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THE 3IOKXIXG OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1018. PRESIDENTS WIFE SPONSOR FOR SHIP Oustconck First Vessel to Be Launched at Hog Island Christened by Mrs. Wilson. C-XECUTIVE ATTENDS AFFAIR est unit for shipbuilding that has been perfected in the greatest shipbuilding programme the world has ever seen. May the speed you have shown in de veloping your plant and starting ship construction be accelerated in delivery of ships and may the Nation appreciate the aid your genius is giving in the winning of this most vital cause for civilization." W. l. B. bodson, secretary of the chamber and who was under Major Case in the Philippines, forwarded a message to him personally as follows: "Personal congratulations for the man who selected the site for the greatest shipbuilding plant that the world has ever seen. Be assured that the multitude of your friends in Port land are deeply aroused over your suc cess and the success of the enterprise with which you are identified." s?M i In Accordance With U. S. Government Rules, This Store Will Make Only One Delivery a Day and Will Accept No Goods for Credit or Exchange , Unless Returnee! Within Three Days .-. -Merchandise of cJ Merit Only Remember, Today la RED CROSS DAY AT THE OAKS Be Sore to Come! Every Penny You Spend Goes to Help the Red Cross fifty Thousand Persons Present, Nearly 4 00 Overcome by Heat. Hurley Says w Maritime Era Beginning. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 5. America today began to replace the tonnage sunk by German submarines in the days before the allied shipyards had reached a production equal to the toll of the U-boats. With the launching. In the presence of President Wilson and a crowd of s'J.uoo, or the 7500-ton Quistconck. spon sored by Mrs. Wood row Wilson, the stage of quantity production was reached. From this time forward the increasing output of vessels will not merely offset the naval efforts of Ger many, but will steadily make up the deficiency In world tonnage. The Quistconck is the first ship to be launched from the great Hog Island shipyard, and the occasion was made worthy of the "epoch In the Nation's history," which Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping Board, declared it marked. The men who built the ship and the men who directed their work mingled in comradely spirit with Government officials while the presence of the chief executive and his family was the source of unending enthusiasm. Riveter Piewali Boaqaet. .Mrs. Wilson received a basket of pink roses from William McMillen, the man who drove the first rivet In the Quest ronek. Mrs. Wilson dropped her bou quet of orchids to shake hands with McMillen. American-made champagne was used ror the christening. Mrs. Wilson was shown how to handle the be-ribboned bottle, the President laughing merrily as sne practiced the blow In panto mime. To It right, now." he cautioned her. When the blocks were knocked away ana tne ball began to move. Mrs. Wil son raised the bottle and struck the prow squarely. "I christen thee Quistconck." she said, giving the boat the ancient In dian name of Hog Island. There was a silver spurt and the sponsor stepped back, laughing In dis may as the wine stained the delicate gray of her dress. She forgot the mis hap in the interest of watching the hull slide into the water. 1 .ew Keel Laid. The newly vacated way swarmed with workmen, who laid the keel of No. 39 in less than two minutes after the finished boat had gone. President Wilson stepped eagerly to the front of the stand to get a clear view of the work. The President made no speech, but in response to tne urgent appeal of the crowd, he waved his hat and shouted: "Wood luck to you." Mrs. Wilson smil ingly repeated this sentiment..' The Presidential party returned' to Washington after remaining in the yard less than 30 minutes. "It was no mere Incident In a" na tion s shipbuilding programme that brought the President 'and Mrs. Wilson to the scene of this achievement," said Chairman Hurley, in regard to the launching. "It was the beginning of an epocn in ine nations history. "This launching marks another mile stone in America's progress in the war against the German government. It marks the beginning of quantity pro duction of ships In all the yards of the iniiea etaies. "It Is doubtful whether any nation ever would nave undertaken a ship Duildlng programme on such a large scale if Germany had not plunged the world into the war," Mr. Hurley con- unuea. Great Task Oatllaed. We are in It now and we are going through with it. We are producing more tonnage today than the subma rines are sinking and from this time forward our great task will be to re place the tonnage that was lost. "I doubt wiiether I shall ever have i better opportunity to state that th vast scope of this programme was due to the vision of the President. We are going through with the shipbuilding programme to the finish and we are going through with the war to a finish. 