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Enter! at Portland (Oriron)
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PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY, 9, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
EX-HUSBAND SLAIN;
BIO, TROPIC CITY.
EGG PRICES FALLING;
END IS NOT IN SIGHT
STORM-TORN TIMBER
HEAVY EARTH SLIDES
HAMPER CITY TRAFFIC
MAYWOOD DRIVE IS BLOCKED
FOR THIRD TI3IE.
WOMAN, MAN JAILED
LOSS IS $100,000,000
DUETO GERMANY
ED B. WILSO.V SHOT DEAD IX
DROP IX PORTLAND IS TWO TO
FOUR CEXTS DAILY.
XOTHIXG HEARD FROM 20 TO
30 ISOLATED FA3IILIES.
XOKTH B.D LODGING HOCSE,
STATE REQUESTED
'TO CENSOR FILMS
NO APOLOGY HELD
MM G NT ISSUE
WONDER
CAPITAL
0 0
EVADED
Legion Regrets Nation's
Action on Bergdoll.
ESCAPE PROBE APPROVED
Resolutions to Be Sent to
Members of Congress.
NON-PARTISAN CASE UP
Organization Refuses to Take Any
Action as to League, Declared
by Some to ,Be Disloyal.
WASHINGTON'. D. C. Feb. .
Regret that the American govern-
nent saw fit to apologize to the
Berlin government lor the attempt
of Americans to capture Grover C.
BergdolL wealthy American draft
evader, was expressed In a resolution
adopted today by the executive com
mittee of the American Legion.
The resolution ordered sent to all
members of congress, approved the
proposed congressional investigation
f Bergdoll's escape from custody.
Efforts to put the legion on record
as opposing the non-partisan league
ere made by members from Okla
homa and other western states, but
various resolutions were voted down
nd tabled. Tbe committee voted
unanimously to uphold F- A. Gal-
braith, national commander. In ad
vising state commanders of Kansas,
Kebraska and Oklahoma that the
legion itself should take no active
art against tbe league.
Leaders Declared Disloyal.
Correspondence with respect to the
non-partisan league question which
began with an appeal from the Salina,
Kan, post for support from the na
tional committee in a fight against
the league, was read. Other appeals
bad followed from western and
southwestern posts and all were
shown to have been given the same
Answer by the commander.
Speakers urging the legion to go
n record as opposing the league
declared Its leaders were disloyal and
were using the league to cloak sedi
tious activities. Opponents con
tended such action would be con
sidered by many farmers and other
league members, who themselves
were loyal, as Indicating opposition
of the legion to economio and politi
cal policies of the league. All
speakers agreed the legion should
not oppose the league's status as a
political party.
Conditioned Gift Declined.
Announcement was made that ef
forts would be made to have the
Knlghta of Columbus remove certain
conditions from their offer to the
legion of 15.000.000 for construction
of a war memorial In Washington.
The committee las', night voted to re
fuse the offer unless made uncondi
tionally.
John G. Emery, chairman of a com
mittee appointed to take the matter
up, expressed belief that money of
fered by the Knights of Columbus
could not be used to erect a memo
rial under an agreement entered into
by the Knights as one of the seven
participants in the united war work
campaign fund. This agreement was
said to stipulate that no funds raised
by public subscription "should be
spent for non-war work or perma
nent structures." The $5,000,000 of
fered by the Knights of Columbus
was said to have been that organ
isation's remaining share.
V. M. C. A. Fuad Is Used.
The recent bestowal by the T. M.
C. A. to the legion without conditions
as a. part of the war work fund is
being used by the legion as a trust
fund and. under a resolution adopted
by the committee today, may be used
as collateral.
The committee adopted a memorial
urging congress to unite with the
Hied natlona in assembling bodies of
the unnamed dead of the associated
armies in France and erecting a me
morial to them. Committee members
spent much time appealing to con
gressmen to take immediate action
en legislation for relief of wounded
ar veterans. " -
0IOCSE DECIDES OX PROBE
(Military Committee to Determine If
' Investigation Is Justified.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. A prelimi
nary investigation of the escape to
Germany of Grover Cleveland Berg
doll. wealthy Philadelphia draft
dodger. Is to be made by the house
military committee to determine
whether a thorough Inquiry by a
Special committee is justified.
