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FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1921. THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON NEW ORDINANCE EASIER ON ALIEN that it should be started at onct. It could well cooperate with the organiza tion of property owners !n the waterfront district, as J their interests are interlac ing, and they, could work together many phases to great advantage." LABOR FOR CITY The ordinance providing tor em ployment of American labor in pref erence to that of aliens on all pub lic work iri Portland has been re drafted by City Attorney Frank S. Grant, and the new draft, with an explanatory letter, was transmitted to the city council today. The particular change is" in exempt ing from such provisions Btreet or sewer work that is to be paid for by special assessment. FIN IIS pIFFERENCK This exemption is made, says City Attorney rant, on the ground that if only American labor were permitted on street and sewer work paid for by Bpe cial assessment, property-owners might contend that the cost of the work had thereby been Increased, on the assump tion that contractors could employ aliens at a much cheaper wage. "1 find a conflict in the authorities on this question." says Grant. "In the early history, of the city the .supreme court of this state and Ore United States tystrict court of this state declared in valid the statute which prohibited the employment of Chinese on street and sfpr work and other nublic work. "We now . have on the statute books of this state a law which forbids the employment on any public work of any character of aliens who claimed exemp tion during the late war. by reason of the fact that they were aliens. The constitutionality of this statute has not leen attacked. : OllDINAJfCE VALID "1 have redrafted tho ordinance to exempt its application eo far as street or sewer work is concerned, in order to save the city any litigation at the hands of property-owners. I assume that tho constitutionality of the new law will be attacked, and if it Js sus tained then,- in my opinion, that act will 'apply to street and sewer work. ' "In the meantime the ordinance as siving preference - to citizens .of the L'nited States is valid, and its enact ment will i relieve the situation some what." .," - The Ordinance, whicn bears the emer ' gency clause, so-that it may become ef fective immediately after its passage, provides not only for the employment sf . American citizens on , public work, jv-ith the exceptions noted, but also pref erence shall be given to citizens of the rity of Portland. HIST SHOW LISTS Upon demand of any officer or agent sf the city, the 'contractor will be re quired to show lists of employes on public, work contracts, setting forth whether they are naturalized or native born citizens, together with the date of i. naturalization and name of court where , Citizenship was granted. It T a Dt f r V. that t Vi a nn t t-nrtrtr in public work must "comply with all ;h'e provisions of the charter and ordi 1 nances of the city of Portland and the i awa of the state of Oregon relating to Jie employment - of labor, that the ;VKes- to be paid for a day's work of f ;iht .hours to all classes of laborers, workmen or mechanics- upon public aork of the city of Portland shall. not . less than the rate ror' a, aay a worn I .n the -same trade orr occupation estab- i ind that "the rate of wages prevailing -.it tho titnn of enteritis- into such con- tract shall not be changed during the ife Of such contract without the consent ' "it all parties thereto." Any? violation pt the provisions of this ectipn shall render the contract of the sffender void, declares the ordinance. WKST THIRTY-EIGHTH ST. IMPROVEMENT PLEA MADE A petition for the improvement vt'West Thirty-eighth Btreet. from Kast Yamhill to Kast Taylor streets, with sidewalks, curbs and the hard surfacing of a 26 foot roadway, Jeaving parkways 21,8 feet on each side, was filed at the city hall today. ' " Wh'le petitions for street improve ments continue to be filed almost daily, Commissioner of Public Works Barbur states that; the work on which proceed ings are already under way is of such volume that it - will require ail ol the time of contractors and the city paving plant for the ensuing season. "We have found it Impracticable to continue the street improvement work after the rainy season starts in," says Barbur, "and we ehall insist hereafter that when, the municipal paving plant shuts down work at the end of the sea son other t contractors do likewise, so that ..the character of work performed may be up to full standard." City Hall Briefs Application of the Union Oil