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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1917.
MINERALS NEEDED
TO CARRY ON WAR
Westerveldt Declares Country
Will -Soon Face Grave
Scarcity of Metals.
DEPOSITS TO BE DEVELOPED
Mining Engineers, In Convention,
Are frged to jCo-operate WltU
National AVar Board to
Stimulate Production.'
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 8. The United States
noon -will fact a grave scarcity of cer
tain minerals necessary to the success
ful conduct of the war unless the vast
irtneral deposits of the country are de
veloped, said W. O. Westerveld. of New
York, chairman of the United States
"War Minerals Board, in an address to
day to the American Institute of Mining-
Engineers in session here.
Nitrates, essential to the manufacture
of gunpowder and high explosive shells,
are imported in small quantities from
South America, he said, because of the
shortage of ships. Manganese, a min
eral used in hardening steel for armor
plate and shells, he said, is imported
at the expense of other necessary ar
ticles, while vast deposits of the min
erals In Virginia, Arkansas and Cali
fornia are under-developed.
'Steps must also be taken at once to
Insure a sufficient supply or lead, tin
mercury, mica and zinc necessary to
the successful prosecution of war," the
speaker declared.
"Other members of the war materials
fcoard also made patriotic speeches be
fore the convention at the afternoon
eeseion. devoted to a patriotic meeting.
Members of the board here for the con
vention are: Alfred G. White, of the
United States Bureau of Mines: "W. O,
Jfotchkiss, State Geologist, of Wiscon
sin, and David White, head of the
United States Geological Survey.
The speakers urged the mining engi
neers to co-operate with the iboard, the
purpose of which is to insure a supply
of minerals and stimulate production
from mineral deposits now neglected.
The engineers institute will be asked
to supply volunteers to develop mineral
deposits that have not teen used.
Strong Government control, prefera
bly through the medium of the Federal
Trade Commission, was recommended
tor the bituminous coal Industry by
I-'rancis G. Peabody. of Chicago, chair
man of the coal production committee
of the Council of National Defense, in
a paper prepared by him and read be
fore the engineers.
After business sessions tomorrow the
engineers will visit various St. Louis
Industrial plants. Wednesday night
they will go to Joplin, Mo., to Inspect
the mines.
SOME ALDERMEN MAY GO
Alleged Disloyal Utterances of Chi
cago Council Get Comment.
CHICAGO. Oct. 3. Members, of the
City Council who refuse to come out
squarely in favor of the United States
and against Germany or wno encour
age through words or attitude the mal
contents who are trying to stir up dis
sensions over the war may be ousted
from office. The City Hall continues
to thrill over the patriotic demonstra
tion that was staged in. the Council
chamber the other day, a.d Aldermen
gathered in groups and seriously dis
cussed the future.
Plans were made for a conference as
to the advisability of bringing charges
against certain Aldermen who are
strong friends of the Thompson admin
istration with a view to ousting them
from the Council. It was decided not
to take any action until Alderman A. A.
McCormick is able to resume his duties,
as his advice is wanted by both Demo
crats and Republicans as to the best
-course to pursue without making mar
tyrs of anyone.
The talk is that Alderman M. A.
Michaelson should be given an oppor
tunity to explain his attitude regarding
the war, many Alderman not being sat
isfied with the response he made yes
terday when Alderman James B. Bowler
asked him whether he wanted the
United States or Germany to win the
war. The answer was evasive, mem
bers of the Council assert.
The proceedings were reported by
stenographers, who have been request
ed to furnish copies of this incident and
also another remark Alderman Michael
son is reported to have made. In dis
cussing the question of patriotism the
Alderman referred to his brother, who
volunteered during the Spanish-American
war, and said in substance: "I
would emulate his example if I was
satisfied that we had a just cause and
believed that our country was men
aced." "I believe that now is the time when
every member of the Council should be
willing to declare where he stands,"
said Alderman Bowler. " "Any Alder
man who is not for the United States
and the Government at Washington is
for Germany, and if there are any
Aldermen who want Germany to win
this war I am strongly in favor of
throwing them out of the Council."
LAD DESCRIBES NEW GAS
American Boy AVrltes Vivid Descrip
tion of righting in Trance.
CHICAGO. Oct. 3. Frank Hamilton
Boyd, who left his office lnthe Ameri
can Seating Company last April to
Join the American Ambulance Corps on
the "great adventure" in France, has
been made Seoond Lieutenant for his
bravery in "no man's land," according
to letters received by his father,
George R. Boyd, and former associates.
Young Boyd, who is 24, left Chicago
April 5. The intervening months have
been lived close to the whistling shrap
nel, the purring of the machine guns
and the booming of heavy guns. In
letters to his father and friends Boyd
Kives vivid glimpses of the duties of
the ambulance man when the fire is
hottest.
In one written to his father August
14 he tells of a four-day battle between
the French and the Germans.
"The first night of the attack two
camions of powder blew up and the
road was -blocked for several hours,"
he wrote. "Then the Germans sent
over & lot of gas shells. Many horses
and some soldiers were killed and a
great many more put out of business.
