VOL. LVIII. NO. 18.294
Eatr4 At Portland (OrB)
pott offte as Pceni-g'Ui Hitur.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MS' BLOCK EVERY
BALLOONISTS BATTLE
CRUISE TO PACIFIC
WILL START EARLY
COOLTH IN DICTIONARY
BUT NOT IN PORTLAND
PERSPIRING CITIZENRY MOIL
IN 100 DEGREES OF HEAT.
DAYLIGHT SAVING
MAY LAST TO 1921
WITH THUNDER STORM
MOVE FOR LIQUORS
RIDER ON $33,000,000 FARM
BILL CAFSES VETO.
ARMY AIRMEN HAVE EXCITING
EXPERIENCES IN FLIGHTS.
FRESH CLEW FOUND
SECRET RING TRAIL'
LEADS TO 0L1PIA
IfJ QLYMPIA MURDER
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Disorder Marks Debate on
Prohibition Bill.
WILSON PLEA USED IN VAIN
All "Liberal" Amendments to
Law Are Killed in House.
BITTER FIGHTING IS RULE
Gallivan Sajt Every Member Vot
ing for Prohibition Should List
Slocks in Cellar.
WASHTiTGTOX. July It Prohibition
forces took full control la the house to
day, refused to permit a vote on a
atraight-out motion to repeal the war
tint act. defeated overwhelmingly an
amendment providing- for the sale of
S per cent beer and stood solidly
against all attacks on the general en
forcemeat measure.
Just as fast as ons "liberal" amend
stent was offered by opponents of pro
hibition It was voted down without
cremony. always by a triple Tote, for
the minority, fighting every Inch of
ground, demanded a division after ayes
and noes were called, and then asked
for tellers. Before the house got
through with the first section of the
first part of the three-part bill, there
waa more disorder on the floor than at
any time this session.
Tremble Starts Early.
The disturbance arose first during an
attempt by Representative Blanton,
democrat. Texas, to speak a second time
against an amendment which would
have given a Jury the right to define
intoxicants, and was Increased during
an addresa by Representative Gallivan
democrat. Massachusetts, who declared
n. embers voting dry should print In the
congressional record exactly how much
liquor they bad stored in their homes
and offices.
The real battla of the day. however
was over the amendment to define a
Bon-Intoxicant as a beverage contain-.
Ing z per cent aiconouinsteaa or or
1. per cent, as written in lie bill. Rep
resentative Dyer, republican, Missouri,
author of the amendment, did not ask
for this definition in the constitutional
prohibition amendment, but simply is
the wartime law. In pleading for ltr
adoption. Mr. Dyer declared It was whal
President Wilson had recommended tc
congress and would permit, during the
remaining period of wartime prohibi
tion, the sale of light wines and beer,
and might delay Issuance of a procla
mation by the president which would
restore the sale of "hard" liquors.
Debate la Lengthy.
There wis a round of speechmaking
n this motion an hour of it with the
"drys" assailing it as an entering
wedge, and the "wets" asserting that
It merely would permit the very thing
the president, as commander-ln-chiei
of ths army, had said was best for the
country for the next six months.
After 5 per cent beer had been
bowled over by a record vote of 151 to
SO and this was about the relative
division on all amendments the prohi
bitionists went after another amend
ment by Representative Igoe. democrat,
ef Missouri, which would have stricken
out all definition of Intoxicants, kill
ing the proposal. US to S3.
There was the utmost confusion at
times, despite vigorous whacks with a
gavel, and some of the prohibition
leadera arplaudcd every move In their
favor.
9pe-tafor Jola Applanae.
Tha galleries, filled largely with
women and officers of anti-liquor or
ganizations, broke Into applause when
the house roared its difcapprova! of
Ja Per cent beer. And then, when It
seemed the majority was weary of
voting down etery proposal by the
ether side, points of order were raised,
and some motions designed to make
the law less drastic were picked up by
the nape of the neck, as members ex
pressed It. ar.d bodily thrown out.
This happened to an amendment by
Representative Lea. democrat. Cali
fornia. Iti tha Interest of grape grow
ers, who stood to lose I12.O0O.OOO this
year, he said. It provided for the man
ufacture of wine containing It per cent
alcohol by weight. A point of order
against it was utained by the chair.
