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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1918)
THE MORKIXO OREGOyiAJf, SATURDAY. TTLY 13, 1918. S ROSSETER LOOKS BEYOND WAR Operating Head of Emergency Fleet Corporation Takes Stock in Portland. VISITOR INSPECTS HARBOR Concise but Thorongli Presentation of All Conditions Bearing on Water Transportation Made by Local Officials. As a prelude to a closer inspection of plants and industries ashore. John H. Rosseter. San Francisco's son, who was recently designated to head the bureau of operation of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, was piloted througn the Portland harbor yesterday morning. That he was piloted in fact is not sim ply a figure of speech, for there was a man aboard to enlighten him on each phase of port life and activity, a com mittee having been so drawn in antici pation of Mr. Rosseter's keen search for information. The party was aboard the United States Engineers' tug Geo. H. Mendell, and leaving Stark street at 10:15 o'clock they were carried to St. Johns and back to South Portland. The many ship yards and large fleets of new tonnage, the St. Johns municipal terminal, the larger docks and other developments were explained and discussed; Information Well Presented. H. L. Corbett, president of the Cham ber of Commerce, had caused to be com piled for Mr. Rosseter a concise but thorough presentation of all conditions bearing on water transportation, from climatic to drainage. There were charts and maps as well, all neatly bound in leather, on the outside of which, in jrilt lttering, was the recipient's name and his new title, also the name of the donor, the Chamber of Commerce. G. B. Hegardt, chief engineer of the Commission of Public Docks, was armed with maps and a world of data as to port facilities. The tug was taken close to the St. "Jotins terminal site so that the lay of the land was within easy view, and John H. Eurgard. of the Dock Commission, was on hand to explain that body's work and future plans. Lloyd J. Wentworth, supervisor of wooden ship construction in Oregon, had a store of Information as to the vessels seen from the tug's deck, also answers to a rapid fire of questions from the guest of the day. C. D. Kennedy, in charge in Oregon for the bureau of operation, was armed as well to meet tho search of his new chief for pointers. Wheat Can Be Moved Rapidly. Max II. Houser. shouldering the re sponsibilities in the Northwest of the United States Food Administration Grain Corporation, told Mr. Rosseter of the crop outlook, how wheat would be whipped and that with an adequate sup- Ply of cars he could keep the cereal moving at a fast cup, always provid ing ships were here as needed. C. B. Woodruff, of the Portland Traffic and Transportation Association, came in for his share of contributions to the store of knowledge, as diti L. B. Bmith, of the War Trade Board. President Stone, of the Port of As toria Commission,. .f urnished Mr. Rosse ter with a most interesting budget as to what that city is doing in shipbuild ing, with modern terminal facilities, how the future was being planned for, and a dozen other things. President Stone had recent and highly interest ing photographs, one being a panorama of the entire city of Astoria, taken from the heights to the west. Mr. Ros seter was 'prevented from visiting As toria by reason of having only one day to spend in the district. COHASSET FLOATS AT COOS BAY Third Ship Launched Practically Heady for Machinery Xow. MARSHFIELD, Or.. July 12. (Spe cial.) The Cohasset, a Hough type ves sel constructed for the Government by the Coos Bay Shipbuilding Company, left the ways this afternoon at 4:30 and in a half hour afterwards was tied to her loading berth at the Smith Elec tric docks. The Cohasset was chris tened by Mrs. Paulhamus, .wife of Man ager James Paulhamus. The launching went off without a hitch and the crowd of several hundred cheered the workmen to an echo. The Cohasset is the third ship launched for the Government by the Coos Bay Ship building Company and is practically ready for her machinery, only about five days being necessary to complete her. A Ferris keel Is being laid on the way made vacant. Summer Clothes for Boys Saturday Offerings at Moderate Prices IF you've one or more active, energetic boys to clothe, coma to this store for good suits. Here are clothes that will stay with a boy through the strenuous days of Summer, whether at work or at play. See my immense displays of Norfolk Suits $6.50, $8.50, $10, $12.50, $15, $16.50, $20 These suits come in a big variety of fabric and pattern; nearly every one has an extra pair of knickerbockers. You will like their quality, their style, their service. . Sale of Wash Suits $1.50 Wash Suits 980 $2.00 Wash Suits $1.48 $2.50 Wash Suits $1.98 Other Wash Suits $3.00 to $6.50. Boys' Store, Second Floor Take the Elevator ReflSellm iMorrisonatRmrtli1 2" a BLAME PUT ON PLANE Defective Mechanism Hinted At in Mitchel's Death. B0RGLUM OFFERS THEORY Sculptor Who Investigaied Aircraft Programme for President Makes Written Statement to In ventors' Association. WASHINGTON. Juiy 12. Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, who made an in' vestigation of the American aircraft programme at the request of President Wilson, in a letter read last night at a meeting here of the America Invent ors' Association, intimated that the ac cident which killed Major-General John Purroy Mitchel at Gerstner Field, La., was the result of a defective plane. Borglum charged that an airplane re cently sent abroad caused the death of an aviator in much the same manner ae former Mayor Mitchel was killed. WASHINGTON. July 12. Failure to buckle his safety belt and the "peculiar quick snap of his scout plane when it was nosed over for a glide apparently caused the death of Major John Purroy Mitchel, says the official report on the accident at Gerstner Field, La., re ceived today at the War Department. The investigation board found that Major Mitchel's death "occurred in line of duty and not because of his own mis conduct. Marine Notes. Captain J. F. Blain. supervisor of steel hip construction in the Northwest, and Cap tain W. A. Magee. supervisor of wooden ship construction in Washington, are in the city to meet the Schwab party. Percy Davis has succeeded C. T. Hoogiiklrk aa master of the steamer Iralda. and L. H. Hfll nan has succeeded Captain Davis on the America. It Is planned to start from "Wallace Slough today nith the third cigar-shaped los ratt the Benson Logging Company has completed this year for San Iiego delivery. Lonsehoremen are bercg given back pay by stevedore firms, the government havi arranged to pay the men between the time they presented a demand lor higher wages. April To. until the adjustment commission established the new wages. May 3. It is estimated that 3OO0 is being distributed, the men receiving from 15 cents to $-6.90. i cording to straight time and overtime they worked during the Interval. Inspection of the new steamer Western spirit was completed yesterday and the In apectlon of the Point Judith will be started tomorrow. It Is expected orders will be received any tay to cease the camouflage painting of new wooden steamers that are to be used on the I'aciftc. The practice has been objected to, though all going to the Atlantic will con tinue to be disguised. "olonel Phillip S. roane, of the medical department ot the Emergency Fleet Corpora tion. has telegraphed the Oregon tate Board of Health recommending the vaccination of all shipyard workers against snnallpox. Few i-ases have been reported In Oregon and the step is precautionary because of the housing conditions in some districts. The new freighter IT. B. Lovejoy. built for infiependent owners, la to be put in commis sion early next week. Motorist Hurt in Crash. A. Betsch. of 1432 East Oak street. Hired IS, sustained painful bruises and severe lacerations of the face when a motorcycle he was riding collided with an automobile truck driven by John Howard, for the Robert Frazier Wood Company at Thirty-fifth and Division streets last night. Betsch was riding north on Thirty-fifth and Howard was driving west on Division. The crash occurred at the street intersection. Betsch was taken to St. Vincent's Hos pital for treatment. Ada, Or., Miss to Wed. TACOMA. Wash., July 12. (Special.) Lee F. Smith, Camp Lewis, and Callie May Swaffer, of Ada, Oregon, were i granted a marriage license in Xacomi ' today. investigation may be made through the regular channels, and any guilty par ties effectively dealth with; or. if this can not be done, then I ask that you Initiate proper proceedings yourself for the punishment of the offending par ties." Captain Culiison recently relayed from National headquarters to district and local boards of the state a letter calling attention to abuses charged to attorneys and notaries. These consist of collection of fees for administering oaths to registrants and of pleading the cause or making a "case" out of any man's appeal for deferred classifi cation. - In commenting on the letter Captain Culiison complimented Oregon attor neys on their patriotism. He indicated. however, that cases had come to his attention where lawyers were repre senting men seeking deferred classifi cation, both locally and at Washington. BAR TO UPHOLD HONOR LAWYERS "VIOLATING DRAFT LAW'S TO BE INVESTIGATED. Captain CulHuoit Asked to Furnish Kimei of Attorneys 3fent toned as Possible Transgressors. That any members of the Multno mah Bar Association deserving: to be disciplined because of unpatriotic or unethical practices in connection with the draft may get their deserts. Clar ence 11. Gilbert, president, has asked Captain J. K. Culiison, state draft executive, for the names of any Port land transgressors. "I ask you, Mr. Gilbert has written the Captain, "to give me the names of the lawyers complained of so that an BLUEBACKS ARE CAUGHT Salmon Eggs From Alaska, Hatched at Bonneville, Bring Returns. Columbia River fishermen are enthu siastic over the run of blueback salmon obtained from eggs out of Yes Bay, Alaska, hatched in the Bonneville hatchery in 1916. H. G. Smith, Astoria, representative of the Warren Packing Company, says that he believes the blueback salmon experiment has proved that the Btate can profitably continue bringing the eggs from Alaska and hatching them In the Bonneville hatchery. "I am informed by the employes of the Union Fishermen a Co-operative Packing Company that they are re ceiving a number of these fish which you had marked in 1916," writes Mr. Smith in a letter to R. E. Clanton, master fishwarden. "No doubt consid erable numbers of the marked blue- backs have been caught, but fishermen as a rule, are very careless in noticing these things, and the Chinese crews in the canneries don't care to watch for the fish or report them when found." STUDENTS GO TO PRESIDIO Willamette University Sends Eleven for Military Training. SALEM, Or., July 12. (Special.) Dean George H. Alden of Willamette University, tonight announced the names of 11 students and one mem ber of the faculty who will leave soon for the Presidio at San Francisco, where they will take Intensive military training for 60 days for the positions of assistants to the military instructor at illamette, should