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.THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND MAY 15, 1921 El mmm BY ROYAL SPLENDOR Japanese Crown Prince Pays No Heed to Magnificence. BRITISH COURT CHILLED Gorgeous Paeeantry of TTnlform and Equipage Fails to Impress 1 Visitor From Xippon. BT JAMES M. TUOHY. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) LONDON, May l. Special Cable.) Crown Prince Hlrohito of Japan had a truly royal reception in London on his arrival from Splthead. All the gorgeous pageantry of uniform and equipage of the English court was brought into action to impress the visitor. It may have succeeded, but nothing in the demeanor of the crown prince showed he was even aware of it. A small, dark-skinned, lightly built. stiff looking, bespectacled young man, he went through his presenta tion to King George, his inspection of the dazzling clad guard of honor and other formalities with rigid, un bending punctiliousness and stilte movements without a smile or th faintest change of expression. Functionaries Are Chilled, The royalties and other court and ministerial functionaries clearly were chilled by the unrelaxing formality of their guest. They may not have reckoned on the fact that this crow prince holds a position regarded his own country as something tran scending' the nearly human royalties of the Occident. There was no sue picion of shyness in his aspect. He was simply maintaining the impres- sive dignity deemed essential in th Japanese royal court, but somewha archaic among royalties whose chief aim is to popularize their positions by being human. King George was seen, for the first time since tee war, in the full glory of a field marshal's uniform, hi breast blazing with stars, promlnen among them the highest Japanese order. The prince of wales, ordinar- ily bright and cheerful, who had traveled from Portsmouth with hi fellow heir-apparent, looked distinctly bored by the experience. The prince of Wales is to be the companion Hirohito during his visit to Bucking ham palace. Gorgon Make No Impression. The duke of Connaught, also re splendent as a field marshal, seemed at one moment to say something to Hirohito. to which the latter did not appear to respond, uven L,ora curzon of Kedleston. foreign secretary and formerly viceroy of India, attired In full diplomatic uniform with cocked hat, tried his stateliest Durbar man ner on the new arrival without excit ing a glimmer of sensibility. Probably Prince Hirohito had been severely drilled in the deportment to be observed toward his royal hosts and in point of immobility he left nothing to be desired. When the king and the crown prince reached the street, where the magnificent eight horsed royal coach with its flashing harness and scarlet-coated outrider!, and its splendid upholstery awaited them. King George entered first and was followed by Hirohito. ' Prince Stares Straight Ahead. The king remained standing until the crown prince was beside him then they both sat down at the same instant a formality enjoined by eti quette. The Prince of Wales sat op posite them with the Japanese am bassador. and as the carriage started on the way to Buckingham palace the magnificently caparisoned band of the First Life Guards played the rather dirge-like Japanese national anthem. There were big crowds along the short route, who cheered as the car riage drove by. while the crown prince looked neither to the right nor left but stared straight ahead at nothing. It was a cold affair right through, despite the brilliant sun shine, the blaze of color and the dash ing appearance of the escort of life guards, to say nothing of the politi cal Importance attached to Prince Hirohito's presence in view of the imminent renewal of the Anglo Japanese treaty. that has been submitted to the attorney-general. The man in question was under quarantine near Marshfield. but escaped recently and boarded a Southern Pacific train for Portland. His presence on the train was dis covered and the Portland officials were notified. When the train arrived there the man was not allowed to leave the car, and was returned to Marshfield by the railroad company The question now arises as to who shall pay the costs of his transporta tion. The opinion was asked by Dr. Frederick Strieker, secretary of the state ooard- of health. Until addi tional information is received by the attorney-general as to who ordered the leper's return to Marshfield, tne opinion will be withheld. E WILL GET FUNDS AETHTIXC OF BOOKS HOLDS UP WAVERLY ALLOTMENT. Tl HWEST AFRICA U OF CROPS First Colony of Germany D . void 'of Agriculture. ENTIRE COAST DESOLATE H. II. Herdman Announces That Baby Institution Will Receive Share of Chest Money. EXPERTS ARE0N STAND Witnesses Examine Letter Involved in $10,000 Libel Suit. VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 14. (Special.) Henry Crass, attorney for George M. Johnson in his $10,000 libel suit against Perry E. Hilton, rested his case this morning, after the sec ond day of the trial. Shortly after the morning session, J. A. Wesco, handwriting expert, tes tified to examples of Johnson's hand writing, which he said that he had studied. He will be called later to testify to his conclusions concerning Johnson's writing of the letter pur ported to have been sent hy him to Fred B. Cole, pool halj owner, warn ing him of a proposed liquor raid. Edward T. Ludowici. professor of handwriting