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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LXI SO. 19,234 Entered at Portland (Ore.a:,) T Postorficc um Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS HOSPITAL CENTER SLATED FOR CITY Colonel "Forbes to Urge Hahnemann Purchase. 8 CHILDREN BLOWN " GING WRECKS SPOT ON MARS DUE TO VAPOR, IS THEORY TRAIN KILLS MOTHER- OFF AT NEGRO KINGS RESENT TRATMENT IN PARIS T TO PIECES BY SHELL TWO CHILDREN SAVED STER'SWE ES IS SCHOOL CLERK CROQUET PLAYERS KILLED VAST WHITE AREA DECLARED ELLENSBURG WOMAN MEETS DEATH ON TRESTLE. 30 AFRICANS STRIKE AND GO ON PARADE. BY SOUVENIR OF WAR. IMPORTANT FIND. RIALS AMAZEQ rail V CITY OFFICIALS ARE ELATED improvement of Pierce San itarium Is Advised. DISABLED MEN VISITED Director of Veterans' Bureau Fa vors Keeping Tubercular Sol diers in Home State. Government purchase of the Hahnemann nospital and its , de velopment as one of the important institutions on the Pacific coast will be recommended by Colonel Charles R. Forbes, director of the United States Veterans' bureau. Colonel Forbes gave this, promise to Mayor Baker and other Portland officials last night before leaving the city for Spokane. He expressed himself as greatly pleased with the hospital. Furthermore, if the Pierce Sani tarium is modernized to the speci fications set forth by the American Tuberculosis association, no Oregon soldiers will be transferred from the institution, and enough con tract patients will be guaranteed to the hospital to make it worth while to accomplish the improve ments. City Official Elated. The sweeping pledges made by Colonel Forbes elated city officials. Practically everything sought by the city was promised by the di 1 . ;tor. The action of the director re sulted from a conference arranged by Mayor Baker, which was held in council chambers yesterday morning. At this conference promi nent men and women urged the measures, and they laid particular stress on the fact that Oregon sol diers should not be' transferred to other hospitals outside of the state, where they could not be visited by .their relatives and friends. Assurances that Oregon soldiers would be treated in Oregon when ever practicable were given at the conference by Colonel Forbes. Fol lowing the meeting, the director made a tour of inspection of the Hahnemann hospital and the Pierce sanitarium, after which he made his statements concerning the in stitutions. ! Hospital li'nder Lease. The Hahnemann hospital ' is lo cated at East Second and Multno mah streets. It was taken over by the government one year ago under a five-year lease and has been used as a general government medical and surgical -hospital since that time under the direction of the United States public health service. "The general medical and surgical eases are reducing very rapidly," Colonel Forbes declared at the city hall conference. "We 'believe that the peak of these cases will be reached in 1926, when we estimate there will be 42,000 patients hospi talized. At the present time we are caring for 31,000 cases. The principal groups are com posed of the tuberculosis and the psychosis, or mental and nervous, cases. Cases Are Prolonged. . "We will have those cases with us for many years to come. At St Elizabeth's hospital in Washington, the finest of its kind in the world, we have some cases that have been there since ,1861. "The matter of government hos pitals in the state of Washington, my home state, has been called to my attention. I have recommended just one hospital there, the govern ment hospital at Camp Lewis. The tuberculosis hospital at Walla Walla was conceived a long time before I became head of the bureau. No se lection of a site for a hospital has been made by me without first seek ing expert advice from the medical profession Improvement Is Necessary. "As to a hospital here, the Pierce sanitarium is not a -modern, well equipped institution. I did receive many protests asking that the pa tients be Continued there, and after consulting my medical director, 1 directed that they be continued at the sanitarium for the time being. If the Pierce sanitarium should be continued, it must be constructed more up-to-date than it is now. "The national tuberculosis asso ciation tells me that climate is not absolutely essential in the treat ment of the disease. As speakers here have brought out, however, contentment Is essential, and has much to do with the recovery from tuberculosis. And for that reason I want to keep the Oregon disabled veterans a-s near their homes as pos- eible, so thy can have every possible chance for recovery." Disabled Men Interviewed. A number of representative citi zens attended the meeting to urge upon Colonel Forbes the necessity of adequate hospital service here. Among those who attended and Concluded on Page 1, Column 2.) Deadly Missile Believed to Have " Been Dud Comes to Life .' With. Awful Results. WATERTOWN, N. Y., July 12. Eight children, ranging: in ages from 11 to lfi years, were blown to pieces late today by the explosion, of a three-inch shell on the back porch of a house in Dimmick street, occu pied by Edward G. Workman and William L. Salisbury. The dead: Morris Salisbury, 16; Francis Wiley, 13 ; Vivian Jones, 12; Olin Brown, 11; Anson Workman, 13; Edna Work- man, 13; Sarah Barden, 13, and Donald Horton of Pulaski, N. Y., who was visiting the Brown boy. The shell, which was owned by Mr. Brown, was one which he kept as a souvenir and used on the rear porch to hold the door from closing. It was believed to be "dead." The children were playing croquet in the back yard. The shell is be lieved to have either been' set off by the sun or to have been struck by one of the victims' with a croquet mallet. Windows within a radius of two blocks of the explosion were shattered. INVALID BURNED BADLY Farmer Also Injured in Carrying ' Wife to Safety. " GOLDENDALE, Wash., July 12. (Special.) Trapped in the upper story of a burning residence on the farm of Gus Ellis, a farmer in the Pleasant valley neighborhood, 15 miles east of Goldendale, Mrs. Ellis, 65. wife of a farmer, was so se verely Drned this morning that physicians fear that she cannot survive. , The woman is an invalid and, ac cording to the story told by Mr. Ellis, the couple were up about 4 o'clock and then retired again to sleeping quarters in the upper por tion of the- house. About an hour afterward the farmer woke up and found the lower part of the house a mass of flames. With great difficulty Mr. Ellis carried his . wife downstairs and through the blazing building to a wiindow, where the couple escaped. Mrs. Ellis suffered severe burns about the head, face and body. Mr. Ellis was also badly burned, but it was not thought that his injuries will prove fatal. MERCURY JUMPS TO 89 Temperature .Rises In Portland 33 Degrees In 13 yx Hours. Wot weather returned to Portland yesterday when the temperature ex ceeded all feeords-for the last few days with a mark of 8!) degrees. This was 22 degrees higner than the maximum reached Monday and 3 2 higher than Tuesday's 77 degrees. The barometric pressure in th& city fell, and with it he smoke cleared, the sun beat down without inter ference. The pressure area which has been sending the cooler airs from the high altitudes has been reduced somewhat This, with the dimin ishing of the local pressure, ac counts for the greater effectiveness of the sun's rays. The minimum temperature was 56 degrees at 4:30 A. M. During the period until 5 F. M. the mercury rose 33 degrees. No higher-' temperature is pre dicted for today. 4 DEAD 40 HURT IN WRECK CentjaJia, Wash., Man Injured Near Kansas City. KANSAS CITY, July 12. Five persons were killed and 40 injured, most of them seriously, when the Missouri Pacific scenic limited flier westbound from St. Louis to Cali fornia, collided head on with a local freight train near here tonight. At a late hour all of the wreckage had not been cleared and the exact number of dead could not be learned. Many believed that at least ten were killed. A Shriners' picnic was in prog ress in a. park near the wreck and about 50 physicians, members of the order, gave first aid, while, other members assisted in clearing away the wreckage. But one of the dead had been identified tonight. He was W. , A. Rade'r, freight engineer, Kansas City. The injured included A. W. Armentrout, Centraiia, Wash., bruised about body and legs. DEER RAID HAY FIELD Drying Out of Pasture Causes Animals to Leave Mountains. STEVENSON, Wash., July : 12. (Special.) Deer from the mountains are raiding hay fields and gardens in this county, and farmers are un able, to fence against them. Game wardens have been called upon but their efforts to frighten away the animals have failed. Hot and dry weather in the mountains have caused the feeding grounds to be deserted and the animals are swarming to the valleys for food. Many farmers report their entire crop ruined by the deer. U.S. JUSTICE UNDER KNIFE Oliver Wendell Holmes Undergoes Second Operation., BOSTON, July 12. A second oper ation was performed today on Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of tne United States su preme court., who has been at a , private hospita. here several weeks, Fox-Trotting Preacher Is Divorced by Wife. CASE GOES BY DEFAULT Rev. G. W. Moore, 66, Out 4 Nights Week, Is Charge. DECREES GIVEN TO 27 "Baby. Honey'mooners" Come to End of Romance in Court ' of Judge Stapleton. A husband 66 years old who trot ted around to dances four nights a week with comparatively young women, returning home about 2 o'clock in the morning, was not what Mrs. Elizabeth Moore expected to annex when she married Rev. G. W. Moore, retired minister, she told Circuit Judge Stapleton In a default divorce hearing in his court yes terday. - . The first four months of our married life, he was pretty good," she testified, referring to the months - immediately following March 15, 1?21, when they were wed. "Then he started going to dances. He would go ouj: four to five nights a week and return home at . 