TITE MORNING OREGON! AN, FRIDAY, JUIA" 23. 1919.
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BILL TO CUT TAX ON
FRUIT JUICE BACKED
House Committee's Decision Is
Victory for Northwest.
i REPORT TO BE FAVORABLE
Stepresentative Hawley's Proposal
Would Red ace Levy to Two
Cents on Each Gallon.
' OREGO.VIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, July 24. Victory was won by
the fruitgrowers of the northwest to
day when the republican members of
the house ways and means committee
agreed to report favorably on the bill
introduced by Representative Hawley
of Oregon reducing1 the tax on logan
berry, apple and grape juices. Instead
of the present tax of 10 per cent on the
gross sales, which amounts to approxi
mately 29 cents a gallon, the tax will
be fixed at 2 cents a gallon. Several
democratic members of the committee
also have assured Representative Haw
ley that they will support the bill. The
most of the fight for the reduction of
the tax has been carried on by the
loganberry growers of Oregon.
Several Oregon and Washington men
are among troop organizations now
trader convoy from overseas. Among
them are the 477th motor transport
corps, H7 men, on the Antigone, which
jailed from Brest for Newport News on
July 21; 4th engineers, 6 officers and
230 men, which sailed from Brest on
July 21 for Newport News; detachment
3d company transport corps, 1 officer
pind 26 men due at New York tomorrow
on the Santa Barbara. All of these
troops will be sent to Camp Lewis,
Washington.
Approval was given today by the
thief of engineers to the application of
the Northwest Steel company of Port
land, Or., to build a bridge across Deer
Jfeland slough.
Director John B. Densmore of the
federal employment service denied an
application today for increased aid for
the employment service at Astoria, Or.,
because of insufficient funds. The ex
tra money was desired to maintain the
women's division of the Astoria em
ployment service on a larger scale dur
ing the cranberry picking season.
Senator Chamberlain returned today
from Milwaukee, Yis.t where he' de
livered an address to more than 700
events of the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance company, representing every
state. On his return he took up the
assembling of complaints of soldiers
charging brutal treatment in France
-which he will submit to the war inves
tigation committee.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels said
today that he is working out the de
tails for his visit to the Pacific coast
and that he hopes to be able within a
short time to say definitely when he
will visit Portland and Astoria.
Announcement will be made within a
few days of appointments of census
supervisors in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, it was learned today at the
census bureau.
Demands began to pour in upon Pa
cific coast congressional delegations to
day to obtain some revision of the
present lumber tariffs to eastern
points. The railroad administration
had this matter under consideration for
some time, but finally decided a few
days ago that because of differences
between the lumbermen on the Pacific
coast and the early return of the rail
roads to private ownership that no ac
tion would be taken. In their tele
grams to senators and representatives
today the lumbermen said that it is
desirable to have a rate revision before
the roads go back to private owner
ship.
morality and to enforce health regula-
tlons on the 140 Indian reservations of)
the country.
Bills proposing a leasing system for
government-owned coal, sodium and
phosphate lands and for the disposal of
lands containing non-metalliferous min
erals has been introduced by Senator
Lenroot-
Democratic members of the house
l ays and means commitee declined to
join with the republican members in
recommending passage of a bill levying
a tw-iff on importations of chemical
glassware and apparatus.
Legislation providing permanent rank
of admiral for Rear-Admiral William
S. Sims, who commanded American
naval forces overseas, and Admiral
William S. Benson, chief of operations,
was recommended unanimously by the
house naval committee.
Efforts of house republicans to in
crease the steering committee from five
to seven or nine, were voted down. A
recess of a month to besin in August
practically was agreed on.
Included in legislation -which the
house expects to dispose of before the
proposed recess to begin next month
will be a bill for deportation of 500
enemy aliens, now at internment camps,
and a measure to prevent foreign ships
from engagingin coastwise trade.
Information obtained by the Federal
Trade commission in its investigation
of the meat packing industry has been
under consideration for several months
by the department of justice. Attorney
Oeneral Palmer expects a report about
August 1.
Highway Commissioner Booth
Tangles With Rattler.
Clone-In KlKbting Put Serpent In
t'nauulty I.lt. and Rattles Are De
clared Spoils of War.
Domestic.
Rentals of apartments and houses in
Chicago will be increased from 10 to 30
per cent and. in some cases 100 per cent
to meet the increased cost or opera
tion, when tenants sign new leases
October 1.
Urgent messages to the Philippines,
China and Japan by way of the Com
mercial-Pacific Cable company are be
ing restricted to one message of not
more than 10 chargeable words a day
from the same sender.
