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IS THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAX, SATURDAY, MARCTT J, 1010. LOCAL MILK PRICES DROP CENT A QUART Harmony Restored Between Producers and Distributers. SCALE EFFECTIVE MARCH 1 Reduction Declared Due to "Grass Season," Which Will Continue for About Four Months. Friction and disagreements which have existed between milk producers and distributers who handle the Port land milk supply were removed and peace declared at a dinner party at the Imperial hotel last night. The festivities were the culmination of ef forts of both factions for the past few days to restore harmony which has been broken for more than a year. Incidentally, of especial interest to the milk consumers of Portland is a reduction of 1 cent a quart in the retail price of milk delivered at the homes and sold in stores. The cut in the price of milk results, fay members of both former factions, from the usual spring oversupply of milk which continues for about four months beginning about the middle of February. During this part of the year, known as the grass season, the use of expensive feed is curtailed and the supply exceeds the demand in the Portland district.-. Milk Kmptled Into Sewer. In years past the milk distributers have been forced to empty thousands of gallons of skimmed milk into the sewers and this practice has been the result of much criticism. Steps have been taken this year to utilize the oversupply, and according to speakers at the dinner there will be no milk waste this year. The peace pact secured through ne gotiations of leaders of both .produc ers and distributers will only be -carried out on condition that all concerned "play the game'" fairly, according to statements made by members of both interests. "The harmony which has been re stored." said Alma D. Kratz. president of the Oregon Dairymen's league, "will result in reductions in cost to both producers and distributers and thi3 naturally will result in lower cost to the consumer." Portland District Affected. The lowering of the price of milk to both distributers and consumers af fects virtually all of the dairy inter ests serving Portland. A statement is sued yesterday by the Oregon Dairy men's league is said to be satisfactory to the majority of the distributers in the city and the prices indicated will he adopted generally by all distrib uters. Some dairymen who are not affil iated with the Oregon Dairymen's league and who have not been fol lowing the scale of prices heretofore established by the Portland Milk com mission have reduced prices, but not on the scale announced by the league sLatement. One of these dairymen yes terday left cards with his customers announcing a reduction of one cent per quart on common and certified milk and one-half cent reduction on pints of common milk. A reduction of one cent on all cream was also announced by this dairyman. although the league. statement calls for no reduction in retail prices of cream. Scale Effective March 1. The complete price schedule, effective March 1, will be as follows: To the producer, f'.i.JO for 3.8 per cent milk. To the distributer, l:,- cents a quart and 9 cents a pint, delivered. Wholesale prices received by distributers v-ill be reduced lrom 45 to 40 cents a gallon. This covkis sales to hotels and eating houses. Quarts and pints delivered to retail stores for resale to tile public will bo reduced from J.'l'A to 1- cents and t to 7', cents respectively. Attending the dinner last night were: A. I. Katz. president Oregon Dairymen's league; Ci. War!!n, Ortgon Dairymen's I'-ague; A. M. Work, president Portland Damascus Milk company; M. Kehrli, Oregon Dairymen's league: O. M. Washburn. Ore gon Dairymen's league; F. Knecht. Oregon creamery; C. M. Gregory, Portland Dairy as sociation; Fred O'Donnell, Modern dairy; M. S. Schrock, Oregon Dairymen's league; 3. Graham, Portland-Damascus Milk com pany; A. Heiman, dairyman; Thomas t 'armichael, Oregon Dairymen's league; W. K. Newell, Oregon Dairymen's league: F. W. 2!azlett, Vine- Lodge dairy: E. D. Hamilton, "olumbfa River creamery, Vancouver, Wash.; ti. W. Parson. Crumpled Horn dairy: A. H. Parson, Crumpled Horn dairy: G. W. Horton, Columbia River creamery. Vancouver, Wash.; Paul Eckleman, Kiverview dairy; F. T. "Wilcox. Fernwood dairy: A. H. Schalberger. Dairymen's league; T. S. Townsend, Sunset ciairy; Charles Eckleman. Rivervlew dairy; J. W. Pomeroy, Oregon Dairymen's leaguei Jacob Luselier. Oregon Dairymen's league; P. O'Donnell, City dairy; S. B. Hall, Mult nomah county agricultural agent, and J. Kehrlc, Cloverlaml dairy. LUMBER CARG0ES LIGHT Twenty-Six Vessels Carrying 17, 700,000 Feet Sent in February. ASTORIA. Or.. Feb. S. (Special.) Lumber cargoes from the Columbia river during the month of February were unusually light. Figures com piled by Deputy Collector Hariri ix show lhat in the month just closed 20 vessels loaded at the mills in the lower Colum bia river district and their combined cargoes totaled 13,586,102 feet of lum ber. Sixteen of these vessels, carry ing 12,128,960 feet went to California, 'while four vessels laden with 1,457,143 are en route to foreign ports. In the same period six vessels loaded 4. 166.539 feet of lumber at the up-river Tnills, making a grand total of 17,752, 611 feet of lumber that left the Co lumbia river in cargoes in the month of February. CUBA BUYS FIR LUMBER Cargoes to Be Floated at Xortlivvest Forts Soon. Two cargoes of northwest fir have , Veen sold for delivery in Cuba, the lousiness having been transacted through the Douglas Fir Exploitation company. Whether one or both of the orders will be loaded on the Colum bia river is yet to be determined, but the principal interest of lumber manu facturers is in the fact it i3 the first time northwest fir has been placed in the Cuban market in such quantity. The early movement of fir ties to the east coast, the Cuban business and lrospects of moving lumber to Europe, are pointed to by lumbermen as indica tors of what could be done if only tonnage adaptable for lumber trans portation were available. AV-2 READY FOR LAUNCHING Second Concrete Ship Completed at A'ancouver Yard. W-2. the second of the concrete ships f i nished by the Great Northern Con crete Shipbuilding company, will be launched at the Vancouver yard Mon day afternoon. The third vessel is rtady alto. It is planned to have work started on the fourth and fifth car riers as soon as the ways are cleared to permit the forms to be built. Because of the Port of Portland commission being Interested In con crete construction, both in the way of a hull for the dredge Columbia and a sixth pontoon for the St. Johns dry dock. Captains J. W. Shaver and E. W. Spencer of the commission will in spect the vessels at Vancouver today. The first ship, the tV-l. now in the water, is "as dry as a bone" and is at tracting considerable attention be cause of being the first "stone" vessel to be built in the district. The use of concrete in barge building and the like is being gone into and the general opinion is that the material is desir able for such carriers. Pacific Coast Shipping Notes. ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 2S. (Special.) Fed eral inspectors of hull and boilers, Astrup and Duffy, were here today and Inspected the emergency fleet steamers Cotteral and Klamath. Announcement is made from ths local of fice of the San Francisco board of marine underwriters that the highest bid for the wreck of the auxiliary schooner Janet Car ruthers, which is stranded on the beach near Oray8 Harbor, was fll.lOO, submitted by a Mr. Price, of Seattle, and It probably will be accepted by the board. The highest offer for the vessel's cargo was $0io. Barge 93 arrived from Portland at 1 1 o'clock today after discharging fuel oil and sailed at 12:40 for California in tow of the tank steamer Kl Segundo, which put in here this morning on her way down the coa.st from Puget sound. Bringing freight and passengers for As toria and Portland, the steamer City of To peka arrived at 10:50 today from San Fran cisco via Eureka and Coos Bay. The team schooner Daisy Freeman Is due from San Francisco with freight for here and Portland. The cannery ship St. Nicholas returned at l'J:30 this morning from Portland where she has been on the drydock to be painted and have her rudder repaired. The tank steamer Wm. F. Hcrrfn arrived this afternoon from California with a cargo of fuel oil for Portland. ORATS HARBOR. "Wash.. Kb. C. f Spe cial. Of nine steamers, loaded and ready to ctar for California ports, sf-ven got over the bar about 10 o'clock this morning. Those to clear were