VOL. LXI NO. 19.179
Entered at Po r t ! a n d (Orerjont
Postof fice as Second-clas Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, AVEDNJSSUA1', MAY 10, 1922
Pit ICE FIVE CENTS
MIIF1 OF IUFW !FREIGHT RATE CUT
IVIILLU Ul II LI. CnilHUT DV UADHIMP
FESTIVAL MAY WAIT
UNTIL ROSES BLOOM
CHURCH CHOIR GIVES
CONCERT BY RADIO
T IN RACE
WIFE HELD INSULTED;
STUDENT KILLS PAL
NORTHWESTGROPS
HURT BY FROSTS
HHYOHDEREDh
II.W.XY KXJiCCTlA'ES ARE
POSTPONEMENT OF ABOUT 2
WEEKS CONSIDERED.
JOHX T. DOUGALL SPEAKS TO
PASCO CHAMBER.
TRAGEDY EXACTED JUST OFF
COLLEGE CAMPUS.
CALLED TO CONFERENCE.
BABY IS KIDNAPED
BY RACING AUTQIST
TO DITCH MACHINE
Contracts Totaling $439,
814 Awarded.
OTHER PROJECTS REFERRED
Counties Co-operating Are to
Be Consulted.
MORE BIDS OPENED TODAY
Four Other Road Jobs Amounting
to Approximately 4 0 Miles
Are to Be Considered. -
Thirty miles of highway construc
tion, representing ?439, 814, was
awarded by the state highway com
mission yesterday. in addition to
this, the commission referred to Chief
Engineer Kunn -5.65 miles of work,
aggregating $271,256. The jobs which
were referred were those In which
counties are . co-operating and the
counties will be consulted before
awards are made.
This morning, at the courthouse,
the commission will open bids on four
other highway jobs amounting to ap
proximately 40 miles.
Owing to death of R. A. Booth's
brother at The Dalles, the chairman
of the commission left for that city a
few hours before the time for the
highway meeting. Commissioners
Yeon and Barratt disposed of the
mass of routine, leaving controversial
matters pending until there can be
a meeting of the full commission.
Klamath County Has Fundi.
But for the absence of Chairman
Booth the commission would prob
ably have given an answer yesterday
to the request of Klamath county for
more road work. County Judge Bun-
nell asked for the rocking of 20
miles of The Dalles-California high
way between Modoc point and Fort
Klamath, on a 50-50 basis. The judge
also requested that grading be done
this year on the 35 miles between
Keno and Haydcn. creek, on the Ashland-Klamath
Fulls highway, on a
50-50 basis. If the state is short of
funds the county offers to advance
the state's share for the two projects.
The propositions of Judge Bunnell
were taken under advisement.
George K. Aiken, P. J. Gallagher
and County Commissioner Dean moved
in on the highway officers from Mal
heur county, asking and securing an
order for a survey of the Central Ore
gon highway fom Burrell's ranch to
Harper, as the county has money to
spend on the section when it is lo
cated. The Malheur men also asked
for state aid in the rebuilding of a
bridge across the Snake river at On
tario, where traffic from the John
Day highway, Old Oregon Trail and
Central Oregon highway converge.
These requests were held In abeyance
by the highway commission.
Plans for a highway improvement
district have been abandoned by the
people of Linn county and Frank J.
MUler and County Commissioner
Pierce requested that the state con
tribute toward $38,000 from the
cT,ffl?w.!hnegov;iBIG BEAR HUNT PLANNED
from Foster to the ranger station
The commission promised County
Judge Wade of Coos; J. C. Kendall and
J. E. Norton that a decision will be
reached soon on the location of the
highway between Coquille and Ban
don, the commission planning to make
a personal Inspection of the various
suggested routes.
Work was ordered for grading and
surfacing 2 'i miles from Merrill
north in Klamath county. The right
of way has already been secured by
the county court.
Commissioners Farmer and Alley of
Tillamook asked state co-operation
for grading and graveling south
of Hebo and expressed preference
for a tri-party project with the coun
ty, state and forest deparement. No
action was taken on this.
Several Contracts Placed.
Contracts awarded yesterday were:
t t'OB county Roseburg-Coos Bav h:gh-
way, Coqui'.le - Myrtle Point section
Rites grading and macadam, Scandia
Shipbuilding company. $83, J9 30.
