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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL, 20, 1923 EIHL SHGOTEH CLEARED SWEETHEART SAYS DISCHARGE OF WEAPOX WAS ACCIDENT. . MUNICIPAL PAVING GALLED POOR JOB PAVEMENT LAID BY MUNICIPAL PAVING PLANT LAST OCTOBER BREAKING UP. in the college this school year. This is a new mark for regular long course registration. The total registration for the year, including summer session and short course students, is 5497. LINE PROMISES TO BUILD 14 1 1 I r' Contractors' Secretary Tells Council About Defects. HOLES IN SURFACE SHOWN O. O. Hughson Submits to Portland Commissioners Photographs i'rom East 39th Street. Disvovey of a series of holes and breaks in pavement laid last fall by the municipal paving plant caused O. i. Hughson, secretary of t!.e Asso ciated General contractors to appear before the city council yesterday to learn what the city's future policy would be in connection with the mun icipal paving plant. The pavement in question is on Kast Thirty-Ninth street between the Powell Valley road and Woodstock avenue, and was completed by the municipal paving plant about October S. 1931. Mr. Hughson submitted photo graphs to the council to .show the condition of the pavement, together with a statement which showed that the total assessment for the project -was J33.471.79. This statement also called attention to the fact that 35 property owners in this improvement district have neither bonded nor paid cash, the sum involved being J4099.34, or 12 per cent of the entire assess ment. ' Public Paving Oppose. Mr. Hughson declared that he was not attempting to impagn the mo tives of any officials, but that he was simply trying to show the coun cil that it was not in the interest of the taxpayers of the city to have public officials in competition with private contractors in public work. "It has always seemed to me that the public had better protection when the work was dons by private con tractor, working under bond and with his personal reputation at stake," said Mr. Hughson. "When the same work is done by those who had been elected to perform, an altogether dif lercnt line of work and only take over the construction programme as a side' line and are dependent upon employes for skill and knowledge there is not the same supervision." "When the private contractor sub mits an estimate he must show what , he proposed to do and his cost items. Why should not the public official contractor on every project amount ing to say $1600. submit and publish an accurate estimate showing the amount for which it is; proposed to do the work, and when the Job is done keep and preserve an accurate record and account of such work and construction and of its actual cost. ' Absolute Publicity Favored. "Why should not these matters of public interest be kept so that the ordinary citizen can see for himself how they stand as much as other public affairs? More than a month ago I asked for a copy of a study made by the engineers on what con stituted a proper charge for a yard of paving as laid by the municipal plant and it has not come to hand as Hughson declared that when a private contractor undertakes a job for the city under the Bancroft bond ir.ir act, and the work proves defec tive and needs to be relaid, there is no question as to the proper course to pursue. Upkeep Rules Outlined. "He relays it he is not permitted to patch it up. He is not allowed to repair it within a few months after it was laid to the extent of approxi mately 20 per cent of the entire sur face, and to keep on repairing until he is patching patches." the speaker declared. "And if he should repair a spot and relay a space there is na tiuestion as to who would pay for it, and it would show on his books as an itm charged against that particular jc 1.." Mr, Hughson maintained that de sr-ite the large amount of patch worK that has been done on the Kast Thir-tv-ninth street project, lie has yet I'miud no record of such work in the city auditor's office. I Jjyrfi' ' .t-a Ar-'i ... VIEW OF ONE OK THE HOLES 1ST PAVEMENT ON EAST THIRTV-NINTH STREET, WHICH HAS RESULTED IN AN OFFICIAL INQUIRY BEFORE CITY COUNCIL. LEWIS TO CLOSE WAK DEPARTMENT PREPARES TO ABANDON STATION. Military Cantonment Will Be Used for Summer Training Sessions Under Plans Being Laid. SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. Plans' calling: for the virtual abandonment of Camp Lewis at American Lake, Wash., and the transfer of the Nine teenth infantry regiment now at the Presidio here to the Hawaiian islands before July 1, are being- negotiated by the war department, it was announced hero today by Major F. IX Griffith, junior assistant to the chief of staff of the Ninth army corps area. The 6000 troops at Camp Lewis will be distributed among1 permanent posts on the Pacific slope and the camp it self will be retained only for the pur pose of summer training sessions, ac cording to the plans. At other times it will be in charge of a caretaker. The Nineteenth infantry, which is a short regiment of but six companies, together with all line officers now 3,t the