VOL. LXI NO. 19,215 Entered at JortUt. 4 (Oregon.-
Postoffice as Second-class Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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HARDING CANCELS
TRIP TO' ALASKA
LGOME
ROSE FETE CONCERT
WILL BE BROADCAST
BERRIAN BAND AND SOLOISTS
PRINCIPALS IN EVENT.-
MRS. OLESEN VICTOR
r IN SENATORIAL RACE
DEMOCRATS OF MINNESOTA
NAME WOMAN FOR POST.
MR. LODGE HELD
MARCONI INVENTS
RADIO SEARCHLIGHT
GIVEN PRINCESS
T
OF
PRESIDENT SATS PUBLIC
BUSINESS INTERFERES.
WAVES ARE CONCENTRATED
IN ONE DIRECTION.
EN
ROYAL
HASTE IN MERGER
RULES PORTLAND
A
INVINCIBLE
ROADS
URGED
Harriet Makes Stately
Entry to Festival City.
CROWNING IS BRILLIANT
Court Soothsayers Predict
Most Happy Reign.
WHOLE WORLD BOWS
President Harding's Envoy and
Other Notable Visitors Take
Part in Ceremonies.
TODAY'S FESTIVAL EVENTS.
Rose show and Sportsmen
Tourist show at armory and
festival center In park blocks
open all day.
1:30 P. M. Regatta on "Wil
lamette river between Morri
son and Hawthorne bridges.
3 P. M. Miss Alice Mary
Robertson, Oklahoma - repre
sentative in congress and
President Harding's r e p r e
sentative to festival, -speaks at
auditorium to public.
9 P. M. Admiral's ball,
grand ballroom Multnomah
hotel, to invited guests only.
BY CLARK H. WILLIAMS.
Harriet, the Gracious, queen of all
Rosaria, entered upon her rule yes
terday, acclaimed by hrer faithful
subjects and surrounded by pomp
and circumstance due her exalted
rank. Court soothsayers yesterday
foretold, when she grasped the
scepter, that her reign will be most
happy of all the monarchs who have
ruled before her.
Frontiers ot other countries are
marked by frowning forts and
armed guards, but not so the delect
able realm of Queen Harriet I, which
has no boundaries. Wherever in all
the world the rose nods its lovely
head on its swaying stem and the
eye of the beholder glows with hom
age to its beauty, there is Rosaria
there are subjects of Queen Harriet
who, throughout all her far-flung
empire, chose Portland for her
capital.
Whole World Pay Homage. .
In a manner of speaking, one
might say the whole world bowed in
homage to the queen of roses yes
terday. President Harding was rep
resented by Miss Alice Mary Rob
ertson,. Oklahoma representative in
Congress. Brigadier-General Blatch-
ford headed a delegation of army
officers, who brought greetings
from that branch of the service. Ad
miral Mayo, United States fleet com
mander during the war, and Captain
G. L. P. Stone, commanding the bat-
. tleship Connecticut, and his staff,
. made up an. impressive naval group
that gave their allegiance to Queen
Harriet.
But her beneficent reign extends
far wider still. Over everyone who
has looked into the heart of a rose
and has been moved by its beauty
Rosaria's queen rules as, his true
sovereign and to her he owes life
long allegiance.
Day Always Remembered.
The one day in the year when the
queen comes to mount her throne
and ruie over her delightful realm
is never forgotten, but always hap
p'ly remembered. So yesterday was
gala with events and the city was
fen fete for its new ruler.
Queen Harriet entered her domain
yesterday morning, the royal barge
with Rosaria's ruler and her court
appearing, magically, upon the Wil-
la-iette river. Saluted by warcraft
i-nd steamers in the harbor and at
lenoea oy Doats festooned with
roses, the queen was the center of a
colorful river pageant that was
viewed from the river's banks, the
bridges and steamers by innumer
able happy subjects.
The coronation of Rosaria's charm
ing queen was the big event of the
afternoon. With beautiful Laurel
hurst park as the setting, the cere
mony of Queen Harriet mounting
her throne and the placing of the
royal diadem upon her brow was a
pageant of rare delight.
Festival Center Visited.
