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Newspaper Page Text11 THE MORNING OREGOXTAX, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1918. GILL WILL HAVE EXAMPLES OF JAPANESE ART FOUND IN THE .EXHIBITION AT GRADUATES TO GET County librarian, and Harold Hershner, first sergeant in Company B, First Field Hospital, now stationed at Camp PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, WHICH HAS JUST OrENED TO THE rUBLIC Lewis. Wash- was announced. MORRIS BROTHERS, INC. Miss Goudy Is a Portland girl, who haa been here In library work for the last three years. Mr. Hershner was assistant cashier of the Butler Banking KEEN OPPOSITE Established 25 Years Company here at the time of his en llstment. e e Kail way Exchange Building, Portland, Oregon. The Oregon Army .and Navy Auxiliary will meet promptly at 2 o clock today in the headquarters, 411 Morrison street. After the business session, A. MUNICIPAL BONDS Tax Exempt YIELDING FROM 5 TO &Vi- J. E. Bradford, Latest Candi Grammar Class One of Larg est in Recent History of the Portland Schools. date for Mayori'Is Ex : pected to Split Vote. G. Clark will give an address. Mrs. George Nolan, president, has requested a full attendance. Saturday nights the auxiliary keeps open house for the en listed men who are visitors in the city. There is music and a Jolly social time to which all are welcome. DIPLOMAS FRIDAY cm m t i s f 1 1 Am - l ri Ki a-r. XVI l- 8 ASPIRANTS IN FIELD teat tie El rent I re. Woo Become Radical la PoUtlcs, Map Oat Campaign la Sharp Con trast to Old Method. SEATTLE. Wash, Jan. SO: (Spe cial. ) Fat reserved tbe hardest Jolt it bad to hand Mayor GUI' campaign to succeed himself until tb last moment on the cloiiDf day when declaration of candidacy tor the primary nomlna tlona were received. Then it dealt him a candidate ho surely would split tb vote apoa wMeh a will bare to rely if be ia to b on of tb Mayoralty nominees. Any ordinary candidal would hare Interpreted mt of the things that bare happened to tiill during the past year as knock-out blows to future po lltical ambitions. But GUL it roust be remembered. Is a politician who waa born or made to thrive on tb kind of opposition that would submeri any body else. Gill never was a fair-weather eandl date and no better example of that fact need be sou (tit than lb fact that less than two months aa-o It waa practically settled that be would retire from poli tics. There seemed every prospect tbat be would drift alone to th end of his term and simply oos out. Ties that controlled him his family would not listen to any mora of politics and It . aemed as good as settled tbat all thai remained to be don waa to center sen timent around somebody who could fit Into th wartlro spirit of co-operation that pervaded everything In beattl ex cpt th city's politics. Gill Fla-hta Back. Then the storm broke. The first at tacks which crew out of Gill's opposi tion to General Greene's ultimatums from Camp Lewis chanced the situation very little, for GUI was still of a re tiring; mood. As a matter of fact, he re mained calm wben he was threatened with recall or Impeachment, for be realised thes were empty threats. The fight tbat sent him back Into politics was the effort to disbar blra from prac tice. Wben that came Gill received very reluctant permission to mak aj campaign or 'seir-aerense. when any other man would have believed that very possibility of ven hoping for a chance to fight had gone. Gill turned bis adversity to account and began to gamer strength- as a candidate. There no question but that during the past three weeks or ,o CHI has been mapping out a cxmpVrn tbat is In sharp contrast to all the other fights be has entered.' Heretofore GUI baa been accepted as more conservative than hi political opponents and never has given any Intimation that he bad arty real radical tendencies. Ills at titude toward th L W. YV. last year when be was at least considerate, if not sympathetic. In handling the trouble. ome element was his first Intimation that he had changed from Bis old-time conservatism. OU Bw-FcUwa Kaeaalea Xow. II had long ago broken with cer tain business interests but It Isn't un usual for Gill to be in and out in his relations with many big concerns, or witn mends for tbat matter. But of late he ha been carefully planning; to be a thorough-going; radi cal In hi coming; campaign. He Is to b "anti" everything, with emphasis, as th fight has developed. In bis oppo sition to lb eft one Webster traction Interests: a local newspaper that haa opposed him, a minister who has fought him for years; tb