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23, TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY. APRIL 1, 1920 PHOSPHATE BOOKED TOTALS 55, Japanese Firm's Additional Order 15,000 Tons. PIER CONTRACT AWARDED ISulk of Shipments to Move In May or August, Depending on Negotiations. An additional 15.000 tons of phos phate rock have been booked by Jap anese interests for export through Portland, bringing the amount al ready booked to 55,000 tons, accord ing to a telegram received by the Portland Chamber of Commerce yes terday from W. I. B. Dodson, executive secretary of the chamber, who is now in the east. The information was given to Mr. Dodson in the New York office of Furukawa & Co., the pur chasers of the rock, and is verified by George Powell, president of the Oregon-Pacific company, who conducted the negotiations for the booking of the phosphate rock for shipment. The first shipment of phosphate rock to pass through this city on its way from the Idaho mines to Japan was carried by the Admiral line steamer Waban, which left here Mon day. This was a portion of an order of 5000 tons of the rock in sacks, which was booked with the Pacific Steamship company by the Dyson Shipping company of Seattle. The remainder of the 5000-ton order will be carried by the steamers Montague, railing from here April 24, and the Abercos. sailing May 17. The 50.000 tons of phosphate rock booked by Purukawa & Co. is all to move in bulk through the new bunk ers, which are to be built by the com mission of public docks on pier 5 of municipal terminal No. 4. A contract for the erection of this pier was awarded by the dock commission yes terday to A. Guthrie & Co. The bulk movement is to start either in May or in August, depending upon the out come of negotiations now in progress with the ship operators. It was pointed out yesterday by Mr. Powell that if vessels of the SioOO-ton type, such as were built by the Standifer company here, are used in the movement of the phosphate rock in bulk, the quantity already firmly booked for shipment within a year from the time the movement starts will provide 12 cargoes of 4000 tons each, and will mean one sailing a month from Portland. A freighter of the 9500-ton type, in addition to the 4000 tons of phosphate rock, would also take out about 3,000,000 feet of lumber to balance the cargo. LUMBER SHIPMENT HEAVY CARGOES OF $36,313,410 FEET LOADED DCRIXG 3IONTII. Mills in Lower District or Colum bia River Reported to Be Doing Large Business. ASTORIA, Or., March 31. (Special.) The lumber shipments from the Co lumbia river during the month of March were the largest for some time. According to statistics compiled by Deputy Collector Karinen, 28 vessels loaded at the mills in the lower river district and their combined cargoes were 21,629,529 feet of lumber. Twenty-five of those vessels carrying 19, 390.000 feet went to California; one vessel laden with 120,316 feet went to the Atlantic coast and two with 1,119,213 feet on board are en route to foreign ports. In the same period, 10 vessels loaded 14.683,881 feet at the upriver mills, making a grand total of 36,313,410 feet of lumber which left the Colum bia river in cargoes during the month which closes tonight. In addition to the above, one steamer loaded 3319 tons of box shooks at the port of As toria terminals for Honolulu. TACOMA DREDC1XG PROPOSED Channel 3 0 Feet Deep to Eleventh Street Bridge Recommended. TACOMA, Wash., March 31. (Spe cial.) The dredging of the Tacoma waterway to a depth of 30 feet up to the tsieventh-street bridge is to be recommended to the government by L,ieutenai.i-uoionel J. A. Woodruff in charge of the United States engineers' office for this district. He will urge that one-half the cost of construction . be met locally and that the govern ment be insured against damage to docks which might result through deepening or the channel. Inquiry was made of the port com mission to find out what help could be obtained in doing the work. The commission has no funds for the work. it announced. Colonel Woodruff found that insufficient water is the channel at low tide to float the largest of freighters. WESTWARD IIO COMING BACK 1'ortianol-lJuilt SInp to Return to City for Operation. The 8800-ton steel steamer West ward Ho, the first ship launched by me uoiumDia Kiver Shipbuilding cor portatlon of this city, is coming back home as the first vessel in the new Baltimore-Portland service of the Pa cific Mail Steamship comnanv. ac cording to a telegram received from Baltimore yesterday by J. G. Melvin Portland agent. She will leave Balti more April 25. The Westward Ho was launched by the Columbia River Shipbuilding corporation November 19. 