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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
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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
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?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
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. .