VOL. LIX NO. 18,003
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Postoffice an Second-Class Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1920
Pit Id: FIVE CENTS
packers and 3 others; rny ic flPPRfillFn
indicted for gouging! UUA IJ HrrnuvLu
U.S. REMOVES BUR
FORMER SUFFRAGIST
TURNS AGAINST CAUSE
U. S. PAYS $1,600,000
TO NORTH BANK ROAD
MERCURY GOES TO 97,
SETTING 1920 RECORD
WOOD'S MILLION
BATHERS 00 NOT
SHOCK HEPDHTEHS
Censors Think One-Piece
Suit Is Modest.
ON HU55AN TRADE
BOBS UP AGAIN
LOS AXGELES WOMAX WARNS
OF PITFALLS OF VOTE.
CLAIM SETTLEMENT IS FIRST
BOSTOX JURY RETURN'S FIRST
BILLS IX EV EXGLAXD.
HIGH MARK OF 189 1 AND 190?
APPROACHED.
FROM FEDERAL OPERATION.
BY CHAMBERLAIN
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Traffic With Soviet Gov
ernment Permitted.
MR MATERIALS EXCEPTED
Traders Warned That They
Assume All Risk.
NO PROTECTION PROMISED
Authorities Say Clearly liliat 'o
Political Recognition Is Grant
ed or Contemplated.
WASHINGTON. July 7. (By the
Associated Press.) Restrictions on
trade with soviet Russia were re
moved today by the state department
except in so far as they pertain to
the shipment of material susceptible
of immediate use for war purposes.
An individual export license must
be obtained for the shipment of such
materials, and it was announced that
such licensca would be granted only
in exceptional cases.
Individual export licenses also will
be required for the export to Russia
of locomotives, railroad material and
rolling stock and motor cars and
component parts.
Action follows liJi'hnnBri.
While taken independently of other
nations, this action followed exten
sive exchanges between the United
States and Great Britain and France.
It is believed to have been hastened
by the recent negotiations between
Gregory Krassin, representing the
bolshevik government, and Premier
Lloyd George, looking to the resump
tion of trade between Great Britain
and Russia.
In announcing its action the state
department took particular pains to
state that political recognition pres
tnt or future of any Russian author
ity exercising, or claiming to exercise,
governmental functions was neither
granted nor intended. It also em
phasized that individuals or corpo
rations trading with Russia would
do so on their own responsibility and
at their own risk, as this government
could offer no protection to Amer
icans going into Russia or trading
with Russia.
Runaia'a Itefiources Lon'.
The statement also was made by
the department that indications were
that Russia had only a email quantity
of raw materials for export; that Its
purchasing power was very limited
and that consequently there would
not be any considerable trade with
that country.
The announcement by the depart
ment follows:
"The restrictions which have here
tofore stood in the way of trade and
communication with soviet Russia
were today removed by action of
the department of state. Such of
these restrictions, however, as per
tain to the shipment of materials
susceptible of immediate use for war
purposes will, for the present at
least, be maintained.
Traders Assume Risk.
"Political recognition, present or I passing through hia chest and pene
f uture. of any Russian authority ex- trating the lungs. The young man
ercksing or claiming to exercise gov-
ernmental functions, is neither
granted nor implied by this action.'
It should be emphasized, moreover,
that individuals or corporations avail
ing themselves of the present oppor
tunity to trade with Russia will do so
on their own responsibility and at
their own risk. The assistance which
the United States can normally extend
to its citizens who engage in trade or
travel in some foreign country whose
government Is recognized by the
in the present case, since there is no
official or representative Russian
authority with which this govern
ment can maintain the relations
usually existing between nations.
"The action which the United States"
la now taking in no wise constitutes
a recognition of the validity of in
dustrial or commercial concessions
granted by any existing Russian au
thority. American citizens availing
themselves of the present relaxation
of restrictions are warned against
the risks incident to the acceptance
of commodities or other values, or the
title, which may later be brought into
question.
Passports Still -Withheld.
"The situation which at present
prevails relative to travel from or to
Russia will be unaffected by the re
moval of trade restrictions. Pass
ports for Russia cannot be issued, nor
will any change be made in the vise
regulations now in force.
