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TIIE 3I0RNIXC OltEGOXIAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2G, 1921 61 SHOT BY CHUM AFTER ROW IS DEAD Mildred Hanan Gives No Ink ling as to Motive. JEALOUSY " IS SUSPECTED Daughter of Late Slioe Manufactur er la Quarrel With Friend Who Committed Suicide. NEW TORK. Sept. 23. Miss Mil dred Hanan, daughter of the lata Al fred F. Hanan, shoe manufacturer, died early today without having- ad vanced any explanation aa to why she had been ahot Friday by her erstwhile chum, Mrs. Grace Laws, who later committed suicide. John S. Borland. Importer, who was In her company at the time, was at her bedside when the end came. Mrs. Clara M. Hanan, her mother, and sev eral other relatives were also present. An autopsy showed a bullet pierced th thorax and the abdomen and lodged under the ninth rib on the nrht side. The real motive for tha shooting; may never be specifically known. The police expressed tha belief that jealousy was a contributor factor, but they were unable to determine whether It was because of Borland or because of tha severance of Mrs. Laws' friendly relations with Miss Hanan. Borland told police ha be lieved Mrs. Laws was driven to the act by having lost the friendship and financial assistance of Miss Hanan. He also expressed tha ballet that this was followed by excessive drinking; which Mrs. Laws admitted In a letter to her sister in San Francisco, found among her possessions. Mrs. Laws had lived with the Hanans until about two weeks a no, when a quarrel between her and Mil dred resulted In Mrs. Laws taking rooms at a, hotel near tha Hanan home. Except to state that Mrs. Laws had shot her and that Borland had 'noth ing to do with It, Bliss Hanan bad de clined to answer Inquiries of the police. FIRE CHIEFS VISIT CITY S3 VISITORS ELABORATELY E-VTERTAIXED. Head of Portland Bureau Joins Delegates on Way to Conven tion at Victoria, B. C. City officials were tha hosts yes terday to JO of tha fire chiefs of the I'acirio Coast Fire Chiefs' association at Victoria, B. C, and from there dele gates to tha International fire chiefs' convention at Atlanta, Ga. The At lanta convention Is to be held October 10 to IS. An elaborate programme of enter tainment was carried out for tha flra chiefs here. The reception commit tee was composed of City Commis sioner Bigclow, Fire Chief Toun, Walter Long of tha A. O. Long Fire Apparatus company, Thomas Williams of the Pacific States Fire Insurance company and Edward Campbell of the Campbell Flra Extinguisher company. Upon the arrival of the visiting party they were .taken to the Hotel Multnomah for breakfast. There City Commissioner Blgelow delivered an address. After breakfast tha entire party was taken for a ride up the Colum bia river highway as far as Eagle creek. Dinner was served at Mrs. Henderson's on the highway. Upon the return of the party a drive was taken over Terwllllger boule vard. The party left last night at 11 o'clock for Seattle. Chief Toung of tha Portland fire bureau Joined the party to go to the convention at Victoria and at Atlanta. The delegates from the Pacific coast will attempt to bring the Interna tional convention to San Francisco next year. r ED CC A TI OX AL PROBLEMS OF XATIOX ARE DISCUSSED. Dr. John T. Tlgert Declare Effl clenojr Must Be Increased ; Rural Difficulties Noted. Three main factors contributing to an average educational stand ard equal to tha intelligence of a sixth-grade public school pupil now existing In tha United States were named by Dr. John J. Tlgert, na tional commissioner of education, yesterday when he outlined the prob lems facing the nation's educators In raising the efficiency of the pub lic school system. The first of the three was the mat ter of obtaining attendance In the schools. Dr. Tlgert gave figures which showed that less than half of the 27.000.000 children of school age within the country attended schools. A great many never enter school at all. most are difficult to retain In the schoo:s after thuy are started, and very few ever finish. The problem of financing educa tional systems Is the second nation wide problem the commissioner cited. The need for expansion, ha said, was practically universal but the people have shown themselves generally re luctant to vote for tax Increases tl allow such expansion. Only one-fifth of the teachers now employed In tha public schools are trained