This was announced today by Chair
man Kahn, after an executive ses
sion of the committee, which voted
to launch the preliminary hearing
Thursday.
"I'm convinced the whole affair was
rotten and that we should go to tbe
bottom of it," he said.
Copper Pays Dividend.
NEW YORK. Feb. 8. The Cerro de
Pasco Copper company today declared
a quarterly dividend of SO cents a
share, payable on March 1 to holders
of stock at the close of business Feb-
ruary 17. The dividend three months'
ago was
II a abare.-
Mrs. Wilson and J. B. Stephens Re'
fuse to Discuss Killing; Vic
tim Rusiies to Street.
NORTH BEND. Or., Feb. 8. (Spe
cial.) Ed. B. Wilson, shot through
the heart at the Alpine lodging house
this afternoon, staggered through the
hallway to the street and fell de-d
on the sidewalk. A number of per
sons who saw his exit did not realize
the man had been killed, but thought
bo .waa. stricken, with some ailment.
Inside was J. B. Stephens, known
about the city as "Oklahoma Red" and
Mrs. Ed. Wilson, divorced wife of Wil
son. Both were arrested by the city
police and placed in separate jails
here and at Marshfield. Mrs. Wilson
being sent to t ie neighboring town.
First questioning ellcted no infor
mation from either, other than that
Stephens declared to the first officer
who arrived;
"I know all about It."
Later Stephens told the officers he
killed Wilson, but would make no fur
ther admissions as to the cause of
shooting or what led up to the deed.
Coroner Wilson declared be would
hold an inquest, but was impelled to
wait until tomorrow before calling a
jury, under, the possibility evidence
might be found bearing on the case.
Mrs.. Wilson steadfastly refused to
mal:e any statement. Wilson bad been
a resident of this city for a number
of years and bis reputation was not
the best. Be passed a year in Jail
at Oakland on a charge of counter
felting, waa mixed up in a number
of court cases here and suspected of
being a bootlegger.
WOOL BILL IS APPROVED
Committee Reports Favorably on
Truth-ln-Fabrlcs Measure.
THE OREGONIAN . NEWS BU
REAU. Washington, D. C Feb. .
Representative Webster of Washing
ton was authorized by the house com
mittee on interstate and foreign com
merce today to report out favorably
the French truth-in-fabrics bill, the
author of which is Burton D. French,
representative of Idaho. The measure
is one for which the wool growers of
all the western .states have been
carrying on an active campaign
backed by many wearers of clothes,
The bill requires the manufacturer
of cloth and clothing to mark it
plainly to show what percentage of
wool and what proportion of shoddy
It Contains. The purpose Is to pre
vent the sale of shoddy cloth as all
wooL The only amendments adopted
In committee were offered by Mr.
French himself and were- toward
strengthening the bllL
ARMY STAGES TANK SHOW
Xew Types of Battle Wajronss Ex
hibited in Washington.
WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. . The
army held a "tank Bhow" today, put
ting new types of, battle wagons
through their paces, with Secretary
Baker and war department officials
watching. Many spectators saw the
machines rumble up and down seem
ingly impossible slopes, leap ob
stacles and push down trees.
Among the tanks was a new model
armed with a six-inch gun mounted
in a turret. It developed a speed of
12 miles an hour over broken ground,
officers said, and SO miles an hour on
ordinary roads.
HOTEL PATRONS ROBBED
Masked Tonth Gets $14 From Two
In Rose City Hotel.
A youth whose face was masked
with a red bandanna handkerchief
held up at the point of a .38 revolver
late last night Douglas Lively, pro
prietor of the Rose City hotel, 102
North Sixth street, and two of Llvely's
visitors, W. B. Edwards and J. W.