Chilton Jennings, a negro, was taken
from jail at Gilmer, Tex., and hanged in
the courtyard square by a mob of about
500 men. He was charged with as
saulting a woman here yesterday.
William Maeten, mistaken for a deer,
was ehot and killed by his brother, Gus
Masten, near Eureka, Cal.
The cable censorship exercised by
the navy department during the war
ceased July 23, when the New Tork
office of the naval cable censor, which
handled 85 per cent of the cable corre
spondence between Europe and most of
America, closed its doors.
Beer of 2.75 per cent alcoholic con
tent is held to be intoxicating within
the meaning of the war-time prohibi
tion act in a decision returned by Fed
eral Judge Thomas I. Chatf ield in a
test case.
A fund of $25,000,000 will be raised
by popular subscription for the erection
of a great American memorial in France,
commemorating America's achieve
ments. The Montana state efficiency and
trade commission, working under a
law enacted by the last legislature,
has begun an inquiry into local living
costs.
LONG FLIGHT IS STARTED
8000-MILE COURSE MAPPED
OCT BY ARMY CREW.
ASHLAND, Or.. July 4. (Special.)
R. A. Booth, state highway com
missioner, killed a rattlesnake on the
Pacific highway and took its eight
ra ttlcs a few days ago. Mr. Booth,
while inspecting the contract work on
the Siskiyou section south of Ashland,
eaw the long, larsre, fat rattler crawl
ing acrops the highway. With a whoop,
designed to rattle the rattler, the com
missioner leaped from his car, land
ing in the road five feet from the
snake.
After hurling one piece of perfectly
Efood basalt rock at the serpent, the
commissioner decided on close-in
fighting and while the snake was
coiled he determined to give it the
boot. The snake uncoiled and started
to beat a retreat, whereupon Commis
sioner Booth jumped upon its head
with one heel, keeping his foot there a
moment while the body of the snake
threshed the dust in its death acony.
Plane Will Leave 3Iineola, X. Y.,
This Morning on Round-Rini-of-Country
Trip.
MINEOLA, N. T., July 24. Lieutenant-Colonel
R. S. Hartz, who arrived
here at 12:45 P. M. today from Wash
ington, is scheduled to leave tomorrow
morning at 8 o'clock for Augusta, Me.,
the next stopping point on the 8,000
mile round - the - rim-of - the - country
flight in an army bombing plane. It
is expected Colonel Hartz and his crew
of four will reach Augusta shortly be
fore noon.
While the official report of the flight
said that it was without incident, it was
learned that the plane developed a leak
in the water tank while passing over
Baltimore. Jeremiah Tobias, one of
the mechanics on board, went out on
the wing and made the necessary re
pairs while the machine was flying at
an altitude of 5000 feet. It required 30
minutes to complete the task.
The flight is the longest ever at
tempted by the army air service and
will carry the machine through 31
states, over. 95 cities and over long
stretches of the Atlantic, Pacific and
Gulf coasts as well as the Canadian
border.
The general line to be followed will
carry the machine in order to Duluth,
Minn., Seattle. San Diego, San Antonio.
Tex., Miami, Fla., and back to Wash
ington. The actual measured distance
of the route is 7805 miles.
Condensed News.
You don't need to
go farther for warm
weather clothes
You'll find just what you want at this
store Style, quality, model, fabric
and everything". ,
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Dixie Weave is the light weight for
summer cool and airy built to hold
their shape all wool. .
Big Values at $40 and $45
Some More Some Less
PALM BEACH TWO-PIECE SUITS
at $15
Interwoven Hose for Long Wear
All Shades Silk Lisle and Silk
Copyrieht 1919 Hart Schaffner & Marx
Sam'l Rosenblatt 6? Co.
The Men's Store for
Quality and Service
Gasco Bid?.
Fifth and Alder
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FACTO
SAMPLE SHOP
2S6 Morrison St., Between Fourth and Fifth Sts
Next to Corbett Building
Beware of imitators and imitation
n mnT chnn. Iconic fnr lii Sicrn.
P ,r With the Hand Tointing at 2SG
.nornson rt. raciory sample rnop
SALE! SALE!
Closing Out All Summer Dresses, Suits, Coats,
Dolmans and Capes
During this sale the Factory Sample Shop Mill ex
change all sale garments and your money back if not
satisfied within three days of purchase
HEW CRUELTIES REVEALED
SUBJECT
ARMY PRISONS AGAIN
OK TORTURE ALLEGATIONS.
'Beat Prisoners or Be Beaten," Is
Choice Sergeant Says AVas
Given Him.
