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2 THE OREGON - DAILY. JOURNAL, PORTLAND,' MONDAY, MAY 19. 1919. PORTLAND S DEAN OF REPORTERS IS CALLED BY DEATH fr,:' . e""B,""",eeee"P"e . VDad". Kearns' Passing Mourned - by Scores of Friends and Ad : mirersj Life Picturesque. CAREER FULL OF ROMANCE Came to This City After Varied Experience on Ranches, GoW Rush Centers and Newspapers. A mantle of sort ow has been casj over .the Portland newspaper fraternity with -word of the expected death of Will Jam Lee Kearns, dean anions Portland re porter and bosom friend to every, one of the older school of news writers In v. the city. " '"Dad" Keacns, with 53 years of ro .' mantle lite to his credit, and scores of . true friends to moirn bis passing, dled , at his home at 6804 Forty-sixth avenue Southeast Saturday night, after an ill ness that had 'made him practically an 1 Invalid for eight month, and which had Confined him at his home, for three - months. -The veteran reporter, surrounded by friends from every calling-, his death - bringing sadness to uncounted friends, will ha burled with all the honors his - profession can bestow, at Mt. Scott ," cemetery Tuesday afternoon at 2 :30 ' o'clock, with the Hawthorne lodge of Masons In charge of the funeral. The body is at the Holman parlors. Bearing the casket will be a number. of the men mho worked with Mr. Kearns during his Ion association with Portland news papers. ' WAS COWBOT -. Mr. Kearns was bom at Georgetown Ohio, on March 27. 188. With his fam- ' lly he moved at an early age to Kansas And located on a homestead six miles ' 'north of-Emporia on Dow creek, where the family lived for a number of years before returning to Amelia. Ohio. Mr. - Kearns was educated in Ohio schools and colleges. With his graduation from college In 1886 Illness forced Mr.lKearns - to come west to Montana, where he took .up the life of a typical western cowboy as the first of many spectacular, if not romantic, steps that led him through a happy and profitable life. tils health in a measure regained, :. Mr.--Kearns was so severely injured when he was thrown from a horse dur ing a cattle stampede, that he was forced to retire from the range.? He went into the "back room" of a little Montana newspaper and learned the printer's - trade fitting himself to purchase, some time later, the Stillwater (Mont.) Bul letin. (Stillwater Is now Columbus.) TTPE BETTJSR THAI GOLD -4 On November 17, 1 894. Mr. Kearns 'was I . who weni Mr. was married, to Miss Minnie Terry, by horn he is survived. The young couple went then to Kalispell, Mont., where Kearns worked on the Herald, un til,, in search again of the Joy of life in - following the heart's desire, the writer JolnVl a gold seekers' stampede and heade for Lemon creek. British Now Playing Stops Wednes d y Midnight N America's Famous Ace LIEUT. BERT HALL IN PERSON f In P i ctures 1 "J ' A BULLET THROUGH HIS CAP -waj almost tn everyday -occurrence to Lieut. Bert Halt who his been decorated by' the ; French. English and Russian Governments. ' - ' . SEE HIM HEAR HIM : - ' ' The - Romance of - the .Air." featurfnis Berf-'Hall - (himself) and based "on "En L'AIr.' hls book telllnc of three years on and above three batt!efronts,;v . . Y 1 Us J0M 1 Columbia, r The ? gold was dross to Kearns, though. -and the call of the type drew him Into the establishment of the Slocan - City. B. C.. Pioneer. He later sold the Pioneer and worked for the News in the same city and at .Nelson, In 1898 Mr. Kearns bought the Topic at Tekoa, Wash., and was cor respondent for the Spokesman-Review. Two years, later, overtaken with illness again, the editor went to New Mexico. After recovering ha worked as a printer reporter at Las Vegas. N. M., and in October, 1901. he came to Portland. . The Journal then was in its infancy. With the second week of , the life of this paper Mr. Kearns became its ma rine editor, and as such promptly be came notable for his "stories" from the then highly active waterfront. MAKES BIG SCOOP As a Journal reporter Mr, Kearns is credited with soma exceptionally cred itable stories and on, especially do his friends remember. That was a story about the capture of. the steamer Arabia, which left : Portland for Vladi vostok during the Russo-Japanese war with a cargo of arms and ammunition. The Arabia's officers attempted! by a premeditated plan, to run the harbor blockade in the war sone, and the craft was captured. "Dad" Kearns reported in the office with the story In all its details and thereby put over on the Associated Press, whose Reporters were competitors, If colleagues, of Mr. Kearns. The A. P. got the "Arabia" capture 24 hours - later. In May, 1908, Mr. Kearns went to the Portland Tele gram and was. for 13 years in ita serv ice. Often remembering the healthful days on Montana cattle ranges, Mr. Kearns cherished a group of cowboy songs that were carolea in a foreign atmosphere along Portland's watrfrnnt- His favor- t i? - .ii . ft jf 5 ' : Y --y 'V-.