'otiECSr; STATE LIBRARY
JAN 16 1922
VOL. LX XO. 10,077 EJn,;,"f1f . "Portland f 0,.? on .
' I nntorrit-p Hjt Spcon'J-CiHn Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
OBSERVER LIKELY
BASIN DEVELOPMENT
WIFE SHOOTS SELF;
DINNER GUESTS FLEE
GASOLINE TAX FOR
BONUS IS PLANNED
CLOSER TUB ASKED
3 KILLED, 4 INJURED
BY BLAST IN TUNNEL
CREW DRILLS INTO "MISSED
SHOT" OF DYNAMITE.
OPPOSED BY SEATTLE
OPEN SHOP PUUlk
SOUND METROPOLIS PREFERS
li. ADCOX RETURN'S HO.Mt
BILL TO AID VETERANS INTRO.
DICED IN HOUSE.
TO AID OWN' TKADK AREA.
UNEXPECTEDLY.
M'MINNVILLE NOW
TAILORS INDORSE
ON SALEOF DRUGS
TO SIT AT GENOA
American Policy Toward
Europe Is Unaltered.
CHANGE HELD UNJUSTIFIED
Economic Conference Viewed
as Purely Foreign Affair.
HOUSE-CLEANING NEEDED
Before United States Will Step In
With Assistance, Nations Are
Expected to Reform.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
Copyright by the New York Evening Poet,
Inc. Published by Arrangement.)
WASHINGTON, D. C Jan. 11.
(Special.) The administration is con
sidering: and soon will make a deci
sion on the Important point of
whether America's representation at
the coming: Genoa conference on
economic matters shall be that of an
"observer" or a full "participant."
The administration's uniform policy
regarding; these European confer
ences In the past has been to limit
participation to that of an observer.
The answer to the present question,
therefore, must rest In turn on the
answer to the question whether any
thing has happened to change our
policy, and whether there Is any
thing In the nature of the coming
conference to cause the United States
to change its policy between now
and the day In March when the con
ference Is to meet.
Situation Being Studied.
With that in view the invitation to
the conference, the resolutions at
tending the calling of it, and the
probable developments at the confer
ence are being studied closely.
At the present writing, but subject
to change, the greater likelihood
seems to be that the administration's
final conclusion will be that nothing
has happened of such a nature as to
Justify It in changing Us policy, and
that this country should continue to
limit its participation to that of an
observer. There are, however, coun
ter arguments wheh are in the na
ture of large generosity, and it Is
possible the conclusion may be dif
ferent. Something will depend on
what is done at Cannes during the
present week. Something also may
depend on certain eventualities still
In the making here at the armament
conference in Washington.
Itnasla Held In Mind.
Among the formal resolutions ac
companying the calling of the coming
Genoa conference, the second and
third are of unusual interest to
America. They read:
"That It Is Impossible to induce
foreign capital to come to the aid of
a country unless the foreigners who
furnish the funds are certain their
rights will be respected, and that the
profits from their ventures be as
sured. "That this security cannot be con
sidered established unless nations, or
governments of nations, desiring to
obtain foreign credits undertake
freely to recognize all public debts
and ciSigations contracted by a
atate."
Debts to America Figure.
Those resolutions were framed to
apply to Russia, but any reading of
them will reveal that they apply with
equal force to the debts owed by
various' European nations to America.
If the agenda of the Genoa conference
re to be governed by these resolu
t.ons. u Is apparent that they cannot
well include any proposal for the mu
tual cancellation of international
debts.
But it Is a mistake to put this
phase of the subject In the fore
ground. It is not concern about col
lecting the money Europe owes us
that makes us hesitate about partici
pating In these conferences, although
It is true that the government of the
United States must take into account
the state of popular feeling on this
point.
Self-Help la Kaaentlal.
But the real reason, and the mucil
more enlightened reason, for our
hesitation to participate directly In
these European conferences is that
there are some things In the direction
cf self-help which the nations of Eu
rope must do for themselves, which
we cannot help them to do. but which
must be done before we can be of any
help In the way of International co
operation. The first of these things is the re
arrangement of the German repara
tions. With that we have nothing to
do. We do not receive any of those!
reparations, and the rearrangement
of them is the sole business of those
nations which are the beneficiaries of
them. That is the first step towards
the economic stability of the world,
and It is Europe's business, not oura
lasuinar Currency Muxt Ceaae.
