The Sunday Oregonian., August 21, 1921, Section One, Page 6, Image 6

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 21, 1921
BILL WOULD CURTAIL
certain sections of the West Side Pa- T
TION BILL
cific highway.
J. M. Devera. attorney for the high
way department, received a telegram
from Dallas to the effect that Judge
Percy Kelly had approved the state's
motion, asking that the complaint
filed in the case be made more defi
nite. Judge Kelly gave the plaintiffs
ten days in which to file an amended
complaint, after which the state will
have five days in which to prepare
an answer. According to Judge Kelly's
ruling, it will be necessary for the
plaintiffs to segregate the various
alleged causes of action.
The plaintiffs alleged in their
original complaint that the Polk
county court exceeded its authority
when it designated certain sections
of the West Side Pacific highway
as market roads. Also that it had
no lerai authority to contract an
indeotedness in excess of $5000 for
the construction of the so-called
Dallas-Salem highway. '
TODAY
TODAY
Oklahoma Representative Is
Champion of Girls.
Measure Favorably Reported
in Both Houses.
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.FOREIGN HORDE FEARED
UNUSUAL STATUS HELD
Manuel Herrick Says Also That
Alovies Tend to Make Women
Dissatisfied With Home.
McNary Withholds $2 50,000,0 0 0
As Beautiful as a Portland Rose
Proposition and Thereby Gains
Support Of President.
BIC OIL STRIKE IS MADE
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BEAUTY
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THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington. D. C. Aug. 20. Manual
Herrick. bachelor member of congress
from Oklahoma, intends to stop
beauty contests such as are fre
quently etaged by newspapers, the
aters, civic -and patriotic organiza
tions, if there is any way to do it
by law. Mr. Herrick has Introduced
a bill In congress for this purpose,
asserting that such contests are
wrong because they "turn girls"
beads," encourage them to leave
borne, go on the stage or become
Immoral.
-.American girls of today are think
ing too little of becoming wives and
"rearing families, Mr. Herrick asserts,
and beauty contests are helping, to
lure them from the real and right
eous things of life. The Oklahoma
bachelor is a self-made man who
says in his own biography that he
never attended school, educating him
self as best he could by hard knocks
and observation. His present occu
pation, according to h.is autobiog
raphy in the congressional directory,
is that of farmer and cattle raiser.
He says he has specialized om "Her
rick's giant yellow corn and copper
faced Hereford cattle."
Girls Drifting Fmrtaer Afield.
"American girls are drifting fur
ther afield from home life," declares
Mr. Herrick, in explanation of his
bill to stop beauty contests. "They
are ceasing to be interested in rear
ing families or becomnig wives. It
is a notorious fact that the American
born population is decreasing and
the immigrants and their immediate
offspring are increasing, and if this
continues another ten years America
may be converted into a - foreign
country with foreign ideals.
"One of the worst agencies in
bringing about this dissatisfaction
with home life on the part of the
American girl is the moving picture
and the theatrical organization. It
is a notorious fact that in aspiring
for theatrical or film stardom some
young girls take the first step toward
becoming the plaything of worn-out
and. broken-down old millionaires
and in that way their moral down
fall begins."
Heavy Penalties Provided.
One year's imprisonment or $5000
fine, or both, would be the penalty
for violations of the proposed Her
rick law.
And Mr. Herrick, it Is learned from
certain correspondence passing be
tween himself and a friend at Perry,
Okla., soon after his arrival here to
take his seat - last spring, is not at
all Ignorant about women, although
he is a bachelor.
The letter was written by Mr. Her
rick to be read before the chamber
of commerce at Perry. It appears
that Herrick had the feeling that the
residents of Perry were not .entirely
satisfied with their new representa
tive in congress because in two or
three places he implores "the people
of Perry to get behind me and quit I
knocking.
Becoming quite personal, he opened
the book of his life in this manner,
the following being copied verbatim
from his letter:
Letter Is Unique.
"I once had dreams of a home of
my own and a wife and family of my
own, and with that end in view I
kept my Soul and Body Clean So That
when I married I would not have to
Look my Bride In The Eye with guilt
and Shame in my heart as most all
other men have To If They Have Eny
manhood about Them. Well. I finally
found The young Lady of my Choice
and gave her my whole heart and
whole Soul's Love, But partly on ac
count of The Knockers in perry
knocking on me and Thus making
ier ashamed of me and partly on
account of a dude appearing upon
the Sean who was not what he Rep
resented him self To Be.
"I know fer last sumer I disipeared
from perry for over 3 weeks and no
one knew whear I was well I had
gone to Trace Ms past Life and I
found a good and plenty. Exposure
will come out when It will hurt the
most well the upshot was That partly
on account of the knockers In perry
making her ashamed of me and parUy
on account of the fact that The Dude
took advantage of Certain misfortunes
That ifefell Me over which I had No
Contral he Snached her awa from me.
and I nearly Died of greif Cryed like
a Baby "for 4 months In secret and
put gray in My whiskers 20 years
Before It would a Come otherwise
and This Is The grudge That I have
Bin holding against perry It helped
to Cause me to Loose all on Earth
That I held Dear.