Immediately afterward, the royal
party went to the Festival Center,
where the - queen declared that
beauty spot opened and bestowed
it upon her subjects for their de
light, enjoining all to cast dull
care and usual enterprises of in
dustry tnC commerce away f0r the
four festival days that they may
make merry and frolic amid , the
city's roses.
Probably there were no fewer
than 20,000 people present at Queen
. Harriet's coronation. Immense as
Laurelhurst park is, it seemed filled
yesterday afternoon. Every vantage
point held its hundreds and thou
sands. About the dias, banked with
shrubbery and flowers, where the
royal throne had been established,
Rosaria's subjects were crowded In
a far sweeping mass.
The royal procession descended
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Acceptance of Invitations to Visit
Western Cities Also Expect-
ed to Be Declined.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 20.
President Harding's tentatively
projected Alaskan trip this summer
has been abandoned, it was an
nounced definitely today at the
White House.
The president was said to regret
greatly that 'he saw no possibility
of leaving: Washington under pre
vailing: conditions of public busi
ness. ' The president had accepted ten
tatively, dependent on his making
Uthe Alaska trip, a number of invita
tions to visit western cities and also
two British Columbian cities. While
House did not mention specifically
these acceptances it was presumed
that they all would have to be de
clined at least for thlssummer.
Abandonment of the president's
plan to visit Alaska will not inter
fere with Secretary Fall's trip, it
was said at the interior department,
except possibly to remove a cause
for further delay. If the -president
had decided to go to Alaska, it was
explained, then Secretary Fall would
probably' have timed his departure
from Washington so as to join the
president as the original plans con
templated. As the situation now
stands the interior secretary may
possibly leave for the coast within
two weeks or so, it was intimated.
227 SEAUONARE SLAIN
Oregon State Hunter Commences
- Work on Coast. '
MABSHFIELD, Or., June 20.
(Special.) The season of seallon
hunting is on, and William Hunter,
who last year contracted with the
state . of Oregon to slaughter the
animals along the Oregon coast.
started at the Cape Blanco reef.
killing in his first raid 227. This
work was done during quiet weather
and the high trade winds which
blow from the northwest; create so
much" disturbance .about the rocks
that the killers cannot land. Busi
ness during such times is suspended.
Hunter intends to finish work on
the Rogue river reef this week and
then visit Blanco reef again and
work northward afterward.
SLAYER GETS LIFE TERM
Confessed Murderer of Oregon
Woman Is Sentenced.-
JACKSON, Mich., June 20. George
Straub, confessed slayer of Alice
Mallett, pleaded guilty to first, de
gree morrder in the Jackson county
circuit court this morning and im
mediately was sentenced to soli
tary confinement at hard labor for
life in Marquette prison
Miss Mallett, who was matron at
a girl's home, was murdered about
10 days ago, having apparently been
attacked wiith an ax. Her head was
crushed and her body mutilated In
a night attack as she was en route
to ii-er home. Her parents live in
Ontario, Or. -
BIGAMY CHARGED TO DRY
Leader of Moral Crusade Faces
Swindle Charges.
LOS ANGELES, CaL, June 21.
Rev. Donald D. Stewart, well-
Known tnrougnout California as a
temperance worker, credited with
having caused the elimination of
segregated districts from a number
of towns of the state, and author
of the song "We'll Make California
Dry," was arrested near Sierra
Madre, 20 miles northeast ot Los
Angeles, tonight.
It is charged that he had com
mitted bigamy in several states and
had swindled his wives out of thou
sands of dollars.
SEATTLE MAN HONORED
Marshal Joffre Decorates Samuel
Hill, Guide on V. S. Trip.
PARIS, .Tune 20. Marshal Joffre,
in the name of the French govern
ment, today decorated with the in
signia of officer of the Legion of
Honor, Samuel Hill of Seattle, who
esoonea tne marshal across the
United States on his recent trio.
Marshal Joffre alluded to the hap
piness which had been afforded him
Dy n-is reception in America.
WAR SECRETARY RAPPED
Mr. Weeks Said to Be Out of Xnne
With Administration.
