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CK VOL. LXI XO. 19,137 Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postofflee as Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OliEGOX, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1922 2G PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS GRAZED RUSSIANS -SLAY AMEHIGANS GALE AND SNOWFALL 7 BORING BUILDINGS DESTROYED BY FIRE EX-CHIEF FORESTER ORCHESTRA TO PLAY FOR RADIO TONIGHT BANQUET "MESSAGE" jCO nFMiFn rv wii sniu M SWEEP OREGON COAST DENIED BY WILSON JOBS TO BE GIVEN FULLS BILL COLUMBIA AND GRAYS IIAIl BOIl KJEGIOXS HIT BY STOIUI. PRIZE -COLLEGE ORATION ALSO TO BE SENT OUT. TUMULTY IS DECLARED NOT AUTHORIZED TO SPEAK. WIND SAVES WHOLE TOWN" FROM BEINU LOST. 11 MC ROAD RAPS Relief Drivers Are Killed; Horses Seized for Food. VICTIMS' CLOTHES STRIPPED Death Rate Continues Una bated in Ufa District. COLD ADDS TO SUFFERING Hospitals Crowded With ratlents 111 From Eating Poisons In Desperate Impoverishment. PARIS, Aug. 13. (By the Associated Press.) A number of American driv ers of relief wagons in Russia have been killed in the streets by the fam ished populace who seized the horses for food, according to reports re ceived today by American relief or ganizations in Paris from the Ufa, Bashker and Tohyliabui famine dis tricts. Two drivers for the American relief administration were killed this week, the reports said. Several other employes of the re lief administration, fearing their lives, have quit their' posts, the reports added. The danger has become so great that it is no longer safe to venture into the streets. People are being killed every 3ay, it was said, and the natives, maddened from starvation, strip the clothes from the bodies of their victims. The reports said the Americans were feeding 150,000 sufferers in the Ufa district, but that the death rate was continuing unabated. Cholera, smallpox, tpyhus and dysentery are raging and the hospitals are destitute of supplies and extremely short of helpers. Bitter cold and the com plete absence of fuel are adding to the sufferings. The hospitals are choked with pa tients suffering from serious intesti nal disorders due to the eating ol poisonous food In their desperate, im poverishment. The reports sa'id peo ple were eating bark, roots, " hides, dogs, cats and even human flesh. CHITA FORCES DR1VEX OUT Japanese Take Possession of Xcu tral Zone. TOKIO, April 13. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Japanese troops nave driven the Chita government forces out of the neutral zone between them and the Valdivostok government troops, says a dispatch received in Tokio today from Vladivostok. The Japanese have forced the Chita troops as far north as Shmakovka, about 150 miles from Vladivostok, and are approaching the Usuri station, a few miles farther north, says the dis patch. The Vladivostok government troops have occupied the town of Olga. The clash between Japanese troops and forces of the far eastern republic at Spasskoe has had little effect on the attitude of the press toward the continued occupation of Siberia. A few of . the vernacular newspapers, such as the Chugai Shogyo Shimbo, an industrial organ, which have hereto fore advocated evacuation, have mod erated their views, but the majority continue- to urge withdrawal". The Tokio Ashahi Shimbun, inde pendent, says that the object for which the Japanese expedition was sent has ceased to exist. Evacuation, It adds, "is opposed alone by some militarists and people under the spell of antiquated ideas." The Jiji Shimbo, which is friendly (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) AJOl R LEAGUE BOX SCORES NOW IN THE OREGONIAN. Every baseball fan likes to pore ove'r the box scores of the big league games. Through the box scores he can follow day by day just what the vari ous athletes are doing in whom he is interested. And with so many former Coast leaguers now in the majors, the list of players in whom the fans are particularly interested is a long one. The Oregonian is pleased to announce that, beginning to day, the box scores of all American and National league games will be a daily feature of its sporting pages. This will be in addition to the box scores of all Pacific Coast league games. The new serv ice is made possible by re cently increased wire facilities of the Associated Press. Read The Oregonian for the fullest and best accounts of all