1917. Four vessels besides the Westward Ho have been assigned to the Pa cific Mail for the Baltimore-Portland service, and a monthly service is to be maintained. A RGTIRUS IS LATJXOIIED AVife or President Struthcrs Acts as Sponsor for Vessel. The 9600-ton steel steamer Arctu rus, the first of five such vessels which are under construction for the Oreen Star Steamship corporation, was launched at 12:30 o'clock yester day afternoon from the plant of the (5. M. Standifer Construction corpora tion at Vancouver. Mrs. Harry R. Struthers, wife of the president of Struthers & Dixon, Inc.. acted as spon or. The Struthers & Dixon company waa recently merged with the Green Star line and with the Cosmopolitan Shipping company of New York to form an organization operating the 000 TOWS largest fleet of freighters under the American flag. The steamer Aquarius, the next Green Star vessel to go down the ways of the Standifer plant, will be launched about April 15. The other Green Star vessels under construc tion at the plant are the Argus, Anti nous and Apus. SOVaET FILES LIBEL ACTION Return of Russian Steamer and Payment of $50,000 Demanded. SAN FRANCISCO. March 31. The soviet government of Russia, through two San P'ranciHco attorneys, filed a libel action in the United States dis trict court here today for the return of the Russian steamer Rogdai, now in San Francisco harbor, to bolshevik control and the payment of $50,000 damages for the libeling of the vessel by other parties. The suit was filed in the name of the "Russian socialist federal soviet republic and Ludarig c. A. K. Martens, its representative or agent." Pacific Coast Shipping Notes. SEATTLE. Wash.. March 31. (Special.) Seven carriers operating in the Alaskan Hawaiian and far eastern trades, flying the house (lass of live different shipping corporations, were moored at Smith Cove, pier A of the port commission this morn ing, representing the biggest tonnage of ocean craft ever berthed at the terminal. The fleet was composed of the steam ships Haviiah, I con i urn and Cross Keys of the Pacific Steamship company's ship ping board fleet, which ply from Seattle to ports in the far east; the Hyades of the Matson Navigation company, operating the triangular route between Seattle, Hawaii and San Francfsco; the barge Henry Villard of the Coastwise Steamship & Barge company. In service between Se attle and Alaska; the steamship Kaian Maru of the fleet of Mitsui & Co., plying between Seattle and ports in the orient, and the steamship Alaska of the Alaska Steamship company, operated between Se attle and ports in southeastern and south western Alaska as a freight and passenger carrier. After circumnavigating the globe the steamship Olen of the United Stares ship ping board, which sailed from Seattle August 22, 1910, will arrive in this prt late in April, according to representatives oi me A-acllic steamship company, man ager and operator for the vessel. The Olen did even more than carry the American flag around the earth. She steamed a distance of 28,000 miles with a total expense for repairs of only $2700, a record Seattle shipping men say has rarely been equaled, and one which speaks volumes for the vessel's builders. The Todd Dry Docks & Construction corpora tion of Tacoma. SAN PEDRO. Cal., March 31. (Special.) News that the lighthouse district, with headquarters In San Francisco, had reached an agreement with the owners of the Palo Sverdes ranch whereby the neces sary land for a lighthouse at Point Vin- tiene can be purchased, was received her today. Construction work will begin as soon as the contracts have been let. The announcement of the agreement be tween the government and the owners of the property recalls the fight made when the property owner demanded what the government declared was an exorbitant price for the few acres necessary for the lighthouse. The owners of the property held that the noise of the fog siren would depreciate the property and prevent sales of villa sites to prospective owners. The latter were to be retired business men and millionaires from the east. Frank A. Vanderlip is the owner of the rancn. LJtro Oyama, Japanese consul in Los Angeles, said m a speech before the busi ness men that there should be better coal ing facilities here. ASTORIA, Or., March 31. (Special.) The steam schooner Florence Olson is ex pected to sail next Saturday for Arica. Chile, with lumber from Westport and Wauna. She. signed on her crew, yester day afternoon and "will shift tomorrow morning from westport to Wauna to fin ish. On her way down the coast the Flor ence Olson will stop at San Pedro and Salina Cruz for fuel oil. The report from the lower river that the steam schooner Halco had crossed in proved to be an error. The vessel had not arrived this evening, although she is two days overdue. The steam schooner Johan Poulsen, en route from San Francisco for Portland with freight, was off the mouth of the river this afternoon and is expected inside tonight. The tank steamer William K. Herrin from California, with a cargo of fuel oil for Portland, was outside the mouth of the river this afternoon, being celayed by the high seas and is expected In during the nirht. The government wireless station at orth Head resumed operations today after being out of commission for nearly six weeks while repairs were in progress. A losr raft belonging to the Astoria Box company was broken up by the heavy seas last night wnile lying at tne company s boom at the foot of Thirty-eighth street. Quite a number of the logs were lost. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., March 31 fSoecial.) The British steamer Mount Etna, under charter to the French line of steamers operating between Puget Sound and France, is scheduled to arrive early in April for France. She will be the third steamer of that line to come to the northwest. Norton. Lilly & Co. are agents for the new concern. The steamer steelmaker or the Isthmian line, now at Vancouver, is scheduled to load lumber at Everett for the United Kingdom. She will arrive at Everett on April 12. As a result of yesterday s storm, a heavy sea is running In the straits of San Juan de Fuca causing small steamers to return here to await favorable conditions. The freighter Morning Star, after bucking heavy sea for two hours, being unable to make headway, returned this morning The cannery steamers Einar. Beyv and Saginaw II. en route to southeastern Alaska in the service of the Southeastern Alaska Canning company, are stormbouud here. GRAYS HARBOR, Wash., March 31. (Special.) The steamer Carmel dropped down to the lower harbor this morning ana win get out as soon as bar condl tions permit. The steamer Tamalpais has shifted to the E. K. Wood mill, Hoquiam. to com plete cargo. The Annie Hanify is still In the lower haroor waiting a favorable bar. TACOMA. Wash., March ' 31. (Special ine steamer Eastern Guide, carryin about 1300 tons of cargo from Tacom firms, sailed this morning for Honolul via Seattle. The Eastern Guide wi;l be lonowed wlthn a few days by the Hyades, which will take 3000 tons of freight here for the islands. In this freight will be 2000 tons of box shooks. The Delwood load tor the islands, is expected the lat' ter part of next week. Max H. Houser of Portland, of th United States grain corporation, was speaker here today before members of the commercial club. Mr. Houser is on of the owners of the Puget Sound Flour ing mills at Tacoma. The Eastern Admiral will shift tomorrow morning to Seattle to discharge. There the vessel will be turned over to the United States shipping board. After a week's business trip to San Fran Cisco, H. F. Alexander, president of th Pacific Steamship company, returned to Tacoma today. The Governor is due here early tomorrow from San Francisco and the Providenci is expected to sail tonight for Grays Har bor via Seattle. Two orientals, members of the crew the steamship Javary of the Garland lin r.ow in port loading for the east, are ou $600 worth of whisky Just because they were not conversant with modern finance. It is claimed that the two Chinese ar ranged to dispose of $600 worth of whisky to a Tacoma man. ine J aconoa man. it claimed, turned over to them a check for $600 and the delivery was made. How ever, the Chinese found when they went to the bank to cash the paper that pay- ment had been stopped. inspector Ro L. Ballinger of the custom-house 11 tened to the tale and began an investi gation. SAN FRANCISCO, March 31. (Special.) A preliminary conference attended by about 50 representatives of operators of shipping board vessels from Seattle, Port land, San Francisco and Los Angeles met today in the San Francisco merchants' ex change with shipping board officials. The meeting was for the -purpose of formulat ing an interpretation of the new operating agreement sent out from Washington to conform to Pacific coast conditions. Ac cording the Harold H. Ebey, director of Tides at Astoria Tuesday. High. Low. 11:42 A. M.. .7.9 feet!5.R4 A. M...0.8 foot I0:Q7 p. M...0.6 foot Columbia River Bar Report. NORTH HEAD, March 31. Condition of the bar at 5 P. M. No report. Wind south, 34 miles. Read The Oregonian classified ads. operations of the United States shipping board here, the conference met and dis cussed clauses and Interpretations in the managing and operating agents' agree ment with the shipping board. A sub committee was appointed before the con ference adjourned for the purpose of delv ing into certain phases of the agreement and to make a report of their findings tomorrow. The China Mail liner Nile will not ar rive until daylight Monday, according to a wireless received by the company today. The 'vessel is being delayed on her run here one day on account of the cylinder beads becoming scored. The barkentine Marv Wlnkleman. Cap tain Vindving, after a voyage of 109 days from Sydney via Tarawa, C4 days, arrived in port today under full spread and an chored in quarantine without the aid of tow. on the voyage from Sydney to Tarawa the sails of the vessel were carried way by storms and a new set had to be igged. The vessel brought 335 tons of copra to Bums, Phllp company. The ship Moshulu. now being repaired. will leave port in three weeks, it was an nounced today, for a trip to Manila. Harry Levinson. manager of the Peter son Launch & Tugboat company, announced today that plans have been completed for the building of six new barges for the pany at a total cost of ll'-'O.OOO. The raft will be constructed at the yards of Kruse & Banks at Marshfield, Or. The super-dreadnaught New Mexico ill be taken from the Hunter's Point dry- dock by Peterson tugs at noon tomorrow. The Idaho will follow the