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PORTLAND, OREGON, mURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
23,000,000 BUSHELS
TO
CIVIC CLUBS UNITE
TO CURB TAX RISE
ACTIOX TO STIMULATE BUILD
rXG ACTIVITY AUTHORIZED.
DOUGLAS WILL VOTE
ON BIG ROAD PROJECT
crnzExs readt to spexd
aniXION" FOR HIGHWAYS.
BUILDING PROSPECTS
CHEST DONATIONS
PUT IN WHEAT POOL
BECOMING BRIGHTER
COUP
RAILWAY SO UT ON
TO C0UMG1L ROOM
Mayor Causes "Arrest"
T
MORE FARMERS SIGX COX
TRACTS TO SELiIj 192 0 CROP.
MATERIAL J.IEX HOLD CONFER
ENCE IX CHICAGO.
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of Commissioner.
FOUR COPS BRING HIM IN
Row Breaks Out in Hearing
. on Foster Sewer. .
WITNESS MAKES TROUBLE
Query to George Rao During Talk
About Foster Road Project
i Sets Off Fireworks.
The "arrest" of A. L. Barbur, com
missioner of public works, and his
1) forcible return to city council cham-
""Vj bers by four large policemen on or-
' ; ders from Mayor Baker, threw the
. city council into an uproar late yes-
$ torday afternoon that threatened for
.. a time to disrupt the administrative
'i functions of the city of Portland,
i It was not until they were ready
,V I to leave for their homes that Mayor
Baker and Commissioner Barbur
shook hands and called a truce.
Mr. Barbur's arrest followed his
taking "French leave" from a city
council session where a hearing' on
the Foster road sewer project was in
progress because a witness refused
to answer a question put by the com
missioner. He was picked up by the
police several blocks from the city
hall as he was proceeding- homeward.
.His return to the council chambers
was followed Immediately by a bitter
passage of words between himself
and Mayor Baker which almost ended
lu blows.
Dlalogne la Angry.
"What right have you to place me
under arrest?" Barbur shouted at the
mayor, as he strode Into the cham
ber. "You, nor any other . councilman,
can leave a meeting without the per
mission of the council," Mayor Baker
retorted. .......
With his face white in anger, the
commissioner walked up to the ta
ble which separated him from the
mayor. His toice, as he addressed
Mayor Eaker, trembled slightly, but
could be heard throughout the city
hall.
"Ton sent four big policemen down
the street to arrest me when I was
Invited by yourself to leave," he de
clared. "You may be able to treat the
I. W. W, that way, but you can't
treat me that way and get away with
it," continued Barbur heatedly.
"I did not invite you to leave. I
told you to stay," replied Baker.
The crowd packing the chambers
had been inclined to laugh when
Barbur first returned to the session.
They listened to the wordy battle in
silence. City officials cast apprehen
sive glances around the room fear
ful lest the mayor and commissioner
should come to blows. Both men are
more than six feet tall, and the other
commissioners and attaches may well
have wondered who could separate
them if they clinched In the combat.
, Mayor's Statement Denied.
"You did not tell me to stay,"
Barbur shouted again. v "You said
that all those who didn't want to
listen to that man could get out, and
got out."
"You are a member of this council,
and as long as this body is in session
you're going to stay here until the
council gives you permission to
leave," retorted Baker.
Barbur reiterated his stand, and
again referred to the four husky
policemen. - ,
"You haven't any right to place me
under arrest In that high-handed
fashion," he declared, waving his fist
for emphasis. "I wouldn't have come
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A MANUSCRIPT THE
WORLD WAITED FOR.
The world had to wait, for
that matter, until Kaiser
Wilhelm was dead or defeated.
For by imperial edict the
memoirs of Bismarck, those
I chapters which related to his
experiences with the war lord
I and the letters of the latter,
t were forbidden to be published.
T The Pregonian now an-
nounces the complete offer
l ing of
J The Iron Chancellor's own
memoirs, including the sup-
pressed letters of royalty, be
t x ginning in the issue ot April 3.
Wilhelm cast overboard the
strong old man who had made
possible the great German
state. Now, though Bismartk
is dead and his liege lord an
I exile, the authentic narrative
of that important event in his-
tory is of tremendous im
I portance to the well informed.
