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. . nl vrCv jxs'frx-r rTTi ! (VCYvr CITY EDITION If All Here and It's All True ROSE FESTIVAL IN DKTAIL Watch The Journal for a complete review In pic : ture and text of this week's Rose Festival event. ' gee additional announcement on page 3 today. . .. v: ' ' ' -' i: VOL. XX. NO. 78. Advance Guard of Festival Guests Pours Into City; Princess Dor othy Will Be Crowned at 2 P. M. Tomorrow, Opening Show. Visitors from all parts of the coun try are gathering in Portland forthe opening of the 1921 Rose Festival. Hotels report maQy reservations for the annual even, while each train brings Its quota of spectators. ; The official opening of the festival will take place when . Princess Dorothy Is crowned queen of roses at Laurel hurst park- Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The ceremony will be under the auspices of the Royal-Rosarians and will be, Cne of the picturesque events of the "Festival. . t-. TO I2TSPECT POIICE . --In the forenoon there will be the an nual public Inspection of the police force at Multnomah field at 10 o'clock. - Can- lain John Moore will have command of the five companies. Acting .Mayor C. A. Bigelow, city commissioners and Chief -of Police L. V. Jenkins will review the t force. The departments in the forma tion will be the. day relief, the first and - second night reliefs.' traffic and auto theft departments. The Red Cross band. formerly the Multnomah Guard .band,: will furnish the music v v .- . j At high noon the princess land her at tendants win arrive from the Kingdom of Rosaria aboard Fred W. Volgler's yacht "Wisdom." The royal party will disembark at the Stark street dock and' ;g to the University club for luncheon, j COROJfATIOX CEREMOX1ES Coronation ceremonies! at Laurelhurst will precede the christening of roses grown by government experts and the awarding of prises for the best roses of the year. . . , t The rose to be christened is a climber developed by Dr. W. Van Fleet of the department of agriculture. The rose will be named in honor of Miss Mary Wallace, daughter of the secretary of agriculture.: The secretary and Dr Van Fleet will be represented by C. V. Piper, agrostologist of the department- "Miss Mary Wallace will be awarded threes-prizes while -two other roses will also be awarded. The ' others are . ''Golden Spray", grown fey U, Dickson of - Belfast. Ireland, and William F. ureer developed by Howard and bmith of Los Angeles. ROSE BALLET FLANKED Following the chistening a rose ballet win be held in the pgrk under the direc- tlon - of Robert ai uitn. Bupcrvitwr. ok Concluded oa Fas. Two. Column Three) 20.000 LATE TO ; WORK: CARS HALT Approximately 20,000 people were half an hour late in getting down to work this morning, because of troui 1 ble on a 67,000-volt high tension line of the Portland Railway. Light i Power company at-Lents. Practical ly the entire West Side streetcar ser vice was out of commission from 7:30 to 8 a. m., and Cast Side lines were tied up by congestion of stalled cara at 'bridge approaches. j According to W. C. Foster, operat ing engineer of the P. R. L. ft P. Co., . the principal damage to equipment con sisted iiftne breaking down of a gen erator at the Bull Run plant. No one was injured In the accident which re sulted ire' the" tleup of . power service. Foster reports. - . Electric light and power - service in west i side . business -- and industrial buildings was affected by the break down and no elevators were running in office buildings. Connections with other high-tension lines were effected and service resumed at about 8 a. rl. . according to Engineer Foster. M. E. Martin, Timber Cruiser, Is 4 Drowned -. M. E. Martin, chief timber cruiser "for JSkamania county, was drowned in, the upper Lewis river Monday, according to word received here today. Martin was attempting to. cross the river when be . was lost. The body has not been re . covered and the county has offered a reward. . Martin is survived by his wife, who lives at Stevenson. TORI GLAD Lad Sleeps on Iron Bench His Tale Arouses Sympathy ; Hatless,' coatless and alone, but i sound asleep on one of the iron benches at the east end of the Mor rison bridge, Phillip Dawson, 9 years - old. presented a pitiful sight to pe destrians crossing the bridge Mon day night. '. ' 1 Finally one couple, more sympathetic than the rest, awakened the little fel low to find out what he was doing there and he unfolded to them a tale ef woe, that points to shameful treat men or an unusual imagination. 