TTTE MORNING OREGONIAN, TTJESDAT, JULY 29, 1919. IS CALLED CIVILIZATION'S FOE Session of Relief Commission Opens at Medford. Misled, Correspondents Gave False Data, Is Charge. I 22 CLAIMS ARE PRESENTED GERMAN MONEY SAID PAID Hearings Will Be Conducted in Spo kane, Baker and Portland by Members of Body. Baltimore Scientist Gives Startling Testimony Regarding Actual Met lean Conditions in Hearing. 6 lESTilM HEARD BY MINING BOARD i sr. v 4 Wy l X7Has4 iicatm MEDFORD, Or., July 28. (Special.) The city is full of miners tonight from all parts of Oregon and northern Cali fornia who came here to present their Claims before the war minerals relief commission which began hearings in the federal building this morning. Twenty-two claims were presented to day relating to manganese and chrome properties in Siskiyou county, Cali fornia, Lake creek, Josephine county, and Coos Bay. The claims varied from $100 to $52, 000, the latter being made by a Tacoma eyndicate that operated a chrome claim in the Lake creek district during the war. No awards were made, merely testimony being taken. The awards will be handed down after thorough investi gation by the department of the inte rior. There were 170 notices sent out by the commission for hearing in this dis trict but only 55 have been scheduled and it is believed the work of the com mission will be closed Friday or Satur day. Thursday night Phillip N. Moore, min ing expert from St. Louis, a member of the commission, will leave for Spokane, ex-Representative M. D. Foster, another member of Olney, I1L, will leave for Uaker, Or. to conduct hearings in those two places, while ex-Senator John F. Shafroth, chairman of the commission, will complete the work here and then leave for Portland, where hearings will be held. Ex-Senator Shafroth and the other members of the commission were taken on a tour of the valley this evening, the guests of Dr. J. F. Reddy, former mayor and well-known mining man. All members were enthusiastic over the country and interested in the orchards which are now loaded with pears and apples. The senator's chief interest, aside from the mining claims, however, is in the league of nations and the present situation in Washington. "I am a staunch believer in the league of nations," said he, "and hope it will be promptly ratified by the sen ate. Its ratification will mark an epoch-making event in the progress of world civilization." FRUIT ACREAGE IS SIGNED Eight Thousand Acres Listed by State Organization. EUGENE. Or., July 28. (Special.) The Oregon Growers' Co-operative .as sociation, recently organized, has signed up 8000 acres of fruit alone, accordi;; to J. O. Holt, manager of the Eugene Fruit Growers' association, who is a di rector in the new organization, word to that effect having been received from R. C. Paulus, general manager o the state body. The Eugene association has signified its intention of marketing the prune and apple crops of 1920 through the state body, so it may be said that the larger part of the fruit acreage in Lane county is intending to operate through the state association after another year. Professor C. I. Lewis of the horticul tural department of O. A. C. now is rtirocting the organization work of the state body. CURRY LAMBS ARE SOLD 1000 Head of Young Sbeep to Go to Eastern Range. MARSH FIELD, Or., July 28. (Spe cial.) A liirge purchase of lambs was made . in Curry county, below Port Orford, by William Conover of Toppen ish, Wash, who bought about 1000 head from ranchers near Corbin. The lambs have been sheared. The price paid for the consignment was $5 per head, and they are to be delivered at the railroad station in Myrtle Point. The herd, Mr. Conover said, will be shipped to the Yakima country for ranee and maturing. The ranchers of Curry county have in recent months been disposing of sheep as fast as possible, fearing the ravages of coyotes, which have be come numerous in the past few years. PORTLAND LAD DETAINED Alleged Forged Checks Found by Officers at Astoria. ASTORIA. Or., July 28. (Special.) Ton:ild Kelley, a 19-year-old boy from Portland, was arrested last night as he was endeavoring to pass a check for $17.50 which the police say he after wards confessed was a forgery. The lad had a check book from the Hartman & Thompson Bank of Port land. He had filled out three of the checks in the sum of $17.50 each, pay able to Gordon McFarland and signed K. J. Hunt. The police say Kelley ad mits forging the checks, but claims he had not cashed any of them. He is being held until his parents may be communicated with. S- fc H. green stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co.. Main 353. A 3353. Klockwood. short slabwood. Hock Spriners and T'tah coal; sawdust. Adv. " 5 J" ' " "s i- v . - : - .r J. hi Dorothy Gish MM wild wfnt miBwomai boarding aoiiselceeper KeH at tlte Peoples. la 'iHt INSTEAD of Bill Hart or Doug Fair banks this time it is "Pep" Gish who has taken to two-gun play and the Wild West films. After all the hero movies, Dorothy Gish has decided to become a "shero" and as such pro vides an hour or so of mirth in her latest appearance in Portland, at the Peoples in "Nugget Nell." When it comes to handling a gun, performing acrobatics on a horse and playing the "stick-up" game with bandits, Nell is there with the goods. The film is a burlesque on the popular forms of western fiction. The star has the part of the ferocious leather aproned boarding-house keeper, who falls in love with a fashion plate hero from the east. Robbers plot to secure his wealth, but Nell, overhearing their plans, de cides to mix in at the cross-roads. She kidnaps the wealthy visitor and has a series of thrilling escapes until finally rescued from both bandits and a burn ing house. Much comedy is furnished by the ar rival of an orphan child, who is