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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. WEDXESDAT, JULY 3, 1918. 15 NEW RECORD IS SET Northwest Yards Deliver 112, 300 Tons During June. OREGON OUTPUT IS GREAT Six Steel Ships and Three AVooden Carriers Are Turned Over by Plants of This District in Thirty Days. Of 280.400 tons of completed ships de livered by builders of the United States to the Emergency Fleet Corporation during: June, 112.300 tons was from shipyards In the Northwest, and of "the amount 52,600 tons was credited to Oregon. The Oregron district completed six steel ships and three wooden carriers in that period. Since January 1 the Oregon district has turned over 20 com pleted vessels, 17 of steel and three of wood, representing' a combined dead weight tonnage of 139,400. The June showing in the Northwest Is the greatest in its hiHtory and the same is true of the Oregon district six steel carriers, four of 8800 tons and two of 3800 tons, aiso three wooden vessels of 3600 tons, was the aggregate delivery here. The total In the North west was 14 ships and the division on Pii get Sound was one from Tacoma and . the others from - Seatle. At Portland the deliveries were made by the North west Steel Company and Willamette Iron & Steel Works, they combined turning over three 8800-ton carriers, and the Columbia River Shipbuilding Corpora tion delivered one of the same type; the Alblna Engine & Machine Works fin ishing two of 3800 tons and the three wooden steamers were from the fleet being turned out by the Grant Smith Porter Ship Company. Vessels finished for the Government since the first of the year, their ton nage, type and date of delivery, were as follows: Veaael. type, when delivered Tonnaee. Weatwlnd. steel. January 2 ssoo Point Arena, steel. March 2. .......... .3300 Weatward Ho, ateel. March 4 R800 Weatcheater, ateel. March 17 8800 Point Loma, steel. March 20 3300 Westbrook, steel, March 30 8800 Westshore, steel, April 15 8S00 "Westgate. steel. April 23 8S00 "vVestgrove. ateel, April 26 ........8SM0 AVesthampton, steel. May 13..." 8S00 West Indian, steel. May 22 880 Western City, steel. June 3 8800 Western Wave, steel, June 8.... 8800 Wasco, wood. June 4 ..3600 Western Ocean, steel. June 17. ....... .8800 Point Bonlta, steel, June 24 3800 Blloxl, wood, June 25 SB00 Point Lobos. steel. June 30 3800 Western Chief, steel. June 30 8800 Kasota, wood, June 30 ...3U00 The steamer Blandon, sister of the Wasco, Biloxi and Kasota, also is ready and has had her dock trial, that really being all that is required; but as she has not actually been turned over by the Grant Smith-Porter force to the Emergency Fleet Corporation, she was not included in the June summary. The three wooden ships placed in commis sion represent about a third of what is expected to be turned over during July, as other than the Grant Smith-Porter yard will be in the list of yards to fin ish contracts this month. TERMINAL IS TO BE FILLED Dock Board to Have Aid of Dredges From Port and Government. ' Three dredges are to be engaged in filling enough of the St. Johns munici pal terminal site to permit existing projects to be carried through. The dredge Portland, now engaged in the slip there, will be rejoined shortly by the dredge Willamette, they being of the Port of Portland fleet, and one of the Government diggers is to be as signed there if possible, application having been made to the War Depart ment by the Commission of Public Docks. ' The commission met informally yes terday with the Port of Portland Com mission, and the dredging programme was arranged as to the Poft returning the Willamette to St. Johns, when she can be spared from Mock's Bend. The Dock Commissioners made known that they had applied through Colonel Zinn, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., for the use of either the Wahkiakum or Mult nomah, of the Federal fleet, which will not be started on Columbia River chan nel operations until the freshet waters recede below the 10-foot mark. The terminal project is viewed as war work, as it insures the completion of a 1,000,000-bushel grain elevator. RIVER IS SLOWLY RECEDING Stage of Willamette at Portland to Re 10.9 Feet Friday Morning. Steadily the Willamette River is falling here, the gange reading at 8 o'clock last night finding the height to be 17.8 feet above zero, a decline of two-tenths of a foot in 12 hours. The reading at 8 o'clock in the morning showed a decline of three-tenths of a foot for the preceding 24 hours. The Weather Bureau forecast is that the stage Friday morning will be 16.9 feet. Readings yesterday were: I o BiT 5 s 2" K" ul s STATION Wenatchee .... 1-ewlston ..... T'matllla The Dalles ... Albany ....... Halem Oregon City .. Portland 401 37.5! 1.30.00 22 8.0 0.3! 