TOPEKA, Kan June 20. Senator
Capper of Kansas, in a special dis
patch received here tonight, de
clared that Secretary of War Weeks
is out of tune with the Harding ad
ministration. The senator added that if the sec
retary does not resign, his resigna
tion might very properly be re
quested by the president.
PROPERTY RETURN URGED
Aliens May Recover Holdings
Seized in War Time, i
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20.
Legislation is being prepared, with
President Harding's sanction, which
will return to approximately 30,000
Germans and Austrians property
taken over during the war by the
nlien nrnnprtv rMiarnriinn in nmminta
of $10,000 or less. It was announced
today at the White House.
Heiress to Fete Crown
Lands in City.
RIVER PAGEANT GORGEOUS
New Ruler Wins All Hearts
, by Simple Cordiality.
HARDING SENDS REGRETS
Miss Alice Robertson Reads Note
From President Expressing
Inability to Be Here.
From somewhere on the Willam
ette river just where is of no con
cern Princess Harriet, heir to the
crown of Rosaria, boarded her pala
tial yacht yesterday morning, sailed
up and down the river, and as bands
played, cameras clicked, and while
crowds cheered and guns boomed in
salute, made her initial entry into
the kingdom over which she now
rules with her fair smile.
As the steam yacht Wisdom,
carrying this fair princess, who has
already won her subjects with her
winsome and unostentatious man
her, and her court of honor, lnclud
ing eight charming young ladies,
pulled into midstream, 50 boats of
every size and description, all decfi
rated in holiday ' attire, appeared,
and joined in escort to the royal
party.
Day Is Ideal.
It was an ideal day for a river
pageant, with the sun dodging, in
among the clouds, as if to insure a
comfortable passage for the young
sovereign. Thousands lined the
bridges, the docks and the river
banks to watch and cheer as the
parade passed -in review.
The long line jbf river craft was
led by the lighthouse tender Manza-
nita, on which-the Royal Rosarlan
band was stationed. Following close
behind was the J. C. Post, a ship
operated by the United States engi
neers, which was not only bedecked
with national colors, but bore a
huge red rose on , the sides of its
main sail. ' . . .
r Fireboat In Gay.
Flags, flowers ' and greens com
pletely covered the brass nozzles on
the fireboat George H. Williams, so
that had it not been for the trim
firemen aboard this ship one' could
not have recognized her in the line.
Small miniature battleships, com
plete as to detail of equipment, not
excepting the wireless overhead.
darted in and out of the line as
representatives of the flotilla of
destroyers now in the harbor.
The flagship Connecticut was rep
resented by the Santa Maria, a
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The Oregonlah Will Offer Fine
Programme to Radio Fans
Tonight From Tower. -
A Rose Festival radio concert in
two parts will be broadcast from
The Oregonian tower between 8
and 10 o'clock tonight. During the
first hour radio listeners wIlL have
opportunity to hear a band concert
by the Newberg Berrian band, di
rected by "Hal" Campbell, and "at
9 o'clock will begin one of the best
concerts thus far . broadcast from
the tower. . In it will be heard May
Dearborn Schwab, soprano; Dom J.
Zan, baritone, and Louis Kaufman,
violinist. ' '
May Dearborn Schwab is known
as the mother of radio singing in
Portland, having provided the first
recognized radio entertainment dur
ing the last community music week.
She has appeared in a previous con
cert in The Oregonian tower and
has a host of friends in the regular
radio audience. Tonight she will
sing "You in a Gondola," "By the
Waters of Minnetonka," with violin
obligato; "Oh Lovely Night" and
"From the Land of the Sky Blue
Water." Her accompanist will be
Mrs. Arthur Crafts.
Mr. Kaufman recently returned
from New York, where he studied
with Knefsel, and the concert to
night will mark his second public
work since he arrived in Portland.
His hand is considered one of the
finest in the city and his violin
contributions to the concert promise
to be an excellent treat. Mr. Kauf
man will be accompanied by Susie
Michael and will play as his selec
tions "Gypsy Airs" (Sarasate), and
two Kreisler compositions, "La
Gitana" and ''Hindoo Charms."
