THE 3IORMXG OREGOMAX, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1919. RATE CASE ECHOES HEARD AT MEETING Speakers Insist Portland Take Its Share of Traffic. SHIPPING LINES WANTED . Enough Tonnage Believed in Sight to Warrant More Vessels From C 5s. Board. make it J10 each for gambling and another $10 for letting' a policeman look on at the game." I The four Chinese were Ah Gee, Ah j Goon, Ah Bo and Ah Gin. When a fellow Is piloting a big plane through the sky he doesn't stop to figure just how fas he is going, especially if the plane is capable of making 100 miles an hour. R. C. Barnes, a commercial aviator, made this explanation in police court when ar rested for speeding in his automobile. He was timed at 32 miles i.n hour along Uniqn avenue. "1 hac been making flights over Mount Angel all day and had done some fairly fast flying," he told the court. "I didn't realize that ray ma chine was exceeding the limit. It felt like a snail's pace to me." His novel excuse got by and he es caped without a fine. Olaf Berg, wayfarer, doesn't know whether it pays to plead guilty or not guilty. He has reached the conclusion that a fellow is guilty until he proves himself innocent. He was in court yesterday charged with being drunk. "Not guilty." he shouted. "All right," responded the court, "your fine will be ?10." Olaf is wondering if would have es caped punishment had he pleaded guilty. "It costs money to start a fight In this man's town, advised Judge Deich fine of $ as he assessed against Reflections of the Portland rate case were heard from speakers Wednesday night at the monthly meeting of the Portland Traffic and Transportation association, held at the dining room of the Chamber of Commerce. Determina ting f w.. c?; at. c man anH chinnprs to write the name of the port large on the mm ooiyai ana ra.mr, "t-"-ehippine industrv ana commerce of the were mauling each other on Pettygrove street Tuesday nirrnt. "The next time you two fellows want to mix it. just set outside the city- limits." advised the court, as the two battlers paid their fines and went their way. John Ruska wanted to top off a spree" with a joy ride in a taxi. He was in a north-end resort wnen tais desire struck him. He called the taxi. but when it arrived he had changed his mind. He- refused to pay the driver. He was in court yesterday on a dual charge of drunkenness and failing to pay a taxi driver. He was fined $10 for being drunk, while. the other cnarge was continued. Three more druar addicts were started on their 90-day treatment in the city jail yesterday when Judge Deich gave them these sentences :n an eiiori to cure them of the habit. They are: Charles Buck. Charley Newby and R. K. Spencer. Newby faces an additional charge of burglary. PEACE MOVE IS DESCRIBED BRITISH WHITE PAPER TELLS OF POPE'S ATTEMPT. Balfour's Reply In August, 117, Put Responsibility for War Cp to Germany. shipping industry Pacific was voiced, and assurance given j of decision to stand together to this j end. W. D. B. Dodson, executive sec- j retary of the Chamber of Commerce, told the assembled shippers of the negotiations carried forward in con nection with the efforts to secure var ious steamship lines in off-shore busi ness, and of the assignments made by the United States shipping board to Pacific ports. For Asiatic business only four sh ips have been given to Portland up to this time, 15 to Seattle and 17 to San Francisco. But there is an offering of tonnage that is most gratifying to the company operating the new line, and every reason to be lieve that enough tonnage is now as sured to warrant the operation of double the number in sight. Portland Handii-ap Outlined. Briefly; he outlined some of the con ditions encountered " in negotiations with a foreign line and glimpsed the difficulties raised by the manager, as denoting the handicap which Portland must consider in regaining ocean traf fic. The importance of a vigorous fight to serure recognition in the al location of government ships was shown, and the necessity ' for putting money into ships in order to occupy an independent position when govern ment operation passes. "We are going to ask the railroads to give Portland the same support in routing traffic that they have given to other ports," said Mr. Dodson. J. O. Bailey, assistant attorney-general, who handled the case of the Oregon public service commission be fore the hearing of the interstate com merce commission, expressed confi dence that Portland will obtain a lower rate on freight traffic from the Co lumbia river basin territory, and that the cost of service will become a fac tor for consideration in the matter of rates. George Lawrence. Jr., president of the club, presided at the meeting, and John H. I.o throp, secretary, spoke briefly in regard to the rate hearing. He called attention to the fact that it was not merely the railroads serving the northwest territory but the railroad administration that was opposed to Portland in the fight. Only One DrriMion I'oMMilile. Frank Irvifie declared his belief that there can be but one decision, when