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VOL. XX NO. 18,914
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PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY. .JULY
1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TRANQUIL FOURTH
1GIRL IS KILLED IN FALL
1R PROFITEERING
BY NATION DENIED
SIX BUILDINGS RAZED
BY FIRE AT CARLTON
HARDING CHRISTENS
BOAT BUILT BY BOY
TRIBUTE PAID TO INGENUITY
OF AMERICAN YOUTH.
carpentier really
won, replies Shaw
'MORAL KNOCKOUT OF DEMP
SEY IS EXPLANATION-.
2 WOMEN KILLED
DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT
OPERATOR DROPS THREE STO
RIES, DIES FR03I SHOCK.
OBSERVED BY CITY
MYSTERIOUS BLAZE DESTROYS
BUSINESS BLOCK.
WETS IN PARADE
PROTEST ORYll
202,670 Sign Up, But
Only 14,922 March.
AUTO MISHAP
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K
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Silence Broken Only by
Destroyers' Salute.
CROWDS GATHER IN PARKS
Pleas for Return of Firecrack
ers and Cannon Cheered.
ALL HIGHWAYS JAMMED
Portland Plays Role or Deserted
l'arm Home as Picnickers Seek
Pleasure In Country.
Kot a firecracker's snap and eiz
Ile. not a drum beat or bugle note,
not a rumble from daybreak cannon
or anvil, not a street brawl or hilari
ous street gathering nothing save a
noon salute of 21 guns from the de
stroyers in the harbor. That was
the Fourth of July in Portland yes
terday. For with the outpouring of thou
sands by every avenue of travel the
city lay deserted. Street cars roared
through streets without the usual
human load to deaden sound. Even
the footfalls of pedestrians echoed
like the lone street walker in dead
of night.
City Like Old Farm Home.
The safe and sane Fourth and the
automobile, one or both, have sounded
the death knell for the old-fashioned
celebration. Portland yesterday filled
the role of the old home farm in
bygone days, and the beaches, the
mountains, the country woods sup
plied the things which pleasure seek
ers loved.
And Portland still played the part
of the old-fashioned home last night,
for no place ever looked better to
the tired hosts that rushed toward it
from every direction, taxing the car
lines, the highways and the boats
to the limit- Three glorious . days,
with sunshine and fresh breezes and
never a thought, of rain, had forced
each picknicker to the limit of his
endurance. -
Crowds Gather In Parka.
The playgrounds and the public
parks filled the place of the country
for many who were not able to heed
the call of distance. Special pro
grammes and plenty of action filled
each gap between the arrival and de
parture and the time taken out for
picnic spreads of all that even a
small boy could wish to eat and hope
to. survive. In the family groups and
tho crowds at the playgrounds and
parks in every part of the city it is
probable that 50.000 persons gath-red
for the day.
The downtown section, however,
was deserted save for out-of-town
visitors and an occasional Portlander.'
The three destroyers dispatched by
the government to help bring a truly
festive air to the city were the center
of attraction. Visitors crossed and
recrosscd the Morrison-street bridge
to the Supple dock to wander at will
about the decks of the three trim
fighting craft tied side by side in
pontoon formation.
Parade la Abandoned.
The eleventh - hour celebration,
planned and announced after word
bad been received that the destroyers
were due in the river, proved disap
pointing from the standpoint of at
tendance. Apparently everyone had
either left the city or made other
arrangements for the day before the
news of the parade reached them. A
few squads of "gobs" from the war
ships, a sturdy group of Grand Army
of the Republic men, enough world
war veterans to carry the colors, and
the speakers of the day were all who
responded to the parade Invitation.
The little group slipped quietly
around the courthouse, where they
had formed at 1:30 o'clock, and up
Salmon street t the park blocks, cut
ting the line of march off at the
beginning. Downtown for the first
time during the day the semblance
of a crowd had gathered at the post
office block and in groups along
Sixth street and Broadway, waiting
for the parade. By the time the last
had discovered that no parade was
coming the Declaration of Independ
ence had been read, the speeches de
livered and the ceremony officially
closed at the bandstand in festival
center.
Pleaa for Old Days Cheered.
