VOL. LX NO. 18,938
Entered at Portland Orej?on)
PoHToff icy as Seconds "ln Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1921
PRICE FIVE . CENTS
'JURY IN HALF HOUR
ACQUITS MRS. RCEE
Alleged Husband -Slayer
Is Set Free.
$35,000,000 RAISED
" FOR LIVESTOCK POOL
T0NGMAN IS SLAIN; FLIGHT OVER NORTH
IHARD1NG SEES ERA
i
CANADIAN EXPORTER
STILL FAST IN SAND
BUYERS' WEEK OFF
ONE OF POLICE SHOT
POLE AVIATORS' AIM
GUNMAN
MINGO
TO NEW RECORDS
WESTERN" IXDUSTRT SOOX TO
INSPECTOR. XOREXE WOODED
HOP-OFF FROM ALASKA
PORT OF PORTLAND TCG FAILS
TO FLOAT STEAMSHIP.
RECEIVE HELP.
LX" LEFT LEO. .
SEPTEMBER. PLAXED.
OF WORLD PEAGE
Plymouth Rock Rededi
cated to Justice.
NO EMOTION IS SHOWN
Jurors Shake Woman's Hand,
as Do Few Spectators.
VERDICT IS NO SURPRISE
Father and Widow of Slain Man
Smile and Soon Leave Court
In Automobile,
' Not guilty!
Mrs. Louise Agree, accused slayer
of her husbanud. Harry Agee, who
was found at his home at St. Johns
the night of June 11 with his throat
slashed, was acquitted of the charge
at 11 o'clock last night after the jury
had been out only 29 minutes.
The case was put in the hands of
the Jury at 10:30 after a dramatic
plea had been made in the afternoon
by the defense for "death or noth
ing" and after the prosecution had
completed its argument at a night
session of the court.
When the verdict was announced
there was no particular demonstration
either on the part of Mrs. Agee or the j
srectators. it had been a foregone
conclusion that such a- vejdict would
be returned and it was received in a
n atter-of-fact manner. J
Woman and Father Smile. -
Smiles of happiness and relief
spread over the countenances of Mrs.
Agee and her loyal father, D. J. Swing,
but, characteristic of the Ozarks, from
whence they came, there was no dem
onstration of emotion.
Jurors upon the adjournment of the
court rushed forward and quietly
grasped the hand of the woman who
for almost two weeks had been on
trial for her life. A few spectators
came forward and expressed their
congratulations. These were met
with smiles and a word of thanks,
but there was no more betrayal of
emotion than there had been at any
time during the trial.
Bloody Overcoat Factor.
Summed up In a few words, It was
the bloody overcoat, the gore-stained
knife and the trombone music intro
duced by the attorneys for the de
fense and the testimony of Klecker,
introduced by the state, that brought
the speedy verdict for Mrs. Agee. The
state's attorneys labored valiantly
with the evidence at their disposal
to obtain a conviction, but it was in
sufficient in comparison to the many
witnesses and the defensive evidence
Introduced by Collier, Collier &
Gillard. v
Following the verdict. Judge Mor
row announced that Mrs. Agee was
released from custody, bailiffs con
ducted her and her father to a wait
ing automobile and they hurried
away.
During the closing arguments in the
afternoon, rights to conviction of mur
der in the second degree or man-
sjaughter lesser degrees involved in
a murder charge wh.ch do not carry
a death penalty were waived by John
A. Collier a. he asked the Jury to
iitj uta vwui vi ocuu act iu i lie gal
lows.
"There is no middle ground In this.
case," he said. "If she wielded the
knife that killed Harry Agee she is
guilty of cold-blooded, premeditated
murder in the first degree. If she
did not. she Is innocent. It is either
death or acquittal."
Both Sides Rest Case.
Both sides rested at 2:30 yester
day afternoon and arguments began
at 2:30. Samuel H. Pierce, deputy
district attorney, opened for the pros
ecution, Hen-y Collier for the defense.
Joseph L. Hammersly, chief deputy.
Closed for the state.
Mrs. Agee was not called to testify
In her own behalf.
The state was not so sure that It
desired that the woman be hanged or
freed, as the only alternatives. It in
ferred that it would be satisfied with
a lesser degree of punishment if the
woman was found guilty on the the
ory that circumstantial evidence pro
duced indicated that if not the prin
cipal, Mrs. Agee was an accomplice
in the slaying of her husband.