Welch, in the lobby of the hotel. He
got from the trio only Sit and made
his escape before inspectors from the
detective bureau, who came shortly
afterward, arrived.
Police say they have no clew to the
man's identity.
BASIN PROJECT BOOSTED
Washington Would Err in Aban
doning Irrigation Plan, Is Belief.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C, Feb. 8. It would
be a mistake for the suite of Wash
ington to abandon the work on the
Columbia river basin Irrigation'
project. Senator Poindexter said, in a
telegram sent today to the Spokane
chamber of commerce.
The senator said that while the
size of the project undoubtedly jvlll
require much time and work to pro
cure its adoption by the federal gov
ernment, he had no doubt that even
tually this would be accomplished.
BLOW-UP LAID TO THfEVES
School Tragedy Believed Result of
Xltro Plant Robbery.
LAWRENCEVILLE. 111., Feb. 8
Thieves were believed by the authori
ties today responsible for the deaths
of a teacher and seven pupils killed
yesterday at the Cross Roads school.'
near here, by the explosion of a can
of nitroglycerin found by a boy in a
creek near the school.
A coroner's Jury returned a verdict'
o' accidental death. It was reported
that a nitro plant was robbed Sun-
day.
Oriental Scene Spirited
to Occident.
VIEW AT NIGHT FAIRY-LIKE
Splendor of Brazil's Metropo
lis Defies Description.
LIQUOR CHEAP, PLENTIFUL
Citizenship Is Made Vp of Many
Races, Fond of Pleasure; Clubs,
Lottery and Policy Flourish.
BT LOUIS SEIBOLD.
Copyright, 1021. by the New York World.
ruDiisuea oy Arrangement.;
Rio is the show window of Brazil
Its scenic splendors defy adequate
description In mere verbal terms and
figures of metaphor. That which 'lies
back of it Is not so fascinating. But
one never thinks of this wnen ne
comes upon this tropic city, whose
dally life presents bewildering facets
of contrast not to be found in any
other metropolis in the western hem
isphere, or in the eastern, for that
matter. Any one privileged to gaze
upon Rio from the sea by day or night
remembers it.
Approached under the heated glare
of a summer morning in Decem
ber, It wears the garb and atmo
sphere of the orient It looks as
if it might have been transplanted
from the vicinity of Treblzond or
Azerbaldjan overnight and set down
back of the wide horseshoe of pearly
beach, lapped by tiny violet wavelets
crested with silver.
Silhouetted against the blaze of
amethyst and gold that marks the
dtad day's funeral pyre, Rio sparkles
with a dazlinig magnificence of color,
duplicated only by Cancpus, the
southern star, whose, glories are
veiled to the northern eye.
Klo at Mb lit Farylllce.'
Left behind at night, as the Ameri
can dreadnought r lorida left it on
Christmas eve, ' th picture of Rio
that remains in tf-Smind is almost
fairylike In its unrealties.
Brilliantly lighted, the trtental
town. In an occidental environment
that hides the squalor, ignorance, su
perstition and savage bigotry of me
diaeval Portugal and uncivilized na
tive, stood out under a full moon that
radiated cascades of gorgeous silver
tips from the "Sugar Loaf," looming
high, sheer and tapering at the mouth
of the harbor; upon the "Finger of
God," another creation of nature
shaped like the hand of a man or a
woman set down between two of the
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Great Increase In Flocks Over Pre
vious Years and Mild Win
ter Receive Credit.
No matter what happens to other
food prices, eggs are going to be
cl.eap this year, in fact, they are
lower now than at this season for
many years past. Egg markets all
over the country are declining fast.
Experts in this line say production
will be of record volume as several
years of abnormally high iyios have
had a most stimulating- effect on the
poultry growing Industry. With the
great Increase in flocks there has
also been a mild winter in most sec
tions and this has started the hens
laying several weeks earlier than
usual.
