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JAj. JjVIII, JJ. 1 -,.l7-.J Portofflce a Second-Cla.?; Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1919.
I'KICK FIVE CE
NATION AIMS GUMS
AT COST OF LIVING
IMMIGRATION GATES
OPENED TO ORPHAN
B0LSHEVIKI DEFEATED
IN BATTLE ON VOLGA
r rnn i
t run Ll
MtlMAUtU p ' t ol
FflRRARIrSr
CAPTAIX ItCSK, . LA GRANDE,
BRINGS WAIF FROM FRANCE.
SECOND P j oTRIKE HELD
DAXGE. .Ol'S FEATURE.
TOWX OI' K.VMISH1X AXD 5000
' PniSO.NERS CAPTIRED.
i
CUMMINGS FLOUTS
AIRCRAFT INQUIRY
Democratic Chairman Is
Flippant Witness.
BRITISH COMMERCE
-
COST OF SERVICE
THEORY ftSSfllLEO
Northern Pacific Official
Gives His Views.
President, Congress and
Depertments All Move.
van on-n mcw stabt punnc
IrtlUIUhU Mii.ll Uinill I HUUL.
Attorney-General Calls Confer
ence to Plan Action.
'PROFITEERS' ARE TARGETS
i"
Trainmen'?
Situatio
iCadcr Frankly Declares
Is Fraught With
anger to All.
TVASlflN
tal machine
in response
that some o
lieve the h
Prices as
izen assuir
the capitol
irlTt Wilt
"deep and
ition" to
ind the
members t
who reprcfi!
! come d
unreal wa J
hca val.
In the ?
nation pa'
to invest:
price levf
umc of 3
mfiHS of
quest th
specula tk'
mother t
tt market
"rnrocnt 5.
made up
Late to
met cigh.
ft'hom he
.or a dis'
,best iretl
Auction,
ferencc d
ably nex
' hsed on
collected
was set in motion today
o demands from the public
ieial action be taken to re-
trh cost of Jiving.
hey a.ffcct the average cit
! first place in interest in
At the White House Pres
v. as said to be giving
very tnousriiiui consiucr-
o blms presented to him
tl ad minist ration by
the railroad brotherhoods.
itrd that prkxs would have
n or wa?cs po up if social
not to develop in an up
ar and the house the ssit-
; to several resolutions
to tbc cau.se o existing
atiothrr to reduce the vol-
rency in circulation a a.
fin tin- prices, one to re
n t 1': im -general to stop
n i.mmIh on exchanges and
ell this jcar'a wheat crop
rices instead of at the pov
rantre. the difference to be
the yovornineiit.
irrv m -rdcred.
y AUurat.i -(leneral Palmer
high government officials
ad summoned to his office
sinn of his'' costs and the
I? to pursue to effect a re
'irr a cnral talk the con
landcd to meet again, piob
week, for further counsel
ddinonal information to be
the meantime. Those at
tending tie. conference included tecre-
virie Clsd, Houston. Kedficld and
Wilson, Erector-General Mines, cnair-
ock of the federal trade torn-
Assistant Secretary of the
L,cffingwell and W. B. Colver
rrat trado commission.
frrence was believed to have
on of the president, who has
ted as determined to effect
r fnr wage earners.
kr Vndrr Probe.
Government Machinery Gets Wrcncli
AVhcn Commissioner Reverses
Ellis Island Decision.
OREGOX1AX NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, July 31. Little raullette Cou
din, homeless French orphan rescued
from poverty and starvation in the
slums of Bordeaux, passed through the
sates of Ellis island today and soon
will be on her way to La Grande, Or.,
and a good home with Captain Jerry
Rusk, former speaker of the Oregon
house and late candidate for congress,
as her devoted daddy.
The immigration machinery of the
government received a terrible wrench
ins in the process of bringing the little
girl ashore, but Representative Sinnott
of Oregon was determined to upset the
bureau of immigration if necessary to
get action when he received this frantic
telegram from Captain Rusk in New
Tork :
"I want your help in reversing the
decision of the bureau of immigration
in barring from the United States my
little p'rench orphan."
Representative Sinnott went to see
Commissioner-General Anthony Cam
inctti and made a strong plea for the
admission of the child, saying that he
was ready to pledge all of his resources
to meet any guarantees required bV the
government. The commissioner-general
promised to commun'rate by long
distance telephone with tle officials at
Ellis island and late todfj- advised Mr.
