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.i -'. '- THE WEATHER Fertlaaa and s Vlelaltyi Sssday fair and waxier. Xertherty wise . .. v" , Washlngtea and Oregon Sendey fair -aa.4 warmer. Moderate, northerly winds "LET-ER-BUCK ' - : The spirtt af tit Bosm-T la StrTk . inarly portray toy JBow-ars FlaaesV j carnal staff artist Jb tbm treat sorer of Tke SnndAT Jeanul aagmtliif to be p abashed next Saadaj. YOL. XIX. NO. 25. CITY EDITION PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1522 NINE SECTIONS PRICE ; FIVE . CENTS U. S. Policy tn Rejecting Ideals ind Main Objectives Of League Stands Forth as Real Untimely, Conspicuous Handicap -By Carl Smith- j Journal Staff Correspondent. Washington. Sept. 9. ( WASHING TON BURKAU OK THE JOURNAL) The meeting of the third assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva Is again bringing: to Attention the awk ward position of the United States in Its effort to hold aloof- from world affairs when the stability and well-being of all nations is the topic for dis cusslon, although Ambassador George Harvey is occasionally sent as an ob server at meetings of the allied lead ers, and R. W. Boyden sits around and even speaks when the reparations com mission talks over economic recon struction. - For ' a long .time Secretary Hughes left communications from the league unanswered. Finally communication was established through a neutral country which brought some of the questions needing answer to the offi cial attention of Mr. Hughes. From this lefthand method, the secretary has now progressed to writing a letter direct to the league. Exited states aid asked " :" This letter was . one requesting the participation of the United States in a conference for discussion of the sub ject of prohibiting the private manu facture of guns and munitions of war. Explaining that th;s country has an in terest In the subject, he sidesteps be cause it is proposed by the league. But the league, unsqu-lciied. is goine ahead and performing its work, 'hampered of course by the attitude of the Ameri can government, but steadily con ' founding its critic--. This may be illustrated by a few .questions and answers: H a a the league "aused any wars? No. Has it settled any disputes which might have led to war? Yes, several, the Aland islands, Silesian boundaries, and others: Has it acted or attempted to act as a super-state? No. - Has it Interfered '.v,th the sovereignty or Independence of any nation, or- tried to ' do so? No. PRACTICAL firEStI,TS Has it done anything practical? Yes, - many things. It da established the in ternational court of justice, it is work- o ing-oflj a plan of general disarmament, it is establishing better methods of -disease control, it. is building up bar riers against narcotics and poisonous drugs, it Is assisting Ins economic . re habilitation of exhausted countries, it , is extending the agreements against - ireff te.ii, s&fliea - u. children, it has collected a great ' amount of valuable data on an international basis on these nnc other problems with which it will deaiL The league is ' Mead" only for the -United States, and this country' ap pears now to have learned that it ex ists, since a note has been written to It. Five or six other nations are still .Outside, including Mexico, which has n'ot been Invited to join ; Hungary and Germany, which knock for admission; and Russia, which, unrecognised by -other nations, has nevertheless as sisted in some of the matters requested - by the league. Meanwhile the league has, had fb build its organization from the ground tip. and it has had a lltie more (ban two years In -which to do this and to begin its work on the greatest prob lems that the world has to offer. The work is largely preliminary, of course. for such a task can be little more than scanned in two years. Friends of the league say that 10 years is not too long a time to allow ior testing-time and adjustment. It took about that long for the United Staies to grope its way to security and assuredness after the constitution was adopted, (bough the process of amendment Is progressive and never-ending. . Observers are pointing out that the assembly of the' league is gradually taking a larger, influence than it had in the early conceptions, when the council of nini eight without the United States was assumed to be all Important. The assembly, in which all . member nations re represented, is unquestionably ga'ning in authority. AS INDEPENDENT Group of Electors at Saturday Night Meeting Indorse Marsfifield