There were othr points of order on
other proposals, but the on by Rep
resentative Pell, democrat. New York,
which would put determination of in
toxicating qualities of certain bever
ages up to a Jury, waa ruled in order,
only to b knocked out on an aye and
no rote, a division, and again after
th call for teller and the slow march
of members through th center aisle
f the chamber to be counted. This wss
th usual proceeding, th "wets al
ways being able to muster enough of
their numbers to support th demand.
iMtweria Plaa Blocked. -
When th house got through with
th Joint proposal It went after an
amendment by Representative Long
worth, republican, of Ohio, to strike
out th who! of th first section of
th war-enforcement bill with its one
kalf of 1 per cent alcoholic definition.
In offering th amendment Mr. Long
worth frankly told the nous that If
it got by he would move to strik out
1h who! wsr-tira tttle. so. Ilk a man
who wanted to save himself a second
job. th nous defested It.
CIs Gas Bags Land Far From Start-
ins Point at Omaha; No Mark for
Height or Distance Broken.
OMAHA. July 14 Fighting ail night
with savage thunder storms over Iowa,
Minnesota and Wisconsin, all four of
tha army balloons which left Fort
Omaha Sunday evening in an attempt
to set a new record for both height and
distance, were forced to land Monday
morning, their instruments put out of
commission by electrical disturbances
and their ballast exhausted. No new
records were established and th aero
nauts were fortunate in landing safely.
Their landing places and distance cov
ered in a direct Use from Omaha are
as follows:
Balloon So. 1. United States. Captain
P. C. McKinley and Lieutenant James
T. Neeley. landed near Rowley, la.. 223
miles northeast of Omaha.
Balloon No. 2, All America. Lieutenant
R. L Thompson and Lieutenant J. B.
Jordan, landed near Portage, Wis,
about 404 miles northeast of Omaha.
Balloon No. X, Victory, carrying Lleu-
enant W. K. Huffman and Lieutenant
W. E. Connolly, landed near Greene,
la., about 230 miles northeast of Omaha.
Balloon No. 4. Cannon Ball, with Pilot
Leo Stevens. Lieutenant-Colonel Jacob
WuesU in command at Fprt Omaha, and
Major O'Brien, was forced down near
Ringstead. Is., about 200 miles north
east of Omaha.
Stevens reported a terrific battla with
a cloudburst.
Th United States and tha Cannon
Ball cam down within relative few
miles of each other. Th Victory, al
though about the aame distance from
Omaha, waa more directly east, in But
ler county. Iowa, while All America
landed almost directly beyond the Vic
tory, although soma 150 miles far
ther on.
Balloon No. 2 reported a maxlmu
altitude of 12.500 feet.
Battle Fleet to Traverse
Canal as if at War.
DESTROYERS TO GUARD SHIPS
Sailors Will Be Given Oppor
tunity to See Sights.
OLD VESSELS N'
.N ROUTE
Great Armada
each
Coast Firs
and
Western
i In August
North,
MEN NEAR DEATH IN STORM
Lightning Kills Horse and Wrecks
Shed but Spares Refugees.
LEWISTO.V. Idaho, July 14. (Spe
claL) Ted Graham of the upper Snak
river country, near Asotin, bad a re
markable escape from death by light
ning during the recent thunder showe
la this section. Mr. Graham and
companion had taken shelter under
shed. Graham holding his horse by tb
bridle.
There came a sudden flash of light
nlng and a crash, both men bein
struck senseless. A half hour later,
when they came to. they found th
horse dead from the bolt and the ahed
destroyed. One of Graham's shoes was
torn from his foot and his ankle In
jured. Both men will recover from the
bock.
A fearful hail storm visited th
Grangevllle district Friday, doing heavy
damage In Its ten minutes of duration.
Windows were shattered, shingle roofs
penetrated by the stones, and grain
damaged greatly. The hall atones aver
aged more than an inch in diameter.
JAIL SENTENCE REMITTED
Conspiracy to Defeat Draft Law by
Woman Punished by Fine.
KANSAS C1TT. Mo.. July 14 Appear
ing at the district attorney's office to
day to surrender herself and begin serv.
ng a 30-day Jail sentence after falling
o pay a 11000 fine. Mrs. Lenora Warne-
son Moore, convicted on a federal
charge of conspiring to defeat th draft
law, waa informed by District Attorney
rrancls M. Wilson that, owing; to
clerical error in the court record, she
would not have to serve the sentence.
