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Keep Posted Salem's la tb spotlight, with Its new entry JeTtor fessional baseball. ; the Senators as a teanfMaad as Individual players In The Statesman sports columns. V7eatlier TSr Partly cloady with light showers Sunday: Monday mostly cloudy filth rain. Max. temp. Saturday B7 sain. 40. Hirer 8.8 feet Booth wind. 1 r 1651 't NINETIETH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, May 5 19-13 Prlc 3cj Newsstands 5c No. 34 mm I I t i i i I i i i i r i v i i i i l l i . 1 1 poundbo Two If em ExIGoiiiicts HnSne Ear ' Paul T1 outer's Column Cobwebs From a Musty Note book: We're been meaning; for some time to write sn item about .Jerry, the best known cat on State street. Jer ry is quite at fhome on; the. ifishing tackle counters at the C. Parker Bport ery and gets it from all sides. Jerry has hard ly an Idle mom ent, since he will a particular cat. So far Jerry has not had the difficulty of his pre decessor, who was the world's ug liest cat, in backing into bass plugs with disastrous results, i We met Admiral Snyder of the Wheatland Perry yester day and he promised os that anytime we feel like a dunking front the poopdeck Jnst to drop around to the moorage. We declined. The natty state cops are going to be nattier this summer. They have new summer Jackets, offi cial wear since May 1. State troop er clothes are all made to meas ure and are the beet quality. To get new articles of clothing after the original Issue the troopers hare to turn in an old one, mak ing it tough on troopers who lose their shirts by one means or an other. This also explams why you never see any old state police uni forms In rummage sales. Ve think there's something a little ironic, and sad, too, boat the Silverton Norwegians preparing to observe Norway's Independence day, May 17. Sergeant Jack Cutler, mighty hunter, mighty fisher, did vali antly and proved he could raise a fine crop of good whiter whis kers. He bore Missouri's stand ard well. But he got the Itch to shave and, after recording-his growth photographically for fu ture doubters, put razor to chin and smoothed It off. . Out at Waters field Biddy Bishop can be heard these days poetically muttering, "It Isn't raining rain to me. It's raining ball games out. In every goldardned drop I see another doubleheader." Halin Is Released In Shooting Case SPOKANE, Wash,, May 4-JP)-The case of the shooting of Syl via Hahn pointed suddenly to ward a climax today when her widower, 74-year-old Dr. R. A. Hahn, was released sfter two nights and a day of imprisonment on an open charge and Coroner Dr. I. S. Collins announced an In quest would be held Monday night. The prosecutor's office announ ced, too. It had obtained a poss ible explanation of the bullet holes sprinkled liberally about the Hahn residence, where police fonnd Mrs. Hahn, 42-year-old for mer office girl, dead In her bed room Thursday after a call from the doctor. Prosecutor Carl Quackenbush said' friends of the family assert ed the eccentric physician often reclined on the bed and shot at flies on celling, walls and win dows. A dosen bullet holes were found In Mrs. Hahn's bedroom. Norwegian Relief Is Lutheran Plan 8ILVERTON. May 4 Immedi ate organisation for Norwegian relief was voted by pastors of the Oregon circuit of the Lutheran Free church daring Us conven tion session here todsy. Pastors will act as committees of one In their own congregations for gathering money and supplies for relief purposes. - J. A. Tofte of Astoria was elect ed president of the circuit Other officers chosen today wers Rev. E. J. Jtaaum. Portland, vice-president; Rev. O. J. Hustoft, Astoria, secretary,: and Rev. O. C. Olson, Sllverton, treasurer. . Rev. O. P. Gam bo, Pnget Island, Wash., was admitted to the cir cuit and will be the speaker at Sunday morning's session. The convention .will close Sunday night. Oregon War Vets ! To: Get $280,000 ..' - " : .... ' ; PORTLAND, May 4.--jp-Ore- ron Spanish war veterans and their heirs will collect between 1280.000 and 1320,060 as result of the congressional measure granting travel pay benefits to some 15.000 ex-soldiers who saw service in the Philippines. -.Richard Delch, department ad jutant of the United Spanish War .Veterans, said at leasft 300 vet trans or the eld 2d Oregon regi pent wo&id receive bcaeilta. j i i f ... - '-i i " w ... ! i 1 ArA Sppii NprP , t Abandoned tar Of Slain Youth Furthe r Identification Sought; Denial Made? but Police "Sure" ; . Two Others Being Held for Questioning in Case at Eugene ( FRESNO, Calif., May -(- Two negro ex-eonvlcts were ar rested In Fresno this afternoon and will be charged, police said, with the knife murders of i a young man and woman In Stock ton. . j Detective Sergeants A. B. Mc-4 Cresry of Fresno and R. C. Par ker of Stockton said the men ar rested were Henry Jones, 38, and Dewey Clark. 