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VOL. LI V. NO. 17.070. 1 "" a CROPS IH PROSPECT BREAK ALL RECORDS Wheat Yield Greatest Ever. Grown. ALL EXCEED 1914 FIGURES Three Billion Bushels of Corn Is Nation's Output. POTATO SUPPLY ENORMOUS Oats. Tobacco, Rice. May, Has " K) Abo fchow increased Pro dactlon. Accord log to Gov rnuiwnt Statistic. -vTABHrNGTON. Aug. . Three billion bushels of corn. 1. 500.000.000 bushels of oats and 1.00.000.OO buahela of wbttt ir. In proepect for this year's Amor lean harvest. Record crops of rye. whlto and sweet potato, tobacco, rice and bay alao art pradlcted for tb prosperous farm era. who have planted JlO.S4.0oe acres r 10.aoo.004 acres mors tban laat year, to tbclr principal product. WImI Cres Worth BUUa. Tba wheat crop, th greatest ever grown la any country, will b worth mora than $1,000,000,000. while the corn crop's value may roach 13.500.000 00. Estimates of tba principal crop, an Bounced today by the Department of Agriculture, based 00 condltlona of August 1. abow that all cropa will be greater tban laat year. ' Interest centered on wheat and corn. Both showed Improvement over July condltlona, though excessive rain and cold weather In tba Central States Interfered with threshing;. Oata also suffered In tbasa states, but In other sections tba Improvement more than offsets this. Cora lanesse Ci . ' . Corn proapects Incraaaed almoat iaa.000.aas buahela. th principal vain being Illinois.- 30.OOA.000 buaheta: Kan as, J4.000.000; Oklahoma. J C. 000.000; Nebraska. 1S.000.000: Iowa. 14.000.000. and Ttmaa. 10.000.000. Kanaas ahowed a loaa of 11.000.004) bushele In Winter wheat: Oklahoma. COOO.OOO: Nebraska. 4,000.000. and Mis souri. 1.000.000. while Ohio and Indi ana ahowed aa lncreaa of J.000.000 bushels each. Paate Oat pet Cafasa. Whit potato promt to exceed their former record production by 101, .eo bushels and awaet potatoes by 4.09O.0O0 bushel. Other Incraaaea over record cropa Indicated Include tobacco. Jl. 000.000 pounds: flaa. 4.J0O.00O bushels: bay. y,4a.OOO tone, and rye. 1.100.000 bushels. Corn prospects fell 30t.000.00 bush els and oata lt.000.000 bushels below th records Otma 1 arid greater. Th estlmatea give for Oregon aa Increased production of 1K.000 bushel of wheat and 140.000 buahela of barley over that of 1)14. tba condition of tba barley crop being reported aa some what above the ten years average. Washington estimate for Winter wheat show an lncreaa of (.100.000 bushels over 1)11 production and an Increase of 5.400.000 In Spring; wheat. 'Washington's barley crop la reported la earellent condition, but the yield will be somewhat slighter than In 1914. Idaho'a Winter wheat yield la estimated aa 1.078.000 buahela more than In 1)14. while the barley crop estimate la for a yield of 170.004 more bushels than laat year. Details for states, showing acre yield or condition, forecast and 114 produc tion In thouaanda of bushels. L e.. with thousands omitted, follow: V) later Wheat. Arr. 11S. ISM Pr- State. To ....... ruks ... K.n.aa ..... T.aas ...... Oklmhotaa Montana ... Itfho "Ws.htngtoa Orvton ..... Ca.itorala .. Tt.14. Forecast. Suction. ..... :i 1 ll.4xt li.nia .. is a an - at . !;.' IO.4.1O I. I'M J-i.OOA T.oev 4.IT3 .... 4.n .... 11 i .... lis .... :so 3M .... 71.1 II .... 1. 17tf.Z" 14.0i 47.S73 lt.OHJ SI.SOO 1.1. 4 S.SO0 Kprtag tAbeat. CTAndlttaa IS-vr. Annul 114. Srstvs A L Avn.orrL Harmt tooth Dakota.. 71 M.0o ao.auo Mashlnstoa.... SO aj ia.aoo CORN. le.41 Iowa. teats Dakota... Neara.ka....... Kinui. ....... Tiu-......... Okiansna M M 7 73 12 0 130.400 7.Jio 171. 41.1 li-n.Too ias.no 10.40 sxn.4?4 7V0O0 1TS.M 124. M0 60.VUV OATS. lwa , Honth Dnkot N.bra.ka...... kassaa M 7 7 IT JOO i..4"0 7.'iO 4S.OVO lss.oon 44.1n.- ?. M.IMO .li . 74 BARLEY. lnwa T tioath Dakota ..1 7 Kansas 03 4 Ceiorada. ...... 4 M 1-lsho a Washington.... S4 Orn t W California. a as lo.ooo 4.0 7.WO 0. 35A 1U.5XO 1. 