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PORTLAND OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL. 17, 102O
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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MILLIONS TO GO BACK
TO WOOL PRODUCERS
PICKFORD DIVORCE '
ATTACKED BY NEVADA
PORTLAND CARMEN
ASK PAY INCREASE
RUSSIAN NOTABLES
FOUND DEAD ON YACHT
PALMER'S FRIGHT
IN FIGHT ON COSTS
BALLOT MADE UP
DEALERS' EXCESS PROFITS
ARE ORDERED RETURNED.
MARy OWES MOORE ARE
j .RGED WITH FRAUD.
STEP TAKEN HUES GRIFFITH
TERMINATES OLD SCALE.
GREWSOME FIND IS MADE OX
STRANDED CRAFT7
WOOD
CMflPA GN
MORRISON SCOUTS
DENIM IS D01ED
OREGON'S PRIMARY
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STIBS UP ENMITY
Time - Honored Political
Amenities Ignored.
rV OTHER CANDIDATES COMBINE
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General's Success Doubtful
Because of Opposition.
'BIG STICK" TOO EVIDENT
Aspirant Mow- Must Either Win
.Nomination on l-'irst Ballot or Go
Down to Defeat, Is Belief.
BT MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright. WHO, by New Tork Evening
Post. Inc. Published by arrangement.)
WASHINGTON. April 16. Leonard
Wood leads the other candidates in
the number of delegates instructed
for him or otherwise bound to him.
Nothing that can now be foreseen
will prevent his leading also on the
first ballot of the convention, but it
is equally certain that the number of
delegates with which he enters the
convention will be far short of
enough to make him successful. The
probability is that he will have bare
ly half the number necessary to nom
inate him. The question which his
managers must now consider, there
fore, is where and how he is to get
those delegates who must come to
him after the convention opens if he
is to win.
The fact is that General Wood is in
a less desirable position than any
other candidate for winning dele
gates to him after the convention
opens. He and his managers have
followed a. plan of campaign calculat
ed to build up a bitter feeling among
all the other candidates and their
partisans. He has declined to ob
serve certain amenities time hon
ored among politicians. He has fought
Lowden in his home state; he is going
to fight Harding in his home state,
and he is fighting Per9hing in his
home state. Further tha.n this, the
mere measure of his success has
been such as to cause the others au
tomatically to combine against him.
His position is like that of the leader
in certain kinds of card games all
the other contestants have a common
Interest in preventing the leader
from go(ng out. General Wood ana
his friends complain of the fact that
the others unite against him, as if
that were a grievance, but the fact
is it was Wood who Initiated the kind
of campaign which was bound to
make the others combine more or
less firmly against him. The policy
of the Wood campaign has to a cer
tain extent been the policy of the
"big stick." From now on, and espe
cially in the convention, General
Wood must suffer the disadvantages
which go with that policy whenever
it falls short of complete success at
the outset. General Wood, in short,
is like the German army at the be-1
ginning of the war.
He must get to Paris on the first
drive or run serious risk of the allies
winning the war.
Chanted His Objective.
To continue in military metaphor.
General Wood suffers, among other
things, from having changed his ob
jective in the middle of the campaign.
In campaigning for the presTdency
there are two possible objectives to
aim -'at. One is directly at the 9S4
delegates who compose the conven
tion and who are reached by direct
negotiation with them and the poli
ticians and party leadeft who can in
fluence them. The other possible ob
jective is the public as a whole. This
latter form of campaign consists of
the use of publicity and other ways
of reaching great masses of voters,
with the purpose of creating such
-widespread sentiment that the dele-
gates in the convention will be moved
to respond .to it.
The Wood campaign, under the
early management of John T. King,
started out toward the first objective
and made conspicuous progress in
tha.1 direction. Then, with the dis
missal of King, under what may be
called the civilian management of Mr.
Proctor, the second method was
adopted. More lately, since the en
gagement of Frank H. Hitchcock to
deal with, the politicians, both
methods have been followed. At the
present moment the situation is that
the old politicians are more united
against General Wood than aligned
behind him. And the results of the
primaries as a whole must be taken
as proving that there is no such
unanimous call from the public as
the convention is likely to feel com
pelled to respond to.
