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iff 86 Pages Eight Sections, Section One Pages 1 to 20 VOL. XL XO. 2G Entered at Portland (Oregon) Pnstnfflre si Second-Class Matter PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 1921 I'RICE FIVE CENTS ELM DEFEATS COMET WILL PERMIT ELECTED MARY PICKFORD WINS AND DIVORCE STANDS NEVADA ATTORXEY-GEiXERAL STATE GRAIN LAWS FOUGHT BY MILLERS PAY COURT TO OPEN BIDS ON MORRIS ASSETS E OLD EARTH TO STAY E FOR TITLE BY LABOR ALLIES NEITHER METEORS NOR GASES OREGOX AND WASHINGTON STATUTES HELD UNFAIR. SALES DEPEND ON OFFERS, ANNOUNCES TRUSTEE. FEARED BY PROFESSOR. LOSES FIGHT OX DECREE. VON UNPENS REPARATIONS C0URTST00ECI0 CAN AGA II TROUBLES Youthful Utah Golfer Is Northwest Champion. FINAL MATCH IS WONDERFUL Waverley Club Player Also Is at His Best. Life Declared Safe, as Head of Body Will Be 22,000,000 Miles Away. VICTOR BEATS HANDICAP Advantage of 2 Up Is Held by Port land Player at N'oon, 1ut Vis itor Forges Ahead. COLV CHAMPIONSHIP SILTS AT WAVEBLEY YESTKRDAV. RE- Pacific Xortkwest Amateur Finals. George Von Elm, Salt Lake fltv flrtlf anH frtuntrv nlub. de feated H. Chandler Egan, Wa- verley. 1 up on 36th. Women's Championship Finals. Miss Phoebe Nell Tidmarsh, Seattle Golf club, defeated Mrs. Fred Jackson, Jefferson Park, Seattle, 4 up and 2. Pacific Northwest Handicap. W. A. Pettigrove. Portland, defeated W. J. Boope, Portland. 5 and 4. BY GEORGE COWXE. Youth was served at the Wverley Country club yesterday when George Von Elm, 20-year-old Utah state champion and a member of the Salt Lake City Golf and Country club, defeated H. Chandler Egan or Wa verley in the finals of the Pacific Northwest amateur golf champion ships, 1 up on the 36th hole. The match, a struggle between two stars of the west and was a fitting climax to the. brilliant play which has characterized . the northwest championships all week. Von Elm had fought Ills way into the finals by de feating Hugo Haakons, Jack West- land, Bon Stein and RusseU Smith, all considered among the leading golfers of the northwest, but the young Salt Lake star met a real test in Egan yesterday. Galleries Are Startled. Von Elm had startled the galleries by his sensational putting In the pre vious matches and it was his steady work on the greens which featured the play yesterday. On the other hand the Waverley player was weak on the greens, especially on the first nine of the morning round. Starting with a handicap of two down at the turn. Von Elm came back strong on the second nine of the morning round and squared the match on the 12th hole. The Utah state champion won the 13th, but Egan forged to tbe front again, winning the 13th, 16th and 18th holes and went to lunch 2 up. Egan Has 74 on Card. Egan had a 74 on his card for the morning round, which included sixes or the 10th and 13th. He scored three birdies on the first 18 holes. Von Elm had a 75 for his morning round, which alsj included two sixes, one on the eighth and another on the 18th. Starting the afternoon 18. Von Elm hcoked out of bounds and Egan was down in four, winning the first hole, which put him 3 up. The next two holes were halved in fours. The Salt Lake youth won the fourth when he layed his chip shot dead to the pin and was down in 4 Each took three putts on the fifth and halved the hole in fives. The seventh was also halved. Coming to the eighth the Waverley Persons who are living in fear lest the tail of the Pons-Winnecke comet, which is due to arrive tonight or to morrow, should wipe old Mother Earth off the celestial map, have no cause for alarm, according to Pro fessor J. TO. Daniels of Hill Military academy and Professor F. Loxley Griffin of Reed college. jseitner or these authorities ex pects anything out of the regular routine of celestial affairs to occur when the world passes through the tall of the comet. I don t expect a shower of me teors," said Professor Daniels yes terday. "The head of the comet will be 22,000,000 miles from us when we pass through the tail, and the tail is composed of gaseous matter, a million miles of which could easily be placed In a cubic foot. Another rea son why we need not worry is be cause the earth is protected by a covering or blanket of air. This would brush aside any gaseous poi sons that possibly might be in the tail of the comet." Professor Griffin said that in 1910 the world went through the tall of