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TIIE MORXIXG OltEGOXIAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1919. HUHDISASTER SEED BY STEAMSHIP HEAD Albert Ballin Opposed to Oper ation of Divers. RISK IS DECLARED GREAT Iictter Indicates That Director feared Rain, Even Though. Boche Won Conflict. SYDNEY, Australia. (Correspond ence of The Associated Press.) Albert Ballin. General Director of the Hamburg-American Steamship Company, who Is reported to have committed suicide Just before the signing of the armistice, had predicted disaster for the German overseas trade as an out come of the war. This is disclosed by the publication here of a letter which Herr Ballin had written in December, 1917, apparently to Dr. Rothenau, a privy councilor at Berlin. A copy of this letter was made public here by JT. M. Paxton, a resident of Sydney, who received it from a. friend in London. In it Ballin declared that whether Ger many or England was victorious in the war, the consequences to German for eign trade would be disastrous. The letter reads, in part: "Most of what we read in the news papers as to our preparedness for embarking- on brisk trade and manufac tures as soon as peace has been con cluded is, I fear, written with the manifest intention of heartening our people, who are notoriously ignorant of our actual economic conditions and all that threatens them." He said that the German mercantile marine was In "a perilous condition," and that the bill to re-establish and strengthen it, which at the time of writing was before the Reichstag, would show no results for at least five years. In that time Germany's great maritime competitors, Britain, and the United States and Japan, and the neu trals Norway, Denmark and Holland would profit enormously. German Rain Predicted. Ballin reminded his friend that he (Ballin) vainly begged Berlin authori ties not to engage in unrestricted sub marine warfare; and he continued: "You and I know that the Americans are probably the most idealistic Nation on the earth's surface. In antagoniz ing America, we have done a disastrous thing, a thing which will throw a cold shadow on our economic life for a gen eration." The latter part of Ballin's letter ran: "But if I am concerned about our re lations with the United States, I am still more anxious about our relations with Britain. I realize as never before that all the increase in our wealth, all the success which attended our enter prises in the year before the war, were owing to our intercourse with the Brit ish Empire. Her home ports, her do minions and colonies, were freely opened to our shippers and traders. Sometimes I wondered at this generos ity, and even called it folly. Is it to be imagined for a moment that those old relations "will return? "I am not to be supposed, dear Herr jeheimrat (Privy Councilor) as saying one word in favor of Britain's policy in this war. I believe that she entered it from some base motives. Risk la Declared Great. "Consider what we are risking. We look forward to resuming our sea trade. We build our proudest expec tations on this. How are we to resume it in face of an Anglo-Saxondom which loathes, and must loathe, our pres ence among them. "But we must beat England, you say, no matter what the consequence. I agree. All I say is, that whether we beat her or she beats us, the conse- . quences will be the same disaster to J our oversea trade if Britain so wills it. We may, in the event of victory, im pose all sorts of conditions securing us most-favored-Nation treatment, secur ing us free entry into British ports everywhere. No sane man believes that these conditions will help us. "With a hostile British Empire, galled and fretted with our military success, raging at its losses, hopeless ly alienated, how are we to procure the raw material which this Empire alone can supply? That great Empire is self contained, and we are not, and all the military victories and all the wild, will-o'-thewlsps about 'Hamburg to Bagdad,' will not help us." HOME EXPENSE OUTLINED Deckhand Says It Costs Him $17 78 a Year to Live. NEW YORK. New York workers, by intensive straining, can live on $1300 a year, but not less, according to one expert. As an authority on the cost of living, Ben Howe, secretary of the Community Council of Defense, thus testified be fore the sub-section of the War Labor Board, which is taking evidence in the controversy between the harbor boat owners and their employes regarding the demand of the employes for an in crease in wages and an eight-hour day. Mr. Howe, who was called by Frank P. Walsh, counsel for the unions, testi fied that he had made a study for years of the cost of living and at tributed its flight to freight charges, cartage, cost of contaners, increase in harbor costs, profiteering brokers and sabotage by manufacturers. When the witness was asked what he meant by profiteering brokers he told of a transaction in which a shipment of cotton was sold 16 times before it finally reached the consumer. BABTS HEAD Started In Pimples. Hair Fell Out Cuticura Heals. "When my little sister was six months old her bead became affected with eczema. It started in pimples that spread all over her head and she irritated them by scratch ing. She was cross and fretful. Her hair all fell out. "We started to use Cu ticura Soap and Ointment and used four cakes of Soap and one fifty-cent box of Ointment to heal her." (Signed) Miss Anna Berger, R. 1. Box7,Spanaway,Wash.,Sept.l7,'18. Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Tal cum are ideal for every -day toilet uses. lunel, iMk Ftm Vr Htil. AMrmm poat-nrd: "Omter, t. B. SratM." Sold rywhrs. Soap 26. Ointro.nt d 80c. Talcum Tlx. ECZEMA 1 "w hat would you recommend as a remedy for such a condition?" he was asked by Paul Bonynge, counsel for the owners. "Take a lot of these very smooth gentlemen and send them to the peni tentiary ae replied. "That would be one way." After Mr. Howe had declared that the purchasing power of a dollar was less than 33 cents and had declared a man of. family could not live on less than 11800 a year, Mr. Bonygne said: "This sounds like arrant socialism." Tlie lawyer also hinted that the witness was a theorist. "It is not a theory," Howe replied. "It is an upstanding, hardheaded fact that a man cannot get enough to eat, clothes to wear and keep his family on less than. $1800 a year in New York City." Mr. Howe added that policemen and postmen were underpaid and that there should be no difference between the compensation given a. married and sin gle man, providing both did the same Mark F. Calicchio, of 224 Fourth street. Union Hill, a New York Cen tral Railroad deckhand, testified that his living expenses were $1778.04 a year, while his pay was only $1290.30 a year. He said he had to borrow money and pawn possessions to care for his wife and three children. An affidavid from Captain John Am brose, of the tug Joseph H. Moran, owned by the Moran Towing Company, was offered in evidence. It averred that an order from his employers di rected him to "try and take water on their time and not on ours." The "their," he said, was the Government, for which the company was doing some work at that time. Captain William H. Maher was re called as a witness and asked about the prices of towing in the harbor. He said that in 1915 the Moran Towing Company was towing scows from Port Liberty to sea for $32 and now charged from $125 to $150 for the same work. He didn't know whether the distance of the tow was greater at this time. When Mr. Walsh tried to show through the witness that the employ ers tried to create discord among the employes, Mr. Bonygne objected and was sustained by William L. Hutchin son, who represented labor and presided as chairman. ELEVATOR INQUIRY ORDERED SETTLING SITUATION REFERRED TO ENGINEERS' SOCIETY. Dock Commission Agrees to Cover Increased Costs If Additional Work Is Undertaken. If engineering skill can ascertain why the grain elevator at the St. Johns municipal terminal has settled and can provide- a remedy, the Commission of Public Docks is in a frame of mind to have the task undertaken. Yester day the members decided to refer the situation to the local association of the American Society of Engineers, with the request that the association desig nate a board of competent engineers to investigate the trouble and make rec ommendations. The settling of the elevator structure is believed to have ceased. A full re port on borings made to depths of 160 feet will be ready in a fev days. The last boring is to be made today and time must be allowed in which to plot the records. The elevator indicated signs of settling December 2 and has been watched since, but early last month the downward movement grew. As a result of an investigation under taken it was decided to cease work on the structure until the movement stopped or some means was found of terminating' it. N6w the commission feels that the entire situation should be gone over by men recognized as qualified among their colleagues to un dertake the responsibility. The first unit of pier No. 1, which consists of the dock proper, 1200 feet in length, and a covered section 600 feet long, was accepted yesterday and a settlement ordered .arranged with the J. A. McEachern Company. The con tract price was $420,328, but as the commission had agreed to care for any increase in the wage scale, as well as additional material costs, both of which have taken place, details remain to be gone over before final payment is made. Also, as part of the open dock is occupied by building material for the