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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1918)
TIIE MORNING OKEGOMAX, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1918. 5 a. PllMOnllV uu DOING 10 Hiram u ITS BEST-GRIFFITH Every Effort Made to Meet Traffic Requirements, Ex ecutive Says. COMMISSION IS ASSURED trrrt Railway Condition in Tort land Materially Different From Thor of Ynr Ago, Dar Main- Indatrlrs. 'J to War FALEM. Or, Frh. 13 Ppeclal.) Franklin T. Griffith, president of the rortland Railway. Uicht I'owrr Com pany, today assured the rubllc Service t'ommUsion that bla company la mak ing erery effort to meet complalnla re garding service and that the company la conducting investigations with a view to Improving service on Its own account- The letter l In reply to one from the commission calling attention to complaints as to alleged inadequate service, particularly during rusn hours, and advising the company that It has started an Investigation ot Its owl along thesa lines. "You are doubtless aware that traf flc conditions In Portland are mate rtally different from the conditions of one year ago. writes Mr. Griffith "There has been an Increase in the number of passengers carried daily, but the increase has been almost wholly rush-hour business. During two com paratlvely short periods In the morn ing and evening the great bulk of our traffic moves. This is due to the In - creased number of employes In the In dustries of Tortland. and as the work ing hours of the great majority of them are practically the same the difficulty of handling rush-hour traffic has greatly increased. Mere Cars Arc Fat Oa. "We ara securing some co-operation In the larger industries in the arrange ment of working hours so as to spread our loads and promote the convenience of our patrons, and as a result of traf fic studies being made we are also Im proving the handling and running of our cars so as to meet conditions with the least inconvenience to the public. In accordance with your Instructions we added 4 cars to our rush hours service on January IS and have since then made further increases. "Under normal conditions we have always experienced a falling off In traf fic immediately following the Christ mas holidays, and as has been our usual experience we are finding that in Janu ary and February" of this year we are transporting a less number of passen gers on our cars than were being trans ported In December last. "The acute congestion occurs during the hour immediately preceding the usual time for beginning work in the yards and factories and during the hour Immediately following quitting time. If the Investigation now being made by your examiners verifies the statements here we should greatly ap predate it If In the Interest of service and the convenience of our passengers you would exert such influence as you may to aid us in securing a better dis tribution of rush hour loads by in ducing employers and employes In the larger Industries to slightly change their working hoars. Date Set for Bearing. A statement accompanying the let ter snows that the number of pas engers carried daily for the week ending January 1!. ISIS, and the week ending r ternary i. isis. snows that a greater number was carried In the first period than In the latter period, not withstanding the fact that during the latter period the company was op erating a materially Increased service. The statement is made to oear out the assertion that complaints of congestion arise from the packing of cars during rush hours. The commission today set Tuesday, f primary 19, at is A. il.. as a time to hear reports from the company on Its progress. This hearing will deal par ticuiarly with traffic studies and data which hare a direct bearing on traffic conditions, and comparative statements will be received aa suggested in th recent letter of the commission relative to complaints as to service. be delivered to correspondents except during the hours stated. lf the commanding General and the chief of staff grant Interviews to cor respondents, such Interviews will be granted during this time. tjfflrers on duty at these hado.uar tr. who have matter for publication, will submit a statement of the same to military censor before 11 A. M. daily. "Ily command of Brigadier-General Kolfa." Th gradual tightening of the cen sorship began some time ago with an order aalnt the publication of all benslne' board cases. Then followed an ordr forbidding the publication of ,11 rourtmartlal cases Involving offl era, life and death sentences and dis honorable discharge until the cases had been submitted to Washington ard fin ally disposed of. The acting chief of staff asserted that the ordrr was Issued In the Interest of ffirlenry. lie denied any Intention of interfering