4 According to the story-Phillip told the police, to whom he was taken by . the couple who found him, he was placed on the train at Free water by his t-p- Entered a Second Claaa Matter at PoBtoiOe Portland, Orafcoa U. Si DESTROYER FLEET AT ANCHOR UNDER BROADWAY BRIDGE nrti m 'Ml Sudden ' Flood . Poured -Into Co lumbia Threatens Railroad ; Tracks at Kalama. . The, sudden flood poured Into the main channel of the Columbia river by the Snake and Upper Columbia rivers on ; Sunday and Monday t is "smoothing out" as: it moves down stream with the result that a street floding height will barely be missed Thursday and Friday, when the river is expected to . reach a! : new high mark of 24.5 feet at Portland. ' Before . a slight fall was reported in the Snake river at Lewiston this morn ing the weather bureau predicted a rise in . the height of the backwater' flood in: the Willamette to more than 25 feet. A fall 'of J2 of a foot, was recorded' at Lewiston with a balancing rise of .2 of a foot in the Columbia at Wenatchee. TO RESI AIX :: STATIOS ART Because - of I this balance ; of flow be tween the : two main feeder streams E. I Wells, district weather ' forecaster, says that the river will remain station ary for two days after the high mark is reached Thursday. .. . But temperatures recorded through both the Columbia and Snake river watersheds presaged ;a third and greater rise In the height of the river. Wells reported that the weather was -more 'uniformly -warm (Concluded on Pace Sixteen. Column One) Three Executed ;' In Irish Prison law Taking Two Lives - Dublin, June t. TJ. 'P.) Three men were executed at Mount Joy prison to- day. two or tne men, Kdward Feley and Patrick Maher, .were Irishmen. The other one. Constable Mitchell, was an Englishman. . . . , . , . . Maher 'and Foley were convicted of murdering a constable at Knocklong. Mitchell was found guilty of murdering Magistrate j Dixon - at Dunlavln. father at sil o'clock Monday "afternoon, without hat or, coat and without money. He said be had , eaten nothing since morning. When asked as to why his stepfather' should want to send him away In such a manner be replied that there were .10 children in the family and he was -not wanted., Phillip slipped up on some of the questions asked him as to how he could make such fast time from Freewater and how he made the transfer at Pen dleton, but a few facts stood out un disputed.: i That he was hungry could not - be doubted, for he-, ate everything in sight Officer Van Valkenburgh took him to the ;Fraxer home for the night and now he is awaiting the arrival of his parents. . , . .-7n r f 4 .VSr-- ' ' -.-:: t f z ; j r - i v IIIHII liiiii.... .... ii .lit M I" .T.jtyMlliiiiii lnwn.MJl.ii1'lv,ywiW.w.....i.Ti...g?:4o?- iiiijiiui mill h.miiiiium... " .' V'1'. '!-".' RISE infill I Lf II 111! V fflJIIII 'I- LM.JTI II J III. It I! It-.l ri ii nil. in ii u ii n PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1921. TWENTY PAGES - i i. , Lover and ne JPrecious gold, pretty princess and the handsome villain have vanished from the clan 'and ' caravans of "Gyjtsy" George, king of the tribe of nomads encamped on ' Columbia slough. ' Carlotta, the king's fairest -daughter, .mourned because she was torn from the glare of his carnpflres without the for mality of purchase on the part of ber wooer, is gone with-500of the king's glittering treasure, and with -Alexander Miller, the handsomest gypsy in - all the company. , ; i .:i t And i somewhere today Princess- Car lotta and her swarthy lover are speeding over the highways In search of thai land of heart's desire where leve and not a mere purchase price may - assure them long life and happiness. . . - - Deputy . sheriffs were 'searching