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VOL. LXI 0. 19JJ48 ' Entered at Portland (Oregor) Postofflce sa Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY. JULY 29, 1922 PRICE PIVE CENTS HARDINGTO OFFER TACOMA PLANS WAR BONUS LOAN LIFT FOUR SUBMARINES REPORTED MISSING STREET CAR CRASHES 'MA' STREETER TIES 'FLAGSHIP' TO PIER ON MILK ADVANCE INTO FRONT OF HOME TO PREVENT WAR MAYOR THREATENS TO INITI ATE MUNICIPAL SYSTEM. CRAFT, DUE TO BE JUNKED, THOUGHT LOST , AT SEA. PIANO AND EVERYTHING IS KNOCKED TOPSY-TURVY. WIDOW OF NOTED 'CAPTAIN' HAS EYE TO BUSINESS. JACKSON COUNT GHUFtGHESURGLD STR KESOLUT ON URGED BYLEGm K Proposals on Railway Walkout Drawn Up. FACTIONS TO MEET TUESDAY Details of President's Plan Are Withheld. SENIORITY IS COVERED Major Section Is Understood to Involve Restitution of Bights to Men Who Quit Work. WHAT HAPPENED TESTER DAY IN" RAIL. STRIKE. President Harding drew up proposals -to settle the shop men's strike after confer ences with union, leaders and railway executives. The shopmen's executive committee will meet in Chi cago next Tuesday and the rail executives in New York to consider the president's suggestions. The seniority issue, the stumbling block in previous peace negotiations, was un derstood to take up the bulk of the president's proposition. Striking shopmen of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad re fused to accept the railroad's proposal for a separate set tlement. The entire city of Denison, Tex., was placed under mar tial law as the result of strike disorders. Reports of violence in creased as the fourth week of the strike ended. More rail roads obtained federal injunc tions and restraining orders to protect their workmen and property and prevent Illegal picketing. WASHINGTON, D. C. July 28. (By the Associated Press.) Pro posals for settling the railroad strike drawn up by President Hard Ing and representing the conclusions reached by him after the extended conferences of the past 48 hours,! with labor leaders and railway executives, will be presented to separate meetings of representa tives pf the two groups next Tues day thyailroad managers meeting in New Tork and the employes en voys In Chicago. Details of the plan, or plans, were still withheld. tonight, but President Harding was said to feel that pros pects were bright for an early set tlement of the controversy which has threatened to retard seriously the country's transportation system. Seniority Is Involved. ' A major section in the president's settlement plan was understood to involved the seniority Issue, which was said further to be the only section in the plan to have been identified as among the contro versial issues between the railroads and their workmen. ,. Another section would concede the right of the strikers to a re hearing before the railroad labor board on the wage issue and another would bind the railroads to set up regional adjustment boards, while a fourth would require abandon ment by railroads of contracts with "outside" shops for repair work. Compromise la Suggested. President Harding was understood to have suggested compromise on the question of seniority rights by which all men hired since the strike would retain their positions, the strikers regaining their former privileges so as to rank just be hind the men who did not walk out July 1. The strikers under the plan would return to work at the scale set by the board in its decision of July 1, which precipitated the strike, but without prejudice to either side when the matter was brought up for rehearing. B. M. Jewell, president of the railway employes', department of the American Federation of Labor, and international . officers of the railroaj unions on strike left Wash ington tonight for Chicago, an nouncing that the general strike committee of each organization would convene in that city Tuesday to consider the president's sugges tions. T. Dewitt Cuyler, chairman of the Association of Railway Exec ' utives and principal spokesman of the managements, annbunced last night that the executives would meet in New York on that day for the same purpose. It is expected that a preliminary conference will be held by each proup in the endeavor to formulate programmes for consideration by the general sessions. The general strike committees of the union ordi narily consist of a representative of each craft in each railroad, system where the strike is in effect. It was understood that Secretary Hoover might attend the railway executives session at New Tork, (Concluded on Face 2, Column 6.) Producers ' Get 4 yx - Cents for Quart, While Dealers Charge 10 Cents. I TACOMA, Wash.. July 28. Mayor A. F. Fawcett today threatened to initiate a municipal milk distribut ing system If retail dealers put Into effect their announced rise in milk prices from 10 to 12 cents a quart on August 1. The mayor held a conference with, D. W. Reeves, president