23 18.31 0.30.00 40( 30. ; 0.5IU.O0 201 1.4 0 0.00 20 0.71 OO.OO 121 2.61 O.7 0.0O 15l IS. 01 0.310.00 ENGINEERS NOT TO STRIKE Association Makes Agreement AVith Employers and Shipping Board. WASHINGTON", July 2. Strikes are prohibited for the period of the war tinder an agreement reached between the Marine Engineers" Beneficial Asso ciation, the American Steamship Asso elation and the Shipping Board, an an nouncement today said. Overtime payment for all work done off watch at sea, except that necessary for the immediate safety of the vessels. was granted the association members. The ruling does away with the ancient privilege accorded officers of calling We manufacture for Shipbuilders BOAT SPIKES BOLTS SHIP RIVETS NORTHWEST STEEL CO, Portland Oregon. men during their rest hours to any task they might find or devise, without ex tra pay. . . Portland, San Francisco and Seattle have branches of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, both deepwater and inland engineer) being members. There has not been talk of a strike on this coast, so far as steamship owners have made known. The laet Pacific Coast convention was held at Portland last Spring, when wage matters were decided on. COOS HARBORS ARE INSPECTED Colonel Zinn Orders Improvement at Mouth, of Coos River. MARSHFIELD,. Or., July I. (Spe cial.) Colonel George Zinn, head of the harbors and rivers work for the Port land district, on a visit to Coos Bay, inspected the dredge Michie and or dered inside dredging, made necessary by shoals, at the mouth of Coos River and in front of the Southern Pacific warehouse. Other work Is to be done at the Coos Bay Shipbuilding Company yard, where the channel is to be deep ened. The dredge will operate at times when it comes to the upper bay for ruel supply. Twenty thousand dollars is available for this work. GODS PLANTS FAR AHEAD KRl'Sli A BAXKS YARDS LEAD IN SHIP CONSTHICTIOS. Percentages Will Be Increased During A'ext Few Months mm Result of New Facilities. MARS H FIELD. Or., July 2. (Spe cial.) Claims of all shipyards which have been boasting- of feats In rush work are shattered by the statement of the United States Shipping Board, which gives the Coos Bay yards the highest mark obtained by any plants in the country. The Kruse &. Banks yard, of North Bend, Is rated highest in the United States, and the Coos Bay yard second, with slightly over 1 per cent differ ence. These honors are credited to the Coos Bay yards for fuiailment of con tracts on time limit. The records stand above all steel yards and above all wooden shipbuilding yards, and the yard nearest approaching this record of promptness in completing contracts is the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company, of Seattle, with a score of less than 90 per cent. There are, therefore, 77 shipyards In the United States straggling down the percentage line as low as 10. Kruse & Banks, as well as the Coos Bay Shipbuilding Company, will add to heir percentages between now and Fall, when the programme was to have been completed, since the former will launch its sixth vessel long before it is due to take the water, and the later will have Its fourth launched in August, a month before the required date. President A- E. Adelsperger attrib utes the unusual record to many things. among them the proximity to sawmills which are turning out ship timbers as fast as needed; the excellent organiza tion and the willingness and morale of the workmen. A feature of this yard's record is the fact very little overtime has been offered the men, and the success was made on straight an legitimate lines. ' Marine Notes. ' Having moved from the Custom-Home to the tenth floor of tbe Gasco building, the new telephone number of the United States 6 team vessel Inspectors Is Main 1109. Cap tain jl,. c Qwnrai ana jonn wynn, witn their assistants, have about finished straightening; their paraphernalia around at the new location. They are to inspect the new steamer Calala and the auxiliary schooner Plcheney today. Built originally to load 1,500,000 feet of lumber, an indicated capacity not always reached by vessels, the schooner Georjre E. Billings has taken on 1,435,000 feet of fir and. while space below deck and that al- lotted for her deckload ts filled, she Is not down to her marks. In a telegram from Washington yesterday to tbe mergency Fleet Corporation it was made known no wooden seagoing barges will be built on tbe Pacific side. The cor poration recently figured on turning out 200 barges for Atlantic service and the decision to eliminate the contracts on the Pacific side came as a surprise. Instead, It Is ex pected yards not engaged on Government work will be given steamer contracts. In the future, lighthouse inspectors in charge of districts are to be designated as superintendents, information having reaehed Robert W arrack, head of the seventeenth district, yesterday that he- would have the substitute title in the future. Superintend ent Milo Hoadiey will be known as assistant superintendent. To replace the propellor Nahcotta on the Astoria-Megler route during the North Beach season, the steamer Harvest Queen left here yesterday. "Captain Budd, super intendent of the North Beach road who aiso looks after the service across the bay, was on hand to take over the Queen. She has been replaced on the Port land -Astoria run by the Hassalo. Captain J. M. McGraw will be skipper of the Queen, he having been In the O.