company for permits to construct and maintain gasoline filling stations at eight new lo cations has been referred by the city council to Commissioner of Public Works Uarbur for his recommendation. The proposed locations are Grand avenue and Kast Clay street. Alberta street and Al bina' avenue. Union avenue and Klicki tat street j Twenty-sixth and Thurman streets, Past Twelfth and Kast' Burnside fctreets. Kast Water and Belmont, streets, Kast Third street north and Oregon treet and Mississippi avenue and Gold smith street. The city council has set 2 o'clock of April 28 as the time for hearing the mat ters of the proposed revocation of the soft drink license of Vid Culjak for Xorth Third Btreet, and the similar license of Mike Konlk for 53 North. Sec ond street. Permits to maintain, dairies have been granted by .the city council to Jacob Bol- liger for a location between kast Thir tieth and Kast Thirty-first streets, near Francis avenue, and to P. Yanchenka at 37 Kast Kilpatrick Street. Protests against the improvement of a portion of Weidler street have been overruled by the city council and it has ordered continuance of the proceedings. The city council has discontinued all proceedings in the matter of the im provement of Alexandria avenue by con structing a timber bridpe and has au thorized preparation of plans for Its im provement with a reinforced concrete bridge and macadamizing the bridge ap proaches. The bulk of the assessment for this Improvement will fall on the Salva tion Army's White Shield home prop erty, and it ha3 indicated its willingness to meet the payments. - ' , i I. Sleeping Sickness Fatal The city health bureau has received notice of the death on Thursday of Isaac Laman, aged- 44 years, at 494 Kast Fifty-second etreet, from sleeping sick ness. This is the third death from this disease recorded by the health depart ment this year. Last year there were 10 deaths from sleeping sickness in Port land. ; CONGESTED STREETS MUST j BE WIDENED, SAYS BARBCR I "The biggest problem before Portland today and it will not diminish until Woperiy solved is that of providing srteries of traffic sufficient to handle th volume of a city of approximately 260.0110 people, and the expansion of this volume during the next decade." de clared Commissioner Barbur todav. "Portland is trying to get along with the narrow streets laid out for ox team and horse drawn vehicles of 70 years ngo. It cannot be done ; the streets must be widened in the down town section or Inevitably the business center "will shift to a section where wide avenues of traffic are provided. Barbur says he will advocate the or ganization pf the business, men and property owners in the district from Fourth to .Park and from Jefferson to Gli8an streets, to consider the big prob-. lems that must be solved on this lin, simitar to the organization that has been effected between the property owners in the district from Kourth street to the waterfront, looking to the reconstruc tion of that district on modern city lines. '. "I believe such an organization is es sential to the, proper consideration of these big problems." said Barbur, "and Mrs. .Thomas Baker Likely to Kecbver, But May Lose Eye ; Mrs. "Thomas Baiter, who was shot by, Jess Boydstpn. a Vancouver barber Tuesday afternoon, has a good chance to recover but probably will lose the sight of her right eye, according to authori ties at the Sell wood hospital today. Mrs. Baker was shot just above the eyebrow, the bullet lodging behind her nose at the base of the brain. Another shot entered the hip. The pplice are still searching for Boydston, who shot Mrs. Baker and her husband i while the two were gathering wood not far from their home at "402 Wildrake avenue. Baker is at St. Vin cents hospital suffering from a severe fracture Of the right arm as a result of the bullet wounds. . Opera by Wireless Proyes Big Success At San Francisco San Francisco, April 22. tL N. S.) The first attempt to stage grand opera by wireless was a huge success. A-concert sung by Frieda Hempcl, so prano, and Forrest Lamont, tenor, of the Chicago Grand Opera company, into a wireless telephone was heard a 3 far west as ; Honolulu, as far east as Salt Lake, as far north as Southern Alaska and as far south as Point Loma, close to the Mexican border. Many ships on the Pacific within a radius of 1500 miles heard the concert. Other members of the opera company had phones to "listen in" on the test. 1 KEELEYS RECORD IS LAID BARE BY JOURNAL ATTORNEY High lights in the record and reputation of Lee Roy E. Keeley, plaintiff In a $165,000 libel suit against The Journal, were shown to the jury In Judge Tucker's court by Bert