VOL. LIX NO. 18.757
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Poatofflce as Second-Clan Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ETHERIDGE FREED,
IS BEADY TO TALK
$30,000 FIRE RAZES
SILVER LAKE SCHOOL
10 0 PUPILS TO GET VACATION'
AS RESULT OF BLAZE.
MAYOR TO ASSUME
POLICE CHIEF JOB
KLAMATH OFFICIALS
IGNORE INJUNCTION
WOODSMAN MARVELS
AT WONDERS OF CITY
MEN'S SPRING SUITS
DROP $27 WHOLESALE
BEST-MADE WORSTEDS NOW
BRING $53, WERE $80.
NORTHWEST FEELS
.GETS ROAD FIDS
OF
ORDER BARRIXG COURTHOUSE
LEVY DISREGARDED.
TIME AND EVENTS SLIP PAST
64-YEAR-OLD HUNTER.
EASTERN
OREGON
SHOCK
STORM
Bond of $20,000 Posted
After All-Day Effort.
JUGGLERY TO BE REVEALED
Immunity to Be Asked in Re
turn for Confession.
OVERTURE ALREADY MADE
Ex-Head of Bond House N'ot Yet
Ready to GiTe Interviews; Miss
Morris' Holdings Sought.
DAY'S DEVELOPMKVTS IX
ETHERIDGE CASE.
Etheridge Is released from
county jail at 6 P. M. after Dis
trict Judge Deich approves
120,000 bail bond posted by C.
M. Senosky and Arthur Moles
worth. Authentic report made that
Etherdlge will turn against
Fred S. Morris and reveal tan
gled financial dealings with
former sponsor in turn for im
munity. Etheridge will seek to
throw all responsibility for
failure of bond house on shoui- 1
ders of Morris. This offer Is J
now under consideration. J
FederalJudge Wolverton sigus
'order prohibiting Henrietta J
Morris from withdrawing per-
sonal securities and property I
of unknown value from safety
deposit box at Morris Bros., t
Inc.
Receiver's attorneys prepar- 2
ing to train legal guns on Mor-
ris In effort to show he and his 1
sister are personally responsl- j
ble to firm's creditors. t
Complete schedule of liabili- j
ties and creditors being listed
for filing in federal court to- f
day. I
Cause of Flumes Is Undetermined.
Bucket Brigade Can Only Save
Adjacent Buildings.
BE.VD. Or.. Jan. 4. f Special.) One
hundred children were deprived of
their ciaos rooms and five teachers
were left Jobless when the $25,000
school building at Silver Lake, in
Lake county, burned to the ground
early this morning. The cause of the
fire has not been determined. The
loss. Including furnishings, was $30,
000, of which only S3500 was covered
by insurance. News of the fire was
received here this afternoon by tele
phone.
The fire was discovered at 4 o'clock-
thls morning, when a resident of Sil
ver Lake, who had chanced to rise at
that hour, saw the flames. At that
time the blaze apparently had a half
hour's start, for fire was darting
from the windows. The entire inside
of the building practically was con
sumed.
Bucket brigades were unable to
combat the flames successfully and
the only work which could be done
was in preventing the fire from
spreading to nearby buildings, a task
which was made especially difficult
by the fact that a high wind "as
blowing. The loss was confined to
the one structure, however.
Whole Department to Be
Whipped Into Shape.
CHANGE SLATED FOR MONDAY
Jenkins III, but Doing Good
Work, Says Mr. Baker.
"PEP" IS HELD NEEDED
Office or City Chief Executive to
Be Moved Bigelow Takes
Over All Other Duties.
CITIZENS DROP BUSINESS
John L Etheridge. accused presi
dent of the wrecked bond house of
Morris Brothers, Inc., was released
yesterday at 5:45 P. M., from the
Multnomah county iail upon the post
ing of 120,000 bonds which were set
by District Judge Deich. The release
from Jail followed all-day efforts of
Mrs. Etheridge, wife of the accused
bond hduse exresldent. and his
friends toward posting the required
amount.
