THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 3, 1919. 20 LAST CURTAIN DROPS FOR OPERA PRODUCER Oscar Hammerstein Passes at H's New York Home. CAREER HELD SPECTACULAR Mr. Hoover. This subject will be dis cussed today. Mr. Hoover announced he would re sign from the economic council Sep tember 1. and Lord Cecil said he would cease to be a rotary British member of the council after its present session. As th food restrictions in the United States ended with the coming of peace and the food administration was de mobilized, it was pointed out that Herbert Hoover, representing the United States, was not authorized to bind the country to any agreement, and for that reason it was decided to place the plan in the hands of the committee. The members despaired of reducing prices much below the level obtaining three months ago, but they were deter mined that if possible they would not permit prices to go higher. It was shown that prices in Lurope, except where commodities were subsi dized by the government, were higher than in the United States. BEAVER STATE MEN HOME THREE TRANSPORTS BRING ORE. GOX FIGHTERS FROM WAR. Soldiers From All Sections of Over seas Service Reach Xew York Harbor In Safety. Impresario and Theater Builder Failed Many Times Before Se curing Final Success. COLONEL MAY QUITS POST NEW YORK, Aug. 2. Oscar Ham merstein, theater builder and producer ot gTand opera, died in a hospital here last night of a complication of diseases after an illness of several days. Mr. Hammerstein had been in a state of coma since late Monday afternoon and died without regaining conscious ness. His wife and son, Arthur, were at his bedside when the end came at 7:35 o'clock. Oscar Hammerstein's chief claim to - fame as an impresario and theatrical manager, it has been said, will rest in the fact that he set new records for presentins grand operas of com posers never before heard in America, and that he introduced to the western musical world singers who afterward won great names for themselves. Mr. Hammerstein- was born in Ber ?in, Germany, in 1847, and came to the United States in 1S63, as he later wrote, "to be free." Learned Cisar Maklnn. Arriving in New York he became a ciffarmaker's apprentice. He always had a great love for the theater. Early in life he became associated with Adolph Neuendorf, manager of a Bow ery theater. He wrote three .plays about 1870, all of which were produced there. Before this Mr. Hammerstein had made a little money in Harlem real es tate and invested it wisely.. Later he became a silent partner of Neuendorf in the control of the Fourteenth street theater, where German plays were pro. ducei. The first theater he built in Harlem lost $300.00(1 in three years', but the promoter never lost hearty He built another one and made mon. Similar ventures were undertaken and were successful. In 1S95 he paid Jl, 000, 000 for the site of the Olympia theater and put another million into the building. Yvette Guilbert . opened it and for a time it was a hi;,- money-maker, but failed at last. Inventions Bring Profits. While engaged in writing operas and finding new prima donnas and men singers, he utilized his spare time as an inventor, some of his labor-saving devices bringing him handsome royal lies. ' . The Harlem opera house he built in 1880. This was followed by the-erection of the Columbus theater, ilanhat; ta.i Opera house, Olympia (now New York theater). Victoria theaU.-. Belas-3 theater and the New Opera house. Among the opera singers he engaged who were stars of the first vocal mag nitude at the time, or who became so later partly as a result of Mr. Hammer stein's leadership, were Edouard and Jean de -i.eszke. Mary Garden, Luise Tetrazzini, Eleanor de Cisneros, J.Taur ice Renaud. Mario Sammarco, Nellie Melba. Lina Cavalieri, Jenne Gerville Reache. Charles Dalmores, John Mac- Cormick and M. Zenatello. In 1910 Mr. Hammerstein sold out his Philadelphia opera house and scenery and costumes of the Manhattan together with all contracts with his singers, for a sum said to have been $2,000,000, to the Metropolitan Opera company; and as a result of the agreement entered into at that time and which later was the subject of litigation, the famous impresario was enjoined from pro ducing opera in New York until April 26, 1920. IDAHO HAS NEW FIRES BLAZES SET BY LIGHTNING CALL FOR MORE F liHTERS. RESIGNATION IS EXPECTED REACH SALEM TODAY. TO Adjutant-General Stafrin, Successor, Will Not Be Elected Till All Officers