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: 1 " i ! i I CXJ&UXJITZ03 Aitnf tot Msy, 1923: IK TOT CTTT C7 Elll oar Rly SO0 aad lMk(r la Ifmrioa aad Polk Coast! a -.Kaarly rybody raada ' XHliiT mad BHii i r... war fr six moatli ndiac lUx 81. 12J f . j , J.. . 6sadarf only ' - 1 Daily :and andy .'.; ; $wi ' . Jhe Oregon Statesman TUX HOXX ITijLIXa SEVENTY-TOtElD YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING; JUNE 23, 1923 price nvu czir - - . - . . -l. -.. . ' - . .. 1 1 . President Speaks in Favor of Consolidation Before Gathering of 12,000 in V Kansas City . TEMPERATURE HITS 95: TFAST TALK NECESSARY 4 ' Speafcs flate of 145 WoWs . Per Minutef Heat Is Said . , , . Oppressive , v . KAKSAS CITY, Jutfe 22. .(By the Associated "PreiBs.1 ConSoli ' datloni of the railroads 1 of the country -into a 'Small litimber of - "syUgms ta rational, i Justifiable , step fun of promise towatd? -solution of the transportation rob , lem. "President Harding declared y I hro tonignt in the second pre; pared -address ot his western trip' "It i the syatem ' conaoltdatidns ViU fot afford the solution." h he said, "thenf orur failure riU 'en--fdrie si roos'tlier (experiment and the ohe jsreat cointnitment which I hope the United States (WriU fdr 5 eter escape.'" - The erfecutire expressed . the be-J lief. ? that ? this tne ; great iamit ment - goTernment operation would 1e "a colossal' blunder, which .would destroy InitUtlTe, In fect us with political corruption; create regional Jealousies and -lm-n , pose ; Incalculable cost on the pub lic "treasury." . - Relations Discvseect . . Biscussing relations 4 between the arrterst and -their employes as "a'Yiiai-iactor in inq raaspor- tation aituation, the president rnr -Bounced that he favored, continu ance M the railroad labor" fcoard "under such modifications as seem - znostJikely to make the plan suo w - ceesful." lie said he was not on Tlnced that -the, test of this plaa ; kad'Tlten. complete --end -en-Urely fair one, but added that .- "there Is little to hope,for-antil all concerned are -ready to com ply promptly with the bo4rd'ade- clsions. fl am, frank to"say,"Ti'e contln ; ' ned. I do ndt hope for compli ance upon the part ot the employ . es so long as decisions are ignored 4 by. the managers.' "f , The 'sort f consolidation of the' earrieni which Mr. Harding advo cated contemplate aconsolldatloa of 'the lafgersystemsw that the weaker and nnprofltable lines will ' - be able to lean upon the financial strength of the stronger and prof i r .. table 'ones, until the 'growth of the eonnfry'makea them all earn 1 a '"Just 'return, upon the capital in- vestod. TThe.whble would be -under rigorous government supervis- , , ion." , - .-.rti. ' " v Jlergln Is Problem .y. f:..- 0 ?uch a consolidation, the, presl- det asserted, "would affect a diminution -In rates without jmak out maWn-a jnet, return, Impos- , eible," - and,-t the - 8ame?jtlme. ' would vmake-ound finance "pos .' : si ble tor expansion." - Q M -i; I "There now appears to be.no difficulty bout any constitution al inhlbition'to the voluntary eon 1 - solidation' as authorised byj con gress," .the. executive continued, Vbnt 'the problem of reconciling ' the interests of;the hundreds .of I : different ownerships and manage ' jnents of lines to be merged into 'systema thas proven a task for 1 which ho solution has been found. "It is, therefore, being serious-' 1 ly proposed -that the next Step be to further amplify the provisions 1 for consolidation so as to stimu J late "the "consummation. it is my 'expectation that legislation Ho this end will "be -brought before con-gresa- at the next session. - r 1 . V "OprU6n Vital , v. "There sure some roads many 'ot the i smaller 'ones, in ; fact -, whose continued operation is tb solutely viUi to many thousands of - people, to considerable towns. to . large areas of country, J whose , revenues' Cgtupty , cannot provide , financial. facilities through' earn t ing, pending a considerable growth in community 'population, to aay (Continued ca page 1) ? TfrEEATIIIin ORESOJ Showers Saturday, moderate westerjy winds. i'i LOCAL VEATHER , ,' (Friday) Maximum temperature, 8. Minimum 'temperature, 45. Rainfall, hone. , ;Atmosphere,jpartly clonay. TVind, west.' - - x' ' ' . ' WWfiMCE imm. mi 1SEA RiCffl Newspaper Prints Pictures of Launching of Submarine X-l Af teixAJl Reporters and Photographers Had Been Excluded; Government Unable to Explain How Feat Was Accomplished; Edition of Paper Is Confiscated. LONDON, June 22.