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6 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1919. U. S. VVAR SALES BODY JO 1 American Experts Soon to Open Offices Abroad. HUGE SACRIFICE OPPOSED Frrm-h Gortramrnt Offers Only $SOO, 000,000 for Army Equip ment IflTortfa $1,500,000,000. WASHINGTON. July . . A the Krench rovernment has offered only 1100.000,000 for American army equip ment tn France, coating Jl.too.ouu.ooo, the war department haa ordered a aalee organisation for disposal of the prop erty in France. Director of galea Hare told a epeciai house committee investigating- war department expenditures abroad. Director Hare aaid that difficulties in determining the sixe of the army and obtaining use of men and equipment for handling the stocks baused five months' delay In placing surplus army food stocks on sale. These' stocks now include r.0.000.00 worth of meat and tloo.oeo.000 worth of canned vegetables, he said. Mr. Hare was the first witness called by the subcommittee which is authorised to investigate war time expenditures of the quartermaster s corps. Experts Abroad. Director Hare said the French offer Included all materials. Including snip docks, railroad works and equipment. automobile trucka and textiles. Mr. Hare and a small party of Indus trial experts will sail for Europe Satur h . v tn bee-ln their work abroad. Sales offices and organisations will be main tained at varloua places throughout Eu rope, the director said, and much of the material may be returned to the United States. "If France will not pay a fair figure," the director added, "we will take the tuff out of the country and sell It elsewhere." Kales of machinery and tools, worth 120.000.000 to 130.000.000. to Belgium are planned. Mr. Hare said, while the horses and mules may be sold to Roll mania and Poland. Resaovml tm I ml ted States Favore. Members of the sub-committee In their discussion with Mr. Hare made it his bride with rice and old shoes. F. C Lehman Sunday afternon turned the corner of Pearl and Locust streets too sharply and his auto crashed into the cnrb. The machine was badly dam aged, but ita occupants escaped injury. The couple were furnished with an other car by their pursuers and sent on their way rejoicing;. Roy Stevens of this city Sunday aft ernoon drove his automobile into the mill pond of the Coal Creek Lumber company. Stevens and two young wom en with him escaped injury. Dr. Lee Scace crashed into another machine on First street Sunday even ing, a man named Taylor, in the car with the physician, being badly bruised and shaken up. Willie Plumb, an 11-year-old noy, riding a bicycle, was run into yesterday noon at the corner or Tower avenue and Maple street by an auto driven by Rose Hunsaker of Portland. A bruised leg was the boy's only injury. CHERRIES - DELAY. COURT Hood River Legal Work Waits on Fruit Harvest. HOOD RIVER. Or., July 8. (Special.) Because orchardists are busy thin ning and harvesting cherries Circuit Judge Fred W. Wilson yesterday post poned impaneling the Jury until August lL He heard several equity matters. Judge Wilson granted final citizen ship papers to Scott F. Aitken, now a ocal orchardist, who Is a native 01 Canada. Naturalization, however, was denied A. Ronsin. Frenchman, and Charles Olin, native of Sweden. The men. In the opinion of the court, were not sufficiently informed on institu tions and the government of the coun try they sought to adopt. Judge Wil son suggested to the men that they spend several weeks in study and ap pear before the court again. NEW PROJECTS . PLANNED Lewis County, Wash., Will Tote on . Irrigation Proposals. CENTRALIA, Wash.. July 8. (Spe cial.) The Lewis county commission ers yesterday held a hearing on a peti tion asking that an election De cauea for the creation of an Irrigation district on Ford's and Waunch's prairies, ad joining Centralia on the west and north. The petition' was granted. August 4 being set as the election date. The dis trict as proposed contains about 2000 acrea. At the noon luncheon of the chamber of commerce yesterday H. P. Graves explained the auccess of the bequlm projects. plain that they favored returning all possible supplies to this country "to break the high prices, as cnairman Johnson, or South JjaKota, saia. .in reDlv. Mr. Hare asserted that "If the better market is here, not in price alone, the goods will be returned home as the patriotic thing. - Mr. Hare outlined his sales policy as not to preserve high prices for the benefit of manufacturers, out to pre vent unnecessary industrial disturbance and sacrifice in prices that would result from "dumping all surplus gooas on the market." Referring to the meat parkers and vegetable canners. he said: "We have told them we don't intend to save them, but to play the game for the best of all. Asaerieaa Aircraft Exrepted. Ships for return of goods from abroad are expected to be available about Sep tember 1, the director said. He as serted he waa "totally In the dark" as to any arrangements which might have been made with the r rencn government when the material was sent abroad for the sale of surplus supplies. American aircraft in Europe will not be subject to his disposal, the director said. In