Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, September 28, 1918, Image 15

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGONIAX, SATURDAY, SEPTE3IBER 2S'. 1018. 15 II1EHIE HOUSE SURVEY IS SOUGHT I Government Asks Portland for r Report on Available u a Home Resources. r NEW INDUSTRIES MAY COME Intimation Is That Something of Importance Awaits City If It Js Found Able' to Provide Ample Accommodations. The United States Government, '. through the Department of Labor, yes terdav called upon officials aud rep resentatlve men of Portland to aid In making; an immediate and speedy " survey of housinar resources now avail- ' able. The aim of the survey is to de termine Portland's ability to handle ad- ' ditional war industries. , In connection with the survey the Government will ask people with .' single rooms to rent them to war work ers and urge home owners to rent ' available premises. Landlord.! " who now bar children from their houses ' will be asked to remove the barrier tor the duration of the war. Two Comnlltm Merged. The request for aid in the survey by ' appointment of a committee was made at a meetlnar of the more homes and housing committee in Mayor Baker's ! office yesterday by W. A. McClatchy and Stark C. Cohn. of the Bureau of In dustrial Housing and Transportation of the Department of Labor. ; Because of the immediate need of the survey a committee was formed by merging the more homes committee and the housing committee and the addi tion of several other persons. The committees winch will conduct the sur vey under auspices of the Government will be known as the United btates homes reelstration committee, and Is comDosed of the following: Mayor Baker, chairman; Ira F. Towers, vice-chairman; J. C Alnsworttif James B. Kerr. F. K. Taylor, Lllis m Lawrence, Eric Hauser. John 1L But pard. W. F. Smith, C. B. Waters, John F. Daly, E. W. Sleeman. Otto Uartwig, Miss Ida V. Jontz, E. J. Stack. H. E. Plummer, James J. Sayer, H. B. Beckett, Lloyd J. Wentworth. Henry L. Corbett and William F. Woodward. Borrai ta Be Established. A permanent placement bureau will be established with a manager in charge lor the purpose of constantly keeping in touch with the housing Bit uation in Portland for the Government. This bureau will co-operate with the employment service of the Department of Labor. Intimation was made that something places handling' merchandise for sale are included. Such was the announcement made yesterday by Chairman Koilock, of the State Council of Defense, who ex plained that the programme was to. be observed rigidly and to remain In ef fect until the end of the war. At a recent meeting of the State Council of Defense, resolutions were adopted, setting forth the requirements of that organization as a war measure, and notice has been given that the or der for Sunday closing will be .en forced to the letter for the duration of the war. The resolutions follow: Resolved. That on and after October 1. 1918. all sales of merchandise at any point within the state of Oregon, on the first day ot the week commonly known as Sunday, at any time after 9 P. M. on Saturday, and at any time after 1 P. H oi any other day of the week should be discontinued during the continuance of the war; provided, that sues ales" may be made at any drugstore until g P. M. of any day of the week except Sun day, and that the foregoing prohibition shall not apply in the case, of drugstores In the filling of prescriptions, sale of medicines or sickroom necessities, any or all or wnicn may be sold on any day at any hour; pro vided, further, that the selling of meals or articles of food In restaurants, hotels, lunch counters and eating rooms shall not be deemed the sale of merchandise under the terms of this resolution: and, provided. fuiJ ther. that the sale of gasoline, distillate aniM lubricating oil at garages and public filling stations, except In the supplying of motor trucks actually emfaged directly or indl redly In war industries, shall be deemed the tie of merchandise and subject to tne terms and conditions of this resolution. BALLOON ON WILD FLIGHT LIBERTY BAG BREAKS AWAY AND NIGHT ATTACK FAILS. Automobile Party Reports Seelasj Craft Several Miles West of St. Helena, ' Couriers Are Seat Oat. Portland was