"If this woman left her husband
at midnight, admitted to the house
her paramour, stood at his elbow
when the foul deed was accomplished
and then permitted his escape, Is she
not as blood guilty as the man who
drew the blade across the throat of
Harry Agee?" asked Pierce in closing
his argument.
Perlory la Suspected.
Hammersley asserted yesterday
that the district attorney's office in
tended to lay the matter of the blood
sprayed overcoat and gory knife, to
gether with the incriminating' sheet
of music, before the Multnomah
county grand jury for investigation.
"And in doing that. I do not expect
an indictment of Klecker," he said.
"If such should occur, he will be
prosecuted to the limit of the law.
Eut I believe a more likely result of
the investigation would be an indict
ment for perjury."
No matter what may be found out
n later investigations concerning the
connection of Mrs. Agee with the
(Concluded ua faa 14, Column 1.)
Committee to Be Named in Oregon,
. Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana to Pass on Loans.
THE OREGONIAN. NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C, Aug. 1. More
than 135,000,000 already has been sub
scribed to the pool intended to fi
nance the livestock industry of the
west. Senator Stanfield of Oregon
was advised today in a telegram re
ceived from M. r,. aicClure of Kansas
City, president of "the new organiza
tion. Local committees of three members
each will be appointed before the end
of the week in Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and Montana, President Mc
Clure said. These committees, it Is
understood, will pass on all loans
made to livestock men. The pool has
been functioning, however, for sev
eral days and considerable money
already has gone into the northwest
states.
A bill already enacted by the sen
ate authorizing the leasing of state
lands in Washington, Montana, North
Dakota and South Dakota for oil or
other mineral purposes for a term
greater than five years and not to,
exceed 20 years, was passed by the
house, today.
By the terms of the enabling act
under which those states were cre
ated, lands ceded to them by the
federal government could not be
leased for mineral purposes for a
longer term than five years. It was
held that no one would undertake oil
development under such a term lease,
and the Washington state legislature
enacted a remedial law at its last
session subject to approval by con
gress. PHILADELPHIA IN "RUINS"
Planes Theoretically Destroy City
and Blow Navy From Harbor.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1. A squad
ron of "enemy" air marauders theo
retically destroyed Philadelphia today
and thus opened the way for an In
vasion by land. The mimic warfare
was inaugurated to demonstrate the
effectiveness of airplanes as super
machines of destruction.
Led by Brigadier-General William
Mitchell, the airmen,' 16 in number,
arrived over the center of the city at
11:30 this morning. From a height of
1500 feet they "demolished" the city
hall, the postoffice.' the bourse, ship
building plants along the Delaware
and important manufactories in the
mill district. Then, turning their at
tention to League island, they tho
retically blew the navy out of the
harbor.
At 12:30 o'clock a lone plane buzzed
over the city and reported'to the main
squadron that Philadelphia was in
ruins. -
AIR FIRE PATROL ENDED
Western Service to Be Discontinued
Next Summer.
WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 1. Use
of army airplanes for fire protection
in western forests will be discon
tinued next summer. Secretary Weeks
announced today, because "the large
reduction now being made in ap
propriations" permits expenditures
"for only the most necessary strictly
military needs."
Mr. Weeks wrote Secretary Wal-
lane w harl a c L- r -I a rm v a I A in
, tectlng. timber lands near Prescott,
J AHz The war secretary said it
would be ,mpos8ible t0 detail either
. aviators or pUne3 t0 such work in
I -i noo
GREEKS ROUTED BY TURKS
Army Retreating, Abandoning Ma
terials and Prisoners.
LONDON, Aug. 1. It is announced
from a Turkish source that Greek
troops have been checked in front of
Sivrihissar, according to a Reuter dis
patch from Constantinople, and that
the Greek army is retreating towards
Eski-Shehr, abandoning enormous ma
terial and prisoners.
Kiazim Kara Bekir, one of the na
tionalist commanders, together with
the commanders of the Turkestan and
Cilicia armies, has been ordered to the
Greek front with reinforcements.
BOY IN BATHING DROWNED
Independence Youth Unable .to
Swim Loses Life in Willamette.
INDEPENDENCE. Or., Aug. 1.
