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2 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, ; PORTLAND, OREGON SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1921. 3BILLSAFFEGT ING -FOREST INTERESTS GIVEN COMMITTEE State. House, Salem, Jan. 22. , Three bills of special interest to the timber Interests of Oregon have been formulated by the state ' board of forestry, and were presented for con . deration in a conference -with the house committee on forestry and conservation. The house committee is composed of representatives- Perry Powell of Polk county, Seward D. Allen of Lane county, Sherman M. Miles of , Columbia -county, J. IX Lee of Multnomah countyand Mrs. Williams Kinney of Clatsop county. Members of the state board of for estry in attendance at the conference were George W. Peavy of the forestry department, Oregon Agricultural college, Corvallls; C. K. Spencer, Oregon State grange, Oregon City ; R. M. Foy, Ore sort Forest Fire association, Portland ; George H. Cecil. V. 8. forest service, Portland ; George. Gerlinger, Oregon and Washington Lumber Manufacturers' as sociation, Dallas ;F. A. Elliott, state forester, Salem. EABLY ACTIOX A8XED The- commission requests that the three bills be Introduced in the house early next week: as committee measures -and the committee will meet further to consider this program. . The first of these bills provides for the personnel of the commission, substituting a representative of the West Coast Lum bermen's association for that of .he Ore gon and Washington Lumber Manufac turers' association, and It increases the salary of the state forester from $3000 to 3600. a year andprovldes for a dep uty forester at a salary of 2400 an nualliy. s The second bill makes changes In the compulsory patrol law for timber lands, providing that If private ownership does not give the required patrol It shall be done by the state at a cost of not to ex ceed 5 cents per acre, except In cases of unusual hazard, when larger expenditure can be made, to become a lien upon the property thus protected, but not to exceed the actual edit of the work per- , formed, and for vrhiifh the forester must file a detailed itemized statement. Own era thus charged shl have the" right to protest at hearings before the state boafd. BEFORESTATIOX PLA5SK1) The third bill provides a scheme for reforestation by protection of cutover and burned areas, and is held by the board to be a measure of vast, import ance to Oregon's lumber industry. It provides that the state board of forestry shall be empowered to acquire on behalf of the state, by purchase or acceptance of gift, land which the state forester shalprecdmmend should be pos--- sessed by the state for the purpose of forest protection, management and re placement, and to be known as state for est lands. It provides that not more than $3.50 per acre shall be paid for such lands. r The state forester also shall have power to exchange state fqrest lands in scattered areas for similar lands in blocks that are better adapted for for estry purposes, i (UJAItD AGAI3ST FIRE The general 'scheme Is not the plant ing of trees on euch lands, hut their pro tection' from fire while they reforest themselves from seed within the ground through natural processes. . Lands-may also be held in trust for ."private owners for this purpose. When the timber crop is considered ready for markejt, the forest crop may be sold at the most advantageous price, if not less than an appraised valuation ; the board shall reimburse the owner for taxes paid -during the entire trust period, reimburse ,tl'.e state for its expenditures for pro , teetion, pay the owner 6 per cent inter est on the investment he has contributed 1o the project as represented by the op tional purchase price agreed upon, and of the remainder retain half for the state 'and pay half to the owner, who shall 'then reassume complete possession of the 'land, or accept such offer as the state may then make for it. Chaplin's Throwing: j : Baby Into Ash Can ; Immoral, They Say By t'ni'ftl News CWago. Jan. 22. Charlie Chapiin. among other movie kings and queens. Is under fire by the advocates of stricter .motion picture censorship. Timothy I. Hurley, chairman of the 'city's commission on motion pictures, tells why. ' "Charlie's funny, of course, but there are some things he does that we intend ?to stop. I Haw his latent film. It shows ;a mother throwing her. baby into an ash can. Are we going to encourage baby ; abandonment? "Chaplin is shown rescuing this baby and teaching It to break windows so that . he can get a Job repairing them." Hurley would prohibit movies featur ing vamps, wild west exponents and i those stars whose names have appeared ln the divorce columns. 