"Since it is not desirable at this
time to undertake negotiations with
the soviet postal authorities, the
postotflce department will be unable
to accept mail from or to soviet Rus
ia. There has never been any parcel
post convention between the United
States and Russia and this mode of
forwarding goods is therefore un
available." Ko Faction Recognized.
This formal announcement was sup
plemented by the following state
ment: "While the indications are that
Russia has but a small quantity of
raw materials available for export.
that the purchasing power of Russia
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Tennessee Legislator Asked to
Withdraw Support of Ratifica
tion Because of Immorality.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July 7. Miss
Annie Bock of Los Angeles, formerly
an equal-suffrage leader, in a letter
to W. K. Anderson, representative in
the lower house of the Tennessee leg
islature, urged him not to support
ratification of the suffrage amend
ment. Suffrage, she said, coarsens
and cheapens women. She expressed
her regret at her former activity in
its behalf, saying that sinca suffrage
had been granted there had been an
alarming increase in immorality, di
vorce and murder in California.
The letter follows:
"I was one of the prominent work
ers who helped to bring suffrage to
California, and I regret it.
"A year in politics has taught me
that women are intolerant, radical,
revolutionary and more corrupt In
politics than men, also all this so
called reform leads to the socialist co
operative commonwealth.
"Since suffrage there has been an
alarming increase in immorality, di
vorce and murder in California.
"Woman suffrage has made cow
ards and puppets of men. It has
coarsened and cheapened women.
Were the men to vote on woman suf
frage in California today it would not
carry.
"Suffragists asked suffrage that
they might put only good men in of
fice; now they clamor for a 50-50 show
for all offices.
"I shall do penance forever for the
part I played in bringing suffrage
in California.
"Please urge your colleagues not to
do what will bring regret and dis
aster, but to stand for that 90 per
cent of women who do not want suf
frage, but are glad to trust all politics
and governmental, affairs to their
loved husbands, fathers, sons- and
brothers.
"To the south, woman suffrage
would bring more than calamity."
"BABE" RUTH IS UNHURT
King of Swat Reports lie? Escaped
Auto AVreck.
.NEW YORK, July 7.--Bae" Ruth,
champion home run hitter of the New
York American League Baseball blub, I
was not injured in the, accident in
which his automobile was wrecked
near Wawa, Pa., early today, Miller
Huggins, manager of the club an
nounced here tonight. Ruth returned
to New York late today and will play
in the game here tomorrow against
Detroit, Manager Huggins said.
Ruth, Mrs. Ruth and three other
ball players were in the car on their
way to New York from Washington,
where the team played yesterday.
The accident, according to informa
tion received by the club officials
here, resulted when Ruth, who was
driving, attempted to turn out to
avoid another car. His machine was
overturned and wrecked.
BOY IMPALED ON SHEARS
-ueurord Youth Killed by Fall
m From Orchard Tree.
MEDFORD, Or., July 7. (Special.)
John Neff, the 16-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Porter J. Neff, was
killed today, when he fell from a tree
in the Miller orchard, near Jackson-
j vile, upon the pruning shears he had
i been using, the blade of the latter
was hurried to the Sacred Heart hos
pital, where he died in about an hour,
John Neff was the only son of At-
torney and Mrs. P. J. Neff, the fam
ily being one of the best known in
Medrord. He had been attending
school in Los Angeles and was spend
ing his summer vacation in this city.
tie joined a workers' crew at the
Miller ranch and had been workin
there only a short time.
NEGRO ASSAILANT AT BAY
Missouri Posses Hunt Convict Who
Attacketl While Girl.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., July 7.
Armed posses are searching for Fred
Canefax. negro convict, who is said
to have attacked a white woman after
( escaping from a prison camp near
Ellington, Mo., late yesterday, accord
ing to a report by Frederick Sill, in
charge of the camp.
Sill said threats had been made to
lynch Canefax if he is caught. .
The victim of the attack Is a rural
route mail carrier. Sill did not know
her name, he said. The assault oc
curred while she was making her
rounds.
