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Entered a Portland ,Oreon PORTLAND OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS tmwincg tui aeronn-eiasa Matter. LAWD1S IS MURDERS IN AMERICA LEAD CANADA, 8 TO 1 CHICAGO JUDGE REPORTS AFTER INVESTIGATION. POLICY OF POINCARE UPHELD BY DEPUTIES FREE HAND GIVEN PREMIER IN" FOREIGN AFFAIRS. BRITAIN SOON TO PAY WAR; DEBT INTEREST 25,000,000 TO BE GIVEN TO AMERICA THIS FALL. IDAHO PONZI GETS 7 MONTHS IN JAIL CHARLES F. PILLIARD PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY. TO FIGHT BT GOAST LEAGUE GIVES UP FIGHT MILLAGE TAX VOL. XLI NO. 19,200 NAZIMuVA NAMED IN VALENTINO CASE FO Klepper and Brewster Penalties Approved. PORTLAND MEN SERVE NOTICE Decision of Judge to Be Abid ed by Temporarily. ANOTHER AIRING PROPOSED Future Action Awaits Commission er's Dispositional Request for New Hearing. BT ED HUGHES. i BAN FRANCISCO. June 2. (Spe cial.) After a -wordy session ' here today the directors of the Pacific Coast baseball league voted to accept, abide by and enforce the decision of Judge Landis, high commissioner of baseball, in declaring ineligible William H. Klepper, president of the Portland club; James R. Brewster, vice-president of the same club, and William J. Kenfirorthy, manager of the team. The Portland club, through Gus C. Moser, attorney and acting director, gave notice that it agrees to abide by the decision of Judge Landis until such time as the commissioner shall have heard and decides its applica tion for a hearing upon the question of the authority of Landis to Impose the penalties he handed out. League Votes for Hearing. Thereupon the directors of the league voted that in view of the con fusion created by the legal arguments advanced in the Kenworthy case, they would respectfully ask Commissioner Landis to accept and give considera tion to the briefs which will be sub mitted to him on the question of the law involved 1n the infliction of the penalty. The meeting was adjourned to con vene again in San Francisco June 15, by which time it is believed word will have been received from Commis sioner Landis. There were so many lawyers at the meeting today, all bursting with eloquence, that the wonder is that the meetins took only one day. Gus C. Moser was not only attorney for the Portland club, but he held a commis sion as director of the league, so there was no chance to shut him off. When Mr. Klepper and Mr. Brewster had to leave the meeting because of an executive session, Mr. Moser was just getting his second wind and call ing attention to section 1 of article 3. Reheaiine la Urged. John Sullivan was the personal rep resentative of Mr. Brewster and he made an eloquent talk. Most of the directors already knew that Jimmy Brewster should not have been pun ished by Landis, for about all he did was to put up the money to buy the Portland club. He had no hand in the deal that was to take Kenworthy away from Seattle and land him in Portland. The directors passed a mo tion that Attorney Sullivan file af fidavits with Judge Landis for a re hearing for Mr. Brewster and league directors urge that such a hearing be held. Then there was William J. Steinert, representing Jim Boldt, president of the Seattle club. Steinert, deliberate, I precise and pedagogic stated his side of the case and Jim Boldt liked it so well that he gave Steinert his proxy land went outside when the executive session began. Heart Burning Is Canned. That executive session caused quite la bit of heart burning. It was pro- I posed ey fa. E. Stone, a large, stout person, who represented Eddie Maler I of the VernoD club. That motion ex- I oluded from the meeting Dr. Charles I Henry Strub, president of the Seals; iGeorge Alfred Putnam the sales king I or baseball; Del Howard, who owns half interest in the Oakland club; Bill I Klepper and Jim Brewster, who con- Iirol the Portland club, and it left in the meeting E. E. Stone, whose in terest in the Vernon club can hardl ine' detected with a spy glass. But IStone was a director for a day and Ithe others had to go outside. Gus Moser tried to get through a resolution to the effect that Judce landis had exceeded his authority in declaring Klepper and Brewster in eligible. He quoted book and page to rove that Landis had no such au thority over owners of minor league iubs. Resolutions Are Withdrawn, 1 