But those who-found their way to
the ceremony were not the type who
are drawn by crowds or dismayed by
lack of attendance. The gathering
was made up almost entirely of war
veterans and their families. Soldiers
of the war of the rebellion predomi
nated.
rieas for the return of the old
fashioned Fourth with firecrackers
and barbecues and all the fine old
ceremony of bygone days " were
cheered to the echo. Men and women
leaned forward and all voices stilled
in reverence as Colonel J. J. Cross
Ivy read the Declaration of Indepen
dence. John W. Cullen, Indian fighter of
an early day In Oregon territory; C. A.
'Williams, department commander of
the Grand Army of the Republic in
Oregon; Colonel Henry E. Dosch, civil
war veteran; Rev. C. E. Cline, civil
war veteran, and Major C. R. Hotch
kiss, department commander, Spanish-
(Concluded vu Taffe 4, Co'.umo 2.)
Tenant of Couch Building-.Hears
Screams ana Body Goes
Through to Basement.-
Anna McNaughton, an elevator op
erator, 28 years old, was fatally
injured when she became entangled
in a moving elevator in the Couch
building yesterday morning and was
precipitated from the third floor to
the basement of the building. She
died an hour later at St. Vincent's
hospital from shock.
Miss McNaughton bad lived in
Portland about six months' and had
been employed regularly as an ele
vator operator at the Lewis building
for two months. She had been a re
lief operator at the Couch building.
Exact details concerning -the trag
edy were not obtained either by the
police or coroner, as there were no
eye-witnesses. F. H. Cassidy, a ten
ant of the building, said Miss Mc
Naughton was working in the bottom
of the elevator shaft when he entered
the building and he walked to his
offices on the' third floor. Just as
he reached the floor fie said he heard
the young woman scream, and saw
the elevator shoot rapidly to the
floor level, when her body fell
through to the basement.
Miss Mc.Vaughton lived at 8 East
Ninth street North. A sister, Kath
erine McNaughton, also resides In
Portland, but other relatives' are be
lieved to be in Scotland. The body
is at the morgue. It was not de
termined whether an Inquest would
be held.
FLEET SCARES MEXICANS
V. S. Warships In Maneuver Off
Tampico Produce Sensation.
MEXICO CITY, July 4. (By the As
sociated Press.) The appearance off
Tampico yesterday of five armored
vessels comprising part of the United
States Atlantic fleet is described to
day by the Tampico correspondent of
El Democrata as having produced a
great sensation.
The vessels cast anchor just outside
the three-mile limit and gave no inti
mation as to the cause of their visit
but El Democrata says- it believes the
vessels are engaged in maneuvers off
the Gulf of Mexico and declares their
presence should jiot cause any wild
speculation.
BASEBALL FELLS YOUTH
Charles Orr, 20, Unconscious From
Blow on Temple.
SHERIDAN, Or., July 4. (Special.)
Charles Orr, aged 20, of Yamhill,
Or., was knocked unconscious Sun
day in a game of baseball between
Sheridan and Amity.
Orr was at bat when a swift ball
struck him near the temple. He fell
to the ground in an unconscious con
dition. He was removed to the hos
pital at McMinnville.
The young man regained conscious
ness several .hours after reaching the
hospital and appeared not seriously
injured. He was discharged today
and was taken to his home near Yam
hill by automobile.
PICNIC TRUCKS COLLIDE
Several Sustain Slight Injuries;
Children in Parties.
Two motor trucks loaded with
Fourth of July picnickers collided at
East Twenty-fourth and Stanton
streets yesterday morning, resulting
in slight injuries to several persons in
each truck. One truck contained 13
persons, mostly children. It was
driven by L. Fisher. 1296 East Eight
eenth street North.
The other truck is owned by D. C.
Remington and H. W. Sargent. Earl
Long, aged 9, of 1238 East Eighteenth
street North, was the only one who
required medical treatment.- He sus
tained a deep cut in the neck.
STEED'S STOP IS FATAL
Horse Obeys Whistled Signal and
Rider Loses His Life.
PARIS. 111., July 4. Charles
aged 20, was instantly killed
Drake,
at the
Sunday
Edgar county fair grounds
while trying to ride a horse
had been trained by its owner
at a whistled signal.