Qualify. SALEM, Or., Aug. 2. (Special.) The resignation of Colonel John L. May. V '&,&. --fe'v. 4 V Oscar Hammerstein, who died in. noted impresario, New York. commander of the 3d Oregon, national guard, reported to have 'been tendered in Portland yesterday, had not reached Salem up to a late hour last evening. Adjutant-General Stafrin, who was Dallas, said over the telephone that he expected the resignation to reach his office today. He expressed regret that Colonel May had taken the step at this time, and said he r believed the resignation due entirely Jtn protests that had been made at Portland against the commander of the regiment. But ten companies of the national guard have been federalized, it was said; the officers of the remaining com panies not yet having qualified for serv ice under the federal system. Until these other officers do qualify there will be no election of a commander to succeed Colonel May, it was said here, and the 3d Oregon will be without a colonel until that time. Colonel May commanded the 162d in fantry overseas. After his return to Oregon he was appointed adjutant general for the state, relinquishing that post when named head of the 3d Ore gon, national guard. BY PEGGY CURTIS. NEW YORK. Aug. 2. (Special.) The following Oregon men arrived yes terday on the three transports that came in: On U. S. S. Mount Vernon. Brest cas ual company 3218 George P. St. Marie, Portland, to Camp Merritt; headquar ters troop. 4th division. Arthur C. Gold en, Portland; supply company 58th in fantry. Jesse F. Gwyn. Toledo; com pany H 58th infantry, Hoiano J. .r'ooie. Lafayette; Howard H. Heroux, Port- and; Joseph S. Phillips, bpringfield; company M 58th infantry, William A. Russell, La Monta; company B b9th In fantry, Joseph Quigley, Oswego; com pany G 59th infantry, Fred R. Gee, Portland, to Merritt. U. S. S. Princess Matoika Head quarters company 9th infantry, Will iam A. Davis, Albany; William E. Abbott, Salem; Jacob Ritthaler, Cor nelius: company C, 9th infantry. Cap tain Gustave B. Appelman, Corvallis: Eugene A. Carls. Murphy; Sergeant Robert J. Caldwell. Merrill; company D. Clair F. Simler, Dayton: company E, Charles F. Brough. Rainier; company G, Earle Albro, Eugene; John W. Gran- berg. Astoria: company L, Daniel t. O'Donnell, . Tillamook, to Merritt. U. S. S. Pocahontas Supply detach ment 308, field signal battalion, Grover J. Friederich, Aurora; Merritt. Company C, 3d army military police battalion, Lieutenant W illtam E. Graham, Os- wego; Frank W. Matthews, North Bend: Albert A. Spinning, Dufur; Ralph E. Mulkey, Lakeview; Frank A. Shaf fer, 'Condon; Joe Yarbrough, Little Point: George R. Reed. Fossil: Charles V. Thornton, Marshfield: Henry E. Hausen, Rainier: Charles E. Spangle Dayton; John H. Beaman Jr., Forest Grove. Motor transportation 454, Frank J. Persinger, Hillsboro, to Mer ritt. First aero squad, Harrison Henry, Portland : Harley Farrar, Astoria, to Mills. 186th aero squad. Ray D. Boyer, Ontario; Ericson D. Brown, Portland William F. Hardin, Hillsboro; Donald R. Morrisen, Leland; Marvin W. Cook, Brownsville; Daniel F. Pidcock, Port land: William L. Dallas. Boring. Two hundred and fifty-eighth aero squadron. Sergeant Edward E. Renfro, Portland: Paul M. Watts, Portland 44th balloon company. Sergeant Lester H. Hall, Eugene; Marvin J. Mitchell Medford; Glen D. Thompson, La Grande 5th photographic section, Rudolph R. Ritzman, Roseburg; 16th photographic section, Sergeant Chester R. Clark, Marshfield: base hospital 91, Lieuten ant-Colonel George C. Dunham, Salem to Merritt; Leslie H. Ustick, Portland casual for orders, Arthur J. Peterson Astoria. Today the U. S. S. Zeelandia brought ordnance detachment 13th, F. A., Reed S. Gallagher, Boyd; battalion C, Lieu tenant Paul F. Amort. Corvallis; bat talion D, Alva Wolfe. Ashwood. to Merritt: Brest casual company 2753 Max Goldstaub, Portland; Tim T. Palmer, Oregon City; Brest casual com pany 2793. William E. Gardner, Brush, t'rairie; convalescent. Sergeant Ernes S. Simmons, Portland, to Mills. finally picked up riding on the bottom : the lifeboat. Others who received silver wound uttons Friday are: J. Murdock, 74 Watt street: Conrad Blatter, 296 Ham ilton avenue; William Tierney. S01 Buxton street: K. D. Dufur, 1098 Forty- ifth street: Floyd A. Mitchell. 448 Eleventh street: Albert W. Fellner. 575 Couch -street; F. L. Daly. 16 Twelfth treet; Virgil L. Salmon, Portland: Max Brown, Foster hotel: S. A. Pinard, 24 Whong street; Charles W. Beaner. Portland police department: V. I. Ken- 11. S84 East Burnside street; William D. Maxwell. 