General Wood's next showing of
strength against Johnson occurs next
Tuesday in Nebraska. These Nebraska
primaries are important in many
ways, and as respects both parties.
In the republican primaries Lowden
is not entered. The contestants are
Pershing, Wood ami Johnson. Pershing
is running as a favorite son. For
htm the issue of the Nebraska pri
maries will determine whether or not
he can qualify as a favorite son and
as a dark horse. It is only as a dark
horse that Pershing can hope to cut
any figure at all. If Pershing loses
the Nebraska primaries he is pretty
definitely disqualified even as a dark
lorse. If he wins 'he has only th
comparatively' remote chance of one
pt several dark horses.
' Regardless of whether Pershing
t (Cpnciudcii 111 J'as i, Culumn i.j
Decision Follows Bureau or Mar
kcts Hearing Concerning
Handling of 1918 Clip.
WASHINGTON. April 16. Excess
profits of morethan Jl. 000. 000 ob
tained by wool dealers in transactions
during the wartime period when the
national supply was all under gov
ernment regulations will be collected
and returned to the growers by the
bureau of markets of the department
of agriculture. The decision an
nounced tonight- by the department,
followed a hearing on questions re
lating to the valuation and handling
of the 1918 clip.
The bureau took over on Decemtter
31. 1918, the work of the wool division
of the war industries board and the
hearing was arranged in response to
complaints of Teas - woolgrowera.
It was decided that these complaints,
relating principally to territory wool,
would be referred to the war depart
ment's claim settlement board and
that claims regarding fleece wool
only would be handled by the bureau.
Reports have been secured from
nearly all large dealers as to busi
ness transacted during the period
under Inquiry, it was said, but the
work of checking up accounts has
been delayed by the discovery that
some 800 country dealers had oper
ated without federal licenses.
Secretary Meredith said the work
of collecting and "returning excess
profits would be pushed vigorously.
Bernard Baruch. former chairman
of the war industries board; Judge
Elwin B. Parker, a member of the
board; Lewis Penwell, former chief
of the wool section; and several mem
bers, of congress representing dis
tricts interested in the matter under
discussion, were present at the conference.
COUNTY HAS FINE INCOME
Smugglers and Still Operators Con
tribute Tidy Sum.
BELLINGHAM. Wash., April 16.
Since the beginning of the year $17,
000 has been collected in fines from
violators of the prohibition laws,
Judge William Pemberton of the crim
inal department of the superior
court announced today. The judge
estimated that the traffic would net
the county $40,000 during the present
year.
Most of the fines have been im
posed on smugglers of whisky from
Canada and operators of stills.
LIBERTY BONDS SLIDING
Continued Decline Noted on AH
Issues but First 4 Us.
KEW YORK. April 16. Liberty
bonds and victory notes continued to
decline today, -.he first 4?4s being the
only one of the nine issues not to
have made a low record by noon.
The railroad strike, like the steel
strike, is said to have caused some
selling and corporations have been
realizing on their holdings to acquire
additional capital, but the principal
reason assigned is the pending issue
of treasury certificates of indebted
ness at 514 per cent.
BORDER AVIATORS KILLED
Two Caught Under Wreckage When
Machine Hits Earth.
SANDERSON, Tex.. April 16. Lieu
tenant Don M. Hansell of Springfield,
Mo., and Sergeant William T. Max
well, Dallas, Tex., were instantly
killed when an aeroplane piloted by
Hansell crashed to the ground here
today. The machine had just cleared
the ground, spectators said, when it
fell. The two men were caught be
neath the wreckage and died in
stantly. They were engaged in bor
der patrol duty.
DEBATE BRINGS SJUBPENA
Dr. Barrows Called as Witness at
Alleged Communist's Trial. -
OAKLAND. Cal., April 16. Presi
dent David P. Barrows of the Univer
sity of California has been subpenaed
as a witness in the trial of J. H.
Dolsen, charged as a communist party
member with criminal syndicalism.
Dolsen and Barrows debated the Rus
sian soviet question recently.
Dolsen, who is conducting his own
defense in superior court here, in
tends to prove by Barrows that he
did not advocate force or violence.
