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. Or NEW ZEALAND.
tM California St., Ban Frmncco,
Iramnff'g ana raiUuau aaenviai.
Travelers to All Parts of the
World
See ns for aitranwolp reervatlon
Llde.'l A Clarke. 105 3d St.
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