Governor Crossley has offered a re
ward of $300 for the apprehension of
Canefax, who was under 20-year sen
tence for robbery in the first degree.
LONGSHORE STRIKE ENDS
7 00 0 AVater front Workers Return
at Old Rate of Pay.
PHILADELPHIA, July 7. Final ar
rangements for the return to 'work
of the 7000 longshoremen and sealers
who have been on strike at this port
since May 26 were completed today
by representatives of the shipping in
terests, strike leaders and Chairman
De Lacey of the industrial relations
committee of the United States ship
ping board.
The men will return tomorrow at
hour. timc and a half ,.or overtlra.
' and double time for Sunday work. '
Probe Goes Back to Taft
Campaign.
SHEAF OF CHECKS SHOWN
Manager Accounts for Ex
penditure of $406,000.
RACE COSTS COMPARED
Witness Declares That Lowden Ex
pense Is' Small Compared to
That of Taft in 1912.
CHICAGO, July 7. The senate com
mittee investigating pre-convention
campaign expenditures of various
candidates today resumed its hear
ings by delving into the organiza
tion and expenditures of backers of
Major-General Wood. The committee
also began an exhaustive inquiry into
the organization In Missouri of Gov
ernor Frank O. Lowden, which did
not end until early in the evening.
after various details of the Taft
Roosevelt fight in 1912 had been
brought up by witnesses.
Chief among the witnesses were
William Loeb, formerly private sec
retary to Theodore Roosevelt, and
who described himself as a "sort of
clearing-house through which Wood
funds in the east passed"; J. L.
Babler, republican national commit
teeman from Missouri, and E. L.
Morse of Excelsior Springs, Mo., de
scribed by witnesses as the distribu
tor of Governor Lowden's campaign
funds in Missouri and "boss of the
third Missouri congressional district."
S 100,000 Is Accounted For.
Ben I. Kesterson of Princton, Mo.,
brought in the Taft-Roosevelt issue.
declaring both had spent more money
in Missouri in 1912 than . Lowden In
1920. and described a system of pay
ment by blank checks for which he
received J23 each, but which, he said,
were cashed for sums up to $250.
Kesterson was a Taft supporter.
After Mr. Loeb had described how
group of New York men under
wrote 11,000,000 for the Wood cam
paign. Senator James Reed took up
the cross-questioning of nearly a
dozen witnesses concerning political
conditions in Missouri and particu
larly in the third congressional dis
trict, which he said was always
noted as a hotbed of political fights."
Mr. Loeb presented ueveral check
books which were transcribed Into
the records and which he said would
show what funds he disbursed. About
f406,00O passed through his hands, he
testified. He also told of sending
cashier's checks for $5000 without
accompanying letters, a . practice
which, he asserted, was not unusual
in politics. He sent these checks
wherever' he was told to by Frank
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Larger Portion of Payment Repre
sents Compensation for Use
of Railroad.
WASHINGTON", July 7. The first
settlement with a railroad company
of all claims arising out of federal
operation was announced today by
the railroad administration, which has
agreed to pay the Spokane, Portland
& Seattle railroad $1,600,000 in cash,
the sum remaining after the balance
of the claims of the railway company
argainst the government and of the
government asrslnst the railway com
pany. The larger portion of the sum
agreed upon represnts the payment
of compensation due to the railroad
company for the use or its property
by the government.
Nearly 500 claims by the various
railroads of tho country remain to be
settled and officials of the railroad
administration believe that the ma
jority will be adjusted on the lump
sum basis after balancing of the con
flicting claims. Claims of some roads
run as high as $10,000,000 or $12,000,
000 and it is impossible to estimate,
officials said, the amount which will
eventually be pi.id over by the gov
ernment or the time necessary to
wind up government control of the
railroads.
AMERICAN GIRL COUNTESS
Miss Consuelo Morgan Weds Ttled
- Frenchman in Paris.
PARIS, July 7. Miss Consuelo
Morgan, daughter of Henry H. Mor
gan, United -States trade commission
er in Belgium, and Count Jean de
Maupas will be married here tomor
row. The ceremony will be in St. Pierre
de Challlot church.
