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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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. 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.
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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-
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