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THE OREGO'N SUNDAY JOURNAL; PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH ,28, 192k AO Mexico Fipy TO U. S., VISITORS SAY THEY FIND UNSIGHTLY PILES OF CANS MAR BOULEVARD Party of Portland Men Spends Four Months in Southern Re public! Capital Greatest Need. There i no appearalnce of anti American feeling in Mexico and tha$ nation would welcome proper aid from the United States. These im pressions were gained a.t first hand by G. Evert Baiter,, R. C. Miller. A. K. Finley and HM. Lambert, offi cer! of the Glenwood colony in the Mexican state of Vera Cruz, who, rith the exception of Finley, have .. ....-. n Portland after ' pending- four months in Mexico. n.kr a snokesman for the travel ers, who are interested In land holdings on the Isthmus of Thauntepec, saia . TlTSn XO RACE HATRED "Among th people with whom we rome In contact race hatred doea not seem to exist. The kindest consldera- tlon was shown us. Mexicans went out rnt their way to accommodate ua maybe because, we had money to pay as wa went. "From all appearances Mexico Is In need of outside capital. From many ouarlers we heard It said that If the United 8tate would come with assist ance agreeable to Mexico it would be welcomed and thereby establish for itself trade relations of Importance. "Entering Mexico at Laredo and going to Vera Crus. Mexico, ria Monterey, , Saltillo, San Luis Potoai. Mexico City, "we found trains were running on regu lar scheduled time, being daylight runs, except the last night into Mexico City. ; A night stop was made at Baltlllo. SOLDIERS ESCORT TRAIIfS Each train was escorted, with an engine and car. with a detachment of soldiers running ahead of the train, with another detachment of soldiers on the train at the engine, and another at the rear of the train. Along the railroad lines in the most strategic points block . houses are built, where a detachment of soldiers are stationed. Bridges are guarded, also detachments of soldiers are kept at the most Important stops. 'The roadbed is kept up in good cotv- dltion. and the service on the train is excellent From every point the govern ment is sparing nothing to keep Its rall ' roads open and Its train service near norma). "In places we saw good herds of cat tle, sheep and goats. Some small patches of cultivation, where water was had for irrigation, production was good. ccirrtfATio?c extensive "From Mexico City to Vera Crux cul tivation was more extensive, especially after reaching the tropics. In some ", fields many teams were tilling the soil, ; preparing for crops or removing crops all ready matured. "Outside of the railroads no public Improvements are being made, in Mexico City and Vera Cruz public buildings started five years ago are still uncom pleted ; In fact nothing more has been : done since said time. "in Mexico city several rine oulldlngs were being built, also business places repaired and new places under construc tion. "Business seemed to bp carried op aa though no trouble existed. While it Is . not heavy, everything as before Is in operation. 4060 KILLED BY QUAKE "Much has been said of the recent earthquake of a small mountain near v Mt. Orlsoba called Mt. San Miguel. As ' near as we have been able to obtain figures, about 4000 lives were lost. Very few were injured or crippled. Several - small villages of about 250 persons were destroyed. - "Outside aid or help is not needed. The Chamber of Commerce has the situation well In hand. Sufficient sup- ' piles are on hand and provision is being made to house and shelter those who are unable to care for themselves. "Hotel rates and living expenses are ' about the same as in the states. SMALL CCRREKCY SCARCE "Small change is very scarce. It is reported that the Stiver coin has been melted Into silver bars, as the silver ' h more valuable than the coin. Paper money in small denominations is just coming Into circulation. "Sugar cane Is a big Industry. In fact, it is the only industry of note . now. unless H be the banana Industry. Much of the food products come, from ; without The natives seem to have no . desire to till the soil. A large majority ? have moved Into the villages. 