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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1915. i GALIFQRH LEARNS FROM HOOD -RIVER Watsonville Apple Growers to Grade Fruit According to Best Standards. SOUND PLAN IS ADOPTED i y Export Trade Encouraging Despite War and H. F. Davidson Says r Outlook for Good Prices for Pears Also Is Good. BY ANNE SHANNON MONROE. OREGON EXPOSITION BUILDING, Fan Francisco, Sept. 17. An interesting- visitor at the Oregon building Sun day was II. F. Davidson, president of the North Pacific Fruit Distributors, who has been attending a conference of California apple-growers at Watson ville In the interests of Northwest growers. The conference was sug gested and brought to successful cul mination by Mr. Davidson, who saw in the united work and co-operation or ail .facitlc Coast apple-growers the only practical solution of the problem of carriers and market. "Watsonville. according to Mr. David Fon, has an annual output of from 4000 to 4600 carloads. At present there is no organization among these growers. In fact, a state of complete demorali zation exists, resulting from which is a crowded market, cut prices and gen eral havoc. Growers become panicky and sell for less than is necessary, and this affects the entire Coast market. This year they have a fine crop of good quality fruit, but already they are sell ing too low. Their apples do not grade up with Northwest apples, however. Grading System Adopted. As a result of this conference lust closed, which '30 California growers at tended, California apples for the first time in history will be graded ud to quality In size and freedom from blemish. They will adopt the North west standard of stamping the number of apples on each box. Mr. Davidson outlined a plan to place the organiza tion on a sound financial basis, so growers can be financed. As it has been. Watsonville growers have had no credit, at the bank on their crop as they have in Oregon. The North Pacific Distributors last year financed their growers to the ex tent of a million dollars at the begin ning cf the season to move the crop. If the same plan can be effected and it seems that it will be for the Cali fornia growers, this will materially aid the entire apple market of the Coast. Apple and Pear Ontlook Good. The outlook, says Mr. Davidson, is excellent for good prices for both ap ples and pears. Opening prices are en couraging. Good Hood River apples are sejling in the San Francisco mar ket at $2.25 a box. The export trade is encouraging in spite of the war. Al ready space has been engaged for 100 carloads of Oregon apples to be shipped out of New York October 1, going to England. I wonder if others than myself ac cept terms sometimes which they do not really comprehend in their en tirety? Now that fruit awards are in the air, and the fruit jury is meeting weekly and talking points and packs, it is well to know what it is all about. Dr. "Riftine- nrocirln- r 1, -. i 1 tural Jury, was illuminating in a little talk I had with him In the Oreeron sec tion of the Horticultural Palace today. He was looking at the Dayton prod ucts, the evaporated apples, onions, po tatoes and berries, which are really the most fascinating things in the world, for they have all kept their shape and color and look as clear and fresh and Inviting as fresh fruit; and yet they had no medal of any kind. Chief Ravlin explained that they ar rived too late to be entered for award, but had they come on time he was con fident they would have received a gold medal. Medal of Honor Explained. "That is better than gold medal stuff: it's in the medal of honor class," Dr. Bitting said, and I asked him what was the difference between a sold medal and a medal of honor. ' "A medal of honor." he explained, "Is given only where there seems to be absolutely no room for improvement. An article may bo the best entered for award and still it may not appear to be perfection of Its kind; it receives the gold medal as the highest award, Ithe highest perfection entered; but it gets the medal of honor only when it teems mat no Detter could be produced; the gold medal always means that still better can be attained." The Dayton evaporated potatoes, said Mr. Bitting, are the onlv" one v, has ever encountered without a brown Fpot in the center. A chemist from the Department of Agriculture.' wh specializes in methods of evaporating, has gone to Dayton to investigate the process. The soup vegetables, evapor ated, have been a steady source of in terest to housewives. 