sports events and follow the work of Bab,e Ruth and "other favorite players through the big eague box scores. Upper Hood River Valley Covered by White Blanket, Reaching Into Washington State. ASTORIA, Or., April 13. (Special.) For a few hours this morning there was a strong southerly gale along the Oregon coast and at noon North Head reported a 60-mile wind from the south, but inside the harbor the breeze was light. At 4 o'clock this afternoon North Head reported the wind outside had shifted to the west and dropped to a 25-mile rate. Locally there was a cold rain mixed with flakes of snow during the morn ing hours, while on the higher levels along both sides of the river there was a steady fall of snow. This afternoon the weather cleared and the barometer, which had dropped to 29:50, began to ascend slowly. ABERDEEN, Wash., April 13. (Special.) With snow falling stead ily and the mercury down to 49 de grees. Grays harbor today experi enced a touch of winter. The snow fell in large flakes tn the morning, melting as it came, but later in the day the flakes were smaller and re mained on the ground on the higher levels of the town and in the country. Three to four Inches of snow was reported In the hill regions this aft ernoon. MARSHFIELD, Or., April 13. (Spe cial.) A heavy storm prevailed all day and the velocity of the wind off j this coast was a gale. Frost was i reported in many places this morning. The storm set in about 10 o'clock. HOOD RIVER, Or., April 13. (Spe cial.) A snow ae intense as any the past winter prevailed throughout the day in the upper valley. While the flakes melted rapidly, the blanket tonight south of Parkdale was two Inches deep, with the fall unabated. Snow prevailed far down in the Oak Grove district and orchard sections of Skamania and Klickitat counties, Washington, are again under a new blanket. HOME CRUSHED; 2 KILLED Man and Wife at Seattle Victims; Two Sons Leap From Window. SEATTLE. Wash., April 13. Charles H. Habenstreit and his wife were killed instantly here tonight when their house, which stood at the foot of a cliff on the outskirts of the city was buried under a landslide. Seepage of water was said to have caused the loosening of the earth. The family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Habenstreit and their two sons, Carl and George, 16 and 12 years of age, were seated at the table eating dinner when the avalanches de scended upon them. The boys heard the roar of the descending slide and leaped through a window before the catastrophe occurred. A rescue party rushed to the scene and dug its way to the victims, both of whom were dead when found. 500 FAMILIES HOMELESS Suburb or Norfolk, Va., Has Million-Dollar Blaze. NORFOLK, Va., April 13. Berke ley, a suburb of Norfolk, was swept by fire today which destroyed more than 100 houses, covering an area of one mile in length and averag ing from two to four blocks in width. Five hundred families are estimated to have been made homeless and the damage will run to nearly a million dollars. - The blaze originated in the Tunis lumber mills on the southern branch of the Elizabeth river and three steamers in the river were burned, catching fire fom sparks. The fire quickly spread to the north, sparks being carried .100 yards or more. Most of the 'houses in the path were negro homes of wooden construction. SPEED OFFICERS ACCUSED State Traffic Men Arraigned for Violating Corvallis Ordinance. CORVALLIS, Or., April 13. (Spe cial.) State Traffic Officers Brown, Haden and Bloom were brought into Judge Conner's court here this morn ing charged with violating the traffic ordinances. They had parked their motorcycles too close to the city fire hydrants. Judge Conner measured the distance from where their cars were to the fire hydrant, found they were violat ing the city ordinance by two feet, the ordinance requiring a 20-foot clearance. The judge decided that the violation was slight and a "first offense" and dismissed the three men with a warning. HIGHWAY BONDS ADVANCE Big Deal Closed in Illinois Shows Market Trend. SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 13. (By the Associated Press.) Six million dollars' worth of Illinois highway bonds were sold to Hall Garten &. Co, of New York for $5,932,500 today. The Hall Garten bid was at 98.87Vj, a de cided advance over the sale of. the first five million, which went for 94.02. SEATTLE STUDENT OUSTED Robert E. Turner Is