WASHIXGTOX, D. C. July 24. Ef
fort sto fix responsibility of superior
officer for the maltreatment of Amer
ican military prisoners in detention
camps and Jails in and near Paris will
be made by a house war investigating
committee next week. Chairman John
son announced ton'dht that former Ser-
peant Clarence Hall, who is serving a.
six months sentence at Kort Jay. N. T.,
for mistreating prisoners while he waa
a guard at one of the camps, would ap
pear before the committee Monday.
Beat the prisoners or be beaten
yourself." is the chaice that Ball says
was given him by superior officers, ac
cording to a letter written by Ball to
Representative Dallinger of Massachu
setts, who turned it over to the com
mittee. At prison farm Xo. 2, where
Mali was an assistant of Lieutenant
C'Hardboiled'-) Smith, who also is in
prison for mistreatment of soldiers,
Hull's letter asserts that he and other
guards did their "best not to misuse the
prisoners, and it did not suit Smith."
"I admit that I hit prisoners." wrote
Ball, "but the orders came from higher
than any sergeant."
Ball's letter mentioned only Lieuten
ant Smith, but the former sergeant
said: "I could tell you a lot more if I
could only talk with you."
Alleged Liquor Violators Jailed.
Brvie Hutchinson, an alleged oldtime
offender, was arrested Wednesday
nicht at 315 Couch street by Patrolmen
Traver and Xelson in company with
Blanche Rollo and booked for viola
tion of the prohibition law. The offi
cers say that they apprehended Hutch
inson as he drove up in front of the
residence of the Rollo woman and un
loaded a three-gallon keg of wine from
his machine. They were both placed
in the city jail and the wine seized as
evidence.
TAC0MA REAPS PROFIT
Municipal Electric Department
Shows Tidy Sum for Cltjr.
TACOMA, Wash.. July 24. (Special.)
Six-month's net profit of the Tacoma
municipal light department for the
period ending June 80 was 227.4T9.0S.
The operating revenues were $47S.
65S.76, while the expenses totaled f 135,
102.27. The voters will decide on August 12
whether or not they want to float a
$'100,000 bond issue to buy the Lake
Cushman power site for further de
velopment o fthe system. No op
position has developed to the project
because the interest charges and bond
retirement will be cared for from the
earnings o fthe present plants.
It is estimated that the complete de
velopment of the site would add 123.000
horsepower to the energy which Ta
coma can supply for manufacturing.
FLEET ENTERS CARIBBEAN
Admiral Rodman peels No Diffi
culty in Passing Canal.
ABOARD THE FLAGSHIP U. P. S.
NEW MKXTCO. July 24. (By Wireless
to the Associated Tress.) The Pacific
fleet, en route to its station on the
western coast, yesterday entered the
Caribbean sea after passinc Navassa
island at 6 o'clock this morning.
Admiral Rodman stated today he an
ticipated his flotilla would experience
no difficulties in negotiating the pas
save of the Panama canaL
The weather remains excellent. Cap
tain Willard, commanding the New
Mexico, continues to put his crew
through daily drills.
EASTERN STUB CONVENES
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ATTRACTS
THOUSANDS TO SEATTLE.
George M. II) land, Portland, Pre
sides at Opening of Sessions.
Election to He Saturday.
SEATTLE, Wash., July 24. Business
sessions of the sixteenth triennial as
sembly of the general grand chapter.
Order of the Eastern Star, opened here
today with Mrs. Emma C. Ocobock of
Hartford. Mich., most worthy grand
matron, and Oeorge M. Hyland, Port
land, or., most worthy grand patron,
presiding. It was the first meeting of
the national assembly held west of Chi
cago. Mayor Ole Hanson .welcomed the
delegates In behalf of the city, and
Mrs. fSretta Hutchinson, grand matron
of the Washinieton grand chapter, in
behalf of the state chapter.
Upwards of 5000 delegates and visit
ors, it was estimated, are in Seattle for
the assembly's meetings. Thousands of
dollars have been spent In street dec
orations, with the red. whle, blue,
and yellow colors of Mie o
dominating. Programme fea
night included church memori
under direction of George J. Kurxen-1
itnnue 01 nicago, wormy grand or
ganist. Election of officers will be
held Saturday.
i' . UiM ml
street dec- ( j
blue, green j 1
order pre- I J
matures to- I f
ial services I
Odds and
Ends in
Coats
Values to $25,
to close out
at only
DOLMANS AND CAPES,
Values to $30, to close out quickly
SILK AND SERGE DRESSES,
Values to $35, to close out quickly
SUITS AND COATS,
Values to $35, at only
We
Challenge
Any Store
to Compare
Prices
..$7.95
..$8.95
$12.95
WAISTS $2.95
SERGE SKIRTS $2.95
Foreign.
