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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, NOVE3IBER 19, 1918. ORE eon commissi IH BURLESON Telephone Inquiry Message Has "Kick" in It. CLEAR STATEMENT DESIRED Oregon Body Would tike to Know Whether Postmastcr-Cencral Authorized Rate Increase. SALEM. Or., Nov. 1 S. (Special.) With the declaration that it is incon- Iccivable that the Pacific Telephone e Telegraph Company "should be af forded an advantage by reason if lis financial superiority to competitors that up to this time hare been required lo pursue through the usual channels I their applications for increases in rate I schedules." the Public Service Commis sion today followed its recent message I by another telegram to Postmaster General Burleson. Today's message has "kick" In it. Declaring that the "people of Oregon are incensed at tnis injustice.- me Commission asks the Postmaster-Gen eral "to make us a definite statement las to whether the rates nave oeen initiated by your authority, that may determine our future action." Ommlaaloa Willi Facta. In its latest demand upon the Post master-General the Commission says -We are unofficially advised that you have authorized the Pacific Tele phone k Telegraph Company to put into effect in Oregon a schedule of .ncreased rates, upen your initiative. In view of your order. No. 1931. of date Ausust 28. U18. from which we quote: 'In all cases where rate adjust ments are pending or immediately nec essary they should be taken up Dy tne I company Involved througn tne usual channels and action obtained whenever possible. In cases, however, where rates are changed. uch should be sub' mitte-1 to me for approval before being placed in effect.' we assume that you hate acted under a misapprehension of the f jets. "If von are Informed that the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company has attempted to file Its Increased rates in the usual manner and through tne uual channel, which in this etate is the Public Service Commission, tnen von have been misinformed. On the contrary, the Pacific Telephone & Tele graph Company has resorted to tne subterfuge of attempting to file in- rreases without formal and puDlio hearing In plain disregard of the established precedents of this commis sion and in violation of etate statutes Oregon People Iareaad. "If this is your Information then you have full knowledge of the facts. If you are predicating your action upon any Information otner tnan as aoove outlined you are acting upon a sup posed state of facts which does not ex ist. The Pacific Telephone & Tele graph Company has been denied none of its rights and has made no legal ap plication to this commission for any in crease. "It seems Inconceivable that this com pany should be afforded an advantag by reason of its financial superiorit to competitors that up to this time have been required to pursue through the usual channels their application for Increases In rate schedules. The people of Oregon are incensed at thi injustice, and we ask you to make u a definite statement as to whether rates have been initiated by your au thorily. that we may determine ou future action. "This commission feels that If any increased rates have been initiated in Oregon by other authority than it own. common courtesy demands tha It should have direct knowledge of the facts." liitrnor Ready to Asxint. At a conference between Governor Withycombe and the Public Service Commission today to consider further action relative to the attempt of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Com pany to boost its rates, it developed that tomorrow a further conference will be held between the commission members, Attorney-General Brown and Assistant Attorney-General Bailey. At that time a definite decision probably will be made as to what course to pursue. At the conference today the Governor offered to assist in the fight in any way possible. What use will be made of this offer will probably develop after the conference tomorrow. The Governor Informed the commission that he was fully satisfied that the commission had taken every step in its power to bring about the desired remedy. PIIOXE RATES HELD HIGH Yakima Csers Declare New Sched' ulc Unreasonable. YAKIMA. Wash.. Nov. !. (Special.) The new telephone rate schedule re ceived by the local office of the Pa cific Telephone & Telegraph Company from San Francisco headquarters tele phone users generally declare to be un reasonably high, even under the ex isting. range of war wages and prices. Whether any formal protest will be made is uncertain, since the lines are under Government control and the in crease has the sanction of Postmaster General Burleson and the State Public Service Commission, according to re ports here. The advance hits suburban service most severely. Rural store telephones cost 13.50 a month, instead of S1.50, and rural residences are charged 3 instead of 31.30. BANKERS HOLD ELECTION TWO DIRECTORS OF FEDERAL RESERVE TO BE CIIOSEX. Three Oregon Men Nominated; Polls Open November 1 5 for Fif teen Days. PHONE CONTROVERSY C0N1UESUIBTD Senator McNary Unable to Get Satisfaction. INCREASE IS ESSENTIAL Acting