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MONDAY. APRIL 18; 1921.
THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; PORTLAND, OREGON
COMMITTEE URGES
ONE-WAY TRAFFIC,
ANGLE PARKING
One-way traffic and angle parkins
are proponed by the Chamber of Com
me roe committee on traffic as means of
relieving the down-town congestion
problems, according to a report sub
mitted to the members' forum at noon
today ' by Dr. A. j E. Rockey, chairman
of the committee.: . - .
The traffic committee of the cham-
ber was appointed by the forum and
the board of directors and decided upon
the suggestions outlined as a result of
a conference with the committees of
the park board and the city planning
commission. Request was made that the
plans be Incorporated In the traffic or
dinance of the city. A resolution to
this, effect was read and approved.
'. The plan provides for a central con
gested district around which there will
bo. a zone of one-way traffic. Angle
parking for certain periods is provided
for. - '
E. T. Gooch of II. S. .
Immigration Bureau
Dies at Ase of 40
. E. T. Gooch, Inspector for the United
States Immigration service at Astoria
since 1914,' died' Saturday night -at the
age of 40 years, following an illness of
several weeks. His mother survives.
The body will be sent to Missoula,
Mont., his . birthplace, for burial.
R. P. Bonham. head of the Immigra
tion service tn this district, spoke highly
of Gooch's work. "He was a very popu
lar, officer," said Bonham, "and his
place will ; be hard to fill. He made a
splendid record during the ' war, was
energetic, fair In his decisions and was
possessed : with an intense patriotism.
He was courageous and would 'go into
meetings of suspected Reds and radicals
of all sorts and oftentimes bring out one
of the leaders." .
Bonham went to Astoria Sunday.
LIXJAI, OPINION UPSETS
AliBKRTA CLUB'S PliANS
Although the city council was de
sirous of granting to the Alberta Com
mercial club a permit that would en
able it to beautify certain streets on
the east side bjt maintaining tubs filled
' with rose bushes on certain sidewalk
area, it has struck a snag in an opin
ion given by City Attorney - Grant.
This opinion is to the effect that the
council could not grant a special per
mit for one Bection of the city, and
that if tubs of this' character are al
lowed they would have to be permitted
in any portion of the city where prop
erty owners desired them, and that
their occupancy of sidewalk area would
create a menace so that the city might
be liable for accidents caused by pe
destrians colliding with them.
MORE TIIANjeOOO LOTS "
IN DELAY STREET ASSESSED
More than 6000 lots are included In
the proposed assessment district for
the opening up: of Delay street by the
' purchase of the Fisher brick block,
which would open into Goldsmith ave
nue to through traffic from Greeley
street extension and Interstate avenue
and other important crpsstown streets.
Notices of the proposed assessment
have been sent out to property owners
within the district and April 20 Is set
at the last day for the filing of pro
tests. -
The total amount to be raised by as
Bessment is $34,900. Because of pro
tests which have been received at the
city. hall, which declare the time for
protest too short, it is expected that the
city council at Wednesday's session will
extend this time two weeks.
Engine Suit Dismissed
Suit brought by the Willamette Iron &
. Steel works' against the Smith & Watson
Iron works to restrain the latter from
manufacturing a certain type of two
speed logging engines was dismissed Sat
urday in the federal court with prejudice.
The case was to have been tried today.
-This action will forbid the filing of an
other suit covering the controversy. ;
Three Heavily Fined
For; Having Liquor
La Grande. Or., April 18. Because
they could not pay fines aggregating
$750 for having liquor in their posses
sion, three men. , giving their names as
Joe Smith. Joe Bird and Tony Torlich,
are in the county Jail toaay. smiin
was fined $350 and costs, and the oth
ers $200 each and costs. When the po
lice arrived at the house tne u-gauon
conner still was still warm and 10 gal
lons of freshly distilled moonshine was
found. J
'Hoe Alloy" Target
In Sanitary Crusade
"Hog alley" is the term Dr. Frederick
B. Strieker, state health officer, applies
to the stretch of highway leading to
Reaverton at the end of Terwilliger.