with correspondents In their duties. e e e Charles Mullen, formerly player with the Chicago and New York American Ueague baseball teams, has been ap pointed Captain of the Ninety-first Di vision tram by Captain Leonard A. Wattelet. camp baseball director. e e Preparations for the reception of the next quota of drafted men at Camp Lew Is are under way with the begin ning of work upon a new receiving sta tion for the men opposite the camp railway depot. m m m Tomorrow the Slat Division will pass In review in honor of Brlgadler-ten-eral Helmlck. of the Inspector-General's department. I'nlted States Army. This will be the third time the entire division has been reviewed by Army officials. e e The noonday athletics under the su pervision of the Y. M. C A. has proved a popular diversion. Today noon found more than 300 men. fresh from the rigors of trench dlccing. playing baseball, boxing and tossing the medi cine bag ball for 45 mlnutea before re turning to the trenches for the after noon. BERT BELIEU SHOT BY POSTMISTRESS Mrs. Mona Parr Fires Weapon When House Is Stormed With Bottles. ernment officials, returned tonight and attempted to address a meeting of the striking shipyards workers they re fused to listen and forcibly ejected him. Mr. Ferguson, although having no direct connection with the ship car penters" and Joiners' union, expressed the belief tonight that the strike would be terminated by Monday and that the men would yield to the Government appeal Lenders Well Disposed, It was apparent tonight that leaders of other labor unions were trying to placate the radical element among the strikers and Induce them to return to work and trust the Government to d the fair thing by them. In all about 1100 men are out in tb carpenters. Joiners and cancers branches of the industry, William L.- Hutcheson was expected from Washinirton during the day. Th men seemed anxious to hear directly from the head of their union. While some of the strikers were in a defiant mood, others, including several of the local leaders, seemed hopeful that the trouble will be satisfactorily adjusted bv the Government. Permission to address tne siriKing shin caroenters was refused by tne men this morning to Kev. cnaries a. Katon. of New York, who Is touring the shipyards of the East In behalf of the Shipping Board, making patriotic ddresses to the workers, ur. taion . . --.- T- . fCniu O 1 I m S 1111,1 I 11 H L I L J1 C WCWllcu l - L.r.1. i . -.r.. r - I " " . 1H..VI... H . . . . i i . !-... hp fine I sneecn- 10 ku iw n a.,,i,,h v,, h Mm Mona si. prr. oostmlstress at maice . Crabtree. wounded Bert O. Beiieu. oi o'clock last, night. The bullet struck HENS WORK DOUBLE SHIFT Belleu in the right knee and lodged in WOUND . IS NOT SERIOUS Woman Official Declares Rifle Was Discharged Accidentally and Not Willi Intention of Injuring; Ik-Ilcu or Associates. DOL OF EAST COMING ORPUErX PRETEXTS CECIL LEAN. WHO HOLDS RECORD. his lea- Bclleu had driven a Jitney bus load of nersons to a dance at Crabtree and was stanrilna- beside his car in front of the nostoffice at the time. Mrs. Parr says that earlier in the evening some young men had been an noying her by throwing rocks against the bouse and carousing on me porcn of the postofflce building In which she and her husband. K. K. Parr, reside. Later, when she heard some persona on the porch she went to the door, rifle in hand, to order them away. Some one threw a bottle against the house and in the excitement the weapon was aia- charared. Mrs. Parr asserts she dis charged the rifle accidentally and did not see Bclieu, who had taken no part in the disturbance. been Pelrce's Record-Breaklng Orping tons Lay Day and Night. Hens that lay two eggs a day. or rather one egg at night and one dur Insr the day. have been "invented," or bred, by Fred Peirce, of 636 Cora street, license collector for the city. He was awakened a couple of nights ago by hens cackling, and suspecting Intruders, rushed out and found thai two hens had laid eggs, which were still warm, and the hens were still cackling. It was 1:30 A. M. Between 2:30 and 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the same day the hens each laid again. They are White Orpingtons. i.. Tari. riMl9rfl ehe nan -a0"aw 1 .ab. a m a a . a r av i a bothered by persons on similar oc- An I flU (jpj WNHHtLU casions. ino uuiuo miww" as""1 H aisles 1 Ceamtrdy Star. -With Beaatlfal CI re Mayfleld. Featarea Late Seags 'la IBIS Act. j Cecil Lean, renowned musical com edy star, who holds the record for con secutive musical comedy performances in Chicago and New York, so great waa m i my r -i -11-1- -NaWJa. i . i-aaa. house had contained vanua extract. Empty bottles of the same kind found in Crabtree this morning Indicate that some of Jie young men there had