The second thin, which the natons
of Europe must do for themselves Is
to stop printing paper money. That
is a thing which each nation can only
do for Itself. There Is talk about
"stabilizing exchange," but the Amer
icans know that Is Just l'ke proposing
' to stabilize the barometer. Chaotic I
exchange is merely the barometer of
(Concluded on Pago 2, Column b.)
State Bureau of Commerce Body
Reports Against Project Spon
sored by Spokane.
SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 10. The
state development bureau of the Se
attle chamber of commerce today re
jected the plan of Spokane men to
urge immediate i.evelopment of the
Columbia basin project, in a report
submitted to the board of trustees.
Action on the matter was postponed
for one week. The development bu
reau was understood to have been op
posed to anything that could be con
strued as opposed to the interests of
trade territory claimed by Seattle,
such as Ellensturg, Yakima and
Grant county, where Irrigation proj
ects are incomplete.
ine Dureau report urged passaged
the Smith-McN'ary bill, which, it was
said, would practically assure com
pletion of the smaller irrigation proj
ects In the state. However, the re
port was said to have opposed use of
any of the Smith-McNary bill revolv
ing fund of $350,000,000 for work on
tho Columbia basin or Colorado river
projects.
Charles Hebberd, member of the
Spok.-.ne delegation that visited Seat
tle recently urging completion of the
Columbia basin project, refused to
comment on the Seattle bureau's ac
tion,, but was understood to have said
that Major-General Goethals' trip
west to survey the project was a fore
gone conclusion, and that the remain-in-
10,000 of his ;23,000 fee would be
raised if D. A. Scott, director of con
servation and development, save his
approval.
PROGRAMME UP TO CHIEF
Plans for Education of Veterans to
Go to President.
WASHINGTON, D. C Jan. 10. The
educational programme for disabled
ex-service men as worked out by the
veterans' bureau will be submitted
to President Harding for approval.
Director Forbes announced today sev
eral hours after Robert S. Marx of
Cincinnati, national commander of
the disabled American veterans of the
world war, had protested before the
house appropriations subcommittee
against use of abandoned army can
tonments for such training.
The plan of the veterans' bureau,
which Judge Marx described as em
barkation on a programme of lavish
expenditures, was said by Director
Forbes to cover the establishment of
three more vocational training uni
versities similar' to the one now in
operation at Camp Sherman, Ohio.
It is planned, he added, to put one
of these schools on the Atlantic coast,
one on the Pacific coast and one in
the south.
IGUANODON TRACK FOUND
Grandfather of Kangaroo Leaves
Footprint in Ancient Lagoon.
LONDON, Jan. 10.-A footprint made
by an animal believed by scientists
to be that of the grandfather of the
kangaroo species has Just been found
In an ancient lagoon In the Hastings
district.
The animal, which made the Im
print many thousands of years ago,
is called by experts the iguanodon,
one of the members of the dinosaur
family of which numerous traces have
been found In America and recon
structed In American museums.
The iguanodon is supposed to have
been 20 to 30 feet In height. His
footprint, a cast of which has just
been exhibited to the members of the
geologists' association here, covered
an area of nearly four square feet.
Imprints of his toes indicated that
this iguanodon was in rapid motion,
suggesting the possibility that an
ancient saber-toothed tiger was on
his trail.
TRANSVAAL MINES CLOSED
All Workings In Greut Gold District
Tied Up by strike.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan.
10. (By the Associated Press.) The
strike of gold miners, declared last
Sunday, became effective today in all
mines of the Transvaal.
The strike was precipitated through
an attempt by the mine workers to
reorganize the labor forces by greater
employment of native labor, particu
larly In the semi-skilled occupations,
in order to decrease working costs
and thus meet the decreased price of
gold.
CASHIER SHORT BUT $20
Offense of Supposed Big-Scale Em
bezzler Proves Small.
KAROO. X. D., Jan. 10. Frank C.
Heaton, ex-assistant cashier of the
Scandinavian - American Bank of
Fargo, was found guilty by a jury to
day of embezzling less than $20,
making his offense a misdemeanor.
He had been chargtd with specula
tions approximating $75,000.
