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.
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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.
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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
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