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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1921)
TITE MOnXIXG OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, . 1921 i gallantry and meritorious service In the battle of Soissons. France, July 19. 1911 News of this citation was received last week from head-quarters ct the famous First division by Mrs. Hoover in th'e form of a certificate made out by command of Major-Gen-eral SuTtmorall, who commanded the division Toung Hoover was one of the Wheeler county high school boys who volunteered when war was -declared in 1917. He was just a week past his ISth birthday. ' He went from Fossil to Portlard. where he joined the Third Oregon, company C. He was among the first to- go overseas, remaining there until after the armistice was signed. He was wounded twice, at one time was in the hospital three months, but on recovering hastened back to the front. Ei "It Always Pays to Shop at Meier & Frank's?' "It Always Pays to Shop at Meier & Frank's" Of Course None of the Customary Meier & Frank Services or Courtesies Are Sus pended or Curtailed During These Sales Carl R. Gray of Union Pacific Due Today. Request for Charity Loan De velops Big Deficit. ALF SESSION OPENS THURSDAY TREASURY SHORT $300,000! REALTY Mi IS ARRESTED j Adjustment of Freight and Passen- &cr Facilities Centering at Union Station to Be Considered. Commissioners Order Immediate Road Work Where Repairs Are Found Jfecessary. Today and All This Week While Quantities Last CHECK FORGERY IS LAID TO Ii. M. LAWRENCE. 20 WEUli COUlw TOO POOR FOR TERMINAL MEET TO ASSIST WELFAR PRICE DAYS Carl R. Gray, president of the Union Pacific system, will arrive in Port land this morning to represent his line's interests at a conference that will bring- io this city high officials nt various railroads now using the local terminal facilities centering at the Union station. They will meet Thursday in the office of J. P. O'Brien, rice-president and general manager of the O. W. R. & N., for the purpose of adjusting: differences between the so-called Harriman and Hill proper tics for Joint usage of th terminal. William Sproule, president of the Southern Pacific system, will reach Portland from his headquarters In San Francisco, probably tomorrow. Others who will be here include L. C. Oilman, viee-presideirt of the Great Northern, Seattle: Charles Donnelly, president of the Northern Pacific St. Paul; Judge George T. Reid. vice president of the Northern Pacific, Ta coma: William F. Turner, president of the. Spokane. Portland & Seattle, with headquarters in Portland. Just how long these officials will lie here is not known, but it will prob ably be a few days, as the problems coming up for adjustment involve not only their own interests, but the city's as well, and the state public service commission and interstate commerce commiFsion are also Interested on lookers. How to adjust their affairs so as to accommodate trains of the Great Northern and the Spokane. Portland & Seattle lines an a permanent fea ture, is the direct question to be settled. A truce was recently ar ranged between the two roads named, which are non-member tenants of the Northern Pacific terminal company, ijnd the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific systems, tenant members, who hj ordered the two out of the yards December 31, 1920. Because of the fact that it was felt the city should have a union terminal station for freight and passengers, the city, through Mayor Baker, became Interested in the subject and a com mittee was named, consisting of the presidents of civic clubs, to investi gate the situation. Then the stata commission was cailed in and finally an appeal was taken to the interstate commission and a date was set for hearing, when the truce was called at the request of the railroads. E. L. SMITH FUNERAL HELD All Hood River Close as Business Tribute. Placer HOOD RIVER, Or- Jan. 24. Spe eial.) All place of business were closed for two hours today while Hood River paid honor to E. li Smith, Hood River valley's first citizen, who died at his homer Saturday, aged 83. The Riverside community church was crowded with pioneers. Rev. W. G. Eliot, pastor of the Church of Our Father in Portlan and a friend of nearly 60 years standing, delivered th funeral aer- in on. He read a memorial tribut written by his father. Dr. T. L. Eliot pastor emeritus of the First Unita rian church of Portland, who was unable to attend the service because of ill health. Mr. Smith was first master of the local Masonic lodge, a Knight Tern plar and Shrine member. The local lodge of Masons attended in a body, observing ritualistic services. The pallbearers, all members of the lod were L. N. Blower, W. H. Chipping T. A. Reavis, W. L. Clark. George F Stranahan and A. J. Derby. Th honorary pallbearers, all pioneers or the section, were S. F. Blythe, C Dethman. Henry L. Howe, M. D O'Dell. Robert Rand of Hood River and H. A. Jewett of White Salmon, Wash. The body, accompanied by mem bers of the family and friends, war taken to Portland over the Columbi; river highway for cremation. It was the first funeral cortege ever to pass down the Colombia gorge. ALLEGED GAMBLERS HELD Six Men in Jail at Vancouver and One Is Out on Bail. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Jan. 24. (Special.) Six men were lodged in jail and a seventh was released under 70 bail as a result of a raid on an alleged poker game at the Railroad club, Fourth and Washington streets, late Saturday night by the sheriff's office and the police department. P. Tonneston was held on a charge of operating the place and put up bail. The other six are William Ve tere, F. J. Walsh, Archie Wilson, W. Sutton, Albert Plmentel and J. Brust. Name of W. W. Metzger Is Alleged to Have Been Signed to Paper for $1000 Given to Bank. - K M. Lawrence, real estate sales man, was arrested yesterday by Po lice Inspectors Tackaberry and Phil lips and was held at police headquar ters on a charge of forgery. It was alleged he forged the name of W. W. Metzger to a check for 11600 which he attempted to rash at the United States National bank. Lawrence, it was alleged, forged the signature and took the check to the bank to have it certified. One of the tellers noticed the alleged forgery and notified the officials. As Law rence was returning to the bank to get the check, he was taken into cus tody. It was alleged that he forged another check for 900 at the same bank last May. At that time he was alleged to have used the name of C. J. Cooper. In his operations yesterday he used another alias. It was charged by the police that Lawrence stole nine checks belonging to a trust fund of which W. W. Metz cer was president. It was one of these checks which was used in the alleged forgery yesterday. Employes at the bank positively identified Lawrence as the man who had presented the check for certification. HIT BY TIN DIES CHARLES F. WEST STEPS OX SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRACKS. Engineer Says Accident Victim Be came Confused After Light ing Pipe Nearby. JURY TRIAL IS DEMANDED Cases of Six Alleged I. W. W. Arc Set to Start February 2. Trial by jury was demanded by the six alleged members of the I. W. W. who were arrested by the police Sun- iiay night as they attempted to hold a radical meeting at Second and Oak streets. The trials were set to start February 2 by Municipal Judge Ross- - man. William II. Kopping. charg?d with criminal syndicalism, was bound over to the state grand jury under J1000 bonds. , DUFUR RECEIVER NAMED A. C. Churchill Appointed Upon Rcgnest of Large Creditors. THE DALLES, Or.. Jan. 24. (Spe cial.) A. C. Churchill was appointed permanent receiver for the Dufur Orchard company today by Circuit Judge Wilson. He was previously manager for the company and was appointed receiver upon the request of the larger Creditors. He will serve under a Ja . (KiO bond. FOSSIL SOLDIER HONORED Glen Hoover Cited for Gallantry in , Buttle of Soissons. FOSSIL, Or., Jan. 24. (Special.) Glen Hoover, son of Judge and Mrs. W. W. Hoover of Fossil, was cited for Charles F. West, 59, 5031. Sixty-first avenue Southeast, was struck early last night by Oswego local train No. 318, Southern Pacific, in charge of En gineer Schellenberg. He died a few minutes after he arrived at the Good Samaritan hospital. The engineer's statement was that as his train approached west, wno vas standing near a pole evidently trying to light his pipe, he sounded the gong. West then became con fused and stepped onto the track so closely in front of the cars that the accident could not be averted, he said. At the hospital the victim's injuries were found to be a fractured skull, a smashed leg and other serious bruises. The body was taken in charge by the coroner. Identification was made through chauffeur's and driver's li censes, but at a late hour no relatives had been found. He is thought to have been an employe of the North west Steel & Iron company. The assertion that there was deficit of more than $300,000 in the general fund of Multnomah county, with which to meet outstanding war rants, met the request of Mayor Baker, Marshall Dana and. A. R Gephart for $10,000 with which to carry on the activities of the public welfare bureau until April 1, when the community chest movement will be under way, made of the board of county commissioners yesterday. Chairman Holman said he did not see where the county could get the money to grant the loan, asserting that annually the county was short of funds between January 15 and March 31, before, new tax collection arrive. A final answer was promised tomorrow. Willing to Do County Work. Mr. Dana said the bureau was will ing to take over the work of the county board of relief, abolished with the discharge of Henry D. Griffin, a week ago, If It would be given free harsd In the cases for the baL ance of the year. . Immediate road work recommended by Roadmaster Eatchel. and approved by the commissioners, was: German town road, macadam and redress, $5000; Saltzman