one be installed there. All of the boys are to return to the school here. Those selected are: Harold Dimick, Woodburn: r rancis Cramer, Astoria; i Oscar Olson. Woodburn; Roswell Waltz, aaiem; xvennetn t.esg, iaiem; jiiuara, Dougston. Lebanon; Miles Bartholo mew. Salem; Russell Rarey. Seattle; Clarke Story, Wolf Creek; Paul Doney, Salem; Earl Flegel, Portland, and Pro feasor W. A. Darden, faculty member. RIVER CHANNEL WIDER SURVEY OF COLUMBIA DELIVERED TO FEDERAL ENGINEER. Results of Dredge Chlnoolc Show That Entrance Hu Widened and Deep eaed Materially Recently. There Is 41 feet of water on the en trance range at the mouth of the Colum bia River and there is a depth of 40 feet for a width of half a mile. That really meets tne fu-ioot project, so the dredge Chinook will be held there In the future to maintain the depth and width. Be tween the 36-foot contours there is a distance of 6000 feet. The June survey, delayed by reason of Northwest weather prevalent along the coast, was finished Thursday and notes and the survey chart were de livered yesterday to Colonel Zinn. Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. In a few days the soundings will be transferred to a tracing so blue prints can be made. The results show the entrance had widened and deepened materially since June, 1917, and even since the April survey was made this year. The width of best water then was confined to about 1000 feet, a year ago the width being 800 feet. The manner in which the deep-water area is spreading is meeting with all expectations of the Government engineers and others who have concerned themselves In the proj ect and they fully look for a continu ation of the same movement, eventually a mucn wider channel -being possible. Part of the improved width is cred ited to this year's operations of the Chinook, though she has really been operating at the entrance only a portion of a month. STEAMER DORA IS RECALLED Bulldog of Xorthern Fleets Taken Off Alaska Peninsula Route. SEATTLE. July 12. After 15 years of service on the stormy Alaska Peninsu lar route, west of Seward, the steamer Dora, bulldog of the Northern fleets, will be withdrawn by the Alaska Steamship Company after her August voyage to the mouth of the Xushagak River, Bering Sea. The Dora will be brought to Seattle and sold. As a result of this move many Iso lated settlements on the Alaskan Coast west from Seward will be without frieght, passenger and mail service the year round unless the Government or some private company opens a new steamer service. War-time conditions and heavy losses in revenue caused the abandonment of the Dora's route. U. S. Naval Radio Reports. All locations are at 8 P. M. yesterday u let otherwise stated. JOHANNA SMITH. San Francisco for Coos Bay. lt0 miles north of San Francisco. Colombia Klver Bar It port. NORTH HEAD. July 12. Condition ' of the bar at 5 P. M.. sea smooth, wind I. W 12 miles. River 7 f. M- n.s reet- PROMLNEVT STEAMSHIP MAN, OF PACIFIC COAST, WHO BECOMES DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF BUREAU OF OPERATION OF EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION, SEES PORTLANU HARBOR. ; i ) - :l- "' A' "' t. - - 'if ECV . v -w r ' X. , . 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After repeated attempts yesterday by divers to recover the body of Motor- man William Murray, who was killed Thursday mornins when a freight train crashed through the 2-0-foot span over the Clackamas River at Rivermtll, divers were unable to remove his body from the engine which is Imbedded in the bottom of the stream. The river Is virtually a reservoir at that point and its depth is estimated to be about 85 feet. Efforts will be made to lift the heavy engine out of the mud far enough so that the divers can recover the body. Fred Devine. of the Grant Smith-Porter Company's shipyards, assisted by Irvine Matton, started work yesterday morninsr. As soon an the body is recovered the company will undertake to raise the two engines and two box cars. Conductor Arthur G. Kinder, who was in charge of the ill-fated train, also lost his life by being struck on his bead by a piece of bridge timber. His body was recovered eoon after the crash and is now at the undertaking parlors of J. P. Finley Sc. Son. Ar rangements for the funeral have not vet been completed. Brakeman Thomas Kearney, who es caped with, severe bruisea about bis face and bodv, Is now at Good Sa maritan Hospital. The diver, brought here from Port land, found that' the wreckage in which Murray Is burled, lies at the bottom of the reservoir, and the diver's equip ment would allow work under the water only a distance of B0 feet. More complete equipment has been ordered from Portland and it is ex pected Murray's body will be found in the wreckage tomorrow when the diver will go down the full 85 feet. Marriage Leads to Detection. PASCO. Wash., July 12. F. M. Hines. wanted .here for issuing no-fund checks, has been brought back here for examination. After issuing several checks here on a Yakima bank Hinea -went to Spokane, where he was mar ried to Miss Clare Lee. He was lo , cated by means of the marriage licenso record. Hines is also wanted in Walla. Walla County, where it is alleged ho passed some worthless checks. . . Government to War on Diseases. WASHINGTON. July 12. Senior Sur geon C. C. Price, of the public health service, has been appointed an assistant surgeon-general in charge of a newly created division to combat Insidioud . diseases, particularly in the vicinity of Army camp-. Men's Felt Hats In gray and brown $5 Men's Caps $1.50, $2, $2.50 Main Floor Ben Selling Leading Hatter Morrison at Fourth f