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THE MORNIXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, AUGUST SO, 1919. SHIPBUILDERS CALL MEETING WITH LABOR i Session Set for Tuesday to Be Open to Public. ACTION SETS PRECEDENT Admission of Press and Outsiders to Discussions Establishes Sew Method for Conference. A shipbuilding- labor conference, to t attended by all the steel enlpbuild tn of Portland, delegates from the local metal traaes council and inter national officers of the shipworkers" unions, will open in this city next Tuesday. It was announced yesterday by j. R Bowles, president of the North west Steel company. In Tiolation of all established prece dents, the sessions will be open to the public, and representatives of the press will be Invited to attend, Mr. Bowles announced. There, are now three parties to every labor dispute." said Mr. Bowles. "They are the employers, the employes and the public li this conference, at which will ba determined the wages and working conditions that will obtain October 1. the public will be given an opportunity by personal attendance and through the press to know what s going on and to determine for itself whether or not unreasonable trary stands ara taken by either '"utiira operations of the Northwest Steel company and other shipbuilding plants, according to Mr. Bowles, will depend largely upon the labor situa tion. Builders, he said, cannot run the. risk of binding themselves to build ships for a certain price while the un settled conditions make it Impossible to know beforehand what material will cost, or even whether or not it can ta obtained at any price. Oadltloas Are t'aeerlala. Speaking in this regard, he said: -Until there is a reasonable ground for the belief that the turmoil in the United States Is over, it is a very dan gerous piece of business for any owner to sell a ship. If the railroads ara to be tied up by strikes, or if the steel mills are to be closed down or rendered powerless to supply builders with ma terial, it is foolish for a builder to obligate himself by contract to build a, vessel. When government pro grammes are completed the shipbuild ing business will be at a standstill until the labor turmoil is settled. If there is to be continued strife, there can be no recovery of normal condi tions. "There are quite a number of buyers ready for all ships that can be pro duced, but no builder will quote prices or accept contracts under present con ditions. Sttaatloa Is Reviewed. "There la a tendency on the part of labor to go a little too far in shorten ing hours and increasing wages In some crafts beyond the point the build ers can stand. With hours as at pres ent In forco in the United States and very person who produces something with his hands at work, the total number of productive hours, taking all lnes into consideration, is less than the number of hours that wera put Into productive labor prior to the war. when but $0 per cent of the people were at work. -The question now Is whether the resulting production under present conditions is sufficient to supply- all - the people with everything they use or whether there is really a shortage of production by reason of the smaller number of productive hours. -If this condition of actual shortage of production has come at 'ut. there can be no reduction In the cost of liv ing, but in its place a constant increase. Kither the production per hour must be Increased by greater efficiency or we must have a partial return to the former standard of hours." The opening session of the labor con ference will start at 10 o'clock next -Tuesday morning In room 133 North western Bank butidlng. In the office of the Northwest Steel Builders' asso ciation. RIVER CRAFT ARE REGCLATED Harbor Police Will Enforce New Canoe and Motorboat Law. Canoes and rowboit that do not ahow white lights IS Inches above their drka. and motorboats that tow occu pied canoes will be picked up by the harbor police tomorrow night. Official notification of a new city ordinance, re cently passed, was received yesterday by Carl rrehn. acting harbormaster, and ' be has been directed to enforce it. Mr. Prehn said yesterday that he con sidered two days sufficient time for boathouse proprietors and pleasure boat owners to conform to the new law, and anyone falling to obey the regulations Sunday evening will be arrested for trial in municipal court. The new ordinance, which requires a light a foot above the deck for canoes and prohibits the lowing of canoes by motorboats. also Includes all the pro visions of the federal law concerning pleasure craft, and motorboats that have not a sufficient supply of life pre servers and means of