20 THE MORNING OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY, . DECEMBER 10, 1919. 'SNOW STORM HALTS IT Longshoremen Gradually Are Driven to Shelter. MILLS ALSO SHUT DOWN f?ropcuts Today Are That Opera tions 'Will Consist Mainly or Moving Up All Dales. A shiverinjr waterfront struggled vainly yeKterday against drifting snow and encrusting ice to maintain business as usual and j?et the ships out on schedule. As the wind grew keener and the snow piled higher, one after another of the crews working the vesselK ceased work, lumber mills closed down and dredges ceased oper ation until at the fall of dn.sk the waterfront had succumbed to the un accustomed weather and operations were practically at a standstill. Vessels lying down the river were the first to give way. A veritable blizzard sweeping down the Columbia made the position of the steamer Mendora at St. Helens untenable to longshoremen. Tics from the boom in the river became coaled with ice and slipped from the slings before they could be deposited in the vessel's hold. The steam schooner Celilo of the Mc cormick fleet, also loading at St. Melens, was obliged to stop work, as wll as the Nelson steamer Mayfaif at Wauna. The .sailing schooner Tnca, loading At the Kastern &. Western Lumber company's mill in the lower harbor, was obliged to call a halt early in the day. Longshoremen loading the schooner KIse at the Jnman-l'oulsen mill, stayed with the job until late afternoon, and then were driven to cover. Kerry slips by early afternoon had become so coated with hard-packed fiiiow and ice as to menace the lffe of every driver attempting to use them. Iliver steamers, with the ex ception of the J. N. Teal, which is ice locked at The Dalles, ran as usual, though their decks and superstruc tures were piled high with snow and the paddle wheels were encased in ice. indications last night, with the thermometer at 16 degrees above zero and the snow still falling, were that maritime operations today would con sist principally of moving up the dates on the port calendar. GALVESTOX DRYDOfK T.OM-: A'luiiuiiff irunurc win liin 10,00 0-Ton Vessel. OATVKSTON. Tex., Dec. 9. The new 10,000-ton floating drydock here, ' const ruct ion or which recently was conmleteri- hn.q hppn mi-rAaufiillv -.- ; inio operation. The drydock is constructed in two ' sections. The first has a lifting ca ; parity of 6400 tons and the second 600 tons. The structure and opera- Lion is simple. The bottom of the structure is a row of pontoons, sim ilar iiv appearance to ordinary pon toons But closed at the top and divid ed into two compartments. Steel ; wings go upward from both ends of ; the pontoons, giving a cross section of the dock the appearance of the letter U". To lower the dock the ; valves are opened and the water "-'" it tv i iic pumuons, to raise it I the water is pumped out. The two sections of the dock may be worked separately or together. ; "When joined together the drydock is caiable of raising any steamship en- tering this port. Lumber Order Canceled. Tho steamer Ontaurus of the Green Star lino started loading Mon day at the Inman-l'oulsen mill. She is to take a general cargo to the west coast of South America. He cause local mills could not turn out lumber fast .enough to avoid delaviiia tne vessel, orders for 1.500.000 feet of .uiiiut-i- ior me Lvntaurus had to be -...-r.vu. 11 was said Monday by . ariwriKIU, assistant ftencra manager of the Columbia-Pacific Shipping company, local representa tives of the (Jreen Star line. The Centaurus will complete her general cargo at San Francisco. Pacific Coast Shipping Notes. SEATTLE. Wash.. Pec. 0 (Special 1 the Meaiiu.il p Turydamas. of the Hlu tunnel hue, i expected in Seattle Decem ber '0. and will berth at pier 14 The ves sel Is bringing shipments ot ceneral care., and will mad In Seattle. Vancouver and l ranclsco for the I'nlte.l KinRdom The steamship I'rotesilaus. of the Blue Funnel line, now In Vancouver, B c will return to Seattle December 17 to complete her cargo, and will sail from this port tor . "China. Japan and the Philippines Decem ber l:i. With Mrs. Stertman. wife of Attorney L. .... oieuiiiun, as sponsor, the Skinner & Kddy corporation will launch iiuihli.. steamship Kobin Adair next Thursday mornlnK at S:30 o'clock, the vessel being the second of four which the corporation la building to its own account. Arrange ments for the launching ceremony are Virtually completed. The lO.Otitl-ton steamship Nile, one o the vessels built by the plant for the ship ping board, went out on her six-hcur trial trip and endurance test at o'clock this morning, commanded by Captain "Buck" Baih-y. In her speed runs on the gov ernment course she averaged 12. N knots. Aboard were F're.ident 1. E. Skinner Vice-President and Ueneral .Manager Henry G. Seaborn. Naval Architect .lames Bar clay and Chief Engineer c. N. -McCallum tf the shipbuilding company; A. T. B. t-.hl.-la of Hie American bureau of ship ping, and the shipping board's staff of , experts. The steamship Norwood of the Pacific American Fisheries, which recently com pleted a voyage to Akutan island for the -Alaska Sulphur company, yesterday was chartered by V. R. llrnce & Co. to load at the mills of the tlanify Lumber company and the Willapa Lumber company, on WU lapa harbor, for ports on the west coast of South America. The Norwood arrived lu Bellingham a few days ago. after de livering a cargo of machinery and sup plies in the north. SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 9. l Special.) American sailors who man Uncle Sam's ships are responsible for the expenditure ot large sums that will be allotted for changes In the construction of all ships ouiu tor tne cnitea states shipping board l:i Japanese shipbuilding plants. Ameri cans retuse to sign for a vessel eauinued with five-foot bunks and wooden bathing uevices. x nis was discovered today when local snipDutlciers. announced they were preparing to submit bids for repairs on th shipping board steamer Eastern Breeze. And now it has been learned that L nele am will have to pay about $00,000 to ''make the necessary changes on each of the ships built in Japan.