Expelled From Hamilton for Bootlegging. SYRACUSE. N. Y.. April 13. Robert E. Turner of Seattle, Wash., 23, a Hamilton senior, has been expelled from college after his secret arraign ment last night at Utlca on a charge J of bootlegging. BATTLES FDR LIFE World-Famous Tenor Has Throat Affliction. BREATHING IS DIFFICULT Septic Infection Nearly Chokes Victim. SPECIALISTS GIVE AID Contracts Canceled Condition Not Revealed to Public During First Part of Illness. NEW YORK April 13. John Mc Cormack, world-famous tenor, tonight was reported) by physicians to be bat tling for his life in his PaTk-avenue home, where he Is suffering from a severe affliction of the throat. His physicians announced that while they -believed the crisis was passed last night, the singer was not out of danger. "There wiil be danger as long as the septic condition exists in Mr. 31c Cormack's throat," one attending physician said. Mr. McCormack was taken seriously ill last Saturday. Removed to his home, he was found to be suffering from a combination of throat afflic tions due to a general infection of the throat, causing blood poisoning. Singer's Throat Swollen. On Monday, according to the physi cians, the singer's throat had so swollen that he was threatened with death by choking. He suffered a sim ilar attack Tuesday night, the physi cians said, and was seriously ill all day yesterday, his condition coming to a crisis last night. (Copyright by the New Tork World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) NEW YORK, April 13. (Special.) The Irish tenor, John McCormack, has a much more serious illness than the public announcements have Indicated. It was last Sunday when his Hippo drome contract was canceled. He was repeatedly on the point of suf focation on Tuesday night, and again yesterday, his concert manager, D. F. McSweeny, admitted today. Two throat ' specialists, Doctors Cornelius G. Coakley and Norman Smith, and McCormack's own physician, Dr. Al fred Camiie DuPont, have worked over him and itis only now that he is considered out of immediate dan ger. The diagnosis made by Dr. Du Pont is "tonsilitis which developed into a septic throat and oedemae of the uvula, almost to the extinction of breathing." First Hoarseness Appears. The first hoarseness appeared after a concert in Chicago on April 2 and McCormack's physician induced him to cancel a concert scheduled for April 5 in Detroit and return to New (Concluded on Page 2, Column 2.) PEOPLE Portland Hotel Musicians and M. R. Good of Oregon Agricultural School to Be Featured. In order to hear the full pro gramme of six selections by George Olsen's Portland hotel orchestra and in addition the oration of Mervin R. Good of Oregon Agricultural college. which won for him the state inter collegiate oratorical contest, in the hour of time allotted to The Orego nlan for the radio programme to night, radio fans will be asked at the outset of the roncert to stand by constantly, as the announcements will be brief and the different se lections will be run off in rapid se quence. Mr. Good will begin his oration a few minutes after 8 o'clock, as soon as J. W. Weed, operator, "clears the air." The subject of the address which recently won the highest col legiate oratorical honors in Oregon is "Our Brother by the Baltic Sea." Good is a graduate of Gresham high school, '18. He was president of the student body there in his sen ior year and business manager of the high school annual. He is majoring in business administration at the col lege in the school of commerce. Last fall Good started a course in public speaking under Professor C. B. Mitchell, head of the public-speaking department at the college. Entirely without previous experience beyond presiding at meetings. Good improved until at the end" of the term he won a $5 prize offered by Professor Mitch ell in a contest. Immediately after the oration is finished the orchestra will begin its first selection. The six selections to be played are: "Stealing" (Sullivan); "Canadian Capers" (Conn); "Angel Child" (Davis); "O Dry Those Tears," a trombone solo by J. A. Jessup; "You Won't Be Sorry" (Burtnett), and a fox trot adapted from "Walze Tryst" (Sibelius), arranged by E. Vincent Kilfeather. 