EX-CASHIER IS INDICTED
Fugitive's Alleged Defalcations
Said to Total $75 1,000.
ST. l.OL'IS. Jan. 10. Arthur O.
Melninger, fugitive cashier of the
Night and Day bank, late today was
indicted on a charge of making a
false report of the affairs of a cor
poration. His alleged defalcations are said to
be $751,000.
Convention Votes Funds
to Fight Strikes.
48-HOUR WEEK DEMANDED
Continuance of Present Pay
Scale Is Promised.
MAYOR OPENS MEETING
Sir. Baker Advises Members of Pa'
cific Coast Association to
Keep Up Wages.
"Resolutions placing the members
of the Pacific Coast Merchant Tailors
association Irrevocably behind the
open shop plan and the 48-hour
working week, and authorizing an
emergency fund available for any city
on the Pacific coast whenever labor
trouble arises, were adopted by the
association on the first day of actual
convention sessions at the Multnomah
hotel yesterday. The action followed
closely upon unanimous decision to
make no change In wage scale, hours
or working conditions now In force,
and to leave piece work prices where
they stand at present.
The resolution authorizing an emer
gency fund places It at the disposal
of the executive board, and in addi
tion pledges every exchange and
member of the association to stand
behind the others wherever labor
trouble arises. It was Introduced by
Sam G. Levy of Los Angeles, chair
man of the executive committee.
Wage Charts Presented.
August Stelgler, chairman of the
committee on statistics and research,
presented charts and figures com
piled from all sources available to
show the comparative curve of wage
and living costs during the past seven
years. Tailoring wages at present
are 80 per cent higher and living
costs 705 per cent higher on the Pa
cific coast than they were in 1914.
Peak prices -reaohed in living costs In
1920 showed Seattle 110 per cent
higher than In 1914, Los Angeles 102
per cent, Portland 100 per cent and
San Francisco 96 per cent Mr.
Steigler's figures showed that labor
costs in the tailoring trade had never
passed the 100 per cent Increase mark,
ranging, for the most part, about 90
per cent. Piece goods work showed
an increase in price of only 60 per
cent over 1914 in comparison with
living cost Increases.
Situation Is Reviewed.
W. L. Growall, president of the as
sociation, touched upon labor, adver
tising, vocational training, importa
tions and the general business and
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Eugene Habel Accused of Being Ad
mirer of 'Woman, but His AVlfe
Says She Was Invited, Too.
When her husband, Luther L. Ad
cox, returned home unexpectedly last
night and Interrupted a dinner party
she was giving, Mrs. Marl- Adcox, 28
years old, rushed Into the kitchen, ob
tained a .38-callber police revolver
from a drawer and , shot herself
through the left breast. The shoot
ing occurred while her husband was
scuffling with and pursuing an al
leged admirer, said Ijy him to be
Eugene C. Habel. secretary of the
Manley Automobile company.
At the dinner there were also Mr.
and Mrs. M. Case of 515 Mill street.
To offset the story of, Adcox that
Habel was an admirer of Mrs. Adcox,
Mrs. Habel told the police that both
she and her husband had been Invited
to attend the dinner at the Adcox
home and that she had declined yes
terday afternoon because to get the
baby ready and take It out for the
evening would be too much work.
Mrs. Habel added, in explanation of
ter husband's presence at the dinner,
that he had informed her that inas
much as he had an Important busi
ness deal pending with Adcox he had
better attend.
Ad-cox, after the shooting, told the
police that for some time he had sus
pected Habel of seeing his wife clan
destinely. He said Habel came to the
Adcox home every time he went out
of town.
Yesterday morning Adcox told his
wife he was going away on a fishing
trip and would be gone over night.
At 7:30 o'clock last night he. with
his attorney, Dan Powers, arrived at
the Adcox home, 585 Siskiyou street.
Habel, he said, met him at the door
and a scuffle ensued.
Habel then broke away and ran up
stairs, going through a bedroom to a
sleeping porch. Openlr.g a window
there, he climbed out and jumped to
the ground. In a vacant lot nearby
Detectives Powell and Van Valken
burg found an automobile with a
dealer's license. This they thought
belonged to the man believed to be
Habel, and that he was unable to get
it started when he was fleeing from
the home.
