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6 THE MORXIXG OREGONTAJf, TUESDAY, DECEMBER .10, 1919. PRICE GUARANTEE SENTIMENT ASKED Complaints Say Plan Pre vents Decrease in Figures. HEARING WILL BE HELD System Is Said to Offer Protection to Buyers In Case of De cline Before Delivery. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Business lnterenta, labor unions and the public generally are to be sounded out as to the sentiment ip regrard to the guar a 11 tee-a gainst-price -decline system said to be in use by many manufac turers and wholesalers In the sale of Roods. The federal trade commission announced tonight that it had sent out several thousand letters Inquir ing as to the opinion of the plan. The guarantee-against-price-decline system amounts to a guarantee by manufacturers and wholesalers In selling goods that should a decline in price occur before delivery of the goods the buyers shall benefit by the decline, but If the market should rise before delivery the manufacturer and wholesaler would assume the loss. Complaint Are Received. Complaints lodged with the com mission assert that working out of the plan tends to prevent a decrease in the cost of living. . - The commission, in a letter to boards of trade, civic bodies, trade organs and papers, labor groups and farmers' associations, made public Sunday, says: "The question of guarantee against decline in price has been the subject of so manv complaints before the commission and opinion seems to be o diverse that the commission has determined to go into the whole mat ter thoroughly. "As a basis for the necessary ex penditures attending upon such an inquiry, such formal complaints have been Issued presenting various phases of the subject. To the end that ever party at interest may be fully repre sented the commission is inviting, generally, producers, manufacturers, merchants (wholesale and retail) and consumers to declare their interest so that the commission may know what parties should be represented. Hearing to Be Held. "The commission is asking you. therefore, -to communicate as speedily and as widely as possible with your membership, advising them of the in vitation, and to notify the commission of the nature of their interest In the subject. "As soon as this list of the parties at interest in the matter can bo com plied it is the purpose of the commis sion to Invite each or any of them to submit their observations In writing. "A reasonable time limit for the filing of written statements will be given, after which they will be as enabled and. as far as possible, clas sified, and each correspondent will be furnished with a copy of the docu ment. "As soon thereafter as possible It Is the purpose of the commission to call a general hearing at Washington at which parties at Interest may be pres ent In person, by representative or by counsel, and an orderly method for hearing the matter will be laid out." The proposed hearing probably will be held about the middle of March. was a phonograph and a "jazz" rec ord was put on the machine. Hayes jumped to his feet, entirely cured. Music also has been used to arouse people from long sleep, one of the most serious being that of Mrs. Fred Tracy, a former Philadelphia woman now resident In Oxford. N. T where her SO-day slumber finally was end ed by a Phonograph. Leading nerve specialists agree In riraising the potency of music. Dr. Charles K. Mills said: "It is espe cially effective in cases of hysterical paralysis, which is similar to shell shock. The music arouses certain cells of the brain which act on the parts of the body affected." Dr. S. E. W. Ludlam compares the effect of "violent" music to that pro duced by an electric battery. He said the emotional area that naturally would be affected by the combination of "nruslc and noise" would act like a battery under the proper contact and discharge, along the nervous sys tem, a force as powerful as electricity. RAIL BROTHERHOODS TO FIGHT HIGH COSTS Chain of Co-operative Banks and Stores Planned. BIG FUND IS IN RESERVE IMMIGRATION FLOCD IS ON THOUSANDS CLAMOR AT NEW YORK'S GATES. Police and Coast Guards Are o Duty to Relieve Unprecedented Condition Now Existing. NEW YORK, Dec. 29. More than 3000 immigrants are clamoring at the gates of New York for admission Into the United States. Ellis Island Is congested and many hundreds of the incoming passengers will be detained on board steamships for examination. Immigration inspectors and special boards of inquiry have found it neces sary to work day and night to relieve unprecedented conditions. In the meantime hundreds ot friends and relatives of the detained passengers from all over the coun try have assembled here impatiently awaiting the release of the Immi grants. Police and coast guards are on duty at the piers and the Kin.