denied the experience of a liberty loan attack by air last night. It was planned that between 6 o'clock and midnight a great "blimpf," of the tvoe used for observation purposes on the western front, should sail through. the skies from the north carrying with It a great banner bearing the words Are You Pledged?" But the balloon broke loose and now is many miles away. Late last night it nan not Deen heard from after passing men, over Forest Grove and St- Helens. Joseph M. Rieg. owner, was donating the bag and Its services to the. fourth loan and was personally supervising Its Inflation at Llnnton. The balloon was filled and ready for its trip to Portland when It broke away from the launch which was to have towed it to the Morrison bridge. The local liberty loan organization immediately sent out couriers and tele grams trxlng to ascertain the posi tion of the airship. There is a forest firs near Banks and Buxton and if the bag dropped there it will be a total loss. How ever, wltn tne east wind ana me nevy chares of cas which it carried, the bag may have passed beyond the fire zone. An automobile party coming down the Columbia River Highway said they had seen the balloon several miles west it DEPUTY SHERIFFS STOPTRAIN SEARCH War Emergency Squad Pre vented From Entering Pullman Coaches. UNITED STATES HAS HAND Sheriff Hurlburt Says Deputies Not Legally Commissioned and May Have Stars Taken Away Froai Them. United States District Attorney Haney, William Bryon of the Depart ment of Justice, and Lieutenant Harvey Thatcher of the War Emergency Squad, locked horns last night with the deputy sheriffs In the employ of the Pullman Car Company, at the Terminal yards. The deputies refused admittance to the coaches Thursday night, of officers of the War Emergency Squad when they appeared at the station to search the trains for liquor. Lieutenant Thatcher complains that four of his officers were blocked by Deputy Sheriff W. H. Souser who, it is declared, said he would use force to keep the officers from entering the r,r sr Uaiani Prom the Highway awaits Portland If the city is found in appeJlI.e)i many miles to the south and could hardly be discerned in tne naze of smoke. a position to handle it. because the two Government representatives told the committee they had been Instructed to make an immediate survey in Portland and report by telegraph on the results to Washington. At the icquest of the Government rfficlai. Mayor Baker also named a comm ttee to be known as the "fair rental committee," for the purpose of Dvtting an end to profiteering in rents. In all cases affecting war workers fail ure to adjust disputes over rents be tween this committee and the landlords will result in commandeering of the houses in question by the Government. Portland's Aetlom Praised. The Fair Rental committee is com posed of H. B. Beckett, of the Emer gency Fleet Corporation, B. F. Sleeman, representing organised labor, and . K. Taylor, representing property owners. OREGON CALLS DRAFT MEN State) Will Furnish 653 Selects fof Entralnment October 7. Ore con stats selective service head quarters had received no instructions at 7 o clock last mgm postponing " trainment of selectives called lor UCIO- ber 7 because of the Spanish influensa epidemic- It was thought possiDie mat if conditions remain satisfactory at Coast camps delay of the entrainmenta mav not be effective here. Proceeding on this tneory me oiiico announced Quotas of class 1 white reg in intrants to be sent to Camp Lewis Portland was nralsed for the manner I the Deriod of five days, starting Octo in which the housing problem thus far I ber 7. The aggregate of this call in has been handled. Both Government of- Oregon Is 652. and it is so apportioned rf.