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PRICE FIVE CENTS IS SMITH W. BROOKHART NOMINATED IN IOWA s 347 NEW GATES OF AMERICA 6PENED TO PRINCESS " CHANCE IS GIVEN WOMAN TO PROVE CITIZENSHIP. ' RADIO TO SEND OUT TWO-HOUR CONCERT 7 ARTISTS TO PARTICIPATE IN PROGRAMME TONIGHT. LOWER DOCK LEVELS FLOODED BY RIVER TAKE NEW HOPE GUT IN RAIL PAY DIES l SEATTLE REPTJBLICAJV PRIMARY RACE DECIDED DEFINITELY. FURTHER RISE . PREDICTED BY WEATHER BUREAU. PORTLAND, (OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1922 01 1 POLICE! DENIED JUDGE BUER DGGK1VIEN Republican Division in Factions Is Chance. CLYDE L HERRING STRONG Brookhart's Rival Is Con sidered Dangerous. BIG FOLLOWING WON G. O. P. Leaders Are Expected to Have Hard Time Healing- . Cleavage of Primaries. Si. BY MARK -SULLIVAN. . ((Ce-rsright, 1022, by New York Evening foil. Inc. Published by arrangement.) WASHINGTON, D. C, June 6. (Special.) In the focusing of in terest of the six-sided republican senatorial primary in Iowa and its dramatic aspects, there has been lack of attention to the result of the democratic primary and of the possible outcome of the entire situa tion in November. There -was but one candidate for the democratic senatorial nomination. His name is Clyde I Herring, and he is a strong man in every sense. Herring for many years -was an Iowa distributor for automobiles and tractors. In that capacity he acquired two elements of personal strength. He impressed other busi ness men of the state as being a good business man and he acquired an acquaintance with the people of the state such as can readily be imagined from contact which his business gave him with farmers and others. Because of this-Mr. Herring will have a strength and a follow ing not at all measured by mere party lines. Personal Strength Shown. Two years ago Herring ran as the democratic candidate for gov- ernor. That was a republican land elide year in which the strength of Harding, at the head of the ticket, and the popularity of the republican national issues, put a severe handi cap on all democratic candidates. In the outcome Herring had 110, 000 votes more than the head of the democratic ticket. Herring's vote was 337,000 to Cox's 227,000. Obviously a candidate for gov ernor who gets B0 per cent more votes than his party's candidate for president has elements of personal strength of the most marked kind. It is possibly not too much to say if that had not been a presidential year, and if it had been an ordinary election. Herring might readily have won. The inference that Herring will make a strong run in Iowa in No vember of this year Is unmistakable. Of course, it takes a hardy person to predict a democratic senator from Iowa. Iowa never has had a dem ocratic senator and has not had a democratic governor for more than .0 years. Nevertheless it is clear that several extraordinary elements in the present Iowa situation will combine to give strength to Herring Politics in Abnormal State. j It is obvious that Iowa politics this year are in an abnormal and from the point of view of the re publicans a dangerous situation. It is difficult to see any possible man agement on the part of the repub lican organization in Iowa so astute and so tactful as to overcome en tirely the serious cleavages which are bound to remain from the sen atorial primaries. What is more likely is that these cleavages will deepen and Intensify. The Iowa situation as it stands to day differs greatly from that of Indiana and Pennsylvania. In these two states the victories of Bever idge and Pinchot, respectively, made republican success in Novem ber more probable. Beveridge in Indiana and Pinchot in Pennsylvania will have the united support of the republicans and in addition will get more independent votes and more democratic votes than any other republican candi date. But in Iowa the cleavage between the radical Brookhart and the other candidates for the republican sen atorial nomination was so much more wide, and the other circum stances are such that the democrats should have a better chance to elect an Iowa senator tills yar than at any time for 20 years past. MATE 0NDIV0RCE JURY Husband on Court Body That Gives Decree to His Wife. ATLANTA, Ga., June 6. -The novel experience of a husband serving on a Jury that granted his wife a di vorce has Just been brought to light here in the case of Mrs. Sara Mjrtice Almand, who was granted a decree of divorce from Albert Irwin Al mand. jira. .Ainiana aid not attend the hearing, the divorce being granted on depositions taken in Newark. N. J., where she resides. Counsel for Mrs. Almand declared that he did not know that his client's husband was on the Jury until a week after the verdict had been granted. With AU Except 246 of 2348 Precincts Complete, Candidate for Senate Has Big Lead. DES MOINES, la., June 6 -(By the Associated Press.) Smith W. Brookhart of Washington was nom inated the republican candidate for United States senator from Iowa at the primary Monday. , With returns received from all ex cept 