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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1921.
AMERICAN LEGION .
MEN DEMAND RETRIAL
OF HENRY ALBERS
MOUNT HOOD IS
ACTING QUEERLY
SAY TRAVELERS
PORTLAND, April 29 Retrial of
Henry Altera 'immediately" was de
manded Thursday by the executive
committee of Portland post of theAni-
erican Legion in a telegram sent At
torney-General Daugherty. The post's
officers were caled' together hastily
for a noon meeting., and the action
taken was decisive.-'
The telegram, which bore the sig
nature of T. H. Boyd, commander, was
as follows-
"Portland, Or., post No. 1, American
Legion, of 7000 members, voicing pub
lic sentiment here, opposed to free
dom for Henry Albers, charged with
violating espionage act. His release
is reflection on government and insuit
to ex-service men and women and pa
triotic citizens. Demand instructions
be issued to retry his immediately.'"
A resolution adopted b ythe meet
ing declared: "It is the sense of this
meeting that if we do not get
action within 30 days on the Albers
case we will circulate a petition ask
ing for the pardon of Dr. Marie Equi,
local woman, who is now serving a
sentence in a parallel case."
Whether or not the demand of .the
legionnaires can be met and the case
retried was not known in Portlad
Thursday. United States Attorney
Humphreys had received no word
from "Washington, D. C, in relation
to the matter, and until he does it
was not expected he would try for
" another conviction, although he has
already stated his eagernes to do so.
Failure to receive word Thursday was
believed in some quarters to mean the
case had been dismissed, thus putting
an end to the whole business.
That the community is aroused over
the Albers case and the general belief
is that the ends of justice were not
escape the law's punishment was the
expresed belief of Elton Watkins
prosecutor for the Oregon State Bar
association.
Mr. Watkins said he knew Albera
should have been convicted because
be knew what the facts were, hav
ing worked as a member of the de
partment of justice during the war
in collecting evidence against him.
He suggested Thursday that Har
rison G. Piatt, president of the State
' Par asociation, call a special session
and that the attorneys of the state
send a telegram to the United States
supreme court offering the services
of the bar of Oregon as amicus curia
to appear before it and ask that its
recent order be withdrawn, that the
case be reopened and that the bar of
the state of Oregon be allowed to
present the case in lieu oflithe depart
ment of justice. Mr. Watlns will trj
to get President Piatt to act upon his
suggestion and will explain his plan
to him soon.
) Friends of Dr. Marie Equi, Portland
woman convicted under the espionage
n r-t QTir) n r, w suai-iri rt e a nri.onn term at
San Quentin, were aroused to a high
pitch of hopefulness for her release
by clemency in the Albers case.
PORTLAND, June 30. Scores of
Portland residents early Friday ev
ening . reported what they . be
lieved to be either steam or white
smoke rising from the peak of Mount
Hood.' The spectacle was first no-
ticert at about 5:30 o'clock in the af
ternoon, and by 7 o'clock last night
hundreds of persons had reported
witnessing1 the apparent . phenome
non.
Edward L. Wells, in charge of the
government . weather bureau, exprea
sed the belief that the supposed erup
tion of Mount Hood was due to clouc1
effects on the snow capped moun
tain, or to a snow storm vhtch might
have been raging on the peak at the
time. He did not believe it was
either smoke or steam rising from the
mountain.
On many occasions in the rast per
sons have seen what they believed to
be smoke or heavy vapor issuing from
the summit of Mount Hood, but it
always has been held that cloud ef
fects were responsible.
But never before have so many per
sons witnessed the spectacle as was
presented from the peak of the moun
tain early Friday' evening. By 8 ojclock
persons in every part of the city had
heard cf the supposed eruption of Mt.
He;ni, or else had seen' what appear
ed t be smoke or steam coming from
the top of the mountain.
