THE 3I0RXIXG OKEGONIAX. WEDNESDAY. MAY 31, 1922
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PROBES IE BEGUN
HID 'RIVER WRECK
Report ,of Two Columbia
Pilots Is Awaited.
SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND MARINES GATHER TO DEDICATE PLOT AT MOUNT SCOTT CEMETERY.
TRIALS ARE POSSIBLE!
6pccial Police Officer Reports
That Welsh Prince's Steering
j Gear Crippled at Start.'
Investigations into the collision
between the steamers Iowan and
Welsh Prince in tne Columbia river
near Altoona. Wash., Sunday night,
resulting In the sinking of the latter
and the death of seven seamen, were
begun at once by different groups
of officials and were in progress at
the scene of the wreck yesterday.
Captain E. S. Edwards and John E.
Wynn. United States steamboat in
spectors, visited the sunken Welsh
Prince. They are making an Inquiry
seeking to fix blame for the accident
and should A. R. Pierson and Ed
Sullivan, Columbia river pilots in
charge of the two craft when they
crashed, be found at fault they will
be tried on such a charge as may be
brought against them. ' The story of
these two men will be awaited before
the' result of Investigations will be
made known.
Underwriters Make Inquiry.
Captain W. E. McNaught is making
an inquiry for the San Francisco
board of marine underwriters and
the steamship companies operating
the two boats have representatives
making an inquiry into the facts.
The Oregon state board of pilot
commissioners is also interested in
causes that brought about the colli
sion and in inquiring into signals and
other things of a pertinent nature.
Coroner Hughes of Clatsop county
is endeavoring' to fix any criminal
responsibility that may attach to the
deaths of the sailors in the sinking
of the Welsh Prince. Representing
the British government, whose sub
jects most of the killed were, E. M.
fj Cherry, British consul, was making
j an investigation yesterday, tie ar-
I ranged for the burial of the seven
Idead at Astoria today.
Survey of River Orderrd.
In order to determine whether
conditions of the river channel were
at all at fault, the United States
corps of engineers directed' Major
Rlclfard Park and a survey crew to
conduct an inquiry of its own.
That the Welsh Prince had some
thing wrong with her steering gear
when she left the Peninsula Lumber
company's dock for the trip down the
; river Sunday afternoon was the sub
stance of a report made yesterday by
C. M. Abbott, special police officer, to
Lieutenant Crane in charge of the St.
John's station. '
The policeman, who said he was
on duty at the dock at the time the
.steamer left, said the vessel was de
cayed for a time just at departure by
efforts to repair the steering gear
which was fouled. He declared that
(finally he overheard the captain say:
("Let it go, we will take a chance on
getting it fixed at Astoria" and the
vessel proceeded down the river.
The police officer's complete re
iport follows: .
"I was on duty at Peninsula Lumber
company's dock Sunday, May 28, and
about 3 P. M. the British steamer
Welsh Prince let go all lines except
headline. When she was getting ready
to cast off and get under way for As- '
i toria, I overheard the second officer
'oall to officers on the bridge that the
steering gear was foul. An afterl'ine
) was put ashore and the ship made
fast for about an hour, during which
j the ship's crew worked on repairs to
, the steering gear. Then the captain
; remarked: "Let it go, we will take
a chance on getting It fixed at Astoria."
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BURIAL PLOT DEDICATED
VETEItAXS ACQUIRE SPACE IN
MOUNT SCOTT CEMETERY.
Three Large Flags Arc Donated to
ex-boldiers and liaised
Over Pergola.
A solemn, sacred hour marked the
formal dedication of the Veterans'
plot in Mount Scott cemetery yester
day morning.
The deed to the plot was presented
to James McCarren. president of the
Soldiers,' Sailors' and Marines' ceme
tery association, by W. E. Pearson,
president of the Mount Scott ceme
tery association.