(By Associated PressO The police raided, the offices of the Daily Herald, the labor 'organ, to night and held the niembers of the staff for an hour h'ile they searched for original and all copies of the picture pf tne submarine X-l, which the Herald published on Wednesday. DEAF "lET iissioti Second Biennial Convention Gathers Here Home for Infirm Object 1 ' The 'Oregon -Association of the ieaf, . an t organisation of adult "deaf people of the state, is hold ing its second biennial convention at the deaf school here. This con vention had its initial series - of business , meetings yesterday and will continue in session until Sun- day. evening. . . f s 'Nearly, 100 were in attendance the first day, and fully half J as many more are expected . Co ar riee today and wjll remain, until the closing of the convention. This nniq.ue organization ha3as its objects, to .quote the consti- 1 tution, "closer , cooperation "among the deaf of this state with a view 6f bettering themselves in social, moral " and intellectual matters ; discussion and dissemination ot all Information aiming at the ad vancement ot the status ot ; the dear and the : establishment of ra home ; lot aged and infirm deaf." ' During the last session 'of the legislature, according, to one .ot the members of the association, the ' organization was active ; in blocking ! a number of measures that were not for the welfare of the deaL; , STREET CURSE STILL BIG y Seattle Will Seek Some Good ' Plan to Better Financial r Conditions - SEATTLE, June 22. Plans to seek an extension of the time In which Seattle must pay $15,000,- .000 lor its', municipal street car system f ere abandoned today ny the vote of the city councils These plans received much discussion, while a five-cent fare, which re sulted in a deficit, was in effect. This fare has been superseded by the former rate ot 10 (cents.- Or three rides for a quarter. ; The council as a committee of the whole went to Mayor Edwin T. "Brown. I- consulted with him. took, action toy viva voce vote, and returning to its chamber, formally ratified the decision- to drop ef forts at 'execution. I Members of the council said that the mayor assured ' them that he had some plan to better the .financial con dition of "the system. ILWCE 5 E Five 'Days in Work House 1 -Preferable to" Giving Up Auto Sixty: Days - CLEVELAND, sOhlo, June "1 2. Mrs. Lila Haymanh, mother of a six- year old child, chose five day sentence In the work house to day rather than - surrender her husband's automobile for 60 days She was charged wjth having dri ven 35 miles an hour. She told the court she would rather go to the work house than have the ma cine Impounded ' for two 'months. Her husband.she said, needed It Vila frt:?-f33.' , ; y- ITS Clinic (OFFICE ' OF 1 Police officers questioned (the staff as to how the picture of the new suhnarine which was launch ed at Chatham, last Saturday, was obtained and confiscated all cop ies of the paper containing the picture, : . . i, . .. The Admiralty had excluded re porters and photographers i from the launching of: ihe'nlystery ship" as the 'submarine has Seen called; and withheld '11 details .withVesaril to the craft. . ! flf PIHWSS One-Armed Cowboy Rides , Between Bend r and The Dalles in 1 01-' Hours ! . the (:dali;es,; ore., June 22. Covering the 160 miles from Bend to The Dallas in the last time of. )0 hours. 34 minutes end 5 sec onds Sumners Houston, one-armed cow puncher of Bear creek. - near Prineville,' riding . the string of Charles :. Houston.,; today won I the pony-race and the .purse of XtOO Jtmmy Taylor, -fldlng the f.:; Jm Gram string was second j Ills time was li hours, 12 minutes, 25 seconds. Second money was $350 RoyGray won'third money, J250 his time being 11 hours, 45 min ute and SO 'seconds. Frank Hous ton was the last man in. ; ; . Sumner Hpuston left Bend third at 5 : 20 o'clock. " Roy Gray; the first man to . leave and winner of third money, sacrificing a chance to win the face when he Walked his horse nearly four miles into Princville after a fall, rather, than sacrifice the animal, according: to the story brought here by A. -L. Cross, representative of the; Ore gon Humane Society, who paced the riders in- an automobile out of Bend. : '.-"'' ,ir'- i ''' A -i t y- iUSTOKER Letters From: Salem Fight Fn By GEORGE "il.'GKAVlis . ROUND 11. " SPOKANE, June ? 2. 