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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1922)
i TT1E MORNING OREGONIAX. WEDNESDAY. MAT 24, 1922 1. IIS WEILS Discharge of 49 Employes Ordered at New York. FINGER PRINTS TELL TALE Acting Postmaster-General Bart lelt Keports to President After Making Investigation. WASHINGTON, D. C, May 23. (By the Associated Press.) Discovery through "fingerprinting" that 49 ol tne 4bo enrpioyes or the registry di vision of the New York postoffice had criminal records was reported to President Harding today by Acting Postmaster-General Bartlett upon his return Irom an Investigation of the New York office. All of the 49 have been dropped from the service, Mr. Bartlett said. The acting postmaster-general told the president the discovery came dur ing his inquiry into the arrest last " hursday of seven employes of the Kew York office, which arrests, postal effldals assert, cleared up postal rob beries extending over the last six months and involving nearly $2,000, 000. The arrests also are said to have thwarted a gigantic robbery planned for last Friday night in the registry division itself. Mr. Bartlett declared that the men rrested had admitted that they had eecured employment in the registry division for the purpose of robbing the mails. Mr. Bartlett said he had ordered that all of the 15,000 employes of the New York office be requested to have fingerprint impressions made. Both Postmaster Morgan and him eelf, he added, "were fingerprinted," and he was of the opinion that such a step -would be of benefit to the serv ice, eliminating the untrustworthy nd protecting the great bulk of hon est employee. Mr. Bartlett will return to New York the latter part of the week to conclude his Investigations, after which, it was said, he would likely visit the Chicago postoffice, where numerous thefts have occurred re cently in the registry and mail order divisions. ODDFELLOWS AND REBEKAHS ENTERTAINED IN EUGENE. Officers and Standing Committees Are Named Big Banquet Served Delegates. EUGENE, Or. May 23. (Special.) With the close of the annual meeting of the Oddfellows' encampment and the major portion of the work of the Rebekah assembly today, the dele gates to the annual Oregon Grand liOdge of Oddfellows will open its first session of the grand lodge con clave tomorrow. Officers and stand ing committees, named.-today by the grand encampment for the coming year, are: W. E. Wadsworth, Harris burg, grand patriarch; P. P. Light, Lakevlew, grand high priest; H. K. Sickfoose, Monmouth, grand senior warden; E. E. Sharon, Portland, grand scribe; W. W. Francis, Albany, grand treasurer; R. G. Henderson, 'Salem, grand junior warden; K. J. Nolan, Portland, grand representative. Astoria and Grants Pass are con tenders for the 1923 annual meeting which will be awarded Friday. The general parade with three uniformed bands and patrols will be held this afternoon and will be followed by the annual competitive drill at the Uni versity of Oregon. The Muscovites, in ner Shrine cf Oddfellowship, also will parade and hold a business meeting tomorrow. A reception and dance for Oddfellows and Rebekahs was held tonight at the women's building at the university, preceded by a banquet at the chamber of commerce. The dec oration of chivalry was conferred on a class of 70 Rebekahs this after noon. EAST SIDE BIDS CALLED Seven Street Improvement and Sewer Projects Contemplated. Contractors on public work were notified yesterday that bids will be received by the city council up to 10 o'clock May 31 on seven pieces of public work in east side districts, the work including street improvement and sewer construction projects. The list includes: Improvement of Fessenden street, from Edison to Jersey streets, St Johns; sewer in East Thirty-second street, from Wygant street to Kill ingsworth avenue; sewer in Thirty eighth avenue Southeast, from lot 1, block 1, Watt's subdivision, to the sewer in Fifty-sixth street Southeast; improvement of Alberta street, from Gay street to Denver avenue; im provement of Holman street, from East Eighth to East Thirteenth streets; improvement of East Fiftieth street, from lot 5, block 23, Rose City Park, to lot 2, block 22. same tract; district improvement of Rural avenue, from East Thirteenth to Milwaukie streets, and of Ogden avenue, from East Fourteenth to Milwaukie streets. SHRINERS PLAN CEREMONY June 9 Date Set for Breaking