Morning Oregonian., August 14, 1917, Page 9, Image 9

THE MOKNING OKEGOXIAN. TUESDAY, AliOlUx 14, lli.
LUMBERMEN AGREE
TO SUPPLY SPRUCE
Airplane Stock to Be Sold to
Governments for $105
Per 1000 Feet.
BIG ORDERS TO BE PLACED
Department, either In this country or
abroad.
While the logging operators are not
bound by any existing: or proposed con
tract to maintain the present price
level of loss, Alex Poison, 'of Hoquiam,
one of the biggest loggers in that dis
trict, declared that' the price will not
be advanced.
But it will be necessary, probably, to
fix a standard price for logs to prevent
mill managers themselves from bidding
against one another and demoralizing
the market.
As soon as1 the individual contracts
are signed with the Government the
trade will be advised that all spruce
stock available for airplane purposes
will be withdrawn from the market.
VICTORIA PASTOR TO LEC
TURE FRIDAY IX FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN CHl'RCU. '
At Lowest Estimate, Allied Powers
WIU Require 1 1 7,000,000 . Feet
of Spruce Within Xext Year
lor Airplane Building.
Representatives of more than 90 per
cent of the spruce resources of Oregon
end Washington met in Portland yes
terday and agreed to supply all the air
plane spruce required by the United
States and the allied governments at
$105 per 1000.
This is the figure suggested by the
Government itself. The manufacturers
will undertake to fill Government or
ders on this basis for a period of 30
days and if. at the end of that time, the
arrangement appears satisfactory to
both sides, it will be continued indefi
nitely. At the lowest estimate the allied na
tions will need 117.000,000 feet of air
plane stock In the next year or 18
months.
Inasmuch as only 16 to 20 per cent
of the log is available for this purpose,
fully 600,000,000 feet of timber will
have to be cut.
But the resources of the West Coast
tre equal to the demand. There is
plenty of standing spruce. The only
problem- is to get it logged and de-
Jivered to the mills.
Bureau to Be Formed.
The mill capacity is unquestioned
and the transportation facilities be
tween the producing points of the two
etates and the Eastern airplane fac
tories are entirely adequate.
So that the business may be handled
vith a maximum of expedition and
dispatch, the spruce manufacturers will
meet here this morning to organize
a. bureau which will act as a sort of
clearing - house for the Industry. It
will prevent duplication of orders, will
distribute the orders among the mills
In proportion to their capacity, will
regulate the supply of logs and en
deavor to maintain a fixed level for
logs.
The Government was represented at
yesterday's negotiations by E. T. Allen,
of Portland, who now is acting for the
lumber bureau of the National Coun
cil of Defensa.
The six big spruce-producing dis
tricts were represented as follows:
Coos Bay George Stephenson,
George W. Moore, Hoy Wernlch.
Tillamook Russell Hawkins, O. H.
Echwerdtmann, Thomas Watt.
Columbia River F. A. Douty, Watson
Eastman. C. H. Callendar.
Willapa Harbor Howard Jayne, F.
A. Hart. W. S. Cram.
Grays Harbor T. W. Tibb, A. W.
lliddleton. Alex Poison.
Puget Sound A. A. Scott. R. D. Mer
rill. C. E. Patten.
Many other individual producers were
present. In fact, every important mill
and camp handling spruce lumber was
represented either directly or indi
rectly. An informal meeting was held early
In the afternoon at which William E.
Wheelwright, of Portland, spoke of the
dire necessity of producing all the
spruce stock for airplane construction
that the allied governments are cap
able of using. x
Cnrtta Representative Talks.
W. C. Chadeayne, an official of the
Curtiss airplane factories, at Buffalo,
N. Y., and a member of the aircraft
oard of the National Council of Xe
fense, told of the tremendous efforts
that the allied governments now are
making to gain the mastery of the air.
The Curtiss people now have nine
separate factories, working night and
day, and employing 9000 men and wom
en. Plans are complete to increase the
capacity of these plants 500 per cent,
to the end that more than 40,000 people
Will be employed.
He explained the Importance of rigid
Inspection for every piece of spruce
used in an airplane. In fact, the in
spection is so severe that out of every
1000 feet received at the factory, only
167 feet can be used. The rest Is
culled and diverted into commercial
uses wherever possible.
"We cannot afford to take a chance
In any particular," he asserted. "The
life of a man, or the fate of an entire
army, may depend on the stability of
even the smallest unit of the machine."