Sinnott that Captain RAsk had been
permitted to bring the tfiild ashore.
Captain Rusk came t. know the un
fortunate child during his work with
the American Red Cross in France,
from which service he returned yester
day on the United States ship Chicago,
bringing the little girl with htm. The
child, without home or friends, starv
ing, in rags and sickly, was picked, up
by the nurses' club in Bordeaux last
December and had been cared for by
the club since that time, being nursed
back to health and beauty.
COMING TRIP HELD JUNKET
House Members, Angered by
Replies, Expunge Record.
MEMBERS WAX INDIGNANT
DOG'S DAY NEARLY OVER
man Mirf
mission I
Treasur I
of the f I
The I
the ear I
been r r
.orrse r4
The
hearinJon the cost of living, but
nature las nor been dis'-losd. Tn
t ion ' r ! ra rt ment's export? ar
aminir
el Hi t
hortl
tinns
It c
in ore
tincnr. of justice already
wav several investigations
their
are cx-
- r vj ic:. cc supmuico oy mc rea
,dp, : mniiieMon on the packing
y ant a decision is expected
an to whether or not prcsccu
ill be "stituted.
velope 1 today that demands for
,v a t e pending before the
administration from several
A relic TraTfic May He Handled by
Airplane.
SEATTLE, Wash., July 31. Resi
dents of Alaska, when the uorthlanri
is frozen over in winter, may this year
enjoy air t ransportation, relegating
the time-honored husky- and nihiamuta
to the past.
Three biplanes, equipped with four
Liberty motors each, and each capable
of carrying 20 passengers and six tons
of freight, it is said, are being built
for a newly incorporated Seattle com
pany. They will cost $".0,000 apiece.
Two smaller service planes also are
under way. The first planes, it id
planned, will be shipped north in Oc
tober and the rest next year.
The company plans operation be
tween Valdez, on the coast, and Fair
banks, in the interior. Nome and Si
berian points also will be reached
is said.
it
WALLACE, IDAHO, MENACED
lo Be
Dangerous I'irc Reported
Drawing Near City.
WALLACE, Idaho, July 31. (Spe
cial.) A fire, said to have started from
sparks from a Northern Pacific engine
at Gem, this morning was blown by a
high wind to grass and timber on an
''rr H.1 aaminisiratii'ii iruni several;
I .1 tniannt mnnntain Rtrie n n il in n. few
h indred thousand employes. 1'ertiaps j
l hie frankest talk which government of- hours raced over the top of the moun
f 1,'ctals have heard tn a lonK time was I tain toward the Tamarack and the in
tie statement of W. G. I.ee, president I te-state Callahan mines. All women
of the trainmen, before the wage and ' and children at these two mines have
diustrrient board. I been brought to Wallace for safety.
The fire this afternoon waj but a
few miles from here, and up to a late
hour a large force of men had been
unable materially to check its progress.
It is the most threatening fire here
since 1D10, when many men in the dis
trict were trapped and burned to death
and a portion of the city was destroyed.
Lee told the board that an in
crease ;n waces was not the proper
solution rf the preffnt economic hard
hhip tinker which workinRinen are
laboring, because sm h would be fol
lowed by new increases in the cost of
everything which would more than ab
sorb the e-lditional pay.
Aif Not Solution.
Until al c'ass get together "to stop
profiteoriic." he aid, i he only thing
for evr cn to do is to get all the
wage nc can' a course which he de
clarer. ium1i result eventually in prc
cipltaMng th. "upheaval"' now staring
the country n the face.
As a step oward breaking the high
prices, plans (arc being made by Secre
tary Raker, ?oitmastcr-Oencral Kurle
son and Il-pr tentative Kelly cf Penn-
sylvar. a, to uMl through the parcels
l'Ost Hitrplus army food stocks valued
at $U'4,0(h.ni"'. 1
Officials wio attended thoy confer
ncc dec! mec to discuss w hut took
tace. Mr. l'.;-Tier said that the con-renc-.a
was ta.lltd chiefly for the pur
se of making a survey of thr.situa
on. and di-vfUnp any information on
hich tiie her.4 v,f the nation's Ialw en-
prcsentcil --n y- terday by WaAren
S. Ston. f of the Brotherhoods of
LroeomotivcE-Vgineers. describing nhe
unrest ow ithcl country because of tVie
decreased urtl having ' power of tme
dollar. ,1
At the dcurt Inert of justice invest
gations into t! ie causes of increaseoi
living costs vero jmder way with par-
ticular attention being given to the
question of -he her producers or deal
ers had con irici in violation of law
to raise priceUjf necessities. i
Mr. Lee mde public an abstract Vf
s report- of hearincs recently held
the board of railroad wages on t
iunmen's dema:ids. at which he del-
vas rearer In thi
ver before, due to
BERLIN TO FIX WAR ONUS
Investigation. Cummins Say?,
ot In Good Vaitli and "Will
13c I'olitically IJIascd.
