Morning Oregonian., March 21, 1917, Page 15, Image 15

TTTTC MORNING OREGONIAN, ! WEDNESDAY, 3IARCH 31, 1917. 15
SEATTLE HOCKEY
TEAM IS VICTOR
Montreal Canadiens Beaten,
6-1, in Second World's
. Series Contest.
TWO FIGHTS MAR GAME
Rough Play and Fines for Visitors
Develop In Final Period After
Mets File Up Big Lead
( - la Early Part.
SEATTLE, March 20. By defeating
Les Canadiens of Montreal, here tonight
by a score of 6 to 1. the Seattle Met
ropolitans made It a game apiece In
the world's hockey championship series
which began last Saturday night. The
first two periods of the game were ex
ceptionally fast, with the advantage
all for Seattle. In the last period there
was much rough play, two fights and
two of the Montreal players were
fined.
Seattle started the game with a rush
and swept the Canadians off their feet,
making two scores In the first period.
They continued their pace in the second
period, with the same results. Holmes,
the Seattle goalkeeper who proved so
vulnerable In the first contest, repeat
edly stopped the Montreal team's at
tempts to score.
The Seattle team gathered two more
points in the last period before the
fracas started, and the Eastern cham
pions were saved a whitewashing by
one clever shot from Smith's stick. Just
before the period ended.
Carbeau and Lavlolette were the stars
for the Canadiens, as were Foyston,
Morris and Walker for the Western
team.
Rickey and Courte were the prin
cipals in the first of the evening's
fights and Mummery joined it from the
sidelines, thereby drawing 10 minutes'
additional penalty and a $5 fine. When,
a little later, Wilson and Lavlolette
came to blows, Lalonde attacked George
Irvine, Judge of play, who attempted
to part them, injuring him painfully.
Lalonde was banished from the game
and fined $25.
Summary:
Montreal (1). Seattle (6).
Venzlna ......... ..G ............. . Holmes
Mummery ..........P ............... Rickey
Corbeau CP.......... Carpenter
I.alonde .C . Morris
Lavlolette ........ .L W. ......... . Foyston
Pitre R W Walker
Substitutes Montreal. Smith (1). Coutre.
Mummery; Seattle. Wilson (1), Rove. Riley.
Assists Seattle. Walker, Morris ' (2).
Score by periods:
Seattle a g a 6
Montreal 0 0 1 1
Officials Fred Ion. referee: George Irvine,
Judge of play; Wralght and McKlttrlck. goal
umpires; Ezra Kendall and Louis Serlan
QUette. timers.
Penalties Lavlolette. Lalonde S), Mum
mery (8), Wilson, three minutes each;
Rickey. Coutre. 10 minutes each; Mummery,
10 minutes and $8; Lalonde. game and S25;
Lavlolette, 8 minutes, defected.
SANTEL MAY ARRIVE TODAY
San Francisco Wrestler to Open En
gagement In Theater Thursday.
According to Ad San t el's Portland
manager, Henry Weber, the world's
light-heavyweight champion wrestler
may be In Portland today. He opens a
week's theatrical engagement at the
Lyric Theater tomorrow afternoon,
agreeing to throw all comers In 10 min
utes or forfeit $50.
Bantel will meet Ed HamzL former
wrestling instructor at the Young
Men's Christian Association, tomorrow
afternoon and tomorrow night will
take on L Johnson. John Berg will
probably be met Saturday night, while
a heavyweight named Carlson has also
spoken for a chance at the champion.
Ad Santel. whose real name is Adolph
Ernst, is coming here from San Fran
cisco, where he starred on the mat for a
year and a half, being set back seri
ously only by Champion Joe Stecher, of
Nebraska.
BUHDNS TO BE WORN
BOOSTERS TO HAVE EMBLEMS FOR
BASEBALL OPENING.
''Micky Doola Cnnlna" te Appear
Around Necks of Loyal Fans at
Blv "20,000 Opener Parade.
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Portland Baseball Boost
ers' Club at 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon in the Electrlo building, it was
decided to recommend the purchase of
S000 booster buttons at the next meet
ing of the organization, which will be
held at noon next Monday. President
Roy W. Edwards set the date of the
next "get together" yesterday.