I had to wear my gas mask four or
five hours. I had tried the thing on
several times before and never thought
I could keep it on for five minutes it
is so hot but one can do anything when
one must.
. "The Germans shelled the post and
several were killed in the street in
front of It. The attack was more than
successful as you may have read in the
papers. -We have now moved our post
onto what was 'no man's land.' Over
2000 Germans, were taken prisoners and
they seemed tickled to death to be with
u - . ti- j oil' oil , i iiiccn. nuu
individuals one must feel sorry for
them.
"The French treat them fine. I have
never seen one prisoner mistreated yet.
They are given all they want to eat and
are even given cigarettes. 1 have a Ger
man cap that one of them gave me;
also a compass, a lot of buttons and
two gas masks. No one is allowed to
take anything from them unless some
thing is given them in return. Such a
difference from the treatment accorded
the French and English prisoners by
the Germans. The German dead are
even buried by the soldiers of the Allies
and their graves marked.
"The German soldiers do not seem to
know that the United States has de
cared war on Germany. One told us he
was sure America was fighting France
and helping Germany. Can you beat it?
They were all hungry and some of them
said all they had to cat was a small
can of meat a day for six. And the
cans are as small as ink bottles.
"The gas the Germans are sending at
us is a new gas. It is not so deadly as
the old gas, as it is not so hard on the
lungs. But it forms blisters wherever
the &kin is tender and thin and they arc
very painful."
In one letter, addressed to "Dear fel
lows," from the French battle front,
August 16. Boyd says in part:
"We are back in the same place we
were before, but it is very active here
now and in a day or two a really big
thing is to be pulled off and it will
mean at least 1000 French wounded a
day for us to handle. Roads that were
safe when we were here before are now
under fire most of the time. Shells are
landing on our cantonment and ont
went through the roof of the building
next t- ours a couple of days ago.
"There are always 20 to 30 aero
planes in the air during tha day and
never fewer than 20 captive balloons.
A 'boche flew over our place a few
nights ago and sprayed the road with
his machine gun and dropped a lew
bomb.',. The roads to the post are tei-
ribl-3 now and are filled witli wagons
an.l ctmlons taking up ammunition and
fooc.
' P or 50 miles back from the frtrt
ths read is like a railroad train. From
dusk until dawn it is tu'.l of camions
about ten feet apart. 1 had charge of
one covey and I had an awfm tim-i
getting them in here five new drivers.
"The camions go right up to the front
and unload and then come dovr. That
is wltat the boys get every night.
Sometimes it takes three or four hours
to go when I have gon on a clear
ro-id in 12 minutes. The road is unda:
fire all the tinv and when a horse is
killed it holds up tne entire procession.
"I-Iave one new fellow about 40 years
old. He is a fine man. I salt him out
last right for th first time. Ho made
three trips and each time had a man die
his car, and at the post a follow died
in his arms after giving his his gun
and helmet. He cried when he told us
about .' i
J. B. FORGAN MAKES PLEA
ABOLISH CONTROLLER IS URGED
BY CHICAGO BANKER.
Convention Aslced to Transfer Duty to
Federal Reserve Banks Like
Chicago System Today.
ATLANTIC CITT, N. J., Oct. 2.
Abolition of the post of Controller of
the Currency and the transfer of the
supervision of National bank examin
atlons from that office to the 12 Fed
eral reserve banks were advocated by
James B. Forgan, chairman of the
First National Bank of Chicago, In an
address delivered to the American
Bankers' Association convention here
recently. The speaker praised the local
system of independent examinations of
its member and affiliated member banks
established by the Chicago Clearing
house after the failure of the Walsh
banks in 1905, which has proved the
advantages possessed by a system of
local supervision over that of long dis
tance supervision from Washington.
Mr. Forgan spoke on the subject of
clearing-house examinations for groups.
cities, towns and districts. He said in
part:
"In regard to the extension of the
mutual system of examination to dis
tricts may we not hope that as the
Federal reserve system develops such
satisfactory examination bureaus may
be established for each of the 12 Fed
eral Reserve districts, in their Federal
Reserve banks, as will make clearing
house examination bureaus unneces
sary, not only for the districts, but
also for the large cities?
This, it seems to me, would be a
development of the Federal Reserve
system will worth striving for. It
would necessitate some changes in the
present laws. A law would be neces
sary to do away with the present dual
authority, by transferring to the Fed
eral Reserve Board the duties and the
Department of the Comptroller. The
country has become too large and the
National banks too numerous for one
man in Washington to undertake the
supervision of them through the re
ports of his examiners, while the state
banks as they join the Federal Reserve
system come directly under the juris
diction of the Federal Reserve Board,
but remain beyond that of the Comp
troller.
"The splitting up of the Comptroller's
examination bureau into 12 bureaus in
charge of the Federal Reserve agents.
as representatives of the Federal Re
serve Board, in whom would be vested
supreme authority and the right of
final decision and action, would greatly
simplify the work and increase the ef
ficiency of governmental supervision.