According to persons who got a
good view of the mountain before
dusk, the smoke or steam appeared to
pour out intermittently and then drift
with the wind toward the north and
west. At times it seemed as if the
smoke would hover over the moun
tain, momentarily and then rise sharp
ly before drifing with the wind.
A lon-distance telephone message
arly last night from Homer Rodgers
at Mount Hood lodge brought the ner
vous Portlanders the reassuring news
that I here was "nothing to it."
Mr.. Rodgers said the phenomenon
was due to snow cloud effects.
COURT ALLOWS
ITALIAN TWO
WIVES IN OHIO
Connecticut High
Court Gives "Free
Speech" Verdict
HARTFORD, Conn., April 29. The
right of "free speech" w'as upheld by
the Connecticut supreme court Thurs
day in the case of McAlister Coleman
of New York, charged with using a
public square in Meriden for delivery
of an oration without first getting a
permit from police. In the court of
common pleas Coleman was fined $25,
and appealed. The supreme court
finds error in the lower court's judg
ment. The supreme court holds that tie
overwhelming weight of authorities
is that statutes and ordinances pur
porting to give officials absolute con
trol of permission to speak are unconstitutional.
BOY STEALS
RIDE ON TAIL
OF AIRPLANE
OEL.WEIX, la., April 30. John
Meeley, 15-year-old Oelwein youth,
caused his parents a great deal of
worry through taking an univited trip
in the clouds, hanging to the tail
piece of ! an airplane.
An aviator giving exhibition flights
with two women as passengers made
ready to take off. As the machine
started to glide away Meeley ran and
caught hold of a stabilizer and wan
off on the trip.
Having difficulty with his plane, the
aviator noticed the youth and madu
a forced landing. Meeley said he
enjoyed the trip.
AKRON, Ohio, April 30. An unus
ual ruling under which Guiseppa Sar-
niola will be allowed to keep two
wives was handed down by federal
authorities when Sarniola, accompan
ied by wife No. 1 with a 10-year-old
boy and carrying a baby apepared at
police headquarters Friday.
Sarniola married Wife No. 1 in
Italy 11 years ago. Later je came
to America. Four years ago he sent
for her. but due to 'the war, heard
nothing and presumed she was dead.
Then he met a Pennsylvania widow
who became No. 2, his common-la
wife. Two children were born.
Last week Mrs. Sarniola No. 1 and
her son reached Akron on an immi
grant, train. Sarniola hastened to
the police with his troubles, his wives
and children.
After an investigation federal au
thorities told Sarniola to take his
wives home and support them. The
wives appeared friendly.
"I love them both. They love each
other. We all love. I keep them all
They say so," said Sarniola in brok
en English.
TIRE FACTORIES BEGIN
WORKING FUIL CREWS
AT DETROIT PLANTS
AKRON, O., April 30. The city of
Akron, O., the rubber metropolis of
the world so called because it pro
duces" 46 per cent of the world's out
put of rubber goods and G5 per cent
of all tires manufactured annually
is rapidly returning to normal in
dustrial conditions. The backbone oi
the slump, which hit Akron more
than nine months tago, has been
broken.
Rubber factories' are beginning to
re-employ and are increasing produc
tion substamally. With the announce
ment that the Firestone Tire & Rub
ber company will put on 2000 addition
al men on May 1, and with other rub
ber companies speeding up produc
tion in proportion, everything indi
cates a steady return to normal activ
ity.
With automobile factories resuming
operations, original equipment tire
business i3 increasing. Firestone re
ports a big increase in original equip
ment orders for April, as compared
with March. This company increased
production on April 15, 50 per cent, or
from 10,000 tires daily to 15,000 tires
daily and will operate two daily eight-
hour shifts. This places the company
at more than 50 per cent of peak pro
duction the highest mark reached in
nine months. Firestone at its peak,
last May, was making 28,000 tires
daily.-
The four big tire companies in
Akron Firestone, Goodrich, Good
year and Miller despite the tire in
dustry slump, had, in 1920, total sales
aggregating $502,872,639, as compared
with $429,095,101 during 1919, an in
crease of $73,4'9,136. Present statis
tics show that all Akron factories are
working on an average of not less
than 50 per cent of normal. This
means they are doing busines now
at the rate of almost $275,000,000 a
ear, a substantial business for any
city to be doing under present con
ditions.