2 o'clock in the morning, wet with perspiration." "How old was your husband?" asked, Judge Stapleton. "Sixty-six years," replied the wit ness. I thought he would have more" sense than to go. out and dance so long that he'd get all cov ered with perspiration." Woman Takes Husband. She further testified that at one time a woman came for her hus band and took him to a dance. ; "How 'old was she?" asked the judge, i V ' "Between 38 and 40." . "Did your husband have a lot of money?" continued Judge Stapleton. "No." -. "Well, what was the attraction?" "Oh, I guess-he was pleasant and jolly." . ; ... , The witness said that he would return home With a grouch and be "all out of sorts" around the house. He only took her out in publie twice since their marriage, she asserted, and left her when she asked him to buy her some decent clothes and (Conclude 1 on Page' 3, Column 4.) BMNDUEW V V ' Vo-jftuVO J BftUU-ONLV h BEtN W.OT C. i ! (tt SO tAfc TIMES. "THE V . , - , "VltAC- Ax ' V3"v .-.Cct SEcrAit-oGe.r " ITS A S XY , , 7 Z3 AStAucttc-d SOESHY UKE G-OL OUGWT - VV W rtERCv&C 4vTo HAVE HlS HF-ftb , -?x X ' X ' wow meiy fXT -A exfttMMfc.o- ' IW' r$&Lr2? XJ$P A bMtoyDRvvie P'uu,, .-s fjfj xr -' Astronomer Classes Phenomenon as Most Brilliant Ever Seen " on Planet. . FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., July 12. The vast white area observed "on the planet Mars in the past few nights probably Is due to clouds or dense vapor, it was explained today by Director Slipper of the Lowell ob servatory here, where studies of Mars have been in progress nightly for months. The "spot" was estimated by Dr. Slipper to be about 800 miles long and about 400 milea wide. ' "It is an important event from a scientific standpoint." he said, "and seems to be aphenomenon of the atmosphere. .We have ""observed spots on Mars of greater area, but none has been as fixed or as bril liant." PASADENA, Cal., July 12. Ob servers at Mount Wilson observa tory, near here, declared today that no unusual significance to the pub lic attaches to the report from the Lowell observatory at Flagstaff Ariz., that a great white area, bril liant and conspicuous, appeared on Mars on the night of July 9-10. They say, that it was a cloudlike substance, probably an atmospheric condition, which is observed periodi cally; the atmosphere at Mars being very thin. PORTLAND BOY DROWNED Robert Shoemaker Loses His Life In Lake Near Twin Rocks, Or. TWIN ROCKS. Or.-, July 12. (Special.) Robert Shoemaker, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Shoe maker, Fifty-second avenue South east, Portland, lost his life in Ocean lake, r.ear here, this after noon, while in swimming. The body had not been recovered late to night, although life guards from the beach" were dragging the lake. According to witnesses the youth, who had gone in swimming with a party of friends, sank suddenly and apparently was attacked with heart disease. He was a graduate of Washing ton high school, Portland, last June. FAIR IN 1926 APPROVED Senate Committee Acts on Phil - adelphia Exposition. WASHINGTON, D. C, .July 12. The house resolution giving ap proval of congress to the proposed exposition at Philadelphia in 1326 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence was reported favorably today. ' The senate foreign relations com rnittee had the resolution under consideration.", - FORE 1 Mrs. Pearl McMickel Places Two Small Boys in Safety and Is Overcome by Fear ELLE'nSBTJRG, Wash., July 12. (Special.) Mrs. Pearl McMikel, aged 30, wife of Willar McMikel of this city, was instantly killed shortly before noon today when she was struck by an eastbound special silk train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul line, four miles northwest of Ellensburg. . With her two small children Mrs. McMikel was crossing ' a railroad trestle when the speeding train ap proached. The mother seized her. two small boys and set them to one side In safety, but apparently be came paralyzed with fear as the train rushed down upon her, for she failed to attempt to save herself, the train crew said. . Although it is said. she had suf ficient time to get te safety, Mrs. McMikel was struck while standing in the middle of the track. She had long been a resident of the commu nity. - She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Stevens, -well known early residents of the Kittitas val ley. ' " .... . . Surviving are her widower and three small children. CHURCH DECLARED FRAUD Indian Sbakers Want to With draw From Oregon Corporation,' KLAMATH FALLS. Or., July 