Halley's comet with no ill effects, and nothing serious from the Pons Winnecke should be expected. "We might have a shower of me teors, but I doubt that." he said. "If It is daylight when we Pass through the comet we will not notice a thing. I Glasses probably will be required at night." DEMPSEY RTTT0 FLIGHT Diminutive Process Server Chases Jack to Training Camp. ATLANTIC CITY. X. J., June 25. Jack Dempsey cliams he isn't afraid of any man In the world, but tie was put to flight last night by the diminutive sergeant-a tarms of the district court, David Brown, when the latter met Dempsey yesterday with the announcement that he held a . summons for his appearance court next Wednesday. Dempsey turned and ran. He did not stop until he got into the grounds of his training camp. "Don't let that man in!" he yelled to ground guards, and they bolted the gate. Brown cooled his heels a while and. then told the court what happened. The summons .is a result of a suit brought by a Philadelphia physician for $500 alleged to be part of his bill for an operation performed on Dempsey. , Corrupt Dictation Is De: t dared Defeated, v Dist-lct Judge Langan Declares 0 t Is Not Aggrieved ; Case. Goes Up on Appeal. LEWIS VOTED DOV. T0 1 First Serious Opposition Since 1894 Smashed. UNITY HELD PRESERVED HALO IS SEEN AT BEND (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) Ring Around Sun Causes Wonder in Eastern Oregon. BEND, Or., June 25. (Special.) The cause of a solar halo, seen for more than a half hour late this morn ing, continued a mystery after the halo had disappeared, although much speculation regarding the phenomena was heard. By some it was hailed as the fore runner of the Pons-Winnecke comet, which is scheduled to be visible either Sunday or Monday night. A more plausible theory was that t was caused by large quantities of smoke high in the air, blocking the sun s rays and resulting in a rainbow-like shading of light at the edges of the circle, lacking, however, the rain bow's prismatic coloring. PLYMOUTH ROCK INTACT Boulder Takes on Original Aspect as Pieces Are Joined Together. PLYMOUTH, Mass., June 25. Plym outh Rock was put together again today. ' The boulder took on something of its original aspect when the three pieces into which It had split since the forefathers landed on it wc-e taken out of a nearby building, Joined on its former site. The rock, now entirely exposed for the fin I time in yers. will be covered with a canopy. Federation President Avers Greed and Intriguing Interests Have Failed to Split Unions. DENVER. Colo.. June 25. Presi dent Samue' Gompers, America veteran labor leader overwhelmingly defeating his first serious opposition since 1S94 today was returned to office with his entire administratlo for another vear by the America Federation of Labor. This sweeping victory, the labor chief said tonight 'at the close of the federation's 41st annual convention demonstrated that the American trade union movement will not submit to dictation from the forces of corrup tlon or greed neither the Hearsts r.or the Garys can chart our course o select our leaders. I'nltT Is Asserted. "Our movement is united. It is prepared to be aggressive in defense of the rights of the toilers, n win not be swerved from its course.' will be a sad day for the aspirations of the working people of our land when corrupt and intriguing Inter ests can either divide our movement change our course or destroy its leadership The vote today has dem onstrated to the world that we have not yet come upon that day. "The wuole work of the conven tlon. the resolutions and declarations adopted, the policies indicated, mean for the future a united, progressive, militant movement, following upon a nrozre&slve. . fruitful and militant past. Gratitude Is Expressed. "For myself I may say that the work of the convention "and the re sult of the election fill me with satis faction, gratitude and pride, not for myself but for our movement. I am proud of our movement and my life shall be given' to it in the future as it has been for these many years. We are In serious times, dui we them undaunted and with confidence and courage." The labor chiefs forces made a c!ean sweep from the beginning when President Gompers was re turned to the presidency for the 40th time by overwhelmingly defeating John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers., by a