Senator. - Charles Hall of Marshfield was for mally named as an independent can- dldate for aovernor at a meeting held : Saturday night at Pythian liall. One hundred and sixty qualified electors -were present! W. S. Ebert of Forest ' Grove was in the chair. .ndM J. - George, the Republican county chair man of Washington county, was sec retary. A platform was adopted which Indorsed the ecompulaory public school education 1:!1. Thus t he rumors that have been current si me Hall threw up the, guber natorial rn-ount contest that he ulti mately would be found in the race as an. independent, are erystaliii into fact. His independent candidacy makes imminent a new brawl in the guberna torial situation, in view of the statute denylns to the defeated candidate in the party primaries the right of run ning Independently for the same of fice at the evuing general election. Although, the constitutionality of this law is questioned. It has never been tested In the courts. Thus more liti gation may follow, before Hall finds a place on tle November ballot. Hall was not present at the meeting His acceptance of the nomination is expected, la view- of the public state ment he made when the recount con test blew up. In. which he stressed the fact that h . 'would not dodge the duties -of .eandidateshtp should they b thrust upon Tiim. v - . KHALL NAMED MRS. HARDING'S GONBITIQNGRITIGAE;:: CONVENTION GETS DOWNt TO '-MS TAMILS BULLETIN IS First Lady's Temperature Is 102.2, Respiration 36 and Pulse 112; Pain Diminished. Yet Report Ends by Saying Con dition Still Grave; Dr. Mayo to Arrive at 9 A. M. Sunday. Washington, Sept. 10 Sunday). U. P.) As the zero hour, when human vitality is normally at its- ebb, ap proached early this morning. Mrs. Harding was apparently holding her own in her desperate battle for life. Though still dangerously ill and at times unconscious from the opiates, ad ministered to relieve her, those in. "con stant attendance at her oWlside be lieve that she was showing faint signs of improvement. Visitors to the White House late last night, notably Secretary of War Weeks, Albert Lasker. chairman of the shipping board, and Mrs. Edward Mc Lean, were visibly encouraged after conversations with the president over her general condition. Whether or not a surgical operation will be resorted to will, be decided at a conference of all the . consulting Dhvsieians and . surgeons in attend- ! MTf on Xfra WaivMn- m-riffcjn take place at the White House early today on the arrival of Lr. Charles B. Mayo of Rochester, Minn , who is speeding on bis; way and who is' due here at 10 o'clock this morning. By Xawreare Hart In ,r Washington, Sept. 9. TJ. P.) A somewhat more.- encouraging , buUetin on the condition of MVs. Harding, wife of the president, was issued at 1:30 p. m. tonight by.Dr.-C- K- Sawyer, the presidential physician: - -" - i -- Ttie patient's . condition, ' however, continued critical, it stated. - -, The bulletin, tne first issued since 9 a. ra. today, follows : "Mrs. Harding's condition at 7 :80 p. m. : Temperature 102. J ; respira tion, 38; pulse, 113. Excretion by kid neys somewhat increased. Laboratory findings indicate less auto-intoxica-tlon. .. . .--. rL; ".Fain in abdomen has dimirrished". Patient has been able, to take and retain some nourishment. Condition still critical. ; "Dr. George T. Harding Jr Presi dent Harding's brother, , joined the medical council this morning. Dr. Onarles Mayo, who has been called to confi-r on surgical aspects of the cz.se i will arrive in Washington at 9 a. m. Sunday. "Signed) SAWYER." BETTER THAN LAST SIGHT As the night wore on and the "dan gerous hours" of the early morning approached, encouraging reports con tinued to come from the sick room. Shortly before midnight. Secretary Christian, in talking to newspaper men, said that he was considerably en couraged because Mrs. Harding "seemed to be holding her own." and was better tonight than this time last night. Senator Harry New of Indiana, a close personal friend of the Hardings. ; called tonight at the White House. ; fter leaving the WJilte House, New said there hud beeiv only a slight change in Mrs. Harding's condition since the bulletin at 8:30, butwhat change there had- been was for the better. TEMPERATURE CAUSES COSUEBX The high temperature indicated by the bulletin confirmed the fact made known through callers during the day that Mrs. Harding's fever was giving j her physicians coftcem. j . White House officials were kept busy during the night denying reports ema- nating from various