Examiners could be gradually trained
and developed under civil service rules
in the Federal Reserve banks and
would become members of their official
staffs on fixed salaries. All examina
tion reports could be made in the first
instance to the Federal Reserve agent
of the district and by him forwarded
to the Federal Reserve Board.
"Legal authority could be given the
Federal Reserve Board to see that all
statements of member banks rendered
to it and published to the public should.
in its opinion, with reasonable accu
racy, approximately disclose their true
condition, and to expel- from the sys
tem any bank that persisted in pub
lishing grossly erroneous statements
after the attention of its directors had
been drawn to the facts.
'The state banking departments
might be induced to rely on the reports
of the Federal Reserve examiners in
regard to state banks that have joined
the Federal Reserve system. Certified
copies of such reports could be sent
them by the Federal Reserve agents.
'Before such a system could be made
effective it would be necessary that
there should be a large influx into the
Federal Reserve system of state insti
tutions doing a commercial banking
business."
Warning against waste of wartime
profits was given to the public by
Basil P. Blackett. special representa
tive of the British treasury. He was
speaking before the members of the
savings bank section. It was stated
that the theory of officials of savings
banks is that purchases of war loan
bonds should be made from the extra
money earned by wartime conditions.
The olive tree is more closely asso
ciated with the history and civilization
of man than any other. It is- the ear
liest mentioned by name: when the
waters of the flood began to retire
(Genesis viii. 11). It is the most promi
nent tree in the earliest allegory
(Judges ix. 8,9). With David it is the
emblem of prosperity and the divine
blessing .(Felama iii,8; cixvlil. 3)M
SHIP PLEA IS MADE
Senators Asked to Take Steps
in Aid of Wooden Yards.
CHAMBER SENDS MESSAGE
Oregon Operators Declared in Bad
Plight Owing to Orders From
Washington Denying Right
to Work for Neutrals.
Since It has been officially announced
by the United States Shipping Board
that there will not be more contracts
executed for wooden steamers and the
board has not been favorable toward
plans to permit builders to accept con
tracts irom neutral governments or
individuals, the Chamber of Commerce
is making one final effort to bring
pressure to bear through United States
Senators Chamberlain and McNary to
obtain an expression as to what the
policy is to do governing outside con
tracts.
There are yards In full swing now
that have no Government orders and
there are other plants starting or
projected which have no assurance of
.Federal business, but all are assured
of other contracts if the American
authorities will assent to the plants
accepting orders. The following night
letter was sent yesterday to Senators
Chamberlain and McNary to make
another effort before returning home
for the Congressional recess:
Before leaving Washington we ask our
two Senators to have one final forceful con
ference with the Shipping: Board and Ad
mlral Capps on the subject of our yards
building wood vessels for friendly foreign
account or private Interests, where our Gov
ernment is not willing: to place contracts
with such yards. Last replies to requests
ror contracts definitely say no more Gov
ernment ships now. We have four firmi
eager to bid on foreign business and three
contracts nave been offered them. Infor
mation furnished them for guidance is al
ways definite and always seems to have the
purpose of procrastinating and holding work
up. These yards could take from 1 13,000,000
to JS-JU.UUU.OOU more business If permitted.
in some canes registry under Japanese. Ital
lan or French flag is the condition imposed
In one case an American company willing
to sail under American registry wants busl
ness and is delayed because of requirements
that are hard to understand.
One answer commonly given is that no
work will be permitted in wood yards here
if same may. Interfere with the Government
programme. We assume the only considera
tion the Government can gie as cause for
delay would be using labor and materials
required for Government work. We are
ready to prove that all labor and all mate
rials, with tho possible exception of power,
may be had here for many large wood ship
contracts, and we do insist upon the right
or our people to build vessels If t.iese com
panies make an agreement to maintain the
same wage scale in their work as in yards
doing Government work.
The demand from foreign powers and pri
vate interests Indicates great need for this
tonnage. Also our own local situation im
peratively demands more wood ships to take
the place of steel tonnage commandeered by
the Government. Can you not. before re
turning, insist upon some definite, explicit
policy mat win govern in all these cases
and simplify procedure of our people in s
curing such contracts? With the Government
announcing no more wood ships under its
programme and not permitting our yards to
get Dusy on otner contracts, consternation
Is being created in the wood shipbuilding
and lumber circles of this coast. If you
cannot get from the Shipping Board satis
factory assurances, will you take the matter
up witn tne President before leaving?
BUREAU TO AID SHIPYARDS
Improvement' of Sheridan and
Curry Streets Is Suggested.
The Oregon development bureau of
the Portland Chamber of Commerce has
been endeavoring to help in the solu
tion of the problem affecting the es
tablishment of shipyards in the new
industrial center in South Portland.
Water mains will have to be ex
tended and certain street improvements
made. City Engineer Laurgaard has
prepared maps, profiles and cross sec
tions showing railroad tracks and
spurs, water mains, sewers and prop
erty lines of all streets in the district
affected.