Later, Moser withdrew his reso utlon. John J. Sullivan, barrister, intro iuced a resolution stating that 'Immie Brewster had been unjustly ieafc with and asking the directors o to state. That resolution was also withdrawn. While the lawyers from the north rere talking there sat Henry I. staf- ord, one of the heav!r lawyers in he world, and he did not say a word. lis self-control was amazing. It was founding. Because Stafford had uch excellent self-control the meet- ng adjourned hours ahead of sched- e time. From what Attorney Moser of Port- and hinted, the Portland club will go nto the federal court to fight for its Concluded pa rase 11, Column S.) "Wait Till I Catch You In United States," Quarreling Gambler Said to Have Told Another. . NEW YORK, June 2. Murders are proportionately eight times more fre quent in the United States than in Canada, Marcus Kavanaugh, judge, of Chicago, declared today at the close of the New York hearings of the law enforcement committee of the American Bar association. The committee, which will report to, the association at its annual meet ing in San Francisco next August on the results of its nation-wide crime symposium, sent Judge Kavanaugh to Montreal and Toronto to observe conditions across the border. Judge Kavanaugh said that In Can ada - there were only 13 murders yearly for every 1,000,000 population. In the United States there are about 160. , - By way of illustration, Tie recounted the story of a gambler's quarrel across the border. "Just wait until I catch, you in the United States and I'll shoot your head off," was the threat of one. J. Noble Hayes, chairman of the law delays committee of the County Lawyers' association, blamed the movies for motivating much crime, and suggested exhibition of films showing only Sing Sing convicts do ing hard work. This brought from ex-Governor Whitman the comment: "They don't do any hard work at Sing Sing." - GIRLS AID DROWNING MAN Sister and School Teacher Forced to Abandon Cramp Victim. MONTESANO, Wash., June 2 (Spe cial.) Oiva Karjola, 21, truck driver, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Karjola, ranch ers of Moxchuck, was drowned in the Wynooehe river this afternoon oppo site the new Montesano park. The Junction City school was hold ing its annual picnic at the new park here and Karjola, with his sister Ina and Miss Mertice Towne, a teacher from Junction City, started to swim from the Wynooehe bridge down the river to the camp grounds, a distance of about 300 yards. Karjola was taken with a cramp, and although the two girls held his head above water for some time, they were unable to save him. Clive Abel, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Abel of this city, rushed to the rescue, but the two girls had started to, sink and Abel believing the , man already dead,, helped the two girls out of the river. The body had not been recovered at a late hour. SCREAM SAVES $30,000 Posse Takes Bank Robbers and Recovers Stolen Money. DECATUR, Neb., June 2. Three bandits were captured, two oT them being severely wounded and $3(j,000 recovered by a posse that came upon the men as they were robbing the State bank of Decatur late today. Norah Conneally, cashier, was alone in the bank shortly before 3 o'clock when a touring car drew up at the rear of the bank and two of the trio entered. When commanded to throw up her hands, the cashier screamed and attempted to escape, but was caught and held by one of the men while the other began scooping cur rency and coin into a sack he carried. Miss Conneally's scream had been heard by a storekeeper adjoining and a posse, hastily organized, rushed into the bank while the robbers were still at work. PROWLER CUTS BRAIDS Note Left Contains Threat to Kill Sleeper's Father. SAN FRANCISCO, June 2. Viola Stephenson, 15, a school girl, awoke early today and saw a man prowl ing about her room. She fainted, tpon reviving later she found that she had been pulled half way out of a window near her bed and that one of her thick braids of hair had been cut off and taken away. A note left in the room said: "Now take that, and the next time your father dares, to come near me 111 kill him." The note was signed "Your Enemy." - Both the father, Jesse H. Stephen son, and the girl said they knew no motive for the act. RAIL ENGINEER IS KILLED Fred V. Blum, Tacoma, Electro