vote of 25,022 to 12,324. Scenes Are Wild Ones. The vote was taken amid scenes of wild enthusiasm, rivaling those of national political conventions. The galleries were packed with spec tators. The convention floor was overflowing with delegates and their friends. Cheers and applause swept the auditorium at every vote. Several attempts by the Gompers supporters to stampede the delegates for the veteran labor leader during the demonstrations failed, as scores of delegates withheld their enthusi asm and remained silently in their seats, unmoved by the urglngs of fel low delegates. This was the first time that Gom pers had been seriously opposed since 1894, when he was defeated by John McBride, a mineworker, but was re turned to office the following year. Gompers Is Near Tears.- When his victory was announced the labor leader, who is now 71 years could scarcely control his emo- Concluded on Fage 8. Column 3.) MINDEN, Nev., June 25. District J-udge Langan today upheld the di orce of Mary P'ckford and Owen Moore, motion picture stars. In March, 1920. The decision is to be appealed c the state supreme court by Attorney-General Fowler, the latter an nounced. He filed a list of excep tions to the decision, preparatory to iiistituting a formal appeal. The' action attacking the divorce was brought by the attorney-general cn the ground that the laws covering 'vorce had not been properly lived up to by the principals. In his decision Judge Langa'i held that the laws conferred upon the attorney-general no authority to insti tute an action for the setting aside of divorce decrees. The judge or f.ered the service of summons upon the interested parties quashed, and sustained tin answers of Miss P'ck ford's counsel to the attorney-gen; cral's complaint. . The court, and not the attorney reneral, was the representative of so ciety and the state in divorce cases. the decision held. The judgment in the divorce action was the best evi dence of the legality of the action and could not be contradicted, ft con tinued. The allegation of fraud made by the attorney-general could not be made the basis of depriving thi par iies of the decree, and neither the state nor the attorney-general was aggrieved. The findings of the court lb to residence, which were resisted ty the attorney-general on the ground that the residence period of thj prin cipals In the state was insufficient under the law, were final, and even It fraud had been shown the attorney-general was estopped from act ing, the decision said. Summing up, the decision said that the complaint showed no cause of ac ion, and us plaintiff was not an ag grieved party no publication ot sum mons legally could be made aud dis missal of the complaint was the only action that could be taken. North Pacific Association Conven tion Votes to Purchase on Ba sis No. 1, Federal Grades. A resolution to disregard the grain discount laws of Oregon and Wash ington as unfair and unconstitutional and in conflict with federal grain standards was adopted by the North Pacific Millers' association at their convention yesterday at the Mult nomah hotel, and it waa voted that purchases and sales of wheat be made on the basis of No. 1 federal grades instead of No. 2 grades, as provided by the state laws. The association also recommended adoption of the rules for wheat dis counts for handling new-crop wheat. which were adopted by the Pacific Northwest Grain Dealers' association at its annual meeting in Spokane last week. The millers' association represents about 85 per cent of the milling ca pacity of Oregon, Washington and northern Idaho, and about 40 millers, representing 60 mills, attended the convention. E. L. McCoy of The Dalles, retiring president of the association, spoke on the increasing output of mills and the indications of better times due to the bumper crop to be harvested and confidence in the national admin istration to maintain a protective tariff on wheat and grain. A talk on the new Oregon feed law by C. L. Hawley, Oregon food com missioner, was the only address of the day delivered by a nonmember. Officers were elected as follows: L. P. Bowman, Seattle, president; Otto Kettenbach, Portland, vice president, and W. C. Tiffany. Seattle, secretary and treasurer, re-elected. The new trustees are: J. W. Ganong, Portland; O. D. Fisher. Seattle, and E. H. Leonard, White Spur, Wash. A banquet was given at the Mult