(Special.) Sidney Buchanan, the 14-year-old
son of Mrs. Brown of this
c:ty, was drowned here last evening.
With several other boys he was bath
ing in the river, when, going beyond
his depth and not being able to swim,
he sank and did not come to the sur
face again.
The body was found an hour later
near the spot where the boy disap
peared. TWO AVIATORS ARE KILLED
California Fliers Fall Near Elgin
From Unexplained Cause.
LAWTON, . Okla., Aug. 1. Captain
John M. McCrae. Los Angeles, Cal.,
and Lieutenant Francis Nunemacher,
Berkeley, Cal., student officers at
the aerial observation school at Post
field, were killed today when their
airplane crashed three miles west of
Elgin. The cause of the accident was
unknown.
A board of Investigation has been
appointed.
DIES IN LUST DUEL
Sid Hatfield and Co-De-.
fendant Slain.
MATEWAN WITNESS IS HELD
Private Detective and Four
Friends Arrested.
VICTIM IS PICTURESQUE
Career of West "Virginia Fighter
Is Ended, but Question of Who
Fired First TTnsettled.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 1.
(Special.) Sid Hatfield, best known
of the defendants in the trial center
ing about the Mingo mine labor bat
tie, and a member of one of the clans
made famous by the Hatfield-McCoy
feud, and Edward Chambers, one of
Hatfield's co-defendants, were shot to
death in Welch, W. Va., In a gun
fight this afternoon.
C. E. Lively, a private detective em
ployed by the Baldwin-Felts agency,
who was the state's star witness in
the Matewan case, was arrested for
the shooting and four of his friends
are being detained. Hatfield and
Chambers met Lively and several
others on the street, exchanged greet
ings, then quarreled and the Mingo
county coal mine war broke out
afresh.
Hatfield Met by Friend.
Hatfield's presence in Welch, the
county seat of Macdowell county, was
made necessary through orders of a
distant cousin, William J. Hatfield, a
sheriff, who had arrested Matewan's
ex-chief of police last week for al
leged complicity in the shooting up
of the mining town of Mohawk a year
ago. Friday night Sid Hatfield
passed in jail, but on Saturday was
admitted to bond with Chambers, also
accused of participation in the Mo
hawk shooting.
As -Hatfield and Chambers strolled
along the streets of Welch this morn
ing to answer to an indictment re
turned against them by the grand
jury, they were met by a number of
friends. Entering the courthouse
yard al together, they discovered
Lively and a number of friends.
Quarrel Is Sodden One.
Spectators said the two groups met
amicably enough, but that something,
which no one seemed to hear, precipi
tated a quarrel. Soon men on both
sides were talking loudly and gestic
ulating violently. The shooting began
so suddenly that no one could or
would say who started it. It lasted
only a few moments, but Hatfield had
fallen to the courthouse steps, shot in
i the chest, and Chambers to the ground.
shot through.the head and near the
heart. Both men died almost at once.
The crowd that had come in from
the hills for the hearing and which
(Concluded on Page 6. Column 1.)
THE
AW,
Gs if '
Prisoner Who Gave- Battle Con
fesses to Shooting of One
Wounded Oriental.
Ley Leung, prominent member of
the Suey Sing tong, was shot and
killed instantly about 6:30 last night
in a gaming room at 93 Second street.
About 8 o'clock Lee Wong, said to be
a. member of the same tong, was shot
and seriously wounded on Fourth
street between Everett and Davis
streets. The shootings followed a day
of unrest in old and new Chinatowns
and marked the opening of war local
ly as a result of the shootings last
Saturday in Marysville, Cal. The
shooting also involved the theft of a
girl slave.
Shortly before midnight Police In
spector Norene was shot through the
left leg, but not seriously injured,
when, with Chief Jenkins and other
officers, he cornered Albert Wong and
another Chinaman in a wood yard at
Wood and Abernethy streets. When
the officers, who had been tipped off
that two of the gunman gang were
hiding in the- woodyard, approached
Wong opened fire and a bullet struck
Norene in the leg. The officers re
turned the fire.
Wong fell and was taken for dead.
He was placed on a stretcher in the
patrol wagon and taken to the police
station. There an examination failed
to' disclose any wounds. He was un
dressed and still there were no
wounds.