Here, savs Dr. Strieker, are a row of
hoe ranches who use the 'creek for
sewer. The health officer plans this
week to obtain the names of the of
fenders and to require them to clean up.
Democrats Removed
From Committees
FREEING WEATHER
CONTINUES IN EAST
Chicago April 18. (I. N. S.) Il
linois and Indiana were the heaviest
sufferers from Saturday's storm and j
the freezing weather that still pre- i
vails, of any states of the Middle
West, reports received here today in
dicate.
Crops in many sections of these states
were virtually destroyed.
Gardens and fruits in Illinois, to
gether with some growing crops, were
badly damaged and in some places re
planting will be necessary. A blanket of
snow and ice covered large areas where
crops already were considerably advanced.
In Indiana practically the entire fruit
crop and much of the clover and wheat
was destroyed in several counties, ac
cording to reports. The heaviest loss
was in the northern sections of the state.
Crop damage in Indiana will run into
hundreds of thousands of dollars, ex
perts estimate.
A blanket of snow 15 Inches deep that
covered Southern Wisconsin is .believed
to have prevented extensive damage in
that state. The wheat crop, It la be
lieved, will be benefited by the moisture.
. Considerable snow and freezing tem
perature is reported from Iowa,, but it Is
not believed that field crops -In tha
state were badly damaged. Some dam
age was done to early fruit, however.
by. frost and high winds.
Fruit trees beginning to - bloom are
said to have been damaged in the cen
tral and northern sections of Michigan,
but crop damage on the whole in that
etate is reported not to have been ex
tensive.
Insists She Noted
Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes
I n Wallace's R oom
New York, April 18. (U. P.) Mrs.
Mabel Matteosain reiterated her state
ment today that Mrs. Helen Stokes was
the woman she saw combing her hair in
the bachelor apartment of Bdgar T.
Wallace here.
I couldn't see whether she was fat
or thin," the witness said, "but I know
it was Mrs. Stokes."
Mrs. Matteosain was on the rtand for
the second time In the divorce suit
brought by W. E. D. Stokes. She and
her husband had testified that they saw
Mrs. Stokes, carelessly draped, in Wal
lace's bedroom. ,
lira. Matteosain later stated she was
not sure Mrs. Stokes was the woman.
Confronted with plans of the apartment
showing she could not have seen the
dresser and other furniture mentioned
In her testimony. Mrs. . Matteosain said
she had visited the rooms in Wallace's
absence and knew their arrangement
Names of three co-respondents were
eliminated today from the divorce suit.
Justice Finch upheld the motion or
the defense which stated that no evi
dence had been presented against Ro
land Miller, stepbrother of the defend
ant S. Montgomery Roosevelt, an ar
tist, now dead, and WjU H. Meyers,
who knew Mrs. Stokes as a little girl.
JAPANESE AND
WHITES IN CLASH
Washington. April 18. (I. N. S.) Fol
lowing objections by the Republican ma
jority in the house today, the names of
Representatives Daniel J. Riorden, New
York. Democrat, and Adolph J. Sabath,
Democrat. Illinois, were withdrawn from
the major committees to which they had
been previously assigned.
Water Main Floods
Business District
Wheeling. W. Va., April 18. (I. N.
S.) A SO-inch water main broke here
today, flooding the business district with
more than 1.000,000 gallons of water. The
torrent flooded cellars and first floors of
business houses, wrecked the sewage
system and paralyzed street traffic. The
damage will reach into; the thousands of
dollars, i
WRECKAGE BEING CLEARED
IN STORM STRICKEN SECTIONS
Hope, Ark., April 18. (I. N. S.) With
grim determination and aid of Red Cross
workers citizens of Hempstead and Mil
ler counties, devastated by last Friday's
tornado, which took a toll of 62 lives, to
day began building back. Wreckage is
being removed from farms in the two
stricken counties and the injured are
being cared for, with pyramidical army
tents' furnished by the national guard
serving as impromptu hospitals.
Property damage and crop losses in
the two counties swept by the twister
will be in excess of $2,000,000, it' was es
timated by county commissioners today.