'Enrico Caruso Will ; Return to Sunny 'It.' : New York, Jafi. 22. (tr. P.) Enrico Caruso, slowly convalescing after a 'critical illness with pleurisy, will leave ;for Italy within a few weeks in an ef fort to regain his strength and win 'back his "golden voice." ' Marriage Uocnaes ' Vancouver,. Wash.. Jan 22. Marriage licenses were issued Friday to Owen Bradlgan, 32, and Gladys Lord, 28, Port land i William Paine, 26, and Mary L. Talne, 22, Seattle: John Sullivan, legal, ' and Marguerite Baker, legal Portland ; (Robert Konvro, 27, and Ruth Houghton, lepra!. Woodland, Wash.; Malcolm TJ. Coffman, 38, and Geraldine Shaw, 23, "Eugene, Or. Cleland Crachtner, 37, Ya kima and Benaselue Becquet 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f 1 1 1 1 1 1 w Musical I Instruments 1 1 Sacrificed I REMOVAL SAL I McDougall Music Co. 1 S S2S ALDCR STREET BETWEEN SIXTH AND BROADWAY 55 miimmiiuiuimmiimtmiimiinmi? Pledge List for Sophomore Honor Society Announced ' i University of Oregon, Eugene, Jkn. 22. The pledge list of To-Ko-Lo, sopho- more honor society, was announced Thursday on the campus. Nearly every section of the state is represented. Freshmen In the list will not "become active until next, year. ' The list is as touows: Class of '23 : ; Dan Woods, Welser, Idaho; John Cavln. The Dalles; Ken neth Youet, Silverton. Class of '24 : ; Raymond McKeown, Marshfield ; Harold Chapman, Portland ; Vistor Risley, Portland ; Marcua Young, Milwaukie: Edwin Klrtley, Pendleton; Richard Grey, Aberdeen-, S. D. ; Doug las Farrell, Portland ; Marvin Lucas, Klamath Falls; Harold Potter, Eugene; William Johnson, Portland; Arthur Rudd, Pendleton : Raymond Douglas, Portland ; Francois Du Paul, Los An geles ; Jason McCune, Portland ; Allan Moorers, Astoria. , NOT ONE RECEIVED AID, DECLARE VETS Olympia. Wash., Jan. 22. A joint session of the legislature Friday voted to make a sweeping investigation of the state reclamation service as a result of charges published that the board has failed to locate one ex service man on public lands although $100,000 was appropriated for that purpose in 1919. . The Investigation was asked by the board itself as a result of charges made in Spokane where. It Is declared, strong corporation interests are supporting the Columbia river basin commission and opposing the state reclamation commis sion. - FIGHT HOBX'S BEMOTAL That Governor Louis Hart has dis missed Thomas P. Horn, superintendent of the state custodial school, unjustly and against the best interests of the in stitution, is the charge of a delegation of Chehalis citizens who arrived here Friday to fight Hart's action. Horn's resignation was requested by the governor Wednesday. The delegation demanded a bearing for Saturday. They allege that the custodial school under Horn's administration has shown excellent progress and that the majority . of the citizens of Chehalis want him' retained. That at least one Important change will be made in the direct primary law of this state Is believed certain by mem bers of the legislature here. It is hot thought that the law will te repealed. FROPOSKD CHANGES A resolution requiring all voters to state their party affiliations when regis tering was reported out of committee Thursday with a favorable recommenda tion. The bill would also prevent a can didate filing on one ticket when he be longs to a different party. It Is be lieved that this change will be adopted by the legislature. Several members of both houses with in the next 10 day$ will present bills making changes In the present election laws. An attempt will be made to con elder all these bills together. Another contemplated measure would authorize conventions td be held, al though not preventing anyone who wished from filing under the primary system as At present; Dr. W. B. Morse of Salem New Head of State Health Board The new state board of health con vened this morning for its first regular meeting- in the offices of the board In the Selling building. Dr. W, B. Morse of Salem was elected president of the new board and Dr. C. J. Smith Is .the newly elected member from portlahd for vice president. Election of secretary, a subject that had been uppermost in health circles for many months,, was deferred until after lunch and the morning hours were consumed with routine business mat ters. Members of the present board are An drew C. Smith and C. J. Smith of Port land, W. B. Morse of Salem, F. M. Brooks of Portland, George K. Houck of Roseburg and J. H. Rosenberg of Prineville. Burglar 'Snapped' In Flashlight as He Entered Store Montesano, Wash., Jan. 22. McCleary, a small town near here, enjoyed a thrill ing night when Ed Camp's plans to rob the Summit Mercantile company's store miscarried. Camp had entered the store through a small window opening onto the roof. He filled a suitcase with clothes, revolvers, ammunition and bacon and then went to investigate the store office. As he opened the door a blinding flash greeted him. An Ingenious burglar alarm had taken hts picture. He tried to escape as he had come, but the build ing was surrounded. Camp said he had intended to camp in the woods until log ging operations were resumed in the county. Shipwrecked Crew Saved by Schooner Seattle. Wash., Jan. 22. After being shipwrecked on Egg Island in Queen Charlotte sound for nine days, the three members of the cruiser-launch Osborne were safe here Friday. While on Its way from Ketchikan, the launch was dashed on the roeky shore of the island In heavy weather. The men. Captain E. D. Osborne, Henry Erickson and Joseph Boyer, were rescued by the Bchooner Atlas and brought here. Bend Legion Wants Soldier Home Loan , ,.t . . . , I. . . Bend. Jan. 22, Percy A. Stevens post No 4, American Legion, in regular ses sion, indorsed the state bonus legisla tion, going on record as preferring the long term loan plan to that of a cash award. Diphtheria Fatal to Girl .Hermlston, Or., Jan. 22. Bessie Gil liam, 11-year-old : daughter of. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Gilliam, living two miles north of town, died Thursday evening of diph theria. ,..-....--.,.. , ' -I- 01 CRITICS OF PAVING ASKED L ' Payment to the Warren Construc tion company for the East Fifty eighth street paving, completed by that company some time ago, was again deferred at the Friday evening meeting of .the city council. On Wednesday last such serious opposi tion was raised by property owners in the council chamber to paying for the paving that the council post poned final action until Friday that the commissioners might view the street and decide the controversy on its merits. Commissioners Bigelow, Barbur and Pier viewed the paving Friday, and while they announced their belief that the statements of several protesting prop erty owners were exaggerations of the true condition, on Commissioner Bige low's motion payment was deferred until next Wednesday to give the city en gineer's department time to make actual tests of the paving. " ' "Those women stated in the council chamber Wednesday that certain sec tions of East Fifty-eighth street paving were much thinner than required by the specifications. I suggest that these women be summoned to go with the city's engineer and point out those al leged defective spots, bo the engineers can cut out the paving and either verify or disprove their statements," Bigelow announced. Commissioner Barbur con curred, adding : "Yes, I want these women to show us ; and if their allega tions are not substantiated by cutting up the paving, then I want the cost of the tests assessed against their property." City Engineer Laurgaard was instruct ed to cut the paving and make the tests next Monday reporting back t the council in time for final action not later than Wednesday. Spokane Broker Pleads Not Guilty On Forgery Charge Spokane. Wash., .Ian. '12. Jay E. Hough pleaded not guilty to two infor mations charging him With first degree forgery Friday. Trial Was set for March 7. Hough Is a member of the defunct brokerage firm of Milholland & Hough. Rumors that Mrs. Ruth Milholland, widow of John B. Milholland, senior partner, who committed suicide the day that Hough confessed to embezilement, will be brought to Spokane to testify in the Hough case, were heard about the courthouse. Mrs. Milholland left the city several days ago, taking the two little daughters of her late husband. Other important witnesses to be sum moned for the trial will be James F. Callahan, millionaire mining man of the Coeur d'Alenes. who" was swindled out of approximately 1400,000 ;. officers of the Teel irrigation district of Oregon, the Ladd & Tilton bank of Portland. Over beck & Cooke brokerage house of Port land, the Fidelity KatiOnal bank of Spokane and of the Exchange National bank of Spokane and numerous stock and bond brokers of Spokane; Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake, Helena, Butte, Den ver and San Francisco. Man Has License to Hunt, but Law Gets Him All the Same Federal and state conflicting bird laws covering band tail pigeons brought grief to the door of Glenn O. Anderson of Gearhart. He Was fined $10 this morn ing by Federal Judge Wolverton after pleading guilty to shooting one bird. As Anderson pulled the trigger of his gun the first time a federal game warden, jumped out of the brash and placed him under arrest. Soon after Anderson re turned from the navy, a large flock f band tall pigeons appeared around his home. The neighbors started shooting them, so Anderson hurried to the state game warden's branch office and secured a hunting licenae. He was assured by the deputy that this was open seasonr for band tail pigeons. After complying with every provision of the state law Ander son ran afoul the migratory bird law. Movie Censorship Bill Is Introduced In Idaho's Senate Boise. Idaho.. Jan. 22. (I. X S.l Regulation of public exhibitions of, mo tion pictures, films, reels and advertis ing; creation of a board of review of three members to be appointed by the governor and the Creation of a special fund for paying the members of the board, are provided for in a bill intro duced In the senate today. The mem bers of the commission are to be paid 10 per day When In actual service and charges are to be Jnade of $2 for each reel censored. '. Walla Walla Man Loses $15,000 When Building Is Burned Walla Walla, Wash.. Jan. 22. Xick Wierck, local contractor, suffered a loss estimated at $15,000 when his new apart ment house, which was nearing comple tion, was gutted by fire Friday. The fire Is thought to have been caused by a faulty stove' which was in use by the workmen In the basement during the cold weather. Fire Chief William Mets wrecked his car in order to prevent running down an excited pedestrian while going to the fire. , Cave Raided; Stills Found; Man Is Fined - f-I ' s - Bend. Jan, 82. State Prohibition .Agent Nixon and Deputy j Sheriff Stokoe raided a cave in tha rough country near Al falfa, Deschutes