Tillamook county C o a ? t his;iwav.
Mohlf r-CJa:sop county line section. 4.7
mih grading and macadam, Tillamook
county couri, $35. ttSS.UU.
Sherman county - Sherman highway
Bigsj-Wasco section, t,45 miles grading
and macadam, Pat I.onergan. 1 134. 31 75.
Linn county Pacific highway, Halsey
Harrisburg sretion. concrete paying.
Scmndta Shipbuii dine company. $1S6,2S-.
Douglas county Pacific highway, bridge
at Cottaae Qfjav. Morson-Treiw etler com-
Bids referred to ihp iarivj tn i
tako up with the counties, follow: !
Douglas county Roseburg-i'oea Ray
highwa. V;nston-Camas mountain section,
10 miles grading and macadam, M-tzker
. Johnson, $37.1'1'7.
Polk county West Side highway. Rick
real I-Holmes sap section. 3.7 miles con
crete pav;ng, Oregon Contract company
f 133. IAS.
Lane county McKenzie hishwav. Wa '.-
tervilie-Detrhorn and Doyle mountain sec-
tion, -9S miles surfacing, Albert Ander-
son.
(WALES GOES TO MANILA:
I'rince Completes Official Visit to dor to France, and Count Jean Bert
rand de Luppe, will take place here
Nippon Kingdom. Wednesday afternoon.
KAGOS11IMA. Japan. May 9. (By The bride-ejects witnesses will be
the Associated Press.) The Prince of ' Myron T. Herrick, the American am
"Wales today completed his official I bassador. and the Earl of Derby, and
Visit to Japan.
lie sailed for Manila on board the
battle cruiser Keuown.
Course Adopted Because Commerce
Commission Doubts Power to
Make Large Decreases.
"WASHINGTON. D. C, May 9.
President Hard ing has summoned IS
of the leading railroad executives of
he country, it was said today at the
executive offices, to attend a dinner
at the White House May 20, for the
purpose of discussing the rate situa
tion. It is understood the president
will ask the transportation chiefs to
consider the possibility of adjusting
railroad freight rates downward as a
voluntary matter because the inter
state commerce commission member
ship Is said to have concluded that It
cannot legally compel reductions to f
an extent satisfying to sections of
public and business sentiment.
The administration, accordingly, is
said to have decided to resume again
the method of treating directly with
the railroad organizations to consider
what can be secured in the way of a
satisfactory rate policy. Similar con
ferences were held last summer and
fall.
The eemi - judicial government
bodies have jurisdiction in railroad
regulation, the railroad labor board
as well as the commerce commission,
in the fixing of wage rates which
enter into operating expenses. Presi
dent Harding, however, is said to
have concluded, as he did last fall,
that the executives might be of some
service in dealing with the problems,
though not interfering with the ju
dicial standing of the two tribunals.
The commerce commission has dis
cussed for weeks in its chambers the
decision to be reached by it in the
general investigation of transporta
tion rate levels. This investigation
was Instituted last November and
continued throughout the winter.
Nearly every industry and locality in
the country was represented in the
record by a demand for some degree
of relief from freight charges as they
stand now, with war and post-war in
creases included.
President Harding has been told
that the commission, in adjusting
rates, is obliged to give "reasonable"
return by edict of law and capital in-
vested
necessary railroads under
efficient and economic management.
and that this requirement, notwith
standing recent increases in railroad
earnings, ties the hands of the com
mission in attempting to lower rates.
Although no longer required to fix
rates which would assure railroads a
6 per cent return on capital, that pro
vision of law having expired this
spring, the "reasonable' requirement
still governs.
PROBE OF MOVIES URGED
Clergyman Pleads for Federal Reg
ulation of Industry.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 9. In
urging adoption of the senate resolu
tion calling for an investigation of
the alleged political activities of the
motion picture industry, Rev. S. Pat
terson Todd of Milwaukee. Wis., de
clared today before a senate judiciary
sub-committee having the resolution
in charge, that congress should regu
late the motion picture industry,
which lie described as the third
largest in the country.
Dr. Todd insisted that some meas
ure should be provided by congress
"to relieve the people from thrall
dom of the motion picture industry."
Federal Agents to Hunt Animal in
Coos County.
