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CITY EDITION '.nvre.-o ; ;:f. Portland! talked lot about what It's i , coins' to do for the Shriners, and now It's i up to ua to make good. - We've started ' right. Let's all keep it up. It's our party.,- j Smile. ..... . ; v ti . CITY EDITION If, All Her and let All ru The: WEATHER Tonight and Tuea day, f air ; -westerly wind. -l Maximum Temperature Sunday : Portland 81 New Orleans ,...ss , Helena- .....74 ' New York ....... RH- Loa Anaelea If St. Paul 72 UK; J -J VOL. XIX. NO. CO - 'BntamtrJ Beoond-Cleua Matter OO. prtstoUiM. Portland. Ontoa PORTLAND, OREGON. MONDAY EVENING,. JUNE 21, 1920. SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. txA JoY' Vi eV h t i b?B H I. m - w it rsr -i a aw . a . f v i ..is- i i r : snow r.e.xii. i ft m i kM w -a, w ir i 1 HERE ARE THE BOYS WHO ARE JAZZING CITY SOME of the Shriner organizations which were on the ground early for the big Imperial conclave and helped make Sunday a day of joy. At the top is part of the delegation from Hella. temple, Dallas, Texas; next is Al Koran's offering from Cleveland, Ohio; - below are the patrol and the drum corps from Hella temple, while the "Indian" who looks as though he might have come from Pendleton, is from Helena, .Mont. . , ;i . , ; ; . , , ' " '" ' "'"'5'ila;asasaass ssnatggraasaaai.tts ..'". zST 4 ' ;, "" , . -- j "lll" J J?""- TSjBQ2SSgBak113 ' ' I Hill,,! .iiiMii n-i.-i-i fin- n - . - in , .riwtw.iiMiMMa P "' lift T "r" v-rrn rr TFri'- J&L " " n r5-'..--,- L ! e ' . . . -a'i . t it S -- Mil S w 'v.'':;:::x:;V.-.-.'-:L'-::;':--.'-- '-vw-1- " r J ' - i . -;;-lV ": "N---" Mayor Wears Fine t Fez, Tacoma's Gift - . Mayor .Baker is proudly wearing - a . Shriner" s fes embellished with the word- Ing A1 Kader" In diamonds and the :- scimitar also outlined with the gems. The fea is valued at $2500. it .is the gift to Mayor. Baker from Aflfl temple of Ta cotna and was presented to him Sunday - .on behalf of the temple by Major W. K. Sarohajzw ' I' V 1 , I f 1 1 O. .e. ."--i .UK. , . i sit. - $U t'! (J, Is! v - v V II I V J If SB! ! J ' Vi , A ..a 1 11 .0.1, Program for. Shriners 7 :15 to. S P. -m. Zorah Temple' band of -Terre Haute, Ind at - postoflUce grandstand. ; , 7:45 to 8:30.0. m. Ahou Ben Adbera band of Springfield. Mo, . at FesUval Center. 8. p. m. Band and chanters of Ararat Temple, Kansas eity. Mo, at Audi torium. AanuHion . irw. - S p. m. Xltjht horse show at Mul nomah field. Participants and riders are members of leading Oregon. Washlnsrton and British Columbia families. Among the horses are some . of the best high school horses and. highest jumpers in America, i . ... .. . 8 to 9 p. m. Band concert by Bagdad Temple band of Butte, MonU, at poet bf f ice grandstand. ,,;.. - :S0 to- 9tl5 p. m.Osman . Temple band of St. Paul, . Minn-at Festival Center. ' - ' to 10 p. tn. Tripoli Temple band of Milwaukee, Wis, at poatolfioe. grand stand. - to-10 p. m. Al Koram Temple band V T"-- t 5 "S. and! chanters . of Cleveland. Ohio, , at Multnomah hotel. . 9:15 to 10 p. m. Afnad Temple band, drum and bugle corps, -.East St. Ixula. 111., at ; Festival Center. . 10 p.- m. Grand pyrotechnic display at the Oaks, free to nobles and their ladies. 10 to 10 :45 p. m. Alsafar Temple band of San Antonio, Texas. . at postoffice grandstand. ..rj... 9 to 12 p. m. FYee dancing for an fes warers at Broadway Academy of Danc ing, Christensen's hall, Scottish Rite cathedral. Noble K. J. Jaeger in charge of .dancing.. - , TCESBATMOBarrsra . I ; .9 a. ta. Daylight Shrine parade, es corting Imperial potentate, imperial .di van and- imperial representatives from Multnomah hotel to The Auditorium by patrols and bands.- Noble George la. Baker, mayor of -Portland,' in charge of parades committee. . . 10. a. m. Opening , of .imperial council and weldome . to. Portland-. - : l j . :, : . I tat" ; a- ll '..-...Mff o ,i I'ni-eMK..-- m i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n . a- ' - - ' , f ' x J. I , f - 5 i a-- . si..y-rf , -'-v WSS S.- - " III -1 5- - t More Cars Weeded . Jon Shrine Visitors . Hospitable : Portland citizens i- are. cooperating la the enter tainment' of the city's throngs Of visitors by placing their mo . tor cars -with drivers at the dls- - posal of the . Shrine committee - for sight "seeing- trips. . How ever, more ; cars , are urgently .. needed, according to .Ira F. ' Powers, chairman of the auto-' mobile committee, who, accord ingly, Issues an . eleventh hour ; appeal for hundreds of addi . tlonal - cars to report t at HSght-" . seelhg : headquarters - at Sixth ' and ! Yamhill streets at -. 