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SHIP BOARD ASKS BIG SUM
FARM HOME SURVEY
IS MADE IN OREGON
Chairman Hurley Submits Needs of
Building Program.
Washington, D. C.—Chairman Hur­
ley of the shipping board has asked
congress for a final appropriation of
a little more than $600,000,000 to wind
up the government's shipbuilding op­
erations.
This sum, he said, which will com­
plete the work of raising the United
States as a shipbuilding nation to first
Steps Taken to Improve Rural
Hurley Throws jUp All Foreign
Home-Making. •
Contract Authority.
EMBARGO ■ IS
LIFTED
Kitchen Arrangements, Labor-
Saving Devices, Etc.,
Are Factors.
STATE N EW S
IN
! SMUGGLED TREAT!
II SENATE'S H U S
Newport postoffice will be second
class after July 1. The advance will
require the clerks coming under civil
service laws. The marked increase
in business accounts for the change.
Walter Hamer is postmaster.
Publication Ordered Over Pro­
test of President.
Lake county officials are searching
for C. M. Bonner, former resident of
Bend, who is charged with issuing a
number of fraudulent checks. Bonner
is a Canadian veteran of the world
war and was twice decorated for valor.
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place and develop the American mer­
cantile marine fleet from a negligible
New York Financiers to Be Asked to
Events o f Noted People, Governments quantity to second place, actually is Indication o f Possible Losses to Ship-
A hastily organized and armed vigi­
(Prepared
by
Oregon
Agricultural
College)
$400,000,000 less than congress al­ , yards Through Board’ s Attitude
Tell How They Got Advance
'and Pacific Northwest, and Other
The amount and kind of work done lante committee of Dee Flat straw­
ready has authorized.
Brings Surprise to All.
berry ranchers In the Hood* River dis­
Copies o f Peace Terms.
Things .Worth Knowing.
by the farm woman In farm homemak­
trict put an immediate end to agita­
The present needs of the shipbuild­
ing, the number of hours she works, tions of a party of eight men and wo­
ing programme, as Chairman Hurley
Washington, D. C.— The complete the labor-saving equipment she is sup­ men, who, it is declared, were trying
Washington, D. C.—Out of a whirl­
America's historic old battleship, the outlines them, take Into consideration
Oregon, went out of commission at the cancellation or suspension of con­ surrender of all authority of the ship­ plied with, and the social opportuni­ to call a strike of pickers last week.
wind of developments the senate Mon­
ties she enjoys or lacks, will be de­
Four more alien slackers were for­ day got a copy of the peace treaty,
the Puget sound navy-yard at Bremer­
tracts for 754 ships, which alone will ping board over foreign contracts of­
ton, Wash., Friday June 13.
fered to American yards made by termined in a survey of representative ever barred from becoming American
and, after a five-hour fight, ordered it
effect a saving of more than $594,000,-
Chairman Edward N. Hurley, of the farm communities conducted .by the citizens by an order of Circuit Judge
The cost of food in Paris continues
printed in the public record.
000.
The
administration
charges
of
Eakin
at
Astoria
Friday.
Approxi­
board, at Tuesday's hearing before U. S. department of Agriculture and
to rise, notwithstanding the attempts
At the same time it got under way
of the government to keep prices the whole business will be only 1.32 the commerce committee of the sen­ the state agricultural college exten­ mately 20 foreign born residents of
down.
per cent of the total final expenditure. ate, was almost as much of a surprise sion service. The work in Oregon will this section have been denied citizen­ the investigation of how copies have
ship because they evaded the military reached private hands In New York by
Charles F. Wyant of Minneapolis,
When all is done, Chairman Hurley to Mr. Hurley as to the members of be under the direct supervision of
Mrs. Jessie D. McComb, state home draft.
president of the Mortgage Security points out, $2,861,755,570 will have the committee.
summoning to testify a half dozen of
It was plain to be seen that Chair­ demonstration leader.
To the tune of jangling cow bells the country’s leading financiers.
company and of 14 affiliated state been expended in the country’s great
It will be impossible to conduct this the stockholders and patrons of Mt.
banks, Saturday was convicted of ac­ effort which will be shown in 13,885,- man Hurley had not come before the
The copy which went into the record
cepting deposits in a bank which he 106 deadweight tons of ships on the committee with any intention of aban­ survey In every home because of the Angel creamery gathered Thursday in
doning
the
board’s
asserted
right
to
expense
and
labor
involved,
explains
was
brought to this country by a news­
a grove near that city for their annual
seas. Although a cost of $206 a dead­
knew was not solvent.
approve or reject foreign contracts, Mrs. McComb.