Employers' Associ ation and th bar tbat tried him and his law firm bom of these "Issues may bo eliminated, but tbey all have been considered and most of them c averted. I'p to the last minute, as stated. Oil was th only candidal In tb Mayoralty campaign who could wag a fight on such a radical platform composed en tirely of antL" Then cam James E. Bradford, lipping In with a declaration of can didacy and spoiling a part of tb GUI programme. Bradford Is a former cor poratlon counsel and two year ago was th Bull aloos nomine for Gov ernor a, radical municipal ownership advocate, a home-ruler, a favorite with th radical wing of th labor politi ciana and as fiery In attack aa GUL Bradford Kilns With Labor. Tb municipal ownership leaders al ready had tied op to GUI. but now they are split. Only one day before Brad ford entered County Commissioner Claud C Ramsay, who had promises f a lot of labor support, had with drawn from the race and a big ele ment In tb labor crowd was flirting with GUL On of th reasons Bradford am Into th race waa that he was erf-red th help of th radical labor element, and this Tot he "will take away from GiIL Th entrance of Frank Waterhouse. en of th best-known shipping men In th West. Into th race waa th re sult of a natural reaction. If It all had been planned la advance tb Waterhouse boom could not have been better managed. Waterhouse probably will not appeal very strongly to tb element that waata GilL Only Bradford of th eight candidate In the running will cut deeply Into th normal tilll vote. At th outset all th candi dates are determined to stick. Aa for Waterhouse. he say that, having agreed to mak hi sacrlflce, th detail of electing him will bav to bo bandied by others. - . VI 1 1 s r t w r: v .. Q X' J JAPANESE ART SEEN Tints and Paintings on Dis play at Museum. ORES ARE FANTASTIC SHEEPMEN MAY LEASE Ttcclaraatloa Service to Set Aside 110,000 Acres of Land for Graxlng Aa excellent opportunity greatly to extend the sheep-raising Industry In Eastern Oregon is offered to local sheepmen by th reclamation rervlce. which proposes to lease for a term of 19 years or less ll,00 acres In Mor row. Umatilla and Gilliam counties. A considerable portion of these lands ara aald to be excellent for graalng, pas turage, and. to some extent, for agri cultural purposes. Thes pubiie lands, now withdrawn from entry of any form, are located In Townships 2 and S north, range ii to It east. W. SL. Inclusive, and ars In cluded la areas reserved for th fu tur development of th Umatilla and John Day Irrigation projects. Proposals will bo received until S P. XL. February , at th office of th t'nited State Reclamation Service, Hsrmtston. Or. Full particulars con cerning terms of leas, location, etc-, may be obtained upon request of th project manager. . Road Th Oragonlaa clsssifled ads. Valuable Collection Lent by Local People to Be Followed by Showing of Prints of Later Period. BT EDITH KNIGHT HOLME Thoa who understand and truly ap preciate Oriental art. those who are merely curious and those who would learn about Japan prints and Ivory carving- and Chines paintings, should visit th Portland Art Museum this week and inspect the art exhibit loaned by J. Wesley Ladd. William Ladd. Miss Mary F. Failing; and Mra. Henry C Cabell. Tb entire wall space of the upper gallery is covered with th prints and paintings, hung chronologically, and in the center of th rooms is a case filled with rar carvings, a profusion of net suke. fantastic forms and deeply in tricate, used as buttons; statues of ex quisite workmanship. representing traveling musicians, carpenters, min strels and other quaint character that in th past were familiar figures in Japan. To do Justice to thes alone on should take a long time, for each moment reveals some aew wonder. Liq.ul.lte Ivory Carved Figure. Loaned by J. Wesley Ladd. A Japaaeae Print Made In 1739. One of tbe W illiam M. Ladd Collection. i IT HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SMALL Effect of War Js Shown in Fact That of 251 Students Leaving the High School, 143 Are Girls Sim plicity to Mark Exercises. Tb largest grammar school gradu ating class and one of the smallest high school graduating classes In the recent history of Portland will receive their di plomas next Friday. Two hundred and fifty-one students are completing their courses in th hih schools, as against 155 pupils leaving the elementary schools. Because of this discrepancy In numbers, a considerable reorganiza tion of the high school system will be necessary at the opening of the new term, as nearly all of the pupils leaving