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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1919.
U. S. VVAR SALES BODY
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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. Shortly
everything cornea out looking like new.
Nothing fades, shrinks or wrinklea
Do not attempt to dry clean without
Solvit, soap. This gasoline soap la the
secret of all dry "leaning.
A package of Solvit, soap containing
directions for home dry cleaning, cost.
Ittla at any drug store. Cry clean out
doors or awa xrom flame.
AUTOISTS HAVE BAD DAY
Series of Accidents Occur In Cen
tralia; None Is Serious.
CXNTRAUA. Wash.. July $. vSpe
eial. ) With friends pursuing him and
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