12. (Special.) Declaring the-' Oregon corporation of the Shaker church to be fradulent, members of the Indian Shaker church at , Chiloquin are seeking divorce from jurisdiction of the corporation. At a conference just held, attended by Indians of the Klamath -and Washington Reservations, it was de cided to extend the legitimate Washington corporation to Oregon and to affiliate with the Chiloquin church. The Chiloquin church has a membership of nearly 50. Its ten ants forbid drinking, smoking, gam bling and similar" indulgences. At tendance of theaters on the Sabbath is also prohibited. ' . WOLVES KILL BABY ELK Prowlers in Yellowstone " Park Prey Upon Little Animals. j LEWISTOWN. Mont., July 12. Baby elk in the Yellowstone national park are the prey of a band, of gray wolves, according to word received here. Yesterday the half devoured bodies of five baby elk were found after a night attack by the wolves, said to maintain headquarters on Sulphur mountain and past which hundreds of tourists motor dai!y Park rangers have been dispatched to exterminate the wolves. Governor and Party Ex plore Natural Wonder. CAVEMEN GREET VISITORS Vast Subterranean Grottos " Scene of Weird Rites. -. CAVERNS GIVEN STATE Marble Halls Resound to Myste rious Music as Guests Are'ln itiated Into Seismic Order. BY JOHN W. KELLY. OREGON CAVES, Or., via Grants Pass, Or., July 12. (Special.) In a vast cavern far within the earth, illuminated by the flames of torches, Governor Olcott and R. A. Booth, John B. Yeon and W. B. Barratt, state highway commissioners were initiated into the Order of Ore gon Cave Men last night. Although the ceremonies were on the order of a pageant, the theatrical surround ings, the dim light, the soft sounds of mysterious music and the rather uncanny atmosphere combined to make the event an impressive one. Such was the greeting received by the state officials on their first visit to the Oregon marble caves. This ceremony of initiation is to be con ferred upon distinguished guests from time to time, much as the Blackfeet Indians "adopt" promi nent visitors.' In a formal address, old King Bpbo, the most hairy, rugged and primitive of the tribe, brandished his club, the branch of a chinkopin tree, and in gutturals presented the Oregon caves to Governor Oleott'for the state. Governor Olcott accepted the na tional monument In the name of the people. 1 vv State Officials Amazed. Although the governor and com missioners have traversed the state many times, this was' the first jour ney they have made to this, one of Oregon's natural wonders. To say the officials were enthusiastic in their praise of this marvelous series of chambers, passages and strange formations; of marble, would b ex pressing it mildly. Here, within a mountain not far from the- California line, is a cave which is outranked in extent only by the Mammoth cave of Kentucky. More than two hours are required to traverse the underground rooms at present and when 4000 feet more are opened this winter a consider ably longer time will be required. About 140,000 years ago, during the glacial .period, the caves were created, the formation developing as the ice disappeared. There are stalactites estimated by geologists to be 80,000 years old. R. W. Row ley, the forest service guide, told the governor and highway men all about it. Elijah Doughty Hunter. Rowley related how Elijah David son, now living at Williams, Or., shot a bear in 1874 and saw it dis appear in a cave. The state offi cers were shown the very spot where the wounded-bear ws finally killed and the officials agreed that Elijah was surely an enthusiastic hunter to go browsing in those caves with nothing but a tew brim stone matches. -Evidently Elijah was lucky,, for he might have pitched into a yawning chasm there in the dark at any moment or have been lost in winding tunnels, but he wasn't. For a mile and a half in subter ranean rambUngs the state officers plodded and crawled and stopped and scrambled on all fours, climbed from level to level on ladder and held fast to hand-holds with one fist and clutched a carbide light with the other. For 500 fest the governor carefully scaled ladders, with Booth, Yeon and Barratt no whit behind. "There were dizzy heights pr depths to be negotiated, and this was a job requiring cau tion. The government is "n3talling iron ladders, but not all tht hand rails have been placed. Into the mountain 3300 feet the party pene trated", 1600 feet beneath the sur face. .There was an average tem perature of 48 degrees, but with one-piece overalls to protect their clothes from dripping water and moist marble, the visitors journey ing through the caves were warm enough. . . - J Cave Has Three Entrances. Following the initiation 'nto the Order of Oregon Cave Men, the party was l.ed out by the second entrance, which is 150 feet above the first. A third entrance is three miles and a half distant across Sand ridge and 600 feet higher than the opening through which Elijah Da vidson chased his cave bear.. Formerly the entrance to the caves could only be reached by hikers or a pack train traveling a dozen miles over mountains. Now, thanks to the state highway com mission and the forest bureau a good road is being built from Holr land to the very entrance. Tnis road is not finished, but is graded all but (Concluded on Page 3. Column 2.) Housing in Barracks and Rides in Auto Busses Declared In sult to Royal Dignity. BY FERDINAND TUOHY. (Copyright. 