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SHIPPING BOARD TO REVISE LAW URGED Trade Council Would Suspend Operation Until Normal Basis Is Determined. CAPITAL NOW RELUCTANT Congres-s Asked to Establish Per manent Body to Devise Methods for Making American Mer chant Marine Possible. NEW TORK. Oct. 26. Suspension by President Wilson, under authority to b granted by Congress, of the sea men's act. in whole or part, until a Government shipping board of five members can be organized and recom mend measures necessary to maintain American shipping on a competitive basis with other nations, is advocated by the National Foreiern Trade Council, in a report made public today. Problems relating to American ship Ping under the seamen's act were stu died carefully on behalf of the council, which represents mammoth American Interests .identified with almost every Phase of foreign trade, by a commit tee composed of James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel Corporation: K. A. S. Franklin, vice president of the International Mercan tile Marine Company, and Captain Rob ert Dollar, of San Francisco. The com mittee's report was adopted by the council as correctly setting forth its views. Law Ulves Advantage to Japan. The requirement that 75 per cent of the crews of vessels calling at Ameri can ports must be able to understand any order given by the officers, is said hy the report to place American ships at enormous disadvantage as compared with the Japanese vessels, whose crews are the only low-priced labor under standing the language of their officers. "It is not strange." the report con tinues, "that American capital has dis played little inclination to embark upon shipping ventures which the Gov ernment promised immediately to op pose with uneconomic competition. This alone was sufficient deterrent, but in the midst of the agitation another un favorable policy was introduced by the enactment of the seamen's law, whicji. In its present shape, places virtually upon American ships alone in foreign trade burdens in excess to those found In the maritime legislation of any na tion with which American ships are expected to compete." Shipping Hoard Proposed. Among its recommendations the council- submits the following: "That Congress establish a perma nent shipping board' composed of five members, who shall be men experienced in shipping and foreign trade. This board shall recommend to Congress such revision and modernization of all United States laws relating to shipping as it deems necessary and shall perma nently discharge all the functions of the Federal Government relating there to. "The board shall be directed to ascer tain the cosi.,pf construction and oper ation, rates-, of ' .Jnterest of mortgages, insurance rates,, etc., of American ship ping, as compared with that of other nations, and it shall be its duty to de termine what, line of ocean carrying trade shall be permanently developed under the American flag for the benefit of the foreign commerce of the United States and to recommend methods wnereny sucn lines may be . rendered possible, in the event that the cost of their operation prevents effective com petition with foreign services in the same zone. PASTOR ACCUSES SECTS A. C. II A K Kit BELIEVES ARREST DIE TO JEALOUSY AT SUCCESS. Iu (' or Conviction. Leader of Camp meetlngs Sny He Will Go to Jail and Take Appeal. OREGON CITT. Or.. Oct. 26. (Spe cial "I really do not care whether I am found guilty or innocent." declared Andrew C. Baker, leader of the Moun tain View campmeetings. who was tried yesterday on a charge of disturbing the peace. Recorder Loder will an nounce his decision in the case tomor row morning. In case of conviction. Baker will go to jail, he said. George C. Brownell, his attorney, then will begin habeas corpus proceedings, alleging that there is a defect in the complaint. Baker and his followers regard the case as one of religious persecution, lie says some other sects are jealous vt his success. Witnesses for the de fense yesterday as much as declared that they regarded all of the witnesses for th city prejudiced against them. In the meantime, meetings in the Full Gospel tabernacle are being held every night with Andrew C. Baker loading. Conviction or acquittal will probably have no effect on his efforts and the nightly gatherings continue as they have in the past. BOX OFFICIALS ARRESTED i Five Investigations Into Pittsburg , Factory l'irc Begun. PITTSBITRG. Oct. 26. Three officials of the. Union Paper Box Company and the executir of the James Brown es tate, owner of the building in which Hie company's factory was situated, were arrested here today in connection with the fire yesterdav which resulted ilk the deaths of 33 persons and injury to 20 others. II. H. Woods, executor of the Brown estate; was released on $10,000 bail and Henry K. Weiskopf, president; William C. Kimbell. secretary and treasurer, nnd Henry C. Schaefer. foreman in the factory of the box company, were re leased on $.1000 bail, to appear at the Coroner's inquest. The warrants were Issued hy Coro rer Jamison, who said the men were wanted for charges that result regard ing the deaths of Colletta