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13 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 24, 1922 SEATTLE TRACT1 IE S TAKE il H GHER Federal Court of Appeals to Settle Bond Mixup. CUT IN FARES BLOCKED Decision of District Judge Puts Private Interests in Position of Preferred Creditors. PTJGET SOUND BUREAU, Seattle, Waslu, Sept. 23 The litigious tangle In which the Seattle munici pal street railway system Is in volved la now under consideration as to one of its ramifications by the Tj.-lted States circuit court or ap peals. The city of Seattle's appeal from the decision of federal ins- trlct Judge Oushman, compelling epeciflo performance of the terms of the contract under which the rvetem was purchased in 1919 from the Stone & Webster interests, has Iveen are-ued before Justices (jlioert, Hunt and Rudkin, sitting in- Seattle u an appellate court. Judge Cushman's decision, handed Mown last spring, requires strict iui tUment by the city of the contract terms which provide that me prin cipal and interest of the S15,000,000 purchase price bonds must be paid out of the revenues of the railway system. Bondholders Are Protected. This is of prime interest to the bondholders that their claim shall constitute, in effect, a first lien on the rece'nts of the railway from car riders. Naturally, they are not greatly concerned as to the source that the city might have to tap to meet deficits in railway operation. - The oityB contention, in appeal ing from the Cushman decision, is that in event the gross revenues of the system were not sufficient to meet Its obligations to the bond holders, and also to cover all op erating and mainenance costs, it would bo compelled to resort to gen eral taxation, a course not con templated at the time of purchase and since then denied to the city by decree of the state supreme court. Preferred Status Involved. The purpose of the bondholders in the case decided in their favor by Judge Cushman was to prevent their claims for the purchase price from being rated along with operating and maintenance costs, with a chance of prorata distribution of whatever the revenues of the sys tem might be from time to time. The bondholders did not seek epe- clfically to compel the city to re sort to general taxation. The exact effect of the Cushman decision, taken in connection with the decision of the state supreme court denying recourse to tax funds, would be to compel the city to main tain car fares at a rate high enough to produce revenues sufficient to meet all obligations and costs of maintenance and operation. This interpretation has been recognized by the city in maintaining the 8 1-3 cent fare, which, according to the accountants, is yielding a gross revenue that covers all requ're- ments and makes recourse to taxa tion unnecessary. These decisions of the federal and state courts stand in the way of car-fare reduction. On the other hand, If the Cushman decision should be reversed by the appellate court and a reduction of the car fares fol lowed, the bondholders would have no preferential rights with respect to the revenues of the system. the World. Mora than 30 candidates were initiated., the camps par ticipating including Wlnlock. Cow litz Prairie, Kelso, Castle Rock and the degree team from Multnomah camp No. 77 of Portland. The mem bers of the order and the candidates assembled at Castle Rock and the degree team of the Portland lodge aiagea a parade and drill, after which those present were taken in automobiles to the grove, where the initiation took place. Officials of the lodge present in cluded J. F. Hoyt, district manager; E. P. Martin, deputy head consul; J: O. Wilson, heat? manager F. A. Beard, district manager; J. A. Pate, advisor; John A. Beard and Captain Smith of the Portland degree team. After the meeting a big camp fire was built and" refreshments served to the guests who were present from the neighboring lodges in Ta- coma. Centralia. Chehalls, Wlnlock, Cowlitz, Kelso and Portland. METHODISTS EHD WOHK 5 -DAT CONTEXTIOX CXjOSES IiATE TOXIGHT. Norwegian-Danish Conference to Convene Next Year in Los Angeles. IS .AT REED BOXER INDEMXITY STUDENT ENROIJLS HERE. Chao Hsi-Idn Takes Tip in Political Science Jjocal College. Course at To acquaint himself with western methods of education when all 90 of his companion students went on to eastern institutions, Chao Hsi-Lin 'of Pekin, China, has enrolled at Reed college. Mr. Chao is a graduate of Tsing Hua college, near Pekin, the X. pj, s. s. j s it JU 4 4 SiM6j .fcA.! iKti4C4fe6&,K '"TVY'I 'lUiiWtflV'l' Y ' CCt" Vf "iMfr I' I'" Vit i, Chao Hsl-Lln, boxer Indemnity student, who ham enrolled at Reed college. CLUB WINNERS NAMED Clackamas County Boys and Girls to Go to State Fair. OREGON CITY. Or.. Sent. 23. (Special.) Announcement of the Clackamas County club winners who will be granted free trips to the state fair, was made by County School Superintendent Vedder at the close of the county fair at Canby. The high scoring boys for the coun ty were Theodore Resch of Aurora and Erwln Ridder of Sherwood, route 6. The high girls for the county were Willa Daugherty and