flagship into drydock Monday morning. , The new steamer Portola-PIumas, in command of 'Captain Rogers, went outside be heads today on her trial trip. With passengers and merchandise con signed to the Matson Navigation company. the liner Wilhelmina arrived early this morning. IER CONTHUCT AWARDED . GUTHRIE & CO. TO DO WORK FOR $37,865. Proposal to Buy Old Seattle Dry- dock Is Rejected as Bids Are to Be Received for New One. A contract for the construction of pier No. 5 at municipal terminal No. 4 was awarded by the commission of ublic docks yesterday to A. Guthrie & Co., on a bid of $37,865. Other con tracting firms bidding' on the work. with the amount of their bids were the Pacific Foundation company, 41.570; Joseph Pacquet, $42,350; Portland Bridge & Building company, 43.972 and Miller, Grier & Co., $52,385. A proposal of C. H. Hamilton, pur chaser of the Skinner & Eddy 15,000- on drydock at Seattle, to sell the drydock to the Portland dock com mission for $900,000, was rejected by the commission, the commissioners agreeing that it would be better to build a new drydock here than buy an old one at Seattle. The dock com mission will open bids for the con struction of a 15,000-ton floating dry dock April 5. In view of the increased business of the dock commission and the conges tion of its present quarters at the foot of Stark street, it was recently determined to learn the attitude ot the owners of adjoining property to ward additional construction. Com munications read at yesterday's meet ing from the Henry Failing estate. H. L. Pittock estate and the board of directors of the Reed institute all protested against further construction on this property on the ground that it would decrease the value of their holdings. The matter was referred to City Attorney La Roche to determine the rights of the commission. If an addition to the building at the foot of Stark street is not to be erected, it has been agreed by the commission that office space will have to be rented in some downtown office building. Movements of Vessels. ASTORIA, March 31. Steamer Multno mah, from San Francisco, lost propeller off bar. Tug went out to assist. SAN FRANCISCO. March 31. Sailed at A. M., steamer The Angeles, for Port land. Sailed at noon, steamer Klamath, for Portland. bailed at noon, steamer City of Topeka, for Portland via Eureka and Coos Bay. BALBOA. March 30. Arrived French steamer Aiont t-ervln, from Seattle via ban f ranclsco, zor Marseilles. SEATTLE, Wash.. March 31. Arrived Steamers Eastern Guide, from Honolulu via San Francisco: Alameda, from south western. Alaska; Jefferson, from south eastern Alaska; Victoria, from Nanaimo. a. c. departed United States steamshin surveyor ano Admiral Watson, for south western Alaska; Santa Ana. for south eastern Alaska; Haviiah and Hokkai Maru. for Kobe via Yokohama; Fulton for British Columbia ports. TACOMA, Wash., March 31. Departed Steamers Providencia for Aberdeen; Eastern Guide, for Honolulu via Seattle. SAN FRANCISCO, March 31. Arrived Steamer Wilhelmina, from Honolulu De parted Steamers Necanicum, for Brook ings: Northland, for Vancouver: The An geles, for Astoria; Atlas, for Astoria: Tokufuku Maru, for Yokohama; Klamath, for Astoria; Barxlon, for Bandon. IMMIXGHAM, March 30. Arrived Aimwell, from Astoria, Or. KOBE, March 25. Sailed Chicago Ma ru, for Tacoma. COOS BAY, March 31. (Special.) Ar rived G. C. Lindauer, from San Fran cisco at 8:25 A. M. SAN PEDRO. Cal.. March 31. (Spe cial.) Arrived Daisy Putnam. from Grays Harbor .1 P. M. President, from Se attle, at 10 A. M. : Bertiem Hanion. from Redondo, in the night; Svea, from Grays Harbor at 9 A. M. ; Stanwood, from Puget sound, in the night. Sailed Santiam. for Astoria at 3 P. M. ; Ernest H. Meyer, for San Francisco at 6 P. M. ; Celilo, for San Francisco at 6 P. M; Queen, for San Diego at 30 A. M. ; Lassen, for Grays Har bor, in the night; Grays Harbor, for Grays Harbor, 3 P. M. ; Brunswick, for San Francisco, 6 P. M. Marine 'otes. The steam schooner Multnomah of the McCormlck fleet was reported in distress off the mouth of the Columbia river yes terday with her propeller cone, and the trig Oneonta was dispatched to her as sistance. The Multnomah is en route to Portland to go on drydock for repairs necessitated by an accident at San Pedro, when the shipping1 board steamer West Nomentum, coming off the launching ways, crashed into the little steam schooner. S. E. Ellis of A. H. Holt & Co., Liver pool, and K. J. Middle ton, manager of Dodwell & Co., of Seattle, were visitors in this city yesterday and Inspected the new municipal terminal No. 4, which they pronounced the finest on the coast. A. H. Holt St. Co. are the owners of the Blue Funnel line, which is represented in Seattle by Dodwell & Co. Mr. Ellis, a construction engineer, is on his way to Shanghai to supervise the construction of certain docks for his company. C. O. Yoakum, Pacific coast manager of the supply and sales division of the emer gency fleet corporation, returned to his headquarters in this city yesterday from a business trip which Included the ports of Puget -sound. He reported the Puget sound business of the division proceeding favorably. t. S. Xaval Radio Reports. (AH positions reported svt 8 P. M yes terday un 1 ess otherwise Ind lea ted. ROSE CITY", San Francisco for Portland, 30."i miles north of San Francisco. FRANK S. BUCK. Monterey for Wll bridge. 