'June 16. at 7 a. m. let t The Dalles and after a few miles of "pavement rolled 'on to a dippy gravelled road that loosened up the Windshield on the car and what else,asiyet?i hive not discovered. By this time we had an awfully strong wind in our back. The wind was blowing -a gale. We were hitting it at 40 per and the 'engine running beau tifully, but soon commenced to heat, then the water in the radi ator to boil, so bad to stoplsind allow the engine to; cool, i Fr0m then on it happened' every ifive miles. -. - "(', We were losing much time!so decided to turiv the car around and let It face the vwind ; This cooled it off much Quicker, ; but the first time I turned around. I ran off the 'gravel, oa what looked to me as hard -aotl, but when I went to back' the rear wheels com menced to sink, and ft was; some time and with much difficulty that we got the car back on the gravel roadUp here I .found I- do 1 not; know' the difference between, the prairie sand and Willamette ( val ley good soil. ' Still the ; engine kept getting hot and the water to boil. .We stopped at a, way -place, had the fan belt . tightened and went on.- This uprovea u,;as we could run" farther .without stop-; piflg. ' Finally we west In a , dif ; ferent direction .and had'no mOrq tronnle. All the trouble was that the wind was blowing so Tiard In our backs that we could not feet any cool air. Later we found out that nearly all . cars ? have that trouble on that stretch of road. , Had lunch at Hermiston r and went on. , ' This side of , Pendleton we ran onto a place'where the road was being scraped; some dust, white, light dusL Then we were unfor THREE KILLED BY FRENCH IN RUHRSECTION Soldiers Shoot First German for Damaging Railroad . Line; .Others for Attacks ESSEX. June 22. (By Associ ated Press.) Three Germans were killed today in different parts of the Ruhr. .The first one was shot by French qoldiers when he Was caught doing damage to railroad tracks Ip the town of Lintrop. ' j .The second.' one of a party of five or six Germans who attack ed a German who was : workings ior tne uxencn, was Kiuea near Recklinghausen when French sol diers fired on the attacking party. The third was one of the two .Ger mans who killed a Belgian corp oral end a private and wounded another private near Beckling hausen yesterday when the Bel gians tried to search them. j In Consequence of the attack on the Belgians, the most severe pen alties have been laid down for the towns of Marl sand Buer, six hos tages - have been taken including the Burgomiesters. ! ECIATE ES People in East Still Wipe Brows as Temperatures ; Continue High CHICAGO, June. 22. Central United States continues to mop its brow today as abnormally high temperature prevailed, . although reports - showed a drop in high temperatures in the east and also some lower temperatures ' in the west. . (---.': r - 7; ' . '- In the Great XAkes 'district and most of the upper plains, states, which have been suffering under the blaze ot heat waves since Monday,1 .were -given mo. cheerihg news from weather observers or tomorrow, "forecasts in the 'main Indicating continued "fair1 ' and warm. . - The Atlantic coasts Washington; Philadelphia' and other eastern cities which felt the . effects : of some of the highest temperatnres of the 'year, ''today found relief in a Tnoderatioh of 'several degrees. From the . west, ' wnere heavy frosts and .unseasonable cool weather has 'been reported, fore casts indicated a slight Tise In temperature, "southern states are promised a. dontinuation of pres- ent weather Which "has 'net 'been abnormally high, r . '- , 1 , M -Alaska today had an "uneski mo" heat wave with temperatures reaching as high as 84 at Eagle. Honolulu's beaches reported $0 degrees "with 'plenty of reooling breezes. tunate to get behind 'two state highway trucks, and dust the air was so full of it I could not see 10 feet ahead,! but after a few miles the trucks pulled off the Toad and we 'ran on, coming next to the In sane 'asylum, 'this side xt Pendle ton, beautiful grounds. - Here we decided to stop, and went through the asylum. , As the superinten dent was" showing ns through, tMr. Dillon, seeing a clock-on the wall, asked him if it was right. He said it tras" :-- - ; . . "What in hell Is It doing here, then?" asked Dillon. At Pendleton I called on some friends, put - down the top, and made for Walla Walla S 5 miles. Here 'is where we did go. I was now out , of the state of Oregon, and 'had mere - nerve or lees -fear of the speed cop,. for all the way we ran from .45 to 50 per, and how nice the"englnedld work at that speed. - ' -'i:-' A : .Arrived at Walla Walla at 530, making a total f 203 miles for the day. . Went to my room hnd cleaned up, -put on my new suit for the first time. Too "cold and wet In Portland to wear it. knd attended a 'banquet given by 'the Walla Walla Ad club, and then a dance at the new armory. -1 'fell for a red-headed girl in the 'room The f ollowlnr mornlne we were off at 8 for Lewlston, Idaho. We soon found ourselves rolling Over the finest r gravel: road ; I was ever on. 