An official bear hunt will be held
in Coos county this month by Stanley
G. Jewett. head of the predatory ani
mal division of the biological survey,
j in an attempt to rid the county of a
jiivusiei Bnaop-uiuig oear, wnicn nas
come out from winter headquarters
and is again on the rampage.
All local attempts to trap or kill
the bear have been unavailing. With
in the Past five years he has killed
many sheep and cattle. C. B. Miller
of Siltcoos finally wrote Jewett, seek
ing his aid.
$4,250,000 CLAIMS DENIED
Receiver for Lincoln Motor Car
Company Rejects Pleas.
DETROIT. May 9. Claims aggre-
gating $4.1"0.000 against the Lincoln
Motor Car company, preferred by
seven individuals, were denied today
by the Detroit Trust company, receiv
er for the concern. The claimants
were indorsers of notes issued by the
motor car company and the trust com
pany tociay utmanueu that they pay
these notes
The government claims, it is under.
stood, have precedence over all oth-
t ra
COUNT TO WED AMERICAN
Niece of Hugh C. Wallace Today
Becomes Bride in Paris.
PARIS, May ?. The civil ceremony
uniting in marriage Miss Sally Beech
er, niece of Hugh C. Wallace of Ta
coma. Wash., ex-American ambassa-
the witnesses for the bridegroom will
be his uncle. Marquis de Luppe, and
Count uOiHiamson,
Woman in Rear of House
When Child Is Taken.
COUPLE RECENTLY SEPARATED
Unidentified Man Uses Car
to Make Escape.
HUSBAND IS SUSPECTED
Mrs. Barbara Laird Believes That
Mate Instigated Abduction.
Warrant Is to Be Asked.
While cutting paper dolls In the
living room of his mother's home, 724
East Main street, at 4 o'clock yester
day afternoon, HUia Billy Laird, aged
8 years, son of Mrs. Barbara Laird,
was picked up and raced away in an
automobile by an unidentified kid
naper. Police detectives received an ac
curate description of the little fellow
and a meager description of his ab
ductor and telephoned to Vancouver
and neighboring cities in an effort to
locate the child. The mother believed
her husband, from whom she was" re
cently separated, instigated the ab
duction, although he did not appear
at her home yesterday.
Husband Left Two Weeks Ago.
Mrs. Laird told Chief of Inspectors
Moore and Captain Harms of the de
tective office that she was forced to
leave her husband about two weeks
ago while they were living at 1708
Grant street, Vancouver. She brought
her baby son to Portland and went
to the home of her mother. Mrs.
Estella La Bounty, where she is now
residing.
At the time of the separation, she
said, her husband took their little
daughter and she took the son. They
signed an agreement before a Van
couyer attorney, she said, to this dis
position of the two children.
Mrs. Laird said she was in the rear
of the house when the abductor
rushed into the front door, snatched
up the child and carried him out to
a waiting automobile, parked in front
of the house. She did not even know
that the child had been taken until
neighbors told her of seeing a man
enter the house and leave with the
little fellow in his arms.
Kidnaper About 2Z Years Old.
The neighbors told police that the
man seen carrying the child from the
home was about 25 years old and had
light bushy hair. This was the only
description they could give. The auto
mobile license number was not pro
cured. All they could say was that it
was an old touring car.
Mrs. Laird said her husband's par
ents live at Tekoa, Wash., near the
Idaho border, and she believes the
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J LET 'ER BUCK! J
Matter to Be Taken Up by Board
at Meeting Tomorrow Sea
son Backward This Year.
The Portland Rose Festival, sched
uled for June 7. 8 and 9, probably
will be postponed about two weeks to
assure a good supply of roses. The
season has been unusually backward
this year and rose specialists have de
clared that there will not be enough
roses in bloom early in June for the
brilliant display which in past years
has made Portland famous all over
the world.
The festival board will meet tomor
row afternoon to decide definitely
whether it will be advisable to post
pone the event. The board sent a
telegram last night to Eric V. Hauser,
president, who went to Washington,
D. C, to invite President and Mrs.
Harding to the festival, asking his
opinion about postponing the fete.
The board will consider hia reply in
reaching the final decision.
The dates, which it is understood
are under consideration, are June 19,
20 and 21, or June 21, 22 and 23. Since
the custom has been to hold the festi
val on Wednesday. Thursday and Fri
day, June 21 to 23 may be the time
Anally chosen.
