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VOL. LX-XO. 18.918
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Powtof fic ri Si?pond-Class Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PARALYSIS STROKE
LEAVES ALBERS BLIND
DELRY OF BONUS
BELIEVED CERTAIN
SWATH IN 320-ACRE
GRAIN FIELD BURNED
HOT WEATHER TRACED Pimm flDCM MMR
BRITAIN MAY CALL
CONFERENCE ON EAST
HI REBELLION
COUNCIL AGREES
TO CURB PMC
All-Day Privileges to Be
Eliminated.
TO METEOR SHOWER u"""n ul Ll uuu"
STILL U, POLICY
BREAKDOWN" IS ATTRIBUTED
FIRST SERIOUS FIRE OF SEA- MATTER GREATER THAN" MOOX
SOX VISITS IXLAXD EMPIRE. 1 HITS SUX EVERY CEXTURY.
AMERICA, JAPAX, C1I1XA RE
PORTED SOUNDED.
TO W IDE UNPOPULARITY.
I
HALTED By TRUCE
Peace Pact to Go in
Effect Monday Noon.
VALEM ACCEPTS OFFER
Difficulties to Be Discussed
at Conference to Be
Held in London.
KING IS LEADING FIGURE
Genera! Smuts Is Pivot on
Which Movement Has
Been Set Goina.
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LONDON, July 8. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) A truce has been de
clared between England and Ireland.
It will take effect at noon on Mon
day next. Preparations were already
under way to end the hosilities be
tween the crown forces and those
actively engaged in the Irish cause.
Developments leading to the truce
were divided between London and
Publin. In Dublin Eamonn de
Valera, Irish republican leader, and
his nationalist associates renewed
their conference with the southern
unionists.
General at Conference.
Earl Middleton, a unionist, who re
cecently conferred with the British
prime minister, read a letter from
Mr. Lloyd George to the effect that
hostilities must cease if negotiations
looking to peace were to succeed.
General Sir Nevill , Macready,
British military commander in Ire
land, appeared at the De Valera
conference, and it was not many
hours later that the announcement
was made at the prime minister's
official residence in London that in
accordance with the premier's offer
and Mr. De Valera's reply arrange
ments were going forward for the
cessation of hostilities from Monday
noon.
King Leading Figure.
The king of England has been a
leading figure in the developments
up to the present, while General
Smuts, the South African premier,
has acted as the pivot on which the
peace movement has turned. There
is hope in London and in Dublin, too,
that peace must come out of the
forces which are now engaged in
seeking a settlement.
De Valera wrote the prime min
ister his acceptance of the invita
tion to participate in a conference
jn London.
The letter of De Valera to Lloyd
eorge said:
"Sir The desire you express on
the part of the British government
to end the centuries of conflict be
tween the peoples of these two is
lands and to establish relations of
neighborly harmony is the genuine
desire of the people of Ireland.
"I have consulted with my col
leagues and secured the views of
representatives of minorities of our
mtion in regard to the invitation
you have sent me.
Conference Is Accepted.
"In reply I desire to say J. am
ready to meet and discuss with you
on what basis such a conference as
that proposed can reasonably hope
to achieve the object desired.
"I am, sir, faithfully yours,
"EAMONN DE VALERA."
Events Move Swiftly.
Events moved swiftly today, both
in London and Dublin. Not only has
De Valera, contrary to general ex- J
rectation, consented to come to Lon
don to discuss with Mr. Lloyd
George the basis on which settle
ment of the Irish question might be
reached by the prime minister's pro
posed London conference, but the
truce has been arranged.
This has given reasonable assur
ance that the original conference, to
which the prime minister invited the
Irish republican leader and Sir
James Craig, the Ulster premier,
will be held.
The day started hopefully with
'the king summoning the Ulster
premier to a conference at Buck
ingham palace. This, following upon
the king's conference yesterday with
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Being Read Oat of Elks Lodge Is
Said by Friends to Have Been
Severe Blow.
Henry Albers. convicted of seditious
utterances during the world war, and
whose sentence of three years in
prison and fine of $10,000 were an
nulled recently when the government,
through Solicitor-General Frlerson.
admitted error, has been stricken
with paralysis and blindness.
It appeared the law of compensa
tion swung by the action of the attorney-general's
office, but this bit
of grateful balm was poisoned by a
storm of protest loud and bitter and
the assertion that Mr. Albers would
not go scatheless, but must again
stand trial on the same charge.