'The men who have worked on this ship launched today and on other ships that are being launched and will be launched are makers of a new America. "Through the efforts of the shipyard workers, a large army is now in France and through their continuous work an Army steadily growing larger and larg er eventually will overwhelm the care fully constructed military machine with which Germany has sought to dominate the world." BANK LOANS WANTED WAR FINANCE CORPORATION SEEKS FC.NDS TO MOVE CROPS. Advances Will Be Limited to Font Moatha and Will Draw Interest at Rate ef Per Ceat. WASHINGTON. Aug. E. To help finance crop movements the war finance corporation announced today it would welcome applications from banks for loans to cover advances by the banks to farmers and merchants for harvesting and marketing wheat nd other crops. Loans will be lim ited to four months and will carry in terest at S per cent per annum. W. P. G. Harding, acting as man aging director of the war finance cor poration, requested the. Federal Re serve banks of San Francisco. Minne apolis, Dallas.. Kansas City, St. Louis, Atlanta and Richmond to accept from members and non-members applications lor loans. Advances will be made up to 75 per cent of the face value of loans to farmers or merchants or up to 100 per cent providing additional collateral amounting to one-third of the loan Is furnished. The security must be notes "evidencing loans which have been made for crop-moving purposes or notes evidencing loans which have been made previously to farmers and merchants, provided a statement is made by the applying bank that the proceeds of the advance will be used for crop-moving purposes." Sale of Black SILKS -One Day Only $1.59 BLACK CHARMEUSE, MESSALINES AND TAFFETA Silks that are creatly underpriced for this one day's selling. You'll do well to buy enough for your Fall frock today. Extra quality; 35 inches wide. Second Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. FEATURING THE NEW Silk PETTICOATS $3.95, $4.45 and $5.00 I" Colorful and somber in hue are these pretty petticoats of all chiffon taffeta or taffeta with jersey silk tops. A variety of fancy frilled and s tailored effects, trimmed with shirring, tucking and narrow ruffles ; in I fancy changeable effects and plain colors. Official Casualty List. WASHINGTON. Aug. 5. The casualty list today shows: Army PORTLAND MESSAGES SEAT Chamber of Commerce Officials Tel egraph Congratulations. As yesterday waa the day for the launching of the first ship at the Hog island plant, where 60 ways are avail able. Major J. Frank Case, assistant to the president of the American Interna tional Corporation, which Is in charge of the property, and the corporation as well were congratulated by the Cham ber of Commerce. Major Case formerly resided here, having been assistant city engineer at the time of the Spanish-American War and was then commissioned a Captain in the Second Oregon United States Volunteer Infantry. H. I- Corbett. president of the chamber, sent the following telegram to the corporation: "Accept congratulations of the Port land Chamber of Commerce on the date for launching first vessel in the great- KARL, f, WILSON SOFT COLLARS New wearers of soft collars naturally turn to E & W soft collars for correctness and quality. Killed In action. 203: died of wounds. 87 died of disease. 9; died of accident and other causes. 6; died of airplane accident. 1: wounded severely. 48: wounded, degree un determined. 100; missing. 3; total. 407. The list includes Lieutenant Lambert A. Wood, Garden Home, Portland, Or. Corporal Nute Severson. 21S West Six tieth street. Seattle; Private James P. Remedes. Rhine, Wash., killed in action. The list of fatalities among officers follows: KILLED lft ACTION Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. Craig. San Francisco; Captain Henry H. w ortnlngton, Lancaster. Pa.; Lleuten ants George A. Anderson, Ardmore. Okla,; Karle A. Billings, Portland. Me. ; James II. Duncan. Terrs Haute; Proctor C. Gllson, Carthage. N. T. ; lin G. Hall. Haverhill, Mass.; lieorge W. Kyley. Lawrence. Mass.; Lambert A. Wood. Uarden Home, Portland, Or. DIED FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION Lieutenants James P. Arnold. Butler. Mo.; John B. McCarthy. Milwaukee; Kay P. Saffold. selma. Ala. DIED OF AIRPLANE ACCIDENT First Lieutenant Edward T. Hathaway, Houston, Texas. DIED OF ACCIDENT AND OTHER CAUSES Lieutenant Harlla K. Larson. Har vard. Ia. The second Army casualty list issued today shows: Killed In action, 256. Died of wounds. 43. Total. Lftt. The list of fatalities among officers follows: KILLED IN ACTION Captain Howard C. McCall. Philadelphia. Pa.; Lieutenants David M. Barry. Santa Barbara,. CaL; Charles H. Evans. Marblchrad. Mass.: David J. Ewlng. New Orleans; Donald F. Ghent. Ann Arbor, Mich.; Robert M. Lovett. Chicago. The Marine Corps casualty list today shows: Killed In action. 9: died ef wounds re ceived In action, 1; total. 