been drinking. Local officers will present the case to the grand Jury. They are satisfied Mrs. Parr will be here if an Investiga tion warrants her prosecution and no arrest has been made. AUTO SPEEDER IS FINED W. H. Dempster Pays Out $15 Result of Reckless Driving. Cecil Learn. Camp Lewis Notes. CAMP LEWIS. Wash. Feb. IS. The censorship lid was clamped down tight at Camp Iwls today by Brigadier General Frederick i. Foltx, comma Ing the Ninety-first Division. N paper correspondents making customary calls at the various office and divisional headquarters were In formed that they were exceeding their privileges in calling in these offices. Aftrr the matter was taken up with the acting chief of staff it was an nouncet mat In tne future all news from divisional headquarters building would be given out by Captain M. L. Weltr. aide de camp to the command tng General and camp censor. Shortly thereafter a bulletin was Is ued. as follows: In the future competitive newspa per correspondents will visit the of fice of the military censer between the hours of 11 . M. and 12 noon, at which time any military newa for publication will be given them. "Any copy for censorship may be ent to the military censor at times eher then the above, hnt no four will Based On Cost Per Tablet It Saves c. bla popularity In those centers. Is the star of the Orpheura show to open at the Hellig Theater tomorrow after noon. In Chicago Mr. Lean appeared 49 times In "The Time, the Place and The Girl." In which part of Johnnie Hick York he appeared 483 times in "The Blue Paradise." in which success he created the role of Rudolph Stoerger. In "The Blue Taradise" Mr. Lean's principal support was Cleo Mayfleld. the beautiful young woman who is now traversing the Orpheum circuit with bim in an act featuring songs of the moment In its premiere In New York the Or pheum act of Mr. Lean and Miss May field was called "the classiest thing in vaudeville." Miss May field introduces several new gowns by Joseph and also wears several Importations brought over by Miss Mayricld s own commis sionaire In Paris. With this show the Orpheum re sumes Its former schedule of four mat inees and three nights weekly. No Or pheum show will be presented next Wednesday night, as a concert engage ment prevents use of the theater that night for vaudeville. On the Wednea- day night following, however. th,o Orpheum will present an extra per formance, as the Hellig has been en gaged especially for Wednesday night that week, when Gertrude Hoffman will be the star. I "" TTl 7 TTT XX TlAmnef T on atmnlnVA of the Pacific Telephone & Telegrapn Company, dashed up Fourth street in his automobile at a speed estimated ai 28 miles an hour and attempted to turn the corner into Washington street. Thursday, his car almost overturned. I according to Sergeant of Police Ervin. who witnessed the act. as a result. In Municipal Court yesterday he waa fined $15. An excuse given by many drivers for certain violations was that they did not know the ordinance applied to all sections of the city. Judge Kossman urged that every driver get a copy of the law and study it. Cases were disposed of as follows: M. Tarlow. 10; S. Arbuckle. J7.50; I W. A Wrleht. J2.60: L. R. Maple. 15: W. Elliott, 12.60: W. H. Dempster, 16; L. A. Smith. 13.50. V created he HURLEY DERES STRIKERS a and in New (rnntlnn.d From First Paire.) B TUSGANIA LIST CHANGED ?! .V4MK9 OF 83 KXOWX DEAD REACH WASHIXGTOX. CASCARA QUININE No ! is is price far this TS-vrer-M man ily lie for 24 ulili n fliama -mat UMan mam JOc far 21 tablrta Ficwajd oaa iwupmtinesre ros pr tabart. o save 'tc vbra yoa Imy HUI Cum Cold ha 14 hew srig ha 3 dare Moary bark if It ran lav. 24 TeUeta lor 2Sc At mmr Drug Star WHEN CHILDREN CRY OUT An4 ar fvrtnh aad den t sleep w11. are cnarttpled and nave irmplMni of worms, mothers will find eatck riif In Mother l.rif' Sweet Pow-lart for ChU'lren. the tnlmrd rvmedr fnr 3A years. They ira rr to ST anrl rhlMrva Itk them. They c.eainr tfa stomac. set gently oa lite bow. e .m and breoa op eotd. Krilevo he. latches an! feethlns disorder. W have 10.nti t Umimi4l. Ask ynar drarrlwl and he sore to ret Motbor tirar'a Most fawdan for sbiwiraa, :. Adv. Dispatch Uivea Additional Data Rela tive te Victim That Were Barled mm Scottish feast. WASHINGTON". Feb. 15. Eighty-two names of known dead among tne American soldiera who were on board the torpedoed liner Tuscanla were re ceived by cable tonight at the War Department. An Associated Press dispatch last Tuesday announced that lot soldier vic tims hsd been burled on the Scottish roast and gave the names of 131 iden tified, but tonight's message waa the first official incomplete list to reach the department. The names that did not appear on the list of dead buried on the Scottish coast are riven in the department.' a dispatch. They are: Corporal Clea Barerirtork. Mairenvttle. Pa, I'rivalo Ruaaell K. Bennett. Flamfleld. Wis. Pruat 'ranklln A. Church. Providence R I. Private TVIIIlam A. Din ter. Coero. Texas. Private Hny W. May. I.lndale. Texas. Private Henry Otford. Tunacarllle. Texas. Prlvato Olio Ray. t'oleman. Trxu. Private James K. Ppnrkman. Frl.