for Miller in the vicinity of Oregon City to day, where he is believed to be in hiding with the princess. A warrant charging him with larceny of the $500 was sworn out Monday night by "Gypsy" George. , "Gypsy George also wanted District Attorney, Evans j to Issue ;a warrant charging Miller ' with . larceny of i his daughter. - . ' . "Daughters are not personal property under the white man's law,- Evans told him..': s :; , r ,', - According to the king's story, he drew $500 out of the bank Saturday to pay for 10 $50 licenses so that the women of the tribe could tell fortunes in the Port land streets. -.Vs..;.;. , .The city hall was closed, however. and be had i to take the money with him when he returned to his tent home on j the sloughs. He-I left s the : wallet in the inside pocket of .his coat and laid the. coat down on the floor.' When he looked again for the wallet it was gone. v v -, "My daughter, and maybe " my, sister, were " the only : ones 'who knew I bad the money," .Gypsy George told Evans. Deputy Sheriff Christofferson , was told at the gypsy camp that Miller had been dickering with Gypsy George for the purchase of the princess. One tribes man told him that Miller bad paid part of the purchase price of $500 fixed upon and that the two men had gotten into a row afterwards. Negotiations had Lbeen broken off The princess was supposed to be wildly in love with Miller. Miller was de scribed as .one of the most handsome meawf the tribe. -with-bold black eyes. "Why, sure," ' said "Gypsy" , George to Evans. "I would - sell the princess to him if hexwi pay me.' i :M : Strawberry Prices .Drop So Anybody Can Purchase Them By Hymaa H. Cohea Strawberries may be had at almost any. price .consumers are willing to pay, but even then below the cost of produc tion. -. v . . - Front street prices were again demor alized, with the very: best berries selling down to $l1.25'per crate late in the day, -while on the public market -crates were' being offered at - $1.251.40 and small lots at four boxes for 25 cents.- - .Berries are now' so cheap that grow ers have threatened to strike unless values are bettered. They say that it is costing them more : than the present price ' to buy crates,, pay pickers and bring the strawberries to market, leav ing absolutely" nothing for their growing. i Canners who , paid around 18c per pound for strawberries last year,-are obtaining them now,. without price, payment-to be made whan-the-canned goods are sold. MoneyQp ' ill L I RECORD LIGHT -7 I'OIE IS CAST Reports Indicate ' Only.,' 12 .Per "Cent of Registration ; Repre-J sented at Polls Up to Noon. . With .an .average .vote of. slightly over 12'per cent, on the basis of reports from widely separated pre-" cincta throughout the - city, cast up to noon . to day i the special election seems about to break the recofd for lack of interest of any held in re cent years, so far as Portland Is con cerned at least. , ! -Election officials throughout the city unanimously report an extremely light polL "--,, ! ! f JTO INTEREST SHOWS' - ; ' Those from the east side residential districts, particularly in those - sections where the labor population is heavy, say that the morning vote. Is always light, as the peak load of their 'voting comes after working hours when the voters have re turned from their day's labor. ; With an 1 absolute lack of excitement to stir the voters up the election Is dron ing along with no reports of disturbance or confusion..; Here and there through out the city the day ..began with gaps now and then in the ranks of the judges and clerks of the day boards,: but- these were filled and the machinery was ready for action generally throughout the city at 8 o'clock this morning, j HEAVIER ON HEIGHTS f A glimpse here and there shows the nonchalance with which . the average voter has approached bis electoral duty during, the sunny hours of the forenoon. XCQncloded on Pac SixUen? Column Two) Bone Indorsed for , Alaskan Governor Washington, June 7.