The City Engineer's office is prepared
to offer a temporary or permanent solu
tion of the problem and is suggesting
as a final aim, the improvement of
Sheridan street and Curry street, with
grade crossings over the Oswego line
of the Southern Pacific Company and
an elevated roadway crossing at
Woods street which leads down Into
the district with a maximum grade of
6 or 7 per cent. A model of this ex
tension has been prepared so that it
will be clearly understood by those in
terested.
'BOXEYARD" FILL, FIXISHED
Jr-orD Does .Last Work Today on
Foundation Company's Site.
One of the largest fills made so far
in assisting new shipbuilding enter
prises that of the Foundation Com
pany, of New York, on the O.-W. R.
& N. "boneyard" property will be fin
ished today by the Port of Portland
dredge Tualatin. The digger is then
to shift to the upper harbor and finish
channel work there in making a basin,
material taken from which will be
deposited on the Northwest Ste.el Com
pany's land.
The dredge Willamette completed
the first cut at the mouth of the Wil
lamette yesterday in clearing away
sediment there and turned around to
start the second cut, which she will
finish in four or five days, and then
haul up to the site of the St. Johns
grain elevator.
CAPTAIX MASOX IS IX PORT
San. Francisco Bar Pilot Returns to
Former Haunts for Week.
On a week's leave from the arduous
duties of piloting deep-water men in
and out of San Francisco Bay, Captain
E. W. Mason, in the service of the San
Francisco & "Portland Steamship Com
pany for a number of years and who
left to accept a pilot's berth in May, is
vlsitine" in the city.
Captain Mason spent a day at Asto
ria and plans to put in another day
there the last of the week. Captain
Clyde Parker, master of the Rose City,
was chief mate of the Beaver under
Captain Mason and Chief Engineer
Townsend, now on the "Rosie," was
chief on the Beaver then; also there
are others on the vessel who served
under Skipper Mason, so the trip up
the coast was a, reunion.
Harvard and Vale Out of Service.
Machinery trouble is responsible for
the withdrawal of the turbiner Har
vard, of the Pacific Steamship Com
pany's fleet, from service between San
Francisco and Southern California
ports. Frank Bollam. Portland agent,
was informed by telegraph last night
of the fact she would not operate for
a time. A few days ago the Vale was
withdrawn because of one of her en
gines being out of commission, but it
is expected she will resume service Oc
tober 16.
Pacific Coast Shipping Notes.
ASTORIA, Ora -Oct, 8.-.SpecUl.
Japanese steamer Genmel Maru arrived this
morning from Vancouver, K. C. and will
load lumber at the Inman-Poulsen mill.
Pilot Swan son. who brought the Japanese
steamer Genmel from Vancouver, B. C,
reports encountering thick weather all the
way from the Coast and he sighted no ves
sel. The steamer arrived off the mouth
of the river last evening and crossed In at
11 o'clock.
The schooner John A. Campbell sailed
Sunday from San Francisco for tho Colum
bia River to load lumber.
The steam schooner Ryder Hanlfy shifted
Sunday night from Stella to Westport, where
she will complete her cargo of lumber.
The steamer K. A. Kilburn is due tonight
from San Francisco, en route to Portland.
SEATTLE, Waih" Oct. 8. (Special.)
Negotiations have been started for the pur
chase of tho steamship Lolphin, of the
Alaska Steamship Company's Heet, the ves
sel being desired by Chilean Interests. Upon
the discharge of her cargo, consisting most
ly of canned salmon, the craft will be in
spected tomorrow or Wednesday by her
prospective purchasers, and In the event a
deal la made the ship will be used in the
coastwise trade of South America. She was
brought to Seattle in 190 during the Alaska
rush, having been piloted to the Pacific
by Captain John A. O'Brien, now master
of the- Nome liner Victoria.
The auxiliary power schooner Halcyon,
which has been on an experiment voyage to
Akutan and other points on the Alaska
Archipelago, arrived tonight. The Halcyon
brought a number of speclments of the deep
that are strange to local waterfront men
wise In sea lore.
Halibut fishermen arriving in port today
report heavy catches off the capes. Indi
cating an unexpected run of fish.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8. Special.)
Andrew J Mahony, the well-known ship
ping man, returned yesterday from a busi
ness trip to Kastern cities. He said the
Pacific Coast la not the only part of the
country in which the Government is tak
ing ships, as six of the . Southern Pacific
big carriers from the Gulf to New York
have been commandeered. All the large
concerns in the East expect to lose ves- f
aeis, at least lor the period or the war.
According to Mahony, shipping activity is
at its height in all places he visited.
President H, K. Alexander, of the- Pa
cific Steamship Company, ha been elected
& member of the executive board of the
American Steamship Association, according
to a dispatch today at headquarters of the
company here. The executive board of the
association is made up of the most promi
nent steamship company men in the United
States.