Three large flags, two starry ban
ners, the gift of auxiliaries of the
American Legion and the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, and the third a Union
Jack presented by the British War
Veterans' association, were raised on
a large flagpole directly in front of
a pergola which has been constructed
overlooking the veterans' plot.
Major W. S. Gilbert, chaplain of
the Third Oregon, was the principal
speaker. He took the opportunity to
make a stirring appeal for prepared
ness and give warning against pac
ifism. "A wave of pacifism is sweeping
the land like a recoil from the ten
sioned times of war," he said. "The
outstanding lesson of war is 'if Amer
ica had been prepared the war would
not have occurred.'"
Mayor Baker and Herbert Gordon,
chairman of the house ways and
means committee at the state legis
lature, made short talks. The Elks'
band and drum corps furnished music.
' '
UNION MEN WANTED
FOR IL S. VESSELS
Waterfront Employers Yield
, to Federal Ultimatum.
REPLY IS TELEGRAPHED
LAST BODIES ARE REMOVED
' Estimate of Salvaging Cargo and
Repairing Ship Is $300,000.
ASTORIA, Or., May 30. (Special.)
' The bodies of C. M. Jensen and
Joel Buckwalter were recovered to
day from the wreck of the British
steamer Welsh Prince. The bodies
of the seven victims of the Columbia
river's worst marine disaster in
years tonight lay at Coroner Hughes'
i morgue. While no arrangements
I have been made, it is expected the
i funerals 'will be held'here.
J A party consisting of T. A. Lee,
) special representative of the Fur-
ness Whity company, managing own
er of the steamer; Frank Waterhouse,
president of the Waterhouse com
pany, coast lagent for the line, and
Captain Jordison, marine superin
tendent of the Waterhouse company,
with E. M. Cherry, Lloyd's agent,
visited the wreck today. They de
cided that to lighten the weight on
the craft and thus prevent her buckl
ing, the deckload of Japanese squares
will be dumped into a boom along
side the vessel. It is probable that
no further steps toward salvae-ine
; the steamer will be undertaken,
pending the arrival from Vancouver,
( B. C of Captain Logan of the London
' salvage association. While It was
yet too early to give reliable figures,
the insurance representatives rough
ly estimate the work of sal
vaging her cargo and repairing the
vessel will entail an expenditure of
tiiOO.OOO.
IOWAN NOT TO WAIT LONG
Steamer to Be Drydocked Today
for Survey of Daamge.
Damage to the steamer Iowan, of
the American-Hawaiian line, through
having been in collision with the
British Bteamer Welsh Prince Sun
day night, will not delay the vessel
long and have no appreciable effect
on the service, according to the Columbia-Pacific
Shipping company,
which is agent In this territory.
The Iowan Is to be drydocked to
day for a survey to determine the
damage below the water line. It is
said proposals for repairs will be
made by Puget Sound and San Fran
cisco plants as well as by those in
Portland. Marine Superintendent
Copp. of the American-Hawaiian, has
arrived from San Francisco and is
to be at the drydock when the ship
is raised. The last of her cargo was
landed at Terminal No. 1 yesterday
so she could be shifted to the St.
Johns Dock.
Two Pioneer Women Die. .
WALLA WALLA, Wash., May 30.
(Special. Two pioneer women of
Walla Walla died today, Mrs. Mary
E. Smith, 77, widow of a civil war
veteran who died Just a year ago, and
I Mary p. Bergevln, 65, widow of Ames
Bergevin. Mrs. Bergevin came to
Walla Walla as a child, crossing the
plains with her parents in 1861, and
had lived here most of the time since.
Two daughters and four sons survive.
MdfeBoGWof-
Upper View of memorial erected on soldiers plot. Lower View of flags
of two nations rising at ceremony yesterday.
ILL CONSULTS FRIENDS
CONTEST FOR I GUBERNATO
RIAL NOMINATION POSSIBLE.
I)EV. BENJAMIN YOUNG, ex-pas-V
tor of the Old Taylor Street
Methodist-Episcopal church, and
later of the First
Methodist-Episcopal
church in this city?