0 T.O.IO i. so sou 42.000 STEAMER TALISMAN TAKEN Xorxwtfmn Cm ft Eii Route From New York to Sweden Held. avva-r.xr In At Taal A A htt 4Pfl x a Mnaajumavea W at ITllrla ttlltt pnr. 1 AiniwMH'.v.i'-i.s evening that th Norwegian steamer Tallyman has been taken Into porL Th ateamer Tallaman left New York Jsly IT for Kirkwall. Scotland and Gothenburg. Sweden. The delayed dis patch, as given la th foregoing does not nam th port Into which th steam er was takes. . . i i BIG GERMAN FLEET FAILS NEAR RIGA PERSISTENT ATTACK OS EN TRANCE TO GILP REPC1SKD. CVnlmrr and Two Torpedo-Boat De ' Mrojera Damaged by Itusolana, Says retrofrad. PET BOO RAD. via London. Aug. I. Tb following- official communication was Issued tonight: -A German fleet of nlns battleships and 11 cruisers, with a large number of torpedo-boat destroy era. persistently attacked th entrance to th Gulf of Riga Sunday, but verywhr vara re pulsed. -a rmltrr and two torpedo-boat de stroyers were damaged by our mine. "Our sea planes, throwing bombs, contributed to our aucceaa." Riga Is th moot Important Russian port on th Baltic Sea. with th xoep tlon of Petrograd. and th palac of th Governor-General of th Baltic prov inces Is located there. Th i-l t la altuated five miles from th mouth of the River Durlna. which mpUea Into th Gulf of Riga, its loca tion Is regarded as Ideal for mining and .. i.t.mm measures againat at tack from th sea. Th river mouth Is some (0 roilo from th entrance to th gulf. Recent dlapaUhaa from ratrograa said th Ruaalan official had no bop of defending Riga successfully and that all public InaUtutlona bad bn re moved with th appearance near of a Urge German army. Th Govrnor-Onral. Brltlab Conaul and half of th population ware re ported to hav ft th city for the Interior. GRIEVED OIUKING LONELY Mr. Rockefeller Is Changed Man Since Death of Wife. CLEVELAND. 0 Aug. . (Special.) There I a changed master at Forest Hill, th big East Cleveland eatat of John D. Rockefeller. That is what Rockefeller's closeat friends were say Ing today after visits to Forest Hill. The oldeat Inhabitant who has cared for the lawns and drlvea of Foreat Hill for years knows why their master haa changed. It Is because their mis tress has gone, they say. For th first time Mr. Rockefeller tramps and drives about bis aetata without the compan ionship of hie wife. Th attendant tell, too, how th changed master broke down and cried .t hi. first breakfast at Foreat Hill after hi return because of th vacant chair. Rockefeller used to play gou with a keen delight. H plays seldom now, and without th old-tlm teal. END OF DRINKING FORESEEN Cathollo Total AbsUnence tnlon Of ficers Report Progress. TiTTTrTtrj r Aur. t. Reports of th National officers held th ttn- . r th dalea-ates to th 4jm annual convention of the Cathollo Total Abstinence Union, which opened ner ...o. Th Vrr Rev. P. J. O'CaJIa- ghan. of Chicago, tb National provi dent, told of tb wide growth of th ui.nn movement, ana ociaru -there Is a great dominant sentiment that temperanc la about to oursi mw triumph. -Soma of the blrgest orewer in America hav ceased to Inveat In brewery stock." be added. -The re serve of whisky is not aa gooa uaed to be 'good as goia dodos. BRITISH DEPORT MUSICIAN Emperor William's Court PJanlste Is Arrested in London. TjONDOX. Aur. . Maria Cecilia v.t.iia Jsnotha. court planiste to Em peror William, was arrested In London today and deported from xnoury. r.ri. Jsnotha holda membership In ... uulamlei of art In Italy. Great Britain and Auatrla. She received the Victoria badge from Quean Ictorla. and bold th hlgheat honorary diploma r,n h. Bt Cecilia Rorsl Acaaemy in Rem. 8h edited Lady Tennyson' songs and translated Choplna greater wnPk. she v.. th recipient of many decoration. Including one from the German Empress. WILSON EXTENDS MERCY President Commute) Term of Life Imprisonment of Slayer. WASHINGTON, Aug. . President Wilson commuted, to expire today, the life sentence of Jamea Brumfleld. con victed In March, 1905, by the Federal Court In the then Indian Territory, for th murder of bis slater-in-law. Brum fleld Is C5 years old and would not be eligible for parole until 1920. " His belief that he will not live until then and extenuating circumstances surrounding the murder led to a rec ommendation for clemency by the Attorney-General. ' CANAL S00NJ0 BE CLEAR Latest Slide Will Have Been Re - moved in Three Days. , WASHINGTON. Aug. 9. Half a mil of earth which slid Into the Panama Canal last week, reducing the depth through Galllard cut to 1 feet, will have been dredged away within the next three days. Canal officials report ed today. Ten ateamers are awaiting passage through the cut. Tb slide. has been slowly progress ing for months, but did not gain on th dredgers until last Saturday. w,nr .via Tr TlTfgnAA A ITflTTST in. 1915.- ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. NORTH AND SOUTH Plan for Dealing With Mexico Definite. BELIEF IS PEOPLE WILL AID Armed Intervention Regarded as Likely if Necessary. FORMAL RATIFICATION DUE Powers of Two Continents to Hold Final Meeting Tomorrow Sec retary Lansing Decidedly En couraged Over Prospects. WASHINGTON. Aug. (.Powers of North and South America already have agreed upon a definite plan for deal ing with th Mexican problem, and when th Pan-American conference la resumed in New York Wednesday, the programme will be formally ratified. -This Information cam today from Secretary Lansing, who though he would not discuss details, aaid he was decidedly encoursged over the pros pect. The confidence expressed by of ficials generally here, that th con ferees who are representing the United States, Braxll, Argentina, Bolivia, Gua temala and Uruguay will be able to shape a courae likely to bring peace and restore constitutional government In Mexico, Is duo to th fact that all are agreed that most of th people of th revolution-torn republio are thor oughly sick of war and with encour agement from friendly powers will promptly Join in the movement to clean house. Majority Long for Peace. A large section of the country and a vast majority of th people have not bean Involved in th fighting which followed th overthrow of Hureta. Moreover, It has bean reported to President Wilson and Secretary Lan sing that" only the fear of reprlaala by the military chieftains haa kept the people In subjection while the country baa been impoverished by the battles of relatively small forces of armed men. Reaching their conclusion on these reports, the Pan-American conferees are underatood to have determined to present the situation to all of the various element In Mexico, addressing directly not only General Carransa, Villa and Zapata, but the Governors of states, all military leaders with any considerable following and other influ ential men, urging tbem to com to gether for a caucus at which a sub stantial provisional government might be framed. Sapper ef CltJaea Expert e. A government so set up would have the support of. the United States and other American republics. Officials here believe It would be able to sup- roncluded on Pace 2. Column 6.) AMERICA II! ACCORD a ,.s..sssaseissiaessssss -istiiit-T- ...ssesseei a . s, s s.sj.s s.s.sjLe.s.e.se.s.s,s.s.s,s.sjuLs.s.sj.s..sls.ei.s.s.f..ss sje J.iJ.'J.'l-Q c . . v tt. ! JL a- INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Tb Weather. TESTE RDATS Maximum temperature. It decrees; minimum. H degrees. TODAY'S Pair; northwesterly wlnda. War. Turkish medical staff doing much good at Gall I poll and Dardanelles. Page 2. British recaln lost ground In Belgium, page 2. Oennan reveals so-called Belgian diplomatic secrets. Pas 8. Big German fleet' repulsed at entrance to Gulf of Riga. Page 1. Mexico. Povera of North and South America agree to take definite action in Mexico. Page 1. Koreura. James CDonnell Bennett write of peaceful National. Government wport shows racord-breaklng crops. Page 1. United States declines Sweden's offer to Id In settling controversy with Great Britain. Page 1. Domestic Secretary MeAdoo believes United States could finance new government In Mexico; Pas General Ooethala resigns as Governor of e. ...... . r,n,l V.nne. Pue 5. Oreron week Is officially opened at Panama faciuo - - bVorta. Vernon makes debut under new leader In Portland today. Page 10. Chester Fee doing well In decathlon at San Francisco Fair. Page 10. Cincinnati beats Phillies In uphill 12-lnnlng battle. Page 10. Pacific Northwest. Federal Trade Commission at Seattle learns of business burdens. Page L. Commercial and Marine. Slusla-v Jetty $17a,RTO contract la awarded Miami Quarry Company. Page 12. Wheat sells In local market at further ad vance. Page 13. Active trading at North Portland Stock Tarda. Pace 15. Large war orders stimulate 'Wall Street stock market. Page IS. Chicago tradera sell, anticipating bearish crjp report. Page 19. Vessels now In Alsskan waters rated aa ua eeaworthy. Face 12. rertland sad Vicinity. Register kept bv chamber of commerce for visiting buyers. Page . Buyers from as far east aa Wyoming wel comed to city. Page 1. Victorious naval mllltla cheered on way up river. Page 11. M. H. Black, heir