Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, November 22, 1919, Page 6, Image 6

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    TIIE MORNING OKEGOXIAN, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1919.
TAKES OVER F000
Use in Candy and Soft Drinks
to Be Sharply Curtailed.
WHOLESALE PRICES FIXED
End of Present Supply In Sight.
Refiners Now Expected to Buy
Cuban Stocks.
by bailee, was brought to this city
and lodged in the coun v jail yes
terday by Deputy Sheriff MacDonald.
The prisoner was taken in custody
by Sheriff Ellic Jones of Sacramento,
Cal.
Complaint ai sworn to by A. B.
Man ley of the Manley Automobile
company, and the Powers Furniture
company. It bem alleged that the de
fendant purchased a machine from
Manley for 91095 and left with It for
California after making only a few
payments. Under the came of An
drew Lean, it i3 also charged, he
obtained furniture from Powers store
and shipped the goods to California
before full payment had been made.
He is held on 12000 bail.
WASHINGTON1, TCov. 21. President
"Wilson today placed the government
again in control of the nation's food
supply by transferring the authority
of food administration to Attorney
General Palmer.
Removal of wartime functions of
Administrator Hoover resulted direct
ly from government efforts to avert a
famine in sugar, but the powers dele
gated to the head of the department
of Justice will be used also to help
put down the ever-mounting cost or
living.
For the present the attorney-general
will not put into operation all or
the machinery permitted under the
executive order, but should conditions
arise to make it necessary the full
pressure of all the broad power vested
in him will be exerted.
Hoarding to Be Blocked.
Mr. Palmer's staff will begin im
mediately to build up a sugar distri
bution tystem which will allocate all
sugar stocks in the country- It will
provide an equitable system of dis
tributing supplies and will defeat any
concentration or hoarding, officials
said.
Plans, tentatively decided upon, pro
vide for increasing the price of all
sugar excepting the Louisiana crop
for which a price of 17 cents already
has been fixed, to 12 cents a pound
wholesale.
Through this increase, new sources
of supply . are expected to be opened.
With assurance that a fair margin of
profit, said to be $1.54 a hundred
pounds, will be allowed, sugar re
finers are ready to enter the Cuban
markets and purchase all available
stocks, it was stated. Thus, officials
believe, the increasedsprice will avert
a shortage which threatens to become
a famine in 60 days.
Immediate action also is contem
plated in curtailing the consumption
of sugar by manufacturers whose
products are not regarded as essential
food. This will apply .particularly to
soft drink dealers and candy manu
facturers. The abnormal increase ot
sales of these articles and the conse
quent heavy drain on the sugar sup
plies is traceable, officials declared,
to the enforcement of prohibition.
While it has not been definitely
determined, the cut in sugar supplies
to these classes of trade probably
will be about 60 per cent. Officials
indicated that if the exigencies of the
situation demand, they would reduce
the allowance to soft drink and candy
plants to 25 per cent of their normal
requirements.
Arrangements have been completed,
subject tc changing conditions of the
si'gar situation, whereby beet and
csne sugar refiners will enter the
Cuban markets immediately. The de
partment, however. will exact a
ignea agreement with firms entering
that trade to consign all of their pur
chases to this country. This will
mean that American dealers will get
a large proportion of the 4,000.000
tons of raw- sugar yet available in
Cuba, officials said.
Normal Demand 4MKH),000 Tons.
Normal consumption of sugar in
the United States is about 4.000,000
tons. In other years about 3,000,000
tons was imported from the Cuban
fields, to which was added the average
production of approximately 1,000,000
tons or native-grown. But official,
were alarmed lest European dealers
should continue their heavy purchases,
already in excess of 1,000,000 ton
in Cuban markets, and deprive this
country of the full supply it usually
gets there. The refiners who have
agreed to go into the Cuban trade
have been urged, it was said, to use
all haste, that the stocks may not be
exhausted before this nation is sup
plied.
The danger of a sugar famine will
be greatest next month, it was said
as stocks are rapidly being depleted
and in many sections already ex
hausted, and the necessity for gar
Tiering all available supplies from
outside becomes daily more urgent.
Howard Figg, assistant to the at
torney-general in charge of food sales
distribution. has worked out plans for
carrying out the drastic regulations
proposed as soon as approval has been
had by the several government agen
cies which it will be necessary to
consult.
LOGGING ENGINEER DEAD
Walter Hunt of Portland Killed on
Bis Creek Line.
ASTORIA. Or., Nov. 21. (Special.)