- There are numerous frowns in the vicinity of the emergency fleet headquarters, but along the waterfront there is heard only sub ,dued laughter. Although the Japanese freighter Noma Maru arrived here from Yokohama yes terday, the yellow flag was still flying aloft this morning and did not come down until late in the day. This was caused by the action of local federal doctors who refused to give the vessel clearance to proceed until it was certain that ail of the rats had succumbed to the fumes of cyanide. An official Investigation into the mys terious reasons for the unusually long passage of the army tuff Slocum will be "v conducted here immediately, according to , ativiffim received today from "Washington. The STocum sailed from Balboa for this i port on October tiS, and" the tugr and two J chasers had been .riven dd for lost when word was received that they had arrived j at Salina Cruz, Mexico. The Slocum was out of coal. As all of the vessels were ; equipped with wireless the local ship- j pins men cannot understand why the radio i was not used to flash word to this or ; some other port. j PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Dec 9. I (Special.) Under charter to W. R. Grace & Co., the steamer Norwood, owned by the Pacific American Fisheries, will load lumber for the west coast. The Norwood just returned from Alaska, where she car ried supplies and machinery for the AJaska Sulphur company, on Akun island. The Admiral line steamer Admiral ! Goodrich, arriving: In Pueet sound y ester- j day from Callao, via San Francisco, will j be docked tomorrow Tor a number of alter- j ations preparatory to entering service be tween Puget sound. Portland, Coos Bay, i Eureka and San Francisco. The altera- ! tions will be made at Todd's drydock on ; Harbor island. t When the United States shipping; board , steamer Nile, which underwent her trial tesL today, enters commission she will : have an expensive phonograph in her mes ! room. The phonograph will be placed on I the steamer by the members of Nile Tem ple, Auchunt Arabia, order of Nobles of , the Mystic tihrine. in honor of which or- ! Kanization the craft was named. The Nile Is scheduled to load for the orient , under the management of Frank Water- house t Co. In the service of the Rolph Mail Steam ship company, the steamer Joan of Arc ivill operate between Puget sound and west coast ports. She is now loading 1000 tons of freight at Seattle and will complete her cargo at San Francisco. Returning fi-om the west coast the Joan of Arc will bring sugar for the refinery at Vancouver. ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 9. ( Special.) The steam schooner Johan Poulsen ar rived at 10 o'clock this morning from San Franciaco en route to Portand with freight. Bringing a cargo of fuel oil the tank steamer Captain A. F. Lucas arrived at 1:30 today from California and proceeded to Portland. The steamer City of Topeka arrived at 12:30 today from San Francisco, via ports, with freight and passengers for Astoria and Portland. The steam schooner Trinidad finished nadjng a cargo of umber at the Ham mond mill ttils afternoon and sailed at 3:110 o'clock for San Pedro. COOS BAY, Or., Dec. 9. (Special.) Tte steamer G. C. Lindauer arrived this morti lng early from the south, making her first appearance here in more than a month. She is loading lumber at the Bay Park mill. North Bend. The steamship City of Topeka sailed north for Portland last night, about 10 o'clock. The southwest storm prevailing here put the telephone lines to the coaat out of commission and no communication is avail able at present with that neighborhood. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 9. (Special.) Local tugboat men are holding by today, awaiting an expected storm, due to strike here during the night. Taioosh island re ports at the entrance of the straits of Juan de Fuca gave a wind velocity of 54 miles an hour from the northwest. All small craft found shelter during the day on the upper end of the sound. With tMOO tons of flour from Tacoma for the east coaat, the Englantine is due to wail at 4 P. M. tomorrow. The Gaffney is due here to load tomorrow a full cargo of flour. In a postcard received from Captain W. F. .Eckert, of the Klkridge, he states that i he is in Genoa. The Klkridge loaded a j part cargo of flour here. She is return- j ing to the United States in ballast. ' Tomorrow morning the first of the working force at the Todd yards will start ' back. Since Saturday a crew have been getting the plant ready for operation. Jt is expected that about 400 men will be put on in the morning, which will give the yard about 700 men. Additional men will be hired each morning until the full crew is on. Sixty-five standard water tube ship boil ers which are a part of the large amount of machinery he'd in the concentration yards of the emergency fleet corporation in Tacoma have bein sold to the National Trading company, according to an an nouncement just made. These boilers were to be used in the hulls of the Ferris type of ship, but when the government de cided a year ago to stop construction of this type of vessel, the boilers were left on the hands of the shipping board. The Ketchikan, with -00u tons of ore from Alaska, arrived at the smelter today and began to discharge. The steamer Governor, of the Pacific Steamship company, will not call here this trip. The Governor was due here Thurs day, but instead