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TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JUXE 27, 1920 9, DECKER HITS BACK AT IVY SECRETARY Letter Makes Harsh Charge Against Daniels. MOTIVES ALLEGED WRONG Interests of Service Declared to Re quire Protection Against Civil ian Encroachment. welcome, while James Elvin, in charge of the Salem Y. M. C. A., and A. G. Clark of Portland, secretary of the Oregon Associated Industries, gave brief talks. Mr. Clark paid special tribute to the men in the postal serv ice, and urged that the government take some action to increase their compensation in proportion to the advance in the cost of living. The set speeches of the evening were followed by a general discus sion, in which the duties of the pos tal employes were reviewed from many angles. Practically all towns and cities, in Oregon were represented a,t the conventions. NO CELEBRATION LIKELY Independence Day to Be Observed Quietly in Portland. All indications point to no formal Fourth of- July celebration in Port land this year. At least nothing has been planned yet and in view, of the WASHINGTON, June 26. The Sims Daniels row over the navy's conduct of the war was revived today with the publication of a letter from Rear Admiral Benton C. Decker, command ant of the 7th naval district, in which he charges that Secretary Daniels in his testimony before the senate inves tigating committee "intentionally and deliberately" misrepresented certain acts of Rear-Admirals Sims, Fullam and tiske. The letter, dated June 17 and ad dressed to Chairman Hale of the com mittee, was published in the Army and Navy Register, a service maga- ! . .-i . : . , i nAIIAr -a 1 1 Vi i nlitn had sent a copy of it to Secretary Daniels. Admiral Decker formerly was naval 'M-.,.hn mt MnriHr) hnt whs removed Viuring the war. Secretary Daniels has stated that his removal followed representations from Ambassador Willard to the state department that ho was encroaching on diplomatic functions in his activities there. Statement Declared Twisted. The admiral declared in his letter that "from my personal knowledge of Mr. Daniels' character 1 am led to believe that whatever is cited in his statements to the discredit of the of ficers is so perverted and twisted as to give the actual facts a false meaning." "It Is probable and more than likely," Admiral Decker's letter said, "that if these officers had bowed down and had served the gods that Mr. Daniels worshiped, they would today have been fattening on the navy as commanders of fleets on active duty or in pleasant Jobs in Washing ton. To me, as to other high officers of the navy, it has come that if we would bow down and do the wishes of Mr. Daniels we would receive the rewards therefor intimations that come by circuitous routes and under hand, sneaking ways, so that no one can take hold of them. "My explanation of the incidents ect forth by Mr. Daniels is based upon my personal experience with him. This explanation is that Mr. Daniels found these officers would not follow him to the limit of demoralizing and de grading the navy: that, even though they honestly desired the rewards and promotion of their career which all honorable men reasonably desire, they were not willing to sacrifice their character, their manhood and their country. And as a result, Mr. Daniels determined to break them by the use of all the power of his high office, by the use of the power of ridicule, sar casm and half truths, that as a news paper man he has learned how to use eo skillfully; by the use of strength of publicity secured through his news paper connections, all 'the weapons which Prusslanism used to destroy its enemies, and autocracy has used through the ages to maintain its power. I'prlght Standard Maintained. "In my opinion, all credit is due to these men that they have fought unto the end and upheld the standard of uprightness, loyalty to country, self sacrifice, hard work and gentlemanly conduct, attributes that the ideal naval officer has always revered. "I have no desire in this letter to bring out my personal experiences with Mr. Daniels but he knows of them and he knows, if he knows the difference between right and wrong that he has been dishonest; that he has been autocratic: that he has .abused his power: that he has done all this for unworthy motives." "In any reorganization of the navy today. Admiral Decker continued "the navy needs and the best inter ests of the country demand that there shall be placed in the navy depart ment a naval officer big enough and broad enough and of sufficient ability to maintain the standards of the navy against the encroachments of the civilian secretaries who seek to make of the navy a political organization." In another letter to Chairman Hale also published in the Army and Navy Register. Admiral Decker assails As- Distant Secretary Roosevelt for his references to a "holier-than-thou' group of officers at the navy war college at Newport in a recent com munication to a member of congress suggesting certain changes in the naval organization. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. June 26. secretary Daniels would make no comment today on letters from Rear Admiral Decker attacking him, made public at Washington by Senator Hale. He would not even read the abstracts submitted to him. If there was anything in Admira Deckers communications that re riuired his attention, Mr. 'Daniels said ne would take it up on his return to Washington, not before. festivities incident to the Shrine and other national conventions it is very douDtrui ir any organization will un ertaKe tne tasK or staging such an vent. However, Independence day will ot go by without some activity in Its honor. It is probable that a patri otic rally will be staged and in the nearby cities and towns old-fashioned Fourth of July celebrations will be in progress. A warning against the sale or use f fireworks or firearms within the ity limits was issued yesterday bv Fire Marshal Grenfell. No sort of fireworks, not even the small spark lers, are permitted. Ralph E. Williams, republican na- lonal committeeman, will be chair man when the Koosevelt Republican lub holds its meeting tomorrow night n the assembly hall of the central ibrary. The principal speakers will be delegates to the national conven- ion at Chicago, among them Dow V. Walker. Hamilton Johnstone, Conrad P. Olson and Wallace McCamant. The delegates will give sidelights on the convenon ana wi.i rormaiiy open ine ; The first gtate conference for public campaign for Harding and Coolldge. . ,.,,, win b eM t rtri J iiic fiMiiaiies me nuustveii ui u u , , ,K Tfc,,..J. J r.u... Tl.. 1 "- "" ? and 2. The toDlcs to be taken un at lcket. the club enters the campaign as an active republican organization. LETTER CARRIERS CONFER ASSOCIATION CONVENTION HELD AT SALEM. IS r Postal Employes Go on Kecord Favoring Collective Bargain ing and More Pay. SALEM, Or., June 26. (Special.) More than 100 members of the Ore gon Association of Letter Carriers and National Federation of Postal Employes held their annual conven tion here today. The federation of postal employes went on record favoring collecllv bargaining in improving their pres cnt conditions, increased wages to off set the steadily advancing cost o living, and placed their stamp disapproval on the government reg ulations depriving employes who- have not been in the service for on year of their annual vacation ebuiv alent to one and one-fourth days a montn. nr. Houston ot Med ford was elected president of the federation while Miss Zola Zeigler of Portland was named as secretary. I. P. Inma of Eugene was elected treasurer: F. A. Baker of Salem was elected president ot the association of let ter carriers. Other officers of th organization include John Going Albany, vice-president, and Fred : ' Holme of Portland, secretary and I treasurer. 1 ine ousiness sessions were held in the afternoon, followed by a Joint Banquet or the two associations. Gov 'rnor Olcott delivered the address of i - & Profeiiflor Colin V. Drment, new dean of literature, Mclrnre and the arts, University of Oregon C. V. DYMEHT NAMED DEAN UXIVERSITIT REGENTS CHOOSE SUCCESSOR TO DR. STRAUS. New Executive an Honor Student of Toronto and Newspaper Man of the Xorlhwest. EUGENE, Or., June 26. (Special.) Colin V. Dyment, newspaper man. professor and Red Cross worker over seas. Is the new dean of the college of literature, science and the arts at the University of Oregon, succeeding Dean John Straub, known as "father" of all freshman classes and still dean of men. Professor Dyment was an honor stu dent of Toronto university, Canada, for years a newspaper executive on several large Journals throughout the northwest and professor of Journalism in the University of Oregon. From there he went to head the department of Journalism at the University of Washington. With the outbrea of the war he entered Red Cross service, working with the 91st division over seas. Last fall Professor Dyment became executive secretary of the University of Oregon's extension center in Port land, teaching classes in journalism in Eugene as well. The university's share of the successful campaign for the higher educational referendum bill was in his hands, a work scarcely completed before he was elected to his present high office. Professor Dyment has coached the students of the university at soccer and has counseled many