Perhaps the voice of Mr. Zan is
better known in Portland than any
other baritone here and tonight will
be his first radio introduction. The
original announcement that he
would sing for radio has created
unusual interest among the fans
and Mr. Zan has chosen four of the
best numbers from his repertoire
for them. His selections are "On
the Road to Mandalay" (Speaks),
"Your Eyes Have Told Me So'
(O'Hara), "Gipsy John" (Clay), and
"Only in Dreams" (DeKoven). He
will be assisted at the piano by
Mrs. Van Renssalaer Strandburgh.
The Berrian band is in town to
participate in the Rose Festival,
and as many of the players as can
be accomodated in the tower broad
casting room will assist in the band
concert. Miss Evah Hadley, queen
of the Berrians' float, will sing sev-
eral solos between the band num
bers. The band is directed by
Mr. Campbell of the Seiberling
Lucas Music company, and he has
submitted the following programme:
"Invercargill", march ; "Serenade,"
baritone solo; "The - Enchantress,"
"Golden Memories." "Exuberance," "Ap
ple Blossoms," "Plantation Songs," "Kiss
Me Again and Cyrus the Great."
HAWLEY CONCERTS GIVEN
Hundreds' of Portland Fans En
tertained by Programme.
Two radio concerts, broadcast
from the Hawley Jr. radiophone
station KYG entertained hundreds
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FESTIVAL VISITORS A FEW
Miss Kaerschner Is Nominated oy
Republicans for Clerkship
' - of Supreme Court.
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 20. (By
the Associated Press.) A woman
has been nominated for United
States 'senator by a major political
party for the first time in the his
tory of the country.
This became apparent tonight
when returns from half the pre
cincts participating in Monday's pri
mary election showed Mrs.' Anna
Dickie Olesen had captured the sen
atorial nomination of the demo
cratic party from two male oppo
nents.
When 1715 of the state's 3348 pre
cincts had reported, Mrs. Olesen had
a margin of 4200 Votes over Thomas
Melghen, her nearest opponent, the
count then , standing: Mrs. Olesen,
18.212;,,Mr. Meighan, 14,029.
Opposing Mrs. Olesen in - the
November election will be Minne
sota's junior senator, Frank B. Kel
logg, who was renominated on the
republican ticket with other state
officers Indorsed by the party's
state convention. Henrik Shipsted,
farmer-labor candidate, also will be
an opponent. .
The closest contest of the pri
mary was that in the third con
gressional district, where "Charles R,
Davis, representative, and Reuben
Thoreen fought it out for the re
publican nomination, with Mr. Davis
holding a slight advantage tonight,
when 269 of the district's 2? pre
cincts had reported. With seven
missing, Mr. Davis had 19,928 votes
and Mr. Thoreen. 19,803 in the un
official compilation.
- While the democrats were nom
inating Mrs. Olesen for the federal
senate the republicans were nom
inating Miss Grace F. Kaerscher of
Ortonville for clerk of the supreme
court over Herman Mueller, Incum
bent Miss Kaerscher had the in
dorsement' of the state convention.
Born in Minnesota 36 years ago,
Mrs. Olesen lived on a farm In, the
southern port of the state until she
was married to Peter Olesen. now
superintendent of city schools at
Cloquet They have one child, Mary,
14 years old. who has taken an
active interest in her mother's entry
into poiltics. j
SENATOR HALE EASY VICTOR
Incumbent Renominated in Maine
Dy Republican party.
PORTLAND, Me.,' June 20. Fred
erick Hale, senator, republican,
without making a personal cam
paign, won an easy victory in the
state primaries yesterday. The vote
cast for him was larger than the
total for his two opponents, Frank
E. Guernsey, ex-representative, and
Howard Davies, ex-state senator,
and Ms plurality over Mr. Guernsey
Was nearly 20,000. Mr. Davies ran
a poor third.
Percival P. Baxter, governor, re
publican, " was renominated by a
plurality of 25,000 over John P, Deer
ing, with Leon F. Higgins trailing.
Representatives Beedy, White, Nel
son and Hersey, all republicans,
were renominated without opposi
tion. The democrats nominated for
senator, Oakley C. Curtis, ex-gover-(Conclude
on Page 4, Column 1.)