sources that Mrs. Harding s death had occurred. These rumors began coming in early in the day. At 9 :15" p. m. one such report was (Concluded on Vtee Thirteen, Column Two) Passenger Agents Will .Be' Guests in Portland for a Day V Elaborate entertainment plans have been formulated for the reception of "between 300 and 400 traveling passen ger agents of railroads in the United I States and Canada, who -will visit here September 21. en route borne from their annual convention held this year In the Canadian Rockies. These, men are making a tour of the country to hich they send a great number of tourists annually. The party will arrive early in the morning an a special train and after a brief" reception here will be placed in automobiles supplied by the business men of the city for a tour of the Co lumbia , River highway. At noon the visitors will be given lunch at the Lancaster highway camp as guests of the, State Chamber of Commerce.' Mem lers ot the. Hood: River Commercial club will meet the visitors at the Gorge camp and escort them for a tour thrugb the Hood River valley atid m the evening they will be served with dinner at the Columbia Gorge hotel as guests of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, .The- party wlU leave. for the east from Hood River that even ing. . CALLED MORE ENCOURAGING Keeps His Tryst With Dead Wife S. A. Scott Shoots Himself on Grave of Mate Who Died Last May. "Stay for. me there ; I shall not fail To meet thee in the hollow vale." What haunting grief has been assail ing the heart of Sidney A- Scott of No. 209 East. 53d street north for months was dramatically revealed last night when his body was found toppled upon the grave of Nellie May Scott, his wife, who died on May 6. When William T. Barker of No. 40 East 12th street north passed through Rose City Park ceme tery about 8 :45 o'clock he came upon the body huddled across the mound. Beside It lay a rifle. A bullet wound In the chest, near the heart, told the remainder of the story. Scott had been engageB in the con tracting business for years and was well known in the building trade. FlflWEHS PLACED Olf GRAVE Although his friends and associates knew he was grievously stricken by the dath of his wife, few realized that this grief had such a hold upon him. That he had performed some rite ' of devotion to his dead wife prior to the shot was indicated by the fact that three vases of freshly-cut flowers were standing on the grave. He had folded his raincoat and laid it near the head of. the grave as if to pillow his hefad .upon it. Then, apparently, he had knelt by the grave, and so placed him self that when he had pulled the trigger he would fall back upon the coat. In this, however, he had miscalculated, for he toppled forward instead of to the side. The rifle was found parallel to the grave. JfOSE KEARD SHOT Cemetery officiate said they had not heard the shot. Grave-diggers had been working at their, grim trade only a few 'yards away and had finished their task about 5 o'clock. - It must have been after that1 hour . that Scott had slipped in to carry out his Intent of Joining his 'wife in death, but the body had grown cold as If the end had come hours before. -r. Scott' sMtAmsbUewaa found In the roadway nearby. : Whatever Scott's private grief might have been, was -not revealed In a matter-of-fact note found by the coroner In a pocket when search was made in ihe somber, graveyard by the light of the full moon Which lent a sort of tra gic mystery to the scene, LEAVE TWO "3SOTES i :-. Thai note readV;-iPeaf' sir: Please no tify Albert Scott, 487 or 524 Rose lawn avenue, phone 'Walnut .2168 or 8287 and deliver to hint this key. S. Scott." A postscript read : "and let him take rare of this car until my son-in-law and daughter arrive." Another writing said : "Alert I have written you a letter and left it op the (Conrludrd OS Pace Ten, Column One) News. Index Editorial Section 2. Pace 2. National Poller of League Handicap Section 1. Page 1. Domestic Mrs. Harding'a Condition Critical Section 1, Pace 1. 