in their start on. newspaper careers. He is known as a man who hews absolutely to the line of accuracy and fairness. cussed: "Present Status - of Public Health Nursing in Oregon," "Indus trial Nursing," "Tuberculosis . Nurs ing." In the afternoon school nurs ing will be discussed under the fol lowing heads: "Inspections," "Class Room Teachings," "Home Visits," "Co operation of Home and School." "Re lation of School Work to Pre-natal. Pre-school and Tuberculosis Nursing." Child welfare discussions will oc cupy the Friday morning session, ln- ludmg "City Programme." "County Programme," "Clinics." "Scales" "Nu- rition Work" "and Pre-natal Work." Following this there will be held a business session of the Public Health Nurses' club. Friday afternoon there will' be a symposium on the relation of . public eaun 10 toupervisinsr Agencies" Professional Groups," "Public Offi ials." "Other Nursing Agencies" and The Home." A discussion of the value of publicity will be held; also a discussion of "Lay Workers in Pub- Health Nursine." "Association Workers" and "Home Nursing Classes" and the closing discussion will be on "Uniforms." Tuberculosis Body to Meet. The annual business meeting of the Oregon Tuberculosis association will be held Friday, July 2, at 4 P. M. in room A of the Central library, the president, A. L. Mills presiding. There will be reports of officers, and chair men of standing committees and di rectors will be elected. Wagon Runs Over Boy. George Wilson, 12, of 455 East Twelfth street, received a badlv bruised and cut foot early yesterdav morning when a milk wagon on which he was working ran over his foot at Twelfth and Montgomery streets. He was taken to the Seilwood hospital for treatment. SERMON BASED ON MARCH VANCOUVER PASTOR "IS IM PRESSED AVITH SHRIXERS. Rooaevelt Club Active. Spiritual Interpretation of Parade of Nobles to Be Given by ReT. A. H. Thompson. VANCOUVER. Wash., June 26. (Special.) The grand Shriners' pa rades In Portland this week have had a ereat effect upon life in Vancouver. Of course most of the residents of Vancouver went to Portland for one or more of the parades and Tuesday was declared a holiday by Mayor Per clval, and all places of business closed for the day. Tho Vancouver Shrine club had 34 members In uniform in line, being part of the Afifi patrol from Tacoma. Rev. A. H. Thompson, pastor of the First Methodist church, was so im pressed with the magnificent spec tacle, and the power behind it, that he will deliver a sermon, "Message of the Marchers;" at his evening service Sunday. Mr. Thompson in his sermon will give his version of the spiritual in terpretation of the Shriners" parade. NURSES ARE TO CONFER State Meeting Called for Central Library Thursday and Friday. Phone your want ads to The Orego- nian. Main 7U7. Automatic 560-95. up this conference are- those of common interest. The discussions will be en tirely informal. At the Thursday morning session the following subjects will be dis f . tO FsSTi krti EUFHOHA HOME ELECTRIC TIE DEAL PLAYER More versatile and more . satisfying than any electric piano at or near its price is this little wonder. It is every type of piano in one, but it is in the astonishing beauty 6f its reproducing features that it creates greatest enthusiasm. " ' It brings the artistry of the great pianists to every home, with all their charm and bewitching beauty of technique and reading, and all this it does at a price much less than one must pay for its equal. For popular and dance music, too, it is unrivaled. Sign this ad for catalogs. WOODRUFF GETS PERTH SHKIXE COMMITTEE SECRE TARY TO GO TO ST. PAUL. Portland Publicity Man's Work At tracts Attention of Cobles' Official Paper. As quickly as he can conclude the mass of detail work, which is his as secretary of the 1920 Shrine com mittee, Mark Woodruff, newspaper man and publicity director, will de part for St. Paul. Yesterday Woodruff accepted the position of business manager of the Crescent, the official international Shrine publication, published in St. Paul. Minn. Harry Lewis, editor In chief of the Crescent came to Portland with the Osman 'temple delegation, and while here succeeded In inducing Woodruff to accept the office of business man ager of the publication. A year before Portland captured the Shrine convention. Woodruff was sec retary and general publicity man for Al Kader temple. During the past year he has been secretary of the 1920 general committee, and has handled the mass of detail in con nection with the staging of the larg est and most successful convention ever held in North America. It was his work, in connection with the Shrine, that attracted the atten tion of Editor Lewis, and the new berth comes as an unexpected reward for difficult and faithful service. Woodruff has lived in Portland 15 years. For many years he was a member of the reportorlal staff of The Oregonian. Later he was public ity secretary of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and it was his idea that caused the formation of the North west Tourist association, now spend ing thousands of dollars each year In spreading the gospel of the great northwest throughout . the United States. 