Postmaster-General Says Blorc Money Needed to Em ploy Operators. The terms of two directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of the Twelfth District expire December 31. The mem bers of the banks in groups 2 and 3 have been notified of tne vacancies and of the nominees for the places. Each member bank in each group has one vote, and all have been notified that the polls would be open after No vember 15, and the time for casting the ballots is 15 days from the receipt of notice. Group 3 comprises 434 banks having capital and surplus less than 3125.000 and the vacancy is for class A director. In this group there are 15 candidates, three of whom are from Oregon, one from Utah and the re mainder from California. The banks nominate their own candidates. The Oregon nominees are K. C. Baird, of the First National Bank of Newberg; V. Carter, First National Bank. Ash land, and T. J. Mahoney, Livestock State Bank, North Portland. Alden An derson, present director representin this group, is not a candidate for re election. Group 2 will elect a director in class B. and John A. McGregor, of San Fran Cisco, is the only candidate, and is the present director whose term expires. Group 2 is composed of banks havln capital and surplus not less than 125.000 nor more than $199,000. Directors of the Federal Reserv Bank are officials serving in an hon orary capacity. The duties do not re quire constant service, but there are oc casional meetings which the members are required to attend. It is . note Worthy that several states In the dis trict have no candidates for the place among them Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Arizona. j WHY HAIR FALLS OUT j Dandruff causes a feverish irritation of the scalp, the hair roots shrink. loosen and then the hair comes out fast. To stop falling hair at once and rid the scalp of every particle of dandruff, get a small bottle oi Danderlne at any drug store for a few cents, pour a little in your hand and rub well Into the scalp. After several applications all dandruff disappears and the hair stops coming out. Adv. CHILD'S TONGUE BECOMES COATED IF CONSTIPATED If Cross, Bilious. Sick, Feverish, or Full of Cold. Take No Chances. "California Syrup of Figs" Can't Haim Tender Stomach. Liver, Bowels. Children love this "fruit laxative," and nothing else cleanses the tender stomach, liver and bowels so nicely. A child simply will not stop playing to empty the bowels, and the result is they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggisU. stomach soars, then your little one becomes cross, halt sick, feverish, don't eat. sleep or act naturally, breath is bad, system full of cold, has sore throat, stomach ache or diarrhoea. Listen. Mother! See if tongue is coated, then give a teaspoonful of 'California Syrup of Figs." and in a few hours all the constipated waste, sour bile and undi gested food passes out of the system and you have a well, playful child again. .Millions of mothers give "California Syrup of Figs" because it is perfectly harmless; children love It. and it never fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels. Ask your druggist for a bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Beware of coun terfeits sold here. Get the genuine, made by "California Fig Syrup Com pany." Refuse any other kind with KING'S HOPES REALIZED America and England United by Comradeship in Arms. LONDON. Nov. 18. At the close of the entertainment given for America soldiers and sailors and women wa workers at the Palace Theater last night. Vice Admiral William S. Sim read a message he had received from the King in answer to a letter sent to the British sovereign by himself an Major-General Biddle on behalf of th American sailors and soldiers present. The kings answer read: It la with feelines of gratitude and sin cere pleasure that I received the letter you addressed to me In the name of the American sailors and soldiers who are sembled this evening under the auspices of the British committee for entertainin American forces. In the unity of our cause and our memories, fostered by romradeshi in arms. X see the realisation of my finest hopes, that the American and English peo pies, united by the case of closest friend ship, will ever advance together along the path of progress and civilisation. GEORGE. R. I, Cheers were given for King George and the national anthem was sung with enthusiasm. PHONE GIRLS' FEUD CHARGE Coquille Operalors Said to Refuse Myrtle Toint Proper Service. SALEM. Or.. Nov. 18. (Special.) A feud exists between the telephone oper ators of Coquille and Myrtle Point, and for that reason Coquille operators re fuse to give Myrtle Point people proper service, according to an answer filed by Myrtle Point with the Public Serv ice Commission today to the application of the Coos & Curry County Telephone Company for increased rates. The an swer also avers that this feud is the main cause for poor service rather than poor equipment. It is charged that the company wishes to use the money re ceived from increased rates to extend its line rather than to better its service, In an answer filed by the city of Co quille to the same application the city states