the grammar schools have expressed their intention of entering the high schools. Commencement exercises for all the high schools will be held simultane ously Friday evening. The Girls' Poly technic School, and the Benson Poly technic School will hold their exer cises together in the new Couch School at Twentieth and Glisan streets. The other exercises will be held in the re spective high school auditoriums. War UeoBossy Is Keynote. Simplicity and war economy will be th keynote of all the commencement ceremonies. Nearly all of the girls of all the high school graduating classes have foresworn new dresses and flow- rs, preferring to devote Jhe money to more economical and patriotic pur poses. No professional singers and musicians will be employed, and each chool will furnish its own music At efferson High School aU the musical numbers on the programme will be rendered by members of the graduating class, singly. In chorus and in concert. The effect of war is evident in the LYRIC BILL IS BREEZY MIKE AD IKE'S CONVICT COMEDY CAPTIVATES ACDIEXCE. Too Close Acquaintance With "Cup That Queers" Lands Comedians la Prima Cells. "Bars all around and not a drink In sight," mourns Mike Dooley, convict No. 77. "Shut up!" growls the warden. "We are shut up," protests Iko Le zlnski, convict No. 78. The two comedians at the Lyric The ater see three kinds of bars this week saloon, judicial and prison. Too close acquaintance with the well-known "cup that queers" gets' the old friends in a tight hole, and all their friends, in cluding Mike's "friend wife," are called in before they can get out again. But Alike saves the warden's life in about the same way the Bolshevik! are sav ing Russia, except that Mike gets credit for It, and wins a pardon for himself and Ike. The opening chorus is the ever popu lar "Where the Morning Glories Grow," and is followed by "Just One Day" and "As Dixie Was to Lee." Jack Crunr baker and Marguerite Whitlock have an "old-time" song about berry -picking time, and the Kialto Four and the Rosebud Chorus also add to the har mony. The most appealing number is that of Jewell La Valle, whose dope fiend character is well interpreted and who sings "China, We Owe a Lot to You." with the chorus appearing as demure Chinese maidens. Daisy Deane and her song about a "dainty peeping ankle" has to be repeated. Madeline Mathews and Billy Dodge offer a song and dance specialty. A particular feature of the bill Is an ex cellently rendered bass solo by Harlan Thompson. There ars matinees every day, Coun- The Bank of California National Association Portland Branch Third and Stark Streets Capital Paid in Gold Coin..... ,.... $8,500,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits .. 8,431,115 TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Issue Commercial Letters of Credit, covering importa tion of merchandise, as well as Letters of Credit for use of travelers throughout the United States and Foreign Countries. Interest Paid on Time and Savings Deposits Is a large panel on silk, also valuable, and of charming design and composl tion. The exhibit will be followed by another, showing prints of a later period. USE LESS OIL, IS PLEA PACiriC COAST SrPPLY IS SHORT OF KE41IIIE5IE.TS. Revival ef Lassbcr Industry Increases Ootpat of Slab Furl, and Its Greater l"e Is I'rged. Owners of beating plants In Portland which may readily be converted from use of oil to use of oi are shown to be particularly fortunate In the pres ent crude oil crisis by those familiar with the fuel situation. Though fears were felt two or three months ago, it is now known that there will be no shortage of wood. Sup plies of cordwood and slabwood are in creasing at a rapid rate, reports Fred G. Holmes, Federal fuel administrator for Oregon. "Revival . of the lumber Industry, said Mr. Holmes yesterday, "naturally increases the output of by-products, such as slabwood. Portland has already passed the point where supply equaled demand and a surplus is being accum ulated. If more families and small Workasaaahlf) la Perfect. The tiniest statues are perfect In workmanshlD. They represent labors of i patience, skill and genius and are the i plants will turn to the use of wood for result of years, often of diligence and I tuei tney win do practicing conscrva- study. A history of a nation, almost, lion 01 me mosi oencuceni son. Is expressed in these vsrious articles. each and every one having some spe clal significance. To tbe left, on th wall, as the visitor enters, be will find the earliest prints of Japan In black and wblte and then, further on, are seen the