10. SAN FRANCISCoTAug. B. Lieutenant-Colonel John Martin Craig, whose death in action was reported officially today, rose from the ranks. He was one of the 20th Kansas men whom Frederick Funston afterward Major General, took to the Philippines in the Spanish War and later he enlisted in the regular Army. He served with Geiferal Pershing in Mexico and was among the first American troops to reach France. He was 45 years old. Lieutenant Lambert A. Wood was the only son of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Wood, of Garden Home, a Portland suburb. Offi cial news of the young officer's death was received by relatives in this city yesterday from the War Department. Dr. and Mrs. Wood and their daughter, Mrs. Alexander B. Randall, are at Long Beach, Wash., where they went Satur day for a vacation. Lieutenant Wood was popular in this city. After being graduated from the Portland public schools and the Port land Academy, he continued his studies at Williams College, leaving that insti tution to attend a civilians' training camp when war was declared. Later he attended an officers' training camp at Plattaburg. N. I. where he was com missioned Second Lieutenant. In March, 1918. he went to France with the Ninth New Tork Regiment, and was later promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant. Dr. Wood. Lieutenant Wood's father, is associated with Dr. J. A. Stewart, now at Camp Lewis, and Dr. G. H. Ostrander. with offices In The Orego nlan building. Mrs. Wood Is an active worker in the Red Cross and other war service work being the directing head of the super fluity ahop and the salvage bureau. both of which were organized largely through her efforts. rrp mi MIDSUMMER SALE OF DRESSES and COATS at $17.85 A group of the smartest DRESSES and COATS specially priced for clearance. Fou lard, linen, silk and silk jersey dresses, and pongee, taffeta and silk poplin coats; some with the most beautiful silk linings; only a limited number, so come as soon as you can. NO APPROVALS NO EXCHANGES. August Days Call for These TUB SKIRTS at $3.75 If you haven't a tub skirt or two, you'll surely want one during this warm weather; and if you have, these are so very smart looking that you'll waqt to add an extra one for good service. Very special at $3.75. Third Floor- Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Speaking of Canning, Have You Seen the Toledo Steam Cookers? They simplify the canning of fruit, vege tables and meats wonderfully, saving time and trouble, and making your preserving a sure success. A convenience that soon pays for itself. Two-shelf size, - $7.50 Four-shelf size, $13.00 Basement Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Women's Pure SILK STOCKINGS For TODAY'S Selling Pure thread silk stockings, in black, white, gray, cor dovan and many other shades, with lisle garter tops. They are slightly imperfect, but the imperfections are so slight that you can scarcely find them. 79c NO PHONE OR MAIL ORDERS FILLED Alain Floor, Bargain Circle Lipman, Wolfe 5r Co, KAYSER Glove Silk Vests Very Special $2.49 A clearance sale of beautiful Kayser silk vests, with band bodice tops; some with shoulder straps. Vests that USUALLY SELL FOR TWICE THIS SALE PRICE. Mostly band bodice tops with silk ribbon shoulder straps; flesh color. Main Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Imported Crash TOWELING 25c Excellent quality, extra heavy crash toweling; the very best kind for making hand or roller towels; 18 inches wide, with red border stripes. TABLE DAMASK Yard $1.65 Beautiful imported damask, in a highly mer cerized double finish; half a dozen different pat terns, in floral and stripe effects. PLAID GINGHAMS Yard 40c A hundred different plaid effects, in different colorings. JAPANESE CREPE Yard 39c A wonderful showing of Japanese crepes, in handsome new kimono patterns, plain colors and stripes suitable for men's shirts. The most durable material on the market for kiddies' frocks and house dresses, too. Second Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. SPECIAL SHOWING OF NEW PERCALE Apron Dresses at $ 1 .98 New and becoming apron house dresses, in slip-over styles in a variety of effects. Plaids and plain colors, with the most smartly trimmed belts and pockets. Clever frilled models, and other styles trimmed with rick-rack braid. Extra Size Apron Dresses $1.98, $2.25 and $2.50 APRON DRESSES at $1.69 Neat, clever styles, in good wearable apron house dresses. A variety of colors. MISSES' APRON DRESSES $1.49 Fourth Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. The Boys in Uncle Sam's Navy Want Victor and Columbia Records Have you any phonograph records that you are willing to give to help relieve the monotony of life at sea? Bring them to the Phonograph Department Musical Floor, the Seventh. , n I rnnw hick wifSiw. ui um n3 s& ! ! ill Wis I m ! ZL , JAP LINER FLOATED Canada Maru in Tow on Way to Canadian Port. SALVAGE TRIUMPH SCORED Edward C Smith, the blind vendor of pencils at a downtown street cross ing, is