Sellman and others. Five investigations, three by the Cor oner, one by the state and one by the city, are under way here in an effort to fix 'the blame for the fire. PHONE LOBBY ADVOCATED luture of Independents Declared to ' IJest With Legislatures. SAX FRANCISCO, Oct. 26. That the future, of the Independent telephone lines in the United States depends on legislative aupport and that to secure such support .. stateand Federal lob bies must be maintained were state ments made today before the conven tion of the Independent Telephone As sociation of America by W. S. Vivian, of Chicago, secretary of the associa tion. He declared that the Bell telephone interests maintained an effective or ganization for the education of legis latures and that independent com panies must meet this force by the adoption of similar methods. "The trend of the times." he said, "points. out the way to us. Legislation is controlled more by the people now than ever before, and the people are demanding that the independent lins shall be connected up with the Bell lines. What we accomplish in the fu ture will and must be gained by legis lation and not by contract." ENATQR VIEWS ISSUES MR. JONES FORESEES ACTIOS OX "MILITARY PREPAREDNESS." Legislation Over Philippines Also la Considered Certain War in En rope Is Bis Factor. ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 2S. (Spe cial.) "Military preparedness, on land and sea. will be one of the great issues before Congress wnen it convenes on December 6," said Senator Wesley L. Jones, in an interview here today. "Other legislation almost certain to come up," he continued, "will be on the Philippines, on shipping and water power rights. Of course we all favor adequate preparedness," said Senator Jones, "but that really means nothing, because there will be a great variety of opinions as to what adequate prepared ness really is. I favor the enlargement of the Navy by the addition of fast cruisers and submarines rather than the building of dreadnoughts at this time. "In my opinion, it would be foolish to make a small increase to the United States standing Army. To add 20,003 men or so to it does not mean a great deal, for the standing Army is small now. I believe we should seek to im prove our National Guard so that a large reserve force will be available. I also think we ought to have more officers ready to serve if needed." Senator Jones said the outcome of the military preparedness plan could not bo definitely predicted now, inasmuch as the European war was creating so many new developments. Senator Jones will not leave for the East until the last of November. He has spent little time in this state In the past seven years and he is glad to get home among his own people. PROHI OFFiciflLS QUIT WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS TO MOVE TO VANCOUVER. Change Made Prom Tacoma to Bring Work: Nearer to Home of Na tional Snperlntendcnt. TACOMA.'Vash rf ia ia -. The Washington state prohibition Committee has rlfnirin headquarters of the prohibition party iatmna to Vancouver, Wash. H. jv. nocKiiiii, secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. Nettft w tl onh,,. ........ . . ......... .J I u. Lt LUU11 IIl'tLll, at a meeting last night resigned to facilitate the change. E. E. Taylor, National superintendent, who resides in Newberg, Or., with the tuuiinmee win select a new cnairman. c. c. Gridley was elect ed secretarv-trenam-Af n.. u.n beck was elected state superintendent , r i. l worn, it was decided to hold the state enn v..r t lnn . - . - .. . . . . , .. ...I . Bluing. ton s birthday next year, but the place of the meeting was left open for the uc.o.uii ui me state committee. It was thoneht uH vie. v.in . ... state headquarters to Vancouver that .-....a, oupermienaent Taylor might more easily keep in personal contact with the state work. National Super intendent Taylor has seven field work ers constantly busy, he said, and in the oi. ..wu weens aione tney have ob tained signatures of 7nnn i . j for National prohibition, and $9000 was subscribed to the campaign fund in SEATTLE HEARS M'ADOO Merchant Marine Advocated In Ad dress at Commercial Club. SEATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 26 Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo delivered an elaborate address at a luncheon of the Seattle Commercial Club today in ad vocacy of construction and operation of a merchant marine by the Federal Government, the vessels to be available for naval auxiliaries in time of war. Secretary McAdoo and Assistant Newton today visited, the (Site bought several years ago for a new postofficc at a cost of $170,000 and which the Treasury Department has rejected as unavailable. The tide was in. and. the site was covered by eight feet of salt water. It is planned to sell the ground for what it will bring and to buy other land better suited. - . Secretary McAdoo and his oartv will depart for the East at 7:10 o'clock to- nignt. matinc no stop until Helena, Mont.. i reached tomorrow night. 