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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1920)
THE MORNING OREGON IAN, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1920 ALL OREGON GUARD K. L. Westover, dairy extension spe cialists of the college extension service and the United States dairy division since July 1. 1318. has re signed to become field representa tive of the American Guernsey Cat tle club, with headquarters at Fort land. While Mr. Westover will have charge WILL GO TO CAMP INSURE A COOL FOURTH Minim-urn Strength Rule Lifted by Department. PAY WILL BE ALLOWED Action Taken by Secretary of War as Result of Appeal Made by Adjutant-General. SALEM, Or., July 2. (Special.) AH units of the Oregon national guard will be able to attend the 15-day camp of instruction at Camp Lewis, Wash., beginning next Tuesday as a result of a decision obtained today from the secretary of war by George A. White, adjutant-general of the state. When, after all arrangements for the Oregon camp had been made, the war department ruled that only com panies having a minimum strength of 52 men would receive pay at camp, Colonel White prot&sted to the secre tary of war. urging that a training camp was necessary for the Oregon citizen soldiers, that all the units could not meet the exacting ruling of the militia bureau and that the men would not be sent unless they received pay. From 300 to 650 men in various parts ot the state were affected. Secretary Send Tdrgram. The telegram announcing the sec retary of war's decision was received late this afternoon and was communi cated to the national guard units. It Rave the adjutant-general authority to transfer from one company to an other where necessary to qualify the men, for pay. The guard will now go to camp as a unit with the exception of company A. engineers of Portland, which will haie its camp in September, under au thority given by the commanding gen eral of the western department. The various units of the guard will begin entraining for Camp Lewis Monday night and Tuesday morning. The companies from Newport, Ash land. Med ford and Marshfield will leave Monday night in special sleep ing cars. Portland In Meeting Place. They will Join the companies from Eugene. Salem, McMinnville, In dependence, Silverton and Portland in Portland and proceed in two spe cial trains Tuesday morning to Camp Lewis, going into the cantonments Tuesday afternoon. They will remain at Camp Lewis until July 20. The coast artillery companies will be thrown into the 55th regular ar tillery while the infantry will be in a separate infantry camp. Colonel C E. Dentler and Captain James Du senburry, regular army instructors attached to the Oregon national guard, will direct the instruction work. Target practice with six-inch field rifles will be held at the camp for artillerymen. They will fire guns that were used in the world war. The in fantrymen will be merged into war strength infantry companies for com bat problems. The infantry troops will be com manded by Colonel Creed C. Ham mond of Portland and the coast ar tillery by either Captain Ben S. Fish er nt Marshfield or Captain W. M. Eriggs of Ashland. of the territory covered by the 11 west ern states, he will doubtless spend a good portion of his time in the Pacific cVast states, where dairying is more highly developed than in the interior. He has but recently returned from the east, where he obtained a con signment of imported Guernseys and brought them from quarantine quar ters to Oregon breeders. His resignation will take effect August 1. TO BE FETED I1EV. MR. JOSSLYX CLERGYMAN 50 HAS BEEX YEARS. Pioneer Preacher Came to Oregon in 1852 by Oxteam, Entered Pulpit in 1870. OREGON CITY. Or., July 2. (Spe cial.) Fifty years ago this coming Fourth of July the Rev. A. J. Josslyn of Canby, Or., preached his first ser mon at 8 A. M. on the old Methodist camp ground near Needy, Or. Rev. Mr. Josslyn's friends have ar ranged to commemorate the event by an all-day pioneer, patriotic and re ligious service, with basket dinner accompaniment, this coming Fourth at the Rock Creek Methodist church or in the grove thereat near Needy. Rev. E. E. Gilbert, district super intendent of the Salem district of the Methodist Episcopal church, will de liver the oration at 11 A. M., and Rev. Mr. Josslyn will occupy the aft ernoon hour with a reminiscent ad dress. Songs and short talks from pioneers ' present will enliven and grace the services. Rev. Mr. Josslyn was born in Indi ana February 6, 1843. and came to Oregon with his parents by ox team in