-THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1922 BIG HONOLULU FIRM ROBBED OR YEARS Trusted Secretary Takes More Than $500,000. AUDIT REVEALS THEFT Shippers Victims of Overconfl dence Scheme Called Dia bolically Clever. ' HONOLULU. T. H.. Aug. 22. (By the Associated Press.) Serious ir regularities understood to amount to more than 500,000 and to extend over a period of several years, have been found in the accounts of John Guild, secretaary of the shipping firm of Alexander & Baldwin, ac cording to statement issued last night by C. R. Hemenway, treasurer and assistant manager of the com pany, after a special meeting of the board of directors. Hemenway's statement said "the directors of Alexander & Baldwin have authorized me to state that serious irregularities have been found in John Guild s accounts. Manager Watrrhoose Xotlfled. John Waterhouse, vice-president and manager of the shipping, sugar ar.d insurance firm of Alexander & Baldwin, who is in San Francisco, v.-as informed today by cable of the alleged $500,000 defalcation of John Guild, the company's secretary, and will sail for Honolulu tomorrow. Guild, who collapsed after being faced with the evidence pointing to the irregularities, is in a serious condition, and, according to his phy sician, cannot make a full statement at present. The discovery of the alleged dis crepancies cams during a general audit of the firm's books following reported embezzlements in Alexan der & Baldwin's New York officer of approximately J500.000 several months ago. Company' Capital I nim paired. It was announced today that the company's capital is unimpaired and that its cash and deposits in the bank, after a check, have been found correct. The losses were ab sorbed, it is said, wnen the alleged speculations occurred. St. Andrew s Kpiscopal cathedral, of which Guild was treasurer, today is auditing its accounts. Auditors for Alexander & Bald win's accounts announced today they had ascertained that alleged irregularities had appeared as long as 21 years ago, when Guild was employed as a bookkeeper. The system of supposed defalcation was characterized by one of the directors of the company as "diabolically clever," and based on the manipula tion of accounts of the offices in Honolulu. San Francisco, Seattle and New York. Guild Not Expected to Live. Guild is said to have been uncon scious the last two days with heart trouble and physicians believe there is slight hope for his recovery. It was announced that he had signed over all his personal property to the company to make up partially for the alleged shortage. Guild was considered one of the leading influential business men of the territory of Hawaii. He came to Hawaii from the West Indies and had been employed on several plan tations before joining the office staff of Alexander & Baldwin. He was promoted to the position of cashier and in 1919 was elected sec retary and a director of the com pany, occupying the same position in the company s subsidiaries. Reputation as Philanthropist Won tie is 3 years old. For many years he has been director and treasurer of the Episcopal church here, president of the board of trus tees of Queen's hospital and for merly was president of the Boy Scouts in the territory. He had a widespread reputation as a philan thropist. The directors stated Guild had been in complete charge of the company's finances and enjoying the lull confidence of the directors. it is now said he bad been engag ing in heavy stock transact ons. GARBAGE CAN ENDS TOUR Runaway American Boy Is Found Asleep In Paris Boulevard. PARIS. Aug. 22. (By the Asso ciated Press.) When 14-year-old Jasper Heeman ran away from his home In Binghamton, N. T.. bound for a personally conducted sight seeing tour of Europe, he did not . visualize his journey as ending in a garbage can om the Boulevard Des Italiena in Paris. But that is where a policeman found him, wrapped in peaceful slumber, at 4 o'clock this morning, and now Heeman is awaiting com pletion of arrangements to return him to Binghamton. The adven turous youth crossed the Atlantic as a stowaway on the liner Fin land. He was discovered during the voyage and detained at Antwerp for deportation. j.ie escaped, finally reaching Paris, where he was await ing a chance to visit the battle fields. Finding himself without funds at bedtime last night, he sought repose in a handy garbage can. GIRLS FINISH BIG HIKE Courageous Pair From San Fran- isco Reach Syracuse, X. V. SYRACUSE, N Y.. Aug. 22. The M'sses Jessica and Marcia McManus reached Syracuse yesterday from California, hitch-hiking their way to college. Escorting and chaperoning each other, they came from San Fran cisco in two months, walking and riding as necessity dictated and op portunity offered. Unlike the ma jority on the roads, Jessica and Mar c'a wore skirts. Marcia, the "kid sister," contends that "flapping" a bit is an aid to success in hitch hiking and that feminine attire is part of the game. Jessica is going to Radcllffe. Mar cia is going to Columbia to enter the Pulitzer school of journalism. Lodge Delegate Returns. ALBANY. Or.. Aug. 