IRON BOUNTY EXTENDED
British Columbia May Start Pro
vincial Steel Industry.
VICTORIA. B. C, April IS. The
British "Columbia government may
soon find itself in possession of an
iron and steel Industry, owned and
operated by the province. William
Sloan, minister of mines, informed the
legislature today.
His address was on the second
reading of a bill to extend the opera
tive period of the iron ore bounties
act another five years.
7000 CATTLE DESTROYED
Shortage of Feed Causes Bad Con
ditions in Northern Alberta.
CALGARY. Alberta, April 16.
Seven thousand cattle are reported
to have, been destroyed in Alberta,
being starved through feed shortage.
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ranges.
Alleged Red Activity
Strike Ridiculed.
MORE PAY HELD SOLE OBJECT
Stupidity of Attorney-General
Declared Amazing.
HONEST INQUIRY DESIRED
Walkout of Switchmen, While De
clared Wrung, Is Held Free of
Bolshevism and I. AV. W.
WASHINGTON, April 16. Attorney
General Palmer's conclusions that the
"outlaw" railway strike was trace
able to activities of radicals and
revolutionists was sharply challenged
tonight by Frank Morrison, secretary
of the American Federation of Labor.
An independent investigation of strike
causes b'y the railway executives, the
statement said, revealed "just a plain,
ordinary strike for more pay."
"If there were enough revolutionary
power in the United States to create
such an outbreak as this," Mr. Mor
rison said, "the condition would be
serious, indeed. But there is no such
power. The absolute failure of the
attorney-general to grasp the true
situation is amazing."
' Labor Board Brclaa Work.
The only development today affect
ing the government's connection with
the situation was the organization
meeting of the railway labor board,
which met with seven of its ni4Ve
members present, elected officers and
determined to take up beginning to
morrow the .whole question of railway
wages at the point where the bi
partisan discussion between men and
employes dropped it some days ago,
unable to reach a conclusion.
While tactics of the railway
strikers were wrong and disavowed
by organized labor, Mr. Morrison's
statement said, this should not pre
vent an "honest" understanding of the
facts. His own viewpoint as to causes
of the strike, he added, was based on
reports gathered by. employes' rejrc
sentatives not in sympathy with the
strikers.
More Pay Sole Object.
"I point to these reports and the
evidence they contain as evidence of
governmental stupidity in dealing
with the situation," Mr. Morrison con
tinued. "While the government,
through the attorney-general. Is con
templating repression and punish
ment, treating the strike as a crime,
the real employers know that the
strike is an outbreak against eco
nomic conditions.
"After reading the digest of (hose
reports, the conclusion is evident that
whatever the merits of the strike. It
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.orney-General Brings Suit to
Set Aside Decree Given
Movie Star.
MINDEN, Nev, April 16. A suit
asking that the decree of divorce
granted by District' Judge Langan
to Gladys M. Moore, known as Mary
Pickford, from Owen E. Moore be set
aside was filed with the county clerk
of Douglas county late today by Leon
ard B. Fowler, attorney-general of
Nevada. The suit was -filed "in the
Interest of the state of Nevada."
The suit is predicated, the complaint
stated, on the principle that the state
"reserves interest in all divorce ac
tions." The complaint charged both
Owen Moore and Miss Pickford -with
"fraud and collusion" and declared
the court of Judge Frank P. Langan,
who granted the divorce decree, had
no Jurisdiction in the matter, as both
parties were "bona fide residents of
Los Angeles." Testimony ' toward
proving the jurisdiction of the court
and the Nevada residence of the prin
cipals was characterized as "false" in
the complaint.
The subsequent marriage of Doug
las Fairbanks and Miss Pickford and
evidence of California's Interlocutory
decree law, which provides that one
year shall elapse before a final decree
is granted, were cited in the com
plaint . as possible inducements to
utilize fraudulently the courts of Ne
vada. -
District Judge Langan will be asked
to testify as to his introduction to
Mrs. Moore. Just before going on the
witness stand she was presented to
the judge as "Miss Gladys Smith."
This, the state will contend, is cir
cumstantial evidence that Mrs. Moore
attempted to deceive the court as to
her true identity.
MARY AXD DOUGLAS SILENT
Proceedings Matter for Attorneys
Is Attitude Taken.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 16.