road, cleaning and grading. $3000; Burlington trestle at bridge No. -11, $25,000; Smalley hill on Skyline road, -grading, $8000 Siavin road, macadam and redress, $11,700; Bridie path alonjr Canyon road, improve. $2000; Fairmont boule vard, macadam and redress, $750. Rails Needed far Bridge. The roadmaster asked that Im mediate arrangements be made for the city to supply 6 '.C -inch groove car rails for thi Morrison bridge, so that pending hard-surface work and repairs could begin -at once. An election was ordered for Bertha, on March 5, to determine the in corporation of a water district. The St. Johns Community club sub mitted a communication requesting that-the 16-hour day observed by the St. Johns ferry not be reduced. District Attorney Evans reported that road fund money could be trans ferred to pay labor claims on bridge maintenance work. The petition of 88 residents of Gresham. for a salary of $100 a month for Justice of the Peace Brown was denied. The office operates on a fee system. SNOW FALLS, VANISHES WHITE FLAKES FOLLOWED BY GENEROUS RAIN. Moisture and Southerly Winds To day Predicted by Weather man Wells. Portlanders in all sections of the city arose yesterday morning to look upon a white blanket of snow, the third real snowfall this winter and the heaviest of the season. As is customary with Portland snows, how ever, the white flakes were followed by a warm southerly wind and a gen? erous fall of rain, and except In the high spots the enow had been con verted into wet slush by mid-afternoon. Weathermari Wells last night pre dicted a "return to normalcy" in weather, with a forecast of rain and southerly winds. ELTON E. TOOLEY IS DEAD Fire Lieutenant Willi Engine Com pany No. 2 Succumbs. Lieutenant Elton E. Tooley of engine company No. 2, Portland fire department, died yesterday at St. Vincent's hospital at the age of 52 years. He had been a member of the department for 19 years, and was with company 2 for the last two years of his service. Death was indirectly caused by an accident which happened during the firemen's convention in September, 1919. In the course of a competition between two companies, the truck upon which Ire was riding skidded upon wet pavement. He was thrown to the street under the wheels of the truck, and so seriously injured that he never completely recovered. He had been bedridden for three months previous to his death. He is survived by his widow and five children. Frank and Hazel live with their mother at 165 East Sixth I TRAM C PI IIR Dl AMC UIVC street. Charles Tooley. son. ar.d Mrs. 1 - wi-ww i tnug imi Walter Baldwin, daughter, live in Portland. Another daughter, Mrs. Agnes Daggett, has been notified at I her Los Angeles home. Funeral ar rangements will not be made until Mrs. Daggett is heard from. Clarke County Has Snowfall. VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 24. (Special.) When residents of Clark county awoke today it was to find the ground covered with about -an inch of wet snow. Snow fell for sev eral hoars after daylight, but the sun soon peered through the clouds and by' night little remained on the ground. No damage was done by the snow. TWAIN MORE THAN FUNNY Rabbi Wise Pay 9 Tribute to Great American Humorist. Mark Twain, with his potter to amuse and at the same time srir pro foundest thought in his readers, at tained a position that perhaps jio other American writer will reach in this generation, in the opinion of Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, who spoke on America's Great Humorisu" last night at B'nai B'r'th hall. Rabbi Wise included Benjam'n Franklin, Washington Irving. Arte- mus Ward, Joaquin Miller, Bill Nye and Bret Harte in appre'iat've sketches of lead'ng humorists, but dwelt largely on Mark Twain. However freely Mark Twain might ndulge in humorous allusions. Rabbi Wise declared he never failed to grasp the deeper facts of human nature, and hs works are a great deal more than merely entertaining. Walk From Bull Run to Aschoff's Mountain Home Arranged. Members of the Trails club of Ore gon will hike from Bull Run to Aschoffs mountain home next Satur, day and Sunday. Announcement wae made yesterday that the party will leave from First and Alder streets at 3:45 P. M. and go to Bull Run, from that point taking the trail to the destination. The return will be made from Bull Run at 5:30 P. M. Sunday afternoon. Miss Ida M. Alsleben will lead the walkers over the 14-mile trail to the home. Those who intend to make the trip have been asked to communicate with Miss Eberhardt, secretary, not later than Thursday. ALASKA TRADE TALK SET) Colonel Fred Mears. to Speak at Chamber on February 2. Colonel Fred Mears, ch'ef of the Alaska engineering commission, in charge of the construction of Alaska railroads, will speak in the main dining room of the Portland Chamber of Commerce at 8 o'clock Wednesday night. February 2, on conditions in the northland and of the opportuni ties for trade development. He has accepted an invitation sent to him by H. B. Van