the McmxrxG orecoxiax, Saturday, august 2. 1919. RATE HEARIPJO IS DUE TO END TODAY Seattle Chamber and State Commission Testify. ASTORIA ALSO IS HEARD (Speed Ilccord Is Attained in Exam ination of Intervenors for ! Defendant Railroads. L. SKATTLE. Wash., Aug. 1. (Special.) Astoria, the public service commis sion of Washington and the. Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and Commercial club, intervenors in behalf of the de fendant railroads in the Portland rate rase, in which fair rates from Columbia river basin points to Portland are sought, were heard today by division So. .1 of the interstate commerce com mission. The Oregon port and the Washing ton commission completed their cases and the Seattle chamber has two more witnesses to examine. The case of the Spokane Merchants association and the .Spokane Chamber of Commerce, cen tral intervenors, consisted only of the presentation of exhibits with a plea that distribution freight rates be based on actual and equivelent mileage. The two weeks- hearing, which began in Portland on July 21 and Seattle July 29. will be completed tomorrow if the schedule is followed out. The Seattle chamber is to- have one hour more, the port of Seattle an hour and a half and Tacoma a half hour. Speed Record Are Broken. All speed records for the hearing were broken today, when 13 new wit nesses were examined in addition to J. P. Newell. The Oregon commission's consulting engineer was recalled for a few minutes and the presentation of the Spokane exhibits was also made. Astoria's case, in which G. C- Fulton was chief counsel covered Astoria's de velopment during the last few years, and particularly since the second As toria rate-case decision, when freight rates to that city were put on a parity with those to Puget sound. by inter state commerce commission orders. Five witnesses were introduced, G. B. McLeod. Portland and Astoria lumber man, connected with the Hammond Lumber company and the Columbia River Packers' association, and presi dent of the Astoria -port commission for five years; B. F. Stone, president of the port commission for three years; tleorge W. Sanborn, also a. member of the commission and salmon packer and steamship agent; Thomas Bilyeu, man ager of the Astoria Marine Iron works, and Edgar W. Smith, Pendleton farmer and Astoria flour miller. Woman Called as Witness. Hearing of the Washington commis sion's case occupied only 50 minutes, two of the three witnesses being Uni versity of Washington students and one of thehi a woman. The witnesses wore; O. O. Calderhead, traffic expert; Robert Bachelor, student of the college of business administration of the uni versity, and Miss Anna Marie Brugger hoff, a student in the same college. O. D. Fisher, vice-president and gen era.l manager of the 1-isher Flouring Mills company of Seattle, was Seattle's first witness and-the others were Co lumbia river basin farmers, including benator R. C. McCroskey of tiarneld. .1. S. Klengfield of Pullman, E. J. Doneen of Oaksdale and D. M. Cartmill of Haines, Or. . Astoria Testimony Is Given. Mr. McLeod for Astoria testified that when the first Astoria rate case de cision was made the city's attention was called to its lack of port facilities com pared with Portland and that improve ments were undertaken at once and are neing carried on yet. Astoria now. he said, is a city of. more than 25.000. The witness referred to a petition circulated by the Portland Chamber of Commerce in June, 19ir, which urged the Spokane, Portland fe Seattle to put rates into effect to Astoria, which would place them on a par with those of Puget sound. This petition, he said was signed by dozens of the most rep resentative citizens of Portland. Under cross-examination he said that the petition-did not read that the rates desired would be on a par with Port land, but that everybody knew that they would, as the rates to Portland and Seattle and Tacoma were the same. Mr. McLeod said that the rea son Puget sound was used in the peti tion in place of Portland was that J. X. Teal, chief counsel for Portland in this case, made a request to that effect Change In Rates Opposed. B. F. Stone declared that disrupting of the present parity of rates would have a disastrous effect on industry and the lower Columbia river terrl tory in general. Astoria docks he said nart Deen taxeu to tneir capacity ever since they had been put in commission. Ueorge V . Sanborn testified that after equal freight rates were estab lished that Astoria became the second city in population and bank clearings in Oreson and greatly increased its shipping business. Plans greatly to enlarge the Astoria Marine Iron works plant were outlined by Thomas Bilyeu, the manager. Only with the present equal freight rates could that work be undertaken, he de clared. Milling Situation Dlsenssed. Astoria's growth as a flour milling center was traced by Edgar W. Smith. His firm began with a 300-barrel mill in Astoria in 1914, he said, but lost money until freight rates were equal ized. A new mill was under way, he said, which would make his company's capacity Rino barrels of flour a day. Northwest flour mills, he said, could prepare 60,000' barrels