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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1920)
;'- V - - t :"?.'. r '-"' 1 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JUNK G, 1920 A 1 i 1 1 i I ' T RATIONING SYSTEM V IS BE NG PROPOSED Gasoline Cards to Be Issued if Found Requisite. DAILY REPORT ASKED FOR Public Warned Against Trying to Use Substitute or Kerosene Mixed With Ktber. ' MAYOR I'RGKS ECONOMV. To the Public: As a means of preventing un necessary use of gasoline dur ing the present temporary pe riod of shortage citizens throughout the city arc urged to discontinue asking: toT de" livcry by stores of stuff that can be easily carried. This co operation on the part of persons not direct users of gasoline will be of material aid in savins gasoline so badly needed at this time for machinery used in food production on the farm and in the factory, the curtailment of which eventually will mean in creased cost of the necessities of life. GEORGE L. BAKER, Mayor. pleasure trips and of course there is nothing: to stop motorists not willing; to co-operate from refilling; their cars within the city. But because the shortage is more acute outside the city, due to the fact the gasoline is being given al most exclusively to industries and for agricutural purposes, it is not believed that many automobiles will leave Portland for lengthy trips to day. At the request of the conservation committee, plainclothes officers will be detailed on roadways leading from Portland today to determine if com mercial cars are being used for pleas ure purposes. Any persons discov ered so using commercial allotments of gasoline will be shut off from further stocks, it was said. Because of a state law which re quires oil companies to serve gaso line to the full amount desired by any holders of coupon books, many motorists having books are demand ing full tank capacity. An appeal is made to coupon holders to obtain only the regular allotment, and if bis ap peal does not avail, plans , are being made to handle the situation by pub licity. '"It behooves every motorist In Portland to join the conservation committee in its effort to save gaso line," said Mayor Baker. "For the present it matters not just why the shortage is here. This point is being covered by government officials and will be determined following care ful inquiry. But suffice to say that we are suffering from a shortage which is acute. To obtain more gaso line than is rationed daily is simply robbing your neighbor and "making It mote difficult to supply the in dustrial and agricultural interests of the state. "The shortage is not permanent but the quicker all the motorists join In the campaign and play a fair game during the crisis, the quicker we will return to normal." SCARCITY OF PAPER CAUSED BY MAKERS Senate Committee Suggests Legal Prosecution. PRICE-FIXING IS CHARGED Unless motorists voluntarily con serve gasoline during the present shortage, a card system will be put Into effect by the conservation com mittee, wbich will limit the weekly supply of every motorist in the city. At a meting of the committe yes terday in Mayor Baker's office, a committee composed of Ira F. Powers and Marshall N. Dana was appointed to prepare a card ration system, have the necessary caras printea ana uo ready to place the system in opera tion upon a minute's notice. Profiteering by "gas bootleggers," together with illegal storage, are oc cupying the attention, of a large force of firemen and police who are operat ing under the direction of Chief Jen kins and Fire Marshal Urenfell. Any person found .either profiteer ing in gasoline by charging in excess of the market price of 26 V4 cents a gallon, or who stores gasoline in vio lation of the city statutes will be ar rested and prosecuted. It is probable that the city council will be requested to pass an ordinance providing for the filing of names of persons purchasing gas in containers. According to reports now being in vestigated, some gasoline "bootleg gers" are collecting gasoline in one and two gallons cans, obtaining a sup ply which it is said they hope to sell at extravagant prices. Such reports are now being checked and may lead to arrests. Members of the conservation com mittee became a bit perturbed yes terday when some sought to demand a daily report of gasoline stocks from the oil companies. Dally Report Asked for. Will J. Lester, president of the parage and repairmen's association, contended that the oil companies should be forced to make such a report. Howard M. Covey opposed the plan as' did Robert W. Sehmeer. Roth contended that no demands should be made, but they did believe the oil companies should be requested to give any information desired by the committee. Mayor Baker, chair man, settled" the question when . he announced that he would ask for a daily report on gasoline stocks, in order that the committee may know how' the conservation programme is being carried out and should the oil companies refuse to give the informa tion, a demand will be made. William V. McKinney. president of the Oregon State Motor association, was particularly hostile at the oil companies, complaining that their representatives had not "laid the cards on the table or played fair with the committee." Other members of the committee did not agree with Mr. McKinney. it being explained that al