to millions, accused of entering women's suite. Page 19. Rivera snd Harbors Committee to be here August 18. Page 12. Cheap excursion up Columbia Highway ar ranged by Ad Club. Pag 11. Cashier accountant faces cross-fire 'by de fense. Page S. Weather report, data and forecast. Page la. PEARS BOUGHT AT $17 TON Independent Buyer Meets Competi tion of Growers at Xorth Yakima, NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Aug. 9. (Special.) Seven shipping firms affil iated with the Growers' Council today started buying pears at I1T.50 a ton, In accordance with plans formed Saturday at conference with W. H. Paulhamus. executive head of the organisation. ,One Independent buyer, who ha been paying $15. met the price, but little fruit was hatlled' Monday. ' Tomorrow will afford a better test Of Mie effort- to boost the price. A guaranty fund of SS000 has been raised to back the move ment. 10 INDICTMENTS EXPECTED Number of Persons May Be Blamed for Eastland Disaster. CHICAGO. Aug. 9. Indictments sgalnst 10 persons, possibly IS. are ex pected to be returned by the Federal grand Jury tomorrow, when it resumes consideration of the cause and respon sibility for the capsizing of the East land In the Chicago River. July 24. United States District Attorney Charles F. Clyne, who is said to have been In conference with Attorney General Gregory on the subject of the Investigation, wlU 'return to Chicago early tomorrow morning. THORN IH SIDE OF TRADE IS EXPOSED Federal Commission in Seattle Hears Ills. GREATER MARINE DEMANDED Fishermen Complain of Duty That Hampers Business. PRICE-CUTTING IS CHARGED Canadian Line Plants Said to Be Attempting to Ruin American Manufacturers Inquiry on Sal mon Extermination Asked. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 9. Repre sentatives of business chosen by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce enlight nri fh Federal Trade Commission to- H.v concerning: the burdens that handi cap commerce in the Pacific Kortnweii. The commission gave the business m.n free field for presentation of their views, and the shipping, shipbuild ing, flour milling:, fish and conaensea milk. Interests told of the loads they carry. Thomas Burke, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said beatuo naa spent millions on dock facilities. "We have seven different trans continental railroads serving Seattle," he said, "and now we need ships. The Government, which generally came to the aid of the railroads, turns its back nn the shipowners. Judge 'Burke asked for Government aid for American ships. Seamen' Law Attacked. J. C Ford, president of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, attacnea the La Follette seamen's law, and said that while not in favor of ship suo sidy, he advocated changing the laws so as to place American snips on tne same competitive plane as foreign ships. Charles J. Smith, ice-presldent of the- Chamber.-. Commerce., said .com binations In the fish, lumber and fruit Industries could utilize waste by-products now thrown away. T. J. Gorman, Miller Freeman and Robert E. Small, representing the sal mon industry, told of the difficulties encountered because of lack of ships to carry canned fish abroad. Fishermen Lay Complaint. William Calvert and Edward Cun ningham, for the halibut . fishermen, pointed out how the new railroad port of Prince Rupert. B. C, is threatening the business of American halibut ship pers because the port is near to the halibut banks and offers facilities of entry that are denied on Puget Sound because of customs regulations. W. F. Robinson, for the cod fisher men, complained that Gloucester fish ermen enter their boned fish free, while Pacific Coast fishermen are asked to pay a duty. The Pacific Coast codfish Is quite as good as that shipped from (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) Mondays War Moves WHILE the Austro-German armies made fresh progress Monday in their carapaigrn against the Russians, the conflict on the western front took on new Impetus, Sir John French, com mander of the British expeditionary force, reporting a fierce artillery en gagement in which British and French forces captured trenches at Hooge, along a front of 1200 yards. The occupation of Praga, .reported by Berlin, brings to a "atlc climax the first phased"" .V . ve at the Polish caP,-I0tfP'' J N t of