cuted While at Work. TACOJrk, Wash., June 2. Fred W. Ilium of Tacoma, engineer of a work train of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, was electrocuted this morning while making repairs to the motor locomotive of which he was in charge. The accident occurred about eight miles from Cedar Falls. Blum was unmarried. His parents live at Dixon, 11L SEVEN THOUGHT DROWNED! Row bout With Members of Cle Ktum Pipe Line Crew Capsizes. CLE ELUM, Wash., June 2. Seven members of a crew working on, a city pipe line on the Cle Elum river, five miles west of here, were believed to haye been drewned shortly after noon today whtn a rowboat in which they were attempting to cross the river was overturned. Two other occu pants of the boat were rescued. Nona ot the bodies was recovered. Movie Actress Is Member of Honeymoon Party. BIGAMY TRIAL IS IN DOUBT Hearing of Actor to Be Con tinued Today. "BEST FRIEND": WITNESS Women Said to Have Occupied Ad joining Rooms in Cottage, Rodolph Using Another.' LOS ANGELES, CaL, June 2. The prosecution failed to complete its tes timony in the case of Rodolph Valen tino, charged with bigamy, this after noon and adjournment was taken un til tomorrow morning. The session today in Justice Han by's court, where the motion picture actor was up for preliminary hearing, was devoted to efforts lo establish the relations between the defendant and Miss Winifred Hudnut, subse quent to their marriage in Mexican, Lower California, on May 13 last. - It was testified that the couple returned to Palm Springs, a Califor nia resort, about 1 A. M., May 14, and went to a cottage there which they occupied until May 16. Mrs. Romaldo Lugo, chambermaid at the cottage, and Paul Ivanlchevitchke, lessor of the cottage, testified another woman stayed there part of the time. M me. Nazlmova at Housed Jvanichevitchke, who testified Val entino was his "b,est friend," alluded to the woman as "a friend of ours." Mrs. Lugo Identified a picture shown her by Deputy District Attor ney . Costello as that of . the other guest.' ' This picture was r'ecognized by persons. in the courtroom as that of Mme. Alia Nazimova, Russian actress. Mr. Costello said a forth with subpoena had been issued for Mme. Nazimova but had not been served late today. Ivanich Evitchke said Mrs. Valentino and the "woman friend" occupied ad joining room's In the cottage, and another was used by Valentino. The first night the - party stayed there, he testified, Douglas Gerard, motion picture actor, who was best man at the marriage at Mexicali, slept on the porch of the cottage, while Ivanlche vitchke himself slept in another building. Ivahichevitchke said the party left Palm Springs on May 16. Mrs. Valentino Goes East. "Mr. Valentino," he testified, "re ceived a telegram from the Lasky studios to come to the telephone at Banning, 22 miles away, at once. When we reached there he was told (Conceded, on Page 3, Column 2.) , VViLU GOOVE.l? TWcTOr YtfiXH tiO ftPPAftrlUY SIGNS OP NERVOUSNESS I Ho? WEftR HOe c& a , : 0 NNUH.N VT CONSt- Vote of 484 to 100 Also Approves Attitude of Government at .- Genoa Conference. PARIS, June 2. (By the Associat ed Press.) The chamber of deputies tonight by a vote of 484 to 100 gave Premier Poincare a free hand to con tinue to direct the foreign policy of France along the lines he has pur sued since he assumed power. . The vote also approved of the gov ernment's attitude at the recent Ge noa conference, left the government the sole judge as to whether Franc shall be represented at The Hague conference and reserved, to the gov ernment the right to act alone toward Germany in case of a flagrant viola tion of the Versailles treaty. . , The vote came after one of the most stormy sessions ever witnessed in the French chamber. , Although the volume of noise might have caused the uninitiated to believe the government was in danger of be ing overthrown, when the real test came the opposition could, marshal only 100 votes. ' M. -Herriot, leader of the radical party, had charged the premier with being responsible for the question of international loans not being put be fore the Genoa conference. The pre mier replied that he had refused to bring up the question at. Genoa be cause he was convinced it was too closely and dangerously associated with that of the German debt to the allies. " ANNULMENT IS DEMANDED Wife No. 2 Alleges Hnsband Had No Legal Right to Marry. VANCOUVER, Wash., June 2. (Special.) Mrs. Mary Page Hoff Kimball, who was married to Arthur J. Kimball in California or Mexico, last ; March, within three months after being divorced from her hus band here, has started suit to have the marriage annuled, alleging that Kimball had no legal ability to con tract a marriage. Last jnonth a sheriff in a Wiscon sin county telegraphed to the sheriff here stating he held a felony, warrant for Kimball, and that Kimball had a wife and several children therel He was arrested here but was released from custody on habeas corpus pro teedings.