Gladstone to Have
Paved Streets This
Summer, Is Report
GLADSTONE, April 30. Possibility
that Portland avenue, running through
the length of Gladstone, north and
south, may be paved from Arlington
street north to the bend of the P. R. L.
& P. tracks, near the Fern Ridge sla
tion, is held excellent.
Two years ago the city by a special
levy raised $3600, which is still intact,
and secured pledges of an additional
$1500, considered still good, to be used
toward this imrrovement. The city at
the time was entitled to approximately
$5600 county road funds. The county
court is said to have promised that
this would be used to match what the
city had, but the money was expended
in paving the road along tl'.e Clacka
mas river, running east and west
duplicating for more than a. block the
pavement on East Arlington street to
Portland avenue. Recent conferences
with the eourt have resulted in an
acknowledgement that Gladstone was
not given a square deal and that, with
the aid of the street committee, a plan
for an eight foot hard surface pave
ment on either side of the P. R. L. &
P. tracks is possible during1 the coil
ing summer.
BAROFOREGON
AGAINST HENRY
ALBERS FREEDOM
PORTLAND Or., May 2. United
States Senator Charles L. McNary
was requested by telegram last night
to appear before the United States su
preme court as a representative of the
Oregon State Bar association and
move for an order staying the proc
ceedings, setting aside the previous
order and recalling the mandate in
the case of the United States against
Henry Albers.
He was also asked to request that
the executive committee cf the Bar
association, be granted the privilege
of appearing as amicus curiae at the
rehearing of the case.
me requests were contained in a
How to Put
a Baby to Bed
J. P. McEvoy .
When I was a young father I used
to think that putting babies to bed
was a simpe proposition. You mere
ly looked at them sterny (I thought)
and said in a firm voice, "Go to bed.
Then they marched right off (1
thought), crawled right in, pulled the
covers up around them and went off
to sleep immediately. That's the way
they did it in the book I bought; "How
to Train Children." Sometimes they
hesitated a little, but if you looked
at them esternly ( it said so in the
book) and kept the authoritative par
ental note in your voice they surrend
ered (in the book.)
Southern Motor
Company Completes
Modern Addition
06 OLDS ARRIVE
Members Estacada
Family Celebrate
Four Birthdays
ESTACADA, Or., April 30 Four
members of the Thomas Yocum fam
ily have birthdays in April and con
sequently celebration of the anni
versaries are combined in one gala
day some time during the month. The
occasion was celebrated last Sunday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Yocum in Garfiel-d. There were 16
present.
Those from out of town were their
daughters, Mrs. J. B. Jones, he'r hus
band and daughter, and Mrs. J. L.
Jones and son Will, all of Portland.
The other members of tho family are
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Yocum and chil
dren and Mr. and Mrs Archie Yocum
and iittle daughter, the youngest oi
the four. Her birthday was celebrat
ed and she was the favored one, hav
ing a birthday cake with four can
dles. It was a happy reunion for the
entire family.
NEVER SATISFIED
STATE DISTRIBUTION
The Southern Motor Manufacturing
Association, Ltd., Houston, Texas, has
just completed another modern unit
of its factories on its large" plant site
on the Houston Ship Channel.
The latest structure to be erected
Is a painting and trimmingi plant.
ivhich has just been occupied. The
new building will afford ample space
for the painting, trimming and uphols
tering of Ranger passenger cars, and
In a manner more convenient for
speeding up production, which is being
increased according to a definite
schedule.