30 Lines to Settle Strike Section 1. Pace 1. Pacific Northwest Vernonia Celebrates Section 1, Paze 1. Republicans Meet at Eugene Section 1. Page 1. ' State Ka'r Plans Procrea Section 1. Pace 11. McKenney Heads Oregon Elks Section 1. Pane 13. State llethodi'ts Exceed 23,000 Section 1, Page 13. ' Mrs. Blower Held to Grand Jury Section 1. Paee 14. " j Portland General ConTenbon New Section 1, Paces 1-8-7-8. Missing Votes Are Found Section 1, Pace 14. Suieiies on Wife' Graje Section 1. Pace. 1. Iteed College Opens Tomorrow Section 1, Page 1. journal's Round Cp Special Section 1. Page 2.' Business News Real Estate Section 3. Page 1. BcUdinc New. Section 3. Page 1. &i&rket Section 1, Pace 15. Finance Section 1, Pace 14. Marine Section 3. Pace 2. t Radio News Sunday Radio Department Section , Pace 2. Hatnnsorhoed News Section 1. Page 18. Amusement Section 5. Page 1-S. Automotive. Section 6, Pac 1-8. Sports Section 7, Pages 1-4. On the Finer aide The Week in Society Section 4, Pace 1-4. Women's Club Affairs Section 4, Pace 5. , American Veterans Section 2, Page 8. The Kealm or Made Section 4, Paces 8-8 Fraternal Section 2, Pace 8. f i How to Care for Babjr Section 4. Pace . Ir. Portalnd Schools Section 4, Pace 8. General Contention in Picture Section 8, Pace j. jt 0r the Hills to Vernonia, (Pictorial) Sec tion 8. Pace 1. Bin Laiuners tetter Section 2. Page 5. Town Hall Gossip Section 2, Page 8. Theatrical Scrap Bock Section. 6, .race 1. A Blue Streak Section p. Page 1 Gotham's Shows Ate Poo Sectsosi S. Pas 1. The . Peeee." s fey , Bay Stannard Baker . . Seetiosi 3. Pas 4- ? Chxstun Scieaee lerore-Scti 1, Pas 4. National Capital Seetwa 2. Pas 4. ' - Letters Front the PopJe Section 2. Pace 4 :- il Waiartne - '' ' ' Section 8, Paces 1-8. " i. j . Com lea . t Section 9, Pacee 1-4. . THRONGS Hf VERNONIA AS FUTURE CITY New Chapter Seen in State In dustry as First Train Goes Into Nehalem Valley Town. 265 Portlanders Attend Jubilee; $3,500,000 Railroad Line Taps Region Virgin Resources - Oregon's development, history had another and a vital chapter- added Sat urday when the first steam passenger train to go over the new Portland, As toria (k. Pacific railway - carried 265 Portland excursionists into Vernonia and the upper Nehalem valley. It was a gala day lor the blossom ing lumber center of district. The arrival the peninsula of passenger trains bringing visitors from the out- side world meant the injection life which was needed to give to the embryo city. of the ferowth r Around the skirts of wide-fluhg and prosperous valleys, past no towns of newly hewn wood, over high- flung trestles and through lanes - of forest giants, the train crept oyer tile new rail, lines. - is HEW HEAIJl OPE5ED The 'rails, unpolished by traffic, screamed their protest to the new bur. den which they had to bear, and the forest '"giants frowned down and echoed the refrain, but remained aloof and uncomplaining in the face jf their conquest. The trip-was one which conveyed new meaning to the Portland busl-J aesn men was m&ae tne journey, xne sight of virgin timber, of un trammeled wilds and limitless potentialities arous ed a new pride In the resources of the state and stirred up greater con fidence in their hearts that the future of Oregon held great promise Among .the visitors were many bent upon missions of Investigation a rid -possible investment, for Vernonia and Its future growth promised to them the prospect of flourishing business. But the majority of the visitors were intent only upon-' seeing th6 nlew re- gion. which has been opened by a $3,500,000 railroad line, and Jto ex- change felicitations and promises of cooperation In the future development work, which is promised for that- sec tion. They gathered In the city park at Vernonia. a place of "50 inhabitants, to hear the progressive leaders of the community tell of their plans :'or the future. TIMBER IS TAPPED The Central Coal & Coke company has decided upon Vernonia ps the sight for permanent milling operations while inroads are being made upon a (Continued on Paee Fourteen, Column Three! Progress Keported In Effort to Get lo ijuriea Miners At Argonaut Mine, Jackson Cat. Sept 9. (U. P.) Jackson hope and fear tonight as it mingled closed its thirteenth day of waiting for the re- lease dead or alive og the 47 miners imprisoned in the Argonaut srom mine. Reports tonight indicated better pro was gress than on any day ; this week made by the two crews digging on dif- ferent -levels, attempting to driye tun- nels into the Argonaut. Offers oPa bonus of $5000 to tlhe first of the two crews to break through the rock wall int the shaft where ie men ire imprisoned, turned the work s into a race. America i By H endrik Van Loon An illustrated chapter a day on American his tory in The Journal Beginmn, Tomorro An miormins and en tertaining feature. , See detailed announce ment on Page 15 of Sec-j tion One , today. J 30 LINES TO SIGN STRIKE mm President Jewell Will Ask Policy Committee of the Unions to Make Separate Agreements. Arguments on Daugherty Injunc tions to Proceed Uninterrupt ed m Federal Court Monday. By W. 8. Serlbner TJniTersal Senic Staff -Correspondent Chicago, Sept. . 