Rose bushes, except the climbers,
have very few buds at present, and
since It takes about 30 days to fcringr
the roses to their best, prominent rose
growers advised the postponing of the
festival until such time as the blooms
will be in abundance.
The proposed change in the date
will necessitate changes in the plans
of tourists. Those who are planning
to attend the annual session of the
imperial council of the Mystic Shrine
in San Francisco on June 13, 14 and
15, can stop in Portland on their re
turn trip, instead of on their way to
the convention, as many had arranged.
Arrangements for appearance of a
detachment of Northwest Mounted
Police at the festival are in progress.
A telegram from Senator McNary
yesterday advised Mayor Baker that
permission of Governor Olcott is one
of the requisites before the "mount
ies" may be brought here. The mayor
will immediately ask the governor to
grant this permission. A detachment
of the Canadian mounted officers par
ticipated in the festival two years
ago.
FESTIVAL, FtXD DKIVK BEGUN
Frank MeC'rillis, Chairman, Re
ports Optimistically on Frst Day.
Fnink McCrillis, chairman, In
charge of financing activities for the
Hose Festival, reported optimistically
last night on the results of the first
days' work by his hustling army of
solicitors who. took the field early
estcrday with a $30,000 fund as their
objective. Thirty teams of Royal
Rosarians, together with a number
of the 30 picked business men
selected to serve on the "flying
squadron'" by President Hauser of the
festival board, worked ail day yester
day, and this morning 20 new Kosar-
ian teams, together with the remain
ing members of the flying squadron,
will join the drive forces.
Some substantial subscriptions were
reported last night by Chairman Mc-
(Concluded oil Page 2, Column 1.)
i . . j.s m m m . e
Message Is About Columbia River
Basin Project Chorus Num
bers Splendid Successes.
A concert of seven numbers, three ,
of which were solos and the others
by the entire choir of the First
Methodist Episcopal church, consist
ing of 35 voices directed by E. Tre
vor Jones, and a speech by John T.
Dougall for the benefit of the cham
ber of commerce at Pasco, Wash., com
prised the radio programme broad
casted from The Oregonian tower last
night.
It was not The Oregonian's regu
lar programme night, but because the
station of Willard P. Hawley Jr. was
closed, owing to the serious illness of
George Cusey, a cousin, the pro
gramme which was to have been sent
out from the Hawley station was
given over The Oregoirian set so that
the radio fans expecting entertain
ment would not be disappointed.
New adjustments made in the ap
paratus by J. B. Weed, local manager
of the Shipowners' Radio service and
operator of The Oregonian set, re
sulted in great improvement in the
quality of tone transmitted and
listeners reported even better suc
cess than usual in getting the music.
A new and better antennae is to be
strung this , week and is expected
further to improve the transmitting.
Under the able hand of Director
Jones the chorus numbers of the pro
gramme were splendid successes and
the singing was declared as good as
any large chorus which has been
heard over the radio in the Pacific
northwest. The broadcasting started
with the speech which John T. Dou
gall, chairman of the members' forum
of the Portland Chamber of Com
merce, sent to the Pasco, Wash.,
chamber of commerce assembled in
annual meeting.
A representative from the Portland
Chamber of Commerce was asked to
visit Pasco to deliver a message about
the Columbia river basin project. Be
ing unable to respond in person, Mr.
Dougall agreed to talk over the radio
and a receiving set with a magnavox
was installed in the quarters of the
Pasco chamber of commerce and the
message was received as clearly as
though he had been on the platform in
front of the members.
Three excellent solos graced the
musical part tf the programme. They
were by Mrs. Goldie Peterson Wess
ler, who has sung several times for
radio, and who sang "I Bring You j
Heartease" (Burscombe) ; Esther Col
lins Chatten, also a favorite radio
singer, singing last night "Deep
River," and B. Ij. Markee, soloist at
the First Methodist Episcopal church.
wh'i sang "Morning Hymn" (Hensehel)
Solo numbers always bring spirited
applause and thoso sung last night
were ,no exception to the rule, both
old and new listeners telephoning ap
preciation and thanks.
Exceptionally meritorious among
the chorus numbers was "Seek Ye the
Lord," with a solo obligato by E. Tre
vor Jones. All of the numbers, both
solos and choir singing, were accom
panied on the piano by Mrs. Edward
Drake. The other three choir num
bers were "Worthy Ts the Lamb" from
Handel's "Messiah"; "O Gladsome
Ught" fStainer) and "The Heavens
Are Telling" from Haydn's "Creation."
