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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1919)
TIIE 3IORXING OREGOMAX, WEDXESDAT, AUGUST 6, 1919. U. S.AIRPLANES FEED . DOHFIHES IN FRANCE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING $1,000,000 WORTH OF AIRPLANES Wtr 3 WERE BURNED IN FRANCE, INVESTIGATION OF WHICH IS UNDER WAY IN CONGRESS. Photographs Show Sections of Machines on Pyre. Simultaneous Withdrawal of Wherever There Is B Envoys Not Disconnected. PARTS SAID TO BE GOOD STEAMER'S SALE IS ISSUE Music the Best Music There you will find the Pathephone that marvelously wrought phonograph with the Sapphire Ball the round jewel which brings out every tone rich, full and as smooth as its own highly polished surface. Among Only Battle Planes America Had Overseas, Says "Witness, lectures Cost $500, Purchase of Liner From Germans After Internment Xot Recognized by Allies or Vnited States. ARBEnmnu is near BREAK WITH BRlTAlNj & in WASHINGTON'. Aug. 5. Six photo graphs of airplanes piled up at Coiom-bay-les-Bnlles, France, awaiting to be burned, wore submitted to a house war lnveFT israt ins- committee today by Gut zon Borslum, a. sculptor of Stamford, 'onn.. who said he paid $500 for them and that microscopic examination con vinced him that good parts had been dryrroyed- "Thcy were among the only battle planes the LTnited States had," de clared Borglum, whose investigation of aircraft production during the war for President Wilson resulted in some thing'of a sensation. Three other witnesses, Paul L. Lock wood of Stamford, a former lieutenant in the army; John McKague of Brooklyn, and Alfred T. Korar of Scranton, Pa., identified the photo graphs and testified they believed good planes were burned in r ranee. PRICES CUT ROAD BUILDING ffon tinu-d From First Pace.) cloth, the commission "ecided that the present rbad south of Corvallis wiU do very well for the present without be ing paved, anti therefore did not open the bids to hard surface that stretch for eight miles. Knndff Become Inadequate. So rapidly are costs rising, due to the increased wages, in turn attributed to he hijeh cost of living, that original estimates are bf ing overshadowed, Philip .Dater, representing the govern ment, appeared before the commission and requested that the body go over all of the projects heretofore agreed on. Costs have advanced so materially that he funds at firs available for the co-operative porgramme cannot cover the ground. Mr. Dater will take up to'iay with the commission the various propects. He intimated yesterday that curtailmen of some will be necessary anrl the abandonment of others. More money is needed on the Flora- Enterprise project; the Ochnco canyon project and the Hayes Hm section of the Grants Pass-Crescent City project. The commissioners favored supplying furrher funds for the first two projects, as thev have been started and are well under wav: but Chairman Benson, when Informed that the cost on the Hayes Hill section will be $73,000 when the estimate was $63,000, was inclined to let this improvement wait until next Borinfr. This is a two-mile job, only half a mile of which is in the forest reserve, althouarh the forest service has agreed to pay half the expense on the two miles, an unusual concession. Kncine the bith-cost problem which Imnerils the Crooked river road and ihe road from Prineville to Redmond County Judge N. G. Wallace submitted a proposition to the highway commis tiion. This is a 46-mile . project, at an estimated cost now of $500,000. The Dlan calls for an 18-foot road through solid rock; 21 -foot road at other places and bridges 20 feet wide. By reducing the width to 12 feet through the rock to 16 feet at other places, and narrow ing the bridpp to 18 feet, Judpre Wal- lare said. S 7 5.000 coulu be saved, on the Redmond end of the road, 14 miles, there is a provision for gravel, which will cost $125,000. The judge suggested using gravel on only the five wors miles, which would enable an economy of SI 00.00 0. so that a total saving of $175,000 is possible, reducing the cost of the project to $325,000. Crook county now has $95,000 available for this work, and the judge pledged his county for one-third of the cost, l these economeis were practiced. The proposition is under consideration. In a similar strain was a proposi tion advanced by Judge Campbell of Morrow county. The county voted $390,000 road bond issue, with $125,000 of the sum for the road between Ar lington and Heppner. It looks now as thouch the road will cost $30,000 in ex cess of the estimate. Th-? suggestion was made that the road be narrowed from 24 feet, the state standard, to 18 feet. Commissioner ThompMon Objects. 