Mary Pickford and her husband, Doug
las Fairbanks, both declined to dis
cuss a prospective suit against the
former to set aside her divorce from
Owen Moore, recently obtained in Ne
vada.
A secretary said Mr. and Mrs. Fair
banks felt the matter, being a pend
ing court proceeding, or soon to be
come one, could not with propriety
be discussed except by their attorneys.
BLOOD-SPILLING AVERTED
Overheated South American Differ
ences Adjusted.
BUENOS AIRSS, April 16. Arbi
tration has settled the controversy
between Jose de Sduza Lage, editor
of the newspaper O Pais of Rio Ja
neiro, and Fernando Saguter, a mem
ber of the Argentine senate, which
threatened to end on the dueling
field.
Two weeks ago the editor sent a
' challenge to the senator,- after the
letter bad written an article for the
government organ La Epoca of this
city, saying that Lage had misrepre
sented President Irigoyen in an in
terview. Dr. Carlos Rodriguez Larretta, for
mer Argentine member of the perma
nent court of arbitration at The
Hflpiip wast thfl mediator who effect-
1 ed a peaceful settlement.
Employes Reply to Notification by
Prcsldent -JUse of 8 Cents
Hour Requested.
An increase to 66 cents an hour was
asked yesterday by employes of The
Portland Railway. Light & Power
company's traction and oower serv
ices within the city in reply to the
formal notification of President Grif
fith recently that the company de
sired that the present wage scale be
terminated on April 30. The new pay
would mean an increase, of eight
cents an hour for motormen and con
ductors. A large proportion of the
employes involved are platform men
on the city lines, although shopmen
and employes of the Dower deDart-
ment also are included.
The Portland Railwav. Lln-ht &
Power company cannot consider any
increase in wares whatever, declared
Mr. Griffith to the delegation.
he present wage scale" Mr.
Griffith said last night, "Is one of the
highest paid traction company .work
ers in any city of the country. The
petition of the company recently
placed before the public service com
mission for an increase in fares was
based upon the present win scala
and no Increase would be possible.
Under the present wage scale and ex
isting lares the company Is running
short more than a million dollars a
year."
The existing scale was arrived at
last fall after a orolnna-ed hparlna
before an arbitration board, the em
ployes securing a slight Increase at
that time. When the agreement was
entered into, however, it was pro
vided that either side could negotiate
to change the agreement at the end
of any six-months' period by filing
notification or such desire 30 days
before such date. President Griffith
took advantage of this clause and an
nounced the desire of the company
to terminate the agreement about a
month ago.
CHERRY PRICE IS FIXED
Dallas Crop Contracted at 15 Cents,
Record Figure.
THE DALLES. Or., April 16. (Spe
cial.) The price of a pound of cher
ries, orchard run. in this section of
the state was today fixed at 15 cents
when the cherry growers' union closed
with the Llbby. McNeil & Libby can
nery at this figure for the entire
crop of Royal Annes. J. D. Riggs,
manager of the cherry growers" union,
estimated the crop. If it fulfills pres
ent promises, at 1000 tors.
The price Is the highest ever paid
for -cherries in the history of the
state and is attributed to hard winter
conditions in most parts of the United
States, which killed the cherry crop
outright or greatly reduced It.
PACKER AGENTS ARRESTED
Operators Held in $2500 Bail on
Profiteering Charges.
NEW YORK. April 16. William
Clary, Brooklyn manager for Swift &
Co., and Harry G. Mills, assistant su
perintendent of a plant of Armour &
Co. in Brooklyn, were arrested today
by department of Justice agents on
charges of profiteering.
They were neld In $2500 bail each.
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Overall Army Springs Up
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iii uniicu ouueo.
THOUSANDS JOIN MOVEMENT
Enlistments Reported Fr6m
All Over Nation.
CLOTHIERS ARE AFFECTED
Work of Warfare Noted in Ala
bama, Where Prices Are Cut
and Sales Announced.
A denim army has sprung into be
ing almost overnight in the United
States. Legions are flocking to the
call to arms and are donning the ;
official uniform of overalls to beat
down the high cost of clothing.
