Vnl T VIIT0 IS .Til Knterd at Portland (Orlfon) PORTLAND, OREGOX, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, .1919. PKICE FIVE CENTS. SPRUCE CONTRACTS jKIWANIS BRAVES TO FIGHT FOR "RAINIER" WHISKY MAKERS' GANG BELIEVED BROKEN UP AMERICAN FLIERS WIN TREATY CHANGED III FIFTY PLACES 500-MILE AIR RACE LAID TO POLITICS Ofl YIHILL URGED ON WILSON 'OFFER TACOMA" APPELLATION FOR ALLEGED MOOXSHLXER IS AR RESTED IX DESERT CABIX. PLUMB, MAYXABJD, SCHROEDER, ALL LEAD CANADIAN'S. JIOOTALX OPPOSED. SHOPMEN TO VOTE I SWEEPING REFORM Small Loggers Rebuffed, SaysW. C. Butler. POIVEHFUL POLITICS AT WORK Cost-Plus Award to Siems Carey Plant Attacked. SOLDIER TELLS OF ABUSES FilthT Food Cau'rd Mutiny of Men, DecUrrs Jorph A. Mallory. v Abuse When 111 Is Alleged. BT REX HTP. LAMPMAV SEATTLE. Au;. IS. (Spe cial.! Charrrs that powerful political influence dictated the letting: of the cost-plus spruce and railroad construc tion contracts to the Slems-Carey-Kerhaugh corporation in war-time operations on the Olympic peninsula Seten Tribesmen Designated to Draft Parchment for Publicity Cam paign in Newspapers. TACOMA Wash.. Aug. 26. (Special.) Braves of the Kiwanls club will never say die" to the palefacea of the rotary, commercial. "Justice -to the mountain." "To the dickens with Ad miral Rainier" or any other civic club, current or to. come. In Its stand taken last week that the right and proper appellation of the great mountain of the ancient "Tahomas" is "Rainier" and not "Tacoma." At a conclave of the tribe today the braves went on the war path, although not one drop of Si per cent beverage was served at the meal. They de manded that every member of the tribe stand by his bow and arrow, and in his inditements to friends and others outside the precincts of Tacoma use the name Rainier Instead of Tacoma In referring- to the mountain. Tribesman Louis Burnett's voice pre vailed in a suggestion that seven braves shall sit before the great fire this week and draft a bit of birch bark parchment setting forth concrete rea sons why Rainier" should be used by I Tacoma in all its advertisements and its publicity. These reasons will be sent to the newspapers of Tacoma for publication. "Oh. my brothers." quoth Tribesman Burnett, "let the white man of Tacoma privately call the mountain by any name he sees fit. but in his desire to Women Would Revolution ize Public Market. SELF-PRICING PLAN IS DESIRED Dismissal of Market . Master and Assistant Advised. MAXIMUM FIGURES TO GO John Wharton. Iron Worker, Is Brought to Portland From Idaho Boundary Still Discovered. Recommendations ot Housewives' Committee Provide for General Overturn of Present System. nd that patriotic Independent logging a, tract attention to the city let him use operators were shamefully treated and persistently evaded in their genuine and sincere efforts to be of service, were made today before tbe house sub committee of aircraft Investigation, by William c. Butler of Everett. Wash orotner or .Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university. Abase mt Soldiers Chanced. The testimony of Mr. Butler, widely known banker and lumberman with ex tensive operations in the northwest, " viewed in interest with that of Joseph A. Mallory, former private in the spruce division, who charged that the men in the spruce camps of the Sicms-Carey company were forced to work when III. received sour and un fit food and Inadequate clothing and .were at me merry of the system of maintenance charges that left them an aterage of Ti cents a day for their toll, These vivid features lapsed to coma when Chairman Frear made fierce pro test against the method In which Rep resentative Lea. democrat, questioned iir. Butler under cross-examination. Batler Ktataar kr lailasattea. Further Butler himself, stung by the Insinuation that tenders of Puget bound lumbermen to produce spruce without profit were not sincere, flamed Into rebellion and cast his reserve to the winds, informing Representative that he and his associates had suffered sufficient humiliation and would endure no more. "I want to say apropos of the giving of these contracts." stated Mr. Butler, "of the mysterious manner In which they were given, thnt there is only one answer, and the itnswer is that the people who were enabled to obtain this contract, the Sirms-Carey people, enjoyed very singular political Influ ence. ine execution or tnese contracts was conducted with