the father of Private Earl Smith, killed In action July 19 on the west ern front. lcung Smith s name ap peared In Monday s casualty list, and his father has received official noti fication from the office of Adjutant General McKane. Private Smith enlisted in March 1917. just prion to America's entry into the war. He was a member of Com pany C of the old Third Oregon, but after arriving in France late In December he was transferred to the Machine Oun Corps of the First Brigade. First Division. At the time of enlisting he was a streetcar con ductor for the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company. He was 19 year of age. Mr. Smith, aged father of the fallen soldier, had never seen the boy whose loss he mourns, having lost his sight in a harvesting accident In the Middle West more than 20 years ago. Very pathetic he was as he told of receiv ing the sad message from Washington. He was Inspired with confidence that his son had met de-Uh bravely in the thickest of the fray. Mr. Smith s son- in-law is also In the service. Bates Non-Partisan Candidate. PIERRE, a D.. Aug. 5. A list of in dependent candidates for state offices, as Indorsed by . the Non-Partisan League, was filed today with the Sec retary of State. The list includes Mark P. Bate for Governor, Saving of Vessel From Rocks Re garded as Remarkable Feat. Most of Valuable Cargo Said to Be Intact. A PACIFIC PORT. Aug. 5. Tugs to day pulled from the rocks the Japanese passenger liner Canada Maru, wnicn grounded last Tuesday while nearing th end of a run from the Orient, ac cording to a report received by the local merchants' exchange. The report, which was received at noon, said the Canada Maru was in tow of a tug bound for a Canadian pori. Salvage men here considered the floating of the Canada Maru a remark hle feat. Early reports said the steam er was considered a total loss ana was about to be abandoned. According to word reaching here, the tugs today made a "last pull and it is nrobable their efforts to float her would have been abandoned: it sne naa not slid off the rocks when she did. At the time she struck, the Canada Maru carried a cargo said to be worth about $4,000,000. Most of it was saved, as the after holds were untouched. Much of the freight in the leaking for ward holds was thrown overboard. PAPER MILLS ESSENTIAL PRIORITIES DIVISION, WAR INDUS TRIES BOARD, SO RULES. Greatest Possible Economies Must Be Exercised la Use of Paper by Newspapers aad Public. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. Paper mills have been listed as an essential indus try, the priorities division of the War Industries Board announced today on the understanding that the greatest possible economy will be exercised in the use of paper and that newspapers will reduce their consumption of news print 15 per cent on daily editions and 20 per cent on Sunday editions. Publishers believe, it was said today. that discontinuance of many wasteful practices and institution of a eliding scale of reduction in reading matter ill accomplish the required curtail ments without interfering with the advertising columns. The War Industries Board is said to favor the principle that no new newspapers be started during the war. Reading, matter, for the purpose of reducing space, is defined - as consist ing of all matter printed except paid advertisements. The schedules of cur tailment are based upon a standard column of 300 agate lines. With the exception that the curtail ment of daily editions becomes effective August 12 instead of August 5, the recommendations of the committee of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, made public July 20, are accepted by the War Industries Board. The curtailment of 20 per cent of Sun day editions becomes effective Septem ber 1. The sliding scale of reductions in reading matter for daily and Sunday editions range from 5 per cent on 50 columns to 60 per cent on more than 350 columns. Paper mills will be dealt with indi vidually in the granting of coal priori ties and will be given preference on fuel on condition that they sign pledges to furnish no paper to any consumer unles he signs a- pledge in duplicate to effect the greatest possi ble economy in the use of paper and to observe all the regulations of the War Industries Board. ' If by October 10, the ' board an nounces, the agreed curtailments have not been accomplished, additional cur tailments will be put into effect. BIG CONCERNS MI Federal Indictments Returned Charge Rebate Conspiracy. HIGHLAND MINE IS SOLD Tacoma Corporation Acquires Prop. erty in Elkhorn Mountains. BAKER, Or.. Aug. 5. (Special.) The Highland mine, 14 miles west of Haines in the Elkhorn Mountains, has been sold by Fred R. Mellis and John Arthur, of this city, to Flanagan. wuinn & Darcy, liscal agents repre senting the National Mines Company, a Tacoma corporation. The new owners, represented here by jonn i nomas. .Portland mining entri- neer, announce they will continue de velopment of the property and add much to the present equipment, includ ing an oil flotation process reduction plant. Extended operations will be started as soon as possible and the new owners are considering other prop erties in the district which may be taken over. Army Orders. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5. The folio wine orders were issued by the Western De partment of the Army here today: first Lieutenant Ljloyd B. Crow. Medical Reserve Corps. Camp Walter R. Taliaferro. California, will proceed to Fort D. A. Rus sell, Wyoming;, for duty. Majors Roy P. Tisdale, James P. Bradner and James E. Carter, Signal Corps. National Array; captain Vloya ti- Marvin, Signal Re serve Corps; -First Lieutenant George A. Horkan, air service. National Army, are ap pointed to meet at Vancouver Barracks. Washington, to examine Second Lieutenant George 1. Ie Long. Infantry Reserve Corps. to. determine his fitness for his commis sion. Majors Cary A. Snoddy and Charles H. Soil, Medical Reserve Corps, and Captain Francis K. Derham, Dental Reserve Corps, are appointed to met at Fort Worden, Washington, to examine First Lieutenant Arthur T. MacMlllan. Dental Corps. National Army, to determine his fitness for his commission. Colonel Elmer W. Clark and Lieutenant Colonel Charles J. Naylor, infantry, National Army, Camp Lewis, Washington, will pro ceed tor San Francisco and appear before a retiring board there for examination. PACKING FIRMS ACCUSED Armour, Swift, Jersey City Stock yards Company and Pennsylva nia Railroad Named in the Findings of Jury. NEW TORK, Aug. 5. Charged with conspiracy in allowing and accepting over a five-year period rebates on freight charges for livestock ship ments, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, Armour & Company, Swift i Company and the Jersey City Stock yards Company were Indicted by a Fed eral grand jury today. The offenses are alleged to have been committed between November, 1912, and November. 1917. The Jersey City Stockyards Company, according to the indictments, was created by the Armour and Swift in terests, owned by them and incor porated in Delaware. This subsidiary concern, it is charged. leased from the Pennsylvania Railroad yards in Jersey City, enabling the packing company to route shipments to New York from Western points over the Pennsylvania lines and thus bene fit by the "concessions and discrimina tions" In rates mentioned In the in dictments. These yards, it is alleged, were ob tained for a sum less than one-fourth their rental value. from Chicago. East St. Louis, South Omaha, Kansas City, Louisville and other locations of Armour and Swift dressing stations. CHICAGO; Aug. 5. Armour & Co. tonight issued a statement regarding charges of rebating in connection with the Jersey City Stockyards Company, which in part follows: "The allowances received by the Jer sey City Stockyards Company for serv ices performed are the same as are paid by other railroads in the East and are the same as they have been for many years in the past when the cost an operation has materially increased an we believe there can be no question as to their reasonableness or propriety, "We believe the arrangment was proper when made and is now. If it was improper or has become so, we certain ly desire to know it, it being our pur pose and desire in all respects to con form to the spirit, as well as the letter, of the law, and we will welcome speedy adjudication of the matter." guilty in the Justice Court today and was fined $!n, which he paid. Chinese Held for Jury. ASTORL, Or., Aug. 5. (Special.) Lum Yen, proprietor of a Chinese opium joint, is being held by the Fed eral authorities under $1000 cash bail to await the action of the Federal grand jury on a charge of having opium in his possession. Yen had five full and three half cans of opium, as well as a number of opium cards. which he was selling at 50 cents each He waived a preliminary hearing here. Militia Makes Hike. CENTRALIA. Wash., Aug. 6. (Spe cial.) Saturday night Company G, Third Washington, left the local Ar mory on a hike, camping for the night on the old golf links, 1U miles west of the city limits. The men were given instruction in guard duty Saturday night and in extended order drill yes terday. It is expected that these hikes will be taken regularly during the bal ance of the Summer. Gillnetter Punished. ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 5. (Special.) Otto Savonen, a gillnetter, was arrest ed by Deputy Warden Larson on i The rebates complained of, the Fed- i charge of laying out his net before 6 eral charges state, were on shipments I o clock Sunday evening. He pleaded Phone your want ads to The Orego aUu. Main 7070,. A 6095,, HAD TAKEN HIS WEIGHT IN MEDICINE 4 M. D. Faucett, GiUsville, Ga., says he has taken his weight in medicine for headache and constipation, but never used anything that did him so much good as Chamberlain's Tablets. You Can Meet Your Friends most any time at Table d'Hote meals at the imperial ujtel Maaacwr. ' I i i t