The painting and trimming work
heretofore has been done in Southern
Motors plant No. 5, which is located
in the City of Houston proper. With
the . completion of the new building
on the plant site, just outside of the
Houston city limits, Plant No. 5 is
being devotel exclusively to the build-
ng a Ranger automobile bodies, in
cluding the construction of fenders,
hoods, aprons, etc.
The new addition to the Ranger fac
tories is an up-to-date building of
steel and glass construction, 208 feet
In length by 60 feet width, and equip--
ped with the most modern of ma-
hinery.
T liava ernffn nlripr in Vfiars
i I ' ' V A. UM , W CT "k P
..- tu ,ue st-uutor oy me and wisdom and grace since then. 1
don't read that b"ooTt anymore, eith-
executive committee of the associa
tion. The telegram was signed by
Harrison G. Piatt, president; Albert
B. Ridgway, secretary; Hugh Mont
gomcry, E. O. Immel, Judge Fred W
Wilson, and Robert F. Maguire a3
members of the committee
Besides this telegram another one
was ditpatched to H. M. Daugherty,
attorney-general, explaining the re
quest to the senator and asking u.
to join with the bar association In
making- the motion.
FIRE DESTROYS
JAP STEAMER
NEAR COAST
ASTORIA, Or., May 2. The army
transport Buford reported via North
Head at S o'clock Monday night that
everyone had left the Japanese stani-
er Tokuyo Maru and the crew and
six passengers were on board the Bu
ford. Five "or six persons were be
lieved to have been lost.
The seamer was still afire, but had
not sunk, there was said to be a pos
sibility she might be saved. The Bu
ford will stand by until morning and
if the flames are extinguished will
tow the craft into port. All the of
ficers and crew were understood to
be safe, but this is not certain.
FRENCH READY
WITH TROOPS
FOR GERMANY
PORTLAND, April 30. E. E. Cohen,
head of the Oldsmobile company of
Oregon, returned last week with the
news that his trainload of 01dsmobile3
had been started several days from the
Olds factory at Lansing, Mich., and
would arrive in Portland in all prob
ability this week. He speeded up his
return to be in time to help his
brother Arnold attended to the unload
ing and the distribution of this record
shipment.
In all there are twenty-eight car
loads, consisting of 106 automobiles
which .belies the statement that the
automobile business is dead. It dirf-
in uvea iuiB Butternut moie near Welches, has obtainel more than
is Known mai a large poruon oi mo iqq signatures.
Hood River had this proposed road
Lolo Pass May
Be Connected with
Loop Highway
HOOD RIVER, April 30. W. R.
Winans, pioneer of the Dee district,
who has started a petition to the
United States forest reserve and the
Portland water board for construction
of a highway over Lolo Pass, connect
ing Lost lake with the Loop highway
"I never knew a Winter like this,'
fcaid a voice in a railway carriage, ad
dressing the world in general.
"I have," said a cynical-looking man
in one corner.
"You nave? When?" came a sur
prised chorus from the passengers.
"Last Summer," said the cynic.
"You'll Always Find"
says the Good Judge
That you get more
genuine satisfaction
at lass cost . when
you use this class of
tobacco.
vrcv
jSV'M'f&S&t A small chew lasts
" - :-r ,so much longer than
a big chew of the
ordinary kind. And the full, rich real
tobacco taste gives a long lasting chewing
satisfaction.
Any man who uses the Real Tobacco Chew
will tell you that. .
Put up in two styles
W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco
RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco
1
train load is already sold. Part of the
shipment will be diverted to several
agents in the eastern part of the state.
Cohen prophesies that there will be
a shortage of standard makes of cars
before many "weeks; in fact, there is u
shortage already with some of the
makers. He says that the Olds fac
tory is working op a 50 per cent basi-j
at present and the only thing which
is keeping it back in producing a great
er quantity of cars is tiic fact that
many of the material factories are un
able to get back Into production fast
enough to supply the demand from
all of the car makers. Normally,
Cohen points out, production has been
son and car makers and the material 15lg Oil JU lelQS 111
incu puts up a surplus -in piuuui.-i.iinj i "mr -t ""v .
to care for the peak load during the lVleXICO LrlVing UUt
up-on a former occasion, but the Port
land water board secured a quietus
on it through congress, claiming that
such a thoroughfare mignt result in
polutionjf the Bull Run water reserve.