314 Wygant str'eet; Harry W. Gambell, 339 Shaver street; F. Tup per. 407 East Sixteenth street; T. C Nayall. 1082 East Lincoln street, and H. M. Miller. 303 Twelfth street, all of Portland. Arnold Styffler, Gaston, Or.; Harold G. Hindee, Milwaukie. Or.; A. W. Olnt. Hillsdale, Or.: John C. Johnson, Hood River. Or.; Sidney C. Dean, Castle Rock. Wash.: Ernest W. Reed, Springfield, Or.; Curtis C. Hendricks, Gresham, Or.; Oscar L. Holmes. Estacada, Or.; Jesse R. Hinnian. Astoria, Or.; Roy K. Reef- ner. Metzger, -Or.: Elmer ti. jonnson. West Linn., Or.: H. B. Dewitt. Jr.. Sa- em. Or., and I. R. Yates, Banks. Or. The 17 recruiting parties recently ent out throughout the northwest are completing their itineraries and return ing to the stations at Portland, aeartis and Spokane. PATRON SLUES TAXI DRIVER SOLDIER S ACT TO EVADE PAY ING FARE REPORTED. BOSTON PROMOTER CALLS GEORGE V. TtOHKY, HUB SPORT PUSHER, TOURING. WEST. FORD DESIGNER OF "FLAG OF ALIj NA TIONS" IS PUT ON STAND. le Hciiiy Rains in Montana Reported to Have Checked Flames in St. Hegis and Helena Districts. SPON.NE, Wash., Aug. 2. Numerous new fires were reported from various points in Idaho forests last night, most of them started by lightning, and fed eral forestry officials here were asked for more firefighters than they could sirppJy. More will be sent out today, it was stated. Thirty men will go to the Clearwater forest and 10 will be sent to the Kaniksu forest. Thirty-six fires were reported started by lightning in the Clearwater forest alon. Although the situation was consid ered serious, the leaders of the fire fighters were hopeful of having the fk-ea under control in a few hours. MISSOL'LA. Mont.. Aug. 2. A heavy rain which covered the district west beyond St. Regis and eastward to Hel rva, according to local forestry of ficials, probably has helped to relieve the forest-fire situation, which, how ever, still remains critical. According to Assistant District For ester Glenn Smith, who has direct irVwge of the f iref ijchting organization the district, about half of the fires in the district are due to lightning which accompanied rains in the last three days. Supervisor Fullaway of the Nez Perce reported three large fires south of Darby today and stated his belief tha-t several of 15 new fires discovered within a week had been of incendiary origin. Cut on Head Dazes Chauffeur W'h'i Occupant of Cab Escapes Near His Destination. To avoid payment of a taxtcab fare from the downtown district to St. Johns, a soldier Friday night slugged David DeFeher. driver for the Portland Taxicab company, jumped from the cab and got away while the chauffeur was dazed, according to DeFeher's report to police. The chauffeur had a cut on his head where he said the soldier had hit him. DeFeher said he had picked up the soldier at the Seward hotel. The fare said he had just returned from Siberia and lived near Columbia university, but did not remember the street number. DeFeher said the soldier finally an nounced that he saw his house and called to the chauffeur to stop. The blow was struck Just as the cab drew ud at the curb. Elmer C. Peik. 52 East Twelfth" street North, reported that a highway man armed with a revolver and tlash light had held him up near East Thirty- third and r remont streets and had robbed him of $60, a watch, a ring and a stickpin. The robber stepped out of the brush near the point where Mr. Peik had parked his automobile, and said he had been waiting for the owner of the car. Inspectors Hill and Cahill are working on both cases. Easterner Has Eye on Ted Thye to Take on Ketonen for Grap pling Match. George V. Tuohey. nationally know as a promoter of athletic events In Bos ton, was a Portland visitor Friday, his way to San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs Tuohey and their daughter are on western pleasure trip, this being their first jaunt to this section in seven years. Mr. Tuohey conversed with Mike H. Butler and Ted Thye, world's mid- leweight wrestling champion, relative to having Terrible Teddy hike to Bos ton for six or seven matches this fall nd winter. Tuohey is exceedingly nxious to match Thye, who beat Wal- er Miller here in May. with Waino Ketonen who, is being hailed as the 158-pound champion in the far east. Promoter Tuohey will stop at Los Angeles and endeavor to sign Walter Miller for a pair of matches in Boston. eing sure that the ex-crowned king f the middleweight grapplers