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
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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.)
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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.