of the Pierce County Dairymen's associa tion, in which he urged the pro ducers to do their own distributing and eliminate middlemen and du plication of routes. Mr. Reeves said the producers'could not finance the $40,000 worth of equipment that would be required. "Thousands of dollars can be saved to the people here if duplica tion of routes and numerous mid dlemen are eliminated," the mayor said. "The producers now .receive 4' cents a quart for their milk, but the retailers charge 10 cents. After August 1 it is proposed to raise the price to the consumers to 12 cents, while the producers will then receive 5 cents. A half-cent raise to the producers of the milk results in a 2 -cent raise to the con sumers, and I am going to try to save the people from that toll, even though the city has to enter the milk business." " SEATTLE, Wash., July 28.-Ef-fective August 1 the price of milk delivered to the consumer in Seat tle will be 1 cents a "quart, an in crease of 1 cent a quart, the Seattle Mill? Tipniprs' association announced today. The long drought, resulting m dried pastures and purchase or feed for cattle, has compelled dairy men to raise the wholesale price of milk, according to the announce ment. " Portland milk rates are to remain as they stand, with little possibility of an increase, stated A. M. Work, president of the Portland-Damascus company, last night. "We are not contemplating any increase at the present," said Mr. Work. AUTO ROLLS OVER, 2 HURT Dallas Couple, Past 70, Injured When Car Drops 150 Feet. - WHITE SALMON, Or., July 28. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Hol man, past 70 years of age,' en route to Dallas, Or., their home, by auto mobile, were injured when their car left the grade at a narrow point on the road leading to the boat landing here. The automobile rolled over three times, and, striking a stump. rebounded high in the air and stopped right side up. Both of Mrs. Hoiman's legs were broken and her skull crushed. Mr. Hoiman's face and head were cut open and he sustained severe In juries t,o his back. They were taken to the Hood River hospital. Mrs. Hoiman's condition is grave. COOKIE CAUSES CRASH Auto Driver Takes Eyes Off Road to Hand Baby Cake. , His attention diverted from the road as he reached to the back seat to give his baby a cookie, Archie L. Hagen, 31, glazier, living at 483 Kil lingsworth avenue, drove his auto mobile head on into that of George P. Oetzen on the Linnton road yes terday. Katherine Hagen, 20 months old, was. cut about the face and arms. Attendants at St. Vincent's hospital believed she would recover. Mr. and Mrs. Hagen were cut about the face and arms and bruised. The accident happened, on a straightaway. The Hagens had just started on- a vacation trip. BRAWL OVER CUP FATAL Negro Lynched Following Quar rel With Paving Foreman. TEXARKANA, Tex., July" 28. A quarrel over a drinking cup be tween a wjiite street paving fore man and a negro employe at Hope, Ark., about 30 miles northeast of Texarkana, was followed this af ternoon by the lynching of the negro" near Guernsey, four miles southwest of Hope. John West of Emporia, Kan., was the negro lynched. The foreman was Henry Worthington of Topeka, Kan. . RIVER STEAMER SPEEDS Captain Fined $50 on Complaint of Harbor Police. John L. Starr, captain of the rivr boat, Georgiana, was fined $50 in police court yesterday for speeding the vessel in the Portland harbor. Acting-Judge Stadter remitted the fine after Captain Starr promised to lower the, speed of the boat. The case was prosecuted by the harbor police. PLANE FALLS, f KILLED Three Victims of Mishap in Ger many Thought Americans.' 'BERLIN, July 28. The pilot and three passengers, the latter believed to be Americans, were killed today in the crash of a German postal air plane. The plane fell at Boutzeifburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Increase From $3000 to $4000 Proposed. RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED Hanford MacNider, National Commander, at Session. SENSATION IS CREATED Dr. Sawyer, Physician to Presi dent, Is Called "Worn-Out , Old Fossil." THE DALLES, Or., July 28. (Spe cial.) To raise the amount an ex service man may obtain in a loan, under the - state bonus law,, from $3000 to S4000 was an issue which came before the assembled delegates of the American Legion in conven tion here this afternoon. A resolution memorializing the next legislature to make such a change in the law, leaving the prop erty valuation to be put up as col lateral in its present status, was introduced by the resolutions com mittee and adopted. Committee reports and resolutions came thick and fast this afternoon, after the flurry caused by the ar rival and departure of Hanford Mac Nider, national Legion commander, had passed.' M.acNider arrived this morning from Boise, Idaho; spoke before the convention, and gave a public address. He