COOS BAY. Or., " Oct. 8. (Special. The
steam schooner Martha Buehner sailod thia
afternoon for San Pedro, carrying lumber
from the Buehner mill.
Arriving this morning at 10, the steam
schooner Yellowstone brought a capacity
cargo of general freight.
Movements of Vessels.
PORTLAND, Oct. 8. Arrived Japanese
steamer Genmel Mam, from Vancouver.
Sailed Steamer Washtenaw, for Port San
Luis: steamer Thomas L. Wand, for Callao;
steamer Klamath, for San Diego via way
ports.
ASTORIA, Oct. 8. Arrived at 6:30 and
left up at 9:15 A. M., Japanese steamer
Genmel Maru, from Vancouver.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 8. Sailed at 10
A. M steamer Bl Segundo, with barge 01
In tow, for Portland.
COOS BAY, Oct. 7. Arrived at 11 A. M.
steamer tan Jacinto, from Portland.
HONOLULU. Oct. 7. Arrived Schooner
Columbia River, from Iquique, for Columbia
River.
TACOMA, Oct. S. Arrived Steamers
Pennsylvania, from West Coast: Admiral
Farragut, from Alaska: Oleum, from San
Francisco; Ketchikan, from Alaska ; Valdes,
from Alaska; Quadra, from British Colum
bia. Sailed Steamers Admiral Farragut,
for Seattle; Quadra, for British Columbia;
North Bend, barge, in tow of tug Projectile,
for British Columbia.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8. Arrived
Steamers President, from Victoria: Lyman
Stewart, from Seattle. Sailed Steamers
Nome City, for Seattle ; El Segundo, for
Portland.
SEATTLE. Oct. 8. Arrived Steamers
Governor, from San Francisco; Dolphin,
from Alaska; Al-Ki. from Alaska; Fir wood.
from Alaska; Ketchikan, from St. Michael,
Sailed Steamer Queen, for San Francisco.
WAR SONGS NOT SUCCESS
Music Publisher Says Xone Has
Gotten Across Yet.
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 3. Sam Fox, of
Cleveland, a well-known publisher, is in
Los Angeles, a guest of the Alexandria
Hotel, and he tells why none of the war
song's, up to this date, has "grotten
across."
"It's all because there are too many
of them," said Mr. Fox. "I find that the
East an dthe Middle West, however, are
more keyed up than the Pacific Coast,
and they are specializing; on some of
the. war songs Vs but the great war
song:, in the sense of the success of "A
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.'
has not come out yet. It is on the
way, perhaps, and we may hear of it
soon.
"We are selling lots of music in Eng
land and Canada just now," said Mr.
Fox. "Plaintive songs, meditation
songs, heart throbs, are the numbers
that are taking splendidly with the
British and the Canadians. England
and Canada are in mourning for their
heroes, dead and wounded, and music
that interprets their emotions is the
kind that is accepted in the Dominion
and the United Kingdom."
Mr. Fox Is on his annual tour of the
United States and will go from Los An
geles to Vancouver and thence to Win
nipeg and New York and back to Cleve
land.
"You never can tell." he says, "what
Is going to catch on in the musical line.
For Instance, we were trying to make
big drive on a certain number and
had our plans all laid; in the mean
time, I had a composer dress up some
patriotic music, sort of a medley, with
two or three original sections in it. I
put It out as a flyer and now all the
bands are playing It."
Mr. Fox says that for the organiza
tion of composers to insist on a royalty
on their wares, as granted by a ruling
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, is a child of conditions in New
York. There, he said, the cabaret musi
cians would take a Victor Herbert
opera, for instance, and put on the best
parts of it In cabarets in such a grand
style as actually to damage the opera
itself. The people heard all they
thought they needed to hear of it in the
cabarets and forgot to go to the. opera.
"The music business, said Mr. Fox,
'is in a flourishing condition. I believe
all the publishers are dniog as well and
better now than betore the war."
Russia's Future.
E. J. DeMarsh in Harper's Weekly.
Russia has resources almost beyond
the dreams of avarice; she is rich In
men. and hereafter she Is going to ap
preciate them and help them to aid her
in being- richer, greater, stronger,
nobler. Once all her dreams ware of
exploitation. No lonprer will she ex
ploit. Now all her efforts will be
toward conservation and development.
She is cominu; to understand that as a
country deals with her people, so shall
be determined her status before men.
You cannot one moment crush a man
and the next depend on him. In times
of need his willingness and your com
mands will avail little. Stamina and
hope alone are productive of fortitude
and endurance and to produce stamina
long-continued right living and right
thinking are absolutely essential. Rus
sia, as at present constituted, cannot
be wholly free, but she may be toler
ant; tolerance permits room for growth
and with growth comes, inevitably, de
velopment. The extent of the former Czar's own
private treasury may be gauged from
the fact that he was able at the time
of the Russo-Japanese war to con
tribute a lump sum of 20,000,000 to
the war fund, and it Is estimated that
from all sources he has been drawing
an income of more than 110,000,000 a
year..