Bond for Mr. Etheridge, originally
placed at J110.5OO on the two counts
preferred against him, was reduced
to J20.000 at request- of District At
torney Evans. The first warrant
charged larceny by bailee of less than
12000. The second alleged theft of
Jiu.000 in bonds was as Mr. Etheridge
loft the city. This has been nullified
by recovery of the bonds In question.
nen tney were expressed here to
Kred S. Morris. The original amounts
of ball were $10,500 on the first
charge and 100,000 on the second.
KtherldKe Quits Jail.
The bondsmen for Mr. Etheridge
were C. M. Senosky, publisher of the
Sunday Welcome, and Arthur Moles
worth, assistant claim agent for the
Portland Railway. Light & Power Co.
An affidavit by Mr. Senosky that he
13 wuiiq kuovc tQu.uuu. and an affi
davit by Mr. Molesworth that he is
worth above $25,000 were approved
by District Attorney Evans and then
officially approved and filed by
J udge Deich.
A few minutes later, or shortly
before 6 o'clock, Etheridge left the
county Jail with his wife and a few
personal friends who had been ar
ranging for the bond throughout the
day. Charles Hlndmafi appeared as
temporary attorney for Mr. Etheridge
in this matter, but said he would be
unable la serve permanently for the
teason that his legislative duties
starting next week will not permit
him to give his full time to the ac
cused man's defense.
Ktheritee to Talk.
From an authoritative source it
was learned that Mr. Etheridge is
rendy to talk. He Is prepared to bare
to prosecuting officials and to W. I.
Whitcomb. receiver for the bond
house, a complete and truthful story
of the financial dealings between
himself and Kred S. Morris.
In return for this detailed confes
sion of his relations with Morris lead
ling up to the fatal crash of the bond
house December 27. he will ask for
immunity, it is reported by the same
was said yesterday that the in
formation which Etheridge Is now
willing to turn over to the receiver
and District Attorney Evans Is of a
nature which he alleges will defi
nitely fix the responsibility for the
wreck of the firm on Fred S. Morris.
Offer to Erin Reported.
It was reported tnat Etheridge first
made his offer to "talk" at his Initial
conference "with District Attorney
Evans. This offer, it is reported, was
transmitted to Receiver Whitcomb
and Is now under consideration. It is
said that Whether or not any deal
will be made with Etheridge will de
pond entirely upon the nature and im-
Walla Walla Merchants Volunteer
for Child Hunt.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Jan. 4
Business men of Walla 'Walla this
afternoon forsook their personal af
fairs to assist in the search for the
body of little Goldle Eadon, who was
drowned in Garrison creek yesterday.
A call for volunteers was made at
the weekly luncheon of the commer
cial club, and several automobile
loads of merchants and professional
men, dressed in thdir fishing boots,
took up the search this afternoon.
In the meantime .city and county
officials have a force of men at work
damming the stream where it breaks
from Mill and Yellowcawk creek?,
and the flow will be diverted to these
streams. It is thought that the body
may thus be found more easily.
RECRUITING HALT IS AIM
Two Resolutions Are Introduced in
Senate During Day.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 Two reso
lutions proposing to stop or limit re
cruiting were introduced in the sen
ate today.
Senator Dial, democrat, South Caro
lina, proposed to prohibit further re
cruiting for army, navy and marine
corps, the resolution asserting that
252,000 men had been obtained during
the year for the three services, caus
ing a deficit in appropriations and a
burden beyond the capacity of the
country to endure.
Senator New. republican. Indiana,
proposed to instruct the secretary of
war to stop army enlistments until
the force was reduced to 175,000 men,
the number appropriated for in cur
rent biUs. .
WIFE FASTS: MATE IS FIRM
Mayor Baker will assume complete
personal charge of the Portland police
department beginning Monday morn
ing. He will transfer his office from
the city hall to the police station,
there to remain until hehas whipped
the department into shape satisfac
tory to himself.
With him will go his secretary, Hal
M. White, and Stanley Meyers, as
sistant city attorney, as aides. During
his absence from the city hall, which
will probably be for a period extend
ing from two weeks to a month, or
possibly longer, the mayor will at
tempt to handle no municipal work
of any kind, other than that concern
ing the police department. City Com
missioner Bigelow, president of the
council, will assume charge of the ex
ecutive office and handle all work
usually devolving upon the mayor,
with the single exception of police
matters, which will be referred to the
mayor.
