VOTING FOR QUEEN ROSE SHOW FINANCE .PROBLEM UlOMSlUP; MEETING IS CALLED FRI EN DS OF ATTRACTIVE: GIRLS HURRY TO ENTER THEM I N FESTIVAL QU EEN RACE OF ROSE FESTIVAL WILL BEGIN SOON Twelve Candidates Already in i Field ' and Miofe Expected "-Tomorrow. I Unless Festival; Association Gives $1500 tir MoreiMay Not Hold Show. CAMPAIGNING ALREADY ON RELATIONS ARE STRAINED Officials of the Show Say That It Is Supporters Actively at Work, Although rormai 8trt Awaits Total , of -it.; Tiftaen Entries. . : . Impossible to Olvs It for Less Than $3000. jj Three more , names 'were added to the Hat of Rose Festival queen candi dates yesterday afternoon, swelling the total numbertto an. ven doseni. ' ' ,1 Aa soon aa there 'are 15 candidates, according- to : plans pjinounced by the Hose Festival association, the real vot tag will begin and the rivalry! for the regal position of Queen of the Portland jRtose Festival will' begin In earnest. ,! The three latest candidates are Miss Alice Hester, of 673 Johnson street,' a popular, student at Lincoln high school, nominated by: Principal T. . Ti '-Davis; Miss Alloe Nolan, of 676 Gllsan street, an employe of the rforthwestern Elec tric company; sponsored by her'fellow employes in. that company, and Miss Pauline Adele lleintze, of 306 Carlotta Court, at Seventeenth and 1 Everett streets, nominated by the North Bank club, an organization of S.. P.-fe-S. of ficials and employe, rrom me presi dent down to the humblest. ' 'r Idas Xelatze Well Knows. '. Miss Heintze Is 4n assistant in the Office of W, O. Davidson, treasurer of the road, is a graduate of Lincoln high school, and one of the. best known young women in the North Bank club. Khe Is. the daughter of . Hugo- ii. Heintze, an employe of the North Bank Terminal company. s- , : j 14 Other - candidates how In "the field are Miss Marion Rose Spoeri, daughter of Fred 8poerl, president of the Rotary club,, and sponsored by the Rotarians; Miss Ruth Elizabeth Angel, candidate of the Modern Woodmen of America and the : Royal lieilghbors, who also asks for the support of Knlgjhta and JLadtes of Security; Miss Ella Litzer, supported by the KnScht and. Liadies of Maccabees;? Miss Iuoulse Dougherty, backed by; the Progressive Business college and the Progressive Business Wemenrs club; Mis Marjorie Nelson Pike daughter- of it'., G. I'ike, promi nent Ad. club niembejrand supported by 9:at organization: Beatrice Lash, can didate of the Progressive - Business Mnva club: "Miss Reglna Mitchell Hyatt, nominee of the United Artisans; SUss Elizabeth I-'ragmeier, backed by the North Portland! Commercial club, Its women's auxiliary, the Women's Improvement" association of North Portland, and the Odkley Green Parent t'eacher association and -Miss Myrtle "an Sickle, candidate of the Boys' and tiirls' Trades school; v . - St. Louis Student Makes New Record atense r Application Kim to Walk B arsfoot ls Sleep. v t. Louisf'May ation . to study at School year at the night schools caused idolph Wemder to to Soldan High school,, four blocks away., clad only In Wlthu a maify-eoloi-ed quilt, thrown aoout ms snouiaers to study; Causes to School In 1 tn tense appH- Lthe close of the walk in his sleep his nightshirt and at 2 .a.'m. f He was seen walking barefoot C' by several Yuen going "Some from a party m en automobile, jufet as he was about to turn - Into the school yard, .The en asked him where he was going and he said he was .on Ills ; way ..to school. They took him home. '.'" ! Charles Fremder had -heard his son leave the door-and) thought burglars 6ad been In the House... "He hunted .through, the rooms Ito.find what had Veen stolen, and had Just reached his son's (oora when I the automobile tove up. -School ended last Jremder 'attended commencement ex- ercises. . '. . Soda Shipment thousand two hundred tons of nitrate t ' soda, from Chile consigned to the DuPont Powder company, to be used in the manufacture of ammunition for the allies, arrived here today on tho. Nor wegian steamship Grna. night And young Is Becelved. V 1 (U. P.) Ten t Join the Visitors DALLES-CELILO ' : CAHAt CaEBRATION Wednesday, May 5 ! i 'Reduced round-trip ex cursion i fared to Grand Dalles, Wash., via' the Scenic- North Bank Road From Portlanci . . $3.75 From i 'Vancouver, k Wash:,. . . I . . $3.40 ..From Houltonl (St. . Helens) . . .!...'