246 of the 2348 precincts in the state, there is no question of his victory. Of 259,084 votes cast ta these precincts, Brookhart received 118,493 , or exactly 41 per cent. Thirty-five per cent is necessary for a nomination.' He has a margin of safety of more than 17,000 votes in returns which account for all except perhaps 35.000 votes cast for all candidates for senator. The vote in 2102 precincts was: Smith W. Brookhart 118,394, Clif ford Thome 46,429, Charles E. Pickett 45,902, Leslie E. Francis 35,906, ' Burton E. Sweet ,30,682, Claude M. fetanley 11,673. Three of the four represtatives, in congress from Iowa who had pri mary fights were beyond question nominated for re-election. Gilbert N. Haugen in the fourth district, Cyrenus Cole in the fifth district and L. J. Dickinson in the tenth dis trict have margins suffifiently large, in returns received up to 6 P. M., to insure victory, and only a political miracle could overturn the smaller lead of W. D. Boies, repre sentative from the' 11th district. Boies leads W. P. Dawson more than 1500 votes, with only 21 precincts remaining but. The vote: Boies 16,736, Dawson 15,221. T. J. B. Rob inson, banker of Hampton, was nominated in the third district for the congressional seat vacated by Burton E. Sweet when he resigned to enter the senatorial race. Other congressional results fol low: ... W Fourth district, 124 precincts out of 205 Haughen 13,869. Kehoe 4561. Fifth district, 178 out of 195 pre cincts Cole 13,542, Scott 8732. Tenth district, 283 precincts out of 312 Dickinson 21,909, Lund 15,111. ALL FILM "VAMPS" DEAD Public, Now Wants Good Little Girls,' Theater Men Hear. i CHICAGO, June 6. The movie "vamp." with her white face, her penciled eyebrows, green' eyes and her Jade earrings is gone and will flaunt her fascinations on the silver screen no longer, motion picture the ater owners were told at a meeting today. ' What the public wants now. ac cording to speakers, are good little girls, heroines of the "Little Eva" type, with golden hair, blue eyes, sincerity and Innocence. "The motion picture heroine," said William J. Sweeney, "must be young and inexperienced in appearance, guileless and appealing in her ac tions. The public has wearied of the vampire type." The public itself, he declared, is voicing the demand for cleaner films and the producers are filling the de mand. GENERAL MORTON TOWED Pennsylvania Woman Engaged to Commander of Presidio. GREENSBURG, Penn., June 6. The engagement of Mrs. Lloyd B. Huff of Rose Fountain farms, near here, and Major-General Charles G. Morton, U. S. A. (Presidio com mander), was fcnnounced at a dinner at the Rolling Rock Country club last night. The wedding will be held in New York late this month. Major-General forton Is in com mand of the ninth army corps area, which consists of Washington,. Ore gon, California, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and .Alaska, with headquarters at the Presidio, San Francisco. He served in the Philip pines and on the Mexican border, and during the world war he com manded the 29th division in France. GEMS IN SHOES LOST $4000 Diamonds in Old Pair Taken to Be Repaired. SOUTH ORANGE, N. J., June . Dr. Gustav P. Hoffman took a pair of worn shoes and $4000 worth of his wife's diamonds to a repair shop in Newark yesterday. Today police .are looking for the gems. Not until the doctor returned from his errand aid his wife discover that the shoes, in which she had stowed the diamonds only yesterday morn ing, were missing from the Cus tomary place. The couple hastened to the New ark shoe shop, frantically searched all the shoes In the place, but with out result. Anthony Palmeri, pro prietor, asserted neither he nor his employes had seen the jewels. INSURANCE LEFT SCHOOL SO George Peubody Graduates Take Policies to Create Fund. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 6. Fifty members of the class of 1922 at George Peabody college have taken out life insurance policies for $1000 each with the college as beneficiary. They have specified that the in come from the fund sought to be created shall be used for student loans, scholarships and fellowships as rapidly as it becomes available. Mechanics and Freight Car Men Hit. REDUCTION IS SECOND ONE Labor Members of Board Make Strong Protest. SCALE IS HELD UNJUST Action Declared Taken "With No Consideration of Human Needs." Cleaners Get $3.78. CHICAGO, June 6. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Over the strong pro test of the three labor represent atives on the United States Rail road Labor board, a new wage cut of 7 cents an hour for railway shop mechanics and 9 cents for freight car men, cutting 400,000 shop men approximately (60,000,000 a year, was ordered ty the board today. The new wage reduction brought an estimated added, saving of $59, 6f9,347 annually to the railroads, following on the heels of a $50,000, 000 cut in the wages of maintenance of way laborers last week. The Bhop crafts decision becomes effective on July 1, the same date as last week's order. The minority report of the labor members pointedly stated that the majority decision was made "with no consideration of human needs" and charges that it fails to carry out the function of the board to set a "just and reasonable" wage Roads' Propaganda Cited. "The tendency of this decision is to vindicate the propaganda of the railroads and consequently con demn such statements as the em ployes have been able to bring to public attention," the minority opin ion said. It was signed by Albert O. Wharton, W. L. McMenimen and Albert Phillips, the three labor rep resentatives. . . Supervisory forces of the railway shops were not decreased. After due consideration, the decision said, it was felt that the duties and re sponsibilities of such forces war ranted maintenance of present rates. The reduction for mechanics aver aged a little more than 8 per cent, all machinists, boiler makers, black smiths, sheet metal workers, elec trical workers, car men (except freight car men), moulders, cupola tenders and core makers and the regular and helper apprentices re ceiving a cut of ,7 cents an hour. Freight car men, commonly known as "car-knockers," and the .object of some of the heaviest assaults by the roads in their battle for lower wages, were cut 9 cents. The larger cut was ordered for the (Concluded on Page ; Column 4.) . - ? .......... Secretary of Labor Davis Over rules Immigration Authori ties at New Orleans. . , WASHINGTON, D;. C, June 6.- Princess Ivan Tschernitschew of Russia, who was admitted uncondi tionally into the United States by Secretary of Labor Davis under a decision today overruling the im migration authorities at New Or leans, who had denied the princess entry, must establish American citi zenship before her case is finally closed by the department, it was an nounced today by Secretary Davis. A few hours after the order had been issued permitting her to re main in this country, the princess called at the labor department and conferred with officials of the bu reau of naturalization. Facts and documents said to relate to" her birth in this country in 188i in Louis ville, Ky., were presented and this information, it was said, will be examined and official action taken within a few weeks. Princess Tschernitschew related her experiences as a stowaway and stewardess aboard a trans-Atlantic liner in reaching the United States after the crucifixion by bolshevists of her husband and the disappear ance of her eight-year-old son. - "My mother was a Russian and my father a German,':. Bhe said. VI shall endeavor to secure my father's naturalisation papers- and present them to the labor department. When this is done I have been assured I shall be . accorded naturalization papers, though I now claim Ameri can citizenship despite the fact that when X married into the Russian no bility I naturally sacrificed my citi zenship in this country." ; GRAIN HEARINGS ARE SET Discounts and Other Matters to . Be Considered June 12-13. SALEM, Or., June 6. (Special.) On June 12, in Seattle, and, on June 13, in Portland, joint public hearings of- the department of agriculture and the public service commission of Oregon will be held to prescribe and fix rules and discounts for the smutting of grain, and discounts for grain containing excess moisture, it was announced by the commission Monday. ' t Tne meeting in Seattle will be held at 10:30 o'clock and the hearing in Portland will take place at 10 o'clock. At both meetings a discus sion relating . to bonds, warehouse licenses, uniform warehouse receipts and like matters also will be held. LONE ROBBER GETS $800 Cigar .Man, Counting Money, Held Up at Point of Revolver. A lone robber, tempted by the sight of Sidney Brown, of the Brown Cigar company, counting his money last night, entered, held up Brown up at the point of a revolver and escaped with $800. The store is located at 124 North Broadway. Brown could give the police but a poor description of the man, who was unmasked. He is thought to be about 35 years old. A GIRL HE KNEW YEARS AGO. I Wireless to Transmit Selections Between 8 and 10 o'clock : From The Oregonian. A two-hour concert consisting of vocal-and violin solos, vocal solos with violin obbligato ' and violin duets, is slated tr be broadcast from The Oregonian tower tonight between 8 and 10 o'clock by J. B. Weed, manager of the shipowners' radio service and operator of The Oregonian set, The seven artists to take part are Pauline Miller-Chapman, mezzo soprano ; May Van' Dyck Hardwick, pianist; Miss Helen Stover of New York, soptano; Miss Constance Piper, pianist; Walter Hardwick, baritone;, and Maurice Leplat and Frank McMinn, vio linists! The list of selections to be given and the acknowledged excellence of the seven artists indicates that the concert will be one of the best ever broadcast in Portland. Many of the numbers to be played are by re quest and an unusually large num ber of inquiries have come into The Oregonian office as to where the concert can be heard. Miss Helen Stover, who will sing two solos, assisted