'Gee! it was'fun'with an'en gine running perfect and no limit to the fspeed. f It Was 'throdgh a rolling :countryv irp and down bill, and coming bear Lewlston we had a hill to-gd downfl4 miles long. At the 'bottom of this we traveled along the beautiful Snake river on our left, and Win,! rocky cliffs on our right. ; At :1 ' o'clock' we found .ourselves. In the pretty little toWn - (Continued -ea pase2) ' BREEZ cusnra EMPPLEITH Stock of Liquor Under Seal of Great Britain Remains Untouched Upon Two Ocean Steamers FRENCH LINER SAID DUE IN PORT TODAY Situation VHI Become More - Complicated 'With An other "Wet" Vessel NEW YORK, June 22. '(By the Associated T?ress. ) Two ocean liners flying the Union Jack steamed into New York ' today with excellent stocks of liquor for the trip home, despite the fact that Uncle Sam had; said they ' must, cross : the , three-mile limit bone drjr. ' ' All day long the water front waited to observe federal agents pounce on the liquor, breaking the British government 1 seals with which the lockers were stamped, and carrying away the wet goods. But late this afternoon the liquor remained untouched. ; Officials at the customs house announced that seizure , would be made tomorrow morning. . . Procedure Uncertain If this is done and tonight there . was every Indication . that it would .be -r Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, who promulgat ed the 4ry -ruling, may learn of his orders being carried but 'be fore he sails for Europe tomorrow on the Majestic. He is expected from Washington early tomorrow. ..t'S.'One of the. British vessels to.de f y ' the American - dry edict and force a test was the Cunard liner Berengarla. ' The fact that she in tended to carry liquor across the three-mile line had been well heralded, and treasury agents in New York .had been deluged with birders from 'Washington as to Just bow to act. V; Surprise Is Sprung The other vessel "was the White Star, liner Baltic. ' She took the aterfront by surprise. Ships ofr fleers except her -own were Ig nosant of. the fact that she con templated a showdown. O . r. Both the Berengarla and the Baltic were . permitted to pass through .quarantine-, unmolested and proceed to their , docks. Then came from the .customs, house, the word that nothing, would be done until : the captains had , appeared with their manifests and applied for permits. Jto. retain. ..enough; liquor for medicinal purposes. Af ter this, it was said, any surplus would be seized.- Slack Davys Thirst Davy Jones stowed away, many quarts in his locker as a result of the treasury, department's . ruling, however, for the Berengarla and Baltic both tossed overboard at the . three-mile limit all the liquor provided t tor the westbound voy age which the passengers could hot drink. -This was done iwith appropriate . ceremonies aboard the Berengaria.i; Passengers lined the: rails at midnight and with bowed heads lowered . into ; the deep a bottle -ot champagne wrap ped in crepe and inscribed Tp the 'three-mile limit:" I ! ' ( With . two -wet Britishers al ready on their hands, customs of ficials tomorrow face' another del uge. ; Due In port-Js. the French liner. Paris.' Before-she" set sail It was. Announced i that she car ried in her hold many a cocktail shakerful for. the homeward voy age and that oh this select liquor had' been -placed' the seal of the French government. , Sailing Delayed i According to (hose aboard, ! the Baltic decided only an hour be fore sailing to ctest the American ruling. 