Presidio, will be sent to the Ha waiian islands, but the headquarters officers will be retained here, it was announced. No confirmation has been received as yet as to what outfit will take the place of the Nineteenth here, but it is presumed that one of the Camp Lewis units will be brought in. The headquarters here has been asked to work on plans as to the dis posal of its forces in the event that the army appropriation bill setting the entire army personnel at 115,000 is finally passed. the plains with an ox team and set tled in Humbolt county, California. In 1871 he brought a band of 1500 head of cattle to Harney valley Ore gon, and in 1SS1 he came to what is now Sherman county and settled on a homestead three miles west of Wasco, where he had since resided. He mar ried Harriet Goodyear in Humbolt, county, 48 years ago. Surviving are his widow and two sons and a daugh ter, Darwin of Los Angeles, -Cal. ; Her bert of Wasco, and Mrs. H. E. Morrow of Kent, Or. Interment will be in Masonic cemetery tomorrow. JURY CLEARS FARMER Clai'kaams Man. Accused by Girl, I'reed of Plrwt Three Indictments. OREGON CITY, Or.. April 19. (Special.) Jess Poyser, Clackamas county farmer, was cleared today of the first of three indictments on statutory charges when he was found not guilty by the first mixed jury to serve in the circuit court here. After one hour and eight minutes' delibera tion the jury, composed of seven v omen and five men, released the eU't'endant. Florence McKinnls, 13, was com plaining witness against Poyser, who ia more than 40. violet McKinnis, siwter of the complaining witness, is to appear for the state in another Ca.se scainst Poyser. Poyser is facing a similar charge in which Doris llirchman, 13, will appear as the complainant. The jury was composed of Grover t f'omeroy, Alary K. Xorris, Clara K Anthony, Aurie Draper, Kliia M, Ingram, George DeBok. Robert D "Wilson. Charles Sharnke. Louise Kamrath. William Lewis. Nellie All tlrtdge and Augusta B. Haberlach. PIPE CONTRACT AWARDED AMoria Water Commission Closes $2 13.482 Deal. ASTORIA. Or.. April 19. (Special.) The Astoria water commission at its mewling tonight awarded a contract to McLean & Williams of this city to build a new main conduit for the water department, leading- from the headworks at Bear creek to the city reservoirs, their bid of 3243.482.75 be ing: the lowest suhmitted. The material will be of one-quarter tiu'h-eleotric-welded steel, with dresser couplings. The conduit, which is to be approximately HVa miles in length, ttill consist of S1.6CW feet of lS-inch and 39,100 feet of 12-inch pipe. fSurf Beach Road Projected. SK ASIDE. Or.. April 19. (Special.) City Engineer Rogers has been op lied in to consult with a local realty firm regarding the construction of a road te begin at Twelfth street and follow, the beach to the mouth of the Neeamcum river, then following the river back to Fifteenth street and from there up to Third. This would make approximately a mile drfve di rectly on the ocean front and com pletely surround what is known as Surf Beach addition to Seaside. In connection with this road would be the plan of carrying it to the pro posed bridge between Seaside and tiearhart. OFFICERS AT CAMP IX DARK President of Tacoma Commerce Body Discredits Report. TACOMA, Wash., April 11. Officers at Camp Lewis today said they had no information concerning war de partment rlans looking toward aban donment of the camp. However, an order was received yesterday to sus pend all repair and upkeep work there for the time being. J. T. S. Lyle, presi dent of the chamber of commerce, who has just returned from Washing ton, D. C. said that acoording to his information the war department merely has ordered a survey of the situation so that plans will be avail able for distribution of troops should congress reduce the army to such a low level that Camp Lewis cannot be maintained. There are now less than 5000 troops at Camp Lewis and some of them re cently have, arrived, being transferred rrom California and from t,he middle west forta. "The war department has assured us time and time again that Camp Lewis will be maintained," Mr. Lyle said, "and it was on this assurance that the people of this county gave to the government the 60.000 acres that constitute the camp. I believe that Camp Lewis will continue as an im portant government post unless the nation foolishly disarms altogether. Mrs. Eliza Jane Kanavan. TACOMA, Wash., April 19. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Eliza Jane Kanavan, born t V.igney Hill, near Tacoma, July 5 1853Xdied Monday morning at the horaef her daughter. Mrs. Jennie HandleySat Dupont. The last four years of (K;r life she spent with her daughter. Ipr to that she had made her home in Iswima for many years. She was a memb?!fthe old pioneer Rigney- family. Her parents helped establish the post at Port Steilacoom in. 1845. In 1849, his period of enlist ment having expired, her father re ceived a grant of 640 acres of land near what is now known as Manitou park. The family lived on this land continuously for 50 years. HUSBAND Si TO NAG BRAKEMAN DECLARED TO HAVE NUMEROUS AFFINITIES. . Fred M. DHggar. WALLA WALLA, Wash.. April 19. (Special.) Predi M. Duggar, 62, died here today after a long illness. He came here in, 1877 from Indiana and his first job was on. the old' Dr. Baker narrow gauge road between Walla Walla ami Wallula. Later he went in.to the service of ther Northern Pa cific and was an engineer for more than 20 years, working with the con struction crew through Monitana. He then engaged in farminig and. for five years was police sergeant here. For several years he had been working in the O.