nomah hotel last night. Confusion Is Caused in World Banking. AMERICAN DOLLAR IS BASIS MAN'S BODY IS FOUND Feasibility of London Agree . ment in Doubt. EXPORTS PUT IN DANGER foreign Exchange Rates Are Up set by Payment of Only Very Small Purt of Debt. LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 23. Mary Pickford, the validity of whose divorce from Owen Moore was upheld tcday at Minden, Nev., was Informed of-the decision on receipt of the Associated Press dispatches here, but sent word she preferred to have her husband, Douglas . Fairbanks, speak concern ing the matter. Misg Pickford was arried"to Fairbanks shortly after the entry of the Nevada decree. 'The report concerning the outcome of the litigation in Nevada Is very gratifying to both Miss Pickford now Mrs. Fairbanks and myself." said Fairbanks. "We deem it best hot to comment at length, but the ruling makes us very, very happy." SAN FRANCISCO, June 25. Com menting -on the affirmation of Mary Pickford's divorce decree, Gavin Mo Nab, her chief counsel in the action, said: The action of the attorney-generai of Nevada in attempting to usurp the name and functions of the state against an individual was the first of Its kind in the history of jurisprud ence. It was an act of oppression directed against a woman arbitrarily selected on account of htr distlnc- ion. "It was In the ordinary practice an attack on institutional govern ment. The court's decision has vindi cated the law." WILSON ATTENDS COURT Ex-Presldent Admitted to Practice Law In District of Columbia. WASHINGTON, D. C, June 25. Woodrow Wilson appeared in person today in the chambers of Chief Justice McCoy of the District of Columbia supreme court, to be ad mitted, to the practice of law before that court Court attendants said the ex- president appeared in better health than when he retired from the White House, although he still had to have he assistance of an attendant, in ntering and leaving his motor car. Pasco, Wash., Cafe Owner Victim of Mysterious Death. THE DALLES, Or., June 25. (Special.) More than 130 miles from where he was last seen, the body of J M. Lee, Pasco, Wash., restaurant keeper, was today found 6n the beach a short distance below Celilo, where it had been cast by the receding flood waters of the Columbia river. ..Lee, who was' a prosperous restau- rant keeper at Pasco, mysteriously disappeared about two weeks ago, according to information received by Coroner Burget over long-distance telephone. The body during that interval floated the entire, distance from Pasco to Celilo, through rapids, whirlpools and over the Celilo falls. Whether the Chinese was murdered pr. committed suicide could not be learned. A deposit slip on a Pasco bank was the only mark of identifi cation on the. body. BY WILLIAM BIRD. . (Copyright, 19J1. by Tho Oregonian.) PARIS, June 25. (Special Cable ) It begins to look as if the allies soon may have to ask Germany to stop paying reparations. The payment of the first and al most infinltesimally small part of the Indemnity claims has thrown Buch confusion Into international banking circles that the feasibility of the London agreement on repara tions seems seriously changed at the outset. The transfer of the indemnity funds through New York banks brought Immediate complaints from America than foreign exchange rates were upset and export trade gravely tnreatened as a consequence. Allied and German experts, there fore, began seeking another method of payment, but have been confronted by the almost insuperable difficulty that the dollar is the only available standard for reparations payments. A demand for gold in any market is Instantly translated into a demand for dollars. RAIN WEEK'S FORECAST Washington and Northern Oregon to Get Occasional Showers. WASHINGTON. D. C, June 23. Weather predictions for the week beginning I'.onday are: Rocky mountains and plateau regions Temperature above normal; greater part of week, generally fair, except more scattered thunder show ers are probable. Pacific states Generally fair weather Is probable except in Wash irgton and northern Oregon, where there will be occasional showers. Temperature normal or slightly above. KEROSENE PYRE ENDS LIFE Michigan Farmer Burns Self to Death While Despondent. KALAMAZOO. Mich.. June 23. Making a funeral pyre of a kerosene- soaked brush pile, Henry Papper, 70-year-old farmer, after saturating bis