--(L K; S. The nomination of Scott Bone, former , pub licity director for the Republican na tional committee, as governor of Alaska, was ordered favorably reported by the senate committee today. J To Give Bone Dinner t 1 ' (By t'nWenal Service) New Tork. June 7. A large number of Scott Bone's Eastern friends have arranged for a complimentary dinner to him at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel here on Friday, ' June 17. ( . -Wednesday's Festival? Program 1 0. a. m. Annual police Inspection at Multnomah field.. . 10 a. m. to 1 p. m.T Judging of exhibits .at annual Rose and Flower Show, 'The Auditorium, not open to public. t ' ' " .j..,. . Noon Arrival of Princess Dorothy from . Kingdom of Hosaria at Stark street dock. - ,, '. . 4 . v j . (. : 12:15 Luncheon for royal party ;at UnlTrsity club.- ' . 2 p. m. Rose and Flower Show at. The Auditorium, open to- public. ' ' 2:30 p. m. Coronation of queen at Laurelhurst Park, followed by' christening of roses and rose bsQfet. -p -----, - , . . , . v 4 p. m. Dedication of Festival Center? " - ,r- ' -.-.j. - ,4:30 p.m. Official visit of queen to Rose and Flower Show; at The Auditorium. v - ' I " . - - I . 7:30 p. m. Frank Branch Riley delivers address at Festlvar'Center, musical program to follow 'i ' . " 7:30 p. xn. -Pipe organ recital by Professor Goodrich at The Audi torium.. ' ,i' . ... - . " - 8 p. -m. Pageant of Roses at Laurelhurst Park,-followed by street -dancing. - - ' -' ' -" - - v ' - - 4 I COAST GIVEN CUTiRn'iii 10 Per Cent'.Reductiori Made on Fresh and Green .Vegetables, Melons and Apples." " San Francisco, Cal., June 7. Re duction by approximately .10 per cent of freight rates on fresh, and green "vegetables,"' melons, canta loupes and. apples, from. Oregon, California,-: Nevada, Arizona Washington and-Idaho to eastern points was an nounced today, by r the- leading . rail roads. - ' ' -Word of the rate reduction' came In a telegram from G. W. Luce, freight traffic manager of. the Southern' Pacific, who is In Chicago. The reduction, Luce said. has been adopted by the transcontinental and eastern trunk railway" lines. v The rate, on all' of the affected com modities . excepting apples will become effective "as soon as possible,'' the tele gram said. The . rate on apples wlll be in , lorce oepiemDer . i, t . For months western, fruit and? vege table growers ' have been fighting for lower rates. - The announcement - today was considered as the first sign of suc cess .for their, campaign. , ? The new rates will apply to Atlantic seaboard points, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Cin cinnati, Detroit and points In the south east south of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. .'.-;, TVegetables,- fresh or green;- including melons and cantaloupes, car loads, mini mum weight 20,000 pounds, as per item 1535.1 Eastbound transcontinental tariff 3-0, to points in groups A. B. and C.,, vix.. New JTork, Boston and . other Atlantic seaboard points, Buffalo, Pittsburg,' Cin- ' j . (Conelndcd on Pus Two, Columa Four) Stenographer Who I, Shot Herself Dies 1 '- Vf - jMiss Elsa Carlson, 34, a stenographer for the law firm of Bafferty. & Pickett, who shot -herself, in tbe cheat in the of fices of the firm In the Title & 'Trust building' Friday. died at 1 St Vincents hospital at 2 o'clock this morning. Chief Deputy Coroner Leo Goetsch, who took charge -of the body, stated that no -Inquest was -necessary. Goetsch stated it was clearly a case of suicide, but was unable to determine the cause. Miss Carlson lived with friends at 920 Hood street. L 4 P. Hog-Tied 'Bo l urried Over. F6 Policeman Ed .Wickham St. Johns farmer, drove his wagon up to' the St- Johns police sub-station at 2 o'clock this morning- and pulled In his horse with a determined ""whoa." " " . " ' , v ; 1 ; "Hey," he called to the drowsy patrol men. - "Come here and see what I got." .The' - officers r strolled over? to the wagon and. looked Into the body. Prone on the rough board was a bulky object hardly distinguishable - in the darkness. A flashlight-was turned, qn the. figure. It was a man bound hand and foot with yards and yards of rope,' and unable to move a muscle' I - . . i Wickham grinned with . a . proprietory air.