Squads, companies, brigades and di
visions are falling in. Already enlist
ments are reported from New York,
official Washington, Kentucky. Mis
souri. Alabama. Kansas. Illinois. Ken.
tucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Pennsyl
vania and California.
City officials, bankers, doctors, stu
dents, judges, dramatists, preachers,
merchants and business men general
ly are rising en masse. In a sense,
official sanction has been given the
movement, for the petition of the em
ployes In the Norfolk navy yard to
wear denim has been allowed.
A plan is on foot In Kansas to have
the delegates to the democratic con
vention go .attired in overalls. In
Emporia the mayor is to be inaugu
rated dressed in blue bib and tucker.
At a Baptist school in Pennsylvania
faculty and students have already
modified their dress to conform to
the movement and a preacher in Mis
souri set the example for his flock
by preaching but not attired in a
"swallo-4 tail" just plain overalls.
That the movement already Is hav
ing its effect Is noted in Alabama,
where clothiers have cut prices and
have announced special sales to com
bat this unexpected siege.
TOPEKA. Kan.. April 16. Overalls
made their debut In business and pro
fessional circles here today with
Justice Silas Porter of the state su
preme court taking the lead. Other j
members of the court asserted they
would "follow suit." Today 1200 em
ployes of the Southwestern Bell Tele
phone company agreed to don the
denim.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.. April 16. Over
300 boys and young men of the local
high school have organized an over- i
all club.
SCR ANTON, Pa., April 16. Students
and faculty members at Keystone
academy. Factory ville. Pennsylvania's
only Baptist preparatory school,
joined (he overall movement today.
LOUISVILLE. Ky., April 16. To
further the cause of the newly formed
overall club here. Mayor George Smith
appeared at the city hall this after
noon attired in denims.
FORT SMITH. Ark.. April 16. More
than 1000 business men and high
school students here donned overalls
in a fight against the high cost of
dressing.
MIAMI, Okla.. April 16. The Ot
tawa County Bar association today
formed an "overall club" composed of
lawyers of the county and judges of
the district and county court.
DENIM ADOPTED IN NEW YORK
Clubs. Students and Professional
Men Join Movement.
NEW YORK, April 16. Thousands
of recruits In New Tork flocked to
the standard of "General Overall"
whose march against the guerrilla
forces of the high cost of clothing
started recently in the south, gained
strength in the west and now has
reached the cast for decisive battle.
The blue denim brigade, which had
its inception here among members of
the Cheese club of dramatic . press
agents, critics and theatrical writers,
obtained reinforcements today when
5000 Dewltt Clinton high school stu
dents voted to wear khaki overalls.
Then Columbia unlversitiy indorsed
the movement and other schools and
business and professional clubs be
gan to fall in line.
Boys pf the Jamaica high school
voted to wear khaki on all occasions.
The Bronx business men's club and
the women's civic federation promised
support.
How strong Is the popular indigna
tion against the fancy prices being
asked for ordinary clothing was evi
denced in the number of applications
made to the Cheese club for places
today in its overall parade, postponed
to make the affair an impressive dem
onstration. Late reports from head
quarters Indicate that thousands of
volunteers are springing up every
where. Not to be outwitted In strat
egy, the overall marshals, it was said,
have quietly been buying large quan
tities of denim and khaki in whole-
Bale lots to offset any counter-move
to corner the supply and boost prices.
Reinforcements also have been
promised by the Rotary clubs of New
York and New Jersey. Various styles
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I Mj Mcrious Tragedy of Bolshe isni
in Rlack Sea Another Problem
for Roumanian Authorities.
BUCHAREST, April 16. The dis
covery on the yacht Ostara. stranded
at Sulina. on one of the mouths of
the Danube, of the bodies of 11 noted
Russian men and women, each shot
through the head, and not a living
soul on board, has presented to the
Roumanian authorities one of the
most mysterious tragedies of bolshe
vism in the Black sea. The bodies
have been identified as those of mem
bers of the noted Russian families of
Falsefein and Skadowski.
On board the yacht were 14. 000. 000
rubles in gold and paper and jewels.
The elder Falsefein. still grasped a
pistol in his hand when his body was
found. An investigation is being
made.