at the piano by Miss Constance Piper, is a so prano whose fame : has already spread over the country both as a concert and an opera singer. Miss Stover is from New York city and is visiting in Portland as the guest of Miss Piper. Miss Stover will sing "The Star," by Rogers, and "The Birthday," by Woodman. All of the accompaniments with the exception of Miss Stover's solos, will be played by May Van Dyck Hardwick, who has already assisted gre'atly in several of The . Ore gonian's programmes. Instead of the usual '.custom of giving two separate concerts to night, the entire programme will be merged into one. Several of the artists participating will be in con certs elsewhere and will be rushed to and from The Oregonian build ing to take part in the radio pro gramme at different times. The first half-hour will be divided between Walter Hardwick, baritone, and Maurice Leplat, violinist . Nei ther is new to the radio audience, both having contributed to two pre vious converts in which they won many friends. - , The selections to be sung by Wal ter Hardwick are "Songs My Mother Taught Me" (Dvorak), . "Sweetest Story Ever Told" (Stults), and "Christ in Flanders" (Ward Stev ens). The violin solos to be played by Maurice Leplat are "Kol Nidrei," a celebrated Yiddish melody by Max Bruck; "Legende" (Wieniawski), "Walter's Prize Song" (Wagner) and "Berceuse" (Godard). Another Godard composition, "Midnight," will be played as a vio lin duet without piano accompani ment by Maurice Leplat and Frank McMinn, and the same composer's "Spanish Serenade" will be played as an encore,' with May Van Dyck Hardwick assisting at the piano. Violin duets are something that The Oregonian has not yet offered the radio audience and these tonight promise to be an exceptional treat The selections chosen by Pauline (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Protection of Wobblies Opposed by Mayor. ' UNION'S PLAINT IS HEARD Employers Deny Charge, but Probe Is Ordered. 200 HELD EMPLOYED City's Chief Executive Regnests Investigation in Reported Guard ing of Workers in Busses. Police protection will not be af forded to members of the Industrial Workers of the World as strike breakers in the waterfront lockout. according to a statement issued last night by Mayor Baker. . However, the police surviellance on the water front will be continued until either the strike is ended or a guarantee is made that no violence will occur on the docks. A group of striking longshore men called on Mayor Baker yester day and charged that more than 200 wobblies" were now on the job and that yesterday morning five busses with two policemen In each, drove up to the I. W. W. hall at 109 Second street and took 57 Inter national Workers of the World to work under their protection. Employers Deny Charges. A delegation of employers denied this, however, maintaining that the men were the same who had worked by the side of the union longshore men before the , strike, whenever extra men were needed. The men, they averred, were picked up at Sec ond and Washington, but not taken from the I. W. W. hall. ' Mayor Baker made It . plain that he would not tolerate any police protection to members of the L W. W. He ordered an immediate in quiry by Captain of Inspectors Moore as to police participation in the affair. In a communication Mayor Baker received last night from the water front employers' union, the names of 31 men they say were taken, in the machine at Second and Washington etreets were set forth, and it was said that with the possible excep tion ef five men the party had worked out of the longshoremen's hall in the past, some of them six years. - Payroll Records Offered. The employers offered Mayor Baker access, to the payroll records of different stevedoring companies as a means1 of checking the names of the men to establish whether they had been . engaged on the water front previously and to prove that they had been acceptable to the union in that they worked with its members in gangs. The attitude of the employers is that the men are experienced long shoremen; that in . the main they have stood with the union in the strike and are acceptable to them so long as they are not of the L W. W. element. They insist the men waited until the union men went to work on shipping board vessels before they left the fold of the strikers. - Late yesterday Uie mayor received word from the police "bureau to the effect that the police officers com plained of were special men, who were working under drders of' 'the employers. The maybr ordered that all special police officers work under the direction of the regular police officials in the future. I. W. W. Not Tolerated. ' "I have never had any tolerance of the L W. W.," said Mayor Baker, "because they are not a law-abiding organization. I am not in a position to say whether the complaint of the longshoremen is true or whether the employers' version of the affair is correct "But I have no, hesitancy in say ing that this administration will not protect the I. W. W. In any