-TarH that Portland had done I A a to take Virtually all men sent to much to solve its own problem. I class 1 from registrations of June, 1917, June. 1918. and August, lain Quotas of Portland boards are: bo. no. 3, 3u. iso. e, a; to. No. 7. ; No. , 12 FAIR CROWDS ARE URGE C&s'--' BIXSIO BY CAMPBELL'S BAXD ONE FEATURE OF SHOW. Striking? Soag-a oa Kalaer and Liberty Ltas Thrill Visitors Saturday's Riclsg Card to Lare. BT ADDISON BENNETT. SALEM. - Or, Sept. S7. (Special.) As the State Fair is drawing to a close it ought -to be said that one of ths outstanding features of this year's meetings has been the music furnished by Campbell's American Band and the SPEEDERS HELP WAR CAUSE Judge Bossman Conducts Liberty Drive In Police Court- Seven defendants In ths Municipal Court yesterday availed themselves ot Judge Rossman's offer to "Buy a bond and go free." John ti. jones, a negro, charged with violating the prona tion law, was one of them, but his pa triotic purchase won only a ugntening of the sentence. He was fined only tl50 on condition that he Duy a siut liberty bond. Six men arrested on cnarges oi kinging to the band accompaniments of ra witk.f fir... . . , T . j , I aramblina were released without fines Monta Austin. He has rendered some 8f. vL- w.j .l...ih.j - Rn striking songs on the Kaiser and the liberty loan each day, but his hits to day were more warmly received than on the preceding occasions, perhaps be cause he was in better voice and showed more versatility as an actor than heretofore. It is said by the managers that the attendance on Thursday. Portland day. was 13.000. That Is not a record at tendance, but considering the condi tion of the country, it was surely a mighty flattering turnout. That many sheepherder and ex-Pollc Member uwursssuB wa, lllb v ivikwi a aujX7 j J aut J I mobile for that day only is evidenced I Held at Pendleton. bond each. A total of 1516 was collected yester- dav from 25 speeders who appeared be fore Municipal Judge Rossman. The lineuD Included one woman. Miss Elsie Jones, who was fined 10 for driving 30 miles an hour on Corbett street. TWO DECLARED DISLOYAL by the fact that on Thursday afternoon there were 2141 autoa parked on and adjoining the grounds while the num ber today was perhaps a third of that. The attendance today was far short of Thursday, but It was a good crowd for Friday, which has never been one of the bumper days. Tomorrow will probably show a better attendance be cause of the big races scheduled for the afternoon. Big fields are entered for both ths free-for-all trot and free-for-all pace, and the fair commissioners have offered an extra purse of $100 for ths breaking of ths track record In either race. If the management does not come out with a big surplus, there is no use try- j log to do so during war conditions, for everything this year has been favor able save only those conditions. POBTLAND CLOSED TOWN SELLING OP MERCHANDISE) S TO DAYS I XDER BAX OCTOBETt L Draar Stares, Partly Exempt FVorn Late Order. Restricted Headline Prescriptions aad Medicine. Portland is to be a "closed" town on Sundays after October 1. Every establishment handling mer chandise, except drug stores, will be required to keep its doors locked, snd drug stores may engage only In the disposal of medicine and the filling of prescriptions. Cigar stores, soft drink bouses, Xrult stands, bakeries, and other PENDLETON. Or.. Sept. 27. (Spe clal.) Two men are held here by the military police to be taken to Portland, wnere tney win do tnea tor aiiegea violation of the espionage act. They are Thomas Fretwell, a sheep herder, and Elmo Sheldon, former member of the military police. Fretwell was arrested at Pilot Rock. He has worked around here as a sheep herder and is fairly well known. It is charged that he has been making remarks that savor strongly of L W. W. radicalism. Sheldon, given a dishonorable dis charge from the service, is ""hot only charged with sedition but also with mutiny. He, it is alleged, after his dis charge, railed at the Government. G. MEUCKE PASSES AWAY Ex-Austrian Consul at San Francisco Dies at His Aurora, Farm. G. Meucke, of 205 East Sixth street, died Thursday while on a visit to his farm at Aurora, Or. He was born in Hungary 77 years ago. and went to San Francisco when 20 years of age. at once making America his adopted country. For several years he was the Austrian Consul at San Francisco, where he was engaged In business until 1888. when he went to Aurora and en gaged in the farming business. A widow and four children survive him: Edward Meucke. who recently re turned from Chile, where ha was Amer ican Consul for a number of years; Hugo and Karl Meucke, of Aurora, and Clara Meucke, who is married and liv ing, abroad. , coaches. United States Takes a Band. Lieutenant