22. (Special.) Willard L. Marks, local attorney and one of the three Oregon men who attended the supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias at San Fran cisco, has returned from California well pleased with the work ac complished by the lodge session. Mr. Marks also attended the meet ing of the American Bar associa tion and visited his mother and a sister, who live at Napa. Summer prices on coal. Phooe Diamond -Coal Co.. Bdwy. 2037. Adv. WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO TELL PRETTY SOON WHETHER OR NOT ROBBING THE NEST AND HIDING THE EGGS. VIRGINIA EDWAR05 WINS POltTLAN'D GIItL IS CHOSEN OREGON'S PRETTIEST. Victor 1 Fine Swimmer and Diver; Merchants Promise Many Beautiful Gifts. (Continued From First Page.) be one of the princesses of King Neptune's court at the national beauty pageant. Gala Time la in Store. There she will have a continuous round of gala entertainment given i;i her honor. She will take part ir a national tourney of beauty at which the judges, artists of national and international repute, will award the crown of loveliness to the fair- est. It is felt that Miss Portland will have a splendid opportunity to j win the hiehest honors in this con I test. ' Gifts already promised'Miss Port land by leading merchants of the city are an evening gown by the Meier & Frank company store, an afternoon costume by H. Liebes &-. Co., silk hosiery and lingerie by Charles F. Berg, oxfords by the Knight Shoe company, two bathing suits, one by the Columbia Knitting mills of Portland, and another by the Asbury Mills, New York city, one dozen best quality photographs by Leonid Fink, portrait photog rapher, and candy by Swetland's. Conscientious Efforts Made. The five judges gave their most conscientious efforts to make their award entirely fair and they ap proached their task wholly without prejudice in favor of any contestant. Character of all five was such as to establish public confidence in their I verdict. Judge C. H. Carey was chairman of the committee. Miss Esther Wuest, superintendent of art instruction in the public schools. acted at the first session but was called awav from the city and was unable to serve later. Her place was taken by Mrs. A. Gay of the same department in the public schools. Other judges were John M. Mann, who was acting mayor while George Lm. Baker was absent from the city; F. H. Kiser, well known scenic photographer and motion picture manufacturer, and Edward C. Sam mons, assistant cashier of the Unit ed States National bank. Task Found Difficult. The judges found their task ex tremely difficult because of the great number of beautiful girls who had entered the contest. Through out the judging they were embar rassed by the wealth of material from which they had to pick the most perfect flower of girlhood. They regretted extremely that there were not sufficient prizes to go around to the many whose seeming perfection was thought to deserve recognition. However, the fact that tne nnai award was unanimous would indi cate that the choice will be popular even with the other contestants. Judge Carey, at the conclusion oi the contest, said: "The committee regrets that it .s unable to designate more than one of the candidates as a type of Oregon beauty. The fact is that practically all of the photographs submitted were pictures of beautiful girls and the committee has had great diffi culty in reaching a decision among so many aspirants of first quality. I wish to say for the committee that the decision is entriely impartial, none of the judges having received any recommendations or solicitations from any source whatever or for any candidate prior to the rendition of the verdict. "The committee feels that in mat ters of taste and judgment of this kind, opinions will necessarily differ and it is not possible to reach a re sult which everyone will approve. Each of the girls has her own ad mirers and Justly so. But the com mittee, without knowing the names of the candidates, made Its choice, first, from the photographs, and. sec ondly, from verification by meeting personally a number of possible first choices. "The decision of the committee is unanimous and while we know the icou-ii wm wc ute&ppuinting to many v J , wk fin wmwr ' 111 of these girls, we hope they will take the verdict with philosophy and try again next time." RAIL CHIEFS HURRY BACK (Continued From Firat Pagg.) a "bloc" to oppose any plan for restoration of seniority. Despite continued assertions of rail chiefs that they will enter the conference without having before them any definite proposal as a re sult of their executive committee's two-day conference with the big five last week, reports persist in labor circles that several such pro posals were laid before the carrier representatives. In each case full restoration of seniority was said to have been the outstanding feature. One such plan, revealed in labor sources, tonight was said vto have been written by Secretary of Commerce Hoover and an official of the Brotherhood' of Engineers. containing provisions similar to President Harding's last proposal, cloaked in new words. Wages, working