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Newspaper Page Text" . , . " "','.,. . ' . ' ,, i, : 1 ;, V .;." v, ..i,;1 a i.,., ,."mi ,"''.! , ', '''VT'"'"';:ri;.'. I'm',..:.,, --. .. l - ,' - ;,,i,-....ii..iT7.,,lz."" "is. r-,1::"" "" VOL. 19,199 Entered at Portland Oreron Postoffice u Scond-clj Matte". PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1923 26 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS DEFENDER OF WOMEN GORED BY MAD BULL M. VAN ALSTtNE IX CRITICAL VALENTINO DHAWS DINOSAURUS HUNTERS LEAVE FOR CANADA COAL MAXIMUM PRICE XLI NO. pitiiti POLK IS MOT TO AID IN BUILDING HIGHWAY L S TO BE $3.50 AT MINE TO E 40-MIXMON-YKAR-OIiD SKELE - TON IS SOUGHT. . ; AGREEMENT AFFECTS 80 PER USE OF MARKET ROAD FUND CONDITION FROM WOUNDS. CENT OF ACTIVE FIELDS. BARRED BY COURT. AMUNDSEN READY FDR DASH TP POLE Explorer Is to Leave Seat tle Tomorrow. DAN FUNDT LT 1 MEN II Half of Business Sec tion Is Razed. One Unconscious From Fall When Roof of Hotel y Caves In. INCENDIARISM IS SUSPECTED Blaze Starts in Frame Build ing Flames Fanned by Wind. PRINEVILLE, Or., June 1. (Spe cial.) Half of Prineville's business section was wiped out early today by a fire which started in a frame apartment house and swept away five blocks, causing a loss estimated tonight at $350,000. The authori ties suspected that the blaze was of incendiary origin. Four volunteer firefighters were injured, and one, John Wachter, who fell from a roof, was unconscious at a late hour. It was feared that he suffered a fractured skull and inter nal injuries. The others injured were George McFall, Jack Haines and William Wesley, who were overcome by smoke. Grace Wilson, telephone operator, gtuck to her switchboard and sent calls for aid to neighboring towns until the exchange building was wrapped in flames. Postoffice Is Destroyed. The Prineville volunteer fire de partment, with hand-drawn equip ment, was unable to check the blaze, which finally was halted by the ces sation of the wind after buildings in advance of the flames had been dy namited. Among the buildings burned was the Prineville hotel, a modern two story stone structure, covering half a block and costing more than $100,- 000. The postoffice also was de stroyed. Postmaster Williamson was able to save nothing but a hand ful of registered mail and the keys. He has opened a temporary office in the Masonic building. The fire was discovered about midnight by Dr. C. S. Edwards, who sounded the alarm. At that time the flames were confined to the Jordan apartments, a remodeled school building recently condemned as a fire hazard. The building was a frame structure. The flames were first seen in the second story, it was reported. "Wind Fans Flames. The firemen, with antiquated ap paratus, turned out and attacked the flames, which were fanned by a high wind, and before which the volunteer iirengnters were neipiess. jcvery j able-bodied rnan in the city soon re inforced the firemen and the strug gle continued through the night. The firemen tried dynamite to remove buildings from the path of the flames, but sparks carried the blaze across the razed structures. Mr. Wachter was injured at the Prineville hotel. The walls caved in i while he was in the building, but he,Api),;s Drop From 10 to 15 Cents was uvrown ciear 01 ine structure, The others were overcome by smoke but were carried to safety, and their condition was not considered serious. Best Buildings Destroyed. A curious feature of the fire was that Prineville's best buildings were destroyed, while frame shacks in the immediate vicinity remained intact. The small amount of insurance car ried in proportion to the loss makes the blow one from which it will be doubly hard to recover. No plans! for rebuilding have as yet been dis- cussed, interest centering about the efforts which are being made by of ficials to fix the responsibility for the fire. More than five blocks were in cluded in the devastated area be fore the wind died at 5 o'clock this morning. Houses were deserted by women and children in night attire, fearing that the residence district might be included. The old Prineville hotel was the (Concluded oa Pags & Column 5.) Infuriated Animal Plunges Horns Into Victim Three: Times Before Rescue Comes. - M. Van