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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1919. FEDERAL CONTROL OF Western Cattlemen Charge . Great Reduction in Forage. CONGRESS TO GET REQUEST Conference at Salt Lake City Adopts Resolution Asserting Waste Under Present System. SALT LAKE CITT, July 22. Charles P. Mullen, Arizona, chairman of the conference of western stockmen, -which concluded a two-day session here to night, was authorized at the closing .-efision to proceed immediately to urge congress to enact legislation which will put the ranges on the public do main under the direction of the de partment of agriculture. The conven tion made the temporary organization permanent and raised by subscription 53500 as an initial fund with which to conduct the campaign for bringing the unappropriated grazing lands of the public domain under federal con trol. The conference proper was followed by a meeting of the executive commit tee, which gave its indorsement to aen ate bill No. 1516 recently introduced by Senator K-ing of Trtah which would permit the president to create com mons on the public domain under the administration of the secretary of ag riculture. Thirteen States Represented. The organization of stockmen per fected today represents virtually all sheep and cattle raisers of the 13 range states in the west. With but one dis senting vote at the morning session the conference adopted a resolution urging congress to place administration of the public domain under the supervision of the forestry department of the depart ment of agricult. -e. The dissenting vote was cast by a Wyoming delegation which had sub mitted a minority report calling for action by the convention to protect the interests of returning soldiers, sailors and marines. The presentation of the minority report of the resolutions com mittee, precipitated the nearest ap proach to acrimonious discussion which marked the meeting. The resolution adopted at the morn ing session follows: "Whereas indiscriminate grazing on public land has resulted in great re ductions in forage and "Whereas such indiscriminate graz ing has been brought about by the lak of supervision by the federal govern ment and "Whereas this condition results In great economic loss to the nation; now therefore be it "Resolved by this convention of stockmen representing the livestock interests of the states of Arizona. Cali fornia. Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Ne vada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, New Mexico, Washington. Nebraska and AVyoming at a meeting in Salt Lake City July 21, 1919, that congress be urged to initiate legislation to the end that grazing on the unappropriated public domain be regulated by the fed eral government under the supervision of the department of agriculture with the interests of the livestock men prop erly safeguarded, and be it further Resolved that we urge the heartiest co-operation between the department of agriculture and department of the in terior that this result be most speedily obtained." Hobo Labor Helps Save Linn County Hay. Albany's Veteran Police Chief Has Sj-Niem All Hi Onn. ALBANY, Or., July 22. (Special.) "Warm Springs Johnny" Catlin, fhiof of police and premier hobo-ologist f the Willamette valley, better known to knights of the road as "Uncle Johnny," is conducting a labor bureau all by himself these tropical days, while the hay is ripening faster than it tan be harvested. Chief John can tell a respectable hobo from a non-respectable one as far a a he can see them shuffling up the track, and Jut now, with the farmers relying upon him .us the only panacea for the labor shortage, Albany's ven erable gruardian of the peace can see hobos oven farther than before. "Shock hay. skcedaddle or it's a hard pillow yeMl have tonight." is the salu tation with which the non-hospitable official preets his gruests each night ms he patrols the Southern Pacific tracks during train hours. Last night five of the respectable class of free travelers accepted Catlin's kind Invi tation and were headed towards the what fields eatt of the city. The farmers are beginning to urge the business men to co-operate with them by lending them some of their employes in order to gather the pre cious bay. Last week all t he office force of the Albany State bank took a day off in the hay fields of a farmer near Albany. Although the farmers are calling on Chief Catlin and author izing him to offer ?t? a day for hay hnds, most of the hobos pass up the offer for the fruit orchards of Cali-f-rn ia. and the situation is growing .serious. SEN. JONES TO RUN AGAIN tYashincrtonian .Io Announces Sup port oT Poindcxter. SFOKAXE, Wash.. July 22. United Ftates Senator Wesley il Jone?, here fop a days visit with friends, an nounced informally today his intention to be a candidate to succeed himself i-T the Frnate in next year's election. Jle said ho would make a formal an nouncement later. Ho reiterated his intention of sup porting the neaoe treaty with the league of nations covenant, and his Fuppovt of Senator Miles Poindester for the republican nomination for r resident. MEDF0RD DROUTH BROKEN lirst Kain bince April Is Welcomed by Kruit Growers. 