- Above A view of the- big naval dirigible C-5 starting for St. Johns, New foundland, where she was blown off to sea and lost after her crew had made a safe landing. Below Is th e crew of the C-5. They are: Com mander E. W. Coil, in command of the C-5 and the expedition; Lieu tenant J. V. Lawrence pilot; Lieutenant M. II. Easterly, Ensign D. P . Campbell, Chief Machinist's Mate T. L. Moorman, and Chief Machin ist's Mate S. II. Blackburn. its ditty, and one that his friends have repeatedly heard, was "Joe Bowers," now passing into history s a ballad of the range. "Dad" often told of his participation in the first and only known strike of cow punchers. His father, living at Amelia, Ohio, died there three weeks ago, and Mr. Kearns was not advised of the death because of his own weakened condition. A brother, who was at the bedside here, hastened east at news of the father's condition, arriving Just after the death. The senior Mr. Kearns was a member of the 58th Ohio infantry in the Civil war. In addition to Mrs. Kearns, the vet eran reporter is survived by three brothers and ons sister. They are: Congressman Charles C. Kearns, Harry E. Kearns and Jennie Kearns, all at Amelia. Ohio, and Fred, whose home is at Cincinnati. During the entire time of his illness Mr. Kearns was carried as a member of the staff of the Portland Telegram. HAWKES FORCED INTO OCEANOFF IRELAND (CaottntMd Proa FM Obc) On the eve of the Atlantic flight as the rivals sat before a grate fire, the question arose as to engine reliability. Both machines were equipped with Rolls Royee motors. DISAGREE OYER E3TGI2TES There should be nothing about th engine to worry me." Hawker com mented. You see the longer it runs continuously the better it get. It should be so and it is so. The thing just set ties down to its job and since it can not be exhausted physically, as a. man might be Exhausted it keeps right orn going. uiv it a lair start in first rate conditions and the longer it goes the bet ter it gets, under- proper conditions of course." i Raynham responded calmly: . "I think. you entirely l wrong tlxsre. DIRIGIBLE STARTING FLIGHT I I i" ' i a ' J -' . : , - y , 1 ; a,.!.. y V""'"""yi ::::..;::.::. n ' 4 k'. ' ' s , 1 ' - - -v ' i t, , V y-lsiAAAA,: Fish Did Not Wait for Hook S t K s s Moth Lures Salmon to End Nobody will believe this fish story. Mrs. James Ferguson of Willamette moorage says so. And she ought to know because she is the originator. The weird part of it Is, as all good story-tellers say, that it is true. The salmon did Jump upon the porch of the houseboat residence next door to her"s, and she did catch it by letting it land in her lap, and it was a mighty big fish. It happened about 10 o'clock Thursday night. Mrs. Ferguson caught the fish between chapters of a story that was not strange nor true like this one. She didn't need hook, line or sinker. - A sud An engine ought to have a rest after it has been runnnlg a while. It stands to reason that the metml itself needs to recuperate after prolonged strain. It's bound to be better for a rest." PAYOR SOTOLE ElfGlE Each cited instances to prove his contention, but no agreement was reached. It was Just another instance of the individual opinion that made Hawker use sending and receiving wire less, while Raynham used only receiv ing apparatus, that made Hawker put a boat on his plane and life saving suits, while Raynham would have none of either, that made Hawker use a ape clallyfbuilt plane, while Raynham con structed a machine from stock parts. Among the few things on which they agreed 'is that a single englned plane ts .better than a multiple englned ma chine. They are one in their fondness for land ; planes as against Seaplanes. But these common convictions are more the result of their training in the ma chines than of unprejudiced opinion. Hawker Not Sighted London, May 19, 12 :0 New -York Time. L "N. S.)