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THE MORNING OEEGONIJLN, WEDNESDAY, OGTOBEB 33, 1918. 13 s WDOIIEII SHIP IWTHIED HN CARRYING WHEAT : Portland Builders Ask Source : of Rumors of Failure. STORY HAS NO FOUNDATION o Steamer or Hongh or Ferris Type Has Tet Carried Cargo of Cereal from Australia. - San Francisco dispatches, to the ef feet the Australian government will not longer permit wheat to be shipped to the United Stales in wooden ships built since the beginning of the war, yesterday started wooden shipbuilders . here wondering Just what experience the Australian government' or anyon else has had in the transportation wheat in such vessels. Lloyd J. Wentworth. supervisor . w-ooden ship construction in the Ore pon district for the Emergency Flee Corporation, said yesterday that so fa a he had ascertained not a solitary pteamer of the Hough or Ferris design, the Government standard ships, or an vessel built for the Emergency Flee . Corporation on the Coast, has been sen to Australia for wheat by the operat . ins department. Recorda at the Merchants' Kxchance show that only one of the ships bull i eince the war has carried wheat from Australia to San Francisco, she being the auxiliarr schooner La Merced, and she has made two voyages, the first in February and the second in August. From that it is accepted as certain that her first voyage was satisfactory, as far as the delivery of the grain was concerned, and, as far as has been learned, her second cargo was not com plained of. The La Merced was built on Tuget Sound. tVodra Skips la Wheat Fleet." From earlv in February until a few davs ago whole or part cargoes wheat were delivered at San Francisco from Australia. In that fleet were four wooden ships, the harkentin Georgiana built in IJrtt at Falrhaven. Cal.; the La Merced, the British bark Kassa. con atructed in 1Si3 at Jersey, and the American bark McLaurin, built at New burry in 1878. In February the La Merced and the British bark Wathara delivered wheat within the Golden Gate from the Antip des. the former having 1600 tons and the latter 1000 tons. The American bark John Murray discharged there in March and the amount of her cargo is not known here. In June the wheat fleet was marie up of the French barks Bretagne. Champagny, Bossuet and Buffon with the American bark Mc Laurin. They discharged 17.S91 tons in all. In July were the Kassa. with 0K tons: the French bark Duquesne, 21574 tons: French .bark. Jeanne du Arc. 94 tons: French bark Gen. de SSonis. tons; Danish motorship Se- lar.dia. tlSrtu tons: French bark Col. Villrbois Mareuil. the steel barkentine Alia, with 1702 tons, and the American steamer Ventura, with 1H7 tons. In the August fleet were the British hark Lord Templeton, 3237 tons: La Merced, 1500 tons, and American, steam r Sonoma, 125U tons. In September the American bark Wm. T. Lewis dis charged 3Ti00 tons: steamer Ventura. 1048 tons: British bark Shandon, 2100 tons: British bark Wathara. 1000 tons, and the steel barkentine Senorita. 601 tons. The Sonoma brought 99$ tons this mcTilh. and the barkentine Georg iana 1200 tors. Other than the wooden vessels mentioned the fleet consisted of ateel ships. In a message from San Francisco last night it was set forth the schooner Enow and Burgess, a wood vessel built at Thomaston, Me., in 1878. and the wood steam schooner Laurel, construct ed at South Bend in 1903. were also in eluded in wheat ships that were dis charged there this year. Origin of Story Mystifies. Just where the story originates re gardlns; the action of the Australian government is mystifying to builders. The wooden steamers building for the Government were not available until June, and tiien only two or three of them, and the fleet is now being used between San Francisco and Honolulu and In the West Coast trade. Coupled with the San Francisco re port was another to the effect a ship- ping man of that community had brought news from Washington that to mora wooden ships would be equipped with engines and that all new types would have to ,be sailing vessels. Gov ernment officials here deny any such a programme having been outlined to them. but. on the contrary, the Colum bia Blver type of 6000-ton wooden GIRLS! ACT NOW! HAIR COMING OUT MEANS DANDRUFF TJanderuie" Will Save your Hair and Double Its Beauty at Once." Try This! Your Hair Gets Soft, Wavy, Abundant and Glossy at Once. t-ave your nair: Beautify it! It )s oniy a matter oi using a little Dander ine occasionally 10 nave a head of neavy, oeaumui nair; sort, lustrous, wavy and free from dandruff. It is easy una inexpensive to nave pretty, charm ing hair and lots of it. 