- VIGILANTE IS ARRESTED Special Policeman Charged With Theft of Binoculars. Accused of the theft of a pair ot binoculars from the quartermaster's quarters on the steamship "City of Bombay," L. A. Hansen, 754 Kast Eighth street north, a special officer, was arrested last night by Inspectors Hdrack and Aekerman, who took his star from him and placed him in the city jail on a charge of larceny. Hansen is a member of Portlands vigilante police force. He was on duty aboard the steamer at the time the alleged theft took place, and was said to have admitted his guilt. He has a wife and two small children. WHY IS IT? oSHl iUV FEEL NEWV0i;S- 'vw- s?e.CY6r rAY KNEES KNQCHG osr the I ran i - s v I I IE If S iff rl !i x - r 1 P I A Secretary Mellon Said to Have Ex pected Payment and In cluded It In Figures. LONDON, June 2. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The government has j completed arrangements to pay dur- ing the coming fall interest amount ing to f25,000,000 on the British debt to the United States. ' Ithas not been decided whether a special mission will be sent to Wash ington to discuss the debt with the American government. WASHINGTON, D. a, June 2. An nouncement of Great Britain's prepa rations to pay this country $100,000,000 next fall as interest upon that gov ernment's war debt to the United States has reached the allied debt funding commission only through newspaper reports, officials said to day. Payment" of interest by Great Britain in the fall has been apparent ly counted upon for some time by this government, as estimates of receipts for the coming finance year trans mitted to congress by Secretary Mel lon contained an item of $200,000,000 as receivable from England in in terest during the year. So far, however, officials maintain no definite word has been received from Great Britain regarding the opening, of negotiations for the fund ing of England's debt, although the commission has announced its readi ness to begin such discussions at any time. HOBOS INVITE HARDING President Is Asked to Address Gathering at Buffalo. WASHINGTON, D. O, June 2. An invitation for President Harding to address the convention of hobos in Buffalo on July 4 was delivered at the White House today by J. Eads Howe, known as 'the millionaire hobo." Howe said he would invite some of the cabinet members, particularly Secretary Hoover. The unemployment situation will be one of the topics before the convention. . The hobo leader drove up to the executive . offices in an automobile and discussed the approaching meet ing genially. He was unable to see Mr. Harding but left his request with Secretary to the President Christian, who agreed to present it. - Hobos from all parts of the coun try are . expected to take part in the Buffalo gathering. - - - WAGE INCREASE GRANTED Grays Harbor Mill Workers to Get4 Raise ot 25 Cents a Hay. ABERDEEN, Wash., June 2. (Spe cial.) About 7000 men employed in Grays harbor mills will benefit by a wage increase of 25 cents a day which became effective . yesterday, according to an announcement from the Aberdeen headquarters of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumber men today. ", . The wage rise culminated from a meeting of Grays harbor mill opera tors last month. This wage rise will increase the monthly payroll on the harbor about 4o,000. 7 - SONT TOfcEER xkg E.tc I N I J I 7 Mathilde's father Made Legal' Guardian; COURT BATTLE IS DROPPED Effort to Prevent Consent to Marriage Ends. MAX 0SER. UNDAUNTED Swiss Riding Master Goes Ahead With Plans for Wedding to Rich American. CHICAGO, June i.