1 AMBITIOX DESTROYED "Small hamlets or villages during the 1 i 4 ' r,& ' ; '., v" -,"" - " rbk. - - II' J. C. PENNY STORE IS MmM 4 HOST TO THRONGS ON MM OCCASION OF OPENING ftJMm IN CAN H i mm TICKLE SELVES BY fl REAL Rubbish Warning Sign Post on County Road Piled High With Assortment of Cast-off' Debris. Saturday Night Marks Entry Into Portland of Great System of Chain Stores. The new J. C Penny store at 1U Fourth street marked its entry Into the commercial life of the city by a grand opening Saturday. The Penny store occupies the entire ground floor and basement of the Couch building, formerly the home of the Schwan Piano company. The ground floor and a mezzanine floor around three sides of the room are used foe sales and display of merchandise, prin cipally clothing, men's furnishings and women s and children s ready to wear garments. Earl A. Ross, manager of the store, has been in the employ of the J. C. Penny company for several y-sars, and a number of members of the eales force' have been connected with the concern In other cities of the Northwest The Portland store 1b one of 100 new branches being opened this year throughout the country by the Penny company. There are now a total of 297 branches in oper ation, according to Ross. The J. C. Penny company was first organized at Kemerer, Wyo., about 20 years ago, with a capital of $500. The present capitalization Is 115,000.000, and the volume of business bandied annual ly amounts to approximately $30,000,000. Headquarters of the company ard In New York city. Mrs. Bessie F. Colwcll, chairman of the anti-tin can committee of the Portland Women's Advertising club, disgustedly viewing an aecrumu latlon just over the bank beyond picturesque Willamette boulevard in Portland, and a defied anti-tin can sign and announcement of re ward on Craig road east of the city in Multnomali county. Insert (left) City Commissioner C. A. Blgelow. Insert (right) County Commissioner Ttnfus C. Holman, to whom, jointly,' has been com mitted the conducting of an official campaign against the tin can nuisance and its perpetrators. r Idaho Treasurer to Seek Governorship Boise, Idaho, March 27. John W. Kagleson, state treasurer for five years, tonight announced hla candidacy for Republican nomination for governor. He will oppose the cabinet form of govern ment. His name will go before the Re publican state nominating committee at Pocatello on August 24 under the new primary plan. Irish Loan Committee Meet Committees working on the Irish loan drive will meet this afternoon in the Portland hotel assembly room at 2.30. This is the last meeting and it is ex pected that all who have taken part and are Interested In Irish freedom will be present. A complete report will be rendered. A musical program has been arranged by Professor Little. Frank Hennessy will sing. The meeting is open to the public. Dan Kellaher will act as chairman. Mexican Who Broke Jewelry Window Is Taken at Road Camp After being followed from grading camp to grading camp by Pinkerton, operatives for weeks, Ramon - Diaz, a Mexican, was arrested Saturday at Ida -vtue. Tillamook county, and is now lodged in Jail at Tillamook, according to word - received Saturday night by local Pinkerton officials. Diaz is charged with having broken the show window at the Grossman jewelry store in Third street, January 3, taking watches and rings valued at several hundred dollars. No clue was left by the thief, but reports were re ceived from a road camp at Buxton Xhat a Mexican laborer was- selling watches among his companions. An operative was sent to investigate, but the man had gone. Trace was lost, but the name of the Mexican was obtained and When other reports came in from other road camps the . chase-was resumed. Dia.2 will be brought to Portland to answer the charges. Mrs. ate Tuttle Dies in California; Well Known Locally last five years have grown from a few hundred to over 2000. They are anxious for an opportunity to work, but have no means on which to start. Their little holdings during the revolution have been destroyed, and their ambitions killed. "We saw very few Germans. "We went out of our way to learn from them their views. In every case they are anxious to have and hope that the United States will give assistance. They say it is the only hope for Mexico. "We found no Japanese in the terri tory traveled over by us. There are, however., many Chinamen. They are fa vorably spoken of and seem to be doing a good business." Separation From Russia Announced Washington. March 27. (I. X. S.) The Inhabitants of the central portion of Eastern Karelia have declared their separation frofi fRussia and" have de manded the withdrawal of all soviet troops, according to a dispatch to pie Finnish legation here this afternoon. The soviet forces are reported tb have begun to retire toward the Murman railroad. Fined for Pushing Auto Away George Adams was fined $20 by Mu nicipal Judge Rossman. Saturdray after noon' on a charge ' of pushing Harry Chenoweth's automobile out of his way with the heavier machine he was driving. Union High School Wins Chehalis, Wash., March 27. At a spe cial election a proposal for the estab lishment of a union high school for the Oakville, Garrad Creek and Cedahville districts was indorsed by a vote of 77 to 31. Mrs. Kate A. Tuttle, well