the Daisy Putnam, Yellowstone, Hoquiam, Carmcl. vea. Grays Harbor and Tahoe. There were two arrivals, the Ta?sen and the Charles Ch ristensen, coming In just be fore noon. The Iajwen will load at the K. K. Wood mill and the Christenscn at Lytle'i mill, Hoquiam. TACOMA. Wash., Feb. 2. fSpectal. With a. cargo valued at over f1.O00.0tm. the Osaka Shosen Kaisha pt earner Manila Maru is due to sail tomorrow from here to the orient. The Justin of the Garland line also will sail tomorrow with a full cargo for Shanghai. The Manila this voyage is car rying a lot of fiOO tons of salt fish, some nooo b4es of cotton and a big shipment of tobacco. The Justin has cut tobacco, ateel and cigarettes. Following a conference of the shipyard workers here yesterday the men decided, according to popular vote, to stay out until their demands were complied wit h. A icood many of the men who were engaged in waterfront work have secured their old jobs and declare they are through with the shipyards at least for a lime. PRATTLE, Wash., Feb. 2S. 'Special.) With the arrival of the American barkentlne Benicla in Seattle this afternoon from Syd ney, Australia, it was learned that the ves sel had been sold by H. G. Seaborn and apsociate of Seattle to Whitney & Bodden of Mobile. Ala. The consideration was not made public. Prosperity" a sun is shining in the countries along the west coast of South America where gold and copper mines are being operated at top speed and many new enterprises have been started, according to officers of the sa fling suhooner Robert R. Hind, now in Seattle discharging a cargo of cottonseed cake from Huacho, Peru. Both Chile and Peru have, been benefited In a finannial way by the war, and as one of the officers of the Robert R. Hind ex pressed it. everybody seems to have money. Many Germans, including officers and mem bers of crews of Teuton ships Interned In Callao at the outbreak of the war. are being shipped back to Europe by the Pe ruvian government, according to word brought by the schooner. At the annual convention of the American Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots held in New York in January, the name of the organization was changed to the Na tional Association of Masters, Mates', and Pilots of America, according to word brought by Captain G. W. Keeney. who was a dele gate to tne convention from Seattle. The local association today sent a protest to the National organization against the laying on oi masters or shipping board vessels de layed by the shipyard strike In Seattle and other North Pacific ports. These men will be compelled to seek positions In other parts of the country If they are not retained in the service of the shipping board, accord ing to officers of the Washington association. SAN FRANCISCO. Fb. 2. (Special.) The Union steamship Moana. Captain A. K. Barlow, sailed for Sydney today at 3 P. M., but up to the time of departure none of the customs officers had managed to locate any of tho contraband pearls reported to have been shipped 1 rorn Tahiti. There were quite a number of gems In evidence at sailing time, but all of these were beln g worn by paBen&ers of the fair sex. The Moona had nearly a full lit of passengers, the first cabins being filled three-quarters and the second class to capacity. Announcement was made by the- Pacific Mail company that an express service will not be maintained by the steamer Newport this year to handle the Central A merican coffee business. Since the close .of the war more coffee Is moving to the Atlantic and there will be smaller shipments to this port. The three-masted schooner Coronado drift ed from her position early this morning when the anchor dragged and the craft shifted nearly a mile toward the San Pablo flats. The hook then held fast and no damage resulted. The schooner was loaded and ready for sea several weeks ago but is held up by legal technicalities. The Gulf Mail Steamship company has issued a ached ule for the steamer Alliance which provides for a sailing of the vessel from this port for the lower coast once a month. Steward Theodore Smttn of the Standard Oil tanker Astral died at sea of smallpox on February 19 and was buried at sea, ft was reported when "the ship arrived today from Cebu. Philippine islands. The vessel will be held In quarantine until March 5. ' The