elevator, the pier contractor was unable to proceed with the con struction of the galleries for the con veyors, so the amount they represent in the contract will be deducted. CHIEF RED FX IN IDAHO Memorial to Governor Davis Asks for Indian- Holiday. BOISE. Idaho. Chief Red Fox Skiu kaska, of the Northern Blackfoot In dians, in a memorial addressed to Gov ernor Davis, of Idaho, asks that the fourth Saturday in September be set aside as an Indian holiday, in honor of Indian participation in the war. The plea for the designation of an Indian day, is made on the ground of the contribution made by original Ameri cans to the great composite of white citizenship," Chief Red Fox insisting that both ttie history and the future of the red man deserve consideration. "We have given to the colors in the great war 9000 braves," says the peti tion In citation of recent Indian achievements. "We have bought $50,- 000,000 in Liberty bonds and donated $2,000,000 to the Red Cross, mother of humanity. The American Indian's soul has been in the world war. We know not the hyphen; we know not the pro this and pro-that; we are 100 per cent Americans. The plea of Red Fox will be pre sented to the State Legislature now in session. WOMEN ARE IN DEMAND Pittsburg Not Worried Over After War Problems. WASHINGTON. Pittsburg has no after-trie-war problem so far as women workers are concerned, according to that city's superintendent of the wom en's division. United States Employment Service, Department of Labor, who says: "Instead of finding large numbers of women out of work, our "office has not had enough applicants for positions for months. In fact, we close our office every day with hundreds of positions open, covering the widest range of op portunity professional work, clerical work, institutional and domestic work, and factory work. Any woman who is needing employment is more than wel come at the district office. "Women need not feel that they are taking men's places and thereby de priving returning soldiers of a means of earning their living. There are certain types of work for which women are best fitted and for which employers re quire the services of women. In order to meet the need of filling peace orders, the services of women are very much in demand." ) French War Mission Welcomed. AUCKLAND, . New Zealand. The French War Mission, headed by Gen eral Paul Pau, visiting here, was warm ly welcomed at Auckland. Its first stop ping place in New Zealand. One of the Frenchmen summed up the object of the mission in this way: "We want to find out how Germany did her trade here, and then to take her place." NEW BOAT SERVICE TO BE ESTABLISHED Pacific Steamship Company Will Operate Vessels. SAN DIEGO SOUTHERN PORT Admiral Dewey and Admiral Schley "Will Carry Passengers and Freight on New Schedules. Under the flag of the Pacific Steam ship Company, a through passenger and freight service will be established February 10 between Portland and San Diego. The steamers Admiral Dewey and Admiral Schley have been named to start the new run. and the former departs from the Golden Gate for this port Monday,, while a week later the Admiral Schley will follow. The company, which, while legally the Pacific Steamship Company, is the well-known Admiral Line, boasts of a service from Alaska to San Diego, now reaching every principal harbor on the shore of the Pacific north of the Mexi can border. The inception of the Port land service was late in the Fall of last year, with the steamer Aurelia as an exclusive freight carrier between Port land and San Francisco, serving Eu reka and Marshfield as well, while early in December the steamer City of Topeka was called into servloe on the same route as a passenger and freight vessel. Both will be continued on their present schedules. New Territory Opened. Now the placing of the Admiral Dewey and Admiral Schley on the long run to the Southern California city not alone affords passenger connections frora Portland to the Golden Gate, Los Angeles and San Diego, but opens addi tional territory for certain products from the Oregon country on assurance of a more direct delivery than has been the case since the war started. Formerly the same ports were reached by the North Pacific Steam ship Company with two vessels, but they have been off the run for a lengthy period, the outbreak of the European disturbance having attracted the steamers to more lucrative engage ments. One of them, the Roanoke, was lost, while the other, the George W. Elder, is operating out of San Fran cisco to West Coast ports. The San Francisco & Portland Steam ship Company is the pioneer on the Portland-San Francisco run. and in July. 1910. extended its route to Los Angeles. With the steamers Rose City, .tseaver and Bear, a most satisfactory schedule was maintained, but