in the Behnke-Walker business college, testified as an ex pert that he had made a careful study of Johnson's handwriting anft from comparison deducted that John son had written the letter. The Waverly Baby home will re ceive its portion of the community chest funds, according to announce ment last night of H. H. Herdman, acting executive secretary of the chest. Mr. Herdman said that delivery of the funds to the home was held up only in order that the books of the Institution might be audited. Mrs. Laurie Sheppard. secretary of the Waverly Baby home, declared yesterday that W. D. Wheelwright, chairman of the child welfare com mission, had circulated the report that the baby home had been conceal ing a $35,000 building fund from the community chest authorities. She said that for that reason the auditor from the community chest had called at the home three different times to check up the books and the money for the homy consequently was held up. She also declared that as a result of the refusal of the officials of the home to turn over the confidential in formation which it had to the welfare commission, the commission had threatened to have the state aid of the institution held up. "We have an opinion from Attorney-General Brown which upholds us in our refusal to turn over confi dential information to the commis sion," she said. "This opinion, which. defines the powers of the commis sion, says in part: 'Accordingly, the privilege of inspection is given not to all documents and records of the agencies, societies and institutions, but only to the accounts and records of work and children for the purpose of ascertaining the kind and quality of work done and to obtain a proper basis for its decisions and recom mendations.' " Mr. Wheelwright yesterday denied that the child welfare commission was in any way responsible for the diffi culties between officials of the com munity chest and those of the Wav erly Baby home. Uplands Suitable for Livestock and Diamond Fields and Copper Mines Valuable. MENTAL TESTS ADVISED MORE DIFFICULT NATURALIZA TION IS FAVORED. Judge Bingham of Marion County Circuit Court Writes Letter to Examiner at Seattle. SALEM, Or., May 14. (Special.) Judge Bingham of the Marion county circuit court, who for several years has advocated a policy whereby nat uralization of aliens would ba made more difficult, has Written a letter to John Smith, chief naturalization ex aminer at Seattle, urging that mental as well as educational tests be in eluded in the examination of all ap plicants. Answering of a few questions re ating to the government does not satisfy me that an alien is entitled to citizenshin in the United States, declared Judge Bingham. "I believe that a man to enjoy the benefits of our country should be clean physical ly as well as able to give the location of the national capital, the name of the president and answer a few other questions. A letter was received tonight from Examiner Smith, in which he in formed Judge Bingham that the lat- ter's ideas on the naturalization sub- ect were worthy of consideration. nd that his original suggestions had been sent to the department of natr uralization at Washington. Judge Bingham has the reputation rejecting more naturalization ap plications than any circuit judge in Oregon, due to his demands that liens desiring citizenship shall first prove that they are worthy of such an honor. $27,000 DAMAGES ASKED Woman, Hit by Auto of Standard Oil Company, Sues. Nora Davis filed suit in the. circuit court yesterday against the Standard Oil company and Howard H. Pollock, which she demands general dam ages of $25,000 and special dam- en of $-'000 for injuries sustained as the result of being struck by an utomooiie or the defendant com pany and driven by Pollock at the intersection of Broadway and Madi son street on February 21 of this year. She declared that her left shoulder nd left knee were broken as a re ult of the accident and that she was still In the hospital. WASHINGTON, D. C May 14. The former German Southwest Africa, de tails of whose government under 1 mandate to the Union of South Af rica have just been formulated by the league of nations, is the subject or the following- bulletin issued from the headquarters of the National Geo graphic society: "At its worst the territory which was German Southwest Africa before the world war and Germany's first venture into the colonial field might be described as a country too dry for agriculture, lying between a desert and' the sea, with one of the most barren and desolate coast lines in the world. The entire coast for a dis tance of 10 to 15 miles inland consists of sand dunes on which grows only the sparsest of desert vegetation. Rivers Do Not Flow. "No perennial rivers flow into the sea across this dreary waste through out me nearly 1000 miles of its ex tent. Except for brief periods after heavy rains in the Interior, all the seaward drainage of the country loses ltsen in a wilderness of sand. Simi larly much of the drainage to the east and south sinks Into the desert that separates German Southwest Africa from the British territories lying to the west of the Transvaa Only one reasonably good port exists along the coast between the north and south limits of the terri tory. And this Walfish bay. with i small area around it was in the hands of Great Britain before i the Germans established their colony in 1884. The existence of this tiny island of British territory in German Southwest Africa, and above all the fact that it comprised the one port, sorely needed by the colony, was a sharp thorn in the sides of the Ger mans. The artificial harbors con structed by the Germans at Swakop mund, just north of Walfish bay, and at Luderitszbucht (Angran Pequena). 