In the local market egg prices have
been falling 2 to 4 cents a day. There
is a large surplus in this territory
that must be disposed of In the east
and prices here consequently follow
the course of eastern markets. Yes
terday prices dropped in all the lead
Ing distributing centers, Chicago
heading the list with a 6-cent break.
Portland dealers who are shipping to
the east sent bids of 25 cents to coun
try sellers for today's receipts.
Prices at retail are still around the
40-cent mark, but are likely to be a
dime lower before the week is over.
Storage operators expect to put away
eggs this spring at under 20 cents,
something they have not done since
several years before the war.
SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 8. (Spe
cial.) Egg prices here have dropped
about 10 cents in the last two weeks,
quotations in retail stores today
showed. - Strictly fresh eggs now are
quoted at 60 cents a dozen. Ranch
eggs range a few cents lower.
VOTE IS PUTJJN RECORD
Summers of Washington Set Down
as Opposing Winslow Bill.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BU
REAU, Washington. D. C, Feb. 8.
Representative Summers of Washing
ton, who caused some consternation
among bis colleagues of the north
west states yesterday by casting the
one vote which defeated the Winslow
bill to pay the railroads part of the
money due them under the Esch-
Cummins law, will stand in the rec
ord as against the measure. . -
Wben the bill was passed today no
record vote was taken. The bill was
bitterly fought by the Plumb plan
leaguers and by representatives from
districts where tbe non-partisan
league is strong.
STATE OFFICIAL ACCUSED
Impeachment of Oklahoma Lieutenant-Governor
Recommended.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 8.
Impeachment of Lieutenant-Governor
Trapp of Oklahoma Is recommended
in a report read In the house today
by an investigating committee. .
Fraud and false claims in connec
tion with bond purchases are charged.
STOPPING TO SEE HOW" BADLY
' i 1: a. vv-fT I " fr-. mm a
Assistant Forest Supervisor in
Washington Declares Relief
'MayTake Several Days.
PORT ANGELES. Wash., Feb. 8.
Earlier estimates of the amount of
damage to timber by the storm which
swept the Olympic peninsula of
Washington on January 29 and 30
were greatly Increased today with
the announcement by Charles Mor
ganroth, assistant federal forest su
pervisor for this district, that the
loss In uprooted timber Is more than
3100,000,000. The estimate was made
after a. trip to the stricken district.
While no loss of life has been re
ported, from 20 to 30 families In the
Clearwater. Boeochiel. Hoh and
Queetz river districts have not been
heard from, according to Mr. Morgan
roth.
Many of them are believed to be
short of food and it may be several
days before they can be reached with
supplies, he said.
Sixty per cent of the timber can
be salvaged with prompt action, Mr.
Morganroth said today.
'Something must be done before
the summer months," said Mr. Mor
ganroth. "The danger of fire Is ter
rible. Fully 60 per cent of all the
area of the 2200 square miles of
storm-swept territory Is down, and
of the remainder the best trees are
damaged, the scrubs remaining
standing. All along the coast the
hemlock has suffered great damage.
One can stand at Quillayute prairie
and see the Sol Due river three miles
away. A few days ago this was a
dense forest
' ;me of those trees were standing
600 years before Columbus discovered
America. The storm is the greatest
disaster that has ever happened in
Washington."
Thousands of small timber owners
are affected by the terrific havoc of
the storm, according to the report.
The big companies and their approx
imate holdings are: Lacey Timber
company, 40.000 acres
Mct-artny
Timber company. 1.260.000.000 feet of
fi-- Milwaukee Land company, 40.000
acres; Merrill & Ring company,
1.000,000,000 feet; Goodyear Logging
company, 1,000,000.000 feet; A. Fair
service company, 300,000,000 feet ,
The Washington state schools and
university holdings are particularly
bard- hit
No loss of life has been reported,
but there are 20 to 30 families in the
Clearwater, Bogochiel, Hoh and
Queetz river districts that have not
been heard from. Ail trails to those
districts are obliterated and it is re
ported It may be weeks before com
munication can be established.