Mr Winans now claims that con
clusive evidence that the road, which
will be less than six miles long, in
aj way will endanger the Portland
water supply. He further claims that
the forest service will be keen to aiu
In building the road. Petitions for lo
cal signatures have been left at both
the Hotel Oregon and Mt. Hood hotel
here.
With all of the factories shut down
on account of the uncertainty of the
market, this surplus is nil and so the
car manufacturers have to await their
turn in getting units for the cars. The
demand for cars all over the country
is now greater than the supply and
with this demand increasing it will be
but a short time, Cohen predicts, be
fore people who want immediate de
livery on some of the standards makes
of cars will be "out of luck."
SEASIDE-ILAMOOK
HIGHWAY TO BE !N
Says U. S. Expert
MEXICO CITY, April 30. The oil
wells of Mexico will be exhausted by
1 922 unless new supplies are discover
ed, according to a report just filed
with the-secretary' of commerce and
industry by Ralph Arnold, a noted
geologist of the United States It is
asserted that in the United States the
production has decreased to an alarm
ing extent and that last year there
was a deficit of 13,000 barrels.
Big Road Rally
Planned at Coquille
NORTH BEND, Or., April 30. The
iewn of Coquille is to have a holiday
rud parade on April ?! in celebration
to traffic of the North Bend, Marsh
field and Coquille hard-surface high
way. There will be a parade of floats
SEASIDE, April 30. The first cars from each of the Coos bay towns with
coming through over the Seaside-Til- J prizes to be given for the best munici-
lamook highway arrived here Satur- pai and individual cars. The state
day. Good progress is being-made in I highway ccmmission and governor
rocking the bad stretch of road near have been invited to attend
the county line and with another week
of good weather the highway will not ENGINE TROUBLES
only be passable but will be iu good
shape for tourist travel. Weakening of the springs which
The gradirtg of the Melville road, a 1 close the valves is a comomn cause cf
PARIS, May 2. Minister of War
Bartbou Monday night issued an or
der calling the class of 1919 to the
colors, excent men who have served
in the orient and in Morocco and men ne can said the Clothes-Button Fairy,
belonging to the auxiliary services. so rl they went, ana Brother went
Mobilization will be carried out by Pent along -with daddy risght after
er. I gave it to another Young Fath
er whom I never did like anyway. My
latest chid is now at the Firm Voice
and Firm Liook Age. And every night
he must be put to bed. It isnst any
ordinary job. True there are four oi
us who collaborate, but it takes all
of us working in shirts to do tne
trick. I have tried cajolery, bribery,
trickery, force, reasotf, everything, in
short but mayhem and be foils me
with dexterity and ease.
Last night, though, I fooled him. It
seems like a dream, now that I look
back upon it. Maybe It WAS a dream,
Maybe it didn't happen at all. It
couldn't have. I'm sure. And yet,
I jpliece it did. It was like this:
"Son (I said) "come over here and
daddy will tell you a story." (He
came) "Once upon a time (I began)
there was a little fairy, a little shoe
button fairy, and what do you suppose
he loved to do He loved to unbut
ton Brother's Shoes. One-two-three
(Unbuttoning his shoes) four-five-six.
And just as he finished unbuttoning
Brother's shoes and taking them off
(I take them off) he dropped them on
the floor, one at a time, like this,
BANG! BANG! And then another
little fairy came along: 'Hello, Shoe
Button Fairy," said the other little
fairy. 'Hello Clothes-Button Fairy,'
said the Shoe-Button Fairy,' for that
was the little stranger's name. "What
are you doing? 'That s notning.