With eight men, among them her hus
band, Raymond A. Moore, Mrs. Moore
waa sentenced In December, 1917, to two
years In the federal penitentiary. Her
sentence was reduced to a fine, how
ever, by Judge Alba S. Van Valkcn-
burgh, who said the court would set n
record for the United States in its treat
ment of women such aa had been estab
Ilsthed by Germany.
PORTLAND' CALL DECLINED
Dr. Charles F. AVh-hart to Retain
Pastorate in Chicago.
CHICAGO. July 14. (Special.) Dr.
Charles F. Winhart of the Second Pree
byterlan church of this city will remain
here. It was announced today. Word has
been received from the pastor at Chau
tauqua lake. New York, that he has
decided to decline the call to the First
Presbyterian church of Portland. Or.
as well as the offer of the presidency
of Wooster college. Announcement of
the decision of Dr. Wishart was made
to the congregation by T. A. Shaw,
president of the board of trustees.
It Is expected that Dr. Wishart will
return to his pastorate the first of
September, after a vacation of several
wOks at Chautauqua lake.
REIGN OF TERROR -ENDS
Two minor amendments ran the
4W03iuded eu rse Colu&a l-
Mysterious Fire in Montecito Dis
trict, California, Confessed
SANTA BARBARA, Cal.. July 14
The reign of terror which has been
caused by mysterious fires in the Mon
tecito district was ended today when
Sheriff James Ross announced that
Mateo Cola. 30, had confessed to having
set two fires Saturday night-- One
burned over a large section of pasture
land, threatening several estates, and
the other destroyed th house of E. D.
Wet more.
Th fires were within a short dis-
tanc of th estat purchased by Will
lam G. McAdoo as a building ait for
himself and President Wilson,
WASHINGTON", July 14. The newly
organised Pacific fleet will sail from
Hampton roads July 10 Instead of July
22 as previously arranged, it was de
elded late today .at a conference be
tween Secretary Daniels and Admiral
Hugh Rodman, commander of the fleet.
The date of the fleet's arrival at San
Diego, Cal., was fixed at August 7 or 8.
Passage of the fleet through the
Panama canal will furnish the first
great test of that waterway, as
strategic asset In connection with the
operation of the nation' naval forces.
It was announced that every effort
would be made to put the fleet through
the locks on exactly the same basis
that would be used In time of war. A
stop of a day or two in Gatun lake
will be made, however, to give the
crews of the ships an opportunity to
see the canal.
Destroyers on Guard.
Two squadrons of 54 destroyers will
lead the fleet out of Hampton Roads.
They will steam in the form of
triangle with the main body of the fleet
Inside the triangle. The run to the
Atlantic entrance of the Panama canal
is expected to taxe six days.
About 100 ships will make the cruise.
The slower vessels of the armada in
cluding colliers, supply ships, repair
ships, submarines and hospital ships,
have been ordered to proceed to the
west coast Independently, and some of
the vessels are already en route.
Several of th older battleships also
have been ordered to precede the main
squadron so as to go into navy-yards
for repairs. Most of these ships have
been engaged In convoy work.
The fleet will remain at San Diego
about three days, and then proceed to
San Tedro for a stay of four or five
days before going to San Francisco
Aug. 15. Tentative plans call for the
review of the fleet by President Wilson.
who is to go aboard the flagship New
Mexico with Secretary Daniels outside
the Golden Gate, and enter the harbor
with the armada.
From San Francisco the fleet will
Snow-Capped Mount Hood Looks
'Down Commiseratingly Upon Vat
ley Soaked in Sunshine.
Coolth is an unusual word. It is th
potency of ice cream and tlrtklln
glasses. An east wind in Novembe
has lots of coolth. There are acres of
it on comfortable old Mount Hood.
sea breeze is bogged down with coolth,
as much as a breeze can be. There
are certain banished beverages that are
reminiscent of coolth,
But there wasn't enough coolth in all
Portland yesterday, outside the refrig
erators, to keep a grasshopper steak in
condition for dinner. From early aft
ernoon till the whistles blew the mer
cury went upstairs two steps at a Jump.
It leaned over the banisters and
thumbed its nose at the perspiring city,
At 6 o'clock, after an arduous day,
the weatherman read the record of the
season a level 100 degrees of extreme.
Iy torrid temperature.