Jenkins' Health Impaired.
This move, announced yesterday,
was made because of the Impaired
health of Chief of Police Jenkins, who
has baldly recovered from a severe
illness. The mayor in making the
announcement declared that Chiet
Jenkins had performed notable work
and had labored to such an extent
that he has become practically a phys
ical wreck. The mayor's purpose was
to reinforce the chief for the time
jcing and relieve him of the worry
Incident to the multitude of prob
lems confronting the police depart
ment of this and other cities at pres
ent. It was only a few weeks ago that
the mayor retained from an extensive
tour of the coast, during which time
ha made personal investigation of the
erirr.e concisions and police methods
in vogue in otner coast cities.
"Pep" Is Declared Needed.
Although Mayor Baker declared
that crime conditions in Portland are
not nearly so alarming as in other
western cities, he was likewise of the
opinion, and members of the council
Budget Providing
for
$50,000
Completion ot Hot Springs
Building: Formally Adopted.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or, Jan. 4.
(Special.) The county courTT Ignoring
the injunction issued by Judge Calk
ins of J'edford December 21 forbidding
the levy of $50,000 to complete the Hot
Springs courthouse included the item
in the 1921 budget adopted late today.
A miscellaneous fund, also forbidden
by the injunction, was cut to $12,000
and adopted.
Application to dissolve the injunc
tion was made today by J. P. Lee,
county assessor, to Circuit judge
KuykendaLl, based on alleged lack
of Jurisdiction by Judge Calkins.
Judge Kuykendall declined to accept
the application.
Attorneys for Frank Ward, a Main
street courthouse supporter, who
brought the Injunction suit as an in
terested taxpayer, said the complaint
was laid before Judge Calkins be
cause he had been assigned by Chief
Justice McBride to hear all litigation
arising from the courthouse contro
versy.
GAS RATE RISE APPROVED
Vancouver City Council to Object
to Public Service Verdict.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Jan. 4.
(Special.) The rise in gas rates for
Vancouver has been approved by the
Washington public service commis
sion and will go Into effect unless,
objection is made. The city council
has taken up the matter and objec
tion will be made. At the meeting of
the new council tonight H. J. Flagg,
engineer for the public service com
mission, spoke relative to the rise.
He is the engineer detailed to make
the investigation for the commission.
Considerable objection has been
made locally against the rise.
(Concluded on Page 4, Column 4.)
4 AMERICANS LEAVE URFA
3 Others Believed Awaiting Oppor
tunity to Escape.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4. Four of seven
American relief workers stationed in
the beseiged cry of urfa, Cilicia,
since August 19, have escaped and
reached Aleppo, a dispatch to the
Near East relief headquarters an
nounced today.
The three others, whose safety was
reported December 2S, are believed
awaiting an opportunity to leave.
CARDINAL QUIET, RESTFUL
No Trace of Reaction From Trip
Home Is Found.
BALTIMORE, Md Jan. 4. Cardinal
Gibbons passed a quiet and restful
day in his room, according to his phy
sician. There was no trace of unfa
vorable reaction from his trip Mon
day from the Robert T. Shriver home
at Union Mills, he said.
Among- those who called at thei
cardinal's residence was Governor
Ritchie.
Fred Gosseri Rides Train and Sees
Tall Buildings for First Time
When He Vteits Portland.
Join Fred Gosser on a hunt in
Douglas county and he will lead you
through such mazes of canyons and
ridges that direction ceases to be,
while you toddle along behind your
vigorous guide wit trusting confi
dence in his ability to read the geo
graphical riddle and trail you safely
back again. Under such conditions
the native talents of this southern
Oregon woodsman bring the city-bred
to the blank wall of self-confessed
inadequacy.
But Gosser, his weathered visage
rapt with wonder, stared up at the
tall buildings of Portland yesterday,
and vowed repeatedly that but the
half had been told him of the march
of progress. In all his 64 years of
life In the hills, Gosser, now grizzled,
but active as any younester. never
before had visited a city larger than
Roseburg, where his pioneer parents
settled more than 00 years ago.