GIRLS IN PERIL RESCUED
Firemen Save 3O0 Women When
Cotton Mill Burns.
OAKLAND. Cal.. April 16. The
plant of the California cotton mills
was destroyed by fire this afternoon
and the' lives of 300 girls employed in
the loom mill were endangered whea
flames and gases cut off their es
cape. Firemen. with the aid f gus
masks, entered the building and car
ried the girls through trie flames and
gases to safety. Some were overcome
by smoke, but none was seriously in
jured.
The flames spread so quickly in
the cotton that the loom building was
on fire before the girl employes could
be notified.
SHORT LINES ISSUE PLEA
Little Roads Want Returns Trans
portatioii Act Provides.
WASHINGTON. April 16. Demand
ing the same treatment under the
transportation act as that accorded
railroads which were under federal
control during the war, the American
Short Line Railroad association, at
the concluding session today of its
special meeting, decided to ask the
interstate commerce commission to
award the standard return guaranteed
by the act to roads which were not
operated by the government.
Should the interstate commerce
commission refuse the request the as
sociation will ask congress for re
medial legislation.
SHEARS GETTING SCARCE
High Prices Driving I'ilUcus lo Do
Burhering at Home.
KLAMATH FALLS. April 16. (Spe
cial.) Hardware stores report vir
tual exhaustion of their supply of
barbers' heirs and clippers as the
result of a denand on the part of
perrons who intended to do their bar
berinjr at home. Local barber sh"ps
on April Z raiitd the pru-e of hair
cutting from 50 'o 73 i-enls,
from 25 to 35 ecu.?, and other
in proportion.
Retailers hanlling safely
;hu ves
charges
razrs
alo have had demands for their Mock
greatly increased, they assert, during
the past two weeks.
NEW U. S. COINS PROPOSED
Bill Providing for 1 and
Pieces Introduced.
8-fent
WASHINGTON April 16. Senator i
Frelinghuysen. republican. New Jer- 1
sey, today introduced a bill providing I
for the coinage of seven and eignt- 1
cent coins. I
It was referred to the banking coi.i- j
mlttee.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWsj
The Went her.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
51 uKrec: minimum. :ifl decrees.
TODAY'S Fair and uarmer; westerly
winds.
Forriirn.
Bodies of 11 notU Hussian men and women
found on stranded acht. Pane 1.
National.
Mexico aks to move troops through 17. S.
Page
KxresR profits totaling more tlian million
to be returned to wool crowers. PaKe 1.
Wood's campaiEn stirs up enmity. Pace 1.
Labor leader scouts Palmer's vision of red
terror In switchmen's strike. Pace 1.
Democrats, discontented at selection for
oiriee made by President Wilson.
Page 4.
Iometic.
Navada attacks Pickford divorce. Page 1.
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Bodv may prove another wife of "llJue-
beard." Paste 3.
Ienim Is donned to fisht on costs. Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
McCoy plans mandamus to force putting
of name on ballot as democratic com
milleemmn. Page 5.
S Xrt s.
Sacramento Portland 4; T.os Angeles 1.
Vernon O; Oakland It. San r'ranciaro
2. Seattle-Salt .Lake game postponed.
Page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
No extreme declines In coffee prices ex
pected. Page 111.
French resales of oats unsettle corn mar
ket at Chicago. Page ll.
Stock trading checked by fears of tight
money. Page 11.
Oil shortage and Yokohama stevedores'
strike hinder x-essels. Page 13.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland carmen ask for wage Increase.
Page 1.
1 N. Day. candidate for state senator.
advocates giving service men land from
Oregon reserves. Page 7.
Highway commission advises repairs on
Morrison bridge. Page 1U.
City council appropriates $ln.noo for band
concerts in parks. Page 11.
Judge sentences guilty communists.
Page lo.
Greater protection for forests of west
urged at vouventiuo ot lumbermen.
1 Page 3.
5 Republicans, One Dem
ocrat for Chief.
CANDIDACY FILINGS CLOSED
Wood, Johnson, Lowden,
Hoover, Poindexter Listed.
McADOO LONE ASPIRANT
Petitions for Mr. Brjau Believed lo
lie Stliort of Signatures Neces
sary Under Law.