'Seven vege tables are blended, and the compound is ready to use. with little labor. The Dayton Evaporating & Packing Com pany is located at Dayton, Or. They call their products "Gold Nugget." and are exhibiting apples, eggs, onions, prunes, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, cab bage, corn, raspberries and loganber ries, all beautifully put up in glass. Willamette Valley Wins Tribute. A tribute to the Willamette Valley as the natural home of apples and pears comes in the form of an exhibit sent in by W. H. Egan, of fruit from trees planted in 1849 by John Lemmon on the Mountain View Farm, north of Salem. These trees, now 65 years old. have never been sprayed, are free from rest of any kind and have yielded 50 bushels to the tree this year. The fruit is or good size and perfectly formed. Excellent Globe peaches have been received from J. W. and W. F. Dod- of Corvallis, Benton County; Bartlett pears irom w. J. Fullerton, of Colum bia County; Elbertas from L. G. Willis, of Brogan. and Cornice, Bartlett, Crosby and Elbertas from the Hollywood or chards of Southern Oregon. Southern Oregon, so far. has sent more fruit than all the rest of the state put together, though it does not raise more. AKTIST WHO "DEVELOPS "NEW DANCE INSPIRED BY BASEBALL GAME, BANKER PLEADS GUILTY E.-Majer Burton, of Ansonia, Conn., to Bo Tried for Embezzlement. ANSONIA, Conn.. Sept. 17. Ex-Mayor Burton pleaded guilty in the City Court today to a charge of embezzling $36,000 of the funds of the savings bank of Ansonia, of which he was treasurer. He was held for crial in the Superior Court, his bond ol $10,000 being furnished by William A. Nelson, a director of the bank. Burton was arrest-jd last night after he had confessed the defalcation to State Bank Commissioner Sturges. Dogs mrid smoke are said to make General von Hlndenburg happiest, the first includ ing those of war and the latter that of both tobacco and battle, 'mm.; - -sag-gas-. lfU . 0Sf' - - : "WL '" I i 1 v vvl3 - - " rT. 'He 1 . . wmmammmsmmmmmmmim BARONESS 1RMGARD ROTTENTHAL. BASEBALL SS IN ART Star Develops New Dance Af ter Seeing' Her First Game. LAYERS' GRACE AMAZES Baroness Inngard TJotteiitlval Un able to See 1-Mne Points of Con tests, but Natural Poses of Men Appeal to Her. NEW YORK. Sept. 17. (Special.) Baseball, America's National game, has invaded the sphere of the classic dance, and has made its appearance in a new interpretative dance, originated by the beautiful Croatian dancer. Baroness Irmgard von RottenthaL The Baroness had heard so much of the game in her contact with the American people that sh resolved to go and see for herself where the re markable fascination lay, and what there was in the port to attract thou sands of people daily to the ball parks. She went, she saw and was amazed! Not at the intricacies of the game, not at the sensational plays, not at the masterful pitching?- nor even at the arbitrary rulings of the tyrant of the diamond the umpire! All these things would have made the ordinary fan act as a veteran in mate of Matteawan. But the Baroness was astounded and amazed only by the "unconscious grace" of the ballplay ers, which to her resembled the classic Grecian athletes. She marvelled at the ease and form with which Ty Cobb slid into second, the perfect form of "Big Jeff" Tesreau as he prepared his "spit" ball delivery, the almost classic lines of "Brick" Mc lnnis as he speared a high one boosted to him at first, or the grace of "Christy" Mathewson as he reaches the height of his swing in pitching. All this she saw and her creative genius quickly found possibilities for the intertwining of baseball and the classic dance. "The Temptation of Eve" resulted. Dressed in two large fig leaves and holding an apple in her hand, she inter prets the old Biblical story from Gen esis. It. is doubtful if the redoubtable Ty Cobb strives for grace when trying to beat a catcher's throw to second, but the Baroness assumes the