29, both former in mates of a prison camp at Keene, Kern county. ! The slain persons were Nathan Cbinchiolo, 23. Stockton and his girl companion, Dorothy Woof- ter, 19. They were found dead j in a wheat field. Both victims' throats had been slashed, and Miss Woofter had been criminally at tacked, j "These men," Sergeant Parker said of the negroes, "were pals In prison camp, and had been hobnobbing with each other around Fresno. "We are definitely charging these men with murder, and tak ing them back to Stockton : to night." Garageman Asked to Identify Them Both of the men under arrest denied any connection with ths case. I The detectives said the infor mation resulting in the arrests came from ' Fresno persons who had seen the two negroes near an abandoned auto onr a Fresno street. The car later' was identi fied as that of Cbinchiolo. Detective Parker said that Walter B. Guyon, Tracy garage man, would be asked to try to Identify the negroes as the pair he said drove into his place in Chinchlolo's stolen auto about 1 a.m. last Monday. "These men," Parker declared, "answer perfectly the description of the suspects, and al t h o u g h they deny the murders, they told us nothing but patent lies and conflicting stories. "We are confident they are the murderers." EUGENE, May 4-J)-Two ne gro transients were being held to night in the Lane county Jail on charges of vagrancy and for questioning in the double slay ing at Stockton, Calif., of Nathan Chinchiolo and Dorothy Woof ten. Their mutilated and decomposed bodies were found near there yes terday. California police are hunting for two negroes in the case and described the pair as one tall and the other short. The two men held here answer to that general description. The arrest was made here this afternoon In a Jangle on the out skirts of the city by Sheriff C. A. S warts and state and local of ficers. They, have notified Califor nia officers and are waiting word from them before taking further action. The detained men. gave their names as John Samuel Cooper, 48, Kansas City, Mo., and Charles Edward Williams, S 1,1 Texarkana, Tex. Eugene Has 21,000 ! EUGENE, May 4.-;pV-Eugene's final census count probably wtll be about 21.000. Mrs. Merle Stu art, district census director, said today. : Permanent Planning Board For City Is up to Council Approval of a resolution-calling for the naming of a committee to stady feasibility of establishing a permanent planning- commission will be asked of the city eouneU when it meets Monday night. The resolution, to be submitted by Mayor W. W. , Chadwick, will be entered at the request cf a group of civic leaders who met several weeks ago at the call of the civic committee of the cham ber of commerce to consider a city planning system. The proposed board would be Intended to coordinate permanent Improvements sought by all city admlnistraUre bodies, including the .city proper, the school district and the- city water commission, and to make long term plana for their installation. - ? The street committee of the council will report favorably on request of the state highway de partment for permission to widen State street between 12th and IStb streets to a width of 6 feet by cutting away curbing on the north side of tie street. Tha project ziU cost ejproij- v Arrest Suspects ; In Their Slaying . Tn -v I r a iHilllllllli m Dorothy Woofter, 19, of Tracy, jCalif.; and Nathan Chinchiolo, 23,j of Stockton whose bodies Were found in a field sear Fres- mo,! Calif. Their throats had - . jbeen cut. AP Telemat. 4 . i Lliinber Schooner Crew Is Rescued Daisy Mathews Then Left jto Smash Upon Beach; I Breaking up Fast SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.-(P- Tbje coast guard cutter Anaane arrived alongside the .stricken lumber schooner Daisy Matthews tonight and picked up Captain O. jJ. Carlsen and 12 of his crew from small boats. Eight men earlier were trans ferred to the Coos Bay Lumber e oi m p a n y's ship Lumbertown, Msckay radio reported. So far as was known here there was no loss of life. The Ariadne radioed coast guard headquarters here: "The captain (Carlsen) and the coast guard commander agreed it was no use trying to tow the Dai sy Matthews. Vessel breaking up, seams open. Five miles offshore and drifting shoreward." , The message said the Ariadne would stand by to see whether the Daisy Matthews wonld be smashed upon the beach. When trouble first developed the schooner was about' 20 miles off Eureka, about 2S0 miles north of San Francisco. Meagre reports Ir dlcated the Daisy Matthews, bor.; from Coos Bay. Ore., to San Francisco, lost (Turn to page 2, column 4) Salem Musicians Win High Ratings PORTLAND. Ore.. Mav 4-UPV- Salemj musicians won high ratings today as the Oreroa Federation of Music clubs' Junior competitive festival ended. 