that the increases will cause a reduction In the volume of business which will defeat the end which the company is seeking to attain. ROTARIANS TO CELEBRATE 'Victory Day" Will Be Observed at Today's Luncheon. "Victory Day" is the characterisation Portland Rotary Club has adopted for ts first programme after the six weeks' ntermission due to the influenza epi demic Ladies of Rotary will meet with the members of the club in the Crystal room of the Benson at today's luncheon. Dr. John H. Boyd, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will deliver an address, and a programme of excep tional Interest has been prepared for a patriotic service. ARMISTICE TERMS IGNORED Extortion by Germans Since Novem ber 12 Charged. BRUSSELS, Nov. 18. (Havas.) M. Lemonnier. the acting burgomaster of Brussels, has written the delegates of the German government, giving details of 12 instances where German soldiers xtorted sums of money from inhabi tants of Brussels, November 12 and 13. The armistice signed November 11 xpressly prohibited such action. The urns taken varied from E00 francs to 10.000 marks, which were taken from bank. Postal Service Re-established. PARIS. Nov. 18. (British Wireless Service.) The postal service has been re-established throughout the whole of France and Belgium. Little satisfaction was gained through the interview accorded Senator Mc Nary. at Washington, D. C. yesterday by Acting Postmaster-General Koons, relative to the increase in telephone rates in Portland. Mayor Baker had requested Senator McNary to call upo the postal authorities for explanation of the official attitude toward the rate increase, and a reply was received late last night. Interviewed Acting Postmaster-Gen eral Koons today," telegraphed Sen ator McNary, "regarding increase rates in telegraph and telephone serv ice, and was informed that he had set tied the matter with you previously. He said that the increase was absolute ly necessary, due to the fact that, in order to keep the most efficient ope rators at this time, their salary would have to be increased, and in order to do this, rates would have to be in creased accordingly. He was sure peo pie would gladly co-operate for effi cient service." No reply was received from Repre sentative Sinnott, who had also been asked to intervene, owing to his ab sence from Washington. His secretary telegraphed that he had taken thl question up with Senator McNary, who informed htm that action already had been taken. Mayor Sends Inquiry. "Is the Government authorizing the change of telephone rates through power derived from Congress, withou regard for the state law of Oregon?" This sentence in a telegram sen yesterday to the Postmaster-General by Mayor Baker sums up the controversy over the recent advance put into ef fect here. In two previous telegrams sent to Washington the Mayor failed to get a satisfactory reply, and he is making this his third attempt in an effort to get the desired Information before taking drastic action against the company. Reply to the last message to the Postmaster-General is expected today. Meanwhile complaints against the new rate schedule pour in at the City Attorney s office. Nothing definite will be done with these until definite In formation comes from Washington. Subscribers, however, still are advised to resist the advanced rates. The telegram received yesterday from Acting Postmaster-General Koons says: Appropriation Not Made. "Congress made no appropriation for operation of telephone systems, but required that just compensation be paid companies for use of their properties. Any increase in wages must be met by increased rates, but owners benefit in no way from Increase. Bitter complaint has been filed with the department regarding Portland service, it being stated that service is ineffecient and wages insufficient to retain experienced operators. It is out earnest desire to render good service and pay Just wages. It is necessary that wages be such as to enable us to retain operators and remedy conditionr at the earliest possible moment. 'The increase had the approval of tht department. Such increases are effect- ive only till standard rates have been worked out for the country. In our ef forts we ask your co-operation." In answering. Mayor Baker declares that while he is in sympathy with the effort to give higher pay and bettei service, the people of Portland still de mand an answer to the original ques tion of legal procedure. He also says that experienced operators have been refused employment by the company. M'NARY'S MJ0Rini8,IB4 OFFICIAL RETCRXS RECEIVED FROM ALL BUT MULTNOMAH emergency hospital are much im proved, declares Dr. Parrish in predict ing much lower numbers of cases and deaths for the rest of the week. "There wHl be practically no cases after this week," he says, "if the peo ple will isolate all suspects, stay at home when suffering from bad colds, smother their sneezes and take good care of themselves generally. Removal of the ban has not lessened the in dividual responsibility it has increased it twofold." Conditions in Willamette Valley towns are being inspected by State Health Officer Seeley. The ban has been lifted in