same base sliding attitude in her dance, when she sits on the grass and coyly offers the apple to Adam. Adam is supposed to reach for the apple and Eve draws away from him tauntingly. Baroness von .Irmgard shows the same quizzical composure which characterizes Myers, the bril liant Brooklyn outfielder. The Baroness is planning to present this dance all over the country in her appearances at society affairs. TRUNK LINES ARE ASKED WASCO COURT CALLS OS HIGHWAY COMMISSION FOR SURVEYS. System of Good Roads Proposed County After Data on Cost Are Submitted by Engineer. oy THE DALLES, Or., Sept 17. (Spe cial.) At an important conference be tween the Wasco County Court and the board of directors of tne Wasco County Goods Roads Association today, the court unanimously adopted a resolution addressed to the State Highway Com mission requesting that, upon the com pletion of the survey, bstween Tbo Dalles and Mosier for the Columbia Highway, the State Engineer be in structed by the Commission to continue the survey east of The Dalles to the Deschutes River. An estimate of the probable cost of a bridge across that stream, a survey of a trunk line road from The Dalles to Dufur and thence to the top of the Tygh Ridge fo connect with the new grade into Tygh Valley and also an other trunk line to penetrate into Wrentham district were asked. Wasco County good roads enthusiasts are delighted with the result of the meeting. This means that a movement has been started to cover the county with a network of trunk line roads wnicn win connect with the new Co lumbia Highway and make this section of the state famous for its. splendid nignways. PIONEERS MAKE MERRY MORE THAN 100 ATTEND ANNUAL DINNER AT HOOD RIVER. Entertainment Provided by Old-Tlmcrs nd Next Meeting- Will Be on 80th Birthday of D. A. Turner. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Sept. 17. (Spe cial.) The Hood River Pioneer As sociation held one of Its most success ful reunions today. With more than 100 seated around long tables, the pio neers and their families had their an nual dinner at noon. The feature of the event was a sontr and violin music by D. A. Turner, a 7-year-old pioneer, v.ho came to the valley in 1861. Tlie reunion of next year will be .held on Mr. Turner's birthday. September 21. The annual address of today was delivered by J. .L. Carter, past presi dent of the Oregon Pioneer Associa tion. Other numbers of the programme were: Vocal solo by Mrs. W. H Bullard. "My- Little Home in the West"; vocal solo by. Earl IC Bart mess. Miss Aldine Bartmess. accom panist, and "history of Nathaniel Coe, Hood River's first, settler, by Mrs. T. R. Coon, historian of the association. T. R. Coon and Henry L. Howe were re-elected respectively to the offices of president and secretary of the or ganization. Out of town visitors here for the rtunion were: Mrs. Thomas McKay, of ieattle; Mrs. Kitty Coe and daughter. Mrs. R. Ainsley, and Mrs. B. Warren, of Portland: Mrs. Rose Shelley, of Car son; Mrs. Chris Greisen, of Maple Val ley: Mrs. William Shackelford, Mrs. J. Kneeper, Mrs. W. H. Wilson, Mrs. James Palmer, Mrs. Murton Mayes, Mrs. E. C. Price, Mrs. H. Falloon and Mrs. J. W. Jewell, a'.l members of the Old Fort Dalles Historical Society, of The Dalles, and Mrs. Fred Shoemaker, of Josephs. AMERICAN AT FRONT RISES Son of Rear-Admirai Abbey Made Lieutenant In Belgian Army. ' NEW TORIC Sept. 17. Friends of Francis T. Colby, formerly a New Tork lawyer, received word today that he has just been appointed a Lieutenant In the Belgian army after having been cited in the orders of the day for bravery under fire. For the last 10 months Mr. Colby has served as a leader of a motor-ambulance squad at tached to the Belgian army. Lieutenant Colby is a son of Rear Admiral Harrison Gray Otfs Colby, of the United States Navy, of Boston, retired. Munition Fleet Is Sunk. SEBASTOPOL. Russia, via London, Sept. 17. Official announcement was made here today that Russian torpedo boats had sunk near Sinope, a seaport of Asia Minor, on the Black Sea. an entire fleet of sailing vessels laden with munitions of war. The crews of. these . vessels, were taken prisoners. BALKAN AID DOUBTED Bulgaria and Greece Are Re ported Peaceful. TROOPS CALLED, HOWEVER Alliens