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WHAT'S NEW? Seventy-five special cor respondents of The States man are answering; that question daily from that many valley communities, in these columns. EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR ; " ' " - ' - Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, May 21, 1935 BOARD ADVISES RELIEF CHIEFS, DOESN'T CHIDE No Graft; Some Complaints are Valid, Commission Informs Governor Social Service Duplication Criticized; House Rent Problem Raised A thorough analysis of the ad ministration of relief in Oregon was released yesterday when Gov ernor Martin's special lnvestigat ing committee filed its report with the executive offices here. "The committee has been un able to find any foundation in fact for rumors of graft and cor ruption or that large sums of money constituting a portion of the relief funds of this state had been misappropriated," the inves tigators reported. "The committee is convinced that the giving of relief through out the state has, on the whole, been reasonably well conducted," the report concludes. "It is ap parent that there are some ad ministrative defects and that cer tain of the criticisms are justi fied. The necessary corrections and remedies should be promptly applied to the end that the true purpose of the relief act may be attained." While giving general commen dation to the administration of relief in Oregon, the committee did not hesitate to validate many of the criticisms made against the administration of relief and to suggest extensive changes in ad ministrative procedure. Separation of Social Service Groups Advised Senator E. A. McCornack of Lane county served as chairman of the special committee, being assisted by Verne Disenbery and Grace Phelps of Portland. Ap pointment of the committee fol lowed a campaign promise by Governor Martin to probe the ad ministration of relief in Oregon and a legislative demand, made by Representative Warren Erwln of Multnomah county, for inves tigation of repeated complaints made by recipients of relief. summarized findings of the commission were: In Multnomah county in par ticular mere nas been failure to keep social service departments of the relief administration sep arate from other social service agencies. Lack of centralized con trol and want of uniformity in relief have resulted. Lack of uniformity has existed among various groups in the amounts and standards of relief afforded. Complaints against case work ers in a number of instances have been Justified, due primarily to the inexperience of the workers and the fact they were overburd ened with work. The practice of the relief ad ministration in reference to pay ment of house rent has been a justified source of criticism. Adequate facilities for determ ining 4he eligibility of applicants for relief have not been provided. Ten Recommendations Made by Committee Ten specific recommendations for improvement in the adminis tration of relief were made by me investigating committee. These recommendations follow: That executives in charge of re lief administration maintain a more adequate check upon the quality of work done by supervi sors and case workers. mat in Multnomah county, either more adequate provision for contact between relief recipi ents and their case workers be established, or some central de partment be created, or other provision made, whereby the emergency needs of those in dis tress may be promptly met at all reasonable times. That the policies and practices of the relief administration be carefully reviewed with a view to eliminating from the-system any practice or course of procedure which may be found unnecessarily (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Horse Hitching Rings Must Go, Aldermen &ule Salem's no longer a pne-horse town, its chief of police has rel egated his horse to the back yard. If he ever had one, and therefore there's no sense in leaving an old iron hitching ring in the curbing on the south side of Commercial street between State and Ferry. This was the comment of Alder man Paul R-Hendricks in asking the city council last night to di rect the street commissioner to remove ' hazards to pedestrians from the sidewalks. He recalled that - many years ago Salem's police department consisted of the-chief, who on - horseback "made the rounds of the outlying districts, while two patrolmen attended to other du ties and "bartenders took care of the situation downtown." The council also ordered a con crete step constructed along the high curbing on the south side of State from Commercial east to the alley Relief Work Wage is Set by Roosevelt at $19 lo tto Per Month McC arran of Prevailing AVage Fame Planning r ignt ; nigh way departments Allowed to Set Own Scale, Announced WASHINGTON, May 20 (AP) Slashing PWA hourly wacre scales all down thp Ktia Pro0; r-..n. night fixed labor's monthly llt AAA AAA l. fl7w,wv wws Proam ?94. An immediate challenge Nye Orates to Empty Seats in Senate; Shipbuilding Graft is Charged WASHINGTON', May 20.