THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1G, 1920
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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STATIONS. I 5 i Weather.
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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 . . ..
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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.
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Walla Walla
"Washington. .
lol 32'0.no. .IW
181 30,0.00 . .Inw
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as; 42 O.01WIO SW
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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
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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.
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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
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