Alstine, Portland real es tate dealer, was gored three times by an infuriated bull yesterday, while trying to protect some women from the onrush of the maddened beast. He is at the Good Samaritan hospital In a critical condition. His wounds may prove fatal. The- attack occurred one mile below Holbrook, on the lower Columbia highway, where Mr. Van Alstine was showing some land to a party of pros pective buyers. Mr. Van Alstine was gored twice through the abdomen and once In the leg. He was removed to the operating table as soon as he reached the hospital, and an emer gency operation was performed. . The bull Is owned by Fred Ulrloh, a farmer on the land Van Alstine was exhibiting to the party. The animal followed the party around the pasture for some time and, when It assumed a threatening attitude, Mr. Van Al stine stepped in front of the others to protect the women. Tha bull charged, piercing Mr. Van Alstine through the stomach with its horns. Aa Mr.. Van Alstine struggled to re gain his feet, the enraged bull charged again and again. Others in the party rushed up and finally succeeded in beating the ani mal away witji clubs. Mr. Van Alstine Is married. He lives at 164 East Forty-eighth street, and has offices in the Chamber of Commerce building. Accompanying him on the party was Andrew Smith from the same office. ACTRESS WINS DIVORCE Constance Talmadge Gets Decree on Basis of Mental. Cruelty. LOS ANGELES, CaL, June 1. Con stance Talmadge, screen actress, was granted an interlocutory decree of di vorce today from John Pialoglou, to bacco' manufacturer of New York, on grounds of mental cruelty. No answer to the suit was filed by Pialoglou. Miss Talmadge testified that on April 5, 1921, a few months after their marriage, Pialoglou told her that he did not care to continue married life and asked her to leave their eastern home. She did not, but he packed up and left her, she said. - Her mother, Mrs. Margaret Tal madge, testified to support charges of mental cruelty. Miss Talmadge an nounced that she will soon leave Los Angeles for a visit to Europe.- 75 DEGREES REPORTED Portland Gets Relief From Warm Weather of Wednesday. Misgivings as to the weather van ished early yesterday when Portland arose to find summertime in posses sion of the city. The hot spell had taken itself elsewhere, after all but breaking the record of many years. A maximum temperature of 75 de grees was reached yesterday at 4:45 o'clock, almost 20 degrees less than the torridity of the previous day. Light clouds promised showers, but withheld their fulfillment. Unless rain fall- soon to terminate the dryness caused by the hot winds of the past week, fires and serious ones are almost certain to break out in the lower altitude forests, said officials of the forestry service. SPOKANE HIT BY QUAKE Three-Minute Disturbance Is Felt by Many Householders. SPOKANE, Wash., June 1. An earth shock, lasting for three min utes, was felt by numerous house holders of this city this afternoon and was recorded on the seismograph of Gonzaga university. Reports were received from many I parts of the city and from outlying districts to the east and the west. Some reports said the shocks were accompanied by a heavy rumbling. Dishes were rattled and In one in- j a wa report aam- FRUIT PRICES DECLINE . Per 100 Pounds. CHICAGO, June 1. Declines in the prices of fresh fruits, nota&ly apples, were noted in the weekly market re port of the United States bureau of markets and crop estimates today. Northern sacked round whites were down from 10 to 15 cents per 100 ! Punljs ana were semns " to in tnicago. South Carolina Irish Cobbler po tatoes dropped 7S cents per barrel in most markets and were selling at $4.50' to 35.50. GIRL OF 13 BEARS TWINS Unusual Case of Maternity Occurs at Salvation Army Home. Twins were born to a 13-year-old mother at the Salvation Army White Shield home early yesterday morning. I according to Major Sophia Harris, In charge of the home. The babies, both girls, have been named Violet and Viola. They weigh 3 pounds 14 ounces and 3 pounds 7 ounces. This Is the third pair of twins at the home at the present time. Major Harris said the home now was trying Jo get sufficient clothing Mexican Marriage Tale Is Colorful One. TRIAL