E. Haney this morning in pre senting the opening argument for the defense. Haney contended that the defense was entitled to show what the record of Keeley was both as a lawyer , and ,as a man to meet the charges made by Keeley in his complaint that he had suf fered the damages claimed. Pointing to the fact that Keeley had represented to the supreme court of Ore gon, in making application to practice law in this state, that he held a good reputation and record before the bar of California whence he had come, Haney produced records to show that prior to his coming to Oregon Keeley had been brought before the Bar association of Los Angeles in disbarment proceedings and that the report made as a result of this matter 5 had warned him that the repetition of the thingy done would mean his disbarment. LAND OFFICE RECORDS SHOWS It was also shown by certified records from the commissioner of the general land office that at the time Keeley came to Oregon, there were pending be fore the department charges made by Clay Tallman, the commissioner, in which it was alleged that Keeley had been guilty of misrepresentation and fraud, that he had represented different men at the same time, and had taken money from each to aid in securing fil ings upon the same land ; that he had threatened and intimidated homestead ers entitled to possession of the land upon which they had settled in the ef fort to make them abandon their claims ; and that he had enaged in practices which Tallman stated in his citation were, if true, "dishonest and disrepu table." RESIGNATION IS FILED Haney showed also that Keeley, in the face of these charges, had filed his resignation as an attorney before the land office, offering to quit practicing before the Los Angeles offices, that Hall man refused to accept this partial res ignation, and that Keeley had then, in the face of the charges, filed a resigna tion from general' practice before the department at all. Haney contended that Keeley had no .reputation as a lawyer that could ue damaged because he had been disbarred in Oregon by the supreme court and was not now entitled to appear for anyone other than himself. LEFT CHILDREN TO CHARITY Haney said further that he would show by evidence pn the trial of the case that Keeley had "left California between two days" when he had been cited-by the court of Los Angeles to appear in the morning to make provision for the care of his children, and that he had come to Oregon, leaving his children dependent upon charity and in the care of a char itable institution. He said that he would prove that Keeley had besought his wife to consent to his association with a mistress and that he had sued her for divorce seven different times, all of them without, result, and that he had filed the last suit in. Oregon when he knew that Mrs. Keeley had obtained a divorce from him in California, LIBEL SOTS FHF.QVEXT Haney also gave a list of the cases filed by Keeley since coming to Ore gon, showing that in virtually all he had appeared as the plaintiff in libel or other damage cases, one of which was a case filed in the United States court against District Attorney Evans of Portland and the members af the state supreme court, charging them with having entered into a conspiracy to ruin him in business and in reputation. Following the statement of Haney, Keeley began the presentation of his case in chief, in which he asks fpr a vtr oict of $165,000 against The Journal for general and particular damages because of alleged libel through the publication of seven news stories and editorial ar ticles growing out of the Libbern case. ing liquor on April 12 to llobert Smith and W, M. McMills. Stanich'a bond was placed at $2M. which he furnished. His hearing was set for Monday morning be fore Commissioner Kenneth ; Fraser. OIL; ALTRUiSM CAUSE I PACTjATIFICATION (Contiatiea iTrom P( One) Sues for Stamp Money Suit to recover $824 from the estate of F. H. English, Elizabeth English, execu trix, alleged to be the purchase price of 200 War Savings Stamps bought by Eng lish during his lifetime from the post-' office at Eugene, Or., and never paid for, has been filed in the United States district court by Hall Lusk, assistant United States district attorney. Dry Violation Charged Mike V. Stanich, who operates a soft lrink establishment at Third and Everett streets, was this morning arrested' by federal authorities on the charge of sell- secured the ratification of the Colom bian treaty. discrimination against American nationals was beginning to manifest itself. What America wanted was an even break at least with the na tionals of other countries. There vias no way-of compelling