-UP)- Frimed with data on alleged "fat profits" likely to go to shipbuild ers, munitions investigators open ed a filibuster in the senate to day to compel amendment of the $460,000,000 naval appropriation bill to knock out the provision for 24 new warships. A motion to recommit the bill 10 put in tne amendments was snowed under 64 to 14. Chairman Nye (R-ND) of the munitions committee then proceeded to back up his threat of a filibuster by continuing an attack on the bill that he had started in the middle of the afternoon. Pne of Nye's proposed amend ments apparently was aimed di rectly at fleet maneuvers in the Pacific and Its resultant Japanese reaction. He would require "state department approval of the scene of naval maneuvers." The North Dakotan began his filibuster by branding the war preparedness program a "racket" supported by shipbuilders and munitions makers and then pro pose a a nve point Eeries of amendments to the bill by which be said the government could block excess profits to shipbuild ers. The senators left Nye largely to himself late in the day. Only lour members were on the floor as the filibuster went on. DEFENSE OF EAGLE WASHINGTON, May 20.-(p)-Charging "monopolists" were seeking NRA's death, Hugh S. Johnson figuratively battled shoulder-to-shoulder tonight with Donald R. Richberg, an erstwhile antagonist, to prolong the life of the recovery machine he helped build. "If NRA goes down, a large part of the new deal goes down with it," was Johnson's warning in a radio address. Richberg took the fight to the house ways and means committee. Shortly after he had asserted that NRA's end would take jobs from 2,000,000 workers, eommittee democrats disclosed a tentatively approved measure for extending the recovery law in just about the way Richberg demanded. The bill given out bv WAVR find me&ns committee democrats was declared to have been only "ten tatlvely" approved as a basis of hearings. But its phaseology dls closed strong committee sent! ment for a two - year extension against the senator's 9 months. for price-fixing in some cases, for coae control over small businesses which affect interstate commerce and for presidential imposition of codes. Furniture Union May Reconsider Offer on Wages PORTLAND, Ore., May 20-UP)-The executive committee of the Portland local of the furniture workers' union will reconsider the counter wage increase propos al made by Portland employers and rejected by union workers, it was announced tonight. Fritz Igel, business agent for the local, said a move might be made to re-submit the proposal, rejected before by a 6 to 1 vote. The Doernbeeher and B. P. John furniture companies offered the wage increases asked, but de ferred effectiveness of the new schedule. Petition Seeks Change of Zone Petition for change of tone from class one residential to class three business of, property at the southeast corner of Cot tage and D streets has been filed with the city recorder by D. O. Lear and others. It Is proposed to erect a service station there. FILIBUSTER AGAINST WARSHIP joni joins m wage under much of the $4 - i . ai a low of $19 and a high of of this scale, ba.ied, except in 0BPecuic instances, on a maximum 4 0-hour week and eight-hour day schedule, came from Senator Mc- carran (D-Nev), who led the un successful prevailing waee fieht during passage of the bill. The president s executive order, he said, would "comnletelv wrk the country's wage scale." The president's wage schedule exempted several major types of wont relief activities. The civilians' conservation corps, PWA projects, highway nd grade crossing elimination federal buildings, nresent wort relief projects, supervisory em- ployes, and such others as Harry L. Hopkins, the works oroeresa administrator, "shall from time to time exempt." It also author- iea nopicins to alter rates 10 ITurn to Page 2, Col. 6) TRAFFIC CODE VOTE DELAYED 01 WEEK Van Patten Williams Feud Continues; Refunding Bonds are Voted Alderman Cuyler Van Patten's piuyosea cuy tramc code was lifted from the lap of the ordi tA1.n.ext -Ionday night's adjourned ssion Decause the nine council- men remaining as the hour near- ?irlj'm- WC. loa.th t0 8lt Ji.e Jliiae r.TT , !v 7,, " 8 mo tlon to take the bill awav from the committee occasioned a flare- i me cuiuuy wwen developed between himself and Alderman Fred A. Williams, o r d i n a n c e chairman, at a recent public hear- mg on me matter. A proposal to discontinue nrint- Ing voters' pamphlets on cltv elec tion measures was quickly dump ed down the indefinite Dostnone- ment chute with Alderman David O'Hara pointing out that the vot ers had no other way than through the pamphlet to know what they were balloting on. Another series of bonds to re fund improvement bonds at lower interest rates was voted last nieht this time for $183,000 worth to be issued