schooner Tague started for sea en route to Guam mlth 2.0 tons of general merchandise today, but the bar was so rourrh that Captain Forest put back Into the harbor. The Standard Oil tanker Tamaha arrived In ballast today from Kobe. COOS BAT, Feb. 2R. Special.) The steam schooner Bandon sailed this morning at 10:15 with a lumber cargo from the Ore gon Export company mill, en route to San Francinco. Reinstatement was made by the shipping board on two of the Ferris type vessels under construction at the Coos Bay Shipbuilding company's yard. The cabin work wan prac tically finished on one vessel and advanced on the second, and so the order cutting away the superstructure was changed. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND, Feb. 28. Arrived at mid night Steamer City of Topeka, from San Francisco and way ports. ASTORIA, Feb. 2. Arrived down during the night Ship St. Nicholas, from Portland. Arrived at 9 A. M. and sailed at i:i:.10 P. M. Steamer El Segundo, towing barge 93, for San Francisco. Arrived at 11:40 A. M. Steamer City of Topeka, from San Francisco via Kureka. Left up at 4:10 P. M. Steamer City of Topeka. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28. Sailed at 7 A. M. Steamer Oleum, for Portland, Sailed at 8 last night Steamer Johan Poulsen. for Columbia river. SAN DIEGO. Feb. 27. Arrived Steamer Daisy Matthews, from Portland via San Francisco and San Pedro. SAN PEDRO, Feb. 27. Arrived Steamer Celilo. from Portland via San Francisco, for San Diego. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 28. Arrived Steamers Atlas, Klamath, from Seattle; Lamaha, from Osaka; Oleum, from Astoria; Satanta. from Liverpool. Sailed Steamer Pasadena, for Albion. NAGASAKI, Feb. 25. Arrived Fushiml Maru, from Tacoraa and Seattle. SEATTLE. Feb. 2S. Arrived Steamers Hakushika Maru. from Daren ; City of Se attle, from southeast Alaska: barken tine Benicia. in tow of tug Tyee. from Sydney. Saiied Steamers President, lor ban Die Richmond, for San Pedro. TACOMA, Feb. 28. Arrived Steamer Quadra, from Britannia Beach, B. C. : Fulton. Powell River. B. C Departed, steamer Ad miral Nicholson, for Seattle. GIBRALTAR. Feb. 27. Arrived Steamer West Creasy, from Tacoma, via Norfolk. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27. Arrived. Stearacr Bob King from Seattle, - IE CHARGES OF WASTE Accusations of Lawmakers Declared Unfounded. GEORGE H. KELLY SEATED Commissioners Hold Special Meeting to Accept New Coal Storage Dock at St. Johns. The legislature' had Its Inning last week in criticising the Port of Portland commission as it is composed now. but yesterday the commission "went to the bat" and a few long flies went into the field in the way of counter-criticism of those who brougnt up certain features of the port administration that were declared to be unfounded. Also the port body adopted a resolu tion going on record as resenting the allegations, as well as frowning on the "alligators" in having held before the public gaze certain matters averred to be financial waste and general inac tivity. "I don't know that it will do any good, but I make a motion tht here after any criticism of the Port of Port land be confined to facts, for after a while they will not be able to get men to serve on this board if they are to be subjected to such treatment," said Cap tain K. W. Spencer. "I feel that the commission should have demanded of the legislature that It be investigated when such declara tions were made," said D. C. O'Reilly, named to serve on the new board, who was out of the city at the time. "You know, and everyone in Port land knows, it has been impossible to get ships at any price during the war, and why should a man get up before the legislature and say we have lost our 'pep' and lost the shipping of the port?" continued Captain Spencer. Captain Archie L. Pease thereupon indicated that he would second the Spencer motion, but George H. Kelly, recently named by the legislature to serve on the present board as well as continue on the new one, said he un derstood the Spencer motion was to prevent persons "saying unkind things" and. while he would be delighted to bring, about such a condition, he ques tioned whether the fact of the port board going on record would still such a practice. He suggested. Instead, that a resolu tion be offered to the effect