1024 by the New York World. Published by Arrangement.) PARIS, July 12. (Special Cable.) The 30 colored kings from darkest Africa now visiting France as guests of the French republic have gone on strike. They have had three days of official hospitality and they feel woefully neglected. ' The kings were lodged in bar racks on outer Paris boulevards, in the same tenement which was re cently reserved for. King Slsawath's an,namoite harem of dancing girls. They were driven around Paris in automobile busses. This is scant regard enough for royalty, but on top of it they were billeted two and three in a room, with the rooms marked "two chiefs" or "three chiefs," like horse stalls. The association responsible for the Lcare and entertainment of the Kings said that they have to live in se cluded surroundings because of their strange religious and dining cus toms and other peculiarities of their jungle life. Any chief who wants to can go live at the Claridge or the Ritz, ' the association said, but it doubts if he would be happy there. The chiefs disagreed- unanimously and vigorously. They pointed out that they speak perfect French and are really French, and, therefore, want to be brought into contact with the real Paris, the things they have read and heard and dreamed about. They are frankly sick of monuments and museums and speeches. They want life. It's quite a crisis. The Paris press is full of protests at the treatment that has been' accorded the visiting kings. Think of French royalty traveling second class. Senator Diagne, colored, from Senegal, who was high commissioner for 200,000 colored troops enrolled in the war 34,000 of them lie in cemeteries along the front in a stirring letter said point blank that the French government in slighting the chiefs is inspiring just the form of propaganda it was trying to down by bringing them to Paris. There is plenty of evidence that the chiefs are now conducting their own . , tours. Saturday af ternoqn they appeared on he inner boule vards in gorgeous raiment and with nasty knives hanging from their waists. They mingled with Amer icans and Frenchmen with bravado, even ordering cocktails at cafes and bestowjna flashing glances at mldinettes on the Rue Royale. With 30 African kings threaten ing to go on a . tear, Paris has a rare fillip for the waning season. MOVIE STARS ENGAGED Larry Semon and Lucille Carlyle Announce Intent to AVed. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 12. The engagement of Larry Semon, screen comedian, and .Lucille Carlyle, his leading woman, was announced here today. They have not set the date of their marriage. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 89 degrees;, minimum. 56-degrees. TODAY'S Fair and continued warm; moderate westerly winds. Foreign. New Irish parliament to assemble in Dublin Saturday, rage s. Negno kings resent treatment in Paris. Page 1. National. Wets and drya both demand enforce ment of prohibition law at sea. Page 3. , ' Domestic. Race for governor of Ohio grows- bitter in both parties. Page 2. Spot on Mars is aue to vapor, is theory. Page 1.' Shell believed jnisrtakenly to have been dud blows eight children to pieces. Page 1. George Gould loses millions for love. Page 2. - - Railroad executives refuse to meet strik ing shopmen's representatives. Page 1. ' Criminals' lives like closed tombs. Page 6. Pacific Northwewt. Governor and highway commissioners amazed at Oregon caves. Page 1. Presbyterian ministers are on record against compulsory educational meas ure. Page 5. Puget sound presents data to ship board commission.. Page 5. Train kills mother; two children saved. Page 1. Sports. St. Louis beats New York and regains American lead. Page 14. Pacific coast trapshcoting championship tournament starts this morning. Page 14. Pacific Coast league scores At Los An geles 7, Portland 6; at Salt Lake 6-3, . Vernon 7-9; at Sacramento 5, Oakland 4; at San Francisco 6,, Seattle L Page 14. Wolfard defeats Steffens in tennis tour ney. Page 15. Dr. O. P. Willing wins golf honors. Page 15. Commercial and Marine. Results of wmter wheat harvest in Ore gon generally good. - Page 22. Chicago wheat weaker with prospect of ending of strike. Page 23. Bonds firmer and scope of tradmr Is broader. Page 23 , Portland shipping to be