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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, ' 1920. SAD STORY GF MAN Young People Will Be Hosts Friday to Baptist Ministers , All Baptist pastors of the ' city are to b honored at a reception given at the White Temple next Friday evening by the Willamette Young People's as sociation. .Each pastor will be introduced by the president of his local B. T, P. U after which he will make a brief response. This constitutes the rally part of. the program, the receptionfollowing imme diately after. The Highland Baptist orchestra will play during the evening. This will be the first reception of its kind every held in the cjty. 4 Brotherhood Is : to Hold Annual Dinner brotherhood are being formed, and steady growth made throughout the country. , v Cincinnati's Total Population of 1920 . Given As 401,247 - - w ' i .-I . .Washington Nov.! $7- tL N. S.) The , 1930 population of Cincinnati consists of illMO white, 29.63I negroes and 71 all other persona Chinese. Japanese and , Indians, a total of 401,217, the census' bureau announced today.- : , - The population of Loulevllle. fty., u J34.891, of which 1 14.737 are white. 40,118 negroes and It all other persons. Chinese,. Japanese and Indiana " --TRAGIC LIFE STORY REVIEWED .-Ara. Florence Shaffer Pad .' Mrs. Florence Theresa Shaffer died at her home, 1189 East Ninth street Thurs day. The funeral was held at the Finley chapel Saturday afternoon. The Rv P. T, T. Hicks conducted the services. The body was interred at Mount Scott cemetery. Mrs. Shaffer is survived by her husband, Howard B Shaffer, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Besse, two sisters and two brothers. Pendleton school census shows 18S8 children of school age, an Increase of 195 over the count made one year ago. WHO SAVED BULB On Monday evening,'-the eve off St, Andrews day, the local assembly of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew will hold its dinner and apnual meeting In St. Davids parish house. East Twelfth and Morrison. The president. A. C New ill, will introduce the chief speakers, Bishop Walter Taylor Sumner and John D. Alexander, from the headquarters in Philadelphia. New chapters of the Purcfiase of Eureka,, Cal.; Farm . by Salem . Interests - Recalls ; Narrative of C. Willis Ward. Order Filed Asks -Thjt Alimony Fixed, in Divorce Proceeding Be Increased to $300 Month, DECLARATIONS OF DHIIHIED PY FORMER WIFE A recent press dispatch front Sg. Jem announcing the purchase of the Eureka. Cal., bulb. farms from the ' Ward estate by an Oregon concern with the intention of removing the bulb industry to Oregon's capital, marks the closing chapter )ri the. tragic life story of Charles Willi Ward, capitalist, promoter and phil anthropist. Ward died. In Eureko June 24, 1920. The coroner's record notes that Ward died from "pneu monla and causes usually attributed to old age"; he was 64 years old. San Francisco Portland, Seattle and Eastern men, his old associates, in sist their friend died of a broken . heart. ' .-, A PRACTICAL PHILASTHEOPIST Charles Willis Ward was a native of - Michigan, in which state he was actively engaged in the nursery business in the latter '90s, when he inherited a fortune from hia father estimated at approxi mately 1 1,000,000. Ward announced his intention to devote his inheritance to helping his fellowman to help himself and to the development of neglected though fertile sections of the country. . Turning his Michigan . nurseries over to his brothers-in-law, Ward went to Louisiana to personally finance, the reclamation of Mississippi river delta lands, a project he bad frequently en- ueavorea io,enusi me eoutnern states legislature and private citizens in de veloping, that the poorer classes in the .Pelican state might share with the rlehJ in trie ownership of Louisiana's .fertile lands, lie induced a wealthy Louisiana planter of national recognition to en gage with Mm in constructing . dikes along the Mississippi river, thus re claiming thousands of acres of inun- - dated lands. Ward divided his share of (he reclaimed lands Into small tracts and sold them to native land - renters at a nominal price and - upon terms which the poverty-stricken tenants of the Southern plantations could meet through the cultivation of their newly acquired holdings. The Loulsianlan preferred adding his share of the. rich delta lands to his enormous estate, and thus materially increasing his huge for-, tune through the labor of negroes and poof whites pf that section. TO CAJLF0BMA. r While touring the Pacific Northwest In $918 Ward was deeply moved oyer what he termed "the ruthless slaughter of the Pacjflo coast's wonderful forests for commercial purposes.' With the purpose, though vaguely- outlined, ' of preserving a vast forest of giant Sequoi as in Northern California, Ward bought several heavily timbered tracts of land along, the Klamath river neap the Oregon-California ; border, which were recently appraised by the Ward estate at approximately one-half million doU lars. v .