The Seiberling-Lucas concert broad-
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Governorship Big Issue in
Pennsylvania.
: FORESTER DEFIES BOSSES
Friend of Roosevelt Makes
Fight as Outsider.
PROGRESSIVES GIVE AID
Insurgents Within Republican
Ranks and Women Support
Conservation Expert.
BY MARK SULLIVA:.
(Copyright by the New York Evening Post,
Inc. Published by Arrangement.)
PHILADELPHIA. May 9. (Spe
cial.) The next political event in
sight is the republican primary in
Pennsylvania, to be decided next
Tuesday. For the understanding of
the public outside of Pennsylvania, it
can be said that the two United
States senatorships concerned are not
the cause of the excitement in polit
ieal circles.
For the succession to Senator Knox
there is but one republican candidate,
a young- lawyer named Reed, who
was a junior member in the late
Senator Knox's. Pittsburg law firm.
Mr. Reed will have no opposition in
the primaries, and undoubtedly will
win the fall election against the
democratic candidate. It can be
taken for granted that the successor
to Senator Knox is practically chosen.
Senator Pepper Opposed.
In the same way, to only a slightly
less extent, it is clear that the suc
cessor to the late Senator Penrose
will be George AVharton Pepper. Mr.
Pepper has some opposition in the
republican primary. It is supplied
by a railroad labor man, William J.
Purke. Mr. Eurke is rnakfng an en
ergetic campaign, but he cannot win.
Mr. Pepper has the support of both
factions of the republican party.
He ha avoided becoming involved
in the fight within the party. Not
only will Mr. Pepper get the repub
lican nomination, but it is equally
certain that he will prevail over the
democrat in the fall election. In all
proba)i lit y th-e next senators from
Pen n sylvan ia will be the two repub
licans, Messrs. Reed and Pepper.
Mr. Plnehot Storm -Center.
But it is over the governorship of
Pennsylvania that the most bitter
fight is on that has taken place
within the republican party in Penn
sylvania w'fhin a generation. The
candidate who is creating most of the
interest is a nationally known figure.
Gifford Pinchot.
Mr. Pinchot's career In politics has
been that of an idealist progressive
a Roosevelt. Early in life, when he
was still a student at Yale, , he
adopted a profession then compar
atively little known in America, that
of forestry. This profession he studied
for several years in France, Germany,
Switzerland and Austria. Since the
completion of his student days, he
has spent his entire career in one
branch or another of this profession.
Champion of Conservation.
For 12 years he was head of the
bureau of forestry of the United
States government. This experience
coincided for seven years with the
presidency of Roosevelt, and Mr. Pin
chot, as an intimate of Colonel
Roosevelt, frequently was described
as one of the members of President
Roosevelt's "tennis cabinet."
Mr. Pinchot came conspicuously to
the front as the champicn and spokes
man of the policy of conservation
of national resource n in the Bal
linger controversy during the presi
dency of Mr. Taft. It was during that
fight that Mr. Pinchot left the gov
ernment service. For the last few
years he has been head of the forest
service of the state of Pennsylvania.
Old Guard Makes Ffgnt.
Under ordinary circumstances.
pecially as long as the late Senator
Penrose was the head of the Pennsyl
van ia republican machin-e, a man of
j Mr. Pinchot's type hardly would have
the faintest chance to win an elective
office in Pennsylvania. It Is the par
tial disruption of the old Pennsyl
vania machine incident to Senator
Penrose's death that has given Mr.
Pinchot the opportunity he now has.
The fight is staged almost wholly
between what remains of the old
Pennsylvania machine, whose candi
date is the present attorney-general
of the state, Mr. Alter, and Mr. Pin-
I chot, running &s an outsider with the
aid of some slight support from an
insurgent section of the old machine.
progressives Bark Candidates.
The issues involved include large'y
Mr. Pinchot's personality and public
record, which are of the sort to ap
peal to women voters and to all the
old Roosevelt t'.menf in Pennsylva
nia. Added to this is the issue of
charges of extravagance and other
forms of mismanagement of the state
government under the administration
of the republican organization.
Mr. Pinchot's support is rather more
powerful than that of any other man
who ever has contended againet the
Pennsylvania republican machine.