the mem bers resent the recent criticism. "If these people know we are going to make a roar against such treatment they will he more careful in the fu ture," insisted Captain Fpencer. ".My idea is to compel them hereafter to rely on the facts. I think the port has shown 'pep' and the members have helped the shipyards, which represent ed the most important interests on the river during the past year, and we even went as far as Vancouver to make fills for the shipping industry. The commissioners had In mind, as shown by the discussion, utterances by S. B. Cobb, George H. Shepherd and others, that the port body had lost its "pep"; that 130.000 had been spent dur ing the last year for legal fees, where as less than $24,200 had been expended for such services in seven years, and that $21,500 had been spent for rubber boots, the latter being declared to have no relation to port expenditures, but that it was made by the city in con nection with work in Columbia slough. Mr. Kelly was formally seated at the opening of the meeting yesterdav. which was a special gathering called to accept the new coal storage dock at St. Johns, built under a cost-plus ar rangement by Robert Wakefield. The dock is 90 feet wide and 250 feet long. Discussion was indulged In regarding the formation of the Albina dock, where large boulders were encountered in dredging. They were first believed to have been dumped overboard from some ship which brought them as ballast, but it was said yesterday the boulders were apparently In the formation naturally. Kither the dredge Titan, of the Pacific Bridge company's fleet, will be em ployed, or a "clamshell" rig used to re move the collection. COMPANY TO HONOR OKFICER Steamship Portland to Be Renamed Admiral Knight. SEATTLE, Wash.. Feb. 28. (Special.) ......... .ru.ii .,. Aiiigni, a rear aumiiui oi me American navy, the Pa cific Steamship company today an mm me name or the steam ship Portland, recently added to the umirai une, win De renamed the Ad ..... w j,.. ,uu(ji?(f tne company's huih-j i naming us vessels after cor manders In the American na.vv ine i-omana recently was purchased from the Alaska Navigation rnmn.n and. after being drydocked. overhauled' and refitted, she will be nla.-.H ii,. company's freight run to souihnat.m AiasKa points. Handling cannery busl ucaa annual exclusively. VANCOUVER TO LAUNCH SHIP Second Concrete Vessel to Slide Into Water Monday. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Keh .. cial.) All is in readiness for the launcning or the second concrete hin the W-2. and the launching will be held Monday, March 3. It is probable that the W-3 will be launched Tues day. March 4. The Columbia river. which was rather low, is rising and the water its suitable for launching ships. As toon as the W-2 and W-3 are launcaed. work will begin on W-4 and W-5, and it is planned to comnlete theni before the June highwater of the Columbia. Marine Xotcs. The steamer City of Topeka arrived late last night in the ervlce of the Admiral line, hailing from the liolden Gate. She called at Eureka, but omitted the top at Marsh field because of rouKh water at the en trance. The result wax that pancengers bound for Cool Bay pointa were brought to thin city and will leave again on the hlp tomorrow night. Word reached Portland yesterday that the steamer Krnest H. Meyer, which is owned here, reported at Sallna Crui for fuel oil Thursday on her way back from Antofa gasta. where she delivered a cargo of lumber loaded on the river. The vessel will pro ceed to San Pedro and load for Tacoma. The steamer West Modus was taken over yesterday by the Admiral lines and the West Harcuvar will be delivered to the same fleet today. Both are to work flour cargoes for the Atlantic. Plans are being considered for sending the dredge Portland to the Linnton station of the Associated Oil company to clear away sediment at the upper end of the oil dock, the material beinf? pumped ashore for a fill. Between 15.0O and lO.noo cubic yards of material are needed to bring the property up to grade to provide space for extending the tank-storage facilities and allow for the construction of a warehouse and truck garage. Surveying being done in the Willamette river under the direction of the Port com mission will include running lines along the east shore of Swan