9. Approximately 30 big railroad systems of the country have definitely accepted the terns of settlement of the . shopmen's strike. Between 25 and 30 ether roads have the matter under advisement, accord ing to best information tonight. Railroad executives and union of ficials were expected to continue in formal conferences for the next 10 days. As the situation stood tonight, B. M. Jewell, president of the rail em ployes' department of the American Federation of Labor, will ask on Mon day the policy committee of hut or ganization' to give him authority to make separate agreements with the roads. He expects to get it. STRIKE XEAR EJfD Between 20 and 30 railroads win sign up, it is said, and negotiations will be continued with other systems. These negotiations, it was said, may be ' continued indefinitely. But the strike will fee over; The motion to make permanent At torney Genera Daugherty's injunction against the strikers promised tonight to -overshadow the peace movement. The matter will come before Federal Judge Wilkerson..' Monday. -,, An army of government attorneys and attorney, representing tbx Ameri can Federation of Labor and other or ganisations had gathered "here tonight. They were examining evidence to be submitted to the court. . T!ieoejrnment is expected to urge that the "injunction be made perma nent, ' but will permit certain modifi cations to bring it-trader the provisions of the Clayton act. which protects labor organisations from - court inter ference in specific matters. CASE IS LE5GTHY . The necessity for-, the Injunction is expected to be presented at great length. It may'equire several days (Concluded on P&fe Seven, Column Fire) i REPUBLICANS TO . MEET IN PORTLAND Party Leaders at Eugene Ses sion Decide to Frame Plat- f form Tuesday, Sept 26. Eugene,-Sept. 9. Republicans of Ore gon will have a Dlatform; this year to pull votes for the fiock of candidates that will be up for election this fall, if plans laid at the Western Oregon Re publican rally her do not miscarry. A resolution was passed that called for a meeting in Portland, at a place to be named; on Tuesday, September 26, of all the Republican candidates, present Republican office-holders. Republican county central committeemen, defeated primary candidates and others high in the party. At . this meeting, it is, expected, a platform will be adopted. A committee will meet in the Imperial hotel the pre vious Sunday to draft a ' prospective declaration of principles. This com mittee is to be composed mainly of defeated- candidates for ' governor and central committeemen. It was picked, apparently, with an eye toward get ting representatives of all factions in order that an agreeable - platform would be drawn up. - It is planned that Republican candi dates for state and county offices this faU stand or fall by the principlles decided on. Those "entrusted with the delicate task of drafting a platform are Bruce Dennis, chairman of the committee ; L L. Patterson. L. E. Bean, George A. White and J. D. Lee, gubernatorial candidates defeated In the primaries; R. EL Farrell. B. L. Eddy. Ed Cusick and Gus C. Moser, candidates for presi dent pf state senate : K. K. Kublu Tom Kay, Denton Burdick and Herbert Gordon, candidates for speaker of the house; I. N. Day, Lair W. Thompson, A. J. Johnson, George Neuner Jr., T. : U Concluded on Pace Four, Column Two) Five Hundred Acres Of Grain Destroyed Klamath Falls. Sept. IV-More than 50O acres of standing grain . had been destroyed today: ' on the CJhjn Lung ranch in ' the ' Midland district. ' near here by . fire of undetermined ' origin, starting yesterdays morning. All ef forts to cheek the -Jlames -were unavailing-. A harvester And other equip ment was burned. ' . . w , , - f Consecrated to Lepers TUHSS IViXRY H. CORN WALILEGH .who has dedi 4.VJL cated life and means- to betterment' of lot of Japan's 1 00,000 1 outcasts. No less noteworthy ; than magnitude of work itself is the heroism of this Englishwoman, who is appeal ing to General Convention to back up this movement. , a - - ? t, , "i A I i t - A. ' "-r A - I - - . : I U - , - " . -. . I " , ' . - ' - v V - - Dedicates Her Life To Work Among Lepers In Japanese Colony Four thousand feet above the sea in a lonely spot among the mountains of Japan is the village of Kusatsu, which ie the refuge of lepers. Five hundred of them inhabit this unique munic