The horse -.vas going at a
which
to etop
gallop
when it heard the wh'stle and
so suddenly that Drake -was
over its head.
stopped
thrown
WOOL BRINGS 21 CENTS
35,000 Pounds Sold During Week
to Philadelphia Firm.
OREAT FALLS, Mont., July 4.
Thirty-five thousand pounds of wool
was sold at Harlowton last week for
21 cents a pound by the Grain Grow
ers' Association, Inc.. to George F.
Gish of Denver for the Charles J.
Webb company of Philadelphia; ac
cording to Mr. Gish here today. The
price is the highest known to have
been paid in Montana this season.
3 PLANES' FATE UNKNOWN
Aircraft Mexico-Bound Send Word
Before Crossing "ad Lands."
LINCOLN, Neb.. July 4. Three air
planes, which left here for Mexicc
City June 25 to enter the air mai.
service there, have not been heard
from since last Wednesday.
At Hhat time a telegram received
here stated they were leaving Laredo.
Tex., to cross several hundred miles
of "bad lands."
U.S. No Land of Milk and
Honey, English Hear.
HARVEY SPEAKS IN LONDON
Misapprehensions in Both
Countries Are Noted.
UNDERSTANDING BIG AIM
Ambassador Declares Idea That
Europe Is Doing Xo thing but
Wail Also Jfeeds Correction.
LONDON, July 4t (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Diplomatic represen
tatives of more than 30 foreign gov
ernments were guests tonight at the
annual Independence-day. dinner of
the American society of London. Am
bassador Harvey was the guest of
honor.
Lord Lee of Fareham, firsf lord of
the admiralty toasting the guest, re
ferred to Mr. Harvey as "a foreign
envoy to whom the muzzle of diplo
macy had not been obtrusive." He
said Britain and America could ex
pect from him "open and frank com
ment upon Anglo-American relations."
Referring, in his reply, to the revolt
of the American colonies, AVnbassador
"Harvey declared:
Appeal by Georne V Noted.
"Whether the territory comprising
the-United States could have been re
tained is wholly speculative. But one
fact is certain if George III had is
sued a proclamation even approximat
ing in eloquent sincerity and appeal
ing force that which was uttered the
other day by George V in his faithful
endeavor to reconcile a nation, there
would have been no ringing of bells
in Philadelphia 145 years ago this
night, nor for many years thereafter."
Ambassador Harvey declared the
mutual helpfulness which all de
sired could not be realized until two
grave misapprehensions had been re
moved, one of which pervaded Europe
respecting the United States and the
other which permeated the United
States as to Europe.
Chief Barrier DlacMMd.
"The two combined appear to con
stitute the chief barrier to full and
effective play of co-operation based
upon confidence and understanding,"
he said. "I find in Europe the com
mon impression that the United
States, alone among the nations of
the world, is today a land of milk
and honey, whose people not only are
universally prosperous, though re
calcltrantly discontented, but are rich
beyond the traditional dreams of
avarice.
"You have only to supplement the
fancy with a suspicion, which I find
not wholly lacking, that all this
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McMinnville and Yamhill Hosemen
Aid Home Volunteers; Loss
Estimated at 915,000.
CARLTON, Or.. July 4. (Special.)
Fire of unknown origin, which started
at 2 o'clock this morning in the
Betch' restaurant here, destroyed the
restaurant, the . hall of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen and four
unoccupied buildings, including one
used recently as a motion - picture
house. The loss was estimated at
115.000, with 12500 insurance.
The flames were discovered in the
rear of the restaurant : by a small
daughter of Mr. Betch, who. with his
family, lived In adjoining quarters.
The Carlton volunteer fire depart
ment responded to a call promptly.
The fire rapidly enveloped the wooden
structures.
Yamhill's department reached Carl
ton 40 minutes after a call was sent,
and shortly afterward McMinnville
sent a company. Five streams were
played on the burning buildings.
Efforts later were turned to sav
ing surrounding structures.
. The wooden buildings constituted
one block' of Carlton's business dis
trict,; Two were owned by N. E. Han
son, one by Fred Hurner and another
by Mrs7 Alice Stolldop.
Although water was used for three
hours, the supply in Carlton's city
reservoir was reduced only two feet.
Rebuilding of the structures was
not contemplated, the owners said.
ENGLAND SHORT OF FUNDS
Guarantee of Minimum Prices to
Farms to Be Discontinued.