-ro. Trvaa. Private H-ll l. Williams. Olenwood. Ark. Private James C. YVooii. Vaalla. Texas. No new estimate of the total num ber of dead was made at the depart ment tonight. It has been believed here that the total would not exceed 170. but the above ! apparently bring the IJst of known dead up to 174. Four Accident Jr'alal. Joiners' union were the only ones who declined to leave adjustment of diffi culties to the shipbuilding labor ad justment board. Even the carpenters' locals, despite this attitude. Mr. Hur ley declared, have asked to be Included in the agreement. Hutcbtaoa Cltea Agreement. Hutcheson. in declining to .ask the strikers to return to work, called Chairman Hurley's attention to a pro posed agreement he submitted Febru ary 7 for an adjustment of the situ ation and declared he had done his ut most to prevent the men from quitting I work. Shipping Board officials said tonight the agreement was not accepted be cause it did not provide for settlement of difficulties by the adjustment board and because it contemplated a closed shop agreement. 01 lutuaatai s.XaijnH utsuuesto Hutcheson said: "Yours of the 14th received. Tou were present at the convention of the American Federation of Labor In Buf falo on Friday, November 23, whan by unanimous vote a resolution was passed stating that It Is necessary to Nation s protection, aa well as to the welfare of the trade union move ment, that there (should be no cessation of work, except as a last resort and after due hearings. Do you or do you not approve of this position today? Settlements Provided For. "On August 20 last a board was es tablished composed of a representative I ot the Navy Department and emergency I fleet corporation, a representative of I organized labor appointed by Samuel Gompers and the chairman of the board appointed by the President of the United States, to which all disputes as to wages, hours and conditions of em ployment should be submitted for set-1 tlcment. "You are the only International presi dent of all crafts working in the ship-l yards who has refused to become a I party to this agreement. "Are the other international presl-1 dents less patriotic or-less careful of I the Interests of their crafts than your self? It Is true aa you state in yourl letter of the ltth that you have tried I to arrange matters during the past six I months, but your efforts have been con fined to demanding special privileges I for your organization that would dis criminate In their favor as against the I other crafts. "I do not question the patriotism of I your members and, in fact, have reason to believe they are as loyal as members of other organized crafts, for when the shipbuilding labor adjustment board sat on the Pacific Coast and at every hearing so far held on the Atlantic Coast, the local carpenters' organiza tions, when told their International offlcera were not parties to the agree ment establishing the board, asked to be included and have bound themselves to abide by the decisions of the board. "The members of your organization SALEM. Or.. Feb. 15. (Special.) I have thus given tangible proof of their patriotism by their acta. "Will you ask the men now paralys ing the shipyards and the Nation's war I programme to go back to their work I and trust their Government through I the labor adjustment board to deal I fairly with them, as it has with, every I otner group of workers! Delay May Heaa Slaughter. "Will you help now, when every day's delay may mean the daughter of our I Doys: Four fatal accidents nut of a total of vSS were r ported to the Industrial Acrident I Commission for the week ending Febru ary 14. Inclusive. The fatal accidents were Carl Druhat. Portland, ateel work- er: Frank Webster. Knterprlse. mill worker; M. S. Kosa. Portland. ateel worker, and Vernon M. Tflatcher, Portland, conductor. Seattle Minister Dies at 62. SEATTLE. .Wash.. Feb. 15. Rev. T. J. MarMurray. 