- : ' -. r - Falling to Interest lumber manufac turers in dividing their cut-over timber lands Into small, dairying and nursery tracts and encouraging the development of the idle lands,- Ward again put into practloe his theory of practical philan thropy. . Formulating a colony of nursery and dairying enterprises extending over an area- of 60 miles square. Ward in vested the remainder of his fortune in purchasing the cut-over lands of Hum boldt county, of which Eureka Js.the capital, established several large dairy farms and nurseries throughout the county, stocked hia enterprises well and then offered shares to every ctiien of moderate means who cared to engage with him in : the development of the county and to divide the profits of its development, Purebred Jersey cattle were Imported to stock the dairy farms, and only the choicest shrubs were pur chased for stocking the nurseries. These enterprises are known nationally, as the Cottage Garden nurseries. ,. DEVELOPED BULB SUPPLY : Ward saw the demoralisation of the bulb industry of Holland at the begin ning of the world war though how he discerned that calamity is a secret which went with hjm to his grave and Im mediately began Importing bulbs, de veloping the bulb farms recently pur. are still the world's source of bulb sup plies., . :- , . TRAGEDY E TITERS Ward's friendship for a San Francisco See Pages 4 and 5 Society Section. for Announcements of utmost Importance! JSROUmw .; jsy- yi p's -: ti-.x". " A4 " 1 - ' I -' 'i. I ,,'-' " " . ' I ( Jl J-" " v ';,, r ; f - - v lit. . ' " '! e v Tfc if v iSV , vff X " Vivsr - Charles WllHs Ward, whose csarecr estate which ho left at his death woman and her two daughters., begun In the latter part of 1918, brought Into his JIf ai the tragic events which estranged him from his family, indirectly hastened his death and caused the scores pf law suits which for a time threatened Vhe destruction of his entire fortune. Learn ing of his friendship for the San Fran Cisco woman and her daughters, Ward's wife left him, and with her married son and daughter and their ; families re turned to Detroit, Mich., where they have since resided. ; Thereafter Ward's visits with his San Francisco friends became more frequent, he finally inviting the mother and daughters to remove to Eureka and snare wtn him nis noma. ; ane invita tion was accepteq, - and, upon tne ar rival of his . friends gossip became ex tremely alert. Ultimately Ward insisted his guests return to San Francisco. DEATH IS HASTENED Then followed a suit- brought against Ward by ene of the young. women 'for breach of promise, He annoqpeed his intention to - fight the suit -through which his former friends sought to col lect approximately 1100,000, . The pub licity given the matter created a panie among the various stockholders of ward's enterprises and petitions lor re ceivers for his various concerns began to . pour into the court. Announcing that for the protection of hia stockhold ers and his own Interests he would com promise the breach of promise suit, though insisting there was no grounds for It, Ward paid the San Francisco women 150,000 and stopped the suit. Within a few weeks Ward took to his bed, from which he never arose, while stockholders and their attorneys fought in the courts over hi estate. WILL FOTTN-D I2T PORTLAND It was thought at the time of his de mise that Ward died Intestate, but while litigants were fighting for a division of the dead man's estate, David Struss Ward, the son, learned of the existence of a-will in the possession ef a trusted friend of his father tn Portland- The will Was delivered to the California courts and filed for probate. Young Ward, whs was made administrator of the estate by the Portland document, which- has never been challanged, is rapidly settling up the affair of the estate, satisfying - the " litigants and clearing the title to the valuable timber lands, all of which will be divided be tween Ward's children and brothers-in- &6o AT MORRISON . 1 la recalled .by disposition qf the large) In Eureka, Cal,. several months ago. law. The wife was cut off with 1500 in the will. 0BEG0XIA9S LABGE PFHCHASEBS The principal dairying community promoted by Ward has been Bold to a Northern California lumber manufac turer, who has converted into a town for the exclusive benefit of the thou sands of employes of the company. The large nurseries are being sold to a fam ily of nursery men, the Bosaias, who have large pursery holdings in Pert land, Seattle and San Francisco. And. with the sale pf the bulb farms to, a Salem concern, the disintegration ef Ward's enterprise is ended, and helpless In the bottom of an Charles Willis -Ward was buried tn Woodlawn cemetery at San, Francisco on July 1, attended only by his sop, his daughter's husband and a San Fran Cisco clergyman, I : WILL BE APPROVED (Continued From Page One) sengers who did not have their pass ports approved In advance by the con sular or diplomatic representatives in