Roads and trails were reported
blocked In places by piles of fallen
trees 40 feet high.
Reports from Forks. La Push and
other towns Indicate the widespread
effects of the storm. An Indian from
La Push reported six houses at that
place completely destroyed, among
them the home of William Penn,
Quillayute Indian, who rescued the
two survivors of the steel barge W.
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HE'S HURT,
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Senate Action.
HOPE OF RESTRICTION WANES
Big Organizations in Market
for Che?.p Labor.
SENATE SEEN AT WORST
Sullivan Tells How Bill Intended to
Bar Hordes From Europe
Was Chloroformed.
BY MARK SULLIVAN. '
(Copyright By the New York Evening Post,
Inc., Published by Arrangement)
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 8. (Spe
cial.) It was not merely racial con
sideratlon that led the senate Into
evading consideration of the Imml
gration restriction bill.
The only racial element that ap
peared to take much interest In th
bill and the only one that put In
formal appearance at the hearings
was the Jews. They made their pro
test through a prominent Jewish law
yer of New York and through agents
of the National Hebrew Trades Unio
Immigration Bureau, the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations and
other similar organizations.
This Jewish opposition may have
had some weight in Isolated quarters,
but It is doubtful If the aggregate of
It helped their own cause. A discom
fortinsr Issue arose over statements
. made before the ommittea hv aerents
of 8ome of tnesa orjranlzatlons tnat
, , ii ,v- ...
they were not accelerating the re
moval of Jews from eastern Europ
to America, and, on the other hand
contradictory testimony produced by
advocates of restriction that on othe
occasions agents of these same or'
ganizations had spoken with en
thuslasm of the energy and effective
ness of their work to facilitate th
coming of their co-religionists.
Jewish Bulletin Quoted.
For example. Professor Jeremiah
Jenks of New York university pro
duced a copy of the Jewish Immigra
tion Bulletin and quoted an official
statement to the effect that last Oc
tober the Hebrew Immigrant Aid so
ciety had been "enabled to engage 50
more workers" at Warsaw, In Poland,
and that "we filled out 600 applica
tions a day, having 12 clerks on duty
for this particular work."
But it Is not probable that many
senators were moved by the Jewish
opposition to the bill, which was the
only racial opposition that appeared
at the bearings.
It is probable that a much larger
number of senators were moved by
the energy of the agents of powerful
interests who have a commercial mo
tive for resisting any limitation of Im
migration. A list of steamship com
panies, railroad companies, beet
sugar companies, lumber companies,
construction companies, building com
panies and other commercial inter
ests, which were represented in oppo
sition to the bill, would fill a page of
this paper.
Big Interests Active.
Each of these organizations is
powerful locally and the aggregate
of all of them may well have been
able to influence the senate as a
whole. The senators from the New
England and eastern states have
powerful constituents who want im
migrant labor to reduce costs In their
mills, "while senators from the south
western states respond to the stimu
lus of beet sugar companies and other
large land owners who want the use
of peon labor from Mexco. To a
large degree the hearings were a case
of general nlerest versus special n
terests. For example, a Texas representa
tive, John C. Box, said the masses of
bis constituents don't want Mexico
peon labor to come In and placed his
objection on the same fundamental
social grounds that constituted the
objection to bringing in slaves before
the civil war.
Immediately after Representative
Box testimony the committee wae In
undated by telegrams and personal
messages from tne ureal western
Sugar company, the Ctah-Idaho Sugar
company, the Texas Land Owners' as
sociation and similar organizations.
Against the compactness and energy
of these special interests the lone and
unorganized advocates of restriction
bad an air of futility.
Happy Poaltloa Occupied.
In the course of the hearings It
turned out that there Is a National
Federation of Construction Industries,
which Includes the Associated Gen
eral Contractors of America, the
American Wholesale Lumber associa
tion and more than a score of other
organizations, covering every phase
of the building industry. .This fed
eration of construction Industries has
among Its otner activities an immi
gration committee, whose function
appears to be to obtain foreign labor.