Walter Hunt of Portland was instant
ly killed in an accident on the Big
Creek Logging1 company's railroad
ear Knappa, about 8 o'clock this
morning. Hunt was the locomotive
engineer and was crushed when his
engine was knocked off the track by
a runaway car and rolled down an
embankment.
He was 28 years of age, a son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt of Westport,
U. S. GIVES UP GIANT
VESSEL TO ENGLAND
Cunard Line to Operate Im
perator, ex-German Ship.
OTHER SHIPS AT ANCHOR
Loses Possession
Shipping: Board
of One of Largest Crafts Afloat;
Leviathan Repairs Costly.
NEW YORK. Nov. 21. The United
States shipping board surrendered
the steamship Imperator to the
British ministry of shipping today.
The vessel was received by E. M.
Raeburn, director-general of the
the theft of a machine during the
state fair.
While in jail here, according to
Sheriff Needham, Walsh planned with
another prisoner to rob the bank at
Kelso. A " third prisoner overheard
the conversation and later reported
the plot to the sheriff.
Walsh, in company with four com
panions, engaged Potter to take them
to Columbia Beach in the latter's car,"
but upon arrival at the resort the
driver was covered with a revolver
and told to continue the trip to Che
halls. Upon nearing the latter city
the men robbed Potter of all his funds
and Jumped from the machine.
Sheriff Needham says Walsh has a
criminal record and is suspected of
stealing several automobiles in this
part of the state.
FAILURE TP DEPORT STIRS
ATTORXEY-GEXERAL APPEALS
TO POIXDEXTER.
WIDOW OF VANCOUVER PAWNBROKER, ACQUITTED OF
HIS MURDER.
STORE SALES LEAD
PORTLAND $100,000 AHEAD OF
SECOND COAST CITY.
to
8,
Total Receipts Krom Opening
November 8 Aggregate $52 8,
037.22, Report Shows.
Portland's army store sales hav
exceeded the next highest army store
on the Pacific coast by more tha
$100,000 in total volume of sales
date, according to the report of th
quartermaster department, receive
yesterday by Major Frank P. Tingley,
deputy zone supply officer. The tota
sales through the local store from th
time of opening until November
which Is the date of the latest
port, exceeded 5500,000.
The total volume of business In each
of the four stores of the Pacific coast
from opening to November 8, were as
follows, according to the report
Portland $.".2S.03T.2
t-an Fran c-lsco S.'iM. ."6.
Seattle 34l.t!70.
Los Angeles 240.U53.04
For the one week ending Nov em
ber 8. Seattle stood high among th
siores of the Pacific coast, exceedin
Portland by $20,000. The loss of th
load by the local store is due largely,
it is considered, to the fact that sales
already have been so heavy that
etocks are becoming depleted. Se
attle's sales totaled $156,294.21. while
Portland's were $136,869.30. Seattle
was fifth in the country, while Port
land's store stood sixth. St. Louis
stood first with sales aggregating
$244.511. 07.
The total amount of sales of the 25
stores in the United States from date
of opening to November 8 was $9,072,-327.57.
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PAN BOOKS IN SHAPE
Evidence Given in Defense of
12 Company Officials.
STREET LEAVES STAND
Necessity to Prove Reds Advocated
I. W. AV. Doctrine Criticised
by "Washington Official.
OLTMPIA, Wash.. Nov. 21- (Spe
cial.) In attempting prompt deporta
tion of alien members of the I. W. W.
following the Centraila murders of
four returned service men by 1. W. W.
conspiracy the state of Washington
has encountered refusal of the fed- i
eral Immigration department to at- I
tempt to, deport 13 out of 14 aliens
arrested at Centralia. unless the ,
state can prove that each of the alien
members actually preached I. W. W.
.propaganda. From this attitude
Attorney-General Thompson appealed
by wire tonight to Senator Miles
Poindexter including a warning that
public sentiment of this state has
reached the endurance limit in L VV.
W. activity. The situation is thus
presented to Senator Poindexter by
Attorney-General Thompson:
"On Armistice day at Centralia the
state arrested 14 alien members of
the I. W. W. I requested the immi
gration department to take the men
in custody under exparte bernat, 225
Federal 429. The department advises
Commissioner White at Seattle that
mere membership in the I. W. W. is
not ground for arrest for deportation,
but the state must prove that the
alien actually advocated the things
which the bernat case judicially de
clares L "W. W. advocate.
"The immigration -department de
clines to take any action in 13 of
these cases because the state can not
show actual propaganda carried on
by these men. If this is the proper
construction of the law, I would sug
gest that it be amended immediately.
"Public sentiment in Washington
will not indefinitely tolerate the con
tinued presence of alien members of
an organization which court records
throughout the nation show to be se
ditious. Take this up with other
Washington members in congress."