left at 2 o'clock in the afternoon for Portland by automobile. Sensation Is Caused. Quite a sensation was caused this afternoon when Dr. F. H. Vincil,. of Astoria, reporting for the state hos pitalization committee in the place of Miss Jane V. Doyle, chairman, declared that Dr. Sawyer, personal physician to President Hardirfg, is a "worn out old fossil." He recom mended that the convention take the stand that Dr. Sawyer should be discharged. Dr. Vincil was given a big hand by the delegates. Dr. Vincil also recommended that a government tuberculosis hospital be established somewhere near Port land. A per capita tax of 25 cents a year, to pay the added expense of operating the state department, was brought up and adopted. A 10-cent assessment on each member at once, to be used in sending delegations to the national convention, also was adopted. x. . Expenses of Four To Be Paid. At this point Walter L. Tooze Jr. of McMinnville moved that the ex penses of only four delegates to' the national convention be paid by the legion. This motion also was adopt ed and it was decided that the four persons ranking highest at the elec tions tomorrow will represent the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) IT'S Vessel Says Aid Was Offered to Convoy of Eight, But Of ' fer Was Refused. SAN PEDRO, Cal., July 28. Four submarines which left San . Pedro Tuesday for Hampton Roads, Va as part of a flotilla of 12, scheduled for de-commissioning, today were re ported missing yesterday off the Lower California coast south of En senada. ..The craft said to be missing were the L-5, L-6, L-7 and L-8, all of which were built at Long Beachi' Cal., during the war. . The story of the apparent disap pearance of the four submarines was brought to San Pedro by the finer City of Honolulu, Captain Thomas W. Sheridan, from New Tork. Captain Sheridan said that yes terday below Ensenada the City of Honolulu sighted a cloud of smoke some distance away and changed its course to learn the cause.. "It was a submarine, badly smok ing," he said. "It made no answer to our signals." "Later," continued Captain Sher idan, "we signaled the tender Beaver, which had the submarines in convoy, i At first she made no answer to our sigjials, but later responded to our semaphore offer of assistance. She said -she had eight , submarines in convoy and needed no help." A message received at the sub marine base at San Pedro from Commander Roy L. Stover, in com mand of the submarine flotilla, stated he had eight submarines in convoy. The message contained no reference to the other four. The submarine base also inter cepted a message from the tender Beaver to the L-8 ordering her to stand by to take a tow line, from L-5. . , . i Officers at the submarine base tonight were said to be unable to account for these two craft or the other two of the L type reported missing. It was believed definite informa tion concerning the vessels could not be received here before tomor row when the flotilla was due at Acapulco, Mexico, to take in ' tow the submarine S-32, recently dis abled. . - i The other eHfeht craft 1n the flo tilla were the H-2, H-3, H-4, H-5, H-6, H-7, H-8 and H-9. Captain Sheridan said he counted only eight submarines when he, met the flotilla.' I MONARCHIST PLOT BARED France Is Convinced Germans Would Kill Polncare. BY FLOYD GIBBONS. (Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service. Copyright, 1022, by the Chicago Tribune.) PARIS, July 28. The French government published today the news of a plot to kill Premier Poln care. The first information of, the plot came from the German police, who informed the government that they had discovered that German monarchists . had arranged with French communists to kill Poin care. . The French police have traced large sums of money received by French communists and scores are under surveillance. Premier Poin care is heavily guarded. . J - A GOOD THROW IF IT TIGHTENS. Motorman Says Brakes Failed to - Work No" One Injured. Two Witness. Wreck; Street car No. 482 of the Brooklyn line glided gently over its terminal at East Twenty-first street South and Bush street last night at 8:05, and came to rest with its Head on' the bosoni of the honte of S. W. Fryer716 Bush street. The embrace was as gentle as could be expected of a good-sized house and a street car. - The staid old piano kicked up its hind legB and bucked Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" into the middle of the music room, glad of the chance tc be-rid of such, perhaps. A vase of pussywillows proved as poor a buekaroo as the sonata. The sewing machine stood oft its head, waved its legs in- the air and .spilled its drawers about the room in glad abandon at such a break in the mo notony of stitches in time. The din ing table shimmied and the chairs that begirt Jt, danced ring-around-a-rosy as it disported. Perfume bot tles, vases, pictures and beds joined the pot and the kettle, in a noisy voodoo. ' ' ' - The street car was not the only unbidden visitor of the night. A crowd of 400 or more persons quickly gathered, admired the spectacle and then filed through the Fryer home to see the damage that had been wrought. It was a reception for which the Fryers' had little taste. Shortly they shut and locked the doors, and a police badge was the only credential that would gain a person admittance. . One man knocked at the door and said: "I haven't seen it yet.",' He hasn't. There was $100 admission fee to .have been gained from the crowd, had the Fryers card to commercialize the misfortune that shattered the peace " of a quiet evening. . 