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THE 3IORNIXG OREGONIAX, SATURDAY; SEPTEMBER 13, 1919. 7 ALL OREGON FACES GASOLINE SHORTAGE!: championships as well aa tba aenlor ernita. The junior champlonahipa ara open to all athletea who have never com peted in an A. A. U. championship meet. The greatest a-alazr of atara ever ntered for a national track and field meet are gathered in Philadelphia. Aa an example of the class, nine printera have entered the senior dashes. five of whom have run the 100 yards Gravity Law Waived to Admit lit .S2 tSr-"fh.,f.SS LABOR Tl HREATEilS 24- 1WU T Emergency Supply. GOVERNOR TAKES ACTION The two dash events will bring; to gether Joe Loomia of Chicago, Charley Paddock of southern California, Henry Williams of Spokane. H. Kirsky of San Francisco, Nilly Hayes of Boston, J. Tayea of Chicago, Loren Murchiaon Jr., R- Patterson and Peter White, repre senting New Tork clubs. Ralph Spearow will have to buck up against a great flock of pole vaulters. Floyd Foss will try to beat hia recent world'a record of 13 feet 34 inches: Carl Buck of the Chicago Athletic club, winner of the A. A. U. title last year, will be on hand; Ed Knourek of the Illinois Athletic club, who finished sec ond last year, will compete; Mark WrlKht. former world's tltleholder, and J. Meyers of Dartmouth, intercolle giate champion, will complete the list. Charles Pores, the present five-mil champion, will defend his title against Max Boland. Hannes Kohlemanen and paddy Flynn. all of New York, Floyd "Mose Payne of Multnomah club. FIREMEN " DEUT ELECT1 IXTERXATIOXAIi ASSOCIATIOX W ILL XAME OFFICERS TODAY. Conference With Oil Companies At tended Also by State Sealer In dicates Necessity for Step. Portland and Oregon are facing a rather u-rious rasoline shortage. So erinna in fart, that Governor Olcott w A- nalilel. state sealer of weights and measures, attended a con ference here yesterday with represent attves of four oil companies to discuss wars and means of overcoming it. This does not mean that famine con ditions have been reached. There is not u vet an actual famine and the oil companies hope, with tha co-operation of state officials, to prevent one. But reserve supplies of gasoline are low, While the situation here is in some respects similar to that all along the Pacific coast, where for the past 60 days ' there has been a gasoline shortage. It is made considerably more acute here by reason of the fact that Oregon alone. ef all the coaat states, has wnai is known aa a "specific gravity" law gov erning the sale of gasoline. This law requires that gasoline sold in the state must have a specific gravity oi do. Orrgoa Reanlrra Gravity Teat. This is where the rub comes, and where the state is first to suffer acutely in any general gasoline short age. While the other Pacific coast states have gasoline laws, none of them has a specific gravity law. California, for instance, bases its gasoline require ments on the boiling points test, and the aame standard is accepted in Wash ington, thus leaving It to the oil com panies to furnish good commercial gasoline without hedging them with the technical requirements that it shall meet a fixed specific gravity test. The result of all this is that to meet the requirements of the Oregon law, the oil companies have to put the gaso line sold here through an additional refinement process. When there is a normal supply of gasoline the state gets its share, but when a general shortage exists It is the first territory to suffer. Sannllea Seat Klsewhere. twing to the general gasoline VANILLA JAGG COSTS WIFE snortage. it is a auxicuii ining lor me i oil companies to supply for Oregon I Divorce Testimony Ueveals That Ex users gasoline of the specific gravity Central Council Demands Use of Auditorium. WILSON TO BE QUERIED of J. W. Cusick & Co. here, and a popu lar and prominent Albany young woman, died yesterday at her home of her parents in thise city. She became ill three weeks ago and her recovery was expected until her condition suddenly became serious early yesterday. She was 22 years old. Miss Trask was born at Lyons, where her father con ducted a general merchandise store until recently. She graduated from the Albany high school and had been an employe of the Cusick bank the past I four years. Miss Trask is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Trask, who recently moved to Albany to be with their daughter; a sister. Miss Mabel Trask of Albany and a brother. Lloyd Trask of Lyons. Pip1 f ! MIL OPENS TODAY PFfiPI K ALL SET Committee to Ask President "Rea son for American Interference In Russian Affairs.''' CRACK RIDERS READY TO FOR SPEEDWAY PRIZES. GO I C. A. Crbanowica Stronjr Opponent or S. A. Fink for President and Close Fight Is Expected. The annual election of officers which was to have been a feature of Thurs day's session of the convention of th International Association of Fire Fighters, now being held at the Mult nomah hotel, was postponed. The elec tlon Is expected to precipitate a fight One of the strongest opponents Samuel