It seemed every group of patriotic
folk met at once and adopted resolu
tions against Albers. His unpopular
ity among his fellow citizens ap
peared unbounded. The Elks lodge,
of which he was a member, threw
him out of that organization a few
days ago, it was learned yesterday.
One knockdown blow after another
rained upon his head.
The cumulative effect, said his
friends, was too much. Last Wednes
day night he suffered a stroke of
paralysis that left him blind and
helpless. He was said yesterday not
to be improved and his condition was
serious. Mr. Albers was being cared
for last night at his home at Milwau
kle, with a nurse in constant attend
ance and a physician within call.
Portland lodge of Elks, No. 142, dis
missed Mr. Albers from membership,
the charges against him being the
same as he faced to his undoing in
federal court. The case was pre
sented to a jury of five fellow lodge
men and the vote to bar him from
the order was three to two. As the
vote showed, sentiment in the order
was not wholly against him and there
were numbers of lodgemen who re
gretted the action taken in his case.
One prominent Portlander and an
Elk, said yesterday:
"This was one brother whose faults
were not written upon the sands."
Whether fate can . deal Henry
Albers further blows remains to be
seen. His retrial upon the original
charges is still pending, and it was
the purpose of United States Attorney
Humphreys to ask for it as soon as
a mandate in the case was received
from the supreme court. In the cir
cumstances, another trial would be
delayed, naturally, until the outcome
of his illness Is known.
ISOLATED GIRL WEDDED
Pane of Glass Shields Bridegroom
and. Priest From Fever Germs.
VANCOUVER, B. C. July 8. (Spe
cial.) Miss Kate' O'Brien of Phila
delphia, and Charles Barker of this
city were married in Moosejaw yes
terday by Rev. Father O'Brien of Bos
ton, through a sheet of glass which
prevented the. scarlet fever, which the
bride had contracted reaching the
bridegroom and minister.
Miss O'Brien left Philadelphia about
a week ago to be " married in this
city, but contracted .fever en route
and had to leave the train at Moose
jaw. Barker left for that town at
once on learning of the trouble and
insisted that there be no postpone
ment of the wedding.
The girl was moved to a room and
a speaking tube inserted in the wall
for the priest, who received the as
sents of the bride by nods of the
head.
HOOVER DONATES $2500
Pacific College Endowment Fund
Helped by ex-Student.
NEWBERG. Or., July 8. (Special.)
The committee In charge of the
campaign to raise an additional en
dowment fund for Pacific college to
the amount of $150,000 a few days
ago received a subscription of $2500
from Herbert Hoover, secretary of
commerce. Mr. Hoover was a stu
dent of the academic department
there In his boyhood days and it was
specially pleasing to the college
authorities to know that he still had
an Interest in the institution.
Other substantial subscriptions re
cently made to the fund was $1000
by R. A. Booth of the etate highway
commission and $1000 by the Buck
man sisters of Portland. The amount
subscribed to date was about $124,000,
leaving $26,000 yet to be obtained.
THRESHER CRUSHES BOY
Bonnie Kruni, Aged 2, Drawn Into
Feeder of Separator and Killed.
COLFAX, Wash., July 8. (Special.)
Bennie. the 2-year-old son of John
Krum. living 20 miles west of Colfax,
was crushed to death in a threshing
machine separator late today.
The father and grandfather, Henry
Krum. well-known farmers, were get
ting the separator ready for harvest
and were running it while making
repairs. The separator feed was
almost touching the ground and the
little boy got into the feeder before
the parents were aware he ww near
and he was carried into the machine
before it could be stopped. The little
boy was terribly crushed.
JOHN D. 82 YEARS OLD
Round or GoU Played While At
tendant Carries Umbrella.
TARRTTOWX, N. Y.. July 8. John
D. Rockefeller celebrated his 82d
birthday today by playing a round of
golf under an umbrella.
Like the mikado, he was followed
by an umbrella bearer to protect him
against the scorching sun.
Votes to Postpone Action
Declared Assured.
HARDING TO SEND MESSAGE
McCumber Says Expenses
Can Be Trimmed to Meet Bill.
HOT FIGHT IS EXPECTED
Senator Cannot Believe- Country
Will Be Aroused Over Aid to .
Veterans Contemplated.
WASHINGTON. D. C. July 8.
Debate on the soldier bonus bill
dragged along In the eenate toda.y
while the list of senators favoring
Indefinite postponement of action on
the legislation through recommittal
of the measure to the finance com
mittee steadily grew In proportions.
Leaders said they were assured of
enough votes to put through such
a programme.