it is considered that in some cases the cost of hauling freight to Seattle is 75 per cent greater than from the same point to Portland. The ini porta nee of . ocean transportation f acil ities in building great cities was pointed out. J. N. Teal discussed the situation presented in the threatened disturbance of the wool market built up here, by danger of having the transcontinental tariff raised because the railroads con tend that the rate in effect was based on water competition that does not now exist. "All through the war the condition of rates remained," said Mr. Teal, "and now when we are through with the war and the country is try ing to restore normal conditions, an other arm of the government is reach ing out to do somet h ing s.1 hat has been protested by pract ical ly every wool producer in the western states. FIRE FIGHTERS ARE COMING INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION TO BE HELD SEPTEMBER 4. Great Dance at Auditorium Will Be Arranged to Raise Fund Tor Entertainment of Visitors, wool warehouses are here, wool men are going before the committee to tes tify to the benefits to them of having a market maintained here, and manu facturers are opera t ing successf u lly because the warehousiug of wool here affords them the opportunity to select the wool they need. But if the orders go into effect to put in the higher rates Portland will cease to be a wool market." Firemen from 225 local organizations in the United States and Canada will meet in Portland in September for the annual session of the International Association of Fire Fighters. Nearly'' 1000 delegates are expected here for the occasion, each local being expected to send from one to five delegates, and the event will be the first inter national convention of any labor or ganization ever held in Portland. On September 4 the executive board will meet and on September 8 the con vention will open, the session lasting a week. Plans for entertaining the delegates and handling the convention are already being worked out. by a committee from the Portland organi zation. Local No. 43. Captain L. X. Riley of engine house No- 5. ninth vice president of the international order, is chairman of the convention com mittee. The sessions will be held in the municipal auditorium, it is planned, and on August 3u a dance and entertain ment will be staged at the auditorium by the Portland firemen, the money being raised through this event being used to defray in part the expenses of the convention. Special trains are expected from Cleveland, Kansas City and St. Louis, the eastern delegates planning to meet at those points. Cleveland, it is un derstood, is coming with a large dele gation with the intention of capturing The the 1920 meeting. LONDON". Aug. 14. (By the Asso ciated Press.) A "white paper" is sued by the government last night deals with the papal peace proposal to the belligerents in August, 1917. The pope in his note said that, before everything. the fundamental point must be that the moral force of right should be substituted for the material force of arms and pointed out that this would entail a gentral agree ment for the simultaneous and re ciprocal reduction 1 of afViaments and the institution of the principle of ar bitration. The pontiff stipulated for complete evacuation of Belgium and French territory with the complete military and economic independence of Belgium, restitution of the German colonies and complete freedom of the seas. Foreign Minister Balfour, the "white paper" says, in acknowledging the pope's note indicated that until the central empires and their allies stated officially how far they were willing to go in the matter of reparation and restoration and announced their war aims and offered effective guarantees against a repetition of the horrors of war the British government considered it most unlikely any progress toward peace could be made. The French gov ernment intimates its views corres ponded with those expressed by Mr. Balfour. Dr. George Michaelis, then German chancellor, replying for Germany agreed to the idea of enforced arbi tration, the limitation of armaments and freedom of the seae, but said nothing on the subject of evacuation of Belgium and France or Belgian inde pendence. He merely expressed readi ness for peace on "conditions compat ible with justice and corresponding to the European situation." MAN V QUESTIONS UNSETTLED New British Ambassador Will Be Busy Along Varied Lines. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. Questions arising out of the peace settlement which .Bonar Law announced in the house of commons "Wednesday would requtre the attention of Viscount Grey, the new British ambassador to the United States,1 are understood here to include a readjustment of the com plicated financial relations between Great Britain and the United States growing out of loans and credits ad vanced by America. There also must be an almost im mediate recasting of many existing treaties between the countries, necessi tated by the radical changes follow ing the war. In the early days of the war there were many issues between the state department and the British foreign of fice growing out of interference with American commerce by British war ships and British orders in council, and the many claims for damages by American shipowners and merchants pending when the United States en tered the war still technically are open. Viscount Grey was the British secre tary for foreign affairs when these issues arose and conducted the nego tiations for his government. For a number of years the British government has refrained from enforc ing demands upon Mexico for repara tion for the killing of British subjects and for heavy monetary losses inflicted upon British individuals, preferring to leave to the United States the adoption of measures to meet these conditions. It is believed now that one of the first duties of Viscount Grey will be to at tempt a permanent settlement of the British issues with the Mexican gov ernment after reach ing a satisfactory understanding with the American state department. sea, to take soundings and discover new lafld. Eighty dogs and eight sledges were taken aboard the floe along with supplies in May, 1918. After four months Storkerson was taken 111 and on October 9. 1918, the little party, then in latitude 74, longitude 147 west, left the floe, tarted its return to the American continent and arrived at Cape Halkett November 7. From Cape Ha( kett they proceeded to Border island, where they fell in with Captain Ander son, from whom they got supplies for the winter of 1918. Storkerson is inclined to believe, ow ing to certain phenomena observed, that land exists north of the point reached by his party on the ice floe. The floe upon which the party em barked was seven miles wide and 15 miles in length. Seals, polar bears, ducks, gulls and land birds abounded on it, while shrimps and shell fish ap peared to be the chief food of the seals, according to Mr. Storkerson. Keenan land, which was supposed to have been found by Captain Keenan, was found to be non-existent. Instead of land was water from 500 meters to 4500 meters deep. 66 Arrow" Shirt Sale! ASTORIA FOLK PAY VISIT WHEELER IS HOST TO PARTY FROM CLATSOP CITY. CEMENT TRUST' FOUGHT SLIT IS KI LE l TO I) IS SOLVE ALLEGED COMBINE. Attorney-General Cliarges N i net ecu Companies With KcM riding Output. Fix Irke. WASH INGTON, Aug. 14. A suit in equity to dissolve tht- ' cement combina tion" was announced Wednesday by Attorney-General Palmer. The action is to be brought in the district of New Jersey against 19 individual companies,. Atlas Portland Cement company. All en to wn; Portland Cement company. Alpha Portland Cement company, Bath Port land Cement company, Copley Ce ment Manufacturing company, lexter Portland Cement company, Kilison Port land Cement company. Giant Port land Cement company, Glenns Falls Port land Cement company. Hercules Cement corporation, Knickerbocker Portland Cement company, Lawrence Cement company. Lehigh Portland Cement company, Nazareth Portland Cement company, Ptnn-Allen Cement company. Pennsylvania Cement company. Phoenix Portland Cement company. Security Ce ment & Lime company and Vulcanite Portland Cement company. In praying that the defendants be perpetually enjoined "from further en gaging in combination and conspiracy," the government charged that by means of an unincorporated association, sup ported by all on the pro rata basis of business transacted, they undertook to restrict production, to decrease the ag gregate amount of cement under con tract for future delivery, to maintain uniform prices and advance prices by about -0 per cent. STRIKE LEADERS IN JAIL Officials at Winnipeg Have Evidence Bi Tie-Up Is Planned. W1XMPKG, Man., Aug. 14. Kight Winnipeg sLrike leaders were formally committed for trial at the November assizes by Magistrate R. M. Noble on the charge of seditious conspiracy. Prosecutor Andrews said that spread ing of propaganda had been noticeable during the past month and that he had information which led him to believe that a general tie-up of the dominion was planned for October I. Decision on application for bail by the eight men, W. Ivens, R. E. Bray, A. A- Heape. K. B. Russell, John Queen, W. A. Pritchard, R. J. Johns and George Armstrong, will be rendered tomorrow. Development Work Approved" and Scenic Attractions Lauded by Travelers From Xortlt. WHEELER, Or., Aug. 14. (Special.) Thirty-eight business men and mem bers of the Astoria Chamber of Com merce visited the Nehalem bay district Tuesday. They were met at the Tillamook-Clatsop county line by a delega tion from Nehalem and Wheeler, and the party drove throdgh Nehalem. to Neah-kah-nie and Manzanita beaches, where short stops were made. The party then drove to Wheeler, via Mohler, where a banquet was served by the Wheeler Lumber com pany, after which talks were made by different representative business men. The Misses Harriett and Florence Leach rendered several selections. The party then drove to Brighton and viewed the proposed Nehalem-Wheeler-Brighton -Garibaldi road, and all wer favorably impressed with the S2.50 "Arrow" Shirts $1.85 Three for $5 TOMORROW and Sat urday I shall offer men's "Arrow" Shirts at the prices here named. To buy is to save money. Take advantage. $3-$3.50 i'Arrow" Shirts $2.45 Three for $7 Main X Floor "vSrifrw PertSelliiia ""iP route selected. The party left here at a late hour for T'llamook. , In the deleeatim from Astoria were: E. W. Anderson. D. P. Bailey, William Ounnani, H. G. Van Dusen, R. C. Peter sen. S. A. Gimre, A. .1. C. Schroeder. H. H. Reeves. W. A. Harrison. Wesley Shanor, M. M. Ahrens. Randall Reed. F. H. Sanborn, president of their or ganization: C. I. Barr. secretary; E. B. Huuhes, John Tiit. X. Staples. S. S. Gorden. P. A. Stokes. O. C. Navertard, E. B. Hauke. A. W. Heisis. A. E. Stoss meister and wife. L. Swallish and wife, O. A. Owen, H. Crohen. U. 1 Baker and W. K. Mannix. Read The Oreeronian classified ads. TAC0MA PLUMBERS ASK $9 New Scale Raising Wage $1 Day in Kffect Tomorrow. TACOMA, Wash.. Aug. 14. (Special.) The plumbers, made famous by Mark Twain's satire, "Working by the Hour" arc not going to be caught napping by the high cost of living. Beginning next Friday, Tacoma plumbers will raise their wage scale to $9 a day, an in crease of $1 over the present scale. There are about 250 plumbers in Ta coma. of whom 150 are "uptown plumb ers," as distinguished from the plumb ers or pipefitters working in the ship yards. The shipyard plumbers get the MMcy scale of 16.40 a day in Tacoma. Congress Maye Rule on "Rick. WASHINGTON. Aug. 14. To escap uniform and efficient administration and enforcement of the prohibition law, congress clearly has the right to de fine , w"hat Is intoxicating liquors, the senr.te judiciary suh-committee held in a formal report filed today on the amended house prohibition enforcement law. - - ;i P h (Mi e your want ads to The Orejgo niun. Main 7070. A 6U!5. ICE FLOE VOYAGER BACK STORKERSON", COMPANION" OF STEl'AXSSOX, AT EDMONTON. MINERS VOTE FOR STRIKE Idaho Men Want Eight-Hour Day From "Portal to Portal." WALLACE. Idaho, Aug. 14. A strike of approximately 1000 miners of the Burke an Mullan districts was voted here tonight at a meeting of represen tatives of the International Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter workers, ef fective Friday morning at 7 o'clock, un less the mine managers grant the eight -hour 'portal-to-portal" working day. CARNEGIE RITES ARRANGED Dr. V. P. Merrill Will Conduct Services at Lenox, Mass. LENOX, Mass.. Aug. 14. Arrange ments for the funeral tomorrow morn ing of Andrew Carnegie were completed todav after the arrival of Dr. William I Pierson Merrill of New York, from his summer home at West Weymouth. I Dr. Merrill will conduct the service and the Presbyterian service for the dead will be used. Yellow Gamblers' Careless ness Proves Costly. Police IVrmltetl to Hitrh Kan-Tan i;ame shocking Indintrretion. If four celestial fan-tan gamblers hadn't been so careless about permit ting spectators at their game they might have escaped with lighter fines when they . appeared in police court Wednesday charged with gambling. Patrolman Corder slipped into the fan tan room and was an interested spec tator for nearly two hours before he made the "pinch." Charley John. Chinese attorney, ap pealed for a light fine for his clients. -No, said Police Jude Deich, 1 will 2 0 Consecutive Bullseycs Scored. , CALDWELL, N. J.. Aug. 14. The first stage of the free-for-all United States marine corps rifle match for the marine corps cup was won at the navy rifle range here Wednesday by Lieu tenant B. S. James of the United States infantry with 20 consecutive "bulle eyes" at 600 yards, or a perfect score of 100. One Big Cnioii Losing. VANCOUVER. B. C, Aug. 14. Impor tant secessions from the local ranks ot the one big union organization took place last night, when the local unions of the international longshoremen, the shipwrights and the pressmen and press feeders voted to quit the one big union. ' Four Months Spent in Perilous Arc tic Journey; Traveler to Report to Canadian Government. EDMONTON, Alberta. Aug. 14. En route to Banff to discuss his adven tures and findings of six months drift ing on an ice floe in Arctic wastes with V. Stefansson, Storker T. Storkerson arrived here Wednesday night. Later he will go to Ottawa to report to the Canadian government. Storkerson was Stefansson's chief lieutenant during the latter's Arctic journeys. Stefansson had originally intended to accompany the ice floe party but at the last moment became ill and had to re turn to civilization. It was then that Storkerson took command of the party and proceeded without his chief. On March 15, 1917, the little party of 13 men set out from Border island to board an ice floe with the object of staying on it a year or so and deter mining the currents if any. in Beaufort ft make Staying eafer Tin a little. l.imi -hi. iii mil, uiiIiIl,ji.i.ujiji.ji .mm null nwiiiiin inn iwi i.unini.m .11 11 111 11 iy. - " Hli1M.IHilltiM lill I I 111 I II III ,11 111 I Mm iil III.. II ' ' .11,. 1 , n ,11 1.. .. f, , ,J , m-ini.M. 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