'Angel Child," the third number of the programme, is to be played by request. It is thought likely that by playing the selections in' rapid se quence enough time will be left for seventh selection, and this will be any that is requested oy t o ciock tonight. Arrangements have been made with George Olsen to have his Portland hotel orchestra play a se ries of Friday night radio concerts, and as many requests will be played as there is time for at any concert. These requests may be made directly to The Oregonian's radio department. This afternoon at 4 o'clock Miss Mary Elizabeth Godwin will give the last of the music memory course se ries. " A special Easter programme has been arranged for Sunday night from 7 to 8 o'clock. Rev. William Wallace Youngson, superintendent of the Portland district of the Methodist Episcopal church, will deliver a ser man, and Mrs. Goldie Peterson Wess ler, soprano soloist, will sing three or four songs with piano accompani ment. Sicily Bank Loot Increased. CATANIA, Sicily, April 13. There hae as yet been no solution of the robbery 'ast Monday night of the Banco di Sicilla. A careful count of the money remaining in the safe has shown the amount stolen was nearly 11,000,000 lire. The first reports were that 9, 009, MO lire were missing. WON'T BELIEVE IT UNLESS THEY ack in Oregon AV-rms "sasgw the srCr 'PUJUHVNG IN THE. 56NDY VVE.V-- K V U O N i THe.CA - r&O1? o OUT Vv ItH KEYS Yve.o TO TWG LISO Ot A P'OVJE. AND COVAE 'BACK. VUUU Vol can scoot5 'E-tv vi? wiYH.Your HAT CUV A SACK v"UL VoR TWO QVTS xSOOO EASING Too - Ex-Secretary Says He Regrets Misunderstanding Arising ' With ex-President. NEW YORK, April 13. The New j York Times tonight made public a I letter from Woodirow Wilson denying that he had) sent or authorized any one to convey a message to the Jef ferson-diay dlinner here last Saturday night. A message read at the dinner by Mrs. Montgomery Hare, chairman of the woman's dinner committee, and attributed! to the ex-president, said "Say to the democrats of New York that I am ready to support any man who stands for the salvation of Amer ica, and th salvation, of America is justice to a!l classes." Thomas E. Rush, chairman of the dinner comrruittee, said that when he Iearnedi last Thursday that Joseph P. Tumulty, ex-secretary to the presi dent, was to attend; the dinner, he called him on the telephone and asked him to brin' a message from ex- President Wilson if possible. The message readi at the dinner was given to him by Air. Tumulty on hi arrival, Mr. Rush said. When doubt as to the authenticity of the message first arose Mr. Tu multy made an explanation in Wash ington in which he said: "The message read at the banquet came merely in a casual conversation with me at Mr. Wilson's home on Friday last, when he remarked that he would support any candidate who stood for justice for ail. There was nothing unusual in this and it was not significant in any way from a political standpoint. He sent no tele gram. He . simply gave a casual message to me in a casual manner. It had nothing to do with any in dividual or any particular political situation." This statement by Mr. Tumulty appeared in' the Times under the headline: "Doubt is cast on Wilson's 'mes sage' to the Cox dinner." In his letter Mr. Wilson said: 1 write to say there need be no doubt about the matter. I did not send any message whatever to that dinner nor authorize anyone to con vey a message." When informed of Mr. Wilson's let ter iby a Times' representative in Washington tonight, Mr. Tumulty gave out this statement: "If Mr. Wilson says the message was unauthorized then I can only say I deeply regret ' the misunderstandiuj which has arisen between us. I cer tainly would not have given the mes sage if I had not believed it to be authorized." EXCITING ELECTION LOOMS Prospects of Featureless Race In Linn County Dispelled. ALBANY. Or., April 13. (Special.) The prospect of a featureless elec tion for the only two county offices to be filled in Linn county this year, a county commissioner for a full term of four years and a county com missioner fora term of two years to fil. a vacancy, has gone glimmering the last two days with the appear ance of several candidates as the limit of the time for filing nominat ing petitions approaches. Four candidates have filed in the last two days and two more are in prospect. SEE IT. - 7 7 .. Commission to Meet in , Portland Today. BRIDGE WORK IS INCLUDED Contract Awards Expected to Set Record. PROJECTS ARE LISTED Chairman Booth Says Competition This Year by Contractors Will Bo Demanded. SALEM. Or., April 13. (Special.) Contracts for the