Colombia to give American citizens a square deal except by righting the wrongs which Colombia felt had been done her by the separation of the canal aone from the territory of Colombia. . , . In so far as the treaty soothe3 the wounded feelings of Colombia, it places American capital on : an equal footing with that of European and Asiatic coun tries. It was a case of recipiocity. Co lombia said in effect: "Deal fairly with us and we wi'.l deal fairly with you." MORE THAN EVEN' BREAK There is good reason to believe, how-, ever, that the ratification of the treaty will do more than give Americans an even break. It will probably result in preferential treatment. Assurances have in the past been given that Colombia would spend a large part of the $2j,000, 000 in the United States, letting con tracts for the building of domestic im provements in Colombia, public works, railroads and utilities. The second great factor in the ratifi cation controversy was the question of whether or not America committed a wrong when Panama seceded from Co lombia. Mr. Roosevelt admitted in a public speech that he "took Panama." but insisted that Colombia was endeav oring to extort a huge sum from the canal rights and that as soon as Panama rebelled against Colombia, he felt justi fied in recognizing : the Panaman re public because otherwise the canal would not have been built. Irrespective of the truth about Colombia's attitude, the im pression made throughout South Amer ica has been that the United States broke all records in the recognizing of infant republics when she formally rec ognized the Panama republic 72 hours after the revolution occurred and used mHran,forcp3 to prevent the Colom bians from interfering with the inde pendence of Panama. DEMOCRATS SEE WRONG The Democrats in the senate took the position that a great moral wrong was done and should be relieved. President Wilson and Secretary Bryan were even willing to include an expression of re gret in the treaty, but the Republicans wouldn't permit it and the Wilson ad ministration considered that the pay ment of $25,000,000 was 'in Itself an apol ogy or repaVation. The Roosevelt Re publicans argued along the same lines, namely, that the $25,000,000 was an apol ogy and that America had committed no wrong. Out of the Republican member ship of 54. 14 deserted the party stand ard and voted against ratification The 40 Republican votes remaining would have been useless except that out of the Democratic membership of 34, all but five lined up solidly with the Republi cans. COALITION DOES IT Thus acoalition of 40 Republicans and 29 Democrats ratified the first treaty that has gone through the senate in many years. It is significant of what may happen with other treaties, espe cially the amended Versailles treaty. A coalition of the Republicans and Demo crats could have put through the Ver sailles pact and League of Nations with reservations except" for the bitter parti sanship of certain minority groups which had the balance of power inside the councils of each party. The outstanding fact is that when the nation's interests demand it, a coalition in the senate ratifies a treaty over which there has been 17 years of con troversy. It strengthens , the hope that some day. perhaps! not as long as 17 years off, a combination of Republicans and Democrats-will ratify the .Versailles treaty which thus far has been debated only two years. ECLIPSE IS SEN ' FROJVrjyiT. LOWE (Continued From Taee One) " wants to know for sure, had an average length of 858,576 miles at 1 .33 a. m. - HAS COPPER COLOR . 'v j .. During the period it was obscured by the earth's shadow, the moon had a cop per colored appearance. This was caused by refracted light from the sun bending around through the 200 miles of the earth's atmosphere and reaching the lunar party. The dust and moisture in the earth atmosphere was responsible for the peculiar color. At the time Of the total eclipse there were only twO planets observable above the horizon of Mount Lowe. These were Jupiter and Saturn. Four of Jupiter's moons were plainly visible through the huge telescope. These had a reddish hue as compared to Jupiter's brilliant color ing. One of the moons appeared very near the planet. The three rings of Saturn, which are r.ow turned vertically to the earth ap peared like one tiny thread. These rings are particles of meteoric matter which are circulating about the planet. MOTHER EARTH IS PUNT To emphasize the puny position the earth occupies in the universe. Director Larkin asserted : "One billion worlds such as ours could come to an end and never be missed. There are 3,000,000,000 suns now known to astronomers. There