singular devotion to the Interests concerned. My opinion I that production of spruce was not the primary object : f this deal. Cm the appellation "Rainier." "Many benefits are to be derived from this." he added. ARMY BAN PUT UPON TOWN Profiteering at Xogales Arouses Colonel Carnahan to Action. NOG ALES, Arli- Aug. 26. Colonel Earl A. Carnahan of the 25th Infantry, fn command of the Arizona military dis trict, today issued an order forbidding members of his command to visit Nogales for two days. He also Issued an order for the establishment of a motor transport line to Tucson and elsewhere for the purchase of supplies for the local military camp, which is quartering: 2300 Infantrymen and 200 cavalrymen. In his communication Colonel Carna han said: 'The local community hae so long endured the practices of the profiteers and with so little prospect of relief through action by the authorities, that It seems that the only remedy left us is that of public protest." FIRE DRAFT LAW APPLIED eat Medal la Bitter. "We see a man." continued the wit ness, referring to Brigadier-General iMsque. former chief of the Spruce Pro auction corporation, entrusted with grave responsibility, playing with his government, playing with business men a colonel, lieutenant-colonel, who goes back east with a distinguished service medal and a gold star on his collar, a general." Into this stream of sarcasm. Chair man Frear excitedly cast his wreath of rue for the late commander of the spruce division. Jaa.es D. Hyan Mentioned. Me fade nis colleagues remember that the Siema-Carey railroad contract, for the construction of a line via Lake I'rescent tc Lake Pleasant in Clallam county, had been begun only after Gen eral Disque had conferred with engi neers of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad and with President By ram himself. Further comment was made of the fact that the Stems-Carey logging con tract was approved by none other than James D. Kyan. then head of the air craft bureau, who was a member of the board of directors and of tbe execu tive committee of the Milwaukee road. It was added as of renewed signifi cance that when the line was con structed, a construction enKlneer. Mott Sawyer, was taken from the employ ment of the Milwaukee and placed in charge. Jaqulrv Seethes IVIta Dlapmte. It was while Representative Lea. whose attitude in the inquiry Is favor able to the spruce corporation, was questioning Mr. Butler that the spark f partisan feeling fired the powder train and temporarily hoisted the con duct of the inquiry into a troubled crater of dispute and accusation. Representative Lea. forcing Mr. But ler to admit that he never had made a personal inspection of the renowned 14.000.000 J-mile railroad to Pleasant lake's celebrated spruce, had gone blithely on to interrogate the witness regarding the proposal of Puget sound Independent loggers, represented in the Loggers Information association, to log spruce without a cent of profit to themselves. This proposal, said the loggers, was net with terms Imposed by General Disque. terms that were unacceptable La Grande Men Jailed for Refusing ForeM Blaze Help. LA GRANDE. Or.. Aug. IS. (Special.) J. F. O'Conner and Douglas Lawson have been jailed for refusing to fight forest fires which are doing unheard- of damage in Union county. This Is the first application of the fire-fighting "draft" law now in effect. I'nless the situation, which is ex tremely bad. Is remedied soon, wide application of the impression law will be made. New fires are breaking out and it is no longer possible to keep track of the number of blazes. Bvery available man is sought for and money Is being spent in large sums to stop the destruction of timber. There is a big fire In every direction from La Grande where timber stands. Complete revolution of regulations governing the public market on Yam hill street and dismissal of J. A. East man, the market master, were recom mended in the report of the committee of housewives submitted amid clam orous applause yesterday afternoon at a mass meeting In the Central library. The committee, headed by Mrs. F. O. Northrup. drew up the set of findings after conducting an investigation of conditions existing on Yamhill street. A revised version of the city ordi nance at present governing the market was also prepared and read at yester day meeting, being submitted a clause at a time for discussion and adoption. Sweeping; Changes