will be ble to get away from his duties as wrestling mentor at the Los Angeles Amateur Athletic club for a long nough period. The Bostonian has promoted wres tling matches for the past 33 years, the last 17 years in Boston. He fea tured Mike Yokel of Salt Lake, in an limination contest there which started last October and ran through to May 26 of this year. On his way west Mr. Tuohey was the guest of Tex Rickard at the Dempsey-Willard fight. for seven years Mr. Tuohey was sports editor of the Boston Post and for 20 years prior to that time wrote sporting events for the Boston Police News. Dr. S. S. Marquis Changes Original Opinions When Counsel Recalls "Melting Pot." MOUNT CLEMENS. Mich., .Aug. 2. Dr. S. S. Marquis, head of the educa tional, or welfare, department of the Ford Motor company, reappeared or the witness stand yesterday as a re buttal witness in Henry Ford's $1,000.' 000 libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune and' told the story of "the flag of all nations," designed to fly over the Ford factories and typify the harmony in which men of 60 nationalities were working. The idea of the flag came to me during a conversation with Mr. Ford in November, 1915." related the witness. It was one of Mr. Ford's ideas, that given correct industrial conditions, the races and nationalities of the world would get along much more amicably and he believed that his own plants provided the proof of the theory. "I suggested a flag which would typify the condition and drew- up design. The background was -white and blue and in the center the globe. At the equator I placed a circle of red representing the blood which is common to all peoples a symbol or brotherhood. Then there were two bands of gold, symbolizing prosperity." Dean. Marquis went with Mr. Ford on the peace ship and when he returned he was shown a design somewhat modifying his own. he related. It was Mr. Ford s purpose to fly the flag over the factory, although Dr. Marquis explained to Mr. Ford at the time that this was a delicate matter while the war was on and that the true meaning of the emblem was to be thoroughly understood before it was flown. It apparently was never raised. "You have heard the United States referred to as a ro-elting pot where men from all countries were fused into Americanism," asked Attorney Kirk- land. "Yes." "Didn't It occur to you or Mr. Ford that the Stars and Stripes was a pretty good symbol of the harmony of na tions and of prosperity?" "I do not reall." "It is. Isn't ltr "Yes." SPIRITUAL REVIVAL NEED HOOVER TEELS BRITISJEI HOW PKOBiEMS MUST BE MET. HOUSE RECESS CANCELED Dcpartitre From Food Control Exec- Board Due to Loss of Authority t Home. utlve LONDON. Aug-. 2. (By the Associated Press.) Herbert Hoover, head of the international relief organisation, speak ing: last night at a dinner of the supreme economic council, warned his hearers against apathy in the face of the eco nomic oonditions now governing the world. "The world," said Mr. Hoover, "needs what might be called a spiritual re vival of the spirit that won th war." A general European coal control or ganization to supersede the partial con trol exerted through the international relief organization was &utiKted ty Members Arrange for Three-Day Leaves Till Wilson Acts. WASHINGTON. Aug. 2. Heeding the request of President Wilson, the house abandoned its five weeks' recess, sched. uled to begin with adjournment today. House leaders announced that plans would be perfected tomorrow to permit members to go home under a three-day continuous recess programme, their re turn to be simultaneous with the pres en tat ion of administration plans lowering "living costs. 1 he president s request, coming un expectedly, provoked, informal and bit ter comment from both republicans and democrats, but only a single pro test was heard on the floor by Hep resentative Blanton, democrat,' Texas, wno assertea tnat ms opposition was due to the "railway brotherhoods trying to hold up the country for about the seventh time." The recess was canceled by a vote of 236 to 4. for Yakima Evening Paper Issued. YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 2. The Tak ima American, a daily evening news paper established recently in this city, issued its first number yesterday. Read The Oreonian classified ads. RECRUITING DRYS IN LEAD DAILY STRAW TOTE IS AGAIX IN PROHI FAVOR. SENATE SANCTIONS MEET President Empowered to Call Inter national Labor Conference. WASHINGTON, Augr. 2. So that the