. $4.90 Tickets Sold May 4 and 5 -Return Limit May t Tickets Fifth' and Stark m North Bank Station r Tenth and Hoyt . V 1 Top, left to right Miss Louise Dougherty, Progressive Business tollege; Miss Ruth Elizabeth Angel, Modern Woodmen of America and Royal Neighbors; Miss Marjorie Nelson Pike (Photo by Mark ham), Portland Adclub; Miss Beatrice Lash, Progressive Business Men's club-, Miss Ella LItzer, Kni ghta and Ladles of the Maccabees. Bottom, left to right Miss Elizabeth Fragmeler, North Portland Commercial club and other North Portland organizations; Miss Reglna .Mitchell Hyatt, United Artisans; Miss ' Marion Rose Spoeri, Rotary club; Miss Myrtle' Van Sickle, Boys' and Girls' Trades school. : . (All photographs but one" are by Cutberth.) ; . NEW GRAIN TARIFF OF G. N. P. S. CO. IS GAIN FOR PORTLAND Announcement of Competi- tive Schedule Is Made; Milling-in-Transit. Privilege Through the entrance Into the. com petitive transportation field of the Great Northern Pacific ; Steamship company Portland is to have an added source of grain for shipment through the diversion of much that formerly went, exclusively through th Puget sound .gateway. The Great Northern has just put Into (effect a milling In transit tariff, applying the same rates via Portland and the steamship line as had previously prevailed through J Seattle 'and the other steamship, lines. These tariffs .applx , particularly from points north of Spokane to Port Hull, , on the Canadian boundary and west to Wenatchee. So far, the Oro ville branch is not included, but it Is probable that this will also eventually be adjusted to give shippers the op tion of Seattle and Portland in billing their wheat. y - Traffic officials of the steamship line today wera checking over the tar iff . to determine what division of rwv- Lnless the Hose Festival associa tion decides to appropriate the- $1800 or more asked it. is probable thre will be no rose show given by the Port land Rose society this year, j The festival first-offered 1500 and then increased Its offer to 1150. tak- second floor of the new Meter & Frank building, but officials of the society have refused the $760. saying It is Impossible to prepare a showj for less than. $2000. The society is wHling to pay the $508 additional. H Am things stand at present the rela tions Atetween, the Rose society and the Hone Festival association are said to be strained, to say the least. A meeting of the Portland Heights rose growers has been called for next i Thursday night at- the Portland 'Heights club to discuss plans for com munity participation- in the Hose Fes tival center. President Emery Olm stead of the Hose Festival, John F. Carroll, who heads the committee in charge of the center, and others have been Invited to speak. 'Inasmuch as members of the Rose society will, un doubtedly be present, it is j probable that the matter of the Rose society show will come to a head at this time. At this meeting, which' was call ad by-George W". Hoyt of the Portland Heights Improvement club and XV. 8. Dunwiddle of the Portland Heights club, talks will be given on rose cul ture, arrangement of exhibits and the like, and the., first message of the season from Father Schoenerj the Ore gon rose wizard, will be read. The message will tell of his plans for the year and of his new roaes. '.Members of the Hose society are understood to feol that tha festival authorities are slighting the. annual ruin iwT . ibiwi " im sfww ttival center. , I , , (. enuea w'ould accrue, through (diveralon of " tonnage through Portland;-. On, wheat from the Jroville branch, it would be necessary to shrink th steamer division to handle any consin erable proportion of this business. ; What makes the situation Of benefit to Portland is the milling 1 transit privilege, which Peittle hitherto has enjoyed solely on wheat shipments from the terrttory mentioned. ' ' Old Austrian Called Out: ' Amsterdam, May 1. JLl. N. 8.) A message from Vienna states that land sturm born between 1873 and ld77 have been ordered to-the coldrB. Mysterious Fire Is Discovered in Vaults at; Store . Fire of unexplained origin did- 9(f- several' hundred dollara'- worth ijf of damage in the vaults of the jewelry store of S. Mendelssohn & CoJ; in, the, Worcester build- it ing, early last evening. The blaze: was confined -entirely to the vaults, and tvas discovered by tenants In floors above, who jfc saw smoke Issuing from the 1 ventilators which lead into, the j iron and. brick structure.