Framework I Shown.
Mr. Chadeayne brought with him the
framework for a complete machine. The
pieces were cut to the proper size and
shape and appeared good enough for
parlor furniture, Judging from outward
appearance, but every piece had been
rejected for minor imperfections.
Mr. Chadeayne said, after the meet
ing, that the Curtiss corporation may
establish' a plant in Portland or else
where In the Northwest for the pur
pose of cutting the stock to proper
size and shape.
This would eliminate the tremendous
waste that comes from cutting only 167
feet out of 1000. and save all the
freight transportation on the excess
stock. The 'finished pieces, it Is point
ed out, could be sent across the con
tinent In express cars at express rates,
yet effect a saving over the present
system of handling.
The greater ease of getting labor In
the Eastern cities Is all that stands in
the way of such an undertaking now.
After listening to Mr. Chadeayne, the
representatives of the several districts
appointed their committeemen for the
purpose of considering the Government
proposals.
Technical Requirements Told.
Meanwhile Howard Jayne, of Ray
mond, who, with F. A. Douty, of Port-
land, had gone to Washington, D. C.
to confer with the War Department,
told of the technical requirements of
the contracts.
Not less than 50 per cent of all ship
ments shall be 18 feet and longer, the
remaining 50 per cent to be four feet
and longer.
All lumber three inches and thicker
shall be not less than 70 per cent ver
tical grain.
That 50 per cent which is 18 feet and
longer shall be clear on four sides,
straight-grained, .not less than six an
nual rings an inch, "sound and well
manufactured, free from shakes, spiral
and curley grain."
The price of $105 per 1000 feet Is
based on the present price of logs and
the labor schedules prevailing today.
The committees from each district
went into executive conference late in
the afternoon and reported back to the
general meeting early last night.
Contracts to Be Separate.
'All manufacturers present agreed to
the terms. However, each mill will
make a separate contract with the
Government.
These contracts will require the mills
to furnish spruce lor tne allied gov.
rnments on the same terms as to the
United States. Shipments shall be made
f.o destinations designated, by the War
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Rev. John Gibson Inkster.
Rev. John Gibson Inkster, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Victoria, B. C, who is
substituting for Rev. J. H. Boyd
at First Church, this city, will
lecture on Friday night in the
church house. Twelfth and Alder
streets. Dr. Inkster will speak on
"The Orkney Islands" and will
show stereoptlcon slides to illus
trate his talk. The proceeds will
be for the Red Cross work among
the men at the front who are
natives of the islands. The Ork
ney and Shetland Society will be
in charge of the evening. Dr.
Inkster is pastor of a great re
cruiting church. Of his flock,
280 men are In active service in
the war.
The general sessions of all spruce
manufacturers will be resumed at the
Chamber of Commerce at 9 o'clock this
morning.
VAUDEVILLE TO AID FUND
SEASIDE CITIZENS TO GIVE EN
TERTAINMENT FOR AMBILAXCE.
Several Portland ArtlMts and 4-Vear-Old
Dancer Will Be Featured
on Varied Programme.
SEASIDE, Or., Aug. 13. (Special.)
Elaborate plans have been completed
for the big vaudeville benefit to be
given for the Third Oregon ambulance
fund. The affair, under the chairman
ship of Miss Virginia Drake and 'sev
eral prominent residents of Seaside,
will take place Tuesday night in the
National Theater. An exceptionally
varied and interesting programme has
been arranged, which embraces vocal
and instrumental selections, solos.
dances, readings, monologues and a
concert by the new Bungalow orchestra.
The programme will include the fol
lowing well-known artists: Miss Leah
Cohen, Portland's nightingale; Melvin
Ogden Pool, accompanist; violin solos
by Ernest Paul Allen, of the San Fran
cisco Symphony; Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Grady, dance Interpreters; Geraldine
Peterson, the 4-year-old phenomenon,
in solo dances; Miss Alvena ICrausse,
instructor of dramatic art, of Spring
field, Mo., who will give readings; Jock
Rennie, accompanied by Mrs. Harvey,
will give Harry Lauder's latest songs;
William Gratke, Astoria's well-known
baritone, will give a few numbers, and
Miss Marguerite Kennedy, also of As
toria, will be heard in contralto solos.
The ushers, who will be in Red Cross
DRAFT ARMY WILL
BE Ifl FIELD
0
First Increment of 687,000 U.
S. Soldiers Will Be Train
ing Early in October.