of calling at this port will undergo her annual government inspection. The motorshlp Cethana, one of the ves sels recently purchased by the Chilberg in terests, of Seattle, from the Australian commonwealth, it due here to begin load ing lumber for Kngland. The vessel wilt go into the Norther n Pacific dock first and then shift to the Danahcr mill. From Tacoma the Cethana will go to Everett to complete her cargo. Marine Xotes. The OoOO-ton steel steamer Montague was checked in yesterday by the Pacific Steamship company. She has been as signed to the oriental service of the com pany and will start loading a general car go as soon as weather conditions permit. The steamer Manham, which was sched uled to leave Seattlo Monday night to load flour at Portland, will not start from the sound until tonight, according to tele- f phonic information received from Seattle yesterday by the Columbia river pilots. The steam schooner Johan Poulsen ar rived from San Francisco last night with freight for the Parr-McCormick company and aocked at Couch street. The steamer Brookwood. which came to Portland from Grays Harbor to coal, will shift to "Westport today, where she will take on 120,000 feet of ties for the At lantic. The steam schooner Mayfair, loading at Kalania, is expected to leave down to day for San Francisco. The steamer Nishmaha will shift today to the O.-W. R. Jk N. dock to have access to the large crane there, which is the most powerful on the river. December "S has been set by the G. M. Stnndifer Construction corporation as the date of the delivery of the steamer Abercos to the emergency fleet corporation. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND. Dec. 9. Sailed at noon, steamer Rose Cit3s for San Francisco. Ar rived at y P. M.. steamer Jonan poulsen, from San Francisco. Arrived at 9 P. M., steamer Citv of Topeka, from San Fran cisco via Eureka and Coos Bay. Arrived at 11 P. M.. steamer Capt. A. F. Lucas, from San Francisco. ASTORIA. Dec. 9. Arrived at 12:30 P. M.. steamer Capt. A. F. Lucas, and left up at 2 P. M., from San Francisco. Ar rived at 10 and left up at 11 A. M-. steamer Johan Poulsen, from San Francisco. Ar rived at 12:35 and left up at 2:30 P. M.. steamer City of Topeka, from San Fran cisco via Eureka and Coos Bay. Sailed at 3:20 P. M.. steamer Trinidad, for San Pedro. GAVIOTA, Dec. 9. Sailed yesterday. Steamer W. F. Herrin, for Portland. SEATTLE". Wash.. Dee. 9. Arrived Steamers Rush, from Vancouver island ports. Departed Steamers Fulton, for British Columbia ports; Admiral Schley, lor San Diego via San Francisco; army transport Dix, for Manila. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 9. Arrived. Phoenix, from Albion: Johanna Smith, from Coos Bay: Avalon. from Willapa: MarcfV from Balboa; Katherine, from Ventura: Argyll, from Tacoma: W. S. Porter, from Everett: Asuncion, from San Pedro. Sailed Avalon. for San Pedro; J. .A Moffett. for Seattle; Effna, for New York; Katherine, for Eureka. . TACOMA. Wash.. Dec 9. Arrived Steamer Ketchikan, from Alaska. V. S. Naval Radio Reports. (All positions reported at 8 P. M. yester day unleHA otherwise indicated.)' ADMIRAL SCHLEYf Seattle for San Francisco, 12 miles from Seattle. WEST IVIS. Seattle for Yokohama, 422 miles west of Flattery. ADMIRAL DEWEY, Seattle for San Francisco. 210 miles from San Francisco. WASHTENAW. San Pedro for Portland, 275 miles from Portland. F. H. BUCK. San Francisco for Everett, 334 miles north of San Francisco. EL SEGUNDA, Point Wells for Rich mond, 750 miles from Richmond. Salem Girl Accuses .Chinese. SALEM. Or.. Dec. 9. (Special.) Salem officers are searching for Sing Lai. Chinese, who is wanted here on a charge preferred against him by Ella Wolfe. 14-year-old girL Lai for merly was employed in a local restau rant and an alleged assault is said to have taken place in that establishment. 40-FOOT CHANNEL TO ASTORIA URGED Recommendations Made Naval Base Report. in EARLY WORK IS ADVISED Waterway, Safe and Commodious for 1000-Foot Ships With Draft of 40 Feet, Is Advocated. "WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 9. The recommendations of the naval board affecting harbor entrances and chan nels leading to the naval bases makes mention of Astoria. Of the Oregon port the report says: "The board recommends that a safe and commodious channel for ships of 1000 feet in length and 40 feet in draft from the breakwater at the mouth of J.he Columbia river to the port of Astoria be provided at the earliest practicable date for the use of commerce and the navy, and that a sufficient anciiorage therein, off the piers of the city of Astoria, be provided to permit of the anchor age of a minimum of eight battle ships of the size given above. Regarding development of naval es. tablishments on the -coast of Oregon and "Washington the report says: "The board is in full agreement with the report of the Helm commis sion as to the necessity for the loca tion of a submarine destroyer and aviation base between Puget sound and San Francisco and is in further agreement with the commission in its selection of the Tongue point site at Astoria, Or., as the best site both strategically and tactically. The board recommends the site in the locality chosen, but that a larger area, including all the shore front be tween the railroad and the pier head line extending from the western point where Tongue point peninsula Joins the mainland around and including Tongue point ( and along the shore line to the mouth of John Day river, is essential. Three-Year Project Planned. "The board recommends that this area be secured at the earliest date practicable, either by gift or pur chase; that its development to a capacity for the successful mainte nance and operation of 12 submarines, six destroyers and the necessary air craft