Ground for Hospital. June 9 is the date set for 1 the ground-breaking ceremonies in con nection with the Shrine hospital for crippled children to be located in Portland. The ceremony will be held on the site of the new hospital at East Eighty-second street and Sandy boulevard. This was decided at a meeting of the local board of trustees yesterday. W. Freeland Kendrick, past imperial potentate of the Shrine and at present potentate of Lu Lu temple, Phila doinhia, will turn the first spadeful of dirt. The date set Is just prior to the an nual session of the imperial council of the Shrine in San Francisco and it Is expected that many Shriners from all parts of the country will be in Portland to witness the ceremony. SUCCESS 0FJDRIVE LIKELY Public Welfare Bureau to Collect Old Clothes at Matinee. The public welfare bureau, which Is co-operating with the management of the Liberty theater, has planned a special children's matinee at which GRIM FOUND II the price of admission will be a bun dle of cast-off clothng. It expects that the affair will be an unqualified success. The matinee will be staged Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. The attraction will be the Jackie Coogari film, "Trouble," which will be next week's bill at the Liberty. Any cast-off garments suitable for distribution to needy families of the city will be accepted. Special ar rangements have been made for the carting away of the donations. . In addition to the free admission, the management of the Liberty is offer ing a suit of Jackie Coogan's original stage clothes replicas of those which he wore in "The Kid" and "My Boy," as a first prize in a contest for chil dren. The youngster who presents himself in the best Coogan makeup will be declared the winner. In addi tion, four bronze daguerreotypes will be awarded to the four next best. A committee of prominent Portlanders will act as judges. TAYLOH'S PROPERTY SOLO EFFECTS OF MURDERED MOVIE DIRECTOR AUCTIONED. Total of $6500 Paid for Various Articles; Several Photographs of Women Withdrawn. LOS ANGELES, May 23. Personal property of William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director who was mur dered here the night of February 1, 1922, brought $6500 at an auction con ducted today by the public adminis trator. Of that sum $4450 was paid for two automobiles. At the last minute a number of photographs were withdrawn from the sale on instructions from Thomas Lee Woolwine, district attorney. "They may be evidence," it was said in explanation. Most of the photographs were of women. Two were from "Eleanor" and signed "Always Eleanor," and "For remembrance Eleanor." Another bore the inscription "To Billie, with all my love Flo Padwell." "Gypsy" Abbott signed hers "With all the best of luck and success," while Ann. Little wrote, "My friend BilL" There were many unsigned and sev eral in "art poses." A number of the personal friends of the film director, whose murder has not been solved, attended the sale. SCOUT CAMP IS VISITED Two Students Hike Up Eagle Creek Trail to Wahtum Lake. The Boy Scouts' camp at Wahtum lake, was visited for the first time since November 19 of last year as the result of a successful hike up the Eagle creek trail last Saturday by Rex Karr of the Jefferson high school and Harold Young of the Benson Polytechnic school. News of the suc cessful hike was received yesterday from Albert Wisendanger, forest ranger at Eagle creek. The hikers, according to Mr. Wisen danger, found 5 feet of snow at the lake, on the level, and near the scouts' cabins the drifts were still 10 and 12 feet deep. No snowshoes were necessary as the snow was well packed. The trail was in good condition until the 11-mile board was reached where the first snow was found. EX-SHERIFF LOSES SUIT Jury Says John Stringer Must Re turn $6523.25 to County. SEATTLE, Wash., May 23. John Stringer, ex-King county sheriff, must return to the county $6522.25 the amount plus interest which he re ceived from the federal government for the care, custody and maintenance of federal prisoners in 1919 and 1920, according to a verdict returned by a jury in superior court here today, un der direction of Judge John D. Mills of Walla. Walla. The National Surety company, which bonded Stringer as sheriff, was declared to have forfeited its bond of $5180. It was said the amount would be applied against the sum which the ex-sheriff and his wife were directed to return