known In Portland,- wife of Professor Albert IL Tuttle of the University of Virginia, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. R Probasco, Berkeley, Cal., last Wednes day, according to a message received by relatives in Portland Saturday. She is survived by her husband and her son. Major W. B. Tuttle of San Antonio, Texas; her daughter at Berkeley and another daughter. Mrs. W. H. Heck, at the University Tf Virginia. .J She was a sister of Mrs. Anna 8. Bernard, L. B. Seeley and Uri Seeley of Portland : E. S. Seeley of Mexico and O. W. Seeley of Ohio. Mrs. Tuttle was a member of the Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution, a graduate of Vassar college and a member of the Colonial Dames, By M. Jf. D. Humorists? The woods are full of 'em, ' Every tin can, figuratively, wiggle's derisive fingers at consti tuted authority. The comedians leaf their Joke books on solitary roads during shaded and somnolent hours. There's a jangle about their quips. though. " The rattle comes when they turn the gjinny sacks upside town. And the Joke is on the coun ty commission. Some time ago the Portland Wdmen's Advertising club went on the warpath. They decided that people who border country roads and scenic highways with heaps of tine cans are merely stealthy cravens of perverted spirit, or anything else equally condemned. REWARD IS OFFERED County Commissioners Hoyt. Holman and Muck and Sheriff Hurlburt decided that the tin can outrage had ' gone quite far enough. So they offered to pay a reward of $25 or $50 to any publle- sptrited citizen who would furnish in formation leading to the conviction of the person or persons throwing tin cans along the highways and byways of tHe county. A fine of $100 was purposed for each conviction. The , tallest heaps of tin cans were cleared away and signs were erected at the previously infested spots on which peremptory words gave notice that no rubbish could be dumped, that the per son doing so would be fined $100, and the person giving information would be rewarded. Out on Craig . road last week, Bessie F. Cola-ell, chairman of the anti-tin can committee of the Women's Adver tising club, found the greatest assort ment of cans, old wash boilers, broken bottles, sirup containers, flower pots, nutmeg graters, corset stays and parts of flivers that you ever 6aw in your life, -all gathered intimately about the post that supported the warning sign like chickabiddies around the mother hen. CAW HAD RESERVED SEAT One of the most garish of the tin cans was even roosting tipsily atop the post as if to say. "The man who brought me here wasn't afraid of you and I won't be, either." Municipal Commissioner Charlie A. Blgelow will not, however, admit that !he Joke is entirely on the county com missioners and sheriff. His is the prob lem of tin can accumulations along Willamette boulevard, in South Port land and elsewhere in the city. After much watching and waiting he succeed eU In catching a couple of culprits red banded and had a witness. Then Mu nlcipal Judge Rossman, apparently not Knowing that a crusade against the tin canners.was under way and that hor rible . examples were wanted horribly, assessed $25' ftaea-r-and suspended 'sen tence, v . - Mrs. Colwell called attention to an other bit of Incongruity when she? told the county commission, that a hopeful citizen who called the health bureau seeking information aa to where tin cans might legally be left, was courteously told, "Oh. anywhere outside the city limits." 6HEKIFF HAS TROUBLES Even Sheriff Hurlburt had his indi vidual troubles. 'On information that was apparently reliable he, secured the arrest of a tin canner, nor did the rep robate, who drives a good machine and could pay the expense of having tin cans hauled away, deny his guilt. But the Informer found that the tin canner was a friend of his and refused, even for the reward, to appear against htm The contrite violator went to the spot where he had left his cans and broken bottles and gathered them all up again. Thus were the ends of Justice served. In conference with the anti-tin can committee of the Women's Advertising club and some equally indignant men. the county commission agreed last week to start anew, to work out a Joint pro gram in wnicn county commissioner Holman and City Commissioner Blgelow will be collaborators and see if by the time the Rose Festival and Shrine week come, the piles of rubbish can at least be reduced sufficiently to see the seen ery over them. can for bids for' the erection of a new Lincoln school building, authorised recently by the voters of the Centralis, district at a special election. The build ing win be of brick, one ' story, with six classrooms across the front and two more as wings