the United States of the country of des tination. ' The British government might have refused to approve the passports of the investigating commission without neces sarily giving any reasons but such a step, H was felt, would only aggravate Irish-Americans In this country and add fuel to the flames. On the other hand. even with those who have no particular prejudices on the Irish question, refusal Of passports might have created the-Impression of an unwillingness to let the outside world know - the truth about happenings In Ireland. So the British jjpvernment determined to make no in cident out of the' request for passports and to let the committee go Its way, IMPARTUUTY M A38EBTED The attitude of the British officials here is probably !an index of the posi tion that will be adopted when the American commission reaches Ireland. Every opportunity will be given the com mission . to make Us own investigation unhindered by the British government The members of the . commission are insistent that they approach the ques tion impartially. Major Oliver P. New man, who was In the artillery In the A. K. IP.; was president of the board of commissioners of the District of Co. lurabla under President Wilson and be fore that was a prominent newspaper writer and Investigator. His ancestry is English on both sides. The Rev. Norman Thomas of Nsw York U a Presbyterian clergyman. Dur ing the war he was prominently iden tified with the efforts of a group which championed tha, cause of the conscien tious .objectors. . H is a graduate of Princeton university, and while on brother was detained in camp as a con scientious objector, another who had volunteered on the outbreak of the war, saw service as a combatant officer in France, ' OHE IS RADICAL James Maurer. president of the Penn sylvania Stat Federation of Labor, is a radical labor leader and a conspicuous opponent of Samuel Gompers. His passport was revoked a year ago when he contemplated visiting England and European countries to make a study of labor conditions, and It was generally believed the action was a consequence ef some of his Inflammatory utterances agalngt-President Wilson and the Amer ican government. Arthur Gleason. a .New York wrltup who has recently spent much time in England studying the labor party, and Dean Morse Lovstt. head of the-Engllsh department of the University of Chi cago, are the other- members of the commission. s Dean Lovett was one of the pacifists groun and was frnrtntiv criticised during the war -for his atti- iuu towara n. un tne, outer hand, he took no part In any effort to obstruct war operations, and his own son volun teered and was killed in France In ac, tion. . The special commlttM of r,v chosen with the idea that it would not be subject to criticism for religious prejudices as none of the commission is a Catholic, The commute of v . a sub-committee of a lror rnmmiii. of 100 for investigation of conditions in Ireland- . S . . Oswald Garrison VUlard. editor of the nation, is the originator of the move PASSPORTS TO IRELAND Mrs. Ita Whiting, who. is seeking an efder from): the epur increasing from J 135 to $300 a month the amount which her former husband, Dr. San ford Whiting, must pay for the support of their two sons, filed a new affidavit Saturday, in which she makes refutation of the declara tions ef Dr. Whiting, who opposes the proposed increase in payments. She declares that Pr- Whiting married Mary J3. Merges, with whom he was infatuated, while still her husband and that the second wife "was very wealthy," putting the physician in better financial position than he had ever been before. She says Dr. Whiting trans ferred to his second wife his real prop erty interests and did not lose them as ne nas averred. , , Instead of a gross monthly income of $688.50 claimed by Dr. Whiting, she says his income is $1500 a month, he performing an average of two major surgical operations a day, for which he receives large fees. She declares that Dr. Whiting's alleged Interest In his sons is not borne out by the facts; that two years ago he did send the boys some shirts and handkerchiefs, but that this was all until his return from Europe, when he sent them two neck ties. Mrs. Whiting avers that when they separated Dr. Whiting' took a vanload of goods from her residence, furniture and furnishings, until she was compelled to borrow spoons, knives and forks; that he made lavish expenditures on his extensive trip through Europe, taking tne second Mrs. Whiting with him. and that his pretended interest in one of their , sons since his return, taking the boy to his home for dinner frequently. is merely for the purpose of extracting zrom mm such information as might be available to embarrass her in the prosecution of the motion to increase the payments for the support of the two sons. WARREBT BROS. FIU2 SUIT AGAINST IOCAL CONTRACTOR Warren Brothers company of Boston has filed In the Multnomah county cir cuit court four suits in which it seeks to recover JlO.lfO.W, with interest