- - .. . ..... :. i "Burglar,- he '-explained' ' "Caught him" myself, me and the hired ' man. Name is Bert W. 'Lake, ' regular hobo, professional bum. lie -Was in the milk house drinking milk when we heard him. M And the hired .man slipped, up, on him with pitchforks and a scythe. Had Quite a tussle, ' but here' he is. He's your'n, now.. j . V ' t ;. t - Bert W. Lake, ."night- errant," will be tried in the municipal court Wednes day on a charge of burglary. . : , MEXICAN TREATY .S. Washington, June 7. -(I. N. S.) The United States has proposed 'to the Obregon government of Mexico a treaty of commerce and amity, i( was announced, at the state depart ment late today. . " V Bed Cross to Help ; . Pueblo Sufferers Tbe Portland chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross today -undertook its part in the nation-wide relief drive to aid the sufferers from the Pueblo. ; Colo., catastrophe. The local chapter With others n the nation, have been author ized to - receive money for this . fund, and contributions will be - received - at the local Red Cross headquarters, Piatt building, according to the announcement of Chairman John Stevenson. .. Baseball Results AMERICA At Nw Tor , , - B- H. E. CleraUnd OOO 100 001 2 S 3 Nw Tor .... BOO BIO 00 0 8 O BsttariM Coveleskie; OdenwaM. Uortoa and Kuiiamakar: Sfaawker aAd Scbang. ' - i at Boston K. H. E. Kt Loni ii, ...... 200 130 000 10 0 Barton r. 200 lSl-OO'-J-T - 0 " 1 Battoriea Riebmond, Palmer. Rom II. Bur. well and SeTereid; Boab. Thoraayen and BneL . At Philadelphia. Chicaco-PhOadelphia poat poned, raia. . . . 4 -.......- KATIOXAL . -' At PUtabars - R. H. E. Boston 20O 003 221 10 15 8 PlttBbor ....... . 104 000 20 7 12 2 Battrries .Wataon. Oearhcer and O'XeiU; Zinn. Telkrwhone, Morriaoa and Schmidt. - At Cincinnati - K. H. K. New Tork ........... OOO 000 000 O S 0 Cinrinnati OOS 002 10 6 IS -3 Butteries Benton. NeU, Sallae and Snyder; Uamnard and Harcra.?' . . - , At CWea . R. -H. E. PhUadelpois .- . ... . .' 000 22t 001 - 1 Chinas , . . ; i-i .-. i .'SOO 410 00 8 12 2 - Batterlea HnbbeU PayimfirlTMir and . BrafO J PROPOSED BY U PRICE TWO CENTS Jlatsi .-a 4 A 1 Most, of State's Claims in War- ner Valley Are Rejected , by .Commissioner Spry. Washington, June - 7. (WASH INGTON BUREAU OF THEJ JOUR NAL) Rejection' of most of Ore gon's claim, for .additional swamp land selections in Warner valley ap pears in a decision by Commissioner Spry of. the general land " office. . As to part of its claim the state will be allowed 60 days to submit : further proofs.- however,' and the entire conten- ( Concluded on. Pas- Sixteen. Column On) u. : ...... By.. David M. Church Washington. June 7. (IN. S.) Sharp warning that the government may enter the coal business in order to reduce - prices, was given to coal operators today- by Secretary of the Interior Fall: Y:r:'-'r":X'''?'m'f: ' .. The warning came at a conferencee- tween 'Secretary' Fall, Secretary of Com merce Hoover and representatives of Che anthracite : and bituminous cbal In dustry aiifd after the coal operators had voiced their "opposition to proposed leg islation which would make it Incumbent on thefn to furnish the government with siausucs snowing proaucuon ana costs. Col. Rickards Will. Head Militia Bureau Washington. June 7 U. P.) Colonel George C Rickards will be made head of the milltta bureau. Secretary of War Weeks . eaid today. . - - KVMnMBMSMiWlajii'inwJ STHREATENSTO ENTER COAL TRADE Peggy's Father Is a Barber - . . . . : Beauty Game at Early Age : By James I. Kilgallen ; United N Staff Corraapondent Chicago, June 7. Light is begin ning to dawn upon the mystery of who" is or was Peggy Joyce.';, "Peggy, according to investigators, is the daughter of Samuel P. Upton, a bar ber, now cutting hair In L little shop at Farmville. J-'a. . . Her mother and father were divorced when she was a small girl and Peggy, who today Is the central figure in an in ternationally famous divorce case, lived most of the time with her grandmother until she went out Into the world on ber own hook and. by rraee of her appeal CITY EDITION if All Here and ie All True THE WEATHER Tonight cloudy ; .. Wednesday, tfalr-; westerly winds. Maximum temperatures: Portland ...s... 8J New Orleans ... 