A bad boy seldom gets his badness
from his father. The old man gen
erally, holds pa to all be has.
JAPAN GETS BOILERS
Portland Steel Works Putting
Out Work for Nippon.
FOREIGN BUSINESS GOOD
Willamette Asserts Adequate Torces
Are Working Day and Xight
Shifts, Comparatively Few Men
Having Left Employment.
Portland Is not alone supplying boil
ers for foreign steamers being built
here, as well as many the United States
Shipping Board will operate, but more
are being constructed for shipment to
other lands, there being one set of
three big Scotch marine boilers at the
plant of the Willamette Iron & Steel
Works that are intended for Japan, to
be installed in a steel steamer building
there.
Since" the force at that plant has
struck a gait of finishing six boilers
every month they are getting ahead of
some of the shipbuilders. There are
seven big boilers on North Front street.
three of them Delng for an 8800-ton
veesel nearly ready and four are for
ships under way at the yard of the
Albina Engine & Machine Works, that
company using two boilers in each
vessel. The Willamette's contract calls
for eight additional boilers, as the Al
bina yard is turning out six' eteamers.
Another set of three boilers is on
the dock, ready for the next 8800-ton
eteamer to be shifted there, while there
are three boilers finished in the shop
and a long string of others in various
stages of completion. Bert C. Ball,
president of the corporation, who has
returned from Washington, says no
more new business has been closed for,
as it is the aim to clear away all con
tracts now on hand. Since the Gov
ernment is taking all new tonnage
there will be boilers and other equip
ment in demand during the entire
period of the war and the different
shops will be worked to capacity.
The Willamette recently enlarged its
main office and drafting rooms, so
more than double the previous space
has been gained. As to men, it is said
by the management, that all depart
ments have adequate forces and the
day and night shifts are being 'operated
as during the preceding months of the
year, only a comparatively few work
ers having left the plant after the
strike of metalworkers was called at
shipyards.
OLD FREIGHT DEPOT USED
Standifer Company Remodels Build
ing for Lunchroom.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 8. (Spe
cial.) The old building used as a
freight depot at the city dock for many
years is nebing remodeled and will be
used as a lunchroom for the workmen
at the shipyards of the G. M. Standifer
Construction Corporation, which has
recently removed its main offices to
this city.
While only 200 men are employed
here now. it is expected that 600 will
be employed by November 10, and 1000
when work on all six ships now build
ing here is in full swing. All boats
built by this company in Portland will
be brought here to be outfitted with
machinery and masts and this will re
quire more men. The James Timpson,
launched in August, in Portland, is
here and is almost ready for her ma
chinery. TACOMA MAX
IS
HONORED
H. F. Alexander Chosen to Serve on
Executive Board.
TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 8. (Special.)
H. F. Alexander, of Tacoma, president
of the Pacific Steamship Company and
one of the leaders of shipping on the
Pacific Coast, has been elected a mem
ber of the executive board of the
American Steamship Association.
The men comprising the board rep
resent the most influential heads of
marine navigation in the country, and
have in addition to other matters of
vital importance the consideration with
the Federal Shipping Board the com
mandeering of vessels by the Govern
ment.
Tides
at Astoria Tuesday.
Low.
High.
8:2S A. M 8.4 feet
8:02 P. M . . . .H.S feet
1:54 A. M 1.1 feet
2:23 P. M . . . .3.S feet
TO REMOVE DANDRUFF I
Get a 25-cent bottle of Danderlno at
any drug: store, pour a little, Into your
hand and rub well Into the scalp with
the finger tips. By morning- most. If
not all. of this awful scurf will have
disappeared. Two or three applications
will desroy every bit of dandrull; stop
calp itching and falling hair.
CHILD DOESN'T
LAUGH AND PLAY
IF CONSTIPATED
Look. Mother! Is Tongue Coated,
Breath Feverish and
Stomach Sour?
'California Syrup of Figs' Can't
Harm Tender Stomach,
Liver, Bowels.
Mother! Tour child Isn't naturally
cross and peevish. See if tongue la
coated; this la a sure sign its little
stomach, liver and bowels need a
cleansing at once.
When listless, pale, feverish, full of
cold, breath tad, throat sore, doesn't
eat. sleep or act naturally, has atom-acu-ache.
diarrhoea, remember, a gen
tle liver and bowel cleansing should al
ways be the first treatment given.
Wothing equals "California teyrup of
Figs" for children's ills; give a tea
spoonful, and in a few hours all the
foul waste, sour bile and fermenting
food which Is -logged In the bowels
passes out of the system, and you have
a well and playful child again. All
children love this harmless, delicious
"fruit laxative,' and it never fails to
effect a good "inside" cleansing. Direc
tions for babies, children of all ages
and grown-ups are plainly on the bot
tle. Keep It handy In your home. A lit
tle given today saves a sick child to
morrow, but get the genuine. Ask your
druggist for a bottle of "California
Syrup of Figs." then look and see that
it is made by the "California Fig Syrup
Company.," AdY.