hand-colored prints and, later, the two-color and then the more modern prints, those of the first full-color masters, Harunoba and Kortusai. Do not pass these prints by lightly. They all represent something very Im portant In Japanese history, progress and art. There are pictures of actors shown In some, and In others lovely ladles ara represented. "Real Thlagao la Prists skews. Tou may not be able to read the names at th corner of the prints, but be assured that they have great signi ficance. They are tb "real things" ia th history of print making through many years In th land of cherry blos soms. Wood engraving, they tell us. goes back In Japan to a remote period, fcome say books contained these engravings aa far back as the year 130 A. L.. but It was not until 1C0S that Is Mono gaturt Illustrated books. Prints, how. ever, seem to have been popular for art expression for ages. Tradition says that In the year. 1541 soma Europeana landed at th Island of Tanegashlma to promote Christianity and that In 1583 an embassy of four young men of noble birth went to Rome with sample of Japanese art and. on their return to Japan, they brought back samples of European art. and that the appearance of Chiaroscuro engrav ing in Europe was identical In time with that of Japanese color, printing. Collection Is FaxMaatlag. However, be that aa It mav. the ml. lection at h museum Is Interesting. It Is a atudy, a pastime, if you will, te compare that art with aura . For a certainty th colorings ar exquisite. Tou may not like or understand th drawing, but It grows upon and finally iaaciqaies you. iry It. Maybe you will want to know more about It. Maybe you will endeavor to know mora of Harunobu. whose fam ily nam was Susukl and who some times signed his pictures "Klosen" and who lived In Tedo and popularized prints and who never painted actors. Harunobu depicted beautiful women. H did all his art work In a practical manner and founded his school within a decade. Bis early Ufa was given over to sailing tooth brushes, which should be a ray of hope for those doing homely tasks and feeling a di vine Inspiration to be artistic. Palatlags Arc Rleh-Taaed. Th study of Japanese prints Is a long one. Evan th names of th men were many. For Instance, Okumura Masanoba (1-174) was also called Honya. Cenroku Gempachl. 'Bunkaku. Kwanmyo, Bal-o-hogetsuda and Tan chosaX Th painting lent by Mis Falling and her sister, Mrs. Cabell, ar In rich tones and ar considered by critics to be of great -alue and beauty. Th Cblneao pain ting presented by C. Ftr Conservation to the extreme is urged upon consumers of all kinds of petro leum products to the end that the Pa cific Coast country may escape a dis astrous oil famine and at the same time aid thooe Industries which cannot oper ate without fuel oil. According to a publication of the Southern Pacific Company, fuel oil con sumption has been increasing &t an alarming rate In past months. The in crease on the Pacific Coast alone has amounted to over 34,000 barrels per day over the past nine months it is esti mated. Since production cannot be in creased adequately, it is held abso lutely necessary that consumption be curtailed. "The way for you to help." says the Southern Pacific bulletin, "is to use less oil. Substitute where you can; economise where you cannot substitute. "This shortage of oil is real. It Is a lot more real for the future than It is pleasant to think about." SPRUCE DATA COMPLETE THREE Tit ACTS OFFERED FOR SALE BV DISTRICT FORESTER. proportion of girls to boys in the high trv Store" Tuesday night and Chorus 1 1 i . . .. . n.. fll.l.' IT-tWo., niffht school classes. Of the 251 students leaving the high' schools, 142 are girls ana only 103 boys. Severar of the boys in the graduating class of each school will receive their diploma in France or in Army camps in tbis country. Jefferson Class Largest. Jefferson High School is graduating the largest class this year, consisting of 47 girls and 23 bays. Washington Is next with a class of 62, composed of 39 girls and 23 boys. Lincoln High and the High School of Commerce are each graduating 40. Lincoln offers an exception to the rule, in that there are more boys In the class than girla, but gain in tbe male percentage is more than offset by tbe High School of Com merce. Franklin has a class of 15. com posed of eight girls and seven boys. Fifteen girls are completing their studies at the Polytechnic School for Girls and 12 boys will be graduated from the Benson Polytechnic School. James John High School has no mid year graduating class. A difficulty confronts the