LONDON, July 4. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The serious state of
England's finances was emphasized in
the house of commons tonight when
Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen. presi
dent of the board of agriculture, and
Sir Robert Stevenson Home, chan
cellor of the exchequer, admitted the
impossibility of continuing the agri
culture subsidy. Both said that the
government had decided it must get
rid of every vestige of the war policy
of cpntrol and subsidies. The chan
cellor said it was impossible to con
tinue an expenditure of this kind with
the other colossal commitments.
The agriculture act guaranteed
minimum prices to the farmer for his
produce and was estimated to entail
a subsidy amounting to 20,000,000
to 30,000,000 yearly.
SOVIET REQUESTS PEACE
Desire to Occupy Constantinople
Denied by New Envoy.
CONST ANTINOFLE, July 4. (By
the Associated Press.) Soviet Russia
has no desire to occupy Constanti
nople, but desires peaceful relations
with Turkey and all other nations,
declared M. Nathar.arow, the new bol
shevik ambassador to Turkey, in pre
senting his credentials to Mustaoha
Kemal Pasha, head of the Turkish
nationalist government.
Dispatches from Angora say the
exchange of addresses was most
friendly. The Turkish nationalist
government is the only regime in
Turkey that is recognized by the ad
ministration at Moscow,
UNLESS THAT HOLE IS REPAIRED,
Little Craft Launched From Small
Ways Into Lake Forming Haz
ard for Frelinghuysen Links.
RARITAN. N. J. July 4. Acting as
sponsor here today of a rowboat race
by a nine-year-old boy. President
Harding delivered a Fourth of July
oration of a single sentence in tribute
to the ingenuity and aspiration -of
American boyhood.
The craft which inspired the presi
dent's toast was "the Rarltan," nine
feet over all. conceived and built by
Joseph S. Frelinghuysen Jr., son of
the senior senator from New Jersey,
at whose home the president and Mrs.
Harding are guests.
The bank of an artificial lake
forming a hazard across a golf course
of the Raritan Valley Country club
was the scene of the launching and
will be the home port of the "Rari
tan" as she sails in search of mis
directed golf balls.
Had ehe been the largest . ocean
liner, the vessel scarcely could have
taken the water with a greater show
of ceremony. Specially constructed
ways,, the upper end of which rested
upon a soap box, guided her down
the bank. Tbe American flag was in
place above her stern, and as she
was loosened to begin her career, the
president of the United States broke
a beribboned bottle of mineral water
across her bows, and said:
"As a tribute to American boyhood,
who build castles in the air, who
build boats and whose achievements
in the future will build this country,
I christen this boat, the handiwark of
Joe Frelinghuysen, the Raritan."
Entering thoroughly into the-spirit
which, prompted Joe and his young
friends to plan the ceremony, Mr.
Harding spoke his tribute solemnly
and applauded as tbe boat splashed
Into the water with her builder sit
ting proudly amidships.
Then the president, attired in white
golf costume, turned to the group of
boys that had gathered on the bank
and swapped opinions with them
about the fine points of the Raritan.
Manifestly, the president enjoyed
tbe launching more than any other
event of his Fourth of July pro
gramme, though previously he had
been presented with a silver cup by
the Country club and later was the
central figure at a public reception
at the Frelinghuysen house, during
which the people of Raritan and
nearby towns trooped in to pay their
respects in numbers that recalled
the. "front porch" days at Marion.
For more . than two hours the
president and Mrs. Harding shook
hands and exchanged greetings with
those who filed past.
Tomorrow morning air. Harding
will leave by train for Washington.
FIRE SUSPECTS JAILED
Several Arrest Made Over Burn
ing of Peru Presidential House.
LIMA, Peru, July 4. Several per
sons have been arrested and held for
examination In connection with the
fire which yesterday destroyed vir
tuallx, the entire northwest wing of
the government house.
It was said the fire broke out sim
ultaneously at three places in the
presidential suite.
PEPPERY BANNERS CARRIED
Foreign-Born Prominent in
New York Demonstration.
75,000 LINE SIDEWALKS
Sweltering Sun Is Braved by Thou
sands; Perspiration . Makes
Event Soaking Wet.