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MEETTNG NOTICES.
ALT COMRAPES are invite
to attend the funeral of Ed
ward J. fejhaw. whose death oc
curred on Saturday, October .
He served durins: the Civil War
in Company B. Klf ty-seventh Il
linois Vol. Infantry, and was a
member of Cordon Granser
Post Xo. 43. (J. A. R. Ths
funeral service will be held to
day Tuesday) October S, 2 p.
M., from the funeral home of
Wilson & Ross. Multnomah and
Seventh streets. Interment at
the Columbia Masonic Cemetery.
KDWI N E. COVEY. Commander.
II. C. DUTTON, Adjutant.
B. P. O. ELKS. JCo. It?.
Members are requested to
meet at the. undertaking par
lors of the Edward Hol
man Company this (Tues
day) afternoon. 2:3 o'clock,
to conduct thft funeral wrv-
c ,r- . ices over tne remains oi our
ValfSr late brother. O. H. Crabb.
trr" ' fn VlwitlnK brothers invited to
attend. By order of thn E. Ft.
M. R. SPAULDIXO. Eec'y.
A. AND A. B. KITE.
OREGON LODGE OF PER
FECTION. NO. 1 Special
meeting in Auditorium. Scot
tish Rite Cathedra, this
(Tuesday) evenine at 8 o'clock.
"Work
lourth. riitn ana
VEX. MASTER.
sixth degrees. By order
"WASHINGTON COMMAN
DERY, NO. 15 Stated con
clave this (Tuesday) eveninsr
7:30 o'clock. All sojourning
Brother Kniphts Invited.
HUBERT MART YN', Recorder.
HAWTHORNE LODGE. NO.
111. A. F. AND A. M. Special
communication this (Tuesday)
evening t 7:30. Work in the
M. M. degree. Visiting brethren
welcome.
C. E. MILLER, Sec.
IMPERIAL LODGE, NO. 130,
A. K. AND A. M. Stated com
munication this (Tuesday) even
ing 7::io o'clock, October V.
Brother J. Francis Drake will
address us on "The Beginning
of Masonry." Let s have a good turnout to
hear this interesting speaker. V sitors wel
come. W. P. AKDBt'S, Sec.
SUNNYS1DE LODGE, AO.
163, A. F. AND A. M. Special
communication this (Tuesday)
evening at 7 o'clock sharp.
Work M. M. degree. Visitors
welcome. By order of W. M.
E. M. LANCE. Sec.
CORINTHIAN CHAPTER. No.
54. O. E. S. Stated meeting this
(Tuesday) evening. Past matrons
wiil confer degrees. Donations
received for O. E. S. Home. So
cial. All O. E. s. members wel
cume. Ilv order W. M.
IDA M. TURLET,
Secretary Pro Tern.
THE WOMAN'S BENEFIT ASSOCIA
TION OF THE MACCABEES will hold a
special meeting at the Masonic Temple on
Tuesday. Oct. 9. at -:30 r, M.. for the pur
pose of completing plana lor anniversary en
tertainment to he given on the evening of
October IS. Members please attend.
RECORD KEEPER.
EMBLEM Jewelry, buttons, charms, pins.
New designs. Jaecr Bros., 131-3 Sixth au
FRIKDLANDER'S tur lodge emblems,
class pins and medala. 310 Washington at.
PIED.
SAL'S At late residence, 394 North 20th
street. Mary Saub, aged 68 years, wife of
Valentine Saub and mother of Mrs. Mary
Ferris. Mrs. J. W. McCallig, Edward. Wil
liam N. and Frank S. Saub. The deceased
was a member of Thusnelda Lodge, Sons
of Herman. Friends are invited to attend
the funeral at the Portland Crematorium
today (Tuesday), Oct. . at 2 P. M. The
remains will be at Dunning & McEn
teo's chapel until 1 P. M. today.
SAY LOR At the family residence. 10S2 K.
Morrison. Oct. 8. Hattie Hayes Saylor.
aged 12 years, only child of Mr. and Mr1.
C. C. Saylor. Funeral notice later. Ar
rangements in charge of Breeze & Snook,
Belmont and 35th.
FUNERAL NOTICES.
SNOW At his home, Metzger, Or., Edgar
James Snow, aged 7G years 2 months 14
days, leaving one daughter, Fannie Dus
tam, of Portland, and one son, Harold H.
Snow, of San Francisco, Cal. : two sisters.
Mrs. L. A. Lorbeer. of California, and
Mrs. Carrie Hall, of New York: one broth
er. Arthur E. Snow, of Clark's Fork. Idaho.
Funeral will be held tomorrow (Tuesday.
October 0. at 2 P. M.. from the residen
tial funeral home of Wilson & Ross. Mult
nomah at Seventh street. Masons of Gor
don Grand Grange Post, of Woodlawn.
will have charge of the service at the
cemetery. Interment at the Columbia Ma
sonic Cemetery. Friends invited.