IS STILL IN DOUBT Preliminary Hearing Is Continue Today. to WIFE NO. 1 ON STAND Wedding Never Annulled, Declares Woman, Who Lets Court Decide What Her Name Is. LOS ANGELES, June 1. Rodolph Valentino, screen actor, did not learn today whether he must face a. jury on a charge of bigamy. His prelim inary hearing was begun, but was continued until tomorrow or pos sibly Saturday so some missing wit nesses might arrive. A desert, foreign customs, and a lot of flowing robjes In purple and other eye-filling colors were tha somewhat appropriate settings and features that surrounded the marriage of Rudolph Valentino Gugllelmi, better known as Rodolph Valentino, and Miss Wini fred Dewolf, also known as Miss Win ifred Shaunnessy-Hudnut and as Na- tacha Rambova. The colorful tale of a Mexican mar nage was repeated with embellish ments today in the court of J. Walter Hanby, justice of the peace, where Valentino had been haled to answer to the complaint charging him. with bigamy. , Complaint Based on Records. The complaint was based on records here and at Mexican. . Those here showed that Valentino divorced Miss Jean Acker in January. Those at Mexican showed he wed Miss De wolf - Shaunnessy Hudnut - Rambova there on May 13. The authorities here held that the Mexican marriage was bigamous because Valentino had only an interlocutory . decree in his dl vorce case, which will not become final until next January and hence, they explained, he was still married to Miss Acker. Whether his marriage was big amous or not, Valentino continued to draw crowds today. The court room of Justice Hanby was jammed by flappers and femininity and scores of eager eyes centered on the tall young actor as he sat somewhat slumped iii an arm chair and worriedly gnawed a nervous finger while he soberly listened to the evidence. Ml Acker First Witness. The prosecution's first witness was Miss Acker, who answered to the bailiff's call of "Mrs. Jeaa Acker Valentino." When the clerk .request ed her to state her name, she turned to her attorney and asked, "What is my name?" The court record was made to show that her name was Mrs. Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) THE Party Leaves Chicago to Search for Monster's Bones Pickaxes .- - Only Equfpment. ' CHICAGO, June 1. A party of hunters equipped only with pickaxes and chisels departed for Canada to night to search for the skeleton of a 40,000,000-year-old dinosaurus. The party was sent out by the Field mu seum and expects to be gone all summer. Hunting for dinosauna is very much like prospecting for minerals, according to J. B. Abbott, one of the party. Oftentimes fragments of bone are found In a wash which comes from some distance .and. these are traced back to the mother rock and digging for the skeleton is begun there, he said. - The present expedition Is prepar atory to another which will be made to Patagonia in the fall. ' SCHOONER CAPTAIN HURT Fire Truck Hits Skipper's Car and Two .Are Injured. , ABERDEEN, Wash., June 1. Cap tain Dan Klllman of the schooner , Ela A was seriously injured and Charles Richard of Hoquiam was bruised when a machine in which they were riding was struck broadside at Market and Park streets by a ladder truck of the Aberdeen fire department at 9 o'clock tonight. The car was carried 45 feet and smashed to pieces, and Captain Kill- man was pinned, under .it. Richard was thrown from the car and escaped serious injury. Captain Killman's home Is at 2813 North Warner street, Tacoma. His ship is loading here. CANADA INVITES HARDING President Asked to Visit British : Columbia Cities on Trip. WASHINGTON, D. C, June 1. President Harding' tentatively ac cepted today an invitation tendered him. by Sir Auckland Geddes, the Brit ish ambassador, to visit Vancouver and Victoria. B. C, this summer dur ing his proposed Alaskan trip. The president was said to have told the ambassador that his plans for a trip to Alaska were dependent on early adjournment of congress, but that in event the trip was made possi ble, he would be pleased to' stop.at the two British Columbia cities dur ing the voyage to Alaska. - WOMAN BEATS TEACHER Mother Fined for Attack Because Her Son Is "Kept In." ROSEBTJRG, Or., June 1. (Special.) Mrs. Theodore Taylor today paid a fine of $15, after pleading guilty to a charge of assault and battery on Nora Davis, a school teacher, near Drain. Mrs. Taylor Is alleged to have become indignant over the fact that her boy was "kept in" after school. She went into the schoolroom, took possession and proceeded to "beat up" the teacher who was responsible for holding the boy to his lessons after hours. : . y Miss Davis was badly, frightened and was bruised on the face and head. STORY THE FOREST FIRE TELLS. Establishment of Scale by Produc ers Is Announced by Mr. Hoov er Some Hold Out. r WASHINGTON, D. C, June 1. Es tablishment of a maximum price of $3.50 a ton for coal at the mines In 80 per cent, of the present productive fields for the duration of the strike was announced tonight by Secretary Hoover. He regretted, he added, that a small minority of the operators representing western Kentucky had refused to co-operate and demand higher prices. . . - Consumers can insure themselves a square deal under the established prices by checking freight rates with the maximum price, Mr; Hoover said, determine whether they are buying contract coal and make proper al lowances for cost of retail distribu tion. . . . ; The maximum price, he explained, applies solely to spot coal and con sumers not treated fairly may appeal to the commerce department with as surance that inquiry Into their cases will be Instituted. - Mr. Hoover announced be has been advised that operators of Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and east ern Kentucky would accept the max imum of $3.50 a ton, while Alabama operators will accept the rate of 25 cents a ton below the Garfield scale In that district. Western Kentucky operators, he continued, are demanding 1-4.25 a ton, but he did not feel Justified in ad vising the public to accept that price level, although he said production costs were higher In . that district than in other fields. ROBBERS BIND WOMEN Masked Thieves Escape With Loot , of $25,000 in Daylight. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. June . 1. Three masked and armed robbers bound Mrs. Valentine J. Eowen and her maid. Miss Anna Fosberg, placed them-in a closet of the Bowen resi dence, ransacked the house, and, de parted with jewels, money and other valuables, worth In all about 325,000. according to a report to the police. The robbery took place shortly be fore noon today. . , BANDITS SHOT TO DEATH Possemen, Using Machine ; Guns, ' ' - Kill Bank Robbers..,". V ' FLINT, Mich., June l.--Bandits who participated in the robbery of the Metamora State bank at Metamora here this morning were shot to death this afternoon by possemen using machine guns, according to a tele phone message received here. A member of the posse was wound ed in the exchange of firing. MARTIAL LAW DECLARED Soldiers Reported .in Charge of Upper Silesia Districts. BERLIN, June 1. (By the . Asso ciated Press.) A dispatch from Beu then, Upper , Silesia, said the inter allied commission has declared mar tial law throughout Urban and rural districts of Kattowitz, Gleiwitz, Hindeberg and Rybnik, Silesia. The newspapers in Silesia are being censored. MAUD IS LOADED DOWN Lumber Carried to Build Homes on Ice Pack. HANTOM FLEET SOUGHT Whether. Eerie Vessels Are Iiegen. dary or Really Exist Is What Scientists Will Decide. SEATTLE, wash., June 1. (By the Associated Press.) Captain Roald Amundsen's exploration ship Maud, crammed to the last Inch of her cargo holds with equipment and supplies. is ready to set sail Saturday on the first lap of the long voyage through the ice floes to the north pole, Cap ta'n Amundsen said today. Two airplanes, to be used in me teorological and topographical Inves tigations in the uncharted polar basin, were loaded aboard the vessel yesterday, and tomorrow the last of 60 tons of fuel oil will be turned into the ship's tanks. Captain Amundsen will not sail with the Maud, but will join the ship at Nome, leaving Seattle Sunday on the steamer Victoria. - Lumber Carried on Deck. A deckload of lumber forms an im portant item in the Maud's cargo. The explorer explained that after the ship Is frozen into the Arctic ice pack with which he expects to drift past the north pole living quarters for the dogs of the expedition and huts for scientific