THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1G, 1920 13 LOWER STEEL RATE BIG BOH TO COAST Savings to Aggregate $17, 000 on 8300-Ton Vessel. CO-OPERATION WINS FIGHT fTcws of Reduction From $1.25 to $1 a 100 Pounds Received From Several Sources. A reduction In transcontinental freight rates on shipbuilding steel plates from $1.25 to $1 per 100 pounds, which has been reported from several sources to have been decided upon by the United States railroad admin istration, is unanimously hailed by the steel shipbuilders of this district as the greatest boon to shipbuilding on the Pacific coast that has ever taken place. A saving of 25 cents on every 100 pounds of steel that goes into a ves sel will aggregate a saving of $17,000 in" the construction of the average S800-ton steel vessel, manufactured in great numbers by the Northwest ' .Steel & Columbia River shipbuilding companies, it is estimated by C. L.. Whitney, traffic manager of the Co lumbia Kivcr Shipbuilding corpora tion. A correspondingly greater saving will be effected in the con struction of the larger vessels of the typo being built by the G. M. Standi fer Construction corporation. The reduction is the outcome of a fight -waged by all the builders of steel ships on this coast, who com bined to form the Pacific Coast Ship builders' Traffic association. This association, supported by contribu tions from all the steel yards, in cluding the three at Portland, sent a delegation to Washington to urge a reduction in the freight rate. The reduction grunted by the rail road administration Is not all that was asked, but it is accepted by the shipbuilders as a great benefit never theless. The demand of the shipbuild ers was for a rate of 90 cents per 100 pounds. News of the action of the railroad administration in granting the reduc tion has been received privately from several sources and an official an nouncement is expected from Wash ington in a few days. A personal tele gram confirming the report was re ceived yesterday by George Thomas, traffic manager for the G. M. Stan difer Construction corporation, from a member of the traffic association's delegation in Washington. A similar message is reported to have been re ceived by the San Krancisco chamber of commerce from Max Tbelen, direc tor of public service of the railroad administration. Senator Fhelan of California, was 'also quoted recently in a Washing ton dispatch to The Oregonian, to the effect that the reduction .had been ap proved and would be announced soon. y'sZ&ts-- - -4v A - t: - -."-. y It, -- i "Atf'jMj; VrJw If , ,, .,, wiftifitoiiiWM'ir'tiiii rum i if.i trHtUu Sims avoanr .mami ! inrirrorr J I MAR CA IS TO TAKE T on FLOUR Transport Delayed by Heavy Fog in Columbia. VETERANS COMPRISE CREW Three Stowaways From Honolulu Will Be Turned Over to Immi gration Officers. The United States army transport Maries, delayed many hours by heavy fog in the Columbia, arrived in port yesterday afternoon from Honolulu and berthed at the North Bank dock:. The entire personnel of the Marica, including 79 officers and men. con sists of men who saw active service during the war. as members of either the army or the navy. Three stowaways, Ernest ODonnel. Jack Holmes and Joe Dunsmore, who the prominent members were "A came from Honolulu on the Marica as i Ed Chesley, "hard-working" I.. D. 8500.000 DAMAGES ASKED 1XEXAY IX INSTALLING MOTOR SHIP ENGINES ALLEGED. . ft a - - -v . ae"" It " - ' til r 1 i 1 V" V'' fit- it- y ten 'N J ' Alaska-Tacific Navigation Company Flics Suit Against Philadel phia Company. ASTOFJA, Or.. Jan. 15. (Special.) Demand for half a million -dollars' damages for breach of contract in Installing machinery in the motor ship Oregon, is made by the Alaska Pacific Navigation company, which has filed- a suit in the circuit court against the Southwark Foundry Sc. Machine company of Philadelphia, and the Standard Gas Engine com pany of Oakland. The plaintiff, asserts the complaint. built the motorship Oregon and on gine comoany entered into a contract ! with the plaintiff to install the en gines in the craft at Seattle harbor for $81,000, the engines to be shipped from Philadelphia and be installed within nine months from the date of the contract. At the time the con tract was made, says the complaint, the plaintiff paid the gas engine company $6100, and on March IS, 1916, the Philadelphia company re ceived the order for the machinery and accepted it. The hull was completed in time, the plaintiff avers, but owing to de lays In the delivery of the machinery, it could not be launched until Feb ruary 17, 1917, whereas, but for the delay, the vessel could have been in commission on February 1 of that year. There was a great demand for motorships at the time, continues the complaint, and had the Oregon been in commission she would have earned $50,000 a month for her owners from February 1, 1917, but her engines were not installed until October of that year. The