pedagogues, he said, in out lining the third problem, and teach ing is the only profession where this condition exists. Four-fifths of tha teachers now use In the schools, statistics show, ha repeated, have not is adequate training to insure effi cient Instruction along modern linea. In elaborating on tha statement that tha average educational equip ment of the American cltlsen waa equal to that of a sixth-grade pupil. Dr. Tlgert denied that the average was brought down by any large areas where Illiteracy Is supposed to exist generally, such as In the south or In Kentucky, Tennessee. West Vir ginia and other states, and said the states actually showing the lowest Intellectual average were Massachus etts, New York. Ohio. Pennsylvania, Illinois snd California. The United! States la among tha leading nations in Illiteracy, he de clares, and few other of the great nations can compare In lack of edu- cation. This, he averred, was shown in draft board records where men were asked to read and write and 25 per cent were found deficient. The condition waa attributed to the fact that the country waa possessed of enormous natural resources and tha efforts of the American people had been directed to developing and extracting the wealth from these re sources, spending little time In gain ing education. , "People do not comprehend tha Im portance of the country achoola In re lation to tha average education of the populace," ha continued. "When thinking of schools they naturally think of those of the city, but I Ten ture to say that it the city schools were placed upon a basis of 100 per Dr. Jobs J. Tlsrert. federal com missioner sf education. cent efficiency with tha contributing factors to their, present inefficiency entirely removed the total effect upon the educational average of tha coun try would be but slight. "The old-type, single-room country school is gradually disappearing in favor of the modern consolidated dis trict school,' he said, "and this is the surest road to Improvement. "The consolidation method does away with most of the disadvantages of the old. It allows a modern build ing with modern equipment and a capable staff of teachers, each able to Instruct along a specialised line." Dr. Tlgert and his secretary, Theo Honour, arrived in Portland yester day and registered at the Imperial hotel. They will leave for Salem thia morning, where the commissioner will address the state teachers' association and make an official call on the state superintendent of education. ARMED MINERS ARRESTED Sheriff Says 38 Intended to Blow Up Non-Union Employes. CLARKSVILLE, Ark., Sept. 25. Thirty-eight coal miners, who, offi cers declare, were gathering, masked and armed. In a field about a mile from Spadra last night, were arrested and brought to tha county jail here today, charged with night riding. Tha sheriff said ho had been told thai the men planned to march from their meeting place to tha strip pit of the Spadra mine, -where non-union labor is employed, and blow up the pit and all machinery there. The men. the sheriff said, cams to the field in pairs or groups of three and four, and as they arrived were ar rested and disarmed. All but seven of tha SS nen have been releaaed on bond, fixed at (1000 each. ROBBER ASKS POLICE AID Outlaw Complains That Intended Victim Kicked Him. EVAVSTON, 111.. Sept. 25. Police protection for "honest, hard-working holdup men" was asked in a letter received today by Chief of Police Leggett and signed simply "A Holdup Man." "Two nights ago I prepared to hold up a swell-looking fellow," the letter said, "but he kicked me In the stom ach, took my gun away and beat mo. If people being held up continue to act that way 1 will have to go tn'.o some other business." Chief Leggett annaunced that If "Evanston's holdup men will let me know of each contemplated holdup far enough In advance. I'll sea that a policeman is sent to give protection to his victim." - BARGAINS DEFEAT RALLY Sale Nearly Breaks Up Unemployed Women's Demonstration. CEW YORK. Sept 25. A bargain sale at a women's cloak and su't house Interfered with the feminine attendance at the unemployed wom en's demonstration yesterday in Union Square. Policemen were kept busy handling a clamoring mob of bargain hunters across the street, but less than a doten women appeared for the rally. Tha committee of women social workers, headed, by Miss Jeanetts Rankin, ex-representative in