for the patrol of the waters in the vicinity of the mouth of tho Co lumbia river be proceeded with at once; that the project be planned to be completed within three years; and that the plans be so made as to per mit of the operation of double the force recommended above in time of emergency. "It is further recommended that the navy department take up with the war department the desirability of the dredging of the necessary channel and anchor ground in the vicinity of this proposed base to per mit a safe entrance and anchorage or at least a division of dreadnoughts. This anchorage and channel develop ment will not only be of great serv ice to the fleet, but will be of greater aid to commerce, a and will permit and provide for the full use of the fine harbor facilities built and build ing at Astoria. Columbia Bar Problem Solved. "It is the opinion of the board that the problem of the Columbia river bar has been satisfactorily solved, there now being a depth of 42 feet over the bar, and the board is also of the opinion that it will be only a short time until a minimum of 50 feet will be obtained, thus making this a prac ticable port in any weather. "It is recommended tha-t an ap propriation of $1,500,000 be obtained from the present congress, with au thorization of the completed project not to exceed $3,000,000, to be com pleted within three years. "Although not, strictly speaking, a part of this report, the board, calls attention of the department to the desirability, primarily from a com mercial point of view, but also from the navy point of view, of the con tinued development of the Columbia river and the Willamette river as far as Portland, Or." RUBBER CARGO TO GOME L S SHIP HEADED FOR SEATTLE IS COMING TO PORTLAND. West Hartland, Carrying 5000 to 6000 Tons of Product From Sing apore, Due Here Shortly. Routing of the rubber cargo of the steamer West Hartland through Port land was made certain by a telegram received Monday by the Portland Chamber of Commerce from Jacob Speier, representative of the chamber in the east. Captain Speier tele graphed that he had secured permis sion from all the consignees but one for diversion of the rubber to Portland. The West Hartland, one of . the freighters in the oriental service of the Admiral line, loaded between 5000 and 6000 tons of raw rubber at Singa pore and the Straits Settlements. Be cause of the unfamiliarity of Malay shippers with this port, the Portland ship had to bill the rubber to Seattle. As all of the rubber is consigned to importers In the east, principally in New York, and as facilities for trans shipment of the cargo are as good here as anywhere on the coast, the local branch of the Pacific Steamship company and the Chamber of Com merce immediately brought pressure to bear on the eastern consignees to secure their permission for diversion of the ship from Seattle to Portland. The West Hartland will be ordered by wireless to proceed to Portland. She left Manila November 28 and 13 expected off the mouth of the Colum bia about the end of this month. LUMBER EMBARGO ORDERED Officials of Southern Pine Associa tion Get Xotice. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 9. Notifica tion of an embargo on all lumber ex ports to become effective at midnight tonight was received today by offi cials of the Southern Pine associa tion from B. L. Winchell. regional director of the United States railroad administration at Atlanta. COCAPOXSET DAMAGE HEAVY Property Loss, in Fire at Pier I Estimated at $250,000. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Dec 9. Fire early today on the shipping board steamer Cocaponset at her .pier here was extinguished after it had caused a loss estimated at' $250,000. Two holds had to be flooded. The ship's cargo was largely brandy and dried fruits. The extreme heat forced out the steel sides of the vessel and made her decks red hot. Police declared the blaze might have been incendiary. As a result of to day's fire and the one Sunday aboard the Norwegian tramp steamer Ter rier, at a pier on the local water front, state, harbor officials have asked that a guard be placed on every vessel loading here. The Cocaponset was to have left shortly for European ports. TACOMA MILLS TO EXPAND Pacific Box Company to Increase Capitalization to $300,000. TACOMA, "Wash.. Dec. 9. (Special.) To meet the demand for box shooks in the offshore trade, the Pacific Box company, Tacoma, is increasing its capitalization from J200.000 to $300, 000 to care for plant expansion, it was announced yesterday. The company has two box factories in operation now and has acquired a dock. Box shooks for the Hawaiian fruit trade, kerosene cases for Peru. Mex ico and Borneo and salmon cases for Alaska form the chief output of the factory. The gross sales this year totaled $514,823.86, as against $53, 020.50 in 1916, and present orders for 1920 indicate that the business will reach $700,000 in 1920. C. A. Prass. secretary-treasurer of the company announced. ARETIRIS GETS MACHINERY Hull Towed at High Tide to Pa cific Marine Iron Works. The installation of machinery., in the Hough type hull Areturus. pur. chased from the 'emergency fleet cor poration by E. S. Hough, designer of this type of vessel, and tho, Brooks Scanlon Lumber company, was start ed yesterday at the plant of the Pa cific Marine Iron works. The hull was towed Monday night from the fleet corporation's mooring ground in North Portland harbor by the port towboat Portland. In moving the hull out of the slough advantage was taken ot the highest tide of the season, which made ' it possible to move the hull over places of normal present aeptn les3 than her draft. MOLASSES TANK IS FILLED Falls of Clyde to Finish Discharge of Cargo Today. Tho tank, ship Falls of Clyde is expected to finish