plaintiff seeks to re cover $50,000 for each of the 10 months the vessel was out of com mission, as a result of the delay In the delivery of her machinery, or a total of $dOO,000. Bine Eagle Reaches Antwerp. A telegram received by the Colum bia-Pacific Shipping company stated that the Portland-built steamer Blue Kagle, which that company operated on a. trip from this port to Cardiff with a cargo of ties, has arrived at Antwerp. The Blue Kagle sailed from Cardiff to Brest, and thence to Antwerp. She is a wooden steamer, built by the George F. Rodgers com pany at Astoria. Tides at Astoria Friday. HlKh. Low. :21 A. M...S.4 feet I 3:54 A. M 3.8 feet 10:42 P. M. . .W.S f-t l-4::; P. M....1.0 foot 1 Scene from the Rmlle Chaotard production. The M yf cry of the Yellow Room," Which will open tomorrow at the Star theater. 3 Scene from Zane Orey'a "Desert Gold," which will open tomorrow at the Sunset theater. lens with considerable 'effectiveness Others in the cast who deserve SDe cial mention for their work are Bd mund Elton, George Cowl, Ethel Grey xerry ana w . . Burton. TODAY'S KI1.M FEATURES. Rivoll Formal opening, 7:20 P. M. Jean Hersholt and Jane Novak, "The Golden Trail"; Guterson's orchestra. Majestic Marion Davies. "The Photoplay Mystery." Liberty -Wallace Reid. "Haw thorne of the U. S. A." Columbia Florence Reed, "The Woman Under Oath." Peoples Dark. Star Edythe Sterling, "The Arizona Cat Claw." Sunset William S. Hart. "Self ish Teatea." Circle Elsie Ferguson, "The Witness for Defense." t t 100 PEP! " i If Constipated, Bilious or Headachy, take "Cascjifets." Feel bully! Be efficient! Don't stay sick, bilious, headachy, constipated. Remove the liver and bowel poison which is keeping your head dizzy, your tongue coated, your breath bad and stomach sour. Why not spend a few cents for a box of Cascarets and enjoy the nicest, gentlest laxative cathartic you ever experienced? Cas carets never gripe, sicken or Incon venience one like gaits. Oil, Calomel or harsh Pills. They work while you sleep. Adv. T THE final showing of Bill Hart, in "Selfish Teates," and Charlie Chaplin in "Dough and Dynamite," at the Sunset theater to night, the lobby displays will be changed to read Zane Grey's "Deeert Gold." De3ert Gold," one of Mr. Grey's most widely read novels of the law less days on the Mexican border, was picturized under the personal super vision of the author and his guar antee under signature goes out to the patrons and followers of motion pic tures that the director has fulfilled his every wish and desire in the film ing of the novel. Eileen Percy, Margery Wilson, E. K. Lincoln and W. Lawson Butt are some of the principal players in the especially assembled cast which was chosen for the production. "Close to Nature," a Mr. and Mrs. Carter DeHaven laugh-maker, will hold the comedy honors on the pro gramme. A Topics and a cartoon com edy completes the bilL It is a mystery photoplay of ab sorbing interest that the Star is offer ing in "The Myetery of the Yellow Room, which will open tomorrow, Gaston Leroux'8 story has been given the benefit of Emil Chautard's skillful direction, and the players several of them strangers to at leas one reviewer, contribute without ex ception quite noteworthy character izations. It is rather odd to see the word "characterization" used in describing the acting of a detective story on the screen; it appears to be the almos invariable rule of film players to le such stories tell themselves. But there is none of the "let's get thi over as quickly as possible" attitude discernible in the cast of "The My tery of the Yellow Room." The story . too. Is considerably above the ecen ario of the average mystery photo Play. To give a detailed description of the plot would be betraying the pur pose of Mr. Chautard, for he has suc ceeded in holding the spectator's in terest until the final scene, and that is in the nature of a surprise. The story starts with an attempted mur der and the escape of the criminal, and thenceforward concerns itself with the attempt to catch him and bring him to justice. : Lorin Raker, a pocket-size gentle man with a remarkable resemblance to Ernest Truex. plays the role of a newspaper reporter who solves the mystery. Mr. Raker is not only a young man of talent, he has a per sonality that is caught by the camera Screen Gossip. The Illiterate Digest" is the latest Will Rogers composition. The follow- ng is an extract from it: See Senator Phelan made a speech n Los Angeles on "How to Save Cali fornia from Japan and Iowa." He gave the birth rate of the Jana here, but not the Iowans. Do you realize that the birth rate of the last year almost equalled the number of whites who were mur dered? . If the Japs keep on increasing in another ten years they won't have to double as cook and chauffeur. As multipliers they are the Fords of the human race. They already have Honolulu. Popu lation shows 100.000 Japs; 98.000 uku leles and 1000 other