President Harding will send a
special message to congress on the
bonus bill next week, and definite
action Is expected to follow reading
of the message.
Senator McCumber, republican.
North Dakota, chief proponent of the
bonus, led discussion.
Other Expenses Are Cited.
"I have heard neither the president
nor the secretary of the treasury
declare that to have It become oper
ative July 1, 1922. as contemplated
in the pending bill, would be too
early a date," he said.
"Despite the pleadings of the
secretary of the treasury; despite the
earnest plea of the president not to
enter Into fields of expenditures, this
congress has appropriated millions
to go Into new enterprises. It ap
pears this congress seems bent on
spending all of the money that can
be raised by taxation. Why, then,
should we expect a. tidal wave of
consternation to sweep the country
if we pass a bill that will take
$200,000,000 two years from now and
varying amounts thereafter and after
30 years no appropriation whatever?"
Gift to Roads Dowst Worry.
The senator then read accounts of
the proposed $500,000,000 advance to
the railroads and declared "no one
has been scared by that."
Reading over a list of expenditures
required under several pending mea-
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THE.WAR
Bctween 80 and 100 Acres Razed.
Estimated Loss of $4000 Cov
ered by Insurance.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., July .
(Special.) Between SO and 100 acres
of wheat were burned this afternoon
in the first serious grain fire of the
season. The scene of the fir was
the Ferris Bros, ranch, five miles
west of Walla' Walla. The loss was
about $4000, covered by Insurance.
The fire started from burning grass.
Employes of the ranch were burning
grass and thought the fire was out
when they went to dinner. A few
minutes later wind had carried the
fire into the wheat field, and it swept
entirely through the center of a 320
acre tract of grain estimated to yield
40 bushels to the acre.
At one time the flames swept over
a front of half a mile. More than 50
men fought the fire, -preventing it
from spreading over the entire field.
Several were almost overcome by the
heat.
W. A. Groce. assistant state fire
marshal, arrived in town just as the
alarm was received, and was the
third man to reach the scene. He de
clared the fire was the result of care
lessness. This is the third fire on the place
this year. The first was caused by
sparks from a railroad engine, caus
ing a small loss. The second resulted
from a strayed road, which caught
fire from a cutout. No damage was
done.
BIG WOOL DEAL CLOSED
Quarter Million Pounds of Oregon
, CHjj Sold for 14 Cents.
PENDLETON, Or., July 7. (Spe
clal.) Sale of 250,000 pounds of wool
of the Arlington clip of Smythe
Brothers oi this city, at a price aver
aging 14 cents, was announced today,
in what probably was the largest
single wool sale made in Oregon this
year.
The wool was sold to a Boston
house, and a quantity of fine wool
Included in the clip brought a higher
price.
The Arlington clip represented
about one-half the wool owned by
Smythe Brothers and the companies
in which they are interested. Some
of the other wool has been sold and
the remainder was still in the hands
of the growers. - '
CABLE FEUD IS ENDED
Permission for Miami Landing Is
Granted! western Colon.
MIAMI, Fla.. July 8. The long con
troversy between the government and
the Western Union Telegraph com
pany over the landing of its Miami
Barbados cable here was brought to
an end today.
Federal permission for the landing
was granted, according to word re
ceived by the local office of the West
ern Union.
NEWS INDEED.
XS OVER,
By
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Government Astronomer at Mare
Island Navy Yard Offers Ex.
p La nation of Warmth.
VALLEJO. Cal July 8. The ex
traordinary hot summer being felt
all over the world is due to an un
usual downpour of meteors upon the
sun. by which the radiation and ef
fective surface temperature of the
sun is temporarily increased. Pro
fessor T. J. J. Sc government as
tronomer at the Mare Island navy
yard, today said his researches had
led him to conclude.
"Since a mass of meteoric matter
greter than our moon Is falling Into
the sun every century," he said, "it
Is very improbable that the down
pour proceeds at a uniform rate. If
it comes down in gusts under the
action of the chief planets, Jupiter
and Saturn, which are now near con-Junction-
and frozen together in our
evening sky, then we should have
sudden increases of the sun's radia
tion Just such as we now witness all
over the world.
"This Is a sufficient explanation
of the unprecedentedly hot summer,
and so simply and directly connected
with the established secular accel
eration and Increase of the sun's
mass by meteoric downpour that pub
lic attention should be called to the
nature of the cause ' at work. It
has been at work also In all past
ages, but now, for the first time, by
profound researches, astronomers are
able to throw some light upon a great
mystery of the world.