51EDFORD. Or.. July 22. (Special.) A heavy rain storm this evening de lsrhted fruiigrowers and broke a reuth which started last April. This has been the riryest summer for rrany seasons, but the downpour will tize up the non-irripated pears, and apples, and will mean hundreds of thousands of dollars to this district. POSTAL SAVING GAIN IS BIG Increase of $31,000,000 Durin War Is Responsible, i "Vstal sav- j during the I WASHINGTON. July 12. ros uetjiii forsed ahead d war $34,000,000 according; to a state ment just made public by the post office department. On March 31, 1917, six days prior to our declaration of war, deposits in the United States postal bank footed up $125,424,686. On October 31. 1918, 11 days prior to the signing of the armistice, m they had in creased to $159,670,830. These figures, are all the more re markable when it is recalled that dur ing the same period four intensive Liberty loan campaigns, and an almost continuous drive for the sale of Thrift stamps and War Savings certificates, were carried on. War activities had the complete right of way and an ap peal by the postmaster general for active co-operation on the part of the 300.000 postal employes throughout the country, in all financial and charitable war activities, brought enthusiastic response. Meanwhile, postal savings simply marked time accepting only such business as came to the post offices unsolicited. HIBERNIANS ARE GUESTS DEUEGATES FROM XATIOXAIi COXVEXTIOX FETED. James Deerjr, Xewly Elected Presi dent, Pleads for Fair Treat ment to Ireland. Delegates to the national convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, who returned yesterday from the re- X ' v V' J. : antes Deeryt new national pr ldrnt of tbe Ancient Order of Hibernians, visits Portland. cent meeting In San Francisco, were guests of the Portland members at lunch at the Portland hotel. In the party was James Deery of Indianapo lis, newly" elected president of the or ganization, who shared honors at the table w-ith Archbishop Christie of Port land and Bishop J. P. Carroll of Helena, Mont. Portland sent a delegation to Cali fornia made up of State President Sul livan, Rev. William A. .Daly, state chap lain; Francis Mallon, state treasurer: Patrick Powers, M. J. Murnane, Uev Thomas Brady of Lakeview and M. J. Driscoll, county president. Mr. Deery, who is accompanied by his wife and daughter, will remain until noon today. He was taken on sight-seeing trip along Terwilliger boulevard, and through the city park yesterday aiul will ride over the Co lumbia highway this morning. The luncheon was In charge of Thomas Maguiguan, chairman of the reception committee. It was attended in addition to the guests of honor by Mrs. and Miss Deery, Mrs. W. A. Klvers, sta te president of the women's aux iliary; Judge W. X. (Jatens, Thomas G. Ryan. Father Devine, division chaplain; John B. Coffey, division president; Miss Anna Kearns, Portland secretary of the United Irish societies; A. A. Murphy. Thomas A. bweeney, G. D. Dunning and Father H. E. Phillips of Fresno, Cat Father W. A. Daly was toastmaster. "We went into the war for the sole determination of the small nations, declared Mr. Deery. "Surely that in cluded Ireland. We ask only that It be treated as the- small countries of the world. If that isn't reasonable, nothing is." In October the Hibernians will cele brate the 4od birthday of the founding or the Portland order. MATE LOST TRADE, CHARGE Woman, Asking: Divorce, Says Hus baud Ruined Hotel Business. ALBANY. Or.. July 2. (Special.) That her husbana ruined a splendid business at her aristocratic hotel Utah by calling her star boarders "scabs." got drunk and lost his job on the rairoad, and then refused to contribute to her support, is the allega tion of Mrs. Lottie Moore, who is suing A. II. Moore for divorce and $30 month alimony before Judge Kelly in the circuit court here. Mrs. Moore proudly referred to her hostelry as "aristocratic," despite her own testimony which told of the liquor imbibing habits of the majority of her permanent hotel family. A 16-acre farm near Jefferson. Or., in which the husband claims a half inter est. but which Mrs. Moore says is all licr s, is the main bone of contention, CIGARETTES ROIL JUDGE Jail Sentence Touth's Reward for Supplying' Girl Smoke. Lady Nicotine fell down on the job or maicnmaKor yesterday when A- C hite, 18, paid a fine of $25 and be gan serving a lu-ciay sentence in iai for giving a cigarette to Miss Eleanora Young. IS, who was alleged to have been smoking at the time of her ar rest on Peninsula avenue. The judge turned Miss loung over to the women protective bureau, with instruction that her mother be informed of the occurrence. The case waa tried in municipal court. I"m very much opposed to the jmok ing of cigarettes by young girls.' said Judge Hossman. 