people some of them almost white. We have had six months of prohi bition and the casualty list from wood alcohol reads like the war. It has carried away some of our best prohibitionists. They are using aeroplanes to bring booze from Mexico. One guy is an ace. He has brought down 500 quarts. I see they are tearing down a church in Eos Angeles to build a movie theater going to keep on building till they find something peo ple will go to. Kenneth Harlan has a parrot with a lusty set of lungs and an extensive vocabulary so sees no reason for get ting married. He is among the all- star cast in the picture "Going Some, written by Rex Beach. Madison Heck, grandfather of Stan ton Heck, who portrays the part of Herman Klein in the picture "Dan gerous Days." used to drive a mule team from his farm in Delaware to Philadelphia in the days before the railroads.. uninvited guests, will be turned over to the immigration inspectors this morning. Captain Eugene McCarthy, master of the Marica. has been connected with the army transport service in Pacific waters for many years. He was for merly commander of the transport Thomas, and during the war com manded troop ships crossing the submarine-Infested Atlantic Marica Oat Since January 7. Others of the Marlca's administra tive force are Raymond A. Hodge, first officer; Harry A. Wollenweber, second officer; John G. Bevelander, third officer: Olaf Olsson, fourth offi cer; F. B. Davenport, chief engineer; Carl J. Johnson and Erland Johnson, first and second assistants; John F. Leykum. chief steward; Dr. Frederick W. Wastell, transport surgeon, and First Lieutenant H. W. Bowman, Q. M. C, transport quartermaster. The Marica left Honolulu January 7, one day ahead of the steamer Du- quesne, which Is expected off the mouth of the Columbia today. She encountered rough weather, according to her officers, all the way from the Islands. Dense Fog Met in Colombia. The start up the Columbia to Port land was made at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, but the fog be came so dense that Captain J. L Smith, the pilot who had the big ves sel in charge, deemed it safer to anchor for the night, and the trans port spent Wednesday night at anchor on Columbia City, below St. Helens. At noon yesterday the fog lifted somewhat and the Marica started feel ing her way up the river arriving at the North Bank dock at 4:35 o'clock. The North Bank dock, where the Marica is berthed, is loaded down with flour, which will be started aboard as soon as the dunnage, wait ing in a barge, is stowed. The flour to be taken out by the transport will be the largest single cargo of this commodity ever loaded here. FORTNIGIITLY SERVICE PLAN W. II. Grace and Company Sailings to Start in Spring. NEW YORK. Jan. 15. Inauguration of a fortnightly passenger service of American flag steamers between New York and the west coast of South America was announced here today by W. R. Grace & Co., to become effective this spring. The steamers Santa Teresa and Santa Eliza, recently re leased from government service, are being reconditioned to Join the steam ers Santa Ana and Santa Lulsa, now making monthly trips. With the four ships, an official of the Grace line said it will be possible to leave New York every other Sat urday, pass through the Panama canal and arrive at Valparaiso in 18 days, with Btops at Caliao, Arica. Iquique and Antofagasta. officials that Seattle port charges will be lowered. COOS BAY". Or., Jan. 15. (Special.) The Johanna Smith arrived at tan Fran cisco at 7:40 this morning. ABERDEEN. Wah.. Jan. 15. (Spe cial.) The ateamer Willamette arrived thla morning at 10 o'clock from San Fran cisco and ia loading at the VYeat mllL The ateamera Daisy Gadtby and TLAaaen arrived at lo o'clock from Sid Francisco and are loading at the Donovan mill. The dredge Mlchle, completing Ita sea son's bar deepening- programme, la ex pected to clear today for Portland, where it will undergo repalra before returning to Cooa Bar. The big craft la now In the lower harbor waiting ordera from the United States engineer at Seatle. The tug Pilot, Polaon Logging company's craft, ia having a new boiler installed this week. ASTORIA. Or.. Jan. 15. (Special.) The barge Isaac Reed, which arrived last night from San Francisco in tow of the tug Relief, dropped anchor In the lower har bor. She will remain there until the Re lief, which sailed at noon for San Fran cisco, returns with the barkentlne Robert TJ. Hind. The Isaac .Reed will then be towed to British Columbia to load coal. The steam schooner Claremont Is due from San Pedro with general freight for Portland. The ateam schooner Trinidad, which la loading lumber at the Hammond mill will complete her cargo tomorrow and sail for San Pedro. The transport TDequesne will be one to morrow from Honolulu to load flour at Portland. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 15. (Special.) Tacoma marine Interests were centered to day about the arrival or the Santa Alicia, Captain O. R. Ulndholm, who reached home from the west coast, and tho party of W. R. Grace mariners who look after the Grace line vessel when here. Among Aainirs-i John son, "Commodore Hen i-eierson ana rnoi Bob Hall, the "senator" from Dungcness. The Santa Alicia, after discharging some ore at the smelter is due to shift tomor row morning to Dupont to dixcharge, alter whlc-h she will return hero to load. The Justin, with a full cargo of general freight for tho orient, will sail tonight for Shanghai. The Justin goes out command of Captain John Barron vice Phillip Fctcher. The Port Angeles. I.ovejoy and Saginaw are all due hero tomorrow from San Fran cisco. The Port Angeles and Saginaw will load here. ION TO PROTEST RED PROSECUTIONS! Tacoma Metalworkers' Con vention to Address Congress. COOLIE IMPORTATION HIT Move Is Betrun to Organize Migra tory "Workers San Francisco Strikers to Get Funds. Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 15. Protest to congress against "the wholesale campaign of Indiscriminate arrests and deportations for presumed vio lations of the espionage law," is con tained in a resolution adopted today by the coast district convention here of delegates representing 150,000 met al trades union workers of the Pa cific coast. The measure was introduced by the committee on resolutions and was adopted by unanimous vote of the delegates, the convention press com mittee announced tonight. Copies will be forwarded to congressmen. Along with this resolution will go another, adopted by the convention, demanding stricter immigration lawi which would prohibit the importation of coolie labor and Asiatics. A third resolution, introduced at the behest of the shipyard laborers' riggers' and fasteners' union of the coast, and adopted today, asks the t i,nmr.iln rerular- American rcutranoa oi "r - w passenger service between the sound and I ganize an international union of com ports in ths tar east, tne ramie steam- i mon laDorers, wnicn wouia Dring tne COLUMBIA-PACIFIC SHIPPING European Pacific Line CO. From PORTLAND, OREGON tor ROTTERDAM, LONDON AND LIVERPOOL S. S. WEST CAYOTE" (100 Al) Sails From Municipal Dock. No. 1 About J sua nary SO, 19SO. For HAVRE, HAMBURG AND LIVERPOOL S. S. "CANSUMSET" (100 Al) Sails From Portland, Oregon. Abont Middle of February For One Port United Kingdom and Two Continental Porta (as inducement offers), S. S. "EELBECK" (100 Al) Sails) From Portland, Ongoa, Early March. For Full Particulars Relative to Rates and Reservations Apply COLUMBIA-PACIFIC SHIPPING CO. Board of Trade Building. Portland, Oregon. ahlr company today appointed George J. McCarthy, formerly city passenger and freight agent of the company here, but now city passenger agent In San Fran cisco, as ehief passenger agent of the line in the orient, with headquarters in Shanghai. Mr. McCarthy arrived in Tacoma today for a two weeks' visit. Ho will leave for Jurisdiction of the federation migra tory workers and general helpers un der the control of international unions affiliated with, the American Federation of Labor. Some Opposition Met. This resolution encountered some China next month, sailing from Pan Fran- opposition from representatives of Cisco, and expects to make a tour of that country before assuming his duties in Shanghai. Mr. McCarthy will make the Journey to tha orient with John J. Gor man, general agent of the company in the far east, with headquarters in Shanghai. Mr. McCarthy will make regular tours or all of the ports in the orient, perfecting an organization in preparation for the passen ger service the company expects to inaug urate as soon as the vessels are available. H. F. Alexander, president of the company, and A. K. Haines, vice-president and gen eral manager, are now in the east in con nection with the allocation of these pas senger steamers for the sound. The Canada Maru. which was in port last week and la now en route to the orient with general cargo will only call at Japanese ports this trip as tho .vessel I wni be strengthened, it i uuuci bum 111.1 ttnnuHl inspection. those unions of skilled workers which regulate working conditions of their helpers, but was worded so as to avoid conflict of this sort, making it acceptable to them. The shipyard laborers union on the coast is not an American Federation of Labor or gani.ation but is affiliated with the longshoremen's international union. None of the international unions now take care of the mass of migra tory workers, said the advocates of organizing them under the federation. By this move to bring them under the jurisdiction of organized labor, the metal trades workers of the coast believed. LINES TO ORIENT PLAHHLD S PASSEXGKR SEKVICKS 1-Tt03l PACIFIC COAST PROPOSED. FORT TOWNSEND.efWaah.. Jan. 15. tspecial.) The United States shipping board steamer West llcsncltino sailed to night for New lork with SiO tons of flour loaded at Tacoma. The Weat Heeaeltine