Shooltng Occurs While One Is Be
ing Kscorted to Home of Other
to Make Apology.
STILLWATER, Okla., May 9. (By
the Associated Press.) Beckham Cobb,
23, federal student at Oklahoma Ag
DAMAGE REPORTED
by Earl Gordon, 25, another federal
student, while escorting the latter
home at the point of a revolver to de
mand an apology to his pretty young
wife for an alleged Insult offered by
Gordon. Both Gordon and Cobb served
in tho army during- the war. Cobb
served overseas.
Gordon is held In Jatl pending- an
investigation by county authorities,
but tonight no charges had been filed
against him.
Bertie Sue Cobb, 13-year-old wife
of Cobb, declared tonight that several
nights ago Gordon met her on the
street and Insulted her. She refused to
give the nature of the alleged insult,
but said sbe told her husband.
Records show that Cobb was on the
transport Otranto when it was torpe
doed during the war. He was injured
and suffering from chronic bronchitis.
Mrs. Cobb said she thought her hus
band had been gassed in France. She
declared that he was not unduly
jealous.
Gordon did not make a detailed
statement. "Cobb was after me," he,
said.
Cobb's home is at Birmingham, Ala.,
and that of Gordon is at Miami, Okla.
TURK SPOUSE IMPOSSIBLE
Constance Talniadge, Movie Ac
tress, Sues for Divorce.
LOB ANGELES. Cal.. May 9.
Constance Talmadge, motion picture
actress, filed in the superior court
today a suit for divorce from John J.
Tialoglou, "a native of Turkey, a
subject of Greece and a cigarette
manufacturer of New York," accord
ing to the complaint. She charges
"cruel and inhuman treatment."
They were married September 26,
1920, at Greenwich, Conn., and sepa
rated April 5, 1921, the complaint
states.
SCREEN STAR WILL WED
Knfragcmciit oT Kudolpli Valentine
to Miss lludnut Announced.
LOS ANGKLliS, CmU May 9. Word
was received here today from New
York that Richard Hudnut, perfumo
manufacturer, had announced there
the engagement of his daughter Wini
fred to Rodoiph Valentino, motion
picture actor, now employed in Los
An.geles.
Miss lludnut is an art director and
professionally is known as Natacha
Ilambova.
MASTODON BONES FOUND
l'arts of Skeleton of Monster I n
cartlicd In Texas.
WICHITA FAI,L.S, Tex., May 9.
What are believed to be fragments of
a mastodon's bones have been un
earthed by oil drillers in Gray county,
according to reports here.
The fragments were found imbedded
in dry sand and are said to be large
enough to indicate they were part of
a skeleton of a pre-historic monster.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Minimum temperature, t'i
degrees; maximum, 3U degrees.
TODAY'S Showers; westerly winds.
Foreign.
Russia is keeping powers on edge. Page 5.
National.
Cut in freight rates sought by Harding.
Page 1.
War grafters face trial in federal court a.
Page 2.
domestic.
Gifford Pinchot aeeks governorship of
Pennsylvania by bmashlng machine.
Page 3-
Student kills another as result of Intuit
offered wife. Page 1.
America taving at Fplgot and wasting at
bung, says manufacturer. Page
Two hundred residents flee from Texas
flood. Page 3.
Pacific Northwest.
National congress of mothers opena
Page 7.
Physicians seek to prove charges In
Mount libel suit. Page S.
"Framing" of liquor convictions Is alleged.
Page 6.
Sports.
Bill Ryan blights hopes of Cardinals.
Page 14.
Thye am! Pergantas W clash tonight.
Page 15.
Pacific Coast league results: At Oakland
b, Portland 2; at Sacramento I, Los
Angeles 4. No other game. Page 14.
High school relays to be held today. Page
14.
Commercial and Marine.
Less than 4.000.000 bushels of wheat un
sold in northwest. Page S3.
Wheat firmer at Chicago with milling and
export demand. Page 22.
Liberty bonds steady, but less active.
Page -3.
Winter wheat crop improves during the
month. Page 22.
Attackers in sUike 'face contempt charges.
Page 4.
Market in stocks continues to slacken.
Page
Furness-Prince line revises steamer sched
ules for August and September. Page
21.
Portland and Vicinity.
Order transferring tubercuiar veterans to
Walla Walla protested. Page 12.