6he had sailed f rein Liv erpool on - June 9 a day before it became effectived but had to . put back -for minor repairs after, hit ting a -submarined wreck. . i She sailed .again, on : June, 13, three days after the- ruling went Into f effect. Shortly before she cast off, -she- shipped her liquor lor the voyage home. ;. It was un derstood among ' the -passengers that this action "was taken as th ifeshlt ot'decislon tipon the part iit the "British'. (French. Scandi navian and Italian lines to'maks a concerted "attack 'on the ? dry ruling. - . ; .V: OWNER CAN'T CALL TO MIND CAR'S NUMBER Auto ts Stolen Last Niht, But Quackenbush Unable to . Aid Police for Hoars The man who owns but one automobile and considers himself lucky to have that much can con sider himself fortunate that he Is not In the position that Clyde Quackenbush is at present, or at any Tate was at an early hour this morning. Quackenbush loaned one of his automobiles to George Vick, who drove the' machine to the vicinity of the Chautauqua. After tho evening program had been con cluded and Mr. VJck started, home, he found the machine was gone. ; Carefnl search was made Of records, but tor the life of him, Quackenbush Could not find the number "ot the license belonging to the .missing machine. Several receipts were turned over to him by his wife, but all for the wrong car. . Meantime , the police were unable to eend out an SOS call or a complete description of the car, a Hudson speedster. . finally, among the office rec ords, after a long search, the license number was discovered. But the machine Is still AWOL, rolling merrily ' along - the high ways. r .The owner is nots worried, for the machine is Insured. .: . v : . Formal Invitation forMeet . ing in " 1 924 Extended . By Canadian Club ' st. Louis, mo.. June 22. (By "the Associated Press. J-a-The fourth annual convention of no tary International, which' i has been In session' for the last five days, adjburned late today with delivery by 'James 'Gibson, director for 'Canada of a formal invitation Chat the 1924 convention be held at Toronto. . , 'Selection of the next convention city will be decided by the board of directors at a later meeting, The more than six thousand Ro-tariahs- registered for- Che conven tion are leaving or preparing to depart tonight for their homes in 22 countries of the world. V MOU WILL SEE Proposed Event Slated for Jiily 4th at Sidney Is r Held in Disfavor! - HELENA, Mont., , June 22. Bull-fighting ia contrary to Mon tana law and therefore the . bull fight proposed to be held e,t Sid ney, Mont., July 4, will not be permitted. Attorney General W. "D. Rankin stated -today. He did not state what steps would be . taken to prevent the fight if. in view -of his declara tion the event should- hot be vol untarily abandoned. ' ' Little Elma Fisher Is ' Badly Burned at Play SILVERTON, Or.. June 22. (Special to The Statesman.) The little 7-year-old daughter, El ma, of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Fisher was badly burned Tuesday even ing and her Condition Is still con sidered quite 'serious. . A group ot children was jplaying around a bonfire on the edge of Silver creek when ; the ; little girl's clothing' caught fire. Before the fire was put out the clothes were burned from her back and the flesh was badly Injured. She was taken at once' to the Silverton hospital. Southern Pacific Makes -Improvements at Silverton SILVERTON. Or., June 22. ( Special to The Statesman. ) About $50,000 la being spent by the Southern Pacific for improve ments in the Silverton. community. A steel span is replacing the wood en span over Pudding rlver'brldge south; of Silverton. The bridge over Silver creek Is td e: raised one foot in order to' avoid Jam ming during high water. The sta tion Itself will receive... some im provement. 'It will be painted and grounds parked around it.1 HiO GOOllTIOii ND BULL FIBUTirJS Boys nd Girls About ToivTi Ueclares vGiesy XJrdinaace lnttaded ta E?'-' Danger-From Pytotecbisics Will Be Eclcrcc J J Unconfined cn jnly FourtL While Mayor J. B. Giesy once a boy and greatly delighted in the iova of shootir- i crackers and celebratino; the Fourth of July, still he u r.v that certain dangers arise from the practise. . Jler.c i makes the following statement: . , : 2 If CTUflES I1GI1STG11 Beatrice Stuart Veller and Tom Skeyhill Heard at Chautauqua "CKAUlTltJQTUA TODAY I - : Afternoon 2:30 p. -ml-Concert-Prelude -Winifred Windus Company, intro ducing Guy Marriner. New Zea land 'pianist, and Leslie Taylor, violinist. ;h ; 'Ay:.:.y: ' -i . 3 rd 0 ; p. mi Special -event Children's Magic unar Circus, Ed na Belle Kuhn and Junior Chau-tauqukns.-' ' Admission, '50c. Evening 8 :00 i. m.--Artists program Winifred "Windus Company, fea turing Miss "WIndus, !reader and ihterpret'er of -plays. -5 Admission, "60c. " "Tom Skeyhill, celebrated' trav eler and lecturer,. 