Orders Further Large Num bers of Reservists Out Rouma nians Said Merely to Bo En gaged In Annual Drills. LONDON, Sept. 17. No hope of inter vention in Turkey, in favor of the en tente by Bulgaria, to which govern ment Germany is said to have prom ised the ancient crownland of Byzan the (now held by all the Balkan states and European Turkey) and better re lations between Greece and Bulgaria are deductions made today in an article published In a semi-official newspaper at Bucharest, Roumanla, which adds that the concentration of Roumanian troops on the frontier merely is a part of the annual maneuvers. An Athens dispatch says that Influ ential circles are agreed that Greece should remain neutral. Both dispatches were received here via Berlin. The roport of the German offer to Bulgaria came from Turin. On the other hand, the Balkan agency sent a. dispatch to Paris saying that a royal decree had called a fur ther large number of Greek reservists .to the colors. Including the classes of 1886, 1887 and 1888. The same communication says that strong opposition has arisen in Bul garia to the agreement made by the Sofia government with Turkey. A Nish dispatch to Paris says the Serbian Premier has denied that large Teuton forces are concentrating north of the Danube to go to Turkey's aid. He also said that Serbia was prepared to meet such a move. MUNITIONS BLOCK LOAN (Continued From First Page.) several large signboards held aloft by leaders of a file of men who marched through the financial section as a pro test against establishing the loan. An other read: - s, "The money trust Is lending billions of American money to bankrupt Eng land. France and Russia." The procession ended with a man carrying a big sign - on . which was printed in red, white and black: "Billions for King George." Earlier ir the day a large man, dressed in a bright red coat and blue breeches, which he said were em blematic of the British army uniform, sauntered through "Wall street and stopped in front of the Morgan office. A diminutive straw hat whose crown was not larger than a silver dollar rested on his head, and In his hand he carried a many-colored banner on which were written sentiments similar to those displayed by the paraders. SPOKANE NOT TO SVBSCRIBK "Bankers Say Xot a Penny Will Go Into Allies Loan. SPOKANE, Wash, Sept. 17. (Spe cial.) Not a penny of Spokane bank money is to go into the proposed billion-dollar loan, being negotiated by English and French representatives of the allies in New Tork, according to statements given out by Spokane finan ciers today. While Eastern banking houses have thought it advisable to make this loan and while Seattle bankers have sug gested that it might be wise for them to share in making the loan if the bor rowers will contract to buy Pacific Coast lumber, the Spokane - bankers said today they were interested chiefly In wheat, did not approve of low Interest, long-time loans, such as the allies are desiring, and would be kept comfortably busy financing the present 70.000. 000-bushel wheat crop of the In land Empire and caring for other urg ent investment projects within their territory. Aaron Kuhn, president of the Spo kane & Eastern Trust Companv, aaid: "I hardly think that any Northwest ern banks will take part In the pro posed billion-dollar loan, and I am quite confident no Inland Empire bank will share in the loan. . - "Necessarily, the proposed big loan would be a long-time loan and our banks are not in position to take part n long-time loans." Other bankers expressed similar sentiments. Closed Today In Observance Of the Most Sacred of Jewish Holidays May the father of all creeds bring surcease from suffering to Humanity and restore peace on earth "Merckandis of cMetft OnT ' Pacific Phonm Marshall 5000 Home Phone A 6691 i the British Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Some American bankers want to deal directly with Russia and object, it is reported, to having her" obtain money in this country through England and France. Rate of Interest In Dispute. A third point of disagreement, sub ordinate to either of the others, con cerns the rate of Interest. If the commission's callers have cor rectly reflected its views in their talks with newspapermen. Great