July 1. Eonds dated July 15, for the same purpose Tit"6 aftedson t the next regu- the postoffice departments, Re ?a,i Ing in the sum of ?29'" Presentative Walter M. Pierce has 000. T PORT ORFORD. Ore.. Mv 20 -(JF)-A blast of 11,000 pounds of aynamite and powder today loos ened vu.uwo tons of rock from the face of Graveyard point and promised to uncork what has been described as one of the ncnest nelds of untapped Re sources in the nation. The rock Jolted loose will be used in building a 500-foot break water, 100 feet wide, upon which will be built an open dock. Gilbert E. Gable, president of the five associated corporations which have been formed to de velop the resources of this re gion, gave the signal for the blast from a promontory at the edge of town. The development of the har bor as a terminal for a railroad from Grants Pass in the Rogue River valley to the Oregon coast is a part of the ambitious devel opmental plan projected for southwestern Oregon. Rich resources of timber, coal, iron ore, copper, limestone suit able for cement manufacture. chromite and magnetite, and even saimon, naiibut, cod, crabs and sardines are resources to be util ized. Hot Time in Old Town for IOOF; Mercury Hits 82 Policemen shed coats, uniform ed lodgemen wished they could and cold drink stands did a big business yesterday as summer weather arrived with a rush in Salem. The mercury followed up its Sunday mark of 75 degrees with an 82 yesterday for the warmest day this year. Cooling breezes blew last night as the weather bureau predicted fair but cooler weather tor today, with higher humidity. HUGE n on fi ESOBCES FOUNDED 1631 TWO SAWMILLS SHUT DOWN AS ONE REOPENED McCormick Workers Go Out at Portland; Those on Sound Accept Plan Astoria Owners Beat Crew I to Draw: Guard Placed at Stimson Planer PORTLAND, May 20-;p)-Own-ers closed one mill, strike rinsed another, and a third ronnoncd en der police protection todav in Oregon, as organized union labor marched into the third rov its economic battle with ODeratora of the lumber industry in the nn. clfic northwest. The total of idle men and wnm- en as a result of the strike in the fir country was estimated nt in. 000. Tremendous payrolls have been lost. The strike, called May 6 by the Sawmill and Timber Workers' union. A. P. of I.. affiliate -e. suited today in a walkout at the large mill of the Charles R. Mc- LormicK Lumber company at St Helens, near Portland. The crew of 2 50 men walked out soon af ter the mill management had an nounced that employes of the company in the Puget Sound re gion had accepted compromise terms. It was authortatively but un officially reported the McCormick company had agreed to increase wages rive cents to a minimum rate of 50 cents an hour, 40 hours a week and to recognize the un ion. The strike had praetically ter minated lumber operations in the lower Columbia river with the closing this morning of the Upte grove mill at Astoria where 150 men were working. Believing a striae was a certainty, the nan Near Forest Grove fn w-.h. Ington county the rlnnimr n the b?1tl rePene with 100 men at work .after Sher, John W. Connell naa Promised absolute protection to workers -? . The mill had Honed h.,.,,.. eis naa mreatened employes The management said 250 more men would go back: to their ifth thp plant tomorrow morning. De- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) POSTOFFICE PLANS GET INITIAL OKEH Authorization for a new federal postoffice here will be contained in the new public building bill soon to be sent to congress with the annrnvn? r f t.nnn informed the chamber of com merce here this week. Representative Pierce said that inclusion of the projects In the bill did not mean that they would necessarily be Dut Into the imme diate works program. Selections 01 the specific buildings to be erected will be made by the two departments as funds become available. Pierce said that it had been announced some time ago that public building projects would be outside the regular pub He works program. The Salem chamber of com merce is working to secure a fed eral building here which will cost from $400,000 to $500,000 and to meet the needs of tho com munity for the next 25 years. Tuesday Program Grand Encampment I. O. O. P. Temple 9:30 a. m. Special session. 10:00 a. m. Opening session. ' 1:30 p. m. Closing session. tt 8: Ryl Purpose Degree exemplified by Umatilla Encampment No. 17 of Pendleton. I. O. O. P. Temple. 12:00 noon No-host luncheon, P. L Girls Argo hotel. Rebekah Assembly Armory 9:00 a. m. Opening session. 1:30 p.m. Regular session. Grand Lodge I. O. O. P. 6:30 p. m.