to the county treasurer. The case was vigorously contested by Stringer. ROTARIANS HEAR BARRETT Visitor Pays Tribute to Business Men's Organizations. That the organizations of business men like the Rotary club are doing much to stem the tide of social un rest in the world was the declaration of John Barrett, diplomat and former Fortlander, who spoke briefly at the luncheon of the Rotary club at the Benson hotel yesterday. Samuel C. Lancaster told of plans for establishment of a series of camps in the Cascades and along the Colum bia gorge. The birthday of the club was featured by a talk by John C English, past president, who told of what the organization had meant to him. John A. Zehntbauer, Howard E. Weed and Frank P. Tebbetts gave short merchandising talks. RAIL SUIT DISMISSED $50,000 Personal Damage Case Is Thrown Out by Court. VANCOUVER, Wash., May 23 (Special.) The $50,000 damage suit against the Spokane, Portland & Seat tle Railroad company came to a sud den end this afternoon when Superior Judge Simpson ordered a non-suit, holding that nothing had been shown to prove that the railroad company was negligent. Frank Bracha, administrator of the estate of his wife, Mrs. Anna Bracha, killed by a switch engine as she was returning to her home from a local cannery where she was employed, filed the suit. The jury was obta'ned Monday. 'DOCTOR" IS ARRESTED Victor Mariman Charged With Vio lating Prohibition Laws. Victor Mariman, 52, a Belgian who told police he was a practicing phy sician, was arrested at his home, 953 East Twentysixth street North, last night on a charge of violating the prohibition laws. His bail was set at $250. Members of Sergeant Oelsner's mor als squad raided the place and con fiscated 14 cartons of dried grapes, a grain sack of dried prunes, a small wine press and IT gallons of wine. They asserted that this was Marl- man's third arrest and that he "whole saled" his goods. Home Damaged by Fire, j OREGON CITS', Or., May 23. (Spe cial.) The residence of F. H. Cross, member of the city council, was dam aged to the extent of $300 by fire at P. M. today. Defective wiring was considered the cause. The loss was fully covered by insurance. SPEEDER ' PREFERS JAIL C. M. SAWYER REFUSES TO PAY FINE HE BELIEVES UNJUST. First Offender Should Not Be Pun ished, Is Stand Penalty Im posed About Year Ago. Rather than pay a $15 fine which be believed to be unjust, C. M. Saw yer, employe of Swift & Co., went to jail yesterday to serve a seven and a half days' sentence, imposed by Dis trict Judge Deich for exceeding the speed limit on the interstate bridge on July 26, 1921, nearly one year ago. "It's not the money, but the prin ciple of the thing," explained Sawyer n a corridor of the jail yesterday afternoon. "I could easily have paid the fine at any time, but I told the "officers I would not do it and I didn't intend to. The speed cop said I was going 38 miles an hour. Well, he might have been right. My speed ometer wasn't working and I didn't think I was going that fast, but I might have been. "I explained to the judge that I had ' never been arrested before for anything and I didn't think it fair to fine me for a first offense. A deputy sheriff came out to see me several times to find out when I was going to pay the fine., and I always told him I wouldn't. I got to thinking It over today and decided to get the thing settled. I told the judge I'd be hanged before I'd pay that fine. He said if I didn't I would have to go to jail for seven and a half days. I told him that was what I came down town for, and here I am." A man in his 30s, with humor ous eyes and contagious smile, Saw yer did not seem to take his incarcer ation very seriously. When seen, he was just emerging from a session of the "kangaroo court" a strenuous ceremony greeting all newcomers to the jail and staged by corridor in mates. He wore a broad grin. E FIB ISSUE TABLED COUNCIL TO TAKE NO ACTION ON CEMETERY CLEANUP. Commissioner Pier Is to Make Rec ommendation That Letters and Petitions Be Filed. Commissioner Pier at today's ses sion of the city council will recom mend that the communications from the East Side Business Men's club and numerous petitions relative to the city taking over control of Lone Fir cemetery and maintaining it as a memorial park be placed on file. Thus- will come to an end official action on a movement that was start ed months ago to obtain better con ditions at the old