1 . Jean Swift. Salem, was rated superior In the class C piano solo competition: F. Wendell Johnson. Salem i in class D, violin. matelyi $1900 with no expense to the city. ; i j.,.. The, council will also hay a heavy grist of public hearings on soning matters before it with four scheduled. " . : Expected to come to a head at Monday's ; session is the soning controversy over W.I' W, Rose bran gh's petition to change classi fication of his property at 14 th and State street from! residential to basinets classification. The change has been heavily opposed by residents of the area, the Beta Chi sorority across the street and some pf i the businessmen in the the business area between 12th and l$th streets. - Thel three other petitions, all requesting changes from ieslden tl&l to business zones, involve property owned by A. i M. Hansen at the southeast corner of Capitol and Nebraska . streets. ; property owned by John Koeneke in Oak Lawn park addition, and the for mer site of the Yew Park school, owned by Rich L. Eeizn&nn, and w ww ' 1 r . an an lining tort ''':In'Hbme';Stat WiirHave Control, Most County Conventions Tuesday, Report Probe of Dewey Expense Shows "Little Basis for Complaints DALLAS. Tex- May Heavy support of Vice President Garner for the democratic presi dential nomination in the more populous sections of Texas tonight indicate 1 the Texan's followers would tontrol county democratic conventions -en Tuesday. - Enough Roosevelt support de veloped, however, to threaten the vice president's control In some sections, notably southeast and central Texas. Garner apparently won delega tlons in Dallas, San Antonio. Cor pus Christl and other heavily pop ulated sections. Uninstructed delegates to the bounty convention probably will hold ths balance . of power in Houston (Harris county). The total delegates to the conn ty convention will be 14 18. On the basis of incomplete returns third term supporters of Roose velt will have a voting strength of at least 425; Garner 100: un- lnstructcd 226; Hull 18. This ac counts for all but 201 of the dele gates. WASHINGTON, May i.-Jf- Chalrman Gillete (D-Iowa) dis closed today that the senate cam paign investigating committee had fonnd "very little" basis for complaints against Thomas E. Dewey's campaign for Maryland's 10 delegates to the republican na tional convention. Gillette did not specify the na ture of the complaints received bv tne committee, but other commit tee members reported they cnarged Improper expenditures Ths committee chairman said that "preliminary reports indlcste very little development of substantial tact" to support "charges made to the committee In connection with Maryland's selection of delegates to the republican national conven tion." . . - . . . ' tooay included a statement br Senator Thomas (D-Okla) that Oklahoma should send to the democratic convention a delega tion instructed for - President Roosevelt or, if the chief execu tive should decline a third term. delegation pledged to help nominate "a candidate In sym pathy with the program and poll cles of the president." Stassen to Reply -On "Blanket" Attacks President Roosevelt's assertion yesterday that presidential and congressional candidates should stop making blanket condemna tion of administration acts and specify what they would do if they were in power drew a reply today from Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota. Stassen said that the keynote address he is to make at the re publican national convention in Philadelphia would "Include some of the answers to the questions (Turn to page 2, column"!) Mrs.LSpaulding Called at Age 72 Mrs. Lorah O. Spanldlng: wid ow of the late Senator Charles K. Spanldlng, passed away last night at the family residence, 9.64 Court street, after an illness of nine months. She was 72 years of age." Mrs. Spanldlng was the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Seese, Yamhill county pioneers, and had lived in 8alem since 1912. Sena tor Spanldlng. who died two years ago, was a pioneer lumber man of Oregon. He established the Charles K. Spaulding Logging company at New berg- in 1894 which grew into .the business known as the Spaulding mills. ' Mrs. Spaulding is survived by two sons, -Walter L. of Salem, and