East ern 1".'S - -nvc.. -isa'w is the . -.':' .,tt " , ,u - raga Is essential- re" .ne capital with great r sr stations on the roads running tail etrograd and Moscow. Few details have been received of Grand Duke Nicholas final stand at Praga, but the indications are that the withdrawal of the Russians became Imperative to escape from the German lines grad ually drawing together in their rear. Warsaw now is the apex of a vast letter V, the arms of which are the River Narew on the north, and the Vistula on the south. The German lines spread along these rivers are contracting gradually as the armies in the north and those in the south ap proach each other. The strip of ter ritory across which the Russians may withdraw to safer positions now is hardly more than 30 miles across. Besides this enveloping movement Immediately to the east of Warsaw, Berlin reports a steady hammering at the great Russian fortresses of Kovno and Lomza, the chief significance of which Is their proximity to the lines of railway communications to Petro-g-rad. Novogeorgrievsk is the only place west of Warsaw at which a Rus sian garrison remains, and its fall seems imminent. The attitude of the Poles towards the new German regime is arousing deep interest, as the occupation of Warsaw unites for the first time three branches of the Poles heretofore di vided among Russia, - Germany and Austria. Under the Russian regime. Poland has been a hot bed of dis cord and it' remains to be seen whether control of this occupied ter ritory will be a difficult programme for Germany, as It has been for Rus sia. The official report from Berlin characterized the operations around Hooge as a. "battle," but Sir John French's report shows them to have been another trench fight, preceded by a severe artillery exchange and re sulting In the recovery by the British of nearly a mile of trenches previously taken by the Germans. This has termed to divert public attention tem porarily from tha magnitude' of the German sweep in the eastern field, but operations in the West still lack gen eral significance. The commander of another British submarine, whise name has not been disclosed, was reported Monday to have dlstingulshel himself by- sink ing the Turkish battleship Kheyr-Ed-Dln Barbarossa. CROP FOUND IN ARMY WAKE Berlin Reports Harvest Unharmed by Retreating Russians. ' r r TV tw wireless to Savvllle. N. T., Aug. 9. .Among the news Items prepared by the Overseas News Agency for transmission abroad is the follow ing: "Reports from the front li Folami mav th Russian announcement that farm crops were devastated and that the Russians left a desert behind tnem i. n-rutiv axae-K-erated. The farmers disobeyed orders to destroy their crops. and a full harvest of rye, wiieat ana oats is being brought In with the as sistance of German soldiers, uniy tne villages were burned." LONDON MEAT PRICES SOAR Fresh Beef Increases 4 3 Per Cent and Frozen Beef 71 Per Cent. LONDON. Aug. 9. Great increases in the price of meat are disclosed in the nnrt nf the superintendent of the Lon don central market iBued tonight. He announces that the supply of meats or all kinds for July, 1915, at the market totaled 24,702 tons, as compared with 36,833 tons in July, 191. The price of fresh beef Increased 43 r cent, while that of frozen beef increased 74 per cent. Fresh mutton Increased 13 per cent and frozen mut ton 50 per cent.. POPE AIDS EAST PRUSSIANS Funds and Sympathy Sent Catholics Because of Russian Invasions. BERLIN, by wireless to Sayville, v v Aue 8. Pooe Benedict has ad dressed a letter to the Catholics of East Prussia, according to the Overseas News Agency, expressing his fatherly sympathy for the terrible war horrors brought upon them by the Russian in vasions. The letter, the news agency says, was accompanied by a large sum of money for the relief of the victims. SWEDISH STEAMER SUNK Survivors of Germar . Submarine At tack Land at Cv hagen. COPENHAGEN, via London, ug. 9. The Swedish steamer Mai has been sunk by a German submarine. One boat containing seven men and a woman has been picked up and landed here. A second boat carrying the captain and nine men is missing. Available shipping records do not contain the name of a Swedish steamer Mai or of a vessel .of any other na tionality py. that name. ( BUYERS FROM AFAR WELCOMED TO CITY Trade Field Reaches in . East