-W. R. N. service several years, and James Morris is to b chief engineer. Pacific Coast Shipping Notes. SEATTLE, Wash.. July 2. (Special.) Since April 1, when the United States Ship- ! ping Board opened its Sea Service Bureau here 2014 names of men ambitious to serve . in the Emergency Fleet have been listed at this office. Of this number a good per centage are experienced men. Those Inex perienced have been told to await the open ing of the marine training school courses, shortly to be started on the steamers Iro quois and Chippewa, now being overhauled. Miss Madge Draper, a pretty girl, today applied at the Sea Service Bureau for a po sition as oiler aboard one of the Shipping Board vessels. She was informed that it was impossible to enroll women for this work and she went away disappointed. C Henry Smith, of San Francisco, has chartered the famous schooner Casco, once known as Robert Louis Stevenson's yacht, and tbe little craft will shortly start load Ins lumber. She Is owned at present by Captain Harry W. Crosby, of Seattle. Advices from Nome announce that North ern Sound is still filled with heavy ice. and as a consequence three big steamships en route to St. Michael are detained off Nome, which port they reached with considerable difficulty and much delay. Btate Fish Commissioner I- R. Xarwfn has arranged with tbe Pacific American Fisher ies Company to take sockeye salmon at their traps for the state. The fish will be kept in specially prepared ponds until it Is time to relieve them of their eggs for spawning purposes. Colombia River Bar Report. NORTH HEAD. July 2. Condition of ths bar at 5 P. M.: Sea, smooth; wind, north west, 30 miles. Tide m Astoria Wednesday. High. Low. fl:.3 A. M 5.0 feet I 8.68 A. M....0.5 foot 9:41 P. M 8.D feet f 3:25 P. M....2.8 feet GUN COTTON DESTROYED Loss at Aetna Chemical Company's Plant 91,000,000. MOUNT UNION, Fa., July 2. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed four buildings of tbe Aetna Chemical Com pany's plant a mile and a half east of here this afternoon. The loss is esti mated at $1,000,000. The fire broke out in the gun cotton department of the plant. More than 450,000 pounds of cotton was consumed. OMAHA, July i. Fire or unknown origin which was discovered at the Elks Lodge building early today did $150,000 damage. Three firemen were hurt and narrowly escaped death when they fell one floor wih the collapse of the roof. Four others were injured. Madame Sarah Bernhardt In Farewell Orpaeuin Show Tonight. Adv. H Aen of America: Follow Uncle II ' no iota I TRflRlsN, W (flVr) CARTERS 1 II Qfcen toMcft yoor I - ..... Keep in step with the real thrift spirit of the hour. Buy the best garters made PARIS GARTERS. Fay 35 P or more. Buy the better grades of PARIS GARTERS because of their superior worth and greater usefulness in your service. Buy the best even in small things that's the right icay to save. Remember to say distinctly "PARIS GARTERS" ASTEIN&.CO. 7"Vakers Children's HICKORY Garters This is the PARIS trade mark ARMY NEEDS SHIPS Workers Who Are Steady and Proficient Not to Be Drafted. NO NEW ORDER ISSUED Northwest Steel Company Receives Telegram I'roru. Washington Ad vising to Refer Cases of Men Drafted to District Board. Men of draft ages employed in es sential shipyard duties remain on tbe deferred classification list and are not to be Inducted into the Army, except when not proficient in their work and are discharged, or shift to another yard. General Crowder, chiei ot the selective draft service, has not issued any order to the contrary. In substance, that is the text of a telegram received yesterday by the Northwest Steel company from Wash ington, also advice to refer the cases of all men taken from the yard to the district boards. "Nothing would harm the war sit uation so much as a disturbance of this character in shipbuilding," aald J. B. Bowles, president of the company, wben asked regarding developments. "It is a necessity in every sense, for the Army cannot get along without ships. The man who sticks to his work is filling an essential province and will continue to bo retained on the deferred classification list of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. I feel that the calling of some men from the yards has been due to a misunder standing by