Baby ia kidnaped by racing autolst. Page 1.
Pastor denies wish to grab territory.
Page 13.
Festiva 1 may wait until roses bloom
Page 1.
Thirty miies of highway construction or
dered by state commission. Page 1.
William I- Harrison, attorney, resigns from
bar and disappears. Page 9.
Olcott, Hall and Patterson lead governor
ship race. Pasje 8.
Weather, report, data and forecast. Pag
21.
Northwest crops hurt by storm. Page 1.
New radio obsession seems to be lessening
interest in books. Page 4.
Church choir gives radio concert, Page 1.
Further Freezing This
Morning Predicted.
Umatilla Losses Described
as Being Calamitous.
HOOD RIVER IS HOPEFUL
Snow, Kafu and Hall Go lo Make
I'p Variety of Weather for
State of Oregon.
COLD SAP DOSS DAMASK IN
WASHIXUTOV ANjU ni:..
Portland Rain, enow, hail,
with chilling: wind. Frost pre
dicted this morning, with show
ers and westerly wind later.
Bend Four Inches of snow,
which had fallen In ten hours,
melts suddenly.
White Salmon, Wash. Straw
berry, peach and cherry crop
reported ruined by frost ; ad
jacent mountain district unin
jured. Roseburg Snow, hall yester
day, with heavy frost predicted
for this morning.
The Dalles Wasco fruit and
veg-etable crop Injured by frost.
Hood River Fruit In lower
valley damaged by frost, with
further freezing predicted.
Tacoma, Wash. Temperature
33.8, coldest May day on record.
WallaWalla, Wash. Fruit and
veg-etablen damag-ed by frost.
Boise, Idaho Idaho fruit In
jured by frost.
Pendleton Frost damage 1u
I'mntllla county declared calam
itous.
Fruit and vegetables In most arc
tionn of the whole northwest suffered
more or less damage from frost Mon
day night, according to reports re
ceived In Portland, and further frost
v as predicted for this morning ex
cept in regions close to the coast.
Pendleton described the damage as
"calamitous." while reports from
other sections ranged front that of
Hood River, where It was hoped that
the loss would be light, to that of
White Salmon, Wash., where It was
declared that the strawberry, peach
and cherry crops were ruined.
The weather In Portland rxhlbPed
a wide range from sunshine to snow,
rain and hall, with sunshine and
Bnow mixed for one brief period In
the afternoon.
The day opened with Intermittent
sunshine, a cold wind from the north
west. By noon the atmosphere had
warmed appreciably. Later there was
a severe storm, with rain, snow and
hall mixed.
The prediction for Oregon today
Is: Fair, east; showers In the west
portion of state: heavy frost In morn
ing except along the coast: westerly
winds.
SXOW FALLS AT ROSKBL'lHi
Heavy Frost Kxpected This .Morn
ing by Growers.
ROSEBURG, Or.. May . (Special.)
The heavy snowfall experienced
here last night was the first ever re
corded during the month of May, ac
cording to a report Issued this morn
ing by the weather bureau. Tweiva
years ago today Roseburg was vis
ited by the heaviest hall storm in Its
history, hall stones several Inches In
circumference doing a great deal of
damage to roofs, awnings and sky
lights. Considerable anxiety was caused by
a severe hall storm today, but fortu
nately it was not bad enough to do
any great damage. Lata this after
noon clearing weather Indicated that
the weather bureau's prediction of a
killing frost tonight would be tru
and fruit men are considerably wor
ried over the prospects.
UMATILLA LOSS IS HF.AVV
Fruit Men Describe Damace a Illg
Calamity to Oounty.
PENDLETON, Or., May 9 (Spe
cial.) Reports on the killing frost
which last night hit arery section of
Umatilla county, began to come into
Perfdleton this afternoon. Prominent
fruit growers of both the east ami
west end stated that nothing snort
of a calamity has resulted from I h
sudden fall In temperature, which
was reported to have gone as low as
2" above xero. There was Ice on the
water in Pendleton.
This morning at 9 o'clock at Her
mlston, In the west end of the
county, and at Mllton-Freewater In
the east end, the thermometer wa
reported still to be at the freezing
point. The heavy frost has followed
two weeks of sunny weather, but
with cold winds which have delayed
all crops.
The entire eariy tomato crop was
destroyed In this county, according
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