construction of ap proximately 250 miles of road and more than a dozen bridges at an estimated cost of $2,500,000 will be awarded at a. meeting of the state highway commission to be held In Portland tomorrow and Saturday. R. A. Booth, chairman of the com mission, was in Salem today check ing over the proposed contracts and assembling information to be used at the meeting. He said the meeting probably would break all records of the commission iwith relation to the number of contracts to be considered, the mileage and the amount of money involved. In addition to a large number of jounty judges from practically every section of Oregon, tne meeting will be attended by representatives of the Roosevelt Memorial Highway asso ciation. These men will urge the highway commission not to divert any part of the 12,500,000 appropriated by the state for the construction of the Roosevelt highway to other uses. When the money was voted for the Roosevelt highway it use was con tingent upon the government contrib uting a like sum. As yet the federal moner has not been appropriated, and the state highway commission recently intimated that tha, money voii;l by the state for the improve ment of the coast road might be used for other purposes. Following is a complete list of the projects for which bids will be con sidered at the meeting of the hlgh- y commission to be held in Port land Friday and Saturday: Baker County. Old1 Oregon trail, Baker-Nelson section, unit No. 1, 14.2 miles of grading- and sur facing; unit Xo. 2, 12.7 miles or grading and surfacing. Benton and Lincoln Counties. Corvallis-Newport highway, Blodgett- Toledo section, unit No. 1, 17.2 miles rock surfacing; unit No. 2, 0.8 mile of grading and 17.2 miles of rock surfacing. Deschutes County. McKenzle highway. Cllne Falls to Sisters section, 10.8 miles of surfacing. Bend-Sisters highway, Tumalo-Sisters section, 15 miles of surfacing. Douglas County. Pacific highway, Canyonville-Galesvllle section, 11.1 miles of paving. Cilliam Section. John Day highway, Arllngton-Shutler section, 7.1 miles of grading and surfacing. Iane County. McKenzie highway, power plant anJ Shell rock section, 2.1 miles of grading and , surfacing. Pacific highway, approaches to McVeigh overcrossing, 0.4 mile of surfacing. Umatilla County. Old Oregon trail. Dead Man's pass-Ka- mela section, 13.3 miles of grading and surfacing. 1 amhill County. West Side highway, McMinnville-Amity section. 5 miles of paving. Baker County. Old Oregon trail, Baker-Xelson section. three small concrete bridges and one steel span. Old Oregon- trail, Bauer-Nelson section. pvercrossing of O.-W. R. R. & N. tracks. near unity. i Deschutes County. Bend-Sisters highway, near Sisters: two culverts and two timber spans. Linn County.. Pacific highway, Albany-Tangent sec tion; two concrete spans. Folk County. McMinnvllle-Tlllamook highway, S mllea west of Willamina; one bridge of alternate wood or steel construction. Umatilla County. Oregon-Washington highway, near Pilot rock; two bridges. Yamhill County. McMtnnvlIle - Tillamook highway, Mc MirinvilleSheridan section; one bridge over Deer creek. West Side highway, west city limits of Amity; one bridge. - Coos and Douglas Counties. Coos Bay-Roseburg highway. Myrtle Point-Camas valley section, unit No. 1, 17.7 miles of rock surfacing; unit No. 2, 17.1 miles of rock surfacing. Grant County. John Day highway. Cummins creek-Val-ades ranch section, 14.7 miles of grading. Josephine County. Pacific highway. Sexton mountain sec tion, 7.5 miles of paving. " J.ane County. Willamette valley - Florence highway, Goldson-Blachly section, 13.6 miles of sur facing. J.inn County. Pacific highway, Albany-Tangent sec tion, 7.3 miles of paving. Umatilla County. Oregon-Washington highway. Pilot Rock Vinson canyon section, 10.7 miles of sur facing. Wasco County. Dalles-California hignway. The Dallea Dufur section, 15.2 miles of grading and surfacing. - MARKET ROADS ARE CHOSEN Clackamas County Court Selects Highways for Improvement. OREGON CITY, Or.. April 14. (Special.) f-wenty new market roads In-Clackamas county, embracing to a (Concluded oa Page S, Column 3.) Residents, Without Water Mains or Other Means to Fight Blaze, Merely Look On. GRKSHAM, Or.. April 13. (Special.) Seven buildings lining tlio eust side of the main street of Boring, a small town, five miles from here, were de stroyed by fire tonight when flames, originating in the pool hall