370 miles from Monterey. W. F. Porter. Monterey for Everett, &48 miles from Monterey. ADMIRAL SCHLEY, Seattle for San Francisco. 339 miles from Seattle. ASUNCION. Oleum for Bremerton, 4S0 miles north of Oleum. W. F. HERRIN. Gaviota for Portland, off Columbia river lightship. 1000-Foot Fall Kills Flyer. M1NEOLA, N. T., March 31. Cap tain John M. Foote of Chicago, an army pilot durinff the war, was killed today when a monoplane he was fly ing fell 1000 feet to the ground near Koosevelt field here. PLUMB PLAN FORCES N Hyphenates Start Boom for La Follette for President. WAR RECORD IS PRAISED P re-War Propaganda Started in Wisconsin, Where Aliens Are Told to Take Concrete Action. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington. March 31. The Plumb Plan league and the Germans are working side by side in Wisconsiu politics to elect the LaFollette so called progressive republican delega- j tion to the republican national con- vention. The Germans began their activities first and the Plumb Plan league, rhich proposes the turning over of the railroads of the United States to the railroad brotherhoods, came along the other day with instruc tions to all the railroad wdrkmen in 'Wisconsin to support the LaFollette ticket. In this connection it Is interesting to note that Senator LaFollette has been made the choice of the Ger mans, those who have grown bold enough to resume the old pre-war propaganda, as their candidate for president. This is not a charge but is the statement of a fact supported by a publication of which George Sylvester Viereck is the editor and publisher. Viereck's connection makes no fur ther identification necessary. Under the head, "German-Americans Or ganize," Viereck is preaching the necessity of all persons of German de scent in the United States getting together. Dr. George Edmund von Mach is chairman of a "committee of 96" which is in charge of the or ganization work, the object of which is to solidify German-Americans for political action and to "devise ways and means of co-operation with Irish Americans, and all Americans, irre spective of descent, who believe in old-fashioned Americanism." Prohibition AIo Attacked. . Another object is to "combat all restrictions of personal liberty, in cluding prohibition." but to read the letters that are published under the heading, "German-Americans Organ ize, the foremost object would ap pear to be to elect Senator LaFollette to the presidency of the United States. There is little division of opinion among the noble German patriots who express themselves in the Vie reck publication on the matter of choosine a leader. Practinall v all are for LaFollette, with a disposition on the part of some to give secondary prominence to Jeremiah O'Leary. One correspondent who signs himself "A patriotic American" says: A true-blooded American like Robert M. LaFollette should head the ticket of such a party." Another who conceals his foreign nomenclature under the initials "M. R." writes: Start the boom. O'Leary as a leader for the Germans, O'Leary as a leader for the Irish and O'Leary as president of the United States, fof the citizens f the United States who believe in a government of the people, by the people, for the people." H. E. Otto, of Minnesota, says: "The writer is overjoyed to note so many brave expressions voiced in your val uable paper, in favor of a man whose record shows 100 per cent American. LaFollette has proved himself fire proof and defies the poisonous hiss of the sneaking reptiles. Let us keep up this glorious cry until the birds chirp. The writer, a lifetime demo crat, joins with those loyal Americans who gather around LaFollette." Establish Papera. I Advice. Charles F. Straube. of somewhere in Pennsylvania, proposes that Viereck call for contributions to establish newspapers in every state to further the German-American cause and to protect those newspapers that have been "loyal to the truth." He. too. likes LaFollette best of all. saying: "To me any of these national de fenders of Americanism, who have so nobly withstood anglophile collusion and contagion, such as Robert LaFol lette, P. C. Knox, Reed, Hiram John son or Senator Borah, would be ac ceptable, with Senator LaFollette as a favorite, as he has been the most abused for defending truth. A Kansan who is strong for the re vival of German activities in politics says that "As standard bearer, I will suggest the grand old Roman, Robert M. LaFollette." but opines that several other men would make capable lead ers. Including George Sylvester Vie reck. Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, Mayor Grace of Charles ton, S. C, Victor Berger, Eugene Debs, Senator Reed "and man; otners. This is the company which the Plumb Plan league is keeping in Wis consin, where it has made its fir6t active entrance into politics. SEATTLE PRESSES CLAIM CITY DEMANDS SHARK OF SUI1J REPAIR BUSINESS. Consolidation of Emergency Fleet Districts, It Is Said. Gives San Francisco Advantage. SEATTLE, Wash., March 31. (Spe cial.) Seattle today is in the midst of a battle for her share of the gov ernment's ship repair business on Pa cific coast. Announcement was made in "Wash ington, D. C, last night that Seattle would be placed under San Francisco control by a new consolidation or dered by the shipping board and this brought' a eharp telegraphic protest from this city, followed by a rejoinder from Admiral William H. Benson, chairman of the board, that the Golden Gate port would not be allowed to obtain any "undue advantages." Seattle, as a center of government ship construction and ship repair work, passes under San Francisco to morrow., when the shipping board puts into effect an order consolidating the northern Pacific, Oregon and southern Pacific districts of the emer gency fleet corporation. The three districts have been united as the Pa cific coast district, with A. J. Frey, a San Francisco shipping man, as manager. The government's ship construction work in Seattle and other northern Pacific ports is nearing an end, but a new era in government ship repair work is about to begin and Seattle and other northern ports will enter this era, according to local shipping men, handicapped by San Francisco control. Admiral Benson declares that he will smash any plan that contem- JOIN WITH GERMANS plates developing one port at the ex pense of another. The movement to consolidate the three coast districts under San Francisco control, however, was begun before Admiral Benson became chairman of the board, and he will now find the new plan in op eration before he becomes fully settled in his new office, said Seattle men today. BRAND RULING MODIFIED Justice Holds Older Brand on An imal Carries Primary Right. SALEM. Or., March 31. (Special.) "Where there are two brands upon an animal, one older than the other, we think the natural presumption from the brands alone would be that the ownership of the animal belonged to the older brand, and that ordinarily under such conditions the burden would be upon the owner of tne later brand to establish his right to put his brand upon the animal," was the ruling of Justice Bennett, who yes terday modified a previous decision of the supreme court in the case of William Moss. Mr. Moss was indicted in Lake county for cattle rustling and upon being tried in the circuit court there was convicted and sentenced to a term of 10 years in the Oregon state penitentiary. Moss then appealed to the supreme court, with the result that the verdict of the lower court was reversed. CERTIORARIS REFUSED Supreme Court Will Xot Interfere in Case of E. J. I'rasier. SALEM. Or.. March 31. (Special.) Petition for certiorari in the case of E. J. Frasler against the state of Ore gon has been denied by the United States supreme court, according to a telegram received by Attorney-General Brown here today. Mr. Frasier, who was engaged in the real estate business in Eugene, was indicted there on a charge of uttering a forged indorsement to a check and introducing it as evidence in a court of bankruptcy. The case was later transferred to the Benton county cir cult court, where Frasier was tried, convicted and sentenced to an indeter minate term of from two to 20 years in the Oregon state penitentiary. Frasier then appealed to the Oregon supreme court, which affirmed the verdict of the lower court. An appeal to the United States supreme court was then sought by Frasier. FOREST BILL INDORSED McXary Measure Would Protect Beauty of Multnomah Falls. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU Washington, March 31. Favorable re port was made today by the senate agricultural committee on the McNary bill enlarging the Oregon national forest to place the area of Larch mountain under the forest reserve. The purpose of the bill is the pres ervation of the summer flow of Mult nomah creek and the beauty of Mult nomah falls on the Columbia River highway. The legislation has been urged by the Trails club of Oregon. HAMMOND FAVORS BONDS Special Election Indorses $50,000 for Reclamation Work. WARRENTON, Or., March 31. (Special.) The town of New Astoria, generally known as Hammond, held a special election yesterday to author ize a $50,000 bond issue for bulkhead and reclamation work along the Columbia river. The vote was 70 for and 15 against. Hammond Is one of the cities within the port of Astoria, lying directly west of Warrenton and adjoining the Fort Stevens military reservation at the mouth of the Columbia river. DAILY CITY STATISTICS ancouver Marriage Licensee. PENDLETON'-REVBLLE Bobrrt Pen dleton, 'JO, of Spokane, Wash., and Made line Reveile. legal, of Colman. Mich. BEADLBV-WXLDRON Alfred A. Bead- ley, 21. of Oregon City,- Or., and Louise Waldron .20, of Oregon City. Or. POPE-WILLIAMS William C. Pone. 34. of Portland, and L. Beatrice Williams. 25. of Portland. SIMMS-JILRDEN Roy L. Slmms. 