NEW YORK, July 4. A great many
New Yorkers let the world know to
day that they bear no love for the
18th- amendment. Several thousand
raised a terrible thirst tramping up
Fifth avenue in an anti-prohibition
demonstrati jn and others packed the
sidewalks for more than two miles
to cheer them.
It was called a wet parade, and it
was wet soaking wet with per
spiration. The afternoon was one of
the hottest of the year.
Mayor Hylan smiled and sweltered
In the seat of honor in the reviewing
stand ' at Madison Square. Both
groups passing by greeted him with
complimentary outbursts. Every now
and then somebody would loudly ask
if his honor didn't long for a schooner
of lager on such a hot day.
Foreign-Born In Parade.
The foreign-born and they made
up a big percentage of the demonstra
tion against dryness always ad
dressed the mayor by :.is title, or as
"Mister Hylan." Some of the march
ers bore banners which called on all
to witness "the outrage on personal
liberty" against which they perspired
in protest. . " 1
Quite a few women and children
participated In the parade. They
were so outnumbered by masculine
marchers; however, that it seemed
manifest that the male of the speoies
is more thirsty than' his mate. Every
body in the line had an American
flag. Many wore miniature liquor
bottles appropriately inscribed.
There were more than 300 organ
izations in line, about 100 of them
Italian, those in charge announced.
Bands played drinking eongs and
songs dedicated to the absence of
drinks.
Peppy Fl.rarda Carried.
Placards, in a manner of speaking,
put the kick in the parade. One read:
"Prohibition took the sunshine from
our homes and put the moonshine in."
Another said: "Russia went t - in
1919 and mad in 1921. How rational
do you feel yourselves?"
A third declared: "Four million
soldiers fought for liberty and were
rewarded with prohibition. How
come?"
The serious signs asked everybody
to notice what alcoholic aridity had
done to the American merchant ma
rine. They suggested Bible reading as a
means of learning who made wine
from water that the wedding feast
might be merry, and the biblical line:
"Use a little wine for thy stomach's
sake," was quoted. There were pic
tures of the Last Supper and of the
Goddess of Liberty, shorn of her
prosit-like pose by shackles that
bound her arms together.
Seriousness la Asked.
Some banners urged people to take
tbe parade and the sentiment it repre
sented with seriousness, explaining
the marchers wanted the 18th amend
ment repealed and the Volstead act
"liberalized" and, furthermore, that
they were going to fight for that
cause. -
After the parade participants and
spectators poured into soda fountains
to quench their thirst with soft
drinks.
Watching the marchers and
stretched two. or three deep all along
the line were perhaps 75,000 specta
tors, giving up their holiday and
sweltering In the hot mid-afternoon
presumably In the same cause.
It was a unique procession for the
historic Place of Parades. Those who
hiked the two miles and a half were
quite sincere, apparently, and put a
lot of vim into their hiking, their
singing for there were outbursts of
melody now and then and especially
into the wording of their banners.
Most Are Middle-Aged.
But certain plain facts about the
anti-prohibition parade painful as
they may sound to.he ultra-enthusiasts
who worked it jap must be told.
It was not any "early-morning-till-late-night"
affair; such as had been
promised. Of the 202,60 men and
women who had signed pledges that
they would march, not one-tenth ap
peared. And of those .who did take
part, eight out of every ten so far as
could be judged were foreign born.
And looking at it in yet another way,
eight of every ten were middle-aged.
Of course there are explanations
for these facta. In the first place it
was a bit too much to ask New York
ers to surrender half of their holiday
and go hiking with the mercury up
in the 90s. Certainly the youth of
New York was going to do no such
thing, with beaches beckoning, waves
waving and girls giggling elsewhere.
Then again New Yorkers lost their
.LCuacluUcd uii i'aiiv 3, Culuuia X.j
Irish Playwright Declares Predic
tion on Outcome of Big Bat
tle Was Correct.
NEW YORK, July 4. George Ber
nard Shaw, who, since the meeting of
the man and superman in Jersey City
last Saturday needs no introduction
to fight fans, obviously Is no believer
In the verbal ingenuities of post
mortem politeness. Either that, or
the author of "You Never Can Tell"
has furnished pathetic proof of his
undying belief in the sense of humor
of a country that continues to cele
brate Independence day despite the
18th amendment.