-W. R. & N. roundhouse. He leaves his widow and thre chlldireni. Royal F. Weir. OLTMPIA. Wash., April 19. (Spe cial.) Royal F. Weir, native son of Washington and son of Allen Weir, pioneer attorney of this city, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. . Will White, at Camp Lewis, Tuesday. Born in Port Townsend 35 years ago, he had spent most of his life in Olympia and vicinity. Surviving are his moth er, a brother, Frank Weir, Thurston county engineer, and a sister, Mrs. White. Funeral services will be held at the Mills chapel in this city Thurs day afternoon after which the body will be sent to Port Townsend for burial. Obituary. Thomas J. Harris. TILLAMOOK, Or., April 19. (Spe cial.) Thomas J. Harris, citizen of Tillamook county, died at the home of his daughter,, after residing in the county for 33 years. He was 88 years old. He was born in Boone county, Missouri. In 1S58 he crossed the plains on horseback, going to California, and in 1S59 came to Oregon. In 1860 he married Miss Elizabeth Smith at Mon mouth. Or.f where he obtained posses sion of 160 acres of government land. To the union were born eight chil dren, four daughters and four sons, all of whom are living, except one daughter. The surviving children are C. O. Harris of Sandlake, "Mrs. Katie Owens of McMinnvilie, Jeff Harris, S. J. Harris. W. G. Harris. Mrs. Lancy Crave and Mrs. Lulla Robinson, all of Tillamook. Mr. Harris was one of the progressive citizens of the county in the early days of its history and took a prominent part in politics and in the development of the county. William Egbert Ostrander. ' COTTAGE GROVE. Or., April 19. (Special.) William Egbert Ostrander, son of William H. Ostrander, died Monday at the family home, from the effects of pneumonia and influenza contracted while with the United States forces in Siberia. The funeral was held this . afternoon. Mr. Os trander was born in Cottage Grove June 19, 1900, and. lived here until going to Portland in 191S, where he was conductor on the street railway. He enlisted July 10, 1919, and went to Siberia with the 27th medical In fantry. He was stricken with in fluenza and pneumonia and was sent to the evacuation hospital at Vladivo stok. He was then taken to the Sternberg hospital In Manila, and to the Letter-man hospital in San Fran cisco. Surviving relatives are the father and stepmother. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ostrander; a sister, Mrs. Clar ence Spencer of Craig, Alaska, and two half sisters, Helen and Harriett, who are at home. Henry Root. WASCO. Or., April 19. (Special.) Henry Root, one of the early settlers of Sherman county, died here April TS at the age of SO years. He was born in Wisconsin, April 7, 1842. He was a cousin of Elihu H. Root, former governor of New York. At the age of Id years, with his parents, he crossed William Clark Hazelton. EUGENE, Or., April 19. (Special.) William Clark Hazelton, one of the early residents of Lane county, died at his home, in this city, yesterday at th age of 74 years, 1 month and 10 day. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Aimira Hazelton, and a daughter, Mrs. Helen P. Harris of this city, be sides a sister, Mrs. Jane Lam- of Illinois, and a brother, Louis Hazelton of Eugene. Mr. Hazelton was a mem ber of the Masonic fraternity and had lived in Eugene for 21 years. Wife Complains That H. H. Dunn Refused to Be Seen With Her and Swore at Her. Three days after their marriage. In Vancouver, Wash., December 16. 1921, Harry H. Dunn began to nag and find .fault with his wife, Ruby A Dunn, she complains in a sujt for di- yorce instituted in the circuit court yesterday. He swore at her when she put coa! in the stove in their home, demanded that she work to support herself and take care of the payments on a new automobile he had purchased, refused to be seen in pub lie with her and occupied himself with several paramours, she charges. Dunn js a brakeman on the Union Pacific eystem, earning $200 a month, of wbich sum his wife asks $50 monthly as support money. Other divorce suits filed were: Ru dolph A. against Emma M. Marshall, Flora N. against C. W. Raynor, Leola S. against Ira E. Pittman, Edith A. against Fred James Crosley, Henry E. against Coletta E. Heim and Hazel F. against Charles A. Brown. Laura Vinson filed . suit against Burr E. Vinson seeking to vacate a divorce decree awarded last December in so far as It affected a real estate settle ment. Default divorce decrees were awarded by Circuit Judge Tazwell yesterday in the following -cases: John against