Brother's Shoes.' "That's nothing.
I can .unbutton buttons, too' he said
and then he started in:'"One-Two
Three-Four-(here I take off his dress
and waist, keeping perfect time) Five
Six-Seven-Eight There. Now I'll
run you a race in the nursery,' said
the Clothes-Button Fairy. 'All right.'
said the Shoe-Button Fairy, 'but how
about Brother?' 'Let him catch us if
CALIFORNIA MAN
HERETO SECURE
GUERNSEY HERD
a letter sent to each man. When da-
tachments have been formed they will
be sent toward the Rhine.
BUILDINGS IN
MOSIER JARRED
BY EXPLOSION
MOSIER, Or., May 2. Buildings in
Mosier were damaged, windows of
many homes broken, pictpres jarred
from the walls, machinery knocked
out of plumb and door jambs torn off
as the result of an explosion of the
entire powder supply of the A. D.
Kern company, Saturday. Incendi
arism was suspected.
them. (Here we stage a race to the
nursery.) "And right into Brother's
bed they tumbled and closed their
eyes, the Shoe-Button Fairy and the
Clothes-Button Fairy, .Brother and
Daddy. And they keep them cjosed
and closed and closed and tbey
ill sang Three Blind Mice like this:
Three Blind Mice (very slowly) Three
-Blind Mice Three Blind Mice
See How they run see how they
-run (slower and slower) see how
-they run (and the first thing
knew the little dickens was asleep.)
That was last night. Will it work
tonight? .If it only would. But
have a fear "I have a fear an old
fear and a boding. No chance!"
Dr. Rosenberger has arrived in
Clackamas county from California for
the purpose of purchasing 50 head
of Guernsey grade cattle for the Adhor
Stock Farm of California, and so far
has been successful in getting a large
number of head of some of the best
grade stock in the county. c. T.
Gilbertson & Son have offered for 'aaia
twelve of their best grade Guernseys.
This stock farm is at Shaw, Oregon,
about twelve miles from Salem. To.
gether with a herd from that farm
and others secured in Marion and
Clackamas counties and other parts
of the state, Dr. Rosenbereer no dnnhf
will be able to secure the required
number of blooded cattle.
Clackamas county was -a ell renrep-
ented at the Guernsey cattle sale held
in Portland a few days ago and among
the Guernsey breeders- attending were
C. B. Sprague, of Logan; Mr. and Mrs
U S. Penny, of Springwater; James
Shipley and "son, of Srrinnvaterr
Clyde Ringo, of Clackamas;' Ernest
Berger and George Hoffstetter, of
Clarkes; Mr. and Mrs, M. O. Rose,
Mr. and Mrs. Joan Hughes and son!
Kenneth and Francis, Mr. and Mrs.
A. Carlson and sons, Willie and Her
bert, W. H. Brown and children, Ray
and Ruby, all of Redland; John Gaff
ney and son Fillmore, of Maple Lane
JVlr. Gaffney purchased a yearline
heifer at the sale, paying $455.00.
Vilsonville was represented bv II
S. Beckman, Charles Waggner, George
Spangle, F. H. Spangle and Mr. and
Mrs. A. D. Clutter.
The average sale price was $535.
and the highest price paid for a Guern
ey was $1125, purchased by Mr. Nile3
of Grants Pass. Another animal, a
11-yeail-old cow, was purchased bv
Balkin & Riggs, of Battle Ground.
Wash., bringing $1000. Another sold
for $1000 and the Oregon Agricultural
college purchased a two-year-old an
imal for S575.
The herd consisted of 50 head ot
the finest Guernseys that have been
brought from the east for some time,
and the Guernsey breeders of Clack
amas county are delighted over the
added stock in the state.