ipality and 4here they live their lives, less wretched than many of the 100, 000 in Japan similarly afflicted be cause they know their neighbors -are leprous also anct they have their friends and their work and their social life. , In the midst of this Tortoidding en viron lives Miss Mary Hi Cornwall Legh, an English woman who has dedicated her life and her small means to lighten this disease burden. She is one of the Interesting women attending the Episcopal General-Convention in Portland, for hers is a life of heroism and of more than ordinary sacrifice. VOICES HER PLEA ' ; The piteous appeal of the 100,000 lepers their entreaty for spiritual guidance, for medical care and for food and shelter is Miss Cornwall-Legit's message to the convention and to the people of America. For more than six years -she has been In 1 charge of St. Barnabas ; Mission 'to Lepers at Kusatsu. - . -t ' . Miss CornwaH-Legh is a woman of rare culture and "refinement. Before she took up this particular work she was a missionary and for a time was associated with IMra . Frederick . A. Kiehle, then "missionary in J a pan and during, her stay .in Portland she is a guest, in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Kiehle at their home In Cumberland road. i- "Ours Is an entire leper village." said Kiss Cornwall-Legh. "and that is the thing the people iike about it. They dislike more than anything to be looked upon as different and there they are not. as they are all known to be af flicted. u Some ot them cultivate the ground "around the village and others run the stores and shops. The village comprises about 600 souls and of these half are Christianized. Their cheerful ness and desire to help others la the greatest ' possible testimony of the miraculous triumph of faith over suf fering., AMOSG THE XEFERS ; :i "1 first went to Kusatu as a spir itual worker," but the work soon de veloped along social lines.: It is nec essary to have an interest in and make some effort to heal the body before the spiritual : contact can .be made, and the way the people respond is a constant joy. We have now two homes for men. St- Stephens and St. Philips ; SC Marys for women, and St. Luizia - for couples.; , The medical i needs - are met - through-- a large dis pensary in which the chief doctor nd ' j ; 3 i : ' K : I Ml I. ,.lMl.l".W'.WSIMSLjsJ x 7 ; ' v. ' e the chief -nurse are women. A few of the lepers are able : to pay tor their treatment, some of the Japanese of means contribute, , the iihurc : helps tis. and by rigid economy we have come to be almost self-supporting. "Our work, however, is a mere'Jbe- ginning, and great sums of money are needed to establish villages through out the country where separate homes for men a.ndl women will . be main tained. It-Is bnljr by the. segregation of the sexes that the problem can be solved. . Otherwise the government asylums, of which there are five, being highly inadequate . and Immoral, the disease spreads at an alarming rate. When a member of a family is found to be afflicted with the disease, he is either made a prisoner in his own home or turned: out. frequently pen niless, to shift for himself. - The tales of some who ' have , thus been cast adrift, who have finally come to us, would melt the hardest heart. Hun dreds of -them go to a suicide's grave annually. - . . ' - "Our village la particularly fortu nate In its location, as it is near the wonderful Jiot springs, whose , waters are so strong of sulphur, arsenic and other drugs that It has proved an ab- ( Continued on Pace JToorteen. Column Four) Benefitlsto Be ; Given for Widows Of Slain Agents For the Joint benefit of Mrs. Glenn Frice and Mrs, Grover Todd, widows of the two federal prohibition officers murdered" a week ago at Grand Ronde, Mr. and Mrs. William Morton Rasmus of Los Angeles will give a reading of "Ben Hur at the First Baptist church next Wednesday evening at S o'clock. The entertainment Is sponsored by Dr. J. A. Linville, federal prohibition di rector. : -.:',-.?- ' P ... t-A--f Mr, and Mrs. Rasmus have been giv ing Biblical readings in many of the churches of Oregon and have already entertained at the First Methodist chureh; ., Their . performance at the First Bajptist is a voluntary offering, and at it a voluntary collection will be taken .for the two widows. -- Xs&,r-- Arrangements are also being made for a musical program which will be announced later. - - Ministers are being: xequested by Dr. Linville -to announce the event from their. pulpits today. ,.-.