The partial survey picnic. An all-day programme includ­ paper man and was presented by Sen­
weight
ton
is
Indicated,
the
actual
cost
Clarence Ousley, assisfhnt secre­
but he became lost in the the cross­ will be made representative, however, ing music, addresses and games was
ator Borah, republican, of Idaho, just
tary of agriculture, reported to the to the government will be less.
fire of troublesome though at times by selecting typical farming communi­ enjoyed by the 400 people in attend­
department Saturday from Kansas
after the reading of a cablegram from
courteous questions.
He had jock­ ties in several different counties, and ance.
City that Kansas needs 100,000 labor­
President Wilson saying he could not
eyed himself into an uncomfortable including every farm home in those
ers to help harvest the record-breaking
A total of 18 fatal accidents was re­ without breaking faith send to the sen­
position by offering as excuse for the communities. Nearly 800 farm homes
wheat crop in that state.
board's attitude the fact that the gov­ are expected to report the information ported to the industrial accident com­ ate the text of the treaty.
To preserve a natural flow of wheat
mission for the month of May in a
ernment had on hand about $75,000,000 sought in the survey.
The effect of Monday’s history mak­
from the farm, a periodical premium
worth of materials which it wished
Benefits of this preliminary work statement issued Saturday. Final set­
ing
developments was to clear the air
Washington, D. C.— Nicaragua has to dispose of to American yards.
covering storage charges will be add­
for farm home betterment begin t<5 tlements in accident cases totaled 890
ed to the basic price at various asked the United States to land forces
“ Don’t you think," asked Senator appear from the very first. One woman for the month, while 26 cases were re­ on the much-debated subject of pub­
guarantee markets, according to an an­ there to cope with a threatened in­ Chamberlain, “ that there would be reported that in studying the survey jected for cause.
The commission licity for the treaty text, to widen the
nouncement by Julius H. Barnes,
vasion from Costa Rica. The state greater economic loss to the country forms to determine the inquiries and now has 731 cases before it in process breach between the president and the
United States wheat director.
if the American shipyards should be the answers in her home her husband of adjustment.
senate majority, and to forecast a sen­
department is investigating the situa­
Lester A. Reppert, a former bat­
forced to close down than there was so struck by the inconsistency of
The famous old battleship Oregon sational turn for the inquiry into the
tion.
talion sergeant-major at the United
would be if the government lost $75,- running water in the barn for horses
went out of commission June 11 at manner in which copies of the docu­
The Nicaraguan legation here in a 000,000 In salvage?”
States* disciplinary barracks, Fort
and cattle but none in the house for
the Puget sound navy-yard and will ment have become available to unau­
Leavenworth, Kan., was arrested Sat­ statement Sunday declared that fol­
“ We are not closing down yards,” its human inhabitants that hei de­
remain there pending decision by Ore­ thorized persons.
urday as the fourteenth man charged lowing the collapse of the revolution Mr. Hurley answered.
clared then and there he was going to
gon as to whether that state deeires
Starting its investigation with an un­
with implication in the counterfeiting
“ But,” said Senator Chamberlain, put in a home water system. Other
to take over the vessel for the Oregon expected vigor, the foreign relations
In Costa Rica, President Tinoco has
scheme alleged by officials to have
“ they w ill close down in the next 30 farmers were similarly affected by
naval militia. Officers and men of committee, within a half hour after it
massed large forces on the frontier.
had its source in the barracks.
or 60 days if they cannot take the out­ contrasting the power machinery they
the Oregon have been assigned to convened, voted to call before it J. P.
Tinoco,
whose
brother
as
minister
side contracts.”
have for the strong men with lack of
Dr. Edward E. I,indeman, who
other duties or released from service. Morgan, H. P. Davison and Thomas F.