answer to Chairman Johnson, Mr. Hare said neither he nor any one on his staff would supersede anyone who had proven himself efficient, but under fur ther questioning declared he was un able to discuss the report that he was to take away the power of the liquida tion commission. CHILDREN'S FUNERAL HELD Three Members of Cliehalis Family, Burned to Dentil, Buried. CHKHALIS. Wash.. July 8. (Special.) The funeral was held today at the Moftsyrock cemetery of the three chil dren of James Fuller who were burned to death In a nipht fire at Mayf;eld early Sunday mormn. The aped rrand mother of the children. Mrs. McClana han. with whom the little ones were ntoppint?. narrowly escaped with her life and is reported to have been badly burned. The elder Mrs. McClanahan was awakened by the cracking flames and came down from upstairs to learn the cause. The fire spread so that she .was unable to return to awaken the chil dren. The father of the children. James Fuller, is employed at Walville. His wife, a daughter of Grandmother Mc Clanahan. died some time siuce. HARVEY WELLS RESIGNS Political Reasons Are Denied by State Insurance Commissioner. SALEM, Or.; July S. Harvey 'Wells, state insurance commissioner, today sent his resignation to Governor Ol cott. He will leave the office as soon as the governor names his successor. Mr. Wells disclaims any political mo tive back of his resignation and says his relations with the governor are of the pleasantest. It appears the resignation is due to financial reasons, the office paying a salary of only 3000 a year. Mr. Wells will go into a general insurance busi ness with offices in Portland. ORCHARDS TO BE INSPECTED O. A. C. Board of Regents Also to Visit Hood River Station. HOOD RIVER, Or., July 8. (Special.) The board of regents of the Oregon Agricultural college, accompanied by President Kerr, will pay an official visit to the Hood River experiment station tomorrow. Accompanied by Superintendent Le- roy Childs and Horticulturist Gordon G. Brown, the visitors will leave for an inspection of the Hermiston station. Eastern Oregon county agents will in spect orchard tracts and experimental plots. STATE SALARIES ARE FIXED Washington Safety Board Secretaries to Get $250 a Month. OLYMPIA. Wash.. July 9. Salaries of district board secretaries under the state safety act were fixed by the state safety board today at $250 a month. Field workers attached to the three dis-. trlct board headquarters will be paid 1200 per month and expenses. The money comes out of a safety board appropriation of $375,000 made by the last legislature. HUSBAND CHARGES TRICK B- W. Johnson, Soulh Bend, Avers Wife Defrauded Him. POTTH BENT. Wash.. July S. (Spe cial in a sensational complaint filed with the clerk of the superior court, Burt W. Johnson, a freighter for many years ont of Fairbanks. Alaska, charges bis wife. Jane H. B. Johnson, with trickery and infidelity. They were married in 17. Some years ago. John son declares, he was afflicted with pains in his head and this condi tion grew upon him until he feared he would die. He alleges that his wife importuned him to deed and convey his property to her. on the plea that if he became belpK-ss she could better take care of hkn. H finally did so, but. he says, with the understanding that if he got well she was to reconvey the property , r him or deed it back. He avers she promised to do this, but now refuses. EXPERTS WILL VIEW SITE Bton and Lo Angeles Men Will Report on Deschutes Plan. ORFXIOMAX NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. July s. lrofessor W. F. Crosby of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology is to reach central Oregon on Jiuy 17 for an examination of the Benham Falls reservoir site, which it is proposed to use in the development of the Deschutes irrigation project, ac ceding to information communicated Vr the reclamation service to Senator ilcNary. He will he Joined there by Homer Ramlin of Los Angeles, a consulting encineer for the reclamation service, who will confer with Professor Crosby on the report which Secretary Lane has urged them to make as early as possible. Bridge Contract Let. CHEHALIS. Wash., July 8 (Spe cial.) The federal government will pay half the cost of the new steel bridge to be erected at once across the Chehalis river at Adna. six miles west of Che halis. contract for which yesterday was awarded to J. M. Nichols of Tacoma. The structure is to be on the ocean beach highway and the contract price Is 131.887. the estimated cost being $34,600. The bridge will be 240 feet In length and in addition a trestle of several hundred feet will clear the roadway from the low ground so that during high water traffic will not be discon tinued as at present. WOMEN! DRY CLEAN THINGS AT HOME Try it! For a few cents you can dry clean everything. Bare five to ten dollars quickly by dry cleaning everything in the home with gasoline tLat would be rained by soap and water suits, coata. waists, silks, lacea, gloves, shoea, fur a. drap cries, rugs everything! Place a gallon or mora of gasoline In a dishpan or wajh boiler, then put In the things to be dry cleaned, then wash them with Solvit, soap. 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