the summer of 1S52, settling where Canby now is. He was converted in 1858 and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1870, since which he has served different churches of his denomination from Salt Lake City to Nome. Alaska. He occupied some of the first pulpits of his church in this territory and served as district superintendent of one of the -most important districts of the Pacific northwest. He was pio neer preacher for the pioneers, with all that it meant. JOHNSON GETS GLAD HAND REPRESENTATIVE MET AT DE POT BY COMMITTEE. FUEL OIL AID IS SOUGHT Seattle Seeks Authority to Use Norwegian Tanker. SEATTLE. Wash.. July 2. (Spe cial.) Mayor Caldwell today sent a telegram to Senator Poindexter ask ing that authority be obtained for the General Petroleum company to use a Norwegian oil tanker to trans port fuel oil to Seattle to relieve the shortage of oil confronting the city light department. The mayor said in his message that the company used two Norwegian, tankers during the war period but that these cannot be used under ex isting legislation without special au thority. The mayor sent the message after conferring with representatives of the oil company. Hoquiam Man to Attend Hearings in San Francisco on Jap anese Question. HOQUIAM, Wash., July 2. (Spe cial.) Representative Johnson ar rived at his home in Hoquiam today from Washington, D. C, for the first visit home since he went back to the capital in May. 1919. It was recep tion day for the congressman, start ing with his alighting from the train this morning at the Union passenger station, where he was met by a com mittee. At noon today Mr. Johnson was the guest of the 1 Hoquiam Commercial lub at a luncheon arranged In hi onor. Tomorrow evening he is to be the guest of Hoquiam post, American Legion, at a reception, to which the public is invited. Mr. Johnson will leave bunaay for Toledo, In Lewis county, where he to speak Monday at the Independ- nce day celebration, and from there will go to San Francisco to meet members of the house immigration committee, of which he is chairman. nd which will hold a series of hear- ngs in California. He expects to return to the north west about July 20, and it is probable he immigration committee will hold hearings and continue its inquiry nto the Japanese question in Wash ngton and Oregon. ALL BUSINESS TO STOP Vancouver to Pause Monday to Cel ebrate Independence Day. VANCOUVER, Wash., July 2. (Spe cial.) All places of business, includ ing banks, stores, county, state and I'nited States offices, will be closed Monday, July 5. The stoves will re main open late Saturday night. The city is being decorated today with flags and bunting and other emblems, and merchants are putting in display windows in keeping with the independence Day spirit. The celebration will be in charge of the children, ex-Mayor Gill of Se attle will deliver the address of the day. GASOLINE SUPPLY GONE Vancouver Without Kerosene to Use as Substitute VANCOUVER. Wash.. July 2. (Spe cial.) The gasoline shortage is now Worse than it has been any time since i one independent station receivea mall fraction of its normal supply and this was entirely exhausted in an hour. The big Standard Oil station at Eleventh and Main streets was out of supply by 11:30 o'clock Tourists coming through are able to get a little gasoline to take them to their next stop. The gasoline shortage will prevent a large number of automobile parties from going to the beaches and moun tains to spend the week end and over July 4 and 5. There is no kerosene to be secured here which might be used Be, a sub- titute for gasoline. Distillate has not been on the market for several weeks. CITY ORDERS RENT PAID Council Decides Elks Should Not Pay for Auditorium Use. The citv council vesterrfav snnrn nriated S160 to the tubli auditorium fund, to defray the cost of rental of the buildings for the flag day exer cises conducted by Portland . Lodge No. 142 ot Elks. June 14. City Commissioner Bigelow voiced d's;it)nroval of standing the vr.n. claiming that the lodge should pay the rental. City Commissioners Mann ana narbur contended that the meet ing was not only a patriotic gather ing, but was held for the public, ani hence the citv should not nak tv Elks to foot the entire bill of stag ing the exercises. LYMAN WILL IS FILED Widow and Children of Late Whi man College Professor Benefit. WALLA WALLA, Wash!, July 2. i special. ) -me win of the late W. D. Lyman, for 30 years head of th history department at Whitman col lege, was filed for probate yesterday. The home, the insurance money and the furniture are given Mrs. Lyman. iracis ot land in Walla Walla an Franklin counties. Wash., and Yol county, Cal., and personal effects are given to the four children. DAIRY EXPERT RESIGNS E. L. Westover Leaves College to Go With Cattle Club. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LiSGL, Corvallia, July 2. ISpecial.) MEN' SUMMER ATHLETIC UNION SUITS 1.95 Three for $5.75 THere are three patterns in a box and cool! Buy them by the box! Morrison-street window. clean See BEN SELLING Leading Clothier Morrison at Fourth VINEGAR VAT EUS FATAL PRANK W. DCTTOX OP HOOD KIVER OVERCOME BY PUMES. to Asphyxiation , Follows Attempt Clean Tank Two Rescuers Made Unconscious. HOOD RIVER, Or.. July 2. (Spe cial.) Frank W. Dutton, aged 36, na tive of Illinois, was asphyxiated todfy by carbonic gas in a large vinegar vat. Mr. Dutton and William Chap man, son of Robert Chapman, su perintendent of the plant, were pre paring to clean, tne tank, when the latter, failing to observe company instructions that interior of vats be tested with a lighted lantern, was being lowered from a manhole. His young companion says he pro tested that the gas was too strong, but Mr. Dutton was endeavoring to hasten his work and had placed a hose in his mouth, expecting to draw fresh air from the outside of the tank in this manner. He had only been low ered a few feet when he removed the hose and called to young Chapman to raise him. Almost instantly he fell from the scaffold on which he was sitting. J. R. Norton., vice-president of the company, attempted a rescue but was overcome, and Joe Lybarger, a fellow worker, who. with a rope around his body, recovered the body, was ren dered unconscious. After he had been drawn to the manhole, where he de livered Mr. Dutton's body, he col lapsed. His body. bent double and a larger hole had to be sawed in the tank to recover him. Although he wns in the tank lens than artificial respiration, was required to resuscitate Mr. Lybarger. Mr. Dutton was in the tank for IB minutes. Mr. Dutton Is survived by his widow and three children. three brothers, four sisters and his mother, Mrs. Mary C. Dutton of Oklahoma, 5 HELD FOR BOOTLEGGING Deputy Sheriffs Confiscate Moon shine and Home-Brewed Beer. SOUTH BEND, Wash., July 2. (Special.) The most important cap ture of alleged bootleggers made here for some time was a.( midnight Thursday by Deputy Sheriffs Stephens and Simmons and City Marshal Led- rora or south Bend. They held up a Maxwell automobile near Raymond, driven by George Ruff. The occu pants of the car threw out bottles of moonshine amounting to five gal lons. The men arrested were: Ruff, Guy Smith, R. Packer and A. W. Beach, all being well known here They were held under $1000 bond. The officers also arrested B. Johnson, with a suitcase containing two gal lons of moonshine, and in Packer's house in South Bend they found over 100 bottles of home-brewed beer. LABOR FAVORS ALLIANCE WASHINGTON FEDERATION IS POR NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE. Logging Foreman Drops Dead. CENTRALIA, Wash., July 2. (Spe cial.) J. E. Monahan, logging: camp foreman for the McCormick Lumber company, dropped dead yesterday morning at the camp. A few minutes before his demise he is said to have engaged in a fistic -altercation with the camp cook. The remains were removed to the Newall parlors in this city pending funeral arrangements. He was 45 years of age. His wife and child left Monday for a visit in Ore- minute, I gon. Workers League Denounced When President Short Calls It Se cession Movement. SPOKANE, Wash., July 2. By an overwhelming vote the Washington State Federation of Labor yesterduy indorsed the "triple alliance," com posed of the national non-partisan league, railroad workers and organ ized labor, and denounced the "work ers' non-partisan league." which was formed last winter by seceders from the original alliance. President Short told of his visits to Spokane and other cities and the op position he had encountered. He told of the activities of the leaders of the workers non-partisan league and hinted at misuse of funds by G. B. Young. He stated that not a week in the last six had passed without the opposition forces- villifylng the of ficers of the federation. "We win welcome the workers non partisan league into the fold," said President Short. "Spokane is not for the workers' non-partisan league. It wants the triple alliance. We have nothing framed for the elections and we have no candidates to be indorsed by the convention at Yakima July 19. I don t care who you nominate