Thatcher immediately placed the facts before the United States District Attorney and Mr. Bryon who say that they will back un the War Emergency Squad in searching the trains, as a result of this conference Lieutenant Thatcher has been empow ered to arrest and detain a denutv sheriff who attempts to thwart his officers in catching the bootlecrrers and other offenders of the "suitcase" brigade. This action la the result of a recent circular letter addressed to the police department by the General Manaerer of tne ruiiman uompany of August 12, in which it instructs its employes to stop at nothing short of force to keep the officers from searching baggage and suspected bootleggers on the trains. This policy, it Is alleged, has greatly Interfered with efforts to apprehend ooouee;gers It Is alleged that Pull man company employes in some in stances have aided bootleggers to es cape tne vigilance of the officers and have received money for such aid. Bootleggers Evade Law. The Pullman Company has advanced the argument that officers nnnriinr to Inspect baggage for contraband liquor must have a specific warrant naming the persons whose baggage is to be searched and describing the bag gage. Lieutenant Thatcher says he will send his officers hereafter to meet ths trains from California and that they will be instructed to arrest and detain any deputy sheriff who at tempts to interfere with their search of the coaches. , As a result of the Pullman car com pany's notice to the police force of August, startling methods have been revealed whereby bootleggers have evaded the law, say the officers. It i; alleged that bootleggers have entered trains carrying contraband liquor at Oregon City and that confederates have placed torpedoes on the track and flagged the trains near Mllwaukle sec tlon so that the bootleggers on board could drop off and disappear with the liquor.- - LIqnor Shipped North. Ths officers are not authorized to search trains In motion. It Is only after the trains have arrived at the terminal station that they cease to be trains. A through sleeper to Seattle which arrives from the south at nigh Is immediately switched to 'the Seattle train and the officers say they believe a large amount of Illicit liquor has been shipped north by this method. As a result of the alleged continued opposition of the Pullman Company, W. H. Souser. deputy sheriff for the Terminal Yards, was in conference last night at the police station with Lieutenant Thatcher of the War Emergency Squad. Sheriff MaVes Statement. Sheriff Hurlburt last evening, when the situation was called to his atten tion, made the following statement: Those men are merely acting aa watchmen in ths employ or the full man company as I understand it, and Deputy Sheriff badges were lent them to aid them in their work. They have not been legally commissioned as Dep uty Sheriffs and had no legal right, . think, to deny regular officers admis sion to the ears in performance of their duty. If I had been there I would have been Inclined to arrest them and pro ceed with the search. 'I shall call those men In in the morning and it is probable, after an investigation, I shall take their Deputy Sheriff stars away from them." LOGANBERRY TAX HEAVY Administration Told Revenue) Will Wipe Out Industry. Bill Representations were made yesterday by Oregon business interests to William B. Lamb, of the United States Food Ad ministration, that the passage of the war revenue measure now pending1 be fore the Senate would wipe out the loganberry Juice industry, and Mr. Lamb was asked to use his influence to prevent the placing of a prohibitive 20 per cent tax on that article. Mr. Lamb was present at a confer ence held in the Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon and received sug gestions as to the effect the proposed tax would have on the loganberry juice business. The bill has passed the House and now is before ths Senate. IRES SPREAD IN FORESTS Logging Companies Send Out Em- ployes to Fight Flames, - C. J. Conover. forest ranger, who had been assigned to duty In the Bridal Veil section ot the National Forest, re turned to Portland yesterday and re ported that a number of bad fires were raging In the Larch Mountain section. The brisk wind of yesterday and Thursday