FARMERS TO BE FAVORED
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Geraldine Peterson, Aged 4, Who
Will Give Solo Dance for Orc
icon Regiment Ambulance Fund.
uniforms, are: Mrs. T. Carroll, Flor
ence Johnson, Miss G. Craterman and
Marguerite Wasciwetz. Assisting Miss
Drake are: Mrs. G. w. Peterson, Mrs.
I. E. Solomon. Mrs. L. K. Hume. Airs,
George Shaver. Those who have as
sisted Mrs. Solomon In selling tickets
are: Miss Craterman, Ester Melville,
Helen Callahan, Josephine Roheick and
Grace Gaffney.
Conscientious Objectors to War Are
Xot to Be Excused Entirely, but
Will Be Sent to Mobiliza
tion Camps to Work.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. The entire
687,000 men composing the first incre
ment of the Army draft forces will be
under training- early in October. Under
orders issued today, the first 30 per
cent of the quota of each district will
begin entrainment for cantonments
September 5, the next 30 per cent Sep
tember 15, and another 30 per cent
September 30. The remaining 10 per
cent will be mobilized as soon after
that date as possible.
The plan to assemble the new forces
in three increments distributed the
task of furnishing supplies and equip
ment through September. It will also
prevent serious shortages in any camp,
and will give the new officers from
the training camps time to familiarize
themselves with their duties gradually
before responsibility for a great body
of men falls on them.
12,000 to Go to Each Camp.
The order issued today means that
about 12,000 men will reach eacl- of
the 16 cantonments soon after fcieptem
ber 5. They first will be examined
physically by Army doctors and tinally
accepted or rejected.
In farming communities local boards
now will arrange the lists of those to
fill the first increment with local crop
conditions in mind. Drafted men en
gaged in that work and who other
wise would go with the first third of
the district quota will be passed -over
to the second or third, as may be nec
essary.
Reviewing the question of discharge
for dependent relatives. Provost Marshal-General
Crowder held todav that
persons ehould not be discharged oe
cause of dependents resident abroad.
Peace Lovers Will Be Used.
That conscientious objectors to war
are not to be excused entirely from
serving the country was made clear in
another ruling by the Provost Marshal,
holding that such persons should be
sent to the mobilization camps along
wua Diners u rd i Leu, to oe assigned
later to non-combatant branches of the
service. It is presumed they will serve
in the Quartermaster's Corps, the
Medical Corps or other units not em
ployed in actual combat.
Only in rare cases are railway mail
clerks to be exempted. Today the
Postoffice Department announced that
published reports of blanket exemp
tion for this class of postal employes
were based on a misinterpretation of
the department's order covering postal
exemptions.
Press to Have Facilities.
Plans to provide publicity facilities
i at camps of the National Army and the
National Guard are left entirely to the
discretion of the camp commanders.
who will be authorized to permit news
paper correspondents to establish of
fices within the camp limits and to
maintain telegraph or telephone lines
there If deemed advisable. No such
privileges will be granted, however.
until the camps actually are established
and the commanders on the ground.
SLACKER SUSPECT IS HELD
Klamath Men to Appear Before Fed
eral Grand Jury.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Aug. 13.
(Special.) Joe Burns. the allee-ed
slacker, who was brought in early In
tne weeK rrom the Klamath Indian
Reservation by Sheriff Humphrey and
Deputy Marshal Berry, had a hearing
before United States Commissioner
Thomas Saturday and was bound over
to await the action of the Federal
grand jury in Portland, his bonds be
ing fixed at $2000. He was committed
to the county jail.
The Federal grand Jury will consider
several cases from Klamath County.
One will be against Daniel Sullivan, I.
w. W. organizer, charged with a vio
lation of the espionage law. Ben
Stumpf, from the Merrill section, faces
the same charge.
rrxiovs peucextage is big
Fifteen' Out of 22 Eligibles Are
Passed Into Army.
LA GRANDE. Or., Aug. 13. (Special.)
Union County boasts of a record pro
duction or soldiers. In the outset there
were 11 men available to the draft; 22
men were called for examination; four
were physically unfit, two enlisted in
the meantime and out of the rest, the
quota of 11 and two alternates were
picked to go to the front. Six of the
number refused to present exemptions.
although they had logical grounds to
do so.
This percentage Is said to be a record
in the state as virtually IS out of 22
were passed into the Army. The board
consisted of Sheriff Warnick, Dr. M. K.
Hall and J. Garfield King.