- Special session at C. O. C. 7:30 p. m. Reception at the Armory. (All Odd Fellows, Rebekahs and their friends are cordially invited.) Alma Henderson, chairman. Program, 7:30 P. M. R. G. Henderson, General Chairman, Presiding Music Willamette university band. Prof. A. S. Melovidoff, director. Willamette university glee club. Prof. Cam eron Marshall, director. Willamette university band, Prof. A. S. Mel ovidoff, director. Address of welcome, on behalf of the city. Mayor V. E. Kuhn; on behalf of the state. Gov ernor Charles Martin. Tap dance and acrobatic contortion, Lucile Shannon (pupil of Barbara Barnes school of dance), accompanist, Mrs. Max Rogers. Responses: unnii i n i .L. i 1 i World News at Glance a (By the Associated Press) Domestic: Washington Senator Robin son, administration leader, comes out for bonus bill to supplant jfatman legislation, facing veto. Washington President sets relief labor wage at. $19 to $94 monthly under - $4,000,000,000 program; fixes regional scales. Death list of tornado, flood victims in south and southwest passes 20. Washington - NRA's death would cost jobs of 2,000,000, Donald Richberg says; Johnson warns it would wreck new deal. Washington Progressive bloc senators quit chamber as Dennis Chavez is sworn in to succeed late benator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico. Springfield, 111. "Huneer marchers" mass on state canltol in legislative relief crisis. St. Louis New president of New York stock exchange puts "national welfare first" in Wall Street dealings. Washington Treasury orders embargo on entry of foreign sil ver coins in "spirit of coopera tion" with nations worried by sil ver prices. WASHINGTON TVA chair man denies fraud charges against power authority: snaps back at critics. Foreign : Berlin Hitler calls cabinet meeting preceding a reichstar speech on foreign policies; cabi net to discuss conscription. Paris France shifts naval strength from Mediterranean to North sea to protect herself against German rearmament. ueneva Ethiopian emperor moves first in league aDneal t stop Italian mobilization in Af rica. MOSCOW Thousands in funeral cortege for 4 9 victims f giant yiauo uisasier. Praha, Czechoslovakia NTari party gains In narliamentarv elections, cabinet delays decision on offering resignations. SIHKISSiui IN SCHOOL BUDGET Tentative Draft is Viewed; Citizens' Committee to Be Appointed Soon Savings amounting to approxi mately $15,000 appear in the Sa lem school budget as tentatively drawn up by Superintendent Silas Galser, the school directors learn ed at a special meeting last night. At their regular meeting next Tuesday night they probably will appoint a citizens' budget com mittee and start budget delibera tions toward their earliest com pletion in recent years. The bulk of the savings will be due to lower bond maturies and interest during the coming school year. Reduction Jn the district's warrant debt and last week's sale (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Order is Signed In Capitol Case A formal order, sustaining the demurrer of the State of Oregon, to the injunction complaint filed against razing of the state caDitol walls, was handed down here yes terday by Judge L. G. Lewelling. The order dismisses the complaint and assesses the costs of the suit against the plaintiffs: Henry Zorn, Ed A. Jory, Martin Rost vold and Willard Stevens. Counsel for the plaintiffs said decision on appeal to the supreme court would not be made until their engineers can check the con dition of the statehouse walls and determine whether or not razing the old structure is Judicious. of I. 0. O. F. Grand Lodge in Detail Grand Lodge, Charles Poole, Grand Master. Sovereign Grand Lodge, Earl Shank, Grand Conductor. Rebekah Assembly, Grace Christianson, Pres. Grand Encampment, Sylvester Harris, Grand Patriarch. American Legion Auxiliary Quartet (nation al champions), Mildred Wyatt, Vida Lou Starr, Arlene Brown, Grace Zosel; Lena Belle Tartar, director: Marguerite Dalton, accompanist. Responses: Patriarchs Militant, Brig. Gen. John Oliver, Dept. Comm. Association of Ladies' Auxiliaries, P. M. Anita Nicholson, Pres. Readings, Beulah Graham. Introduction of Grand Lodge and Rebekah Assembly officers and other Grand Officers of other Jurisdictions. Introduction of Past Presidents, Association of Rebekah Assemblies. Representatives to Sovereign Grand Lodge, George Winslow, Joseph Schweitzer and R. H. Jonas. ? Introduction, Representative to Association of Rebekah Assemblies, Esther Frlsbie Bond. : Haywire orchestra'. Dr. Woodmansee, man ager. . .