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:vj . "- - . . V..' :' TIIE SUNDAY OK EG ONI AX, PORTLAND. MARCH 6, t 14, 1920 . 'j - '." ' ! cadets mm II Commissions Awarded to Of ficers at Corvallis. LARGE CROWD ATTENDS Programme Is Opened by Formal Guard Mount Governor Ol cott Praises Exhibition. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL- LEGE, Corvallis. March 13. (Special.) The largest ana most varied mill - tarv tournament ever held here was staced tonight featuring., "stunts." drills, exhibitions and . contests by members of the infantry regintent and engineer motor transport and field artillery units. Governor Olcott was the guest of honor. The governor expressed his surprise and enthusiasm over the showing of the military department here. V. J. Kerr, president of the college, also was present and took part in the ceremony of presenting commissions to the cadet officers. The bleachers and balconies were crowded with between 3000 and 4000 spectators. Formal guard mounting by one company of the regiment opened the entertainment with the reserve offi cers' training corps band playing. This was followed by a drill by 100 girls from the physical education de partment. This drill, directed by Miss Edna Co-ks. while calling forth a crest deal of applause, was -not mili tary in nature. J Manual of Arm Contrftt Held. i Competitive drill in manual of arms mas also held, with two entrants from each company. A competitive drill by gun guards from each of the artillery batteries was given. A thrilling Dayonet demonstration was givn by a .special detachment of men taking this work. Disarming and throwing the opponent to the ground was done fo effectively that the audience cheered. Another interesting event was the equipment race, in which the various parts of the cadets' apparel was scat tered over a 60-yard course and the contestants were required to assem ble the pieces and finish the course in competition for speed. t'aterpillar Dare la Held. Teams of ten rr.en from each unit of the reserve officers' training corps were entered in a spectacular "cater pillar tace," each team running In step, astride a pole, and 60ng to one end of the hall, there to turn around and r.ice back to 'he tape A large box of caniy was the prize. A unique demonstration of the use of the machine gun, .shooting 1000 rounds of blank ammunition, was given. Commissions, tied in red, white and blue ribbon, were presented by Pres ident Kerr to all the cadet officers in a pretty ceremony in which the offi cers marched into the armory in a column of fours 'and approached the post of honor in a single line, armed with sabers. ' The field artillery figured strongly in the rest of the programme. A mounted wrestling contest with nine men trying to unhorse each other fur nished loads of amusement. The last event of the evening was an exhibition of artillery driving and firing, and the field pieces roared as the crowd left the grounds. STATE BONUS SUGGESTED PROPOSAL n.S INDORSEMENT OF POST COMMANDERS. Convention Adopts Resolution in Favor of Constabulary Force of 100 Men. YAKIMA. Wash., March 13. Eighty American Legion post commanders from all parts of the .state today unanimously approved a bill drafted by the executive committee of the state organization providing that every Washington man in the world war be paid a state bonus of $15 for each month served. Though questions of referendum or initiative action to place the proposal before the people of the state, in case of failure by the legislature to enact the measure, were disclosed, the final decision was to put it up to the legis alture at the .special session this month. The convention also adopted resolu tions indorsing a proposal to create a state constabulary of 100 men, nine officers and seven clerks, under sup ervision of a state police board, of which the governor would be chair man and the only paid member. Action upon this measure in the special legislative session will be urged. Speakers declared that im mediate enactment was desirable in view of the political uncertainties tf the coming election and a prospect that radical opposition would increase the difficulties of passing such a law. The visiting commanders were en tertained tonight at a banquet follow ing adjournment of their business session. PICKET HEARING IS SET Oregon Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Appeal. SALEM; Or.. March 13. (Special.) The case brought by George L. Green field, operating under the title of the Wright Sample Shoe company of Port land to enjoin the Portland Central Labor council from stationing pickets in front of his establishment, has been set for hearing before the Ore gon supreme court March 22. This action originally was tried in the circuit court of Multnomah county, with a verdict given in favor of the defense. A similar date has been set by the supreme court for - hearing the case of the G. I. Heitkemper company of Portland, against the Central 'Labor council. The Heitkemper action in volves