discharging her cargo of Bulk molasses into the storage tanks at the St. Johns termi nal some time this morning. The first of the tanks was filled yester day and a generous quantity of mo lasses pumped into the second. Pumps were working perfectly last night and the steam-heated molasses was flowing freely in spite of Its pro verbial behavior in cold weather. The Falls of Clyde will by, towed to San Francisco by the next Associated Oil tanker to discharge here. MULES TO GO TO MANILA Horses Also Loaded on TransKrt Di for Shipment SEATTLE, Wash., Dee. 9. Mules from the Pacific northwest, number ing 321, were driven aboard the U. S. army transport Dix here today for a 3-day trip to Manila. Two hundred and one horses went along as ship mates for the mules. The horses are to be used by cav alrymen and the mules are to do the heavy work around the army posts of the Philippines. Most of them came from the remount station at Camp Lewis, Tacoma. t SO Ships Building in Orient. HONOLULU, T. H.. Dec. 9. (Spe cial.) Thirty cargo boats ranging in size from 5000 to 13,000 deadweigh tons are being built in the orient for the United States shipping board ac cording to Andrew Farell, former local marine reporter, who returned from Shanghai a few days ago. Tide at Astoria Wednesday. High. Low. R:0S A. M 8.4 feet':0T A. M 3.0 feet 2:36 P. M 9.7 feeti9:4B P. M 0.7 foot Columbia Hirer Bar Report. NORTH HEAD, Dec. 9. Condition the bar at 5 P. M. east. 24 miles. -Sea .smooth ; wind LANE TO VOTE ON BONDS Road Improvement Programme Es timated at $1,984,500. EUGENE, Or.. Dec. 9. (Special.) By a vote of 13 to 1, the committee appointed to pass upon the advisa bility of bonding Lane count? for the construction of roads, decided this afternoon to place the matter of bonds before the voters. The sum to be, issued was not touched upon at to day's meeting and probably will come up for action at tomorrow's session. At the meeting today the " county engineer, at the direction of the com missioners, had prepared a tentative map showing the roads that need to be improved in order to give Lane County a comprehensive highway sys tem. The total improvements neces sary, according to the estimates made by "the engineer, will cost SI, 984. 500. The map was made as a basis of the committee's work with regard to recommending roads to be improved. and in the main It was approved by the meeting. The improvements as suggested by this map will cover a total of 300 miles of market roads. Port Calendar. Offshore Vessels to Arrive. Name. From Date Manham Seattle Dec. 12 Challamba. Br. M. S.Seattle Dec 20 Irene. Am. M. s pan Francisco. Dec. 20 West Aleta. Am. str 1'uiret Sound. .Dec. West Hart'd. Am. St.SlnKapore ....Jan. 1 Mont Cervln. Fk St. . Marseilles Jan. 1 Coastwise Vessels to Arrive. CaDt. A. r. Lucas. ..San Pedro. Dee. 10 Washtenaw Pt. San Luis. .Dec. 10 E. H. Meyer San r rancisco.Dec. 13 Wapama ......... ..San1 Francisco. Dec. 13 Klamath ........... ban t rancisco. Dec. 19 Tahoe San Francisco. Dec. 24 To Depart From This Port. Mayfair .......... v San Francisco. Dec, 10 Mendora' t'nited K 1 n ird T ..... 11 Centaurus ...West Coast... Dec 32 jionLasrue . ...... orient ......Dec 23 Vessels la Port. Else. Balfour. Guthrie & Co.. Inman- Poulsen mill. Inca. A. F. Thane & Co.. Eastern A Western mill. Celilo. C. R. McCormick. St. Helens. Siletz. Pacific Steamship company, dry dock. Mendora. Columbia-Pacific Shipping company. St. Helens. Diablo. Pacific Steamship company Pa cific Marine Iron works. Falls ot Clyde. Parrott Co, St. Johns terminal. Multnomah. C. R. McCormick, drydock. Diana, Columbia-Pacific Shipping com pany, municipal dock No. 1. Montague. Pacific Steamship company Clark-Wilson mill. Mayfair. Charles Nelson A Co.. Wauna. Nishmaha. Pacific Steamship company North Bank dock. Brookwood. W. R. Grace A Co.. O.-W R. & N. dock. Johan Poulsen, Parr-McCormlck. Couch street. City of Topeka, Pacific Steamship com pany, municipal qock is o. . Captain A. F. Lucas. Standard Oil com panya Willbridge. LEADING SEA POWER OE ieneral Board Recommends Naval Expansion. 22 SHIPS ARE WANTED Experiences of Late War Are Re ferred To in Report Scout Cruisers Praised. "WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec 9. Rec ommendations of the navy general board for the building programme for 1921 include two battleships, one battle cruiser. 10 scout cruisers, five destroyer "flotilla leaders." and six submarines. ' "The navy of the United States should ultimately be equal to the most powerful maintained' by any other nation of the world," not later than 1925. tho report adds. The statement of policy as to the ultimate strength of the navy and the time when it should be achieved is a reiteration of the board's position as carried in its report to Secretary Daniels each year since 1915. Contrary to his custom for the last few years, Mr. Daniels did not make public the- board's recommendations when his own annual reoort was re leased, although it was attached to that document as it went to the presi. dent. Mr. Daniels did not himself recommend any building programme, witnnoiaing this for later presenta tion, m Expansion la Irsed. In its recommendations marin nnh. iiu voaay at tne department, the gen eral board urged a policy of naval expansion that It will guarantee pro tection of coast lines and the rapidly expanding merchant marine against any naval power in the world. Such protection, the board declared, can be had only by increasing American sea power to a point where it is "second to none" and maintaining It at that level. Th6 board further asserted that the war having demonstrated that poEses sion of a fleet powerful enniich to protect its commerce is vital to a:iv niition in time of hostilities, the main tenance of such a navy by the United States