dally. Speaking as a wheat farmer, he de clared that more than one market should be available wherever possible, as prices often varied as much as 2 or :t cents in different centers. Twenty five cents on a barrel or flour was a reasonable profit, he said, that could be wiped out by a freight differential. - C'ortt HumIh Testimony- t.iven. O. O. Calderhead, the Washington commission's traffic enpeN. Introduced a statement said to show the actual operating cost. over the Northern Pa cific. tire.it Northern, Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation com- Phiiy and Spokane. Portland & Seattle railways. It was introduced in answer to a (uestion by Commissioner Win throp JC Daniels to "indicate the im-! practicability of basins rates exclusive ly on the cost." Robert Bachelor introduced a map showing- the elevations of the railways crossing the mountains from the Co lumbia river basin to Puget sound Populations at the various points along these lines also were indicated. Miss Brueggerhoef presented tabular statements detailing the growth of for eign trade on Paget sound, in some instances making comparison with the customs district of Oregon. Seattle was j in second place among, the ports of nie uniiea oiaies in jiioi one exhibit showed that Portland's foreign trade made a larger proportional in crease in 1914 and 1915 than Seattle's. From that time on. she said, Seattle made the most rapid advance. Puget sound exports, according to the witness, were mainly to the orient, while with Oregon the balance was in favor of Great Britain and her colonies. She gave the customs district of Wash ington foreign trade during 1918 as $597,149,796 and that for the Oregon district a 1.875,589. O. D. FUker Explains Markets. O. I. Fisher, Seattle flour mill man. declared-- that while the Liverpool wheat base had a bearing on the price in the northwest, the prices were main ly fixed by milling competition. "I have not been able to find a single flour miller either in Portland or Se attle or a single grain buyer who would say that he was in favor of Portland receiving & lower freight rate," he de clared. On cross-examination he quali fied this reiriark by saying that a num ber of Portland men had either told him they w-ere neutral or made no ex pression on the subject. Senator McCroskey. formerly in the Washington state legislature, said that the - prevalent opinion near Garfield was that the farmers could not get as good a price, for their wheat in Port land as they could in Seattle. A slight differential would be sufficient to de termine where the grain would go, he eald. J. S.-Klemgard declared that Pull man farmers agreed with Senator Mc Croskey. "We want to ahip our wheat where we can get the most out of it," he said. "The more competition the better." Rate Kanality- Is Favored. Neither Portland, Seattle nor Ta coma have the facilities to care for all the grain in the northwest," E. J. Doneen,- Oaksdale wheat grower, said. He declared he favored the present equality of rates. D. M. Cartmill, of Haines, wheat grower and stockman, was the last wit ness of the day. He said that there was lower rate from his section to Port land than to the sound and that it had placed him at a disadvantage on sev eral occasions. He said he would like to reach Seattle on- the same basis as Portland. "We frequently have shipped out cattle to Seattle with the rate higher than to Portland and have made money, he said. Efforts of counsel and witnesses were confined all day to expediting the hear ing, with Saturday afternoon as the positive time limitation. Cross-examinations were very brief in nearly all cases. FAMILY HOW IS SETTLED XICHOISOX HEIRS DIVIDE TATE SATISFACTORILY. ES- Mrs. Grace Holtnan Will Get Half of $27,000, Certain. Property and $2 0 00 Option on Sortie More. A strictly family affair in which two brothers and two Bisters- were arrayed against another sister in a fight over the division of the estate of the late W. T. B. .Nicholson, Portland pioneer, who died in 1918, was settled yesterday in the court of Circuit Judge Tazwell after two days of court proceedings and one general melee. Terms of the settlement were not worked out as to detail, but In general allow Mrs. Grace Nicholson Holman one-half of 827,000 remaining from the sale of real estate in 1914, in which her share of the property of her father was inadvertently included, certain pieces of property and an option on other property, which she is asked to purchase for 82000. The case concerns Mrs. Holman, Mrs. Maggie Root, Mrs. Minnie Hill, Rodney Nicholson and Earl Nicholson. Suit was brought to compel Mrs. Holman to accept a partition of property in lieu of $27,000 she claimed of the estate, after she had tnce asked for a prop erty settlement and had been refused any. The litigation appeared lit court last week and opened with a fist fight in the corridors of the courthouse in which all parties concerned mixed with Attorneys Dan J. Malarkey and E. B. Seabrook, but in which there were no casualties. The attorneys in the affair represented Mrs. Holman, against whom the brothers and sisters were arrayed. The case was postponed for a week and came up last Wednesday. All