Dr. Young is now
pastor of the Union
Methodist-Episcopal
church in St. Louis,
Mo., one of the
strongest churches
of the Mississippi
valley section. Re
ports from there
indicate that he is
following up his
success here by
making himself one
of the leaders in
Methodist activities in that section.
Dr. Young was always prominent
in civic affairs and he is declared to
be taking an active Interest in affairs
of that character in St Louis, and be
coming known as one of the pastors
of that city who can discuss political
and business questions intelligently.
The ex-Portland pastor left here
about six years ago to take the pulpit
of the St. Louis church.
FAITH IS HELD COSTLY
Witnesses Against Cox Say Invest
ments Are Valueless.
HOUSTON, Tex., May 30. Faith in
E. J. Cox's literature led them to In
vest in his companies and acquire
securities now said to be worth next
to nothing, witnesses testified in the
federal court. They came from dis
tant points In the United States to
testify against Cox. on trial for al
leged use of the mails to defraud In
connection with financing three com
panies whose capital on paper aggre
gated $41,000,000.
Frequent tilts between opposing
counsel marked the opening of the
government's testimony in the trial.
D. A. Simmons, assistant district
attorney, who is conducting the ex
amination of witnesses, read litera
ture of the Cox Realization company
estimating the value of land leased
in west Texas at $5000 an acre.
"Would -you sell your leases for
$5000?" he asked E. A. Trombley of
Flint. Mich., an employe of the Buick
Motor Car company.
"I'd sell them for a good cigar,"
the witness replied sharply.
GRADUATION IS FRIDAY
Oregon City Pupils to Have Class
Day Programme Tomorrow.
OREGON CITY, Or., May 30. (Spe
cial.) The exercises1 for the graduat
ing class of the Oregon City high
school will be held Friday night at
8 o'clock.
The programme for Thursday night's
class day exercises will include:
Selection, high school orchestra;
address of welcome, Gordlon Hanna
ford; class song, class; class history,
EMzabeth Krause; piano duet, Helen
Gaffney and1 Frances Sherwood: class
poem, Wilma BonDurant; vocal solo,
LIUio Schiewe; class will, Cyril Jus
tin; piano solo, lone Dunm; presenta
tion of gift, Mary Oman; vocal duet
Kathryn Catron and Goldie Hardy;
prophecy playlet scene, in Pete
Laurs' war office; time, 1942; place.
Mount Hood; musical selection, glee
club; planting of tree, class; presen
tation speech, Leonard Thoen.
C. E. Hickman of Salem will ad
dress the graduating class on Friday
night. -
Recent Aspirant, for Republican
Honor Refuses for Present to
Divulge Intentions.
Charles Hall, recent aspirant for
the republican nomination for gov
ernor, is holding conferences in Port
land to determine whether to accept
the result of the primaries or contest
the nomination of Governor Olcott.
Although Mr. Hall is airtight on the
subject, there is an impression, gath
ered from remarks of his friends, that
he will demand a recount in some
precincts.
Arriving in Portland yesterday
morning, Mr. Hall went to the Ben
son and was shortly thereafter clos
eted with a group of advisers. They
were In session all afternoon and up
to a late hour last night the confer
ence was still in progress. Presuma
bly a decision will be reached today.
Mr. Hall was too busy with his polit
ical advisers to see friends who called
for him, and to newspaper repre
sentatives he jexplalned that he was
absolutely dumb; would not discuss
the election nor be quoted on his
future course of action for the time
being. When he reaches a decision.
one way or the other, he will issue a
statement and riot before.
With the official count showing
that Mr. Olcott defeated him by more
than 500 votes, Mr. ,Hall is trying to
make up his mind whether to con
gratulate his successful opponent or
claim irregularities justifying a con
test. When the returns were nearly
all in and all the newspapers dis
played tabulations showing that Gov
ernor Olcott was substantially ahead.