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Adv. steamer has been authorized and J. final details of their construction in ship construction here, is due from Philadelphia tomorrow , night with fnal details of their construction in his possession. One wooden steamer dispatched from Portland had boiler trouble because the engineer on watch was from the Great Lakes and permitted the boiler to be come "salted." There have been some adjustments necessary in machinery, the same as with steel steamers, which have had winch trouble and damaged their turbine engines when improperly handled: also there have been periods to go through for their crews to be come familiar with gear that was new to them, but until wooden steamers built in the Oregon district have actually been tried out carrying wheat cargoes, either from Australia or elsewhere, builders insist that they not be con demned. Ona cargo arrived in Fort land a few months ago on the schooner Forest Home, built in 1900 at Marsh field and some of the wheat was dam aged, but it was likewise asserted that it was made up of cereal that had been on atorage in Australia for a long period because of the shortage of ton nage and that was not in the best con dition for shipping. VESSELS COMING FOIl IjCMBER Old as 'Well as Nevr Carrier Iiisled by Merchants Exchange. On the en route board Jt the Mer chants' Exchange has been started a list of vessels coming this way to work lumber cargoes, only a few being shown as yet and they number car riers that plied the Pacific before the war as well as some built since. The auxiliary schooner city of St. Helens, built by the St. Helens Ship building Company for the McCormick fleet, is to proceed here from the Golden Gate and load lumber for Dant Russell. The schooner Rise, built on Puget Sound for A. O. Andersen & Co., is to come from Sydney, bringing copra "home" and loading out with lumber. The auxiliary schooner Sierra, also a late product, is listed from San Fran cisco and consigned to Dant & -Rus sell. The schooner Golden Shore, one of the Kolph fleet and which has been afloat since ' 1889, is coming from Sydney and consigned to Burns Phillip. Vessels of the old fleet in port include the schooner Alumna and barkentine Kohala, both for lunmber. OVER 15 WOOD SHIP 105- IHEFFICIEMT Chairman Hurley to Withhold Further Contracts. DERELICT OWES NOT NAMED FLEET FITTING OCT LARGE Willamette and Columbia Rivers Hold 65 Ships Lately Built..' Rapidly though vessels are being completed and sent away on their mis sions to various parts of the globe, yet there is a long list remaining, each of which is either about ready to get away or is having titting-out opera tions carried on aboard. There are 65 new vessels afloat be tween Portland and Astoria today, that is. ships which have not actually started for sea. All but six of them are wooden carriers, a majority being on account of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, while three of them are for the French government and two of the number were constructed on pri vate account. Between now and No vember 1 there will be a dozen of the wood ships completed and four of the steel carriers. FAITH" REACHES GCXF PORT Concrete Ship Loaded With Lumber In Portland. NEW YORK. Oct 22. The concrete ship Faith, first of its type built for ocean cargo carrying and hailing from San FYancisco. has arrived safely at a gulf port, according to word received by agents of her owners here. The vessel, after carrying 2,000,000 feet of lumber from Portland, Or., to Chile, took on a load of 4000 tons of nitrate and came through the Panama Canal The Faith, which was poured rather than built, stood the sea experi ence without damage, her agenta said, and is ready to sail for another port as soon as her unloading and reloading is finished. STEAMER YAKIMA IX SERVICE Vessel Is Turned Over to Operators by Shipping Board. TACOMA. "Wash, Oct. 22. (Special.) The steamer Yakima, the first vessel launched at the Wright shipyard here, had her trial runs yesterday over the Vashon course. The steamer has been turned over by the Shipping Board to the Pacific Steamship Company, which will take her for loading Friday. She will be in command of Captain W. C. W. Renny, formerly of Tacoma, and in the vessels of the Garland line. He will have Walter Stooks, of Tacoma, as his chief engineer. The Yakima was launched May 1 and laid here for some time after being completed before she could be engined in Seattle. Oregon District Will Not Be Affected As Its Record for Production Slakes it Safe. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. Because of their inefficiency, from 15 to 20 ship yards now building wooden ships, fori the Emergency Fleet Corporation will not receive additional contracts. In making this announcement tonight Chairman . Hurley, of the Shipping Board, said there would be no curtail ment of the shipbuilding programme. the step being taken to save material. labor and money. As fast as the yards complete the ships now under construction the work men will be sent to other plants, which are constantly in need of additional I labor. Mr. Hurley would not make pub lic the names of the yards, nor did he I indicate when the closing of them would begin. Delivery Contracts Brekri. The yards held to be Inefficient have failed to deliver contract chips within the time or - at the price specified in I the contracts, Mr. Hurley said. Not a single plant in the Oregon dis trict is known to be on the inefficient list. With this district leading the entire United States in the number of vessels launched and completed, and with every reason to expect that it will end 191S" with the largest finished fleet of wooden ships fb Its credit of any district, it Is not believed that one I of the yards will be included in the I action that Chairman Hurley contem- Dlates. Shipbuilders feel tha't the Northwest will continue to be the wooden ship construction center. The material sup ply here Is both of the best and easier of access, and there are plenty oi men for the wooden plants, which in point of equipment are most modern. Messages of Praise Received. Backing the assumption that the Ore gon district is free of the taint of in efficiency are commendatory telegrams I received from officials of the emer gency Fleet Corporation, at Philadel phia in recognizing every record that has been established, and, likewise, in that respect, the West has not been I beaten by the East and South. Sinoe June 8 a fleet of 24 wooden steamers have been delivered here, and for October alone the schedule calls for 18 finished ships. By the end of the present year the total since June 8 la expected to be 64 vessels. WIDELY KNOWS MASTER DIES Coos Bar Plans Big Flagpole. MARSHPIELD, Or, Oct. 22. (Spe cial.) Workmen at the Coos Bay Ship building Comyany yard have secured funds for the erection of a flagpole and flag. The fund was gathered from among the workingmen and each con tributed f 1. The intention of the lead ers in the movement is to raise a pole higher than any other in Coos County nd to purchase a larger nag than is Sing at ny staff in Coos County. When the pole and flag are ready for ising it is contemplated to have a half holiday and appropriate ceremo- ies. to which all Coos Bay will be in vited. Soldiers Soothe akin Troubles with Cuticura Soap. Ointem. Tilan Se. meh, Funr4-f "Clw.Dav B 1 f.' i Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND. Oct S2. Arrived Steamers Salmon, from Astoria: A. F. Lucas, from Ban raoclseo. balled Steamer Oleum, for Sao Francisco. . ASTORIA. Oct 12. Arrived at T:5o and left up at 11 A. M steamer A. F. Lucas, from fan Francisco. Arrived down at 0 last night. French steam aaxlliary Colonel Driant. Arrived at T and left up at 9 A. M-. steamer Daisy Mathews, from an Pedro. Left up at 10:30 A. M . steamer balmon. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 22. Arrived at 11 last night, steamer Rose City, from San Pedro, for Portland. DURBAN. Oct. 21. Arrived Barkentine Lahaina, Irom turn Columbia River. SAN PEDRO, Oct. II. Arrived Steamer Wapama. irom ion una. SEATTLE. Oct. 2-J. Arrived Steamers Governor, for ban Diero; Redondo, for Southeast Alaska. Departed Steamers George Loomia, for San Francisco; Santa Ana. for Southeast Alaska; Valdez, for Southwest Alaska. 8 AN FRANCISCO. Oct 22. Arrived Steamers Klamath, from Everett; Rainier, from Seattle. River Forecast. The Willamette River at Portland will remain nearly stationary during the next two or three days except as airectea By the tide Htsh tides Wednesday will be about 10:15 A. M. and 10 P. M . the stages being about 4.1 feet and 5-2 feet, respectively. TACOMA. Oct. 22. Arrived Steamers F. S. Loop, from San Francisco: Fushlma Maru. from Yokohama. Sailed Altai Maru. for Yokohama. Columbia River Bar Report. . NORTH HEAD. Oct. 2Z. Condition of the bar at ft P. M.; Sea. moderate; wind, north west, 22 miles. i Tides at Astoria Wednesday. High. Low. :2t A. M T.S feet!l:10 A. M 0.4 feet 51 P. I 4 feetIl:0a P. M 0.8 foot Read The Oregonian classified ads. Captain Johnson Took City ot Port land to Sea on Her Initial Voyage. Captain Olaf Johnson, who was mas ter of the auxiliary scnooner City of Portland, built in 1916 by the St Helens Shipbuilding Company, and the first of the new type of ship to be turned out in the United States, ana later toon the City of St. Helens, her sistership. rn Her maiden voyage, aiea at oan Francisco yesterday. News of his death reached the McCormick interests, which GDerate the vessels. Before taking the City of Portland Captain Johnson was on the steamer Klamath, and preceding that was mas ter of the schooner Alvena- -He was taken 111 recently at Manila and another master was sent to relieve him. but ha proceeded to San Francisco on the ves sel as a passenger. The new masters wife was a trained nurse and en route she was compelled to