8 Boise ........... 84 New York ...... 74 Los Angeles .... 78 St. Paul .. 78 ON TRAINS AND NEW STANDS riVI CENTS jumps bank: INTO DEi'I Refugees in School Building Are Marooned as Waters Begin Lapping Foundations of Build ing; City Fears Dam Will Break Denver, Jane 7. (I. N. S.) A. score, of refugees tn the Garfield school at Uma and West Ivlevcntb streets were marooned when waters 3 o'clock this afternoon when waters of the Platte river continued to rise. The water, wm reported lapping the foundations of the building and threatening to break through the walls at any moment. Denver, June 7. (I. N. S.)The first fatality in the flood waters of the Platte river that flows through the extreme western end of this city occurred shortly before 8 o'clock this morning when a man believed to be Joseph Richards, a laborer, attempt ed to crosa the , swollen stream at Twelfth avenue and Zinca street. He was swept away within sight of po lice and watchers who are having difficulty in keeping pedestrians out of the danger zone. The river continued to rise rapldJy to day and at noon the Lacombe electric light plant reported that it had reached above the 11 foot stag Normally the river Is four and one half feet at this point. In West Thirtieth avenue. Overland parkjwhere dozens of early tourists were camped, is flooded. Word from the village of South Platte. 40 miles from this city, says that 2S0O feet of water per minute is running out of the large Cheeseman dam. The nor mal flow is 1300 feet per minute. If the Cheeseman dam should -give way, the immense volume of water would send, the South Platte river way beyond its bounds and endanger large sections of the lowlands of this city on the west side., -;;-, v . ' v. -. ; ,A drlaillng rain early today contrib uted to. the-rise of, the water and debris was piling up in the railroad yards of the : Colorado Southern railroad near Seventh street'' Residents of Valverde, Jerome Park and Globevllle districts deserted their homes during the night GLOOM AND PANIC AT END; PUEBLO IS HARD AT WOR1I v By Joseph C. Coyle Pueblo. Colo June 7. (I. N. S. After four days of terror and suffering. (Concluded on Pac Sixteen, Column Two) FORD ANNOUNCES NEW PRICE CUT Detroit Mich., June 7. (L N. S.) The Ford Motor company today an nounced another reduction In the list price of all types of Ford cars and the Ford truck, to take effect Im mediately. '.The list prices, f. o. b. Detroit, now are as follows: Touring car, $115; runabout, 370; coupe, $695; sedan, $760; chassis, $345, and truck chassis, $495. A statement accompanying the reduc tions says: - x . "The big reductions last fall were made in anticipation of low material costs which we are now getting the benefit of, and this fact, together with Increased manufacturing efficiency and the' unprecedented demand for Ford cars, probably during the last three months permitting maximum produc tion, have .made possible another price reduction immediately. Wages of Ford workmen wilt not be reduced, the .statement says. The cut in Ford prices In Portland will amount to about $27.60 on the pen . type, between $50 and $06 on the coupe and around about $35 on the sedan, and on the chassis, slightly more than $15. Cut in the price of trucks amounts to a little over $50. . Local Ford offi cials have not computed the reduction in war tax which adds slightly to the cut in Portland and exact figures here cannot be given. The freight from De troit to Portland on a'Ford is $112.50. ing beauty, conquered the hearts of three millionaire husbands. -PABEHTS DIVORCED Peggy's past has been the subject cf much, speculation, as It is known that when she takes the witness stand in court here in the action which her pres ent husband. J. Stanley Joyce, multl-mil-llonalre Chicago lumberman, is takin? against her. his attorneys will quiz her carefully regarding her family history. They have been making an investigation with this object In view. The story of Peggy's early life res 'j like the adventures of a twentieth cen tury Cinderella, with fairy god .-.-.Vers.