would be a "great preventive of war, for no nation would light:y provoke hostilities when her own commerce would thereby be Im periled." The necessary future strength of the American navy, there fore, must depend, the board said, upon the naval .strength of the powers in a position to challenge our legitimate commercial expansion upon tne nign seas. Declaring the greatest naval lesson of the war was the. Immense advan tage of uniformity in speed and arma ment of first lihe ships, the board as serted it already was evident that first line ships of the American navy must have heavier armament than the 12-inch guns of the first dread noughts. These ships, the board said, wer rapidly assuming the same rela tionship to the navy's superdread noughta that the older battleships bear to the first dreadnoughts them selves, with the time approaching when they can no longer be consid ered as effective first-line ships. The Oerman fleet, the board declared in this connection, was handicapped and not strengthened by the presence of pre-dreadnoughts of slower speed and lighter armament in the battle of Jut land, because they reduced "the ma neuvering and fighting power of the entire force." Scout Crulxera Commended. Emphasizing the deficiency of the American navy in scout cruisers, the board, recommending the construction of ten of these ships, cited the value of such craft to the British fleet dur ing the war and declared them to be essential to "any well-balanced" navy. Recommending construction of five ships of the super-destroyer type, the board emphasized the usefulness of such ships in connection with de stroyer operations. As a means of ap plying and developing the lessons of the war in. submarine construction. the board recommended construction of six types of pilot submarine rather than a large building programme in present types. One destroyer and one submarine tender completed the pro gramme. For development and construction of aircraft during the year, the board recommended an appropriation of $27,- 000,000 with $6,000,000 to be used for experimental construction. RIVER STEAMERS SOLD WILLAMETTE COMPAXY TO OP ERATE FLEET OF EIGHT- Ocklaliama, Georgie Burton, Annie Comings, lone Bought From Western Transportation. The Willamette Navigation company has bought all the boats of the West ern Transportation company, and now operates a fleet of eight river steam ers, the largest number ever operated by a single company in the river. It was announced yesterday by B. T. McBain, vice-president of the com pany. Bain, vice-president of the company. The river steamers bought from the Western Transportation & Towing company are the Ocklahama, Georgie Burton. Annie Comings and lone. Vessels previously owned by the Wil lamette Navigation company are the steamers Claire, Ruth and N. R. Lang. The river steamer Nespelem, brought down from the Snake river two years ago by the Porter brothers, is oper ated under charter by the Willamette Navigation company. tsotn companies concerned in tne J transaction are controlled by the Crown-Willamette Paper company, and the boats are used chiefly in serv ing the paper mills at Oregon City and Camas, though they operate under the regulation of the interstate com merce commission and also serve way landings. Boats serving the Oregon City mill customarily stop at the Os wego cement plant and carry general freight between Oregon City and Port land, and those serving the Camas mill stop at Vancouver. Offices of the Willamette Naviga tion company at Oregon City were given up yesterday, and this fact led to the disclosure of the big deal in river steamers. The company moved into the former offices of the Western Transportation & Towing company in the Pittock block, which have been given up by the latter company. The understanding Is that the Western Transportation & Towing company has gone out of business. Officers of the company are: A. J. Lewthwaite, president; B. T. McBain. vice-president; A. I. Bloch. second vice-president; William McKay, secre- WORLD tary, and Captain R. J. Young, manager. -The acquisition of the steamers Ock lahoma, Georgrie B"urton. Annie Com ings and lone by the Willamette 'Navigation company was made effec- I ttvA DArpmhAr 1 hut not disclosed until yesterday. LOGGER KILLED BY LIMB Workman Near Bend Fatally In- jured by Falling Branch. BEND, Or.. Dec. 9. (Special. 1 G. Van Maren, aged 47, faller for the Brooks, Scanron Lumber company, was killed while working in the woods near camp No. 2, nearly 15 miles from here yesterday afternoon, when a tree limb fell, striking him on the head. While being brought to Bend Van Maren died without ever recovering consciousness. The tragedy occurred after Van Maren had brought down a big pine and was trimming off the boughs. As the tree fell one of the limbs had ap parently broken off, lodging in a nearby tree. As the logger worked, the "mass of wood became detached and crashed down upon him. His only relative, a sister. Mrs. C. A. Mahan, last heard of in Tillamook, cannot be located. INGRATITUDE iS PUNISHED Man Who Benefitted by Theft anil Blamed "Pal," Gets 6 Months. When Isaac Jackson and James Hadden appeared in municipal court yesterday. Jackson to answer to a charge of vagrancy and Hadden for the larceny of an overcoat, it devel oped that Hadden had taken the over coat from a Third-street house and had given It to his friend Jackson to keep him warm during the cold snap. Then Jackson repaid his- friend by attempting to get himself a light sen tence by telling all he knew about the theft of the coat on the part of Hadden. The result was that Jackson drew a six months sentence from Municipal Judge Kossman and Hadden received 30 days. DAIRY MEET POSTPONED Additional Work Caused by Storm Demands Attention. Because of the storm