It was whi'ie Adcox was pursuing
Habel that 'Mrs. Adcox ran into the
kitchen and obtained her husband's
revolver. The direction the bullet
took through her body and her posi
tion on the floor, when she was
found, indicated that she had stood
there terror-stricken, watching the
scuffle at the door with the revolver
pressed against her breast. At Just
what stage of the fight she shot
herself was not exactly known.
The bullet entered the lower part
of her left breast and passed through
one side of her lung, emerging under
her arm and Implanting Itself in the
kitchen wall. Lieutenant of Detec
tives Thatcher dug It out and took
possession of it and the revolver.
When the doctor from the emergency
hospital . arrived, first on the scene,
Mrs. Adcox was unconscious but still
breathing. She recovered conscious
ness, but not sufficiently to talk be
fore she was rushed to St. Vincent's
hospital In an ambulance. Doctors
(Concluded or Page 3. Column 8-1
THE COLD STORAGE MAGNATE'S NIGHTMARE.
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President Expects Legislation at
Present Session of Congress,
It Is Indicated.
WASHINGTON. D. C. Jan. 10. A
ta of 3 cents a gallon on gasoline, to
be paid by the producer, 'the proceeds
of which would be used for a soldier's
bonus, is proposed In a bill introduced
today by Representative Bacharach,
New' Jersey, republican.
The tax, he estimated would yield
from J240.00fl.000 to $250, 000,000 an
nually sufficient revenue, he said, to
meet cash payments to former service
men provided for In the bill.
Indications were given at the
White House that President Harding
expects enactment of a soldiers' bonus
bill at this session of congress and
such a measure must provide a proper
source of funds sufficient to meet the
payments.
The responsibility for Issuance of a
large quantity of new bonds under
present conditions. It was said, Is not
one that the executive branch of the
government desires to assume.
PENDLETON ROW WAXES
Newspaper Attacks District Attor
ney and Other .Officers. '
PENDLETON. Or., Jan. 10. (Spe
cial.) Sensational charges of Illegal
practices In Umatilla county public
offices have been made by the Pen
dleton Tribune and since the first ex
plosion occurred following the report
of the grand jury, the situation her
has grown more complicated.
Sweplng statements have been
made regarding alleged misconduct
of District Attorney Keator, his dep
uty, Charles Randall, and the special
prohibition officer, E. F. B. Rldgway.
The attack on these officers led by
the Tribune grows more severe each
succeeding day since the grand jury
reported that it had failed to find
anything against the record of Rldg
way. Charges of bribes have been
backed by affidavits, and the charge
has been made and sworn to that
Rldgway, when a deputy sheriff, col
lected a toll of tl per gallon on a
moonshiner's entire manufacture.
SOUTH WANTS PROTECTION
Big Delegation of Tariff Advocates
Calls on President.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU-I
Washington, D. C, Jan. 10. Senator
Gooding of Idaho piloted 100 dele
gates of the Southern Tariff associ
ation to the White House today, in
troducing them to President Harding.
The delegation was headed by John
H. KIrby of Houston, Tex., president
of the association.
Speaking for the delegation, Mr.
KIrby told the president the south
was as much Interested in a protect
ive tariff as the west and north and
that the association had been organ
ized to help a-republican president
and a republican congress pass a pro
tective tariff law. although most of
the members of the Southern Tariff
association are democrats.
Mr. Harding spoke briefly, thank
ing the southern visitors for their
support of the protective principle.
Some Pharmacists Said
to Be Rather Lax.
STATE OFFICIALS VIEW EVIL
Source of Supply Is Held to Be
Worst Problem.
SOME DRUGGISTS BLAMED
Meeting to Be in Portland Today
to Consider Enforcement of
Present Laws.
SALEM. Or.. Jan. 10. (Special.)
That strict enforcement of present
laws by federal and state officials
Is more essential to the end of stamp
ing out the Illicit sale and distribu
tion of narcotic drugs In Oregon than
the establishment of costly und lux
urious hospitals for the treatment of
the addicts was tha almost unanimous
opinion expressed by members of the
state board of health and state board
of pharmacy in conference here to
day. The session was called by Governor
Olcott as a preliminary to a statewide
meeting in Portland tomorrow, when
means looking toward the elimina
tion of drug traffic In Oregon and
the rehabilitation of addicts will be
discussed.
