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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1922)
151 SHIPPERS forced to go before the voters a-gain t this fall if they dsire to retain their i places, while half the membership of i the state senate, 21 in number, will be ! up for re-election. The last day for filing initiative pe titions with the required number of signers is July 7, four months before the general election, which falls on November 7. Seven have already been sent in for ballot titles and more are in prepara tion, it is said, but it is impossible to determine just how many measures the voters will be asked to "decide upon. Four refereridums are certain to appear on the ballot. Briefly they arer The certificate of necessity and convenience measure for regulation of public utilities; the medical examination law in regard to school children; election laws re lating to, jiominations and party con ventions.'nd registration laws re quiring voters to state party prefer ences at time of registration. The act passed by the last legisla ture in reference to county offices will give those persons elected this fall four-year terms, instead of two. Thus, from now on county balloting will always com with the off-year elections. STAY BY PORTLAND "Seattle's Effort to Get Yak ima Valley fcrop Fails. BIG OPERATORS OPPOSED Port Facilities Here Deemed Ade quate and Treatment Accorded Growers Makes Friends. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 1SJ 1922 OF WOOL Both confidential and general re ports in the Yakima valley indicate that the proposal to install at'Seattle facilities with, which to capture wool shipments from eastern Washington Chat have Heretofore come to- Port land, has fallen, through for lack of j support by the shippers themselves. The big operators of the stat op posed! it, though not openly, at the annual convention of tihe Washing ton Woolgrowers' association early in January, according to George N. An gell of the Oregon, Farmer, this city, i who has Just returned from a week's business trip to tha Yakima valley, and says that the matter Is regarded there as closed. j "When the Seattle chamber of com merce invaded the annual convention with promises of warehouse facili ties equal to those in Portland if the wool men would send their product to the sound," Mr. Angell said, "the change was opposed instantly by Frank M. Bothrock of Spokane and other large shippers who but for pol icy's sake would have taken the floor and put the convention on record against It Large Operators Object. "They were persuaded1 not to do so, however, and in lieu of positive ac tion a committee was appointed head ed by H. S. Coffin and authorized to go to Seattle and investigate the proposition. Objection of the large operators continued to be felt; tine committee has taken no action; and it is likely that most of the valley's 2,000,000 pounds of wool will be shipped to Portland as usual. "Mr. Coffin himself does not favor any change unless the sound city of fers much greater inducements than it has done bo far. He is well pleased with the treatment he has received here and was much impressed with the future of this port as outlined by Manager R. A. Ward of the Pacific Woolgrowers at the convention in Yakima. In fact, Mr. Ward made a hit with the Washington sheepmen, and undoubtedly helped save this business for Portland. 1822 Crop May Be Short. "The annual crop of wool from " Yakima may be a little short this sea son, due to the financial inability of sheepmen to replace the ewes lost by natural causes and from extreme age. However, the winter has been a splendid one for feeding and both the wooj, and the lamb crops are expect ed to be high-class. Early lambs are already arriving and will continue to come until March 15. The range crop will bring the total to about 200,000. "Shearing will begin March 1 at a fixed price of 10 cents and with the last of the 1920 and 1921 crops dis posed of only last week at 20 to 22 cents per pound, and with 25 to 30 cerata In sight for the new crop, wool men of Yakima are more optimistic than they have been for several years." , ATTEMPT Tfl KILL PUZZLE INTRUDER FIRES AT RESI DENT IN NIGHT. AL HER TP INITIATE FROM 150 TO 200 TO -JOIN SHRINE SATCRADY. InTestigatprs Think John Keller of Powell Valley Road Holds Key to Identity o Assailant. Considerable mystery surrounds an attempt to murder John Keller, aged 53 years, in his home at Powell valley road and Laurel avenue at an early hour yesterday morning. Investi gators believe that the key to the mystery is held by Keller, who in sists, however, that he has no idea of the identity of his assailant. Residents in the neisrhborhood of the Keller home were aroused shortly after 2 o'clook yesterday morning by the motor of 'an automobile, which passed up and down the road several times without showing a light. Their attention was attracted through fear of chicken thieves. It was about 3:45 that Keller said he was aroused by a steady rapping on the back door of his home. He went into th kitchen, according to his story, and reached for the electric light bulb hanging from a cord over the sink. The light flashed before the connection was fully established and as it did so there was the report of a revolver, simultaneous with the crash of glass as the bullet sped through the glass upper half of the back door. The lead pellet passed within a hair's breadth of Keller's forehead and burled itself in the kitchen wall. Keller dropped to the floor, there was the sound of run ning feet, then silence. Deputy Sheriffs Christofferson, Schlrmer and Bailey instigated the