Turn to the First Installment,
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN
April 3, 1921.
Five Men Representing Associations
Are at Work Among Growers
In Oregon Districts.
SPOKAXE, Wash., March 3tL (Spe
cial.) The Washington and Idaho
Wheat Growers' associations have
signed up 17.WO.000 bushels of the
1920 wheat in the two states to pool
for market, it was announced today
by Bruce Lampson, organizer for the
associations. This Is an increase of
1,000,000 during the last two weeks.
Mr. Lampson announced -that 6,000,
000 more bushels have been signed
up in Oregon and Montana to add to
the Pacific northwest amount, mak
ing a total of 23,000,000 bushels in
this district. .
"The farmers are still signing con
tracts to sell their 1921 wheat through
the association, despite the fact that
little effort has been made to secure
more wheat in Washington and Idaho
since April 1," said Mr. Lampson to
day. "A number of our organizers
have gone to Oregon to help get the
growers of that state organized."
Mr. Lampson stated that the fol
lowing Washington men are now sign
ing up farmers In Oregon: K. L. Lud
wlck, Clay Barnes, Stanley Brown,
Dewitt Barns and H. O. Barns.
INJURIES FATAL TO FLIER
Lieutenant Coney, Who Attempted
Transcontinental Flight, Dies.
NATCHEZ, Miss., March 30. Lieu
tenant W. D.coney, who was Injured
last Friday morning near Crowville,
La., while attempting a transcon
tinental flight from Jacksonville, Fla.,
to San Diego, Cal., died here late to
day. The lieutenant's back was broken
In a fall and paralysis from the chest
down resulted. He was attempting
to lower his previous record of 22
hours 27 minutes' flying time from
coast to coast when forced down by
engine trouble. 1
Lieutenant Coney, aged 27, was a
resident of Brunswick, Ga and saw
service on the Mexican border in 1916.
During the world war he was a fly
ing instructor in the army air service.
LABOR WANTS 60 BANKS
Company Announces That 2 Will
"Be Purchased In 30 Days.
SPOKAXE, Wash., March SO.
Wjthln 30 daya two Washington
banks, one in Eastern and one in
Western Washington, will be pur
chased by the Financial Securities
company as the first of a chain of 60
banks which the company plana to
purchase and operate, according to
announcement yesterday by J. J. Con
way, president of the oencern.
The Financial Securities Company,
according to President Conway, is an
all-labor concern and has the in
dorsement of the Washington state
federation. The company is capital
ized at 310,000,000.
EX - KAISER'S BED SOLD
Furniture Used by Deposed Ruler
Brings Only $10,000.
CHICAGO, March 30. A bed In
which it was said the ex-ka.ser often
slept was sold at auctton today.
With it went a marble wasnstand.
a massive wardrobe and a miscellany
of carved wooden work and ornate
chandeliers all said to have been
used by the ex-kaiser when a guest
in the castle of the Grand Duku of
Hesse. The relics were ssnt here
for sale.
Although the auction rooms were
crowded there was little b'.ddlng and
the pieces went to a dozen different
owners for a total ot $10,000.
TIEF MADE BISHOP ,AT 39
Catholic Officer Youngest of Rank
In United States.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. March 30.
Impressive ceremonies, with all the
color and selemnlty traditional of the
Catholic church, marked the conse
cration at the cathedral here ot Rev.
Francis J. Tief as bishop of Con
cordia, Kan.
The elevation of Bishop Tief, who
is 39, from the post of vicar-general
of the diocese of Kansas City made
him the youngest Catholic churchman
of his rank in the United States.
JURY DISREGARDS JUDGE
Prisoner Found Guilty After Court
Practically Orders Release.
CHICAGO. March 30. Despite al
most specific instructions of Judge
Joseph David, a jury in his court
yesterday found Ben Smith, negro,
guilty of an offense against a 16-year-old
white boy. The judge set
the verdict aside, as he had told- the
jurors he would do so if a verdict of
guilty was found, declaring the evi
dence insufficient.
"You evidently think you kjiow
more about the law than the court,"
the judge said to the jury.