Chairman Hurley did not seem dis­ it for the weaker women workers that
drowned Friday at Atlantic City, was of war is at the head of the Costa
Marshfield, North Bend, East Side, Lamont, all of the Morgan banking
considered an authority on the trans­ Rican army In the field, has charged posed to argue this point, and a ques­ they announced their purpose of in­
that
the
Nicaraguans
aided
the
revo­
tion
from
Senator
Edge,
of
New
Jer­
stalling
some
of
the
most
needed
home
Coquille
and Myrtle Point face a con­ firm; Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb &
fusion of blood. He invented the
dition which may result in suspension Co., and Paul Warburton, formerly
method of blood transfusion by whtcb lutionists. The Nicaraguans have de­ sey, immediately afterward was the labor saving appliances.
One farmer took measurements of of electric power and light, if the in­ connected with the same concern, and
blood was taken from the arm of one nied the charge and cited that it was one which drove him kato agreeing to
person into a syringe and then in­ the liberal party in Nicaragua, mem­ lift the ban. Senator Edge’s question the distance kitchen fixtures were tention of the receivers of the C. A. Frank A. Vanderlip, former president
bers of the old Zelaya regime, that carried the insinuation that' the placed in a remodeled kitchen because Smith property to withdraw permis­ of the National City bank. It then ex­
jected into the arm of another.
went over to Tinoco.
board's attitude seemed but little else he wants to arrange his kitchen in sion to the Oregon Power company to amined Frank L. Polk, acting secre­
Nation-wide use of narcotic drugs
than
an attempt to hold up the Ameri­ the way most saving of labor in pre­ operate the electric plant at the main tary of state, about the official copies
for other than legitimate medical pur­
can
shipyards to pay the govern­ paring meals and serving them. His Marshfield mill is allowed to be car­ in the state department’s vaults.
poses is steadily increasing despite
Statements also were made to the
ment's
own price for the left-over ma­ w ife’s health he explained was not ried out.
vigorous efforts in the last four years
committee by Senator Lodge, republi­
terials.
good,
and
doctor
bills
from
overwork
In the enforcement of the federal law,
The need for $125,000 worth of re­ can, of Massachusetts, and Senator
This brought the unexpected answer were increasingly heavy.- By proper
was discovered by the treasury's
pairs, reconstruction and improve­ Borah, similar to their declarations in
from
the
chairman
of
the
shipping
Paris.—
President
Wilson,
It
is
now
arrangement
of
the
kitchen
and
In­
special
investigation
commission,
ments on the central Oregon irrigation the senate, that they knew of copies
which submitted a final report Sat­ regarded as probable, will leave board that he would lift the embargo stallation of some labor savers he project, is given as the chief reason
in New York, but could not divulge
on
the
builders
without
delay.
Senator
thought
she
would
be
able
to
do
the
urday.
France for the United States within
Jones, chairman of the committee, work without overtaxing her strength. for an advance from 80 cents to $2 per the names of their informants.
Beers and wine of low alcoholic con­ ten days''or two weeks.
acre, in maintenance fees charged set­
When the senate met it listened in
was determined that these should be
A few women have felt abashed at
tent are not “Intoxicating.” On the
tlers,
the
request
for
which
is
made
silence
to President Wilson's cable­
no misunderstanding and obtained the the lack of consideration shown them
other hajid they are healthful and their
Washington, D. C.— The statement positive assurance from the shipping in contrast with the advantages other in an application just filed by the gram, which was taken as forecasting
sale under close Btate and federal su­
in a Paris dispatch that President W il­ board chairman that he would write women enjoy, and refuse to answer Irrigation company with the state pub­ a refusal to comply with the request
pervision should be continued, de­
for the treaty text embodied in a res­
a letter to the shipbuilders at once, some of the questions in the survey. lic service commission.
clared D. Lambert Ott of Philadelphia, son might leave France for the United
olution
adopted Friday. The reading
waiving all claims to the right of the Indeed it has been found that it is
Strawberry harvest is at its height
addressing the American Medical as­ States within ten days or two weeks
shipping board to approve or reject rather more difficult to enlist the co­ in the Hood River valley now, and of this message concluded, Senator
sociation at Atlantic City, N. J„ Sat­ was said to be "quite probable” at
foreign contracts.
operation of some farm women in motorists contemplating a week-end Borah immediately presented his copy
urday. Dr. Ott spoke on 40 years’ the White House. It was not indi­
creating a demand for better house­ tour will find the Hood River valley of the treaty, which was ordered print­
observation among beer, wine and
keeping facilities than to enlist that as interesting at present as during the ed by a vote of 47 to 24.
cated whether a definite date had been
whisky drinkers.