Douglas county was his hbme range
and though he rode It from border
to border, and knows a thousand scat
tered landmarks in the labyrinth of
the hills, the commonplaces of modern
life were as mysterious to him as to
any tribesman who moved aside when
the 'steam wagons'' thrust through
Oregon.
Until he gave reluctant consent and
came to Portland on his present visit,
Gosser had never traveled on a train,
nor had he ridden in a street car or
realized the superiority of elevators
over stairs. It was James Hutchings,
business man of Roseburg, and former
resident of Portland, who persuaded
him to make the trip and who con
voyed him through a score of belated
adventures.
I was 10 years old when my folk
came to Roseburg from California,"
narrated the woodsman, "but in them
days there wasn't' any Roseburg just
a few scattered houses. My father was
Frank Gosser, dead these 30 yearB,
and mother and him came from Ger
many direct to the Pacific coast. The
old donation land claim is pretty well
known in Southern Oregon as the
Gosser ranch. Well, I spent my days
there, moving into town a few years
ago. Retired, as you might say.
"When I was a boy the stageline
was the way we traveled. It ran from
Portland, here, to Roseburg and then
down to California. I knew some of
the fellows well that used to drive
stage George Roberts of Glendale,
and Jim Wright, and Nort Eddings of.
Gold Hill. Them lads knew how to
cover tne miles, ana 1 guess I never
quite got the notion that these trains
was as safe and sure as the stage.
Railway Cars Seemed Uaaafe.
"I never did hanker to ride on the
cars. It appeared to me they couldn't
be safe. But I ain't afraid no more
after this trip. Say, it was the finest
in the world. Then these here street-
ears are pretty convenient, though I
didn't use to believe there was such
things. I never saw one before and
when the boys used to tell me that
in Eugene they ran cars on a.wire, up
and down the street, I laughed at'em.
Contracts Totaiing $434,
481 Awarded.
HALF MILLION BONDS SOLD
Commission Holds Others
Back for Better Prices.
FURTHER WORK PLANNED
Orders for Advertising for Several
Projects Placed and New Sur
veys Also Authorized.
STATE HIGHWAY COMMIS- t
SION DOINGS. !
Resolution adopted on the I
death of -Commissioner Kiddle. t
Miles of work contracted, J
58.78.
Contracts awarded aggregat- 4
ing 8434,481.
Only 8500,000 In road bonds
out of 81,500,000 offered because
price dropped to 90.71. i
Advocates of inside loop ad- 7
(Concluded on Page 4. Column S. )
Woman Scorns Food 3 7 Days When
Husband Won't Join Her Church.
DANVILJ..E. III., Jan. 4. Mrs. Ern
est S. Harrington has fasted 37 days
and declared she will continue to ab
stain from taking nourishment until
her husband Joins the church of which
she is a member.
"I do not believe in her kind of re
ligion and besides I am not ready to
Join the church." said the husband
today. He added that food had been
offered his wife every day since her
fast began but that she refuses to
eat. A doctor today said she was rap
idly starving to death.
OCEAN RATES ARE ISSUE
SLIPPING ONE OVER ON THE PRESIDENT.
vised to develop it as a market
road.
Ordered for advertising
Grading of old Oregon Trail
from Umatilla county line to La
Grande; culverts between Bend
and Minigan; Clackamas river
bridge.
Agreed to advertise when en
gineers are ready Nineteen
miles of grading on Prineville
Mitc'iell road; Prineville-Red-mond
section; grading of four
miles between McNamee and ,
Tilley, Wheeler county.
Survey ordered for 38 miles
between Condon and Arlington,
on John Day highway.
Will advertise for paving of
Albany-Tangent- section when
bonds rare sold to grade Tan-gent-Hffrrlsburg
section.
Parity on Wheat and Flour Urged
but Without Increase.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Heavy
losses to American farmers would re
sult from any increase in flour ex
port rates, representatives of milling
Interests said today at the shipping
board hearing on readjustment of
ocean rates on grain and grain prod
ucts. Spokesmen for the millers favored
a parity on wheat and flour rates,
but urged there be no Increase in the
existing differential ot 5 cents a hun
dred pounds In favor of flour.