- : . ; . . .; 9:80 P. BL Reception 10:00 P. it. Grand March, and dancing. Boots Grant's orchestra. DISPOSAL PUN IS DROPPED BY i Uncertainty and Undue Cost of PWA Project Cited at Council Meet Will Vote Bonds Next Week for Water Purchase; to Study Improvement Weary of the public works ad ministration's frequent contradic tions of instructions and wary of the cost of complying with its re strictions, the city council last night withdrew its application for a $360,000 sewage disposal plant loan by voting 9 to 2 to reject a resolution authorizing Mayor V. E. Kuhn to sign the loan agree ments sent here by the PWA. It had been tabled at two previous meetings. The mayor was instructed to advise PWA officials at Wash ington, D. C, that the city was withdrawing from using the loan grant because It was the only city dumping sewage in the Willam ette river which had definitely been considering a disposal plant but that at some future time when all cities along the river were ready to take their sewage irom tne river, Salem would co operate. He also will point out that the city is about to spend more than $1,000,000 to buy and improve the water system here. Interest Rate Too High, Mayor Holds A letter from C. C. Hockley, Oregon PWA engineer, stating that the PWA legal department demanded immediate action by the city opened the question. Mayor Kuhn himself took the floor to show that the PWA in terest rate, 4 per cent, compared unfavorably with rates recently secured by the city at private bond sales. "I think it would be foolish, with a. 23 per cent grant, where engineers say we would lose 60 per cent In getting, it." Alder man Paul R. Hendricks said rela tive to the proposed loan-grant. Aldermen E. B. Perrine, Fred A. Williams and Cuyler Van Pat ten also spoke against accepting the loan. It was supported only (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) RESULT OF CRASH Ralph Burton Maddy, motorist living on route four, was arrested by city police Sunday night on a charge of reckless driving in connection with one of two acci dents which resulted in injuries to six persons. His car struck Mrs. Geraldine Carlson. Deacon ess hospital nurse, at State and Liberty streets at 11:41 p.m. that night. She suffered a badly torn right ear and facial bruises, the hospital reported last night. When cars driven by Joe C. Turner, route seven, and Lewis Christensen, collided on a steep hill on the old Turner road near the girls Industrial school, Mrs Rachel Christensen, 89 4 South 21st street, suffered severe back injury and probably fractured pelvis, and Otho Wallace, a lacer ated eyeball. Condition of both last night was serious, attendants at Deaconess hospital said. In the same accident Richard Turner, 5, received cuts on the face, Mrs. Turner and Christen sen, bruises. CITY ALU MOD I ARRESTED . Impressive Closes First Day of 1.0.0 EyerTy Will Pay Protection Cost For SERA Crew Lee U. Eyerly has agreed to bear expense of paying work men's compensation fees for SERA workers who are to level off approximately 25 acres of land on the south end of the municipal airport. Alderman E. B. Perrine reported at last night's council meeting. As It now exists this area is dangerous to landing planes, Eyerly says. Perrine said it was expected a number of army planes would be brought to the port here this summer for a month's maneu vers. OF Tl IS LILY Head of Adult Blind Trades Institution Under Fire of Advisory Group Board of control meetings as sumed their old-time warmth yes terday when verbal tilts between State Treasurer Holman, Mrs. R. R. Bondurant, chairman of the advisory board of the Oregon em ployment institution for the blind, and B. F. Irvine, board member, enlivened a conference at which all the advisory board was in at tendance. Statements that several In mates of the institution had been "railroaded" to the insane asylum were made during the meeting. Inference also was made that Or ville Gamble, superintendent of the institution, had not cooperat ed with the advisory 'board, and Bat more than 2000 brooms manufactured at the plant remain ed unsold. This situation was said to have been due to Gamble's action in cancelling orders for brooms and increasing the prices. Both State Treasurer Holman and Irvine defended Gamble's ad ministration. Governor Martin declared that it was his understanding that the advisory board had nothing to do with the administration of the in stitution as this was a function of the board of control. An explanation was demanded from Mrs. Bondurant when she declared that Gamble had cooper ated with the advisory board pre vious to the present state admin istration. Mrs. Bondurant charged that she had attempted to arrange a previous conference with the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) OF FLUX APPROVED Petitions bearing the names of more than 100,000 persons, seek ing development of the Oregon flax industry, will be carried to Washington by Mrs. W. S. Nich olson, president of the Oregon Federation of Women's clubs, and Mrs. W. W. Gabriel, both of Port land. This was tentatively decided by the state, board of control Mon day afternoon when an outlay of approximately $400 was author ised to cover their expenses. Mrs. Gabriel explained that the purpose of the trip was to inter est Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt In the flax industry and to confer with federal officials regarding a loan. Letters and telegrams from Senator McNary, Representative Pierce and W. D. B. Dodson were read at the meeting. Both McNary and Pierce pledged their support to the project. Mrs. Gabriel said the amount of the federal