the Bear was lost June 14, 1916, near Cape Men docino, and last year the Beaver was taken over by the Navy, while the laU ter part of December the Rose City was laid up for an overhauling, so it is not active now. For a number of years the well- known McCormick line has kept ves sels In operation out of Portland as far as San Diego, carrying passengers and lumber, the demand for the latter cargo preventing merchandise being trans ported, though on all northbound voy ages the company carries general cargo. Permanent Operation Expected. When the Admiral Line entered the Portland field, which was done most quietly, it was without promises of a fast service immediately, officials say ing tnat as soon as patronage war ranted they would provide more ves sels. The determination to sail the Ad miral Dewey and Admiral Schlev out of Portland Is accepted as marking the entrance of the fleet into the Columbia i stiver territory Ih an active way, and that it will be permanent- Each of the steamers has passenger accommodations for about 160 and they are sister snips, navlng been built at Philadelphia in 1898. They are 280 feet long. 36.1 feet beam and 22.7 feet depth of hold. They are of 2104 tons gross and 1336 tons net register. COWLITZ NAVIGATION BLOCKED Columbia Freshet Builds Bar at the Mouth of Tributary. KELSO, Wash.. Feb. 6. CSDecial.1 With the Cowlitz River almost com pletely obstructed by a bad bar at its mouth, fishermen and transportation interests are clamoring for dredging even ugnt launches cannot get out of the river at low tide. The filling was due to drifting of sand from the Co lumbia below Cottowood Island, where a Government dredge was working a. short time ago. The recent Columbia freshet carried It down in front of the mouth of the Cowlitz. The Kelso Commercial Club has taken steps to bring the matter to the attention of the proper authorities. Pacific Coast Shipping Notes. ASTORIA. Or.. Feb. 6. (Snrclal 1 TV.. tt!K Samson with a barge In tow arrived from Portland and sailed for Puset Sound at 1:50 this afternoon. The new Emergency Fleet steamer Awen dan, from Portland, crossed out at 7:30 last evening on a 4-hour trial trip at sea. She returned at 4 o'clock this afternoon. After discharging fuel oil at Astoria and Portland, the tank steamer Washtenaw sailed at midnight for California. The tank steamer W. s. Porter sailed at 3 o'clock this morning for California after discharging; fuel oil In Portland. ABERDEEN. "Wash., Feb. 6. (Special.) New quarters are being; constructed for the Grays HarBor fcteveaore company, which handles practically all of the .stevedoring here. The new building will be at the foot of H street, and will be much more com inodlous than present quarters. The steamer Oalsy Putnam sailed today with a cargo of lumber from the Grays Harbor Lumber Company, Koquiam. Her destination is San Diego. BAM FRANCISCO. Feb. 6. (Special.) The Pacific Mail llntr Venezuela, which waa requisitioned by tho Government for the transportation of the French officers and a cargo of military" supplies to Vladivostok several days ago. will not be needed for this purpose and will be permitted to re main In tho regular service between this port and the Orient, the Shipping Board an nounced today. It is understood the United States Army transport department has solved the trans portation problem and may add another transport to the present service out of this port. This means that there Is now little likelihood of the Venezuela or any other Pacific Mail vessel being taken from the service for the uso of the Government. The rate on lumber via the Panama Canal was cut from $35 to SIS per thousand-foot measurement today by the Shipping Board. The announcement did not create any par ticular Interest among shipping men, tor there has been little or no movement of lumber from this coast to the Atlantic. The opinion was ventured, however, that the new rate will make it possible for the British operators to get the- cream of the lumber haul on lumber from this coast, as they will receive more than $18 a thousand for the short haul across the Atlantic Bunpel Motoyama. Administrative Secre tary of the Formosan government, made an inspection of the local waterfront today with a view to securing ideas for harbor development in his. own country. During his stay in this country Motoyama will study American state and city administrations and development work carried out by them. According to a telegram received here today from Manager K. Doi, of the T. K. K., arrangements 'have been made to have the passenger business of the concern in this country and Canada handled at the offices of the Cunard line. The only exceptions will be at San Francisco and New York, where : the Japanese company has Its own of fices. In turn the Japanese