county, and found two 10-gallon stills, three quarts of . moon shine and several barrels of corn mash. When the officers approached the cave, T. H. Hames endeavored to make his exit but was captured a short distance away. Hames was brought to Bend and arraigned before Justice Gilson. He pleaded guilty to the charge of manu facturing intoxicating liquor, and was fined $500 and costs. -, . r WOM TOSHOVCOUNC Three New Bills of Session Are Signed By Governor Olcott State House, Salem, Jan. 22. Three bills of the present legislative session have already been enacted Into law through the attachment of the signature of Governor Olcott. The first of these was house bill No. 52, appropriating $40,000 for legialative -expenses. The other two weresenate bills No. 1 and No. 13, both by Senator Eberhard, one repealing the act of 1919 creating a state board of automobile mechanics, examiners, and the other repealing the act of 1913 authorizing county Indebted ness up to not to exceed 2 per cent of the assessed valuation for road pur poses. House bill 108. appropriating $234,766 to cover deficiency appropria tions authorized by the state emergency board during the past year, will be signed by the governor today. ANTI-PURSE SEINE LAW AGAIN UPHELD Salem, Jan. 22. Admitting that the act of 1919, forbidding the use of purse seines within the three mile limit at the mouth of the CO- t lumbia river "operates harshly upot Oregon fishermen and canneries" and In favor of those on the Wash ington side of the river, the supreme court Friday refused to grant a re hearing in the case of the Union Fishermen's Cooperative league and others against Carl D. Shoemaker. Master game warden. j The case came up to the supreme court on appeal by the fishermen, to whom Judge Eakin of the Clatsop coun ty court denied an Injunction restrain ing Master Fish Warden Shoemaker from enforcing the provisions of the anti-purse seine bill. j WASHlKGTOJf BLAMED I The supreme court in a previous opin ion upheld the constitutionality of the act and affirmed the decree of the lower court. " N In the opinion handed down Friday aft ernoon, written by Justice McBride. the court declares the constitutionality $t the act is in no wise affected by the compact between the states of Oregon anil Washington. j "That the usefulness of the act as a protective measure is largely impaired by failure of the state of Washington to enact similar legislation is patent," the opinion reads, adding: "The use of purse seines and like appliances at the mouth of the Columbia river by Wash ington fishermen will greatly impair, if not destroy, the value of the Columbia rive? as a producer of salmon." j APPEAL, TO I,EGlSIiATTj RE j ' ""That our present law operates harsh ly upon Oregon fishermen and canneries cannot be disputed," the opinion contin ues. "But these are considerations that properly address themselves to the legiS' latures of thd two states and hot to the courts. The fact remains that Oregon has done its part to protect an industry which is a source of millions of dollars of profit to the citizens of both state wtitle Washington, wtth an equal inter est in such protection, has failed to act effectively jn the matter. "Perhaps, as a matter of even-handed justice, the present law should be re pealed and Oregon canners allowed to participate Jn the spoliation of the sal mon industry On: the Columbia river equally with the canneries of the Wash- Ington 6ide of thejriver, but this court cannot effect such repeal by declaring the law unconstitutional. The legislatures of both states are now in session ahd It is unthinkable that they will sit idly by, without mutually devising a remedy for conditions which threaten to destroy a great industry." - m Funeral of Late B. Crashaw Will Be Held on Monday Funeral services for Benjamin Craw shaw, aged 7.", whr died Friday at hps home, JOO0 East Twenty-fourth street north, will be conducted under the aus pices of the Alberta lodge of OddfelloWis Monday afternoon at 2 :30 at the Duti ning chapel. The interment Will be made in Mount Kcott cemetery. I Crawshaw was born in Pennsylvania in 1845 and came to Portland 10 years ago. He was prominent in the work of the Oddfellows, having been editor Of the Pscific Odd Fellow for neveral years and having served as past grand master of the Alberta lodge No. 233. Before coming -to the Pacific coast he had served as grand master in the District of Columbia. I I He is survived by his widow, Mrs. ft. F. Crawshaw, and two sisters, Mrs. Harry Bedea of Shenandoah, Pa., and Mrs. Sarah Shaffer of Dunedin, Fla Failure of Cattle Broker Closes Ban Mitchell, S. D.. Jan. 22. (I. N. SJ The Corn Belt National bank of Scot land, S. l., was closed today by a fed eral bank examiner. Deposits of the bank approximate $200,000. Its capital stock is $25,000. The recent failure i Of Peter Magnusen, a cattle broker, for more than $100,000, is believed to have been one of the contributing causes for the failure of the bank, which held notes signed by Magnusen. Vancouver May Get Hospital for Vets ' i Vancouver, Wash., Jan. 22. A federal hospital for Vancouver barracks is in the realm of possibilities, according to word received from Washington, stating