report of the attempted assassination, telephoned to the sheriff's office by a son of Keller. They found no definite 4ew. Ceremony Will Be Held In Public Auditorium Beginning at 3 'Clock la Afternoon. Between 160 and 200 Oregon Ma sons will 'tread the' hot sands into the famed city of "Mecca" next Saturday when Al Kader temple. Mystic Shrine, will 'hold a ceremonial at the public auditorium. This will be tha fjrst ceremonial held under the adminis tration of A. L. Tetu, who was elected potentate of Al Kader in December. The "first section" of the ceremo nial will be held in the auditorium Saturday at 3 P. M. This section brings out the serious part of the ceremonial, and calls for an impress ive service put on as a tabloid, with stage scenery and beautiful lighting effects. Between 5:30 P. M. and 7:30 P. M. a buffet supper will be served in the basement of the auditorium to avoid the necessity of the candidates as well as officers and members of the Shrine being forced to travel to a downtown point for dinner. Beginning at 7:30 P. M. and con tinuing until 8 P. M., a concert will be given by the Al Kader band, led by H. N. Stoudenmeyer, and the Al Kader chanters, directed by A. Dl The "second section" of the work will begin at 8 P. M in charge of Harvey Wells, Jack Helser and Reu bin Noldeke, assisted by members of the patrol. In this section the can didates are required to suffer all the tortures that can be devised as the means of proving whether or not the candidates possess the courage to be come true sons of the desert. A special dinner is to be arranged for the out-of-town women of the Shrine at the Multnomah hotel at 6 P. M. This dinner will be in charge of Hal T. Hutchinson, chief rabban of Al" Kader temple. It is expected that fully 500 mem bers of the Shrine from various out-of-town points in Oregon will attend this ceremonial. The decorations for the ceremonial will be handled by the section gang, in charge of Prank S. Grant, past potentate. A business meeting for members of the Shrine will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, in Pythian temple. CHURCH DEALS ARE MADE Rev. B. Earl Parker Purchases Residence in Laurelhurst. Four realty transactions, each in volving the purchase and sale of property either by a Methodist Episco pal church or by .a pastor of such a church, were negotiated last week by R. H. Torrey, Portland realtor. Dr. B. Earl Parker, the new pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church, has become so impressed with Portland and its future that he has purchased a seven-room house in Laurelhurst at 115 Mirimar place. The house was purchased from M. F. Tyler for $7000. Rev. Mr. Parker will move into his new home about March 1. The Rose City Park Methodist church sold its parsonage at 1520 Thompson street to Mrs. - Bessie Goshon of Corvailis, Or., for J5000 cash. The same church purchased from E. H. McAuley a 7-room residence at 566 East Fifty-eighth street North for $58o0. The residence adjoins the church and will be used as a par- sonage. The church also purchased the adjoining 50x100 feet from R. R. Dingle for $1225. ELECTIONS HE IRK SECRETARY OP 'STATE'S OF FICE AT OLYMPIA BUSY. SEVERAL IN LIQUOR NET Suspected Bootleggers and Drug Dealers Caught at The Dalles. Raids conducted Friday night in The Dalles under the direction of Dr. J. A. Llnvllle, prohibition director, netted 200 gallons of moonshine, sev eral bootlegging and narcotic dealing suspects. 1 Opium was found in two Chinese homes that were raided. Those who were arrested under prohibition law charges were: J. G. Grannick, W. H. Woodard, James Allen, F. H.. Epper son, Earl Garrett, Clarence Garrett, Rex Jarrett and tad, Marones. Those held ag narcotic dealers taken into custody were: Chew Chee, Long Pi, Wong Fung and Chin Sin. tanniQiucs Have Until August ltfl to File Initiation Petitions Must Be in by July.7.- OLYMPIA, Wash. Feb. 18. This is the busy season in the office of Sec retary of State J. Grant Hinkle with the approach of the fall elecions, car rying with them countless routine matters that require attention. The primaries fall this year on Sep tember 12 and candidates for the one United States senatorial toga, the five congressional seats or the four places on the state supreme bench must file with the secretary of state between July 12 and August 12. Those who seek state senatorial jobs from joint districts, that is where the dis trict extends into two counties, will also file with the secretary of state, but the other senatorial aspirants will file with their respective county aud itors, as will candidates for seats in the lower house and for county of fices. All members of the state house of representatives, 97 in number, will be STAFF. T0BE REDUCED Immigration Service Runs Short of Funds, Mr. Bonham Hears. Lack of available funds for the carrying on 6f the work of the immi gration service with its present staf or employes has caused autnoritles in Washington to Instruct R. P. Bonham, local immigration inspector, to cut down his staff. Under telegraphie orders received yesterday. Mr. Bonham will be re quired to eliminate one-fourth of his men until July 1. At this time a new appropriation will be ready. Two or three men will be laid off each month from the local office force until July 1, according to-Mr. Bonham. STOCK YARDS BURNED Loss in Kaansas City Estimated at Between $50,000 and $60,000. KANSAS CITY, Kan., Feb. 18. A spectacular fire-Friday destroyed be tween five and 10 acres of pens in the stockyards district here and threatened to spread to the main plants before being placed under con trol after a two-hour fight by