Although it was agreed that prac
ticr.lly all addicts obtain their nar
cotics from so-called underground
channels, Frank S. Ward, secretary of
the state board of pharmacy, charged
that not a few druggists and physi
cians violate tho Harrison narcotic
law.
Law Declared Violated.
In support of this assertion. Mr.
Ward said he made an Investigation
of the files of Salem drug stores and
that under a strict interpretation of
the federal statutes all of them have
overstepped legal restrictions. Simi
lar conditions, he' declared, probably
prevailed In other sections
Mr. Ward explained that the law
restricts the sale of opiates to cases
where tHe patient Is suffering from
cancer, tuberculosis, is old and Infirm
or where the withdrawal of the drug
would result In death. Despite these
restrictions. Mr. Ward said, not J.
few physicians In Oregon Insist on
writing prescriptions containing nar
cotic drugs for persons not suffering
from the ailments enumerated.
Prescriptions Are Filled.
In many cases where the adminis
tration of narcotic drugs is warrant
ed by law, Mr. Ward said the physi
cians frequently neglect so to state
when writing their prescriptions. Al
most as often as these prescriptions
are written they are filled by some
druggist, Mr. Ward said, with the
result that the latter subjects him
self to arrest and prosecution.
Education among the physicians,.
Mr. ward said, might tend to aid ma
terially In retarding the Illicit traffic.
Dr. George E. Houck of Roseburg.
member of the state board of health.
objected to the report submitted at'
the conference on the grounds that!
It made no recommendation for the I
treatment- of drug addicts as far as I
their mental condition Is concerned. I
Dr. Houck said that while not many I
drug users are insane, a large ma
jority of them are mentally defective.
Unless treated for this mental de
fiicency. Dr. Houck said, they prob
ably would return to the use of drugs
Immediately following their release
from any institution.
Aid by state Mnggeated.
It was Dr. Houck's opinion that the
drug addicts should be placed in an
institution operated in conjunction
with the state hospitals In order that
the patients might receive treatment
at the hands of men experienced in
handling mental cases. Incurable
drug users, Dr. Houck said, should be
solated, as mental contagion Is not
uncommon among patients of this
class.
Dr. C J. Smith of Portland, also a
member of the state board of health,
declared that co-operation among
federal, state, county and municipal
officials In enforcing the statutes re
lating to the distribution of narcotic
drugs is most needed In stamping out
the Illicit traffic. He declared the
surest way to effecf a cure is to elim
inate the source of supply.
Defectlveneas Is Doubted.
Dr. F. M. Brooks of Portland, mem
ber of the board of health, disagreed
with Dr. Houck with relation to drug
users being mentally deficient. Dr.
Brooks said that it is a well known
fact that many of the best known and
most highly educated men of the age
are users of narcotic drugs. This, he
said, disproved the contention of Dr.
Houck that the . addicts should be
treated In hospitals under conditions
similar to those regulating the In
sane.
Dr. Brooks Joined with Dr. Smith!
In the belief that a registration sys- j
tern for addicts, coupled with efficient
enforcement, of the laws as they re-,
late to smugglers, would eventually I
stamp out the illicit drug traffic In
Oregon.
Dr. F. M. Strieker, secretary of the
state board of health, said his expert- '
ence with drug addicts had convinced
" (CoueludeU on 1'aif 3. Culuntn 1.)
I
Accident Occurs Two Miles Inside
Tube Recovery of Vic
tims Doubted.
MODESTO. Jan. 10. According to a
telephone message from Groveland to
Modesto via Oakdale, three men were
killed and four others badly injured
by an explosion In the Hetch Hctchy
tunnel at Priest Portal early today.
It was' reported the explosion oc
curred when the men drilled Into a
"missed shot" of dynamite. The acci
dent happened two miles" Inside the
tunnel.
Tho dead are Thomas Ford, Frank
Miller and Richard Sladen, shift boss.
The Injured are W. S. McLeod, both
eyes blown out and body badly
burned; Tex Lann, left arm blown off;
Julius Laetus and Enrique Tzars, se
vere cuts about head and badly
shaken up.
There was doubt that the four In
jured would recover.
BASIN DRILLING FINISHED
Bed Rock Found at Depth of 75 to
8 0 Feet.