Duzer, president of the chamber. A feature of the evening will be the showing of. six reels of motion pictures of the work being done In Alaska. Colonel Mears has been In Washington, D. C. on official busi ness and will return by way of Port land. He will be the guest of his brother, E. C. Mears of Portland, while- here. TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN NEAR Vancouver and Clarke Officials Map Out Programme. VANCOUVER. Wash., Jan. 24. (Special.) The many automobile ac cidents in Vancouver and Clarke coun ty will be reduced materially if Sher iff Thompson, Mayor Klgglns and the Vancouver police force carry out their programme. Sheriff Thompson said he would start a campaign for a stricter ad herence to the traffic laws soon, and Mayor Kiggins has appointed a traf fic officer to work in the city. Clar ence Studer has been appointed by Sheriff Thompson to work both in the city and county. Seaside Highway to Be Closed. ASTORIA. Or.. Jan. 24. (Speclaf.) . When the widening of the pavement on the Seaside highway from the Warrenton cut-off to the Wahanna bridge is started the road will be closed to travel excepting between the hours of 5 o'clock In the evening and 8 o'clock in the morning and dur ing the noon hour of each working day. It Is expected the road will be open on Sundays. In order to ac commodate traffic. It Is probable that a road may be opened from the main highway to the ocean at Columbia beach so traffic can use the beach as far. as Gearhart. L Reductions oi 50 Ai)D MORE In Virtually Every Department This Great Clearaway of Special Lines of GOOD MERCHANDISE of All Kinds at Reductions of 50 and More From Regular Pre-January Pricings Will Hold Revel in Virtually ALL DEPARTMENTS Today and Balance of This Week WHILE LOTS LAST. NEW VALUES ADDED EACH DAY COME AND PROFIT EVERY DAY In Addition Every Article Reduced. (CONTRACT LINES AND GROCERIES EXCEPTED) Today and Balance of This Week Only , Last Five Days of Meier & Frank's January Clearance . ales Buy What You Need NOW!!! rAnd '. "." " See Our WINDOWS!!! Today and Balance of Week While Lots Last ANNUAL "HURT GOODS" SALE' A tremendous clearaway of all "hurt" pieces in our Household Utilities Section at prices that are but a fraction of the original sell ing figures and present worth. Thousands of pieces samples, shop-worn, slightly marred and imperfect articles left over from months of busy selling. Come early for best selection. Included in this noteworthy disposal (while any remain) : CROCKERY ALUMINUMWARE NICKELWARE CHINAWARE GRANITEWARE CUT GLASS GLASSWARE WOODENWARE TINWARE BRASSWARE IRONWARE SMOKING STANDS, ETC. Extra Salespeople See Fifth and Alder Corner Window Meier & Frank's: Household Utilities Section, Basement, 9 V MOSEY AND XEW EQUIPMENT SAID TO BE CHIEF NEED. Beet (Trades coal. P -pt delivery. Diamond Coal Co. Bdwy. J037.AdT. Phone yoar want ads to The Ore Etonian. JIala 7070, Automatic i99J Central Council Appoints Commit tee to Sell Stock to Unionists! Ventura to Be Tried Again. Delegate to the Central Labor Council last night were told that the Victory co-operative laundry, which for some time has been regarded as somewhat ot an unsuoeessful venture, suspended Saturday night. Lack of funds was given a the reaBon for the suspension, A com mittee, appointed by the council to act with the manager of the laundry, will soil more stock to labor organ izations. It was said that improper and Inadequate equipment was ac countable for the fact that within the last few weeks finances of the laun dry have been dwindling- and profits have not equaled expense, The laundry will be operated at a profit If modern machinery Is far stalled ft4 It delivery automobiles are procured. It was said at a recent labor council meeting. A committee was appointed to as slst the Russian Red Cross to prepare for the reception of Lincoln Steffens, author and lecturer, and Irvin bt. John Tucker, speaker, who will speak In the city upon the lack or roeaicine, physicians and ambulances in Russia. Legion Committees Named, ASHLAND, Or., Jan, t4.-MSpse!al.) Ashland post No, 14, American Le gion, has appointed the following Holmes, R. L, Burdlo ffnd J, O, RIgg; committees to assist in the work of the organization! Constitution, W, C, PIANO SALE EVERY PIANO REDUCED NEW STANDARD PIANOS $395 I'SED PIANOS VISA AND VP, TERMS GIVEN SEIBERLIN3-LUCAS MUSIC CO. 125-127 Fonrtfc St., Near WMininoi, finance. W. C. Holmes, V. V, Mills S. A. Petersi benevolence, J. O. RIgg, V. V. Mills, Dr. MaoCracken; athletics, Millard W, Grubb, Ural O. Coleman Hubert A. Bentley; entertainment, Dan P, Dickerson, W, M, Brlggs, Mil ton A, Biegeli publicity, Don M. Spencer and every man called upon. HOUSEKEEPER SUFFERER FROM INSOMNIA Besides being unable to sleep, Mrs. L. O. Clay, of 45 South Magnolia ave nue, Long Beach, California, assistant housekeeper in a large beaeh hotel, reports that she suffered from the less of her appetite, was generally run down and nervous. 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