"Get off that table, ordered one
of the officers and Wong suddenly
stood on his feet. He was badly
frightened but not shot.
"" After a grilling by the police Al
bert' Wong admitted that it was he
who had shot Lee Wong, the China
man who was wounded. In his con
fession Wong implicated two other
Chinaman, also Hop Sings from Se
attle. The Chinamen were named by
Wong as Lee Hing and Steve Ching.
Captain Harms, with . a. patrol
wagon load of officers went to the
wood yard and made a search for the
companion of Wong. -
The shooting of Ley Leung took
place early in the evening, but his
j death was not reported to the police
unt'l a few minutes after Wong had
been taken to the city emergency
hospital for first-aid treatment. Ow
ing to the difficulty of identifying
them the men may be members of
different tongs and the blood debt
may have been wiped out last night.
Leans; Shot Three Times.
One theory was that Leung, a Hop
Sing, was shot by a Suey Sing and
that before police were notified of
his death a Hop Sing gunman was
sent to cancel the debt by shooting
Wong. Leung was shot three times
in the chest and Wong had four
bullets in his back and shoulders.
That the shootings of last night
presaged an outbreak of war which
could not be checked by the precari
ous peace pact, was the opinion of
leading Chinese, who asked not to
be quoted as a measure of protection.
They admitted their failure to gather
rival tong leaders into council, al
though efforts were continued all
day yesterday and to the hour pre
ceding the murder.
The shooting of Wong was the
first reported to the police. It was
witnessed by O. E. Marshall, garage
man of 323 Everett street. He said
the street was almost deserted ex
cept for the two Chinese. As they
'Concluded on Page o. Column 2.)
LIVELIEST PLACE ON THE
Scientific Observation of Ocean,
Air and Ice Currents to Be
Chief Purpose of Voyage.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 1.
Plans for a trans-Polar flight in Sep
tember from Point Barrow, Alaska,
to Spitzenbergen and the North Cape,
Norway, were announced here today
by Edwin Fairfax Naulty of New
York. Scientific observation of ocean,
air and ice currents will be the chief
purpose of the trip, he said, with the
hope of establishing the feasibility
of a new route for commerce as a
secondary consideration.
- As announced, the start will be
made from Seattle with a convoy of
several planes which will proceed by
easy stages up the Alaskan coast to
Point Barrow, stopping at Ketchikan.
Anchorage and Nome. The Arctic
flight will be made by one plane car
rying four men, including Mr. Naulty.
The other three are ex-service men.
"We plan to make the flight as
early as possible," Mr. Naulty said,
"and strange as it may seem, do it in
late September. There are good rea
sons for the choice of this time. Our
flight speed estimate will be about
100 miles an hour to which might be
added the speed of a following air
current." .
Fuel was conceded to be their chief
problem. A supply ample for 50
hours of continuous flight will be
carried, it was said, and those plan
ning the attempt expressed the be
lief that this would furnish an excess
which would permit short by-flights
at the first landing place on the Polar
ice and at the pole Itself. If no land
ing places are found, it is the inten
tion to make the 1150-mile hop with
out a stop.
If the first flight is successful,
others will be undertaken at once, it
was said, with a view to setting defi
nitely the location of the magnetic
pole and the determination of "mag
netic polar vertlcity."
$500,000 HOTEL IS BURNED
Geneva Firemen Are Helpless Be
cause of Recent Drouth.
GENEVA. Aug. 1. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Firemen, helpless for
lack of water because of recent
drouth, watched the half - million
dollar Grand hotel in the Alpine town
of Villars burn to the ground within
an hour early this morning.
. Two' 'hundred- and fifty- guests
tossed their valuables out of the
windows and escaped in pajamas and
nightgowns.
Nearby pine trees, long unwatered,
became veritable torches, endanger
ing the whole town. Troops, aided
by visitors in night attire, chopped
down the trees and saved other hotels
from destruction.
C00LIDGE SIGNS FAIR BILL
Plan to Invite Foreigners to Port
land Will Go to Harding.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C. Aug. 1. The Mc
Nary resolution authorizing the
president to invite torign nations
to participate in an exposition at
Portland in 1925 was signed by. Vice
President Coolldge today.
It will be sent to the president at
once' for his signature, it is under
stood MAP.
PAGEANT DEPICTS LANDING
Pilgrims Lauded for Example
to Posterity.