Board of Education in the matter of the pres entation of diplomas. Ever since com mencement exercises started in the high schools of Portland it has been customary for members of this Board to give out the "sheepskins." This year, however, there are six commence ment exercises going on at the same time In different parts of the city, and only the usual five members of the Board. It is expected that Superin tendent Alderman will have to take a hand in the proceedings. Dr. E. H. Pence, pastor of the West minster Presbyterian Church, will de liver the commencement address at Jef ferson High School, and Dr. Alan Welch Smith, of the Board of Education, will present the diplomas. The February IS class at Jefferson Mas its own or chestra, girls' chorus and boys' quar tet, which will provide all the music for the exercises. Wilbur Phillips and Misa Agnes Anderson will sing solos. Programme Is Announced. Rev. H. H. Criffia. pastor of the First Christian Church, will give the com mencement address at Franklin High School. The Board of Education has not yet determined which, if any, of its members will present the diplomas to the Franklin graduates. Music will be furnished by the school orchestra and glee clubs. Thompson T. Davis, principal of Lin coln High School, was unable last night to announce the exercises at his school. and arrangements have not yet been completed for those of the technical high schools. The programme at Washington High School will be as follows: Procewlonal. "Lovely Night" COrfenbach); May Morning" (Denza), Ulrls Chorus. Mm Helen Duck, accompanist: "A Cocoanut Lance" lotto Lanslry), Washington High Hchool Orchestra; addrcaa to th graduating claaa. Dr. 11. i. Sheldon; "Hail to Our Own Native Land" (Verdi). Boys' tilee Club: pre sentation of diplomas, O. M. Plummer, Board or Kducatlon; ' Send Out Thy Light" mixed chorus. (Uounod); "Indifference" (Walter Kolse). Washington High School Orchestra ) class song, b "Auld Lang Syna": r cesalonal. ARMY WANTS PHONE GIRLS i Operators tio Can Speak 'French and English to Be Sent to France. WASHINGTON. Jan. 20. Th Signal Corps needs women telephone opera tors between 23 and 35 years old who are in good health and speak French and English fluently. Experienced op erators are preferred. Salaries range from. ISO to f 125 a month, with rations and quarters, the sameaw received by Army nurses. Units of women operators to be sent abroad will wear distinctive uniforms and be considered from a military standpoint as in a similar position to the members of the British women's auxiliary corps. Wives of Army of ficers and enlisted men in Europe or about to go will not be accepted. LIQUOR TRAFFIC BLAMED Brewers Accused of Contributing to Present Fuel Shortage. APEX LAND PLASTER MIXED and MANUFACTURED in the NORTHWEST Endorsed bj the Oregon Agricultural College. Place your order now, while quick delivery is possible and before advance in freight rates becomes effective. UNION MEAT CO. xji -uniiiiiiMij i. i -i J i iii ai.ni id ii. - - IT ITIMI lllllll DISTRIBrTORS, NORTH PORTLAND, OR, PORT SAFETY IS AIM Chief of Police Certain to Ask for More Policemen. HARBOR SURVEY IS MADE Report Will Be Submitted to Mayor, Detailing Results of Inspection of Waterfront and AVhat Guards Are Needed. mlssioner of the General Land Office in a case in which an appeal was ta a from the local land office. The de cision of local officers was upheld and the following interpretation of the law declared: "Claimant must go on the land within six months after filing and es tallshlng residence. He must build a habitable house and live there seven months of each year for three years, making the same his home to the ex clusion of one sewhere and he must cultivate one-eighth of the land. If he cannot cultivate that area he must secure a reduction of the area to be cultivated. CHICAGO, Jan. 20. That the liquor traffic is largely to blame for the pres ent coal shortage was the statement tonight of V. G. Hlnshaw, chairman of the Prohibition National Committee, who asserted that the brewing business in the United States consumed 7,740, "00 tons of coal a year. "It Is estimated also," he added. "that something like 1,000,000 freight cars were used at least one time each during the past year for shipping beer. Had these cars been devoted to the movement of coal more than 20,000 000 tons still at the mines would have been distributed." - BRITISH . SHELL 0STEND Berlin War Office Announces Con slderable Fighting in West. BERLIN, via London, Jan. 20. Os tend, on the Belgian coast, has been bombarded by naval forces. It waa an