'This case is. es pecially aggravated by the fact that she smoked in a public street." " BRYAN ATST. JOHNS. Ellison-White prebents William Jen nings Bryan at St. Johns Chautauqua Thursday afternoon. 3 o'clock. Lectur ing on "Foreign and Domestic Prob lems." Ida M. Tarbell at 8 o'clock. Lec turing on peace conference Central High school grounds. Adv. Woman Loses Rin: Mrs. J. M. Williams. 370 First street, reported to police yesterday that a burglar had stolen three rings and a stickpin from her home. B. H. rreet. stamps for eas. Eolroan Fuel Co.. Main tSX. Slit. - I Blockwood. short slabwood. Rock 6prlas m4 Utah aoal; sawdust. AdT, x ,t gx v i x - - - "r r, Li SYNOD AGAIN PICKS EUGENE FOR SESSION University Advantages in 1920 Sought by Presbyterians. MEETING WILL END TODAY Detroit Minister Asserts Sew Era Movement Rapidly Betters Condi tions of Religion in Japan. EUGENE. Or., July 22 (Special.) Eugene again was selected as the place of meeting of the Presbyterian synod of Oregon at the business meeting held this afternoon. The selection was made unanimously in open meeting after a discussion in which several members expressed their praise of this city as a meeting place. The meeting. It was decided, will be held at the same time in July, to obtain the benefits of the lectures at the summer school of the University of Oregon. Rev. Weston T. Johnson of Detroit representing the foreign missions board of the Presbyterian church, painted an impressive picture of the need for mis sionaries, particularly in the orient. The old religion of Japan, he said! had broken down, leaving an appalling con dition of atheism and agnosticism. The new era movement in Tokio, started only a few months ago. already Is bringing results. Rev. Mr. Johnson tated. In a week of evangelism In that city, he asserted, meetings were attended by 6000 Japanese, and 3000 of them signed cards promising to at. tend church and 3000 of them were enrolled in membership. The synod will close its sessions to morrow. Ministers and others in at tendance say that the 1919 session has been the most successful in years. QUAKE AND SEA MAKE RUIN Pangai, In Tonga Group, Shaken and Swept by Tidal Wave. SAN FRANCISCO. July 22. An earth quake and tidal wave swent Paneai town of the Tonga group, in the Pacific just south of the equator, on April 30, devastating the island and bringing its 250 inhabitants and 00 traders near starvation, according to reports brought of the schooner Ottille Fjord. The town was destroyed and the real dence of the governor embanked in seven feet of sand when the tidal wave receded. Captain Olson's report clears up the mystery of a severe earthquake record ed on the seismograph at Lick observa tory. Mount Hamilton, 12:51 o'clock on the morning of April 30, continuing 45 minutes. When the Ottilie Fjord left the Tonga group the homeless inhabitants were on precariously short rations awaiting relief ship. The schooner had Just unloaded 200,000 feet of lumber when the quake occurred and the tidal wave swept it away. ASHLAND HEARS MR. BRYAN Chautauqua Speaker, Guest of Citi zens, Likes Lithia Water. ASHLAND, Or., July 22. (Special.) William Jennings Bryan spoke at the Chautauqua building here this after noon to an audience of -O00. At noon he was the guest of Ashland citizens at a picnic dinner in Lithia Park. In spired by the beauties of Ashland's park, Mr. Bryan offered the suggestion that the two members of the legisla ture, whom he saw in the audience, seek a law which would require every person or company, subdividing acre age into building lots in a growing city, to set aside and improve a por tion of the acreage as a park. Ashland lithia water made a hit with the noted temperance advocate. W. L. Mellinger, a former Ashland man, tomorrow will lecture on Mis understood Mexico." Private Peat will tell of his war experiences. BANKS ASK MEMBERSHIP Obstacles to Federal Reserve System in California Removed. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. July 22. When an amendment to the California banking act, removing obstacles to membership in the federal reserve system, became effective today, state banks with resources of $377.42.00O had filed application for membership or given notice of intention to file such application immediately, a state ment tonight from John Ferrin, chair man of the board of the 12th district reserve banks, said. Application for membership "from three leading Los Angeles banks li expected to lead to the prompt estab lishment in Los Angeles of a branch of the federal reserve bank, it was said. PLANES TO SEEK RECRUITS Army Fliers Put at Disposal of Gov ernor AVhilc in Salem. SALEM. Or., July 22. (Special.) Two government airplanes will leave Mather Field tomorrow for Seattle where they will aid