PHONE TESTIMONY HOLDS
Divorce Suit by Long Distance Wire
Proves Success.
CHICAGO. Jan. 4. A divorce suit
by long distance telephone was heard
in circuit court today when a divorce
was granted to Mrs. Theodore B.
Fogelstrm.
Mrs. Foselstrom's father, J. D. Hol
man of Centerville, la., was unable to
come to Chicago, so lawyers took his
testimony over the telephone.
BOARD POSTPONES SALE
Concluded o& fxa Column Li
Surplus Shipping Materials Taken
Off Market Indefinitely.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Indefinite
postponement of the sale of surplus
shipping materials on the Pacific
coast was announced tonight by the
shipping board. '
Materials were advertised by the
board for sale by competitive bids
January. 14. ,
-
Eastern and central Oregon road
affairs predominated at the state
highway commission meeting yester
day, although those sections have no
representative on the commission
since the death of E. E. Kiddle. It
was the first session for Commis
sioner John B. Yeon.
Tljere is a drive under way by Mal
heur, Baker and Union counties to
speed up the grading of the old Ore
gon Trail, which connects with the
Columbia river highway at Pendleton,
and Grant, Wheeler and Gilliam coun
ties are. pressing the commission for
more work on the John Day highway.
Deschutes and Jefferson are seeking
development of The Dalles-California
highway and Deschutes and Crook
counties are asking for help for the
McKenzie highway. All of these proj
ects received encouragement.
The commissioners, however, were
somewhat -astonished at the drop in
the prices of highway bonds. The
road body offered 81.500.000 of 4U per
cent bonds and the best bid received
was from Carstens & Earle and asso
ciates on a 90.71 basis, which Is the
lowest bid since last August, when
90.08 was offered and accepted. In
November the price was 94.58. The
commissioners decided that J500.000
was enough to dispose of at 9,0.71.
If the roadmen were disappointed at
the bond prices, they were pleased at
the bids submitted by contractors,
which were better than usual.
Some Counties Hampered.
Various counties owe the commis
sion money, which the latter stands
in need of, but counties with bond
issues in many instances can sell their
bonds only at parv and the par bond
market doesn't exist -just now. The
commission intimated that the legis
lature might come to the rescue by
authorizing the highway commission
to accept county road bonds as se
curity for loans until the market is
such that the counties can sell satis
factorily
If urgency and eloquence and a dis
position to co-operate count for any
thing, long strides should be made
this year on the old Oregon trail
Contracts were awarded yesterday for
grading 19.3 miles of thisroad, from
Nelson to Huntington, in Baker
county. The Baker county court of
fered 8115.000 to apply as the com-
! mission sees fit from Baker to Hunt
ington, and then borrowed 85000 to
pay for contractors' estimates on the
North Powder section. Malheuivcounty
had a delegatipn offering money for
grading from Huntington, to Ontario,
the end of the old Oregon trail.
Union county, now that its bonds
have been validated by the supreme
court, asked for bids to be advertised
from the Umatilla county line, at Ka-
Markct Opening in Chicago Indi
cates Factories Are Slashing
Prices lor Retail Trade.
CHICAGO, Jan. 4. The market for
men's spring and summer clothing
was opened in Chicago today and
manufacturers offered suits much be
low those of the spring of 1920.
One of the leading factories in the
ready-made trade quoted the manu
facturers' price of wool suits at 825.
compared with 840 last fall and 837
a year ago. Fine blue serge suits are
offered at 830 compared wUh 857 last
fall and 843 one year ago. A stand
ard worsted suit Is now wholesaled at
834 compared with 845 for spring of
1920.
The very finest worsted suits made
in America are now offered at 853,
compared with 880, the price last fall.
Fine worsted trousers are now 89.
compared with 812.50 last spring.
Prices for summer goods, such as mo
hairs and palm beaches, range up
ward from 814.50, compared with
816.50 last year.
A committee of 15 to investigate
livestock marketing, conditions and
recommend a plan of improvement
was nanud :cday by J. R- Howard,
president of tne American Farm Bu
reau federation. Co-operative mar
keting, better prices and lower com
mission fees are among the subjects
to be given attention, it was an
nounced. The committee included J B. Ken
drlck, Sheridan, Wyo.