served to spread the flames at all points, and some of the logging companies found it necessary to send their crews into the forest to prevent ths fire communicating with their plants. The worst firs reported by Mr. Con- over is in the Larch Mountain district, and is a serious one, although not In the National reserve. On both sides of the river, he said, fires are in progress. Marriage Licenses Issned. CHEHALIS, Wash., Sept 27. (Spe cial.) Marriage licenses were granted by the county Auditor yesterday to Harry B. Oatman and Leah Alice Welch, of Portland, and to Jatses N. Murray and Mary; H. Kambo, of Tacoma, i (GaseSke for Sale 6 A.!., to ' attfal MksaTaTaw ' aaaal 6P.M. ctooer The Pacific Coast Director of the Oil Division of the Fuel Administration has requested that the sale of Gas oline and engine Distillate be limited to the hours be tween 6 A. M. and 6. P. M. The Standard .Oil Company is glad to comply with this request and, beginning October first, will serve the public between these hours only. This request is made for the purpose of conserving man power, and we know that our patrons will patriot ically co-operate with the Fuel Administration in carry ing out this important measure. Standard Oil Company (CALIFOENIA) MILL FEED IS HEED Scarcity of Vetch, Clover and Other Crops Serious. HERDS OFFERED FOR SALE Head of Dairy Division of United States Food Administration De clares Condition in Onegon , and Washington Are Acute. Conditions in Oregon and Washing ton, relative to mill feed for dairy cattle are worse than in any other state of ths Union visited, according to William B. Lamb, head of the dairy division of the United States Food Ad ministration, who was in Portland yesterday, and who conferred with local officials and dairymen at a meet lnr held in the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Lamb heard testimony from dairymen of Washington County, who last week- adopted resolutions asking the Government to have Northwest wheat milled In the Northwest, and also secured data from M. H. Houser, of the grain corporation: W. B. Ayer, State Food Administrator for Oregon; J. D. Mickle. State Dairy Inspector, and others. These sneakers . pointed out that drouth and the aphis had robbed Ore gon dairymen of vetch, clover ana other roughage, and that idleness on the part of the mills had so reduced the supply of mill feeds that it was out of the question tor proaucers or aairy nroducta to remain in business. H. O. Wells, f ood Aamimsirsior Washington County, exhibited a num ber of advertisements mat nan ap peared in papers, to show that the dairy industry was threatened, ana that many owners of herds ara en deavoring to dispose of their property, if was estimated that 75.000 to 100,- nno tons of mill feeds will be required to carry the state through the winter aoasoii. and Mr. Lamb was asked to use his innuence lowaru nanus un milling allotment Increased during the Fall and Winter months, when there is no pasture, rather than keeping the mills in operation on a iimuea output fnr tho entire year. Thv suere-ested that- ths mills be closed in the Spring, and showed Mr. Lamb the Importance of running at full canacitr this Winter. At the close of the conierence, jur. r.amb assured those present that ne would report the true condition to Mr. Hoover, and would make sucn recom mendations as he felt were Justified. 1T hud heen to Seattle for a similar conference prior to coming to Portland, and found the dairy industry in the sister stats badly demoralizes jjrouin conditions there, combined with aphis and other pests, had so reduced the alfalfa and other hay crops that the supply was Inadequate, and they, too, were appealing for ths milling of Mnrth western rrain. in order that by products might be utilized in relieving the situation. AUTO CRASHESJNT0 HOUSE Driverless Machine Surprises Fam ily Eat lag Dinner. A driverless automobile started down the hill on Nineteenth street in Port land Heights last night and after run ning lour blocks la the center pt thej street jumped the curbing and ran across the lawn anlt crashed into the residence of Mr. Van Duzer, of 681 Jackson street. Mr, Van Duzer reported to the police that he and his fanjily were eating dinner at the time. The machine is