perform an op eration on Captain Johnson and that I is said to have prolonged his life. He had retired from the sea to a ranch home at Nampa. Cal., but the demand for masters due to the war prompted him to enter active service agaw. TIMBER ORDERS CANCELED Stopping Work on. liberty Shipyard I Affect Purchases Made Here. Resulting from Instructions issued by the Emergency Fleet Corporation to dis continue construction of the Liberty I shipyard at Alameda, CaL, on which (2,500,000 had been expended ana lor which a total of $20,000,000 had been set aside, orders held here for piling and other material in the way si tim ber have been canceled. The Government planned the con struction of 20 steel vessels .of from 15,000 to 20,000 tons each. It is said that threatened labor troubles, coupled with refusal of members of the Boiler makers' Union to work the last two Saturday afternoons, had a bearing on the decision of the Government to stop I work, also the fact all of the land re garded necessary could not be pur chased owing to the refusal of one owner to sell. Rear-Admiral Rous seau, civil engineer member of the Fed eral Commission on Additional Navy- yard Sites, is on his way West to take! final action in the matter. Pacific- Coast Shipping Notes. ASTORIA. Or.. Oct. 22. (Special.) The new Emergency fleet steamer Salmon, which was built at the McEachern yards and equipped at the Astoria Marine Iron Works, left at 10: SO this morning- for Portland on hr trial sun. Bringing a cargo of fnel oil fer Astoria and I PArtland. tna tana steamer lapl a. r. I Lucas arrived at 7 :50 this morning from California. Coming v to load lumber at Rainier the I steam schooner Dslsy Mathews arrived at 8 I o'clock this morning from ban rranclsco. The French auxiliary ship Col. Driant ar- I rived from Portland at 9:30 last night and after building DunKers ana laKing on fuel I here she will proceed to Humboldt to load I lumber. MARSHF1ELD, Or., Oct 22. 'Special.) The steam schooner Martha Buehner arrived today at 0:30 o'clock from San Pedro and San Francisco, bringing for the Coos Bay business men a general freight cargo. She will load a lumber cargo for San Pedro the Buehner mill. North Bend, y SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 22, (Special.) The loss of vessels iorcea upon the Matson Navigation Company when the Government V,. a s Suits Met i II It's the lad's idea of pie as it should be he has "come into his own" now that mother uses Kream Krisp for shorten ing her pie crusts. "Mother only winks at her indulg ence. Kream Krisp gives her the chance to "fill him up," for though she uses less Kream Krisp she can make more pie crust. And as the rich, flaky Kream Krisp pie crust is easily digested mother knows no digestive ill can fol low the youngster's "fill." Kream Krisp is every ounce pure shortening. And there's no scarcity of Kream Krisp, for it is a pure product of selected peanuts and peanuts are plentiful. Kream Krisp can be used again and again for frying for it has no flavor of its-own and doesn't absorb any from food fried in it. In shortening when you use Kream Krisp in place of butter or lard you decrease the quantity of shortening needed and increase the quality of your cooking. You prove the economy of Kream Krisp in every use you make of it. Try it today. BROW COMPANY Kream Krisp Department, Portland, Me. SAVE 3 SERVE BOT TJaR SWINGS STAMPS W'S'S' Purely Vegetable The Universal Shortening 3 V Vf" AU" oJf ? lr7wyS i Klriwt7irsji-awimnOT r '-. - - -j t - - - - r i nrr ri .fin -iriir ' tm mill 1 . many years, said that the big felwa wera more In evidence than ever before. Marine Notes. Spanish Influenza has reached men In some ot the shipyards though serious re sults have not been reported. It was said the Northwest Steel Company yester day that the number of men- suffering from commandeered so many of their big liners colds, and probably some with influenza. Is to be offset by the assignment of a large number of steamers ana sailing ships. Fort Captain Charles Saunders announced today that the company was now operating 43 vK.ela and that another was on the way.