though the oil companies did not de sire to make public the amount of Mocks on hand, such information was given privately to members of the committee, and the only reason for the dislike of publicity along this l:ne was because of competition. It was further cited that all such figures are available in Salem, hence ''the committee is certain to obtain figures desired, even though repre sentatives of the oil companies did not desire to reveal them in Port land. W. B. Kerr and Bert C. Ball ap peared before the committee and urged a card system. Mr. Kerr con tended that the present plan was un fair to motorists who desired to dis play a patriotic spirit and that such persons should be protected from the "gasoline hogs" by a method which would prevent refilling of tanks. The majority of the members ofthe committee favor a card svstpm. al though representatives of the oil com- panics are incunea to ueiieve mat the ration plan now in vogue, to gether with the co-operation of motorists in the conservation, will serve the needs. Tf it is found, how ever, that duplication is reducing stocks faster than is anticipated, the card restriction plan wilt be used. I.enn Argument Heard. Less argument was heard around gasoline filling stations yesterday. Indicating that the public is slowly awakening to a realization that Ore gon is facing a serious shortage, to gether with the entire Pacific coast. However, reports of persons obtain ing gasoline by draining tanks and refilling were more numerous than the day previous, but it is believed that much of this will be halted when the gasoline squad has operated for a few days. . ' Reports from the up state and from Washington towns tributary to Port land continued to show an acute thortage. To all towns and cities, however, sufficient has been sent to care for agriculture needs. lrug stores in the city reported heavy sales of commercial ether to ! mixed with kerosene to serve as a substitute for gasoline. Ether is liighly explosive and should not be used In this way. according to R. M. Hummer, secretary of the state phar macy board. Mr. Plummer explains that ether and kerosene do not mix perfectly and that the use of ether in motor cars will be certain to result in seri ous accidents. Other pharmacists warn against the use of ether in motor cars. Kther nines to Horface. A story that ether and water mixea would operate automobiles went the rounds yesterday, but careful tests made by Mr. Plummer determined that ether would not gas with water, the ether Invariably rising to the sur- CITY TAKES OVER GASOLINE Astoria Committee to Have Full Charge of Distribution. ASTORIA, Or., June 5. (Special.) As a result of the shortage of gaso line in this territory, all stocks in the possession of the Standard and Union oil companies have Deen turned over to a committee headed by Mayor Bremner for distribution. This com mittee also will have complete con trol of the sale of distillate and kero sene as well. .'o further deliveries will be made to sreiviee stations and after today .istrl.bution will be made only from stations at the plants of the oil com panies. Beginning Tuesday, it will not be possible to obtain any quantity of these three petroleum products except upon presentation of a card permit issued by the committee in charge. The principal rules and regulations adopted by the committee are: "No deliveries to pleasure or busi ness cars. Deliveries limited to es sential industries and their allow ances to be curtailed. Doctors limited to five gallons a week, with right of emergency appeal. "All gasoline to be delivered through system of card permits. No deliveries to service stations. Dis tribution only from oil plants. Per mits to be issued only upon formal application with statement of needs. Committee in charge to meet every day at 4:30 P. M. Tourists' advised not to drive to lower Columbia." TOIR1XG CARS ARE DENIED lasolme Shortage at Vancouver Being Felt Keenly. VANCOUVER, Wash.. June Vancouver is ' feeling Spccial.) - Keenly the gasoline shortage. For oeverai uaj a past no louring car owners were allowed to buv n.n v rss and they are turning to various other mixtures, the most popular being Kerosene to which has been added an ounce or ether to each gallon. i rucks are allowed a percentage of ineir usual requirements. it is saiu mat some of the truck drivers get their supplies of gasoline and drive to secluded places and par tially drain their tanks and sell this to eager motorists for as high as $1 a gallon. Roud Construction Discontinued. PROSSER. June 5. (Special.) The gasoline shortage has practically caused the discontinuance of road con struction in this District. County trucks which had teen allowed ten gallons of gasoline daily were yes terday cut off entirely. The trucks had been engaged in hauling gravel. Berry Price Raised to $2 a Crate YAKIMA, Wash.. June 5. (Special.) When Kcnnewicij berry growers this week raised the price of their product to $2 per crate t. o. b. Kenne wick, they killed tho Yakima market, according to berry handlers here. The Yakima trade refused to absorb the raise, and all orders have been can celled. Similar conditions obtain in the asparagus market. Jobbers yes terday sold to retails for $1.75 per crate asparagus that cost them $2 at Kennewick, and cancelled future orders. Re-port Says TJnsafe for Publisher to Criticise