The chairman of this immigration
committee of the National Federation
of Constructive Industries, in open
ing his argument against restriction.
remarked that "I am in a particular
ly bappy position, because I live six
months of the year in each of two
cities, and, fortunately. Senator Edge
iCusvludud on tu.fi 3, Column S.Jt
Terwilliger Boulevard Again Bur-
Hi! led and Earth Thunders Down
Willamette Heights.
Serious slides at the base of the
heights at the west of the city yes
terday blocked one road and greatly
hampered traffic on two others. The
slides will require the expenditure of
a large sum of money to clear.
The most serious slide was on
Maywood drive near Washington
street. The drive is one of the two
entrances to Kings Heights, and Is
the only direct artery to the St.
Francis hill district. The earth com
pletely covered the drive for a dis
tance of about 50 feet, varying In
depth from four to ten feet.
This slide was the thirl on May
wood drive since Saturday. The first
was fairly well cleared away and a
10-foot space opened and barricaded
on Monday, when the second started.
almost pushing a largo municipal
truck over a 20-foot embankment wall
on the far side of the road. The men
were at work clearing this second
slide yesterday, when, at 10 o'clock,
the third and largest catapult of dirt
tumbled down the hilL
A new slide on Terwllllger boule
vard was caused yesterday by the
excavations for the county hospital.
This slide was directly beneath the
excavations and consisted of dirt
piled on the hill as It was taken from
the hospital site. This makes the
fourth or fifth slide since September
from the same causes:
The third serious slide was In the
Willamette Heights section on Thirty-
first street, near Thurman street
where 25,000 cubic yards of earth
thundered down to the street. The
thoroughfare. however. was not
blocked to traffic.
SOLDIER WEDS IN FRANCE
American Marries Daughter
of
Mayor of Gevrolles.
DIJON. Feb. 8. Lieutenant H. T.
Allen, son of Brigadier-General Allen
commander In chief of the American
forces In Germany, was married today
at Gevrolles to Mme. Juliette de
Sousev. daughter of the mayor of
Gevrolles.
The population of the village
witnessed the wedding.
HANGMAN FORGETS TASK
Sheriff Asks Alabama Governor
What to Do With Xegro.
BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 8. Sheriff
Grant of Ouchita parish, notified Gov
ernor Parker today that he had for
gotten to hang Lonnle Eaton, negro,
convicted of murder February 4, as
required by the sentence and asked
what to do with the prisoner.
The governor has put the problem
up to Attorney-General Coco.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 52
decrees; minimum. i aegrees.
TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds.
Foreign.
Rio. Brazil's wonder enpital. IiKe oriental
city spirited to Occident, face 1.
French optimism over reparations fast dis
appearing, fage -
America declared after Kamchatka. Page S
National.
Hand of big Interests seen In failure of Im
migration bill, says buiuvao. fags 1.
Legion regrets apology made to Germany
In .Bergaou inciaenu ray. x.
Senate naval committee against halting
capital ship construction, rage 8.
Colonel Charles R. Forbes of Spokane,
Wash., selectea Dy presiaent-eiect lor,
shipping board membership. Page 2.
Foreign liquor shipments across United
States barred, rage is.
Domestic.
Witness) alleged to have confessed Mooney
case was a "iraaie-up. fag s.
Spending instead of hoarding money urged
by national prosperity oureau. x-age u,
Harding to desert houseboat and go to
St. Augustine by train today, r age 13
Legislatures.
Idaho housa passes senate Din repealing
two-mlil nignway tax iw. rim o.
Mandatory death sentence for first-degree
murder deleatea Dy wasaingion jegis
luture. Page 5.
House, like senate, passes seven port bills.
Page 6.
Spare to ship food to China sought In joint
memorial oi ic "bc
Representative Burdlck In Oregon house
replies to personal bo mm uy
state engineer. Page 6.
fish regulation problem solved by senate.
Page o.
Banks bill, providing rree tatnooks ror
elementary scnoois, passeu oy senate.
i"age 7.