11. . o'clock . Tuesday morning Im : mediately at - the close of the . parade. , GUY GROWS IN GAYETY AS HORDE COMES Kaleidoscope Like, Pote-fand Is Turned Into Glorious Pageant " of . Beauty, Color - and . De light f for All ?: of , Shrinedom. ' Blossomlngr ; tortb. hourly . Into a Kayer conglomeration ' of grorg-eoua coloring. Portland is rapidly , being converted into Shrinedom and Tues day morning at 10 o'clock the name of the. city changes to Pote-land for the remainder of the week. From the north, south, east and west, the caravan hosts are convening for the .forty-sixth annual session of the imperial council-of the Shrine. ' . . ; Glowing praise is being bestowed upon the railroads of the country, which are placing the city's guests at the oasis on time. - At intervals of less' than 20 min utes all day today come special trains, special cars and regular passenger trains with crowds of merrymakers. , COLOB EFFECTS CAipTIVATis At the Union station the color effect was kaleidoscopic The red, green and yellow of the Shrine melted into scarlet, emerald and gold as each train unloaded more visitors. .:--r'i' - Uniformed patrols flashing the rich est of colors were here., there and every where In the business section of the city. And the crowds of Shriner s were Jovial to a; degree of hilarity. . There -were hand 'clasps as old friend met old friend. There was a -general -waving of hands and the cry of "Hello' Bill and "Hello Jim" mingled with the cadence of-drums and the martial rhythm of; scores cf bands. - ' - Close upon the advent of W.Freeland Kendrickv imperial potentate of Shrine dom. the hosts of visitors began pouring into the Union station. "There were 5000 Sunday, there Will be 85,000 more today and .Tuesday's arrivals will bring . the total to 60,000. , ' "EHTEE, IT IS TOUBS" V . V " ' "Enter,- friend, and ; take - that which pleaseth thee," was the message given to all Sbriners by A..H. Lea, potentate for Oregon.) and the visitors have little tCsWaded 6a .Page Two. Cohuna One) MEET TOGS READY - By I. C. Martin . San - Francisco, June 21. (TJ. P.) A week from the opening of their national -'convention here. Demo crats find themselves as puzzled and bewildered as the Republicans ". at Chicago before their k "unbossed convention met. 7 1.- The Democrats, too, are bosaleaa and as a result those here mill around seek ing the answers to a number of ques tions, including: :. - . Will President Wilson ask for the nomination for a. third term T What is Bryan going to-do, and will he be able te wrest control from the president? - ?r What bad the party better do about the liquor question? And why did Mc Adoo retire from the campaign? AWSWEBS GO BEGGI3TO There are more questions some of the Democrat would like answered if they could , find, anyone who Knows the an swers. They are chiefly concerned to day, however, about just two men Wil son and Bryan. As nobody here has any idea what either of these has up his sleeve in the way of convention trumps, there is- a general disposition among the managers- of candidates -to - go : pretty slowly until the Wilson and Bryan pro grams begin to appear. As one astute campaign manager put it " today, "they don't want to' have to take back anything later that they may say now,, so they r are saying nothing about anything. - ' San Francisco 'will, take on its "con vention clothes this week with the ar rival . of state, delegations. . the op ng of candidates', headquarters and the ad dition of municipal, decorations. . Dem ocrata who arrived early have put in most of their time sightseeing. ud real cam paign' activity has-been Jacking. CONTESTS TO BE HEARD - - ' . The national committee will sit , Fri day to hear contests, one from Georgia and probably, one from' Missouri. The League of Nations issue is involved la both the Missouri and Georgia contests. The national " commltteemanship of Georgia s also - hangs on the: outcome of that contest. Clark "Howell, the oldest Democratic ' national .committeeman in point of service, -j may lose : his place. Senator Glass of Virginia is expected to arrive during the week bearing the draft of a platform said to meet the - presi dent's views.:: y-.-.'i' ". Glass is slated to head the resolutions committee, A. Mitchell Palmer also is coming to attend the meeting of the national committee of which be is member. , Shriner Appointed i Assistant May of ; : Salary One Dollar . By unanimous .vote, the. city council this morning . created by ordinance ' the position of assistant mayor of Portland, and appointed ,W.