OLYMPIA. Wash.. Jan. 10. Drilling
operations at the mouth of the Grand
Coulee on the Columbia river diver
sion of the Columbia basin project
have been completed. Dan A. Scott,
director of the department of con
oervation and development, announced
here today. Fourteen holes were
drilled and bed rock was found at a
uniform depth of from 75 to 80 feet,
it was said. The outfit is being
moved out today and the results of
the investigation will be completed
by the engineers.
Offices of the Columbia basin sur
vey at Spokane will probably" be
closed if General George W Goethals
is employed to make a report on the
project, ?ccordlng to Dan A. Scott,
director of conservation and develop
ment today. The money necessary to
bring the engineer will require that
all other expenditures from the Co
lumbia basir. fund be curtailed. It
was indicated.
BRITON FREED BY SLAVS
Arrest of Colonel Dodge Error,
Moscow Reports.
LONDON. Jan. 10. Colonel John
BIgelow Dodge, who was arrested by
bolshevlst authorities at Batum, De
cember 9, as an alleged secret British
agent, has been released and la await
ing passage from Batum to Constan
tinople, according to a dispatch to
the Times.
It was officially txplalncd from
Moscow that his arrest was an error.
WATER CONTROL ISSUE UP
Arguments In Wyoming-Colorado
Case Are Concluded.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 10. Oral
arguments in the case brought by
Wyoming against Colorado and oth
ers to restrain diversion of the waters
of the Laramie river were concluded
today In the supreme court.
The case Is considered of great Im
portance as Involving an Issue which
may establish federal and state con
trol over waters in Irrigation regions.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS)
The Weather.
TESTE ROAT'S Maximum temperature, 48
dKrtca; minimum. 41 degrees.
TODAY'S Kalr; easterly winds.
Foreign.
Reparations action waits on France. Page 2.
England to free all Irish prisoners. Pago i.
National.
Bitter fight developing In senate over
seating of Newberry. Page 3.
President Harding likely to arnd observer
to Genoa conferenee. Paae I.
Witnesses tell of allfged willful shooting
of soldiers in France. Page .1.
Five power treaty Jakes final form.
Page -.
Casollne lax for bonus Is proposed. Page 1.
Domeatlr.
Eplreopal bishop accused of heresy. Page i.
Three killed, four Injured by blast In tun
nel. Tags I.
I'arlflc Northwest.
Tacoma light case will be delayed. Tag 1
Alexander Pantages, vaudeville magnate,
aued for I.3.UO0. Page i.
Legion representatives meet Ochoco farm,
ers. Page T.
Lewis and Clark highway Indorsed. Page 7
McMlnnvllle college becomes I. Infield col.
lege In celebration of e-'OO.Oi'O gift.
Page t.
Two circus robber suspects on trial. Page 7.
Seattle and Spokane clash over Columbia
basin development project. Page 1.
Closer tab on sal of drugs Is urged.
Page 1.
Kports.
Jefferson defeats Columbia in rough hoop
game. Page 12.
Koger Pecklnpaugh to manage Washing
ton Senators. Page 12.
Workers to have athletic society. Page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Apple holdings In United States less than
year ago. Page IS.
Chicago wheat weakened by rain In Kin
sns and lower Argentine offerings.
Page 18.
Government and railway bonds strong and
active. Page
United states engineers back Coos Bay
project. Page IS.
Intercoast rates on chemicals cut. Page. IS.
rortlund and Vicinity.
Club women favor dancing In schools.
Page 11.
Chest committees organize for work.
Page -0.
Premium of $3i,000 paid for road bonds.
Page 0.
r'ew changes made In officials of local na
tional banks. Page 20.
Hepre.-entatlve M'Arthur out for renomina-
tlon. Page 10.
Wife shoots self; male guest flees. Page 1.
Tailors Indorse open shop plan. Page 1.
Kivervlew reller plan likely to be adopted.
Patfe li
Pii!U sp.ison deelared mntt sui.-cis.ifui one
lui 1'urtluiid V. W. C. A. Pag a.
LIMFIELD COLLEGE
Name Changed in Cele
brating $250,000 Gift.
MBS. F. E. R. UNFED DONOR
Faculty, Students and Towns
people Jubilant.