loan would not be peiermined until such time as she had conferred with exnert in th flax industry. It was Intimated that $3,000, 000 might be necessary to com plete tne development srorram. . The development program Is neing sponsored bv th vAman'i clubs and has received the In- uorsement of the Orezon stt u range, Federation of Labor nA other organizations. Railroad Ordered To Remove Track The Oregon " Electric eomnanV is Instructed to tear up a portion of its unused tracks and pave over the remainder on High street be tween Liberty and Ferry in a re solution passed by the city coun cil last night. Asked to do this a year ago, the company requested it be given time In which to make 00 D 1 SESSION JAUNT FN INTEREST THE WEATHEK ' Fair and cooler with high, er humidity today and Wed nesday Max. Temp. Mon-' day 2, Min. 40, river 1.0 feet, clear, northerly wind. a An - Ceremony J. Session Here At Least 2500 to Be in City Today for Big Convention Auxiliary Elects am Installs Officers; Activities Many Impressive ceremonies at whicfc the decoration of chivalry wa conferred upon 10 women and one man before a crowd at the armory last , night brought to a close the annual sessions of the Department Council and Ladies Auxiliaries, meeting here in con nection with the grand lodge, I. O. O. F. of Oregon. Meetings of the grand lodge and Rebekah as sembles will open today and continue through Wednesday and Thursday, and the one-day ses sion of the grand encampment will be held today. Delegates to the v a r i o u branches of Odd Fellowship start ed arriving here Sunday, with the influx from all points of the state continuing throughout yes terday and last night, and by to night fully 2 500 persons are ex pected to be in attendance. Auspiciously, bright sunny skies greeted first gatherings of the branches yesterday and the day's record warm weather for the season put no damper on the crowds. Registration Is being han dled at the chamber of commerce, while headquarters for the subor dinate lodge and Rebekahs are at the Marion. A point of conver gence of all groups is the series of Odd Fellows tents pitched on the southwest courthouse lawns. The department commander. Brig. Gen. John Oliver, assisted by Adjutant Jesse T. Jones and other members of the staff, last night conferred the decoration of chivalry, given for distinguished service upon Mina Beck and Min nie Uhrine of Klamath Falls. Rose Berry of Mehama, Rachel Brad ford and Ada Haynes of Port land, Ethel Busenbar?- of Rose burg, Georgia W. Hess of Med ford. Maude Shuey of Bend and Phllista Porter of Newport. The ceremony was repeated fn con ferring the decoration upon Lt. Col. Frank Norris of Reedsport. Prior to the degree work, 100 Chevaliers and Ladies were serv ed at the military banquet held at the Quelle. Junior Odd Fellows Movement Sponsored Patriarchs Militant adooted the Junior Odd Fellows move ment as objective for the new year before bringing their regu lar sessions to a the late yes terday afternoon. The juniors now have eight branches formed in the state, with the last one or ganized at Lebanon. Junior Odd Fellowship alms to give crrowing boys guidance and leadership. uincers of the Patriarchs Mil itant, elected last year at Tilla- ' mook, continue for two more years: Department commander, Brig. Gen. John Oliver. Portland: adjutant, Lt. Col. Jones, Port land; treasurer. Major A. R. Mc Claughlin, McMinnville; chaplain. Major Homer D. Angell, Portland. Gifts In appreciation of Brig. Gen. Oliver's leadership the past year were presented during the ses sion yesterday by Grand Master Charles P. Poole of Eugene: Grace Christiansen of Portland, president of the Rebekah assem bly; Grand Secretary T. M. Mor- land; and Aneta Nicholson, presi dent Ladles' auxiliary. Nettie Greenough of Portland was installed president of the ladles' auxiliary of the canton. succeeding Aneta Nicholson of : Harrisburg, at a busy all-day ses sion which lasted until :30 o'clock. Other officers elected by the auxiliary are Nettie LaPorte. Eugene, vice - president; Mabel Gilbert, Bend, treasurer. Appoint ment of Olga Towers of Newberg as secretary was announced last night. The Harrisburg auxiliary won the silver loving cup presented by (Turn to Page 2. CoL 1) Forests of Polk Ordered Closed; Fire Peril Seen Governor Martin issued a pro clamation Monday closing t6 en try, except by permit, approxi mately 80,000 acres of forest . Iands-in Polk county. The order, became operative Monday and will continue effective until October , 15. ' ' ' . The area involved in the clo-. sure order lies north of the di vide' between the Silets river and the Little Luckiamute and nerth . of the divide between the Silets , river and Boulder creek. Persons entering the restrict ed area under permit shall refrain from smoking and must carry tools with which to extinguish . fire. The closure was requested by Lynn Cronemiller, state for necessary arrangements. ester. .