Urged. Changes fn the original regulations to be submitted to the council by the same committee of five would provide for a self-pricing system of sales, do ing away with the custom of having the marketmaster fix maximum fig ures on goods. They would do away with the office of marketmaster and assistant and would place in their stead a commission of three, beaded by a man at a salary of J150. The other members of the board would be women. In order that each farmer might have a turn at the most desirable locations on the streets, stalls would be rotated each week, so that their occupants would be kept moving oa constantly. Much confusion attended the tneet ing, which was constantly being called to order by Mrs. J. F. Chapman. The audience was divided over a number of minor points and it was necessary to call frequently for a standing vote, when questions were In doubt. A large number of farmers who have stalls in the market presented their views, and replied heatedly to the arguments of the housewives. Wording of a num ber of clauses brought objections. Some desired to bar from the market those who do not live in the Immediate vicinity of Portland, while several pointed out that by not placing a limit on them competition would be keener. After this was voted on three times a motion to leave the market With the arrest of John Wharton, ironworker, in a lonely spot near tb Idaho-Oregon boundary, 75 miles north east of Baker, Or., federal officials be lieve -they have broken up a notorious gang of moonshiners. Deputy United States Marshal Pace brought Wharton to Portland last night. The cabin where the distilling I alleged to have been done is in the gorge of Snake river. It belonged to a homesteader, whose horses eked ou a bare existence grazing among th rocks, while their owner made hi living working for neighboring farm ers. The still might have been operated indefinitely if the homesteader had not hired Wharton to work for him. Ed Rand, formerly sheriff of Bake county, now an Internal revenue offi cer, heard that the homesteader had hired a man. "What for?" he thought. "That squatter works out himself most of the year." Mr. Rand rode down to the cabin As he approached he scented some thing that suggested corn whisky in the making. Rand captured Wharton, but the homesteader escaped. Near the cabin was found' a store of cornmeal, some peaches and some corn mash. The still is said to have been one of the best so far captured in eastern Oregon.. Mr. Pace also arrested four alleged moonshiners in Prairie City, Or., and two in Baker. The four in Prairie City were Frank McCarty, Dan Daly, Ar thur Hanenkrat and Charles Ross. The two In Baker were Barney Donnelly and Claude Rains. (Concluded on Page .1. Column 1.) BOAT BURNS; MEN ESCAPE Marshricld Craft Xow Seeking Miss ing Schooner Rustler. MARSH KiELD, Or., Aug. 26. (Spe cial.) The Macleay gasoline schooner is at sea, searching- for any possible re mains of the gasoline schooner Rustler, which burned off Car Blanco last Sun day. News of the disaster is meager, but the four men on board escaped -in a small skiff carried on board. The Rustler sailed from, Rog'ue river Sunday, having from 1500 to 1900 cases of salmon for delivery on Coos bay. The cause of the fire was not learned, but it is supposed to have been due to fumes from the engine room igniting. The Rustler was valued at $15,000 and the cargo was worth $10,000. The Rustler was built on Coos bay. Industrial Peace Hangs on Ballot Result. HINES WORKS FOR FAIR DEAL Board of Railways Urged to Deal With Inequalities. MEN ASKED TO STAY ON JOB Employes Requested by Officers of Union Not to Walk Out Until Ballot Is Had. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. Railroad shopmen throughout the United States will begin voting immediately on w.hether they will accept the wage proposals made yesterday by President Wilson and Director-General Hines or go out on strike to enforce their de mands for a general advance in pay. On the outcome of the balloting hinges industrial peace on the govern ment-controlled railroads. If the 500,- 000 shopmen decide to accede to President Wilson's decision that there shall be no general wage advances un til the government shows what can be one to control the rising cost of liv ing, sufficient time to effect some change in the price levels probably will elapse before other unions press their demands for more