AUTOIST SHOOTS SHERIFF
ATTACK MADE WHILE PAIR IX
OAR ARE HANDCUFFED.
MRS. ELIZABETH BEAUREGARD.
and left a widow residing in Portland,
but no children. He also left two
brothers and two sisters James Hunt
of St. Helens. John Hunt Jr. of West-
port, Nora and Lila Hunt of Portland.
EXPORTS GAIN HEAVILY'
Balance of Trade for tJ. S. in Ten
Months Over Three Billion.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 21. American
exports in October, 1919, were valued
at $632,000,000, an Increase of $35,000,-
000 over those in September and of
$130,000,000 over those in October a
year ago, according to a statement
today by the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce. Exports for the
10 months ended with October were
valued at $6,501,000,000, an increase of
$1,440,000,000 compared with the cor
responding period last year.
October imports totalled $416. ooo,-
000. a decrease of $20,000,000 from the
high mark of September, but an in
crease of $169,000,000 over those of
October, 1918. For the 10 months'
period imports amounted to $3,113,-
000.000, a gain of $543,000,000 over the
corresponding period the year before.
The figure for the first 10 months was
higher than that recorded for any
previous full calendar year, the state
ment Baid.
Defendant Completes Testimony on
Resolution Giving: Pandolfo
Control of Half of Funds.
CHICAGO, Nov. 21. Samuel C. Pan
dolfo hired an accredited public ac
countant to put and keep the Pan Mo
tor company books in first-class
shape, according to testimony the de
fense introducea today Into the trial
of Pandolfo and 12 other Pan com
pany officials accused of misuse of
the malls
This testimony was In the shape of
records of a hearing before the Min
nesota State Securities commission in
May, 1918. in which the cancellation
of the Pan license to sell stock was
considered.
At this hearing, E. J. Bishop, the
accountant in question, according to
the records read, testified that the
company books and the fiscal agency
books were kept in good condition.
They did not, however, show any
change after the agreement of Sep
tember 7, 1917, whereby Pandolfo was
to handle 25 instead of 50 per cent of
the incoming money, Mr. Bishop testi
fied.
Street .Finishes Testimony.
Norman A. Street, a defendant, fin
lshed his testimony. He was ques
tioned about the September 7, 1917,
resolution making Pandolfo advertis
ing manager of the company and giv
ing him the handling of a second 23
per cent.
It was my understanding that the
state securities commission knew
about the resolution all the time," he
testified.
'Did you know that the decision of
May 31, 1918, by the commission al
lowing the Pan company to continue
the sale of stock was based on
agreement that Pandolfo was to get
only 5 per cent of the proceeds from
stock sales? he was asked.
"No" was the reply.
Service of Car Described.
Thomas Farnworth of Greeley, Colo
rado, a rancher, together with his
of
BANK RESOURCES GAIN
Portland Institutions Show Growth
of $40,000,000 in Year.
All records of Portland financial
strength again were smashed when
the banks gave out their official fig
ures In answer to the call by the gov
ernment as of November 17. A steady
upward trend of resources and de
posits ts Indicated and an increase of
over $40,000,000 in resources is shown
for the past year. Deposits have also
increased a like amount during the
year, while the report shows the in
crease for the past two months, or
since the call of September 12, to have
exceeded $5,000,000 in deposits and
$10,000,000 in resources.
The figures for the 23 banks of the
city, consolidated, are as follows:
ministry, in behalf of his govern
ment. He announced that the vessel
would be operated by the Cunard
line. It is expected to sail for Eng
land within the next 10 days.
Seven other former German pas
senger ships, allotted to the United
States to return troops from France.
as was I tie imperaiur, lih txi c m
possession of the shipping board.
These ships aggregate 128,000 gross
tons and are:
The Cape Finisterre, 14,503 tons;
Mobile (ex-Cleveland),. 16,900 tons;
Graf Waldersee, 13,193 tons; Kaiserin
Auguste Victoria, 24.581 tons; Pat
ricia, 14,446 tons; Pretoria. 13,234
tons; Prinz Frederick "VVilhelm, 17,-
0S2 tons; and the Zeppelin, 14,107
tons.
German Crews Bring Ships.
All these ships, including the Im
perator, were in German ports when
the armistice was signed. They
were brought to .British waters by
German crews and there turned over
to the United States navy, several of
the former German officers accom
panying the ships on their initial
trips under the American flag.
With the last of the American
troops home, it was generally under
stood that the ships would be turned
back to the inter-allied commission
and in anticipation of such action
more than 1500 British sailors were
brought to the United States by the
Cunard and other lines to man and
operate a portion of them.