19. of Portland, and Alice M. Murden, 10, of Portland. JONES-SNOW Corry L. Jones, legal. of Portland, and Martha Snow, legal, of Portland. BUTZER -CHENEY Elmer F. Butzer. legal, of Portland, and Alice Cheney, le gal, of Portland. Bt RNS-flATEH Charles W. Burns. 60. of Portland, and Uussie M. Gates, 48, of Portland. CRUSE-BELL H. H. Cruse. 35. of Port land, and Katherine Bell, 2H, of Portland K c. M I'-U l ru Jonn J. Jvemp. legal, ot Portland, and Eda A. Otto, legal, of Port land. DAILY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. PORTLAND, Or., March 31. Maximum temperature. 43 degrees: minimum tem perature. 33 degrees. River reading. 8 A. M... 4.2 feet: chance in last 24 hours, 0.5-foot rise. Total rainfall (3 P. M. to 5 P. M., .15 inches: total rainfall since September 1. 1!19, 25.45 inches; normal rainfall since September 1, HG.75 inches; deficiency of rainfall since September 1. 1010. 11.30 inches. Sunrise. 3:53 A. M.; sunset. 6:38 P. M.; total sunshine, 4 hours 45 minutes; possible sunshine. 12 hours 45 minutes. Moonrise. 4:08 P. M.; moon set. 4:16 A. M. Barometer (reduced sea level). 5 P. M., 30.03 inches. Relative humidity: 5 A. M., 04 per cent: noon. 85 per cent; 5 P. M.. 66 per cent. THE WEATHER. Wtnd STATIONS. Waathar. Uakvr . . . . . Boise Boston alirary Chicago .... Denver Des Moines.. Eureka Galveston . . . Helena tJuneau Kansas City. Los Angeles. Marshfield . Med ford Minneapolis. . 2ii XOiO.O;!1 . . iSK .Cloudy 2l 30 O.OnjJOINWIPt. cloudy 411! r.Hjo.oo . . ne 'Pt. cloudy k 2o'o. 00!. .NE Cloudy 52 7210. 0o:20lS IClear SSI OO O.OO! . .!nw Cloudy 501 70:0. Oil'2o;sV Kain 381 41; o.oo,12!N Clear -'! 72i0.oi:i4 SB Cloudy 221 28.0. (12112 SW Pt. cloudy 14!'24 O.OO 12,li 50! 74 0.00'24;s 52 62 O.Olli . .ISW 321 4V0.:io . . Is 32l 44 O.Ol 12)N W Clear Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy 74i0.00l. . S Pt. cloudy Pt. cloudy New Orleans R2 0.12 . .Is 70'0.OO'l SW 40 0.08 34 S New York. .. North Head. Phoenix Pt. cloudy Kaln 461 74 0.l)O:14iW 24 SOiO.041. . W 33 43 0. 15110 W 32 4410.08: . . !s Cloudy Pocstello ... Portland . . . Roseburg . . . Sacramento . St. Louis . .. Salt Lake . San Diego . . S. Francisco. Seattle Sitka Spokane Tacoma Tatoosh Isld tValdez Snow Cloudy Pt. ciouay 401 .Vi.O.OOiiSiN-W tifir 54 72IO.OO!22S 2(1 36 0.24 16'NW 54! 5Si0.OO14iS Cloudy Cloudy ft. ciouay Pt. cloudy 4rt 511 O.0O 2OINW 321 4 0.0H20ISW 1 81 32 O.oo; . .IB 201 40i0.no;12!sW . .i 44;0.(Xl 101SW 3rt! 42 0.04). .IS 6I14 0.OOl. . NE 321 40I0.O0I. . SE 521 74 0.00!. .f.StV ciouay Pt. ciouay Clear Cloudy Snow Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Walla Wallai Wnshington Winnipeg .. Yakima . . 2i 4S;O.OO10ixW)Pt. Cloudy 0! SO O.OO;. . NK tA. M. today. Inr day. P. M. report of preced- FORECASTS. and vicinity Rain; Portland southerly Oregon and Washington Rain; strong to whole southerly gales along the coast. Idaho Probably rain or snow. STORM WARNING. Northwest storm warnings changed to southeast at 6 P. M. on Columbia river and all Washington stations. Storm off Vancouver Island moving rapidly south CRStward. Strong to whole southeast shiftlm; to southwest gales tonight and Thursday. E FOR HARD WHEAT Interior Purchases on Basis of 60 Cents Premium. CLUB BIDS AT 20 CENTS Offers for Coarse Grains Are Also Raised Bags Hiaher at 19 V. Cents for Carlots. The wheat market was firm yesterday with a better demand from mills. A pre mium of 20 cents was offered for club and bard wheat was bought in the Interior for coast delivery on the basis of 60 cents premium. Offerings by both dealers and farmers were small. The coarse grain market was generally firm, but no sales were posted on the boad. Corn bids were advanced 50c $1 and oats averaged 50 cents higher. The San Francisco barley market was steady, with sales of December at $2.00. M ly barley at Chicago closed 1 cents higher at $1.50. Grain bags were strong and local dealers Quoted carlots at cents. According to a Chicago bulletin. Good man puts the winter wheat condition at 77.8 per cent, or 7.3 per cent under the government estimate of December 1. The forecast r-r the middle west this week follows: Ohio Valley and Tennessee, gen erally fair after Tuesday and unsettled at end of week; temperatures will average above normal first half of week and nearly normal thereafter. Region of the Great Lakes, rain early .lays of the week, tem perature above normal, probably rain clos ing: days with nearly normal temperatures. Upper Mississippi cud lower Missouri val leys, generally fair first half of week and unsettled second half, with local rains probable; nearly normal temperatures. On July 1, according to a bulletin of the department of agriculture, the wheat sur plus in the United States will be approx imately 130,000.000 bt'shels. which will be carried into the new crop year. This amount includes commercial stocks of flour estimated as wheat at 414 bushels to the barrel. The estimate of 150.000,000 is based on the March report of the amount of wheat cn farms, issued by the bureau of crop estimates, and the amount of mill and elevator stocks of wheat and the com mercial stocks of flour, as estimated by the grain corporation. From this sum Is deducted the probable amount that will be exported between