In a cable to the New York World,
dated London. July 4, the eminent
Irish vegetarian said:
"I stand by every word of my ar
ticle. Dempsey was morally knocked
out in the first round, also in the
second. Ask Corbett."
In one of its accounts of the fight
on Sunday, the World said:
"In the second round Carpentier had
clearly established what the British
liked to call in the early part of the
war the 'moral ascendency.'"
Which was about as valuable to
Carpentier as it was to the British
who coined the phrase. Shaw, several
days before the fight, warned "British
greenhorns" against being humbugged
into laying odds on Dempsey. It was
a SO-to-l shot, he said, that the
"French genius" would prevail.
After the fight the World cabled to
Mr. Shaw as follows:
"Now, how about Dempsey and
Carpentier? You never can tell, can
you?"
Shaw's "moral knockout" cable fol
lowed. And here, by the way, is
what Corbett thought of the fight:
"In the first round it looked about
even. In the second round Carpentier
had Dempsey groggy without any
question. It looked like Dempsey
was a licked man. After that Car
pentier got tired and could not stand
the strain of roughing it with
Dempsey. It was the old, old story
of a good big man whipping a good
little man "
MOTORCYCLIST IS KILLED
Rider From Astoria Runs Head-On
Into Automobile.
Henry Riebe. 33 years old and a
resident of Astoria, was killed last
night in an automobile accident, while
riding toward that town.
The man was said to have hit a
roadster head-on. The automobile
was reported to have been traveling
on the wrong side of the road.
The injured man was brought to
the Good Samaritan hospital here,
where he died of a fractured skull.
TYPHOON STRIKES MANILA
Houses Unroofed; Craft Driven
Ashore; City Put In Darkness.
MANILA. P. I.. July 5. (By the
Associated Press.) A typhoon early
today caused heavy damage in Ma
nila and Its environs. The city's
power supply was cut off and the
city was in darkness. Houses were
unroofed and several small vessels
in Manila bay driven ashore.
Street car service was paralyzed.
Firecracker Is Fatal.
DENVER, July 4. Fobert Knott,
55, a real estate operator, was stand
ing at a corner in the business dis
trict today when someone threw a
giant firecracker at his feet.
As the firecracker exploded Knott
dropped dead, apparently from ex
citement. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maxin.um temperature, 71
degrees; minimum. 62 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; gentle winds, mostly
westerly.
Foreign.
Paris celebrates fourth, but without mili
tary. Page 3.
Japanese declared eager for disarmament
conference. Page 4.
General Smuts to meet Eamonn Valera.
Page 6.
Anglo-Japanese alliance to run another
year. Page 3.
America no land of milk and honey, Har
vey tells English- Page 1.
National.
Senator Knox declares aliens have poor
theories of government. Page 5.
Suspicion of Europe delays action on pres
ident's request for powers. Page 3.
Domestic
Ban on criticism of officers of armed
forces is opposed by Sims. Page 2.
Harding christens boat buiit by boy.
Page 1.
Wets parade In New York in protest
against dry law. Page 1.
Theology suffers as result of war. Page 2.
Carpentier really won fight, declare Ber
nard Shaw. Page 1.
Educators of nation view patriotic pageant.
Page 5.
Pacific Northwest.
Six buildings razed by fire at Carlton.
Pago L
Sports.
New York forgets title bout quickly. Page
12,
Pacific Coast league results: At Seattle,
. 10-2, Portland, 2-3; at Salt Lake. 18-3,
Sacramento, 13-5; at San Francisco,
4-4, Vernon, 5-2; at Los Angeles, 8-3.
Oakland, 7-6. Page 13.
West maintains track supremacy over east.
Page 12.
Surf board said, to be secret of Duke's
swimming prowess. Page 12.
Milton wins 250-mile auto race at Ta-
comi. Page 8. j
Grand circuit season opens. Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Deep draft ships navigate Columbia river.
Page 19-
Portland and Vicinity.
Girl elevator operator killed in three-story
fall down shaft. Page 1.
Hibernians plead for Irish freedom. Page
15.
Portland observe- tranquil Fourth of July.
Page 1.
Two women killed in auto accidents.
Page 1-
KIks to booft Oregon at national conven
tion. Page 10.