con gress, however. undaunted. went through with their programme, de claring there were thousands ot women out of employment, but they were afraid to appear publicly. TRANS-PACIFIC TIME CUT Steamer Empire State) Is Said to Have Clipped Record 23 Hours. SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 25. The United States shipping board liner Empire State, flying the flag of the Pacifio Mall Steamship company, which arrived here last night from Yokohama, was declared to nave clipped more than 22 hours from tha best previous San Francisco-Yokohama time record. Tha Kmplre State, of 15.000 tons, made the trip In 12 days 19 hours and 40 minutes, actual running time. The liner Golden State, sister ship of tha Empire State, held the former record of 11 days. 7 hours and is minutes. MUNICH CHEERS MILITARY Wild Enthusiasm Greets Arrival of ex-Crown Prince. LONDON. 8ept. 1 2. A great mill tary demonstration was held at Munich Sunday, at which the Duke of Brunswick, ex - German emperor's son-in-law, and several Bavarian princes were present, said a Berlin dispatch to the London Times. When ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht appeared on the parade ground In a field marshal's uniform, there was a scene of wild enthusiasm. 1 Phone us for pr'ces on your winter ooaL Diamond Coal Co, Bdwy. 2037. - . Adv. IK . " Kmc T LEAGUE ASSEMBLY IS International Court Only Big Accomplishment. INTEREST NOW FEEBLER Failure to Make Covenant Reality Laid by Powers to Absence of United States. (Copyright by the New Tor 'World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) GENEVA, Sept. 25. (Special cable.) Tha second assembly of tha league of nations has thus far proved a dis appointment and there Is nothing on tha horizon of its agenda to warrant the hop that it will make a sub stantially constructive achievement In these last days of Its existence. Save for tha establishment of the Inter national court the creation of which was a foregona conclusion not a sin gle act holding out promise of pre venting war has been accomplished. Tha attitude of tha committees on matters of major importance seems to preclude the possibility of any worth while development before next Satur day, when tha assembly Is expected to adjourn. In every Instance attempts at mak ing tba covenant a reality have been promoted by tha envoys of the small nations and blocked by the spokesmen of tha great powers. And almost al ways the excuse has been America's absence from the league. Interest Grawa Feebler. Disarmament sanctions for cov enant breakers, registration of trea ties and: similar understandings es sential to the league's life have been abandoned until the large nations think It is safe to revive discussioi of them. That time can come in the opinion of practically all the delegates asked to discuss the ques tion, only when the United States In one form or another has demon strated its willingness to co-operate for the preservation of peace. it may be, the league's adherents say, that this will happen after the Washington conference, but skepti cism aa to the material benefits to be derived from that gathering pre vails here. Meanwhile the assembly draws to ward Its close with interest in its doings growing ever feebler. Its de bates are always) long-winded, fre quently dull and Indecisive. The fault seems to He chiefly In the committee system then estab lished1 and still practiced. Each of tha six committees comprises a rep resentative from each member state, which means that when a committee report reaches the assembly, it has already been concurred in by every delegation sitting' there. Naturally this reduces the assembly's discus sion of the report to a perfunctory formality, all arguments pro and con having already been threshed out in committee- Cxtremlsts May Unite. Most of the committee meetings are now public, but popular opinion. even when fully Informed which it cannot possibly be because no news paper can afford the space necessary for a complete dally recital of the doings of six committees falls to appreciate the decisive character of these deliberations, hence the wide spread wonder that there is never a genuine dispute in the assembly Itself. Another drawback is the absence of any resolute, cohesive opposition to the compromises imposed by tha principal allied governments. Dele gates like Lord Robert Cecil. Messrs. Langa and Nansen of Norway and Schwenzer of Italy fight against these by dilatory tactics. Their ef forts are for tha most part Individual. and almost Invariably they give way after obtaining some minor conces sions, as they fear weakening the league by too obstinate Insistence upon the letter and spirit of the covenant. Nevertheless signs are plentiful that by next year these individual "extremists," as the pussyfoot ele ment in the assembly dubs them, will be banded together at least to the extent that they will gain a large measure of support from outside the assembly If not among their more cautious colleagues. 