GALA CELEBRATION HELD
President Confident Disarmament
Conference Will Lead Nations
to Sew Understanding.
PLYMOUTH, Mass., Aug. 1. Plym
outh Rock, for three centuries a
landmark of American freedom, was
re-dedicated by President Harding to- j
day as a symbol of "real human broth
erhood" for all the world. I
Speaking at the tercentenary cele
bration of the landing of the pilgrims,
the president declared his fervent hopd
that the principles of toleration and
liberty for which our fathers crossed
the Atlantic might soon awake a new
world era in which peace and under
standing would be assured among tho
nations. He referred in particular
to the nation's effort toward disarm
ament, asserting his faith that the
movement would succeed.
Enajllnh-Speakin? Race Landed.
. With his tribute to the Pilgrims Mr.
Harding linked an eulogy to the
achievements of the English-speakins
race everywhere and declared he was
convinced .that the mission of the race
would encompass even greater things
than it had yet accomplished. The
leadership of the English-speaking
peoples in the present world crisis, he
said, could not be denied nor doubted
by anyone.
The president's address, delivered
within a few hundred feet of the spot
where Plymouth rock has been in
closed In Iron pailings to preserve it
for posterity, was part of an anniver
sary celebration In which Vice-President
Coolldge and many other high
officials of state and nation partici
pated. Pageant Depicts Landing;.
Earlier in the day he had headed
and reviewed. a parade of civic, mil
iiary and naval organizations through
the historic streets of Plymouth and
;onight he witnessed the tercentenary
pageant reproducing the landing ot
the pilgrims.
With Mrs. Harding and a party of
friends, the president reached Plym
outh from Washington shortly before
noon on his yacht Mayflower, named
for the pilgrim ship which entered
this harbor under slightly different
circumstances 300 years ago.
Three battleships and six destroy
ers formed an escort for the May
fiower of today. She was welcomed
by a booming of the presidential sa
lute from a battery ashore, while a
British cruiser, the Cambrian, tipped
her flag at her anchorage just out
side Plymouth harbor.
Ashore a troop of cavalry formed a
presidential guard of honor and many
organisations, including a unit of
British marines from the Cambrian,
marched in the parade, which passed
in review before Mr. Harding and his
party.
Filcrlma' Fortitude Praised.
The president's hope that Plymouth
rock might become a shrine for all
free nations was echoed in brief ad
dresses by William H. de Beaufort,
charge of the Dutch legation at
Washington, and Captain Sydney H.
Bayley. naval attache of the British
embassy there. Vice-President Cool
ldge, who was not scheduled to de
liver an address, satisfied the de
mands of the throng by speaking
briefly. Secretary of War Weeks also
had a place in the speakers' stand.
The exorcises, indeed, were turned
into an old home week celebration
when, at the word of the chairman
that they were to be closed, the crowd
called loudly for Vice-President
Coolidge, Senator Lodge, Major-Gen-eral
Clarence R. Edwards and Secre
tary Weeks. President Harding first
brought to the front personally the
senior senator from Massachusetts.
Senator ' Lodge, in brief remarks,
commented on the early Americanism
of the Pilgrims, pointing out that
once they had set foot in the new
country they had cut loose from vir
tually all ties in the old and had
begun to love America, even though
it was a wilderness, and to build for
the future.
Hope for Peace Expressed.
A hope that the disarmament con
ference called by the United States
may bring to tne worm a new . era
of peace and freedom was expressed
by President Harding.
Characterizing the international
situation as "more than promising."
the president asserted that "the seed
of common tolerance and under
standing planted by the fathers here
was beginning to bear fruit a thou
sand fold in the relations between
nations."
"A new hope looms today," said the
president. "We are slowly but very
surely recovering from the wastes
and sorrows and utter disarrange
ments of a cataclysmical war. Peace
is beginning its new assurances and
penitent realization and insistent
conscience will preserve that peace.
ICoacluded on 2, Column 3.)
Wallula Turns Stranded Craft
Around, but Position on Spit
Becomes More Difficult.
ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. 1. (Special.)
The British steamer Canadian Ex
porter, which stranded on the north
spit at the entrance to Willapa har
bor during a fog about 7:30 o'clock
Sunday morning, was still hard fast
tonight. The British salvage tug Al
gerine Is understood to be at the
scene, arriving there at 3 o'clock this
afternoon, although no direct word
has been received from the steamer
since morning, and will attempt to
float her about 10:30 o'clock tonight.