- Legal appoint ment of Harold F. McCormick as guardian of his 17-year-old daughter Mathilde was filed in probate court here . today. Legal action by Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick to re strain Mr. McCormick from giving his consent to the marriage of Mathilde to Max Oser, Swiss riding master, has been dropped, according to Charles C Cutting, Mrs. McCor mick's attorney. ' Mr. Cutting admitted that Mrs. Mc Cormick had the support of John D. RockefMler Sr., her father, in her opposition to the marriage. -"The. contending factions of the erstwhile ' household of McCormick were .committed to a policy of com promise over' the romance of Mathilde, it was learned earlier to day. Conferences between counsel for Mathilde's mother, Mrs. Edith Rocke feller McCormick, and Harold F. Mc Cormick, her divorced husband, which saved Oser from an absent investiga tion In court yesterday, were con tinued today, with tomorrow set by Probate Judge Horner as the date for his decision on Mrs McCormick's peti tion for an injunction to halt the mar riage plans of Mathilde. Mr. McCor mick, playing the double role of father and guardian, agreed to with held consent of the marriage until Saturday. ' The ending of the legal battle later today probably will preclude any de cision. " -Undaunted by the legal complica tions and .the charges made by Mrs. McCormick that he is a fortune hunt er with designs on both McCormick and "Rockefeller millions, Oser, in re ports from Zurich, was said to be con tinuing plans for the marriage. Counsel for Mr. and Mrs. McCor mick asserted that no basis for a final compromise on the marriage had been reached. Mccormick quits as chief Ex-President of Harvester Com pany Now Heads Directors. CHICAGO, June 2. Harold F. Mc Cormick resigned as head of the In ternational Harvester company today. . Declining re-election, Mr. McCor mick nominated Alexander Legge, vice-president and general manager, who was unanimously elected. An executive committee of five, se lected from the board of directors, was created, and Mr. McCormick was named chairman of the new body. The change in the presidency of the company and the creation of an ex ecutive committee have been la con templation for more than a year, said Mr. McCormick. "I do not coo template any dimunition in my in terest In or service to the company." PORTLAND GIRL MARRIED Miss Constance Nichols Bride of Graduate at Annapolis. ANNAPOLIS, Ml, June 2. (Special) After graduating shortly before ljoon todays members of the Annap olis class of 3 922 exchanged the dis cipline of the naval academy for the matrimonial kind in considerable numbers during the day, while other weddings were announced. Two couples were married in St. Annn's church They were Miss Con stance Nichols, "of Portland,, Or and Ensign Howard B. Hutchinson, and Miss Dorothy M. Moss, cf Annapolis and Ensign Robert B. Rothwell. BOB HAIR FADDYING OUT Girls Declared Already Tired of Shorn Locks. DECATUR, 111., June 2. ''To fix bobbed hair so it doesn't look bobbed ip the problem hairdressers of the United States will face this fall," an nounced Mrs. 'Theodora Bender, man ager of the national convention of hairdressers to be held in St. Louis in July. "To meet this problem is the big thing to be taken up in our con vention," said Mrs. Bender, who visited in Decatur today. 1 "Most girls are tired of their short hair now." STEAMSHIP GOES ASHORE Montcalm With 1098 Persons on Board Sleets With Bad Lock. MONTREAL, . June 2. The Cana dian Pacific passenger steamship Montcalm, which left Montreal today for Liverpool, was reported tonight to have gone ashore at Pojnt Bigot, on the' St. Lawrence, between Three Rivers and Quebec - . Two Partners in Alleged Fraud) pian to Make off with to,.. 1 t? v w uaiv Jk noli uvai j . BOISE, Idaho, June 2. (Special.) Charles F. "Piliiard, Boise "Ponsi,"' was sentenced "to serve seven months in the county jail and pay a fine of J550 today by Judge Reddoch. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to de fraud Boise citizens of 109,B62.02. Pilliard, who, with A. R. Ground and Dewey O. Pearce, was charged with having obtained money under false pretense, will in reality, counting five days in every 30 day for good be havior, eervs fivo months and 26 days, said officials. Pilliard made no statement. Pilliard waived his right to pre liminary hearing and was bound over to the district court, where he pleaded guilty Wednesday at 4:65 P. M. Ground and Pearee, his associates, had a preliminary hearing. Witnesses for the prosecution . testified that Pilliard, Pearce and Ground told them of opportunities to make a high rate of interest on their money by relend ine it to other persons. It was . testified that these men promised them 5 per cent a month on all money. In turn these borrowers were to relend it at 10 per cent a month and take 6 per cent as their brokerage or commission fee. In consequence, witnesses testified, vari ous sums of money were lent to the men, some of which was paid back, but in most cases again lent out. MOST GRADUATES GIRLS 3676 Students to Complete Work in Oregon High Schools. SALEM, Or, June 2. Special.) From the standard four-year high schools of Oregon, 3676 students will be graduated this year, and 58 per cent of these, or 2133, will be girls, according to J. A. Churchill, state superintendent of schools. The total enrollment in these high schools is 29,235. Out of the 160,924 students enrolled In the first 12 grades in the public schools, 18 per cent are in the high schools. "Were all of the pupils entering the first grade in the public schools to continue through the eight grades and enter the high school, the total enrollment in the high schools could not exceed 33 1-3 per cent of the whole- enrollment, since there are many deaths and since many boys and girls are forced outof school to become bread ' winners," Mr. Churchill explained. BUSTER K EATON IS DADDY Boy Born to Wife of Fihn Come dian; Headliners Doing Well. LOS ANGELES, CaL, June 2. "Bus ter" Keaton, film comedian, became a father here tonight. A boy was born to his wife, for merly Natalie Talmadge, sister to Con stance and Norma Talmadge. At the hospital where the event oc curred it was announced that mother and child were doing well. The comedian's full name is Joseph F. Keaton. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 81 degrees; minimum, 51 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. Foreign. South China ruler warring on north. Page 2. Britain to pay America 25,000,000 inter est on war debt. Page 1. Angry Japanese mob abuses three Ameri cans. Paae 20. - - Policy of Poincare upheld by deputies. Page 1. National. Senate and house conferees agree on good , roads programme. Page 3. Senate votes fund for 133,000 army. Page 2. Domestic. Nazimova declared member of Valentino honeymoon party. Page 1. Censorship permits only glimpses, of se vere treatment accorded Indians by British. Page 3. Murders in America lead Canada, eight to one. Page 1. Coal miners reject plan for Harding to name tribunal. Page 6.' Mrs. McCormick gives up fight against Matbdlde's weaaing. iage l. Pacific Northwest. Prineville school entered just before fire began. Page 4. Idaho Ponzl . gets .seven months in jail. Page J- Amundsen's ship sails north today. Page 6. Hecker. alleged slayer, indicted by Clacka mas jury. Page 4. Women indorse millage tax for educational institutions. Page 1. Sports. Coast league votes to uphold decision of Landis. Page l. Browns defeat White Sox, 12 to 4. Page 14. Pacific Coast league results: At Portland 9. Sacramento 4: at ijos Angeles 15. Vernon 1; at San Francisco 8, Oakland . 5; at Seattle 8, salt Like 7. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. Large gain In potato shipments from northwest, rage tu. Chicago wheat weakened by declines at Liverpool, jrage Stores on, wheels latest retail trade Inno vation. Page 21. . Bond trading mixed and uncertain. Page 21. Wheat and lumber due lor shipment. Page is- New York stock market characterized by brisk trading. Page 20. Europ breathes again since moratorium to Germany has been granted. Page IX. Portland and Vicinity, Harmony Is sought in welfare contro versy. Page S. Logger Is killed in forest blaze. Page I Mr. Cooper denies1 race for governor Page 7. Some Oregon strawberries on market Page 13. Portland to be host to .10,000 Shriners. Page 10. Admiral FuMam says airplane is future master of world. Page 5. Y. M. C. A. school graduates 49. Page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 20. Waterfront committee awaits definition as - to functioning of hiring bureau. Page 4. Time Imlt Tor filing .of candidates for ' school director expires at noon. Page ti- 3111 Against College Levy Scored in Resolution. ARBUCKLE BAN IS APPROVED Delegates Commend Hays for Stand on Movies. 