Island, where the com mission plans to acquire several acreH so that the land may be dredged out to widen the channel. PORT EMBERS DENY What "Had the League been in existence in 1914, Europe would have escaped the bloodiest of all wars," declares the Birmingham Age-Herald. While the majority of the newspapers of America regard the experiment of a League of Nations as tremendously worth trying, some are as dubious as the-New York Sun, which says: "If the present project means the elimina tion of the Monroe Doctrine; if it means the restriction of our independence; if it means we are tying our hands as concerns the independent action of a free people and a free nation; if it means that the United States shall carry the load and pay in large measure the bills of maintaining peace in all the little countries of Europe and throughout the world the little tribal nations and the big nations as well; if it means the hampering of this nation in its economic relations to and with the other nations of the world, is it good enough for this free people, this free nation is it the thing we want?" Read THE LITERARY DIGEST this week for public opinion on the League of Nations. Other articles of immediate interest to all thoughtful readers are: Jews From America in the Bolshevik Oligarchy Jewish and Non-Jewish Editorial Opinion Regarding the Testimony of Dr. Ceorjje A. Simons Before the Senate Committee That Is Investigating Bolshevism in the United States Meaning of the Western Strikes "No Beer, No Work" How Our Allies Regard the Peace-League Plan ? An Ex-German Colony for India How the Hand Spreads Influenza $2,000,000 in "Saving the Pieces" A Fourteenth-Century Miracle of the East Side Japan to Cast Out German "Kultur" Red-Cross Work After the War Lax Justice in Belgium Best of the Current Poetry- The average audience in a first-class motion-picture house is typically representative of the American spirit; while it is good-natured, it de mands the best. When thrilling dramas of love, war, and adventure are unfolded before it, in which famous million-dollar stars perform prodi gies of agility, and valor, it is more than generous in the matter of applause. When the "Pictorial Weeklies" transport it in a twinkling to the four corners of the earth it is not at all backward about sounding its appreciation. But when the scene changes and THE LITERARY DIGEST Topics of March 1st WEST CHERQW TAKES DIP TWEXTV-FIFTII SHIP LACXCIIKD BY NORTHWEST STEEL. Twelve More Vessels to Be Floated by Company Before Change in Type Is Efrective. On ways No. 1 t tho property of the Northwest Steel company seven hulls have been built, valued at nearly $3,500,000 and havlnsr a total dead weight capacity of 63.600 tons. The hull of the ateamer West Cherow left tho ways at 12:05 o'clock yesterday and was the seventh carrier to be started rlverward from that berth. The ship was No. 25. according; to the plant count, and all have been launched in less than 24 mdnths. the first, tho War Baron, which went from ways No. 1 also, having; teeu ' sent overboard March 20. 1917. Mrs. K. ildward Grelle. whose husband operates the Independent Foundry company's plant, was Invited to chris ten tho ship and most successfully per fromed the sponsor's task. Tho West Cherow undertook her maiden voyagre as though she had been tho same vessel lunched seven times from tho same cradle. , The West Cherow is to bo tho first of the fleet completely outfitted at the company s plant, tne z preceoniR having: been finished by tho Willamette Iron &. Steel Works. Tho Northwest Steel company recently began tho es tablishment of its own dock and shops for fitting out ships. in cnarge is William Lovcll. as marine superintend ent, who Is one or tne ost Known ma rine engineers in tne aiotrici. r ncu the steamer was afloat a good start had been made in the Installation of pumps and such auxiliary gear and she was shifted at once alongside the new dock to receive her main engine, boilers and such equipment. Joiner worK win be carried out there as well as plac ing all furnishings and fittings aboard. ITnder the amended Bhip programme the company will float about another dozen ships before there will do any change in the type. OAKLAND IS NOW AT APIA Portland Scliooner May load Copra for Delivery Here. Confirmation of the safe arrival of the schooner