local boards." During the past week most of the plants have either lost men or men have been informed to hold themselves In readiness to be Inducted Into the service. The loss of workers has stirred managers to a point where they were appealing to Washington by telegraph Chicago J&li8 G1RTERS for relief, representing that a continu ation of the movement would reduce their forces so that ship construction would suffer a handicap. There appears to be a determination to prevent workers from changing their places of employment, going to another yard, where conditions are better or a promised Increase in their stipend is more alluring. It ia reasoned that a man drilled in ship work is In the same position as a soldier drilled to meet trench warfare. It Is believed now that managers will get together with draft boards and straighten out the misunderstanding, so only ineffi cient workers will be taken from the plants. STEAMSHIP MEN VIEW PORT Head of Big- Gulf Service and Asso- - elates Touring Pacific Coast. J. H. W. Steele, president of tbe J. H. W. Steele Company, operating ves sels on the Atlantic side; N. M. Leach, vice-president of the corporation and Marine Superintendent Troadele. spent yesterday In Portland inspecting har bor conditions and going over the ma rine situation generally. They were entertained at luncheon by H. L. Cor bet t, president of the Chamber of Com merce, and left last night for San Francisco. The party had been on Puget Sound for a short time also. The lipe operates from New York to the Gulf of Mexico, - being agents at the latter locality for the Ward line of steamers, while they also run vessels to Cuba and South America. Mr. Steele said last night that the purpose of the trip to the West was to get in closer touch with the situation. As to reach ing the Pacific side with a service. Mr. Steele indicated that the war was not encouraging for such a step. ASTORIA DOCK ENLARGED Port Has in Storage $5,000,000 Worth of Ship Equipment. ASTORIA. Or., July 2. (Special.) On account of the rapidly Increased traffic and the need for greater storage-room, the Port of Astoria Commis sion has authorized the completion of the decking on pier 2 as well as on all the other trestle work now available for storage purposes. At present more than (5,000.000 worth ef material is on the port prop erty to be used In equipping the Emegency Fleet steamers built In the , Columbia River district. T JMCLE SAA Is a shrewd buyer. He investigates, compares values, studies and experiments and then buys the best He willingly pays high prices de mands standard quality and is too wise to stint on first cost knowing that "to save at the spigot and waste at the bunghole" is false economy. New York TEUTONS LIKE MAD DOGS DR.HCGHEJ BRINGS MESSAGE FROM TEEXCHE9 OP PRANCE. Cod's Earth Hul Be Rid ( Gersaaa Madaeae If Keceuary to Kill Every One, Speaker Declares. "Ever hear some skunk say It Is too much to ask a man born in Germany to fight with the allies?" "It you are thinking more of pay day than of your work you are not worth tbe death of a yellow dog, much less that of one good man." Thus spoke Dr. David Hughes, for mer chaplain of the Eighth Royal Fusi liers, who. with Lieutenant Schlagel, addressed men of the Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation at noon yes terday. As to German-born citisens not wish ing to engage in the war. Dr. Hughes said if the men who left England for America had felt that way there would have been no revolution and no birth of the Stars and Stripes. "To h 1 with that kind of damnable pro-Germanism," he said. "When a man has spent 18 months In the trenches he knows something about war. I studied in Germany for six months before the war. then was glad to get out. I have been asked if I could kill some of my fellow students. I answer you yes, 1 could do it if they are of the stamp of mad dogs the Germans have shown themselves to be. That should be done if It takes every German on God's green earth to rid it of the German mad ness. "Bodies of men killed in France, If placed end to end, would reach from France to Portland and back to Den ver. Tho-ks men died for you. Are you worth It?" IMMEDIATE RISE LIKELY Tacoma May Have 7-Cent Fare in Effect Tomorrow. TACOMA. Wash., July S. fSpeclal.) Seven-cent fares may go into effect immediately and an effort will be made' No metal - J? Sam I It's your guarantee of Garter quality so materially to increase service that the Fourth of July crowds can be han dled effectively. Plans to this end were discussed at a conference today between City Attorney U. E. Harmon and Man ager L H. Bean, of the Tacoma Railway Ac Power Company, following the action of the City Council's advisory commit tee of citisens in voting. 