nounced In today's army headquarters report. Considerable artillery fighting oc curred at various points along the western front, the British fire being particularly intense south of the Scarpa, while on the French front there were. bursts of activity in the Verdun sector and on both sides of the Ithine-Marne canal. of Call Far Bids Contains umber Trees Ia Each Block. Together With Board Feet Available. The completeness and accuracy of the data gathered by the I'nited States Forest Service in time of peace, for use In time of war, is shown in a fall for bids on spruce timber issued from the office of tieorge 11. Cecil, district forester in charge of the National for ests of Oregon. Washington and Alaska. In three blocks of spruce timber of fered for sale, not only is the acreage given, but also the number of spruce trees on each block, and approximate number of board feet available. All three tracts are In the Lake Quinault region of the Olympic Na tional Foreit In Washington. Block 7 covers 150 acres, and contains 135 trees, scaling approximately 185,000 board feet. The minimum bid accept able Is per 1000 feet. Block I covers 120 acres, and con tains the same number of trees as Block 7. at a minimum bid of J5.5U. Block 9, which best shows the detail of th preparedness of the Forest Serv ice, covers 110 acres and contains 25 trees at a minimum bid of 4 per 1000 feet. The timber In thes three block Is suitable for riving; In other words is so situated that the most profitable way to market it would be to fall the trees, split off the wood that would mak airplane stock. In bolts, and haul it to market In that form. The girls of an exclusive girls' fin ishing school at Waterbury, Conn., have pledged themselves to do without sweets during too war. SOCIETY Several parties for the younger set and especially in honor of some of the girbs who will leave soon for college. will be events of this week. On Sat urday night the Hill Military Academy cadets and faculty will entertain at a dancing party, to which a number of the younger girls have been Invited. The patronesses for the occasion will be: Mrs. K. C. Shevlin, Mrs. James II. Murphy and Mrs. Morris 11. Whitehouse. In addition to the dance, there will be a short drill by some of the cadets. These parties always close with mili tary features, the National anthem and the salute to the flag. . -- The Progressive Woman's League will be hostesses all this week in the Liberty Shop in the court of the Hotel Portland. Uooverixed cakes and can dles will be on sale all week. Dainty refreshments will be served. AU who are interested are asked to donate arti cles or to attend. The committee in charge includes Mrs. Alice M. Mc Naught. Mrs. Mayme Deaton, Mre. Lee Davenport, Mrs. M. Oettle. Mrs. Emily Dukes, Mrs. ii. Newell, Mrs. F. A. Jacobs, Mrs. J. J. Walter, Mrs. B. Rott ner. Mrs. K. L. Chadima and Miss Flor ence Oettle. Wednesday will be "cake day." The regular meeting of the club will be tomorrow nigut at tbe Library. The trustees and faculty of the school of the Portland Art Association have issued Invitations for a display of some of th work of the students Saturday afternoon. Tea will be served at 4:10 o'clock. HOOD RIVER, Or., Jan. 20. (Spe cial.) At a party given by Mrs. I. R. Acheson here last night tbe engage ment o( Mass Ethel Goudy, Hood Klver j SKILLED WORKERS NEEDED Four-Minute Men to Speak In In. tercst of Shipbuilding Industry. VANCOUVER, Wash, Jan. 20. (Special.) Tho "four-minute" men will again be called to action In campaign to secure- skilled workers for tbe shipbuilding Industry. W. C. Bates, chairman of the "four minute" men In Clarke County, has re ceived instructions from the Govern ment to start the campaign for labor ers January 28. The Importance of shipbuilding will be explained by these speakers, who will make addresses in all parts of the county. Canby Flans Thrift Campaign. CANBT, Or., Jan. 20. (Special.) The Canby achools held a mass meet ing of the student body at the Band Auditorium recently to plan for the thrift stamp campaign. The student body wad addressed by Professor Roth, City Superintendent, and H. H. Eccles, grammar school principal. Th stu dent body hopes to raise 11000. Uippodrome Manager Dies. TACOMA, Jan. 20. Arthur Lotto, manager of the Hippodrome Theater here, died this morning of pneumonia after an illness of only two days. He came here from Los Angeles about six months ago and was well known in theatrical circles along the Coast. A sister.' Mrs. M. L. fink ham, resides at Ocean Park, CaL Chief of Police Johnson finished a personal