line will rep resent the British interests in the Orient. COOS BAY. Or.. Feb. . (Special.) Much surprise was caused in local shlooing circles today when, despite a terrific south west storm of wind and rain, the Coos Bay bar smoothed down and permitted a sen- era! clearance of boats in and out. The Standard Oil tanker Whittler. which had been outside since Sunday night, came into port at 4:40 this afternoon. bringing 10.000 barrels of fuel oil. badly needed by the Mountain Stales Power Company. The steam schooner Aurelia, departing for Port land, transierred pilot feter Olson to the tanker. The steam schooner Martha Buehner, ar riving this forenoon from San Francisco. crossed in at 4:30 P. M.. bringing a general cargo of freight. The Martha will ship a lumber cargo at the Buehner sawmill. North Bend. The steamship City of Topeka. which came Into the harbor yesterday afternoon, sailed o this afternoon for Eureka and ban Francisco with freight and passengers. the stzam schooner Aurelia. barbound here one day, sailed for Portland at 1 this after noon. Not having her cargo of lumber completed. the steam schooner Yellowstone failed to sail for San Francisco today, as Intended. nothing has been seen of the steamer G. C. Llndauer, with freight and passengers, due here yesterday. C. K. Cadman. head ship Inspector lor th Coos Bay yards, has been ordered to 8an Francisco in a new position, the nature of which was not named. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND. Feb. 6. Sailed during the night Steamer Klamath, for San Pedro via St. Helens. ASTORIA. Feb. 6. Arrived down at 9:30 last night and sailed at 6:30 A. M., steamer AwensUaw, for trial trip. Sailed at mid night, steamer Washtenaw, for Port San Luis; sailed at 3 A. M.. steamer W. S. Por ter; sailed at 1:50 P. M., tug Samson, tow ing barge. Arrived at 4 P. M., steamer Awensdaw, from trial trip. SAX FRANCISCO. Feb. 6. Arrived Steamer Daisy Mathews, from San Diego, for Portland; steamer Argyll, from Portland; arrived at mUlnlcht, steamer Celllo, from Portland, for San Pedro. SAN PEDRO, Feb .8. Arrived Steamer West Wauneke. from Portland. Arrived Steamer Santa. Barbara, from Columbia River. BALBOA. Feb. 5. Arrived Steamer Ed-sefield. from Portland, for New York. NAGASAKI, Feb. 1. Sailed Steamer Manila Maru. from Seattle for Hongkong. YOKOHAMA. Feb. 1. Arrived Steamer Columbia, San Frnaclsco for Hongkong; February -. steamer Klnkasaa Maru, from San Francisco. ANTOFAGASTA. Feb. 4. Arrived Steam er Ernest H. Meyer, from Portland. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 6. Arrived Steamer Celllo. from Astoria; J. A. Moffat, from Port Angeles. Sailed Steamer C. A Smith, for Coos Bay. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. B. Departed Steamers Hosan Maru. for Yokohama; Gen eral Pau. for France. TACOMA. Wash.. Feb. 6. Arrived Steam er Easterling. from Seattle. Departed- Steamer Oleum, for San Francisco. River FarcL Tha Willamette River at Portland will re main !arly stationary during the next two or three days except as atiectea ay me uae. The stage at 8 A. M. yesterday was 4.7 feet above xero, a decline of 0.3 feet In 2 hours. Tides at Astoria Friday. Ill.h Low. .V2T A. M .'8.9 feet12:42 A. M.. . .0.8 foot 6:34'I M 6.1 tet Colombia River Bar Report. NORTH HEAD, Feb. 6. Condition of the bar at & P. M. Sea smooth; wind north, 1 miles. PROFIT-SHARING PROPOSED Anaconda Copper Company Slay Adopt Ford Plan. BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 6. Reports that the Anaconda Copper Mining Company contemplates the establishment of a profit-sharing plan patterned after the Ford plan were current here today. An aconda officials refused either to af firm or deny the report stating, how ever, that no change in system could be made until the present market situa tion clarifies. The wage decrease of $1 a day, an nounced today, is based on the old Western Federation of "Miners' contract entered into several years ago. . FINANCE CHANGES WANTED Widening of Scope and Continuation of Operations Suggested. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Enlargement of the functions of the war finance cor poration and continuation of its opera tions for probably a year after peace Is declared, will be asked of Congress shortly by Secretary Glass. Directors of the corporation today discussed with Mr. Glass a proposal to authorize the body to finance foreign trade in transactions through banks in this country. Some definite plan to ef fect this will be worked out. AMERICA MAY COMPETE Agreement With British Manufac turers and Importers Reached. LONDON, Feb. 6. At a conference today between British manufacturers, British importers and representatives of American shoe manufacturers, an agreement was reached by which American and British firms dealing In boots and shoes can start competi tion on an equal basis. Details will be arranged later. The conference was arranged by the Ameri can Chamber of Commerce in London to discuss the new import restrictions of the British government. OIi"VMPIA SOLONS TO BE MET Oregon Delegation Named to Discuss Columbia River Fishing Laws. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or.. Feb. 6. (Special.) Under the tersm of a res olution adopted today in the House and Senate, a delegation of 11 legislators will meet a like number from the Washington State Legislature at Port land Saturday to discuss proposed changes in the fishing laws for the mouth of the Columbia River, and also to discuss Dossible gasoline legislation For the Senate President Vinton named Senators Norblad, Handley, J. C. Smith. Banks and Orton as members of the special committee. Speaker Jones ap pointed Representatives Hurd, Bean, Ballach. Hosford. Martin and A. A Smith as ,he House members of the committee. Under another resolution It is pro vided that a committee of three from the point committee shall met with i similar committee from the Washing ton Legislature while the main commit tee is -making provision for a uniform test for the quality of gasoline for the two states. This subcommittee from the House includes Representatives Bean and Martin, one of the committee to be selected from the Senate. Egg Claims Rule Set Aside. WASHINGTON. Feb. 6. Railroad tar iff regulations .which refuse to allow egg shippers to claim damages unless more than 5 per cent of the contents of a shipping caBe have been broken or to pay for more than 5 per cent were set aside today by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Railroad Admlnlstra tion was ordered to establish a new set of rules on May 1. 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Permission has been asked of the War Department for the use of a part of the cantonments, when they are released from military service, for camps to train women as teachers of eetting-up exercises and semi-military drills. These teachers will be quipped to give training in industrial plants and public schools. This movement is part of a plan of the United States Training Corps for Women, which aims to build up women physically, fitting them for industrial occupations. The corps, organized for women war workers in Washington, under the direction of Miss Susanna Cocroft. of Chicago, has been made a permanent organization. It also is planned to establish recreation camps In the cantonments to which physicians may send women and children. The original training corps, which numbers about 3500 women war work ers, was formed on the White House lot. Seventy-five Army officers were de tailed by the War Department to assist Miss Cocroft. In announcing the purpose of the corps Miss Cocroft said: "We wish to utilize the knowledge of what the camps have done for men, mentally and physically, and to apply it to the conditioning of women while the pub lic mind Is quickened to this utility. In this way all men and women the young, the middle-aged and the old may benefit by outdoor life regularly supervised and trained under semi-military discipline and under the super vision of competent medical and nurs ing assistance. VARSITY HISTORIAN CHOSEN Ella Wens, Klamath Falls, to Re cord Chosen Activities. TrNTVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. Feb. 6. (Special.) Ella Dews, of Klamath Falls, was chosen university historian, a new student body office, at a meeting today of representatives of students, faculty and alumni, who have been working out plans for com piling a complete university record. Miss Dews plans to start a looseleaf- tscrapbook at once, to contain the activ ities of all departments of the univer sity. Posters, programmes and clip pings will be collected. Military accomplishments and the names of every university man who served also will be kept. War work classes, under Colonel W. H. C. Bowen, professor of military science and tac tics; Colonel John Leader, Miss Mabel Louise Cummlngs, head of the depart ment of physical education for women, and Miss Lillian Tingle, head of house hold arts, will be specially emphasised. An alumni directory, to be kept In the memorial room, will be presented to the alumni of the university at the 50th anniversary of the institution in 1926. ENGLISH TRADITION BROKEN Benchers of Middle Temple Drink to President Wilson. (Copyrlpht. 1!10. by the New Tork World. Published by Arrangement. LONDON. Feb. 1. There was a bril liant and enthusiastic scene at the re ception of Ambassador Davis by the benchers at the Middle Temple Hall. Th enew occasion, says the Times, de manded a new departure. 