200 miles to the south, were only makeshifts. Upland Country Great Pasture. "But there is a somewhat brighter side to the old German Southwest Africa than that seen when one sails along its forbidding coast. Back of the strip of sand is an upland coun try which, though it will not support agriculture, is well suited to stock raising. Hundred of thousands of. cattle, sneep ana goats are raised there. Ranches are of tremendous size, like those in the old west of the United States, averaging about 25,000 acres. Camels were imported by the Germans for use in thj drier portions of the country, and are doing well. "In the northeastern corner of the territory, which is in the tropics, the conduct of agriculture is possible. Cottonj tobacco i&d cereals may be grown. "Even the strip of sand along the coast has proved in one place to be spectacularly valuable. Diamonds were discovered in tne sana Dy rail road workmen in 1908. and the coun try now produces approximately one fifth of the world's output of dia monds. In 1914 the value of the dia monds from this field reached $45, 000.000. It is believed that the gems have been washed up from the sea. and what is perhaps the only sea- eoine" diamond mining company in existence has been formed to dredge for the precious stones off the shore. Railroads Connect Mines. Conner is mined in several places and forms one of the principal ex ports. Railroads connect the mines with the coast and have been built to a number of other sections of the courtry. The Germans built well. Their mining plants and railroad sys tems in Southwest Africa, as well as in their other African colonies, nave been said to be the best on the con- tlnent. ' In some of the copper-minin regions of Southwest Africa smelting was done by electricity. "German Southwest Africa had an area of 322.000 square miles about the size of Texas, Arkansas and Con necticut combined. It was one and i half times the size of pre-war Ger manv. In thin vast area there was never a hirge population- After number of years of war with natives. there were, immediately preceaing im world war, something less than 100, 000 natives and about 15.000 Euro- neans. About 12.000 of the latter were Germans, many of them soldiers. "The country was occupied by the forces of the Union of South Africa in July, 1915. and has been adminis tered since as a protectorate of that government. Approximately buuu uer- mans left the country arter tne armi stire. Several thousand British sub jects, including a number of Boers, have moved in." GATHERING IS CLOSED WASHINGTON PARENT-TEACH ERS END SESSION. More Than 100 Oregon Delegates Make Trip From Pendleton to Walla Walla. WALLA WALLA, Wash.. May 14. (Special.) The State Parent-Teacher association ended its sessions today The next meeting place will be chosen by the executive committee. Today- was Oregon day, more than 100 dele gates coming from Pendleton where the Oregon Parent-Teacher associa tion had been in session. Mrs. E. J. Payne of Boise, acting president of the Idaho State Parent-Teacher as sociation, was also in attendance to day. President Penrose of whitman col lege urged the sacredness of the mar riage tie. He declared that if the school children could be taught that they were the parents of the future that they would keep themselves clean. Mrs. Maude F. Holloman of Olympla declared that the nation's most sacred standards were being dragged down by the photoplays. They are debasing womanhood, the sacredness of mar riage, reverence for God and religion and obedience to the laws of the land, she declared. She predicted that if the managers and producers do not clean the films the public will. DINNERS WAIT ON FIRE Street Car Apparatus Burns and Passengers Get Home Late. The "resistance" apparatus on St. Johns street car No. 140 failed to function properly about 5:30 yester day afternoon when the car was on the west approach of Broadway bridge, headed for St. Johns. The heavy load of passengers detrained without delay, as their conveyance filled with smoke from the fire which was kindled by the defective ap paratus. Traffic was In a Jam as far as Burn- ide street. The car crew notifeid the fire department of the trouble re questing that a chemical be sent. Be fore It arrived a zealous citizen pulled a box and sent other apparatus to mingle in the confusion of motor vehicles, creating such a tangle that some Portlanders were nearly an hour late for dinner. PACIFIC HIGHWAY SLOW Many Tourists Held Tp for Hours Because of Paving Work. ItOSEBURG, Or., May 14. (Spe cial.) While Pacific highway north oi Oakaland is being paved, automo biles are allowed to pass that section only at stated intervals. Tourists have complained that in some cases they have been held up several hours. The Roseburg - Eugene stage has stopped operation and the cars will be used on the line between this city and Marshfield. Road work is progressing rapidly and paving south of Roseburg Is being laid without any hindrance to traffic Suitable detours are being used. The Tiller cut-off road, it was reported. will be ready for travel by early summer and it will