is built at the J. b Dm hie plant and is making her maiden voyage with Struth ers and Dixon as operators. American steamers will enter into com petition with Japanese steamers in the freight-carrying trade between Hongkong and Singapore, according to announcement made by A. J. Ktheridge who just returned from the orient to Puget Bound. The steamers to be placed In this service wero built on Great Lakes for the united states shipping board. The steamers have been assigned to the Tactile Mail steamship torananv'. The vessels now engagea in ine ew service are the laae unpin ana lrko Farmington. Five other steel ateamers built on the Great Lakes are to oe as signed to the Pacific Mail line for opera tion In the far east. The Norwegian schooner Vancouver, ari- er a. deluv of several days after loading, proceeded to sea toaay en route to bum Aires with a cargo or piles loaaea at Everett. From the South American port she will o to Norway. Tin Vancouver will not go through tne 1'anama canm. but will go around cape norn. since In the strike now in progress in Kan Francisco bay district un skilled non-union employes have gone back to the shipyards while the skilled labor, according to the union's spokesmen, are remaining out. Metal trades workers on the Pa cific coast are called upon to contrib ute to a strike benefit for San Fran cisco shipyard strikers, by the terms of a resolution passed by the annual convention of the Pacifio coast dis trict metal trades council here today. San Franciscan Makes Appeal. The vote to give financial assist ance to the san Francisco workers who have been - out on strike since October 1 for an 8-cent an hour wage increase, was granted following an appeal from Frank C. Miller of San Francisco, who declared tHe-men have their strike nearly won Miller told the convention that less than 1 per cent of skilled workers have returned to work in Ban Fran Cisco, and that Mexicans and negroes predominate among the 10.040 men Delegate lo Shipping Conference Washington Reports to San Francisco Chamber. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15. Three passenger services from Pacifio coast ports to the far east are included in a tentative programme under con sideration by the United States ship ping board, according to word re ceived today by the San Francisco chamber of commerce from Paul Reinsch, ex-m.inister to China and spokesman for Pacific coast shipping interests at the recent shipping con ference in Washington. Reinsch said Chairman Payne of the board had authorised the statement that the thrco services under con sideration were as follows: To Japan. China and the Philippines, weekly sailings: to Japan, China and Vladivostok,- weekly sailings: to the Philippines. Straits Settlements and India, a tsailing every three weeks. The' board's present intention, ac cording to this announcement, is to se tho so-called 53-foot passenger hips, four in each service, and the first is expected to be available In May. The intermediate class of for mer Cierman vessels is tar interior for Tacific trades purposes to the 535- foot type, the statement said. AVAXCE SALE IS POSTPONED Underwriters Ask More Time to Examine Motor Ship. The sale of the motor ship Avance, scheduled to have been held yester day morning in the office of C. M. Miall. receiver for her builders, the Columbia Engineering 'Works, was postponed until January 26 at the re quest of the New York underwriters. who wish time to make a more thor ough examination of the condition of the vessel. The Avance. built for Norwegian in terests, but never delivered, was dam aged by a fire which broke out aboard her during the cold snap in Oecember. She was sunk by the fircboat David Ion steamsnip company s i acriDe to the Metal Trades Worker, a Captain A. K Barlow arrived k, , pubUshed ,n Portland, e neton via Papeete. It wai an- I , , . . , . . . that the CDion line Is preparinn Comparatively little busineBS baa Pacific Coast Shipping Notes. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 15. f Special.) Despite the fact that the democratic national convention, scheduled to be held In San Francisco, is at 111 several months in the offing, K. O. McMicken, general passenger agent of the Pacific Steamship company, has begun planning an excur sion voyage for one of the big liners of the company's fleet, which will carry sev eral hundred interested Seattle and north western people to the conclave. A movement to obtain uniform Inspec tion service on oriental products Import ed through Seattle, requiring certificate as to condition and quality, has been started by the foreign trade bureau of the Seattle chamber of commerce. The board of trustees has authorized the bureau to conclude negotiations with imports and exports associations, the . merchants' ex change and ether Interested concerns. With the approval of the waterfront. Port Warden Paysse Is pressing prelimi nary work for the construction of the