On the Texas side of the border, at At
lanta, O'Farrell and Avinger, where the
damage probably will reach $80,000 the
work of building back: also was begun
today.
Eighty trees, uprooted by the fury of
the mighty galea, are sprawled across
the Bankhead highway at Sheppard, a
little town near here, where the Missouri
Pacific railroad suffered a heavy wash
out. Train schedules north of Texarkana
continue behind time and it will be at
least a week before the roadbeds, made
soggy by the heavy rains which accom
panied the winds, will be in shape for
normal resumption of traffic :
Robb Will Be Paid
After All for Trip
With Oregons' Vote
Washington. April 18. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL)
The last chapters are being written in
the story of Walter L. Robb's trip to
Washington as the messenger bearing
the electoral vote of Oregon. Because
of his late arrival, he was not paid
with the others, and- after a special act
had been passed to pay some . of the
tardy messengers, and after' former
Vice President Marshall had quit of
fice and gone on a speaking tour, word
I came from Mr. Robb that he was still
unpaid.
Senator McNary thereupon reached
Mr. Marshall in Texas, . and Marshall
has at last certified the performance
of Mr. Robb's mission. Robb is to re
ceive $773.25, which is computed on the
basis of traveling 3093 miles at 25 cents
per mile.
Mazamas Moving Pictures
Ma$amas will have ah opportunity to
see motion pictures taken of their an
nual outing of 1916 at the Three Sisters,
by Robert Bruce. Wednesday night,
following the close of the regular per
formance at the Columbia theatre. The
pictures will be shown at ; about 11
o'clock.
U.S. Stands Pat on
Panama Boundary,
Costa Rica Is Told
Washington. April 18. (I. N. S.) The
United States has informed Costa Rica
that this government will insist on the
maintenance of the Costa Rica-Panama
boundary as fixed by the award of
Chief Justice White, it was learned at
the state department this afternoon.
The United States has also informally
notified Panama that this government
will stand by the treaty with Panama
to act as her guarantor, but will rec
ognize the boundaries as fixed by the
White award.
In view of - these facts, officials of the
state department did not place much
credence in reports that Central Amerl
can' countries are planning to support
Costa Rica in an attack on Panama.
San Francisco, Cal., April 18. (U.
P. ) Friction between ; Japanese and
whites on the T. K. K. liner Siberia
Maru all the way across the Pacific
ocean culminated in a fight on board
between P. S. Crawley, San Fran
cisco tobacco salesman, and a Jap
anese cabin boy.
The boat came into the harbor today
with the police flag flying and open
warfare ready to break out between the
Japanese and American officers.
YANK BEATS JAPANESE
According to Crawley, who was placed
under arrest by the Japanese officers of
the boat after the fight, he went on deck
today carrying his 4-year-old child in his
arms. A Japanese cabin boy deliberately
tripped him, he said, causing him to fall
on his child. ;
He engaged in a' fight with the cabin
boy and came out the victor. He was
then arrested. !
According to A. J. Clark of Manches
ter, England, the trouble arose on the
first day out, when the white passen
gers refused to contribute to a fund
for prizes for games aboard the ship
when they learned that 10 per cent of
it was to go to the Japanese crew.
WHITES SIDETRACKED
As a result the Japanese conducted
a systematic campaign or annoyance
against the whites, he said.
Japanese were given preference to tne
movie show and whites forced to stana
he said. Dancing was stopped on or
ders of the Japanese officers. .
As a result 36 passengers signed
protest to the shipping company against
the conduct of the crew. This only ac
centuated the feeling, which resulted in
the deck fight today.
Life or a Living?
Queries Dr. Bowman
"While we are making a living are
we making a life?". This query was
placed before the -luncheon group o
business men gathered at- the. members'
forum of the Chamber of Commerce at
noon today by Dr. Harold L. Bowman.
The salient feature of Dr. Bowman's ad
dress was a contrast of "money or
morals first," and the question of
whether a venture pays or whether, a
venture is right." Emphasis was placed
on the fact that too many business men
are placing the dollar mark before
everything else they do.