ENDOWMENT IS MEMORIAL
Gift Result of Pact Made by De
voted Pair Years Ago to Pro
inoto Cause of Education.
McMlNNVlLLE. Or., Jan. 10. (Spe.
clal.) McMinnvillo college, hlstoris
Baptist educational Institution of the
northwest since September, 185S,
today became Llnfleld college by
unanimous vote of the board of trus
tees, as a memorial to the late Rev.
George Fisher Llnfleld. Tho memo
rial name was bestowed as acknowl
edgment of an endowment gift of
approximately K50.000 made by Mrs.
Frances Eleanor Ross Llnfleld. dean
of women of the college and member
of tho board of trustees.
Announcement of the gift, which
had iecn known only to Dr. Leonard
W. Riley, president of the college,
and a number of the trustees who
had been sworn to secrecy, came as a
distinct surprise to students, towns
people and faculty. -
The gift and change of name were
made known at a special chapel
meeting at i P. M. today in a hall
filled with students and townspeople,
who had no Inkling of the mysterious
purpose for which they had been in
vited. The campus tonight was a
scene of wild excitement over the
gift, which practically doubles the
endowment of tho college and brings
In reach other funds amounting to
approximately $400,000.
Gift Result of Pact.
Mrs. Llnfleld transfers to the col
lege business property situated In
the heart of Spokane which is ex
pected to yield a cash sum ranging
between $200,000 and 1300,000, ac
cording to conservative appraisal.
The gift to McMlnnvllle college,
which becomes Llnfleld college as a
condition of its acceptance. Is the re
sult of a pact made early in the mar
ried life of Rev. and Mrs. Llnfleld
when they were serving as principal
and teacher, respectively. In Way
land academy, Baptist school at
Beaver Dam, Wis. They agreed at
that time to save whatever funds
they could with the understanding
that some day they would donate the
amount toward educational work.
The covenant as described by Dr.
Riley In his presentation -of the mat
ter to the board of trustees follows:
"While laboring together for Way
land academy, Mr. and Mrs. LlnfleM
entered Into a covenant that, pro
vided the Lord prospered them, they
wouid some day make a generous
contribution toward Christian educa
tion. At that time, while both were
drawing salaries, they asreed that
one year he should pay all the ex
penses while she made an Investment
somewhere, and the next year this
plan should be reversed.
Coin. Carefully Inested.
"Under this plan Mr. Llnfield in
vested 1200 in a lot in Spokane
which now, with Its modest brick
building. Is worth nearly $100,000.
Other investments were made by
Mrs. Llnfield and by her father, all
of which have been carefully nur
tured by her during all the years of
her residence in Spokane."
Mrs. Llnfield was born at I'enfield.
N. V., January 4, 1S52. She was edu
cated in the private schools of Roch
ester and graduated from Almira col
lese in 1873. She served as precept
ress and Instructor in languages In
Pennsylvania state normal school,
Mansfield. Pa., and Delaware Liter
ary institute. Franklin, N. Y. She
was married to Mr. Llnfield in 1S78.
Mr. Llnfleld. for whom the memo
rial now stand, was born In Ran
dolph, Mass., September 6, lS4fi, and
was educated for the ministry at
Rochester. Ho served as a minister
up to and after his marriage, but
went to Wayland academy as princi
pal In 1884. He died April 30. 1S90,
still serving as principal of the
academy.
1,1 fe Devoted to Work.
Mrs. Llnfield since that time has
devoted her entire time to educational
and religious work. She was called
to Spokane in 18D5 by the illness of
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver
Chapln Ross. Her father had come
to Spokane In 18&4 to engage in the
real estate business.
For 17 years Mrs. Linficld renrmined
at Spokane as a teacher In the Lewis
and Clark high school In order to be
with her parents. From the time ot
their deaths, the father dying In 1913
and the mother in 1916, Mrs. Llnfield
has devoted her life more largely to
religious work and Christian educa
tion. She Is a member of the Baptist
convention board of east Washington
nd northern Idaho, of the board of
.he Deaconness hospital, Spokane,
and of the board of trustees of Mc
Minnvllle college since 1S17.
Although no knowled ,e of the pro
posed gift had reached persons out
side the board of trustees and Presi
dent Riley's Immediate financial ad-
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