1 The main damage was to the front bedroom, where Mrs. Fryer's sew ing machine sat against the wall. The trolley pole, hooked down and projecting in front, smashed through the windows and stuck out into the middle of the room. Glass was shat tered over the floor and woodwork about the windows. The bed itself wasuntouched, and had the acci dent happened an hour later Mrs. Fryer might have, had a thrilling experience. - She said she had had enough excitement as it was, any way, and that hereafter she will keep her sewing machine somewhere in rear of the house where every wandering street car cannot bang it around. With the impact Patrolman Wor rel said the house buckled and shook as though it were in the hands of an earthquake. He said the car had but little impetus when it ran over the curb. Both Mrs. Fryer and the patrolman said that Motorman Leonard was at the controller, en deavoring to stop the car, when it bumped into the houpe. They said that he seemed unable to set the brakes, -: ' No one was hurt. Mrs. Fryer was in the yard attending to flowers and another witness, Patrolman S. C Sorrel, stood across the street when Motorman J. H. Leonard, 717 East Seventy-eighth street North, approached the terminus at the cus tomary speed. His brakes failed to (Concluded on Page 6, Column 3.) RENT BY RECALL Election Today Climax of Bitter Campaign. KU KLUX KLAN BIG ISSUE Fury of Factions Centers Upon Sheriff Terrill. MEDF0RD SPLIT BY HATE Entire Community Drawn Into '" Vortex ol Dissentlon That ' Has Ruled" In Contest. MEDFORD, Or., July 28 An elec tion campaign unequaled for bitter ness, which has split Jackson county into two camps and members of each faction professing to be certain of victory, came to a close tonight and will be fought out at the polls tomorrow.- 1 ' C..E. Terill. sheriff, is the man who must face the recall, with D. Lowe, reputed klansman, arrayed against him. Everything even the special grand' jury probe into the KU Klux Klan activities in this county has been pushed aside with the recall the sole subject of discussion. Boy, Real Beneficiaries. Boys are the real beneficiaries of the eleotion. For several days past they have, been engaged in passing out dodgers bearing copies of af fidavits made in behalf of one can didate or the other. No sooner does one side in the fight issue an affi davit than out comes a hastily printed dodger carrying another af fidavit disputing or attempting to disprove the contents of the other. Small knots of men gather on the ' street corners to discuss the election; women at bridge parties have forgotten their bids to discuss the issues of the day, and persons engaged in various' enterprises and professions- have dropped work . to discuss the election. t Bitterness Is Deep-Seated. '. And the , talk is not calm and deliberate, but full of rancor, for the election, together ' with ttie events that have preceded it," has parted friends of years and re united enemies who could not be brought back into the fold on any other common ground. Yesterday a local newspaper Is sued a special edition in support of Sheriff Terrill. Last night the newspaper office was broken into and -all spaces in the magazine of the linotype machine were ' stolen In an apparent effort to cripple the plant and prevent the publication of a "paper today. ,- Aid was obtained from another newspaper outside Jackson county and this afternoon the paper was out again, stronger than ever in support of its favorite candidate. ' Issue Centers Upon Klan. There are few who deny that the recall election is other than an out-and-out Ku Klux Klan issue. Mem bers of the organization; in its offi cial , Jackson county publication, maintain that the klan is the only organization in existence, that can break up the organization of sleek politicians who have "run" Jack son county for their own enrich ment for years. Opponents of the, recall maintain that the ousting of Sheriff Terriy is sought so that the klan will have complete control of the principal law-enforcement agency In the. county and that the officials of that organization can have advance in formation of any prosecutions that may come in their direction. Lowe Denies Klnn