or Protest in Any Way to Manufacturer. elude a clam-bake, regatta, seaplane rides, baseball and field meet. Entire Lincoln county, except a few residents of Otis in the northern part, where Independence day will be observed, is planning to be present. IDAHO BOY LANDS PRIZE Albert Award at . Willamette Won by J. Fred McGrew. "WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, Sa lem. June 6. (Special.) The Albert prize, an' annual award of $25 pre sented to the student who, all things considered, has made the greatest progress toward the ideal in character. service, ana wnolesome influence dur ing the year, was won by J. Fred Mc tirew, a junior from Idaho Falls, Ida ho, as a result of the student-body vote taken yesterday. The winner is a member of the uni versity quartet and glee club, and has devoted much time this year to the management of forensics. WASHIXGTOX. June 5. The news print paper -which has handicapped American newspapers is "more the result of artificial obstruction than of natural laws," according to the re port of the senate committee which nvestigated the paper situation, i ne committee today recommended that the department of justice institute proceedings under the Sherman and Clayton acts against print-paper manufacturers. Manufacturers were charged by the committee "with unjust,- Illegal and discriminatory" practices. Present prices for newsprint paper were held by the committee to be "excessive and j unwarranted." Other recommendations made by the committee include: Frdrral Board Sn(Cfifd. Establishment of a federal news print board "to supervise the manu facture and distribution of print paper should government etrorts to maintain a reasonable price fail. Amendment of the Lever food-con trol act to penalize profiteering in newsprint paper. Imposition of an excise-tax of 10 cents on Sunday newspapers weigh ing more than 1.28 pounds a copy, so as to limit such editions to 80 pages until an adequate paper supply can be secured. Appropriation of $100,000 for the purpose of experimenting with sub stitutes for wood pulp. Establishment of a rate of 1 cent a pound on sheet print paper to any part of the country when sent by parcels post, without increasing the present limit of 70 pounds provided under the postal regulations. The committee also recommended that consideration be given by the government to the establishment of a newsprint paper mill to supply the government's needs, with anysurplus paper to be sold to small consumers. The report, which was submitted to the senate just before adjournment, was based on extensive hearings by the committee at which testimony was heard from newspaper and periodical publishers and paper manufacturers, dealers and jobbers. C'rltlclMDi Declared l:nnafe. Publishers of small newspapers were declared by the report to be in the hands of "unscrupulous profiteers and exploiters," while even the large newspaper publishers are at the mercy of the manufacturers. The re port addeJ that it "was not and still is not safe for a publisher in any way to criticise or protest to a manufac turer," while the "big publishers not having mills of their own are in a hold-up market," while the small pub lishers are being driven from the business by threatened bankruptcy. "All the evidence of the various wit nesses and the substantial and abso lutely authentic information we have obtained from official reports," the report declared, "seem to indicate that many of the news print paper makers here and in Canada were acting in collusion with the apparent intent to bring about restraint of the normal flow of trade apd engage in. unfair competition by methods In some cases of creating an artificial supply and in others of resorting indirectly through their bureaus of statistics to an actual fixing of price. Indeed, there is sufficient evidence to war rant the finding that there has been a deliberate curtailment of news print paper upon the part of some news print paper manufacturers to 'get even' with the government for its prosecution and also to hold up prices." BRITISH ORDER EXPLAINED Xo Effort Made, It Is Said, to Ex clude Americans in Ciiina. WASHIXGTOX, June 5. Authori tative information has revealed that the recent order in council requiring firms under British registry in China to be managed entirely by British subjects, was aimed at certain com panies which have abused the privi lege for purposes such as smuggling opium. It is declared that the order was not directed against foreign interests as such and least of all against Amer ican interests. GAMBLING CHARGED TO CIGAR DEALERS Use of Punch Boards and Dice Is Alleged. . INDICTMENTS ARE SECRET No Arrests Yet Made Leak in Grand Jury Investigation Sus pected by Prosecutor. Five secret Indictments were re turned by the Multnomah county grand jury yesterday against local cigar store proprietors who are ac cused of permitting gambling at their establishments. The names were not given out, as the arrests had not been made. Though information in the posses sion of the office of District Attorney Evans was to the effect that dice and punch boards were in common use in nine out of ten cigar stands in the city, when special agents from his office made the rounds during the no signs of gambling paraphernalia in 90 per cent of the stores visited. As there were numerous witnesses called before the