extinguishing fire will be stopped by the harbor police. Marine 'otcs. The wnwl.a st.amrr Bias Essie, built by the Ro4ffrs Shipbuilding; company ml As toria. ch.ck.d In y.st.rdiy by the Co lambta.Partftc company, lo horn she has b.a assigned by the shipplnc board tor op eration. The B:u E HI load lumlxr and ties for the t'nlted Kingdom. The hoon-r Lucy sailed yesterday from Pan rrannii-o for Portland, according to ord received by the Merchants Exchange, phe Is bringing a cargo of copra from the Ll'uka islands for A. O. Anderson A Cft. The ship St. Nicholas, the first of the fleet f palmoa carriers from Alaska, put in at Astoria yesterday. here she wi.l discharge her canto. Tb. windjammer is owned by the Columbia Itlver Parkers association. The steam schooner Frank Stout, bound from S a Francisco to Moqutam. reported at Astoria for orders yesterday. She Is run ning la the t-hariea R. McVormlck line, and wi;i load at the Grays Harbor Lumber com. party. The new IMne-toe steel steamer West Hart land, bultt by the ro.umbta River Shipbuild ing corporation, will take her slshour livsr trial trip today. She has been assigned to carry grain. The steamer Teva completed a successful river trial yesterday. Pacific Coast Shipping otes. TAOOMA. Wash., Aug. I. Spectal. To tne.4 about half of her cargo, or Tuu.oOO feet, hero, the wooden steamer Bottineau Is ex- . pected to shift hero from down sound Pat urday plrht. Sne takes her cargo to Eng. land. The Bottlcoau finishes at Belling. " ham. The Goodspeed. which went from here to Seattle to go In drvdock. la reported to bo coming here to load about 1M.OOO feet of lumber. The vesoel to being operated by the Pacific Steamship company and goes to Cuba. In the federal court here today a general Vnlal waa made by W. R Chamberlain, manastng owoer. of San Franckeco in the libel brought acalaat the schoooer Phyllis by William Burks. Burke alleged that when loading lumber on the schooner last June ho was Injured, and brought suit for tXUO mm the result of injuries sustained. It Is held la the reply that the injuries were due to the carelessness of Burke and the loading of the vessel was being carried out In a proper manner. The steamship Skagway. with 1800 tons of ore and concentrates, arrived from Alaska at -he smelter Friday morning early to unload. J. E. Bonnell, manager of the Tacoma Shipbuilding company, said today that H. F. Frick of Seattle, present district supervisor for the Emergency Fleet corporation, had offered bis firm a sum considered Inade quate to finish two framed hulls standing oo the ways to a point where they might be launched. The same tender, he stated, was made to Nelson A Keles yard of Seattle. The matter was first mentioned Id the Metal Trades meeting yesterday, at which there was a disposition to bargain with the firm under union standard. Mr. Bonnell said he would not be averse to an under standing under conditions that would per mit work to be done on the basis that prevailed In steel yards under the new agreement and expected to be entered into October 1 along the Pacific coast. All former Idaho business men and resi dents now on Puget sound will bo Invited to attend the launching of the steamer St Anthony at the Todd shipyards on or about September 10. The name of the ship was selected by Fremont county, Idaho, as a reward for the largest oversubscription to the fourth liberty loan ar any county In the northwest. Miss Marcta Woods of 8pen cer, Idaho, will christen the St. Anthony. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29. (Special.) The importation of vegetable oils to Pacific ports from the South Pacific and the orient may be decreased if the present demand by Europe continues, it was announced today. Advices from across the " Atlantic indicate that there will be a brisk demand for edible fats and greases for at least two years. The French motor schooner Tieire Taporo arrived from Papeete with copra tor Wight man ae Crane. The steamer Lehua. Captain Aahbury. ar rived from Naknflk In ballast. Inspectors of ths United States customs department are surveying launches here to determine passenger carrying possibilities for the visit of tho fleet next week. Over crowding will not bo allowed. The British steamship Kabinga. en route from New York to the orient, bunkered to day and proceeded. The shipping board steamer Cansumset, reported as sailing- for the Atlantic returned today. The vessel h.id only steamed to sea on the official trial trio. Captain E. L Whitney of Mobile, owner of several Pacific windjammers, arrived here to take over the ownership of the oca m me 11 schooner William E. Burnham. . Damages of SU4.348 are sought In a libel suit filed against the Standard Oil .tanker Bradford by the Associated Oil tanker Frank H. Buck. The vessels collided in Monterey bay on July 26 and both w-ere damaged. ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. 59. (Special.) The steam schooner Frank D. Stout arrived about 9 o'clock last evening from San Francisco for orders. She left at 1 this afternoon for Grays Harbor, where shs is to load lumber. Barge U3 arrived from Portland at 5 o'clock this moming and will be towed to California by the tank steamer Col. E. L Drake. The steamer Umatilla, carrying lumber from St- Helena sailed for England at 3:30 yesterday afternoon Bringing the salmon park; of the Co lumbia River Packers' association plant at Nushsgak. Alaska, the ship SU Nicholas ar rived at 6:30 last evening. Every one is well on board, but disgusted on account of the poor fishing season In the north. With freight' and passengers for Astoria and Portland the steamer Rose City, from San Francisco, crossed In at today. SEATTLE. Aug. 49. (Special.) The Alaska-Seattle Ship company is preparing to spend 315.000 for rebuilding Its dock house to provide sdditlonal executive offices for the trsffic department Seeking to recuperate. David Rogers, former Skinner at Eddy superintendent, left Seattle yesterdsy on an automobile trip that may be continued for a month. ABERDEEN, Wash., Aug. 39. (Special.) The stesmers Chehalls and Tahoe sailed for California points. The Chehalls loaded cargo st the Lytle mill at Hoquiam and the Tahoe "at the Donovan mill at Aberdeen. U. S. Naval Radio Reports. All txxtition rppwrf Mi it f . M. yester day anleu oihrrw.M tnd tested. CAPT. A- F. LL!CA. Port Angelas for Richmond. 1ST mtlfi north of Richmond. ADMIRAL SCHLEY, San Francisco for Seattle. 344 mil-! from San Francisco. WASHTENAW, Seattle for Port tSan La la, .?.1 mile- from Port Pan Lai a. PHYLLIS, Tacoma for Redondo, 375 mile north of San Francisco. UNITED 8TATE8 TRANSPORT IRIS, Se attle for Saa Francisco, 24 miles south of Cape Blanco. OLEUM. Portland for Saa Francisco. 325 miles from Fan Francisco. HUMBOLDT, 6an Pedro for San Francisco, 100 miles north of San Pedro. ATLAS, Portland for 1 Se grin do, 140 mtlee from El Fecundo. , OSAQUMSICK. Honolulu for San Fran cisco, 9-0 miles from San Francisco August 22. 8 P. M. BROAD ARROW, San Francisco for Shanchai. 3250 miles from San Francisco Aukum I. 8 P. M. HORACE BAXTER, Vancouver for San Pedro. 8.12 miles north of Pan Pedro. BUCK, Pan Pedro for Meadow Point, 20 mlies north of Han Pedro. MA H NET, 140 miles south of Tatoosh. WAPAM A, Everett for San Francisco, 135 mi! south of Cape Flattery. MOFFETT, Prince Rupert for Richmond, 56 miles from San Franctsce. NEHALEM. Willapa harbor for San Fran cisco. .V52 miles north of Pan Francisco. " EL SEOUXDO. Richmond for Kahului, 639 miles from Kahului August 28, 8 P. M. MERIDIEN, Honolulu for San Francisco. 101.:. miles from San Francisco August 28, 8 P. M. BACKEM for San Francisco, S75 miles from San Franrlsco Aujrust 28. 8 P. M. JOAN OF ARC, San Francisco for Pisco via way ports, 85 miles south of San Fran cisco PORTER. Monterey for Everett, 128 miles north of Monterey. LANSI.Nft. Seattle for San Pedro, 461 miles from San Pedro. HERRIN. Port Costa for Linn ton. 218 miles north of Port Costa. CANSt'MFET for San Pedro, 53 miles south of San Francisco. PPOKANE. San Francisco for Wilmlng-ton. 12 miles south of San Francisco. KLAMATH. San Pedro for San Fran cisoo. off San Francisco. ft Y LV AN A R ROW. San Francisco for Beaumont, Tex., 147 miles from San Fran cisco. ASUNCtON. Eureka for El Segnndo, 10 mlies north of El Seinindo. BARGE 01 In tow Standard No. 2. Rich mond for San Pedro. 218 mllea from Rich mond. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND. Adc. 29. Sailed at noon. steamer Johan poulnen, from Westport for San Franclpro; at 2 P. M., steamer Nome City, for San Francisco via Rainier: at 4 P. M.. steamer Corral its, tor Atlantic eoajt: at 10 P. M . steamer Colonel B. L Drake, for San Francisco. ASTORIA. Aug. 2. Arrived at 9 last nlg-ht and sailed at 1 P. M.. steamer Frank D. Stout, from san Franrlsco ror rioquiam. put in for orders; arrived at 7 last night, ship St. Nteholaa, from Nushagak River, Alaska: arrived at 4:30 P. M.t steamer Rose City, from San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO. Aof. 29. Hailed t 11 last night, steamer W. F. Herri n. for Port land ; aatled, schooner Lucy, from LUuku for Columbia rrver. SAN PEDRO. Aug. 29. Sailed Steamer Tiverton for Columbia river. HONGKONG. Aug-. 24. Balled Steamer Eldr.dc. for Seattle. MANILA. Aug". 