WASHINGTON. July 31. Homer S.
Cummings. chairman of the democratic
national committee, called before the
house sub-committee investigating air
craft expenditures to testify under oath
tonight why he had permitted the pub
licity bureau of his organization to
brand a proposed committee trip to the
Pacific coast as a "junket," took full
responsibility for the statement, and
declared it was not a circumstance to
what would come later.
From t he moment he ent ered the
committee room and Introduced himself
to the members demanding an explana
tion until he went away. Mr. Cum
mings continually was smiling, while
Chairman Frcar. pounding the table
with great heat, stopped the proceed
ings to have certain replies stricken
from t ho record.
With mock courtesy Mr. Cummings.
turning to the chairman and addressing
h is as "my good fellow, said that he
knew before he arrived that he would
be unable to satisfy the republicans.
U ilnfM In Iaetionn.
There were one or two sharp retorts
from Chairman Frcar, to one of which
the witness, after lighting a cigar from
another and still smiling, declared "My,
wasn't that a delicate thrust?"
At ihc outset Mr. Cummings told the
committee that while he had not read
the particular article to which the re
publicans took offense, he quite ap
proved it, except that it was not vig
orous enough.
It was during this questioning that
Chairman Frcar told the stenographer
not to permit certain statements to re
main in the record, to which the wit
nets replied that in a court of justice
he would have more rights.
What the chairman wanted to know
especially was the basis for the charge
that the sub-committee was a "smell
ing committee" and that it soon was
to start on a "junket."
(round f'ovrrrd by If ughrr.
Finally, a fter a sharp wrangle, M r.
Cummings said he understood the com
mittee contemplated a western trip to
Jook into spruce conditions relating to
aviation, when all of this had ben
gone over by Charles K. Hughes.
"There have been other inquiries,"
the witness continued, "and this whole
Words of Revolution and Bol:-lievini
Spoken Lloyd George Govern
ment May Fall.
LOXDO.V, July 31. (By the Asso i
ciated Press.) The general industrial j
unrest in Great Britain, which ha3 been
seething ever since the armistice, seems '
at the present hour to have reached a j
point which menaces the commerce of j
the country with at least temporary,
disaster. It is considered possible tht i
It may mean the downfall of the Lloyd
George government.
The strikes of the present month have
been serious enough, but they are mere
ly symptomatic of an epidemic of dis
satisfaction which appears to prevail
throughout the ranks of organized la
bor. Half a million of Lancashire cot
ton operatives were idle for more than
three weeks. Two hundred thousand
Yorkshire miners have been on strike
since July 20. The Liverpool dockers
have paralyzed shipping there for two
weeks. The bakers have decided to
strike on Saturday and now the London
police are about to go out on their
second strike.
The worst movement of all from the
government standpoint is the threat
"of direct action by the triple alliance
of railway men, miners and transport
workers." These powerful unions nre
taking a secret ballot to decide whether
they shall use the weapon of a general
strike to try to enforce their political
programme of the nationalization of
mines and railways, abolition of con
scription and withdrawal from all par
ticipation in Russian affairs.
In these circumstances words of revo
lutions and bolshevism appear in the
newspa pers and are used by conserva
tive men to describe the present move
ment. -
The government regards the police
strike as the most dangerous feature.
It may prove a critical test of the labor
campaign. The home secretary, K.
Shortt, has declared that the govern
ment is firm and will consider no com
promise or yielding to the policemen's
demands.
Lord Asquith has denounced the pre
mier bitterly as responsible for the
present conditions by hi policy of
"political interference in industrial
business."
The taxpayers a re footing the inUi
rect bills from the miners' strike, all
the workers thrown out of employment
PROPOSAL DECLARED UNSOUND
Henry M. Blakely on Stand in
Rate Case Hearing.