'It's getting cooler now,." he said,
but nobody noticed that it was. The
coverlet of oppressive heat lay upon
the city with all the genial comfort of
mustard poultice. Coolth was
minus quantity.
Yesterday's record is the highest in
Portland since July 30, 190T, except on
July 20, 1915. On the latter date the
mercury also touched 100 degrr-s. The
highest temperature ever recorded in
Portland was 102 degrees twice, on
July 23. 1891. and July 30. 1907. Last
year's climax was 91 degrees, on
August 31,
No special relief is in sight for to
day, with the prediction for continued
warm weather. Gentle northwesterly
winds may slightly alleviate the tor-
rldity. Hourly temperatures for yes
terday were as follows:
Degs.l Degs.
1 A. M 70111 A. M
A. !....
3 A. M ...
4 A. M . .
5 A. -M
S A. 11....
7 A. M
8 A. M.. . .
9 A. M....
10 A. M. ...
.70111 A.
.. 07 1 P. M. . .
601 2 P. M . . .
65j a P. M....
83 4 P. M
Stil P. M....
S P. II
7ll 7 P. M
761
Si
7
91
85
97
1H
100
9s
(Conclude rn Pas 4. Column 2.)
EUGENE, Or., July 14. The temper
ature in Eugene reached 98 degrees
this afternoon, the highest point
reached for several years, according to
the local weather observer. As far as
known there have been no prostra
tions from the heat. The humidity
was not great.
HOOD RIVER, Or., July 14. Today
was the hottest of the year over the
mid-Columbia, and orchard work was
limited to thinning In the shade. Tem
peratures varying from 100 to 104 de
grees are reported from different valley
points.
MERCURY AT OREGON CITY 06
Manufacturing Plant Employes Suf
fer From Heat.
OREGON CITT, Or., July 14. (Spe
cial.) Today has been the hottest day
of the season. One thermometer reg
istered at 96 and another 99 degrees.
A thermometer placed in the sun reg
istered 130 degrees. At all the places of
employment in this city, including the
big manufacturing plants, the em
ployes suffered from the heat.
Laundry Marks May Help
. to Trace Woman.
House Prty Lines Disregarded
Refusal to Pass Bill Over
President's Head.
Agents Search Bungalow
for Hidden Papers.
DESCRIPTION OF MAN- GIVEN
WOMAN IN CASE IS SOUGHT
WASHINGTON, July 14. The day
light-saving plan under which the
clocks of the country are turned for
ward an hour in March ahd moved
back in October, will be continued in
definitely.
This was assured today, when fol
lowing President Wilson's veto of the
InfZlTrS, rC"he Failure to Trap Dowsey Is
byyarv0r Thought Cause of Murder.
measure over the president's veto.
Strengrth mustered by the repeal ad
vocates was eleht votes lea than the
STRANGER SCARES AUTOIST ney two-thirds of the members SUSPECTS ARE SHADOWED
jneocm. -raiLy unes were uisregaraeu i
in the voting, members' from agricul
tural districts, the -source of most of
the opposition favoring- passage of the
TacomaParty Tells Story of
Night Meeting.
Officials Believe That Identity May
Be Established, Though Infor
ma Hon Is Month Old.
bill as originally enacted voting with "Ships Would Not Keep Bilge Watef
representatives from the urban, dis
tricts opposing.
House advocates of the repeal, after
the agricultural bill had been sent
back to committee for elimination of
the repeal provision, said that no
further effort would be made at this
session, perhaps not in this congress,
which continues in existence until
March, 1921, to wipe out the daylight-
saving act There was no indication,
they said, that they would be able to
strengthen their forces.
Senate leaders also indicated that no
found on the woman's body and a more action would be originated in that body the suspicion aroused by the stealth
detailed description procured from Mr. to repeal the act, and failure of the with which certain men are said to
and Mrs. 'E. W. Ellsworth of Tacoma, I house todav to nnss the anrtrnnriatinn I have eruarded thir movements In
measure over the presidential veto will
prevent any action by the senate on
the repeal rider.
OLTMPIA, Wash., July 14. (Spe
cial.) Substantial progress waa made
by Olympia officers today in tracing!
the murderer of an unknown woman.
whose body was found burled two
miles north of Plum station. By re.
peated cleansings a laundry mark was
deciphered from the undergarment I
in, Much Less Keep Ocean Out,
Declares Prominent Builder.