all these towns, but Dr. Seeley is anxious to find out whether the people are taking proper pre cautions so as to keep the disease from reappearing. Schools opened yesterday, completing the readjustment of conditions upset by the closing orders of the past few weeks. About a fifth of the children re appeared, others remaining away be cause of fear of the disease, it Is believed. Teachers and other school officials have been cautioned to take every care to prevent the attendance of any of those afflicted. Deaths reported yesterday: Arthur Edmunds, 33. shlpworker, 07 North Twentieth; Mrs. Y. Nakimura, 37, 0 Bum side street: Patrick Dwane, 41, foreman, 736 Irving street; Frank S. Burbanks, 68, team ster. Commons, Miss.; LeRoy Chamberlain, 4, 6110 East Fifty-fourth avenue; Mrs. Mar garet Daring, 33, 706 East Thirteenth street; Mabel Kadolch. 18. Thirty-fifth and Pow ell Valley road; Henry B. Hallam. 36; Harry K. Hall, 24. shlpworker; William Kowalestcy. 52, 104 Stanton street; Fred Glover. 25. student, Kenton Hotel: Roy E. Beery. 34, shlpworker, Astoria; Robert W. Bitlman. 7, 118 Killlngsworth avenue; Dorothy C. Gar riott, 17, 834 Alhambra; Albert F. Krumpf, 81, Jeweler; Thomas O. Robinson, 2. 4420 East Fortieth avenue: Ethel Irving 25, 603 East Ankeny street; James A. Clement. 46, shipworker, 725 Tillamook street; Ruth Li. Hunt, 26. Zumbro Apartments: Edward G. Bieker. 36, shipworker, Chesterberry Hotel; Victor N. Irwin, 34, auto mechanic, 628 East Twenty-first; George Coleman, 20, teamster; Mrs. Vera Boothby, 25, 585 Main street; Ray mond Stavely, 29, 412 Clinton street; Michael Showers, 20, shipworker; Joseph Stephenson, 36, waiter, 706 East Eighth street. Flu Ban Off at Halsey. HALSET. Or., Nov. 18. (Special.) All regular church services were held in this town yesterday and school opened today. Dr. H. Garnjobst, city health officer, announces that the reg ulations regarding colds will be rigor ously enforced. No children with pos sible symptoms of influenza will be al lowed to remain in school and all peo pie so affected will be required to stay away from church and public gather ings. Linn County Lifts Epidemic Ban. LEBANON. Or.. Nov. 18. (Special.)- The ban on all public meetings has been lifted in Linn County. The toll In deaths has been light, not more than half a dozen in this part of the county and no new cases have developed in the last week. Woodburn to Lift Ban Thursday. WOODBURN. Or.. Nov. 18. (Special.) To be perfectly safe from the ravages of the Spanish influenza, the Woodburn authorities refused to lift the ban unti next Thursday morning, when schools will begin and public gatherings be al- owed. The few cases left in town are of a mild form. GUARD QUARREL QUIETS GOV. WITHYCOMBE APPOINTS ARBITRATION COMMITTEE. Expenditure of $1000 Authorized to Fit Up Atkinson School as Company Headquarters. Governor AVithycombe Defeats Wal ter M. Pierce by More Than ' 15,000 Votes. Official returns of the recent elec tion from every county except Mult nomah, from which the complete un official figures are used, ehow that United States .Senator McNary defeated Oswald West by 18,164 votes. The vote was: McNary 82,339, West 64,175. West carried only two of the 36 counties Deschutes and Jackson. The oinclai returns from every county, including Multnomah, on the Governorship, ehow that Governor Withycombe defeated Walter M. Pierce by a margin of 15,068, the vote being Pierce 64.980, Withycombe 80,048. Pierce carried only five counties. They were Deschutes, Harney, Linn, Marlon and Union. The same figures confirm the elec tion of Judge A. S. Bennett, of The Dalles, to the Supreme Court by 408 votes over Circuit Judge Coke, of Marshfield. The final figures in this contest were: Bennett 12,304, Camp- ell 6169, Coke 11,896, Olson 10,608. The vote on the seven measures fol lows: Two new normal schools, yes 49,965, no 66.021. Home for delinquents, yes 43,237, no 5.291. Prohibiting fishing in Rogue Klver, yes 45.511. no 50,227. Closing Willamette Klver to lisning. yes 55.659, no 40,893. Delinquent tax bill, yes 66,652, no 41.595. Fixing rates for legal advertising, yes 50.171. no 41,826. Increasing state tax levy, yes 41,36a, no 56,974. LU IS STILL ON WANE CITS' HEALTH OFFICER WARNS PUBLIC TO BE CAREFUL. Teachers Are Cautioned to Exercise All Care to Prevent Attend ance of Afflicted. Portland has passed the danger of an pward swing in the Influenza epi demic, says City Health Officer Par rish, despite adverse reports received at the health bureau yesterday. Re ports received yesterday, covering rom Saturday noon,, were llso new cases and 27 deaths. Conditions over the city and at .the Settlement of the controversy be tween the Multnomah Guard and the new Oregon National Guard, concern ng the occupation of the Armory, will be attempted by a committee, named yesterday by Governor Withycombe, when members of both organizations ppeared before him at Salem. The committee named comprises Sheriff Hurlburt, chairman; Colonel Campbell and Lieutenant-Colonel Bow man, of the Multnomah Guard: Adjutant-General Beebe, Colonel North and Major J. Francis Drake, of the Oregon National Guard. At the conference Adjutant-General