on the rear corner, opened April 20. Bids Asked for New School in Centralia Centralla, Wash., March 27. The Centralia school board yesterday issu'Kl Henry Ruhl Henry Ruhl, 1388 Borthwlck street, died Thursday at the age of 75 years. Ruhl was born in Germany and had spent 69 years in the United Sfates. He lived at Gresham. Or., until three days before his death, when he came to Port land. He was a retired farmer. He is survived by his widow. Anna Ruhl. and the following children: Fred and Walter Ruhl of Portland. Harry Ruhl of La Grande. Mrs. Gertrude Joy, Mrs. Anna Promm, Mrs. Grace' Merrill and Mrs. Lu Madden of Portland, and a step-brother, William Nagel, of Gresh am. Funeral services will be held at Finley's chapel Tuesday, the. Rev. Mr.' Thompson officiating. Interment will be in Mt. Scott cemetery, Laura Brooks Laura Brooks of Berkenfield, Or.; died Wednesday of bronchial pneumonia, at the age of 41 years. She was born in Kentucky and removed to Berkenfield two years ago. She Is survived by her husband, J. W. Brooks. She was a member of Rebekah lodge of Boring, and the I. O. O. F. Funeral services were held at Finley's chapel at 1 p. m., Saturday, the Rev. C. O. McCulloch offi ciating. Interment will be in Damascus cemetery. DRAWING ROOM The quietude and refinement of the Finley establishment ts only equalled by the dignity with which its service is performed. . Percy Wallace Shaver Percy Wallace Shaver, 148 East Twenty-third street, died Friday, aged 25. Shaver was a clerk with the United States shipping board,, and had lived in Portland 10 years. He was born in Quebec, Canada, and came to this coun try at the age of 10. He is survived by his widow, Mary Shaver, and his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Shaver. , . Medford Clothier , Buys Part of Block Medford, March 87. Si T. Richardson, president and manager of - the Model Clothing company, has Just purchased the west half of the Miles block at 126 East Main street, the lower floor of which is occupied by, the company's store, of Mrs. Julia Doubleday of Butte Falls, formerly of Medford, owner of the block. The sale is Important locally as the building has one of the most ad vantageous business locations on Main street. HAVE YOU TRIED mm Peculiar Charm Here for Buyers of (Oriental a quiet, artistic atmos- e pnere i n keeping with the thought in mind m a ki n g lesurely inspection enjoyable and con tributing to your success in choosfng wisely. Extending baclt from, the center, with entrance directly opposite the main en trance to the building, will be a stand ard else gymnasium, wlhch also will be used as an auditorium. The building will cost about $50,000,1 Bids are to be ttstified is? tie confidence that covers tin? man- Busin&sCbtim ATI YEH BROS. 10TH AND ALDER jT WASHINGTON ral? atSIXTH h ft Exclusive agents ft M "Sampeck" Clothe IS? MM masted A - r a. V Sr. IsVVMt ram V Hi TP 2g fm m MM nun The proof that this is the greatest sale of Phonographs ever inaugurated in the Northwest is shown in the unprecedented number of sales within the past week. Numerous phonograph buyers have prospered at our expense. There 1$ a Reason f qr This Sale We are closing out our Phonograph business. When this immense stock of 150 machines has been disposed of we will cancel our lease and close the doors. The machines offered are brand new, high grade, guaranteed instruments in beautiful case designs. Closing -Out Prices 50.00 New $ 90.00 New $125.00 New $145.00 New $175.00 New $200.00 New $225.00 New $300.00 New Phonographs $ 38.00 Phonographs $ 69.00 Phonographs $ 99.00 Phonographs $116.00 Phonographs $139.00 Phonographs $159.00 Phonographs $179.00 Phonographs $239.00 REMEMBER, every new machine is backed by a written factory guaran tee for one year. In addition to the new instruments, we have a good selection o new and used Stradivara, Edison, Columbia, Pathc, Cremona, Brunswick and other makes. . WE WILL PAY YOUR FARE , During this 'sale we will pay railroad fare from points' within 100 miles of Portland if you buy an instrument to the value of $100.00 or more. To those living within the 200 mile circle we will pay fare one way. COME IN AND BUY A PHONOGRAPH AND DO .YOUR SPRING SHOPPING! TERMS ; sale are' twenty per cent cash, the balance payable irt 10 monthly in- a '11 1 - f A. choose to pay ail casn we win anow you a &peuai aiscount. The terms durin stallments. Should Don't waste your money paying extravagant prices for a phonograph it unnecessary. "A word to; the wiseyis sufficient," and we otter it now. This sale makes J. P. FINLEY & SON aeio '1VJIU81C FUNERAL DIRECTORS MONTGOMERY AT FIFTH a LOwaMBKMRV MU MMrgOTIOM - PRICE 5 CENTS , - Russell qilbert Co. BDWY. 492 427 WASHINGTON ST. - Open Evenings .wajseir i