T
CITY EDITION
Ift All Hen and let All True
CITY EDITION
. ie All Here and l?a All True
REMARKABLB COLOR CUTS Gladys
Gentry. Louisville, Ky., beauty, is the
subject of very beautiful color cut in
the drama section of the Sunday Journal
a picture as rich In artistic beauty as
Miss Gentry is In personal charm.
THE WKATHKR Tonight and Friday.
fair ;, warmer Friday; northwest winds.
Maximum temperatures:
Portland ....... 70 New Orleans ... P0
Boise ........... 78 New York ...... 64
Los Angeles ... . 70 - St. Paul ........ 13
Trr - W MO 8 : Entered as Second Clasa Matter
VUL. AA. NKJ. OO. , t PoeUrfrice, Portland. Orecoo
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, EVENING, MAY. 26, 1921. TWENTY-TWO PAGES
PRICE TWO CENTS
ON TWAINS AND NtWI
STANDS W I W S CENTS
i . -. ' i i. .... i . . 1 : : :
FLOOD CREST
NEARS LEVEL
OF STREETS
Height of 22 1 Feet Reached All
Lower Level Docks Submerged
North Portland Gardens Dam-
. . aged; Dikeing Crew Is Busy.
Comparison of high water condi
tions between 1894 and 1921:
lft4.
Mi; it Rim 4b the
Willamette not so great
tnda;. lint wctUwr in
' fcatrrn W ash in (ton and
Eastern Washington is
melting mow and in
crease will noon be not
ed hertv RiM her to
day 1' foot. Water still
lacka 6 inches of being
la front street. Maur
Front street clerk will
iiieaiit tomorrow
(Sunday) is no day of
test. All indications
tMnt to highest water
in years. Temp, tola
73. Forecast: fair and
wanner. River wad
inga: Portland 24. hi
paria 21. The Dalles
42.08. L'matilla 20.02.
1021
May 26 Rise in the
Willamette .3 of a foot
today. Cooler weather
arrives east of tlie Cas
cades, bat warmer
weather is in project
for next wees. Water
larks 2 feet of being
a Front street. Weather
for Portlud '.a fnrecat
ed for Utr and wurm
er. Temperature at Port
land Wednesday 7 O de
grees. River readme:
Portland 22 feet. The
Dalles 87.7 feet and
Umatilla 22.3 feet.
Stealthily the backwater in the
Willamette river continued to creep
toward the level of Front street to
day, so imperceptibly, in fact, that
few citizens realized that the crest
of; flood now stands only two and
one half feet below the street sur
face. "
Cooler weather in the Columbia water
shed of British Columbia is believed to
have checked the continued rise of the
river,"" at least temporarily, weather bu
reau advices indicated.
The crest climbed .3 of a foot higher
with the result that a height of 22 feet
was attained at o'clock this morning.
The . weather bureau predicted a
continued climb of .3 of a foot a "day
until Sunday, when the river will stand
at 22.9 feet.
COOL SPELL FACTOR, . .... .
After Sunday the amount of the rise
depends largely upon bow long the cool
pell continues, which- Is now spread
over a large part of the Columbia and
Snake river drainage territory. ;.. .
T . . . ... i i ibj ii
. Concluded pq , Se?rtUn, Column Six)
Washington. May 26. (WASH
, INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR
NAL) The. filing; Wednesday with
the supreme court by Senator Mc
Nary of a petition for a rehearing in
the case of Henry Albers, Portland
miller convicted of violation of the
espionage act, by no means indicates
that the Oregon Bar association is
going to have easy sailing in its ef
forts to reopen the case,
v Many obstacles are developing. The
chief of these may be Attorney General
Daugherty himself, who feels much re
sentment over some of the criticisms
which have been hurled at his department.-
"
FIXDS NO PRECEDENT
So far, the attitude ' of Daugherty
toward the McNary motion has not
been officially announced, although it
is known that he maintains that the
motion to reinstate the Albers case bas
no precedents in supreme court . prac
tice. The final decision as to whether
, the government .shall openly resist it
is said to rest with Attorney General
Daugherty. ,
Department of Justice officials,
astounded by protests which have come
from Oregon, appear to be displeased
with the whole affair and" uncertain
which way to turn. Their temper has
not been improved by the published
interview ' with Albers' attorney,
Charles H. Carey, because of reflec
tions" it contained on the government's
-evidence. which seemed to imply that
"the confession of error might be based
on something besides reasons hereto
fore stated by Daugherty and Frierson.
PABDO!fWAS CONSIDERED-
Reports are I also current that the
petition for the "pardon of Albers
brought to Washington by Carey was
" given consideration, but was laid aside
In favor of tbe confession of error.
Reports that the course chosen was
j " pursued to avoid embarrassment or
I- criticism of the. administration which
might result from the issue of a par
don are denied by-Frierson.