that the house public buildings committee has approved a $15,000,000 appropriation for six hospitals for World war veter ans. Conversion of present buildings Ha planned. The original proposal was for a jiu.uuu.uuu appropriation put projects at Vancouver, Fort Walla Walla and Fort McKlnley, Wyo., were added. Humphrey Groomed For J. N. Teal's Post Seatle. Wash., Jan. 22. The port commission Friday . Indorsed Will i E. Humphrey, former senator from Wash ington, for the vacancy expected with the retirement of Joseph N. Teal of Portland.' The Washington delegation In congress was requested to support Humphrey's candidacy, ' I BANDIT KILLS ONE EH TWO Seattle, Wash., Jan. 22. (U. p.) Detective James O'Brien is dead, two patrolmeu are dying, John Smith, bandit, is In the city jail slightly- wounded, and Dean Carman, bystander, is in the hospital today with two bullet holes in his leg, as the result of a bandit battle on Se attle streets last night. Patrolmen W. T. Angle and Neil N. McMillan are the two wounded officers. They were . hit when Smith suddenly opened fire on them near Broadway and Harrison street at 9:15 last night. DETECTIVE KILLED Detective O'Brien was killed and Car man was wounded and Smith captured about 10 o'clock in front of the lioge building at' Second avenue and Cherry street. Although wounded three times. Smith was not overcome until felled by a blow from Detective T. Q. Montgomery's fist The first shootujg- started soon after Angle -and McMillan saw Smith saun tering down the Street at Broadway and Harrison. Th man aroused their sus picions,' and when he was accosted drew an automatic pistol and started firing without warning. He shot Angle twice, then dropped McMillan with a fusillade of bullets. Smith ran east and disap peared. SECOND POLICEMAN SHOT O'Brien,. Montgomery -and Carman were the next to encounter the bandit. They were patrolling in front of the Hoge building when O'Brien 6aid : ' Well, look who's here." . Montgomery turned and looked at a man who was coming down the street. Both Montgomery and O'Brien recog nized Smith from a description that had been given them. As Smith approached, the officers moved toward him and the bandit Immediately and without warn in began to fire. The two detectives replied, bi( O'Brien dropped, shot through the- heart- after his gun had been emptied. Smith was wounded three times, but remained, on his feet. Montgomery escaped unscathed. When Montgomery found the maga zine of his gun empty, he relinquished it for a blow to Smith's jaw that dropped the bandit unconscious. Montgomery then took his man in charge and hustled him to the police, station. ETHERIDGE'S WIFE n ELS HER SlUdf (Con tinned From Pace One.) and Morris himself constantly advised Etheridge to go away and stay away until the effect of the knowledge of his past has disappeared. Meanwhile, they suggested, Morris would take over the business and 'save' it. "Regardless of all this varied counsel John decided to stay and fight it through, but he was told the day before he left that if he remained here the gov ernment would give him trouble in con nection with his naturalization papers. He then gave up and decided to leave the city until such time as public inter est had quieted. "On the afternoon before we left John turned over ail our property to Fred S. Morrisi our- house, furniture, country home, stocks and bonds, automobiles everything. "Morris advised and besought that we go to Canada and escape the naturaliza tion hearings. There was no one inter ested In us who was more surprised When John was arrested at Minneapolis than was Morris. He had thought we would flee through Canada, but when he learned that we were going back to our relatives and friends in Chicago and in the East he must have been taken aback. JfO FLIGHT INTENDED "Wo. were advised by attorneys at Minneapolis that we could not be held for. extradition under the charges against us, but we made no attempt to combat the return and were waiting for the officers when they came. Next day we would have been registered at leading Chicago hotel and would have been among our relatives. I have four brothers in Chicago. Our luggage car ried our full names and the name of Morris Bros., stamped in plain flghtl That didn't fit in with the 'flight' stones. "In one of our last conferences with attorneys here before we left, John Dogan asked my husband about the $75,000 In Bonds at Tacoma. My hus band there agreed to secure the bonds and express them to Morris at Portland. To do so and still make the scheduled train connections, we drove to Tacoma rather than to go by train. Immedi-' ately, John secured the bonds and sent them by express to Fred Morris. That done, we went direct to the telegraph office and wired Morris that the bonds had been sent, BEADY TO FIGHT "Morris well knew that the bonds were waiting for him at the .Portland express Office when he swore" out a warrant for my husband's arrest for stealing those selfsame bonds. "These stories about how I met my husband are entirely wrong. 