'and Beatrice Stuart Weller; lecturer-cartoonist, formed, a very' effec'tfve team against War in their respective lec tures last rilght and yesterday af ternoon, at the chautauqaa. They treated the aubject from two en tirely different points of view, but the conclusion was the same war must be.no more. - - Clialk-TaDc Interesting ; Miss Weller also combined with her serious talk on' the European war an excellent chalk-talk, the same program which she has given hundreds of times before the Am erican soldiers both .in France and at home.- She has served J her country well in time of war, and she is : now using her talents to bring what she saw in the war before the American people. .The first part of her dual program, the usual series of cartoonist's tricks, and clever patter and draw ings, was. but the excuse to In troduce the later more fterjious subject. - ' r-. -. , - - ;L :.z,y ;4 Woman Must Act ; . She holds that ware will per sist until the womanhood eti the' world revolts and stands against its : sons being used for. cannon fodder. She draws a terrible pic ture of the late war. following In her: conception Will Irwin's book, "thelNext War." She herself has seen enough to be able to know she has traveled as an entertainer almost, in the front' line trenches, and she Is just, the sort to ' know ner duty and do It while neces sary, and talk later. Miss Weller appears as a jolly, engaging en tertainer no "wonder the boys ap preciated Cit but before she is through, she Is seen as a .real thinking woman, with a powerful message, leading directly to the evening message of .Mr. Skeyhill. . Skeyhill Wide Traveler ; .Tom Skeyhill, soldier, . globe trotter, lecturer, filled the whole bill for the evening program. He has traveled 300,000 miles since the World war where -his own Anzacs distinguished themselves. He Is a soldier who is out to kUl his old job of making war; there Is no glory In slaughter, and he'd stop It forever with one last fiery word.. r . !Mr. - Skeyhill ' is an ' assiduous traveler, an amnlverous student, a man who ' starts "out to see '" and learns things; and he has gathered a strange collection of facts from all over the world. - One couldn't well travel 'twelve, times around the globe, in a little more than four years, with the echo of war ringing In his ears at. every port, on every eea, with its story , on every tongue, on the earth, "and not" gain a splendid panoramic idea of what war is, has been, and may be to humanity. 0 v Many Ware Studied i ' ' . That- was the eubstance of his (Continued on page 3). (lii Preaaiture b Celclrc:! remembers that he Trim; "Boys and girls of -Salen -not be prevented from cel::. the Fourth to their tcirfa tent, but. the city ordina2C3 ; hibiting the shooting of fir and firecrackers wiMa " ttz porate limiU of the city until i time as .may be designated -ly mayor.' will be enforced ta t limit. An amended orulnazcj c erlng the situation was e!z: 1 1 week and the law ia tow ia f effect." Boys or girls who cr. curb their impulses until the er time will be prosecuted." Mayor Giesy stated last t!: that many complaints had t : made of youngsters being too j : mature in their celebration, & careless as to where they tc the firecrackers. In order to I. er the possibility of lires, the c dinance was prepared and si-rr Mayor Giesy has no 'intention c making the coming eelebratlr. noiseless affair, but he does ' sist that the noise must be cc fined to the one day. II 3 t. undecided last night as to r ! er the han will be lifted tha : of lJuly 3, or whether It v . be declared off early the cc. of ; Independence day. IIsv. . in either case, ample warr!r be given by the"inayor. but t such a time, all celebratf-j cease. nam ::u Oregon Elks Are Now at . . Dalles in 6th Annual - " -Meet THE DALLES, Ore., June : With hundreds of visitors cc in by automobile and train all parts of Oregon and Was! "ton, the "sixth annual conve: of the Oregon State Elks ar tion got Into stride today. . - Pledging of aU state lod. support the claim of Portland the national Elks conveutl: . 1924, through their delegat Atlanta, Ga., this year, vru main, item of business trar: in the sessions today. Arc tion' urging the Atlanta deli also to carry through 'a cam : for a home for indigent Elks also? adopted. FLY OLD GLORY on.;;-1: ;' '; INDEPENDENCE DAY . ooo SEE ( . FLAG ' ' ANNOUNCEIIEin OIT " ' 'PAGE 4 .. : I ':