The supreme court has not convened
(Concluded on Pag Two. Coluromn Two)
Business News
Is Big News
Nowadays
The Journal has correspond
ents in all the principal centers
of the country, who, by daily dis
patches,, place a survey of busi
ness conditions, throughout tht
United States before the reader
from day o day. Supplementing
these dispatches are miscellaneous
news items, which tell of business
developments and business trend
everywhere. ,
The big merchant and the
small housewife find a mutual in
terest in what is going on in busi
ness today.
. Read the latest business news
every day in
The Journal v
ALBERS REHEARING
IS STILL UNCERTAIN
BILL CARRIES
$200,000 FOR
'PROHF WORK
TTfASHINGTON, May 2, 11.
" N. iS.) The deflclciency ap
propriation bill, carrying approxi
mately $100,000,000 for "govern
ment deficiency ; for the present'
fiscal year, ending Jane 30, passed
the house this afternoon. The bill
carries an appropriation of $200,
000 needed in the prohibition en
forcement work.
STATE HIGHWAY
BIDS ARE OPENED
The state highway commission met
today for a two-days' session which
may extend over; Saturday. The pro
gram includes opening of bids for
the Improvement of about 100 miles
of road in various parts of the state
and a large number of bridges and
viaducts. . v
Proposals will also be received for an
issue of bonds to the amount of- $1,000,-.
000. These bonds are to be short term
bonds authorized , by a recent act of the
legislature, the interest on which shall
not exceed 6 per cent.
County delegations wilt also be heard
in the matter of highway work.
At today's session bids were opened
for the following projects :
' Benton and Lincoln counties, gravel
surfacing 7.2 miles! - .-
Corvallis-Newport highway. Turn Turn
section. .I
Dfschutes county Cline Falls-Broad
Canyon section, 8 miles gravel surfacing.
Harney county, ? Burns-Sags Hen hill
section, 14.5 miles grading.
Lake county. Crooked Creek-Chandler
section. 6.5 miles grading and surfacing.
Lincoln county, s Newport-Toledo sec
tion, 7.25 miles gravel surfacing.
Morrow county, 1 Lexington-Jones Hill
section, 18.5 miles grading.
Sherman eountyj Columbia river high
way, 7900 lineal feet guard, fence, .
Umatilla county. Cold Springs-Hold
man section. 13.2 miles grading and
gravel surface. I 1
The f bridges ..include four in -Union
county and five railroad crossings ' two
bridges in Yamhill county, two in Lane
county and one in Lake - county over
the Chewaucan river. .
An unusually large number . of bids
were received. The competition for the
Umatilla and Morrow county work was
especially active. In many cases the bids
were under the estimate of the highway
department' - V-;.. -- f i9XZ3
... Announcement, of awards will be made
this "afternoon. 3
Amount of Loss in;
. W i 1 s o n yille Store
Fire Not Yet Known
Wllsonville, Or.,t May 26. No Investi
gation of the fire which destroyed the
Farmers' Mercantile store, 'owned' by
Sam Director of Portland, has been in
stituted by the -state fire marshal's of
fice,' though the i marshal's office has
been notified that R. M. Hussey. who
discovered the blaze, reported that he
smelled kerosene about the fire.
No representative of any of the in
surance companies which suffered
tosses had. appeared this morning. Di
rector : is said to ; have left Wilsonville
on the first train early Wednesday
following the fire, and ' the amount
of his loss is not known. .
Sam Director, who lives at 204 Grant
avenue, and who is Interested in a store
at 165 Front street, is not the Sam Di
rector of Portland who was owner of the
Farmers' Mercantile; store at- Wilson
ville. Identical names and failure to
reach Director either ' at his home or
store Thursday resulted in the confusion
of addresses. j
Portland Continues
Drive to j Get Ninth
Corps Area Keserves
Washington, May 26. (WASHING
TON BUREAU" OF THE JOURNAL.)
Secretary of War Weeks writes Sen
ator McNary that, plans for organisa
tion of the Ninth corps area reserves
will be taken up' after receipt of ' rec
ommendations from the commanding
general, due June 1. Responding to
suggestion of Major Lyman Griswold.
president of the. Officers' Reserve Corps
association at Portland, that Western
headquarters be f placed at Portland,
Secretary Weeks says Griswold should
communicate with the ; commanding
general, as the location will be deter
mined by the war department upon
that officer's recommendation. The lo
cation and designation of reserve units,
however, will bej determined by local
boards appointed! by corps command-
Japanese jlncrease
Ratio Larger Than
Wfiites in Oregon
Washington, May 26. I. -NV S.) The
census bureau announced that the 1920
population of Oregon ' consists" of 416.334'
males and 367.00a females. During the
decade the total population increased by
16.4, the male population by 8.3 per cent
and the female population by 27.2 per
cent.- The distribution of the population,
according to race or color in 1920, was
as follows : j .