Britain and France are emphatic In their assertion that the proposed bonds shall not pay more than 5 per cent Interest and there will be no underwriting of the issue. This would eliminate the possibility that any group of bankers would re ceive fat fees to .Clarn th lnn market here. The return to the banker nu me investor, It Is reported, is to be the same. As to this proposal. It Is understood the American bankers generally have been won over. Here and there, a voice of dissent is heard. In some quarters a return of of 1 per cent to the bankers is regarded as no more than due. It is almost unanimously believed that the commission has firmly de termined that London and Paris shall be put to no greater expense than a straight 5 per cent Interest rate, be- j T 1 ., """ um tor clerical aid in distributing the big issue here. ITndervtritera to Be Supplanted. Instead of using underwriters, it was thought tonight, the issue would be placed through a syndicate which would subscribe to the loan, and that subscription would be open to all com ers on equal terms, rnus, the smallest of the approximately 32,000 National and state banks and trust companies throughout the United States would se eure exactly the same terms as the largest or as any great private bank ing firm, such as J. P. Morgan & Co Such, it is .reported, is the present in tention of the commission. If this pro gramme be followed, there are indica tions, amounting almost to positive as surance, it was said, that the so-called pro-German financiers of New York would, for the most part, subscribe mil lions of dollars toward the project, al ways with the condition Included that the funds be unavailable for munitions of war. If war munitions are included within the score of credit, it was csserted there is not a so-called pro-German banking house in New York City that will subscribe a penny. Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. are reported to be willing to head the list of so-called Dro-German hnn... subscribing, if munitions be excluded. This report, however, is not authorita tive, though apparently it is well grounded, as the firm has made no statement Wer the signature of any of Its members, one way or the other. Opponents of the loan carried their campaign into Wall street today, and announced their sentiment from flam ing placards in front of the office of J. P. Morgan & Company. "Wall street's shame." read one of BOARD HAS XO JUR1SD1CT1CTX Federal Reserve Body Is Xot Con cerned With Prpposed Loan. WASHINGTON. Sept. 17i In a letter sent today to Senator Lewis. Illinois, the Federal Reserve Board announced that it has no Jurisdiction over the ne gotiations of loans with foreign gov ernments, and that it has no knowledge of the attempt of the Anglo-French commission to secure a loan in this country except what it has learned through the newspapers. The Board's letter was in reply to one from Senator Lewis protesting against the $l,000,000,00ir loan. John D. Denies Interview. NEW YORK, Sept- 17. Announce ment was made from John D. Rocke feller's office today that Mr. Rocke feller had been communicated with re garding a published interview under date of Cleveland, in which Mr. Rocke feller was quoted as saying in effect that ho would not consider taking a part in the war loan now under nego tiation by the Anglo-French commis sion and that both England and Russia had asked him for loans, which were refused. - Mr. Rockefeller's reply to the inquiry from his office here was that he "gave out absolutely no interview whatsoever." ECONOMIC WAR SUGGESTED Germany to Export Cheap Labor Goods After War, Says Russian. PETROGRAD, via London, Sept. 17. A customs union comprising all the triple entente allies and aimed' against Germany after the war is ended is ad vocated by Novoe Vremya, which says that German manufacturers are utiliz ing labor at army rates of pay in order to accumulate- vast stores of cheap goods to be sold when trade Is re opened. "It is every bit as necessary for us to break Germany's economic position as it is to break the strength of her fightinc forces." savs th Knvnt Vremya. which suggests that the United btates might ultimately Join the .union, ASTORIA COUPLE 'WEDDED Ralph AVetzel and-Mrs. Vlvrette Get License in Sacrumento. SACRAMENTO, Sept. 17 (Special.) A marriage license was issued here to Joy Ralph Wetzel, 26. and Mrs. Anna C. Vivrette, 26. both of Astoria, Or. ASTORIA. Or,. Sept. 17. (Special.)