SNOW At his home. Metzger, Or., Edgar
James Snow, aged 7G years 2 months 14
days, leaving one daughter. Fannie Dus
tam. of Portland, and one son, Harold H.
Snow, of San Francisco. Cal.; two sisters.
Mrs. L. A. Lorbeer, of California, and
Mrs. Carrie Hall, of New York: one broth
er. Arthur E. Snow, of Clark's Fork, Idaho.
Funeral will be held today (Tuesday), Oc
tober i), at 2 P. M., from the residential
funeral home of Wilson & Ross, Mult
nomah at Seventh street. G. A. R. will
have charge at the chapel and the Masons
will have charge at the grave. Interment
at the Columbia Masonic Cemetery. Friends
invited.
CABLE At the family residence. 1174 Rod
ney ave.. Oct. 8. C. H. Cable, aged 71
years, beloved husband of Mary C. Cable
and father of Dr. E. E. Cable, George A.
Cable. William C. Cable and L. E. Cable,
all of this city. The remains may be
viewed bv friends between the hours 1'J
noon and '2 P. M. today (Tuesday), Oct. 9,
at the conservatory chapel of F. S. Dun
ning. Inc.. 414 Eust Alder st. Body will
he forwarded to Brownsville, Or., where
funeral services will be nx-Jd and inter
ment take place.
KELLY In this city, October 8, at her late
residence, 404 Fifrti street. Catherine A.
Kelly, aged 60 years, wife of Daniel Kelly,
mother of Mrs. A. F. Fleming. Margaret
Kelly and George J. Kelly, of this city.
The funeral cortege will leave the resi
dence establishment of J. P. Finley & Son.
Montgomery at Fifth, at 9:30 o"clock A. M.
and proceed to the St. Lawrence Church."
Third and Sherman streets, Wednesday.
October 10. where mass will be said at in
o'clock. Friends invited. Interment at
Mount Calvary Cemetery.
LARSEN Angeleo William Larsen. at the
home of his parents. 501 East Oak street.
Oeioher 7. 1!U7. aee 17 years. 6 months.
son of Ludwig B. Larsen and Josephine
Larsen, brother of Oscar H. and Virgo E.
Larsen. Member of Washington High
School class of February. 1918. Remains at
F. S. Dunning Co.. East 6th and Alder
streets. Fuaeral tomorrow (Wednesday).
2::i0 o'clock.
SMITH In this city. Oct. 7, 1S59 Chau
tauqua blvd.. Milton W. Smith, aged 78
years, beloved father of Mrs. J. H. Fair
brook and Miss Ruby O. Smith. Funeral
cervices will be held from the residential
chapel cf Miller Ar Tracey. Washington at
Ella st.. today (Tuesday). Oct. 9, 10 A.
M. Inttmient Rose City Cemetery.
CRABB In this city, Oct. 7, Oliver IT.
Crabb, aged years. 10 months. 16 days.
Friends invited to attend funeral services
which will be held at Holman's funera.
parlors. 3d and Salmon sts., at 2:30 P. M.
today (Tuesday), Oct. U, under the aus
pices of Portland Lodge. No. 142. B. P. o.
Elks. Interment Kivervlew Cemetery.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
Edward Holman. Pres. W. J. Holman. Sec.
J. E. Werleln. Treas.
THE EDWARD HOLMAN
UNDERTAKING CO.
Established 1877.
THIRD ST.. wUKNER OF SALMON.
A MODERN SPACIOUS FAMILY
ROOM WITH PRIVATE ENTRANCE
LADY ASSISTANT.
Phones: Main 507, A 1511.
PERFECT
FUNERAL SERVICE FOR LESS
MILLER & TRACEY
Independent Funeral Directors.
Lady Assistant.
Wash, at Ella tit.. Bet. SOth and 21st.
Main 261)1. A 7883. West Side.
Eat oi. Lady Assistant. C 4163.
WILSON iikUi,
Funeral Directors, Inc.
Multnomah at Seventh Street.
J. P. FIN LEY & SON,
Progressive Juneral Directors.
Private Diive Women Attendants.
MONTGOMERY AT FIFTH.
Main 9. A 1589.
EKICbON Residence Undertaking Parlors.
12th and Morrison sts. Main 6133, A 2235.
MR. AND MRS. 11. W. HAMILTON Fu
nerai screvice, 1173 E. Gllsan. Tabor 4313.
DUNNING & McENTEE, funeral dlrect
ors. Broadway - and pine street. Phons
Broadway 43Q. A 4u58. Lady attendant.
F. S. DUNNING. INC.
THE GOLDEN RULE UNDERTAKERS. .
414 East Alder street. East B 2525.
P. L. LERCH. East 11th and Clay streets.
Lady attendant. East 781. B 1388.
A.R.Zeller Co.
082 Williams Ave.
East loss, C 1088.
BREEZE & SNOOKMSooVitaSit,u
ISKEWES UNDERTAKING COMPANY. 3d,
anil Clay, Mo. A 31, i.ady attendaut,