shore landing station to be built' by the city at the foot of Washington street for the officers and men of the Pacific fleet. The tops of more than &U0 piles which formed the substructure of the old Wash ington-street gridiron are being broken off. The slip will then be bridged to a depth of ten feet at extreme low tide and the stumps of the piles either dragged out or broken off. Seattle stands to lose a very large share of its oriental commerce unless port charges and dues on vessels unloading here are brought to the level of those obtaining In San Francisco. J. M. Daroche, president and general manager of J. M. Daroche & Co., the largest exporting firm of Hongkong, said yesterday. Daroche is returning to Hongkong from a visit In the United States. Particular objection was made to the 65 cents charged for unloading Seattle freight. He said he Intended to have a conference with officials of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Osaka Tusen Kaisha in Japan and hoped to tell the Japanese Via nllstg oAiinf aH nminir nut nf t Vi waoii rnmntuiian 11 an i u s i c. 10 1.1 v auav 1 - . the war will soon be In effect In the run Today a movement was on loot to between this port and Australia, accord- force each member of a metal trades Ing to Information received today when union on the Pacifio coast to sub- the Union Steamship company's liner -cribe to the Metal Trades Worker, a . . & l." RuvIaw srr VM1 ...... ioana. from We - . V. to install the steamships Tahiti, Marama 1 yet been transacted. The election of and Manganul In tne service 10 in is pan officers is expected to lane place and that the fleet Is now oeins reconui- Monday. tlonea aner uo-vms. ' . . during tha war. The Tahiti will soon steam down from Vancouver ana iner ar rival will be converted into an on Durner. Officials OI in company shiu inai ai present there Is scarcely sufficient travel to t h methods will te louna to stimulate io tnurist and other travel. The Moana Drought 60 caotn passengers and a fair list in the steerage. The freight bred sheep, brought V to be used'a. steamer Bailey Gatzert half an hour BAILEY GATZERT HAS FIRE supply travelers for the accorauioditlom passeners ou ex-Portland Steam it will be offered, but it Is hoped that I " t-r Have Exciting Experience SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 15. Flames which broke out on the Pua;et Bound brooders on Pacific coast ranches.' The Japanese ateamer lleman Alaru ar- after the boat had left Seattle for Bremerton. Wash., late today, were rived from New York today, en route fof I put out and a panic among the 400 loKonama ana win ucr k" passengers on board averted by quick "."J1 , or. , action on the part of officers and i-hnlm California wines. 10.000 cases of Crew. champagne and other liquors of choice I The damage was nominal, it was vintage ascending from her holds, the I reported. Steamer Blarney xonar, i.ftJuiia aiu.icin enta. sailed this morning for Kobe and ralren. The departure of the vessel marks the last steamer that will be permitted to leave a Pacific coast port with a shipment I PORTLAND, Or., Jan. IS. Maximum of liquor, following tne Dan on snipments lemnersture. 44 degrees: minimum tem which went into eliect at miunlgm i porature. 34 degrees. Klver reading, s tonight. A. M., 0.7-foot: change in last 24 hours, The steamer East Wind. Captain Shanka. I 0.4-foot rise. Total rainfall ti P. M. to o allAd teriav for New York under enera- 1 P. M.. trace: total rainfall since .Sep tion ot tha Pacific Steamship company. I tember 1. 1919. 17 inches: normal rainfall She has a general cargo. I since SeptemDer 1, 22.63 inches; defl- DA1LY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. The Matson steamer I.nrllne. Captain Hasmussen, arrived today from Honolulu with passengers and a cargo ot Hawaiian products. Three vessels or tne Matson fleet are scheduled to arrive here tomor. row, the Sachem from Honolulu, the Marshfield from Kahului, and the Silver ado from Hilo. The British steamer Crown of Castrie. Captain McKillop, sailed today for Port land to complete loading. The vessel is bound for Glasgow under operation of Bal four. Guthrie & Co. Colombia River Bar Report. JCORTH HEAD. Jan. 15. -Condition of the bar at 5 P. M. Sea moderate; wind south, 18 miles. ciency of rainfall since September 1, i:19, G.6:t Inches. Sunrise, 7:4!) A. M. ; sunset. 4:.2 f. M.: total sunshine. 4 hours 2o mln utes; possible sunshine. hours J nun utes. aloonnse, 3:07 A. M. ; moonset. 