Mr. Hall insisted that he had figures
showing him In the lead. Men close
to Mr. Hall challenged the tabulations
of the press and claimed that the re
turns they themselves had received
from county clerks were at variance
with published returns and the papers
were wrong. One of the assertions
was that there was a Curry county
precinct still out with 100 votes for
Mr. Hall. When this precinct came in
Hall carried it overwhelmingly, but
there were only a handful of ballots.
Two remote precincts in Jacskson
county were similarly disappointing.
Aside from Mr. Hall the other five
men in the race for governor in the
primaries were practically unrepre
sented in the precincts of Multnomah
county. Ardent supporters of Mr.
Hall were on hand in a majority of
the precincts.
What the irregularities are to
which the Hall people refer are not
made public. Rumor says, however,
that they cansist of ballots rejected
as improperly marked In the opinion
of the counting board judges.
Phone your want ads to The Ore
gonian. Main 7070, Automatic 560-95.
Washington, D. C, Is Notified That
Portland Stevedore Companies
Have Given Up Point.
Union longshoremen may handle
cargo on chipping board vessels at
Portland, it was announced yesterday,
the Waterfront Employers' union be
ing ready to meet the demand of the
government to that extent. Pressure
was brought to bear upon the Water
front Employers' union to meet the
government's ultimatum in working
its ships or suffer withdrawal of the
vessels. The federal ultimatum de
manded that a reply from the Water
front Employers' union be received in
Washington, D. C. by this morning.
But the employers said they would
not recede from the continued main
tenance of their own hall and the
employment of men there, without re
gard to affiliation, aa far as the
handling of cargo on privately con.
trolled ships figures.
So if Chairman Lasker of the ship
ping board accepts the proposal, and
the feeling here is that he and other
members of the board cannot demand
more, inasmuch as their control is re
stricted to government ships, It means
union men will work all federal car
riers which call here in the service
of the Columbia Pacific Shipping com
pany, General Steamship corporation
1UU -TV. 1M.. UtiiCDflC,
Nonunion Men Get Jobs.
Yet nonunion men, plus such others
as may elect to hire through the em
ployers' hall, will be given longshore
work on all other carriers. In the
employment of union men under the
plan of the state board, there is to be
a committee of four, with equal rep
resentation from the union and em
ployers, or shipping board, which is to
pass on the men at a common hiring
point. The list system is given up
by the men under the boards finding,
which they agreed to abide by.
Yesterday being a holiday, it was
not expected that an answer to the
Columbia-Pacific company's . offer
would be received, but It is believed
word will be forwarded promptly
today.
An effort was made, so it Is under
stood, to have the employers consider
a general committee organization as
a means of ending the entire strike,
outside interests being reported to
have urged the move, which was for a
committee with a seventh member as
an -umpire. But that has not been
accepted and the fact the shipping
board has been advised the acceptance
of the committee of four was taken
to Indicate that the committee of
seven has been rejected.
Officials Are Absent.
Executives of the Water Front Em
ployers' union were not available in
customary channels yesterday. It
was assumed there would be a meet
ing, but it appears as If matters were
disposed of at a session Monday night.
In other ways the employers did
not regard the occasion as a holiday,
for at their hall it was said 11 ships
had been worked and a total of 374
men employed, while more reported
than were placed. As to the talked-of
move of a number of men employed
before the strike on the extra list at
the longshoremen's hall, it was said
25 of them reported for employment
yesterday ana that for several days
Bmall numbers of them had been sent
tc various jobs on the front
Those in charge of the hall said
also that two men who were beaten
Monday night had not been em
ployed out of the hall, but insisted
they were working for the North
ern Pacific Terminal company and
had been set upon ire the railroad
yards when on their way home.
Work Ready Now.
Should there be 'no delay as to the
shipping board's acquiescence on the
offer to employ union men, work can
be started at once, as there are two
ships here of the trans-Pacific fleet.
the Eastern Sailor being ready to
load lumber at Inman-Poulsen's and
the Vinlta discharging copra at the
plant of the Portland Vegetable Oil
Mills. The Pawlett while in the
harbor, is to be taken out of service
at once.