Margaret Daugherty of Molalla. The winning canning team hails from Boring. It is composed of Dora Hoffmeister, Dola Lingle and Mar jorie Heacock. The winning stock judging team, sponsored by Carl Hanson, is composed of Rudolph Herman, Verner Anderson and Mil dred Anderson, all of Boring. SCOUT TROOP IN MAKING New Unit Promises to Be Among Strongest in Portland. Organization of Bov Snnnt trmm No. 59, with the determination making it one of the strongest troops in the Portland council, han been , undertaken by a committee composed of D. L. Blodgett. chair man; Harvey Lounsburv- v n Hoyt, George M. Post and T tt Bagley, with Robert F. Troxler. as scoutmaster. The troop at present comnrlsu in scouts, being 12 short of its nr.. scribed quota of 32. The members have met with the committee and have pledged themselves to recruit the troop up to the desired number After that has been accomplished a programme will be proposed which win inspire the troop to compete with every other troop in the city in scout advancement. OREGON MISSES BIG HAUL William Rockefeller Inheritance Tax Would Have Been Huge. SALEM, Or., Sent. 23. rSDOclal.1 If William Rockefeller had been a citizen or Oregon instead of New York state when he died, his heirs would have been compelled to pay inheritance tax on his estate in the amount of $11,966,325 more than in New York. This was set out in a statement prepared here today -by O. P. Hoff. state treasurer, for transmission to William G. Shepherd of New York clfy, who is preparing an article on the subject for publication in an eastern magazine. In New York state the inheritance tax on Mr- Rockefeller's estate 'was estimated at S7.986.300. WOODMEN INITIATE 30 Open-Air - Ceremony Is Held in Grove at Castle Rock. An open-air class initiation was held in the Studebaker grove at Cas tle Rock, Wr.sh., Saturday night. September IS, by the Woodmen of, The annual five-day session of the western Norwegian-Danish confer ence oS the Methodist Episcopal church, which has been conducted at the Vancouver avenue church, on Vancouver avenue and Skidmore streets, will close tonight. An in teresting programme has been ar ranged for the closing meetings of the conference, and will begin at 9:45 o'clock this morning with the love feast. Rev. C. N. Hauge in charge. Rev. Charles W. Burns of Helena, Mont, presiding bishop of the con ference, will deliver a sermon at 10:45 to which the public is invited. For the afternoon meetings there will be an ordination service at 2:30 o'clock and at 7 o'clock a young people's meeting conducted by Rev. David HasseL The closing sermon of the conference will be delivered in the Scandinavian tongue at . 8 o'clock tonight by Rev. H. S. Haver. Yesterday's business session con sidered the report of the committee on appointments of pastors for the coming year and a public announce ment of the appointments will be made following the close of the morning sermon today. The mis' sionary work of the church was also discussed in the open forum gathering yesterday and brought out the fact that much progressive work had been performed in this field within the past year. A banquet was served at the church building to the visiting dele gates at 6:30 o'clock, the usual night sermon being dispensed with. K. C Hickman, representative of the board of Epworth leagues, was one of the principal speakers at the afternoon session, - while several brief addresses were made- by. rep resentatives of the board of foreign missions. Departmental work of the church also came In for a share of the business session. The 100 delegates to the confer ence, representing the 20 churches in the districts included in the-conference, will depart for their homes tonight. Los Angeles has been se lected as the meeting place of the conference next year. Odds and Ends. A school founded and supported by the American share of the Boxer indemnity. Chao is one of 90 Chinese students who last week arrived in San Fran cisco to spend five years in Ameri can colleges and universities with all expenses paid by the Chinese government out of the indemnity fund. Chao desired a knowledge of the American Pacific coast andReed college was recommended to him by Professor Harold S. Quigley, for merly of the University of Wiscon sin, now at Tsing Hua college. With a view to future service with the Chinese government, Mr. Chao Is doing his major work in the field of political science. One of his am bitions, however, is to speak four foreign languages, and he has en rolled in elementary German. As a I don't want to be ignorant, but going PIQUANT spectacle of the hot days of last week was a shopper in a department store vigorously fanning herself with the end of the fur scarf which hung about her neck. It evidently did not occur to the sufferer to take off her fur wrap. . There was a complete surcease of the traditional "m'lud" attitude when a group of bishops went fish ing the Saturday before the con vention opened. They were digni taries from the ends of the earth, and they had never met before. But, one and all, they dotted tneir sur names and addressed each other as "Bill," "Sam" and "Jim" quite in the spirit of real boys goin' fishin." Whether this informal attitude made an atmosphere which in creased the catch is not known, but they certainly had a jollier time. A youngster of the sterner sex came back to school last week after summer in the country. An in quisitive grown-up asked him if he liked school. His answer was il luminative of how we have failed to make the process' of learning vital to the young. "Of course I won. the airmen engaged in a "fly. ing circus" illuminated by huge searchlights and . cheered by the crowd of persons who had gathered from all parts of Long Island and New York city to watch the military spectacle. After the flying circus, a number of the aviators took up passengers selected principally from among the 300 reserve officers from the second corps area - for whose benefit the mimic warfare had been waged. Lieutenant Raymond E. Davis home was in Danville, 111. He en tered the army air service on Jnly 21, 1917, and after the war was sta tioned at Langley field, Hampton, Va. All the passengers were "army men," according to the police. 10,000 SEE TWO PXIERS DIE Last Event of Balloon-Sniping Exhibition Proves Fatal. BALTIMORE, Sept. 23. Before a I crowd o 10,000 persons, Lieutenants Herbert V. Hansen and John M. Patton Jr., of the Quantico aviation station marine corps, today plunged to death in an airplane - at Logan Field Dundalk. The accident came a few minutes before the scheduled conclusion of a balloon-sniping contest, which brought to a close the largest exhi bition of aircraft ever held in Mary land. - . The victims of the crash had taken off only about two minutes earlier, had brought down one balloon and were starting to circle for another. The cause of the accident probably never will be known. Most of the flyers attributed it to a stalled en gine. The machine was about 1001 feet in the- air, but fell with terrific I speed. Both men had seen war service in the marine corps. Lieutenant Patton, who was 30 years old, lived at Pasadena, Cal. Lieutenant Han sen's home was at Church's Ferry, N. D. He was 28 years old. The contest in which the aviators were engaged was the last event of the programme given in connection with the third district aeronautical con vention, which opened in Baltimore r riaay. ' RECALL PETITIONS OUT CLACKAMAS COUXTY IS TARGET. JUDGE result of eight years' contact with American teachers in his home col lege,-not only in the classroom, but in their life on the campus, Chao has an excellent command of Eng lish. Chao Hsi-Lin is the third Boxer Indemnity student to enroll at Reed college. His predecessors, Chung. Koching Cheyang and Ta Chen, were both students of exceptional ability. Chung, who' attended Reed from 1915 to 1917. majored in the field of sociology. Ta Chen was a student of political science and was graduated from Reed in 1919. He was an attache to the Chinese delegation at the Wash ington conference last February and is now doing graduate work at Columbia university. F. J. HAYNES TO BE HERE President of Dodge Motor Car Company to See Highway. F. J. Haynes, president of the Dodge Motor Car company of De troit, will be a Portland visitor to night, arriving from Tho Dalles over the Columbia highway by automo bile. With Mrs. Haynes and a party of friends, he will leave the private car "National, In which he is tour ing the west at The Dalles and pick It up here. Vernon H. Parker, vice-president of the company, and John A. Nichols, sales manager, with their wives, are also in the party. The trip west ward is being made over the Union Pacific and the visitors will leave at 7:45 o'clock tonight over the South ern Paclfio for California. LEADERS PLAN CAMPAIGN Marion County Republican Com mitteemen Confer. SALEM, Or., Sept. 23. (Special.) Members of the executive com mittee of the Marion county re publican central committee met here today and formulated plans for an active campaign priof to the Novem ber election. Mrs. Louise Riggs was appointed vice-chairman of the committee. Various committees were appointed to conduct the campaign work. The committee went on record as favor ing the republican meeting to be held in Portland for the purpose of adopting a platform for the com ing campaign. Recall Petitions Too Late. SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 23. Thomas Daugherty of Bellevue, having failed to appear by noon today with petitions asserted to have been signed by ?7,000, de manding the recall of the King county commissioners. County Au ditor D. E. Ferguson announced that the proposal could not go to a vote November 7. An election would have been necessitated by 25,000 valid signatures. Girls to Return to School. SALEM, Or., Sept. 23-(Special.) Eighteen girls who ye-alerday were transferred to the State Home for the Feeble-Minded, following de struction by fire of a dormitory at the State Industrial School for Girls, will be returned to tho latter institution next week. They will be housed in the basement of the new dormitory recently completed at ths girls' school, pending erection of a new structure. Head The Oregoniaa classified ads. ' to