13,4 7 8 ACCEPTED IX SEW YORK
Charles E. Hughes to Heap Few Ap
plications for Exemptions.
NEW YORK, Aug. 13 The revised
figures of the work of the 189 exemp
tion boards as far as the various dis
tricts had reported up today show that
6O.I0Z men had been examined, of
whom 40.867 qualified. Of this num
ber 13,478, or about 22 per cent, ap
parently had been accepted.
The district draft board, of which
Charles E. Hughes is chairman, today
began hearing exemption claims ap
pealed from local boards. This board
will have about 25,000 cases to decide.
Mr. Hughes will personally hear the
first few cases.
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GERMAN TRIES SUICIDE
Suspenders Used to End Life After
Capture on Robbery Charge.
ASHLAND, Or.. Aug. 13. (Special.)
Albert Brown, German, who has made
several trips to Germany since the
war, and who several days ago robbed
a bunk car, was arrested in Dunsmulr,
Cal.. Sunday and brought to Ashland
today. He pleaded guilty.
For several days Brown eluded the
officials, although the agent at Stein
man tried to arrest him soon after the
robbery, and Brown exchanged several
shots with him.
Brown attempted suicide this morn
ing by hanging himself with his bus
penders. When found unconscious It
took quick work to revive him.
TACOMA MAKES SECOND CALL
Little More Than One-Fourth of
. Quota Ready for Service.
TACOMA. Wash.. Aug. 13. (Special.)
Of 408 men in Pierce County's quota,
117 who did not claim exemption and
who passed the physical examination
have been certified as members of the
United States selective draft Army.
Examination was made of 687 men in
all and 395 were passed.
Second calls on the first quota were
made today to fill out the required
number.
Examining Physician Resigns.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Aug. 13. (Spe
cial.) Dr. E. L. Kniskern has tendered
his resignation as a member of the
Lewis County exemption board, owing
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PORTLAND GAS 6? COKE COMPANY
to business that will require his ab
sence from the city for about two
i. ,-. T.later has not yet
weeno. .
appointed his successor. The examina
tion of the secona coniingciiv
registrants. 250 in number, will be held
Wednesday and Thursday in this city.
2 3 ARE EXAMINED, jVT ASTORIA
All But Two Ellglbles Fiie Exemp
tion Claims.
ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. 13. (Special.)
Of the men summoned to appear be
fore the local exemption board today
31 were examined, six failed to ap
pear and two were reported as having
enlisted. The board has not yet made
its report on any of the men, but it
is expected that about 10 of those ex
amined will be rejected on account of
physical disability.
All but two of those examined
claimed exemptions, four on account ot
being aliens and the others claiming
dependents. Those who made no claim
of exemption are Jim Paris and Christ
Frank, both of Astoria.
Seventy Men Not Accepted.
TrtTTlTWn TIT. nil All CT 15 fSnA-
cial.) The exemption board at its ses
sion today granted discharges to 70 of
the men called oeiore u iut
tion and accepted 24. Fourteen failed
a a. . i : vaA Vi itnnntv
T.o appear. .t n -
will have to issue another call to make
its quota or .1.
AUTO SPILLS ON MOUNT
Car Darts Down Grade, Rebounds
and Two Are Hurt.
ROSEBURG, Or.. Aug. 13. (Special.)
F. C. Gadsby and W. M. Sturgeon, of
Los Angeles, were brought to Roseburg
late Sunday night suffering from seri
ous injuries which they sustained when
the automobile in which they were rid
ing turned turtle on Roberts Mountain.
According to the account of the acci
dent brought here the men were de
scending Roberts Mountain when the
speed became so great that they were
unable to slow down and make the last
turn. The machine left the road,
struck a stump and rebounded in such
a manner that it ran part way up the
Inner embankment. The car then over
turned, pinning them beneath it.
MARITAL BONDS GALLING
One Wife Alleges Desertion, An
other That She lias Not Fit Place.
OREGON CITT, Or., Aug. 13. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. E. A. Drake today filed suit
for divorce from Frank Drake alleging
desertion in 1910. They were married
in Portland in 1900.
Mrs. Ella Hitchman asks divorce
from Elmer H. Hitchman, saying he
did not provide a fit-place for her to
live. She asks also the custody of
their 2-year-old child. They were mar
ried in Skamania County, Washing
ton, November 27, 1913.
WHITE URGES REDUCTION
Clackamas County Board Gets Let
ter From "Adjutant-General.