Clifford of New berg; two daughters, Mrs. Roy Mills and Mrs. Lewis D. Griffith, both of Salem; and several grandchil dren.. t" , ' Funeral arrangements are in charge of W. T. RIgdon company. (Photo on page 14.) Wesrii Support For ftMaiy, Plea PORTLANbreJ'May 4-V Northwest republicans should In struct their delegations for Sena tor Charles L. McNary for presi dent, Albert Johnson, veteran ex congressman from H o q n 1 a m, Waslu. declared today. - Even California, Nevada and Utah "might benefit- by lining ap behind the Oregon man who is senate minority leader, John son, author of the qnota immigra tion restriction act. said. Such a western combine "could make Itself heard In . case of a deadlock." Johnson continued. "We pf the coast states and our neighbors In the mountain states are so few that it takes all of us to make a showing against Penn ttylvanla alone." - - ' Jahnson landed McNary, say ng "how he has accomplished so much under. so many difficulties la a Barrel ta ReV . . M . . J. ivarnerija Heavy Siiprj VV esiemF 1 ' , Youth Drowns As Car Upsets South of Gty Elden H. Peterson' Dies ;jj Despite Efforts at f Resuscitation - ' ' - ' - Auto Coes Into Ditch in Vicinity of Fairview Home; Two Escape Elden Hans Peterson. 24. of Turner, drowned while the auto mobile in which he was a passen ger lay partly submerged in the ditch beside the highway near the Fairview Home about 10 o'clock Saturday night, it was reported by a state police officer who investi gated. Young Peterson was trashed to the Salem Deaconess hospital in the hospital ambulance and ef forts to resuscitate him continued for more than an hour and one- half without avail. Passers-by at the scene of the accident had also tried artificial respiration and the young man appeared to be breath ing shortly before he reached the hospital. Resuscitation attempts were continued until shortly be fore midnight. Peterson was a passenger in an automobile driven by Charles Wirtanen, also of Turner. A third pasenger was Ruth Goodman of Turner. They were on their way to Salem to attend a late show when the car got out of control. struck the culvert and toppled into the ditch, upside down. Wirtanen and Miss Goodman extricated themselves and were not injured beyond cuts and braises but it was some time be fore Peterson could be gotten out. it was reported. The state officer said bruises on his head were not severe bat that he apparently had been knocked unconscious, as he wasiiot pinned down. v: - 3 x oung i-eterson s ratner is a section foreman . at Turner. His mother reached the hospital while rescuscltation . was being tried. There are a number of other chil dren in the family . Clemency Sought In Fugitive Case Man Who Escaped in 1919 Fully Reformed Says Oregon Governor Suggestion that Terry Walton. 47, who escaped from the South Dakota penitentiary in 1919 and has lived near Portland since 1920, has "made a complete re form" and need not necessarily be returned to complete a 13-year sentence was made - yesterday by Governor Charles A. Sprague. In a letter to Governor Harlan J. Bushfleld of South Dakota; the Oregon governor wrote, "If on review of the ease you would de cide not to send a man to return him to South Dakota, I really be lieve that such a decision wonld be fully justified under the cir cumstances. The object, of penal servitude is reform-In this case. Walton appears to have made a permanent reform." . Walton, who has lived under the . assumed . name . of Fenton since coming to Oregon as a fugi tive in 1920, has resided in Sher wood near Portland for the last four years. Sentenced originally on a statu tory charge, : he escaped after serving two : years of his term, made his way west, and married Portland girt He Is now the father of six children, the oldest 17. and has - gained the reputa tion of a peaceable, law-abiding citizen, and a good father, au thorities have stated. His trade is that of chimney-sweep. Field Job Offices Opened PORTLAND, May . 