of
the men in making the necessary blossom season. Scores of tent-dwell­
set for the sailing of the president
In full view of hundreds of persons
purchases.
ing crews may be found scattered
from France.
crowding the flying field at Eastmore-
In recommending rearrangement of through the Oak Grove, Dee Flat and
Washington, D. C.—By a vote of
In view of the plan of the president
land, Portland, a private aeroplane,
305 to 4 the house Tuesday passed the kitchen and installation of labor-sav­ upper valley sections. More than 1500
driven by VV. B. Hutchinson, wealthy to visit Belgium It was considered that bill authorizing an appropriation of ing devices the home demonstration pickers are there, many of them In­
Walla Walla rancher, and in which the sailing date more likely was two $750,000,000 for the railroad adminis­ agents always give careful considera­ dians.
Washington, D. C.— To hasten re­
Sergeant John Milkowski, of Mather weeks distant than ten days.
tration's revolving fund. Democratic tion, to existing conditions. The ability
The first forest fire of the season turn to normal economic conditions
flying field, was a passenger, crashed
of the farmer to incur the expense,
members
urged
a
larger
amount,
but
At any rate. It' was said, all plans
into the concrete sidewalk of East
the commercial value of the home kit­ in the Dallas district broke out last and restore the American dollar to a
depended on progress at Versailles. did not press any amendment for an
Twenty-ninth street, following a sen­
chen as determined by the number of week in the vicinity of Bridgeport, but parity In several foreign countiies, the
increase,
while
republicans
declared
It has been understood generally that
sational fall of several hundred feet
persons to be served, and conditions was extinguished before any damage
the president would stay in Paris until the fund would be sufficient until later
control exercised by the government
late Friday. Both men were killed
of sanitation and health, are made was done. W. V. Fuller, of Dallas,
in
the
year
wl^on
future
needs
would
after the signing of the (¿eace treaty
over
transactions in foreign exchange
supervising
fire
warden
for
the
coun­
instantly.
be known. The measure now goes to the bases of the recommendations.
with Germany.
ty,
says
that
he
has
most
of
the
tele­
and
the
exportation of gold coin, bul­
One
farm
home
was
equipped
with
John Colt Spooner, former United
the senate where leaders plan early
a simple and inexpensive water sys­ phone lines to the lookout stations lion and currency was terminated on
States senator from Wisconsin, died
action
Troopa Disregard Orders.
at hiH home In New York early Tues­
Votes against the appropriation tem by means of a barrel on the roof, completed and that several crews of Monday by President Wilson, acting
Plymouth,
Eng.— Fifteen hundred
day after an Illness of several weeks.
were cast by Representatives An­ a force pump on the porch below, and men are now at work cleaning out the
on recommendations of the federal re­
British troops of General Allenby's
He suffered a relapse after having
thony, Kansas;
Ramseyer, Iowa; suitable plumbing. Simple as it was fire trails.
forces
in
Egypt
and
Palestine
who
serve board.
partially recovered from a nervous
Woodyard, West Virginia, republicans, it saved many steps in preparation of
After the most vigorous fight ever
returned here Sunday after haring
Exceptions made by the president
breakdown.
each
meal,
literally
miles
of
travel
in
and Thomas, Kentucky, democrat
known In the history of the Mystic
served at Gallipoli and in Mesopota­
included importation or exportation of
the course of a year.
None’
of
them
urged
his
objections
to
Shrine of North America, the imperial
Every sausage making plant In San mia, Palestine and the Balkans, re­
The amount of farm work performed connctl, in session in Indianapolis. ruble notes or exchange operations
Francisco was closed Wednesday as a fused to entrain for an isolation camp. the bill during the debate which was
by women about the barn and in the Ind., Thursday, by a vote of 359 to with that part of Russia now under
result of the strike that morning of all The order was given because six cases marked by the injection of consider­
fields are among other items* to be 142, decided on holding the 46th im­ the control of the bolshevik govern­
able
political
discussion.
members there of the sausage makers' of suspected smallpox had been dis­
ment and exchange transactions with
reported.