Beebe disclaimed all intention of in conveniencing the Multnomah Guard. was suggested, and received with favor by both parties, that the Atkin son School, near the Armory, be se cured as headquarters for the Multno mah Guard, while the Armory be shared for drill, with three nights a week allotted to each regiment. Governor Withycombe said he would authorize the expenditure of 31000 to equip quarters for the Multnomah Guard, subject to the approval of Major Drake. It was definitely agreed that the Multnomah Guard Band is to retain its present location In the Armory, where the unit has spent $650 to equip quarters. Members of the Multnomah Guard who attended the conference were Sheriff Hurlburt, commander-in-chief: ; Colonel Campbell, Lieutenant-Colonel Bowman, and Captain Howell, State Senator-elect. They presented Gov ernor Withycotnoe with petitions, liber ally signed, praying for a reconsidera tion of the order to evacuate the Armory. OVERCOATS You men who are going to buy new Overcoats, will find ' here the style and quality you are looking for. , :., Overcoats from the best makers in America and Lon don from burly storm ul sters to smart light weight top coats, are here assembled in great variety. Every coat is of that de pendable Mathis Quality, in suring a service that satisfies. Moderately priced 25 to $65 (Kathis MENS WEAR Corbett Bldg. 5th & Morrison .'J1? Lsf.ii it TsstsHiTHii.-.iH-l.nTs. sCPggCTtorj-j ens eyvg y ft e q t Si LAST Y TIMES TODAY "Liberty News Review "Tell It to the the Marines" MURTAGH and Our $50,000 Organ 1 MARGUERITE CLARK 'OUT OF A CLEAR SKY' I CLEAR SKY" STARTING TOMORROW of the British government His ex- Deriences. he said, included a view of what he said he believed was the last sinking of a German submarine in a battle with the American destroyer t ox. The submarine attacked one of the vessels of the convoy in which the party was returning to the United States. The party was received by King George and Queen Mary and Mr. Kel ogg had a conversation with tne Premier, Lloyd George, in the same room and seated at the same table at which sat King George III and Lord North 'when they decided upon the action which precipitated the Ameri can revolution. Mr. Kellogg was the only Western aily newspaper man in the party. Edgar B. Piper, of The Portland Orego- nian, however, went later in anomer party and is still abroad. SUBMARINE SINKING SEEN F. W. Kellogg, of San Francisco, Re turns From Trip to Europe. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 18. F. W. Kellogg, publisher of the San Fran cisco Call, returned today from a trip along the battle fronts as a member of a party of 12 American editors, guests NEGROES TO CELEBRATE Anniversary of Landing of. Race In America Is Occasion. A Ter-Centenary Jubilee is being planned by Portland colored people in commemoration of the 300th anni- ersary of the landing of their race on the shores of America. Rev. J. B. Isaacs, pastor of the Bethel M. E. Church, has been named chair man of the committee on arrangementa Efforts are being made to bring to gether fraternal, social, religious and patriotic organizations for tne Jubilee. parade will be held with banners and floats depicting the first of the negro race brought to America and landed at Jamestown, Va. GRAIN SUPPLIES ARE HUGE Total of 114,041,000 Bushels Are Stored In Primary Elevators. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. Supplies of grain held in elevators,- which will be available to meet the needs of this country, as well as to aid Europe, are far greater than they were a yearago. Director-General McAdoo today made public a report from the operating di vision of the Railroad Administration showing that on November 9 there was on hand in the primary elevators 114, 041,000 bushels of grain, as compared with 17,356,000 bushels on the same day in 1917. Wheat and corn supplies especially "lowea an increase over a year ago. xnere were 3,76Y,ooo bushels of corn in the elevators on November 9, asl compared with 157,000 bushels a year ago; 94,433,000 bushels of wheat, as compared with 5,039,000 in 1917, and 15,841,000 bushels of oats, as against 12,160,000 lest year. Packers Ask Employes' Release. CHICAGO. Nov. 18. The immediate release of all packing house employes now in any branch of war service was urgently requested today by the Food Administration in an appeal to the War Department, according to a telegram received from Washington by E. C. Brown, president of the Chicago Live Stock Exchange. I l? 't? jar- Resihol the tested skin treatment "Resinol is what you want for your skin-trouble Resinol to slop the itch ing and burning Rertnol to heal the eruption. This gentle ointment has been so effective for years in treating eczema, ring worn., itching, burning rashes, and sores, that it has become msMidard skin treatment. It con tains nothing that could irritate the tenderest skin." Your druggist will also tell you that Resinol Ointment is excellent for re lieving the smart, itch, and burn of mosquito-bites, and insect-stings. It soothes and cools skins burned by wind or sun. All dealers sell Resinol Ointment. 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