Oakland at Apia, from Lyttelton. New Zealand, was received in a cable yesterday by Jack O'Neill of this city, one of tho owners of the ves sel. The Oakland left Lyttelton the latter part of December. Fears were expressed at San Francisco she had trouble on the way, but Mr. O'Neill at tributed the slow passage to the typhoon season. The Oakland is under charter to C. Henry Smith of San Francisco, and loads a cargo of copra at Apia on ac count of A. O. Anderson & Co.. of this city. It is possible she will be ordered here to discharge, though tho Smith interests are said to be desirous of havinc her head for the Golden Gate. American the IT Many Striking Illustrations, Including Cartoons Why The Literary Digest Is So Popular in the "Movies" Number on Sale Today All News Dealers TT . I he mi fat- FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of It was known the Oakland was near- Inir port through th receipt or infor mation at San Francisco that ffhe had been sighted paKRinir Paro Fso. COAST CUTS BUILDING COST . B. Kerr Finds West Leads Economic Ship Production. America Is on tho threshhold In of greater things ana greater prosperity than many would assume from pre vailing conditions, in the opinion of James B. Kerr of the legal firm of Carey & Kerr, who dined with mem bers of tho Oregon Wood Shipbuilders association last night. Mr. Kerr re cently ended an eastern trip that via made In behalf of the wood ship In terests and had to do with ascertain ing the future policy of the shipping board with reference to terminating the programme In Oregon and how set tlements were to be adjudicated. Pacific coast plants have built wood vessels cheaper than either Atlantic coast or the gulf yards." ho said. Mr. Kerr made it plain that in lowering the cost the, western yards had not detracted from the substantial con struction of vessels, but had made that a standard and proved that the north west was tho homo of the wood hip, where all material abounds and car goes are available for the completed vessels as well. PULITZER GOES INTO SERVICE Port Decides to Recall Pilot Schoon er From City. Thoroughly overhauling of the pilot schooner Joseph Pulitzer, making such reasonable changes as members of the Columbia River Pilots association may recommend and placing her in condi tion for service off the river as soon as possible was agreed on yesterday by the Port of Portland commission. The vessel Is nominally in possession of the city, having been lent early last year to be used as a fishing ves sel on the Oregon halibut hanks, but STRESS Or BUSlfJESS A nation's necessity has plunged many thousands of boys and girls in their teens into the vortex of business before their time. Many will feel the strain upon vitality and energy and likewise the need for the nourishing and tonic virtues of A very little, taken regularly, is far more beneficial than when taken by fits and starts. Scott's Emulsion is concentrated nourishment that contributes to strength and helps confirm the body in vigor and health. Scott Bowie, Bloomfield. H. J. nI7. Leaffueoiixjaooe: Lithuania Skimming the Melting-Pot American Troops to Leave Russia German Intrigues to Split the Allies "Seventeen-Year Locusts Due in 1919 English and Accidents Dubious Benefits of Science The Doughboy's Shakespeare What Kind of a Memorial? A Village of Disabled Soldiers English Doubts of Prohibition News of Finance and Commerce Personal Glimpses of Men and Events the Day are flashed on the screen the enthusiasm which greets this novel and attractive feature is unbounded. The audience rocks with laughter and applause over each one in the series of punch paragraphs witli their lively humor, keen satire, and trenchant witticisms on the social, political, and other foibles of the day. The "movies" are but the mirror of the world and the popularity of the Topics of the Day is but the echo of the ever increasing chorus of acclaim that greets each weeklv reappearance of THE LITERARY DIGEST. the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary). NEW YORK the Port commission decided she could no longer be spared for lhat purpose. As the navy retains the tug Oneonta. tho tug Wallula is the only vessel left for work at the entrance and when she Is called away to tow on the coast or In the river the entrance is left with out a