A. Fink, now acting Interna tlonal president, for the position president is said to be Constantino A. Urbanowlrz. president of the Cleveland organisation. He is the candidate of the Ohio and Cleveland delegations. He is said to have been largely respon sible for obtaining an eight-hour day lor the firemen of Cleveland. Another candidate is Fred W. Bear of Kansas City, who is with the forces supporting Fink. However, it is said that if Mr. Fink sees that he will be unable to win he will throw his forces to Mr. Bear. required here." explained J. E. Balsley, -district manager here for the Standard Oil company. Thursday night. "This law prevents Oregon from getting available gasoline supplies that can be shipped to other states but not here. s ashing- ton uses the California boiling point law. so it is much easier to keep it sup plied than Oregon, because of the fact that a special grade of gasoline rauBt be made for this territory. "Of course, plus this specific gravity situation, there is a general shortage of .gasoline. It has been general all along the coast for the past 60 days. One reason for it. of course, is the big demand made upon all reserve stocks of gasoline by the war, and another reason is the great Increase in the number of automobiles. Oil rpaaln Dotmm frmoat. "The oil companies are doing their tmost to relieve the situation and to get in a cargo of gasoline. The next I ert H. Scott, Mrs. oGodwin's attorney. tract lias Powerful Kick. LOS ANGELES. Introducing the va nilla pag. The extract form of lnebrity was for mally presented in Judge York's court at the trial of the divorce suit of Ida P. Goodwin against Andrew P. Good win. She got a decree. Goodwin, a druggist, said to be in Tucson, Aria., at present, failed to ap pear in court to confirm or deny that the supposedly Inoffensive extract of the vanilla bean induced intoxication as well as giving zest to cakes and pastry. Goodwin was said to be addicted to the vanilla habit. One witness testi lied that after he left a house which she rented to him in San Pedro she found about a bushel of bottles which formerly contained vanilla extract. Mas he in any business which would require the use of vanilla?' asked Rob gasoline cargo is due here on Septem ber 21. The problem is how to con serve present stocks and obtain enough additional supplies to carry us over until then." In the face of what Is an emergency It has been suggested that the gover nor waive the requirements of the specific gravity law to permit the im portation of some available supplies of gasoline from Washington. The Union Oil company asked the governor for au thority to bring In several thousand barrel of gasoline meeting that state's and California requirements from cargo that arrived there yesterday by boat. The governor gave permission for this to be done, in consideration of the fact that a real crisis exists. Only by such importations from other points where a supply can be apared. oil men emphasise, can a famine here be averted. At present there is un derstood to be a reserve supply for only six days in Portland. SHORTAGE THREATENS OREGON Supply Expected From Washington to Tide Over Emergency. SALEM. Or.. Sept. 12. (Special.) Oregon is threatened with a gasoline famine and unless relief is forthcom ing within the next few days, auto mobile owners may find themselves without fuel, according to W. A. Dalziel. state sealer of weights and measures, who left here at noon yester day for Portland to attend a meeting of representatives of the various oil concerns of that city. The Oregon laws provide that gaso line sold in this state shall have a specific gravity of 56. and there is said to be a shortage of this class of fuel. A cargo of oil testing 64 Vi reached a Sound port a few days ago. according to Mr. Dalziel. and it is prob able that an effort will be made to have a part of this shipment brought Into Oregon to supply present needs. To do this, however, it will be necessary for the Oregon officials to waive en forcement of that part of the statute protecting consumers against the pur chase of oil inferior to that provided by law. Although reports reaching Mr. Dal-, ziel's office from officials of the Union Oil company of Portland Indicate that the present situation is serious, he hopes a sufficient supply will be ob tained from Washington ports to tide over the emergency. BIG MEM MEET IS OH NATIONAL A. A. V. PROGRAMME DRAWS PEAK OF TALENT. "He was not," was the reply. In addition to habitual intemperance, Mrs. Goodwin charged desertion and non-support. one witness, a woman who was a neighbor of the Goodwins in San Pedro. testified that about midnight one night she heard a loud report from the Good win home. Fearing Goodwin had shot himself, she made an investigation. Goodwin came to the door, she said. an dexplalned that he had attempted to heat a can of spaghetti and beans on the stove. The can had exploded and frescoed the beans and spaghetti on the walls and ceiling of the kitchen, ac cording to the witness. She said he ap peared, to be under