"We do," the foreman eald.
BOY, 15, GETS 20 YEARS
Three Women Are on Jury Which
. Convicts Watch Thief.
SIOUX CITY. Ia.. March 30'. George'
Gwyck, 15, was sentenced to 20 years
in the penitentiary at Fort Madison,
la., for stealing a silver watch valued
at 330 as the result of a verdict of a
jury returned here last night.
Three women were on. the jury ..
Ex-Emperor Charles Un
able to Connect.
REGENT REFUSES TO BUDGE
Exile Suddenly Appears in
Hungarian Capital.
DEMAND' CURTLY REFUSED
Former Monarch, Falling to Re
gain Power, Retires to Aus-
trian Border Town.
BUDAPEST, March 30. (By the
Associated Press.) County Stefan
Bethlen, empowered to act for the
Btate as the plenipotentiary of Regent
Horthy, has been tent to Stelnaman
ger, near the Austrian border, where
ex-Emperor Charles has taken refuge
after his attempt to regain the
throne. The count, who was adviser
to the ex-premier. Archduke Joseph,
has a strong. force of troops at bis
disposal. Premier Teleky and Count
Julius Andrassy, ex-foreign minister
and friend of Charles, accompanied
the count to endeavor to persuade
Charles to leave Hungary.
Charles is under military surveil
lance. He has been deserted by his
stanchest supporters and Is not per
mitted to leave his room in Steina
manger castle. He informed the gov
ernment today that he was preparing
for removal Immediately to a neutral
country, probably Spain. The Span
ish representative told Regent Horthy
today that Charles was under Span
ish protection and that the Spanish
government was offering its hos
pitality to him.
Alleged Aide Arrested.
Bishop Count Mikes, who with
many representatives of the Hunga
rian aristocracy was at Steintmanger
with the ex-emperor, has been arrest
ed charged with being the head of the
movement to restore Charles to the
throne. .
General Lehar, In command: at
Steinamanger, who was suspected of
backing the former monarch with
the West Hungarian army, asserted
today he was loyally supporting Re
gent Horthy.
General Belitska, the war minister,
declared:
'The former king is not supported
by the troops. The army is standing
behind Regent Horthy. Charles is a
prisoner."
Amid stormy scenes today a mass
meeting called by the farmers', party
adopted a resolution asserting that
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I . WONDER HOW LONG WE'LL BE HELD UP?
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Various Organizations JIoTe to Pre
vent Further Tax Increases In"
.Next Three Years.
Resolutions urging the various tax
levying bodies of the city to agree to
make no further rise in taxes for the
next three years were authorized at a
meeting of a committee representing
the various civic organizations of the
city held yesterday.
The resolutions will be prepared
and passed upon at another meeting
of the committee t. be held Monday,
after which It Is the Intention to refer
the action to the various city organ
izations for consideration. The plan
is to secure if possible the joint co
operation of the civic organizations
of Portland- in the-effort to prevent
further increases in taxation for the
next three years.
The committee which met yesterday
came into being as the result of an
address made by Herbert Gordon at
the meeting of the Realty board two
weeks ago. At that time he declared
that if the tax-levying bodies of the
city would pledge' themselves to make
no increases In taxation for the next
three years it would do more to stim
ulate building than any other thing
that could be done. He said that dur
ing the last seven years the rate of
taxation had risen from 22 to 44.8
mills.
The Realty board immediately took
action for the formation of the com
mittee, requesting other civic organ
izations to send delegates.
Among those present at yesterday's
meeting were; L. R. Bailey of the
Ad club; Norman N. Rupp, Rotary
club; Henry Pries, Kiwanis club; F. H.
Strong and David S. Stearns, cham
ber of commerce; Henry E. Reed, City
club; M. H. Schmeer, Credit Men's as
sociation; H. E. Plummer, Civic
league; A. R. Ritter, Herbert Gordon,
Webster Kincaid and Paul Cowgill,
Realty board; Joseph Finley, Musi
clans' club; Frank Upshaw and
Charles Ertz, Progressive Business
Men's club; Walter B. Gleason and F.