4-UPV-The Oregon state employment service today opened - field offices at Gresham and Cornelias to serve growers and pickers or Muitno m a h and Washington counties during the berry season. Our Senators Gcsrge Ucsfi' "George E. Waters oughta built him an ark instead of a bail park aes Senator Salem, weather vane for the Sen ators baseball club. "But then maybe (ve all hope) It won't rain today. I sure wanta see our boys tackle those Spokane Indians." Ths Senators and the Indians will tangle at 2:1 and again at f:lS tonight if it doesn't rain. ' Last night's game was called off because It did. Other WI Games Zalima 1 JEeaa.tc.hta tt smm. ront aim Court TellsSatko He Can't Take I J Young Children to Alaska on Ark A Juvenile eowrt Jndgp ruled In Seattle Saturday that Paul Satko wiunt s not sail for Alaaka.with his six younger children aboard the Ark.M i Satko, who Insists lit Is safer than a regular passenger. Is shown Here with police officers alongside the "Ark." ILN photo. Steamer Ride for Tots Turned Down by Satko Wouldn't Be as Safe as I Judge Praises Him but, Won't1 Let Children Ga Aboard Until Fire Risk Is Abated j ' ' " -V-- ' SEATTLE. May 4. -(APj Disheartened temporarily at least, by Juvenile Judge William G. Lonz's decision today that his homemade ark is unsafe with which to carry his six minor children, to Alaska, Paul Satko 49, jobless Richmond, Ysl, machinist, issued' a statement late today rejecting the court's suggestion he take his wife and eldest daughter north in the ark and permit the chlld - ren to be carried on la steamship. j "1 wouldn't feel i they'd be Quite as safe on any other boat as they would be on the ark," he said; And then he i rapped the publicity stunts" aid subscrip tion ' campaigns staged here and in Tacoma, whence the family sailed two weeks ago tomorrow. i "I haven't been going around begging from the ptbllc and I don't intend to start now," he said. I "i Judge Long's memorandum de cision praised the hasky former marine corpsman as "a red-blooded American." who should be ac corded "the highest admiration," but added that all experts, even those called in Satko'S behalf, had branded the Ark a flretrap. i( He said the six minor children muit remain off the Ark, even at moorings, until fire i department officials have repprted that it has been made reasonably safe from fire, but that they cannot sail aboard her until a certain list of minimum- requirements . in the way' of sanitation and seaworthi ness hare been met, - Mootrv Residence Damaged iri Blaze i Living anarters in the rear of the ' Earl K. Mootry ! drug store In the Hollywood district were se verely damaged by fire early last night, bnt no damage was done to the store or stock.) ' :j: MjMrs. Mootry was asleep on a davenport when -the tire,-appar ently resulting from an oil store. started. She was awakened y Mootry. '. - X -'' !! Mootry said ' contents or tne living quarters were almost a complete loss. .: . -. t " . Labor Board Agency, James WASHINGTON.MS7 -WV ismes A. Reed, former democrat ic; senator from Missouri,: de nounced national labor board tac tics today-as "the sort of thing engaged in by racketeers." Reed told the special house committee investigating the board that the agency ought to be "abor fche4 overnight" If even one-tenth of the committee's charges against It were true. 1 , The witness testified he never had read, "such a catalogue of Im proper, unjudicial, unfair rulings and acts" as those attributed to the board in the committee's re port recommending sweeping changes in the national labor re lations act, - During a recital of! the exper iences of his wife's firm, the Don nelly Garment company of Kansas City, with both the board ana me International Ladles Garment Workers nnlon, Reed referred to tistances cited - in the committee Itjory Ja ow, Jha Mqttleship Sunh W S W'J KS V VSCfc t . Ark, Machinist Insists; O WU May Festivity Draws big Crowd Coronation Forced Inside but Gym Is Crowded; Play Final Event Rain dampened the outdoor scene yesterday for Willamette university's annual May queen coronation but failed to dampen the enthusiasm of students and off campus visitors who witnessed the traditional ceremonies, moved into the gymnasium because of the adverse weather. A V A neaT-capaclty crowd filled the gymnasium as Betty Starr of Portland was crowned Queen Bet ty II of the 140 May court by Suzanne Curtis, queen of a year ago. - Her attendants ,were. Prin cesses Lou- Herman - and vema Yosper, King Herbert Davis and Princes Harry Chadbonrne and Steven Anderson. Many smiles of approval were gathered by young Robert Luther, crown bearer, and Marcla" Maple and ' Geraldine Keene, prettily-clad x little flower girls. .