There are about 70 Guernsey breed
ers in Clackamas county, who are ar
ranging for a big meeting to be held
during May, which will probably be
held on the last Saturday of that
month. Mrs. A, I. Hughes, of Red
'and is assisting in arranging for th-3
convention. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes
are the owners of 18 head of regis
tered Guernseys, many of them fam
ous prize winners.
HENRY FORD
LOSES HUGE
SUMINSUITi
STUDENT WINS
FIRST PRIZE BY
FINE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON, May 2. A verdict
of $000,000 rendered against the Ford
Motor company in New York and in
favor of the Hotel Woodward com
pany will stand.
The supreme court Monday refused
to review the case.
FARMERS LOSE WAR-TIME PRICE
GAINS
The Department of Agriculture es
tablished by- a recent annual investi
gation that the average price per head,
all ages of cattle other than milk
cows, was $35.92 in 1917, $44.22 in
1919 and $31.41 in 1921. On January
of last year, the farm price was
$4.51 lower than that of 1917, some
months before this country declared
war. Swine on farms declined m the
two years 1919 and 1920, 88 per cent
ot the gain in 1V17 and 1918, and two-
thirds of the decline was in 1920.
portion of the detour to be used while
the nain highway between Seaside
and Astoria is closed this summer, is
three fourths completed and within
two .weeks the planking of the road in
its various bad places will be begun.
An effort is also being made to keep
the main highway open between the
hours of .6 in the evening and 7 in the
mornina while actual construction
work Is going on.
THE FINEST TRIBUTE
Died Mrs. Bianie resterday, at
her home, among her children, iwith
her husband at her Bide. This Is the
third time her name has been in the
papers. The other two times were at
her birth, and at her marriage. Farm
Life.
faulty engine operation.1 Whenever
the valves are taken out the' springs
should be examined to see that they
are all of the same length, or rather
that all of the inlet set are of the
same length and all of the exhaust as
the exhaust springs will probably be
a little longer than the other. If one
spring is shorter than the others in its
set it should be streched or else a
meal plate must be put under its fellows.
PORTLAND, April 30. Frank L.
Miller, who dolves out Velie Cars In
Clackamas county and also in part
owner of the Salem Velie company,
was a Portland visitor last week at the
D. C. Warren Motor Car company.
Miller reports an improved interest in
cars in his territory.
THE APPLE CROP
Apples apparently suffered, less
from the freeze and frost which swept
through the central portion of the
country recently that was at first in
dicated. Reports from state agents
to the Department of Agriculture,
show definitely that the fruit surplus
of the country was not materially af
fected. Southern sections of Pennsylvania
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois and Dela
ware. Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Okla
homa, Kansas and the Panhandle sec
tion of Texas however, reported con
siderable damage. In Missouri the
fruit crop was said to have been hard
hit.
Motorcycles Hang
up World's Record
at Los Angeles
World's records were broken Sun
day at Loa Angeles. at the Beverly
Hills race course when the Motorcy
cle Association of California staged
a race for professional riders. Otto
Walker won the five-mile race on a
Harley; Jim Davis, on a Harley, was
second, and Gene Walker, on a In
dian third. The time was 2:53 4-E.
Following1 is the time for the rest of
the races: Ten-mile, 5:45 4-5; fifteen
mile, 8:36 2-6; twenty-mile. 11:281-5;
twenty-five-mile, 14:214-5; fifty-mile,
30:49 4-5. In the consolation, raca
Burns,' on an Indian, was first, Ludlow,
second, on Harley, and . Hepburn,
astride a Harley third. 1
In the Clackamas County Oratorical
contest, held between students of the
county schools, Gordon Hannaford, of
Ofegon City, was awarded the gold
medal for delivering the best address
of the evening. Only three contes
tants were entered in the contest,
which was held in the West Linn
Union high . school building. The
judges in the contest were O. D. Eby
W. R. Kirk, Miss Buckley and Gilbert
L. Hedges. W. R. Kirk, of the Ore
gon City schools, presided. Hanna
lord won first place with an address
entitled "Naval Competition." The
judges deliberated three-quarters of
an hour before the decisiou was ren
dered. The other orators were Easter
Noble, of Canby, on "Doe? Education
Pay";" Beulah Snidow, oZ West Linn.