SEATTLE, Wash., July 14. (Special. f
Secret meetings at early morning
hours, behind locked doors and drVwn
blinds meetings in which contraband
liquor played a prominent role and
Which are said to have been held In an
office not connected with the shipping:
board in the Securities building, and
and Robert Pitcher, who was with
them when they talked with the sup
posed murderer near the scene of the
crime on the night of June 9. The
Ellsworths were on their way to te
Portland Rose Carnival.
In the hope of striking a fresh trail
somewhere, even though more than a
month has elapsed since the body is
believed to have been burled and an
abandoned neighboring building burned
to destroy the woman's clothing, the
WOMEN'S CLUBS TO MERGE
Six Million Business and Profes
sional Members Concerned.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 14. That the
business and professional women's on guard at a mysterious bungalow in
Olympia authorities are publishing their I clubs of the country fwill be merged Olympia and a thorough search of the
into one centrally controijea Doay to
reaching the office, are being Investi
gated by federal agents In an effort
to establish the guilt for the murder
of Fred A. Dowsey, secret service agent,
who was killed on May 2 in the public
washroom of that building. The fed
eral agents expect to gain an important
witness for the exposure of the Inner
workings of a certain shipbuilders'
clique.
Secret service agents are constantly
identification marks.
Luidrrmcs May Trace Garments.
If laundrymen in the larger cities
aneVelsewhere will look up their marks
it is believed the identity of the woman
can be established and the description
of the suspected murderer is designed
to attract the attention of those who
may have seen him in his flight from
the Plum station vicinity.
The laundry mark stenciled -on the
rather cheap union suit taken from the
woman's body reads "One P 14," de
noting a system of marking that from
the best information obtainable here
is used only in larger cities. A lace
front on the neck is a coarse maJce
that has not been generally worn for
morrow was virtually assured tonight
by the agreement to the federation of j
representatives of the women's adver
tising clubs of the United States on the
National Altrusa clubs who are attend'
Ing the conventions here of the wom
en s association of commerce of the
United States and the national women's
business committee.
Should the merger materialize the
name of the unified organizations will
be The National Federation of Busi
ness and Professional Women.
Such a merger would give the fed
eration a membership of 6,000,000
women. It was said.
premises for hidden documents is being
made. The documents hav an lm
portant bearing on the government's
case.
Search Continued by Agents.
Some of them are said to be cleverly
concealed in aeoret closets operated
with hidden springs. An Investigation
of the bungalow was made Sunday, but
agents who returned declared that tha
search had been unproductive.
These records may be, the means of
providing new witnesses in the gov
ernment's case and undoubtedly will
shed some light on the identity of
the men in the shipbuilders' ring. '
Search for "the woman in the case
BRYAN LINES UP TO EAT
the past five years.
The Ellsworth description of the man States Senator Owen of that state.
ho prevented, them from camping
ear the house that was burned at 2
o'clock next morning makes him five
feet six or eight inches tall, weight
135 to 145 pounds, blue eyes of remark
able light shade, sallow, sunburned
face, full lips, light brown hair,
straight brows. He wore a mouse
The Oklahoma delegates brought with also js in progress. This woman, the
them a presidential boom for United government agents believe, was em
ployed to set a trap for Dowsey and In
that way obtain information that may
be of value to her employers.
This is believed to have failed, but in
the opinion of government agents, Dow-
Visit to Eugene Noticed by Lunchlsey craftily turned the tables on the
woman and obtained Information of
Room Breakfaster.
EUGENE, Or., July 14. (Special.)
iConeluded on Page 3, Column 5.)
Unheralded and unwelcomed by his ad
mirers, William Jennings Bryan arrived
in Eugene this morning at 6 o'clock
value to himself. The gang, enraged
at the failure or their leminine co
worker, instigated the murder of
Dowsey.
The men who are suspected of being
RATHER UNCOMFORTABLE.
snr t Tvwve.
and lined up with a motley crowd of implicated in'the gigantic shipbuilding
train passengers at tne luncn counter .wlndle are under constant surveillance
near the Southern Pacific station. hv ..Ehadow men" in the service of the
Mr. Bryan ordered hot cakes
and
government.
sausage and ate in silence until one A, it is comm0n gossip in shipbuild-
man among the breakfasters spoke up inR crcies that the huge steal runs into
ana asK-ea: - &ay mister, aint you tsiu mjulons of douars. it is also known
Bryan? .Yes. that s my name, re- that certaln officials of the emergency
plied the great commoner. bhake, lcet corporation connived with certain
said the other. "You look just like shipbuilders of Seattle and vicinity to
your pictures." Mr. Bryan took the pass on and accept ships of the poorest
uoos Bay train a lew minutes later tor uality and seaworthiness.