the local fire department, reinforced by companies from Kansas City. , Officials estimated the loss at be tween $50,000 and $60,000. The origin of the fire was undetermined. MOSf Swe Mates tlhe Palatable aid test of Foods Co tog Btalmis Only Snack redients as Have F0VC! ormes arooa-Aum 1F3 HaoeiE World Housew s largest em asid Sanitdij (M&ef Factories torite of Millions of ives For oyer Thirty Years ameJCeepir astSioonM 1 ! Every Can the S Quality Perfect I As Hood as the First A pound can of Calumet contains full I6 oz.tSome baking powders come : in 12 oz. cans insteadof 16 oz.cans. Be sure'you jfet a pound whenyouiwantit Phone your want ads to the Ore gonian. Main 7070. Automatic 560-95. IA1 SCANDAL RECALLED ESCAPADE OF GERMAN CROWN PRINCE IS REVIVED. Watch Given to ,French Girl Is Found on Her Companion When Arrested for Being Drunk. BY: GRANT GORDON. Copyright, 1922. by The Oregonian.) PARIS, Feb. IS. (Special Cable.) One of the greatest- scandals of the German occupation in France is re called by the finding of the crown prince's watch on the person of a certain Bosano, picked up drunk the other night in a Mont Marts cafe. When the German general staff was at Lille the crown prince took a fancy to 17-year-old Gabrielle Beur rier, described as a shy young thing. The German staff, finding .that Ga brielle was keeping the royal per sonage from his military duties, had her abducted. g. After the war Gabrielle felrin with Bosano. She willingly showed souve nirs given her by the prince to all who were curious enough to ask. The watch was the prize of the col lection. But gradually Gabrielle found her self more and more the object of scorn, so she sent Bosano to Paris to sell 'the watch and other trinkets, hoping to realize enough to enable herself and Bosano to escape to an other place and startlife afresh. Unfortunately for Gabrielle's sensi bilities, Bosano drank too much cog nac and the past, instead of being buried, was dragged out Into the cold white light of a front-page news paper stery. - Laundrymen to Meet. " CHEHALIS, Wash., Feb. 18. (Spe. cial.) The annual meeting of the Washington State Laundrymen's asso ciation will be held in Chehalls Au gust IS and. 19. OUTLAWS ARE SENTENCED Two Men Get 15 Years, One Two Years for Attempts to Rob. Fifteeif .years each In the state penitentiary were the sentences meted out to Amos Jones and George Williams, convicted of attempted robbery, by Circuit Judge Gatens yesterday. Clarence Jones, brother of Amos, received a sentence of two years' imprisonment. A jury of men and women found the trio guilty last week of attempt ins to rob the store of Fred Davis, 1466 Union avenue North, on January 9. Judge Gatens said that in conver sational with the Jurors since, the trial he found none to recommend leniency or a parole in any of the cases, though several told him they thought Clarence Jones was the least to blame. " . George Graham, deputy district at torney, pointed out to the court that all three men had criminal records. Amos Jones having been sentenced to from one to ten years for theft of a cow, Clarence Jones to one to five years in 1917 on a felony charge and George Williams to one to seven years in 1917 on a burglary charge. Home Beautiful Week Set. The week of April 3 to 8, which is set for the holding of the home beautiful exposition of the Realty board at the public auditorium, has been designated as home beautiful week throughout the city by procla mation issued yesterday by Mayor Baker. In issuing bis proclamation the mayor declared that he did so with a view td furthering 'the move ment Jtor the improvement and beau tification of the homes of the city. Deer Runs Through Town. CLATSKANIE, Or, Feb. 18. (Spe cial.) A fine buck deer, apparently not at all dismayed by his surround ings, made a trip through Birkenfeld, a community center a short distance south of Clatskanie, one day this week. The buck-was seen by several persons. NUT GROWERS WILL MEET.tne'w reau, Ferd Groner and O. T. McWhor ter, county agent Filbert and Walnut Culture to Be Studied at Forest Grove. Farmers and others interested in nut culture will hold a meeting at the Administration building, Pacific university. Forest Grove, Tuesday, February 21, starting at 1:15 P. M. An opportunity will be afforded to nut culturists to discuss some of the questions which naturally arise at this time of the year, such as the varieties of walnuts to plant, where and how to plant them, taking care of the trees the first year, varieties of filbets to plant, pollenizers that should go with them, and many other questions that confront the beginner in nut culture. The English walnut and its culture will be discussed by Ferd Groner, veteran walnut grower of Scholls. J. F. Fobis, orchardist of Dilley, will discuss filbert culture. Other speak ers will appear on the programme. The meeting was arranged by D. G. Brilliant Painting to Be Keen. - - A brilliant still life painting T the American,-painter, Jonas IJe, ta to be hung on the downstairs exhibi tion screen at the art museum today. This is a joyous study of glowing flowers and in a strong light its color is gorgeous to the point of daring. It is a stimulating and eatiB fying example of that painter's work. The picture is one loaned by tin Lincoln high school and will remain on the exhibition screen for one week Worker's Hand Crushed. F. J. Vanwendcorwering, an Ameri can, 38 years old, and a trainman, sustained a badly crushed left hand yesterday morning In the Nicola! mill yards when he was coupling two freight cars. His hand was caught in the bumpers. An ambulance tool: him to St. Vincent's hospital,