OREGON' CITY, Or., Aug. 13. (Spe
cial.) District Attorney Gilbert L,
Hedges was today appointed the fourth
member of the local board of Clack
amas County to consider exemption
claims under the draft law.
The -chairman of the board. Sheriff
W. J. Wilson, today received a letter
from Adjutant-General George A. White
urging him to take steps to have the
number of exemption claims reduced
in this county.
NEW REGIME 10 USE
Emperor's Organ Sees Wall
Against Parliament.
IRON RULE STRENGTHENED
Vorwaerts, Socialist, Says Michaells
Has Combined Demerits of Old
and New "Systems and
Advantages of Neither.
COPENHAGEN. Aug. 12. The Ger
man Center Party, having realized its
programme through appointment of
their party leader. Dr. , Peter Spahn,
as minister of justice jn the Prussian
cabinet, now is coquetting with Con
servatives to re establish relations
which the impetuous action of Mathias
Erzberger jeopardized when he de
manded recently that the Reichstag
force a statement from the government
concerning its peace aims.
The offiicial party organ, Germania,
after declaring in a previous article
that the Center and the government
were agreed that the change should
go no further, now points out to Con
servatives that the independence of
Emperor and government is in no wise
affected under the new arrangements,
but that, on the contrary, it erects a
sharp wall of demarkation against that
form of parliamentary regime under
which the executive is dependent upon
parliament.
The agreement that three subordi
nates, to be selected by Chancellor
Michaells from the parliamentary
ranks, are to renounce seats In the
Reichstag means, according to Ger
mania, that the relations between the
individual parties and their sympa
thizers in executive positions are
deprived of all official character and
are based only in accordance with
general views, without either side be
ing responsible for the conduct of the
other.
. The Vorwaerts says the Michaells
New Treatment
for Constipation
Proves Successful
It Is so simple that it is remarkable
that nobody ever thought of it before
the lubrication of the bowel with pure
parafflne oil taken inwardly.
Few, if any, remedies for constipa
tion and other intestinal ills have prov
en such a decided success as Ameroil, or
parafflne oil.
The treatment consists simply of
taking parafflne inwardly in ordinary
doses. Its results are entirely different
from the ordinary medicine. It passes
through the bowels, cleansing as 1t
goes and softening the hardened masses
that have caused the congestion. The
bowels then act naturally and expel
from the system all the substances
which have collected owing to the con
stipated condition. The movement is
perfectly natural and is not caused by
stimulation.
Ameroil is one of the most highly re
fined paraffine oils it is colorless
odorless and tasteless and is easy to
take.
Ameroil is sold at all Owl Drug
Stores at 50c per pint bottle. Adv.
system, instead of being a happy me
dium between the old idea of irrespon
sible bureaucracy and a new parliamen
tarism, combines the demerits of both
and the advantages of neither, and is
the most unhealthy and worst system
conceivable.
Herr Gothein, one of the towers of
the progressive party in the Reichstag,
in an article in the Tageblatt, says
that, from the progressive viewpoint,
Poland, Livonia and Courland must be
taken from Russia and made into in
dependent states, and in the West
Germany must so regulate Belgium's
future status as to remove the danger
of it again being used as a door of
invasian by Great Britain.
cars were well filled with passengers
and most of the dead were women.
The injured were rushed to New
Haven hospitals. Most of the persons
killed lived in Guilford. Madison, Say
brook and nearby towns.
TROLLEYS HIT; WOMEN DIE
Seventeen Killed and Probably 4 0
Injured in Eastern Wreck.
NORTH BRANFORD, Conn., Aug. 13.
Seventeen persons were killed and
upward of two score injured, some
probably fatally, when two trolley cars
on the Shore Line electric railway met
head-on at high speed, a short distance
from the local station late today. Both
PLASTER PEDDLER ABROAD
Man Is Offering Medical Supplies
Near Sherwood.
SHERWOOD, Or., Aug. 13. (Special.)
A peddler, said to be German, and
selling courtplaster and medicine and
saying he has the sanction of B. F.
Elgin, the local druggist, is going
through this community. Mr. Elgin
denies any knowledge of the man. He
is insistent on selling to everyone. At
the home of W. W. Shaffer he begged
food which he fed to Mr. Shaffer's dog.
One of the plasters is now In the
hands of the chemists of the State
Board of Health at Portland.
It is also siid the man is attempting
to sell or buy wood at other places.
The first electric locomotive dates as
far back as 1S51.
The Spirit of Coolness
in the home circle
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