The executive committee will recom
mend that the buttons be the size of
a ten-dollar gold piece, and that the
color be red. white and blue with "20,
000" shown on ajnite stripe. Thus one
glancs at the button will bring out the
fact that the boosters are striving to
seat 20,000 at Vaughn street on open
ing day, April 24, when the Portland
Beavers and San Francisco Seals open
the Paclflo Coast League season locally.
If the other boosters approve this
Idea, the buttons will be sold for ten
cents apiece. Fred W. Peters, a Port
land clgarman and member of the
executive committee, has agreed to dis
pose of the buttons. They will entitle
the purchaser to nothing save that
each wearer of a button will be known
as a . booster.
There has been a lot of dissatisfac
tion in the last few years because the
purchaser of a button has been as
sured a grandstand seat.
A "hlcky doola chain" was also ap
proved. This ls an Hawaiian lele, which
is worn around the neck by the natives
of the islands where the BeaversJ
trained. A foreland manufacturer has
offered to turn out 5000 of them made
out of orange and yellow paper. They
iu ae soia tor za cents.
The sale of these "hlcky doola ehaine'
will asslBt the boosters in defraying
some of the expense of the opening
oay festivities, xne cnains will be
worn around the necks of everyone in
the parade, and will be used to dec
orate the automobiles.
Ray Barkhurst was appointed grand
marshal of the opening day parade. He
served in the same capacity last year.
The following attended yesterday's
meeting: Koy w. Edwards, president;
jonn j. niggins, vice-president; w. P,
Strandborg, Ray Barkhurst, Fred Pe
ters, Harold C. Jones, secretary, and
JHarry urayson.
ABIE GORDON IS NOW STAR
Little Pugilist Scheduled to Box
Nate Jackson at Denver April 2
Able Gordon is going well in Den
ver and getting better every day. He
mets Xate Jackson, of Oklahoma, In
a IB-round fight In the Colorado
metropolis April 2. In a letter here
Able says that he is confident of beat
ing Jackson, and If be wins he may
get a bout with Young Zulu Kid, of
New York, for the flyweight cham
pionship of America.
Able Is so well liked In Denver that
the fans demanded the Jackson match.
Young Gordon has given up the idea
of going East, because if he does he
will be forced to give away weight to
get matches. He will be in Portland
the middle of next month.
Denver tans are now calling him the
coming bantamweight champion, and
he fought his last seml-wlndup when
he beat Patsy Brannlgan. Nothing but
main events are on the Portland
Hebrew's list from now on. .
10 TEAMS TO BE IV LEAGUE
Commercial Circuit Meeting Is Called
for Monday Night.
-President Kay Kennedy, of the Com
mercial Baseball League, has advised
his schedule committee, consisting of
four managers of the circuit, to meet
Monday night. The season will open
April 14. The Commercial Baseball
League will consist of 10 teams this
season: Crane Company: Blake-McFall
Company; Marshall-Wells Hardware
Company; Flelschner, Mayer Sc. Co.:
Northwestern Electrlo Company: Spo
kane, Portland & Seattle Railway Com
pany; Oregon-Washington Railroad &
Navigation Company; Blumauer-Frank
Drug Company; M. Seller &. Co. and
City Employes.
Secretary Mike Brennan will soon be
busily engaged keeping a record of the
names of the players of the various-
teams which will be turned In to him.
LE DUG MAINTAINS LEAD
PORTLAND POCKET BILLIARDI5T
BEATS BUTLER, 200 TO 104.
Seattle Player la Ahead In Early Part
of Match, bat Local Expert
Makes Ron of 78.
Roy Lie Duo, of Portland, continued
his winning streak by defeating Harry
Butler, of Seattle, ZOO to 104,- in the
second night's play for the Northwest
pocket billiard championship last night
in the Waldorf billiard parlors. The
Portland boy made a high run of 78,
while the best Butler could score in
any one frame was SS points.
Butler in the - early stages of the
match led by a good margin, but
Le Due's run of 78 put him in the lead.
The night's play made the total score
to date stand 400 to 213.
The third block of 200 points will
be played tonight In trie Waldorf bil
liard parlors, starting at 9 o'clock. The
players are to play 1000 points before
the championship will be awarded.