way, nor will it knowingly aid this organ ization in conducting Us campaign of revolution. And I" so informed both the longshoremen and the em ployers this afternoon." . .With reference to the statements hat the waterfront employers' union was employing men through the L W. ,W. hall and transporting men from that hall to work on 'the waterfront members of the water front employers' union say this is a distortion of facts. The statement made yesterday was as follows: "A number of men, about 30 in all, who had previously worked as extra men out of the International Longshoremen's association hall for from one to four years recently made overtures to the waterfront employers to go to work on the waterfront but requested ..that on the first day of employment they should not be asked to come to the employers hall, but could be picked up on the street at some nearby point... , Men Picked Up Tuesday. " "On Tuesday morning these men were picked up at Second and Wash ington streets and taken to thei (Concluded on Face 2, Column 4.) Northwestern Electric Company Has Trouble to Keep Steam Pipes Above Water. The Willamette river at Portland rose steadily yesterday. Lower levels of the docks already have been inundated by the rise of the river, which reached a stage of 20.4 ffofi ahfiv, 7&rft vsterdav. The Northwestern Electric company has experienced trouble In keeping some of its steam pipes clear of water. ' Th river roRA ht.ween two and three Inches yesterday during the period from 8 A. M. to 4 P. M. It Drobablv will continue to rise steadily for several days as a re sult of thA water camlnz down from the headwaters of the Columbia river. "ha -wreath- bureau predicted yesterday that the river would reach a stage of 20.9 feet today, 2L.T to Colder weather was reported in tho interior, whlfn. if Continued. will probably put a stop to the rise of the river. THE DALLES, Or., June 6. (Spe cial.) The Columbia river stood at 35.6 feet at 5 o'clock this afternoon. a rise of 2.1 feet during the last 36 hours, which now places it within seven feet of the high-water mark of last year, when many Second- street business basements were flooded. During the last several days of hot weather the river has been coming up on an average of 18 inches every 24 hours. Many truck gardens along the lowlands between The Dalles and Hood River are now under'water, although, fortunately, the lateness of the freshet this year gav the gardeners a chance to har vest most of their crops in time. Second-street merchants are now preparing to clear their basements of stocks which water would dam age, as moisture starts seeping in after the river has passed the 40 foot mark. BERRY PRICES TUMBLE Heavy Receipts Force Portland Market Quotations Down. Unusually heavy receipts of strawberries brought prices down with a rush yesterday. On the Yamhill market good berries could be bought at two boxes for iS cents and late in the day the ruling price was three boxes for a quarter. The Oregon crop' has come on with a rush and according to the growers the season will be unusual ly short. Some ef the larger berry farmers reported tnat two or three days' picking would end their harvest SALESMAN IS SUICIDE Edward Sams Takes Poison at Home of Brother on East Side. Kdward Sams. 30, a salesman for the Glidden company, paint dealers. took poison at 6 o'clock last night and died about midnight. The deed mv-nrred .at the home of .Sams' brother, Harry, at 386 Glen avenue. Although the poison was taken by Sams early in the evening, the police were not notified. The fam ily doctor, Dr. Webster, was called, and it was not until after midnight that the police learned of the case, They began an investigation. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS i The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 73 decrees; 'minimum, 66 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. Xational. Iowa democrats take new hope. Page 1. Gates of America opened to Princess. Page 1- Domestic. Rotary convention opened in Los Ange les. Page 2. Broadcloth suit yields $900 in gold when cremated with body of owner. Page 2. Great white way mourns for Lillian Bus sell. , Page 8. New cut of 139,669,347. made in rail pay. Page 1. Smith W. Brookhart nominated In Iowa. Page 1. ' Deckhand of ship Jumps job after voy age with animals. Page 3. Richard Ballinger dies in Seattle. Page . Pacific Northwest. Phone talk meter hearing to wait Page 5. Sports. Challenger here after mat crown. Page 14. Pacific Coast league results: At Seattle 3, Portland 2; at Vernon 5, Oakland 6; at San Francisco 2, Los Angeles 1; at Salt Lake-Sacramento', no game, teams traveling. Page 14. Shocker hangs up 12th victory of sea son. Page 14. Portland Golf club wins Davis cup. .... Page 15. ' Commercial and Marine. Northwestern wheat crop estimated at . 