White, 769,146 ; negro. 2144 ; Chinese.
3090 ; Japanese, 4151 ; Indian, 4590 ; ail
other. 268. ; s - i t - - .
. The foreign born white population
numbered 102,151 lii 1920 and constituted
13 per cent of the: total. " .
During ; the decade the rate . of in
crease in the white population was 17.4
per cent ; in the Japanese population, 21.4
per cent, and in the negro population,
43.7 per cent. - The Chinese population
decreased from 7363 to 3090. : . - "
DIDN'T INTEND
BONUS VOTE
Records at Salem Show That Sec
tion Providing Soldiers' Bill Go
to People Was Stricken Out;
Included Through Mistake.
Salem, May 26. The state legis
lature never intended that house bill
203 -the bonus bill should be re
ferred to a vote of the people. The
records of the .senate and 1 house
clearly so indicate and section 26 is
only in the act as published in the
1921 session laws through a slip of
the house enrolling committee.
'Section 26 provides that "the secre
tary of state is hereby authorized and
directed to set aside for an affirma
tive argument on this act or measure
two pages of the official pamphlet con
taining proposed initiative and referen
dum measures to be voted upon at the
election at which this act is submit
ted." ,
SECTION STRICKEN OUT
This section, , the legislative records
show, was included with other amend
ments to 'the house bill in the report
of the senate committee on military af
fairs, which report was adopted' Feb
ruary 16. ' Later on this same day, ac
cording to the records, Senator Joseph,
chairman of the military affairs com
mittee, asked unanimous consent : to
strike out' section 26, . which request
was granted.
That section 26 was duly stricken out
so far as the senate is concerned is fur
ther shown by a perusal of the house
journal in which is found the senate
amendments minus section 26 sent over
to the. house for cousurrence.
NEVER EXISTED ;
So far as the lower house of the leg
islature is concerned, therefore, section
26 never existed and its only appearance
at all in the legislative "chambers was as
a part of the senate committee report
from which report it waa later regularly
stricken out.-' ., ... J ,
However, for some reason, so far un
explalnable, the moot section did get
into the bands of the enrolling. committee
of th house and is included in the en
rolled bill on file in the office of the
secretary of state in , SDite of the fact
I that It WasTtlMed by its creator and was
never acted . upon by the house either
favorably or adversely,
Thta record of the legislative Journals
sweeps away the legal contention raised
against the. bonus act - to the s effect
that it was intended by the legislature
to be submitted to a vote of the people
and by them, approved before H could
become a law. ..
The- positive action of the senate .in
striking- out section 26, which is the
only section upon which an implied in
tent of the legislature for submission
could be predicated, removes the ques
tion of doubt as to the validity of the
act raised because of the fact that the
section has been erroneously printed in
the session laws. That section, accord
ing to the legislative record, was never
in the bill, either in: the senate or
house, and therefore ought not to be
in the act as printed in the session
laws. f
E
IS OFF ON FLIGHT
Redwood City Aviation Field, Cal.,
May 26. (I. N. S.) Five hours be
hind schedule, but determined to
make up as muclP as possible of the
lost time. Captain Eddie Ricken
bacher, foremost American ace in the
World war, hopped off at 8:32 on the
first leg of his attempted one-stop
flight to Washington. D. C. T
The first attempt was made at 4 :06
this- morning. After circling for over
two - hours in the fog. he returned and
awaited the lifting of the fog bants.
Although visibility was still low, he
made another getaway shortly aft
er 8:30.
.. When he left he planned to land at
Cheyenne on the air mail field this eve
ning. Cheyenne is a distance of about
1000 miles.
Friday morning he will hop off early
again and expects to land Friday eve
ning at payton,'Ohio. ")
On Saturday morning he will again
make an early start and will arrive in
Washington possibly by . noon.
Flyer Reaches Reno
San Francisco. May 26. (I. N. S.)
A radio athis afternoon to the United
States -air mall service here from the
Reno station stated that Captain Eddie
Rickenbacher passed over Reno on his
eastward, flight at 11 :30 today.. This
would j Indicate that he was flying
slightly behind schedule. : ' ,
Bootleggers Speed
Up, After Dropping .
Of 700 Dry Agents
bMssssssmsaaaiaBBssaw E -
! By W. H. Atkins ? ?
Washington,. May , 26. (L N. S.)
Liquor' lawlessness on a - wider scale.
especially among bootleggers, bas fol
lowed the dropping of '700 "dry law
enforcement agents, according to reports
today to the prohibition unit; of the
treasury. -
Reports, from those areas of the coun
try which still are listed as very wet'
by treasury officials, show, that illicit
vendors of whiskey are obtaining larger
fresh supplies from manufacturers of
illicit whiskey.