2 INDICTED IN OREGON CITY Milwaukie Hotel Man Charged With Selling Iiiuor to Minor. OREGON CITT. Or.. Oct. 26. (Spe cial.) Fritz Boysen, proprietor of the Hotel Belle in Milwaukie, was arrested tonight by Sheriff Wilson and Deputy Frost on a secret indictment of the grand jury on acharge of selling liquor to a minor. Boysen was brought to Oregon City and released tonight under iuuj bail. Jimmy Intrenalli. a laborer employed on highway construction in Multnomah County, was arrested tonight on a secret indictment, charging assault. He is alleged to have almost chewed oft one of the thumbs of Mrs. Thomas Ad kins, near Sycamore Station, when she attempted to rescue her husband, with whom Intrenalli was having trouble. Cliehulis Poultry Show Proposed. CHEIIALIS, Wash.. Oct. 2S r.n- cial.) George R. Walker, superintend ent of the Southwest Washington Fair, has taken up actively the matter of arousing interest in a Winter poultry show to be held in this city in January. - -" v ' invviiHt i j t ii 1 1 r y expert, will co-operate with Mr. Walker if ar rangements are made to hold it. in asmuch as there are a number of fancy poultry breeders in this community, it is 'believed sufficient interest will be shown to Insure the event being put oa Centralis Club Floating Bonds. CEXTRALIA. Wash". Oct R Br... clal.l The work of floating $2000 bonds miso me oent or tne Commercial Club was started yesterday bv E. H S J... 1- J ... luT ,, i icu nomas, -vi ace Kent and W. H. Cameron, the committee. In two hours $500 worth of bonds had been disposed of. and little difficulty is anticipated in placing the balance. The bonds are of $10 denomination unrl will bear interest. THE MORNING OBEGOXIAy, WEDNESDAY, EPISCOPAL BOARD OF MISSIONS SPLIT Resignations Follow Action Construed as Affront to Roman Catholics. CONFERENCE MADE ISSUE High Church and IjOW Church Line Is Drawn In Discussion of Ex tension of Work to Latin American Fields. NEW YORK. Oct. 26. Five members of the board of missions of the Episco pal Church tendered their resignations today, when the auarterly meeting of the board refused, by a vote of 26 to 13, to rescind the resolution adopted last May to participate in the Panama inter- aenomlnational missionary conference to be held in February. The meeting was declared to have been the most turbulent ever held by the board. The Roman Catholic Church, through its missions, several months ago, de clined the invitation to participate in the Panama conference because it be lieved the plans of the conference were hostile to the Roman Catholic Church. The five members who tendered their resignations were Bishop Reginald H Weller, Fond Du Lac. Wis.: Bishop G. Mott Williams. Marquette. Mich.; Bishop Alfred Harding, Washington, D. C: Dr. Selden P. Delany. Milwaukee, and Dr. William T. Manning, of Trinity Church New York City. Action on Resignations Put Off. Right Rev. Arthur S. Lloyd, of New lork, president of the board, suggested that the resignations would not be act ed upon until tomorrow, when "the strain of our five-hour struggle will have cooled." The meeting accepted this suggestion and adjourned Developments of the board meeting confirmed previous reports that the proposed plans of the Panama confer ence, as well as what was asserted to be the virtual exclusion of Roman Catholics, had created great feeling in tne Protestant Episcopal Church It was said that the high church members were generally opposed to participation while the low church members were generally favorable toward participa tion. ,The controversy at today's meeting, at which the members opposing par ticipation in the Panama conference were led by Bishop Weller and Dr. Manning, disclosed the fact that the mid-Western synod, which met in Chi cago recently, also opposed the Panama conference by a vote of approximately 10 to 1, a considerable proportion of the low church members vcting against participation. Co-operative Plana Outlined. The Panama conference proposed, ac cording to the first announcement, to be a continuation of general missionary Plans developed at the Edinburgh mis sionary conference held several years ago. Later bulletins and noticed con cerning the coming conference, read at today's meeting of the Episcopal board indicated that the Panama conference would deal largely with co-operative plans for extension of missionary work in Central and South America. Bishop Rojas, of the Roman Catholic diocese, of Panama, issued a strong at tack on the objects of the conference and shortl;- after this the first open opposition developed in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Bishop Weller caused r. tense feel ing in the meeting when he declared that to participate in the conference, under present proposed conditions, would be a direct' attack at the Roman Catholic Church and that no denomina tion could attack another denomina tion and reconcile its ideals of Chris tianity. Bishop Fears Break In Church. Rev. Reese F. Alsop, of Brooklyn, stoutly defended the sending of dele gates, declaring that the meeting at Panama would be solely a conference, not a co-operative congress. He also took the ground that the board, having gone on record as favoring the Panama conference, could not now revoke its former attitude. Bishop Weller arose again and Inti mated that the feeling; over the Pan ama conference was so k-en in his diocese that it might cause a break in the church. A few rr.inutes later the vote was taken, and Bishop Weller was the first to tender his resignation. EX-SAL00NMEN PAY FINES Two Assesed at Vancouver for Sell ing Liquor After January 1. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Oct. 26. (Spe cial.) Frank Van Atta, ex-proprietor of the Majestic bar, and Luithle & Sor ber. owners of the Log Cabin bar. to day appeared before Judge Back and paid fines of $86 each for keeping their places of business open after January 1. when the local option law went into effect. Bench warrants are yet out for J. C. Krenick and Bowne & Rqdie and Howes & Stapf, all formerly engaged in the saloon business here. Tells Her Experience To Benefit Others Mrs. Dunlap Sends a Letter Ad dressed, to the Readers of the Paper. A sense of duty to others who might suffer as she had impelled Mrs. R. C. Dunlap, of Dekalb, Mo., to send the following signed statement to the St. Joseph, Mo., News-Press: "The readers of the News-Press, especially those suffering from gall- ii ..... v.., ...uiiin. Li ii ... ii 1. 1 .7 aiiu ajjpcnui- citis, will find in Fruitola and Traxo a permanent cure. After sufferring for three years the most excruciating pain from gall-stones I found this wonder ful remedy and am now in perfect health and have been for almost four years. Never have any symptoms of the old trouble. I had been told by three doctors that nothing but an operation would save me. I know sev eral who have undergone an operation, but still have gall-stones. This medi cine is an oil which softens the stones and cures the liver. It can be bough t at any drug store." Fruitola is an intestinal lubricant that softens the congested masses.-disintegrates the hardened particles that cause so much suffering, and expels the accumulation to the patient's great relief. Traxo is a tonic-alterative that acta on the liver and kidneys, stimulates the flow of gastric juices to aid digestion, and removes bile from the general circulation. Fruitola and Traxo are prepared in the Pinus . laboratories at Montlcello, 111., and arrangements have been mad e to supply them through representa tive druggists. In Portland they can be obtained at the Owl Drug Co. stores. r nil! i Ill I ill'1 T iiiMiiii JJ! nrs-RCDunlap Mii.m ''lit ..1 :i OCTOBER 27, 1915. FARMERS, STOCKMEN and HORTICULTURISTS Compensation Insurance for Injured WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY! !' The Aetna Life Insurance Company is now prepared to offer, in competition with the Oregon Industrial Accident Commission, auto matic compensation benefits payable to injured employes, and addi tional benefits in favor of the employer against all other contingen cies (and the present court records indicate that they are many) at a cost of $1.59 for each $100 of estimated annual payroll. ... r No contribution from employes required by our company. ' The State' Industrial Accident Commission has publicly solicited your business at rates varying from $2 to $5 on each $100 of payroll, plus a contribution of one cent a day to be deducted from the employes' wages, and in addition thereto a tax on the general public amounting to one-seventh of the total. . The State Industrial Accident Commission enjoys a compulsory subsidy from the taxpayers at large of Oregon, which for the period ending June 30, 1915, according to the annual report of the Commis sion, just published, amounted to $90,345.22, out of a total fund col lected at that date from employers, employes and the state at large of $620,032.04. This contribution from the taxpayers at large can prop erly be dubbed the PORK-BARREL PROVISION of the present act, and is unique, because no other state compensation law requires a contribution by the general taxpayers to the compensation fund, and by next session of legislature this subsidy will approximate $225,000. We offer to the farmers and horticultural interests of the State of Oregon, under our compensation contracts, superior service (with no official red tape or delays) , and we do it for less money. We also provide absolute security and adequate reserves because of the supervision and regulations imposed upon us by the laws of the State of Oregon and administered by the State Insurance Commis sioner, so far as they relate to private companies, while the state fund has no capital nor earned surpluses not subject to departmental ex amination, fixes its own reserves, . where any are maintained at all, and in comparison with private initiative is operating in violation of all of the ordinary rules for the security of the public imposed upon stock companies. Which do you prefer private compensation at $1.59, or state fund rates of $2.26 (at cost) and upwards? For further particulars address the undersigned or see our local representative in your nearest town. AETNA LIFE INSURANCE CO. AETNA ACCIDENT AND LIA BILITY CO. AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO. Ttfetro Feature Drama Beginning Today Francis X. Bushman IN aIsTHE SILENT VOICEaas BUSHMAN The World's Most Renowned Film Actor. 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