'If you build an lS-fnot road, I'll never want to go back to Morrow county," declared Commissione Thompson, "for they'll hang me. You must either put in more money or cu down the length of the road." Representative Woodson. speak in for Judge Campbell, replied that th county cannot raise more than abou $7000 additional. Mr. Thompson advised having the banks carry county war rants for two or three years until they can be taken up out of the gen eral fund. The road is o5 miWs from Heppner to the Gilliam county line. No action was taken by the commis sion. Messrs. Woodward, Hartwig and Flynn, the state board of conciliation, appeared and requested the commis sion to urge four road contracting com panies to submit to arbitration the dis pute between the roller men and the contractors. The commission promised to make a decision, probably today. Mr. Hartwig explained that the rollermen want $7 a day straight time, or $S a day broken time; that the contractors offer $175 a month, straight time, but thrt if time is lost the men will be pen alibed double time. In other words. II rffil i"'di?rooc a I -,C ".'.J r"d6 t.i -"jr '"V- I yK JZ Kv Upper Pile of airplanes at Colombey- leu-Belle, Frnncf, j jt before torch wait applied. Lower Airplane at Colomley-leM-llelli harninc Officer re port airplanes in perfeet condition were amasbed and piled up to be burned. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of DANCING Guaranteed the men contend that if they lose two hours, they are set back four hours and must make up that lost time before they can catch up to the point of put ting in overtime. Arbitration Held Vital. Mr. Hartwig declared that if the conservative element is to continue in control of the labor movement, it will only be possible by far-visioned busi ness men co-operating and recogniz ing the principle of arbitration. Hr. Woodward spoke in a similar strain, while Mr. Flynn was kindly disposed toward the employers, he said, but felt that they were a bit stubborn on the matter of arbitration. Speaking for the four contracting companies,' A. J. Hill said tne con tractors guarantee $175 a month to the rollermen and every contractor has list of applicants. If they work only ten days or five days, under the guarantee, they get their $175 a month. On the othe hand, continued Mr. Hill, if there are days when the rollermen cannot work, owing to weather or other conditions, when they do return to the job and have to work an hour or two over the eight hours he con tended that they should not be paid overtime, because the contractors are paying them for the days they were idle. If the rollermen put Sn the full period of working days in the month and also work overtime, then he said they will be paid for the overtime. Trained TCnKlneera Get I.rMM. "We guarantee these rollermen $175 month," concluded the speaker, "and have all the applicants we can use. Compare them with your engineers, who put in half their life in college, then work from ten to 15 hours a day and get paid $150 a month. The state highway commission should be con cerned only in seeing that the road work is done according to specifica tions and at the price fixed." .'o bids were received yesterday for rocking the Forest Grove-Gaston road. and Representative Graham of Wash ington county wants the slate to sup ply equipment so the county can do it by force account. A decision on this was promised today. Representative W. B. Dennis of Yamhill county urged that the present road from Yamhill toward McMinnville be selected instead of a new road. Most of the local traffic would be served by the present road, which i3 good and ready for paving now. The proposed new road would cost the county about $15,000 more than the present road and the cost to the stat for old or new road would be about equal. Legislative Purpose Asked. This caused Commissioner Thompson to ask Mr. Dennis what the legislature had in mind relative to roads; whether the legislature wanted roads built through the state to adjoining states or favored local conditions. Mr. Dennis, who was chairman of the road com mittee in the house of representatives, said he had positive views on the sub ject, that the legislature had in mind tying together centers of population and that through tourist travel was a secondary consideration. Representa tive Graham- added that tl intention of the legislature was that the money be used for improvement of roads of most commercial value to the state. Judge Miller of Deschutes county ap peared and disappeared quickly. The commission had ordetred that when the survev crew finished between Bend and the Jefferson county line it should then work through Jefferson county on The Dalles-California highway. Jeffer son county having its 1U0,(JU0 ready. Some one in Deschutes county switched the surveyors over on the Sisters sec tion, presumably