27. Sailed Steamer Ka shima Maru. for Tacoma. SAN FR A NCI SCO. A ur. 29. Arrived Steamers lehua, from Nekeuek : Kabinga (Britta.).. from Balboa; Oregon, irom urim. erton. SEATTLE. Wash-. Aug. 29. Arrived Steamers Admiral Farragut. from San r.g: ArarvlL from Saa Francisco; neaonoo. from southeastern Alaska. Sailed Steamers Givndon. for Honolulu; Arabia Maru, for or ten Lai ports. TiroiiA. Wash- Auc 29. j Steamers Skagway, from Alaska; Quadra, from Britannia beach. Columbia River Bar Report. can Tl- - k. Ana 'Xt X Atfti tlon of the bar at 5 P. M- eea smooth; wind. aurtnerij. - IN PLANE RIDE TO BALL Aviator Out of Army Introduces w Faf In Minnesota. FAIRMONT. Minn. Harold C Don aldson of Millford. la., a former army aviator, probably la the first to Intro duce a new mode of travel to attend a dance. He left horn early In the evening with his airplane, stopped at Ceylon. Minn, to pick up a young- woman and flew to the amncing pavilion at inwr lachen Lake, a resort near here. After waluins to the strains of "Home Sweet Home." Donaldson and his friend again left in the plana for their respective homes. SHIPBUILDER FACED ur Congressional -Committee Meets in Secret at Seattle. BANKER - OFFICER CALLED Many Questions Concerning- Govern ment Operations Askefi of AV'it- . ness at Inquiry. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 29.-(SpeclaL) With the exception of two executive sessions held behind clcsed doors during which R. C. Saunders, United States district attorney prior to the opening of the morning session, and Joseph H. Newberger. assistant cashier of the Se attle National bank, during the after noon, went before the special con gressional shipbuilding Investigation committee. Little of a sensational nature developed at the proceedings of the third day of the open Inquiry being condncted into the national ship con struction programme. District Attorney Saunders was fi.her.ri fnta the committee room a lttle before 10 o'cloc before the regular meeting convened behind closed doors. He spent nearly an hour with the congressional investigators. He left hurriedly, but did not return during the remainder of the morning or after noon sessions. Criminal Aetloa Planned. In the afternoon, other witnesses and renorters as well as spectators were asked to withdraw and Mr. Newberger was ushered before tne committee, as the Seattle National bank is understood to be the depository of the local emer gency fleet corporation funds, it Is pre sumed that his appearance before the Inquisitors had some bearing on the method of distributing ' the shipping board moneys in this district. Earlier in the hearing the intimation was uttered that Howard G. Cosgrove, resident counsel for the shipping board, had under contemplation criminal pro ceedings involving some one connected either with the building of ships or an official capacity with the fleet corpor ation. It Is presumed that Mr. Saunders" attendance was In connection with this matter, though Mr. Cosgrove has not closeted in the executive session. Many Questions Aaked. The remainder of the day was taken up with a continuation of the line of inquiry now pretty well established by the Investigators. With Joseph J. Walsh of Massachusetts, acting as chairman, the various witnesses were plied with questions relative to ship building, the collection of amounts due from the shipping board and other matters pertinent to the dispensing of the huge sums Involved in the con struction of ships in this district. Excitement was created in the com mittee room when it was announced that Captain John V. Blain, former dis trict manager for the emergency fleet corporation was in the corridor ask ing to see Representative Linn H. Hadley, of Washington, a member of the committee. 17. 8. Paya for Sponsor's Jewels. Mr Hadlev conferred in a corner with Chairman Walsh, and then went to the corridor, where he talked quiet ly with Captain Blain for a few min utes, later returning, and summoning Chairman Walsh, who accompanied him to the corridor, and both conferred with Blain.. Testimony at the inquiry brought out the fact that the diamond and platinum bar pins, jeweled wrist watches and other gifts presented to sponsors of Seattle ships were paid for by the government, and not by the shipbuilding companies, as was gener ally supposed. G. P. Ueane. district controller of the emergency fleet corporation, a wit ness, said that up to February 5, 1919, $1500 was allowed for launching ex penses. The cost of the sponsor's gift was taken from the J1500. Now only $500 is allowed for Iaunchings. Schooner Mary E. Foster Floated. PORT ANGELES, Wash., Aug. 29. ti,, uhnnnir Mm E. Foster, which grounded at Alow point, straits of Juan de Fuca, about two weeks ago, ar rived here today, having been