91ST CLOSES REUNION SEATTLE CHOSEX FOR 1922 MEETING PLACE. W. J. Coyle, Lieutenant-Governor of Washington, Is Elected Presi dent of Veterans. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Sept. 25. Se lection of Seattle as the city of the It'll reunion and election of officers of their association climaxed a festive programme here today, marking the close of tha third annual reunion of members of the 91st division, Ameri can expeditionary forces in France. William J. Coyle of Seattle, lieutenant-governor of Washington, wss chosen president. Other officers elected were: Clifford A. Hughes, Los Angeles, vice-president: James I. Herrz, San Francisco, secretary R. H. Stevenson. San Francisco, treasurer; Thomas A. Drlscoll, San Mateo, historian. Ths executive committee was named: For California Philip Katz, San Francisco; James Boyd, Wil lows; Thomas Paddon. Los Angeles, and George H. Piatt. Santa Ana. For Montana J. B. C. Knight, Ana conda; Thomas Busha. Butte. For Utah B. Melgrum. Ogden. For Nevada G. B. Gllliland. Tono pah. For Wyoming R. E. Esmay, Doug las. For Idaho Chester H. "West. Twin Falls. Members of Oregon and Washing ton were to be chosen last night in a banquet at Seattle. POLICE UNDER INDICTMENT OF CHICAGO OF FICERS FORECAST. Investigation Follows Appeal (or Aid Made by Chief Fitzmor rls to Government. CHICAGO. Sept. 26. Federal offi cials tonight had started an Investi gation of the Chicago police depart ment as a result of an appeal for aid made last night by Chief Fitsmorris, who declared that la bis belief "half SPOK of tha city's 5000 policemen were boot leggers, plying tbelr Illicit liquor op erations much more Industriously than they watched over the city." Federal Indictment of at least seven policemen, four of them commanders, may be expected shortly. District At torney Cllne said tonight In a letter to Chief Fitsmorris, promising that every effort would be made to break up the alleged relationship between liquor rings and the police force. Chief Fitxraorris statement that many of the men under brim were bootleggers was made in a letter to Mr. Cline seeking aid of the govern ment officials In a general house cleaning of the department which was started today with a reassignment of every police district and transfer of several hundred members of the force In a supplementary statement to night Chief Fitsmorris declared pro hibition was a failure in every city of which he had knowledge. "In Chicago there is more drunk enness than there ever was more deaths from liquor than before prohi bition mora of every evil attributa ble to the use of liquor than in the cays before the so-called prohibition laws became effective." he said. "Prohibition enforcement in Chi cago is a joke. Thousands of Chi cagoans are interested in violating the prohibition laws every day. The only way to make prohibition an ac tuality here or any place else is to stop the liquor at its source." The statement also charged that neveral city officials outside the po lice department were implicated In the police booze ring and said prepa rations bad been made to discharge half the force if that should ba neces sary. ' CHURCH HEARS REFUSAL DR. HULTEX'S TELEGRAM IS READ TO CONGREGATION'. White Temple Pulpit Committee Announces Resignation as Work Is Considered Done. A telegram In which Dr. Herman H. Hulten of Oklahoma City, Okla.. lormauy declined the call to tha pas torate of tha White Temple was read to the congregation of that church yesterday morning by Floyd R. Smith, chairman of the pulpit committee. The telegram said, in part: "l'leasa convey to the membership of the White Temple my decision to decline tha call." The message also contained an expression of love to the different members of the pulpit com mittee. Mr. Smith said that the recommen dation of the pulpit committee