then be possible to reach Crater lake from Roseburg in less than seven hours. Good-clothes news for men and young men i HAVE new garments to show you this week, fresh from the makers. My buyers of men's and young men's garments returned last week from eastern manufacturing markets; some of their selections are here, others are arriving daily. To see the best and the newest in men's wear, come to my store. Here are the new fabrics, the new colorings, the new patterns, the new styles. As always, my personal guaranty attaches to every garment Invest your money in good appearance ! New Suits $25 to $60 Men, main floor Young men, second floor BEN SELLING Leading Clothier Morrison Street at Fourth Clyde Dubell, 16-year-old Canyon ville high school boy, was rendered nconscious for more than eight hours when he was struck in the face y a pitched baseball. SCHOOL EDITORS TO ELECT State Convention to Open Friday at University of Oregon. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu gene, May 14. (Special.) The time the high school editors convention definitely was fixed for next Friday morning at 9 o'clock, and also a pro gramme tentatively was arranged, at meeting of representatives of Sigma Delta Chi, national honorary journalism fraternity, and the schooi f journalism faculty. About 25 editors were expected to convene, at which time a state-wide association will be formed. The high school journalists will be guests of the fraternities and sororities on the campus, and will be entertained by the journalism organizations. President Campbell will welcome the visitors, and others prominent In high school and college journalism will appear on the programme. OPEN SHOP COURT ISSUE Union Bakers Cited tor Alleged Interference AVilh Policy. SPOKANE. Wash.. May 14. Olaf Jacobson. proprietor of a union bak ery of this city, and Fred C. Beck and Glenn Warner, president and sec retary, respectively, of the local bak ers' union, were cited today to appear in superior court next Thursday and show cause why they should not be restrained from Interfering with operation of "open shop" bakeriea here. The order to show cause was Issued by Superior Judge Blake on motion of bakeries operated here with non union employes. Union bakers went on strike recently In several shops following a disagreement over union regulations. May Fete Is Planned. PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, Forest Grove, Or., May 14. (Special.) A baseball game with the Chemawa In dians and the production of a three act comedy by members of the sopho more class are to be features of the May festival held next Krldny In honor of Queen Evelyn I. The coro nation of the queen will be staged at 2:30. and will be followed by a pa geant entitled "The Progress of tha Pilgrim Spirit," depicting the journey westward of the spirit of religious education, democracy and freedom from dogma and persecution. Harbord Cousin of Salem Woman. SALEM. Or., May 14 (Special.) Major-General James G. Harbord, who yesterday was appointed assistant to General Pershing, new chief of staff of the United States army. Is a cousin of Mrs. Dan J. Fry, wife of a Salem druggist. He is a nephew of Mors Harbord, who many years ago served as chief of police of Salem. Mrs. Fry Is a daughter of Dr. R. K. Lee Stelner. superintendent of the RtHte hnnpttnl. M Stage Screen Have Given Nothing Greater Than Ball Knocks Lad Unconscious. ROSEBURG. Or., May 14. (Special.) ELGIN EAGLE TO SCREAM Fourth of July Celebration Planned to Last Three Days. ELGIN, Or., May 14. (Special.) The Elgin Ad club members, 50 strong, dined at the Sommer hotel Thursday night and discussed ways and means of burying Old Man Gloom and of celebrating his demise by a full three-day Fourth of July jubilee. Committees were appointed to ar range for the opening of Elgin's new ijj.ooo race track, for boxing, wres tling, baseball and other sports, and for speaking, eagle screaming, pink lemonade and all the sundry concomi tants that go to make up a real old fashioned fourth. Several other important local com munity projects were also discussed, including support of the local concert band, the Elgin baseball team and one or two local road projects. LEPER'S BILL IS ISSUE Attorney-General Asked-to Decide AVho Should Pay for Fare. SALEM. Or.. May 14.-(Special ) Whether the Southern Pacific com pany or Coos county shall pay the expense attendant to the transporta tion of an escaped leper from Port land to Marshfield. is the question 2 SALMON NETTERS FINED Clackamas Mt n Assessed $50 Each; Two Others to Be Tried. A. R. Preston and R. E. Davidson of Clackamas county were fined $50 each at Oregon City yesterday on .a charge of netting salmon In the Clackamas river. They were arrested by Deputy Game Wardens F. A. Mc daniel, Martin Christensen and F. M. Brown. L. W. Owen and C. M. Turpin. both of Portland, who were arrested at the same time, will be tried in Ore gon City Wednesday. . Petrograd Carmen Strike. RIGA. Letvia. May 14. 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HERE'S THE PICTURE THAT WILL MAKE PORTLAND PEOPLE FAIRLY GASP Playing This Entire Week KEATES' CONCERT ON OUR MIGHTY ORGAN Today's concert is the sixth of the $500 prize contest series with a wonderful programme selected by the Musicians' club. El Capital Sousa Poet and Peasant Suppe , March From "Aida" . . . . .Verdi Selections From "Firefly" Friml TODAY AT 12:30 NEWS EVENTS QUARTET 1 ft