school seejns a great waste of valuable time." After a whole week of school grind had been lived through, the same inquisitive party asked the boy hopefully: "Well, was school as bad as you thought it would be?" He shook his head with deep gloom. "Worse!" he in toned mournfully. ' A little lass of 7 played around in the water at a nearby beach. Presently she slid out Into a deep place and speedily began the un pleasant process of drowning. Still though she was under wa ter the plucky young one remem bered that she must try to hold her breath, and she kept her hands in motion till she became unconscious. Someone dived after her and laid her on the sand, where ensued the still more unpleasant process of re suscitation. It was an experience which might well unnerve even an adult, but the first words the child uttered entitled her to a medal for bravery "I must really," she drawled, "learn to swim." She was what her friends would term "just a le-e-etle'T:eenty hit well, my dear, a few days' diet, you know ." Her enemies would have called her "fat as a house!" From her short skirt hung long silk cords ending in fluffy bunches of brown fur. These balls kept bobbing about as she stepped her little waddling steps. Two men espied the get-up. They clutched each other. "Oh boy, oh boy!" they trumpet ed. 'Xook at the dangles!" . and passed on chuckling. ' Careless Management of Public Affairs Charged in Papers Being Circulated. OREGON CITT, Or., Sept. 23.- (Special.) Petitions for the recall of Harvey E. Cross, county Judge, were formally placed in circulation yesterday by a committee of Clack amas county men, who have nom inated F. D. Shank of Wilsonville to run against Cross. On the petitions the demand tori the recall Is made upon the rol- lowing grounds: That the county judge In the con duct of his office has been care less, extravagant and .unbusiness like in the management of the I county business, in proof of whicn I the following alleged facts are sub mitted: 1. That the county indebtedness duing his incumbency has increased from $359,639.62 on December 31, 1920, to $426,197.72 on September 1, 1922. although his campaign was based on economy. 2. That he is autocratic, discour teous, overbearing and disrespectful to persons calling at his office on business. 3. That he has sentenced juve niles to the state training school without a fair and open hearing and after refusing to admit their parents to the hearings. 4. That his chief economy has been in reducing the mothers' pension and refusing to assist paupers. 5. That he habitually promises to visit roads and make road improve ments, but does not keep his prom ises. ! ! i w I li U i fair ll'a',frtf b i is iy flJ -Nt "J r - ' M ? VUT - VV 'Sir 'How 'wicked 'we are!" murmured 'Patty, whose lips had just been laid on those of him who reclined by her side, and whose arm encircled her waist. Then she turned her beautiful head and saw her husband. r J. -LL,rviN w wi in front of a fashion able New York boarding house oh Broad way,just below the city hall in 183 7. Patty, seven teen and beautiful, comes screaming "Marry me, Mist' RoBards!" Hedoes, and together they drive to his home in White Plains. Wonderful, won dering love is theirs; then the young lawyer must return to the city. New York, already des tined to be great, is in its first growing pains. There is love of rum and lack of water.Elegance and ex cesses prevail. Then pes tilence and fire. A respite comes to RoBards and he turns joyfully toward home. Back to Patty, to whom have come children -and Harry Chalender. Chalender, the engineer, with knowledge of cul verts and protection walls, and women. A city changes; so do its customs and its costumes. But its people remain at heart the same. Strong and weak, willing and willful. Because this amazing story is the true story-of people, it is the true story of their city; any city. And any four walls may house Love, Hate, Faith and Deceit. Realizing this RoBards stands dumblyin thedoor way. He tries to speak, and cannot; he tries desper atelyto think; andtheonly thought that will come is 4how beautiful she is!" It is one of the scenes you seem not to read of, or even to witness; Rupert Hughes' novel, "Within These Walls" puts you in the action of it in the Octo ber issue of The Red Book Magazine with fif teen other remarkable stories and features. THE RED THREE CHARTERS FILED Dredging Company of Marshfield Has $10,000 Capital Stock. SALEM. Or.. Sept. 23. (Special.) south ana nas tied in at Spring- A rttie of incorporation have been eld. Klgnts-or-way matters have filed here by the L.arson Ureagrag "outu ui, n 10 .im company. The capital stock is J1O.00O everything In connection with the an th incorDorators are juuua v"tv1'ilBU ,e. OOK MAGAZINE October Issue on Sale at All News Stands MEIKLE IS MAKING GOOD Portland Boy Chief Engineer of Big Irrigation Project. . Word has been received from Castle Rock, Wash., that Roy V. Meikle, a Portland boy, is chief en gineer of the Dom Pedro dam project, reputed to be oris of the greatest projects of its kind ever undertaken. The dam, which will cost SS.000,000, is