to Wyoming. REGISTRATION IS NOW DOUBLE $1,000,000 Is Expected to Be Spent Here During Week. FAMILIAR FACES REAPPEAR Reports of Prosperity Brought From All Districts Represented Good Crops Heralded 9-3ronths-Old "Merchant" Visits. programme: of entertaix- SlESiT FOR BUYERS TODAY. Registration continuing- at the Chamber of Commerce through out the day, and forenoon and afternoon given over to business. Smoker at Chamber of Com merce for the men at 8 o'clock. O. H. Fithian. chairman. Ad dress of welcome by A. H. Revers. Theater party to tho Heilig for the women guests of the Buyers' Association. Party will leave the Chamber of Commerce at 8 P. M., escorted by women's re ception committee. Portland's trade territory reaches as far east as Wyoming, north to the Canada line, and is pushing further south every hour this week, and whole salers of this city have the registra tion books of the first day of the third annual Buyers' week to prove It. Especially noteworthy in the list of visiting buyers registering at the head quarters at the Chamber of Commerce was the large proportion coming from Idaho and Northeastern Washington, In comparison to "the representation from these sections last year. Early arrivals announced that before the close of tha week the representation from those districts will be increased greatly. While the registration of the visiting merchants had begun on Saturday, the big rush did not begin until yesterday morning. It is expected to continue and reach its height about Thursday. Not only men, but scores of women, are taking advantage of the opportunities of Buyers' week. - Registration Percrntnfre Double. "More than a million dollars will be expended in Portland this week as a result of the Buyers' week excursions," is the prediction of the members of tho general committee. These figures are based upon the records of last year and the apparent tendency of the pres ent year. All day yesterday the percentage of registration ran 50 per cent higher than it had last year, and more than 100 per cent higher than in 1912, which was the first year that the Portland wholesalers held a Buyers' week. . "One of the Important points I have noticed," said M. E. Smead. in charge of the registration yesterday, "Is the fact that we seo so many familiar faces among those who have come to regis ter. Not only are scores of merchants attending Portland Buyers' week for the first time this year, but those who attended it before are proving their satisfaction and their intention to maintain their business relations with Portland wholesalers by coming back again with more enthusiasm than th'y manifested at their first visit." Increased Business Activity IVoted. Representatives of the big wholesale houses of the city who are members of tho reception committee were on duty all day long at the Chamber of Commerce to see that the visiting buy ers received every attention and as sistance. The reception committee of tho women, with Mrs. C. C. Chapman, chairman, greeted the visiting women, coming either as buyers or accompany ing their husbands. It would have been a difficult thing to have estimated the size of the crowd of visitors at any one time yesterday, for they flowed continuous! past the registration desk and were scattered broadly over the city among the va rious wholesale houses. There was a bustlo of Increased activity in all of thi big wholesale houses, however, that indicated that the effect ' " the Buyers week was already beginning to be felt in every place. Daya to Be Free of Entertainment. Tho entire day was frankly devoted to business visits between the out-of-town buyers and Portland's whole salers, and the social programme did not begin until tho opening of the reception at the Chamber of Commerce in the evening. The pl-n of the entire week is to arrange the entertainment features so that the visitors may have their days free for visits to their whole salers about the city. All manner of interesting sidelights bobbed up around the registration desk yesterday. in tho registration of E. S. Johnson, of Cheyenne, Wyo., who is up to date the "farthest East" buyer who is par ticipating, it was brought to light that the Portland Buyers' week had at tracted a former patron of the annual Buyers' week held in Omaha, Neb. Mr. Johnson said that he had come (Concluded-on Fuo U. Column L.