The remaining seven Bhips of the
German fleet are at anchor or tied
up to piers here with custodian crews
of the United States shipping board
in possession.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. With the
delivery of the steamship Imperator
to the British government in New
York today, the shipping board loses
possession of one of the largest ships
afloat. - The Leviathan, the other
monster liner, is still owned by the
shipping board and is undergoing re
pairs before being put in the trans
Atlantic service. The vessel has only
recently been turned over to the
board by the war department.
Repairs to Be Costly.
Contrary to popular opinion the
largest ships are not the most profit
able, officials of the board said to
day. It wiit cost $4,000,000 to $4,500,-
Deputy Disarms Man Accused
Stealing Machine Revolver
Hidden Beneath Seat.
SAN JOSE. Cal., Nov. 1. Willi;
Condron, deputy sheriff, was shot and
seriously injured late today in
struggle with two men supposed to
be automobile thieves from San Fran
cisco d riving a car with the license
No. 20,500. Condron had boarded the
machine, put the pair under arrest
and was driving toward the county
jail when the man beside him in front
pulled a revolver from under the seat
and fired. Deputy Sheriff George
Wilson, in the back seat, disarmed
the man.
The prisoners gave their names as
Paul Freeman, age 23, Seattle, and
Frank McKean, age 20, Tacoma.
Wilson sa id the party was pro
ceeding to the jail, the alleged bandits
being handcuffed together. One of
them shouted "get him," WilBon said,
and Condron thinking this indicated
an attack on Wilson, turned his head.
Then one of the men, who already
had been searched, drew the weapon
from its hiding place and fired at
Condron, according to Wilson.
Wilson said he drew his own pistol
and was about to fire when Condron
said:
"Don't shoot."
This and the fact that the first shot
had attracted a number of children
from a near-by school playground,
whom he felt might have been in
jured, kept him from firing, Wilson
declared.
The automobile ran a block down
the street with no one at the wheel
after the shooting. The two men
were locked up.
Of ill m
I
consider the courteous treatment of our
customers only second in importance to
careful banking methods. We invite your ac
count, offering not only the service which we
may give but also the courtesy with which it will be rendered.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF PORTLAND OREGON
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK WEST
OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Oswald Andrae and Theodore Schmidt.
family, the owner of 110 shares of Pan The capital stock is $5000, according
stock, said that his 250 model Pan
ar has been driven 10,000 miles.
T only had trouble with It once,"
he said, "and that was my own fault."
Er. Charles H. Burgin of Delta.
Colo., and owner of Pan stock and a
model A car, testified that his car
had given him good service.
Frank G. Hurley of Seattle, WTash..
told of buying stock and G. J. Dice
of Eagle, TJolo., an automobile man.
testified that it was the car itself and
not a salesman that influenced him
to buy shares.
All the witnesses who had bought
stock said that no representations
were made to them concerning the
time when the company would be pay
ing dividends.
Stone Company Incorporates.
SALEM, Or.. Nov. 21. (Special.)
The Standard Art Stone company,
with headquarters In Portland, hr i
been incorporated by R. Nitsc'.ke
to articles filed here today. The Pa
cific Construction company has
changed its natne to Copenhegan
Brothers company. The corporation
has offices In Portland.
ic weeks" marking the overthrow of
the Madero government.
MERCY ASKED FOR BANDIT
Plea Made to Save I.lfe or Felipe
Angeles, Villa Lieutenant.
NEW YORK, Nov. 21. A plea tor
the life of Genera! Felfpe Angeles.
Villa's lieutenant, who is facing court
martial after being captured by Mex
ican federal troops, was made by tel
egraph today to President Carranza
of Mexico by F. Gonzales Garza, gov
ernor of the federal district of Mexico
under Madero.
Garza appealed for clemency on the
ground of the fidelity of General An
geles to the cause which Carranza
nnd r.irita supported during the "trap.
Lawyers In Bloody Bout.
BEND, Or.. Nov. 21. (Special.)
Charged with assault and battery, a
warrant was Issued here. this evening
for the arrest of Ross Farnham, local
attorney, on a complaint sworn to by
K. O. Stadler, also a member of the
Bend bar. Mr. Stadler asserts that
as the outcome of an argument Farn
ham struck him while he was sitting
at his desk. In the combat which
followed, Farnham'a head was jam
med through the glass front of a
farmers. Mr. Walker made hi first
shipment this week, the animals go
ing to Tacoma. The animals he ia
purchasing are for Tacoma and Seat
tle buyers.