floated last night. The Foster was en route from Honolulu to Port Angeles in ballast when she went ashore. BAIL IS DENIED TO I. W J. NEAL GCIXEY, ALLEGED AGITAT OR. 3'OT FREE. Appeal or Charge or Circulating Anarchistic Literature Fending . in San Francisco. Another effort to obtain the release on bail of Neal Guiney. former secre tary of the Portland L W. W failed yesterday in the federal court. George F. Vandeveer appeared before Judge Wolverton and asked the release of the man on baiL but the petition was denied. Guiney is being held for deportation by the department of labor on a charge of having participated In the circula tion of literature advocating the over throw of the government. He Is a na tive of Canada and waa to have been returned to that country. The matter is "now pending before the United States court ct appeals at San Francisco. Deputy United States Attorney uoia stein opposed the reliso of Guiney yesterday on the grouads that he was a menace to government and property. T. A. WISE TELLS JOKES Comedian of "Cappy Ricks" Shows How Audience May Be Pleased. BOSTON. Mass. In connection with acting there is probably no question that more frequently recurs man tne obviously vital one of How may the whole audience be pleased? The bear-ina- of this question on the work of a comedian came up one night in Thomas A. Wise's dressing room during his last Boston engagement, not long be fore he took up bis present part in "Cappy Kicks." "No matter how clever a comedian mav be he. can't make the whole audi ence laugh unless everybody feels a sense of good temper, of kindliness, of love if you will, behind the comedian's Jests and practical Jokes." said Mr. Wise. "That is, jests mat nave as basis sarcasm, bad temper or mean ness of any sort and there are many Jest that have as basis etaoln etaoinn Jests of this sort that pass as humor never ma k e more man a cwuiu pro portion of the spectators laugh. Just why a part of any audience will laugh at any sort of a Joke, whether or not it ia good-tempered. I am not precisely prpared to say; but I do know that a CRIMINAL ACTIOI. considerable number of persons in any group of spectators at a play show no inclination to laugh at Jests that are not harmless or Justifiably critical of some fault or foible of the object of the Jest." May not that word narralessness cast an explanatory light upon the great popularity that has always been the reward of famous clowns? The same sort of general approval that greeted the antics of Grimaldi a century-ago we see accorded today to Fred Stone in extravaganza and Charles Chaplin In motion pictures. The methods of both these comics exemplify this same element of harmlessness. : Even the youngest children at a circus notice that i the true clown never hits any body in malice, and that when he does hit he uses some implement which is ludicrously harmless, like an inflated bladder. When the true clown attempts to retort to an opponent the clown usu ally has the worst of the argument. In a word, the laugh is on the clown when the whole audience laughs. Play-goers may satisfy themselves .on this point by watching Chaplin in one of his later films, particularly "Tte Bank." Again, consider Stone's behavior in "Jack O'Lantern" when he is set upon by six policemen. The distress is all Stone's, and so is hugely comic. This point had come up when Mr. Wise's caller had asked the comedian how he managed to get two laughs out of a line when, by all ordinary expectation there should have been but one. RAILWAYS ABE REBUILT AMERICAN TROOPS REPAIR BOLSHEVIKI DESTRUCTION. 'Hurry TJp Jones" Works So Fast Enemy Believes He Mas Miracu lous Track-Laying Machinery. . SOROKA, Russian Laplaii-. (Corre spondent of the Associated Press.) Pushing forward daily into territory of the bolshevik! and often under fire, the American railway troops on the Murman .front in two months trans formed 75 miles of dynamited and also burned bridges and railway, wrecked and destroyed by retreating bolsheviki, into a workable railway "which . they manned, operated and maintained. - To these troops the British command gives much of the credit of the 75-mile advance toward Petrozavodsk.. In the contingent were 36 officers and 675 men. comprising the 167th- and 168th companies of railway troops as a special battalion under Major E. E. MacMore land, Kansas CifV, and every kind of railroader from a superintendent to a section hand. The Yanks worked so fast in fact that the bolshevik according to prisoners taken, believed that they had a mirac ulous machines for tracklaying and ad justable bridges which they dropped in as they went along . It was all done by a gang under Captain