observations will be constructed on the let. The ship, by means of the lumber, will be con verted into a "house," where, for the five or more years the vessel will drift, the crew will live. : University of Washington co-eds are planning to contribute their share to the ship's supplies Saturday just before sailing time. For days the explorer's feminine admirers at the university; have been engaged In making candy for members of the expedition. Candy, it seems, is an essential in the navigation of the Arctic waters, and Captain Amundsen has gratefully accepted the gift. Celebration Plans Made. Plans for the celebration in con nection with the Maud's sailing were announced today. As the ship moves away from the pier a detachment of United States marines will cut the cable and destroyers from the Puget Sound navy-yard at Bremerton will escort her up Puget sound. At West Point light, six miles upsound, a farewell salute will be fired as a rec ognition on the part of the United States government of the Norwegian government expedition. 1 It is expected the Maud will reach Nome, Alaska, In about three Veeks. Dogs and some additional supplies will be taken on there, and by the last of June the vessel will be again heading north into Bering sea toward Wrangell island and the drifting ice pack. "Phanton Fleet" to Be Sought. As Captain Amundsen drifts slowly across the cheerless expanse of the Polar basin from which no white man l-.as ever emerged alive, he will search the white waste about him for signs of the "phanton fleet" the frozen company of lost ships that the Eski mos claim swings around the north pole year in and year out, gripped in the Inexorable clutch of the great Ice floes. Scouting over a wide area on each side of the auxiliary powered schooner Maud, the famous explorer will have an extraordinary opportunity to in vestigate the reports of the eerie fleet brought out from the. farthest reaches of the north by the natives. Clews to Be Investigated. Whether the fleet Is legendary or really exists Is one of the problems that has haunted the minds of Arctic explorers for many years. While Cap tain Amundsen's expedition is first of all scientific in Its scope and pur pose, any clew as to the existence of the phantonm fleet will be investi gated, members of the party have de clared. Vesels have strangely disappeared in the unexplored Polar basin since the beginning of Arctic navigation. In one full swoop the hungry ice pack, in 1876, carried off 30 whaling ships from the. waters north of the Ameri can continent.. Most of the men fled to the ice and escaped to Point Bar row and other points on the Arctic coast, but 70 refused to desert the ships. The slow but ceaseless move ment of the ice carried them into the mysterious uncharted " region that comprises 1,000,000 square miles. Crews Reported Frozen. Eskimos, who have escaped from the ice pack after being carried far north into the unknown wastes, have returned with stories of ghostly ships, frozen in the ice, white with frost, and manned by frozen crews. Old-time Arctic navigators always have placed a certain amount of credence in. the reports. They hold that once within the maw of th ice pack the ships would rest secure In their foundation, and that from then on the chief destruction would be Construction of Pacific Highway to Benton Line Prohibited and Agreement Nullified. DALLAS, Or., June 1. (Special.)-y The county court of Polk county is enjoined from paying any portion of the expense of constructing the west side Pacific highway, between Holmes' gap and the Benton county line, by a decision of Circuit Judge Kelly at Sa lem, In setting aside a contract be tween the county court and the state highway commission whereby the county assumed an obligation of $118,000 covering a period of four years for its share of the highway expense and attempted to divert at once 143, uuu irom the county's marxei 1 road fund for that purpose. H. J.' Hildeburn and W. N. Trent, contract ors, also are enjoined from doing any further work on that portion of the highway south of Monmouth. The decision of Judge Kelly fol lows a hearing last February by that Jurist of a suit brought in the circuit court of Polk County by Ernest Zilesch. and others, to determine