AXGELS ASK WAITERS OX TWO
Chance Wants to Send Vaughn and
Jackson to Class B Teams.
LOS ANGELES. Cal.. March 20. (Spe
cial.) Outfielder Meusel and Pitcher
Standrldge Joined the Angels this after
noon. They were turned over by the
Chicago Cubs.
Waivers were asked by the Los An
geles club today on Infielder Vaughn
and Outfielder Jackson.
In asking the league clubs for per
mission to send the players out of the
league. Manager Chance said the two
men had refused to sign contracts and
that he had every reason to believe
they would continue to hold out.
"I am dickering with the Northwest
ern and the Texas League clubs, and
will arrange to sell or trade the men,"
said Chance.
The deal for the purchase of Out
fielder "Red" Killefer from the Colum
bus American Association club was
sent higher in the air than ever today,
when Chance received a telegram from
Joe Tinker, of Columbus, In which
Tinker amended his $500 demand for
Killefer to (1000.
E. M. Gardner, second baseman, for
merly of the Toledo, O., American As
sociation League team, has been signed
by the Angels. Gardner purchased his
own release from Toledo and left there
tonight to report to the Angels, it was
stated. He led the American Associa
tion second basemen in fielding last
year. .
ATHLETICS ' PLANS FOLLOWED
Stovall to Bnnch His Left-Handed
and Right-IIanded Batters.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.. March 20.
(Special.) Batting tactics which won
many world's championships for the
Philadelphia Athletics will be brought
Into play by the Vernon Tigers this
year, according to Manager StovalL
Stovall announced he would have his
left-handed batters follow each other
at the plate, and that he would bunch
his right-handers.
The Tigers started practice at f:0
o'clock this morning and had a strenu
ous workout until noon. An hour's
rest was given the men and they were
then sent back on the field until 2;S0
o'clock.
Stovall has six recruits remaining
with the team, and says he will retain
all of them until the week before the
season opens.
F. E. WATKIIfS LEADS IX SWIM
O. J. Hosford Is Eight Laps Behind,
With Total of 146 7 Laps.
Eight laps separate Frank E. Wat-
kins and O. J. Hosford In the marathon
swim of the Multnomah Amateur Ath
letlo Club. Mr. Watklns -leads with
1476 laps, while Mr. Hosford has cov
ered 1467 laps.
Following are the standings. Includ
ing the swimming done last night by
tne contestants under the personal di
rection of Instructor Jack Cody: Frank
E. Watkins, 1475; O. J. Hosford. 1467:
A. Welsendanger, 1209; Reed Klepper.
972; Joe Brazzell. 662; A. H. Cramer,
316; A. L. Roberts, 216; C. C. Mallory,
118.
BTILLSBORO ASKED TO EXTER
Inter-City League Sends Delegation
- to Offer Franchise.
Clyde Jlles Rupert, George Roberts
Grayson and Wayne Francis Lewis
composed a delegation which went to
Hllsboro last night to appear before
the Commercial Club of that place and
submit the Inter-City League proposi
tion to the townspeople.
Mike Brennan, secretary of the Com
mercial Baseball League, ls organizing
an Inter-City baseball boosters' club to
aid the circuit In getting a big crowd
out at Vaughn street when the Inter
City Leaguers open their season April 8.
Anti-Boxing Bill Favored.
ALBANY. N. T.,March 20. The bill
designed to make boxing in New York
state unlawful. Introduced at the re
quest of Governor Whitman, tonight
was reported favorably by the Assem
bly codes committee.
Egan Defeats O'Dowd.
' BOSTON, March 20 Joe Egan. of
this city, won a decision over Mike
O'Dowd, of St. Paul, in a 12-round bout
here tonight. A year ago O'Dowd
stopped Egan In the ninth round of a
bout here. The men are mlddleweights.
Read The Oregonian classified ads.
GUGGENHEIM FAILS
TO BUY HILL LINES
T. B.Wilcox Competes for Pur
chase of Northern Pacific
and Great Northern.
PRICE PUT AT $5,500,000
Louis Hill Besieged In Winter Home
by Pacific Steamship Company
Interests and Copper Mag
nate, Who Meet Defeat.