C. J. Jones of Patersin, N. J., who in Alaskan and Latin-American Jobs was nicknamed "Hurry-up Jones." The men worked 17 hours daily with the enemy right ahead and the British artillery right behind awaiting construction. There were also battles and skirmishes in many small sidings where on several occasions the constructors and also the train's crews were under fire. On May 19, while building a bridge under shrapnel fire, the Tanks were surrounded by bolsheviki skipping on through the woods and dynamiting the bridge three versts in the rear. On the way back to repair the bridge the Yanks were again attacked at close range but managed to escape. The shop detachment, under Captain C. E. McMillan of South America and Panama, formerly from Omaha, had to transform Junk pile equipment into workable rolling stock. Then the Yanks, under Ctaptaln H. G. Odell, former assistant and superintend ent at Santa Fe, built and operated an eight-mile street railway in Murman. Under Lieutenant Charles B. Tuttle, they operated and -nanned an armored train. . Railroad men who formerly, drew high pay in Boston, Pittsburg or In diana shared in making these railway enterprises a Yankee success. REPATRiATIONCOST GIVEN Australia Expends Large Sum for Benefit of Soldiers. MELBOURNE. Statistics covering the operations of the various sections of the repatriation department for the period from April 8, 1918, to March 29, 1919, have recently been made public They show that for all purposes a total of 13,702,939 waa advanced, the total number of applicants being 82,716. The grand total of expenditure Is repre sented by gift 12,634. 1 86, loan $933,706, and general expenses $135,147. Sustenance under various sections accounts for $1,961,633 of gift expend iture, and of this amount $364,968 was paid to men in vocational training, $174,912 as medical sustenance to men under treatment, and $1,281,432 to men awaiting employment. The sum of $55, 819 has been paid to incapacitated sol diers and children being educated. Men waiting for the land to become produc tive have drawn $33,486, while men awaiting vocational training have re ceived in sustenance $41,575. Miscel laneous items account for $9246. In general assistance, the principal items of the gift expenditure are: Fur niture grants, $183,024; tools of trade, $133,868; homes (including rental al lowances and conveyance of mortgage), $99,530; transportation, $71,931; free passages beyond the commonwealth, 168.679: surgical aids. $32,751, and vo cational training (equipment, fees. In structors' salaries, etc), $31,185. BABE'S LIFE IS IMPERILED Children Drink Poison While Wo man Is in Jail by Mistake CHICAGO. Mrs. Angelina Van Horne is a blonde. And her story of woe hangs upon this circumstance. Recently she was arrested and Identi fied as the "girl with blond hair, bobbed," who had given many bad checks. Two merchants who had been victimized said they were positive she was the girL She was locked up for 36 hours. Her two small children were left alone in her home. When she was released on bail she rushed home to find that one of the children had drunk iodine. For four days the child's life hung in the bal ance. - . Mrs. Van Home's husband, who was in the army, returned from France, obtained a furlough and started to visit home. "But his mother persuaded him not to see me," the young wife said, "be cause I had been arrested." In the meantime two 15-year-old girls had been arrested and confessed to passing the checks for the alleged uttering of which Mrs. Van Horne had been arrested. "And so." said Mrs. Van Horne, "the two merchants must pay." She has brought suit against each for $10,000. Tides at Astoria Saturday. Hirh. Low. 4-28 A. M 6.6 feet10:44 A. M 1.7 feet 4:32 P. 31. ..'.7.8 feetll:84 P. M 0.7 feet Nearly all the orchids found in Bur ma can be grown with a little care and attention in private gardens. There is one exception, a sweet-smelling species called taitn by the Burmese, and which is usually brought to market in Christ mas week in Rangoon. j Permanent Positions for Young Women Due to constantly increasing requirements of the service, permanent positions are available at this time in the operating department Previous experience not required. A. good salary paid immediately upon employment. Increases regularly given to all employes. Excellent opportunities for promotion. Annual vacation with pay. Permanent and continuous employment. Large, theerful operating rooms. Attractive, comfortable recreation rooms. Lunch-rooms where meals are served at cost. . Plan for sickness, pension and death benefits without cost to employes. Young women considering employment should call upon the Employ ment Supervisor, Telephone Building, Park and Oak streets. Tele phone Broadway 12000. . ' ... The Pacific Telephone. & Telegraph Co: FRAUD CHARGE 13 FACED MULCTING OF ALLEGED FOOD HOARDERS CLAIMED. Lester Becker and Woman Held at San Francisco; Man Accused of -Impersonating Officer. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29. A man giving the name of Lester Becker and a woman companion giving the name of Mrs. George E. Miller were arrested I here today by H. M. Motfitt, chiel oi IRQ UHIIVQ DUILCO ocw CL o i . ill .1 on federal and state charges, includ ing one against the man of impersonat ing a government officer. The couple are wanted in Denver, Moffitt said. Ac cording to the officer, the woman ad mitted she was the wife of a convict In the Washington state penitentiary at Walla Walla. DENVER, Aug. 29. Lester Becker, under arrest in San Francisco with Mrs. George E. Miller on a charge of impersonating a United States officer, is wanted in Denver on a charge of posing as a federal officer to cash faulty checks, it was announced today by United States secret service offi cials here. It could not be learned whether Becker would be brought here for trial. -Mrs. Miller is not known to federal or police officers here. It is reported her husband is serving a sentence in the Washington state prison at Walla Walla. A specal dispatch to a Denver news paper tonight declares Becker is charged with obtaining thousands of dollars on the Pacific coast by "shak ing down" alleged food hoarders and profiteers by posing as a government officer. CflHHEGIE LEEAGY PUZZLES . LLOYD GEORGE'S ACCEPTANCE PROBLEMATICAL. Question of Financial Independence1 . Solved for Premier; John Barns Is Non-Committal. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub- - lished by arrangement.) LONDON, Aug. 29. (Special Cable.) Some doubt is expressed here as to whether Premier Lloyd George will ac cept Andrew Carnegie's annuity to him of $10,000, though it solves for him the question of his financial independence when he leaves office. He is still a member of a law firm in London with his brother, but the Carnegie bequest, made when he is etlll a progressive politician furthering policies which Carnegie favored, will enable him to give his whole time to them. John Burns, . questioned about his legacy, said: "I have nothing whatever to say about it one way or another," and his critlcis are reviving the old saying of his, that "no man is worth more than 500 a year." Two of Mr. Carnegie's English legatees are dead Sir Swire Smith and John Wilson Durham, la bor member, while the right honorable Thomas Burt, also a former labor mem ber of unique standing and at one time, "father -of the house of commons," is an invalid - MONEY CIRCULATES FAST Big Wages Paid in England Brings Astonishing Social Change. LONDON. More money than ever before is now in circulation in English villages and .its easy expenditure is vjn tn th casual passerby. Extra wages earned by workmen, housemaids ana iarm laoorero unvc brought about - an astonishing social change. - ...... One evidence of this is seen in the great increase in bicycles and motor cycles, which has necessitated the es tablishmetn of countless garages and repair shops throughout the country. s-" .. . , . -net, ... fci'MSffsllsV?- Dancing and other clubs are springing up everywhere. Whist clubs are fa vorites and the costliness of the prizes for which the members play would, a few years ago, have constituted almost a scandaL The sense of well being and the demand for a more comfortable life is assigned as the cause for this last development. It is taken by so ciologists as a permanent thig, which is more likel yto increase than to di minish. PICTURES ENTERTAIN MEN Great Interest Exhibited by Sailors in Making of "Movies." SANTA BARBARA. The one thing in southern California that excited the greatest interest among the officers and men of the Pacific fleet to judge from views expressed is the motion picture. Many have visited one or more of the numerous motion picture plants in and around Los Angeles. The "movie" people have taken many pictures of the shis and of the officers and men for exhibition purposes, and many stars of 'the screen, men and women, have exchanged calls with the officers. Motion ictures rovide almost nightly entertainment for both men and offi cers. On the way to this coast, a fif teen episode feature was thrown upon the screen erected on the quarter deck of the New Mexico. The wardroom of ficers of the flagship own a projecting machine and when it is too cold or rough for quarter deck exhibition, have '"movies" of their own. CASEY GOES TO ALASKA Huts and Entertainment