"We have had these hot summers
before, and they seem to come at
about 10 or 11-year intervals, accord
ing to the sunspot cycle. About 120
years ago the celebrated Sir William
Herschel expressed the conviction that
the meteorological conditions sur
rounding the earth are variable in
sunspot periods and such views have
been held by many eminent modern
astronomers. Including the great
American astronomer, Benjamin Ap
thorpe Gould of Boston.
Within the last 20 years Dr. Ab
bott of the astronomical observa
tory, Smithsonian institution, Wash
ington, has gathered observational
data to show that the sun's radiation
is variable to an appreciable degree.
In practice. It is not easy to over
come all local effects within our own
atmosphere, yet such unpreccdented
l3r hot summers over the whole world
will appeal to our common sense as
showing that the radiation of our
sun is sensibly variable.
"In the year 1909-1910 I was" led
to investigate the average amount of
meteoric matter falling into the sun.
It proved to be larger than had been
generally supposed, making a solid
layer about two meters deep all over
the sun's surface in a century, when
the matter is of average density of
the earth, which is 5.5, or twice the
density of the earth's crust. In a
century that downpour accumulates
and exceeds the total mass of our
moon.
"The chief effect of this down-
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American Radio Company
Is Backed.
MONOPOLY IS OPPOSED
Protests of British, Japanese
and Danes Answered.
EQUAL RIGHTS DEMANDED
Formal Statement Repudiates Cer
tain Interpretations of Lan.
eing-Ishii Agreement.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington. D. C, July 8. Secretary
of State Hughes today Issued a pub
lic statement which was a reaffirma
tion of the open-door policy In China
and a repudiation of certain interpre
tations that have been placed upon
the Lansing-Ishil agreement.
It was regarded as one of the most
important statements issued by the
present secretary of state and will
have an Important bearing upon the
administration's far eastern policy.
The statement was issued in reference
to certain protests made by the Brit
ish, Japanese and Danish govern
ments against the erection by the
Federal Telegraph company of wire
less stations in China under the com
pany's contract with the Chinese gov
ernment. Company to Be Supported.
The United States, according to this
statement, will continue to support
the Federal company in its position
and maintains that open communica
tion as opposed to monopolistic con
trol is the basisof the open door in
commercial relations with China.
The government had previously in
formed China that the repudiation of
of the contract of the American con
cern demanded by the Japanese and
British governments would be re
garded as an unfriendly act.
Mr. " Hughes, in this statement,
which was Intended for world consid
eration, reaffirmed this government's
stand for the open door and re-interpreted
the terms of the Lansing-lshii
agreement which ' heretofore have
been construed as a surrender of the
open-door policy.
Staterax-nt la Significant.
The Lansing-lshii agreement con
tains this significant statement:
"The governments of the United
States and Japan recognise that terri
torial propinquity creates special re
lations between countries and. con-!
sequently, the government of the
United States recognizes that Japan
has special interests in China, partic
ularly In the part to which her pos
sessions are contiguous '
In view of the position which Japan
now occupies in Shantung, this para
graph has been Interpreted as mean
ing that the mikado's government
might and probably would claim spe
cial privileges amounting to exclusive
prerogatives in the provinces of Shan
tung, the three Manchurian provinces,
ChiH and Mongolia.
In his statement. Mr. Hughes said:
"The government of the United
States has never associated itself with
any arrangement which sought to es
tablish any special rights or privi
leges in China which would abridge
the righta of the subjects or citizens
of other friendly states."
Mr. Hughes' new interpretation of
the Lansing-lshii agreement was of
special importance at this time, when
consideration of the new Anglo-Japanese
alliance is overwhelming every
other subject In Its Importance.
AMERICAS OOXCER.V UPHELD
State Department Hands X'ote to
Chinese Minister.
WASHINGTON. D. C, July 8 For
mal declaration of the Intention of
the United States to continue Its sup
port of the principle of the open door
was contained in a note from the
state department to the Chinese min
ister here in respect to a contract en
tered Into with the Chinese govern
ment by the Federal Telegraph com
pany, van American concern, for the
erection of wireless stations at
Shanghai and other points in China.
The note, which was dated July 1,
was in reply1 to one of June 9 from
these Chinese minister inquiring
whether the United States intended to
withdraw its support from the Fed
eral Telegraph company and its rights
accruing under the contract with the
Chinese government, in view of pro
tests which have been made" by the
British, Japanese and Danish govern
ments. The text of the American
reply was made public today by the
state department.