OTHER WITNESSES HEARD
. AV. Robinson of Portland Tells of
Development of O.-W. System by
Extension to Sound.
SEATTLE. Wash.. July 31. (Spe
cial.) Development of the Oregon
Washington Railway & Navigation
company by the extension of its lines
to the sound from Portland and to Spo
kane and Takima was traced today by
F- W. Robinson of Portland, traffic
manager for the railroad administra
tion for Oregon lines, the only new wit
ness on tre stand today In the hearing
or the rate case in which Oregon inter
ests are appealing to division No. 3 of
the interstate commerce commission for
rates from Columbia river basin points
to x ortland based on cost of service.
Henry Blakclcy of St. Paul, general
treignt agent for the Northern Pacific,
was on the stand the greater part of
me uay. Ralph Blaisdell of Portland.
auditor for the O.-W. R. & N., and J. C.
M. lJodds. auditor of disbursements for
the same road, also of Portland, were
each recalled to the stand for a few
minutes to present data asked for by
the Oregon complainants.
I'ine to Sound ArrriMrr,
Mr. Robinson presented a map which
he' said showed the various units of
the O.-W. and the dates on which they
were put into operation as a part of
the line. He made a cnmnnrnn r , v,
through the coal shortage getting the revenue freight tonnage over the O.-W.,
"unemployed dole." which, in the case declaring that it totaled 1.579.000 tons
of men with families, amounts to more) in 1912 and 2,5!3.000 tons In 1918. The
than 2 pounds a week, imd the nuT-itjer-! pasEcnger business also had made sub-
nuian Forces Gain Firmer Hold
on Main Objective in Irivc.
Fleeing tncni) Pursued.
LONDON. July 31. (By the Associat
ed Press.) General Dcnikine, the Kus
sian commander, has gained an Impor
tant victory over the bolshevik! and
captured the town of Kamishin, on the
Volga. Five thousand bolehevikl. nine
guns and large quantities of material
also were taken.
The war office says that possession
of Kamishin gives General Dcnikine a
firmer hold on the river and his main
objective in the advance on Saratov,
threatening the bolshevik communica
tions with Astrakhan.
Kamishin was entered by the anti
bolshevik troops on July 30 and the
fleeing enemy was pursued 12 miles be
yond the town.
The British government is arranging
to send a naval force to Russia to cover
the evacuation of the Archangel dis
trict by the troops there, it was an
nounced here today. A contingent of
regular army troops also is being held
in readiness to assist there if necessary.
JAPS AND CHINESE CLASH
in
Nipponese ltcported Killei In
Conflict With Celestials.
WASHINGTON, July 31 Sixteen Jap
anese officers and men and three
Japanese polico.ncn were killed and 17
Japanese soldiers more or '.ess seriously
wounded in a clath with Chinese troops
at Kuan?i -hongku, July i9. according
to an official report received by the
Japanese embassy here. The losses of
the Chinese were not given.
The clash whs said to have followed
an assault on an employe "of the South
Manchuria Railway company by about
20 Chinese soldiers.
iConrludrd on Pas? 4. Column 3.)
of these in the inaustria! towns of the
midlands is steadily increasing.
Direct action by the workers is de
nounced by many public men as an at
tempt to usurp the powers of parlia
ment and govern the country by a
dictatorship of labor unions. Labor's
answer is that the present parlia
ment does not represent the country
and has gone back on its pledges to
labor.
Minister of Pensions Hodge said in
parliament tonight:
"It looks as if we are approaching
a general election."
Premier Lloyd George's famous policy
of compromise, so long successful, ap
pears to have reached the breaking
point and certainly is undergoing its
severest test. No sooner is one erup
tion cleared up than a new one breaks
out. The old leaders of labor are
preaching restraint and patience while
reconstruction from the war is being
iConclud. ' on I'irr 2, Column 2.)
Ktantial gains year by year, he de
clared. The O.-W. found that it could not be
a big factor in Pacific northwest trans
portation without building to the
sound, Mr. Robinson said, and added
that the same thing was true regarding
Spokane and Yakima to a lesser de
gree. -tew Rranrhea Are Built.
Construction of the Spokane. Port
land & Seattle from Portland to Spo
kane, Mr. Robinson said, resulted In a
short-line mileage of 375 miles, com
pared with 421 miles for the O.-W.. and
it the O.-W. were to retain its Spokane
business, he said, a line would have to
be built. This was done over a route
367 miles long. The Takima branch was
built, he said, to get a share of the
Yakima valley business and was opened
in 1911.