owned by the Sher man C,lay Company. ALL VANCOUVER TO MARCH Patriotic Parade to Boost Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept 27. (Spe cial.) The demonstration and parade to stimulate more interest in the fourth liberty loan, will be held to morrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The parade will be led by the band of the Signal Corps cutup plant. Employes from all of the industrial plants will march. One section will be given over to the Red Cross, another to the wives, moth ers and sisters of boys over there and another to the minute women of Clarke County who tonight reported they had secured pledges for nearly $70,000 worth of liberty bonds. The Honor Guard Oirls will be in line and it is expected to make this event the biggest of its kind ever held in Van couver. Workman Killed by Kxplosion. ASTORIA. Or., Sept. 27. (Special.) James Gallagher, a rancher, living at Elsie, was instantly killed today by the premature discharge of a stick of dy namite while clearing right-of-way for a county road. He was about 70 years of age and his only known relative is a sister, Mrs. David Keefe, of John Day. Cose Against Master Set. ASTORIA, Or.. Sept. 27. (Special.) The case against the master of the purse seining craft President Lincoln III. on a charge of malicious den true tion of personal property, Is set fori Important Schedule Changes Oregon Electric Railroad In Effect Tuesday, October i SALEM-EUGENE LINE Trains Leaving Portland No. 1 will leave Portland 6:40 A. M. instead of 6:30, make local stops to Garden Home, and be discontinued Tualatin to Eugene No. 5 will leave at 8:15 A. M. instead of 8:30, arrive Salem 10:15, Eugene 12:30 P. M., making local etops Tualatin to Eugene. No. 7 will leave at 10:40 A. M. instead of 10:45, make local stops to Garden Home, and be discontinued Salem to Corvallis. No. 21 will leave at 11:30 P. M. instead of 11:45, and be discontinued Wilsonville to Eugene. ARRIVING PORTLAND No. 2 will be discontinued Eugene to Wilsonville; leave Wilsonville 5:30 A. M. instead of 5:35, arrive Portland 6:45 A. M. in- No. stead .of 6.50. 6 will arrive 9:20 A. M. instead of 9:25, running slightly earlier than heretofore, Tualatin to Portland. No. 12 will arrive 2:25 P. M. instead of 1:20; leave Salem 12:15 P. M. instead of 11:10 A. M, No. 14 arriving 3:55 P. M., will ba- discontinued Eugene to Portland. No. 20 arriving 7:40 P. M. will make local stops Garden Home to Portland; will be discontinued Corvallis to Salem. FOREST GROVE LINE Leaving Portland Nos. 31, 35, 45 and 47 leaving 6:50 A. M., 10:25 A. M., 7:45 P. M., and $ 11:00 P. M., will be discontinued. ' No. 33 will leave at 7:45 A. M. instead of 8:15. No. 19 leaving at 9:20 P. M., will connect at Garden Home, 9:55, for Orenco, arriving there 10:15. Arriving Portland No. 30 will arrive 7:35 A. M. instead of 7:40, leaving Forest Grove 6:10 instead of 6:20. No. 34 will arrive 10:30 A. M. instead of 9:35; leave Forest Grove 9:15 instead of 8:15. Nos. 48, 36, 38 and 42 arriving 11:00 A. M. (Sundays), 11:50 A. M., 2:20 P. M., and 7:65 P. M., will be discontinued. No. 44 arriving 8:50 P. M. will be discontinued Garden Home to Port land; leave Forest Grove 8:35 P. M. instead of 7:35, arrive Garden Home 9:15 P. M., connecting with No. 22, arriving Portland 10:00 P. M. No. 46 will arrive 11:15 P. M. instead of 10:45, leaving Orenco at 10:20 P. M.; will be discontinued Forest Grove to Orenco. , Portland time shown above is at North Bank Station; time at Jefferson-Street Station is fifteen minutes later on trains leaving the city, and" fifteen minutes earlier on trains arriving. trial In the Circuit Court next Thurs day. The defendant Is accused of run ning over and destroying a fishing net. Read The Oregonian classified ads. AMf SEMENT8. t, . N Last Chance TONIGHT To Hear "The Doug Fairbanks of Song" f I , ' i OjX : MONTE AUSTIN in the Big Pavilion at COUNCIL CREST PARK Closing Dance of the Season Tonight Hear Austin sing, "It's a Long Way to Dear Old Broadway," the aong that Elsie Janis is sing ing to the boys in the trenches. Austin will sing seven farewell numbers - with the dancing to night. Hop a C C. Car to One Last Grand Good Time at COUNCIL CREST PARK Social Dance TONIGHT APOLLO TEMPLE - 231 Vi Morrison