WILSON STAYS IN CAPITAL
President to Spend Summer In
White House; Weather Comfortable
WASHINGTON, July 7. President
Wilson does not now plan to spend
any part of the summer away from
Washington, it was stated today at
the White House.
He does not find the weather here
uncomfortable, it was said.
AUTOS WAITING FOR VISIT
1X DEMOCRATS.
Motor-car owners are invited
to volunteer the use of cars to
take visiting democratic na
tional convention delegates on
the Columbia river highway trip
today. Those having cars that
will be available are requested
to telephone Broadway 440 early
this forenoon, in order that ar
rangements for sufficient gas
oline may be made. For the trip
cars will report at the Oregon
building at 2 P. M. One hundred
cars will be needed.
C. A. BIGELOW,
Acting Mayor.
H. B. VAN DUZER,
President Chamber Commerce.
THE THREATENING STORM.
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Armour & Co., One of Firms Ac
cused, Will Distribute $60,
000,000 Xotcs at 105.
BOSTON, July 7. Indictments
charging profiteering in food were
reported here today by a federal
grand Jury against E. C. Swift & Co.
Armour & Co., N. E. Hollis & Co. and
the Independent Sugar company of
this city The indictments are the
first to be returned In New England
by a federal grand jury for alleged
food profiteering.
The Swift indictment charges that
17 cents was received ior beef which
cost the corporation only 10 V4 cents
a pound, yielding a net profit of 6
cents. The Armour company, it is
charged, sold New Zealand lambs
which cost 9 and a fraction cents for
25 cents a pound. The Hollis com
pany, according to the indictment,
charged 18 ee.its for beef which cost
only 10 cents a pound. The indict
ment against the Independent Sugar
company charges that the corpora
tion sold for 24.2 cents sugar which
cost It 16 cents a pound.
CHICAGO, July 7. Armour & Co.,
packers, today announced a re
capitalization plan under which a
syndicate will be formed for the dis
tribution of $60,000,000 seven per cent
ten-year convertible gold notes,
dated July 15 and redeemable at 105
and accrued interest.
The entire proceeds will be devoted
to the reduction of current liabili
ties, it was announced. The notes I
will be offered at 94.84 and will be
convertible on January 3, 1922. par
for par, into class "A" stock of the
company.
7387 LIVE IN PENDLETON
Oregon City Gains 65.6 Per Cent,
or 2927, Since Last Census.
WASHINGTON. July 7. Census
figues announced today were:
Pendleton, Or., 7387; increase 2927,
or 65.6 per cent.
Holyoke, Mass., 60,203; increase
2473, or 4.1 per cent.
Chanute, Kan., 10,286; increase 1014.
or 10.9 per cent.
PENDLETON, Or., .July 7. (Spe-ial.)-f-Of.ficials
of the Pendleton
Commercial club and pioneer resi
dents of this city ace overjoyed at the
population Pendleton has gained dur
ing the past decade. The gain of 65.6
per cent places Pendleton 7387 and
ranks the round-up city as the larg
est in eastern Oregon. The suburban
townsite of Riverside and the state
institution are not Included in the
census total.
KING TO SIGN FRIDAY
Xorth Schleswlg to Become Part of
Denmark This W eek.
WASHINGTON, July ' 7. King
Christian of Denmark will sign the
act incorporating North Schleswig in
the kingdom of Denmark Friday
which day will be celebrated in all
parts of Denmark as "Reunion Day,"
the Danish legation was informed to
day in a dispatch from Copenhagen.
The king on Saturday, the dispatch
. .1. .1 will malra hia ontwxr intn V V.
1 fchleswig.
Nominee and Platform
Both Praised.
PROGRESSIYENESS IS LIKED
Senator Returns to Oregon
to Visit Family.
PORT PROGRESS LAUDED
Shipping Act Declared Promising to
West Coast Ports Publicity
Is Recommended.
George E. Chamberlain. United
States senator, greeted by grand
children born since his last visit
home, grandchildren so numerous that
he did not know their names, arrived
at the union depot last night and
will spend many weeks in Oregon.