SALE.M. Or.. April 16. Special. 1
Oregon voters at the primary elec
tion May 21 will cast preferential
ballots for five republicans and one
democrat for president of the United
States, according to the records of the
secretary of state when the time for
filing declarations, of candidacy ex
pired late tonight.
The republican candidates for presi
dent are Leonard Wood. Hiram John
son. Frank O. Lowden. Herbert
Hoov-r and Miles Poindexter. whilu
the democratic aspirant is William
Gibbs McAdoo.
Hran 1'aadidaejr Doubt fill.
Petitions for William Jennings
Brun also were received tonight,
Lut it is not believed they contain
sufficient signatures to meet with the.
requirements of the law. For vice
presiileat republicans may vote for
Klwood Washington of Hammond,
lnd.. William Grant Webster of New
York and Henry Cabot Lodge of
Nahant. .Mass. William C. Vaughn of
Portland is the only person whose
name will appear on the Oregon demo
cratic primary ballot for vice-president.
Robert N. Slanfield. who until to
day had no opposition at the. repuu
liian primary election for United
Slates ser.ator. will be opposed by
Albert Abraham of ltoseburg. In the
ileinocratic contest for nomination lor
United States senator are tleorie F.
Chamberlain, incumbent, and Harvey
C Starkweather.
Triangular Ivuleat On.
In the republican primaries a three
cornered contest has developed for
representative in congress from the
third congressional district. The can
didates include C N. McArthur. in
cumotnt; Eugene K. Smith and
Thomas Sweeny. Mr. Sweeny was tr-e
last of these candidates to file, his
declaration reaching here late this
afternoon. Mrs. Alexander Thompson
and Mrs. Esther Lovejoy are the dem
ocratic canditlates for representative
from this district..
In the second congressional district
N. J Sinnott, incumbent, will be op
posed at the republican primary by
owen F. Jones of The Dalles. James
H. Graham, democrat, will be unop
posed. In the first congressional dis
trict Willis C. Hawley has no up.
position
Chief interest in state politics ap
pears to center about the republican
nomination for secretary of state.
There are seven candidates for this
office, including Sam A. Kozer of As- -toria,
E. L- Coburn of Grants Pass,
B. F. Jones of Newport. W. D. Wood
of Hillsboro. M. Vernon Parsons of
Eugene. H. Ji Schulderman of Port
land and Fred Lockley of Portland.
Nomination for this office will proa
ab'.y mean election, as no democrat
has come forward to seek this honor
at the hands of his party.
Both Fred G. Buchtel of Portland
and H. H. Corey of Baker, present
members of the Oregon public service
commission, will have opposition in
the republican primaries. Mr. Buchtel.
whose campaign will be confined to
what is known as the western Ore
gon district, will be opposed by E. M.
Cousins of Portland, while Mr. Corey,
whose district includes all those coun
ties east of the Cascade mountains,
will have a running mate in Rhea
Luper. C. L. Brown of Portland, v?ho
had filed for public ajfrvice commis
sioner at the republican primary from
the Western Oregon district, has
withdrawn from the race.
One Democrat In It ace.
William D. Bennett of Po.-tlarfid is
the only democratic canuidate'fileU
for public service commissioner. He
hails from the western Oregon dis
trict. Neither of the four members of the
Oregon supreme court who are seek
ing renomination at the republican
primary election will have any op
position. They are: Thomas A. Mc
Bride. Lawrence T. Harris, Henry L.
Benson and Henry L. Bean.
C. L. Hawley of McCoy, candidate
for dairy and food commissioner, has
no opposition at the republican pri
maries. In the thirteenth senatorial district,
which embraces Multnomah county,
there are 15 candidates for senator
with five to be elected. They are:
D. C. Lewis, Walter D. Whitcomb,
Isaac E. Staples. Gus Ericjtson, Wil
son T. Hume. John C. Shillock. K. C.
Howell. L. M. Lepper. C. M. Reyner
son, Gus C. Moser, Robert S. FarreU.
C. W. Nottington. I. N. Day, George
B. Cellars and George Joseph.
34 Seek Lersrlalature.
With 12 seats in the lower house
of the legislature . to be filled from
he is:h representative district, in
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