Affiliation. An illustration of how the fight has "been going on is given in two affidavits one by Candidate Lovet and the other by members of the committee opposed to the recall. Lowe has been accused many times of being a member of the klan and under oath to protect members of the organization except in cases of treason, murder and rape. ' Today he issued an affidavit in which he makes specific denial of being a klansman. Shortly after this statement ap peared came another affidavit in which' R. Peter, an ex -member of the klan, states that all (clansmen have been instructed that they are klansmen only when the lodge is in session, that at other times members of the organization are known, to be citieens of the invisible empire. and that in attending meetings of the klan he often saw Lowe in at tendance. . , Lie Being Passed Freely. This is just one instance of many in which the lie is passed freely between members of the two fac tions. Tonight a mass meeting, well attended, was held by the friends of Sheriff Terrill. ' . Meetings have been conducted by both sides throughout the county for the last week, and while the majority of the people in the coun ty are engaged in discussing the election and its many angles, one woman and six men, composing the special grand jury, are closeted in a (Continued on Face 3, Column 1.) Joint Claimant of "Deestrick of Lake Michigan" Plans Part ; in Big Pageant Today. CHICAGO, July 28. "Ma" Street er, .widow of the redoubtable "Cap tain" Streeter, who k,ept Chicago in a tifrmoil for many years over his claim to the "Deestrick of Lake Michigan," which claim he defended with shotgun and many fistic bat tles, has moored her flagship "Vam boose" to the north landing of the municipal pier and defies all the powers to dislodge her. The great Pageant of Progress opens on the pier tomorrow ana "ma" allows she intends to get her share of the proceeds. She says the pier was built' on her land. "But there will be a lot of fire works touched off all around, you," urged the pageant authorities'; "and you might be injured." "Fireworks don't scare me," said "ma." "I've been through the real thing, where they used rifles and pistols and shotguns. Nobody is eointr to hurt me or disturb me. I have a law on my side and the gov ernment will seehat I get what is coming to me." The "Vamboose," a dingy boat 100 feet long and 10 feet wide, is manned by "ma" and one lady dog with a prolific family of puppies. "Ma" intimates she will sell some thing .better than "hot dogs" to the crowd. "But no beer," she inter jected. "I obey the law and the law will protect me." MOTORISTS INDORSE FAIR New Organization on Record in Favor of Exposition. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BU REAU, Washington, D. C, July 28. Indorsement was given the Port land exposition to be held in 1925 and also to the general programme of federal reclamation legislation in resolutions adopted by the govern ing board of the National Motorists' association, which met here tc-day. The National Motorists' associa tion is the new organization of mo torists which -has superseded the America Automobile association in many sections of the country. HEROIC RESCUE STAGED Three Men Form Human Chain : to Get Girl From River. CHICAGO. July 28. A policeman, street car motorman and a bridge tender today formed "a human chain," and hanging from a bridge, rescued from the Chicago river Helen Culaski, 18. The girl attempted to take her like by jumping into the .water. RECALL ASPIRANT OUT H. J. Slusher to Run Against Sheriff Nelson of Clatsop. ASTORIA, Or.. July 28 (Special.) H.. J. Slusher will run against Sheriff Nelson in the special recall election August 11. Mr. Slusher was nominated to right by the Astoria law enforce ment league. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S: Maximum temperature, 70 degrees; minimum, 38 degrees. TODAY'S: Fair, northwesterly winds. Foreign. Lloyd George urges churches to prevent war. Page 1. National. ' Harding to offer strike solution. Page 1. Coal ration chief named by president. Page 3. Domestic. Prospect is acquittal of five Chicago labor terrorists. Page 2. Four United 'States submarines reported missing.. Page 1. "Ma" Streeter, warlike as "Captain," defies Chicago authorities. Page 1. Girl denies evangelist is father of her child. Page i Slaying of sister starts bitter family feud. Page 6. Leading "Mjssouri democrats may bolt party if Reed wins at primary. Page 6. Pacific Northwest. Tacoma to war on milk retailers. Page 1. Jackson county, Oregon, recall election takes place today. Page 1. Increase of bonus loan to 14000 urged by legion. Page 1. Sports. i Giants and Cardinals divide . double header. Page 14. Pacific Coast league results: At Port land 6, Seattle 9; at Los .Angeles, Vernon S, San Francisco 11; at Oak land 4, Los Angeles 3; at Salt Lake 7, Sacramento 4. Page 14. Four class