1 WIFE CHARGES CHOKING Woman Asks for $2520, -Unpaid Alimony Since 1912. The role of an ungrateful husband is described in detail in a divorce complaint filed yesterday by Blanche Webster against Howard Webster, whom she married in 1917. The plain tiff states that although she had to work Jn hotels and support herself and baby girl, her husband showed his affection by choking her, bruising her Vbout the neck and face and slapping her frequently. George C. .Macpherson also seeks a divorce from Hessie L. Macpherson, whom he married In 1906. His wife. he says, left him in 1913 and is living in their old home in Tennessee. Not a divorce, but unpaid alimony is asked by Martha P. Culbertson in a suit filed against William C. Cul bertson, . in which it is claimed the defendant has failed to pay $2520. A divorce was granted in 1912, and Mrs. Culbert&on was allowed $40 per month alimony. - $ 1 06,736 Spent on Lane Roads. EUGENE. Or., June 26 (Special.) Of the $189,722.29 expended by Lane county during the first six months of the present year $106,736.56 went Into roads and highways, according to a - report just issued by County Clerk R. S.ryson. FIRE HAZARD S EXPLAINED HEAD OF PREVENTION" REAU TAKING TRIP. BU- Movlng; Pictures Will Bo Shown, Depicting Big Conflagrations and Their Causes. SALEM. Or., June 26. (Special.) The campaign to eliminate all fire hazards in Oregon will be resumed Monday, when Jay Stevens, head of the fire prevention bureau of the Pa cific, accompanied by Horace Sykes and Gilbert W. Allen, deputy state fire marshals, will leave the capital on a trip to many sections of the state. Mr. Stevens arrived in Salem today from Portland and tonight was a guest of honor at a dinner served on the banks of the Willamette river by the employes of the state fire marshal's department. . In addition to giving talks on fire prevention, Mr. Stevens will present a number of moving pictures depleting disastrous fires and their causes. Fatty Arbuckle plays the leading role in many of these films, which will be shown in Oregon for the first time next week. Cities to be visited by Mr. Stevens together with the dates, follow: Tilla mook. June 28; Bay City, June 29; Forest Grove. June 30; Hood River, July 1; The Dalles. July 2; Oregon City, July 3: Albany, July 6; Marsh field. July 7: North Bend, July S; Coqullle, July 9; Astoria. July 12; Dallas, July 13. and Corvallis. July 14. The fire prevention campaign in Oregon was started under the direc- -JP tion of A. C. Barber, state insurance commissioner, last summer, with the,; result that surveys were made in ' many eastern Oregon towns. This" " year similar surveys will be made in all other parts of the state, accord ing to Mr. Barber. MARINE SEEKS RECRUITS Sergeant' at Sled ford to Launch Campaign for "Boots." MEDFORD, Or.. June 26 (Special.) The marine corps will launch an ac tive campaign for recruits in southern Oregon, announced Sergeant P. S. Williamson, who arrived from Mara Island in this city . today to- take charge of the Medford recruiting sta tion, relieving Sergeant Henry, who has been detailed to the Portland re cruiting office. Sergeant .Williamson served with the marines with the rank ot second lieutenant during the war. Mail to Get In Earlier. ' Announcement has been made by the passenger department of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Naviga tion company that, effective July 11,. the Union Pacific fast mail train which brings the through mail from Chicago and the east will arrive at 7:45 A. M. This is No. S on the Oregon-Washington main line, and on the present time card is due at the Port land union station at noon. The change will be welcomed by business, men as it will enable distribution and delivery of eastern mail by the . second morning delivery, allowing more time for answering letters on the day of their arrival. Thone your want ads to The Orego nian. Main "070. Automatic BS0-9S. PLAYERS Q MU51CJ MORRISON ST. AT BROADWAY ' ' ' ' " ' ' T -MASON AND HAMLIN PIANOS- 25 m 35! m Urn Celeorale the a CjVeur q?clJgv rockttian Sxiil 11. J '0 mm m ITS Make this "Fourth" memorable by matching the festive occasion with a new Fahey-Brockman suit. 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