M. Moore, American Legion.
Mr. Gordon was chairman of the
day.
The committee appointed to draft
the resolution was headed by F. H.
Strong. The meeting, for the consider
ation of, the resolution wii; be held
Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
LAVA HURLED rflGH IN AIR
Tourists Flocking From Honolulu
to See Volcanic Display. . ',
HONOLULU. T. H March 80. (Spe
cial.) Five flows are running from
Halemaumau pit into the main crater
of ' the volcano of Kilauea on the
island of Hawaii and Pele, the Ha
waiian goddess of fire, is putting on
a volcanic sh.w that is declared to
be the best ever staged in the past 50
years.
Not in the memory of the oldest
HMo inhabitant has the volcano of
Kilauea ever put on such a wonder
ful pyrotechnic display. Fountains of
lava are leaping 30 and 40 feet into
the air in the main crater end tour
ists from Honolulu are flocking(in
droves to see the Jisplay.
Delegates From 50 Districts Almost
to Man Indorse Proposed
Big Bond Issue.
ROSEBURG, Or., March 30. (Spe
cial.) Delegates from 50 road dis
tricts, representing practically every
section of the county and nearly all
of them farmers, today Indorsed a
proposed bond issue of $1,100,000 for
road improvements.
- A large number ot taxpayers also
attended tbe meeting, held at the
courthouse, and the bond issue was
almost unanimously approved, only
two or three dissenting.
A general outline of the road build
ing programme was given by Dis
trict Attorney Neuner, acting secre
tary for the meeting. It was shown
that since the county voted a road
expenditure four years ago of 3550,
000, property valuations have jumped
from ' 827,000,000 to $34,0OJ,00O and
that Douglas county could now vote
more than 32,000,000 indebtedness and
still be withtp the legal limit.
As the plan for improving the Pa
cific highway came to be understood,
the state highway commission having
promised to go 50-50 on that work
and also on the Douglas-Coos proj
ect, with more than half a million
proposed for expenditure on lateral
roads, opposition faded, and enthusi
asm for the whole plan developed.
Petitions will be sent out within a
few days to the various road districts,
calling for a special election on the
same date as the general election in
June, and these petitions and notices
of election will designate the sums
allotted for each road to be improved
from the proposed bond fund, as fol
lyws: Glendale to Pacific highway, 130,
000; Glendale to Koler, 35000; Glen
dale to Fernvale, 35000; from Johns
ranch on Pacific highway to Anchor,
$10,000; Canyonvllle to Tiller, $40,000;
Riddle to crossing of South Umpqua,
$45,000; Riddle to Pacific highway,
via Pruner bridge, $15,000; Myrtle
Creek to Nugget. $6000; Myrtle
Creek to Buckfork, $6000; Pacific
highway to Coos . couity 'line, via
Brockway and Camas Valley, $200,
000; Pacific highway, for bridges,
crossings and rights of way, $185,000;
Looking-Glass road, $7000; Roseburg
Coles Valley, via Melrose, $23,000;
Roseburg to Coos county line, via
Reston, $25,000; Roseburg to Glide,
$26,000; Dixonvllle to Carnes, $6000;
Dixonville to Pe Ell, $13,000; Suther-lin-Umpqua,
via Stephens, $7000;
Sutherlin-Nonpareil, $8000; Eden Bow-er-Umpqua,
via Garden Valley, $40,
000; Rochester bridge over Calapooia,
$73,000; Oakland-English Settlement,
$10,000; Oakland-Marvin Hill, via
Green Valley. $10,000; Yoncalla to
Elk Creek bridge, via Hayhurst,
$5000; Yoncalla to Elk Creek bridge,
via Scotts Valley, $10,000; Yoncalla to
Elkhead, $20,000; Drain-Elkton, $48,
000; Elkton-Reedsporf, $200,000; Good
rich highway, $7000; Pacific highway
to Yoncalla, via Rice Hill, $3000; Wilbur-Garden
.Valley, $5000;' Wilbur to
Day Place, $5000; Umpqua-Tyee,
$5000; JJays Creek district, $5000;
Upper Orchard Valley, $3000.
