted that he took $200 from his wife before deserting her. CLEVER DANCE FEATURED Transportation Club Election Pro gramme to Be Elaborate. An elaborate programme is being ar ranged for the annual election of the Transportation Club athe Multnomah Hotel Thursday evening. Miss Glenna Delgado, the clever dancer, who made such a hit at the recent smokers of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, will be featured. After the annual meeting of the club members light refreshments will be served, followed by cards and dancing. ' The meeting will be brought to order at 8:15 o'clock Thursday night in the assembly room of the Multnomah Hotel. ANNEXATION HAS PROBLEM Standing of St. Johns Police and Firemen Puzzle to Be Solved. Xow that St. Johns has become a part of Portland, what is to become of the policemen and firemen" of that place? Are they to be made a part of the Portland police and fire bureaus as they stand, or are they to be dis charged and their places given to civil service firemen and policemen? Thesa are questions which have bobbed up to bother Mayor Albee and the St. Johns firemen and policemen. Inasmuch as the Portland police and fire bureaus are under civil service. there Is a question as to whether the St, Johns employes can be retained. W. I. HULL IS LECTURER International Tribunal to Preserve Territorial Lines Advocated. To maintain Its position In the West em Hemisphere- and hold to the Monroe Doctrine, will entail upon the United States the duty of "Policeman of the New World," according to William L Hull, professor of SwarLhmore College, who addressed the Members' Council of the Chember of Commerce at its lunch eon yesterday. "This position ' can be maintained only," he said, by entering into en tangling alliances with other powers, or by entering upon the policy of 'armed preparedness' to enforrfe the Monroe Doctrine, which will saddle .us with a militarism which will be far vaster and more burdensome than that under which Europe has groaned." The third alternative and the one which he advocated, is for the United States to turn all its energies toward the development of internationalism in its newest sense. Kxtension of arbi tration for the settlement of interna tional disputes, and the pledging of the territorial integrity of every country in the world, by every other country of the world were the features involved in the new programme. If necessary, an international policing power to en force the rulings of the international tribunal was advocated. Before Dr. Hull's address, J. H. Bar bour, of .the Immigration Bureau of the United States in Portland, gave a talk upon the' employment agency work taken up by the Government and urged its support by all employers in the state. F. E. Smith, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, presided at the luncheon. CLAIM AGENTS TO MEET FOUNDER OF ORGANISATION LEAVES FOR CALIFORNIA. Hen Precautionary SIraaure of Puttlns; Shields' on Emery Wheels Will Be Demonstrated. B. F. Boynton, claim agent of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany and father of the Pacific Coast Claim Agents" Association, left last night for "San Francisco, to attend the annual convention of this association scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Mr. Boynton not only founded this organization, but the dele gates at the first session, which was held in Portland, wished the first presi dency on him and he held that job for three years before he could let go. One of the numerous "Safety First" ideas which Mr. Boynton will expound to the coming convention is the scheme which he has Just perfected in the local carshops of the street railway company that of putting "goggles" on emery wheels. He is so proud of this achieve ment that he took a pocketful of photo graphs of the device with him to ex hibit at the convention. Explaining this invention, Mr. Boynton said yester day: "We found it was a mighty hard thing to make the workmen put goggles on their eyes when they used the emery, wheels and there was constant danger of injury by flying metal or bits of the wheel. So we turned the whole thing 'tother end to' and put goggles on the emery wheel. The contrivance looks like a miniature windshield and is made of