day yesterday was spent in an attempt to settle affairs after Judge Tazwell had announced that the case should hever have appeared in court and that it appeared to him the main stumbling blocks against an amicable settlement had been Mrs. Root and Earl Nicholson. The attorneys and clients threshed the matter out to an agreement in the judge's chambers. Os car Nelson and S. J. Bischoff represent ed the majority in the family. Get Your 20 Extra Stamps With Coupon Today BRING THIS COUPON AID GET 20-EXTRA-20 -S. & H." Trading Stamps on your first 81 cash pur chase and double on th balance- Good on first floor and In basement today, Saturday. August 2. Have all the pleasure of a cold water plunge right in your own home. A KENNEY NEEDLE SHOWER BATH Each morning will make you fit for every task of the day. . Attaches to any bath tub. No curtains, easy to install, guaranteed. 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Bids for individual tracts were larger, but Mr. Cole was the only bid der for the whole stand. The money will be used for final pay ment on tracts in the cantonment bought by the county from private owners and donated to the govern ment. The agreement was made with Secretary of War Baker. & invalids Ns CookJn A Nutritious Diet for All Agfts Quick Lunch at Home or Office .Avoid" Imitations and Substitutes MERCHANT MARINE TOPIC Senator Jones Outlines Bill for Per manent Carriers. BELLING HAM. Wash., Aug. 1. With the declaration that he hoped to be able to help "plant the American flag forever on the high seas," Senator Wesley L. Jones outlined his bill for a permanent merchant marine In an address before the chamber of com merce. The senator will return to Washing ton, D. C, next week. Charles H. Cheney, Consultant Planning: Commission at $500 a Month, Is Criticised. The feeling that the city of Portland is paying far. too much money for ex pert advice furnished by Charles H. Cheney, consultant to the city planning commission, is growing at the city hall. i:pon Consultant Cheney is placed re sponsibility for several decisions of the commission which have met with re versal when placed before the city council. Yesterday the city council as sured Roger B. Sinnott. attorney for the United States bakery, that the ap plication filed by the bakery company for the right to enlarge Its plant and utilize a half block adolning its plant on Last Eleventh and Everett streets would be granted. The planning commission has filed a report recommending that the applica tion be not granted, drawing a line of demarkation in the center of the block, midway between East Twelfth and East Eleventh streets. The planning com mission designated East Twelfth street as a future high-clas apartment-house district and opposed the erection of any industries or factories on the street. During his argument before the coun cil Attorney Sinnott took occasion to direct criticism at Consultant Cheney. Consultant Cheney draws a salary of jr00 per month for working two weeks of each montn tor ineriiT. SPOKANE FIGHTS RADICALS 3 0 Men Indicted for Displaying For bidden I. W. W. Buttons. SPOKAXE. Wash., Aug. 1. (Spe cial.) Information charging 30 mem bers of the I. W. W, with wearing but tons in violatibn of the state laws were filed in superior court by Deputy Prose cutor Klnsel yesterday. The men are charged in four indict ments, divided according to the dates of their arrest by the city police. Their trials will be the first test of the new statute, which makes the display of badges, flags or other insignia of or ganizations opposed to the government a felony. floWteins Bring High Prices. TAKDiA. Wash., Aug. 1. (Special.) Sixty head of registered Hoisteins belonging to Pomeroy & Son were sold in Portland this week. The a vera price, including ten head of calves un der eight Weeks old, was $430 a head. The top price for a cow was 11000. The animal was sold to Dr. rhye of Hot Lake, Or., who purchased several oth ers, paying not less than 1600 a head for them. The Hollywood bred herd bull sold for $3000 to Mr. Hilliard, who lives in Oregon. George A. Gue made the sales. 7-FOOT FALL KILLS GIRL Miss Grace Southard, IT, Victim of Accident to Brother's Car. , KELSO. Wash., Aug. 1. (Special.) Miss Grace Southard, a 17 -year-old Kalama girl, was instantly killed Wednesday night when she was thrown out of an auto driven by her brother. Earl Southard, afi It plunged down a seven-foot embankment on the Pacific highway three miles south of Kalama after colliding with the auto of Will iam Beck of Keleo. Southard was going In the same di rection as Beck's car and failed to take enough room in passing the other car. say witnesses. His right wheel barely touched the running board of Beck's car, but the Impact was enough to veer the auto off the road and down the embankment. MAYOR REBUKES EHWIN TRAFFIC SERGEANT RAPPED FOR CRITICISM OF COURT. FIVE SOLONS INELIGIBLE Attorney-General Holds cx-Legislators Cannot Be Paid. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 1.