under construction 42 miles east of Modesto, Cal., on the Tuoloumne river. The dam, to create a reservoir storing 266,000 acre-feet of water, will contain 265,000 yards of ma sonry work, will be 238 feet high, 174 feet thick, at the base and 20 at the top, and will have a spread or width of 1030 feet. It will be the highest in the world above the stream bed, and will generate 3S,0Od horsepower units of electricity. SIX IN PLANE KILLED (Continued Fr.m First Page.) accident was begun at once. The presence of a land mist which came up suddenly, drifting down Long Island, it was said, might in part be held responsible for the accident. It was pointed out that a pilot, flying low at night, regardless of his ex perience, could well become confused under such atmospheric conditions. Experienced "ground men" expressed the opinion that Davis probably "never knew what happened." The machine fell In a nose dive following war maneuvers for the in struction of reserve and regular army officers. The plane, piloted by First Lieu tenant Raymond E. Davis, United States army, burst into flames on striking the ground. It was a twin motor bomber, the heaviest machine at the field, and had participated in an aerial attack on theoretical fortifications. After the war maneuvers and the judges had decided, the raiders had. Larson, W. H.. Kennedy and Boletta G. Kennedy. Headquarters will be in Marshfield. The Vernonia Brazing & Machine works has been incorporated by Perry Harvey, Pete Saarl and Ed ward Salomonsen. The capital stock is $5000. Headquarters will be in Vernonia. The Aldar Market company, with headquarters in Portland, has de creased its capital stock from J20, 000 to $10,000. F. S. Lang Manufacturing com pany, a "Washington corporation, has been given permission to operate in Oregon. The capital stock is $75,000. W. P. Popple of Portland is attorney in fact. i QUESTION UP TO COURT 6 Per Cent Interest Rate Amend ment Case Appealed. SALEM, Or., Sept. 23. (Special.) Notice of appeal to the supreme court of the so-called 6 per cent in terest rate amendment case was an nounced at the attorney-general's office today. Tho secretary of stats appeared as defendant in the action. The supreme court will be asked to Interpret the statute relating to the responsibilities and duties of no taries public in certifying names on initiative petitions. The interest rate amendment was attacked In the Marlon county cir cuit court on the ground that no taries public certified names of sev eral thousand persons with whom they had no personal acquaintance. Judge Kelly held that this was a violation of law. ' ESSAY PRIZES PROMISED Contest to Be Featnre of White Cross Week Programme. Final arrangementsfor Whits Cross week, the second week in October, will be made at a luncheon Tuesday in the Chamber of Com merce rooms. Representatives of all civic organisations, labor unions and fraternal bodies have been in vited. Mrs. F. O. Northrup is chair man of the campaign. An essay contest for school chil dren of different ages, for which cash prizes have been offered, will be held in conjunction with White Cross week, the 'children writing on different phases of the narcotic evil. The meeting will also give opportunity for discussion of the membership campaign. Woman Struck by Car. Painful bruises were suffered by Mrs. W. J. Winans, 710 Tale street, when she was struck by a car driven by Victor H. Wadele, 520 Columbia boulevard, on the Broadway bridge Saturday afternoon. She was taken to the emergency hospital and then to her home. A maze of traffic and blinding rays from the afternoon sun were given as the causes of the accident by Wadele. Livestock Board to Meet. SALEM, Or Sept. 23. (Special.) Members of the state livestock sani tary board will hold a meeting -t the state fair grounds here Thurs day, according to announcement made today by Dr. W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian. A number of import ant matters concerning the livestock industry in Oregon will be con sidered. 1 club during ths state fair here next week. A band will meet Judge Logan on his arrfvnl from California and ha will bs escorted to ths grandstand, where ha will give an address. Girl, 14, Accuses Man. SALEM. Or., Sept. 23. (Special.) Martin Joseph Dietrick, who lives near Gervais, was arrested here to day on a serious charge preferred by a 14-year-old girl. Dietrick is being held under $2000 bail for ex amination before the grand jury. Creator of Berry to Be Guest. SALEM, Or., Sept. 23. (Special.) J. H. Logan of Oakland, Cal., creator of the loganberry, will be the guest of honor at a banquet to be served by the Salem Commercial Power Iiine Is Completed. W. M. Shepard, salesmanager for the California-Oregon Power cqm- pany. was a Portland visitor yester day and announced, with much sat isfaction, that his concern has just completed its transmission line into th Willamette valley from the g4 pal forworkor play The young man at college, the golfer and the man keen for outdoor sport appreciate the smartness and comfort of this knit coat. 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