yesterday, the Oregon Dairymen's league postponed its annual meeting to Tuesday of next week. Eighty members of the league met in the library and discussed league matters informally. M. S. Shroclt, secretary, said in speaking of the postponement: "The dairy farmers, when a snow storm comes suddenly, are confronted with many problems, the biggest of these being, the care of the stock. The roads and the train service are secondary considerations. In stormy weather the work on the farm Is doubled." On Wednesday, December 17. the annual convention of the Oregon But ter and Cheese Makers' association will be held in the Portland hotel and" will continue for two days, closing I with a banquet December 18. I s GIRL WORKS WITH ROBBER Holdup by Pair Believed to Be Man and Woman, Reported. Eugene E. Bernstein, who gave his address as Vancouver barracks, re ported to Detective Captain Circle late yesterday that he had been held up by two robbers, one of whom he believed to be a woman dressed in man's clothes, at East Seventh street and Missoula, Monday night. He said that the robbers overlooked wha: money he had in his vest pocket. Mr. Bernstein said he was ap proached from behind by the two rob bers, and after they had accosted him the girl held a gun on him while the man searched him. He said the girl was dressed in boy's clothes, with blue serge coat and khaki trousers. A bandana mask covered her face, but the cap was pushed back enough to show fluffy hair. TWO ROBBERIES ADMITTED Astoria Murderers Make Full Con fession of Crimes. ASTORIA. Or, Dec. 9. (Special.) William Wilson and Parila Axel Branner. the young men arrested at Clear Creek. Utah, for the murder here of Frank Gowan, arrived here at noon today. This afternoon they made signed confessions of the mur der, and also admitted robbing the Astoria Grocery company store and the residence of Mrs. Wilson early last month. At the latter place they stole a quantity of jewelry, which Branner is said to have thrown from the car window while en route from here to Portland on the morning following the murder. LUMBER FIRM BANKRUPT Rogue River Company of Gold Hill Declared Insolvent. GOLD HILL, Or., Dec. 9. (Special.) The Rogue River Lumber & Box company, a corporation, of Gold Hill, has been declared by the United States district court an involuntary bank rupt. The liabilities of the concern probably will amount to $12,000, while the assets, consisting principally of lumber, will amount to less than 4000. The concern was the late lessees of the old Gold Hill Lumber & Railway company's mill and railway plant on Sardine creek, six miles north of Gold Hill, which was recently acquired "by the First National bank of Grants Pass. SUGAR SURPLUS IS SOLD Eugene Cannery Turns Over Car load to Relieve Sliorfuge. EUGENE, Or., 1 Dec. 9. (Special.) A carload of sugar yesterday was turned over to the local wholesale houses by the Eugene Fruit Growers' association to be sold to Eugene peo ple, thereby relieving to some extent the shortage that has existed here as well as In other cities of the coast. The association bought several car loads of sugar early in the season for canning purposes and the end of the season finds the association with a carload of sugar on hand. Convict Gives l'p to Officers. SALEM, Or., - Dec. 9. (Special.) John Tuel, who yesterday escaped from the penitentiary wood camp, to day surrendered himself to the offi cers at Oregon City, according to in formation received by Warden Stein er. An officer left here tonight for Oregon City fo return the convict to Salem. Women Favor Death Penalty. SALEM, Or., Dec. 9. "-(Special.) Members of the Women's Marion County Republican Study club, at a meeting here today went on record favoring restoration of capital pun ishment in Oregon and discontinu ance of the pardon and parole system as far as they affect life term convicts. CARS STILL RUNNING DESPITE SNOWFALL Transcontinental Train Serv ice Badly Deranged. CITY TRAFFIC AFFECTED Traction Companies Hope to Keep Lines Open, But All Depends on Storm Development. Up to late last night reports re ceived at local railroad offices were that storm conditions had not seri ously interfered with traffic in the district centering at Portland. No lo cal delays due to the storm were noted, but some of the transcontinen tal through train schedules are badly deranged. Oregon-Washington train No. 17. due at 7 P. M was more than 12 hours late in reaching the east line of the state, having been delayed by storms prevailing over the con tinental divide. Train No. 19, also of the Union Pacific system, was about three hours late. All through trains remaining in service since the reduction in the number under orders due to coal shortag, are expected to be slightly belated. Without any change in the schedules tho trains remaining are compelled to do considerable extra work, which consumes time on each trip. It is expected that hereafter most through trains will run some whut behind time during the period ot" reduced service. Slrertrnra Still llunnlng. Tho Portland Railway. Liaht & rower company maintained reason ably satisfactory service throughout the day. At the rush hour in the evening a number of minor mishaps disturbed service somewhat on some of the lines. Automobiles stuck in the snow, withoat chains or carrying heavy loads, caused several delays. A delivery truck distributing newspa pers went dead and was being towed up Morrison street by a service car when the load became too heavy,' and the two cars blocked streetcar traf fic for a time until cars were lined up for two blocks. Then the motor man on one car had a happy thought and pushed the cars ahead of him and got under way again. The operating division of the trac tion company believes the lines will be kept open unless the