- Five members -of the last legislature who were named to positions on the state personal property taxation commission are Ineligible to serve, according to an opinion announced here today by L. L. Thompson, attorney-general. In accordance with the ruling of the state supreme court in m similar case involving members of the industrial code commission. Attorney - General Thompson said he had Instructed the state auditor not to issue warrants to the members of the personal property taxation commission. EXPORT CONDITIONS PLEASE Foreign Frnit Buyer Says British Wage Earners Are Prosperous. 'HOOD RIVER. Or., Aug. 1. (Spe cial.) G. -Herbert Taylor, accompanied by Mrs. Taylor, arrived yesterday to visit fruit nales officials. Mr. Taylor, representative of J. & H. Goodwin. Lon don fruit buyers, Is optimistic over ex port conditions. "The outlook is better than we ever dreamed it would be," eays Mr. Taylor. 'The wage earners of the British Ifilea are more prosperous than ever before and they are spending their money Sclah I)of Wins Scholarship., SKLAH, Wash.. Aug. 1. .(Special.) Frencia Perry, son of Mr. and Mr. M. O. Ferry, has won the scholarship for 191K-J1. f-.r the Ftae of Washington, at the National City bank of New York. The first year Is spent at the financial institution and the following two years abrond, at the same time drawing a salary aside from the scholarship op portunities. Aft-r that he Is given a permanent- assignment. Francis is an honor graduate of Yakima high school and attended the University of Wash ington last year. Executive Tells Policeman That He Con Id Get Better Results in An other Way Without Friction. Criticism of Municipal Judge Ross man's manner in handling traffic vio lators who are brought into his court. made In a newspaper interview by Po lice Sergeant Erwin, who commands the traffio squad, brought a sharp rebuke from Mayor Baker, who yesterday ad dressed a letter to Sergeant Krwln. Mayor Baker in his letter condemns the course which Sergeant Erwin pur sued in an effort to rectify what he deemed Improper. Placing of the name facts before Judge Ftosaman. the mayor contends, would be far more fruitful. "You should bear in mind that your work In connection with the police bu reau in to apprehend violators and present the cases to the municipal court," the mayor's letter says. "The municipal judge is charged with the duty and the responsibility of passing judgment on the cases as presented. It would be not only unfair, but abso lutely wrong, for you to be both ac cuser and judge, and that is why we have a judge. I am sorry that you took the course you did as the proper and fair way to handle such questions Is to first put your complaint before the judge. To do otherwise causes friction and feeling In the department which in turn works to the detriment of the service and defeats the very purpose you apparently seek that Is. more se vere fines and punishment for traffic violators." Hood Filers Back In State. HOOD RIVER, Or., Aug. 1. (Special.) and Mrs. J. M. Ledford Of the Belmont district have received a mes sage from their son. Sergeant Bert C Ledford, who has been in France for the past two years with an aero squad ron, announcing his arrival In New York City.. John Iedford. another son of the Belmont couple, recently arrived home from France, where he had served with a naval aviation squadron. Startingv Today That Real Comedian In a. Hilarious Mingling of High-Speed Dramatic Ac tion and I'nforced Laugh ing Climaxes. 1 -w-jr- m i . i i x Ira . 5 JjT k" 11 kinogram and Pictograph II II Townsend's bill for a national high ways commission similar to the Inter state commerce commission's operations over railroads. Centralians Attend Renplon. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Aug. 1. (Ppe- call) Eighteen Centralians are attend- ng the annual district reunion of the Reorganized Church of 1-atter Day Saints, which opened In Bellingham to day. They are: Mr. and Mrs. P. w. Premo, Mr. and Mrs. u. . lieanning. Mr. and Mrs. T N. Armstrong. Mrs. lira Kwanson, Mrs. Swen Swenson. Mrs. ti. R. Kerstetter. Mrs. Is. J. liook. Mrs. Ktrie O'Brist. Mrp. Etta Scott. Mrs. Cora Lavettfi. Miss Jessie J. Ward. Mis Melva Ward. Miss Gertrude Crown. Ed ward Crown and Granville Swenson. 6. A H. green stamps rof cash. Holman Fuel Co., Main 361. A. 3(63. Blockwood. short slabwood. Rock Springs and Utah coal; sawdust. Adv. WASHINGTON BAR ELECTS Spokane Attorney Is Choice for As sociation President. SPOKANE, Wash.. Aug. 1. Frank T. Post of this city was elected president or the Washington state Bar associa tion at the annual meeting of the or ganisation here, and Clark Prescott Bissett of Seattle was elected secretary-treasurer. Arthur W. Davis. Spo kane; B. D. Ornssoup, Tacoma, and J. J. Sullivan, Seattle, were elected dele. gates to the annual meeting of the American Bar association. Visiting attorneys tonight were en tertained at a dinner at the Spokane club, and tomorrow they will be the guests of local attorneys on an outing at Hayden Lake, Idaho. Formal sea sions of the convention closed today. Yakima Motorists Oppose Tax. YAKIMA. Wash.. Aug. l.f Special.) Thirteen automobile firms In Yakima ha.e Joined in the effort to establish a branch of the National Automobile Dealers' association, whos.i headquar ters are In St. Louis. 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