the influence of liquor at the time and failed to give a satisfactory explanation of his alleged act. GREETING SENT CARDINAL President Bids Mercler,' Belgium's Great Churchman, Welcome. OX BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPECIAL TRAIN, Livingston, Mont.. Sept. 12. A welcome to the United States was extended to Cardinal Mer cler yesterday by President Wilaon. telegraphing to New Tork in response to a message of greeting sent him yes terday by the Belgian prelate. Remembering your kind visit to Ma- lines," Cardinal Mercier telegraphed. "I beg to expres to you my respectful and cordial greetings on landing on Ameri can soil." Mr. Wilson replied: "May I not bid you a most cordial welcome and extend to you ray warm personal regards? I shall look forward with the greatest pleasure to greeting you in person." Six Athletes Wearing Winged M Represent Northwest In Premier American Track Contests. The national track and field cham pionships of the amateur athletic union of the United States will get under way this afternoon in Philadelphia with six members of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club and one member of the Spokane Athletic club competing against the greatest athletes in America. Every one of those who are on the northwest team, composed of Ralph Spearow, M. A. A. C: Johnny Murphy, M. A. A. C: Millard Webster, M. A. A. C.; "Mose" Payne, M. A. A. C.; Wll lard Wells. M. A. A. C; Arthur Tuck. M. A. A. C. and Henry Williams, S. A. C. will be eligible for tha national junior FIGHT IS MADE ON OPIUM Honolulu's New City Attorney on Trail of Chinese Dens. HONOLULU, T. H.. Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) Police officials are waging a campaign against opium dealers be cause of the strong prod from the recently-elected city attorney, William Heen. As a result of half a dozen Hawaiian girls being found victims of Chinese opium dealers, the campaign against the drug dealers is waxing warm with half a score of arrests dally. Six girls were rescued from the clutches of Chinese last week. The facts were brought to light In the police court. Three Chinese were sentenced to jail for six months and other prison ers found guilty have appealed their cases to the higher courts. ARCHAEOLOGIST IS GUEST Dr. Robinson Addresses Progressive Business Men's Club. An interesting programme was pro vided Thursday for members of the Progressive Business Men's club at the weekly luncheon at the Benson hotel. Walter Jenkins, popular T. M. C. A. song leader, gave several vocal selec tions. Dr. George L. Robinson of McCor- mick Theological seminary, Chicago, a student of archaeology, was the speaker, his subject being "An American in the Near East." He told of his extensive travels and investigations in Palestine and Egypt, with delightful mastery of language, and of the ancient peoples who inscribed their history on stone or sealed it away in tombs of notables. Entrance of "Slim" Carter, Bear Delegates to the central labor conn- State Mystery,. Adds Interest cil of Portland and vicinity Thursday I . n)o . th . ,K - t. -,,,1,1,- anHI. I IQ uuwume ui r.cuis. torlum is refused by the city commis- oinnri b i ui s gennrai nmncsi iiiccuiik I , , . . , , of labor, the council shall call for a I motorcycle racing men oi "rn.ua referendum vote on a general strike of and the northwest are anxiously awalt protest of 24 hours' duration. ling the word "go" una tne dropping By a vote of 41 to 38 the delegates of the flag in the 15-mile northwest refused to concur in the request for I championship race which heads tne support of organized labor to the ap- I card of eight races on the last pro- peal of the Pacific Coast Rescue and Protective society for the nursery home. Election of a committee of five mem bers was authorised to wait on Presl- gramme or speed events oi tne year. The exhibltiona will be presented at I the Rose City speedway Sunday after noon, commencing at 2 o clock. In addition to the honor of winning. dent Wilson and "to. find out from him I the speediest rider will carry away a the reason for our apparently unwar ranted Interference In the internal at fairs of Russia." Committee to finery Wilson. The resolution embodying this action was introduced by Charles Saunders and signed by him and A. M. Madison, C S. Hartwig, Martin L. Mather, J. E. Thorn ton, J. Laundy and Carl HamiL It reads as follows: Whereas. President Wilson has many times stated that self-deter mination of all nations, however small, must be the basis of the settlement of this war for democracy; and Whereas, the United States govern ment is maintaining an army in Si beria which is attempting to regulate the internal economy of Russia; and Whereas, the allied powers are blockading soviet Russia in an attempt to starve that working class republic into submission: therefore, be It Resolved. That the central labor council of Portland and vicinity elect committee of five to wait upon the president to find out from him the reason for our apparently unwarranted Interference in the Internal