storm assumes more severe proportions, either in the way of an exceptionally deep fall of snow or by turning into sleet that might bring down the feed wire Wet snow, with freezing temperature following, would cause serious trouble and probably would completely de moralize service. Storm Severe on Coasl. On the coast lines, according to day reports, the storm was heavier than east of the Cascades. In fact, while afternoon reports from the lines to the east indicated that the storm was abating in that section, it was appar ently gaining in wind velocity and increasing snowfall on lines extending to the north and south. Snow was accumulating in deep cuts and on curves at many places, but every pos sible precaution was being taken by the railroad management to keep the lines open. Coos Eastern Star Elects. NORTH BEND. Or.. Dec. 9. (Spe- COAX 'EM Stop Whipping Bowels into Activity, but take "Cascarets" Put aside the Salts, Pills, Castor Oil. or Purgative Waters that irritate and lash the bowels into action, but which do not thoroughly cleanse. freshen and purify these drainage organs, and have no effect whatever upon the liver and stomach. Keep your "insides pure and fresh with Cascarets, which thoroughly cleanse the stomach, remove the undi gested, sour food and foul gases, take the excess, bile from the liver and carry out of the system all the con stipated waste matter and poisons, in the bowels which are keeping you half sick, headachy and miserable. VttaUttl C 19 LUI1IB1IL m lllc 3 3 u a. feel great by morning. They worktJCity Ticket Office, 3d and Washington while you sleep never grripe, siciten or cause inconvenience. Cascarets cost so little too. Adv. ASPIRIN FOR COLDS Name "Bayer" is on Genuine Aspirin say Bayqf Insist on "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" in a "Bayer package," containing proper directions for Colds, Pain, Headache, Neuralgia, Lumbago, and Rheumatism. Name "Bayer" means genuine Aspirin prescribed by physi cians for nineteen years. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. Aspirin is trade mark of Bayer Manu facture of Monoacetic-acidester of Sallcylicacid. " FOR SALE Two new wooden ocean-going, uo-to-date tug-boats. 129x29. com oound. 16x38x26: s i n g 1 e-e n d e d Scotch boiler, 16x12; 180 pounds steam, 750 h. p. Also one new wooden steam lighter, 133x23; com pound. 15x30x22; Scotch boiler, 12x 10, 150 pounds steam; 450 h. p. Wm. B. Baker 15 Whitebait St. Biew York City. ST. HELENS SHIPBUILDING CO. BUILDERS OF" WOODEN VESSELS, BARGES AD DREDGES. SPECIAL, ATTESTIOS TO GENERAL REPAIR WORK. We are equipped to give complete sat isfaction. Portland office 524 Hoard ot Trade Building. 1'toone Mala 6US7. "SYRUP OF FIGS" CHIIIS LAXATIVE' Look at tongue! Remove poi - sons from stomach, liver and bowels Accept "California" Syrup if l-.u only look for the name California t.. the package, then you ure sure your child Is having the best and most harmless laxative or physic for tho little stomach, liver and bowels. Chil dren love its delicious fruity taste. Full directions for child's dose on each bottle. Give it without fear. Mother! You must s:v "California." rial.) At the last regular session ot the Coos chapter of Eastern Star of this city the following officers for tne ensuing year were elected: Jessie M. Labiuan, worthy matronrW. Saun ders, worthy patron: Anna Mi-Daniel, associate matron: Ethel Worrel. sec retary; Grace Smith, treasurer: l .a lira Cory, conductress; Ceta Faokler. as sociate conductress. The lodge has added a large number of new mem bers during the past year. DR. DAWSON TO COWIE Xew York Educator to lie on Vni- vers.lty Summer Faculty. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene. Dec. . (Special.) Dr. Edgar Daw son, of New York, a leading figure in the national movement for civic in struction and Americanization, will be a member o the summer school faculty of the University of Oregon next year. It was announced today by Dr. Joseph Schafer. director of the summer session. Dr. Dawson will divide the six weeks' term eouallv between the campus here nud tho Portland center. TRAVK1F.RS" C.t TTK. "S. S. Topeka" Sails from Portland 9 P. M.. De cember 11th, for Marshfield. North Bend. Eureka and San Francisco, connecting with steamers to Los Angeles and San Diego. Passenger and Freight Service to Mexico and Central America From San Francisco "S. S. Senator" December 15, 1919, Maxatlan ManKanillo Acapulco Salina'Crna Champcrlco San Joie de Guatemala Aeajutla l.a Union t'orlutu TICKET OFFICE 101 THIRD ST. Main Frclffht Office Muln 8231 PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COM FAN If SAN FRANCISCO S. S. Rose City Depart 12 Noon v THURSDAY, DEC. 18 From Ainsworth Dock Fare includes Berth and Meals. Phone Main 3530 Freight Office, Ainsworth Dock Phone Broadway 268 SAN FRANCISCO & PORTLAND S. S. LINES FRENCH LINE Compagnie Generale TraiiMatlanlique KxpreH 1'oNtii! Service FKOPOSKD UKI'AKTIKES Subject to chanK". NKW VOKK HAY KE. T..V I.AYETTE !;. 20 I RANI K 1-C . 27 I.A TOl R A INK Jan. S LA SAVOIK Jan. 6 l.A IXIKKA1XE Jan. 16 Fuitazi lSros.. Pacific Coast AKentn, lott Cuerry Ht., Seattle, or may Local Asrnt. aCANaiNAVIANl DF.NMARK NORWAY fLDE Krrdrrik VlII.rec.I t nlt-U Main Jan. 7 Oscar II Jan. 31 The Chilbenr Arency 70'2 Sd At., Seattle. Vn., or Local Acent. STEAMER for SAN KRANCISCO and I.OS ANGELES fcaillnK Thursday. 2:30 P. M. CHEAP RATES M. BOLLAM, ACT.. 133 Third St. Phone Main 26 AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND AND SOUTH SEAS Tim Tahiti and Raratoitgm. Mall and paa ni.r servico train ban Franciaco ovary 6 days. IMO.N S. 8. CO. OF NEW ZEAIAND, X30 California fet., San Franciaco, or local alcajnaiuu and railroad asanclea. JJeamotip ..ac. ADMIRAL LIN3. im..,mm,n .. Ill 111 a I ) JII.I " m B-J