The Port of Portland tug Wallula
Captain E. B. Grunstad, returned this
morning after an ineffectual effort to
haul the craft into deep water.
Placing a line on the Canadian Ex
porter last evening the Wallula pulled
on her for six hours, but was unable
to get her off the sands. When she
stranded the steamer was head about
southeast and the Wallula pulled her
around until she was headed about
northeast. She was fast about mid
ships and appeared to hang on a pivot
with the sand piling up around her,
partly from the action of the tides
and partly from the force of the
steamer's own propeller when an ef
fort was made to back her off. As the
steamer is lying on sand her hull ap
parently is not damaged, although her
frame may have been strained. No
one on board has been injured.
While the sea is smooth and the
weather pleasant, one thing is ex
pected seriously to hamper the sal
vage of the stranded steamer. It is
the existence of a sand ridge, on
which there is about 15 feet of water,
between the vessel and the sea, with
a long shoal further out. This makes
the taking of tugs close to the vessel
a very difficult matter.
After the Wallula had turned the
steamer partly around. Captain Brad
ley, master of the Canadian Exporter,
dismissed the tug, supposedly intend
i
ing to rely wholly on the salvage tug
I Algerine. Captain Reed, the bar pilot.
was placed on the steamer last eve
ning from the Wallula and is still
with her.
SOUD BEND, Wash.. Aug. 1. (Spe
cial.) The North Cove lifesaving
crew went out to the stranded steam
er Canadian Exporter, off Willapa
harbor, last night, and has been stand
ing by her ever since. There will be
a nine-foot tide late tonight, when it
is hoped that the two tugs standing
by will pull the vessel off.
PELLAGRA HITS OKLAHOMA
County Health Authorities Report
312 Cases in State.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 1.
Three hundred and forty-two cases of
pellagra were reported today to Dr.
A. R. Lewis, state health commis
sioner, by county health authorities.
The disease was shown to exist In
29 counties in the state.
BATTLESHIPS SAIL SOUTH
Portion of Atlantic Fleet Off Tor
Practice Cruise.
NEW TORK, Aug. 1. A portion of
the Atlantic fleet, which has been an
chored in the Hudson river, today
steamed off to southern drill grounds
for three weeks' maneuvers.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The M eat her.
YESTERDAY'S Highest temperature, 81
degrees: lowest. 55: clear.
TODAY'S Fair, northwesterly winds.
Foreign.
Sides of Mount Everest appall explorer.
Page 2.
Supreme council to take up Silesia troops
question first. Page 4.
De Valera not going to London for confer
ence, he says. Page a. v
National.
$35,000,000 raised tor western livestock
pool. Page 1.
Transpolar flight from Alaska to North
Cape. Norway, planned. Page 1.
Relief for Russia is started by Hoover.
Page 7. v
Date for disarmament conference left to
foreign nations. Page 7.
Relief of farmers new senate problem.
Page 5.
Two-cent tax on hank check proposed by
Mellon. Page 15. "
Harding sees era of world peace; Plymouth
rock rededicated. Page 1
ometle.
Texans organized to fight Ku Klux Klan.
Page 13.
Noted gunman dies In duel. Page 1.
Pacific Northwewt.
State gets no say in land exchanges.
Page 14.
Policeman dismissed by Medford chief.
Page 20.
Coyotes make night lively for Mazamaa.
Page 5.
Sports.
Defense neari end n baseball trial.
Page 12.
Northwest tennis rules are adopted.
Darcy. Page 12.
Coast middleweight title is claimed by
Page 12.
Technicality robs Gene Balden of long
distance swimming championship.
Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
Northwestern fruit pack sold and prices
advancing. Page 21.
Two wheat carriers start month off
Page 20.
Steamer Canadian Exporter still fast in
sand. Page 1.
Portland and Vicinity.
Buyers' week off to new records. Page 1.
Telephone costs more than taxes, decla
city's witnesses. Page 14.
"Wisconsin experts discuss land settlement
in Oregon. Page 11.
Church moderator claims distinction of
christening Council Crest. Page 10.
"Willard Hawley declared winner by su
preme court decision. Page 10.