thick, heavy glass, which fits over the front end of the wheel and the device has already proved its value many times over." . Safety first and firedrill work, acci dent prevention and other kindred movements that have been given prac tical tests among the public schools of Portland will be other matters which Mr. Boynton will discuss before the con vention. He will visit Southern Cali fornia before returning home. Attor new Lonergan went with Mr. Boynton and will attend the convention sessions. SAM KRASNER ON TRIAL EX-BOSS OF UNDERWORLD CON DUCTS OWN DEFENSE. Woman Who Had Stood by Defendant -on Many Occasions, Scorned by Him, Is Complaining Witness. Transferred at last to the Federal Court, where his conviction on two pending white slave indictments could bring him a sentence of ten years in a Federal penitentiary, the old story, so often heard in the Portland courts of Sam Krasner, his alleged one-time in fluence when he was the "big guy" of the Portland underworld, with its scores of sordid details, is being told again. Krasner's trial started yesterday be fore Federal Judge Bean. Krasner acted as his own attorney. He showed that his long court experiences haven't been altogether wasted, for he han dled his defense well. In one way, however, this case is de cidedly different from other rases In which Krasner has appeared. This time Rosa Babcock, who heretofore has been his staunch supporter through all his trials, is' the principal witness againBt him. It was she who swore to the com plaints that resulted in the white slave indictments, and her testimony against him showed it to be the old story of a woman scorned. Rosa Babcock told how she had stood by Krasner time and again and said she had given him thousands of dol lars had supplied him with money for. his defense on numerous occasions, and generally had upheld him loyally.' The change came, she testified, when he had married another woman and left Portland with her. after first obtain ing more money from Rosa. The case will continue today before Judge Bean. Assistant United States Attorney Johnson is prosecuting-Krasner. Ticquest Made for Fence. SALEM. Or.. June 21. (Special.') G. H. Williams and others today asked the State Railroad Commission to com pel the Southern Pacific to erect a fence for the protection of pedestrians along its track on C streetl Bay Citv. VACANT LOTS YIELD 0.-W. R. & N. Finds Unused Railroad Land Productive. GARDENS OF POOR MANY Lou S. Smith Discovers Company's Plan to Help Idle and Needy Is Great Success Hundreds of Acres Are Developed. - Since the- O.-W. R. & N. Company inaugurated Its policy a few months ago of permitting needy persons to use its vacant property for gardening and farming, hundreds of acres in Port land and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest have been utilized for such purposes, and the company has con tinued to interest people in the movement-Lou S. Smith, assistant agriculturist for the company, now is making a tour of all the lines In the Pacific North west to learn what progress the peo ple using these lands are making, and to assist them in their work. Pre liminary reports received yesterday, after he had completed his investiga tions in Portland, Chehalis and Cen tralia, are most gratfy.ing to the of ficials at the general offices here. Poultry and Truck Produced. Typical among the cases reported by Mr. Smith was that of a man at Al bina. He is a car checker in the em ploy of the company, but has a big family and appreciates the advantage of producing some of the necessities of life with his own hands at no mate rial expense.- He has one and a half acres between the company round house and the river. The ground was covered with "all kinds of old Junk, timbers, roofing tin and so on. The clearing was difficult, but well done. He has a variety of garden products, has put up a small hen house and is making a fine showing." At Centralia six persons each had "considerable areas of land opposite the depot" planted entirely to pota toes. The general cultivation, he re ported, was good. At Chehalis a man who lives In a company house has an entire lot in garden. He is making a fine showing, but insects and ground worms are de stroying his cabbage. Unable to erad icate