OREGON ATTRACTIONS.
Massachusetts' Support
Thought Certain.
SENATOR EXPECTS TO WIN
Third Candidate Needed to
. Upset Dope. .
FEARS ARE CALLED BUNK
Political Leaders, Far Distant
From State, Are Only Ones
Who Feel Any Qualms.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright, '-1922, by New York Evening
Poet, Inc. Published by arrangement.)
BOSTON, June 20. (Special.)
Every once in so often you read
in newspapers distant from Massa
chusetts that the fight against
Senator Lodge is going to be the
big feature of the political show
this year. Only last week Senator
Moses of New Hampshire said the
Lodge campaign in Massachusetts
would be the leading political event
of the year and that he. Moses, ex
pects to pass all his time helping
Lodge in his fight.
In all this kind of talk there is
more hope on the part of the na
tional democratic leaders distant
from Massachusetts and apprehen
sion on the part of the national re
publican leaders than anything elsr
Here on the ground in Massachu
setts, as things stand today, you
oan't figure out any way thatLodge
can be beaten: Only some unfor
seen happening between now and
November can give the democrats
the faintest chance of retiring
Lodg.
Iode Expected to Win.
mere are plenty of persons in
Massachusetts and many t of the
gpoa people and important people,
wno disapprove of Lodge for hi3
course on the league of nations
but most of them will vote for
Lodge in November just the same.
What good would it do them to re
place Lodge with a democrat when
everybody knows that the demo
cratic organization In this state is
more anti-league of nations than
Lodge himself?
For that matter, the ' league of
nations is not cutting any figure in
the present political thought of this
state. In Washington and New
York and elsewhere it has been
widely printed that Lodge's oppon
ents were going to beat him by
making use of another republican,
ex-Governor Samuel McCall. There
was never anything in that. McCall,
himself, never gave any counten
ance to it and never had any real
thought of becoming active in the
campaign. ,
Organization Is Satisfied.
' If McCall had determined to run
in the republican primaries against
Ledge he would not have received
one vote in five. The republican
organization is completely satisfied
with Lodge and will be for him with
a strength that no outsider can
overcome. -
The only strategy that could pos
sibly endanger Lodge would be to
persuade McCall to run on an inde
pendent third ticket in November.
In such an event McCall might get
enough republican votes to give
victory to the democrats. But no
body can expect McCall to do that
He is a man who has spent almost
a whole lifetime as a republican
governor. He is not going to end
his career with a spite candidacy
that could have no possible outcome
extfept to help the democrats.
Lodge is pretty near invincible in
Massachusetts. The state thinks of
him, with his 30 years in the senate,
as Its most distinguished public
figure and that sort of pride counts
for much in Massachusetts.
. Democrat Have Nobody.
The democrats haven't anybody
they can nominate, who even faintly
approaches Lodge's standing In the
state. If ex-President Wilson should
take a personal hand in the effort
to beat Lodge, as he has in the case
of Reed, that would make votes
for Lodge. That is the temper of
Massachusetts.
If t,he other democratic leader,
Mr. Cox, of Ohio, should come into
Massachusetts to speak against
Lodge, that again would help Lodge.
If the tariff should turn out to be
unacceptable to Massachusetts and
it seems likely it will, the Massa
chusetts republicans will say Lodge
is not to blame.
They will say that Lodge would
have made a good tariff if those
wicked western farm bloc repub
lican senators had only let him.
In short the . distinction and
length of Mr. Lodge's public career
have given him an invincible hold
on Massachusetts. You could no
more dislodge Lodge than dislodge
the sacred god from the statehouse
wall. There will be candidates and
a fight for the democratic nomina
tion, but that will be more a case
of getting in line for future honors
than any real expectation ot beat
ing Lodge this year.
Famous Italian Thinks Device
Can Be Used to Rid Sea of '
Some of Its Terrors.