Tongman is shot dead and another is
wounded. Page 1.
Mrs. Agee exonerated by Jury in 29 min
utes. lago x.
$10,000 bond issue proposed to legion.
Pase 6.
Officials fall to .be Impressed by Klan
chiefs elated reception, la so 13.
700 Merchants Are Reg
istered on First Day.
ORDERS WILL BE HEAYY
Dealers Expecting Large Fall
and Winter Trade. ,
MANY NEW FACES APPEAR
Regulars Not Yet in Attendance,
but Some California Trade Is
Coming to Portland.
Portland's ninth annual buyers'
week got away to a wonderful start
yesterday.
From every point of the compass
there came merchants to the Rose
City's great bazaar and when the flrs
day ended 700 merchants from many
states had registered, setting up a
new record for opening day.' Last
year's opening day attendance, itseir
a record, was 500.
Every year, thus far, has shown
gains over its predecessor and this
year's event will make it hard for
1922 to repeat the usual order, in the
opinion of those managing the affair
Better Business Predicted.
Not only was the attendance on
opening day beyond expectations but
visiting merchants were full of op
timism and declared themselves con
vinced that business is ready for the
upturn and that good crops through
out the west have assured a ready
market for their wares. They pitched
right into the business of placing
orders for goods and a number of
them made all arrangements for
stocks, and generous ones, too, quits
early yesterday.
One merchant had attended Seattl
buyers' week, just ended. He was not
quite satisfied with what the Puget
sound jobbers offered and came on to
Portland. He bought everything h
needed yesterday morning and said:
"All my business has been trans
acted and I am ready for your enter
tainment programme shoot."
There was not the least doubt .ast
night but that it is the general opin
ion of every visiting merchant that
the fall and winter business will be
heavy. The visitors began buyinjr
heavily and their purchases were saki
to be larger than at any buyers" week
since the armistice.
These out-of-town merchants, it
was Eaid, have seen the wheat fields
of the interior with their crowded
yellow heads bending heavily in the
sunshine and the crop is now said to
be past danger of damage. The grain
crop is made and it will be a bumper.
This was the reason given by every
one for the great interest displayed
in Portland stocks by visiting mer
chants yesterday.
One feature that aroused comment
was the fact that more buyers have
already reported from southern Ore
gon south of Roseburg than usual and
it was declared this must mean that
southern Oregon retailers are being
won away from the California mar
kets that have formerly attracted
them to a great extent and are giv
ing their trade to Portland.
Many New Ones Appear.
It was said at registration head
quarters that the first day was not
able for so many new faces. This was
believed to be significant. The regu
lars had not put in an appearance
yesterday and it was thought this
could mean nothing else but that the
week will be entirely unprecedented
from attendance standpoints.
Last night there came the first en
tertainment feature, being an infor
mal reception and dance at the Mult
nomah hotel, with Mayor Baker giv
ing an address of welcome and lead
ing the grand march. '
Tonight there will be a theater'
party for women visitors, with Mrs.
William D. McWaters, chairman of
the women's reception committee, in
charge. Men vis-itors will be enter
tained at a smoker and jinks in the
Arcadian garden of the Multnomah
hotel. The day Itself will be given to
registration and business.
Woman Regriaterst Klrat.
First to register yesterday was" Mrs.
W. a. Washburn of Ketchikan.
Alaska. Idaho and Montana scored
the largest delegations yesterday,
with California heavily represented,
and in fact the entire west was there
with representative merchants. One
came from Hawaii.
An automobile caravan of 20 per
sons drove up from California. Many
delegates who have been here every
year since buyers' week was in
augurated were here again. All fore
noon there was a big rush at regis
tration headquarters but the staff in
charge handled all callers well and
everyone was taken care of satis
factorily. Four registered for the competitive
speaking contest at the Ad club
luncheon at Wasnington park tomor
row. They were: Albert J. Ziv, Spo
kane; C. E. Johnson, Seattle; Jerry J.
Ploger, Myrtle Point. Ot-. and Miss
Bessie M. Williams, Blackfoot. Idaho.
The subject all will discuss is: "Why
I Prefer Portland as My Buying
Point." and some real eloquence is
anticipated.
Complete registrations yesterday
were :
D. P. Dickerson. Ashland. Or.: C 15
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