conditions and farming out of shop work would be il WHAT CONGRESS DID AS ITS DAY'S WORK. House. Tariff bill sent to confer ence. Interstate and foreign commerce committee favor ably reports' coal commission bill. Announcement made by Representative Bland, repub lican. Indiana, that he will seek to amend coal commis sion measure. Senate. Not in session. J referred to the railroad labor board for adjudication, according to this plan, it was said. Full Seniority Man-ted. On the senioiity question strikers I would return with full rights as of July 12. Employes would retain former rights, plus rights since July 1. New men, taken on since the strike was called, would have rights dating from July 1. Under this plan the strikers would lose seniority rights for only the eight weeks the strike now has been in progress. Most of the 148 rail men who will attend the meeting arrived tonight and began several informal cau cuses in an effort to line up votes for the balloting tomorrow. Meantime labor headquarters again became active with the arrival of officials of the 16 shop crafts units, who preceded the big five leaders into the city. Warren S. Stone, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer, and B. F. Jewell, president of the shop crafts organization, are expected here to morrow to lay plans for'the brother hoods' resumption of sessions with an executive committee of the as sociation probably on Thursday. The Oregonlan publishes practi cally all of the want ads printed in the other three Portland papers, in addition to thousands of exclusive advertisements not printed in any other local paper. S. H. rreen stamps I t cash. Holman Fuel Co., coal and tood. Rrnadwav 3B3: 660-21 Adv. cigarettes JO They are GOOD! SHE HAS BEEN Eiii ERA BEFORE CUM RECONSTRUCTION OF POLITI CAL AFFAIRS ABOUT DONE. Reform Programme Appears Assure Governmental and Financial Stability. WASHINGTON, D. C.,' Aug. 22. Alter many months of confusion and uncertainty, the reconstruction of Cuba's political and fiscal affairs is nearing completion on a basis which state department officials regard as promising an. era of restored con fidence arid tranquility throughout the island republic. The reform programme, in the drafting of which Cuban officials J have had the constant aid of Major I General Enoch H. Crowder of the j American army, is said in advices received here to have reached a stage where re - establishment of governmental and financial stability I appears to be assured for the near future. j Numerous changes in the gov jernment machinery, makiag possible j the retirement of fiscal and judicial officials who stand in the way of needed reforms, are coupled in the reorganization plan with a sweep ing rehabilitation of the entire tax collecting and disbursing system of the public treasury. In a statement detailing the en tire restoration programme tonight the state department manifested thorough satisfaction with the turn taken by Cuban affairs and pre dicted that a proper execution of the plans now agreed upon among Cuban officials undoubtedly would gc far toward "normalization and the betterment of business condi tions generally." California State Revenue Large. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Aug. 22. The revenue from all sources for the support and maintenance of the state government for the fiscal year wnicn oegan July 1 will total 541,221,000, according to an official statement today by the state board of equalization. v Our Tailored Ready-for-Wear Clothes are made over- our own patterns. They emBody all the ear marks of our regu lar custom tailored garments. '45 to65 K. S. ERVIN & CO., Ltd. Established 1901. , GENERAL, EVGI.HH TAILORS CLOTHING READY FOR WEAR. Second Floor Selling Bldg. Sixth and Alder Streets. TWO MORE STATES 111 COAL PEACE Illinois and Indiana Miners Prepare tcj ''Enter Pits. OLD WAGE SCALE STANDS All Agreements Concluded in Bi tuminous Industry Based on Settlement at Cleveland. CHICAGO. Aug. 22. (By the As sociated Press.) Soft coal operators ! and miners in two more states made peace today, but anthracite operat ors and miners' representatives meeting in Philadelphia adjourned a joint conference subject to call without reaching an agreement. Illinois and Indiana miners were prepared to enter the pits tomorrow. They followed the lead of Michi gan, Iowa and Wyoming miners who yesterday concluded agree ments with operators. Southwest ern operators and miners were hold ing conferences at Kansas City in an effort to bring about a settle ment. The peace negotiations already completed caused the department of labor to estimate .the weekly bitu minus coal production at 9,000,000 tons within a week. Wage Scale to Be Same. All the agreements, thus far con cluded in the bituminous industry have been based on the settlement concluded at Cleveland- last week between John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, and his associates and operat ors from seven states. By the terms of this agreement the miners re turned to work at the same wage scale and under the same working conditions as when they struck on April 1, 