clothing with oil, crawled into the pile and, lighting it, burned himself to death today. He had been despondent because of ili health. Bankers Begin Clamoring. Bankers have begun clamoring for payments by less perilous methods. . Thus the paradox which some very able economists endeavored to make clear even back at the time of the ptace conference Is already taking shape, and -the-alties; father than Germany, may be the first to plead for a cessation or curtailment of the reparations payments. A simple Illustration of what is 1 appenlng may be set down as fol lows: A shoe dealer wins a suit for dam age against his next-door competitor. Put when he tries to collect tie enor mous bill he rinds that he must let bis rival capture the bulk of the trade in that street In order to make enough money to meet 'he payments. Goods Offered In Payment. The rival offers payment In shoes instead of cash. But the creditor sees that this would mean shutting down his own shop while he sold off his competitor's goods. Thus he is faced by the dilemma of foregoing payment for damages or allowing the debtor to capture his trade. Either way means a big sacrifice. Which sacrifice Is the greater? " That is substantially the dilemma which the allies now are facing, and which the difficulties and complica tions caused by the first German pay ments have made apparent. These difficulties concern chiefly France, which is not only the big gest reparations creditor, but is the one nation which steadfastly has refused to envisage any other solu tion of its fiscal troubles than mak ing Germany pay cash. Ships Taken by Britain. Such an Indemnity never has been considered by the British treasury. The British indemnity was received in the form of German ships and has Icng since produced its effect, that lowering of tonnage values and the stopping of ship construction on the Clyde. However, that loss has been swallowed. The French fright about the Bltu- Fred S. Morris Sues Ethrldge, Wife and Others to Obtain $15,000 Held Due on Note. Sealed bids for the properties of the bankrupt bond house of Morris Bros., Inc.. will be received by Judge Earl C. Bronaugh, trustee, up to 13 o'clock tomorrow noon. The bids will be opened and tabulated and if found to be as high as the court believes they should be sales will be made. "We will open bids some time after 12 o'clock Monday." said Judge Bro naugh yesterday. "No one can tell beforehand what will take place. There will be no sale unless proper offers are made. The properties are valuable and we shall not sacrifice them merely to be rid of them." The creditors' reorganisation com mittee, which favors the plan backed by John L. Etheridge, ex-president of the firm, to purchase the properties and operate the plant, has sent out by telegraph to creditors not yet signed up the following appeal: "Only reorganization by creditors can forestall money-grabbing func tlonarles from dissipating assets and becoming rich from our losses. Bank rupt assets are yours. Liquidate them through a reliable directorate, com posed of experienced bond and bus! ness men who are creditors. The creditors in reorganisation represent a majority of banks, trust companies and largest claimants. Every com munity committee now represents by far a majority. Sign your trust agree ment and make this directorate the unanimous mouthpiece of all creditors In order that we may clean out the functionaries in bankruptcy." Fred S. Morris, official of the de funct bond house of Morris Bros., Inc., filed suit yesterday against John L Etheridge, his wife, Stella M. Ether idge, W. D. and Bessie H. Whltcomb and Earl C. Bronaugh, trustee in bankruptcy, to 'recover sums held to be due and unpaid to the amount of $15,000. Permission of the federal court was obtained to bring the ac tion. The suit alleges that Morris loaned Etheridge 810,000 in cash December 22, 1920, taking a demand note in re turn. In addition there remained $4000 unpaid and due the plaintiff on a note amounting originally to $7500, it was said. BASIN HATE CASE Commission Gives No Or der; Question Is Open. DELAY TILL OCTOBER LIKELY Washington State Action Leaves Tariff to Railroads. SIMILAR ISSUES PENDING STRIKER'S FUNERAL BIG Hundreds Parade In Honor of Mau Killed by Police. Elaborate funeral services includ ing a parade through the downtown istrict led by a band were held yes terday afternoon