POT OP TO LABOR
'Big Four' Calls Employes
Into Confidence. '
GRAVE SITUATION FACED
Operating Expense and Reve
nue Disproportionate.
12 BILLIONS IN SECURITIES
Adjustment of Rates and Wages
by Separate Governmental Bod
ies Held Serious Weakness.
NEW YORK, March 30. In an ef
fort to hasten a settlement of the
labor difficulties between ' the rail
roads and their employes, the execu
tive committee of the National Asso
ciation of Owners of Railroad Securi
ties, meeting today. Invited the
heads of the "big four" brotherhoods
to attend a conference here April 4.
A special committee was appointed
and will endeavor to, be helpful, a
statement said, "in assisting to re
lieve the Immediate situation nd
later generally helpful In such direc
tions as may appear essential."
Reviewing railroad problems, the
committee's statement declared that
"the disproportionate . relation be
tween operating expenses and rev
enue and between railroad rates and
fares and the revenue derived there
from must, if not relieved, result in
consequences of serious concern, not
alone to owners of railroad securi
ties, but to shippers, to the workers
on the railroads and to the country."
Partial Remedy With Employes.
Asserting that the National Asso
ciation of Owners of Railroad Securi
ties represents in membership nearly
$12,000,000,000 of railroad securities,
a large proportion of which are bonds,
the statement added:
"Many millions of our citizens de
pendent upon the stability of these
Investments have no collective "means
to speak other than through this
association. y
"An immediate and partial remedy
seems to lie in an adjustment of re
lations between the railroads and
their employes. The hearings before
the railroad labor board at Chicago
do not evidence an early settlement.''
t Earnlnsa Insufficient.
In its letter to the brotherhood
chiefs the committee stated' that the
railroads "are not- producing net
Earnings, as a whole, sufficient to
meet their fixed charges by millions
of dollars." . -
"As one of its first duties, this com
mittee wishes to offer its service in
such directions as will, we hope, be
of assistance in the present emer
gency and with this in view we sug
gest that arrangements be made as
early as practicable tar a conference
between you and the committee that
has been appointed.
"One weakness in the present situa
tion is lack of co-ordination between
the two governmental bodies; one ad
justs the rates, the other wages.
There should be co-ordination be-twj-m
the interstate commerce com
mission, the rate-making body, and
the railroad labor board. One gov
ernment body sitting in Washington
cannot be expected successfully to
adjust rates and fares to meet the
expenses incident to railway opera
tion, while another, sitting in Chi
cago, attempts to adjust wages, the
largest nd most important of all
railway operating expenses, which can
only be Die', by rates the commutes
alone is required to establish."
2 02 ROADS IXCUR DEFICIT
Western Carriers Fail to Earn
Amonnt Estimated Since Rate Rise.
WASHINGTON, March 30. A defi
cit for January of $1,167,800 was
shown for1. 202 railroads in reports
submitted to the interstate commerce
commission, the Association of Rail
way Executives announced tonight.
Tabulation of the reports furnished
them, the association added, showed
that 109 of the railroads failed to
earn expenses and taxes. Of these.
45 were in the eastern, 16 In the
southern and 48 in the western dis
tricts. This corppares, it was added,
with 88 which failed to earn expenses
and taxes in December.
Operating revenues for January, ac
cording to the announcement, were
$468,834,000, an increase of 5H per
cent over January, 1920, while the
operating expenses were $442,474,000.
an increase of 6 3-5 per cent-over
last .January. The net operating In
come represented a decrease of 120.6
per cent as compared with January,
1920, it was said.
Freight revenues were $323,586,000,
an Increase of 4 1-5 per cent, and
passenger revenues were $105,247,000,
an increase of 14 3-5 per cent. Last
August, it was' explained, freight
rates were Increased 83 1-3 per cent
and passenger fares 20 per cent The
carriers, however, showed a decrease
In- the bulk of freight carried of 14.7
per cent on the net ton-miles and 6
per cent on the. passenger miles as
compared with January, 1920.
The roads failed by 6S, 439,800. the
announcement said, to earn the
amount estimated under the Increased
iCuuciuded on Fage i Culumn 2.) . .
Speakers Declare High Cost of La
bor, Transportation Most Be Rem
edied to Get Xormal Conditions.