first meeting of the international labor conference created by the Versailles treaty may be held In Washington next October, regardless of whether the treaty is ratified, the senate yesterday unanimously adopted a joint resolution authorizing the president to call such meeting, but giving no authority for American representation "unless and until" the treaty's ratification has been accomplished. The action was taken after Secre tary Wilson, of the labor department. had told the foreign relations commit tee that even if the treaty were re- . E. Chilton, Survivor of Tuscania Torpedoing, Receives His Silver Wound Button. For the first time in five days the "drys" among the returned soldiers won out over those favoring the return of booze, in the straw vote beinz- taken t the United States armv recruitine station. Third and Oak streets. Fri day's vote on the prohibition ques tion showed 46 for and 35 against. The straw balloting here is attracting at tention over a wide area and more votes are constantly being received by mail. Fridays mall brought votes from Aberdeen, Bend, Corvallis. Prairie City. Hoquiam, Astoria and Salem. Fridays voting brought the totals on the various questions to the follow ing: For. A(TJt. National prohibition 826 60S Universal military eervice 1178 -407 League of nations 1204 337 Woman suffrage 1010 5iO Disposition of kaiaer Death 755, exil, 538. freedom 121. American (lirl best, 704 T French girl best, 129; equal, 126; no opinion, 564. A survivor of the Tuscania disaster. F. E. Chilton, Seward hotel, was one of the former soldiers to receive a sil ver wound button Friday at the re cruiting station. Chilton was wounded from the explosion of the torpedo which sank the vessel. According to his account of the event, he was stand ing in the "chow" line when the tor pedo hit and was knocked from the main deck into one of the lifeboats. Later the boat in which he and others made their escape from the sinking vessel was overturned and they were Government Recognition of an Owl Drug Company policy which went into effect with the first call for men in April, 1917, and is being consistently followed: H II 2739 m m Imtrje assttttext tire Wtnx'ttutl IJamj gemrhtxjetrts ftrnt fktg uriXX l&&tij vasxkz& ttrrtTx tTxxmx, mttt left tcr zcxxit in tlijetmtmnj &uxxuq fhz&xtxt t 8tt i'ftnm st 33at &rtXTfsrg tit Ojt &tn mm BERLIN SITUATION GRAVE Nationals May Attempt Coup in Late Summer, Is Report. LONDON. Aug. 2. Reuter's Berlin correspondent, in a dispatch dated Thursday, hints at grave political ten sion in Berlin and the possibility of an attempt late in the summer by the nationalists to carry out a military coup. "The political atmosphere in Berlin, says the correspondent, "has become surcharged owing to recent disclosures and recriminations following them. "The real import of the campaign is more significant than might appear at first sight. "Despite the superficial tranquility of life here, the inner tension remains as great as ever and possibly the late summer will see an attempt at a mili tary coup by the nationalists. jected here, its acceptance by other powers would validate the request it contains that the president call the first conference to meet here in Oc tober. He said under the existing law the executive was without authority to act, and that it was necessary to begin preparations soon, as more than score of nations already had signified their intention to be represented. HOGS BRING $21.30 100 LBS. Price Record West of Rocky Moun tains Set at Public Sale. HANFORD, Cal., Aug. 2. The highest price ever brought by hogs at any pub lie sale west of the Rocky mountains was paid yesterday at a sale conducted by the California Farm Bureau Market ing association, according to a state ment issued by E. C. Bitner, manager of the association. According to Bitner, one firm pur chased 35 hogs, averaging 229 pounds. paying $2L30 per hundred weight. BANDITS BLOW UP TRAIN 12 German Boys Among Victims of Outrage Reported in East. NEW YORK, Aug". 2. Mexican bandits July 19 blew up a passenger train be twecn Huamantla and San Marcos, less than 100 miles from Mexico City, kill ing about 60 persons, including 12 boys from the German college at Pueblo, according to private advices received here tonight by the National Associa tion for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico. John N.Willys President of " the . WillysOver land -Company, manufacturer of the Overland. 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