12:3 P. M. Barometer (reduced sea level) P. M.. 30.23 Inches. Relative humidity 5 A. M.. 94 per cent; noon, ha per cent o f. M.. bv per cent. THE WEATHER. UNITED STATES ARMY TRANSPORT MARICA, WHICH ARRIVED IN PORTLAND HARBOR YESTERDAY FROM HONOLULU. g g U Wind a ?S I STATIONS. I 5 i Weather. H w 1 2 3 a : 5 : i 3 - : : Mi M tin I 44 4 i - r This bis; troosll, which carried Yanks home from France after the armistice. Is here to take a fnll cirge of flour to the Atlantic. She has acrsataiodation for 2000 troops, as well as for more than HMMX) tons of freight or equipment. The Marica made the voyaite frost lioaolula to Astoria in seven days, averaging; 14 nautical miles per hour for the voyage. Baker Boise Boston . . . . Calgary . . . . Chicago .... Denver . . . .. Des. Moines. Eureka . . . .. Calveston . Helena . . .. t J uneau Kansas City. I.os Angeles. Marshfield Med ford .... Minneapolis New orleansl New York.. North Head. No. Vaklma. Phoenix .... Pocatello . . . Portland ... Rosvburg . .. Sacramento . St. louis Salt 1-aks . . Ban Diego .. S. Franciaco. Seattle Sitka Spokane .... Tacoma . . . . Tatoosta laid. tValdes Walla Walla "Washington. . lol 32'0.no. .IW 181 30,0.00 . .Inw 2 18 0.0O;12;.VW 2HI 3S O.J4!. .ISB 10 2O,0.1214,B 2U 62 0.0O'. .iSB 101 2S O.O0I. .IE 42i 5410.00 . . N 52 02 O.IH'. .iSB 42i 4H,0.00!..SW 8,1S 0.241 . .INK 321 4S O.0O10;V 4.W 62-.0.OOI. .ISW 821 OS O.Ottj. .INW 261 40 O.OO:. . 1 W 4l IO O.U'22 K 4i B4 0.00:. . ;s 1 01 24 O.OO'SS NW 42 4rt O.OS 18, S SOI .'' O.OOi. .INW 1 S 0.01 . .Iw S O.IMl m:SK CI I S4I 44 0. OOl. 32 n2'0.on!. .;k i 42 64 0.001. . ISB 82 42 0.O1I12 SK j m; 34 0.00. . jse 40! oo'O.oo1 . .Inw 44! SIllO.IH) IS W 4si roo.oois s 21 :is 0.34 . . !nw as; 42 O.01WIO SW 4! 00 0.0Oil2:SW 441. . .1 !. ... .. 1(1 12:o.OO'. .INK 42' r.4 0.00!. .Is 2lli 32 0.oV. .N miles southeast of Colombia river liglos. ship. SKCHBTM. Konolirhj for San Franeis.iw SOO m-ilee from San Franoiaco; 8 P. M January 14. WliST HARTS. San Francisco foe Toks hama, ttKti mile. frotm baa Franciaco; S 1. Ai., January 14. DERBY LINE, San Pranclseo for V nlla. 51'! miles wet of San Pranciseo; P. M.. January k4- ANIWA. Honolulu for Portlend. 143tJ miles from Columbia river lierxtahip: x . , January 14. NII.K. 127 mllos west of Honolulu. WEST IRA. Kobe for San Krnir. 9S0 miles from traji Francisco: 8 P. U. January 14. HAIIGE 01. In tow Standard No. 2. Ttteha. mond or San Pedro; 314 miles north M San Pwim. A V A 1.0 N". San Franrlso for Raymond . 30 miles north of San Francisco. EL.1.0BO UOBITOS. Teru for V aoou-eos-. 40 milne south of San Francisro lights?!:. Dt'HUT LINK. San Francisco for Ua nlla. 770 milea from tan Kranclwo. LA PRE A. Port San I.uis Oolspe fe . Honolulu, S25 mile from Honolulu. QUKEN. San Francisco for Wilmington 153 mile Fnntli ot Ssn Francisco. EL ST3UUXDO, IticliTOond tor Point Wells, :: mile. north of Richmond. ritOVlDENtJIA. Grays Harbor for Saa Pe.lno, 100 miles north of San Krancisro. W. S. PORTER, Portland for Gaviola. 753 miles from Portland. ADMIRAL SCHLEV, San Franclsro for Seattle. miles north of San Francises. 1ANSlxc, fort San Luis tor Portland, 525 miles frnm Portland. F. It. Bl'i'K. C.avlota for Linnton. 15J ' miles from Ga-vlota. ARGYLL, Tort San Luis for Tacoma. 770 mil' froni Tacoma. SACHEM. Honolulu for San Francisco, 240 miles from S;in Francisco. DILWORTH. Toint Richmond for Seat tlo, 15 miles off Point Reyes. Movements of Vfsscls. rORTLATCD. Jan. 15. Arrived at 4:" P. M.. steamer Marcia, from Honolulu. A r ' rival of steamer CIsremont from San Pedraj tndofinite account, foe Sailed at 10:30 A. M.. steamer Taboe. for stn Pedro via. Ft Helens: at 9 P. Al.. ateamer Rose City, foe? San Francisco: at P. M.. steamer Ad miral Goodrich, for San FranciPco via Ku reka and Coos Bay; at D P. ateamer West 11 assay am pa, for fCew York, tot. orders. ASTORIA. Jan. 13. Arrived at 7r3e anf left up at O A. M-. steamer ClaremontV from San Pedro. ASTORIA, Jan. 14. Arrived at 6 P. barge Isaac Reed, in tow tug Relief, from San Francisco. SAM FTSANCISCO. Jan. IS. Sailed at 3" P. M., British steamer Crown ot Casli:e for Portland. TACOMA. Wash.. Jan. IX, Arrived Steamers Santa Alicia from Antofagasta .Minn.eBirrn, rrom Alaska. Salle ateamer Justin for Shanghai. SRATTI.P W..K T . r . ..... Campbell to prevent her from beinu steamera Preaident."' from Vancouver B. completely destroyed by the flames. , C. : H. B. Lovejoy. from e-'an Pedro: North and has since been raised and floated I western from southwestern Alaska: Sag- by Supple & Martin, purchasers ot the Columbia Engineering World' plant at Linnton. LIFE BOATS PART OP CARGO Consignment for San Francisco Is Taken by Admiral Goodrich. Part of the general cargo carried by the steamer Admiral Goodrich, when she left down from Portland last night for San Francisco, was a deckload of lifeboats, purchased by San Franciaco interests from the emergency fleet corporation, and picked up by the Goodrich at the sup ply and sales division warehouse. formerly the Grant Smith-Porter shipyard. The Admiral Goodrich, which re placed the Curacao on the coastwise run and tooK over tne Luracao s com mander. Captain F. "W. Tlbbetts. ar rived Wednesday night on her first trip In her new trade, bringing freight only, and towing the motor schooner Admiral Mayo, which is loading for Australia. COPRA IS SPREAD OX DOCK Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Snow