in recruiting for L nele Sam a forces, according to a tele gram received by Governor Olcott to day. The flyers will pass tomorrow night at Med ford and will arrive at Salem Thursday morning. It was said that the planes would be at the disposal of the governor while they are in Salem. The planes arc in charge of Aviator Yoss. SAFETY SIGNAL DEMANDED Salem Council Decides to Sue Public Service Commission. SALEM. Or.. July 22. (Special.) Because of an accident causing the injury of F. F. Wedel, driver of an automobile, who was run down by Falls City motor car at Capitol and Union streets Monday night, the Salem city council three hours later voted to sue the public service commission. The object of the suit is to rescind an order given recently refusing to install a safety signal at the crossing STOLEN COINS RECOVERED Pocket Pieces Lost in 1912 Are Re turned to Dr. W. H. Boyd. That the chap who started the old saw about bad pennies and their pecu liar habit of bobbing up again after being lost meant what he said, and knew whereof he spoke, is the firm conviction of Dr. W. H. Boyd of Port land, in whose buckskin purse a lucky penny and a worn 60-cent piece, both of the year 1S37. are again jingling after an absence of seven years. Just where the penny and other coin have wandered since their disappearance at the call of light-fingered gentry during the Elks' carnival of 1912 Is a matter for supposition. The penny, which la large and once was a coin of the Canadian realm, came into possession of the doctor in 1890, and a year later he happened upon the 50-cent American coin, which he treas ured, as it was of the same date as its Canadian relative. During a plunge through a carnival crowd in the Elks reign of 1912 the pocket pieces, as well as i2 in more modern coin, disap peared from the purse of the doctor. It happens that while he had the coins Dr. Boyd had taken the time to scratch his name on the penny, but did not mar the other. When a discharged soldier was ar rested a few days ago by Inspectors Pat Moloney and La Salle for vagrancy, several old coins were found on his person, which he had been trying to sell. He explained that he had pur chased them all In Astoria. One bore the name of Dr. Boyd, and when he went to detective headquarters at the police station the physician rec ognized It Immediately and also tbe mate to his penny, the half dollar of 1837. WALKER GONE FAR KEEPS REPORTS OF BEAVER FIELDER'S JUMP CONFIRMED. McCredle Will Cse Speas In Center, Jack Farmer In Left, Cox in Right Temporarily. SAN FRANCISCO, July II (Special.) Outfielder Frank "Dixie" Walker left the Portland club Sunday in Salt Lake. He quit to go home ao that he per sonally could 100k after his tobacco business at Rocky Mount. N. C. said Manager Walter McCrdie of the Port land Pacific Coast league club tonight. George Maisel's damaged knee is not yet healed and it may be the end of the week before be breaks back into the lineup. McCredle will use Billy Speas in center. Jack Farmer in left and Dick Cox In right field until Malsel gets well, when Cox will be benched, Maisel put in center. Farmer left in the left pasture and Speas shifted to right. Farmer is in good enough shape to remain as a regular. News from San Francisco last night to the effect that Outfielder Walker has quit the club for keeps will be re ceived with some little disappointment by local fans. "Dixie was popular hereabouts, for he was one of the best all-round ballplayers in the circuit. Walker has but one bad fault and that is his disposition. He jumped the club twice before, making his final Steve Brodie at Salt Lake in the midst of the first of Sun day's games. Walker was hitting .303 when he quit. He makes the second big league prospect who has Jumped the Beavers this season, the other one being Pitcher George Pennington, who, without notice, went to his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. LUDEMHFf BOOK STIRS ENGLAND AXXIOCS TO READ GERMAN'S VIEW OF WAR. Mucli Controversy Expected to Be in Order After Allied Moves Are Viewed by Enemy. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub- imnel by arranrment. l LONDON. July 22. (Special Cable.) The approaching publication of Gen eral Ludendorff s book on the great war, throughout the main part of which he was the dominating German mili tary figure, is arousing tremendous in terest here, for he alone can throw au thoritative light on many obscure epi sodes of the highest importance in judging, not only the German military syHtem at work, but the actions of the different allied countries to which he was opposed. Nobody can speak with more Intimate knowledge of the real part played by the former kaiser, both In triumph and adversity, or on the relations between the German civil and military powers in times of crisis, for Ludendorff vir tually became dictator in the most cru cial period of his country a fortunes. His estimate of the capabilities