events on circuit programme. Page 15. Commercial and Marine. West O'Rowa due here next August. Page 12. W. .1. Robinson re-elected president of 1 Northwest Wheat Growers associa tion. Page 20. ' . Rails- and tractions feature New York bond narket. Page 21. Banks of Oregon show good gains. Page 20. Heavy buying of wheat advances prices at Chicago. Page 20. North Portland market praised. Page 21. ' Portland and Vicinity. Shriners hold annual picnic at Oaks park. Page 4. Airplane wedding to feature Foreign . War Veterans' picnic today. Page 10. First Bartlett spears reach local market from California. Page 13. Portland deportations exceed immigra tion in 1921. Page 10. Options on East First street properties to be taken up next Tuesday. Page 6. Rail divorce case is up for hearing. Page 7. Cruelty to hens charged by wife. Page 5. Meats in large supply on Portland mar ket. Page 13. Seattle ex-policeman and wife accused of theft. Page 3. Voters accused by Hall are listed. Page 4. Streetcar crashes into front of home. Page 1. Weather report, . data and forecast. Pag 12. - World Again Is Menaced, Says Lloyd George. FAITH PLACED IN LEAGUE Explosive Atmosphere Per vading Europe. POLAND'S PLANS RAPPED If Unity of Nations Fails, Civili zation Is Doomed, De clares Premier. BY HENRY WALES. (Chicago tribune Foreign News Service. Copyright. 1922, by the Chicago Tribune.) LONDON, July 28. "Churches must combine to make war Impossible," said Prime Minister Lloyd George at a luncheon of Non-Conformists today. "There is a growing assertion that conflict is coming again, sooner or later. That Is the business of churches to watch. Nations are building up armaments; nations for merly non-existent are building new armaments." Taking a rap at Poland, he said: "They are constructing more terrible machines even than the late war saw. What for? Not for peace; not to disperse armies. . They attack cities of unarmed, defenseless popu lations and kill, maim, poison, mu tilate and burn helpless women and children. Hopes I'lucrd in League. "If the churches of Europe and America allow that to fructify they had better close their doors. The next war, if it comes, will be a war against civilization itself. We have reduced army, navy arid air arma ments to less than what they were before the - .ir. If all nations did likewise there would be no peril to peace. . "It is difficult for one nation to re main defenseless while others con- . struct, machinery which may be used for-its destruction. ' . "I attach high hopes to the league of nations. One Wiing I object to is about the covenant. Everything dis liked in jt is called mine and every thing good in It is credited to some one else. Passions Alljr'ned for War. "I am entitled "to boast that I first proposed the covenant of ten at the Paris peace conference that the league of nations would be an es sential part of the Versailles treaty. If the league succeeds, civilization is safe.' If it fails, I speak advisedly that civilization is doomed.' "The strongest . passions of the human heart fear, revenge, hatred, love of country, home and king are now ranging themselves on the side of war. The peril of the future is the fear that something will happen to destroy your home and kindred country. We must put public opin ion in the league, which alone can make it a real force. Atmosphere Xonr Explosive. "Thev talk of the suddenness in j the way the war came. The same i atmosphere now of explosive ma I terial is scattered in the face of I Europe. When a match is dropped I it will be too late tp save the cove I nant of the league. Lock up ex plosives and lock- up especially those in the habit . of dropping matches." PORTLAND BOY DROWNED Alfred Wilson of Steamer Ann.i Cumniings, River Victim. OREGON CITY. Or., July 28. (Special.) Alfred Wilson of Port land! mess boy on the steamship Anna Cummings, owned by the Crown Willamette Paper company,, was drowned in the Willamette riv er this afternoon about 4:30 o'clock, while bathing. He sank suddenly and did not reappear. It is thought that the boy was seized with cramps. . Effort was made to find the body, but with no success tonight. MAN INCINERATES SELF Farmer Rows With Wife, Burns House, Barn, and Perishes. - KITCHENER, Ont July 28. Jo seph Scheurman, 60, a Lexington farmer, quarreled with his wife today. 'Til end it all!" he exclaimed, rushing from the'house. Setting fire first to his house and then to the barn, he walked into the blazing barn and perished. Mrs. Scheurman escaped. GERTRUDE D0N0HUE DIES Retired Actress Last Surviving Member of Prominent Family. COLORADO SPRINGS, July 28. Gertrude Donohue, 60 years old, a retired actress, who played en the stage with Jefferson and Keene, is dead at a sanitarium here after an illness of six years. She was the last surviving member-of a prominent family and long line of actors whose home was 'orig inally In Baltimore, Md. 1