the pest he has arranged to plant potatoes in place of the cabbage. Another man at Chehalis a laborer with a large family and evidently a hard worker has several acres de voted to gardening. He has no weeds in the .tract and a fine growth of vegetables of all Boris. Other Are to Be Helped. Similar reports were received from other sources at Chehalis and Cen tralia, and like investigations will ba made in all parts of the territory where land has been apportioned. Officials of the company propose, not only to continue their policy of allow ing the use of their idle land, but ex pect to exercise a wholesome and ac tive interest In the progress of the people who are working on the land. Mr. Smith, who is making the inves tigations. Is a son of C, L. Smith, agri culturists for the company, and is ex perienced in farm work. He has been authorized by the company to keep in active touch with the people on these small tracts and to assist them in every way possible. The company aims to give the use of the land only to persons who are in need of assistance and who want to help themselves and to those who have no actual employment. Since the precedent has been estab lished this year with marked success, company officials already are laying plans for a continuation of the policy next year and in succeeding years, so long as they have land that is not otherwise used. 12 COUPLES GET LICENSES Total of 113 Granted So Far in June in Vancouver. VANCOUVER. Wash., June 21. (Spe cial.) The past two days have been busy days at the marriage license counter, 24 licenses having been issued. Twelve licenses issued today bring the total number for the month to 113. They were for: . Lyall Burnett, Camas, and Gertrude Flagg, Vancouver; John Bruner and Myrtle Selfridge, Camas: Mike Farley and Anna Syrotuck, Van couver: William Liraow and Mrs. Cath erine May Reese, Hlllsboro, Or.; John A. Hassing and Alberta Stupfel, Mount Angel, Or.; Frank Klinski and Agnes Christenson, Vancouver; August Lange, Astoria. Or., and Mrs.' Josie Lillis, Portland; Howard E. Snyder. Condon, Or., and Mrs. "Minnie A. Metzler, Port land; George Gribler, Portland, and-Al-vida Sirginson, Sprague: J. D. Foley and Vera McAuley, Portland: W. W. Meehan and Mrs. Bessie O. Fernham. Portland, and D. W. Chapman and Fay de Bois, Portland. POISON ENDS WOMAN'S LIFE Mrs. Alice Palmer, Formerly Portland, Dies at Black Rock. of DALLAS, Or.. June 21. (Special.) - Mrs. . Alice Palmer, until about two weeks ago a resident of Portland, evi dently committed suicide at her homo Manicuring and Hair Dressing Parlors, Second Floor Tea Room, Fourth Floor Portland Agents for Frantz Premier Electric Suction Cleaner, Price $27.50 Hammocks 4th Floor Complete line Ham mocks, Tents, Camp Cots, Porch and Lawn Seats, Wheel Goods, Athletic Goods, Chil dren's Sand Toys, etc. Olds, Wortman & King Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods Pacific Phone Marshall 4800 Home Phone A 6231 Groceries 4th Floor Order your vacation provisions in our model Grocery. Head quarters for delica tessen goods. Tele phone your orders. How Many Stamo Books Are There in the Window? Register Your Guess Today 6 Valuable Prizes Free 6 Valuable Prizes Free ! BOUE LE Tra ding K 1 if Will Be Given This Week In All Departments Groceries ,? Excepted From the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, hundreds of thou sands of thrifty people are saving S. & H. Green Trading Stamps and materially reducing the high cost of living. JUBILEE WEEK at this store is a book-filling event for stamp savers. Double Stamps will be given with cash purchases made in all departments of the store this week groceries alone excepted. Under muslins Apron Day TODAY Bargain Circle, First Floor Our "Apron Day" ,sales are the talk of the town! Come today and you will understand the reason for - this. Women's Coverall Aprons At 59c Bargain Circle Women's Coverall Aprons, made of excellent grade per cale in both light and dark colors. Shown in neat stripes and figures. Open in front or in back. Furnished with elastic waist line or belt. Extra well made and good, full f styles. Priced special now'''' Coverall Aprons At 89c Bargain Circle Women's Coverall Aprons in attractive checks of white, blue, lavender, also