The senator, however, could not kiss
the grandchildren until he had shaken
hands with a group of democratic
friends who assembled to welcome
him.
"The democratic platform," said
Senator Chamberlain, "is more forward-looking
and progressive than
the one adopted by the republicans
at Chioatsu. Governor Cox is a pro
gressive statesman and stands for
much that democrats and progres
sives favor, such as the child-labor
law, compensation act and, in short.
Governor Cox' record along this line
of endeavor is splendid. McAdoo was
my first choice for the nomination, as
he is a man with a national reputa
tion, is far-sighted and able. How
ever, the ticket and platform of San
Francisco should make a splendid ap
peal to the voters."
Statement Is Prepared.
Several years have elapsed since
Senator Chamberlain has had a real
visit in Portland and since then he
has been much in the limelight as
chairman of the senate committee on
military affairs, which played no little
part in the war. The senator, in or
der to lose no time in meeting and be
ing with his family, had prepared a
statement on the train, which he gave
for publication on his arrival. The
statement follows:
"Since I took my seat in the senate,
March 5, 1909, congress has been in
almost continuous session, special and
regular, so that 1 have been by force
of circumstances compelled to remain
t.t my post. I have found that the
btst service' can be rendered by re
maining in Washington, for there, as
in the shop of the mechanic, are the
tools as well as the helpers which
make it possible to do the things
which are essential to the state's de-
elopmtnt.
"I have kept n toucn with the peo
ple and affairs of the state as best I
could, through the instrumentality of
the press and correspondence, and
have always watched the progress
which the state has been making with
the deepest interest.
"The people of the Port of Port
land are to be congratulated on the
show ins they have made in the im
provement to the harbor and the Co
lumbia river. The work has been
done, however, and the money ex
pended will not count for all it is
worth unless we keep the authorities
at Washington advised as to what
improvements have been made and
the possibilities of the Columbia river
and its entrance. It is astonishing
what ignorance exists in the minds
of the men who. ought to understand
the situation with reference to the
improvements at the mouth of the
river and In the channel from Astoria
to Portland.
"It seems impossible to convince
naval authorities that there is no
longer a bar at the mouth of the Co
lumbia river; that the river is naviga
ble the whole way for ocean-going
vessels. We advise the authorities
today and they forget it tomorrow,
so that it is of great interest to our
state that the attention of the authori
ties be constantly directed to tha
river and its mouth. I try to do this
but I find it hard work.
Shipping; Act Is Landed.
"The same may be said of the olher
ports along the Pacific coast where
the people have lavishly expended im
mense sums to assist the government
in harbor improvements.
"A number of things have been ac
complished in the way of legislation
that will be of great advantage to
the west. The shipping act ought to
assist in the development of the state.
Portland, at least, ought to have one
of the seven representatives on the
board, and if attention can be directed
to the necesslt yof this, rather than
the candidacy of any individual, there
is a possibility that Oregon may be
recognized in this connection.
"""Another act which will be of great
benefit to Oregon and the whole of
the northwest is the water power
measure, which at the last moment
was approved by the president. It is
not all- that it ought to be, but it
unlocks the development of hydro
electric energy which has been tied
up for the past ten years. If money
is not available now, it shortly will
be, because I am informed by the
controller of the currency that the
banks have very large sums of money
available for loaning.
"The Oregon delegation has been
iCoucluded on Eae 3, Column 2.J
Weather Bureau Expects That
Level of 100 on July 14, 1919,
Will Be Equaled This Season.
Tou may be thankful you weren't
a traffic policeman yesterday stand
ing on a hot corner for hours, for
yesterday, just as you imagined, was
!
j the hottest day of 19Uu, the temper
! atur reaching 97 at 5 o'clock. Hun
dreds of calls were made on the of- j
fice of the weather bureau to verify;
the porch tnermometers upuii which
the sun had been blazing.
This summer g;vts pood promise of
'approaching again Portland's two
highest records of 102 on July SO,
1907, and July 23. 1S91. The weather
bureau thinks that last year's high
mark of 100. on July 14, will be
equaled soon, and the forecast, fair
and continued warm, may give today
a chance to rival that figure.