Rales from Columbia basin points to
Portland and to 'the sound have been
iConeludcd on Fase 2. Column 3.)
AN OFFSPRING OF ,THE MAMMA CAMEL.
on Kc-
)orcement ma , n i ..cry might act t- curb
-ofiteermg V
Rnilroml i: iginers Appeal.
The preside It s understood to f-.ave
ben deeply .irS'riased by the st.UeiA-ent
German Tribunal to Pass
sponsion it y Sans Penalty.
BERLIN", July 31. By the As
sociated Press. ) A state tribunal is
to inquire into and fix the responsi
bility for the war. It will be composed
of the supreme court of trie empire.
whose president will be chairman. He 1
will be assisted by the president of the
military court and the judges of the
Prussian, Bavarian and Hansa high
courts." In addition 10 assistant judges
will be elected, five by the national
assembly and five by a committee of I
the German states.
The sittings will be public. The
tribunal will be only empowered to
pronounce upon the question of guilt,
it will not impose punishments.
Jxed an "upHeaval" wi
untry today th.i eve
f (.Conci jfien on rae" 5
fate 3. Column 1.)
3 GENERATIONS ENLIST
Frank Bowers, Son and Grandson,
Join V. S. Army.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 31. Leading
his son and grandson, both of whom
bear his name, Frank Bowers, a 54-
year-old resident of Lotus, Kldorado
county, stepped into army recruiting
headquarters here today, where the
trio offered themselves for service.
They were accepted and assigned to
the quartermaster corps for service in
the Philippines.
The eldest Bowers had served in the
army in the Philippines before and said
he liked it so well that he had de
cided to re-enlist and take the others j
along w ith him. The son is 36 and the j J
j.ndson 18. . . I
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SINGER, IN JAIL. SUCCUMBS
Grand Opera Artist. Thought to Be
Insane, Dies in Omaha.
OMAHA. July 31. Palmero Aloctti.
29 years old, a grand opera singer, died
today of heart disease at the county
Jail, where he was being held for inves
tigation of his sanity. Ho was taken
from a L'nion- Pacific train Tuesday on
report of railroad officials that he had
broken a window and attempted to
throw himself under the wheels.
Aloettl was en route from San Fran
Cisco, his home, to Boston to fill a win
ter engagement with the Ssn Carlo
Opera company.
LONDON POLICE ON STRIKE
Second Walkout Within Tear 1 De
clared Over Wages.
LONDON. July 31. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The London police de
clarcd a strike tonight.
The London police struck in August
of last year over the question of wages.
For several days while the men were
out considerable chaos prevailed. The
men finally obtained an increase, in
wages and the strike was called off
after it had been in effect three day
CHANNEL TUNNEL IS URGED
Measures lo Pusli Construction Pre
senlcd to French Cabinet.
PARIS. July 31. Measur,. In .,.
dite the construction of a tunnel under
me r.ngnsn channel mnn,rt nI.
ana j-.ngiand were presented to the
cabinet today ly Albert Claveille. min
lsier or puniic works.
VAoworlw Uorrift Pl-io
ized as "Hospital
DRASTIC REFORM DEMA
i
Recent Illness and Death Rc
ord Is Deplored.
MORE ATTENDANTS NEED!
Waifs Neglected, According to Kcpor
of Child Welfare Commission.
License .May Be Withheld.
- 0"-'
TP'S
F Of COMMISSION ON
BABY HOME,
Lv of Isolation ward big fac
tor it spreading epidemics.
Rout, le care ot children and
overcrowding of home criticised.
Trained nurses should have
been tailed at earlier date.
Segregation of diseased chil
dren demanded.
Recommendation.
Establishment of ward for dis
eased children.
Disposal of dairy herd and pur
chase of milk.
Appointment of registered nurse
as superintendent.
Reorganization of board and
revision of constitution.
Abandonment of up-town Port
land office.
battle on Vole.
t Chicago.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTF.m TS Maximum temperature. 69
tlrrreta; minimum, drtrrrH
TODAY'S Fair; frantic wcntcrty minds.
Foreign.
British commerce mcnatH hr inluMria! un
rt. I'nsr 1.
Bol!hvlM defeated tn
rage 1.
lometir.
Terror f race vir abate
race 2.
Orriron cptntn brinra French orphan home
d-pitf I mm ifrration rules. face J .