144 days ago. This agree ment is effective until next March 31, with provision for a fact-finding commission to investigate the coal Industry and the selection of a sub committee of operators and miners at a joint conference at Cleveland, October 2, to determine methods of negotiating future wage scales. The agreement between Illinois miners and operators came after almost continuous conferences last ing for five days between operators' and miners' joint committees and sub-committees. Negotiation Plan Accepted. Today's agreement merely pro vides for continuing present wages and working conditions until next March 31, eliminating the clause providing for negotiations to formu late a new contract to begin when the present one expires. This clause is to be supplanted by the Cleve land plan of negotiation. President Farrington of the Illi nois miners' union announced to night -that every Illinois operator had signed the agreement and said that all men had been ordered back to work in this state. He predicted normal production by Monday if the trains were able to move the coal. President Kavanaugh of the oper ators' association of the fifth and ninth districts declared that produc tion in two weeks' time would be sufficient to supply the householder. He asserted that one result of the strike would be the enactment of legislation to prevent such strikes in the future. Public Demand Heeded. "If the price of coal is fixed by the state fuel administration or by the federal fuel administration it is my honest opinion that all operat ors will abide by that price," said Mr. Kavanaugh. He said the operators surrendered because of the demand of the public Dr. F. C. Honnold, secretary of the Illinois Coal Operators' association, estimated the loss to the individual miner on this basis at $559 for the period or. $50,310,000 for the 90,000 miners in the state. The idle-day cost to the mining companies he estimated at $25,000,000. He said the consumers have probably paid an average excess in price and freight of $3 a ton. for 10,000,000 tons, a possible total of $30,000,000. Woman Attempts 'Suicide. THE DALLES", Or., Aug. 22. (Spe cial.) Apparently despondent as a result of family difficulties, Mrs. H. V. Allen of Seattle, late this after noon attempted to end her life by jiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiniii!iimiiiiHiiiiiM fHAZELWOODj I Puff Pastry J E Made of the finest E 5 creamery, butter; E E crisp and flaky. E E Palm Leaves, dozen 80c 5 Patty Shells, dozen 70c Cheese Straws, doz. 30c E Banana Cream Tart, E E two for. ....25c E E Napoleon Slice, two E E for. . 25c E Eccles Cakes, three - E for. 25c E E Banburry Cakes, three E E .for.'.., 25c I HAZEL WOOD 1 1 DAIRY STORE 1 E ; 126 Tenth Street IbroadwayI 1hazelwood 1 1 Pastry Dept. 127 Broadway .. . , . ll . - jar-j--lj u -m" drinking poison in her room at a local hotel. She apparently repented after having partaken of about three-fourths of a bottle, for she hunted up one of the chambermaids, explained what she had done, and asked for a doctor. X)rs. Thompson and Coberth were at once called, and they ordered -the woman taken to the hospital, where it was reported this evening that she had an even chance of recovery. Mrs. Allen and her husband had been here since July 26, and had been quarreling during the last week, other patrons at the hotel said. 0SER WEDS IN 3 WEEKS Ijicense to Marry Miss McCormlck Applied for Under Swiss Law (Copyright, 1922. by New York Times.) (isy cnicago TriDuns ceased wire.) GENEVA, Aug. 22. It Is expected here that the wedding of Miss Mathilde McCormlck and Max Oser probably will take place at Basle within the next three weeks. It is stated that Oser has deposited papers and .applied for a license to marry, according to Swiss law, at the civil registrar's office in Basle, thereby giving plenty of time for Mr. and Mrs. Harold McCormick, who are at present attending the Mozart festival at Salsburg, to ar rive in Switzerland for the wedding. Meantime Miss Mathilde is having a splendid holiday around Lucerne, sometimes accompanied by Max Oser. Mrs. Stanley McCormlck, who has rented the Chateau Prangins near Geneva for the summer, says the wedding will not take place there, as Miss Mathilde is trying to evade publicity. FORD PLANT USES OIL Burners Are Installed Because of Shortage of Coal. DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 22. Owing to the shortage of coal, the Ford Motor company's Highland Park plant has been equipped with oil burners, it was announced today. The change wa made without loss of time to any of the 42,000 em ployes. The Ford company, it is under stood, has placed orders for 12,000, 000 gallons of fuel oil. Before in stalling oil burners, coke screen ings and other fuel were tried out but found unsatisfactory. The oil burners have been placed in all the boilers, of which there are 14. Whether they will be con tinued in use after the fuel short age has passed has not been deter mined. inkers of genuine cAustralian Kangaroo Boots and Shoes for men and 'women Protzman Shoe Co. 108 Broadway, Portland, Oregon. ocaoi ioe ME N W A N T.E For Shops and Roundhouse RATES: Machinists ....v.... 70 cents per hour Blacksmiths J....... 70 cents per hour Sheet Metal Workers ........... 