The reply not only made it clear
that the United States does not pur
pose to withdraw from the position
taken in support of the rights of the
American company as a result of the
protests of the three governments but
carries the assurance that "it is the
purpose of this government neither
to participate nor to acquiesce In any
arrangements which might purport to
establish in favor of foreign interests
any superiority of rights with respect
to commercial or economic develop
ment in designated regions of the
territories of China or which might
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Official Circles, However, Decline
to Comment on Nature of
Communications.
LONDON, July 8. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Great Britain, it was
stated here today in a quarter usual
ly possessed of reliable information.
was believed to have made overtures
to the United States. Japan and China
on the possibility of a conference to
discuss the whole eastern situation.
Official circles declined to comment
on the nature of any communications
with the United States, China or
Japan, but It was said in those circles
that it would be reasonable to assume
that these countries would be fully
sounded before Great Britain would
show her hand.
Announcement of the British policy
is expected to be forthcoming next
Monday In the statement which Mr.
Lloyd George said he was fairly hope
ful of being in a position to make.
This statement Is said to be "a very
comprehensive one."
What the replies of Japan and the
United States may be nobody here
pretends to know. It Is felt, however,
that Insofar as the United States is
concerned, there could be a great
chance of its response being more
favorable if the Anglo-Japanese al
liance had been denounced.
Should it be found that the con
tinued existence of the alliance was
standing in the way of a conference,
then it Is certain that some of the
dominion premiers will press its Im
mediate denunciation.
The British press have made no at
tempt to disguise the fact t"hat It re
gards the situation as one of vast
moment. Involving, as It does, the
whole future of armament and the
peace of the world.
FISHERMEN'S BOAT UPSET
One Man Drowns Xear Astoria.
Three Are Rescued.
ASTORIA, Or,, July 8. (Special.
The first fatal accident of the present
fishing season occurred about 10
o'clock this morning when two fish
ing boats containing two men each
capsized on Peacock spit at the mouth
of the river and Charles A. Carlso-i,
employed by the Booth .fisheries, was
drowned.
The Po'nt Adams and Cape Disap
pointment coast guard crews haslene j
to give assistance and recovered the
two boats, three of the men having
been rescued by other fishing boats
close at hand.
A few hours aftr the accident
Carlson's body was caught In a gill
net and brought to this city. He was
a single man, about 40 years of age,
and his only known relatives are a
brother, residing in Hood River, and
a sister, whose home is in Arizona.
CARUSO DENIES INJURY
Famous Tenor Says Voice Is Xot
Impaired by Iliness.
BUFFALO, N. T.. July 8. Bruno
Zirato, secretary to Enrico Caruso,
today received a cablegram from the
famous Italian tenor, denying reports
that his voice had been probably per
manently impaired by bis recent ill
ness.
The reports were based upon Ca
ruso's alleged refusal to sing at a
concert given on board ship, Mr.
Zirato said.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather. '
TESTERDAT8 Maximum temperature. 68
degrees: minimum, 58 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwest
erly winds.
F oi ei a u.
Warships ordered back from Mexico.
Page 8. v
England and Ireland make truce. Page 1.
Britain may call conference on eastern ait.
uation. Page 1.
Domestic. -Officers
of miners sentenced to jail. Page 3.
Offer of 33000 to kill husband Is charged
to Mrs. Kaber. Page 6.
Ex-bartender la proving hla efficiency aa
soda dispenser. Page 18.
Hot weather attributed to meteor . shower
on sun. Page 1.
National.
Delay of bonus la considered certain.
Page 1.
Pennsylvania railroad defies labor board.
Page 2.
Senate and Tiowse react! agreement on
naval appropriations bill. Page 2.
All crops but corn are less than in 1919.
Page 8.
America stands pat on open door In
China. Page 1.
Fordney explains tariff measure. Page 6.
Pacific- Northwest.
Fire rases grain field at Walla Walla.
Page 1. .
Sports.
Single G classiest pacer In grand circuit
races. Page 12.
Pacific Coast league results: At Sacra
mento 5-10. Portland 6-5; at Salt Lake
1, Seattle 5; at Los Angeles 2. Vernon
8: at San Francisco 8. Oakland 0.
Page 12.
Portland to hold first canoe regatta to
day. Page 12. I
Report has Kearns ousted aa manager of
Dempsey. Page 13.
Farmer wins decision from Darcy. Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
XII grades of flour reduced by local
millers. Page 18.
Chicago wheat higher on black rust news
from Canada- Page 19.