to the board that Dr. Hulten be called bad also contained the resignation of the members of that committee, inasmuch as they considered that their work was completed. He said that as a con sequence this committee considered itself disbanded. Tha committee con sisted of Mr. Smith, E. M. Runyan, secretary; C. A. Lewis. A. B. Moore, Dr. B. P. Shepherd, F. G. Leary and W. E. Pearson. , It was announced yesterday that there would be a meeting of the board of the church Wednesday night and it Is expected at that time that some steps looking to taking further ac tion for the securing of a minister will be taken up. Dr. Hulten was called to the pastor ate of the White Temple by a con gregational vote after the advisory board had recommended him to the congregation. The call came after charges that the minister had previ cusljr been engaged In some oil and mining stock-selling schemes had been made by soma members of the congregation. The minister left Portland suddenly s week ago Saturday night after he had been announced as the speaker et the White Temple for the follow ing day. He gave an- attack of rheu matism as the cause of his departure IDLE CONFERENCE TODAY NATIONAL TJXEM PLO YMEXT DELEGATES TO MEET. First Duty Is to Be to Determine Needs and to Recommend Emergency Measures. WASHINGTON. D. C, Sept. 25. The national unemployment conference summoned by President Harding will assemble tomorrow. Comprising half a hundred representatives from most of tha "key" trades, members of the conference were selected. It was said, for their knowledge of conditions. Tha first duty of tha conference will be to determine employment needs and to recommend to the ad ministration emergency measures for mitigating the situation as found to exist before winter begins, officials said. With the Immediate problem of work distribution solved, according to administration officials, the confer ence will take up the formulation of a permanent policy for combating unemployment wherever a serious situation may arise and suggest methods for hastening the return to normal of commerce and business. The conference Is to ba formally opened tomorrow by President Hard ing with an address of welcome. Sec retary Hoover, chairman of the con ference, is to lay before tha conferees suggestions for efficient organiza tion. A rnass of data has been prepared for the use of the conference and. 'with this data and such additional Information as the conference may gather by means of hearings before its committees," it Is believed the whole picture of national unemploy ment may be visualized quickly. TRAINS CRASH TWO DEAD Defective Signal Blamed for Col lision in Tunnel. STEUBENVILLE, Or., Sept. 25. Two men are 'known to have lost their lives today when Pennsylvania train No. 11, westbound from New York to St. Louis, crashed into the rear of a freight train in Gould tun nel, six miles west of here. The mail train was drawn by two engines, and Michael Birch, engineer on the front engine, and Oliver & Chupp of Den nison. O.. conductor of tha freight train, were killed. The crossing flagman at Gould's station gave It as his opinion that a defect In tha mechanism probably caused tha failure of the stop signal being displayed. The entire tunnel at the scene of the collision is blocked. Evacuation Is Offered. VIENNA. Sept. 24. Dr. Eduard Benes. the Czecho-Slovakian foreign minister, when he conferred with Herr Schober. the Austrian chancel lor, yesterday conveyed what vir tually amounted to an offer by ths Hungarlana to evacuate western Hun gary If Austria ceded the Oedemberg district to Hunary, Dr. Schober said today. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Main 7070, Automatic 660-95. AUTOS CAUSE LOSS OF BILLION IN YEAR 1 2,000 Deaths and 1 ,500,000 Injuries Toll in 1920. '. INSURANCE CLAIMS BIG Economic Losses Resulting From . Disability and Property Dam age Reach Large Figure. NEW TORK. Sept. 20. (Special.) Automobiles caused 12,000 deatha and 1.500,000 non-fatal but serious injur ies in the United States In 1920, ac cording to statistics of the Insurance Press. Economic losses resulting from disabilities caused by the auto mobile in the year, including prop erty damages and Incidental losses, exceeded 11,000,000,000, it is declared. "Entirely eliminatnig the casualty companies." says the magazine, "upon which doubtless the claims resulting from motor accidents are the largest and