about twice the size of her foster mother. Her robust proportions fail to fit into the hickory cradle in which she had been expected to take her naps. In her efforts to attract the atten tion of the easterner, Nell becomes vio lently jealous of her charming neigh bor. Limousine Liz, and goes shopping in the neighboring settlement. Her methods are direct, and though her pocket book is flat, guns prove as good as currency. Cloth is neatly measured off by the terrified salesgirl and wrapped in a bundle at Nell's direction, afterwards, the girl with the gun walks down the street and selects attractive articles of wearing apparel at random a hat from this girl, and shoes and stockings from the next emphasizing her demands with the threatening muzzle. At home once more, she dolls up- in the first "glad rags" of femininity that she has ever possessed only to find that the Stranger is still unimpressed. Some entertaining Porto Rican pic tures and a weekly accompany the fea ture film. who live in the east are in receipt of invitations to be present at the com mencement exercises of the Los Angeles high school this week when Bessie Love will be among the sweet girl graduates. While it was generally known that Miss Love was still a school girl in her 'teens, even if she were i picture star, there were a few doubt ing Thomases. Now their doubts are at rest. Ruth Roland, known far and wide as the heroine of many successful Pathe serials, is the first serial star to bead her own producing company. To use her own words, she is now an "Inc..1 being the mainspring of Ruth Roland Serials, Inc. L. Anderson Reed, lieutenant adju tant, infantry, U. S. A., recently re leased from the service and back at his office in the Metro studios, completed a pair of continuities since his return and then wrote the original story of A Favor of a Friend," in which the bewitching Emmy Wehlen is to star, following her production of "Fools and Their Money." Betzwood, where the Bennison pic tures are made, was once the home stead of John F. Betz, the brewer. Now that the thirsty first of July has gone this idea might be passed on to other manufacturers. Selah Attendant Awarded Cross. YAKIMA, Wash, July 28. (Special.) Second Lieutenant Leroy G. Cronk hite of the Selah has been awarded a distinguished service cross for extraor dinary heroism in action. He is the second Selah lad to win distinction on French battlefields, Frank Sher man, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Sher man, - having received the croix de guerre. WASHINGTON, D. C, July !8. Misled in their investigations of conditions in Mexico. William Bayard Hale and Lincoln Steffens in turn misled Presi dent Wilson in believing that President t-arranxa was the "peoples' champion.' the House rules committee was told to day by William Gates, an archeologist of Baltimore. The committee is holding hearings on a proposition for an lnves tigatlon on the Mexican situation. Gates, who toured Mexico In 1917 and 1918, described Car rani a as "an enemy of his own people first, the United States second, and then all civiliza tion." Mexican President la Antt-Amerleasu The Mexican president, the witness said, is more anti-Saxon than anti American, hopes to set up the suprem acy of the Latin races and desires to drive American and British capital from his country. Gates said that after their Investigations in Mexico for the presi dent. Hale and Steffens were employed by the Germans. The American pepole are not well informed of affairs in Mexico, the wit ness said, because the American press has received Carranza propaganda. "Who prepared the propaganda? asked Representative Snell. New York. "It was written by Carranzlstas and handed to the Associated Press and it they did not send it out they would be given 24 hours to leave the country." Carraaslsta Are Real Bandits. Gates said there were "very few act ual bandits other than Carranza sol diers, who are usually headed by their officers. He added that five revolu tionary bands exist, "and that in dis tricts under their control, he felt safer than in Mexico City." Condtlons in Mexico, he testified, -are "steadily getting worse," because the Carranza government is "simply a mili tary government where officers and men are unrestrained." 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Sold under money refund guarantee by all druggists. Screen Gossip. Wesley Barry is rapidly making a name for himself as one of the leading screen actors of the silent drama. This boy, barely 12 years of age. has been engaged as one of the leading supports for Blanch Sweet. Known as the "freckle faced boy." there is hardly a devotee of the screen but knows the clever work of this boy with Miss Mary Pickford In "Daddy Long Legs," and he was specially en gaged by Mr. Hampton for an import ant part in "A Woman of Pleasure," the famous James Willard London melo drama, in which Miss Sweet is to be starred. Christ's Kpiscopal church, at the cor ner of Twelfth and Flower streets, Los An&eles, which has for some time past been the center of mortgage tangles and legal fights, lost its identity as a place of worship when on Friday, June 20, a deal was consummated whereby all of its furniture, fixtures and interior decorations became the property of the Famous Players-Lasky corporation and were moved and stored in the property rooms of the Lasky studio in Holly wood. - Imagine one man wearing out 14 dress suits and 12 business suits in five months. Not only that, but here's woman who In the same length of time ruined 12 dresses, innumeraDie hats and shoes; in fact, demolished a wardrobe which would have kept the average woman well dressed for years. The two culprits are James Corbett, former world's boxing champion, who has Just completed starring in "the Midnight Man," and