in neat stripe patterns. Made from splendid qual ity Amoskeag ginghams. Open on side-front and trimmed with bands contrasting materials, (j Q v- of Shirred waist. Priced at" Great Special Purchase FineMeia White and Vernis Martin Finish Grades Worth $7.00 at The maker quoted us an exceptionally low price on these splendid Beds, so we took all he had of them! Beginning today the entire lot will be placed on sale at the lowest price ever SJgagJgJ!Z quoted in Portland for beds of like quality. Styled rf II fl fl fl III, just-like this illustration, full size, genuine Chill- ness construction. Two-inch posts. Very attrac tive patterns. Shown in white and Vernis Martin finish. Beds like these are easily worth $7.00. Don't fail to see these. Priced for this sale very special, on! S $4.89 Double Trading Stamps Given With Cash Purchases Furniture Department, Third Floor i ii i ii ii I n V 14 I II -II I II Reduced Center Circle, First Floor Double Stamps will be given with cash pur chases made in all departments all this week. Groceries alone excepted. Women's $1.25 Gowns at Center Circl e Women's Night Gowns of fine quality Windsor crepe in plain white and attractive floral designs. Slip-over and open-front styles, trimmed with embroidery and laces. Regular $1.25 Gowns, Q priced very special at onlyOt $1.65 White Skirts At 89c Center Circle On sale today only at this price. Women's White Skirts of good quality muslin, crepe and pique. Lace and embroidery trim'd also some with plain scalloped edges. Skirts worth up toSJQ-, $1.65 on sale for today onlyOJC Great Wash Goods Sale Continues All Week Fabrics Worth Uptol2V2c Yd. 5c Yd. Fabrics Worth Up to Igc Yd. ScYd. Fabrics Worth Up to 2Qc Yd. 10c Yd. Fabrics Worth Up to 25c Yd. 1 4c Yd. Fabrics Worth Up to 35c Yd. c Y Printed Voiles, Ratine, Crepes, Batiste?, Lawns, Lace Cloth, Poplins, Etc. in Daintiest of Patterns urday. Letters found in her possession indicated she was rormerly a school teacher. Her husband had obtained a divorce. No signs of violence were found and It is believed death was caused by poison. She leaves a 2-year-old boy. Two weeks ago Mrs. Palmer came to Black Rock and went to live with ona George Memloux, a laborer in the log ging camp of the Willamette Valley Lumber Company. Memioux' apparent anxiety to get out of Black Rock on learning of Mrs. Palmer's death formed the basis of a charge against bim in at Black Rock, in this county, on Sat- order that he might be held pending ACTUAL WORK ON PAVING 70 MILES OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY HIGHWAY STARTS. .i fc, Ca? , -Iirjr..r V,f , t-- t? tit' W rmtf j(h -.SjrM V tj- J t?t r IIIHWIIM U I miMftt the investigation. leaseVl. He was later re- More I-'Ish to Be Sent to Fair. VANCOUVER, Wash., June 21. (Spe cial.) County Game Warden HofT has made arrangements for taking a num ber of game nsh from the waters at Felida and sending them to the Fair at San Francisco to form a part of the game and fish exhibit from Washing ton. A few months ago a number of each variety of fish were sent to the Fair, but a request for another ship ment was received recently by Mr. HofT. The fish car will pass through here the last of this week and a stop will be made at Felida to pick up the specimens selected by Mr. Hoff. The thermaphone. the work of a Dutch Inventor, an instrument which does the work of a telephone, is said to be no larger than a watch and to coat bat SO rents. AJf y T"X Trrt C J T A CT A l-,3SO Feet Into the Ethereal Bine Is Visible for DfX J V Oilnui JrX Hundreds of Miles From the Car Windows on tbe PORTIAXD TO SAN FRANCISCO Low Ilonnd-Xrl Fares Are Available to . First Favlnar Gang at Work Crew for Wamn Confrtjr!on Company, Vader Foreman Tim Concannon, Preparing; Sandy Road at City Limits. Ejist Eljrhty-Second. Street, for "llo t Stuff," or Paviag Mixture. - . Scenic Shas i Southern Pacific j John M. Scott, General Passenger. Agenl jT" J i Portland. California and Its Two World Expositions Safety Scenery Satisfaction Stop-Overs at Shasta Springs Trains with every modern convenience, protected by automatic block safety signals. Tickets, literature and full Information at City Ticket Office, 8t Sixth St., Cor. Oak. Union Depot or any S. P. Agent, 1 a M