1 never did a day of settlement work in my life until, as a former nurse, I became active right here in, Portland during the war period. When we were married I knew every detail of the former life of my husband, but- he was not in prison when I met and married him. "My own family was responsible for accusations of bigamy against him ac cusations that had no more semblance of truth than lots of the other ridWulous things they are bringing up about him now. "In any event, we are in Portland now, and we are ready to fight to the last ditch. My friends here have been splen did I don't think I have sacrificed one of those whom I counted a friend before we ler-". NOT REGULAR PASTOR Incidentally, Etheridge was never an ordained muiister 4n any church, and al though he spoke from various pulpits, he never held: a pastorate and was never very active in church work, except wheh the church wanted money and needed an aggressive campaigner, Mrs. Etheridge explained. " Any -official church activity he ever undertook was under a bishop's license granted for each occasion by dignitaries of the Episcopal church. Returning to Whitcomb's announce ment tha.t he will not accept election as permanent . trustee for i the bankrupt bond house, his own statement is inter esting. He said: "As I go more deeply into the affairs of the bankrupt I find .that, while a large part of the assets are-of a liquid nature and can be closed out Shortly by the trustee,- there are a number of matters OTHERS WOUNDED which will undoubtedly require the ser vlcee of a trustee for a considerable time. "These matters are of such a nature that they will require all of the trustee's time and cannot be delegated to subordi nates. i "There is. during the present recon struction period In business, an ab normal demand for aecountlng and busi ness consultation services, in addition! to which the firm of which I am j: a member operates four offices in the Pa cific Northwest, two of which, are cojfn yarativeiy new. and further expansion is contemplated. "In view of these facts It seema,l could be of greater service to a greater number, and at the same time prevent considerable monetary loss to our fifcm and to myself by returning to our busi ness as soon as possible. ,j WILL NOT ACCEPT JOB "There are many men in" Portland ; of known integrity, wide experience alhd independent means who are not njw actively engaged in business and who could therefore assume the duties of trustee, which, because of the large nujm ber of small credits, is in the nature f a public service. "The financial status of the bankrupt has been clearly ascertained, the assita have been put into good form, neces sary legal actions are under way and it would therefore seem possible for me, without Injury to the creditors' in terests, to turn over the affairs to in other at such time as the permanent trustee is appointed. j i! ji j "In view of these facts I request that my name be not considered in connec tion with the election of a permanent trustee at the meeting of the creditors on January 28, 1921. Needless j to say, every possible bit of cooperation 1 vt" HI be given to whomever is elected by tbe creditors." 'n( 'I Seattle and San Francisco treditprs are coming to the meeting net week, it is said, armed with authority! to join a great number of Portland jrdltorB in voting for Whitcomb as trustee. I SEEK FUND LEFT Denver, Col., Jan. 22. (I. JS 84- Establishment of a national cjonserv atory of music where exclusively American music will be taught and developed may result from the dis closure by a local musician that George Washington created a fund of $40,000 for this purpose, which during over a cenftiry of ilnteirest drawing now amounts to approxi mately J2.500.000. Mrs. Flournoy Rivers, teacher of mu sic here, announced today that: Senator Borah of Idaho had agreed to introduce a bill in the senate making the fund available. Mfg. Rivers, accompanied by Walter DamrOsch and Eugene Tsaye, ndted thti- sicians, recently Interviewed President elect Harding, she said, who promised his aid In the efforts to promote a na tional conservatory of music. Tihe main institution, according to Mrs. Rivers, will be maintained at the national cap ital, with branches throughout the coun try. HARDING, LIKE WILSON, IS SHY AT PUBLICITY Continued From Fiut One. respondents, but since election he has become taciturn and Incommunicative, i Wilson was the most friendly and chummy individual in the world With the correspondents aboard his train In the campaign of 1912, but wheh he got to the White House he changed. " j Most people do not know the extremes to which the president went to shut hlmeelf off from direct contact with the press. Twice he- ordered secret service men to keep newspapermen away from him on summer vacations. In the first two years he gave occasional audience to the entire cOrfls 'of correspondents, but these were discontinued about; jthe time the war broke out and were never resumed. NO PRIVATE AUDIENCES Wilson rarely, if ever, gave any news paper writer a private audience. It; I probably no exaggeration to say that Wilson never spent a total of more than six or seven hours in private audiences with correspondents in the eight years he has been at the White House. And it is also a fact that only one or two correspondents ever saw him in audi ence more than three or four times In the entire eight