ED RICK
NBACKER
In Again, Out
Again, Cellar
Full Again
Efficacy of four-Inch or any other
inch centrifugal pumps to keep a
basement clear of water during the
present high conditions in the Wil
lamette are nil, according to the
head of the house of Freeman &
Son, implement men on the east side.
Water backed Into .the basement of
Freeman & Son. Freeman would keep it
clear by the use of a four inch pump,
which, according to laws made and pro
vided, should reduce the water in his
basement at the rate of an Inch an hour.
The pump placed, a huge stream was
thrown into the gutter on the Belmont
street side. Freeman watched the opera
tion all night, but the gauge stood the
same. This morning it developed that
the water was running down Belmont to
Water street, thence to Morrison, . back
to Front and into the back end of Free
man's basement.
"I see now where 'they get Uiat term
'laughing water'," commented J. A. Free
man, president of the firm.. 'The water
that's in our basement certainly bas the
laugh on us. We've been paying for the
gasoline to give it a ride around the
block all night long, and here It is back
again, just as good as new." v
LAST 0. S. GOLFER
LOSES IN BRITAIN
HOW AMERICAN GOLFERS
WERE BUNKERED '
Accident, Piatt.
First round : Burton beat Thomp
son. McNaughton beat Manley.
Second round: Tolley beat Guil
ford. Hodgson beat Ouimet.
Third round: Fownes beat Evans.
Quilter beat Hunt.
Fourth round : Graham beat Jones.
Wright- beat Fownes. Ball beat
Douglas. '
Fifth round : Darwin beat Hunter.
Sixth round : Darwin beat Wright.
By ilrank Carruthcrs
Editor of Golf Illustrated
Special Correspondent International fiews Berries
Hoy Lake, EnglandMay 26.
N. S.l-'-'A.' J: 'Graham - ef -the Royal
Liverpool club, and Willie Hunter of
Walmer. and. jKingsdown, will fight
it out with the British amateur golf
championship. : Graham won his
semi-final inatch' here today from H,
S. B. Tubbs. . of Sunnlngdale, 1 tip,
Huntf. .defeated tierriard J3fLrwi f
Woking. 3 up and 2 to play..
i Fred C. Wright, lone survivor of the
American contingent that entered the
British amateur golf championship, was
put out of the running in the sixth round
this morning by Bernard Darwin of
Woking, at the nineteenth hole. , .
The last hope of the Tankees went
down to defeat fighting like a champion.
The match was a nip and tuck affair
from the very start and the big gallery
that braved a leaden sky, a damp
breeze off the troubled Irish sea and a
murky night that hung over the links
got thrill lafter thrill. ,
- No British amateur tourney of recent
years has furnished the thrills and upsets-that
have featured the one draw
ing to a- close.'
The invasion, of the strongest team
America has ever sent tor the "tight little
isle" caused much speculation, with such
players as Francis Ouimet, . . Charles
Evans. Bobby Jones and Jesse ' Guilford
a team composed of eight great ama
teur golfers in all there was much drab
speculation . at the outset by British
devotees of the game..
Wright, who fought his way to the
round before, tbe semj-finaj by playing
brilliant, accurate golf in the face- of
difficulties that caused the downfall of
bis team mates, did not figure to make
the fine showing that enabled him to
carry the hopes of the Americans on his
youthful shoulders' up to the -last ditch.
THOSE FLAPPERS BEAT JONES,
DECLARES LORD NORTHCL1FFE
By YiseonBt Iforthellffe "
(Written for the United Press)
(Copyright. 1921. by the United Preaa Assn.)
Hoy Lake. England. May 26. Amer
ica's last hope for victory in the British
golf championship is gone. AH of the
entries- from- the-United States have been
eliminated by our players.
(Concluded on Pace Serenteen, Column Seven)
Baseball Results
NATIONAL
At Boston First game: R. If. &
New York 200 010 110 5 12 S
Boston.. 000 002 001 3 8 2
Batteries Benton, Douglas and Smith; Mc
Quillan, Scott and O Neill. : . .. .
At Boston Second game: - -R jj E.
New York. ....... 100 020 000 3 7 0
Boston.. .. . . . . ... 300 000 001 4 10 2
Batteries Douglas. Bailee and Smith; Fill
incin and Oowdy.
At Pittabura: R. H. E.
Cincinnati........ 20t 000 010 4 10 O
Pittsburg.... 001 000 000 1 4 3
- Batteries Marquard and Hargrove ;t Hamilton,
Zinn. Carlson and Schmidt. .
At Philadelphia: A. W. E.