on the belief tnat it this section were surveyed the com mission would forgive the trick and proceed to improve the histers section. Commissioner Thompson, who looks after that territory, displayed his dis pleasure at the scheme and announced that while the surveyors may as well finish on the Sisters section, nothing will be done there by the commission, for the surveyors will next be sent to Jefferson county and Jefferson county work will be proceeded with. The only result of the trick has been tne delay ing of the improvement of The Dalies- California highway in Jefferson. , The commission sold Jl.uoo.uuo ot per cent bonds of the $10,000,000 issue veeterday to a group ot dealers com posed of Carstens S: Kane. Beanie; v . rt. Common. Bankers Trust company of New York, and the Northern Trust company of Chicago. The sale price was $:!1.500 for the issue. This is good price, but the commissioners are of th opinion an even better price wculd have been received but for the stork market disturbances caused oy the threatened strike on the railroads of the country. This morning contracts for road work '.ill be awarded. PARIS FOOD PRICES COT PLAX BISCOVEUED TO FORCE DEALERS TO LOWER RATES. Committees Visit Stores Every Day and Ask Proprietors What Supplies Cost. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub li&bed by arrangement.) PARIS, Aug. 5. (Special Cable.) Such striking success in reducing the cost of food has attended the efforts of the Montmar(tre consumers league that similar bodies are being formed in other parts of Paris. The leagues are to watch prices and without violence seek to have overcharging stopped. Special committees will make the rounds among dealers and providers every day. On the first round of the Mont mart re committee nearly every dealer visited lowered prices. Some did not even wait for the committee, but put down rates as soon as they heard it was coming. A few tried to make the excuse that they had to buy foodstuffs at higher prices than their competitors. They were told to be more careful in their purchases. So far the only complaints have come from restaurant proprietors, who say their patrons object to eating Ameri can buffalo meat supplied to them in stead of frozen beef, and at the same price as fresh meat. BUENOS AIRES. Monday, Aug. 4. Diplomatic relaticns between Great Britain and Argentina as a result of the purchase by Argentina of the Ger man steamship Bahia Blanca are deli cate, according to La Nacion. In to morrow's edition the newspaper will say: Regarding rumors which from the beginning have been founded on more than supposition, we have received versions, the gravity of which are self evident and according to which the re turn to London of Sir Reginald Tower, British minister to Argentina, and the departure of Francisco Alvarez de To ledo, Argentine minister to England, from London are not disconnected. On the contrary, it appears the retirement of both ministers is treaceable to the purchase by Argentina of the steamer Bahia Blanca from the Germans, which purchase the British government re fused to recognize." Another newspaper. Las Noticias, says: The occasion for the present situa tion is the refusal of the British gov ernment to recognize the purchase of Bahia Blanca, but the real cause un derlying the crisis Is the Argentine government's hostile attitude toward British capital invested in Argentina." Sir Reginald Tower, British minister to Argentina, denies rumors relative to his return to London, which is said to Indicate imminence of a rupture of re lations between Great Britain and this country. He declares he is going to Lrondon merely for a rest. When the great war broke out the Bahia Blanca, a ship owned by the Hamburg American Steamship com pany, was interned in the harbor of Buenos Aires to prevent her capture by allied warships. In June, 1918, it was announced at Buenos Aires that the ship had been leased by Argentina. Later it was learned the ship had been bought by the Argentine government. The ship, however, never went to sea, because the allies and the United States refysed to recognize the transfer of her flag. PIE GOES UP IN CHICAGO Cost or Labor and Materials Neces sitates Lift, Say Bakers. CHICAGO, Aug. 5. Chicago manu facturers of pies increased the price of their product to retailers today 3 to 5 cents. The price of what is known in the trade as special pies was raised from 30 to 33 cents, while the price of extra special pies, which are made from fresh f ru its, was increased from 35 to 40 cents each. Pie bakers declare that the high cost of labor, fruits and other materials made it necessary to increase the price. Many restaurant keepers increased the price of pie to their patrons, while others served smaller portions. MARKET GOES TO PIECES POSSIBILITY OF GOVERNMENT ACTION AFFECTS STREET. GAS VICTIMS NUMBER 756 Average Ape of Men So Killed in War Reported 2 3 Years. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. Seven hun dred and fifty-six of the American sol diers killed in action were victims of gas, according to an announcement to day by the war department. The average age of all the men killed was 23 years. The total missing in action on July 31 was 241. Corn Drops to 32 Cents Lower Than at Beginning of Attack on High Prices One Week Ago. CHICAGO, Aug. 5. Efforts to an ticipate the results of any quick switch in the United States government's pol icy as to the disposal of the 1919 do mestic crop of wheat knocked the bot tom out of values today on the board of trade. Downward plunges in the price of the chief trading commodity corn did not stop until the market was 32 cents a bushel lower than when the campaign against the high cost of living began a week ago. It was not until there remained open only a single hour of business activity before the time set for a conference be tween President Wilson and Kederal Wheat Director Julius Barnes that the grain and provision trade appeared to give serious credence to reports that have been circulating for days that the government would make a radical cut in the price of wheat to consumers. The most definite of these reports was that millers would get . wheat from the government 50 cents a bushel cheaper than the government had guar anteed growers. This, it was said, would make flour less expensive than at present by J2 a barreL RADIO STATION IN FAVOR Navy Department Wants Structure at Mouth of Columbia. OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Aug. 5. The navy department is very favorable to the construction of a high-power radio station at the mouth of the Columbia river on the Oregon side. Admiral Bullard told Senator McNary today. He paid the in ight lessons ladies $2.t0. centlemen Zo.OC at DeHoney's Beautiful Academy 23d and Wash ington, e w summer classes start Monday, luesday and lhursday evenings, 8 to 11:30. Plenty of desirable part nerp and practice. No embarrassment. Private ledsons all hours. Learn frm professional dancers. Phone Main . tt. Adv. DWt.Woi HURAY A TEA U, PRINCE SAILS FOR CANADA Royal Briton Leaves London in Uni form of Naval Captain. LONDON. April 5. In the uniform of a naval captain, the prince of Wales left London this morning for Portsmouth to board the cruiser Renown, which will sail for Canada tonight. Kins George. Queen Mary and other members of the royal family accom panted the prince on his special train. S &- ll Kreen stamcs for cash Holman Fuel Co.. Mara S5Z. A. JJ Blockwood. short slabwood. -Roclc Spring! and Utah coal; sawdust. Adv. l"HgjBMM'i-'r.gi-j.' 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He said, however, that so many other matters of importance are under con sideration at this time that any pro posed radio extensions will have to wait. ipr- A Score of Models Are yours to select from. Here are two. The first illustration shows Model 7, which retails at $100. The lower illustration glimpses one of the splendid art models which sell for $225. Others range from $32 in price. Call on your nearest Tathe dealer. Let him play Pathe Records on the Pathephone and we know you will en Joy every moment. P a t he records retail at S3 crnt and are guaranteed to play 1000 times if played on the Pathephone. , M. lit fMt' BB "MW Pathe Dealers are everywhere i J i r SELLER & CO.-d istjtdutors 62 Fifth St., Portland, Or. I 1 SOK KIlliLliKlT DKILKH. TEKR1TOR1 OPBS lealers If there Is nut m Pathe dealer la ynnr town, write us or call on or Immediately for our proposition. 1 I Spruce Committee to Start West. OREGONIANNEWS BUREAU, Wash- ngrton, Aug. 6. Final plans were made today for the subcommittee of the house investigating- spruce production to leave here Monday for the Pacific coast. The committee will spend about 10 days at Seattle and then go to Port land, where It is expected a longer time will be required to complete the inquiry. BIG BULB SALE EFFECTED Deal Will Clear Debts of Nursery in Receiver's Hands. EUREKA, Cal., Aug:. B- Th sale of 1.500.000 bulbs at a gross estimate of $44,000 has been reported by the re ceiver of the Charles Willis Ward nursery properties at McKinleyville and Kden, near here. The sa.le indicates that the properties will pay their in debtedness within a year, the receiver said. ' ' Sale of the bulbs has been aided through the discontinuance of bulb shipments from Holland, the receiver said. A suit brought by Ward, who is 62 years of age, against Mrs. Alice Wilson of San Francisco for an alleged illegal operation on her daughter. Miss Alice Wilson. 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