HAN FRANCISCO, March 20. (Spe
cial.) All the secret wire-pulling by a
group of rich men to get control of
those two Hill seagoing palaces, the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific,
which are held stiff on a $5,500,000
valuation basis, has so far ended in
nothing, in spite of Simon Guggen
heim's trip from New York and a ru
mored deal with him on the side by
Colonel D. C. Jackllng. of this city.
With the departure from the Fair
mont Hoter today for Utah and the
East of Mr. Guggenheim, the copper
magnate, the invasion, so to speak, of
the Monterey Winter home privacy of
Louis W. Hill, of St. Paul, president of
the Great Northern Railroad, has ceased
at least temporarily.
The Guggenheim steamer line, Alas
ka Steamship Company, which operates
from Seattle to Alaska, has. through Its
general manager. R. W. Baxter, made
every effort to get control of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific, so as to
continue its- Bervice by using them
direct between Seattle and Los Angeles
and San Diego with tlfis city as a port
of call.
Alexander Wants Vessels.
"" Such a move would have been a body
blow, as 1t were, at H. F. Alexander's
comparatively new Coast steamer com
bine, the Paclflo Steamship Company,
and he has been moving all the cards
possible to thwart Baxter's scheme'and
get the two vessels for the same use.
Colonel D. C Jackllng, of this city,
another copper king, Is financially back
of Alexander, and it Is he who aided
Alexander last year to put the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company, Alexander's
Pacific-Alaska Company and the char
tered Yale and Harvard ships into the
Pacific Steamship Company.
Now it Is said he and Alexander have
proposed to give Guggenheim and Bax
ter a favorable Interchange of freight
and passenger traffic all up and down
the Coast if the latter will not fight
them for Hill's two vessels.
Mr. Baxter has made a couple of
quiet trips to the city recently and the
last time he was here he said there
was nothing to talk about.
"Mr. Baxter Is our steamship author
ity on this Coast," was all Mr. Guggen
heim would say.
Hill Not In Selling; Mood.
The other day Mr. Hill remarked:
"The steamers Great Northern and
Northern Paclflo are very well where
they are now." .
Prior to Mr. Guggenheim's arrival, II.
F. ' Alexander, of Tacoma, Jackllng's
steamship executive, and T. B. Wilcox,
the Portland manufacturer, and one of
his steamship directors, spent a week
in town figuring on a deal with Mr.
HI1L Mr. Wilcox even visited Monterey.
It was at that time Mr. Alexander and
Mr. Wilcox were informed that Mr.
Hill placed a value of 15,500,000 on the
two ships, although their aggregate
cost price was (4.500,000.
The price, per month, offered by
Messrs. Alexander and Wilcox to lease
the two vessels through the Pacific
Steamship Company instead of buying
them was declined. That price la not
divulged.
The Pacific Steamship Company has
$1,000,000 In stock, of which half has
been issued. The latter was used to put
the combine on its working feet.
It was proposed to issue the other
half to make a lease of the two Hill
steamers effective. .
DEAL PART OF LARGER PLAN
Efforts to Get Control of Steamers
Known for Some Time.
The efforts of the group of rich men
to gain control of the steamers Great
Northern and Northern P a o 1 f 1 o
have been known In Portland for some
time, and is only one phase of a con
templated deal -which proposed to get
control of other large coastwise pas
Ben ger steamers. Ls C Oilman, presi
dent of the Spokane, Portland & Se
attle Railway and as such active In
the affaire of the allied steamship
line, it is known was called East sev
eral weeks ago when the deal was
first proposed.
The plan to acquire the Great North
ern and Northern Paclflo was only a
part of the proposal to merge various
lines operating from Alaska to San
Diego.
2 SCHEDULES ARE MADE
FIRST ANT SECOND INTERS CHO
LASTIO SIXES TO PLAY.
Regular series to Be Staged by Tvro
Distinct Divisions In High Schools.
HU1 Academy Will Hot Enter.
An innovation In baseball circles of
the Portland Interscholastio League
was arranged for yesterday when the
faculty representatives of seven of the
nine institutions of the circuit met in
the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club
and drew up baseball schedules. Here
tofore the first squads only have been
placed on the schedule, but plans have
been made to have the second nines in
official, active competition with the
other second teams of the league dur
ing the 1917 season.