-- : REAL TASKS NOV' FACING DELEGATES Various Matters , of Vital Mo ment to Episcopal Church In troduced at Saturday Session Bishop Paddo6k's Resignation, Drastic Stand on Divorce and Women as Readers Discussed 8USDAT 7:80 am.-rGlrl'e Friendly ocl ety corporate communion. St. Davids Church. ; l , 11 a. m. Bishops to occupy ma jority of Episcopal pulpits. ' 8 p. m. Muslo practice at The Auditorium. 1 .' ' ' . ' 3 p. m. Department of religious education mass meeting. Presenta tion of Birthday Thank Offering of Church School Service league. The Auditorium.' I' ' ; 8 p. m. Nationwide campaign department ; mass i meeting, The Auditorium. - I - MOTfpJLT 9 a. m.- Daughters of the King, business session. , Labor Temple. ' 9 a. m. Church School Service League classes. Labor Temple. ' 930 A.f. m. Woman's' Auxiliary study classes. ; Central library. ; 10 s. jn- MeeUng," House of Bishops, The Auditorium, 10 a. m. MeeUng. House of Dep " titles. , Th "Auditorium. 1 V-ji. tn to 1 p. m. Joint session 'House -of ; Bishops and House of Deputies. ;j The.- Auditorium. . 1. p jn.4-Daughtere of the King, Election of Council. Labor Temple. 1:30 p. i m Church League for. Industrial Democracy. . Forum. La bor Temples- - v"?"' ' ' 1 p. m.-Woman's Auxiliary busi ness session. - The, Auditorium. ' 2 :30 p. m. Separate meetings of the House of Bishops and House of Deputies. The Auditorium. 4 p. m. Church School Service League tea. Labor . Temple. - 4 p. m. -Conference department of religious " education. Labor -Temple.' : 5 p. m.--Conference of all bishops and deputies having diocesan hos pitals. The Auditorium. ' 6 p. m. Church college dinner. Portland hotel. - . - , 8 P- m. Department of public ity mass meeting. The 'Auditorium. - 8, p. ra. Giels Friendly society mass meeting." Unitarian church. .S p. m. Mass meeting in the in terest of Old-Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, churches. St. Davids church. - - Prellmlnariee are over.. The Epis copal General Convention has eettled down to the task of details. , ": .- In two short hours Saturday the two houses ' of the -convention considered more new matters of vital Importance to the church than were introduced on the three preceding days. Delibera tions; varied from the unanimous vote in favor of a resolution extending sym pathy to President Harding because of his wife's Illness, to animated scenes in which proposed changes In the prayer book and constitution were hotly and fiercely debated. ' Everybody in both hoeses seemed to be glad when .the adjournment gavel fell shortly after rnoon. Hun dreds took advantage of the afternoon to the Columbia river highway and other scenic spots about the city. MATTERS OF MOME3TT ; Of outstanding interest locally among the matters considered Saturday was the proposal in the House f Bishops to accept the resignation f the itt. Rev Robert L. Paddock, bishop of Eastern Oregon; and in the House ef Deputies the ' proposals, to admit women as delegates to the General Convention and to admit women as lay readers in the church. , Other Imnnrt.r Jtems heard were the recommendation commission on healing that the church .pay more attention to divine healing, .the resolution forbidding di vorced members to remarry , as long as their first companion, lives, agree ment to reconsider the motion to grant suffragan bishops the right of franchise, suggestion that Haiti be made a missionary' diocese, and, con sideration in executive session of the troubles which the Rt. , Rev. Charles M., Beckwith, bishop of Alabama, has been having In his diocese over the trial of a rector for allowing a Jewish rabbi to speak before his congregation. JTO ACTIOS TAXEST j ; . No definite "action was taken on any ' of these matters, the majority of them being referred to . the various com mittees. " :.,::,-u'-;f'-;..v. -;,... The only completed action of the day of great Interest ! was the concurrence by the bishops with the house of dep uties In the : new prayer to be said regularly for the president of the United States. The new prayer, how- ' ever, does not supplant the old one. The rector -will have . the s option of either prayers hereafter, whenever prayer is offered for . the president. The bishops defeated a motion to add to morning prayer , the, versieles and responses which come after the- creed hj evenings prayer. i The Right Rev. Herman Page, D, D bishop of Spokane., brought in the re port of. the special committee appoint ed to consider the resignation of Bishop Paddock. The committee ree- l Conclude em Pace bMx, cotaaaa Use I) j-3 r x