the same questions. Ten Cent Fare at Walla "Walla. WALLA WALLA, Wash., March 13. (Special.) Announcement was made today by C. S. Walters, general manager of the Walla Walla Valley railway company, that on April 15 the rata of fare on the Walla Walla street car 'lines will be increased from S to 10 cents A tariff embodying this increase has been filed with the pub lic service commission to become ef fective on this date. The company states that operating expenses have been increasing steadily and that in creased wages were granted recently to practically all employes. v J COLLEGE TOURNEf iijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I GRA Y'S Setting Good I Chesterfield Suits and I Overcoats at Forty, Fifty and Sixty. This is only possible at this time because of our .profit-sharing policy, through which our patrons are enabled to buy clothes at a saving of from $5 to $15 on the garment under the . prices charged by other stores. Don't take our word for it. Make comparisons and satisfy yourself. j ( ; zzz , - Compare Gray's Suits an Overcoats with those sold by other stores for $50. $40 I R. M.GRAY lll!lll!ll!llllli!lillllllllll!llllllllllllllll!lllllll!HI!llllll!lllil!llllllJIIIIIIIIIIIIIl PD HOLDS OPEN HOUSE - BANQUET SERVED IN TRUE ARMY STYLE ON MESS TABLES. Organization Less Than Year Old, But Already Has Membership of Over Six Hundred. The Multnomah Guard held open house last night to its members, their relatives and friends. A banquet a la Clackamas, in true army style, was served by a corps of former home de fense soldiers on three long mess tables in the clubs quarters in me Chamber of Commerce building. Following "mess," bridge and whist tt-or nart Initiated in by some, while others enjoyed themselves in the bil liard rooms. A short business session was held later - in the evening, at which plans were discussed for the future of the organization. The club, which is less than a year old. is the perpetuation of the famous Multnomah Guard, the crack home.de- fnse rprimcnt of Oregon which won much praise from local, national and foreign armv officers, it nas a mem bership of more than 600, has club rooms with modern appointments, and looks forward to the day when it will be housed in its own home. Major Dan B. Bowman is presi dent of the organization, with F. R Whittlesey as manager and executive secretary. . LEGION WILL CELEBRATE Prosrammo Arranged for Theater dn St. Patrick's Day. NORTH BEND. Or., March 13. (Special.) Arrangements are being made here by a committee represent ing the various locals or tne iojai Lesion of Loggers and Lumbermen for a big get-together of the mem hers of the organization and their families on the evening of St. Pat rick's day (March 17). The Star the ater has been engaged and a pro gramme of music, speaking and amateur vaudeville will be given. A business meeting of all the mem bers of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen will be held March 19 at ,the Oddfellows' hall at Marsh field when the proposed increase in the minimum wage for mill workers from $4.80 to $5.30 per day will be considered. VANCOUVER DOCK WANTED Special Election Desired to Author ize New Municipal WharT. VANCOUVER, Wash.. March 13 (Special.) The date of the special election to bond the city for $130,000 to build a dock on the Columbia river on thecity levee, will be decided Mon day Evening, when the ordinance, which has been drafted by W. C. Bates, city attorney, under instruct tlons from the council, will be up for the first and second readings. The ordinance provides that not more than $130,000 shall be spent for the dock. Part of the dock of the G. M. Standifer Construction corpora tion is to be used in the new dock, and for this reason Arthur Shumway, city engineer, suggests that the work be done on a cost-plus plan. FARMERS' FEAR DISPELLED Heavy Rain for Last Several Days . Relieves Alarming Condition. . NORTH BEND, Or.. March 13. (Special.) The fear recently enter tained by farmers and ' loggers throughout this section of a shortage of rain to supply the crops and float the logs out of the mountain streams to supply the mills during the sum mer months has been dispelled by the heavy downpour during the past several days. The Coos and Coquille rivers and their tributaries are reported to be Compare Gray's" $50 Suits and Overcoats with those sold by other stores for $60. We Sell for Cash Only and Have No Losses From Bad Accounts, as Other Stores 366 WASHINGTON STREET rising rapidly and the floating of the winter's accumulation of logs on these streams has already commenced. The months of January and February were the driest in the local weather rec ords. The rainfall since September 1 has been nearly 20 inches less than during the same perioi a year ago. TALKS HELP BY WIRELESS System Would Mean Great Fall in Cost of Sending Messages. NEW YORK. March 13. (Special.) The prospect of wireless telephone speech between England and America is arousing interest in London. The experiment already has been