The temperature by hours follows:
8 A. M s 2 P. M nr.
a. m 7:1 :; p m !'.
10 A. M SO 4 P. M IX! 1
11 A. M S4 . V. M .7
l'J M S'.tj O P. M !
1 P. M. 7 P. M UO
ROSEBURG, Or., July 7. (Special.)
With the thermometer registering
1 94 degrees at 3 o'clock this after-
non, citizens of this community ex
perienced the warmest day of the
season.
OREGON C1TV, or., July 7. (Spe
cial.) Oregon City experienced ite
hottest day of the season today, with
the- thermometer registering 96 de
grees. WALLA WALLA, Wash., July 7.
(Special.) Hot winds blew today
from the north and northwest but
ar believed to have done little dam
age to wheat, which is practically out
of danger. Continuation of hot winds
may shrivel grain slightly, but cannot
cut yield much, because kernels are
well set and are ripening rapidly.
PROPAGANDA IN U. S. AIM
French Vote Funds to Create "Xevr
Outburst of Solidarity.
PARIS, July 7. The government
has assured the chamber of deputies
that 500.000 francs would be given to
the ministry of liberated regions out
of the 20,000,000 franc propaganda
fund.
It was pointed out that propaganda
was particularly desirable in the
United States to show the tafk ahead
and encourage "a new outburst of
general solidarity with wounded
France."
Appeal Hearing Probable.
WINNIPEG, Man., July 7. The Ju
dicial committee of the British privy
council will consider the application
for a hearing of R. B. Russell's appeal
against the sentence of two years' im
prisonment imposed upon him follow
ing conviction on a charge of se
ditious conspiring, arising out of the
Winnipeg strike last year, according
tc word received here today.
Counsel for the dominion govern
ment and the defense are in London.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 07
degrees; minimum, t4 dosrees.
TO DA Y'S Ka ir. continued warm; north
easterly -Rinds.
Foreign.
Justice Brandels elected international
Zionist president. Page 3.
Germans ask allies to delay demand for
surrender of war material. Page 14.
National.
United States removes restriction on trade
with soviet Russia. Page 1.
Suffrage ratification attacked In court.
Page 2.
Four firms, first in New England, are In
dicted by federal grand jury in Boston
for food profiteering. Fag 1.
U. S. pays $1,600,000 to North Bank In
settlement for federal operation.
Page 1.
Dome, tic.
Johnson declares league is big issue In
campaign and that republican party's
stand is only choice for voters
Page 2.
Women educators demand equal represen
tation on national association commit
tees. Page o.
North Dakota state-owned mill pays low
price for wheat and sells flour above
market price. Page 5.
Delegates crowd a!l outgoing trains at San
Francisco in rush to quit convention
city. Page 4.
Republican leaders reported to have dis
approved Harding ' "front-porch" cam
paign plans. Page 4.
Wood's million bobs up again. Page 1.
Cox asks Louisiana to grant suffrage to
women. Page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
C. E. Woodson appointed University of
Oregon regent. Page 7.
Sports.
Coast League results: Portland .", Vernon
il-J tnninlrsk: San Frflnciscn S K:.oiUl w 11LLM t- - - -
ramento 3: 1.01 Anseles 1, salt Lake city dweller or office drudge," de
i ll innings): Seattle S. Oakland 6i,.,' j ,v, members of the committee.
(11 innings). Page 12.
Rutherford assumes direction of Aggie j
college ainietics. rage i. i
Wilson fights shy of meeting Ortega. 1 Oaks, besides various beaches up and
pae ls- I down the river, where impromptu
Portland golfers have good chance to land ' . .ir,i ..... h,inir hM
northwest title. Page swimming parties w ere being held.
Commercial and Marine. ! The splendid condition found was
Eastern Oregon wool growers making dec lared by the members of the coni-
heavy consignments. Page at. j n,utee to reflect credit upon the sur-
Early advances In Chicago corn market ! Veillance of Harbor Master Speier and
Stock-trading broad and advances general j his cor"s of "S'neers and u the
Page 21. 1 co-operation of bathers and proprie-
I'ortland and Vicinity. I tors of bathing establishments.