- J. Ralph Wetzel is a clerk in the Ore gon Co-Operative 'Mercantile Associa tion's store here. Mrs- Anna C. Vivrette is a clerk in the Bee Hive department store. PowersSaturdayNightSpecial 99c $2.50 Three-Piece Seamless jf Brown Enamelware Sets starting the Fall season with one of the biggest specials we have ever offered. Three pieces of high-quality brown enamel ware the new est, best and most durable enamel ware it is possible to buy. This three-piece set consists of one 14-quart rim-edge dishpan, one four quatt covered kettle and one large lipped sauce pan with heavy re inforced handle. All pieces are acid proof, seamless and triple-coated, and will give double the service of ordinary enamel ware each set packed in- separate carton. One Set to Cmtomer. No C. O. 1J. or Phone Orders. d Dlivi... ID) i i i i QUALITY FIRST GERMANS MENAGE VILN A RUSSIANS REMOVE GOVERNMENT OFFICES AND FACTORIES. Railway la Cut and Von Hlndenburc'a Flanking- Farces Capture Vldmy, 35. Miles Sonth of Drlnslt. LONDON, Sept. 17. A Reuter dis patch from Petrograd says: "The fiite of VJIiim. hangs in the bal ance. The latest letters received from there say that cannonading is "heard without interruption day and night. Bomb-dropping aeroplanes are constant visitors. Three of them have been brought down recently. ; "The evacuation of government in stitutions has been completed and factories are being removed. Thousands of workmen already have left. The supply of fftigar4ia beTi exhausted and the price of various commodities has doubled. Newspapers have suspended publication." BERLIN, via London. Sept. 17. Field Marshal von Hindenburg's forces which have flanked Vilna and Dvlnsk, cutting the railroad between those cities, have made a farther advance to the east. - The war department announced to day the capture of Vidzy, about 35 miles south of Dvlnsk. Governar Pardons Bertie Flowers. SALEM, Or., Sept. 17. (Special.) Governor Withycombe today issued a pardon to Bertie Flowers, who is serv ing eight months in the Multnomah County Jail, for conducting a dtsorderlv house. She was committed to the Jail July" 7 last. Since her imprisonment her health has declined, and the Gov ernor granted the pardon on the rec ommendation of the county phveiclai.. Dr. Harry R. Cliff, the trial Jud"ge ant District Attorney having acquiesced. Tf all the documents stored In the patert office at Washington, I. C, could he place.l end to en4 they would form a strip that tvouUl rea-h btptitM th" eartVi Thre t!me-s. HOW TO READ , (No- preliminary In analyzing a bank's . statement it is im portant to bear in mind these facts : FIRST: That the liabilities-of a bank are of i two kinds to depositors and to stock holders. ' , SECOND : That the assets are of three kinds those which can be -quickly realized on ; those of fixed maturity ; and those more in the nature of investment, such' as real estate for banking purposes, high-grade bonds, securing U. S. deposits and circula tion (bank notes or currency), stock in Fed eral Reserve Bank, and so forth. - In our next advertisement (Monday) we shall proceed to examine the Liabilities side of a bank's statement, beginning with capital. A BANK REPORT 1 of a Series.) ' '- Statement of Condition of LUMBERMENS national bank . of Portland , At Close of Business September 2, 1913. ASSETS. ' U. S. Bonds to Secure Circulation V...t 250,000.00 U.'S. Bonds to Secure U. S. Deposits. ; . 75,000.00 Premium on U. S. Bonds....... 20,875.00 . Stock in Federal ReServe Bank i. 36,000.00 Real Estate : 2,826.33 Furniture and Fixtures . ; 52,600.00 Industrial Bonds , 5'3,445.19 Time Loans. and Discounts ..; 3,203,296.11 Call Loans and Commercial Paper $ 775,723.30 Municipal Bonds 1,143,478.98 Five Per Cent Fund 12,500.00 Cash on Hand and in Banks 1,627,347.96 3,559,050.24 Total $7,253,092.87 LIABILITIES. Capital : $1,000,000.00 Surplus 200,000.00 Undivided Profits 45,031.01 Circulation ; 250,000.00 Dividends Unpaid 624.00 Deposits , .. ; 5,757,437!s6 Total . $7,253,092.87 lumbermens National Bank FIFTH AND STARK