-. Island fer ry entrance to hold in check the crowds which gather at the gates daily. Several attempts have been made by friends and relatives of the detained passengers to storm the piers In an effort to reach the ships. Immigration officials claim that their work Is delayed to a large ex tent on Ellis Island because of the Elimination of Middleman and As sistance From Farmers' Or ganizations Counted On. district No. 1 have reported that since the coming of warmer weather the work Is progressing satisfactorily. The manufacturers reported that the pumps would be delivered on schedule time. Workmen hare started building the canal which will carry the water to the additional lands to be irrigated. Unless unusual weather conditions should Interfere, the system will be completed in time to Irrigate many new aresMthe coming season. WOMAN'S STORY IS CLUE Mrs. Dolly Feck Bennett Ques tioned on J. S. Brown Murder. MOUNT CLEMENS. Mich., Dec - 29. Statements that rivalry for her af fections had led to threat of violence against J. Stanley Brown, killed In his automobile near here last Tuesday night, were denied yesterday by Mrs. Dolly Peck Bennett. Mrs.' Bennett, brought here today from Sandusky, Ohio, was questioned by Sheriff Caldwell and held for fur ther investigation. IB I congestion there due to the detention y ! of a large number of radicals and un desirables, held for deportation. The greater number of the immi grants detained are Italians. It was stated. Several hundred Greek pas sengers also are held. SMALLPOX SCARES 'COPS' SMALL. RIOT MARKS ARRIVAL OF NEGRO AT STATION. JAZZ MUSIC HELD PSYCHIC ' m FHl LADELPHLV SPECIALISTS REPORT PROMPT CURES. Patient Siifrorinsr With Paralysis Jumps to Feet Wlten Phono graph Record Is Played. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 29. (Special.) Musical surgery is the very latest thing in cures with Phila delphia's leading specialists. Music, especially the "Jaxz" variety, is bting used in many clinics, and physicians say that it is working effective cures through its psychic effect. One of the latest cases Is that of Morris Hayes, who came here from Connellsvllle, paralyzed in both legs as a result of a motor accident. He was wheeled In a room in which there PORTLAND MAN HAS GAINED 30 POUNDS Thinks So Much of Tanlac Wants to Stop and Tell Everybody About It. "Since I have taken Tanlac I am thirty pounds heavier and am feeling as fine as a man could want to feel," was the statement made recently by It. H. Wood ot.the Foster Hotel. Port land. Oregon. "I was in such poor health and had lost so much weight that all my clothes were too large for me," con tinued Mr. Wood. "I had indigestion so bad that even the sight of food would nauseate meand nearly every thing I did eat fermented on my stomach. I was troubled something awful after eating and the only way I could get relief was by taking a dose of soda and water, but the next time I ate anything I would go through the same misery, I would hav- iliszy spells so bad that I would ' have to take hold of something and close my eyes for a while to keep from falling over. My kidneys were badly disordered and worried me all through the night. I took cold easily and whenever I did, I always had severe pains in the region. of my kid neys. I was so nervous and miser able I could never get a good night's sleep, and from morning till night I felt so weak and tired ouf I could hardly do my work. "Tanlac was recommended to me by a friend of mine in Seattle and be fore I had finished my first bottle I began to feel better. In all I took four bottles and now all my troubles have completely disappeared and I have gained back all my lost weight and strength. I have a splendid ap petite, and I digest everything I eat without any bad effects at all. My kidneys and nerves were never in better condition, and I don't know what it means to ever have a dizzy spell. I sleep like a log at night and I have so much strength and energy that my work is a pleasure to me. Tanlac Is certainly the greatest build er I have ever seen and I think so much of it that I want to stop and tell everybody I meet about it."