-General Sykea de clared this afternoon that Hawker has not been : sighted since hs left New foundland contradicting the announce WW r m iff"' :C1 r f A -- - - r den noise like a Jig-dance caused her to drop her book and rush to the Beckman residence next door. The fish may have learned that he was a moth, and that the light in the window overhead had not only failed him, but was a vampish snare. Anyhow he wanted to leave there, so he tried the tactics of both villain and vamp he wriggled, was wily slick about it. too. But he was soon in the toils of a skirt A banquet in his honor followed. Mrs. Ferguson is prominent In local Red Cross work, and works one day each week In the Union station canteen. ment made by Finn, the Soowtth man ager. General Sykee presumably is con nected with the British air ministry. NC-3 FOUND OFF SRORE OF AZORES (Contiaaad From Pass' Om) stroyer Fairfax was standing- by the wrecked lNC-1, 30 miles east of Corovo. 1 i "Commander Bellinger reports,' the dispatch added, "that both wings are smashed, one pontoon missing, and not in condition to fly." ' READ GETS NEWS THAT HAWKER HAS JUMPED OFF ". By Jack Ysloek : Horta, A xoreo, ,v May 19, 9 :30 a. m. New York Time. (L N. S.) The NC-4. only, remaining American entry in the transaUantitf flying race, was , unable to hop off for the naval base at Ponta Delgada, St. Michaels Island aa she had planned this morning, but will make the start as soon as the weather permits. . r . At thl hour nothing further has been heard from the NC-I. command ea by Commander -John. II. .Towers, which now has been missing 52 hours. Ten destroyer and other vessels will con tinue to search, for her throughout the day. - ' ' : - " .. , ; lieutenant Commander A. C Bead of the NC-4 learned this morning that the British aviator, Harry G. Hawker, had started from Newfoundland last night and that the Britisher , was try ing to beat him across the ocean. Til have to hand it to Hawker," said Read. "I didn't think he. was going to Jump off." The NC-4, Read said, will stop at th naval aviation base at Ponta Del gada and. take on fuel and oil be fore proceeding to Lisbon, ' Portugal. "It feels pretty good to bo the only one of the three planes that started to land." eald Read "We were certainly lucky." "Do yoil think you are lucky enough to win?" someone asked. "Well. I'm not ' superstitious," re plied Read. "I'm too hard-headed for that." NCt TOO BADLY BATTERED TO CONTINUE HER FLIGHT By Jaek Teioek Horta, Asores, May 19. I. N. (6 :30 a, m.. New Tork Time) Ten He stroyers and the battleships Texas snd Florida were scouring the seas north west of the island of Corvo, 130 miles from here, this morning, in a systematic effort to locate the American naval sea plans NC-3, missing since Saturday 3 , 'A : wv;' -.-: 1 ? " X " -ill I - - vC'A,4, - iffrmTrr - fM - irii,rT"' r'nii oi hiiii i Hi i itir'inii ii nr morning, in her attempt to reach th Asores. Up to this hour nothing whatever has been heard from her, though the torpedo tender Melville, which cruised here from Ponta Delgada Sunday night, is keeping in touch with the searching vessels. Naval men here believe the NC-3 has been badly battered by. the heavy seas running Sunday. They fear for her crew's safety unless Commander Tow ers and his men have been picked up by some passing vessel which lacked wire less equipment and which is now bring ing them into port. ' The NC-1 is definitely out of the flight. The destroyer Harding, which picked up the seaplane after Lieutenant Commander Bellinger and his crew had been taken off, reported early today that she was so v badly damaged that she would-be unable to continue on to Por tugal. The NC-1 will be dismantled here and shipped, back to America aboard the cruiser Columbia. Wife Clings to Hope Commander Lives Washington. May 19. (I. N. S.)' "I hall not give up hope I feel that he must be alive." Mrs. John H. Towers, wife of the commander of the NC-3. missing since early Saturday morning, with these words today bravely hid her evident dis tress over the possibility that her husr band may have sacrificed his lite in an effort to win transatlantic aerial honors for his country. Mrs. Towers had kept an all-night vigil at her home in this city, being in constant touch with the navy depart ment for a message from her husband. But in view of the fact that none came, she refused to weaken and smiled brave ly at her 2-year-old daughter, who has been taught to lisp:- "My daddy's flying-'cross the ocean." ASK FORandETi . Tho Original For Infdnts and Invalids OTJC23 aniJIXITATIOrlS: h- ' IS i "y BRITISH AIRPLANES GARRY "LIFE SUITS Small Boat Is Also Included in Fliers Safety Equipment on Dash Across Atlantic. St. Johns. N. F., May 19. Fastened to the fuselage of his machine but easily loosened in event of a landing. Pilot Captain Harm G- Hawk.-.