State highway commission orders inspec- I The committee, which was an.
tion of Mount Hood loop route. Page 11 i . , .. T . .
Bathing censor, approve one-piece M!i ! pointed by Chief of Police Jenkins f
and discover no immoral conditions. make an inspection and detailed re
Pase 1. ( port 0f conditions, includes: Arthur
Mepage 1" l 97 n hUeSt day ln 13-0' i Sullivan. Ben H Titus, James Sheehy
C. D. Kennedy resigns as district agent ' and i"rank w- Barton, all four mem
for V. S. shipping board to manage ' ber' reporters for Portland newspa
Norton Lilly & Co.'s Portland office, j Three members of the corn
Page 20. per
District Attorney Evans asked to rule on ' niittce are married and two are
whether county shall pay expense of i fathers and Chief Jenkins was of the
checking up petitions Page 9 opinion that they would be able to
Plans for making Sandy boulevard "Rose- , , . ....
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RESORTS ARE HELD SAFE
Tour Reveals No Immoral
Conditions on River.
FEW FOUND "SPOONING'
Crowds Attracted to Water Because
oT Hot Weather Are Declared
to Be Well Behaved.
The one-piece bathing suit as worn
generally by the feminine bathers of
the City of Portland is a modest and
sensible garment and not nearly so
suggestive as some other creations of
a more elaborate character which only
make their wearer conspicuous.
This was the unanimous opinion of
the citizens' committee for the inspec
tion of bathers and bathing conditions
after the committeemen had been
piloted on a tour of the various bath
ing establishments and beaches of the
city by Engineer Prehn of the harbor
patrol yesterday.
Nothing of a seriously suggestive
or immoral character was seen by
members of the committee on the
tour of inspection and the inspectors
expressed themselves as well pleased
with the high standard enforced at
the various bathing places.
One-Plec-e Suit Approved.
The inspection ol the water front
was made following numerous reports
received by Chief of rolie.e Jenkins
that immodest costumes and conduct
was being tolerated and that in some
instances people were going in bath
ing without costumes.
The committee decided that the
knit, close-fitting bathing suit is not
an immodest garment for the girl
swimmer or man swimmer either, pro
vided it is not worn too tight. The
tendency was found more common
among men than women swimmers to.
wear a suit which was too tight. This
tendency was condemned by the in
spectors who recommended that more
care be taken by swimmers in the
selection of a suit which would fit
properly.
Beaches Deelared Safe.
The bathing places and beaches of
the city were declared safe for moth
ers to send their daughters to as the
result of the inspection. Reports of
scantily-clad couples in canoes along
the water front were also found by
he committee to be greatly exag
gerated. As a result of the unusually
hot weather yesterday there were a
great many out in canoes and boats,
but no trace of immoral doings was
observed, the committee reported.
The summer rush to th bathing
places was on in full blast yesterday
as a result of the unusually hot
weather and many had flocked to
the various swimming places. The
inspectors found a happy crowd of
athletic young people, all of whom
were out for a good, wholesome time.
lloyn Frightened Out.
. Those days of real sport were
brought to mlna when a half dozen
youngsters who had been bathing
without suits Just off the sand bank,
below the Inman Poulsen mill were
"flushed" by the harbor patrol launch.
With visions of angry policemen af
ter them, the youngsters ran for cover
with their clothing !n their hands.
That was the oiUt instance where
bathers were se; without costumes
and this was in an unfrequented sec
tion and the bathers were small boys.
The joys of living in a houseboat
on the river during the summer
months were revealed as the result of
a tour made along the houseboat colo
nies. Matrons and maids clad in
buttling suits were seen unius a ium
at ironing, washing dishes or rocking
the babv. Now and then they would
Itake a plunge into the depths of the
river from the back porch to cool otr.
Police Work Praised.
"It was a revelation of the simple
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The tour yesterday included the
bathing places at Windemuth and The
nS last evening voted an appropria
tion of $1700 to construct a hydro
plane landing at 42d street dock.
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