2. pastor of the George town Presbyterian Church of Seattle, died last night. Key. Mr. MacMurray was the author of several hooka of poems ana esaa, Coos Bay Wagon Grant Bill to Wait Until State Makes Showing. SALEM. Or- Feb. 15. (Special.) Further word aa to the progress of the Coos Bay wagon grant bill in Congress was received by Attorney - oeneral Brown today In a letter from Repre sentative Hawley. who stated that the sub-committee has agreed to withhold further action on the bill until the state makes its showing. Mr. Hawley writes that, all told, the state and counties will receive about 500,000 from the measure if it goes through in its original form. A repre sentative of the Department of Justice Is coming West to confer with the Gov ernor and Attorney - General on the I , m Put Your Boys in These Norfolk Suits for $5 with extra "knicks" Really good suits are these, at a mighty low price just the clothes for the boys to wear through the remainder of the school year, and then during va cation. There are a number of patterns from which you can choose. You will see here many other lines of Norfolk suits for boys, "ranging; in price from $6.50 to $20 tweed, cheviot and novelty weaves in attractive patterns. For the smaller boys there are novelty and military suits in a most pleasing array of styles and patterns; they are priced quite moderately at $5 to $12.50. Overcoats! Overcoats! If the boys need new overcoats, now's the time to buy them, while you are reasonably sure of finding the 6tyle and the size you wish. Coats are here in many fabrics many patterns and colors. Look at them today: Boys' Overcoats $6J)0 to $15 Children's Overcoats $5 to $15 Gaps, Hats, Sweaters, Underwear and Furnishings for Boys. Second Floor Elevator fl. HomsonatfiiHrtli matter, and Mr. Hawley Is confident, If proper showing Is made, all of the money may be saved for the state. Senator Fulton's Iietter Prophetic. MEDFORD. Or.. Feb. 15. (Special.) At the Lincoln Club banquet Tuesday night a letter rrom the late Senator Charles Fulton was read accepting an invitation to speak at the banquet if his health would permit. The letter was written in November and seemed almost prophetic in its doubt concern ing the future. After a few words of appreciation by President C. M. ' Thomas, Attorney Gus Newberry made -a motion that the clut send a letter'"' of condolence to the Fulton family and the press of the state. This was car- ' " rled unanimously. m K ft a OTemig ii eMraii , Masses Countless'scrapsof paper7 bearin,Tin Germanr Polish Czechaml'Slavichwofd .of the far-rjjff American President, are being furtively . passed from hand to hand along theGermah arid. Austrian battle-lines and through the mines and factories of the Central Empires, The. despised and ridiculed Bolsheviki, according to U. S. Senator Stone, are print ing and . sending into Mitteleuropa these American messages of sympathy for-the Teutonic 'peoples ufttler ' the autocratic, yoke, arid the circulation of these tracts may have had its 'part in rousing the Austrian' and German peoples to the brief protest of the. strikes, of a feSr dayVago. Berlin, at-any rate, blamed America for the strikes, and sentenced two British' aviators to. ten. years. in jail for dropping the Wilsonian gospel like, manna from they heavens on the wilderness of the Kaiserdom.s This subject is covered in a most 'graphic manner :',in orieof the ieadingjarticlesin THE-LITERARY DIGEST for! February 16th. OtherItopicsofid&publicTinterest-in- thisTnumberofT, The JDigest 'rare t Germany's Under-Sea 'Tnghtf illness", a Failure A Careful Summing-up of von Tirpitz's Submarine Campaign Ouringr.the Year.191 7 Canada's New Naturalization Law, Workers to Rule the World German Idea of President VWilson's : "Infamous Designs" How' to Test Your Intelligence' jThe Briquet As a Coal Saver .Cook Your Bananas N - Raising Crops to Win the War. (Prepared by U. S. Food Administration) , Where Our Rare Books Come From Adult and Juvenile Delinquency Can We Bridge the Atlantic? (Prepared by U. S. Bureau of Education) Quebec Will Not Secede Save Coal By Using Daylight Russia Inciting German Strides That Coming Big Drive atJheJrVest Dolls As Movie Actors What Shall We Use for Sugar? Electrical Links to Save" Fuel New York Discovers Galli-Curci Galsworthy. Declines Decoration) Spiritual Meaning of Jerusalem Deliverance Current Poetry News of .Finance and v Industry Many Human-interest Illustrations,.-Diagram,-and Cartoon? it The Digest" the Magazine for Thinking People of this nation depend, to make certain of accurate an ibiased 'knowledge of what is being -done, at thej front and in the thousand coordinated energies now set on foot at home. The one news-magazine that gives ' you the facts, and nothing but the facts, without fear or. favor, is THE LITERARY DIGEST. Read it. thi. "week and every week, and be sure that your judgment and action are based on intelligent understanding.' Every day that passes discloses more and more clearly the fact that the war in which the democracies of the world are engaged is a peoples war, that it is being fought out not for the benefit of the classes but of the masses, that a new birth of freedom may come to the world with its ending. 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