for governor or who you want to send to congress. I will go down the line for everything the federation does, but I will not let any clique from any dis trict run this federation while I am president. "It Is up to the delegates to this B LOUIS B. MAYHR. PRESENTS BR B3N convention to say whether or not a minority has the right to secede. If you fail to adopt this resolution fa voring the triple alliance, which this federation fostered, and denounce the workers' non-partisan league as a fac tional organization, you have legal ised the right of a minority to do what the workers' non-partisan league is doing." PLANE FALLS AT BEND Pilot Slightly Injured but Portland Man Escapes Injury. BEND, Or., July 2. (Special.) Failure of the motor to function here this morning a minute after the plane, driven by Harold Grady and F. S. McClurg of Portland, had hopped off for the return trip to Portland by way of The Dalles, forced a landing n which McClurg sustained a slight cut under the eye and Grady escaped unscathed. The left wing of the three-passen ger plane caught on a wire fence and the plane was badly smashed. Woman Hurt by Skidding Car. HOOD RIVER. Or., July 2. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Amos Perkins of Upper Valle sustained a broken arm and collarbone today when a truck driven by John Hillstream skidded from the road down a lo-foot embankment at a curve at the top of Tucker hill grade. Five other boys and men in the truck escaped injury. Pheasants and Ducks Delivered. CENTRALIA. Wash., July 2. (Spe cial.) Fifty Chinese pheasants and ten Mallard ducks were delivered to the Lewis county game warden Thurs day by the state game commission. The birds will be liberated imme diately. Tlalrv Barn Tlrrt iji trl TirmTA Wash Yiilv'V G! As a crowning event In the develop mem oi me western wasnington ex periment station at Puyallup. the new $30,000 dairy barn was dedicated last night with a special programme of speeches, followed by a barn dance. ) "W- .. fifes, NEW SHOW TODAY 1-t Hi "". - - HERE'S THE MOST HEROIC, HUMAN FLASHED UPON A PORTLAND SCREEN IN MANY MONTHS tj The magic of the motion picture turns the warm and glowing pages of a masterly story into a puls ing, living drama, whose sheer charm and realism carry one away to that vast white country "up there," with all its grim glory and grandeur. KEATES AT THE ORGAN ATMOSPHERIC SETTING WEEKLY REVIEW ANITA STEW? risr TrlE TELIOW TYPf BY HAROLD MAC GRAXH "YELLOW" because of her hair; "TYPHOON" because of the human wreckage she left in her wake. "THE YELLOW TYPHOON," they called her after the manner of the Orient, where she was notorious for her vampish escapades. With a kit ten's purr but a tiger's heart her carnival of reprisals against the male sex was carried to a whirl wind conclusion. BRAND NEW TODAY Portland's Musical Feature COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA V. C. Knowles, Dir. The Theater Beautiful S3 County Clerks to Convene. VANCOUVER. Wash., July 2. (Spe cial.) The Washington state county clerks' convention will be held here August 5. 6 and 7. One' clerk from each of the 39 counties will attend. The officers of the association are Adrian Hulbert of Snohomish county, president: Joseph E. Hall of Clarke county, vice-president; Margaret E. Wood, Okanogan county, treasurer, and Bessie F. Daws of Grays Harbor county, secretary. Prisoners Dislike Pure. WALLA WALLA, Wash.. July 2. (Special. ) Prisoners in the city jail want three "squares" a day and more variety. In a letter written to Mayor Powell yesterday the trio complains that but two light meals of the plain est of food are served dally and they want more food and a wider variety. The mayor says he is planning to In crease the food allowance but the. men will have to work on the street. The slogan will be "no work, no eat." Educators Go to Convention. CENTRALIA. Wash.. July 3. (Spe cial.) Miss Z. May Meighen, Lewis county superintendent of schools; A. C. Roberts, president of the Centrali State Normal school, and E. T. Rob inson, superintendent of Centralia schools, left today for Salt Lake City to attend a convention of the Nation al Education association. Professor Roberts will address the convention at Wednesday's session. ial.) ' XfJ ''r "There are strange things . Jt fZJ& doneinthejnidnightsun . . r ll ' ' 1 1 J i .. By the men who moil for f'Ll 1 1 1 1 I MM''J1 fli ,i I rftr' goldi - All I ( f, ijWMA wnl Z&f 2 The Arctic trails hare their lfln I W ' WiW-' - : "cret tales )' J )) i 'MJ1 A' 1 fSSjN3 ! 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