and costs, for alleged (failure of the Oregon xnuepenaent raving company to com plete payments on certain navlnar con tracts awarded by the city of Portland to tnis company and sublet to the War ren concern. The actions are against the Oregon Independent Paving company, the New Amsterdam Casualty company, the Hartford Accident and Indemnity com pany, the .London and Lancaster In demnity company and the National Surety compay, named as co-defendants. The Improvements on which the ques tion of payment arises are the paving of East Eighth street between Going and Alberta streets; paving of Bybee avenue from East Twenty-second street to tne paving in Eastmoreland ; the pay in of East Thirty-second street from itoigate street to Francis avenue; pav lner of Alnsworth avenue from V.mnt I Ninth street to East Tenth street: East JUiisan street from East Twenty-fourth to East Twenty-sixth streets ; East Twenty-sixth street from Flanders to Glisaq streets; Vancouver avenue from Wheeler street to Broadway; several Streets In the district adjoining Bread way, Larrabee and Union avenue ; Madi son street from second to Fifth streets, and East Thirteenth street from Al berta street to Boselawn "avenue. Some of these street Improvements reach back as far as the year, 1915. ILL (Continued From Pace One) iiouning 10 nejp my nusDana. so I oei ctded to strike out for the telephone anSl let friends in Portland know where we were, and that we expected to be home soon. tfBlCE PLEADS FOU AID "I struggled along, over veryrough country, crossing barbed wire fences and running into -trees, and finally I came to a farm where there were eome Id Shacks and barns, but I could see no farm house. I called, thinking someone Would hear me and respond, If there were a house there. "I bad called but twice when out of the fog came the clear voice of a man. I could pot determine from what direc tion it came. - "'Help I Oh, help me!' was the an guished cry. " 'Where are your I called out I'm down In a deeo hole, with ntv leg broken and my shoulder so hurt that I cannot move.' came the mysteri ous voice. I called back that I was looking for him, and kept running into trees and clumps of brush. "Tou won't leave until you find me. will your pleaded the voice out of th dense fog. I gave assurance that 1 would not. I kept wandering about, call ing at frequent intervals. WO FtBTHEB BESPOXSE "At one time the man answered and said he had been, in the hole since the night before. The next time I called there was ne response, and from that time onward, although I remained for a long time, and kept up my calling. were wu no iuriner reply. "One cannot imagine my feelings. - It seemed as If I was a disembodied spirit wandering tkrough the mists, and that some other, spirit had called out to me -iron me mysterious darkness. "Finally I determined that the man had fainted, or was dead. and that i had better try to get back to the road so that we could give the alarm. How l ever made the trio back I eannnt understand. I lost my way, but instinct seemea to direct ma. Finally I got back to a point where my calling wee n. swered by my husband, but there was a great cnasm or deep ravine between us, and I bad to make a long detour to reach him.' It was only by his con. sunt calls that I directed my way. 1 shall never forget the experiences we have Just had, the most uncanny in ray enUre Ufa" Chimney Catches Fire A chimney burninsr out -at the Kv. stone hotel. Sixth and Burnside, caused a fire alarm to be turned in shortly after S o'clock Saturday nirht. em urree lire companies responded. VAIN SEARCH IS MADE FOR MAN i Every Ai612-Brown sole and 10.00. '.,.. f ... ...'". .' ' " " ' .' . . . ." .' '."' .: .' ' I 380 308 Los Angeles shoe in ou entire astonishing value. Now even greater values are created by the lowering of our (already low) prices during this Month-End Sale. 40 lines of desirable shoes to choose from with a saving of $2.50 to $4.50 on every pair. 1 Bl22t Two-eyelet DWe tie of soft black kid, turn sole and covered French heel Former price J 10.00. ' kid street oxford with welt leather' French heel. rm price ' 2200 Laird & Schober tan calf pump with leather bow, welt sole andleather Cuban heel. Former price 16.50. , In addition to the many attractive patterns in low shoes, we have included in this sale several lines of i high grade boots at generously reduced prices. . Here is your opportunity to buyour high shoes! for winter and save a few dollars. " i The Largest Retailer of Washington Street Washington Street San'Francisco store is priced to net .-' ... . . . A2210 Nut brown $alf oxford, full welt sole and leather military heel. price. 12.50. 1' 1 ' 2336 Black satin Theo tie medium short vamp, turn sole and satin covered LXV heeL Former price 8.50. E1210 Soft brown kid Dixie tie of finest I quality,, turn sole and covered French heel. Former price t3.50. Same pattern In black I kid. Shoes West of Chicago 270 Washington Street 270 Morrison Street you S r wine tip, Former Portland .-J