"Denzlna" Make Him Bleed.
"The Denzins of perry have No
Idea how They tortured me and made
me Blead Inside when They would
Joke me about Getting Married after
Being one of the Cheaf Causes why
I could, not. well I am in congress
and She is on The Edge of the gutter
But She does not know It Soon I
will Be in The White House and She
wui ise in The gutter, and I will
hear The Sweetest music That Ever
fell on mortal Ears The clang of The
penitentiary Doors as They Close
upon him for a good Long Term and
She Can Suffer The pangs of Regret
for The awafnll Mistake She Made
In The Mean Time Dont no one Seak
to Find Eather his name or her name
They wont succeed."
Commenting in another place in his
letter on the Washington view of a
member of congress, Mr. Herrick
said:
"The people out There Seems to
view The position of a Congressman
with a Certin amount of awe. But
beare a Congressman is a joke. And.
If. It was not for The fact that I owe
a Duty to The people in order That
They may have a Live Congressman
on The Job I would Feel Like Resign
ing right now. . . . another Thing
They Told me That Is not True and
That Is That Washington had more
wimen Than men and what is heare
Is so ugly That They almost make a
feller Think That he had Died and
waked up in Hades."
STATE WINS ON ROADS
Injunction Against Work on West
Side Pacific Highway Issue
SALEM. Or., Aug. 20. (Special.')
The state highway commission today
won the first heat in litigation
brought by residents of Independence.
Folk county, to enjoin the state from
proceeding with the improvement of i
RICH FIELD FOVXD OX A.RCTTC
COAST OF ALASKA.
Discovery, It Is Believed, Will Ri
val in Importance That of
Mackenzie River Region.
NOME, Alaska, Aug. 20. Discovery
of new oil fields in the vicinity of
Wainwright Inlet and Point Barrow
on the Arctic coast of Alaska, which
it is believed here may rival in im
portance the Mackenzie river fields of
Northern Canada, was reported today
by members of a California prospect
ing party which has been in the dis
trict since July 14.
According to R. D. Adams, head of
the party, large seepages ocour in
the neighborhood of Cape Simpson,
east of Point Barrow. .They appear,
he aald, to spring from two or three
conspicuous barren mountains back
of the cape and within a mile of the
Arctic shore line. They flow, several
hundred yards into a "lake of oil."
Another party which left Nome in
July is also prospecting in the neigh
borhood. Reports of a "lake of oil" between
Point Barrow and Demarcation Point
on the Canadian border were first
made about five years ago by a
teacher at Point Barrow. Natives who
had visited the region said the oil
bubbled from the tundra in large
amounts.
MEXICO CTTT. Aug. 20. Fire broke
out yesterday on Lot 224 in the Amat
lan oil field, near Tampico, and last
night the flames were raging fiercely
it is said in a dis'patch from Tampico
Ic is declared that the oil field work
ers face a serious problem 4n extin
guishing the fire.
SALMON CATCHES LIGHT
Purse Seiners Have Difficulty in
Making Sales.
ASTORIA, Or.. Aug. 20. (Special.)
The fishing season on the Columbia
river has turned into a steady grind
with few salmon being taken by any
class of gear. The water is so clear
that gillnetters cannot fish during the
day and the tides are bad for them
at night.
Even the purse seines made light
catches yesterday, but they made large
hauls on Thursday and the canneries
taking these fish had all they could
handle. One plant is eald to have
thrown about four tons of spoiled fish
overboard.
Purse seiners have had so much
difficulty in disposing of their catches
that Instances are reported where
they sold fish to gillnetters at 6 cents
a pound and the latter in turn de
livered them to the packing plants
at 9 and 10 cents.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, D. C, Aug. 20. When
the regular session of congress con
venes in December the McNary $250,
000,000 western reclamation bill will
hold an unusual and fortunate status.
The extraordinary feature of its
status will be that It will be before
both houses of congress with a
favorable report. v
A favorable report was made by
the senate many weeks ago by the
irrigation committee of that body.
The house committee on irrigation
has completed hearings and probably
within a few days the house bill,
which was introduced by Addison T.
Smith, representative from Idaho,
will be reported in identically the
same form as the McNary bill in
the senate.
The last testimony was taken by
the house committee during the
week. The principal and by far the
most Important witness in the final
summing up of the case of western
reclamation, was ex-Governor Spry
of Utah, commissioner of the general
land office, but formerly the official
representative in Washington of the
western states reclamation associa
tion. President's Wishes Respected.
Senator McNary and representative
Smith yielded to the wishes of the
president that the reclamation bill
be withheld In the present extra
session because of the urgent demand
for tariff and tax legislation and
relief for the farmers and the rail
roads. They are pleased now that
they followed the president's wishes
In the matter because they feel that
by having a favorable committee re
port before each house when the
regular session convenes, the measure
will have considerable advantage
over the legislation to be taken up
in that session.