Chairman
Good
of
the
appropriation
perial council session In Portland, Or.,
union. The men demanded a wage In­ covered during the voyage to England.
territories In respect of which such
committee,
in
charge
of
the
rail
bill,
June 8 to 11, 1920. Portland’s famous
crease from $28 to $40 a week for an The soldiers who had entrained left
transactions are at present permitted
Potato
Seed
May
Be
Certified.
explained
that
the
reduction
from
$1,-
hand and patrol, assisted by the band
eight and one-half hour working day. the cars
200,000,000 requested by Director-Gen­
Potato growers who get their crops and patrol of Nile Temple, Seattle, and only through the American relief ad­
Ordered by the federal director of
eral Hines was decided on by the inspected and receive certificates from aided by the Shrine temples of the ministration.
Western Men Decorated.
railroads to cut the month's operating
Attention also was called hy the
committee because it was admitted the agricultural college potato in­ Pacific coast and the northwest, was
exponaes to meet June Income, the
Washington, D. C.—General Per­ that exact needs of the future were spector will have their crops placed
board to the fact that termination of
a factor in winning the convention
Louisville & Nashville Railroad com­ shing notified thd war department problematical. The new fund, he said,
control did not authorize transactions
on a recommended list and given wide fight.
pany has prepared to eliminate the Sunday that he had awarded the dip- would make a total of $1,250,000,000
with enemies except so far as such
publicity. This certification assures
names of 700 men. largely shop em­ tlnguished service cross to the follow­ granted the administration since the
Haynes station, near Forest Grove, transactions may be authorized by
buyers that the seed is true to type,
ployes, from the railroad's payrolls, ing: Joseph H. Carvo. Toppenlsh, rail lines were taten over by the gov­
and practically free of disease. Appli­ will be the location of the new Ma­ general or special licenses granted by
beginning June 13.
Wash.; Mike Btrinoli, Sebastapol, ernment.
cation for inspection must be made sonic home for aged members and or­ the war trade board.
Cal.; Peter Ratkovtch. Amador, Cal.,
in time to allow field inspections be­ phans. according to report of the com­
Apparently there is little hope that
and Ernest Wernek, Mackey, Idaho.
Low Rate Saves $100,000
Indian, Bill Put Through
fore harvest. The potatoes will then mittee In charge of building operations
the allied reply to the German coun­
Salem. Or.— More than $100,000 will
at
the
session
of
the
grand
lodge
of
be
inspected
in
the
bin.
Washington.
D.
C.—
Enactment
of
ter propoaals will be ready before the
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com­
Oregon, meeting last week in the Ma­ be saved the state of Oregon in road
the Indiap appropriation bill carrying
end of the present week.
pany has lost its suit against the $15,000,000 was completed Tuesday
The Klamath drainage district is sonic temple, Portland. The site se­ building during the present year be­
Delegates representing more than Puget Sound & Willapa Harbor Rail­ with adoption by the house of a con­ the first drainage corporation in the lected comprises 15 acres, offered hy cause of the reduced transportation
3,000,000 American working men and road company. The United States ference report. The measure Is the state to file with the state engineer an the Forest Grove lodge. It is prob­ charges for sand, gravel and other
women at the opening session of the supreme court In deciding for the first of the unpassed appropriation application for water irrigation pur­ able that 15 or 20 more acres will be road-building materials. This estimate
American Federation of I,abor at At­ Willapa company said it was difficult hills of the last congress to be sent poses. Its application for the appro­ purchased, making a tract -of 30 or 35 is made by Roy Klein, secretary of the
lantic City, N. J., put the stamp of to treat seriously the contentions of to the president. The bill included a priation of water from the Klamath acres in all. The site Is near both state highway commission, to the pub­
their disapproval on the ideas of the Northern Pacific Railroad com­ rider authorising the secretary of the river was filed Thursday. It proposes, the Oregon electric and the Southern lic service commission. Mr. Klein re­
radical agitator* and prepared to deal pany. The case arose out of the cross­ Interior to lease for the mining of met- to construct an Irrigation system for j Pacific and is on the state highway, ports that $45,000 has already been
with reconstruction problems of vital ing of tracks of the Northern Pacific altferous minerals $0.000.000 acrea of 20.646 acres at an estimated cost of 23 miles from Portland on the pave­ saved by the highway commission
Importance to organised labor.
since the lower rate went into effect.
unalloted Indian lands.
Railroad company at grade.
ment.
$205.000. %
NICARAGUA SENDS
OUT CALL FOR AID
President Wilson May Quit
France In Next Two Weeks
$750.000,000 Railroad
Measure Passes House
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