-15 Brown of Pittsburg, Pa., to fill this position9 during the pe riod of the Shriners conclave. - - He Is to receive the princely salary' of $1. to be paid by Mayor Baker on De cember 25, 1920. .-The ordinance declares that Brown,, who is imperial treasurer of the Shriners, is well qaallfied . for the position of "assistant mayor," being "a gentleman of .'sterling. Integrity . and worth.- , . v - ' ElClfflTSEET RACE RIOTS kSgo 3 Negro Preachers Dragged From Car; and Stoned Brick Fells Policeman; Fanatical Blacks Who Led Fatal Parade Caught. -'Chicago, June 21. il-N. S.) Race rioting broke out anew in Chi cago's south side district today as the aftermath of the shooting and killing of two -white men Sunday night by a mob of negro fanatics after the blacks, who "were in a "back( to Abyssinia" demonstration. had burned two American flags. To day's riot started when three negro preachers left a south side lnterur ban train. They were attacked by a -mob of whites who, inflamed by news of the Sunday night outrage, set upon them with stones and clubs.' All three were Injured and taken to hospitals. A ' white policeman who Interfered was felled by a brick. ..' In -the meantime Grover C Redding, negro "Prince of Abyssinia,' who led the demonstration on Sunday, and seven other participants, were arrested by a squad of policemen after an all-night hunt for them by detectives and naval intelligence .operatives.- . The Interest of the latter in the. hunt was due to the fact that, one of the men slain by the negro was an enlisted man of, the navy. Laater in the day- Dr. R. D. Jonas of Washington. D. C, said to be one. af the . chief agitators of the "Back te 'Abyssinia" .movement, and f his wife, were ; taken into custody by the police. It was reported that Jonas is connected with an organization known as the 'Black Star," the main purpose of which Is declared , to be . the - organisation of campaigns to induce American negroes to colonize in Liberia and other African countries. A: number of negroes have been sold certificates entitling - them to steamship passage to Africa, it is said. Many . United States department of Justice agents were sent into the "black: belt"- to. investigate ' the riots, with a view -' to possible deportation 1 of ;the "Abyssinian princes." Desecration of the ' American flat ..furnishes am Die grth'ndTfbl" sucTi tteportattonniier ; the espionage act. it was stated by Edward J. Brennan. head ef the, department ef Justice here. . . The . two men - slain" Saturday night were Robert Lawson Rose, a quar termaster -of the Fifteenth regiment, stationed- at the Great Lakes naval training station, and Joseph Hoyt, a cigar store clerk. - Two men (Concluded on Faee Fira, Column One) 7 KNOWN DEAD IN APARTMENT BLAZE .'Vancouver, B. C.. June 21. (TJ. P.) Seven are known to have met their death in last night's fire which destroyed the Balmoral apartments. Identified dead are: Charles Dennehy. a clerk' of the Pa cific Steamship company. Miss M. McLennan, a clerk in the Ca nadian Pacific Telegraph office. .- S. A. Spencer, Janitor. , ' J. R. Jackson, manager of the grocery department of the Hudson Bay com pany. - - Apparently an explosion In the fur nace room started the blaze which, within 10 minutes, was burning the roof. Scenes of awful confusion occurred soon after the alarm was turned in. At pne time there -were more than a dozen per sons leaning out of windows imploring for help and persons on 'the sidewalk could with difficulty restrain them from leaping out until the firemen appeared. Spencer, the Janitor, ran from door to door trying to awaken the tenants, until be fell exhausted and died. " White House Talks With San Francisco Over Long Distance Washington, June 21. (L" N. S.) Di rect communication was held today be tween the White House and San Fran cisco for the. first time since Democratic leaders began to assemble at the Golden Gate for the national convention, it was learned today. ::'--:--a '..-'-.'..'. - The conversation was between Joseph P.-Tumulty, eecretary to President Wil son, and Homer S. Cummlngs, chairman of the Democratic national committee and temporary chairman elect of the con vention. - Daniels to Ee'ach ' Coast Wednesday J Los Angeles, June ZL (TJ. P.)