money. What action the government may be expected to take in the event of a vote by the shopmen to strike for an im mediate increase in wages, which Pres. ident Wilson has said would have isastrous effect on efforts to bring own prices, has not been disclosed, if indeed It has been considered. Inequalities to Be Corrected. Indicative of the determination of Director-General Hines and the rair- road administration to deal fairly with all classes of employes, the director- Actual Time N'ot Figured Vought and De Haviland Planes Carry Victors. MINEOLA, N. Y., Aug. 26. Three en trants, all American air service fliers. had finished in fh inttrnnlinnal ..HdI j derby between Miueola and Toronto, at 6:44 o'clock tonight. Lieutenants M. J. Plumb and C. W. Maynard completed their round trips here, and Major R. W. Schroeder ended his at Toronto. Lieutenant Plumb was the first to finish, landing at Roosevelt field at 5:50 P. M., after a gross time of 26 hours, 38 minutes since his start here yesterday afternoon at 3:12. Major Schroeder, the second to fin ish; started from Toronto yesterday at 12:25 P. M., and ended his journey there this afternoon at 6:62, consuming a gross time of 29 hours 27 minutes. Lieutenant Maynard, third to finish. alighted at Roosevelt field at 6:44 to night after the lapse of a gross time of 26 hours 41 minutes since his start here yesterday afternoon at 4:03. In announcing the first three racers to complete their trips, the American flying club stated that actual flying time would not be known for hours, r when all stations along the route had reported arrivals and starts at their points. The winner of the derby will not be known until all re ports are In, it was added. Lieutenants Plumb and Maynard both used De Haviland "four" machines, with 400 horse power Liberty motors. Major Schroeder used a Vought. Senate Committee Acts Along Party Lines. (J. S. REPRESENTATION IS CUT American Members Taken Off International Boards. HITCHCOCK SURE OF PACT. SUMMER RESORT BURNED Xey's Springs, Xear Sisson, C'aL, De stroyed by Fire. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26. Forest fires near Sis.on, Siskiyou county, have destroyed Ney's Springs, a summer re sort and sanitarium, forcing the re moval of a number of - patients to Dunsmuir, 10 miles distant, the United States forest service announced here today. All the buildings on the Perry ranch, near the springs, were wiped out also, it was reported. general today instructed the board of railway- wages to consider promptly any demands that might be made and to report recommendations for correct ing any inequalities found to exist, though general advances for any class will not be made until It has been proved that the present level of prices is permanent. In that case, both the president and Mr. Hines have given as surances that railroad workers would receive early readjustment of their wages. The taking of a strike vote ordinar ily requires about three weeks. In the present instance, however, it is be lieved the vote may be completed earlier, as instructions we're given by the international officers to the unions (Concluded on Page 3. Column 4.) IT WOULD STIR HER UP EVEN MORE TO TRY TO MILK HER NOW. ALLEGED HOARDER ON BAIL u.iitio rounds of Potatoes Said to lie Held by Company. SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. 26. First of 10 alleged potato hoarders arrested in connection with the seizure here last Thursday of approximately 300,000 pounds of potatoes, A. S. Nickerson, secretary-treasurer of C. W. Chamber lain & Co.. local commission mer chants, had a hearing today before R. W. McClelland. L'niled States commis sioner, and was held to await action by the federal grand Jury. The charge against the company was the hoarding of 40,000 pounds of potatoes. The bond for the Chamberlain com pany was fixed at $500 and was furnished. tCtQouu?d oo Page la Cu.unia & PRICES AND WAGES RACE Cost of Living Outstripped by Pay. Says Packers Representative. CHICAGO, Aug". 