"Must Germany Pay;" piano stflos by
Meta Higginbotham and Jack Hemp
stead ; vocal solo, Mr., Sparks, of Can
by, and O. A. Schultz, of Oregon City.
BOOK SHOWER
THIS WEEK FOR
SICK CHILDREN
A drive is to be made for children's
books for the children of the state tu
berculosis hospital, who are barred
from the privilege of taking books out
of the public library, and a book
shower is now being planned. Those
who have books they desire to do
nate towards the good cause may
leave them at the office of the county
school superintendent's office
n the court house, and they will be
shipped to the hospital. The-drive
commenced Monday May 2, and will
continue for thfe remainder of the
week.
Fast Fleet of
Fruit Vessels May
Become Possibility
A fleet of fast fruit carrying ves
sels to ply on regular schedule be
tween Pacific and Atlantic points, be
came a possibility Fridav with thn
announcement that apple growers of
the northwest and the citrus industry
of California will combine their ton
nage for future negotiations with
steamship companies.
Cooperation between the two in
dustries was affected by C. S. Whit
comb, vice president of the Califor
nia Fruit Growers exchange, who has
just concluded a trip of two weeks
through the northwest. Plans for a
water schedule through the canal on
products of Pacific coast industries
that have been brought to the verge
of ruin by excessive rail freight rates
were developed by Whitcemb during
conferences with growers' organiza
tions of Yakima, Wenatchee, Seattle,
and Portland.
As the initial step towards effecting
the plan, the Yakima valley growers,
through the Yakima Commercial club
have pledged 2000 carloads of apples
to be combined with the citrus fruit
shipments from California, it was an
nounced by the California Fruit
Growers' exchange, upon the return
of Whitcomib. The apple and citrus
seasons dovetail perfectly and under
the combined industries plan a
stieam of regular fruit cargoes will'
be afforded the steamship lines
throughout the year.
FISHERMEN ON
COLUMBIA ARE
OUT ON STRIKE
Crown Willamette
Company to Sell
Food Products
The sale of ' food products by the
Crown Willamette Paper Co. to; its
employes will be established at the
West Linn and Camas plants, and ar
rangements hve been made to carry
a large stock of staple groceries and
cured '-eats, which will be sold Ij
case ''-s. The company will sell from
its btore to its employes at an ad
vance of 10 per cent over the invoice
price, figuring the advance will cov
er freight and cartage.
ASTORIA, Or., May 2 All fishing
operations on the lower Columbia are
at a standstill as the result of a strike,
the first since the big walkout in
isyc. The spring fishing season op
ened at 6 o'clock last eveinng.
The cause of the strike is tho de
mand made by the fishermen for 10
ce nts a 'pound for chinooks, while
tho packers are offering D cents. A
few pillnetters had placed thei"- gear
in the water, but a fleet of union pa
trcl boats which cruised all sections
of the harbor notified the fishermen
that a strike was on and everyone
took in his net and came ashore. No
traps are being used and none of the
seines are in operation, although sev-
ral were prepared for beginning op
erations much earlier than customary.
PAPER MILL
MEN ON STRIKE
FOR INCREASE
BUFFALO, N. Y., May 2. Monday
four paper mills at Niagara Falls mak
ing newsprint, were closed, their 579
employes being on strike, demanding
a wage increase of 10 per cent. " The
companies want to cut their pay 30
per cent.
Five of the six larger job printing
plants here are closed by the printers'
strike. i
ACCUSED OF PERJURY
Sam Maddox was arrested in this
city yesterday on a warrant from Mc
Minnville, charging him with per
jury. He was taken back to Yam
hill county by Sheriff T. G. Fergu
son, of that section.