Fred Smola, of 474 Shaver street.
45, a . nonunion longshoreman, was
badly !beaten by three men who at
tacked him at Sixth and Glisan
streets yesterday morning when he
was on his way home after a shift
at Municipal Terminal No. 1. - The
three men who are believed to have
been strikers closed in on him and
beat him about the face causing sev
eral severe gashes which were later
treated at the police emergency hos
pital. The attackers ran away and dis
appeared in the crowd before the
arrival of the police.
FIVE CLIMB NIT. ADAMS
PEAK SCALED FOR FIRST TIME
THIS SEASON BY PARTY.
Trails Club. Members Encounter
Unusual Amount of Snow in
Making Ascent.
Five members of a Trails club
party had the honor of being first to
scale Mt Adams this season, the feat
having been accomplished on Monday.
Of 17 climbers in the party which
left the Eight-Mile camp early Mon
day morning but five were able to
ascend to the summit, an unusual
amount of snow being encountered.
Arthur Jones of the forestry serv
ice was general leader of the party
but the climb was led by Mr. Zimmer
man of Gresham, who formerly
served as a guide to persons climb
ing Mount Hood. A. V. Goddard, Carl
Mortensen, Jerry Desiata and Mr.
Westby, all of Portland, were those
who had the endurance to make the
summit Three other members of the
party, including two young women,
approached within a few hundred
feet of the goal.
The party left Portland early Sun
day morning and returned yesterday
afternoon. So deep was the snow that
the club members were obliged to
make camp at Eight-mile, about 13
miles from the mountain top. As a
result, the climb, started at 1 A. M.
Monday, stretched to 26 miles, in
eluding the return to camp. The suc
cessful climbers reached the top at
3:30 P. M. Monday.
Three Held for Robbery. .
VANCOUVER. B. C, May 30.
Charged with complicity in the day
light robbery of a branch of the Royal
bank near here May 15, Harry
Blackburn. Clarence. Miller and Eddie
Thomas were today committed for
trial. About $200 was secured in
the holdup. f
Germany's Debt Increased.
BERLIN, May 30. Germany's float
lnsr debt was increased from April 1
to May 20 by 13,750,000,000 marks,
and now totals 285,680,000.00 marks.
IflTeitffrard's
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The Bottled
Flavor of Ripe
Raspberries
Every drop
brings zest
to the thirsty .
Wherever good
drinks are sold
5C
A Bottle
HENRY WEINHARD PLANT,
Portland, Oregon.
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This Summer
Round -trip tickets routed over the
Union Pacific System
returning same or any direct line
Salt Lake City. . . .848.82 St. Louis $ 81.50
Denver - . S4.00 Cincinnati IOA.30
Kansas City 72.00 Philadelphia .... 144.85
Omaha 72.00 Mew York 147,40
Chicago 86.00 Boaton 168.35
To other cities in proportion.
Tickets on Sale Today and DAILY Till August 31 V
Return Limit October 31
THROUGH SERVICE
Oregon-Washington Limited 9:00 A.M.
Continental Limited .5:00 P.M.
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foot of track is protected by AUTOMATIC SAFETY SIGNALS.
Equipment is the best In the transportation world. Dining car
service the very maximum of human skill and art. The service as
a whole represents the supreme effort ol the management to please
and satisfy patrons. . -
Call our City Passenger Agent when you are ready to go and he
will do the rest. Tour reservations will be made and your ticket
delivered promptly without a moment's trouble or delay.
L. E. Omer,
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Courthouse. Phone Main 378 from
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The society has full charge of the
city pound at its home, 535 Columbia
boulevard. Phone any time. Wood
lawn 764. Dogs for sale. Horse am
bulance for sick or disabled horses.
Small animals painlessly electrocuted
where necessary and stray animals
cared for. All dead animals, cows,
borses, etc., picked up.
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