1922 SESSION IS OVER Federation of Clubs Adjourns and Many Start Home From Meet ing at " Tillamook. TILLAMOOK, Or., June 2.(Special.) ' After adopting several resolutions of importance, some of which caused spirited debate, the State Federation of Women's clubs adjourned late this afternoon and the delegates from all points of the compass took a special train-out of this city to their homes. The more important resolutions adopted were: That attacks on the millage sys tem for the state's institutions of higher learning should be frowned upon andi al efforts to bring about a change, is this respect should be fought and the present plan upheld. Commending Will H. Hays, high' commissioner of motion pictures, for his attitude toward clean movies and especially in his stand on the Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle films and the holding up of them from public ex hibition because of the recent scan dals through which the central fig ure in the San Francisco case passed. Citizenship Bill Indorsed. Indorsing the hill which proposes to give independent citizenship to im migrant women. . Protesting against the removal of tuberculosis patients' among ex-serv ice men from parts of Oregon to other states. Indorsing a proposed ibill to remove . property qualifications for the pur pose of voting at schdil bond elec tions, this being vigorously debat'ed. Mrs. Alexander Thompson and Mrs. G. L. Buiand of Portland leadinir the affirmative and Mrs. J. W. Day of St. Helens the negative. . Thers were some dissenting votes on this resolu tion, hut it was adopted by a good majority. , All of the resolutions were reported ' in by Mrs. Thompson as chairman of the legislative committee of the state federation, and by her were warmly championed.' Mrs. Day Opposes Move. Mrs. Day, in her argument against the proposed bill to remove "property restrictiis from voters in- school bond elections, declared that such a movement should not succeed for the reason that taxes are now exception ally burdensome to property owners throughout the state and she held that, to take off all restrictions would mean added taxation and in creased burdens for them. ' "At this time," said Mrs. Day, "it seems to me that this resolution should not be adopted, because of conditions prevailing all over our state. Taxes now are very high' and property owners are burdened almost to the breaking point. My conten tion and the contention of many is that, should property requirements be removed and every legal voter be permitted to vote on bond issues and other expenses for the operation and maintenance of our echools, that the non-property owners will . exercise that right to the detriment of the property owner. I do not believe that this federation should adopt such a "resolution.' Mrs. Thompson Replies. "The contention of Mrs. Day is not well founded," said Mrs. Thompson. "My belief ia that, given equal privileges with property owners on these important matters, non-property owners will exercise their rights carefully. Parents, whether property owners or not, should, in my iudg ment, have the right to vote on these important matters. . I regard this resolution as a forward step, a pro gressive measure, and trust it will receive the sanction of this conven tion." ' . ' Mrs. Buiand spoke along the same lines, detailing the advantages that should accrue were , parents, non property owners though they be, to have the right to vote on bond issues. Those who have children in the public echools, she declared, are apt ' to .be fully as careful as those who have property, and she held that they should have the prerogative of voting on the bond issues as well as the other features of school operation. Vote Largely Affirmative.. ' Other speakers, for and against, took the floor, but when they were through and the vote was taken, only a scattering few "nays" were heard. It was understood that the debate and the resolution were the result of announcement by William F. Wood ward of Portland, a director of school district No. 1 (Portland), that he would, if nominated and elected to the state legislature, introduce such, a bill. Mr. Woodward was nomi nated in the republican primaries last month, hence the question is : live issue. During the day Mrs. Ida B. Calla- tConcluded on Page 4, Column 3.) Ifl 101.0