vessel to carry pilots to and from ships. The commission will request Captain E. P. Parsons, manager of the pilot association, to look over the ves sel and make recommendations for the work. She may be In service in a month, WEST n.KI).V W A V IS AFLOAT Columbia River Yard Launches Sec ond Hull From New Ways. Mrs. Percy A. Smith, sister-in-law of Alfred V. Smith, president of the Co lumbia Itlver Shipbuilding corporation, christened the West liardaw.iv shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The big sSOO-ton hull is the second launched from the new ways south of the main plant. Since the first ship was floated the plant organization has attended to all details of finishing the ships, even hollers being manufactured on the ground. The boiler shop is also build ing boilers for all vessels to bo turned out hereafter by the Northwest Steel company. The two plants, with a total of nine ways, ire credited with being among tho leaders of steel yards In the United Slates from tho standpoint of the ships produced and the number of men employed. TRUSTEE FOR SOPHIA NAMED Robert Trlpple Placed In Charge of Wrecked Steamer. SEATTLE, Feb. 2S. Tn the federal district court today Judge Jeremiah Neterer appointed Kobert A. Trlpple, Seattle, trustee of the wreck of the steamer Princess Sophia and of a fund of $$805. representing the earnings of the steamer on its last trip, when it sunk October 25 of f . Vanderbilt reef, Lynn canal, with a loss of more than 1 il PeopI n 10 Cents 340 lives. This fund will be disbursed by order of the court to claimants against the Canadian Pacific Railway company, owner of the Sophia. The company formally surrendered the wreck and fund to the Unite.: Slates court. Claimants against the company will be asked to submit dam age claims to a commissioner to be selected by the court. U. S. Naval Radio Reports. All position, riven at P. M. yesterdav nnl"Hi otherwise Indicated. AI'MIHAL Sl'HI.KY, San Francisco for Seattle. ITS miles from Seattle. A. K. Ll'i-AS. Powell Klver. W. C, (nr F5tchmnd. -'n mlle north of Richmond. 8 1. M ., February -. K. A. UOFFITT. I'rlnre Itupert for San Pedro, mtlea trnm San 1'e.lro. I. A SMITH. Siin am-lav for Mirth- fl!d. r.L7 mile north of San Fran-vo. l't iltTKH, Kirrrlt for San Prano-o. Sin mile rmtth of l-'v.rett. YOSKMITK. Port (.amhle for Fan Pran-rl.-'o. ciile prt(ih of Cme Klatlerv. II.HAK BXTKR. San Pedro for EaBle lla-oor. nife otith of Kag'-e Harbor HKNJAMIN HKKWSTKR. Vancouver fr San Franrlrco. 47 J mi north of San Kran cl.ro. noon. Kebruary 's KI. itt;rMj4i, lowmjr harce . .Aston, for San r'rant-tsco. rJ mllea north of fea'i t"r n ci rilANSLOS, Portland for San Francisco. 20. mllea rou;h of i'ilnnlii river. WItl.AM KTTK. Mukllteo for San Fran cl-o, C'.mi mllea from San FYanrlavo. PHES1PKXT, S.attle for San Franclaco. off Slip Point. RH'HMOND. with Hotilfa barge ti. Seattl-: for San Francisco. 7 j miles from SealUe. Tides at Astoria Saturday. Pish. 1iw. 0:O A. M 7.7 feet'flO A. M t. fee; 11:01 P. M R..1 feet 4:4T H. M 0.3 loo: Columbia Rive-r liar Report. NORTH HEAP. Feb. 2V Condition of the bar at 5 P. M. tiea smooth; wind southwest. 16 miles. Phone your want ads to tho Orego nian. Phone Main 7070. A 609i. ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce) that we have purchased the entire stock and structural business of the North west Steel Company and art pre pared to furnish all classes of fabri cated and structural material, bolts and rivets. We hope to give all or ders, both large and small, the aama careful attention and excellent serv ice of which our predecessors have been so Justly proud. NORTHWEST BRIDGE & IRON COMPANY P. O. Box OSS. Portlaad. Or. YACHTS MUX xn ROATMtV, attv:mio : FOR SAI.F. AT HAKIiAIV PllICl motor yacht suitable, with slight alteration, for trolling. 39 feet 7 inches long, ly feet 4 inches beam. 3 feet. 6 inches depth. 14 gross tons. 9 net tons. Cralc engine. 30 11 P.. 4 cylinders. Hull built of oak and fir planking. Speed, under test. 11 knots. All interior hamlsomclv furnished in Spanish cedar and brass fittings. Kquipped with full charts and Instruments. Comfortable and spacious main cabin, with 4 foldtnir type bunk, large cloth lockers, lavatory- and gai lev food lockers, dish and utensil racks UKMKMHI.ll. AT A nR.l PHICI& Addreas A V. 713 Oregoolau. 1