PITTSBURG, Jan. 4. -The Jones &
Laughlin Steel company, one of the
largest' of the independents, today re
duced its selling prices on steel pipe
and other tubular goods to the level
of the industrial board prices of
March 21, 1919. This movement fol
lows the lead of the Republic Iron
& Steel company last week and vir
tually places all steel products on
the basis of the United States Steel
corporation.
LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 4. Low
prices today resulted In calling off
all sales on the Lexington loose leaf
market, the Carlisle, Ky., burley to
bacco market and tie Marysville, Ky.
warehouses. Growers at some of the
markets said "they would not give
their tobacco away."
Knives were drawn at tha Car
lisle market following impassioned
speeches by growers and threats
against buyers, the growers declaring
that to accept tne prices offered by
buyers meant bankruptcy. Cool heads
among "he hundreds attending pre
vented trouble. General disorder also
prevailed at Marysville.
Prices at Lexington ranged from
81 to 830 a hundred pounds.
High Winds and Rain Do
Damage Everywhere.
PORTLAND CAR LINES HALTED
Big Window Is Blown Out;
Wires and Poles Felled.
SLIDES BLOCK HIGHWAY
Dam at Bonneville Hatchery Is
Washed Out Basements Near
Willamette River Flooded. '
HARDING SCANS RAILWAYS
Problems of Lines and Labor Dis
cussed With W. M. Doak.
MARION, O., Jan. 4. Railways and
railway labor were discussed today
by. President-elect Harding with
W. M, Doak, vice-president d"f the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
Mr. Doak after the conference ex
pressed the opinion that Mr. Hard
ing's attitude toward labor was sym
pathetic and that labor . questions
would not be difficult under the next
administration.
Mr. Harding's campaign support of
the Esch-Cummins railway measure,
wtiich many railroad employes op
posed, made the conference signifi
cant, but Mr. Doak would not say
whether the subject was covered to
day. Mr. Harding will motor to Colum
bus tomorrow to be raised to a 32d
degree Mason, the ceremonies occu
pying his entire day.
It store blown in.
hone poles blown over 1
1 Portland. i
een. Wash. Roads J
WHAT THE STORM DID TO
PORTLAND AND THE PA
CIFIC NORTHWEST.
Rise of river to 19-foot stage
predicted by weather bureau.
Dam at Bonneville fish hatch
ery washed out with damage
estimated at 89000.
Section of roof, blown from
phonograph factory, crashes
through high-tension wires and
blocks traffic.
Plate-glass window of Meier
& Frank store blown in.
Teleph
in south
Aberde
flooded and travel made dlffl
cult.
Hood River, Or. Columbia
highway blocked by slide near
Wyeth. Five .Inches of snow
falls in valley.
Seaside Or. Gale and high
waters endanger bridge near by.
Astoria, Or. Gale raging at
rate of 75 miles an hour. North
Head also hit.
Ellensburg, Wash. Worst
storm of year raging In Cascade
mountains. Snowfall heavy and
wind high.
Chehalls. Wash. Valleys of
Chehalis and Newaukum flood
ed as result of terrific storm
and rain. Chehalis streets
flooded.
Vancouver, Wash. Columbia
river at 15-foot stage and still ,
rising while rain downpour j
continues. 1
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S. Maximum temperature, 37
degrees; minimum, 40 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; strong southerly winds.
Foreign.
Adventures of lost balloonists recited by
them. Page 13.
Lord Mayor of Cork slips into United States.
Page 4.
National.
Tariff measure believed lost. Page 8.
War finance board revived over Wilson's
veto. Page 2.
Names of slackers sought by American
legion. Page 3.
President -elect Harding under no political
obligation to Harry Daugherty. Page 4.
Domestic
Men's spring suits drop $27 wholesale.
Page L
Pacific 'orthwe-t.
530,000 fire razes Silver Lake school.
Page 1.
Idaho legislature indorses Governor Davis
for appointment io ciDinei post, rage i.
Appointment of non-resident to state health
board job is fought. Page 7.
Klamath county court ignores injunction
barring courthouse item in budget.
Page 1.