and fanned by a fctrong southwest wind, swept away that structure and leaping to other bu-ildings successively destroyed a barber shop, shoo shop, restaurant. dance hall, livery barn and small garage. A movie show In the upstairs of the pool hall was in progress at the time of the fire. No one was in jured in the rush for the exit. All the while the residents looked on, practically helpless, for there were no water mains nor any apparatus with which to fight the fire and the flames were beyond the possibility of control by hand extinguishers by the time they were discovered. The fire apparatus was called from Gres ham, but the roads were too bad for the wagon to negotiate the run. Instead, five auto loads of firefight ers from Gresham hurried to Boring and with the residents of that place formed bucket brigades, and buildings somewhat distant from the conflagra-tion-but. in danger of flying embers were wetted down. Good fortune cheated the wind out of making the whole town of Boring a prey to the flames, for the fire, being on the east side of the street, was fanned away from the west side. The fire was discovered about 9:15 o'clock and was then rapidly eating its way through the frame building. All the buildings burned were of frame construction, and it was esti mated that their total loss was in the neighborhood of $10,000 or $12,000., No estimates on the loss of personal property or of stocks were available at a late hour tonight. Two trucks in the garage were lost. Several other cars were stored In the building, but were ran out to safety. The trucks were owned by the Boring Truck company. This same company conducted the garage. The shoe shop was owned by Van Dolln, and the building housing the pool hall and movie theater by Ed Waller. Only partial Insurance was carried, it was said, and in many instances there was no insurance. OREGON HIGHWAY FAVORED Roosevelt Road Considered One of Primary Importance. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, D. C, April 13. The Roosevelt Memorial highway in Ore gon is being considered as a road of primary importance, the chief of the bureau of public roads told Repre sentative Hawley today. The matter Is now being Investi gated by engineers of the bureau at Portland and San Francisco, it was said. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Highest temperature, 44 degrees; lowest, ii!; rain. TODAY'S Rain; southwesterly winds. Foreign. Famine-maddened Ruians kill American benefactors. Pago 1. Lonely Isle in Pacific six times submerged. Page 2. "Big Four" to present united front against soviet. Page 2. National. America's foreign trade shows large gain. Page 3. Democrats attack new tariff rates. Page 2. Railroads financially crippled when turned back to owners. Page 8. Party leaders await with Interest outcome of contest In Indiana. Page 4. Domestic Only liquor charge now faces Arbuckle. Page 3. Semenoff put In Jail when bond Is with drawn. Page 8. John McCormack near death. Page 1. New York unveils Shifters' secrets. Page 10. Pacific Northwest. Many , candidates file for primaries. Page 6. McMlnnvllle school flooded by vandals. Page 1. Seattle primary campaign Is quint. Page 5. $2,500,1)00 In road Jobs to be awarded. ' Page 1. Eight Boring buildings destroyed by fire Page 1. Gale and snow storm sweep Oregon coast. Page 1. Sports. On hundred and thirty-five will compete Eugene relay carnival. Page 15. Pacific Coast league result: At Salt Lake 8. Portland 11: at Lot Ang'-les 5. Ver non 1; at Oakland 3, San Kruncisco 2; at Sacramento 1, Seattle 6. Page 14, Card is completed tor Tuesday fights. Page 13. Sixteen schools entered in Columbia in door meet. Page 14. Yanks turn tables on Washington. rage 14. Commercial and Marine. Wool buying In Yakima starts in small way. Page 2.1. Flurry in Chicago wheat market on heavy export buying. Page 24. Bond market less active but firm. Page 2.". Stockmen in Idaho hard hit since war. Page 25. Par liberty bonds are market puzzle. rage 16. Property owDers ask for fill In Guild's lake section. Page 17. Port to provide creosote storage. Page 17. New York market starts up again. Page 24. Greater Inquiry for wool noted. Pago 24. Portland and Vicinity. Charter modelers organize for work. Page 26. Charges are filed against fire chief. Page 18. Inferior Chinese walnuts declared to be menace to Oregon Industry. Page 13. Big lumber plant assured for Burns. Page 8. Today is- last day for candidates to file. Page 7. Orchestra to play for radio tonight. Page 1. Ex-Chief Forester Graves against Isolation of forest service. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 24. 47fl.o49 distributed by chest In 1921. Page 4. Hard exercise bad after middle age Page 8. Disciples' hardships not appreciated, taj Kvangciist Anderson, la,'a lti. Isolation of Forest Service Held Menace to West. HARRY S. GRAVES IN CITY Linking of Farms and Timber Deemed Key to Success. SMALL TRACTS POPULAR Xowly Appointed IfcHd or Yali School Declares Prosperity Kt-M. on Waste Lund Utilization. The importance of industries d pending upon lumber, timber and forests In sustaining small com munities and agricultural regions where the land holdings are small was pronounced yeitsrday to be th prime reason why the United Slate forest service should not bo separated from the department of agriculture in accordance with Secretary Kail s proposal. This was the answer made In an Interview by Harry S. (Jravra. former chief forester, organizer of the school of forestry at Yale uni versity and now appointee as head of the school. Mr. Graves Is touring the country, visiting all agricultural and forestry colleges and studying conditions to obtain educational data preliminary to taking- up his post as head of the Yale school of forestry. He arrived In Portland from Seattle yesterday morning and addressed all official and employes of the local forest bureau in the afternoon. Trend Toward Small Trart. "The trend In the forest situation Is toward the email tract owner," he said, "and In a generation or so ap proximately 60 per cent of our stand ing timber will be In GO. 100 and 200 acre tracts, uhlch for the most part will be owned by persona engaged In agriculture, and which will ! utilized as supply for aide Industries. "These forests will be of utmost Importance In sustaining email agri cultural communities and regions. They will afford work for farmer and their implements during th winter months and the timber will afford work for the community dwellers and keep the towns alive. An example of the neceaslty of forests In this respect Is found In the large tracts of abandoned land and many abandoned farms and poverty stricken towna throughout the east and south. While the orig inal cutting of timber wua In prog ress these communities and region thrived off the Income. Towna were built up and were prosperous while the timber was there, but when the timber was gone and much of the land not suitable for farming, the farms were abandoned and the town approached bankruptcy on account of the decrease In tax assessment value. Close Aaaorlatlon ns. "This shows the close association between forestry anil agriculture. A large percentage of the land In farms all over the country is untlllable and suited only for foreftatlon. Tli-t farmer who own 240 acres, for In stance, probably lull 100 acres of tin tilled land. If he Is thrifty and fore sighted this will bo In growing tim ber and, if he is not. It will most likely be in a-rub. "In the latter case the result doe not end In the individual owner pocketbook, but in the porketbook of the community on which he depend and which depend on him for Its sus tenance. Korests provide work and revenue and, generally, when the for ests are gone other industries do not spring up in time to take their place.. "Not many years In the future the entire nation will look to the meat for its lumber. Even now 30 per ceht of the lumber in the easte-rn market is Douglas fir because of the rapid depletion of the southern pine and the corresponding increase In price. The aouth is doing practii'ally noth ing in the line of reforestation and dow there are 3O,0"0.O00 acres of waste land below tne jiason unu Dixon line. In 13 or 20 years the big mills in the south will have van ished. Reforestation la Importaat. "Lumber then will be high priced and this will Inflict hardship on the farmers in the east, middle west and south unless something Is done to (Concluded on ) s. MARRIED LIFE SERIAL BEGINS. I The comedies and tragedies T of the everyday life of a typical young married couple are pictured realistically by Mabel Herbert Urner in her series of short stories, which start in The Oregonian Sun day. She calls her stories "The Married Life of Helen and Warren." They are writ ten in delightfully humorous vein and will appear in The Oregonian every Sunday.