of the allied military leaders, aa viewed from the enemy's experience of their work and achievements, should be highly instructive when allowance is made for the critioal hostility of their most for midable antagonist. Above all. General Ludendorfrs book Is expected to provoke a storm of con troversy on many points, controversies which must be fruitful in startling revelations. In short. Ludendorff Is in a position to write the book of the war and, it is understood, he has done so. BEND HOSPITAL TO RISE Sislcrs of St. Joseph to Contract for $65,000 Building. BEND. Or.. July 22. (Special.) Announcement of plans for the con struction of a hospital here by the sisters of St. Joseph was made today by Mother Xavier of the mother house of the order at Tipton, Indiana. Contracts are to be drawn tomorrow and construction on the first unit at cost of $65,000 will be started at once. The building will get additions as the need arises, and will be made the mos complete institution in the state, out Established 1BOS Your .Oriental -Rugs Before you go away for the summer let us call for your Ori ental rugs. We will carefully wash-clean and store them; they will be fresh, and clean when you return. Repairing by Native Experts Cartozian Bros. Incorporated. Washington at Tenth. NURftYA TEn-Flmff awl fU Coming lde of Portland. Nurses" training will feature the hospital work. Mother Xavier and Sister Agatha, who is ac companying her. will remain in Bend o superintend the details of construc tion. REQUEST WON BY T0N0 Bnlldlns of Permanent Highway Pron.ix.-d Delegation. CENTRAL! A. Wash.. July 22. (Spe cial.) When residents of Tono. the prosperous oal mining community northeast of On trait a. want something they co-operate to pet It. Yesterday 37 auto loads of residents journeyed to Olympla, where, after parading the business section of the capital, they marched in on the Thurston county commissioners with a request for the buildintc of a pood road connecting Tono with the road through the Hanna ford valley, from Centrulia to the Thurston county line. So large was the deleca t ion that th commissioners If i . 1 Service Leads to Success that is true of banks as well as of individuals. Years ago a bank was not a giving institution, but a with holding one; today even the smaller banks are waking up to the fact that they must serve the community that withholding is not profitable, does not conduce to success. Therefore, only as a bank serves will it be successful, and by inverse reasoning, that bank which has been successful for a long period of years must have served the community well. Ladd & Tilton Bank points to its ever-increasing deposits, its ever-growing list of deposi tors, and the fact that this growth has been steady and continuous for sixty years. I ft ?1 Need we say more: LADD I t y N t. i M II NEW SHOW TOD AiT FRANK KEENAN IN PERSON Mr. Keenan, America's greatest character actor, has consented to appear in person at the Columbia today. Thursday and Friday. You want to see Mr. Keenan and Mr. keenan wants to see you o The Picture Is the First Big Keenan Special "THE MASTER MAN" A Dramatic Masterpiece in 5 Big Acts THREE DAYS ONLY STARTING TODAY ClilllSl gww or Jmtn i Saturday, Marguerite Clark in "Girls'1 had to transfer the hearing to the su perior court room. The Tono residents obtained the promise of the Immediate repair of the present road, which is in deplorable condition, and the building of a perma nent highway In the near future. Com missioner Naylin will be in Tono to morrow to arrange for the Improve ment. C. S. Farmer was appointed road supervisor for Tono. BUTTE PRICE PROBE URGED Increases Followed Soon After New "Wage Scale. I Charge. HELENA. Mont.. July 22. Governor S. V. Stem-art todav. upon request from County Attorney Joseph R. Jackson of Silver Bow county, urged the state ef ficiency and trade comm' -sion to in veAtigate the wholesale and retail prices of Tood and clothing in Uutte, with a view to remedying an acute situation which is alleged to exist in that city. Tt Is alleged that Immediately upon ' . ' f -r;.l i '' T -.-T-.im I ill--- -r- ,x rtr-, K lei tnnNa fssaa-At. ascsva aaBsYsraMal & TILTON JBMj in the Aorthuse.S't, Washington dnd Third the granting of higher wa-es recently to the miners of Butte by the employ ing companies, the merchants- as promptly hfKnn advancing the prices on the necets-ary commodities. Bend lias Gasoline Shortage. BKN'n. Or.. July (Special.) After experiencing a 36-hour gasoline short age. Bend auto users emptied distillate from their tanks shortly before noon today and treated their engines to a real drink of the more highly refined petroleum product. So great was the demand that it was es;fmated that the new supply would be exhausted by noon tomorrow. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Alwavs bears the Sig nature of 0 IIS IS! iff '. X 5 'wnilyy Streets z I s r tTft 1 1 . -: I , If x 2 1 aL N.'. It