-- - ' Presentation of "The Taming of -the Shrew" foUowed the cor onation before winding of the May pole. :-. Last night the junior class pre sented the' play, "Our Town,' dK rected by Genevieve Oppen, dra matics coach," at the senior high school auditorium. . Conclading May weekend event will be a concert at the First Me thodist church at S o'clock to night by the Willamette a cappel la choir, directed by Dean Melrin Oelst, ;. ., ; : Is "Racketeer" helped tor institute boycotts against companies as "a process of condemnation without a hearing." "A man ox a board that will do that thing," the Mlssonrlan as serted, "furnishes the indubitable evidence that it is prejudicial, motivated by vindictive motives snd la utterly unfit to sit as a ju dicial tribunal anywhere under the American flag," V Declaring that lawyers had been hired to prevent amendment of the labor relations act and that they had lobbied for the purpose, Reed added: : nt that's part of the new deal, they had better perform a surgi cal operation and cut the cancer ont-t - - ' - - - "Henry Ford can build np for 40 or 60 years a tremendous bus iness," Reed said, "and pay wages higher than others but he can be haled before utterly inexperienced and Incompetent people boys Just out of law, school and. girls XT'oia, ta ftage 3, column 8i German Attack On Wide Front Said Repulsed British Ears Burn From ' Taunts Though Sea Distaster Denied -i . . .. Norway Activity Slight; Italy Concerned Over Alexandria Moves . PARIS. May 4.-m-The Frenr high commsnd tonight reported that German surprise attack against the vital center of the. 100-mile active session of the western front had been thrown back -In disorder." The Germans, attacking on what was described officially as a. "wide front." were caught In strong French barbed wire entan glements by heavy artillery '-Are. Machine-guns and automatic , rifles placed strategically te sweep the fields of wire were said by military observers to have thrown the nasis Into confusion, forcing their retreat. I This section cf the front, whtre the valleys of the Biles and Saar rivers Join, Is one of the most dif ficult countrysides - on the st ern front for ground operation!. Far in ) the advance of the Mag Inot line the French have erettd strong advance post positions, taking advantage of the thickly wooded slopes and rock strewn valleys, i The German attack,' launched before dawn this morning Is un derstood 1 .to - have covered the whole valley area situated almost In the exact center of the north ern hinge of the western front, where It bends west from the -Rhine and runs 1 to the, Luxfic bourg frontier. , V The sparsely worded high com mand 'communique referred to the, action s. a" "ruit Important sur prise attack," Indicating fit - w&e considerably larger than the re cent local skirmishes between ad- vance posts and patrols in this sector Since .yesterdsy artillery fire has been increasing along the en tire sector between the Rhine and Moselle rivers. (By the Associated Press) . Livening up of the wasters front came "a g nail Germany, al ready flushedlby triumph In Kor way, taunted her enemies further with claims that she definitely had proved the efficiency of h-r great air arm against power cn the sea. ! Challenging Britain's long rule as mistress of the sea, the Ger mans said their dive bombers bad sunk a British; battleship of the, 30.000-ton Queen Elizabeth class in three minutes off Kamsos, Nor way. 1 (X Nazis went on to claim a total of nine British warships or trans ports were sunk' or badly; dam aged by air attack as the allies strove to transport their with drawing forces, out of central Norway. These claims for the power ef the nasi air force brought the re tort from British soirees that they were "of tbe fantastic char acter to which the public is tun becoming accustomed." Action died down- In war-riddled Norway except In the area around Narvik. Stockholm mili tary experts .' predicted the next move of the Germans, now lOfl.- OOO strong In Norway, would; be a push toward Narvik. t Allies Cloning in on Narvik Force Reports from there laid the allies were closing in on a weak- Turn to page I, column f ) Idaho Delegation May Favor Dewey LKWISTON, Ida., May k-iJT,-Signs pointed strongly tonight to the probability that Idaho's dele gation to the republican national convention will be instructed to work for the nomination of Thom as K. Dewey for the presidential nomination. ' The delegation will be chosen at the GOP state delegate con vention here Monday to cast Ida ho's eight Totes at the Phlla Atl phia conclave. Republican leaden close to United States Senator John Thomas (R, Idaho),. who was appointed - last January to carry on in the place of tbe lata William E. Borah, revealed Sena tor Thomas Is In favor of a dele gation Instructed for -Dewey. Thomas; however, has refused to be quoted. - Opponents of sn instructed del egation warned there would be a floor fight, if necessary, but jsartyi leadera worked tonight to bead It off. ; Speecli C. :;p EIccls PORTLAND. May 4.-r)-tMe-gates to tbe Oregon ; t-association's state conferenre 1 re today elected Miss Grace J)ri ?, Portland, president, cr 1 D. I's.I. ,.. er Tounr, .Oregon State collei:, vice-president.