Two distinct schedules were drawn
up, one for the first teams and one for
the second aggregations. The first
team games will be played on Multno
mah Field, but the second contests will
be held on the various other grounds
in Portland. Managers will be ap
pointed by each school for the second
line-ups.
The Hill Military Academy and James
John High School will not have teams
in the first Portland Interscholastio
League baseball schedule. The Hill
Military Academy will have a squad,
but the cadets do not want to be tied
down to a local schedule as they want
to be able to arrange games with out-of-town
teams. At that several of the
first teams in the league will be met
once In a while.
The representatives present in the
Multnomah Amateur Athletlo Club committee-room
yesterday were: Dr. W. A.
Fenstermacher, of Washington High,
who presided over the gathering; Nor
ria Rogoway, of Commerce High;
George Dewey, or Franklin High; A.
Goldman, of Benson Tech.; Morrie Con
way, of Columbia University; F. L
Phlpps. of Lincoln High, and Homer
Jamison, of Jefferson High.
The schedule for the 1917 first teams
of the Portland Interscholastle League
and the games that will be played on
Multnomah Field are as follows:
. AprtT IT Washington vs. Franklin.
.April 18 Commerce vs. Jexlsrsoa.
April 20 Lincoln vs. Benson.
April 24 Washington vs. Columbia.
April 25 Franklin vs. Jefferson.
April 27 Commerce vs. Benson,
May 1 Lincoln vs. Columbia.
May 2 Washington vs. Jefferson.
May 4 Franklin vs. Commerce.
' May 8 Benson vs. Columbia.
May 9 Jefferson vs. Lincoln.
May II Washington vs. Commerce.
May IS Franklin va, Columbia.
May IS Jefferson vs. Benson.
May IS Washington va. Lincoln.
May 22 Commerce va Columbia.
May 23 Franklin vs. Benson.
May 25 Jefferson va Columbia.
May 2d Commerce vs. Lincoln.
May 81 Washington vs. Benson,
June 1 Franklin vs. Lincoln.
The second team schedule for 1917
follows:
April IT Benson va Columbia.
. April 18 Franklin vsj Lincoln.
April 20 Washington va Commerce.
. April 25 Benson va Lincoln.
. April 26 Jefferson vs. tolumbla.
May 1 Washington vs. Jefferson. Frank
lin va Commerce.
. May 2 Columbia va. Lincoln.
May S Benson va Franklin.
May 8 Commerce vs. Jefferson. .
May 10 Lincoln va Washington.
May 11 Commerce va Franklin.
May lo Benson vs. Jefferson.
May 10 Lincoln va -Commerce.
May 17 Washington va Columbia.
May 22 Franklin va Jefferson.
May 23 Jefferson va Lincoln.
May 24 Benson vs. Commerce.
May 29 Franklin vs. Washington.
May 81 Columbia va Commerce.
June 1 Washington va Benson.
MOCK TRIAL DELIGHTS
PAREXT-TEACHERS RAISE FUSDS
FOR PHONOGRAPH.
Jodg Stevenson, District Attorney
Btiu and Others Disport la
Farce at Kerns School.
Five hundred persons -gathered last
night In the assembly hall of the Kerns
School, checked their bits of grouch
outside with the rain, and became at
tentive spectators at the mock trial
given to raise funds for the purchase
of a phonograph for the school.
Far more than the needed sum was
raised by the Parent-Teachers' Circle
at the entertainment in charge of the
committee composed of Mrs. W. M. Da
vis, chairman; Mrs. J. L Wheaton and
Mrs. A. E;. Watson.
The trial In Itself was a scream,
with John S. Stevenson presiding, in
the dress of the supreme bench.
When Charles Ringler, made up as
an attractive young woman and In the
role of the plaintiff, made his debut he
nearly broke up the show.
The prosecution, with Its peppery
lines, was conducted by District At
torney Walter Evans, assisted by Dep
uty Thomas Ryan.
W. M. (Pike) Davis and Frank Lon
ergan were attorneys for the defend
ant, Charles Hall. Neal R Crounse
acted as clerk of the court
Witnesses Included Carl Jackson, Joe
Singer, Mrs. Charles Ringler, C W.