Controversy Over
Marsh Land Lease
Question Develops
Washington, April 18. WASHING
TON .BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL)
An ecno oi uie controversy over maxsn
land leases at Klamath Falls comes in
the form of a letter received by Senator
McNary, written by Director A. P. Davis
of the reclamation service, in connection
with a report from the American Legion
post at .Klamath Kalis aa vising mat J.
F. Adams be reimbursed for expendi
tures made by him on lands embraced
in a proposed lease for about 1000 acres
of land on Upper Klamath .lake,, which
was never executed.
Director Davis says that so far as he
knows, there is no prospect that the
Adams contract will be revived, nor Is
there any authority for reimbursing
Adams, who had no contract, and is in
the position of a trespasser if he entered
on the lands and placed improvements
there.
Davis adverts to criticisms of the 're
clamation service by the Klamath post
for matters connected with the adminls
tration of Secretary , Lane, who, he de
clares, is surely recognized as a friend
of the soldier and entitled to a large
measure of credit for the soldier land
settlement plan which he advanced and
tried to have enacted. The reclamation
service is a friend of the service man.
Davis says, and regrets that its judg
ment does not always agree with the
Klamath post of veterans.
Victory Medals for
Ex-navy Men Arrive
Three hundred additional Victory
medals were received at the Portland
navy recruiting station this morning.
The medals are issued to ex-navy men
upon presentation of discharge papers.
Claspa, however, do not accompany the
medals, for, according to a letter from
the bureau of navigation, there has
been trouble in selection of suitable
material. The contract has - been
awarded, the letter goes on to state
and it is expected that the clasps, indi
catlve of foreign service, will soon be
ready for issue.
Wasco Youngsters Picnic
Maupin, Or., April 18. The seventh
annual Wasco county school children's
picnic was held at Tygh valley Satur
day. :
WCH FOOD COST
'IN 1 PER GENT
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Washington. "April 18. (I. N. S.)
The cost of food tothe average
family declined 1 per" cent In March,
as. com pared with February, accord
ing to a report by the bureau of
lab Dr statistics today:: The report
shews that 29 food- commodities out
of 5 which are used as the basis of
computation by the bureau showed a
decrease in price.- The greatest de
cline was T 3 per cent . in the price of
eggs. '.
The decrease -in .wholesale prices
which began a year ago has started to
slow down, said another report issued by
the bureau. Of 326 articles, which are
used as a basi$'for' computation. a de
crease was shown In 178 commodities
and an Increase in 6 commodities. Oth
ers showed no. change. "
Wholesale prices in March, compared
with, the same month in 1920, showed
a decline' of 39 per cent in food prices.
48 per cent in cloth and clothing and
48 per cent In farm products;
Wants Appeal Dismissed
Washington, April . 18. (U. P.) The
state of Kansas today asked the supreme
court to dismiss the appeal of Alexander
Hawat. state mine leader, attackine the
constitutionality of the Kansas court of
industrial relations. . .
Girl's Love Dream
Fades; Sweetheart
Arrested as Thief
Cleveland, Ohio, April, 18. (I. N. S.)
With . the arrest of Robert Canfieid.
alias C. A. Brocks, 21, allt-sed by police
to be a "gentleman thief." the dreams
of Dorothy Sentner, daughter of a'
wealthy St. Louis clothing merchant,
of unalloyed happiness In a "bungalow
love nest" here, ended today..
The arrest was made by Bliiss Norton,
agent of the department of justice, and
Canfieid Is held on a charge of jumping
a $5000 bail bond at Chit ago. . whpre he
was awaiting trial on a charge of belnK
implicated in the theft of furs valued
at 3900. An additional charge of vio
lating the Mann white nlave act was
also sworn out against htm here.
Police assert that Canfieid left a wife
in St- Louis, whom he married in Alton.
111., three years ago.
Frost Is Predicted .
For Eastern Oregon
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Another heavy frost will visit fcast
crn Oregon and Washington tonight,
was the prediction of the weather bu
reau this morning, which also predicted
that Oregon would have fair weather to
day despite early lowering clouds and
the southwesterly wind. Reports were
received by the local office that a blan
ket of enow covers Western Pennsyl
vania and that freezing temperatures
have visited New Mexico.
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