- Tanlac is sold in Portland by the Owl Drug store. Adv. Desk Officer Hears Plaint, But Docs Not Linger Long Enough to' Profiler His Aid. A small riot was started at the po lice station Sunday night when Ed ward Thompson, negro, afflicted with smallpox, entered the place in search of relief after he had been put' out of his lodging-house at 329 San Ra fael street, he said. "Say, boss, I'm in trouble," said Thompson, edging up to the police desk confidentially. "What's the matter?" asked Desk Officer Reno, leaning over sympa thetically to hear what he expected would be one of the customary tales of woe to which police officers must listen. "I've got smallpox," came the start ling reply. Officers Reno, Van Valkenburg and Drapeau immediately "decided they were too valuable to the city to re main to hear any more of the story. Harry Enkle, proprietor of a shop at Third and Pine streets, who had been relating a story to an appreciative audience, also made a hasty exit by the back door. Sergean-t Van Overn ordered Thomp son to set out of the building and wplt across the street, adjoining the Chinese restaurant, until the Ambu lance Service company could be called to take hi"" to the. smallpox hospital at Kelly butte. A small cottage located across the road from the building that the city officials contemplate using for the purpose at Kelly butte Is used as an isolation hospital. It has limited fa cilities with beds for only about 12 patients. DR. F. B. SHOOT ELECTEO HIGH METHODIST EPISCOPAL POST OFFERED PASTOR. Acceptance of Secretaryship of Board of Temperance Not Yet Decided by Minister. WASHINGTON. Dec. 29. (Special.) Disappointed at what they term the failure of the government to reduce the cost of living, the railroad broth erhoods, working In conjunction with the railway employes' department of the American Federation of Labor, are considering a plan to undertake the fight themselves. The project, although still nebulous, contemplates a national chain of co operative banks, fashioned something i on the order or tne . non-partisan I league's idea in North Dakota, and ! a chain of co-operative stores, built ' on the Rochdale system, which would j leave out as far as possible the mid dleman, basing the success they hope to attain somewhat on the assistance they may receive from organizations of farmers. 930,000,non Fond in Reserve. Behind the bank project it is understood the brotherhood's plan Is first to place their J50.000.000 reserve fund, which they say is free for use as bank capital. They expect to re ceive the support of other labor or ganizations with the view of estab lishing ultimately a chain of banks for the benefit of labor. The details will be formulated. It Is said, at a meeting in Chicago of the representatives of the transpor tation brotherhoods with delegates from other labor organizations and such farm organizations as will at tend on February 12. Labor Wants Accrued Interest. It has been pointed out by one of the most prominent railroad union leaders that the payroll of labor now reaches into the billions annually. and that labor receives none of the benefit from the interest of this money. Although a large portion is shifting fund.'he added, enough Is stationary to accrue considerable merest, all of which now goes to persons outside of organized labor. The brotherhoods. It was said yes terday, hope first to secure the assist ance or the United Mine Workers, whose reserve fund is placed at $15, 000,000, said to be distributed in a number of banks. Rochdale System In Favor. The Rochdale co-operative system. in use in Great Britain, has been favored by the American Federation of Labor for years and has been brought to the front within the last five weeks hy the report of the com mittee appointed at the St. Paul con vention of the federation in 1918 and continued at the convention last sum mer. The committee consisted of (Jeo-rge W. Perkins, president of the cigar makers: John H. Walker, presi dent of the Illinois Federation of La bor, and James Sullivan, political economist and close associate of Samuel Gompera. Cost Pins Plan Taboo. The report of this committee will be placed before the next meeting of the executive council for approval. The Rochdale system, originated in Rochdale, England, has three prin cipal rules. The price of its shares is limited to a certain amount, usually $26 or $30 In American money and cannot fluctuate in price; one mem ber can only hold one share of stock, which must be sold back to the or ganization when the. member desires to sell. No attempt is made by Rochdale-to cut the general market price and the cost-plus system is taboo, but the earnings of the establishment are paid back to the stockholders as dividends. The Rochdale plan is said by its ad vocates to be the greatest known benefit to labor, because It does not mean a wage increase and a conse quent Increase in prices because it raises the potentiality of wages as they are. In England it has grown to such an extent that the co-operative societies not only own their tea and wheat plantations in Ceylon and Can ada, but the means of transportation to their central stores. Co-Operative Business Billion. The number of co-operative stores In America is placed at 15,000, doing an annual business of more than $1,000,000,000. It was said today that the project would attempt to unite such stores as now exist, at least Into various districts and to increase their number. The brotherhood's plan, It Is under stood, is to establish co-operative banks in a few large cities, such as Chicago, New York, Cleveland and Washington, and to spread from there to practically every railroad center in the country. PLEfl MADE FOB GERMANS WILSON WILL BE ASKED TO SAVE WITSCHE FROM DEATH TRUANT FIANCE JS CLAIMED BY WIFE Hospital Patient Refuses to See Girl Left at Altar. NO EXPLANATION GIVEN I Have Nothing to Say," Is Jotted Back of Card Requesting Statement to Reporters. on Ex-Officer, Condemned, Suspected of Connection With Explosions to Arouse Negroes of South. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Recom mendation will be made to President Wilson by the department of justice that the court-martial sentence of death imposed some 14 months ago on Lathor Wltsche, former German naval officer, for plotting against the United States, be set aside and that the officer be tried for violation of the espionage law by a federal court. It was stated last night by a high official of the department. Witsche, who is said by officials here to have been captured In Nogales, Ariz., early in 1918, Is being held in the military prison at Fort Sam Houston, awaiting presidential dispo sition of the findings of the court martial. While officials refused to discuss in detail the charges against the Ger man officer, reports were not denied that evidence in possession of the government had connected him with the "Black Tom" explosion at Jersey City and with propaganda designed to arouse the negro population of the south. President Wilson, it was said, after going over the findings of the court martial, was not convinced that the case of Witsche was one within the jurisdiction of the military authorities and for that reason has asked the opinion of Attorney-General Palmer. REDS IN PLOT RESIDENTS OF C. S. CHARGED WITH AIDING RL'SSIANS. College at Smithville, Minn., Is Named as Seat of Radical Move ment Against Law and Order. NEW YORK, Dec. 29. More than 3000 Finnish radicals in this country are organized in a revolutionary movement in league with Russian "reds," the Lusk legislative investi gating committee announced Saturday night. Santen Nuorteva. secretary of the soviet "embassy," now at lib erty on ball pending proceedings for contempt of court, was named as the link between the Finnish and other revolutionaries. He is said to be a Finn. Miss Meta Rurael, a student of Finnisli methods, testified at the hearings that the radical Finns are enraged over the defeat of bolshevlsm In their own country and will go to any ends to establish It here. There are 200.000 "white" Finns In this country, she asserted, who are vigor ously opposing the radicals. The mainstay of the Finnish radical movement here, she said, "appears to be the Finnish working people's col lege in Smithville. Minn." Dr. Francis Burgette Short, pastor of Wilbur Methodist church, has been elected extension secretary of the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Epis copal church, according to an an nouncement made in the report of Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general secretary of the board. Whether the popular Portland pas tor will accept or reject the new post, which is in the nature of an advance ment and a recognition of valuable work in the northwest, yesterday was not known. Dr. Short declined to make a statement.. Should he accept the post, his headquarters would be at Washington, D. C. Dr. Short came to Portland from Spokane at the call of the Wilbur congregation. His efforts In the lo cal field were speedily productive" of results, and Wilbur church, successor to the dismantled Taylor-street church, grew In attendance and pop ularity. Sunday services have been held for some time past In the Mult nomah hotel. Through the efforts of Dr. Short, several factories have installed socla service workers. POLES TO DRAFT GERMANS Plan to Recruit Army in Prussia Announced. West BERLIN, -Dec. 29. That the Poles contemplate recruiting six classes of Germans between the ages of 18 and 24 upon taking possession or west Prussian territory to be ceded to Poland, Is charged by the Deutsche Tages Zeltung, which claims to be in formed to this effect from reliable Polish quarters. These six classes, the newspaper adds, will comprise 15,000 men who are liable to be called on for military duty after having served as frontier guards in West Prussia. For prompt and expert plumbing service, ghone iiain 253. Adt. WORK BEGUN ON CANAL NEW YORK, Dec. 29. Dr. William Grey Vermilye, who failed to appear Christmas cay to marry Miss Ruth M. Keeney at Monson, Mass., and is a patient in the Cumberland-street hospital, refused to make any com ment last night when Informed that his wife had been located in Harris burg, Pa., where she is living with a