Furthermore. President Harding
has promised to throw the force of
his administration behind the bill in
the new session, which, it ie believed,
will make its passage a down-grade
pull.
Hearing Last Three Months.
The hearings on this legislation
before the house committee have ex
tended over a period of three months,
and many men of prominence, Includ-
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TAMPICO
A beautiful instrument which voices the art of
the great pianists making the genius of the
great masters of the piano-forte the heritage of
all classes and all ages.
The Ampico in the Checkering
gives you instrument and artist and places at your
command the world's best music played perfectly.
Come in ask to hear the Ampico.
G. F. Johnson Piano Co.
147-149 "Sixth Street
Between Alder and Morrison Streets I
ing several governqrs of the public
land states, railroad and government
officials, have appeared before the
committee and urged its enactment.
Commissioner Spry in his statement
to the house committee emphasized
the fact that practically all of the
desirable public land which could be
cultivated without irrigation has been
entered and that if the west is to
continue to grow and develop the
waste waters must be stored and used
for irrigation and power purposes.
As an evidence that there is great
demand for land he referred to the
numerous entries under existing laws
and to the many 'nquirles which are
being received at his office daily
regarding opportunities for those who
desire to engage In agricultural pur
suits.
Staff Sergeant Promoted.
EUGENE, Or Aug. 20. (Special.)
Victor Stratten. staff sergeant of
the 1st battalion. 5th regiment of
Oregon national guard, located here,
has been recommended by Major W
Q. White. conMnanding the battalion
as first lieutenant and battalion adju
tant to take the- place of Edward A.
Rohne. who has been elected captain
of Company C of this city.
The first school for girls in Cin
cinnati was established in 18fl2.
AUTOPSY- HELD ON BODY
Corpse of Woman Drowned While
With Husband Is Exhumed.
SANTA ROSA, Cal., Aug. 20. At
the direction of District Attorney
Churchill of Lake County, an autopsy
has been performed on the body of
Mrs. Emma Spencer, wife of a former
Santa Rosa clergyman, who was
drowned July 27 In Clear Lake.
The autopsy has Just been com
pleted by Drs. M. A. and Charles
Craig and they have transmitted their
findings to Mr. Churchill, but all have
refused to divulge their nature.
Following the death of Mrs. Spencer
a coroner's jury brought in a verdict
of death by drowning, but friends of
Mrs. Spencer asked that further in
vestigation be made and the district
attorney ordered the body exhumed.
Mrs. Spencer was alone with her
husband when death occurred. Their
boat tipped over, the husband said,
and his efforts to save her were futile.
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Evelyn was about to enter a marriage
of convenience, sKe was interrupted by
an intruder. That incident caused her
to start out, unknown, to try to make
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A sure laugh - getter.
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Excellent and
Appropriate
Music by the
Peoples Orchestra
'Kinograms'
Full of redhot news
items.
LUMBER COMPANY SUED
A p pi n t me nt of Receiver Is Asked
for Leon a Mills Concern.
Appointment of a receiver for the
Leona Mills Lumber company.- Inc.,
a $100,000 concern which has been
operating in Douglas county. is
asked in a petition filed in the cir
cuit court yesterday by J. H. Cook,
majority stockholder and largest
creditor of the company.
The petition sets forth that the
mill, which has a daily capacity of
60,000 feet and owns timber adjacent
to the total of 120.000;000 feet, has
unsecured debts totalling $270,000,
and that the value of the company
lies chiefly in keeping the equipment
intact and ready to resume opera
tions when the market is better.
Creditors are threatening various
suits, to prevent which Cook asks
for the appointment of a receiver.
POTATO GROWERS MEET
Plan of Organization to Be Mapped
Out at Gathering.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Aug. 20.
(Special.) Meetings of the potato
growers will be held at different
points in the .county, it was an
nounced today, in notices sent to the
farmers by a committee in charge
of organization.
The meetings will be held In the
following places: Manor. August 24;
Battleground, August 25; Washou
gal. August 26; La Center, August
SO; Ridgefield, August 31; Mill Plain.
September 1, and Sara. September 2.
M. J. Newhouse. manager of the
Washington Growers" and Packing
corporation, and J. E. Larson, in
charge of the potato department of
the corporation, will present the plan
of organization at these meetings.
A two-star pic
ture of one of the
strangest stories
ever written.
Beautiful Kath
erine MacDonald
plays four dif-,
ferent roles in
her experience as
a rich society
girl who seeks
adventure in the
underworld of
New York.
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Weekly
Service Hos-pital Taken Over.
WASHINGTON. X. C, Aug. 20
Under an executive order signed
today by President Harding , the
veterans' bureau has taken over the
naval tubercular hospital at Fort
Lyons. Las Animas. Colo. It will be
used as a tubercular institution for
war veterans and has a capacity of
780 beds. Assignment of patients to
Fort Lyons can begin at once.
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Eminent Violinist
who will also present an
especially selected pro
gramme at today's noon
concert.
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