Three defects found in city's traffic. Pa
Mother of Five, Hurled
Under Machine, Dies.
HUSBAND AND CHILDREN HURT
Grade on Portland-Tillamook
Highway Caves In.
NERVOUS SHOCK IS FATAL
Mrs. Eliza D. Cramer, 66, Victim
After Street Car Hits Auto;
Daughter, Driver, Collapses.
SUMMARY OP YESTERDAY'S
ACCIDENTS.
Mrs. Eliza D. Cramer, 335
Sixth street, dies from nervous
shock following street-car crash
with auto.
Mrs. Edna Albertson, 834 Al
berta street, killed; her five
children injured, and Mrs. M.
Barton, Carlton, or.. Injured
when auto goes over embank
ment near .Tillamook.
Two women are dead and several
other persons injured as a result of
automobile accidents reported to the
police yeserday. The most serious of
the accidents reported was one which
occurred on the Portland-Tillamook
road at an early hour yesterday morn
ins, in which one woman was killed,
her mother critically injured, and her
husband and five children slightly
Injured. when their automobile
plunged down an embankment.
Those killed and injured were:
Portland accident Dead Mrs. Eliza
D. Cramer. 335 Sixth street, Portland.
Tillamook accident Dead Mrs.
Edna Albertson, 34 Alberta street.
Injured Mrs. M. Barton. Carlton. Or.
Nervous Shook Fatal.
Mrs. Eliza D. Cramer. 66 years old.
of 333 Sixth street, died at 5 o'clock
last night at St. Vincent's hospital
as a result of a nervous shock sus
taned when a Mississippi aven-e
street car crashed into an automo
bile driven by her daughter near the
corner of Mississippi avenue and
Portland boulevard an hour before.
Although Mrs. Cramer was not in
jured in the crash, the shock so af
fected her that 6he was removed to
St. Vincent's hospital, where she suc
cumbed to a heart attack. The daugh
ter. Miss Elite Cramer, who drove the
automobile, said her mother had been
suffering from a heart valve leakage.
Miss Cramer reported the accident
to the police traffic bureau before
she had been apprised of her mother's
death. She said she had intended
parking her automobile near the in
tersection of Mississippi avenue and
Portland boulevard. As she slowed
down to back in toward the curbing,
she said she looked back and saw a
street car about half a block away.
She said she sounded her horn sev-.
eral times and thought she had suf
ficient time to park the machine be
fore the arrival of the street car.
Death New Causes Collapse.
' The street car struck the automo
bile on the side before it could clear
the tracks, but none of the occupants
was thrown out of the machine or
otherwise cut or bruised. The auto
mobile was said to have been badly
damaged.
The Mississippi-avenue street car
was in charge of Conductor H. T.
Gossett and Motorman C. R. Walters.
When Miss Crame.r arrived at the
hospital to learn that her mother had
died she suffered a complete nerv
ous breakdown.
Mrs. Cramer's body was removed
last night to the morgue, and it was
announced at the coroner's office that
an inquest would be held, probably
tonight or tomorrow.
Mrs. Cramer was the widow of the
late Gustave f. Cramer. She Is sur
vived by three daughters and a son,
all of Portland. They are the Misses
Elise. Johanna and Madge Cramer
and G. P. Cramer.
Mother of Five Killed.
Mrs. Edna Albertson, wife of a
Portland merchant and mother of five
children, was killed almost instantly
and other occupants of an automobile
driven by her husband were injured
when the machine left the grade and
plunged over an embankment a few
miles east of Tillamook early yester
day morning.
Mrs. Albertson's body was taken
into Tillamook, where it will be pre
pared for shipment to Portland this
week. Mrs. "M. 3arton, mother of
Mrs. Albertson, sustained a crushed
chest and other serious injuries. She
was taken to her home at Carlton.
Or., for medical treatment. Her re
covery was said to be doubtful.
Mr. Albertson and their five chil
dren escaped with minor cuts and
bruises, although Mr. Albertson was
suffering from nervous prostration
last night and was under the con
stant care of physicians and nurses
His condition was reported to be ex
tremely critical.
Mr. Albertson and his family were
on their way to one of the Tillamook
beaches for over the Fourth of July
when the fatal accident occurred jut
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