grand jury in the investigations preceding the indict ments. District Attorney Evans can not place his finger on what he is certain was a leak. Test Indictments Returned, The entire investigation is said to have originated with the grand jury without outside suggestion due to cases of heavy losses in bamgling coming to the attention of some of the jurors, with blame placed on cigar dealers. Two Indictments were returned by the grand-jury yesterday at the in stance of Earl F. Bernard, deputy district attorney, to test the state criminal syndicalism law. They are not drawn up to conform strictly to the law, as worded, but to apply to what the deputy district attorney be lieves to be the intent of the law. Joe Clark was charged with being a member of the I. W. W., said to be a society advocating criminal syndi calism, and Ernest Lchto was .ac cused of helping to organize the I. W. W. by soliciting members. As the state law reads the crime is in "becoming a member," which Mr. Bernard, insists - includes "being a member," as it was copied from a law in which "being" was used.. Interpretation Is Sonftht. The other point seeks an interpre tation of what "helping to organize" means. Circuit Judge H. II. Belt has held that it meant helping to organize the original society known as I. W. W. The district attorney's office contends it means the solicitation of members who can organize for carrying out the ultimate revolutionary doctrines of the I. W. W. ft V m r- inilinlmBnls n-AfA' T a V- at 282'i Park street: R. E. Miller, drawing a check without sufficient funds in the bank; Andreo Cauirre and Erin Frari, burglary; Philip Mus ser, alias George Dell, larceny ; Charles Shumway, insufficient funds in bank, and George Stephens, alias Xapier, larceny. Xot true biljs were returned in the case of Mike Leahy, charged with a statutory offense, and Roy Mc pherson, charged with larceny. atter part of the wek there were 1 Sohultz. obstructing an electric meter School Superintendent AVcds. BAKER, Or.. June 5. (Special.) Miss Elmetta Bailey, county superin tendent of schools, and Edward York, prominent Baker county rancher, were married at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. W. H. Casebeer. 2403 York street, at 10 o'clock Thursda; morn ing. The ceremony was performed by Dr. William Westwood, pastor of the Baker Presbyterian church, in the presence of relatives of the bride. The newlyweds are well known through out eastern Oregon and have a host of friends who wish them happiness. Following a short visit to Wallowa lake, which trip they will make by automobile, Mr. and Mrs. York will return to Bake'r to reside at 2631 Grove street. TRAFFIC FINES ASSESSED DEFENDANT GIVEN" MALFIIOUR TO STCDV LAW,' Picnic Held at the Oaks. A picnic attended "by a large num ber of children and their parents was held at The Oaks yesterday under direction of Mrs. Percy W. Lewis of the National Federation of Musical clubs. A musical programme was given, presenting the Webber Juve nile quintet, assisted by Virginia Leihy. reader; Allen Balda. vocalist, and Florence Josephine Snow, dan scuse. , Read The Oregonlan classified ads. Speeding and Bright Lights Bring Several Automobile Drivers Before Judge Rossman. When ,W. M. Cox appeared before Municipal Judge Rossman yesterday morning oik a charge of driving his automobile with bright lights, he told the judge confidentially that, follow ing his arrest Friday, he had arranged his automobile lights to comply with the law. "All right," replied the judge, "just what is the law governing automobile lights?" Cox had to admit then that he did not know. A copy of the traffic law was then procured for liim and he was asked to study it. After about a half hour's study the judge again called for him and he recited that section of the ordi nance perfectly. Judge Rossman then continued the case for sentence. Traffic, fines levied yesterday in cluded: D. B. McKride, speeding, $20; C. Mitchell, speeding, $10: C. V. Hunt, speeding, $15: J. E. Hammon, bright lights, $5; A. MeCHntosh. speed ing, $10; A. Manor, bright lights, $5; E. Kuchler, bright lights. $5; Eugene Bodway, bright lights. $2.50; E. W. Simond, bright lights, $4. A coin-in-a-slot machine has been invented by an Englishman to enable a passenger to learn at what speed he is t ravel in c in a train. $1 PER CAPITA RAISED Newport Plans Celebration of Fourth on Large Scale. NEWPORT, Or., June 5. (Special.) Newport residents hare raised $1000 for the three-day celebration, July 3. 4 and 5, which equals $1 for every man. woman and Tbild'frn 'the 'town and subscriptions are still coming in. This would equal $258,000 for a similar celebration in Portlaird. The Southern Pacific Railroad com pany will be asked to make special rates extending from Friday, July 2, until Tuesday, July 6. The features made possible by the presence of Yaquina bay andthe ocean, swimming tank, dancehalls. Indian dancers, in- ft f lace. f . S Just what erreot the shortage will y have on the Sunday pleasure jaunts cannot be estimated. It Is believed t that some motorists who have stored their machines in the garages during the week will, be able to make short . ? """" j 4 ' i t Uses and Abuses Correctly prescribed and accurately . fitted glasses will relieve almost every case of defective vision. 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