are millions of nebulae condensing in the other suns and in from 2.000.000.000 to 4.000.000.000 years they will reach that stage." i The astonomer said he had been study ing for 62 years 10 hours a day and he still has considerable to acquire in the way of astronomical knowledge. i As the correspondent started to leave, Larkin quoted a poem composed by Ella Wheeler Wilcox March 31,-1903. on the very spot where We stood. It ran: My soul walks alone on this mountain top in .ileBt MmdMls shod. What mortal would ,roeume to speak when alone with God? all Two Boys, Twice 1 Deserted by Dad, Back With Mother After being left alone n a strange hotel, in Tacoma for eight days, Elden and Merwin Strayer are now with their mother. Mrs. George Strayer, at a little home-in Atlantic avenue. In November the father of the boys, who Is said to have deserted his family a year previous, visited them at IClck reall. Or., and asked if he might take them for a- walk. Mrs. Strayer gave the permission and it was the last she saw of them until Wednesday, when she went to Tacoma in response to information from police headquarters that her boj a had been deserted again by the father. Leaving a $1 bill he had disappeared and it was eight days before police officers of Tacoma were notified of their whereabouts.-- . 'Mrs. Strayer went for them and found a pair of lonely and half starved boys among strangers and wanting the love of their mother. No word has been . re ceived of Strayer. according to his wife. Willamette-Whitman Debate i Whitman College, Walla Walla. Wash. April i'Z. Willamette university and Whitman college will hold a dual de bate Friday. Mowbray Tate. Portland, and Prentice Warner, Spokane, will-uphold the negative side for Whitman at Whitman, and Virgil Thomas and Fred Harper the affirmative side at Wil lamette. - I Passover Exercises To Begin in Jewish; -Synagogues Tonight The Jewish Passover, a celebration in commemoration of the deliverance of the Hebrews from Egyptian bondage,- will begin at 6 o'clock tonight and will con tinue for one week. Special services have been arranged by the rabbis in the various synagogues. Unleavened bread, is eaten during this celebration by dc vout Jews and in many homes special celebrations will be held. Passover services will be held at the Congregation Ahaval Sholom, Park and Clay streets, tonight at 7 o'clock. Sat urday morning at 9 o'clock and Satur day evening at 7 o'clock. Rabbi R. Abrahamson will officiate. - A -special service will also be held" Sunday at 9 :30 a. m. The public is invited. ;; " Services kt Temple Beth Israel for the Passover will begin at 5:30 p. m. today. The Saturday service will be at 10 a. m., with Rabbi Jonah. B. Wise officiating. Passover services will be held at the Neveh Zedek Talmud Torah synagogue, Sixth and Hall streets, tonight ftt 7 o'clock. The Saturday and Sunday morning services will be at 9 o'clock and Saturday evening service at 8. Rabbi .1. B. Oordon, who came here recently from lxindon. will lecture Saturday night on "Joseph and the Culture of Egypt." The Sunday morning theme will be "Moses the Man and Moses the Prophet." Rabbi Abraham 1. Rosen crants will officiate at each service. miles in diameter and U..000 feet deep; Aristarchus. Plato,! Tycho, Ptolemy and Kepler. The most beautiful of "all these was Aristarchus, supposed to have walls Of crystals and which last night had a lustre like a Jewel, j At 10 o'clock, Lowe observatory time, the moon entered the earth's shadow. At 11:30 the total eclipse began and this lasted until 12 minutes past 12. The moon, left the earth's shadow, which, if anyone has any little bet to decide and Fine for a "head start" Dun lap Stetson ; Trimble Priced for 1921! Ben Selling Leading Hatter Morrison at Fourth . :'rll One of my satisfied customers Giving himself the "once-over" TOMORROW! Boys' Belted Suits $9.85 Regularly $12.50 and $13.50. Last Year's $20 Quality. Extra "Knicks" With Nearly Every Suit. AH Spring 1921-Patterns. An Opportunity! Boys' Scout Brand Hose 39c. Boys9 Shop, Second Floor. 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Hlark and lirown kid and calfskin, Vrrnrh and Cohan heel. $6.85 NEW SPRING OXFORDS $4.98 Military Heels $2.98 Low Heels VAl,tTKS TO ti.M , $3.98 'Cuban Heels Kid and Calfskin Oxfords lilark, tan, mahograny nd brown, with all de- Ire d beel and loe All lze. $4.98 it "1 $3.98 T T7 TVTIT TVI 3 EU? .. iV JLJ IV JL JLJ IV J- JLJ I OPPOSITE CIRCLE THEATER Our Location Bet. Wash, and Alder on 4th St. 0 Our Location I IM I " II If. Uv. (UliCtii. Bet. Wash. rtST'" V- 1 and Alder Mail Orders Promptly Filled Subject to Return . : Postpaid- Open Saturday Evenings