I't. cloudy Cloudy rClear k"loudy Clear fcioudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy (Cloudy ISnow Cloudy Clear Rain Pt. cloudy Clear kloudy NWiKaln Cloudy Clear Rain Cloudy Clear Pt. cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Winnipeg ...1-101 4,0.22 14NE Clear Cloudy Cloudy now tA. M. today. Ing day. P. M. report of preced- FORBCASTB. Portland and vicinity Rain; southerly wlnda rt Washington and Oregon Cloudy, with rain in west portions: moderate southerly winds. - - Disposition of Salvaged Palmolive Material Xot Determined. Copra, salvaged from the fire in the plant of the Palmolive company, has been spread on the floor 01 munic lpal dock No. 1 to dry. The disposition of this copra has not yet been determined. If the Palm olive company decides to rebuild its plant here, the copra will probably be stored until the new plant is com pleted. Otherwise it will be shipped away as soon as It la dry enough to keep. C. A. Painton. Portland man ager of the company, is now in the east conferring with heads of the comoany in regard to whether the plant shall be rebuilt in Portland or moved to some other city on the Pa cific coast. ; Steamer Sails With Flour. After loading a full cargo of flour in five days without working over time, the steamer "West Hassayampa, operated by the Columbia-Pacific Shipping company, left down last nitrht for New York. Because of the heavy fog in the river, she is expected not to reach Astoria before tonight. The West Hassayampa was the last 8800-ton steel vessel to be built here for the emergency fleet corporation. TJ. S. Naval Radio Reports. (All position reported al P. . yester day unless otherwise ludlcated.) CAPT. A. F. LUCAS. Richmond for Cor dova. 425 miles from Richmond. MOFFETT. San Francisco for Seattle. 495 miles from Seattle. ADMIRAL FABKAGUT, Seattle for San Francisco. 157 miles from San Francisco. CATHERINE. Seattle for San Francisco, 250 miles north of San Francisco. ATLAS, towing barge 03. San Pedro for Portland, 235 miles north of San Fra,nci8CO- BALL I ETTA, 25S milas north of San Francisco, bound for Philadelphia. IMLAT. Amsterdam for Seattle, 330 miles rfbrth of San Francisco. PHYLLIS. San Francisco for Seattle. 230 miles north of San Francisco. YOPEM1TE. 30 miles from Port Gamble, southbound. WEST HESSELTINE. Seattla for New York, off Dungeness. ASUNCION. San Pedro for Richmond, 120 miles south of Richmond. GOVERNOR, Wilmington for San Fran cisco. 13 miles north of Wilmington. XENIA, San Francisco for Hamburg. 2O0 miles from San Francisco. ADMIRAL DEWEY, San Francisco for Seattle, lftO miles from Seattle. DLQUESNE. Honolulu lor Portland, 70 inaw, from San Francisco: Admiral War- son, from southwestern Alaska. Departed Steamers Princes Ena. for British Co lumbia porta: Lyman Stewart, for Port San Luia. PAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 1 5. Arrived Steamers Lurline. from Honolulu ,... . from Hueneme: Hainan lUru, from New , Yorfk and Balboa: Coos Bsy. from Coos Bay. Departed Steamers Elizabeth, for Bandon: East Wind, for New York: Ad miral Schley, for Scattlo; Crown of Cas tile, ror Glasgow. NORFOLK. Jan. 15. Arrived Mont. mapny, from ancouver tsalled for Queens- - town). CALLAO, Jan. 13. Arrived Centaurus. frpm Portland. Notice to Mariners. The master of the American steamer . Jefferson reports, under date of January 14. 1U20, at 2:30 P. M.. big boom of logs adrift and scattered between Point-No-Polnt and Apple Tree point. Puget Sound, Dangerous to navigation. GEORGE E. G RANDY, X" nn'lr.l Vr,,...l V m U.-.l. .... I Office. The following affects the aids to navi gation in tne iitn llgntnouse district: Oregon Yaqulna river, beacon 6, re ported carried away January 8. 1920, will be replaced as soon as practicable. Washington Willapa bay. Bay Center cutoff channel, beacon 6. carried away ' about December 3u. 1019, will be replaced -as soon as practicable. Juan de Fuca strait Point Wilson buoy 6. heretofore reported missing was re placed January 11, 1920. Lake Washington canal, Shlleshole bay buoy 1. reported out of position January 2. was repaced In position on January 13 1U20. ROBERT W ARRACK. Superintendent of Lighthouses. TRAVELERS' CCIDE. a L J J EAaMSiilP S. S. "CITY OF TOPKKA SaHw rrom. Portland t 9 P. M. Janu ary 21! for North Bend. Marshfield. Kurfka and San Franc. mco, connecting with steamers to Los Angeles and San Diego. Round Trip Kxcnrwlon Vmrrm Between San Franctnco and San Oietro account Tia Juana race track meeting January 10 to Februaj-y 14, San Fran cisco to San Diego and return, $30. TICKKT OFFICK. 101 Third Street. Freight OfH'. Mantripal Io;k No. 2. rbone Main 8 .. Pacific IStesvninhip Company. Change in Sailing SAN FRANCISCO S; S. Rose City Depart 12 Noon FRIDAY, JAN. 23 From Ainsworth Dock Fare includes Berth and Meals. City licket umce.3aana asrungtoa Phone Main 3530 Freight Office, Ainsworth Dock Phone Broadway 268 SAN FRANCISCO & PORTLAND S. S. LINES