NEW YORK, June 20. Senor Mar
coni, wonder man of wireless, to
night announced the invention of
what might be termed a radio
searchjjght, by means of which radio
waves, which can be reflected like
light waves, may be sent in a given
direction in a beam, instead of being
scattered to all points of the com
pass. v
The famous Italian said he be
lieved this Invention could be uti
lized in such a manner as to rid the
sea of some of its terrors, for, with
a revolving reflector, the transmit
ter would constitute a radio light
house, capable of flashing guiding
beams nearly a hundred miles.
Addressing a joint meeting of the
Institute of Radio Engineers and
the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers on his latest discoveries,
the inventor said of the proposed
radio lighthouse:
"By means of the revolving beam
of electrical radiation, it is possible
for shipsr when within a certain
distance, to ascertain in thick
weather, the bearing and position of
the lighthouse.
"It seems to me that it should be
possible to design apparatus by
means of which a ship could radiate
or project a divergent beam of the
short wave rays in any desired di
rection, which rays, if coming across
a metallic object, such as another
steamer, would be reflected back to
a receiver on the sending ship and
thereby immediately reveal the
presence and bearing of the other
ship In a fog or thick weather. One
further great advantage of such an
arrangement would be that it would
be ablo to give warningof the pres
ence and bearing of ships, even
should these ships be unprovided
with any kind of radio."
Marconi's radio searchlight bears
little resemblance to the battleship
searchlight It is rather a special
arrangement of wires on towers or
masts.
During his lecture Marconi ex
hibited pictures of reflectors resem
bling the weird apparatus pictured
in imaginary tales of the' conquest
of the world by Martians. Through
the use of these reflectors at both
ends, clear speech was exchanged
during experiments over a distance
of 99 miles, between London and
Birmingham, he announced, estab
lishing a teccrd in long-dfttance
radio transmission and reception
with short wavea.
SHOWERS ARE FORECAST
Weather Man Bound to Dampen
Rose Festival Pleasures.
: Showers and cooler weather were
forecast by the weather bureau for
today, in spite of the pleas of Port
land citizens for fair weather dur
ing Rose Festival week. South
westerly winds are scheduled to
bring the unwelcome rain-bearing
clouds.
An appeal has been made to
Mayor Baker by various prominent
citizens, and the mayor has inti
mated that he may refuse the clouds
the use of the city.' ,
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.-
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
77 degrees; minimum 61 degrees.
TODAY'S Scattered showers and cooler;
. moderate southwesterly winds.
Foreign. -Sir
Craig's castle stormed by mob.
Page 1.
Britain has plan to appease Russia.
Page 6.
National.
Senate makes bonus bill special order
following disposition of tariff. Page 2.
Senator Lodge held about invincible.
-Page 1.
Harding cancels trip to Alaska. Page 1.
Domestic.
Fourteen liquor-laden autos captured In
duel. Page 3.
Haste in merger of roads is urged.
Page 1.
Marconi invents radio searchlight. Page 1.
Mrs. Olesen wins democratic nomination
in Minnesota. Page 1. ,
Strike now would be disastrous for rail
way unions, says labor board chief.
Page 6.
McCormick gets copy of divorce. Page 6.
Woman physician says birth control is
certain to come. Page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
Officers In guard promoted for day.
Page 5.
Clatsop sheriff halts vigilantes. Page 5.
Veteran official to retain place. Page 7.
Ex-Oregon man is murdered. Page 4.
Sports.
Browns win, 7 to 3.. from Athletics.
Page 14.
Regatta on river booked ' for today,
t Page 15.
Pacific Coast league results: At Los
Angeles, Vernon 9, Portland 7; at
Oakland 4. Seattle 1 ; at Sacramento
1, San Francisco 7 ; at Salt Lake 6,
Los Angeles 5. Page 14.
Ruth is suspended for naughty talk.
Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat bids advanced, but trading Is
limited. Page 22.
Dry weather reports lift wheat prices at
Chicago. Page 22. 1
Trend of bond market Is upward.
Page 23.
Recent conferences believed to forecast
end of watertront strike. Page 15.
New York bond market firm and buoy
ant Page 22.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland greets Princess Harriet. Page 1.
Flowers beautify festival center. Page 8.
Tongs officially sign peace. Page 13.
Boatswain's mate of navy drowned dur-
" ing Rose Festival marine parade.