years. ;i' I Both Roosevelt and Taft seldom Jet a week -go by without a private cdn ference with at least one or two cor respondents or writers. Wiison never would have been able to manage the business of contact with the public iat all were it not for the shrewdness ahd uncanny news instinct of his private secretary, Joseph P. Tumulty, who prob ably will always be remembered as one of the beet friends the Washington cor respondents ever had. I POOR PUBLICITY AGENT I Harding may be counting on doing the same thing namely, talking to the country Indireetly : but both Koonevelt and Taft found it more effective to talk directly to the press themselves. Much of the misunderstanding about policies of the Wilson administration can she .traced directly to haughty or indifferlht attitude toward the press, ahd such de fense as was given the Wilson adminis tration by correspondents from time I to timfe was hardly ever due to any in spiration from the White House, but largely to th voluntary effort and jn4 terprise of writeA both inside and out side of Washington who either believed sincerely in the fact that they wre defending editorially, irrespective of the positions or party Involved, or who Re lieved ' they were discharging thfeir journalistic duty of telling the truth as Jthey saw it, jj There may be a change when Harding goes to Washington, but the verdict iof most of the correspondents thus far lis that the new president-elect is starting Crowder Is Solving Cuban Situation in Satisfactory Way , , . , . i Washington, Jan. 22. (V. P.) Major General Koooh H. Crowder, in his labors to adjust Cuba's political and financial troubles, is making progress beyond the "highest expectations," the, state de partment officials said today. 1 As a result of Crowdef's efforts toward settling the - dispute over the presidential election, the by-elections are expected to be held the middle of Febru ary. Crowder will not leave Cuba unitil after these elections, it was learned to day. Hehow is devoting bis attention to the financial situation. F i BY WASHINGTON SCHWAB GOT NO MONEY, SAYS PIEZ Washington, Jan. 22. (I. N. 8.) Vigorous denial that Charles M, Schwab had ever presented any voucher for personal expenses while connected with the Emergency Fleet corporation, was made today by Charles Piez, fdrmer director of the Emergency Fleet corporation, testi fying before "the Walsh committee investigating, the shipping board. A categorical denial that inefficiency and graft on a wide scale existed in the shipping board's war work "was also made by Piez. Pies took up in detail the charges made by Martin Olllen, a former mem ber of the board, that the board had no method of accounting Tor the huge sums entrusted to it, and as a consequence graft and inefficiency prevailed in America's shipbuilding efforts. TASK WAS THEM EN DOCS The building of American shipping, Piez, said, was a "war assignment, not a peace undertaking. We had to build ships faster than submarines could sink them. That was our job, a Job performed against heavy odds, under intense pres sure. "The submarine sinkings were matched each month against the output of teng llsh and American yards and public lm patience grew to fever heat at the appal ling difference. Two successive adminis trations In construction succumbed to public clsmOr before the end of 1917. "The War was costing us thousands of precious lives and $50,000:000 a day. It was a time when shli output alone counted and when the refinements of accounting details and record keeping had to be subordinated to the main pur pose. SOME PETTT GRAFT "There was some payroll padding, some dishonesty, but no more than there would be in yards under private man agement. The department of Justice had a large force of Investigators It Hog Is land for seven months and not Ja single criminal charge resulted. Vet the gen eral existence of graft at Hog Island is decepted by many people as an ascer tained and acknowledged fact." TEACHERS' IRE IS UP; TO STORM LEGISLATORS (Con tinned From I'ee One) petency against a ; teacher. It would provide an easy method for demotions on charges of inefficiency and make decreases of salary a very simple mat ter." Another change Is in section 6, In which the following language Is stricken out: "and shall also show that the administrative officers have made suitable efforts to assist the teacher to improve her work." WORD IS DELETED The deleted words required that before dismissal of a teacher there should be a showing that the principal had made a suitable endeavor to help ber in her work. "The members of the teachers' council feel," said Miss McGregor this morning, "that the chief duty of the principal is his supervisory capacity and feel further that the principals are paid large Salaries as efficiency experts to help young and less experienced teachers to adjust them selves to the Portland system of teach ing. The taking away of this "require ment In the dismissal of a teacher re lieves the principals of all responsibility of helping teachers." A third change strikes from section 6 the provision by which the charges against a fully exonerated teacher are marked "disproved" or "disallowed." The teachers say that under this