heaviest, and limiting the losses from', death only to companies trans acting exclusively life insurance, a cloaa estimate has been made that 14.500.000 was paid by the life Insur ance companies In death claims from automobile fatalities during the year 1920." While considered extraordinarily large for a single class of fatalities, this amount la only a small part of the total of life insurance distribu tions for 1920. the total for that year for the United States and Canada be ing estimated at $1,092,066,434. Of this sum, says the Insurance Press, death claims, matured endowments and annuities amounted to $679,200,- 000. Payments In dividends to pol- j icy holders and for lapsed, surren dered and purchased policies aggre- I gated 1303.500.000, and the commuted value of insurance claims awarded for the year by the bureau of war rlok Insurance amounted to 109, 366.434. $333400 Largest Claim In Tear. Largest among the death claims settled In the year was ths $555,000 paid to tha beneficiaries of Wallace L. Pierce of Boston, who was the president of the S. S. Pierce company, an importing and grocery firm and also a director of the Equitable As surance society of New York and of the New England Mutual Life. A close second among the large policies paid was that of Richmond Levering of New York, who carried $526,000 Insurance. Mr. Levering, who was only 39, was an oil promotei and the president of Richmond Lev ering & Co., petroleum engineers. The Press says his "estate was de prived of $700,000 additional life in surance through his failure to sign and pay premiums on policies for which he had contracted before ha was stricken with a fatal attack of influenza." Third In amount of the year's large death claims was the $465,000 paid to the heirs of Jake L. Hamon of Ard more, Okla., who was the republican national committeeman from Okla homa and a prominent oil and railway capitalist. One of his policies, call ing for $200,000. was delivered to the insured only two hours before he was shot and killed. Tha trial and ac quittal of Clara Smith Hamon, charged with tha shooting, was a well-remembered sequel. 91.15,000 on Olive Thomas. Among the large payments on tha lives of women in 1920 were $135,000 on that of Olive Thomas Plckford, wife of Jack Plckford, stage beauty and motion picture actress, who died suddenly in Paris of mercurial poi soning. She was 21. Most of the in surance was taken out in 1919 for the benefit of the film corporation with which Miss Thomas had contracts. Jacob H. Schlff, banker and phi lanthropist and head of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of this city, was insured for $127.410 slightly less than waa the cinema star. The largest payment made on the death of a woman policy holder was $169,880 paid to the beneficiaries of I'earl Wight of New Orleans, La. Lucretla R. Reynolds of Boston car ried policies for $103,021 and Marie L. Williams of New Orleans, La, for $50,147. Other policy holders for the death of whom claims were paid in large amounts Included these: Arthur E. Newbold, banker, Philadelphia. $465, 000; Frank D. Larrabee. flour mer chant. Kansas City, Mo, $404,000; James Dawson Layng. New Tork city, member of the law firm of Layng & Spencer and director In various in dustrial companies, $383,700; William H. Scott, printer, Philadelphia, $330. 000: Thomas B. Crary. Binghamton. N. Y.. president and director of gas and oil companies, manufacturing firms and banks. $313,556; L. A. Drey fus, noted chemist of New York, who died of heart disease while making a public address, $312,738; Joseph T. Pearson, Philadelphia, packing box manufacturer. $307,000; Henry S. Pot ter, Brookline, Mass, merchant, $285, 600; Isaac Llebes, San Francisco, fur rier, $250,000, and Francis G. Lloyd, Bernardsville, N. J, merchant, $200,000. S14O.0O0 Paid After Accident. Insurance of $140,000 was paid on tha death of George F. Ramsey, a contractor of Memphis. Tenn, who was killed at 43 by a dynamite ex plosion. George S. Dearborn, capitalist and steamship magnate of Rye, N. Y, whose widow paid a state Inheritance tax of $131,801 on his estate, was in sured for $116,000. In the $100,000 class appears tha name of John H. Hanan, New York, shoe manufacturer, and also that of Charles J. Bolglano, 42, of Baltimore. The latter waa a wholesale seed mer chant and was asphyxiated by carbon monoxide gas while "warming up" a car In his garage. Of