Miss Kathleen O'Connor, his leading woman. "A Mite of Love." written by Rachael Crothers, is the fifth of the serial of 12 motion pictures made under the aus pices of the Stage Women's War Relief, the proceeds of which are to be used In the upkeep of the soldiers' theater at debarkation hospital No. S in New York. Tom Moore, the debonair Goldwin star, who has just completed "Hearts ease," with Harry Beaumont directing. is spending the days between pictures at his beach home. He is quite a swim mer and goes in several times each day. He owns an array of surf implements. including surf boards, air mattresses. buoys and other sport paraphernali He is now trying to fit a motorcycle engine to a board so he can ride far out and then coast in on the big breakers. Not satisfied with having Robert C. Bruce away on his annual trip under sealed orders, Vice-President E. W. Hammons of the Educational Films Corporation of America announces that a new camera party has left New York this week, destination and route to be kept a dark secret, for the purpose of making certain new film, which is to be produced with the co-operation of the educational organization. The Catalina line aero "Sea Gull." plane of the Syd Chaplin Aircraft cor portation, which arrived in Los Ange les July 1. was christened by Miss Edna Purviance. noted film star, who broke a bottle of California orange juice over the "Sea Gulls bow at 10:20 on the morning of July 4. at the municipal dock, Los Angeles harbor (San Pedrc). Believing that a woman is more effi cient and by her sympathy is capable of getting more ont of his players, John William Kellette, director of the Para-mount-Briggs comedies, has engaged Miss Gene Warren as his assistant di rector. Miss Warren is now at work with the Briggs company in their en larged quarters in the Ideal studio, Hudson Heights, N. J. 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LEAGUE MEETING SUCCESS President of Gooding College Is Among Lecturers. GOODINO COLLEGE, Gooding, Idaho, July 28. (Special.) According to the report or r-resident C. w. Tenney, who was one of the lecturers at the Kp worth League convention which was held at Island City, Or., July 17-20, the meeting- was an unqualified success. Devotional meetings, round-table dls MiMon snd Innpirnt ionnl ar1r1rnies vied with each other in Interest, while an old-fashioned basket dinner brought the entire community together for Sun day afternoon. For next year the meeting has been organized on the standard institute plan and the following officers will see that the programme Is a arood one: Josie Hlockman. president; Fannie Mc Kennon. first vice-president: Fay Milli ran. second vice-president; Leslie Thompson, third vice-president: Myrtle Miles, fourth vice-president: Roy Win chester, treasurer; Beulah Smith, cor responding secretary; Donald Cramer, recording secretary: Mrs. Cramer, jun ior league superintendent. consolidation in Lewiston orchards. One of the larger operating companies ' is the West Knd Orchards & Land company, which has Just taken over the holdings of the East End Orchards company, for a consideration reported to be around flOO.QOO. The purchase covers more than 600 acres, half of which is chiefly apple orchards. The West End company now con trols over TOO acres, which will b operated by a committee of holders with Fred Morris as chairman. Thi manager is James Snipes, and tha superintendent Is Otis Tetherow. A force of 70 men Is now amployed in irrigating and thinning. 500-ACRE ORCHARD SOLD $100,000 Is Paid for Large Idaho Fruit Tract. LEW1STOM. Idaho. July 28. (Spe cial.) During the past few years there has been a notlreabls tendencv toward Idaho Soldiers Are Home. LEWISTON. Idaho. July 2S. (Spe cial.) The following soldiers from this vicinity returned from war service Saturday: Kd win D. Kulton. Grange vllle: J. Clark Rush. Sena; H. B. ZirbeU Lewiston: Lawrence McCann. Lewts ton; Orln C. Evans. Clarkston: Julian R. Jones. Bolles and Thomas B. Miles. Cuidefmc. In Use For Over 30 Years wt citmow conMin, sraro crrr. You Should Never "Rile" Your 'Over Don't prod a weak liver with harsh, harmful cal omel. jMUd, easy JTi Tablets are better for biliousness. NR Tonight Tomorrow Feel Right Prodding an Inactive liver with calomel and sluggish bowels with powerful purgatives is like lashing a tired horse to exhaustion. It can ba done once too often and sooner or later. 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The changes in rates apply particularly to residence service, changes having been made in the principal business rates May 1, 1919. All new business taken on and after July 29th will be at the new rates and bills to present subscribers for the month of August will be rendered at the new rates. The increased rates will yield an annual revenue upward of $230,000.00, but as the increase in wages is upwards of $225,000.00, of which increase $152,000.00 goes to the City of Portland, the net return to the Company under the rates now made effective is approximately 2'2 per cent on the valuation of its property at $13,464,000.00, as found by the Public Service Commission. The new schedule of rates is identical with the one approved by the Postmaster-General for the State of Washington, which has been in effect since Iarch 1, 1919. The rates are the same in both states for exchanges that are comparable and the rates for Portland are the same as for Seattle. We believe that no proof as to the advanced cost of living and the general high costs prevailing for labor and materials is neces sary and that the telephone-using public will accept this increase in rates in the same spirit of fairness and consideration as it has the advances in almost every other necessity in these unusual times. The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. Imm