Brooklyn. . . ... ... 000 000 001 1 7 3
Philadelphia. ; 015 200 01 0 19 4
Batteries jC adore. Bailey and Krueger; Ring
and Braggy.
'"' AMERICAN 1 "
At Detroit First game: . R. H." E.
Chicago . . . . , 000 000 010 1 8 1
Detroit .:. 801 020 00 11 15 0
Batteries Faber. Davenport and Taryan;
Dausa and Basaler.
At Detroit Second game: 'R. H. E.
Oiieago, ...-..... -O20 202, 000 6 4
Detroit .. 000 210101 5 1
Batteries Kerr and Taryan; Oldham and
Ainamita.
30 Miles of Speed;
30 Hours in Jail
R. D, Sikes drove his automobile along
Lombard street at a rate of 30 miles an
hour Wednesday afternoon. . Patrolman
Pierre happened along. For each mile
of speed, Sikes will consider, the error
of his ways.- Municipal Judge Rossman
sentenced him to 30 hours in the city
jail. , . .
GASE SHOWS Rfl
LABORERS AS
VIRTUAL PEONS
Storekeepers Fined for Running
Employment Office Without
Permit; Prices Charged Mexi
cans Made Them Slaves, Claim
Illiterate Mexican laborers on the
Southern "Pacific railway system in
Oregon are kept in virtual slavery
by an employment system which al
most forces them to buy their sup
plies from the L. H. Manning com
pany of Portland, Deputy District At
torney Stockman charged in District
Judge Deich's court this morning.
, W. E. Tessing and Charles P. Berger,
part owner and manager of the store at
306 Hoyt street, were fined $100 each by
Judge Deich for operating an employ
ment agency without having a permit.
Stockman claimed that the Mexicans
worked for weeks to get out of debt for
initial outlay., and current expenses
after they were sent to the railroad sec
tion shacks by the Manning company.
They have been kept at their Jobs and
harassed by the storekeeper. Stockman
told the court.
COS! PANT ADMITS SALE
Attorneys for the company admitted in
court that the Manning company has an
arrangement with the Southern Pacific
whereby the company sells supplies to
the Mexicans and the railway paymaster
keeps the amount out of the monthly
paycheck.
W. A. Fitzgerald, deputy state labor
commissioner. Introduced evidence to
show that exorbitant prices were charged
the laborers for their groceries and
clothing.
"Here is one item for 10 pounds of po
tatoes at 50 cents," he explained. "Po
tatoes were only about one cent a pound
at the time but this man was charged
five cents. Here is another item of five
pound of cheese at 12.75.
Fitzgerald told how the charge hap
pened to be filed against the Manning
company.
"A Mexican came to me one day with
an interpreter. he said. "He claimed
he was being, charged too high for his
groceries. A case of eggs cost him S15
that's 60 cents a dozen... . Eggs were
selling here at 26 cents a' dozen, at the
time; Then he Bhowed n a pair of c.lod-
nopper shoes and said they had cost him
Si. - '-'VV'j-..-- , -i", '.-V-,.' .'-. . -;-:,-
S.41B" WAsijRUBSTAE
5 "I didn't see how I couid do anything
about "profiteering, however,, but when
the Mexican said he had been charged
83 for his job. I investigated to see if the
company naa a permit. When 1 went
to its offices Berger: told me the 82 was
for a grubstake to start the job with.
"But there wasntt a Mexican among
those ' I took with me who had received
any grub."
The Manning company, it was brought
out during the trial, has a contract with
the Southern Pacific company that ex
tends over Oregon, California. Arizona
and New Mexico. The Manning people
are the only ones for whom the railroad
will make deductions from paychecks on
debts contracted by these laborers.
Moonshine Is Cause :
Of Patient's Death,
Report of Doctors
, Less than 12 hours after being dis
charged from the city jail. Fred W. Mc
Cain, rancher near Rainier, Wash., was
taken to the emergency . hospital . under
the .influence of liquor or powerful
drugs, from which he died! early this
morning. "f
Discharged Wednesday niorning, he
was taken to the hospital at 6 -o'clock
Wednesday night after he had been
picked up from the street at Fifth and
Everett streets unconscious. ' He died
this morning at 4 o'clock. Police sur
geons state his death was due to too
much "rotten moonshine." He had been
in Jail twice before for similar reasons.
One relative, Mrs. P. N. Hendricks of
823 Tibbetta street, was found. The cor
oner took charge of the body and is
investigating the theory that morphine
may have complicated his troubles.
German Resolutions
Are , Condemned by,
.Business Men's Club
Roundly condemning the action of the
Federation of German Speaking Roman
Catholic Societies of Oregon in passing
resolutions at a recent meeting, the
Progressive Business Men's club unani
mously adopted resolutions disapproving
the resolutions at its regular meeting this
noon In the Benson hotel.' .