Short selling causes severe decline In stock
prices. Page 19.
Two lines to resume service after strike.
Page 18.
Portland and Vicinity.
City agrees to curb parking. Page 1.
Masked trio cut phone wires and rob
family. Page 11-
Shrlnera entertain children at Oaks. Page 4.
Mayor Baker will rush revision of city
charter. Page 9.
Two county commissioners have pet aver
sions. Page 18.
Witnesses In rebuttal deny testimony of
Hy J. Eilers. Page 7.
Stroke of paralysis leaves Henry Albers
blind. Page 1.
Canning Is general despite sugar rise.
Page 10.
. Bakers' flour reduced 50 ' cents barrel.
1'age 10.
LEFTHAND TURNS TO STOP
Mayor Baker to Reorganize
Traffic Department.
PROTESTS MEET REBUFF
Signal System to Replace Auto
malic Semaphores; Ordinance
Slated for Early Adoption.
Elimination of all-day parking of
automobiles In the area roughly
bounded by Front, Tenth, Madison and
Couch streets was agreed to yester
day by members of the city council.
It was also agreed that left-hand
turns would not be permitted in the
district bounded by Tnird. Stark.
Yamhill streets and Broadway.
In addition. Mayor Baker announced
that as quickly as the proposed ordi
nance had been officially adopted by
the council and it is probable that it
wilj be adopted finally next Wednes
day when it i3 scheduled to come be
fore the council in completed form
that he would issue an executive
order reorganizing the traffic depart
ment in such a way as to eliminate
the automatic semaphores and substi
tute a uniform signal system in which
the traffic officers will utilize their
arms for signaling, and whistles for
the movement of traffic'
Modification Is Asked.
Little opposition to the non-parking
ordinance appeared yesterday.
Frank H. Hilton, appearing as an in
dividual, urged the council to modify
the ordinance so as to permit all-day
parking on Sixth street from Yamhill
street to Salmon street. He held that
parking of machines in this district
would not interfere with traffic and
the inability to utilize this space for
parking all day would inconvience
seriously automobile owners, includ
ing himself.
Members of the council informed
Mr. Hilton that if any exceptions are
made, the plan would be a failure.
Commissioner Barbur took the posi
tion that the streets are dedicated to
public use and that when the general
public requires the use of the streets
special privileges must cease. If au
tomobile owners are to receive space
on busy streets, he contended, then
other persons should have the right to
load hay all day on the streets.
Pkyalrlana' Frotest r iled.
A petition signed by 36 physicians
of Portland protesting against any
change in the parking ordinance was
presented to the city council, read' and
filed.
Several automobile dealers whose
establishments are located on North
Broadway appeared to protest againBt
the 30-minute parking provision p.ro
posed for this street. They held that
such a restriction would interfere
seriously with their business.
Commissioner Bigelow explained
that a- delegation of automobile deal
ers from this street had appeared be-
fore the traffic, committee and urged
that parking on Broadway be limited
to 30 minutes.
John J. Hitchings, an attorney who
was run down by an automobile sev
eral months ago and recently was dis
charged from the hospital, appeared
before the council urging that auto
mobiles drivers be required to sound
gongs or blow horns before making
turns in the congested area. He urged
the council to enact also legislation
prohibiting any person under 18 years
of age to drive a car in the congested
area.
Parkins Changes Refused.
Without any further discussion
members of the council agreed that
the ordinance would be enacted with
out any change so far as parking re
strictions are concerned.
Mayor Baker then brought up the
suggestion of eliminating left-hand
turns in the inner congested district.
Every member of the council favored
Ahe suggestion, although all counseled
against making the district in which
these turns are to be prohibited as
small as possible.-
"With left-hand turns permitted in
the congested streets, pedestrians
don't know where they are," said
Mayor Baker. "The left-hand turns
block traffic and prevent the speeding
up of traffic in the congested points."
Ordinance Up Wednesday.
It was practically agreed that the
district in which left-hand turns will
be prohibited should be from Yamhill
to Stark streets and from Third street
to Broadway. Captain of Police Lewis,
in charge of traffic, was instructed to
prepare a section covering this fea
ture for insertion in the new ordi
nance. The new traffic ordinance which
will come before the city council next
Wednesday morning for final consid
eration, and which probably will be
enacted by unanimous vote at that
time, provides some radical departures
from the present system of parking
machines.
The ordinance would make It un
lawful to park any machine unless oc
cupied by a person competent to mov
it on any of the following streets an;:
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