the legality of the state highway com mission's location of the highway south of Monmouth to the Benton county line, instead of south of In dependence, and also the legality of the use of the market road funds on a state highway. The case was taken to Marion county by stipulation, as Judge Belt of this city was disquali fied because of being' a taxpayer of the county. . Judge Kelly holds that the loca tion of the highway by the commis sion . is valid, having been so. de termined by Judge McCourt, then sit ting in the circuit court of Multnomah county, but held with the plaintiffs as to the invalidity of the contract of indebtedness and the transfer of mar ket road money by the county court FEDERAL DEBT BEING MET First Step to Liquidate June 15 Obligations Is Successful. WASHINGTON, D. C, June L Suc cessful completion, of the first step in the government's programme for meeting its indebtedness of more than $750,000,000, falling due June 15, was announced tonight by Secretary Mel Ion, who 'reported subscriptions ag- gregating about' $375,000,000 have been received for the treasury's latest offering of 1200,900,000 of 3 per cent certificates. . ... June 15 the treasury must be pre pared to meet the maturities of about S380.000.000 in outstanding certifi cates, about 1260,000,000 of 3 per cent Victory notes called for redemp tion and $125,000,000 of Interest due on various government securities. Tax receipts June 15, It is estimated. will approximate 300,000,000. , TREASURE IS UNCOVERED Cask of Ale Found by Purchaser of Old-Landmark. WINSTED, Conn., June 1. (Spe- cial.) Robert Doherty who recently purchased a landmark on Oak street, while excavating near the barn on the premises yesterday uncovered what proved to be a email blind cellar. He explored the underground cham ber and found a cask of ale, how long It had been there nobody knows. Age had improved the ale wonderfully, .Doherty and his friends asserted, after tasting it. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TODAY'S Pair; westerly winds. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. to degrees; minimum temperature, 04 degrees. Foreign. ' President of Northern China resigns. Page 4. Belfast outrages more serious than ever. Page 3. National. Status of .bonus bill unchanged. Page 2. Rail dictatorship by combine of banks de nied. Page 1. Maximum coal price to be $3.50 at mines. Page 1. Domestic. Valentino hearing draws big crowda Page 1. Revolver carried by murder victim. Page 2. American bar committee advocates swift Justice to curb crime. Page 20. Max ' Oser accused of many conquests. Page 3. Convention of national realty boards nomi nates two sets of officers. Page 4. Treasurer testifies against Governor Small Page 6. Dinosaurus hunters start for Canada. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Judge Griffiths is held eligible under law to run against Senator Polndexter. Page 5. Amundsen's vessel ready to sail tomorrow. Page 1. Prineville hit by $403,500 fire. Page 1. Loan fund tilts enliven federation women's convention. . rage 1. polk not to aid in building highway. Page 1. Sports. ' . . Pacific Coast league results: at Portland . 6, Sacramento 5 (13 innings): at Los Angeles 3. Vernon 6; at San Francisco 4. Oakland 3; at Seattle 8. Salt Lake 12. ' Page 12. Braves defeat Giants, 2 to 0. Page 12. Portland in line for golf title. Page 12. Hapless Beavers facing transfer. Page 13. Commercial and Marine. Larger domestic wheat crop than- last year Inoicatea. rage ia Wheat stronger at Chicago on better ex. port and milling demand. Page 16. Cargo of Iowan released. Page 15. New York market seems confused. Page 17. Three steel companies are to be merged. Page 15. Portland and Tielnltr. Portland realtor, while protecting women in party, gored by maddened bull. Page 1. Check on welfare bureau defended by- Mr. X Rudeen. Page 10. Chinese sentenced by mistake. Page 26. Northwest fires now dyinr down. Page 4. Emplovers assent to neutral hiring point. Page 14. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 15. Scholarship Board Loses Appointive Power. DEBATE AT TILLAMOOK WARM Mrs Trumbull Casts Dissent ing Vote on Amendment. JURY DUTY IS STRESSED Mr. Alexander Thompson Urges Retention of Direct Primary Before Federation. TILLAMOOK, Or., June clal.) Spirited debate on the vcholar- ehip loan fund, board and other re visions in the constitution gave zest to the afternoon session of the Ore gon Federation of Women's clubs in the first meeting of this convention devoted entirely to business. Every amendment proposed by the revision committee, of which Mrs. Charles M. Castner Is chairman. passed with but slight change. The discussion, however, consumed three hours and proved so exciting that fre quently five or more women were on their feet simultaneously. "I rise to a point of order," became the refrain with each speaker Intro ducing a new stanza, so filled with wit that delegates greeted both sides with laughter and applause. Mrs. Trumbull Dissents. The most advisable method of fill ing vacancies on the scholarship loan fund board called forth lively discus sion in the final vote. Mrs. Millie R. Trumbull of Portland cast the only dissenting vote on the amendment providing that vacancies on the loan fund board be filled by the executive board of the federation. The old meth od had been to have the board fill its own vacancies. - "The scholarship loan fund has been known for years aa the major work of the federation," said Mrs. Alexander Thompson, one of the leaders in sup port of the amendment. "This fund is our fund. It belongs to each one of the 123 clubs In this federation. Any proposed change is of interest to every member of this organization. "I know of no body of trustees, with but very few exceptions, which is elected for life, and which handles $23,000 a year. Let the "federation control this board, since this fund belongs to all of us." tDpoIntlve Power Defended. Mrs. Trumbull opposed taking the appointive power out of the hands of the loan fund board, since, she said, the board knew best the policies it had been following. Mrs. Castner drew the fire of a half-dozen speakers by pointing out that not one of the nine members of the loan fund board Is present at the convention. She said the same condi tion prevailed two years ago and that last year only one member attended. Mrs. Castner excepted Mrs. Sarah A. Evans of Portland, chairman of tha board, Mrs. Frederick Eggert and Mrs. P. L. Campbell, all of whom are unr able to attend because of illness. i The loan fund board was created at the 1908 convention and is composed of nine trustees, who were chosen for life and who hitherto have rilled their own vacancies. The convention voted unanimously to Increase the loan fund board to ten members, one of whom will be the retiring president, who will serve until her successor retires from the office of president. Mrs. Castner, ex-president of the federar tion, automatically became the new tenth member of the board by this action. 44 Girls Get New Loans. . Mrs. Evans" report, read this morn ing, showed that 44 girls reeeived new loans this year and 38 loans were re newed. The girls are attending seven Oregon-colleges and universir ti.s. The treasury will be practically empty when the heavy demand comes in the fall, according to the report. Ninety-two clubs of the federation contributed to the fund this year. A change in the constitution, fa vored by Mrs. Callahan, was adopted, making the six departmental chair men members of the executive board to serve in an advisory capacity. Resolutions and invitations for next year's convention win be of principal Interest on tomorrow's pro gramme. Marshfield and Oregon City already have extended the invitation through placards in the convention hall. The executive board decides the place of meeting. Mrs. Alexander Thompson, chair man of the department on legislation, made a plea this morning for reten tion of the direct primaries. Jury Duty Urged. Mrs. W. Christian Ahlf, president of the southern Oregon Federation of Women's clubs, spoke on women jur ors and their relations to the Oregon jury system. She urged every woman to accept jury duty as a responsibility and a privilege. Miss Elizabeth Fox, dean of women at the University of Oregon spoke on "Applied Education in the Women's Clubs." The women visited the cheese fac tories this morning and were the for the new anivals. (Continued 00 Page 2, Column 3.) (Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.)