14 to 6. for the 7-cent fare charge in place of the legal fare of S cents. City Attorney Harmon began today tbe draft of a resolution to be presented to the council tomorrow. Madame Sarah Bernhardt In Farewell Orpheum Show Tonlnht. Adv. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. S-PASSENGR Ford for sale for cash. Call Woodlmn SS47. DISHWASHER waatsd. 134 Sih at. Bean Pot Restaurant. AMT!EMENTS. DANCING taught by professional Instructors at De Honey's beautiful academy, 23d and Washington. AH modern dances guar- anteea in s lessons. Ladies $4, gentlemen )5. New classes for begin ners etart Tuesday and Friday evenings this week. The only school teaching one lesson from 8 to 11 and guaranteeing to teach you to dance in one term. Each step and figure of each dance thoroughly taught. Separate hall and extra teachers for backward pupila Plenty of prac tice and no embarrass men. So - called private lessons from inferior teachers are worthless. You must have practice. Join our new classes this week. Learn correctly In a first-class school. Normal Instructions for teach ers. Private lessona af ternoona and evenings. Start thla week. A CHALLENGE, The above cut is of myself and dan cing partner, and any so-called dancing professor who copies my outs or ads is hereby challenged to enter a contest with me in dancing and teaching stage and ballroom dancing for any sum of money. Winner's purse donated to Red Cross. Now, professors, let's show the publlo out real ability, . . AMrSEMKXTS. T-TpTT TH THtRS. FHI.. SAT. llUlLilVJ J.lyll. 13.13. MARGARET ANGLIN "BILLETED" SKAT SILK MOXDAY. 41 LV 8. MAIL ORDERS OW. Prlers SOe t. 2. Mat. SO t 1.S - il iaVi hV1 TMEATEf LAX SHOHs Ol KAON TRW AITKK- Mr. Martin Bclt Prea.nta Til. World's OrtilNt Actrtm Madame Sarah Bernhardt "TMml.I.E." OTHtK Mlu ACTS I MATS. NIGHTS. 10e to (1. lo to ISe. PANTAGS II AT. DAILY 2 :S0 hh tftillr mud KdHta Adam. u unnii MMrn ana m Mom Iba Sis Otbr Bl Act. Thr Prforn:aca Dati. Klcbt Cartali t 7 cat a LYRIC STOCK Mat lor. 111j-, lOe anlr. N'lbta Start 7. Thl week a whirlwind of lauxhtcr. col.r. mualo inj pretty clrla. DlUon and Franks and the Ilostbud Chorum. . "POPPYLAND" Or The Hophead't Irem.w FrL. Chorus Girls" Contest. SPECIAL Thursday, July 4 Continuous Performance Afternoon and Night. Starting 2 P. M. CHAT NO. 37. You who pucker up your brows every time you remember that you can't afford a long vacation at Sea side, Palm Beach, Coronado Beach or Atlantic City, should recall that you may remain at your work right here in Portland throughout the Summer and at the same time enjoy all the advantages(and pleas ures of those who take long, weary trips and return home more fagged out than when they departed. For tunately, nature has blessed Port land by putting at its immediate doors a resort that is ' second to none in the country. At the Oaks Amusement Park is found every thing that can banish care and bring rest and comfort to men, women and children after a day filled with heat and activity. Cool breezes from the beautiful Wil lamette sween its trrassv lawns anil wave its magnificent shade trees at all hours of the day and evening. Al though it is but a few minutes' ride from we center of the city, to go out there makes one feel as if he had been transported from the bustle and warmth of crowded streets to some far-distant moun tain crest perpetually fanned by salt breezes. Families, societies, and other organizations are always welcome. Everything is provided for their convenience and pleasure. The Armstrong Folly Company is now giving two performances daily in the big open-air theater. No admission is charged to see this eplendid organization of men and women. The soloists and the chorus are the best seen in Portland in many moons. Come out and hear them. Cars leave First and Alder streets every few minutes. Trans fers given from any part of the city fare 6 cents. JOHN F. CORDRAY, Mgr. Oaks Amusement Park. Learn to Dance at RINGLER'S DANCING ACADEMY Fourteenth, Off Wash. Phones : Edwy. 3380, A 3351 Dancing guaranteed in one course 10 LESSONS $3.00 Classes Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 8 P. M. Private lessons daily. Anyone who can walk can learn to dance. Rapid advancement assured. Meet congenial people. Learn from a master of the art and a recognized authority on modern dancing. NORMAL SCHOOL For teachers and professionals, July 8 to 20 three hours daily. A $200 course in dancing for $25.00 Writ for particulars. Council Crest Free amuifment park and picnic x-rounda. 100 feet above the city; Scenic Railway. Carrousel. Klver Trip, Shooting Gallery. Games. Kefreahmenia. Dancing erery eTen ln except Sunday. Monte Austin ainga. HOP A G. G. GAR SUMMER DANCES Cotillion Hall PORTLAND'S COOLEST AND MOST I'ALATIAL BALLBUOM. Roof Garden Open Popular PrtrM. 14th St. at WaahlagteB. Tars, Med., Taara, Sat. Nlchta. Phone your want ads to The Orefo nian. Main 7070, A 6035. fCTI 102.01