inspection and survey of every big establishement on Portland's water front at a late hour last night and to day will mane recommendations to Mayor Baker on the needs of the har bor with relation to adequate protec tion and how be deems this may best be given. This Inspection and recommendation would have been in before now, the chief said yesterday, had he been able to devote his time to this Important piece of work instead of having to sit through a hearing of charges placed against Captain Harms by the Port land News. He lost an entire day In that manner, but made up in part for that by working until a lat hour yes terday. More Police to Be Crged. That Chief Johnson will urge the appointment of additional regular po licemen Is almost certain, although he was unable yesterday to state in de tail Just what he would ask for. He will submit his report to the Mayor, who is Commissioner of Public Safety, during the day. No details of the chiefs personal in spection of the riverfront are made public at this time because of the seriousness of the situation and the necessity of secrecy In regard to some of the features pertaining to tbe con ditions he has found. Not since last week, when Informa tion came suddenly to Mayor Baker, causing him to mobilize the police for emergency duty on the waterfront, has the situation changed with regard to the importance of maintaining ade quate guards at all points where war materials are being manufactured or are stored. Policemen are doing duty in a large number of places, assisted by special watchmen supplied by em nlovers. Much of the routine of the bureau has been broken into because of this additional requirement for patrolmen. Chief Johnson probably will embody in his recommendations one reature i that will insure tho organiaztion of guards along the river under some re sponsible head, who shall be in su preme command of the zone and under whom shall be assigned officers and men sufficient to handle any emer gency. System to Be Worked Oat. "We must have some system whereby the waterfront will at all times be under adequate protection." said Chief Johnson, "and I will attempt to recom mend something that will embody this feature when I submit my report to the Mayor tomorrow. Millions of dol lars' worth of property and supplies are to be guarded, and were anything to happen it would require out a very short time in which to cost us enough to employ an army of watchmen for tho period of the war, even though U should last a long time. Prevention is the thing and that is wnai is ceing aimed at. After making a personal survey and Inspection of every plant on the river within the city limits, I shall submit my ideas on what is needed, how many men it will take to handle the situa tion and a means of complete organiza tion of officers and men." PERMISSION N0T SOUGHT Japanese and British Embassies Are Asked to Explain Ship Movements. PETROGRAD, Jan. 20. The authori ties at the Smolny Institute have issued a note to the Japanese and Brit ish embassies asking information con cerning the entrance of British and Japanese cruisers into Vladivostok har bor. The note says the Smolny Insti tute's permission was not asked for foreign cruisers to enter the harbor. Maniac Kills Policeman. BOSTON. Jan. 20. A thief with a mania for stealing phonograph records shot and killed Policeman J. C. Reiser when trapped by the latter in an apartment-house today. He escaped, leav ing a pack of stolen records behind. Eighty persons had reported theft of their records. Federal Arbitrator Resigns. CHICAGO, Jan. 20. John E. Williams' resignation as Federal arbitrator of labor disputes arising in the packing; industry was announced today at a meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor by William Foster, secretary of the Stockyards Labor Council. Hi hpalth was given as the reason. FOR SALE A m f Colorado five-year farm mort gagee. We look after the col lection of Interest, taxee and Insurance during life of loan. Write for booklet giving tie-, tailed report on all loan. The Banker Loan and Hort-t gage Co. Authorized capital $500,000, 211 Bennett Bldg.. Colo. Nprlnre. Colo. TRAVELERS' GUIDE. San Francisco Los Angeles S. S. Rose City Sails Fram Ainswortb Dock. S I". M., Thursday, Jan. 24 The San i'ranciaco at 1'ortland 8. 8. CV. Third and Haabingtau streets (with O.-W. B. Ji. C.. Xel. bruudway Ibimi. A 12L HOMESTEAD LAW SET OUT Residence on Land Xot Compulsory After Final Proof. Boy Sconts to Do "Bit." WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. 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