Washington legislature races big task.
Page 5.
Sport.
Gorman and Grunan primed for fight.
Rage 12.
Blow-up of Interscholastic Athletic league
wrecks basketball season. Page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat and flour movement to Europe is of
average volume. Page 18. ,
Chicago wheat market fails to maintain
Monday'B advance. Pago 19. ,
Bonds strong, but stocks irregular in Wall
street market. Jfage 19.
Portland among commerce leaders. Page 18.
Portland and Vicinity.
Three Portland and two Astoria pharma
cies accused of selling narcotics to ad-.
diets. Page ZD.
' Fred Gosser, 64-year-old woodsman, visits
I fnr flritt time in hi Ifff Par. 1
mela, to Hilgard, and from Hilgard County taxes for 1921 highest in history!
to La uranae, aii oi wnicn is also on page io.
J the trail. Union county's request was
granted. This will be a road with a
16-foot'top, or 20-foot w'dth of grade.
Gilliam Aakii for Survey.
Definite progress is In sight for
the John Day highway. Gilliam
county asked for an "umediate survey
and location betweel Arlington, where
; the John Day conntts with the Co-
I lumbia highway, an! Condon, 3S miles,
xCoAfiiuded oa PdftU 3. Column l.x
Lumber industry, although stagnant, shows
evidence or revival, rase u.
Visitors worship at shrine of the rose.
pge 6.
Eastern Oregon gets large share of latest
highway commission contracts. Page"!.
Etheridge, free on bond. Is ready to bare
Jugglery. Page 1.
Mayor Baker to assum.3utles of chlf of
police to whip department into bapc.
Fae 1.
Shock of storm hits Portland and north
west. Page 1.
Dr. Adolph O. Schmitt recites marital woea
in court. Pile ,
Storm damage "ranglnsr from lifted
roofs to flooded basements, and In
cluding washed-out roads, landslides
and broken telephone and telegraph
wires, were reported yesterday from
all sections of western Oregon and
parts of Washington. The Willamette
river, already a yellow, rushing tor
rent, will continue to rise for the next
two davs and reach a stage of 39
feet by Thursday, It was predicted
last night bj Edward L. Wells, dis
trict forecaster.
A maximum wind velocity of 75
miles an hour was attained at North
Head yesterday afternoon .and though
the wind had dropped to 36 miles an
hour at 5 P. M., there was no pros
pect of more than a temporary abate
ment of the storm.
Damage Done In Portland.
Though the wind blew no more than
26 miles an hour at Portland, this
velocity-was sufficient to cause con
siderable damage. Two of the freak
ish tricks performed by the storm In
this city were to blow in one of the
big plate glass windows In the Meier
& Frank store on the Morrison-street
side of the building at Fifth street,
and to lift a portion of the roof of
the Stradivara Phonograph company's
factory at Bast Thirty-fourth street
and Broadway and hurl it through a
high-tension wire of the Portland
Railway, Light & Power company.
Sailing through the air, this sec
tion of roof bowled over several poles
carrying the high-tension wires, and
before its career ended, four spans
of wire were flat on the ground. The
breaking of this power line gave a
brilliant electric display before the
power could be cut off, and traffic
was blocked for almost two hours.
Downtown street-car lines were par
tially paralyzed for more than an
hour.
Poles Are Blown Down.
Several poles of the Pacific Tele
phone & Telegraph company In south
Portland were blown over late yes
terday afternoon. The Western Union
Telegraph company reported a few
branch lines out, although the main
lines were still working at 7. o'clock
last night. Aside from the damage'
to power lines, street cars were de
layed by the very force of the storm
on the east side of Mount Tabor and
in the St. Johns district, where wea
ther conditions were reported as s
"small blizzard."
Toll lines of the telephone com
pany were severed and grounded by
trees blown across the wires 10 miles
east of Astoria and eight miles north
of Roseburg, though the damage was
expected last night to be repaired be
fore daylight.
One Rail Line Hae Trouble.
A check of the railroads last night
revealed the remarkable fact that,
notwithstanding the severe storm,
trouble was reported on but one line,
that of the Southern Pacific system
running to Coos Bay. There was a
washout Just this sido of Cushman
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