M-Nary working to safrjeuard treaty. Pago X.
Hundred lake Mean. hips sold by govern
ment. rn" j.
Rate war premised on return of teUgraph
wire. Pajre 7.
Alletrttd for per. wanted here, npens fight for
freedom tn Texas today. I'aKe 16.
Presidio electrified by aham battle. Pace 7.
Men of old and new fleets to meet in San
Francisco. Pag 3.
Commercial and Marine.
Barley strong;, and active feature of local
irraln trade. Page 2.1.
Bearish crop reports weaken corn at Chi
cago. Page 23.
Stok prices adversely affected by flurry
in call-money market. Page 23.
Schooner will carry lumber to India. Page 22.
National.
Seven senators acree on reservations as
pln to insure ratification. Pace 4.
Homer S. Oummlnnn tell noun committee
aircraft ' prone m biased. Pace 1.
Government departments unite on move to
lower cost of llvinc- Tage J.
Pari fie Northwest.
Orecon Fruit Growers Co-operative associa
tion sicna 14,000 acres of prunes Pace A.
Campatcn started In Oreron tn behaif of
suffrage amendment. Page G.
Inquiries In Band on murder case droppco;
alt clue are futile. Pace 4.
Army planes report at Salem fo forest
fire patrt.l. Pace 17.
Cos t-of -service theory assailed at rate-case
hearing. Paso 1-
8 ports.
Water stars are ready for mile marathon
rare. I 'ace la.
Pacific Coaxt lea cue results: Portland
I.o Angeles ft; Sacramento R. tan Vra
cifco 4; Salt I.ake '2. Seattle
Oakland & Pac J
British re-.
Recommendations that the license for
future operation of the " -verly Baby
Home be withheld until euch time as
certain specified changes are made in
the roiifiui't of the Institution are con
tained in the report of the child welfare
commission of Oregon, filed with Gov
ernor Olcott yesterday following tvn
investigation that has been in procrres
since June 11. The report is a volu
minous document, covering all details
of operation of the home, its finenccs.
condition of buildings, care of children,
treatment of the sick, and takes up
especially the dysentery epidemic of
several months apo. which caused the
deaths of 14 babies at the institution.
Kmployment of a trained nurse as
superintendent is insisted upon- by the
commission, which incorporates in its
report the following- aug-srestlon:
" feel aiso that for 1919. at least,
with the influenza epidemic, the even
syphilis cases, and the 24 deaths during
the first six months, that the Institu
tion is actually more of a hospital than
a baby home, and therefore a trained
nurpe. preferably one that isajrraduaio
of a children's hospital, would have
been better as tupcrintendent than the
present one."
( Iai(tvv M ard Desired.
Segregation of well children and
those suffering; with contagious
diseases is held essential by the corn-emission,
and if necessary it suggests
that the public be called upon to sub
scribe funds for the erection of a
pavilion for those who are so avfflicted.
The addition of a receiving ward also
is favored.
That the Baby Home was overcrowded
early in May. when the epidemic broke
out, is one of the findings of the com
mission, there having been 72 children
in the institution, the capacity of which
normally is . At present, with only
46 children." the report states, "the
acting superintendent says that there
are not enough attendants properly to
care for the chlorm and they have
the same number now that they had
for 72 chldren." '
The investigation of the Wa verly
Baby Htn was the first piece of work
taken up by the commission, and was
not started until the crest of the epi
demic had passed. However, every de
tail was gone into thoroughly, even
though the commission was handi
capped through not being able to take
testimony under oath, and found it
necessary to accept only such, testi
mony as could be verified. Tr. B. W.
DeBusk. chairman of the commission,
has been out of the city much of the
time since the probe was taken tip,
and consequently his name does not
appear on the document.
Dlrectora Are Not Censored.
While the commission- points out
matters that are in need of Immediate
attention at the home, and does not
attempt to excuse any of the discrepan
cies noted in the conduct of the insti
tution, it makes this reference to the
board of directors:
'There can be but one conclusion on
this point the personnel of the board
is above criticism as to character and
intention. Three of the members of the
group of founders of the institution
several have been on the board for
years all faithful and devoted workers
giving freely of their time and money.
The attendance at board meetings has
been faithful, with but few exceptions."
Mrs. George Lowney ia the present
superintendent of the Wavcrly bom
members of the board of c
are: irs. l. . .tuijDfl.
Kern, v ice-pres " -
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