his $100,000 H SpringChicken20c THIS EVENING ONLY 2 Eggs, any style, 10c Ham and Eggs, with Potatoes, 20c ( Bacon and Eggs, Potatoes, 20c Pork Chops, 15c Roast Pork and Dressing, 15c Roast Beef au jus, 10c WE USE ONLY FRESH OREGON EGGS ICE CREAM AND CAKE of 2 to 5 Only Sixth and Washington Streets OPPORTUNITY "Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote and passing by Hovel and mart and palace soon or late I knock unbidden at every gate. "If sleeping, wake if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore I answer not, and I return no more ! " John James In galls. Savings Department THE-NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL-BANK PORTLAND Insurance $75,000 had been in force less than a year. Jaoob G. Schmldlspp, Cincinnati, prominent capitalist and financier. was Insured for $s,000. and wenry L. Jayne, Philadelphia, lawyer and re former, for $85,000. More than 65,000 policyholders whosw policies had not been In force for a full year died In 1921. Tney carried aggregate insurance esti mated by the Press at $45,000,000. The Journal cites this as "one of the most Impressive evidences of the un certainty of human life yet demon strated by Ufa lnaurance statistics." CADETS T0GET BELTS Agricultural College Officers to Wear "Sam Brownes. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallls. Sept. 2l. (Special.) An order for 0 liberty belts for cadet officers has been placed by Major M. J. Herbert, quartermaster corps. These belts are the "Sam Brownes" of A. E. F. fame, now a part of the officer's uniform. "All we do Is sign the payroll," Is again chanted by reserve officers' training corps students who drew commutation last year and who at tended summer camp in their Junior and senior years. Checks will be ready Monday, October 1, according to Major Herbert. Approximately $5504 will be disbursed. AUTO PINS DOWN DRIVER Eugene Penland Held in Creek by Machine During Whole Night. HEPFNER. Or, Sept. 23. (Spe cial.) Eugene Penland, well-known stockman of this city, suffered serl us Injuries and narrowly escaped death last night when his automobile went off the grade and turned over in the creek. Mr. Penland was pinned under the wrecked car and partially submerged in the water from 6 P. M. until 9 A. M, when he was found by R. A. Thompson an)d released. Expoaura, shock and a broken Jawbone com prised Mr Penland's injuries.. His re covery Is expected. Frnlt Damage Slight. HOOD RIVER, Or, Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) Although a severs equinoc tial wind storm raged up the Co lumbia River canyon last night, the range of high hills at the west end of the valley protected fruit tracts and today growers of all sections re port that only negllglBie quantities of pears and apples were felled. The blow, which came suddenly and last- All Vegetables, 5c Beet Stew and Vegetables, 10c Corn Beef Hash, 10c Pies, 5c and 10c Wheat Cakes, syrup, butter, 10c Waffles, syrup an4 butter, 15e Prunes, Apple Sauce, Figrs, 6c DAIRY LUNCH and CAFETERIA We Never Close ed throughout tha early night, ac companied by a light rainfall, serious ly alarmed growers. On former sea sons equinoctial storms bave taken heavy toll of fruit. NEGRESS NOW AVIATRIX Chicago Manlouriht Studies Art of KlylDg While In France. NEW YORK, Sept. 25. Ten months ago Miss Bessie Coleman, a 24-year-old negress, left Chicago, where she had been employed as a manicurist, for Europe. Today she returned a full-fledged aviatrix, said to bo tha first of her race. She attended an aviation school in France. Veterans Preach In Churches. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 25 Patriotic addresses delivered by vet erans of the civil war from tha pul pits of local churches marked tha opening of the b&th annual encamp ment of the Grand Army of the Re public today. Reception committees were engaged throughout the day In welcoming the Grand Army men. Brland's Plans Unchanged. PARIS. Sept. 25. (By ' the Asso ciated Press.) Premier Briand has not changed his plan for attending tha armament conference In Washing ton. Tha foreign office today de nied newspaper reports that he in- Now Playing THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL Cast Includes: Wallace Relit. Rlairta Iwiimi, KJltott faster, Waada Hawley, Beba D a I e la, Mante Bine. Tfceva'are Rbrs, Pally atarsa mm Agus Ayr. 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