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-
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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 .
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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.
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