- '. ..- -jjfr The fire department waji com- it 3t pelled to wait. for. more. than an j -ajc- hour before one of the. owners 4 it of the store was found to un t f , loc't the vault." ITwo qiiarts of . -k & ' chemical 'was all that . was ijt necessary to extinguish the fire. j which; was burning in paper's on t the floor tor ; the most, part. it Outside of ' possible destruc- & jt tion of records, the damage con- it- slated of smoked jewelry stock. - - ;" : ' V ' " ' ' .. Friends Come to - ' : "See; Them :Act" rail House BCasrks After-Entertain-. meat at tha Empress When ,y Amhl ous' Obm Ost Tryoat..." ' " . ' Their, friend s - all came to "see ; them act." WW-? IK -'-. That Is -why there was a full house at the Empress'Thursday; night to- see the ' "professional tryout' ;, of eight Portland vaudeville performers, with four acts.., - . i , . ... . ... The tryout followed the second show and took an hour. - The Watson sisters, aged 10 and 12, were such favorites -with their Spanish and modern dances that they were re called five times. ' . Ernest Fielding, .cartoonist. drawing on glass and projecting his pictures on a screen,, did some clever work. Includ ing m rapid-fire study of "Bob" Stev ens. ( I .:., . ' 1 . Emma..: Kllpelle and Wilson Rogers had a musical act. Miss Kllpelle both singing and playing the piano. Mr. Rogers Is a baritone. "The Boomerang," - a sketch written by Norma Wills, - was played by . the author, Monty Collins and Tom Maher, all experienced actors. ' .The ' sketch was not particularly successful. Steamer Picks Tip German - Aviators rouad In Wreckage of Aeroplanes Tlve MUm West of Voerhlnder Zdghtshlp ty Cmw of 'Sntefc' Bhlpt. .: - c Flushing, May - lr-(tl: 1 P.) Th4 Dutch steamer; (America, -' outward bound, picked - up . two -German '. avia tors from sv wrecked aeroplane,' five miles .west pf Noorhlnder lightship today. ' ; , A .- - . Eight members of the Applequlst family, of Watertown, Minn. tip rtba scales -.at - 2390 - pounds. ' The largest weighs 410, the lightest . 225. Begins "Sentence WithBroad Smile Captain 2avls, Convicted Murderer, Asserts Sis Innocence at San Quentla Prison.'. r. --. r '. "-' Ixs Angeles, Cal., Iay 1. "(P. N. S.) Seventy-four;? years, old , but filing and cheerful in the face of life i-npris-onment because, as the , said, he ,had been reading the - Bible in! hid cell. Captain Wilson'-K. Davis today was taken to San Quentin penitentiary to begin serving his sentence. Davis was convicted, of the 1 raurder of W. H. Wheeler of Sawtelle a year ago. He maintains , Ms "innocence and said ; the 'testimony 'hgainst , him was perjured. ",.".- Vi - - .- Chicago Wonien to : Have More Rights Chicago, May l.-Women will be permitted tg! serve as judges and clerks of elections in Chicago, according to a ruling 'by r- County . Judge ? Thomas . F. Scully, Vwho reversed his former de cision, Rhich prohibited them from serving. t . I ' j "Women;, have elevated the polling places by, lending dignity to them," Judge Scully said: "The old days ot smoke filled, Polling places disappeared as soon aS v.WO.men :;wee " allowed to serve. Their ' presence also has pre sented political squabbles." ' . The judge in his decision prohibiting women from serving ruled that clerks arid judges must be-householders or those who support the family. Osborne Identified Again by Accuser - . c . lew Tork, N. T. May l.-i-n. X. S Miss Rae.'Tanrer, on trial here on conspiracy charges following her breach of promise suit against William Osborne, former district attorney of New York, today under, oath again Identified Osoorna as the Oiwer Os borne who she alleged agreed to. marry her. Miss Taruser's suit for $50,000 was withdrawn . after, she had 'said that Osborne was. not the man .whom she had first, accused hirh of. being. . W ..4- -W r - - : 1 -l-36a , , fi"ii mi irrr mix iij-' I -nmimn T . .-My--. tt $335 . BUY: IT NOW! This Beautiful Standard Made Player-piano 88-Note ( Not Our Make) . . . 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