change, even though charges are disproved, they continue to stand as a .blot on the rec ord of the teacher's professional reputa tion. PROTEST IS MADE Very strong protests were made at the meeting of the federated teachers' council yesterday afternoon and findig natlon was widespread as the .?iiws of the changes was circulated among the teachers today. "It is strange." remarked one teacher, "that, after exhibiting theeachers' ten ure amendment to the public ln Port land, the measure should have been changed between here ahd Ralem." Ninety per cent of the entire teaching and administrative staff of the Portland schools Is on record against the changes In the tenure law. Of the 1857 persons on the staff, llfl signed a petition to the legislature opposing any change. No Waste fll in a package iinf , .iv-.A'-i!;!- BSTT 9Tie substantial texture r of PostToasties prevents ca-umbling in the package . and their firm substance adds to their attractiveness Uhey retain, their crisp ness and rich flavor after : milk, or cream is added SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE! Maxle hy Ifcstum Cereal Coinpany.inc; Battle Creek, Michigan. School Board Gives Permission to Sell Tickets for Benefit , Consent to t he use of Portland schools for the aale of tickets 'to the pei form ancufj at motion t'leture theaters 'on January 2? for the benefit of the suffer ing children of Europe has been Granted by Superintendent I. A. ,11 rout, on condi tion that no pressure shall be brought to bearj upon the children to buy tickets, that the tickets shall be eold by club women and not li.vtcaohi;r8 or pupils. mai no sales snail i.o madn in tliu class rOOtT) N .hlt OnlV ill . HlWlill.lv kail. .. rldors, that teachers nhll ho provided iiu uirriMure tuny explaining the pur poses of the benefit and that tk-ket not used January 29 M ill l honored any time during the following wi-ok. " TJte school board, at the dune of the war. made a ruling that the- si hools should, not be used for non-educational purposes. Special iM-rmission sought by'th'e. ICu ropean relief .committee w-referred to Grout with the above' decision. COUNCIL SPLIT ON GORDON TAX BILL (Continued from rua On.)" to enact a law Just to punish the Voters of Portland for not Voting us he, or they, thought best." TWO OPPOSE 111 I.I, ' , At the Friday evening session he ad vised the council: "High taxes ainlover taxation have heen the growing com plaint, and taxes are mounting higher : and higher, and no one can eay why. The bill now before the leglalaturtt would centralize the tax fixing of the state and Is proosed . as a measure to reduce taxes. I am not In favor of the council officially going on record as otpuHed In the bill." (Commissioner Barbur and Hipolow vehemently announced their refusal to subscribe to the mayor's position and were strongly supported by .t'ommls sloner Iler, who with thetn insisted that the council should officially oppose the Gordon bill. BIUKIOW TO noh r " ; Commissioner i Mann'. -remained silent throughout the .' dismission. Asked for an fxpreHslon later, Maim said lie was not posted on the subject, "hut believed that If It would deprive Portland of unlr government the courts -would declare it unconstitutional later." Mann did not say whether or not he had learned anything during his Hires days' visit with the solons in Salem to change his attitude toward thn bilT "If this council does not officially go before the tax committee of the lgia lature to oppose, this attempt at creating a powerful political machine, ifieu I shall go as a private cltiren and demand Justice for Portland taxpayers," Uigelow loudly declared.' ' WILL VISIT SALEM S "You may -have learned some thinus about this bill," Commissioner llarhur said to the major, "but I want to say that we have learned a Jt of things about it, too. We've learned so much that we know It 1s an attempt to put Portland and Multnomah county nt the mercy of any two of three coinmlsfiioii ers who may be appointed by a j.ollti cally ambitious governor. "This is no reflection upon the--present governor, but tell me, do you think a political govcr.nor Would appoint ni'j opposed to Ms plans on such a commls sion? Do you think a machine-elect d governor, if ' there should be one, would appoint hie enemies on such a cornrriU sion?" : ' Commissioner Pier stood firrhiy with Barbur'and Uigelow in their attempt. -to secure official action from the council to oppose the bill. The mayor 'Joined Mann In his silence. The matter wa:i .passed over without official action. Har bor, Uigelow. and 1'ler today announced their Intention to visit .Salem next Tups day and appear before the lax commit tee; ' Protest Is Made On Medical Books : ' Used by Teachers Protesting acaiiift the medical teach Ings in th tent books used In the Port land schools, Mrs. Helen lray Iirolliogrr at a luncheon of the I'ubllc School pro tective league Friday " at the rPorlland hfttel, " said Hie. minds of the children" wefe being "vaccinated," as "iLa tlieir bodies. Mrs. Urolllnger HiPfiers In "The Pody.nnd It IVfenSos.'i uiW In the intermediate gradeH, devolrfPto Sec tarian medira! learnings," and ffven such chapters tn "Healthy Living." used In the seventh ahd eighth grades.