affairs of Russia." Radicals Control Session. Radicals of the labor movement were distinctively in control of the meeting, which was characterized by exhaustive debate. E. J. Stack, secretary of the state federation of labor, and Harry Anderson, president of the council, were obliged to leave at 10 o'clock to attend conferences previously arranged. Before leaving the hall Secretary Stack expressed the wish that the council would not again request the snug little sum of money. All other races are open events. Dealers and fans as well as the participants are now speculating as to what figure 'Slim Carter, the new rider from Cali fornia, will cut in the open event. Carter, strictly a western rider, has I been racing in the Bear state and will arrive in this city today in time to have at least one workout over the track providing the rain and mud does not Interfere, before the Sunday sched- I ule. "Slim" has been racing In Cali fornia and has never before ridden hereabouts. His performance will be watched with interest. A novelty race has been listed among the stock events a one and one-half- mile race from a standing start. The riders will face west at the half-mile pole, racing one-half mile the reverse way from the pole to the judges stand, using their brakes to stop. They I will then turn to the left around the starter and race around the track. The race calls for clever riding and han dling of brakes. Officlols of the day were Thursday announced aa follows: W. F. Mc- Kenney, track director; C. E. B. Clement, referee; Fred J. Wyatt, track manager; George True Strine, as sistant track manager; A. C Furlong and E. C. Clausnitzer, treasurers; Perry Abbott, Carl Rose, Harry Hughes and George Parker, judges; George O. Brandenburg, I. j. Durand, C G. Marks, Walter Fink and Ted White, timers. Gates will be thrown open at 12:30 P. M. INDIA LEARNS FROM FILMS officers to procure the auditorium for!-, ... - t-.. a meeting, and said that he was tired PosiUon f Whlte Woman ered by Compromising Scenes. of making such requests to be denied. He added that, judging by attendance at previous meetings held under the auspices of the council, there were other and available meeting places large enough. Motion Adopted Without Dissent. The matter was brought before the body as a result of a prolonged dis cussion of the appeal for raising a fund to be advanced as a loan to provide the necessary bail . for the release of Charles Bennett from prison at Fort Leavenworth, pending a new trial on appeal. A substitute "motion -embodied he proposal to procure the auditorium. The motion was amended to authorize referendum on a 24-hour strike of protest. dissent. The Plumb plan of railroad opera tlon was a bone of contention, though again the radical element had the ma Jorlty of advocates and control of the voting power. Difference of opinion was expressed as to what the plan pro poses. The plan had been thoroughly explained by a representative of the railroad brotherhoods at a preceding meeting. The Plumb plan was opposed on the ground that it was a proposal of VICTORIA, B. C. An interview with Miss Constance Bromley which ap peared recently in a London paper is interesting to people here not only be cause Miss Bromley has many friends here, but for the sidelight which it throws on international viewpoints. Miss Bromley is a daughter of Mrs. Bromley. Jubb of Chamberlain street. Dak Bay, and spent nearly two years here before she went out to India, first I to join a repertoire company, later as I manager and editor of the Looker On, Calcutta periodical which bad a wide circulation, and finally as manager of one of the biggest "movie houses in Adoption was voted without Calcutta. The following is the story from the London paper: The white women in India realizes that she is receiving less respect from the natives than before and a great deal of this is due to the indiscriminate showing of films on social and mar riage problems,' said Miss Constance Bromley, who has just returned to England after four years in India and who was for some time manager of a large picture theater in Calcutta, main- mil si in hiii - - . . - n i sin in mnimipwmii snimis WP mm ii iuhuhljiih uxm mwi.ii si.snLmsamw.it jii l.yr.LJ,l.iaimi:'J!.JS iiis--MiiiiiiiifittMiiiriiBiiiiiiii" iinm. infc ninnrini nit! ii timmsii firiiniiii-n-tifiiiri if s" f - " A B J A 'jV'l - v , s - 14 ' 4 ' - ' 1 . I S 1 s J ? 1 : a in Mi "y .