Brand "Whitlork. American minister
to Belgium, will leave for the United
States Saturday on a two months' va
cation. It is generally believed that
Air. "Whitlork will not return to Brus
sels, but will proceed to Italy to replace
Thomas Nelson Page as ambassador.
General John J. Pershing received
the depree of doctor of laws from the
Cambridge university "Wednesday. Other
recipients of the degree were Admirals
Sturdee and Weymys and Generals
Tiawlinson, Bird wood. Wilson. Home,
Currie, Monash and the Karl of Cavan.
. The Baltic commission of the peace
conference recommends that the Aland
islands, between Sweden and Finland
ut the mouth t the Gulf of Bothnia, be
neutralized under the guarantee of the
lea p tie of nations.
Kfforts to re-establish pumping op
erations in the coal mines at Leeds.
Kncland, have resulted satisfactorily.
As the result of an attack on French
soldiers by Bulgarians, a French regi
ment has arrived at Sofia, the Bul
garian capital, to disarm the local
garrison.
It is possible former Emperor "Will
iam may not bo tried in London, ac
cording to an announcement made in
the Houe of Lords by Karl Ourzon
Kedlestou.
The exportation of Cardiff coal has
been slopped by a government order
issued ycterdy.
The cirrus of the 1st division, which
recently gave shows at Montabaur. is
jroing on the roid in Germany and per
Viaps will continue its tour in B'lgiim.
l'laive and Kn.l ind.
SERVICE MEN WELCOMED
Wilsonville Entertains JLocal Boys
With Reception and Dance.
OREGON CITY, Or., July 24. (Spe
cial.) An enthusiastic gathering wa
held at Wilsonville Wednesday evening.
when the boys returned trom service
were given a welcome home. The af
fair, an entertainment and ball, was
held in Grange hall, and was attended
by 400 people.
District Attorney Gilbert L. Hedges
and Attorney O. D. Eby. who made ad
dresses, were given an. ovation. During
the evening selections were rendered
by the Sherwood orchestra of five
pieces. Several vocal numbers were
also given.
Following the entertainment refresh
ments were served the returned soldiers
sailors and marines with their relatives
and friends.
Mr. Seeley, cashier of the "Wilsonville
bank, presided over the reception, which
was given under the auspices of the
Community club. Dancing followed the
refreshments.
X a t i o n a 1 .
The United States Board of Indian
commissioners will recommend to con
K r c 3 ways aud means to overcome im-
scs" Young Men 'r&3
Don't Get Bald
Cuticura Does Much
To Prevent It
Dandruff, itching, scalp irritation,
etc, point to an unhealthy condition
of the scalp, which leads to thin,
falling hair and premature baldness.
Frequent shampoos with Cuticura
Soap and hot water do much to pre
vent such a condition, especially if
preceded bv a pentle anointing with
Cuticura Ointment to spots of dan
druff and itching.
Smp 25c Ointment 25 and 50e. Talcum
25c. Sold throughout the world. For
sample each free addris : "Curicwrm Lab
ofttrii. Dept. 15F. Maiden. Mas."
SJfeVCuticorm Soap ahejvea witbont Brag.
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"Touch a hair of his mustache and TO
drill ya clean?" Tis Nugget Nell that
speaks, and she's wiggling the meanest
trigger finger in Rattlesnake Gulch.
. . . The bandits flee. Percival Petty
bone opens his peeps. "Nell," he mur
murs, "they'll laugh till their throats
ache when they see you in this roaring
burlesque travesty on the Wild and
Movie West."
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Klwanls Will Co to Astoria.
Members of the Kiwanis club, with
their families, will participate in a
week-end excursion to Astoria Satur
day, August 2. returning some time the
following: Monday. The club, through
Ben H. Hazen, chairman of the ex
cursion commit tee. has nrraned for n
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special car leaving the North Bank sta
tion at 2 P. M. August 2. A banquet
at Astoria and other features have
been arranged for tjie excursionists.
Homesteaders Given Irave.
WASHINGTON. .Tnlv ?4 The frnate
amendment to the agricultural ap
propriation bill granting temporary
leave of absence to homcsteadr
w hose crops have been destroyed by
drouth was agreed to by the house to
day and the measure was sent to th
president.
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and broths. Their difference lies in
their fresh flavored goodness. They arc
delightfully crisp, satisfying and daintily
salted. Sold fresh everywhere by grocers.
1 salted, oold fresh everywhere by grocers. S
trtnn. Don't ask for Crackers rt
tway Snow Flakes Biscuit
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