Robinson, Charles Ringler. Charles
Hall and Mrs. J. L Wheaton.
On the Jury were the following: Mrs.
C. W. Hayhurst, Mrs. T. A. Murphy,
Mrs. P. G. Nealond, Mrs. Lee M. Clark,
Mrs. Estelle Mariac, Mrs. John T.
Wiley, Phil Easterday. T. P. Buchanon,
Dr. C. F. Lauderdale, Dr. Emmet Drake
and O. B. Crossfleld.
DECORATION IDEA NOVEL
LITTLE RED SCHOOLBOUSE MAY
BB USED AT CONVENTION.
S. C. Bratton, Chairman of Decoration
Committee) for Educators, Will
Suggest This to Others.
The little red schoolhouse as the
motif for all the decorations In Port
land for the National Education Asso
ciation convention In July will be urged
by S. C Bratton, chairman of the com
mittee on decoration, according to his
report at the meeting of the executive
committee for the convention last night.
Telephone stalls, booths in hotel lob
bies and stores, registration booths of
various societies, will be built after 'the
little red schoolhouse idea. It ls planned.
It was decided last night to arrange
for the representation of the conven
tion by the Indian quartet from Che
mawa, under the direction of R. H.
Kennedy. This quartet will leave
Oregon in May and will visit Boseman.
Mont.; Bismarck. N. D.; Minneapolis.
St. Paul. Des Moines, Omaha, Lincoln,
St. Joseph, Topeka and Springfield. 111.
It was recommended that efforts be
made to arrange to . keep 8. C. Lan
caster with his lecture and pictures in
the East a month longer in the inter
ests of publicity for the coming con
vention. Mrs. G. J. Frankel. Dr. A. W. Smith
and Miss Viola Ortschlld will wait upon
the Rose Festival Board at its meeting
tonight, as a special committee from
the convention board, to urge that the
floral parade be left out of the Rose
Festival this season and put on in the
week of the National Education Asso
ciation convention.
3 BOYS TO TAKE LONG HIKE
Lads Plan to Walk Through Coast
States and Then Eastward.
Two Portland boys and one Mllwau
kle youth. Dean Van Zant, of 849 Front
street, Chester Trichel. of 635 Mall
street, and Clement Blakney, plan to
start April 2 on a hike that will carry
them through Oregon, Into California,
and later through Idaho, Crater Lake
National Park. Glacier National Park
and possibly as far east as Chicago.
They will work their way as they go
land intend to be gone for two years.
The youths say that they will go to
the Portland-Mayor and Chief of Po
lice for recommendations. They will
carry food for two weeks In their packs,
sleeping bags and climbing equipment.
Wife Asks More Money.
Forty dollars a month ls Insufficient
for her support, asserts Mrs. Mamie
Donlan. She wants her monthly allow
ance Increased to 886, she declares, in
a suit filed against George Donlan in
the Circuit Court yesterday.
Mr. Donlan ls an engineer on the
Q.-W. R. & N., making 8200 a month,
and can afford to give his wife more,
she asserts. They are not divorced, but
Mrs. Donlan says her husband deserted
her September IB, 1918. They were
married August 26, 1S91, and have two
grown sons.
Forged Receipt Alleged.
W. A. Hodge was arrested last night
by Deputy Sheriff Christofferson on a
charge of forging a receipt for a board
bill. - Mr. Hodge is said to have intro
duced the receipt in court when his
landlady brought suit against him.
G. W. Wright Faces Larceny Charge.
G. W. Wright was arrested late last
night on a warrant Issued by the Dis
trict Court charging him with larceny.
He was held in the County JalL
LETTER OF BUREAU
'CHIEF MADE PUBLIC
Senator Chamberlain Com
plains to Secretary of
Commerce Redfield.
NOTE TO CHAMBER SAUCY
Representative McArtbnr Joins In
Contending That Portland Men
Had Right to Suggest Ernst
Kroner for Federal Post.