Stating the resolutions adopted by the
German society were contrary to Ameri
can ideals and tended to do away with
American standards, the club, with one
accord, went on record as opposing any
such actions and the ones under dis
cussion in particular.
The soldiers' bonus measure was also
approved by the club. A. W. Tracey,
general i secretary " of ; the - Theodore
Roosevelt International Highway asso
ciation, spoke. . . ..
Chief Justiceship
Not Yet Tendered
Washington, May 24.-HL N. 8.)-It
was officially announced at the White
House today that President Harding has
not offered the appointment' of the chief
justiceship of the United -States supreme
court- to anyone. ..The statement, was
forthcoming in response to reports that
former President William . H. Tafi had
been offered ' tbe post and had . signified
his willingness to accept. . , . f
TIMBER SOLD
T0ID.0DS
Med ford Man's Bid Accepted on
87,500,000 Feet Western Yel
low and Sugar Pine; Work Will
Boost Southern Oregon Section
Increase of work in Southern Ore
gon will be a direct result of the
award made to Millard D. Olds of
Medford by the forest service to log
87,500,000 feet of timber in the
Four-bit tract of the Crater national
park.
The sale, cne of the biggest for sev
eral years, was tentatively culminated
when George Cecil, district ' forester.
opened the bids this morning at the. new
Post off ice building and made the award
to Olds.
Situated 114 miles east of Butte Falls,
the eastern terminus of the Pacific &
Eastern railroad, which Olds Is reported
to have purchased recently, the stand
consists of 81 per cent Western yellow
and sugar pine. The bid on the yellow
pine was 33.75 while that on the remain
der was 75 cents. The tract consists -of
6300 acres.
Facilities for lumbering are excel
lent, T. T. Munger of the forest serv
ice points out, for the country is of
gentle topography that makes it pos
sible to log by what is known .as
horse logging.
The expenditure -of approximately
8238.000 to extend the tracks of the
railroad to the timber site is one of
the greatest costs. The total cost of
logging 1000 feet and delivering at
, Butte Falls is estimated at $11.20. From
tsutte aus tne rail connection goes
direct to Medford, where it makes
Junction with the Southern Pacific.
PORTLAND-SEATTLE
HAVE HANDSHAKE
Messages of friendship were ex
changed between Portland and Se
attle Wednesday-night wherr a group
of trade excursionists from " the
Washington city sat down' to m. din
ner prepared in their honor by the
Portland Chamher of Commerce.
Portland speakers at dinner expressed
respect and admiration, for the Sound
city. Seattle's speakers said the ad
miration was mutual and followed up
with a promise to help Portland make
the 1 92o exposition a big success.
Speakers representing both cities
pleaded ' for peace and harmoney and a
spirit of helpfulness. All agreed that
the business interests .-of both' must
work toward c a common cause In the
interest of the entire " Northwest.
The Seattle party of - 175 members
was greeted by 225 Portland business
and professional -- men at the Chamber
of Commerce following their arrival In
the city shortly after 6:30 from Van
couver. Fifty members of the Van
couver' Chamber of Commerce accom
panied the visitors and were guests at
the dinner.
Early this morning the Seattle trade
excursionists boarded a' steamer at the
foot of Aider street for Astoria. From
Astoria they will swing north on the
first leg of their return trip' home.
The dinner guests greeted, their hosts
with . a yell . in which they featured
Northwest products. ' The , greetings
were returned with a' yell featuring a
genu! ne . Portland cry -of welcome. Nor
was Vancouver forgotten.
"Vancouver. Vancouver, Hayden, youV
the hosts chanted. This greetitng de
lighted the . visitors both from Seattle
and' Vancouver. The Seattle guests
were wearing . cards on which were
blazoned -the words that they, too, were
for Hayden island.
Frank S. Grant, : city attorney, wel
comed the visitors in the absence of
Mayor Baker, and Charles F. Berg was
toastmaster.
H. B. Van ' Duzer, president of the
Portland Chamber of Commerce, made a
second welcoming speech. "
"While we may scrap about many
things in an effort to develop a civic
Concluded on Page Two, Column Three)
Paris, May 26. ( I. N. S. ) A test
vote' in the chamber of deputies this
afternoon gave Premier Brland and
his government a signal preliminary
victory foreshadowing a final vote
of confidence. The question voted
on was on continuing the discussion
of the foreign policy. Brland won,
407 to 180.
Alleged Insane Man
( Sought Along Coast
" - " -" t"
Marsh field, May 26. Search is being
made down the coast from Bandon for
Clifford Johnson, aged 25. a former serv
ice man, alleged to be insane. Hei es
caped from the officers when they went
to his home at ; Bandon to arrest ;him
on a complaint asking that be be' ex
amined for. Insanity.' Officers ' tracked
him through the brush along the coast,
as - ik.: is believed ; he ' got into Curry
county . and . has made his escape - frdm
this section. 'Residents-of tbe coast coun
try have been assisting In the search. .