- It is contended by the expert shippers that after the rush of the war and post-war con ditions have passed into history the saruggle i from the Golden Gate for Portland for supremacy Between me nations win De cot day or two. Keen inl m sncns iwuiukiuu .u uio mriliou beginning to have an effect on the work. It Is expected the liner Hose City. Cap tain Magenn, will arrive tomorrow from California ports and Is due to sail Sat urday night. The steamer Blandon, oper ated as a freight vessel, is to get away in a nt onerating will be necessary if any nation to retain its snipping, it is now reported that Japan has aireaay purcnasea certain bwedtsh patents covering a iaie iypo oi moauiea Diesel engine and that the land of the Mikado intends to utilize the internal com bustion engine for future cargo earners. Frederick Dickie, the maritime engineer and writer, who aiea nere recently, an. nounced some time previous to his death that unless the United States did something in the near future to solve the question of cheap and efficient power its future mari time efforts as planned at present will not matertalize. Nearly iov nump-oacit wnaies are naving jovoua time along tne California coast between this port and Santa Barbara, It was reported this afternoon upon the arrival of i the Pacific steamsmp company s steamship Admiral Dewey from San Pedro. Purse Mertins. who has cruisea along tne coast for Restoration of the Winter schedule be tween Astoria and Megler has returned the steamer Nahcotta to that service and the sternwheeler Harvest Queen has been re leased, so will leave Astoria for Portland today. She will bring up a full load of freiKht and in- a few days will be placed on the Portland-Astoria route, relieving the Hassalo, which will be tied up lor tne Winter. United State? Inspectors of Steamvessels Edwards and -Wynn will conduct an in vestigation today into the drowning of a fisherman October 15, when thfl boat Is alleged to have been struck by the tug Geo. H. Mendel!, operated by the Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Having been turned over to Sudden & Christenson, who will operate the vessel under charter from the Government, the steamer A 1 rite, built by the Supple-Ballln Shipbuilding Corporation, was higed yes- terday from the latter's plant to Columbia dock No. 1. The same firm has been as signed the steamer Barring! on, completed by the Coast Shipbuilding Company, and she will haul down from the yard to the North Bank dock today. Fred B. Papa, assistant manager of the steel ship construction, baa been officially advised that all classification societies and the Government have agreed to accept the same tests on steel boiler material. In the past- different tests have been demanded and they proved bothersome. It Is thought the standard will be Lloyds. John Flynn has been assigned as mas ter of the new steamer Wihaha; Nils Peter son goes to the Airlie as second mate and F, R. MeBride to the Nupolela as steward, according to records of the Sea Service Bureau, There arrived from the West Seattle train ing station last night 25 men to bo signed as members of the crew of the steamers Atrlie and Keeolah. A partial crew for the Barrlngton is due from the training station today. Men of the Oregon Naval Malitla will proceed to Buena Vista Saturday to act as pallbearers snd firing squad at the funeral of John O. Nash, seaman, 30 years of age, and sop of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Nash, of Buena Vista, who died October 14, at Portsmouth, Va., in a Naval hos pital. He enlisted here a week after war was declared with Germany and served on the U. 8, S. Puebla. Inspection of the new steamer Anoka was reported completed yesterday at the office of United StateSteamvessel Inspectors Ed wards and' Wynn, while the inspection of the steamer Westview was started and the Moraine and. Wihaha will bo visited today. Included in messages to the Merchants' Exchange yesterday was one to the effect the barkentine Lahaina, which loaded lum ber here, arrived at Durban Monday. She made the run in 100 days. Bound from Portland the McCormick steamer Wapama reported at San Pedro Monday and will return here. It is said Jack Pennington, for several years purser of the vessel and recently made agent at San Francisco, contemplates returning to his floating berth. PERSHING THANKS FARMER American General in France Sends Appreciation to Vrooman. NEW YORK,. Oct. 22. General Per shing has sent a letter of appreciation to the farmers of America, who, he says, have not only supplied their quota of fighting men and bought largely of the liberty bonds, but have increased crops both last year and this more than ona thousand million bushels above normal production. The letter, addressed to Carl Vroo man, Assistant Secretary of Agricul ture, and made public here by the com mittee on public information, says: "Food is of vital necessity, and from the day of our entry Into the war, America's army of food producers have rendered invaluable service to ths allied cause by supporting the soldiers at the front through their devoted and splendidly successful work in the fields and furrows at home." ' Two Student Aviators Killed. MIAMI. Fla.. Oct 22. Percy M. Ger wig, of Pittsburg, and M. I Hope, of Meredosia, 11L, student officers of the Marine Corps, were killed today in an airplane accident at Curtisa Field near here. Their machine leu during m training flight. Do You Want Some Boat Spikes, Bolts Rivets WE MANUFACTURE MONTHLY 4,800,000 POUNDS NORTHWEST STEEL CO. Portland, Or.