Bureau chiefs at Washington are
feeling their oats these days. The text
of the saucy letter written to the Port
land Chamber of Commerce by E. EL
Pratt, chief of the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce, declaring it
was "indelicate" and -improper" for
the Chamber to urge the appointment
of Ernest Kroner as commercial agent
of the bureau, has Just become public
Senator Chamberlain, to whom a copy
of Bureau Chief Pratt's letter waa for
warded by the Chamber, has complained
to Secretary of Commerce Redfield
about it So has Representative 11c
Artaur. RUtrht of Hearing Maintained.
"Portland business men have a right
to be heard, even if their petition hap
pens to be addressed through members
of Congress to so distinguished a personage-as
a bureau chief," was Senator
Chamberlain's sharp comment.
The letter written by Bureau Chief
rs.tt, which waa directed to Secretary
W. D. B. Dodson. of the Chamber of
Commerce, was as follows:
"There has Just been referred to me
a letter sent out over your signature,
under the letter head of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce, urging people
to take up with me the matter of the
appointment of Mr. Ernst Kroner as
Trade Commissioner on lumber in our
proposed investigation in Europe.
"Do not you think that. In view of
our relations and the fact that we have
established in Portland a co-operative
branch office, that it ls somewhat in
delicate of you to ' attempt to bring
pressure upon me in a mattetr of this
kind, especially In view of the fact
that you did not previously ascertain
from me as to whether or not Mr.
Kroner was a desirable candidate 7
Mr. Kroner Jfot Indorsed.
"Mr. Kroner will certainly not be
appointed. Your activities in this mat
ter seem to me to be highly improper,
and I should think that yon would
know enough about the workings of
the Bureau to be assured that an ap
pointment would not be obtained by
such methods."
Nobody was more surprised than Mr.
Dodson to receive such a blast from
the Bureau chief.
As a matter of fact, the Chamber had
not Indorsed Mr. Kroner's candidacy for
the position of Trade Commissioner on
lumber, nor confined its request for the
appointment to him. It had asked sim
ply. In a letter to members of the Ore
gon delegation in Congress, that. In
view of the fact that information had
been received that Mr. Kroner had
passed the required examinations, mem
bers of the delegation use their in
fluence toward procuring his appoint
ment or that of some other man from
this territory who had passed and had
a knowledge of Douglas fir.
Examination Is Passed.
The Chamber had been informed that
Mr. Kroner had passed the written ex
aminations required of all applicants.
As he knows several languages and has
worked nearly 15 years with Douglas
fir, he seemed to be the applicant best
fitted for the appointment.
"It is not the policy of the Chamber
to indorse any one man for a position."
said Mr. Dodson last night, "But for
this Important post we did want a man
with a thorough knowledge of Douglas
fir. Mr. Kroner has such knowledge.
So we asked our delegation to use their
Influence to obtain his appointment, or
that of some other man, otherwise
qualified, who also knew Douglas fir."
Even a request that so substantial
and exclusive a personage as a bureau
chief should consider any applicant not
of his own naming, for any position
apparently ruffled the dignity of Bu
reau Chief Pratt.
His saucy reply to the Chamber fol
lowed. It remains to be seen whether
Secretary of Commerce Redfield be
lieves a bureau chief ls above sugges
tion. EXCUSESTO BE HONORED
SCHOOL CHILDREN MAT ATTEND
"MODERN MOTHER GOOSE."
I, R. Alderman, Superintendent, Grants
Request of Committee la Charge
of Belgian Relief.
In order that they may attend the
production of the "Modern Mother
Goose," to bo given Friday afternoon
at the Heilig for the benefit of the
fatherless and starving children of
Belgium. Portland school children will
be allowed to take excuses to their
teachers explaining their wish to go
to the Heilig. The excuses will be hon
ored by all teachers, L. R. Alderman,
Superintendent of Schools, told the re
lief committee In charge of the pro
duction, from the Progressive Business
Men's Club.
Mr. Alderman did not wish to recom
mend a half holiday for the children so
offered this substitute.
A parade will precede the Friday
afternoon performance. Two hundred
and fifty school children will be car
ried through the streets in automobiles
deconated with appropriate banners.
There will be four performances both
Friday and Saturday. They will be at 1,
, 9 and 11 P. M. each day.
BURGLARS ROUTED BY DOG
Lerwellyn Setter Objects When Thief
Stands on Kennel.