Centers Being Built for Soldiers. NENANA, Alaska. Knights of Co lumbus of the states are building huts and entertainment centers for the sol diers at the five United Statea army posts in Alaska. T. G. Ferguson, secretary of the Knights of Columbus committee on war activities for the northwest divi sion and three assistants recently came north to take up the work. At Haines, a town near Fort William H. Seward in southeastern Alaska, the knights purchased a theater for the soldiers and ordered construction of huts. Simi lar steps are planned for the other forte. Recently the Knights of Columbus sent 6000 cigarets for the soldiers in Alaska. MEXICO JEALOUS OF AIR Complaint Made of American Planes Frying Across Border. EL PASO, Tex. Complaints made to military headquarters here by Mexican officials in Juarez that American avia tors fly across the border from the Fort Bliss aviation field has raised an interesting point in aerial naviga tion According to the aviation officers at the Fort Bliss field, none of the Amer ican aviators has crossed the border. They explain the statements of the Mexican officials by saying that when an airplane is flying at a great eleva tion. It is extremely difficult to tell from the ground whether it is on the American or Mexican sides, although the aviators have landmarks by which they are guided in keeping on the American side. CARNEGIE OUCE KEYMAN Steel King Master Manipulator of Telegraph Instrument In Youth. PHILADELPHIA. Andrew Carnegie was lauded as "the master manipulator of the telegraph key in his day" by Colonel Joseph Green, 86 years old, Philadelphia's veteran telegraph op erator. . "I first met Mr. jarnegie, saia Colonel Green, "in 1857. I was at that time an operator for the Pennsylvania railroad in this city and frequently held conversations over the wire with him as private operator of Colonel Thomas A. Scott, president of the road. We all knew him as Andy" and recognized him as a master of the key." Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Main .7070. A 60S5. DAILY CITY STATISTrCS Marriage Llcem. QUTER-DAVIS Walter H. Qu1?r. 27, Princeton, Or., and F$rnie I. Davis, 17, Troutdale, Or. AK EBS-BOXMAN Richard Akers, legal, 75 West Sumner street, and Mabel Boxman, legal, same address. OLSEN-SHORT Earla A. OlHen, legal, 1109 East Grant street, and Grace E. Short, legal, 170 St. Clair street. LEIPZIG-HOLLEVORT Peter A. Lelp-ig, 30, 695 Tacoma avenue, and Helen Holle ort, 6, 428 Hoyt street. PIN ARD-DOFFLEM Y BR Leonard A. Pl nard, legal, 524 Rhone street, and Ethel Dofflemyer, legal, 24 West Fresco tt street. RITTER-INGLIS George A. Rttter. 28. 945 Clinton street, and Betsy Inglis, 22, 147 North Twelfth street. HANSEN -AY RES Ear! B. Hansen, 22, 403 Stark street, and Esther Ayers, 22, same address. ELK INS-DUNTON Robert J. Elkina, le gal, 107 East Twenty-seventh street, and Nina I. Dunton, legal, 1287 llallory street. H1CKS-HENMAN Eugene Hicks, legal, 533.1-i Rodney avenue, and Hattle Henman, legal, same address, 1RVIN-FEAKJNS Cecil H. Irvln, 21, Cor vallls, Or., and Rose Feakins, 18, 122 Gra ham avenue. STRED-VIGSTOL Warner StVed, 26, Ba Iem, Or., and Jennie VigHtoi, 22, Hoyt hotel. GUNTER-EGGENPERGER Earl Gunter. 27, 247 Taylor street, and Bertha Epgens perger, 24, 1234 East Jefferson street. Vancouver Marriage Llcentteti. JESPERSEN-CRABTREE Sophus Jasper sen. 29, of Oregon City, Or., and Maria Crabtree, 20, of Oregon City. Or. BEAUCHAMP-THUMPSON- Thos. Beau champ, 41, of Portland, and Alta Thomp son, 38, of Portland. SIEBBINS-FRANKLTN Charles Slebblns. 52, of Portland, and Mariana Franklin, Sli, of Portland. TRAVELERS' GUIDE. SAN FRANCISCO S. S. Rose City Depart 12 Kaon MONDAY, SEPT. 1 From Ainsworth Dock ' Fare includes Berth and Meals. City Ticket Office, 3d and Washington Phone Main 3530 Freight Office, Ainsworth Dock Phone Broadway 268 SAN FRANCISCO & PORTLAND S. S. LINES Astoria and Way Landings STKAMER GEORGIANA Leaves Alder street dock dally, ex cept Friday, 7 A. M. Returning leaves Astoria 2 P. M. Steamers Undine and Lurline leave Portland daily, except Sunday, 8 P. M. Leaves Astoria daily, except Sunday. 7 P. M. Fare $1.65 each way. THE HARKINS TRANSFER CO. Slain 1422 A 4m. Steamer for SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO SAILING MONDAY EVENING M. Bollam, A Rent, 122 Tblrd St. Phone Main 26. ' . STEAMERS The Dalles and Way Points. Sailings, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 7 A.M. DALLES COLUMBIA LINE Taylor St. Dock. Main 8065. AUSTRALIA ' KEW ZEALAND AND SOUTH SEAS wi. TmtalU and Karaloaga. Mall and pa. waEDI Mrvlca (rem baa truclK, it "tilON R. S. CO. 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