tried abroad with success, according to a director of the Marconi company in London, who says that he recently held a conversation via wireless with a man in Canada. Connection with the wireless station is" established through the ordinary telephone ex change. The effect on present, cable rates would be tremendous, according to experts, who say that it would be just as easy to carry 20,000 words daily by wireless telephone as to carry 6000. Charges would depend upon the use made of the system. ILLEGAL BURIAL CHARGED Funeral Alleged Held Before Ob taining Death Certificate. A warrant was issued yesterday against Holman & Co.'s undertaking establishment for alleged violation of the state laws governing burial, ac cording to a. statement from the state health office. It is charged by the plaintiff, the state board of health. that the firm buried 8-year-old Fannie Jacobs of 171 North Twenty- first street before obtaining a death certificate. The child died of sleeping sickness on March 6 and the body was interred on the following day. No report, it Is alleged, was made to the health officers until after the funeral. ALIEN LAND BAR URGED California League Plans Initiative Meastlre on Ownership. SAN FRANCISCO, March 13. Plans to submit to the people of California as soon as possible an initiative peti tion designed to prevent aliens, in eligible to citizenship, from control ling or operating agricultural land in any other capacity than as-laborers were made today at an executive co re ference of representatives of the Cali fornia Oriental Exclusion league and other affiliated organizations. This action was taken in preference to waiting for the next session of The legislature to deal with the. ques tion. DIARY EXPOSE PROTESTED Slother of Pretty Divorcee Murder er-Snicide Brings Suit. , CHICAGO. March 13. Mrs. Jennie M. Vale, mother of Mrs. Ruth Randall, pretty divorcee who a week ago killed Clifford Bleyer, wealthy advertising man and then ended her own life, brought suit for (150,000 damages against the Illinois Publishing & Printing company, publishers of the Chicago Herald-Examiner, today. The suit is based on the "unauthor ized publication" of Mrs. Randall's diary, which was fpund In her apart ment after police broke down the door. CENSUS FIGURES ISSUED Increase of Population Shown for Two Cities Mentioned, WASHINGTON, March 13. Popula tion statistics .for 1920 issued today by the census bureau included: Lancaster Pa., 53,1d0, an increase of 5923, or 12.5 per cent over 1910. Knoxville, Tenn., 77,818, an increase of 41,472, or 114.1 per cent. Compare Gray's 860 Suits with those sold by other stores-for $75. . REPEAL OF LI SOUGHT LABOR DISLIKES ACT AGAIXST CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM. Boilermakers' Union Takes Lead in Movement as Result of Trials , , Sow in Progress Here. Repeal of the state law against criminal syndicalism is to be urge,d by the labor organizations of the city, according to action which has been taken by the central labor council, following the lead of the Boilermak ers' union. It is under the provisions of this law that the prosecution against certain alleged "wobbles" is now being carried on by the. district attorney in Judge Morrow's court. That the movement for the repeal ofhe law against criminal syndical ism is a result of the trials now in progress is indicated in an account in the latest issue of the Oregon Labor Press, the official publication of the unions here, which states that "if a conviction is secured and up held by the supreme court, many workers believe the last vestige of freedom is gone." The movement for repeal took first definite form in the Boilermakers' union, according to the account in trie labor publication. A resolution urging the appeal of the law was drawn up by them and concurred in by the Metal Trades council and later indorsed by the Central Labor council MAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS Ernest C. Lehrer Declares He Was Run Down by Auto. Ernest C. Lehrer,-229 Grand avenue, was picked up unconscious on Ter wllliger boulevard last night and taken to the Emergency hospital by Dr. Emma Maki Wickstrom. When he recovered, he told the physicians that he had been walking on the road and believed he had been run down by an automobile the driver of which went on without offering to assist him. - Mr. Lehrer suffered cuts about the head and injuries to his thigh. His hurts are not considered serious. Capital Punishment Discussed. Opponents of capital punishment met in room A of Central library yes U v JCZ masterful .ccompanimrnU f j M; I IHllllllllllillllllllllllHll . ptM CAT f PM , - sv XlJl -i Sundav Concert Aronson Diamonds Possess Ready Exchange Value HILE gem diamonds are purchased pri marily for their charm and beauty, and for the pride and pleasure their posses sion brings, it must be reckoned that they possess an international exchange value not even second to trie bonds of many governments. 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