BRIANO WINS IN "
FIRST SKIRMISH
Smoot Sees
Higher Not
Lower Taxes
Washington, May 26. (I. N. S.)
The Arrferican people face a strong
possibility of higher lnStead of lower
taxes, Senator Reed Smoot, (R.
Utah), Indicated today when the sen
ate finance committee, of which he
is a member, resumed its investiga
tion of the country's ta situation.
Smoot did not designate what kind of
Increased taxation he intimated he ex
pected the American beople would have
to shoulder In a not distant future. -
He expressed regret at the financial
prospect facing the country. Smoot sug
gested that the adoption of soldier bonus
legislation would render more certain
the possibility of a nation-wide boost in
taxation.
BRITISH TO ENTER
SILESIA ON FRIDAY
Berlin, May 26. (I. it. S.) The
dispatch of four . British battalions,
2400 soldiers, from the Rhlneland to
Upper Silesia will begin ; tomorrow,
said a dispatch from Cologne today.
According to the Morgen Post - the
French troops In Upper Silesia have
evacuated Myslowitx and the Polish in
surgents have occupied the city. ""Jingo"
newspapers in Poland are threatening a
Polish declaration of war, against Ger
many over Upper Silesia 1 according to
advices from Warsaw, t
POLAND HAS NO CLAIM ON
SLLESIA, SAYS CHANCELLOR
By Frank E. Masoa
Berlin. May 26. (L N. SJ "I share
Premier Briand's wish that justlceTmay
prevail In the settlement of the Upper
Silesian trouble," said Chancellor Wirth
In an Interview, replying to the speech
of Premier Brland in the chamber of
deputies on Tuesday. The interview was
printed today in the newspaper Deutsche
Allgemeine. Zeitung.
Chancellor Wirth thus becomes the
third cabinet head In Europe" to adopt
the .policy of "open diplomacy" advocat
ed by Premier Lloyd George of England
when he began to hurl public warnings
at European powers concerning Upper
Silesia. . .' . .
Bus Strikes Cow;
One Passenger Is
. a Killed, Seven Hurt
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Grants Pass.. Or., . May : SB. While
traveling along the Pacific highway at
about 25 . miles per hour the 6 'o'clock
Grants ' IJ ass-Med ford interburban . car
hit a cow, turned turtle and plunged Into
the ditch,' striking , a concrete culvert,
about three' miles south of Grants Pass,
smashing id the top and injuring Seven
of the 10 passengers, one of whom died
on the way to the hospital. .v 4
The dead : Colllster Gray of Fort Kla
math. Among the list of injured are : Mrs.,
Clyde Harper, Grants Pass, broken rib.
badly shaken and cut with flying glass.
Her two children were uninjured. Adju
tant Sidney Cooke of the Portland Sal
vation Army, two bones In hand broken.
Cecil Jennings, the driver? was badly
shaken up and crushed' across the chest.
Marshall Hooper, Klamath Falls banker
and former, state bank examiner, slight
bruises.- Two other unidentified men
were cut and otherwise scratched. .
The accident occurred oh a straight
stretch of the paved highway. When
the big car neared a herd of cattle one
of the animals Jumped directly in front
of the rapidly moving stage.
Highway Is to Open
For Holiday Travel
Announcement is made by the state
highway commission that the Columbia
river highway between Astoria and Sea
side will be opn to traffic from S o'clock
Saturday afternoon until lt.ni. Tuesday
morning for the benefit of Decoration
day travel. The road Is now being paved
and is closed during working hours.
Travel is being de toured by way of the
Melville-Wahanna cutoff.
'Lily White Love' Is Caveman
8
Juanita Will
. By Hazel Pcdlcr Faulkner
Universal fjrrrica Staff Correspondent
Oakland, Cal., May 26. Juanita
Miller's lily love has turned out to
be a cave man. -
In place of the spiritual soulmate
of her dreams, the daughter of , the poet
of the Sierras finds her bridegroom of
I the tulip bed a man with a "buried past,"
His raiiure to disclose .-.out past
whether it be" good or ill Is one ot the
grievances . which has combined, with
others, to make the heroine -of the April
moon marriage turn inquiringly toward
the - legal path toward freedom.
. For from. "The . High ts" yesterday
came word of-the marital difficulties of
the couple whose wedding a month ago
waa heralded with the mualc of cym
bals and celebrated with the feast of
roasted kid and home brew?
FAILS TO HAKE BKEAD "
" And as evidence of the charges of
cave man which Juanita makes against
her husband, she showed a bandaged
arm and bared . a bruised breast, mute
and colorful testimony of ' the "physical
cruelty" wbich, she says, - will be one
ground' for the contemplated divorce. ;.