70 cents per hour Electricians .................. 70 cents per hour Stationary Engineers ......... Various rates Stationary Firemen Various rates Boilermakers 70c to 70J4 per hour 'I Passenger Car Men .......... 70 cents per hour Freight Car Men 63 cents per hour Helpers, all classes . . 47 cents per hour Mechanics and helpers are allowed time and one-half :for time worked in excess of eight hours per day. Strike conditions prevail. APPLY ROOM 312, COUCH BUILDING, 109 FOURTH ST., NEAR WASHINGTON, PORTLAND 284.277 IS ASKED FOR STATE HOMES Institution Heads and Bud get Committee Meets. ACTION IS HELD UP Items to Be Investigated and Abr solute Needs of Departments to Be Ascertained. SALEM, Or., Aug. 22. (Special.) Superintendents of the various state institutions, at a meeting of the state budget commission held here today, recommended the erec tion of new buildings, extensions and. improvements during the bien nium starting January 1, 1923, aggregating- a cost of $284,277. Action on the recommendations will not be taken by the commission until the several items have been investigated and the absolute needs of the institutions have been deter mined. .A. summary of the recommenda tions, as submitted to the commis sion, follows: Oregon state hospital Industrial building. $34,300: machine shed, cottace Ifarm. 6200; total, $40,700. Feeble minded home Dormitory, $45,- 000; auditorium, gymnasium and flrhool building. $51,840; addition to dining room. $12,800; alteration.. $6000: total. $115,640. State tuberculosis Hospital Pavilion for children. $17,000. State blind school Dormitory for boys. $55,000; assembly hall, and Bleeping rooms, $11,860; total. $86,860. State deaf school Service building. $2380; machine shed and fe.d barn, $2760; manure box, $580; rustic bridge. $280: total, $6000. Oregon state penitentiary Root house, $1500; service building, $1300: green house, $600; brooder house, $350: total. $3750. . Girls' industrial school Root ' house. $860: garage and storage, JS-'O; total, $1480. Old soldiers' home Dining room and kitchen building, $18,200; oold storage building. $2200; total. $20,400. Eastern Oregon hospital To complete basement, $12,447. Grand total, 84,Z77. The Industrial building recom Do You Buy Shoes By Guesswork ? 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SHOE takV.l.".,V!u.''!l' Established 1553 53 "!!!!'?!!!!!!'fo') 1001 mended by Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner. superintendent of the state hospital, if allowed by the commission, will be 80 by 225 feet in dimensions and will contain a carpenter shop, paint shop, tin ehop, tailor shop, machine shop, sowing room and industrial room with storage closet. The dormitory requested at the feeble minded home would be de voted exclusively for housing boys, and would have a capacity of be tween 70 and 80 inmates. It Is pro posed that the structure shall be of brick construction and fireproof. Be sides having ix class rooms the auditorium recommended at the feeble minded institution would have a seating capacity of 1000 peoirtr, and be provided with a stage and moving picture machine. Alterations to the present buildings necessary because of the erection of tie n.-v structures would cost approximate!" $6000. Hospital Wins Wanted. Plans for the proposed new dor mitory at the state school for the blind call for a building having a capacity sufficient to accommodate 45 boys. The structure would con tain 11 sleeping rooms, study room, work room ami play' rooms in the basement. An incline would be pro vided instead of a stairway. An assembly room also would be a part of this structure. Besides completing the basement of the eastern Oregon state hos pital, estimates were placed ' before the commission looking to the com pletion of the upper floor of the new wing to the hospital which was erected during the present summer. Estimates for this worlw totalled $42,000. W. D. McNary, superintend ent of the eastern Oregon hospital. said that the completion of the new wing would provide accommodations for approximately 100 more -patients and would tend to relieve the crowd ed conditions at the state hospital ocated in Salem. . The new dining room and kitchen buildmg requested at the Old Soldiers' home at Roseburg, if ap proved, will relieve the congested condition of that institution and provide storasre facilities. Fashion Expert Read. BOSTON. Aug. 22. Mrs. Bell Arm strong Whitney, a fashion expert and ex-newspaper woman of . this city, is dead in Paris, according to a cablegram received here Monday. Mrs. Whitney was decorated hy the French government for her work during the war. She was the widow of Dr. Charles A. Whitney of New York. Two Killed in Kxplosion. HOUSTON, Tex., Auar- 22 Two men were killed and a third in jured at Goose Creek. 25 miles from here, when a charge of dynamite exploded today in a blacksmith shop. IOE30I n o D o a o a o 0 o D 1000 riUIIIIllilllllllUIIUIJMMNHIlUIUlUiin 0E3OI I0E30I loaoi IOOI IOE .- r