CHICAGO. March 30. Building
prospects are becoming brighter, ac
cording to reports made by the Na
tlonal Wholesale Lumber Dealers' as
sociation, the Concrete Products asso
elation and the National Lumber Man
ufacturers' association In session to
day.
Speakers said that the high cost of
labor and transportation played an
Important role in the building pro
gramme and must be remedied before
building conditions could return to
normal. ,
Government supervision of the rail
roads, but not government control,
was favored by the wholesale dealers'
association in a resolution.
The resolution also recommended
the repeal of such legislation "as pre
vents or restricts carriers from mak
ing individual contracts and adjusting
rates of pay and hours of service with
their employes, and that pending such
legislation, the president urge the
labor board to abrogate the so-called
national agreements." F. T. Meredith,
former secretary of agriculture, pre
dieted an increase in bujlding in the
farming sections.
BURGLARS' VICTIMST TIED
Valuables Are Taken From Home
-of Frank Carson.
'As they entered their home at 11.30
o'clock last night on their return
from the theater Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Carson, 720 Rodney avenue, were
beld up by two masked men and
were forced to lie on the floor while
they were bound with ropes and
robbed, according to their report to
the police. The burglars took two
valuable sets of furs, a woman'
purse, watches and odd bits of jew
elry and more than $300 In cash.
Their escape was made by automo
bile.
Mr. and Mrs. Carson extricated
themselves and found that the tele
phone wires had been severed. The
burglars were described as being
roughly dressed and both carried
largs pistols.
GRAVES TO BE DECORATED
American Legion Will Look After
Dead Abroad Memorial Day.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. March 30.
The graves of American soldiers who
died abroad during the world war will
be decorated on Memorial day by the
American Legion.
All posts of the legion were called
on for contributions today by Lemuel
Bolles, national adjutant. The burden
of the post, the bulletin said, rests
with the members of the legion, but
public contributions also will be ac
cepted. Relatives of deceased soldiers may
have a special floral offering or deco
ration placed on graves through the
legion's committees in France, Great
Britain, Belgium and Germany, it was
announced.
TURKS CLAIM VICTORY
Kin l re Greek Division Is Reported
Captured at Eskih-Shchr.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 30.
(By the Associated Press.) An entire
Greek division has been captured by
the 'Jurks at Eskih-Shehr and the
Creeks are fleeing from that city,
according to notices posted in Ana
tolia. The Greeks have made no state
ment on the report.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Heather.
YESTERDAY'S Highest temperature, 08
degrees, lowest, 3U; clear.
TODAY'S Fair, winds becoming southerly.
Foreign.
Ex-Emperor foiled In attempt to regain
Austro-Hungarian throne. Page 1.
Fifty persons reported killed in' pollce-
communist clash In Westphalia. Page 2.
National.
Ireland needs no help from America, de
clares British embassy. Page 4.
Domestic.
Bollding prospects becoming brighter.
Page 1.
Mourners file by bier of Gibbons for last
time. Page 3.
Railway solution put up to labor. Page 1.
Negroes taken In raid testify at trial of
J. 3. Williams. Page 4.
Paclfie Northwest.
Dr. A. H. Uphim Inaugurated president
of University of Idaho. Page S.
Aggregate banking resources in Oregon
decrease $2.7UI),81V in year. Page 7.
Gas rate reduced 6 cents per 1000 feet.
Page 9.
Irrigation and drainage bonds voted in
Oregon total $16.02.o00. Page 7.
Twenty-three million bushels signed for
wheat pooL Page 1.
Search and seizure ot liquor restricted.
Page 7.
Douglas county residents ready to spend
. million for roads. Page 1.
Sports. .
Title tournament of amateurs today.
Page 12.
Marty Krug sends word he will join Bea
vers. Page 1.
Golf tournaments for April and May an
nounced. Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
New wool consigned east, owing to lack
of buying. Page 21.
Heavy selling of corn by farmers weak
ened All grains at Chicago, Page 21.
Short selling of specialties unsettles stock
market. Page St.
Three steel steamers arrive to load for
Europe. Page 20.
Portland and Vicinity.