- Page 9.
fvnse Fete concert will be broadcast
tonight by The Oregonian. Page 1.
Gilbert school boara row may be taken
to court. Page 12. i
Harriet crowned Rosaria's queen. Page 1.
Portland's choicest roses -now on dis
play at armory show. Page 9.
Switching rates on east side cut Page 7.
Weather report, . data and forecast
Page I. . .
3 State Commissions
Join in Appeal.
GROUPING THOUGHT SOLUTION
Southern Pacific May Put
Central Stock in Escrow.
MR. HERRIN GIVES VIEW
Action to Be Taken if Rehearing
. of Case Is Denied by Su
preme Court..
SAN FRANCISCO, June 20. A
conference of public utility com
missioners from far-western states
to discuss the Southern Pacific-Central
Pacific separation question
closed today with a telegraphic ap
peal by the commissions of Cali
fornia, Arizona and New Mexico to
the interstate commerce commission
to expedite its proposed consolida
tion scheme for the two railroads
under authority of the transporta
tion act of 1920.
Comm.issoners Heywood of Utah
and Simmons of Nevada declined to
join in the appeal on the ground
that they were only authorized to
attend the conference to obtain in-
formation on the situation, while
the Oregon body made no appear
ance here, notifying the California
railroad commission that publ'o
opinion in Oregon was divided on
the question.
New Mexico Not Represented.
New Mexico was not represented
at the conference, but authorized
the California commission' to appeal
to the interstate commerce commis
sion on its behalf. The three bodies
took the position that retention of
the Central Pacific by the Southern
Pacific seemed at the present time
the best thing for their states from
the standpoint of service and gen
eral public interest. The telegram
was signed by D. F. Johnson, chair
man of the Arizona corporation
commission, H. W. Brundige, presi
dent of the- California railroad com
mission, and by U. H. Williams,
chairman of the New Mexico cor
poration commission through
Brundige.
Although the recent Unite'd States
supreme court decision which caused
the conference ordered the sepa
ration of the two lines as a com
bination in violation of the Sherman
anti-trust law, it was brought out
that after the unmerger took place
the interstate commerce commission
would be authorized, under the'
transportation act of 1920, to put the
two roads together as part of its
programme for grouping all Amer
ican railroad lines into a few large
systems.
Southern Pai-lnc Favored.
It was generally agreed that the
only possible future" for the Central
Pacific would be control either by
the Southern Pacific or the Union
Pacific, and the California, Arizona
and New Mexico commissions took
the view that Southern Pacific con
trol was more to the public interest
Accordingly they asked the inter
state commerce commission to con
sider the far western railroad situ
ation before It took up the south
eastern transportation question.
If the supreme court fails to
grant a rehearing, the Southern Pa
cific will put the Central Pacific
stock in escrow in the hands of a
trustee to be held until the inter
state commerce commission carries
out its ' proposed new grouping, it
was indicated today by William Y.
Herrin, general counsel for the
Southern Pacific company.
A declaration that if the Union
Pacific comes Into control of the
Central Pacific, California will have
a period of free competition in serv
ice that it never has had before,
and that the Union Pacific's past
record of development will be car
ried out in this state, was made by
Fred G. Athearn, a San Francisco at
torney, appearing for the Union
company. .
Discrimination Is Charged.
"Except when the Central Pacific
was controlled by the Union Pacific
under E. H. Harriman, the Union
Pacific always has been discrimin
ated against in the movement of
traffic," said Athearn, "because the
tonnage has moved by the Southern
route. That discrimination should
be removed.
"I promise you that the Union Pa-'
cific will stand by its record of
operating all of its lines for the
development of the communities it
serves, regardless of whether there
is competition or not. In on valley
in Idaho, scercely-25 miles apaft, we
have three lines and no competition
to cause it either. We have kept
in the vanguard of development and
not behind H.
"I might point out to you what
free competition has done by ask
ing you to think of your sister city.
Los Angeles, with three competing
transcontinental lines. Allhougli
we only acquired the Clark inter
ests in the Los Angeles & Sau
Lake railroad a year ago, vvi- it,
mediately started relaying railb an;!
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