- carries a life saving boat in his transatlantic ven ture. This small vessel, however, could not last In a very heavy sea for more than five minutes. Hawker and his navigator, Lieuten ont Commander Mackenzie Grieve, are also equipped with lifesaving suits with an air pocket across the shoulders. These suits would enable them to drift about in the ocean, it is reckoned, for ' many hours. Here are the features of the Sopwlth flight: Started from St. Johns. N. F., 1 :51 p. in.. New York time. Destination: - Brooklands aerdrome, England. Distance (estimated), 2000 miles. Prise : $50,000 offered by London Dally Mail for first flight from roast to coast across the Atlantic and additional premium of $15,000 offered by ; Sopwlth company. ' Plane: Sopwlth biplane .weighing about 6200 pounds with full equipment. Estimated speed : 100 miles per hour. Pilot: Captain Harry O. Hawker, Navigator : Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie brieve. i HAWKER WOULD CHEW UP PLANE THAT BEAT HIM IN TRIP ACROSS Britishers Skeptical About Yank Flight, and Pilot May Have Promise to. Keep.1 St. Johns, N. F., May 19. If art Amer ican seapiane beats us in the Atlantic flight, I'll cat that American seaplane." Harry O. Hawker, pilot of 'the Sop wlth straightaway airplane, made this threat . or promise to a correspondent a few days ago. Frederick P. Raynham, master of the Martinsyde : machine, nodded agreement with his Australian competitor. The .statement came In response to questions regarding the- likllhopd of the United States naval machines getting away before the British planes. Haw ker scoffed at the suggestion at the time. Insisting that even if : the seaT planes started first they would not fin ish In that fashion. He 1 evidently started Sunday in an effort to beat the seaplanes before they reached Lis bon. He added: "It a single-engine land machine like ours can't do it, a multiple engine in the seaplane or any other kind of a plane can't either. Make no mistake about that." ; Both pilots contended . that the mors engines on a plane the greater the pos- rasas ALL THIS WEEK THE BIG FUN-SHOW Marguerite Clark . IN Let's Elope 19 "SMILING" BILL PARSONS COMEDY "The Land of the Ukulele" !. Sen ic Plenty , , fA '&sk for Y Twenty i 4 t H-4 tbll!tyfor trouble, the greater weight, the slower the speed and the less flex ibility. Under questioning they conceded the possibility, remote though they held It to be, of either of themselves failing, but if neither finished they maintained no seaplane would do so. And as for the American machines welt, tney just would not discuss that question serious ly for days before the Americans ac tually "hopped off. Austrian Envoys i r Meet .With Allies; Session Is Brief St. Germain, ,May 19. (U. P.h-i-Allied and Austrian peace delegates exchanged credentials In the Pavilion Henry ; IV here this afternoon.? The ceremony lasted only - two min utes. Jules Cam bem presided in behalf of the allies and Chancellor Renner acted for the Austria ns. ,,The allied countries represented, were the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Bel glum, China, Cuba,. Greece, Nicaragua! Panama, Poland, Boumanla, Serbia, Slam ami Csecho-Slavekla, all' of which declared war against Austria, snd Por tugal, which severed diplomatic rela tions.' J.'-: Forest Grove Store Theft Laid to Boys .Forest Grovei May 19. Several hun dred dollars' worth of razors, pocket knives and silverware was taken from the store of M. S. Allen Saturday; night, the thieves getting In by pryingf up a rear window. It is. thought the work was that of boys. NOW Playing A expose OF AN'EVIL" THAT HAS im rr5 WAY1HTDTKE VITALS OF SOCIETY ' if ia r. tf ' ' t - m 1 -XL. TffnJB mmmm WIVES! FLIERS IN TRYING PLACE - - i Womenfolk Worry for Safety of ' Husbands on Atlantic: Run, ' but Seek to Be Plucky. New Tork,. May 19. Wives of trans atlantic fliers are "Just women," no mat ter how plucky they thlnk they are going to be." -This la the opinion of Mrs. Ilolden C. Richardson, wlf of the pilot of NC-3, the fate of which has been In doubt. "I had been told a million times not to worry," said Mrs. Richardson, "and I honestly thought I wasn't worrying, un til the news came that all three planes had almost reached . the Aiores. But women do worry, even when they are biting their lips and shaking their heads and trying to make themselves think they're brave!, "To outsiders, of course, we are brimming full of confidence. Qur little girl has magnified the wonders of' her dad until the other children in the neigh borhood seem a bit dased to know howj, to take It." Here Margaret Jane Richardson, not quite 8 years old, turned two very blue eyes to her . mother- and pouted : "But mamma, daddy Is wonderful; now, isn't, he?" And what was there for mamma to say. - - " Missouri ha sf joined the list of states which maintain night schools for adults In rural regions. - STAR Theatre WJ3 m m .it r 'fi't .f'S1' ',v '-H lT f '1 r V