- Sec retary of the Navy Daniels will reach the coast Wednesday night at 6 :30. pars ing through Los Angeles at that hour en route to San Diego, a telegram from Washington informed Mayor Snyder to day. , The secretary ;' wtll ; return - here Friday to discuss plans for naval es tablishments with city officials. Plane Hops Off With . Journals for Seaside Pilot F. K. Harding hopped off this afternoon from Lewis and Clark flying field at 12:55 o'clock In a hydroplane, carrying Journals to Seaside, Mrs. "Pote" Too Veary to Talk, But Proxy Says She Is Charming "Pote K.endrick wouldn't let his wife be Interviewed this morning.' To the sweetest ' appeal the re porter could' make over the tele phone the-r autocratic,' Oriental "Pote' Remained deaf. -:. -"She Is busy- we are both busy," he declared. "Good bye," and the clicking. of the receiver on the hook came over' the wire. " So the reporter - can't say that Mrs. Pote is charming, that her eyes are blue, or green, or gray, and how she Is gowned and what she had for breakfast and what she thinks of Portland and how it feels to be the wife of the "Pote." For the "Pote" kept her in j seclusion, nor would he allow newspaper eyes to gaze upon her or to put forth questions. BEPOBTEB FIXDS OASIS Rut the reporter who was assigned to find out what the better halves of the Shriners were doing, and especially as regards Mrs. "Pote" Kendrlck. wandered about the Multnomah lobby and found Mrs. Jim McCandless of Honolulu, whose husband is due to reach the pinnacle of Shrinedom in 1922. Mrs. McCandless is really and Indeed charming, without res ervation. - 'The Kendrlcks are very weary," she explained, "after- their long Journey. Mra Kendrlck- is . a : very - sweet and charming woman and she has been. In terviewed all across the country," she added. "It is one of the Kendrlcks' habits to have breakfast in their room every .morning, and It is the only time of the day they can be together. ' Mrs. Kendrlck - also- has her mother with her." ' . . .. Mra McCandless is having a wonder ful time. She comes to the Northwest every year, so Portland - is not new to her as it is to most of the THonolutu women whom she is looking after. , DECOBATIOK8 FOUI SURPASSING i "I have been every place in the world, but I have never seen such -decorations in my life,", she declared. Mrs. tills Gsrretson of Tacoma, who will be Mrs. "Pote" after Wednesday, was found. Mrs. Garretson is little and dainty and lovely and sweet. .She haj sparkling brown eyes and Is . nice to everyone she 'sees. But Mrs. Garret son didn't want to be Interviewed until after Wednesday, for sirs. Kendrlck is (Conclodde on Page : Two,: Column Sli WS lu'CEhERAL FROLIC 'WARM UP' - Pleasure and sightseeing events hold the boards for the Shriners and their friends today,; prefacing the actual start of the intensive busi ness and fun , of the big . convention on Tuesday morning. - . . Band concerts galore, Columbia river highway auto trips, a. visit to the big lumber mills of the city and its environs and circulating streetcar trips over the city are scheduled. ' Tonight at Multnomah field the first horse show of the Shrine week series will be an entertaining and novel fea ture, presented by the ream of riders and horses from Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Some of the classiest , high school . horses and high Jumpers In 'America are promised for participation in the big show. FIREWORKS AT OAKS " At . the Oaks amusement park tonight at 10 p. m.. nobles and their ladles will be welcome guests,, admitted free, at a great fireworks display, incorporating many spectacular'- features. The pyro technic display was brought: forward on the, official " program from Wednesday evening to . Monday because of a minor conflict. , - . .:- ' . .- The Orst of the gorgeous big parades of Shrine week will occur Tuesday morn ing at , 9 ' O'clock, " when the daylight Shrine parade, escorting imperial Per tentate Kendrlck about the city, will form.,. Imperial divan and imperial rep resentatives, with patrols and bands, will form the parade, ivindlSg through the city from the headquarters hotel to The 'Auditorium, v " At The Audit&rtum at 10 a. m. the Im perial council session will be opened of ficially by Potentate Kendrlck "and the loud welcome of Portland, people to the Shriners -of the wide world will echo throughout Pote-land officially. CHAPTERS TO SIKO ' :i ,The Rev. O. W. Taylor will launch the session with an invocation, chanters will sing their refrains" and bands will rend the alp with their melodies. Governor Ben W. Oicott will address a welcome to the Shrine nobles on behalf- of Oregon and Mayor- George L. Baker will - extend Portland's . official band of fellowship to the gay thousands. Noble W. J. Kerr v.111 Join with Noble A. II. Lea and Noble George W, SUple ton in expressing Portland's welcome and a response will be. made by Poten tate i Kendrlck, : the head and shoulders of Shrine officialdom. . Tuesday night's big feature is the scin tilatlng electric, parade, winding up a day of pleasure mixed-with the serious business of the Shrine convention, which will be transacted in official session of representatives throughout the day. . -f; -J . 