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CORVALLIS CREAMERY CO., Distributors, 20S Salmon St. which a century and more of peace and ever more cordial relations has rendered possible. This was the hall of Queen Elizabeth, the hall that belongs to Americans al most as much as to the home-born English. the hall where "Twelfth Night" was first performed, the hall of great traditions, belonging to the days when the New i orld was born and adventurous Englishmen were build ing more deeply than they knew. In such a hall, with all its legal and imperial significance, it was fitting that the first American Ambassador after a great war should enter as a fellow and not merely as a guest. MAIL-GLUT SJ0RY DENIED General Pershing Reports No Serious Congestion in France. WASHINGTON. Feb. 6. General Per shing cabled the War Department to day denying reports that mail to and from the American expeditionary forces had become . congested at French mail heads. The General said there was no delay or accumulation of mall for the United States, and no accumulation of correctly addressed mail arriving in France for the soldiers. General Pershing said there were 1210 sacks of incorrectly addressed mail at the cental Army postoffice in France now being redirected, while only 1-6 sacks of dead lettc.rs had been chipped tn lhA ITnitori 53f.ifoa In lanun rv Tli. incorrectly addressed ma' at the cen-j tral office, he said, "could be placed in one American car." LAND DIVISION PROMISED President of Hungary Says Great Eslatcs Will Be Cut Up. BAST.E. Switzerland, Feb. 6. Count Karolyl, President of Hungary, has in furmcd his cabinet that the division of lands shall commence as soon as the land reform act is published, accord ing to a dispatch from Vienna. The first lands to be divided will be the estates of Count Karolyl. at Herts. AMERICAN SHIP IS BURNING Steamer War Skeena Aflro Off Southeast Irish Coast. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 6. The Ameri can steamer War Skeena is on fire 13 miles east of the Black Water light vessel, on the southeast Irish coast, near Wexford. Naval vessels are ren dering aid. Soldier Preference Bills Killed. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Feb. 6. (Special.) Senator Hustons bill providing- for giving preferential right to soldiers, sailors and marines on public work, and Representative Westerlund's measure providing for certain property exemptions for soldiers, sailors and marines, were both killed in the House today upholding unfavorable committee reports. Salmon Trout Running. CASTLE ROCK. Wash.. Feb. 6. (Spe cial.) Salmon trout are running in great numbers in the Cowlits River and almost anyone can bring in a fine string in a short time. PRODUCTION AGAIN INCREASED Last month we manufactured 5,800,000 pounds of RIVETS, BOLTS and BOAT SPIKES Can we serve you? NORTHWEST STEEL CO. Portland, Oregon 8 Saves 20 to 30 Cents a Pound WllllIIIlEIllllIll! iiiiil A Telephone Message Brings Prompt Delivery MEXICO MORE FRIENDLY U. S. INTKRESTS TO EE GUARD ED, SALS AMBASSADOR. Preparation of Carranza for Prob lems of Reconstruction Is Praised by Official. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. American rights in Mexico will be amply safe guarded by the Mexican government, according to Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher, who is here from Mexico City for conferences with State Department officials. ' The ambassador declared today the feeling there toward this country had become more friendly since the recall of the German minister, the notorious Von Eckhardt, and the consequent ces sation of anti-American propaganda. President Carranza. he said, had ac complished a great work in preparing for development and reconstruction, and had made such headway that the various bandit leaders are now with out real influence and were grouping in small bands. He was emphatic in. the statement that Carranza was the real power in Mexico. It now is generally understood that the president will call a special ses sion of the congress in April or May ti consider among other things, petroleum legislation. The ambassador expressed the opinion that ultimately a law would be passed recognizing the rights of American citizens acquired under the laws of Mexico in good faith. The foreign debt of Mexico, upon which no Interest has been paid since 1913, and the general public debt of the country, now are being considered by the government and steps are con templated looking to a refund. The average wage per man of tho United Slates Steel Corporation em ployees in 1918. was about $1500, com pared with 1677 in 1904. A Sure Sign of good spirits and geniality. It fairly bubbles with them- ORDER IT at your grill, restaurant or any refreshm ent place. They all serve it. In bottles On draught "It has the' argu ment." 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