augmented. Page 12. New York market- takes bull turn. Page 22. ' Portland-and Vicinity. Colonel Forbes to Recommend purchase of Hahnemann hospital. Page 1. Portland company to develop Alaskan oil fields. Page 13. ; Dancing wricks minister's home. Page l. Northwest winds fan forest fires. Page 16. Beauty contest big opportunity for Ore gon. Page 8. Three heads of 'American Legion Dlan L meet in Portland. Page 3. Robert Fulton .' elected school clerk. Page 1. The Oregonian broadcasts two concerts by radio. Page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 22. Board Elects Successor to R. H. Thomas. . VOTE 4 TO 3 ON QUESTION A. H. Trego Also Is Nomi nated for Position. NEW MAN IS ACCOUNTANT Appointee in Employ of John Y. Richardson Company for Last Seven Years. Robert E. Fulton last night was' chosen clerk cf the Portland school board to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of the term of R. H. Thomas, present clerk, by a vote of 4 to 3 over A. H. Trego, also nomi nated for the place. Mr. Fulton will be employed without contract. Many applications for the position were received and at last week's meeting were referred to the busi ness committee, which recommend ed Mr. Fulton after conducting an examination of all applicants. Directory Thomas, Martin, Pick ering and Clark favored Mr. Fulton for clerk, and Directors Woodward! Eisman and Shull voted for Mr. Trego, agreeing after the vote was taken to make the selection of Mr. Fulton unanimous. Mr. Fulton Accountnnt. Mr. Fulton is an expert account ant and has been employed by the John Y. Richardson company for seven years, advancing from the position of junior accountant to that of senior accountant. He is a graduate of Savina high school and Richmond Business college of Savina, Ga. He has had legal ex perience and is 39 years old. : Mr. Trego has been in charge of the mechanical record of th6 O.-W. R. & N. company at the Albina shops for 16 years and has been aduting and purchasing agent for Various companies.; The further eotisidera- . , Hon of V.- C. Stetson for the posi tion of cterk was urged by Mike Brennan on the point that Mr. Stet son is itn ex-service man. The board reported that Mr. Stetson had been considered and found to have no clerical experience. " School Building Asked. About 4U patrons of Chipman school waited upon the school board last night to get promise of action In the matter of a new school build ing for their district. Lawrence McNary was spokesman for the group and Mrs. J. W. Fowler also presented needs of the school. The present site of the building is in a factory and railroad district, sajd Mr. McNary, making it unde sirable as a school location. The building is antiquated and run. down in all respects, the patrons declared. The board declared itself acquainted with the needs of the district and wholly in sympathy with its pa trons, and told of plans under way for acquiring iproperty to construct a new building. Woodniere Wants Playground. L. L. Levings of the Woodmere district presented the need of that school for larger playgrounds, pay ing that at present playgrounds oc cupy only one acre. The matter was referred to the properties commit tee, which will act in conjunction with the Woodmere committee to get options for additional property. The suggestion of H. H. Smith of the Woodlawn Push club for the widening of Bryant street met the approval of the school board, which voted to donate 30 feet of school property for the widening of the street. . The matter of donating funds to the Portland Symphony orchestra was held over until the next met ing, when it is expected that . the Portland Opera company will ask a similar contribution. The board was divided in its opinions as to the donating for musical enterprises, some favoring them on the ground of their educational value, while others said no provision was made in the budget for such outlays. Veterans' Bureau to Pay. The Portland school board will accept $30 a month from the vet erans' bureau for veterans receiv ing tuition in Benson Polytechnic school, according to the vote of the board - last night. This was held over from last week on the under standing that Seattle schools re ceived $85 a month for similar tui tion. Last year Portland schools re ceived only $135 a year for each veteran attending the Benson school. . The matter of insurance for the Holladay school, which was de stroyed by fire early in the spring, was referred to the arbitration com mittee. No insurance for the build ing has been received. The bid of Shuholm' company for construction of the new floor ln--Jefferson high school gymnasium was accepted at $3498. This was the lower of the two bids received. The board voted to hold over the matter of slate blackboards for the Roosevelt high school, getting fig ures in the meantime from eastern . (Concluded on Page 4, Column 5.)