Demand for Horses Heavy,
CHEHALIS. Wash.. Nov. 21. (Sper
cial.) George R. Walker, secretary
of the Southwest Washington Fair
association, reports a good market
again developing for draft horses and
has made a number of purchases the
past few days from Lewis county
MAMMY O' MINE 9c
And Other Popular
Hits for
5c. 9c, 15c
On Sale Saturday on
"Our Musical Floor"
the 7th
J merchandise 01 rierii unt
Resources ..........
Deposits
l.oana and discounts
Cash and exchange
Nov. 1. 1918.
Sir.5.T-'9.21
125.0M0.903
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Sept. 12. 1919.
IS.KI.64
16U.6Mt.147
111.172.11(8
47,521.087
Nov. 17. 1918.
197.173.15
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42,684.668
LAWYER OUTLAWS' TARGET
Two Shots Fired at Attorney Wag
ing Big Will Contest.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. Com
plaint that two would-be assassins
fired at him last night while he was
driving home in his car has been made
in the Dolice by James MacKenzie. at
torney for Lieutenant Wesley Croth-
ers of the Canadian army, wno is
waging a contest of the 12. 000.000
estate of the late Senator James G.
Fair of Nevada.
Two shots were fired, both striking
the automobile, MacKenzie said.
FUGITIVE IS RETURNED
Andro Pelipenk Brought From Sac
ramento to Face Trial.
Andro Pelipenk. who was
In Portland on a charge of
wanted
larceny
Road Viewers File Report.
OREGON CITY. Or.. Nov. 21. (Spe
cial.) County Surveyor H. H. John
son, Fred Lins, W. H. Douglas, as
viewers for the Verdigan road, a new
road petitioned by George Kitzmiller,
filed their report in the clerk's office
Friday. The report shows that the
viewers estimate that opening the
road will cost flOO and that it will
damage the property of A. Bews in
the amount of $25. The road is asked
for running south from the quarter
section corner of section 7. in town
ship 3 south, of range 5 east, of the
Willamette meridian.
Dr. and Mrs. Coe Lose Baby.
Ir. and Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe are
receiving condolences over the death
of a baby daughter born to them
vesterday.
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VICTOR
Records
On Sale
Today!
000, they said, to put the Leviathan
in commission again and considering
the large crew necessary and the tre- I
mendous cost of operation, the re-
turn o the liner will not net as much !
as the proportionate profits from a
medium sized vessel.
Transfer of the seven other former
German liners now held in New York
to Great Britain. Chairman Payne
stated, depends upon the disposition
of the American-owned tank steam
ships in the custody of the British
in the Firth of Forth.
The shipping board has proposed
to the supreme council, Ir. Payne
said, that the tankers be delivered
to the United States and the former
German ships be turned over to Great
Britain until the ultimate ownership
is decided.
WALSH KNOWN IN SALEM
Chehalis Prisoner Recently Out of
Jail at Capital.
SALEM. Or., Nov. 21. (Special.)
Harold Walsh, who was arrested at
Chehalis yesterday on a charge of be
ing one of five men who robbed Lee
Potter, a Portland jitney driver, ol
$16 recently while en route to the
Washington city by auto, was released
' from the Salem Jail two weeks ago,
after serving a term of 30 days fol
RED SEAL
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jl.KO and Male Quartet
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74JSS Somnambula (Could I Believe)
lJSO By Galli-Curcl
71.-.74 Quartet In A Minor Minuet
L50 ...By Elman String Quartet
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Cohen on His Honeymoon..
By Monroe Silver
179?1 Rlnze Awav March
By Pietro Deiro
Sousa Medley March
By Pietro Deiro
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...By Victor Concert Orches.
Midsummer Mgnia jream
Nocturne
...By Victor Concert Orches.
31790 Gems rrom Miie. Moaiste...
Sl.oo ..By Victor Light Opera Co.
25tw5 Oh Lady! Lady Medley Fox
trot. .. .Victor Military Band
The Rainbow Girl Medley
Fox-trot
By Victor Military Band
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his wife associate in
timately for
month with another
man. Then he be
came suspicious of a
third, and a climax
was brought about
which gives particu
lar fitness to the
title, 'The Vengeance
of Durand.
Pathe News
Comedy
OF JEMSEH AMD VONHfRBERGh
PLAYING NOW.
TILL TUESDAY ONLY
in his usual excellent
musical accompaniment
and in the following con
cert programme today at
1:30 P. M.:
The Blue Danube. .Strauss
Minuet Beethoven
La Gioconda. . . .Ponchielli
Serenade Drigo
"Bunch of Scotch Heather"
An original arrangement
by Cecil Teague.