Adelia Loser, Duie against Archie Wold, Ora May against Cecil R. Cawley, Hazel against George R. Seney, Frank against Cora Ruhr, George E. against Thelma Minielly, Marie against E. J. Eckton, Florence W. against Wade E. McLane, Sarah against George Moore, Elizabeth against F. Rost, John G. against 'Lulu I. Heslin, Etta M against Clyde A. Trout, Mary E. against I. W. Walsh, Helena S. against W. H. Blake. HOSFITHL PLANS AWAITED THREE EMATfTJEIi DIRECTORS TO BE ELECTED. Time for Starting Construction In Portland Depends on Outcome of Seattle Conference. The annual sessions of the Colum bia conference of the Augusta synod of the Swedish Lutheran church began last night in Seattle and will continue until Sunday evening. This meeting is of much importance to the hospital interests of Portland, for at this time three new members are to be elected to the board of directors of Emanuel hospital and it is said it depends greatly upon their personnel as to whether or not the- proposed new hos pital building will be undertaken at once. Plans have been prepared for a $300,000 building, with frontages on Stanton and Commercial streets, this being really a six-story addition to the present structure. The hospital site embraces the entire block, ex cept one corner, bounded by Graham avenue, Commercial, fotanton ana Gantenbein streets. The Portland delegation attending the conference in, Seattle includes Rev. A. V. Anderson, pastor of Eman uel Lutheran church: Rev. Axel M. Green, superintendent of Emanuel hospital: Rev. V. G. Ogren, pastor of Augustana Swedish Lutheran church; A. N. Nordeen, lay delegate, and A. L. Moreland. delegate from the hospital. The conference represents the Swedish Lutheran work in Idaho, Washington and Oregon and some portions of British Columbia, all of which is united in its support or the Emanuel hospital in Portland. MURDER MOTIVE IN DOUBT Chinese May Have Been Killed In Argument Over Drugs. ASTORIA, Or., April 19. (Special.) Further investigation of the murder last night of -Go Yet alias Chow Sit, Chinese cannery worker, has left a doubt as to whether the crime was the opening of a tong war locally or the, result of effort by members of Alaska cannery crews to obtain a supply of narcotics before they left for the north. Fung Chung, proprietor of the noodle house in which the murder was committed, and Go Wan, another Chi nese, hava been arrested and are be ing held by the police for investiga tion. The latter was awakened by the shots and says he saw two Chinamen, one of whom was Fung Chung, run out the rear door of the building. The murdered man is said to have been a member of the Hip Sing Tong and this has given rise to the sur mise that his murderer or murderers belong to the Bing Kung clan. Harold Galloway, IT- Declares That Irene Granstedt, 1 4, Did Xot Mean to Fire. SAX MATEO, CaL. April 19. A statement exonerating Irene Gran stedt, 14, Mountain View, Cal., high school girl from blame in the shoot ing episode in which he was perhaps fatally wounded by tho girl in Moun tain View last night, was made in a hospital here today by Harold Gallo way, 17, a school mate of Miss Gran stedt. The statement was made in the presence of the girl and others. "Irene did not mean to do it," he said, "it was an accident. I ask that no charge be brought against her." District Attorney Coolidge of Santa Clara county is expected here tonight to take a statement from Galloway. Asked to identify the girl as his assailant when she was brought into his presence today, the boy said with out hesitation that she shot without meaning to do so. Galloway's par ents were present also when the statement was taken. The shooting was the result of a love affair which was terminated by the parents of the young people, ac cording to police reports. Hearing that young Galloway was going to leave Mountain View, the girl had him called out.pf a party which he was attending fn Mountain View and the shooting followed. According to a statement by Sheriff Lyle of Santa Clara county, the girl admitted the shooting, but said it was an accident. Attempts were made by those at the party to "hush up" the episode, ac cording to Lyle. FRAUD PR0BE IS BEGUN Activities of. "Guy Manners" Are Investigated by Grand Jury. SEATTLE, Wash., April 19. Inves tigation, of charges against "Jack" Cavendish, known also as Guy Man ners, who is held in New Orleans charged with fraudulent use of the mails in obtaining money from the family of Miss Nettie Hammond' of Seattle, was begun by the federal grand jury which convened here to day. Miss Hammond, a sister and two brothers were the first witnesses called. Cavendish, it is charged, posed here as the scion of a wealthy English family and cousin of Ladiy Diana Manners, noted English beauty. The relationship was denied by the family and Cavendish was traced to New Orleans. Investigation of alleged! violations of narcotic andi liquor laws formed the bulk of the cases to be placed be fore the grand Jury, federal officers said. R. E. Strahorn Asks Klamath Council to Grant More Time. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., April 19. (Special.) -Assurance that the Ore gon, California and Eastern railway, "the Strahorn line," will resume con struction within 60 days if the city will grant a year's extension of the contract, under which $300,000 was subscribed by the city to finance the road, was received today from R. E. Strahorn. The contract, providing that Mr. Strahorn should complete the line to Sprague river, expires May 29, with nine miles yet to build, and under its terms he is to deed the road to the city if hn falls in any require ment. The city council- has been consid ering for- several weeks whether to grant the time extension. Final de cision will probably be reached at next Monday night council meeting. Ex-Publisher Is Arraigned. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. April 19. (Special.) E. J. Murray, former pub lisher of the Evening Herald, against whom the grand jury late last night returned an indictment for assault with a deadly weapon, was arraigned today and received the statutory time, 48 hours, to plead. Mr. Murray is charged with having displayed a pistol when Deputy Sheriff Hawkins sought to force entrance to the Her ald composing room last December, to seize property. ownership of which was disputed by Mr. Murray and the Record Publishing company, publishers of a rival paper. Klamath Candidates File. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. April 19. (Special.) Eleventh-hour candidates for county offices appeared today. C. J. Martin, local miller; Asa Fordyce, incumbent, and Oliver Mar tin, rancher, all seek the republican nomination for county commissioner. W. T. Lee, incumbent, is the only candidate for assessor. Portland Girl 3900th Student. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, April 19. (Special.) Amy Frp.nees Bartow, 884 Brooklyn street, Portland, registered special in home economics, has the distinction of being the 3900th student to register Vaquina Boom Predicted. NEWPORT, Or., April 19. (Spe cial.) Ralph Stone, president of the Detroit Trust company, and F. S. Scritsmier, one of their representa tives, arrived in Newport today. Mr. Scritsmier predicted that the devel opment on Taquina bay in the near future will be of great magnitude. Upper K lama til Lake Is Open. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., April 19. (Special.) Upper Klamath lake, which has been icebound, is open to navigation. Mail and passenger service by boat to resorts along the lake will start tomorrow. Italy Drops Ban on Exports. WASHINGTON. D. C, April 19'. The Italian government has removed restrictions on exportation' of all chemical products, according to a ca ble received today by the commerce department from the commercial at tache, McLean, at Rome. .a r " The Secret of Their Worth Lies Under the Case The secret of the worth of the pianos and player pianos we offer lies far beneath the case. No instrument, however beautiful to look upon, justifies your consideration unless there are real workmanship and materials back of its beautiful covering. 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Fol lowing are the nominees: President: Truman Collins of Port land, Bruce White of Turner. Francis Kinch of Snohomish, Wash., Verne Bain of Tillamook. Vice-president: Grace Brainard of Salem, Sadie Pratt of Portland. Secretary: Ruth Smith of Dallas. "Treasurer: Albert Logan of Her miston, Orlo Gillet of Tangent. Collegian editor: Helen Hoover of Portland, Audred Bunch of Salem. Collegian manager: .Gordon Kelso of Yakima, Wash., Oury Hisey of St. Helens. Democrats File for Places. Final days for filing for county offices yesterday saw several hun dred entries for precinct committee men, one new candidate for county commissioner, this one on the demo cratic ticket, and a democratic candi date for county auditor. F. W. Vogler filed for county commissioner as a democrat and W. F. Whiteiy on the democratic ticket for county auditor. County Auditor Martin filed for reelection. GIRL IS SENJT0 SALEM Phoebe Gorman Committed After Humane Society Investigation. Phoebe Gorman. 21-year-old girl, whose condition was investigated by the Oregon Humane society on com plaint of neighbors, was committed to the state hospital at Salem yester day for treatment. No objection to her going was made by the father, G. W. Gorman. The girl was found in pitiable con ditfor in a Woodlawn shack, unable or unwilling to talk, and in much pain, confined to a bed by an Improvised bobble and sack-cloth straight-jacket. She had been suffering from epilepsy and ber father and stepmother did not know that she could be cared for by the state without expense to them. Campus Electioneering Begins. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, April 19. (Special.) Student body nominations - are scheduled for May. 3. Elections will follow in a week. There will be no less than five candidates for presi dent of the student body. Several girls are being plumed for the race for secretary. . 1 Just brush ovr vrflM W Pa&6s with water V , . xtjTV V'vSV and see the U X "a. 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