60 to 90 per cent of normal. Page 22. Wheat lower at Chicago with foreigners offering to resell, rage z. Bond- market continues irregular. Page 23. Big glass cargoes come from Belgium. Page 22. Reaction strikes New York market. Page 23. Portland and Vicinity. Radio to send out two-hour concert to night, rage i. Summer reduction in charities planned. . Page 10. , Work on Pacific highway depends on Polk. Page 11. Lower ' dock levels flooded by river. Page 1. First .decoration for Rose Festival 2s placed. Page 9. Three-cornered fight on to control cen tral committee. rage f. Police protection denieed I. W. W. dock - strikebreakers. Page 1. Disbarment of Woerndle asked. Page 4. Seven new grange locals formed during year, rage River wreck blamed on mixed signals. 'Page 4. Some east side men protest vacating streets tor terminal, rage a. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 22. Colorful Juanita Miller visits Portland. Page 6. Railroad revenues increase 41 per cent. Page 6. Ex-Secretary of Interior Passes Away. PINCHOT ROW RECALLED Cabinet Member Backed by ex-President Taft. ALASKAN GRAFT CHARGED Removal of Forester and Resig nation of Chief Executive's Friend End of Dispute. SEATTLE, Wash., June 8. Judge Richard A. Ballinger, who was sec retary of the interior during Presi dent Taf t's administration, died here tonight at "his home after an Illness of two days. Judge Ballinger first complained of not feeling well Sunday while at his summer home on Ballinger lake, a few miles north of Seattle, and as a result of his indisposition returned to his home in Seattle. He remained at home yesterday, but was sufficiently recovered today to go to his office. Shortly after his return from his -office his oldest son, Richard Talbot Ballinger, be came alarmed over his father's ap parently critical condition and sum moned a nursej who was in the house caring for another member of the family. Three physicians were im mediately summoned, but Judge Ballinger died within a short time. Heart trouble was given as the cause. of death. Kicnard Acnuies Ballinger was the central figure of an acrimon'ous dispute over the development of the Alaskan coal fields in 1910 and 1911 when he was secretary of the in terior in the cabinet of President Taft . boon after his appointment . as secretary in 1909, Mr. Ballinger set about deciding title to the Alaskan coal land claims. Louis R. Glavis. chief of the Alaskan field division of the general land office, had made ' an investigation of the validity of the claims of the so-called Cunning ham group, in the Bering river dis trict, and recommended their can cellation. . Row Is Recalled. Glavis became involved in a con troversy with Secretary Ballinger, alleging that the secretary - was (ffriendly to the Cunningham inter ests. Glavis was dismissed from of fice. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the forestry service, a branch of the department of agriculture, took up the fight for Glavis, attacking Bal linger. President Taft sided' with Ballinger and removed Pinchot from office. Pinchot, however, continued his campaign against Ballinger. President Taft never wavered in his support of the secretary, but Ballinger relieved his chief of fur ther embarrassment by resigning in 1911 on the ground of ill-health. Meanwhile the charges against the Cunningham claimants had been pressed, under Ballinger's adminis tration. . Secretary of the Interior Fisher rendered a decision in Aug ust 1912, ordering cancellation of the claims and sustaining the charges of fraud. Following this decision all but a few of 1100 coal claims in Alaska were canceled, ftowa Is Birthplace. Born in Bonnesborough, ' Iowa, July 9, 1S58, Ballinger was the son of Colonel Richard H. 'Ballinger, a distinguished officer of the civil war. The boy accompanied his father into the southern camps, and saw much of war. He was grad uated in 1884 from Williams college, where he was a classmate of James R. Garfield, afterward secretary of the interior in President Roosevelt's cabinet From college young Ballinger went into a law office, was ad mitted to the bar and soon after wards went to Port Townsend, Wash., -where he practiced law. In 1886 he married Julia A. Bradley. Elected superior judge in 1892 Mr. ' Ballinger served four years. - At the end of his term he removed to Seat tle and continued to practice law, having in the meantime greatly en hanced his standing by a compila tion of thts codes and statutes of Washington, which is still the standard work in that state. He was mayor of Seattle in 1904-06. - Iavr Practice Resumed. The following year, on the recom mendation of Secretary of the In terior Garfield, President Roosevelt appointed Ballinger commissioner of the general land office, where he simplified its methods and cleared up accumulated business. In recent years Mr. Ballinger has practiced law in Seattle. VISCOUNT FRENCH EARL Honors Conferred on Field Mar shal by King George. LONDON, June 6. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The dignity of an' earl of the United Kingdom, with the hereditary title of the Earl of Ypres, has been conferred by King George upon Field Marshal Viscount French. The announcement was made to day in the official gazette.