2. Testifying- before Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler in the stockyards wage arbitration hearing today, S. W. Russell of the commercial research department of Swift & Co. de clared that packing house employes are in better financial condition than they were a year ago. He used monthly reports from the united States department of labor to show that the cost of staple foods since December, 191S, had increased 75 per cent, while wages of stockyard em ployes had Increased 115 per cent. SEAMEN'S STRIKE ENDED Australians Return to Work After Losing 912,500,000 Wages. SYDNEY", N. S. W., Aug. !5 The sea men's strike ended today, when a mass meeting of the men decided to re-man the ships affected immediately. j The seamenis strike, which virtually stopped all shipping in Sydney and Melbourne, began several months ago in Queensland and extended to other British possessions in the Pacific. Up to the beginning of August the esti mated loss to tbe strikers in wages was ,12,500,000. : I - I T . avik- USA I - I U 1 1 T i . a- jp- r. n. '-. v i : MORTAL AGAINtJ Tqg ZA j)W NV : ( Js I : v.. fi m, t , s' ''. .......,,,....,,... . . . . . ... ...,,,.....,..4 25-HOUR SWIM SAVES 18 Men Battle to Shore to Get Relief to . Crew Wrecked Off Samoa.' PAGO PAGO, American Samoa, Aug. 12- (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Eighteen men were believed to have lost their lives when the motor ship Loline overturned in a rough sea while on a voyage from Apia to the island of Savaii. Eighteen were saved. The rescue was effected after three men swam from the ship to the shore, taking 25 hours, according to their re ports to the authorities. These men took empty cases to protect themselves, but one of the men gave out, and for 15 hours he was held by one of the others who swam to the shore with him. The seas were running high all of the time the men were in the water. They were picked up at the 'western end of Upolu island and word sent to Apia, from whence a steamer went to the scene of the wreck. ' McCumber Clashes With Borah Spirited Attack on Shantung Amendment. in STRIKERS ACCEPT TERMS Five Cents More an Hour Looks X Good After Two Months Out. CHICAGO. Aug. 26. Two hundred employes of the Argo plant of the Corn Products Refining company who have been on a strike for eight weeks, returned to work today. When the men went on a strike the company offered a wage increase of 5 cents an hour, but It was refused. Last night the strikers voted to accept the offer. LYERS CRASH TO DEATH Airplane Falls Xear Bellvllle, III., With Two Aboard. BELLEVILLE, III., Aug. 26. Lieuten ant Floyd Meisenheimer of Detroit and Chauffeur Harold Ice of St. Marys, O., were killed at Scott field, near here. 4 1 late today. Their airplane fell from an altitude , J of 200 feet and caught fire after crash- j Ing to the ground. T INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weatber. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, degrees; minimum, 5ti degrees. TODAY'S Fair; gentle westerly winds. Foreign. Denlkine 'drives bolshevikl before him Odessa falls. Page 20. Ex-Turk dictator still troublesome factor lor allies, fage z. Belgium ratifies treaty of peace. Page 6. National. Government ownership of refrigerator cars is recommenaea by - trade commission. .Page 3. war department to open retail stores in rignt on nlgn prices. Fase 3. Peace treaty language changed in 50 places Dy senate committee, fage 1. Shopmen to vote on Wilson's offer. Page 1 Colonel Ansel! says Secretary Baker used clerks as press agents lor court-martial system. Page 10. Domestic Judge Gary refuses to see union representa tives, rage o. Two lost aviators reported found by Mexi cans. , Page 1. Yardmen strike at San Francisco. Page 2. Two fliers finish long aerial derby. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. History and civics made compulsory in Ore gon high schools. Page 7. Kiwanis braves fight for Rainier as mount's appellation. Page 1. Small loggers charge unmerciful rebuffs by spruce political macmne. page 1. Sport. Beavers and Angels open nine-game series here today. Page 12. O. A. C-Washington football game can celed. Page 12. Singles tennis championship play opens Page 13. Commercial and Marine. Oregon hop price advances to 54 cents Page 21. Chicago corn market bearish and prices average lower. Page 21. Wall street approves president's attitude to ward labor. Page 21. Portland's lumber trade with orient grows. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Loyal Legion Indorses industrial hospital In Portland. Page 10. Representative McArthur coming to Investi gate naval-base project. Page 10. City Is ordered to stop water waste. Page 9. Housewives' committee urges sweeping mar ket reforms, page i. Cost of litigation, like everything else, goes up. page i. Portland's prosperity measured by increased building activity, page la. WASHINGTON. Aug. 26. Provision for American representation on a score of international commissions to carry out details of the peace settlement would be stricken out of the peace treaty under a sweeping amendment adopted today by the senate foreign re lations committee. Later In the senate itself the com mittee's previous decision to amend the Shantung clause raised a debate with Senator McCumber, republican. North Dakota, bitterly attacking the commit tee's course and Senator Borah defend ing it. Both are members of the com mittee. At the end of the day Senator Hitch cock, Nebraska, the democratic leader, talked over the possibilities of the sit uation with President Wilson at the White House and predicted afterward that all amendments would be defeated eventually and that the treaty would be ratified during September. In its decision regarding American participation in the reconstruction com missions the committee divided on party lines, the nine republicans pres ent standing as a unit for the amend ment and the seven democratic votes all being recorded in the negative. Sen ator McCumber, who voted with the democrats against the Shantung amend ment, was absent. One Commission Excepted. Although the committee's action would change the language of the treaty in more than 50 places, scattered through - many, sections, an exception was made of the reparations commis- . sion, which is to have charge of the col lection of Germany's indemnity bill. Senator Fall, republican, New Mexico, who presented the amendment, said he had not proposed taking the American representative from this commission because he held . American interests might be directly involved in its work. In . the commissions which are af fected by the amendment, Mr. Fall said. American interests would be eo indirect as not to compensate for the dangers of becoming hopelessly involved in Euro pean affairs. . Among these commissions are the bodies set up to rectify the boundary between Belgium and Germany, to ' establish the free city of Danzig, to supervise numerous plebiscites and to take care of various other details under the treaty. The amendment omits ref erence to the commissions that are to be appointed by the league of nations, 1 committee members saying that was a subject to be dealt with after action had .been taken regarding the league covenant itself. Blow at League Alleged. In his speech in the senate Senator , McCumber declared the committee ma jority really intended the Shantung amendment to drive a "poisoned blade" into the treaty with the purpose of killing the league of nations. He as serted that the change which would give to China instead of to Japan tbe old German rights in Shantung prov ince was actually a blow at China be cause it could, accomplish no result but to drive Japan out of the league and , leave her free to pursue a course of . spoliation against Chinese territory. Senator Borah replied that China ' had nothing to hope for under the league because the same powers which 1 will control its decisions already had decided her case in favor of Japan. He reviewed the history of Japanese ' diplomacy in the east and said all the facts argued against Japan's keeping her promise to return Shantung to China. In , the general debate which devel oped several other republicans at tacked the position taken by Senator McCumber, and Senator Fall announced that he would reply to the North Da kota senator at greater length tomor row. Republican leaders declare the amendment is assured of senate accept ance, but after his White House con ference today Senator Hitchcock de clared it would be beaten decisively and there would be a dozen republican votes against It. President Well Pleased. The president, Senator Hitchcock said, seemed well pleased with the senate situation and was confident the treaty would be ratified without any amendments or reservations. Tomorrow the committee will resume consideration of the Fall amendment. It is hoped to complete this work to morrow. Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, a re publican member of the committee, an nounced today he would speak in the senate Friday on the treaty. He Is regarded as one of the bitterest oppo nents of unqualified ratification. Declaring the republican majority of the foreign relations committee was attempting by the Shantung amend- (Concluded oa Page 1, Column L) r