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20 THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, MARCH 28. 191G. il ilEMBERS COUNCIL ELECTS OFFICIALS Frank E. Smith Continues on Chamber of Commerce Directors' Board. E. L. THOMPSON CHAIRMAN Sroretary McMickcn Also Is Re- elected Aid for Xcw Industries : Is Crjred by JIanagcr Hardy. Alaska Offers Market. Frank K. Smith was re-elected to the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce from the members' coun iil, which opened the annual elections .f the Chamber at its noon meeting yesterday. K. U Thompson was returned to the chairmanship of the bureau by a unani mous vote, and similarly A. C. Mc Muken was re-elected secretary. No proviison is made in the rules of the members' council for the elec tion of a vice-chairman and Mr. Thomp son was empowered to appoint men to fill that position as occasion might demand. Speakers yesterday were John T. Tou;rall. the holdover director from thi; council to the board of the Cham ber, and Georpre K. Hardy, manager of the Chamber. Mr. Hardy devoted his address to consideration of Port land's need to develop industries which will hrinfr payrolls to the city. The Krowth and prosperity of a city, he de clared to depend primarily on the de velopment of industries employing large numbers of men. Alaska Offers Market. He read an extract from an Alaska newspaper in which it was declared that Portland has the goods Alaska needs and that the trade of Alaska would come to this city rather than to Seattle if the Portland business men would o after it and develop transportation connections. Ship-building and the development of shipping lines were points brought out in Mr. Hardy's talk, as worthy of active attention. In the development of .manufacturing he suggested the need of "incubator factory buildings" to foster beginning industries and of the establishment of some sort of a financing company to help new in dustries in getting on their feet and running. Secretary McMicken. reviewing the meetings of the members" council for the year past, gave the following list of prominent men who had been guests of the council and had addressed it: Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts; J. Puroy Mitchel. Mayor of New York City: Senator A. B. Cummins, of Iowa; Dr. K. K. Pratt, director of the United States Bureau of Domestic and For eign Commerce; Senator George E. Chamberlain; Senator Harry Lane, Representative C. X. McArthur, Dr. J. K. Bullitt, field secretary Naval Defense League; Joseph H. Apple. publicity manager Wanamaker stores; Joshua V. Alexander, of Missouri; Governor AVin fifld Scott Hammond, of Minnesota: John Philip Sousa, band master; Sena tor Theodore VI. Perkins, of Ohio; Dr. W. T. Hornaday, William K. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury ; .Mr. Kuma aki, Japanese Consulr Dr. Sidney L. Gulick. secretary of the World's Alli ance; H. H. VanConen Crochiana, consul-general of the Netherlands; Dr. Prank B. Fisher, of the Laymen's Mis sionary convention. Director Election Continue. Klections to the board of directors from the various bureaus will continue this week on the following schedule: Tonight at 8 o'clock Industries' and manufacturers' bureau, in the green room, retail merchants' bureau, fifth floor. Wednesday night at 8 o'clock Pub licity and conventions bureau, on the fifth floor, Oregon development bureau, in the green room. Thursday nisht at 8 o'clock Civic bureau on the fifth floor, grain bureau, ladies' dining-room, and trade and com merce bureau, in the green room. Friday night at 8 o'clock Legisla tion and taxation bureau on the fifth floor, traffic and transportation bureau, in the green room. EH CONTEST IS OH VOTIMJ COIPOXS ARK ISSIEO I. IV E W S PA PE II S. QUO Whale State Is 1'artieipatinK In Elec tion of Maids of Honor for Rose Festival. With voting coupons appearing in the newspapers of Portland, the contest for the election of the Queen and maids of honor lor the coming Pose Festival was launched yesterday, and will con tinue until May 19. In addition to the voting coupons votes may be purchased, under the rul ing this year, from the Festival head quarters or from candidates, at the rate of 10 votes for 1 cent. The election of the Festival Queen this year is not an affair confined to Portland alone. The whole state is "in" on the contest, and already candi dates are being put into the tield from several cities in other parts of the istate. Miss Georgia White, of Corvallis, was announced as the candidate of that city three days ago. Pendleton is holding a contest this week to select its candi date, and Albany and Eugene's hats w ill be in the ring in a few days. The state at large will vote on the Queen and six maids of honor. Six more maids of honor will be elected in Portland. Organizations in Port land desiring to present candidates for the contest are to communicate with J:. P. liichardson, manager of the Queen eontest, at Co7 Northwestern Bank building. Indications are that there will be many more than a dozen organizations whieh will bring candidates into the field hefore the contest has advanced far. PERSONAL MENTION. TV. G. Beith, of Joseph, is at the Im perial. J. Matthey,.of McMinnville, is at the Terkins. T. B. Taylor, of Seattle, Js at the Nortonia. J. H. Lcrnke, of St. Faul. is at the Portia nd. E. P. Darsch, of Sacramento, is at the. Eaton. E. A. Foster, of Independence, is' at the Seward. H. V. Mi.Clan, of Salem, is registered Bt the Nortonia. Mr. and Mrs. II. Olson, of Rainier, are at the Eaton. I". H. Gaulke, of Joseph, is stayins at the Cornelius. W. II. Leach arrived at the Tort- land yesterday. He is from Holland. Mich. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Burns, of Spokane, are at the Portland. Augusta Hanson, of Albany, is reg istered at the Eaton. II. R- Sears registered at the Sew ard yesterday from Seattle. Ernest H. Hyland, of Eugene, is in town. He is at the Oregon. Roy II. Wisecarver, of McMinnville, is registered at the Imperial. T. 15. Stinchfield, of Hoquiam, ar rived at the Eaton yesterday. Charles McAvay, of Walla Walla, Is a recent arrival at the Perkins. Mrs. Adah Losh Rose, of Pendleton, Or.. Is registered at the Nortonia. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Clement, of Bran don, are registered at the Portland. J. F. Hudson, of Dallas, was among yesterday's arrivals at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ballack, of Al bany, are registered at the Seward. Mrs. B. J. Miles and Mrs. E. T. Willis, of Salem, are staying at the Imperial. C. A. Trullinger, of Yamhill, is stay ing at the Perkins while on a visit to Portland. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Wilson and wife are registered at the Oregon from Bonneville. Percy W. Irving and Dave Drider, both of Walla Walla, are staying at the Oregon. H. Beaumont, of Oregon City, is stay ing in Portland for a few days. He 13 at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Handley, of As toria, were among yesterday's arrivals at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. E. Peck, of Kimball, Minn., were among yesterday's arrivals at the Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. J. Graham Graham and CITY WOOD SHY 1000 COBDS, LOSS S4500 Commissioner Bigelow Starts Investigation to See Where Blame Should Be Placed. 10,000 CORDS PAID FOR Clieck Kept on Supply Preventing Theft, but Some Shrinkage by Bark and Due to I'lnmins at Li 11 n to n Is Admitted. Lost, stolen or strayed, about 1000 cords of the city's wood'. And inci dentally somewhere between $4000 and $5000 of the city's , prospective wood receipts. Efforts to find it have .been of no avail, despite detailed investiga tion by Commissioner Bigelow, et al. A year ago the unemployed produced 10,000 cords of wood in the timber near Linnton or at least were reported to have cut that amount. The city paid possibility of some mistake having been made in the original measure ments. This, Mr. Bigelow says, seems to be the logical place to look for the loss, inasmuch as theft has been pro tected against and care has been taken in checking the wood as it has been taken out either by wagons during last Summer or by flume since the roads were closed. The loss of the wood has caused con siderable of a stir at the City Hall, inasmuch as 1000 cords of wood at the rate charged by the city would hi worth approximately $4500. . Of only one thing is Mr. Bigelow sure so far, and that is that the wood is missing. Where it has gone or even whether it ever existed or not are questions he hopes to settle from an investigation he ha3 instructed Purchasing Agent Wood to make. SCHOOL RALLY IS PLANNED Several Districts AVill Take Part in Programme at Gaston. GASTON, Or., March 27. (Special.) The big event of the week in Gaston will be the school rally to be held Fri day at the new school building. It will be an all-day affair and the schools of Cherry Grove, Dethlefs. Seth, Forest Dale, Hill. Wapato, McCuIlougb. and Spring Hill will be represented. The formal programme will begin at 10 A. .M. with an address of welcome by Postmaster Porter. The response will be by W. K. Newell, president of the Gaston Community Club. Short talks by the different teachers of the schools represented, interspersed with class songs, will continue until noon, when a basket lunch will be served. The afternoon programme will in clude an address by Professor Earl MEMBERS' COUNCIL OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RE-ELECTS DIRECTOR AND OFFICERS. 2 :-... -:: :: -- 't -::;-.;.:;.'' $ - i-y .-f :-. - :-.-.:::. .,:. . , .-.v. , v . . 5 . -v- g . '' r f H jwi. -"7V ; J' ' ; V " '- v - f Miss J. Budgman, of Victoria, B. C. are staying at the Nortonia. Dr. Albert Mount, of Joseph, is in Portland on business and is making his headquarters at the Cornelius. Mrs. C. P. Hering arrived here yes terday after an extended stay at Tien Tain, China. She is at the Cornelius. r: M. Helden, of Raymond. Wash., is making his headquarters at the Oregon while transacting business in Portland. CHICAGO. March 27. (Special.) Mrs. Henry Akin, of Portland, was reg istered at the LaSalle today. BABY EYE CARE URGED STATE HEALTH OFFICER ISSUES PAMPHLET OF ADVICE. Law Demands Clone Attention Be Paid First T o Weeks After Birth. Blindness Laid to Xeglect. Dr. David N. Roberg, State Health Officer, has prepared and is now cir culating throughout Oregon a four page pamphlet on the care of the eyes of new-born infants. The state law which became effect ive May 22, 1915, directs that close attention be paid to the eyes of in fants for a period of two weeks after birth. If found to be infected, a re port must be made to the local health officer within 24 hours after discov ery. It is then the duty of the Jiealth officer, under the law, to prescribe treatment. Failure to comply with the provisions of the law is punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both. The pamphlet issued by the State Health Officer recites a number of appalling facts. Sore eyes contracted soon after birth cause 20 per cent of the total blindness in the United States, it is said. The proper treatment of sore eyes in infants prevents blindness. The