State is asked to censor films. Page 1.
Adjutant-General White gives law-makers
data on cost OI soiuier oonus. x-age I.
Irrigation bill manace development. Cup
per an l bcnneewcK ien juiui toiuum
tee. Page 4
Paclfie Northwest.
Ex-husband is slain: woman and man ar
rested at JNortn nena. rage x.
Storm causes 100,000.000 loss In Washing
ton timber. Page 1.
( Sports
Dispute over independent basketball cham
pionship In city looms. Pags 13.
Bill Brennan may get bid to fight here.
Page 12.
Multnomah boxers lose two to armory
amateurs. Page 13.
Cutbitl beats Ray in feature race of Indoor
meet. Page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Good market for apples found In Scanda-
miyia. Page 19.
Green bug scare sends wheat up at Chi-
age. rage is.
Sharp advance in stocks when money rates
weaken. Page 10.
Portland-Seattle, run to be resumed. Page
18.
Portland and Vicinity.
Heavy earth slides hamper city trafflo.
Page 1.
Counterfeit whisky seals seized; 7 alleged
members at liquor ring Jailed. Page 20.
Egg prices falling, with end not in sight
Page 1.
Bulgarian bunkoes countrymen out of
about 50O0 by appeal to sympathies.
Page 11.
Policeman Lander, overseas captain, curbs
Juvenile lawlessness in Albina by whip
ping gangsters. Page 10.
City to begin park work to assist unem
. ployed. Pagi 10.
Edward Mining, son of self-styled Russian
princess, menial wreck of war. Page 20.
Portland Ministers Urge
Legislature to Act.
MORALS DECLARED WANING
Financial Features of Bill Op
posed by McAfee.
OTHER SIDE GIVEN, TOO
Long-Drawn-Out Sensual Kisses
on Screen Declared Injur
ious by Mrs. Baldwin.
STATE HOUSE, Salem, Or., Feb. 8
(Special.) State censorship of mo
tion pictures shown In Oregon Is nec
essary for the protection of the wan
ing morals of the growing genera
tions, according to the general opin
ion expressed by Portland and Salem
ministers, who appeared tonight be
fore the committee on health and
public morals, advocating passage of
the state censorship bilL
The bill now before the legislature,
however, was not accorded the whole
hearted support of some of the church
men who appeared before the com
mittee. Ralph McAfee, secretary of
the church federation of Portland, de
clared that financial features of the
bill framed ty Itepresentatives Childs
and Fletcher make It impossible for
him to give his full support to the
proposed bills. i
"Statistics gathered by our federa
tion," he said, "show that during the
month of January more than S00
films were viewed and to do this It
required 22 out of a possible 20 days
In which to accomplish the work.
CommlaMloner Is Proposed.
"I would favor appointment of a
motion-picture commissioner by the
governor to serve without pay, and
use of the $6000 fund contemplated
from charges provided In this bill in
the payment of salaries to viewers
responsible to the commissioner.
Paternal influence rather than the
Influence of motion pictures Is what
really counts, according to Joseph A.
Hill,, head of the Hill Military acad
emy in Portland. Mr. Hill explained
that pictures were shown to the boys
attending this institution three times
weekly and he was satisfied that If
the boys or girls receive proper at
tention In the homes they will not
be Influenced by pictures. This be
lief, he declared, was the result of
watching the effect of pictures upon
the boys attending this school.
Resolutions Report Made.
The Portland delegation of repre
sentatives of the federation of
churches, who spoke In favor of state
censorship of pictures. Included Dr.
Bryan J. Clark, president of the Port
land Ministerial association; Monroe
Everett, chairman of the committee
on motion picture censorship of the
church federation, and Ralph McAfee,
secretary of the federation.
Dr. Clark informed the legislators -that
the association which he heads,
at a well attended meeting on Mon
day, had adopted resolutions urging
the legislature to enact laws provid
ing for state-wide censorship. Local
censorship, he contended, has not
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