for Nestor Varrio, trlking seaman, who was shot in a attle with police near the Union Oil docks at Llnnton last Monday night. The services were held at the First Congregational church and were In charge of the pastor, Dr. W. T. Mc Elveen. Nearly a thousand persons, most of them striking seamen or friends of the strikers, attended. Previous to the services at the church the body was taken from the establishment of Miller & Tracey fol lowed by a long line of marchers. From the church the funeral proces sion passed through the downtown district with the band and marchers en route to the Rose City Park ceme tery, where Interment was made. High Tribunal Expected to Settlo Suspension of Increase Intruded to Give Differential. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) C'OCKMEN INVADE KANSAS Strikers Make Way to Wheat Fields on Freight Trains. PITTSBURG', Kan., June 23. Two hundred men, many of them hanging on cattle cars and riding on the bumpers; were aboard a Kansas City Southern freight train when it ar rived today. The train crew said the men, many of them believed to be striking dock workers from gulf ports, forcibly boarded the train at Watts, Okla., last night, some of them saying they were en route to the Kansas wheat fields. Upon the request of peace officers, most of the men left the train here. They were given breakfast by the Salvation army and a hastily formed citizens' organization. At noon only a few of the men remained here. THE OREGOMAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, D. C, June 25. It Is ex. pected that the action of the Wash ington state public service commis sion in suspending the 5 per cent In crease In freight rates from points in the Inland empire south of the Snake river to Puget sound will be come a matter for determination by the courts. This Increase of 5 per cent In rates to Puget sound was part of the plan suggested by the Interstate commerce commission to the railroads for es tablishing the 10 per cent differential held to be due Portland and Van- couver in the contest with Puget sound for business from the points mentioned. No Order Issued. The decision suggested that this 1 per cent differential could be ac complished by raising the rates per cent to Seattle and reducing by the same amount the rates to Port land. No order, however, was ever Issued by the commission. The rail roads simply were tola they woull be expected to file new tariffs In J days altering the rates as suggested. The Washington public service com mission, therefore, it Is said, has not defied an order of the interstate com merce commission, but has placed some of the railroads In the position of having to 'ske the question to the courts if they wish to follow the sug gestion of the Interstate commerct commission. Issues Ilefsre Supreme t'snrt. It waa said at the interstate com merce commissibr today that most of the Issues Involved In the act on ef the Washington public service com- ' mission are now before the supreme court. Several cases already bar been argued in the highest tribunal Involving the rights of state com merce commission to control intra state rates. The outcome of the action in Washington state. It is thought, will be determined by a decision ex pected soon after the court recon venes In October. Several states, through their public service commissions, sought to sus pend the Increased rates ordered by the Interstate commerce commission after the passage of the Each-Cummins law. This resulted In the cases now pending In the highest court. BASIX RATE ORDER LACKING Interstate Commerce Commission Expected to Affirm Ruling. The Interstate commerce commis sion never has Issued an crder In the Columbia basin rate case, wherein Portland and Vancouver, Wash., were to receive a differential in their favor of 10 per cent on freight traffic originating In territory south of the Snake river. Therefore, railroads af fected mint obey an order issued by the Washington state commission, setting aside the proposed t per cent increase on freight from south of the Snake and destined for Tuget sound points or Astoria. Such is the attitude of the carriers concerned, as near as could be learned (Concluded un I'se -, Column 3 SKETCHES BY CARTOONIST PERRY ILLUSTRATING SOME TOPICS IN THE NEWS v 1 i-f, 1 : i ... 1 SjL WSe CoNstVRNE.O rA.VCAH W f J-' l& jJONG OvEOOt Qth Ream" V?.Y VEVVUNt! W L pvl t ' -