, But the physical bruise is only part
of the hurt which Juanita says is hers
as the - result of . the . disillusionment
wrought by her tiger-lily husband
For Juan of -the golden locks and tbe
buried past has failed to make good on
the domestic part of the bargain. False
to his pre-nuptial promises he had not
TRUNK COVER
AND HAIR M
BARE WiYSTERY
Articles Indicating to Police That
Wealthy Widow, 72, May Be
at Bottom of Seattle Lake,
Are Found Floating on Surface
Seattle, Wash,, May 26. StrenKi'-
enlng the theory of the "police that
a trunk on the bottom of Lake Union
may cbntaln the body of Mrs. Kutr
Maboney, wealthy 72-year-old brr-.'e.
who mysteriously disappeared, "fal
lowed by the arrest of her hus'nintt,
37, on a forgery charge, the- liu - f
a trunk and a bunch of hair huc
found yesterday floating on the wnii-r,
by Mrs. C. A. Green, who resides in
a houseboat nearby.
Chief of Detectives Charles Tarn. nit
and his men are working on the thf-or
that the lid and hair, are asHOciatrri ' '
the mystery. For the past 24 hour 1
police have been dragging the lake f
evidence similar to that discovered t.
Mrs. Green. r
PLOT REPORTED
Mrs. Green thought at flret. tijui the
hair was fine excelsior. Inasmuch
the Mahoney mystery had not at !h.rt
time been made public Bhe attachcl m
significance cither to the hair or lo ft
trunk lid. She raked the hair ashore aii'1
then threw it back Into the lake.
The trunk lid. however, she bkIvhcp''
There are no marks of Identification op
it. but Mrs. Green says that it rffin
bles trunks used many years ago w hrn
she was a girl. -
A. F. Morris, an advertising mnn liv
ing at a local hotel, has reported to ih
police a plot he said he overheard to !'
(Conelndrd on Pag Three, Column Taro)
E
STABS HUSBAND
.CXatskiln le. Or., May 26. A Polish
resident of the' Hazen acres district,
two miles north of Clatskanle, named
Jul In, Is feriously , wounded as a re
sult of being stabbed, and his wife,
a Russian, is in jail here, arrewted
after a battle in which four men had
difficulty in handling her.
Juiin reeled out of his home Wednes
day evening at dinner time and, 'leaning
against a fence, told a neighbor his wife
had stabbed him; Neighbors rushed him
by automobile to Clatskanle where hr
was given first aid. He was taken to a
hospital In Portland this morning and is
said to be in- a critical condition.
Deputy Sheriff George Sutherland dep
utized three Clatskanle residents and
the four went to the Julln home. Wednes
day night. They found the doors locked
and barricaded, but finally Induced Mrs.
Julin to unlock one door. When, they
made a move to take her prisoner she
put up a .fight and their combined ef
forts were necessary to get hr in a ma
chine and to the Clatskanie jail where
she acted like a maniac.
- A 15-months-oId baby was found lying
in bed at the home. A 6-year-old daugh
ter was away from home at the time. No
reason for the stabbing Is known. ,
Blair's Nomination
Approved by Senate
Washington. May 26. (U. P.) The
senate today confirmed David H. Blair
as Internal revenue commissioner after
four hours' debate on his nomination.
The senate decided hot to make public
the rbll call on Blair, but the vote,
senators stated, was 69 to 15.
Seek Divorce
done his share of brushing up the floor
or of making the -bread.
The gate posts, blown down by the recent-high
Wind, He prone in a front yard
untouched by the hand of the errant
spouse and the trace of the recent mar
riage and of the celebrant throngs who '
witnessed the unique rites have been un
cleaned since the night of nights.
Juan simply hasn't made good, ac
cording to Januita. On every count he
has failed as a "home maker" ' and a
sharer of the domestic routine.
In lieu of the helping hand which he
promised to offer, according to his wife,
he gives her long hours of solitude, from
8 a. m. to 8 p. m., to be exact, during
which he wanders alone in the Eucalyp
tus groves above "The Higbts."
BOTH AT HIGHTS
T still , love him, although he has
turned out to be a cave man Instead
of my lily love," said Juanita today. "I
am contemplating divorce on the grounds
of cruelty and non-support, but I am
not going to take definite action until
a little later, after a stated number of.
days. . " ' . :
, "Before we. were married JuarLsald be
bad no bills and w as not In debt, and
now it turns out that be has unpaid
bills."
Notwithstanding the impending trag
edy Juan and Juanita are both at the
Hights, and this morning ate -their bran
out of the heart shaped bowl of love,
which occupied the- center of the stage
of the. breakfast -table..
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