daughter. Information that Dr. Vermilye had a wife with, whom he had been liv ing up to the time he gave up pri vate practice to take a position with the United States shipping board In the south, was given by Mrs. P. E. Zlndell of Brooklyn, wife of a son of Mra Vermilye by a previous mar riage. She said that Dr. Vermilye and his wife had lived in Brooklyn, but Mrs. Vermilye had gone to Harrlsburg six months ago to visit her daughter and was still there. MI Keeney I. rave Hospital. Miss Keeney, who has also been a patient In the hospital since last night when she fainted and became hyster ical because the doctor refused to see her or explain his failure to ap pear for the wedding, left the Insti tution yesterday. She and her father again attempted to interview Dr. Ver mllye, but he refused to see them. Vv hen. hospital officials, who sav the physician is there to undergo a slight operation, informed newspaper men that he would see no one except relatives, they sent Dr. Vermilye tho following note: "Your wife, said to be located in Harrlsburg, Pa., has made charges which perhaps you would be glad to clear up. Will you please make a definite statement and clear ud the whole matter?" Doctor "Has Nothing to Say." Dr. Vermilye's reply, which was written on the back of the note, said: "I have nothing to say." When Mrs. Zlndell, who lives at tho Vermilye home In Pacific street, was asked If It was true that the physician had a wife, she said: "It is. Her name Is Mrs. William Grey Vermilye and she Is at present I staying with a daughter at Harris burg, P." "Had Dr. Ven..ilye and his wife lived here with you?" "Yes," she responded. "Mrs. Ver milye left this house about five months ago because her husband was In the service," Vermilye Divorce la Denied. "Have you ever heard of Dr. Ver milye or his wife getting a divorce?" "No; so far as I know they are still married." Mrs. Zlndell said he did not know Miss Keeney. but had "heard she was a well educated girl." When questioned further as to whether thsre was any doubt as to the woman In Harrlsburg being Dr. Vermilye's wife, Mrs. Zlndell replied: "I have no doubt at all but that she is his wife." Mrs. Vermilye, It was learned last night. Is the second wife Of the phy sician, his first wife having died. MRS. VERMILYE IS SILENT COLD SHUTS SAND PITS Frozen Pipes During Storm Causes Delay to Umatilla Industry. UMATILLA, Or.. Dee. 29. (Special.) The recent cold spell suspended work in the sand and gravel pits In Umatilla county. The Jones-Scott company was Inconvenienced to the greatest extent. Pipes Jamming with ice caused the tie-up. The crew worked hard to get the plant In' operation, as many orders were piling up. The plant will soon be running full blast again, according to D. C. Chapman, superintendent. Comment on Husband's Plan to Wed Another Withheld. HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 29. Mrs William Gray Vermilye, who says she is the wife of the Brooklyn physician who disappeared Christmas eve, when supposedly on his way to wed Mls Ruth M. Keeney of Monson. Mass.. and was subsequently found in a Brooklyn hospital, declined last night to make any statement In regard to Dr. Vermilye's affairs. Major E. R. Balnes, her son-in-law. said that Mrs. Vermilye had never heard of Miss Keeney before learning of her intended marriage. Major Balnes said that Dr. and Mrs. Vermilye were married in 1896. Mrs. E. F. Kain Die at Centralia. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Dec. 29. (Spe- 48 of the first 50 Pierce - Arrow trucks sire still running after 8 years They met the various road and operating re quirements of 48 owners in many different busi nesses in many different cities. No. 50 is used by the Mt. Whitney Power & Electric Company to haul material to the Sequoia National Forest. It has run over 160,000 miles and during one year operated in double shifts 20 hours a day without let-up. Last year it hauled over these rough mountain roads a 45 horse power steam boiler weigh ing 64 tons, which was so long that sand ballast had to be piled on the hood to hold the front wheels on the road. Standardization effects big economies. You can't stand ardize with a truck which is constantly changing design. Such trucks have no history of success behind them. WHY PIERCE-ARROW ? 1. Delivers more work in a given time. 2. Loses less time on the job and off the job. 3. Costs less to operate and less to maintain. 4. Lasts longer, depreciates less and commands a higher resale price at ail times. CHAS. C. FAGAN CO., Inc. Exclusive Distributors PIERCE-ARROW Motor Cars and Motor Trucks Ninth and Bumside Phone Broadway 4693 Write for Book, "The First Fifty" elal.) Mrs. E JT. Kain, aged 59 years, died Friday night at her home in this city. 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