"Bob White," Llewellyn setter
owned by R. M. McKeme, 208 Four
teenth street, saved his master's home
from being robbed Sunday night.
The would-be-burglars took the dog's
kennel to climb upon in gaining en
trance to the house through a win
dow. The dog. however, made vocal
objection and roused his master and
mistress and also frightened away the
burglars.
Mr. and Mrs. McKerne found the win
dow opened and footprints upon -the
lower casing. Nothing of value was
missed.
Violation of Health Act Charged.
R. Perry, a laborer, was arrested at
Second and Alder streets last night by
Patrolman Schad and charged with
spitting on the floor of a Mount Scott
streetcar. He was held in the City
Jail.
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ORDINANCE HELD VALID
PORTLAND ANTI-GAMBLING MEAS
t"RE IS CONSTITUTIONAL.
Supreme Court Reverse Judge Mor
row in Case of Ah Foo and 2T
Others Fined la City Court.
SALEM, Or., March 20. (Special.)
Ordinance No. 23935 of the city' of
Portland was held constitutional, in an
an opinion of the Supreme Court by
Justice Bean today, and the Judgment
of Judge Morrow, of Multnomah
County, was reversed. The ordinance
relates to exposing to view gambling
paraphernalia or visiting places where
such paraphernalia ls exposed to view.
The contention as to the constitution
ality of the ordinance arose in the ao
tlon brought against Ah Poo and 27
others, who were fined $20 apiece in
the Municipal Court of Portland for
violation of its terms.
On writ of review to the Circuit
Court' the Judgment -of the Municipal
Court was annulled as to all the plain
tiffs to the writ, with the exception of
Ah Poo, and the city officials Interested
appealed.
Attacks not only on the constitu
tionality of the ordinance, but upon the
sufficiency of the complaint failed in
the Supreme Court.
Other cases today were as follows:
Isabella Cauldwall. appellant, va Blnsham
& Shelley Company; appeal from Multnomah
County, action for damages under the em
ployers liability act; opinion by Justice
Bean reversing Circuit Judge Bagley and
remanding causa for new trial.
Thomas Wlka vvs. Orefon-Wuhlnrton
Railroad A Navigation Company, appellant,
appealed from Multnomah County, suit for
damages for personal Injuries, opinion by
1 A
I. ' VxIlL
Ml" 1
Jostle MeCamant, Circuit Judge Gatena
reversed.
William Greenberg vs. German-American
Insurance Company, appellant, appeal from
Multnomah County. Involving insurance pol
icy, considered on rehearing and former
opinion of court adhered to.
C. Is-. Bennett, appellant, va Emma K.
Bennett, appeal from Clatsop, suit to di
vide alleged partnership assets, opinion by
Justice Harris, Circuit Judge Kakin af
firmed. John Wuchter n. Charles Fitsgerald et
al.. appellants, , action to recover for serv
ices rendered, appealed from Multnomah,
opinion by Justice Benson; Judgment Judge
Morrow modified.
H. H. Clifford, appellant, va Frank L.
Smith Meat Company, appealed from Mult
nomah, action for rent, opinion by Chief
Justice McBrlde; Judgment former Judge
McGinn modified.
Douglas Smith et al.. appealed from Mal
heur, action to foreclose mortgage, opinion
by Chief Justice McBrlde; Judgment Judge
Biggs modified.
Petitions for rehearing were denied Care
va Woolenberg and Williams va Goose Lake
Irrigation Company.
SMOKER BLAMED FOR FIRE
T. Llnehan Arrested for Throwing
Lighted Match From Window.
A warrant was issued yesterday for
the arrest of T. Llnehan, of the Striker
Apartments, 554 Couch street, on the
charge of having thrown a lighted
match out the window of his apart
ment Saturday night, with the result
that an awning below caught fire. This
ls the first warrant to be issued under
the new ordinance prohibiting throw
ing lighted matches out windows.
Sparks from the first awning then
fell to another below and directly over
the window of a woman's room. She
rushed to the telephone to call the
Fire Bureau and then fainted.
The fire was extinguished by Captain
Haynes, of the Fire Bureau, with a
bucket of water.
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