Commissioner Holman criticises suit against
bridge lease. Page 10.
Chest donations are nearly ' $230,000.
Page 1.
Senator Htanfleld has little time to devote
to offlse-seekers. Page 10. -
Civic clubs unite to curb taxation. Page 1.
Confidence voiced in canning merger.
Page 20.
Mayor orders Commissioner Barbur ar
rested. Page 1.
Nelson Gammans figures in sensational
divorce suit. Page 6.
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Workers Expect to Get
$300,000 More Today.
400 RICH TO BE SOLICITED
Business Men Organize New,
Flying Squadron.
SOME FIRMS OVER TOP
District Solicitors Aro Called to
Meet at Xoon Today at Rally
In Portland Hotel.
DISTRICT "WORKERS TO MEET
AT SOO.V.
All districts workers from
every field of activity In the
community chest are urged by
Mayor Baker to attend a lunch
eon rally at the Portland hotel
at noon today. This is the first
official gathering called for
field workers, and It Is most
Important that they should be
present, as matters affecting
the policy of the entire drive
for the remaining three days
will be discussed. It is also de
sired to gain complete first
hand information from scores
of solicitors relating to the
problems they have been meet
ing In their work.
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Sixty prominent business men of
Portland, organized Into a new flying
squadron, will take the field this
morning with the names of 400 per
sons In the city, from whom It is es
timated that a minimum of 3300,000
will be obtained for the. community
chest.
This new corps was organized at a
meeting of the community chest
council yesterday, when it was de
cided that additional strength must
be added to the chest campaign in
order to insure the lifting of the flag
ot victory Saturday nigh.
Optimism supplanted the gloom
which spread over the entire organ
ization on Tuesday, when reports
from all organizations working to
raise money to support Portland's
worthy charitable Institutions showed
Increased support and larger sub
scriptions. 8 access la Predicted.
"Portland will not fall," was the
sentiment expressed at the meeting
of the chest council, composed of 75
financiers and business men of fort
land, held In the assembly room of
the Portland hotel. The group de
cided that they could be of the great
est assistance by organizing into a
flying squadron for the purpose of
making an intensive campaign among
prospective subscribers who can af
ford to give large amounts.
About 400 cards bearing the names
of persons able to subscribe In the
hundreds or thousands of dollars were
passed out at the meeting and were
taken by these community leaders,
who announced their Intention of ex
tracting the allotted amounts from
the listed prospective doners.
$246,331 Ia Subscribed.
Revised figures tabulated at 6 P. At.
last night showed a total of 3246,531
In the community chest from all
sources. Many of the collections, from
industrial concerns have not yet been
reported and were not Included in
this report.
The revised figures last night were
as follows:
Divislnn No. ! t 68.712
Division No. 2 .VI.012
Flying squadron 121.750
Industrial division 6, 3211
Headquarters 737
Total $24.R31
Among the large subscriptions re
ceived yesterday were the following:
First National bank and officers.. . .Ill, or0
The Oregonian Publishing company 5.0ml
Ir.manPnulfln Lumber company... 2.0OO
Allen 4 Lewis 2,000
L. Allen Lewis.... v 6U0
House Canvas to Start.
Another feature of the campaign
today will be the launching of the
house-to-house canvas by 10,000
workers, members of the Portland
Service league. H. W. Kent, who
beads the service league, reported
last night that supplies had been
sent out and that the members of the
league were ready to move In and
solicit every house In the city.
The workers In this movement have
been organized Into units, with one
unit for each precinct In the city. In
this way the entire home population
of the city can be covered in a com
paratively short apace oT time.
Tbe organization will work quickly
In an effort to have the field covered
before th . end of the week and place
their reports of total subscriptions in
headquarters.
Organisation Declared Good.
"We are well organized," said Mr.
Ksnt last night. "Our organization,
established cn a military basis, ex
tends throughout the city. .There are
a fev places where our organization
is not perfected, but we are concen
trating on them in an effort to get
the work under way. We hope to
have everything in working order
by i.oon tomorrow."
The house-to-house workers wiU
ask for donations from everv hotise-
Concluded oa Pa
Joluain 3.)
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