cemetery, which many east side residents" consider an eyesore and which hundreds- of near by property owners asked that the municipality remedy. Under the rulings given by City Attorney Grant, the city charter gives no authority for the expenditure of municipal funds in the maintenance of private property, and it appears that enabling legislation will have to be obtained or other methods of han dling the problem discovered. Attempts1 have been made at vari ous times to get the co-operation of lot owners in this cemetery in raising funds to put the grounds in present able condition, but the response al ways has been so scant that only a limited amount of work could be done. Many of the lot owners' pres ent addresses are unknown, others failed to make contributions and the total effort was entirely inadequate. Commissioner Pier declared yester day that he believed some plan could be evolved to put the cemetery in presentable condition, but confessed that so far he has been unsuccessful. TESTS GIVEN AT. REED 36 STUDENTS TO RECEIVE DI PLOMAS ON JUNE 10. Oral Examinations of Seniors Are Now in Progress Each Is Quizzed by Board. ' Thirty-six students of Reed college will receive diplomas Saturday, June 10, when commencement day will be held. The Reed seniors all this week are receiving oral examinations, upon wnicn qualification for graduation will be judged. Each senior is quizzed by a board of two to six examiners, composed of professors and other ex perts. The number of students heing ex amined in each department is as fol lows: Two in psychology, seven eco nomics, three history, three sociology, three physical education, five Eng lish, three mathematics, two physics, two politics and five biology. Two other students who completed their work in summer school last year also will receive diplomas. The commencement exercises begin with baccalaureate services on Sun day, June 4, the sermon being given by Rev. William H. Boddy. The other events of the week will be: The an nual spring concert Monday: river day, Tuesday: senior ball, Wednesday; Becker organ recital. Thursdav: cIrsr day, Fritiay; commencement day and alumni luncheon, Saturday. Dr. Ray lroan Wilburg, president of Stanford university, will be commencement-day speaker. 22 TO RECEIVE DEGREES Northwestern College of Law Ex ercises to Be Held Tonight. Twenty-two seniors in thVnrth- western College of Law will rorelvA. their degrees tonight in graduation exercises to be held in the ballroom of the Multnomah hotel. Judge Rob ert Tucker of the circuit court will deliver the main address. Members of the graduating class are: Nathaniel G. Anderson. Mrs. N. a An derson, Hubert L. Barzee, Cameron H. rieiand, Keitn A. Caldwell, John M. Colon, Charles B. Conroy, C. A. Fish, Harry W. Fletcher, James W. Gantenbein, Elwyn B. Gay, Harrison M. Howard, Thomas R. Ma honey, J Robert Mears, A. H. Morrow, Victor 'V. Pendergrass, Charles E. Ray mond, Osco C. Roehr, Louise F. Wilson, Raymond Williams, Harry Winkler and Mrs. B. D. Cannady. Elk Lake Road Open in June. RTSTiMYWD- Or.. Man 99 Allan Wilcoxon, owner of the gov ernment concession at Elk lake, will leave the latter part of the month to prepare for the annual tourist travel. Cars will te able to get to the lake the first week in June, where fishing is as gooa as at any place in Oregon. Let Portland Wmoow Cleaning Co. do your spring cleaning. Bdwy. 7986. Adv. Orpheum matinee today, 15-25-60-Ad. em. 1& :-t Trie old iasLipned idea of giving full measure of value in coleete lull measure of quality tfSfull measure of flavor femll measure of economy nas always fieen the poucV DenmdM'l'ocoj BODIES OF BOTH RECOVERED SOUTH OF ST. HELENS. Elmer Fultz, IS, Loses Life in Ef fort to Save Charles Robinson, 8, From Deep Pool. ST. HELENS, Or., May 23. (Spe cial.) Elmer Fultz, 13, lost his life at 11 A. M. today in an unsuccessful eiiort to rescue Charles Robinson, 8, from a deep pool in McNulty creek, about a mile south of St. Helens. The bodies of both boys were recovered an hour later by a party of men from S Helens. The boys, with their mothers, Mrs. Josephine Robinson- and Mrs. G. H. Thomas, both of Sf. Helens, and sev eral other boys of about the same age, had gone to the creek fishing. TAe course of the creek, which ordinarily is but a few inches deep, has been changed at this point so that it flows into an old rock quarry and attains a depth of about 16 feet. The Robinson boy fell from the bank above the rock quarry. Rushing to his aid, the Fultz lad first tried to reach him from the bank, but jumped into the pool when he was unable to reach far enough. He seized the drowning boy and had swam almost to the bank when he sank, carrying the smaller boy with him. The other children were unable t-o offer assistance. The alarm was given by the mothers, who ran to St. Helens before they met anyone ca pable of offering help. The bodies were recovered with grappling hooks. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. COLLEGE JXPECTS 500 Members of Boys and Girls Clubs to Go to CorvaIlis4 OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, May 23. (Special.) More than 500 boys and girls will spend two weeks at the college dur ing the summer session for members of boys' and girls' clubs over the state. This is twice as many as have ever before been on the campus, and a full schedule of events has been ar ranged to alternate with classes for the entertainment of the youngsters. Free trips were awarded 38 of these club members by the state fair board as prizes for entries in the exhibits last fall. The other 462 expected will come as delegates. Any club member with reports up to date on June 12 will be eligible to attend, and from the way reports are coming in to H. C. Seymour, state club leader, the eligibility list will be a long one by that time. WORK MAY BE DEFERRED Lane County Court Probably Will Postpone One Job. EUGENE, Or., May 23. (Special.) The new Pacific highway between Junction City and Harrisburg will not be built this year if the recommenda tions of the Lane county court to the state highway commiss'on are carried out. This work was included in the pro gramme of co-operative construction between the county and state for this yaer, but the court has decided that it would cost more than was antici pated. The county court had allotted $21,- Ink-Ink-; and more ink! It holds barrel of ink because it hash'o Rubber Sac Tfite marvelous DUNN-PEN TV f.Mliils rtm with sW UuU Ked fb.is At iD Dealers' $2.7S and up UnKl i - -3 Uee 000 of bond n.oney for this part of the highway, but estimates of the cost now range as high as $29,000 or INDEPENDENCE BOYS LOSE Valsetz Team at Critical Moment Scores With Double. MONMOUTH, Or., May 23. (Spe cial.) Seventy-five visitors from Val setz were entertained in Independence Sunday. A special train wa.3 run over the Valley & Siletz railway and plans were made for a big excursion. How ever, a heavy rainstorm Saturday eve ning prevented many who had bought tickets making the trip. The party returned at 4:30 P. -M. The principal event of the day was the baseball game between the log gers and Independence. Good ball was played by both teams and the result was in doubt until the last inning. The score was 4 to 2 in favor of Valsetz. At a critical moment, with bases filled, Valsetz put in a fresh pitcher and ended the game with a double. ELECTION SERVICE RECORD C. J. Shedd Has Been Linn County Aide for Quarter of Century. ALBANY, Or., May 23. (Special.) When C. J. Shedd, justice of the peace at Shedd, began work this afternoon assisting In making the official can vass of the vote cast in Linn county at Friday's primaries, he perpetuated a record of service in that regard probably without a parallel. He has assisted in making this official can vass at every general, primary and special election in Linn county for more than a quarter of a century. Mr. Shedd first canvassed the vote in 1896 and has worked at each elec tion since. He has served as a mem ber of the canvassing board with seven different county clerks. CANBY CLASS-DAY TODAY Commencement Exercises to Be Held Friday Evening. CANBY, Or., May 23. (Special.) Class day of Canby high school will be held tomorrow and after an ap propriate programme arranged by the faculty, the class will go on a picnic. Commencement exercises will be held on Friday evening, when the following will graduate: Eva E. Kraus, Cora E. Ausve, M. Eleanor Lent, Easter L. Noble, Mildred Hen riksen, Violette L. Ledford, Dorothy J. Vaughan, Pauline Raddatz, Louis C. Lorenz, Charles F. Bates, Noble Oathes and Myles E. Noble. Student Chamber Elects. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, May 23. (Special.) Grant O. Hylander of Portland has been elected president of the college chamber of commerce for next year. 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