standard treatment, and one which is recommended for use in the case of each new-born child, is the ap plication to the eyes of two or . three drops of a 2 per cent solution of sil ver nitrate. This destroys the germs which produce inflammation and, later, blindness. The necessity of quick action, as soon as redness or jnflamation is ev idenced, cannot be overestimated, de clares Dr. Itoberg. BIBLE-STUDY PLANS GAIN NO DIFFICl'LTV EXPECTED I.OC'AT I(i WITH HIGHER COLLEGE, United EvanKellcnl Conference Antici pates No Hindrance to Establish ment of Institution. The proposed Bible school of the Oregon United evangelical conference will have no difficulty in obtaining a location with one of the large educa tional institutions of the state, ac cording to the statement made yester day by Rev. C. C. Poling, president of the corporation which holds the en dowment and property of the Dallas College, which are to be used in es tablishing the Bible school. It is planned to organize the school at the meeting of the Oregon conference which meets next week. April 6. in the Ockley-Green Church, by electing directors and forming a corporation to administer the school. Propositions have been received from the University of Oregon. Willamette University, Philomath College and the Oregon Agricultural College to locate the Bible school with those institutions, all of which will receive careful con sideration at the nv:eting of confer ence next week. It is thought probable that the Bible school may go to Cor vallis. where it would be in touch with the greatest number of young men coming from all portions of the state to attend the Agricultural College. Rev. C. C. Poling, of this city, was elected president of the corporation holding the property of the defunct Dallas College, last week in place of Kev. A. A. winter who goes Kast. When the Bible school is organized tho en dowment and property of Dallas Col lege corporation win te turned over to the directors of tlie new school. for the cutting of 10,000 cords. Con tracts were let last Summer for the removal of the wood from the unem ployment camps to the city for sale in competition with local fuel dealers. After selling several thousand cords a check of the amount left has been made and it has been found that the pile is approximately 1000 cords short. Commissioner Bigelow, who has con ducted an investigation, has two the ories. One is that 10,000 cords were not cut, as reported, and the other is that everything in connection with the handling of the wood has not been as it should have been. His leaning is toward the first theory. The shortage is partly accounted for by the loss of bark and by some of the wood jumping the flume down which it was floated for about one mile to Linnton road. Investigation Is Ordered. Commissioner Bigelow and City Pur chasing Agent Wood went over the en tire ground yesterday. Mr. Bigelow says he does not believe the shortage is due to wood jumping the flume or to the bark being knocked off, but no doubt there was considerable loss from these two causes, he says. After mak- ng a survey of the ground he has ordered a thorough investigation of every phase of the situation. Possibility of the wood having been tolen is remote, Mr. Bigelow says. It would be impossible to take teams into the camp at this time of the year. Theft from Linnton road, he says, would be practically impossible, inas much as Charles It. Hart, who has the contract for taking the wood from the forest to the city, has had a watchman there at all times. Mr. Bigelow yesterday mounted the flume where it ends at Linnton road and followed it to the camp. He says there is considerable wood along the way which jumped the flume, but he does not think there is anywhere near the amount that is missing. He says there are a great many fallen trees at the camp which never were cut up. Value Put at $4500. Men who had charge of the camp at the time it was in operation have been asked by Mr. Bigelow to see him. He hopes through them to check up on the Kilpatrick, of the University of Ore gon; a talk on fruit and vegetable can ning with canning demonstration, by Miss Helen Cowgill, of the Oregon Agricultural College, and also a lecture on stock judging, by Professor L. J. Allen, of Oregon Agricultural College, which will be followed by a stock judging contest. Theft of Two Chickens Too Much for Conscience. German Surrenders Himself, Asking: That He May Pay Penalty aud Ab solve Himself. ACTING CAPTAIN THATCHER, was busy when the young man entered the Police Station and. approached the desk yesterday morning. He halted the newcomer's words with a wave of his hand, motioning that he must wait. "Now," he said a moment later, "what is it?" "I stole two chickens and I want to confess," was the matter-of-fact reply. "My name is Walter Krueger." He spoke with a marked German accent. The astounded officer questioned him further. One of the chickens, he learned had been removed! from a roost near Vancouver, Wash., the other from a fancier's flock at Gresham. Both thefts, Krueger said, were committed in November. "Have you ever stolen anything else?" queried, the acting captain. ' Krueger pondered a moment. "Yes," he announced,' "I took several sticks of wood near Gresham, and once when I worked in tSan Francisco, 1 stole some whisky." The thefts bothered his conscience. he said, and he could not rest until he had confessed and paid the penalty. At his own request Krueger is booked for investigation, and Detective Goltz is examining the merits of his claims upon the law. 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