1 ... "I . j 1 1 .-. General Federation .Of Women's Clubs ; To Elect Officers Des Moines, Iowa, June 2L U. P.) The nominating committee of the Gen eral Federation of-Women's clubs met today to select candidates for the fed eration's offices.1 The committee will present one candidate for each office, ex cepting the presidency to the convention late today. Balloting will start Tuesday and the result will be announced Wed nesday. Mra T. O. Winter,' Minneapolis, and Mrs. Georgia . Bacon, Worcester, Mass., will content for the presidency. - PIL WITH US i. SUPERS Fu:. i ... Bands and Banners and -FIc-.vi.r-: Robes Say There Is 0ns Utcu Today for Shrinedom, and Th-! Is Magic' Oasis of Portland. ' Blazes of vivid coloringblares from hundreds of band Instruments and the rhyth mic pounding of the drum corr With the distant wall of the chanters, these,, . with the crowcU that fill up the station plaza and hang over the railing of the Broadway bridge, watch ing and cheering each incomfnT Shrine train and following, an.l cheering'it uptown, are all evidences of the arrival of the Shriners at their mecca. All day today are they coming, addlnir to the numbers already on hand and adding to the great array of magnificent costumes and Oriental splendor gathered In the great, annual conclave. . Under a brilliant Oregon sun they pro arriving by the thousands. Breeches of scarlet. Jacket of green ; breeches of pur ple. Jacket of scarlet; breeches of green. Jacket of yellow ; what colors, what com binations make up the vast array of pa trols, bands, drym corps, cftoru&es ar.J chanters I AL KADER WJ5LCOMES . Constantly , at -the Union station are reception committees of Al Kader,. work ing by shifts, local greeters who are ex tending the welcome of Portland to the nobles from afar. Constantly on duty i;s the Al Kader patrol, meeting every train and . participating In the receptions on the station plana, where each incomir t delegation gives an exhibition, gives a brief concert and pones before the of ficial photographer before marc hi- - ti Shrine headquarters. tt Sirens . an vhlsUee rhr!?k tjr,--. " special trains long before th-y r?.t i Portland.- Cheers shAke the i'H-in i the trains spproarh, and the i. . l.. . Shriner to Shriner is extended as t: --t trains unload their fens-wearers to sw ,1 the ever Increasing festival population of the city. . WEST, TOO, TYPIFIED Mingled with the Orientalism of tv- majority of the temples are typi'-ii features of the West cowboy bands as i Indians, and even a baby bear, v Train schedules were demoralized an 1 many pf the temples' arrived before their hour while others were long delays '. By evening, however, the last train wt 1 have emptied Its quota of nobles of Shrinedom before the gateway of the Im perial council city. : The Sabbath peace of Portland wee e-j rudely broken from the first break of day to the lsst toll of the 12 o'r! r (Concluded on face Two, t'olumn Four) Faithful Capture journal uince a Dance 'With Girb The girls working In The Jourri ,'1'a business office today dartcud on tr.e j and the boss could do nothing about it but stand and grin. For the tee nth time since sunrise tt office was rushed by vi.nl tin rr fai:f f :. the band and patrol of Arabia t- . Houston. Texas, shortly before rjo-s i day, and melody filled th? alr.'ror i, n to the top of The Journal tower. Ami r t content with merely prtxlu' in ? cwn i music, the visiting nobles tlirnhf"! flu counters and danced With the atternJi.rrL-v. LOST, AND FOUND BUREAU For Ber.zfit -of SHRINE VISITORS ' FOr 1 the convenic c tt Shrine Tlsitors an d t friends The Journal has Ilshed a Ixst and Found I. i reau at the want ad counter on the main floor cf The Jour nal Ijuildlng, or at the Ol 'sm bile , agency, Broadway ani Couch streets. Anyone finding an artl'-.T ef value may,brlng it to either . bureau: and The Journal wi'l make, an effort to locate tie loser. I Persons who lose ani'.-r are Invited to call to t. ;.i whether or not it ! I n turned In. There tt: : . i. charge for this serv.'re. Persons clalmlnx lost art!c!--i will be required to. entail. i t: : usual identification bef- eC can be delivered. , . , ' ;The gen eral fhrl.-) e c mi .." ' ' -tee has asked The Jotrxv.i t take charge cf .13 1; t r " found department t n 1 .'.Journal . has . undr-rtn', task as a public rv;-.