- -I'I i t- , ."TILLE "im0BmmWlim ss-nMssiassnn. nnnssnBnBnaBns.ssssnanM-----s-- SM-s-B- Jsnnnnssnnn-anBnns, SHsassasnnn mm I ill1 lUa t.i COMEDY NEWS rTTHE home she had planned with him, the joyous working together, the full, happy years gone! Tomorrow, her trial for murder of the brutal husband that "duty" had bade her wed. What was the verdict of the jury and of fate? Hear it, see it, today! the owners, and supported strongly on I ly frequented by Europeans. that ground that it was not. It was championed by one delegate because of the newspaper cartoons ridiculing it. LEET MOVEMENT IS GIVEN TACOMA REVIEW SHIP. Historic Vessel to Go to Bremerton Navy Yard Sept. 17; Otber Visits Arranged. The natives are great film enthus iasts and there are 14 picture houses in Bombay alone. They will sit right through all parts of a long serial film from dawn to dusk. The trouble Is that most of the audience are illiterate. The wording on the film is occasionally translated, but even then it is not un derstood. They, therefore, put any con struction they like on the plots of ATTLESHIP OREGOX WILL: BE stories and get their ideas of European women inextricably mixed. They think of their own treatment of women and the rigid laws of custom they have to obey. If the women go to the picture theater they have to sit apart in a well-curtained box. The Europeon women .too, are careful in their conduct and are not seen in even ing dress in public. And then comes the great contrast of the film, where the natives see white women in all sorts of garbs; on one occasion they saw the heroine of a long film, mainly garbed In bathing cos- man in a railway carriage was robbed tfer he had smoked a cigarette given him by a fellow passenger. A dis charged soldiers was robbed of his money and clothing and left naked by the roadside near a suburban village. VICTORIA, B. C. Sept 12. Move ments of the Pacific fleet following its visit to Seattle were announced by Admiral Hugh Rodman in detail through Captain N. C. Twining, chief tnme" ,They 8ee white w,lvef, on th! of staff yesterday screen in compromising situations and The battleship Oregon will leave he re,suJt ,B tnat they ? ,a low Pln- Seattle early September IS for Tacoma nd anchor there to receive Secretary the Navy Daniels, who will review the fleet in Commencement bay from the Oregon. All other ships will leave Seattle at a later hour in column for mation. Secretary Daniels will pre cede the fleet aboard a destroyer. The Oregon will leave Tacoma September 17 for Bremerton navy yard. The period between September 15 and IS will be devoted to visiting Ta coma and other ports in the northwest. fter which the vessels will disperse to navy yards or to designated ports of the discharge of their wartime personnel. ion of European morals.' Bandits Use Drugged Cigarettes. LONDON. Criminals who rob their victims after giving them drugged cigarettes are attracting the attention of Scotland Yard. In one instance a BRITISH STEEL MEN WORRY Retention of Home Trade 'Sow Ap pears Questionable. LONDON. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) British iron and steel manufacturers are seriously won dering whether tney will be able to retain their home trade, not to speak of extending their export business, in the face of steadily increasing prices of materials and labor. Americana who have looked over the situation, de clare the British need not worry if they will adopt modern methods, for wages in the industry are much higher in America than in England. Anxiety is chiefly confined to makers of railway materials, tools, machinery, engines and those things which go to fit out ship wore plants. The British workman not only de mands hiffh wages, but he Js charged with refusing to give its equivalent in labor, thus cutting down production and making it impossible for his em ployer to fill contracts on time. j America, awakening to the demands' of Europe, is getting the bulk of the business, while Japan is a close sec ond, according to high trade authori ties. Even Germany, with its rioting workmen and lack of raw materials, is after trade, and if report can be believed, is getting it. products had a world-wide sale before As an instance of the trials which beset British manufacturers it is pointed out that one company whose products had a world-wide sale before the war has been able to obtain only one contract out of 20 in competition with German and United States bidders. told the judge that Mrs. Craft was cir culating "defamatory rumors" about her in the neighborhood. "One of you has to move," Judge Stewart decreed. "Who wants to?" Mrs. Peyton said she didn't. So did Mrs. Craft. JUDGE PLAYS "SOLOMON" Fighting Women In Court Lottery to See Who Moves. CHICAGO. Solomon was the wise man when it came to deciding which of two women was the mother of a child, but even he might have been puzzled to decide which of two women should move after it was found that they could not inhabit the same build ing peaceably and without hair pulling contests. Judge Stewart did it, how ever. Here's how: On several recent occasions either Mrs. Bessie Craft of Mrs. Helen Peyton has haled the other Into court. They lived in the same apartment building. Todav it was Mrs. Peyton's turn. She ALBANY BANK CLERK DIES Miss Zoe W. Trask Succumbs After Three Weeks' Illness. ALBANY, Or., Sept. 12. (Special.) MIm Zoe w. Trask. clerk In the bank Phone your want ads to Tba Orego nian. Main 7070, A 6095. HELP YOUR DIGESTION When acid-distressed, relieve the indigestion with Kl'HOIQ Dissolve easily on tongue as pleasant to take as candy. Keep your stomach ' sweet, try Ki-moids. 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