Marshfield, where he will speak at a By means cf certain infractions, con-
Chautauqua, and came near missing it. struction on certain ships was held
He had' to run to catch it.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
back, while on the ships of the favored
few of the inner circle the work was
rushed through.
Speaking of two of the ships built by
a certain corporation with a plant near
Seattle, a well-known shipbuilder de
clared that he Inspected the ships while
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 100
degrees: minimum, b4 degrees.
TODAY'S Pair, continued warm; genii they were in drydock in Bremerton and
said "they would not even keep the
northwesterly winds.
Foreign.
Wounded lead allied march of triumph in
Paris. Page 2.
Syrian upheaval hangs in balance. Page a.
National.
"Drys" block every move to amend prohi
bition law in House, fage l.
Senators would know "Inside" of treaty.
Pago 3.
Senator Swanson pleads for adoption of
league by senate. Page o.
Domestic.
Complaints in Bisbee kidnaping cases held
xaulty; new ones issueo. jrage 4.
Ford Is taciturn witness when called to stand
in libel suit. Page 3.
Balloonlsts battle with thunder storms.
Pago 1.
Pacific fleet, with early start, will reach
coast early In August. Paga 4.
Pacific Northwest.
bilge water in, much less keep the
ocean out."
Ships Not I'p to Regulations.
The American bureau of shipping.
with Captain Bion B. Whitney at the
head, refused to allow its surveyors in
side the yards of the Grays Harbor
Motorahip corporation, at Aberdeen, of
which Al Schubach waa president, be
cause the officials of the company re
fused to conform their ships to the re
quirements of the bureau.
These ships, while the conditions of
the contract with the government
specified that they would be classified
with the American bureau If they were
up to specifications, were refused clas-
Brownsville Is left In chaoa by fire. Page 8. Birjcation by Captain Whitney and were
Mount Angel-Bend railway and power plant
proposed. Page 4.
Telephone strike is in hands of wire board.
Page 11.
Seattle men plead on Friday. Page 14.
Portland firm gets Washington paving.
Page la.
Fresh clews found in Olympia murder mys
tery. Page 1.
Small Chautauqua crowd enjoys Gladstone
programme.
oporto.
Beavers get Pitcher Frje from Grants Pass.
Page 1..
Wlliard-Dempsey fight officially at end In
third round. Page IS.
Varied and interesting schedule today In
tennis champlonsnip. page 1J.
Guisto play with Oakland. Page 12.
Tilden and Hardy win way to fifth round
of tennis finals. Page IS.
Commercial and Marine.
Applications for wheat and flour licenses
must De la Dy toaay. rase -i.
Chicago corn drops with news of rain.
Page 21.
Advance In Wall-street stock market Is re
sumed. Page 21.
Longshoremen help grainhandlers' strike by
walkout, page zu.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland swelters in 100 degraes of heat
Page 1.
later classified with Lloyds, the Eng
lish registry. This latter was said to
have been accomplished by a man high
in the service of the emergency fleet
corporation, .
'Schubach's manner was high-handed
and insolent,"' eaid Captain Whitney to
day. "When I remonstrated with him
he became overbearing and flew at me.
The vessels were to be given our high
est rating, which was A-l for 15 yeara
if they came up to our specifications,
but his vessels did not conform to our
specifications. So I ordered my sur
vey ore to stay away from bis yards."
DISTRICT MANAGER REPLIES
Fleet Official at Seattle Makes State
ment on Investigation.
SEATTLE, Wash., July 14. In a
formal statement Issued here today,
H. E. Frick, district manager of the
emergency fleet corporation, declared
that up to thepresent nothing in the
rn.mtv commissioners' casoline bills turned ! corporation's records here, "had been
Ian
tio
down by auditor. Page 10.
Al Harris kills wife and himself. Page 22.
I City files suit against phone company, pro- i
xestiog increased rales. Page i0.
discovered on which to base an accusa-
on of fraud against any one connected
(Concluded on Page