March 1 and July 1, the amount that will go into domestic ccnsumptlon, and the amount that will be used for spring seed ing. Household supplies, which are be lieved to be large, are not Included. Suck supplies are doubtless diuch larger " than they will be July 1. Stocks of whea: in first and second hands on July 1, for a long series of years before the war, aeragcd about half the prospective total this year. As a partial offset to the large amount, however, there is a prospecti small spring wheat acreage, and poor winter wheat condition caused by insufficient moisture last fall and during the winter. Should there be a material shortage in the winter wheat states, the big carry-over will not be burdensome as a market factor. Owing to an abundance of snow on- the ground and frost tn the ground, soli conditions In the spring wheat states are such thlt a heavy yield may be produced on a decreased acreage. Terminal receipts. In cars, were reported by the Merchants' Exchange as follows: Wheat. Bar. Fir. Oats. Hay. Portland. Wedn.. 12 1 11 1 Tear ago 6 2 3 3 15 Season to date...74fl 170 3413 415 isrirt Year an Gi Go Tacoma. Tuesday. it Year agD 13 Se.ison to date... 6219 Year ago 4U70 Seattle. Tuesday. . 25 Year ago Season to date...!3404 Year ago 50G1 S45 21U2 G1S 8U4 5 . . . u 107 7.-S 14:1 1103 2 1 fian 516 2JG7 77 32 1 !641 " "5 234 677 71 1053 BITTER DOWN JO 1" It CENTS TODAY Decline Pots Portland on Equal Baois With Seattle Egga Higher. Following the lowering of butterfat prices, print butter quotations will be re duced 4 cents a pound this morning to 63 cents for parchment wrapped and 64 cents for carton butter In box lots. The 4-cent decline puts the Portland market on an equal basis with Seattle. There was prac tically 10 trading In cubes yesterday. Holders offered extras at 52 cents. Jut there were no buyers. Eggs were firm with liberal receipts. Because of the competition between local traders, the country buying price will be raised one cent today to 38 cents, de livered Portland. A straight car of eggs was shipped to San Francisco last night and a car will go east today. Poultry and dressed meats were un changed. Receipts were not heavy. I-OTATOKS HItiHEK IN COl'MKT No Coast Hairs of Onions Reported This Week Produce Trade Slow. Up to $6 waa paid for potatoes at coun try points yesterday with few offerings by growers. On the street the mannj. was firm, but traulng was not brisk. Ore gon Burbanks were available at 90.60 and Yakima Netted Gems at $7. No further carlot sales of onions have been reported this week and the asso ciation aelllng price remains unchanged. A car of mixed vegetables arrived from I.OS Angeles. The movement of vegetables nd fruit waa slow, owing to the cold weather. California. Asparagus Pack Larger. Preliminary advices relative to the 1920 California asparagus pack Indicate that it will be somewhat larger than 1819 but still below previous seasons. Ground on which a,sparagus Is grown must be rotated with other crops In or der to produce a satisfactory crop. For this reason considerable acreage devoted to this crop last year has been abandoned and will be used for other vegetables. This will cut down production, particu larly of the better class. It was reported. Stocks of canned asparagus are In short supply, the primary market being vir tually bare of tips except for small lots of ungraded stocX. Jobbers" stocks also are spotted. Next Government Wool Sale. The war department announces that the wool branch of the zone supply officer at Boston will conduct another government auction sale of wool, beginning Thursday, ADril 8. There will be offered approxi mately 6,000,000 pounds of wool, made up as follows: Australasian, approximately 2,000.000 pounds: South American, South African and west coast, 2,ow pounds; ter ritory, domestic and pulled, 000,000 pounds: scoured, foreign and domestic, 600.000 pounds. PORTLAND MARKET QUOTATIONS Grain, Floor, Feed, Et. Merchants" exchange, noon session. Bid. Oila March. April. May. Mo 3 white feed $59.00 08.50 $U0.00 Corn No. 3 yellow. 63.50 F.astern grain, built: Oats 3-lb. clipped 5ft.no 3S-lb. slipped 0.00 NoD03Tyellow 67.50 65. OO WHAT Government basis. $2 hiiKhel. 64.00 .-9.50 60.50 64.50 :0 per FLOUR Family patents, $13 15; bakers' hard wheal. U3.75; whole wheat, $12.03; COAST PAYS MOR Disinfection Makes Epidemics Impossible Epidemics of contagious disease would be unknown if disinfection and sanitation were practised universally and regularly. Disinfection and disease germs nevrr go hand in hand. One .works for good, the other for cvjj. Never can both be present at the same time. Do your part to prevent epidemic by prac tising and urging intelligent and sure disinfection. Kills germ life at the instant of application. Order Lysol Disinfectant sprinkled through out your establishment, wherever germs might lurk or be created. Take, a bottle home. Have- - solution sprinlcled-in sinks, drains, toilets, garbage cans,' dark corners. Then forget .about the menace of the diseascgerm. A 50c bottle makes five gallons of powerful disinfectant; a 2oc,bottle makes two" gallons.. Remember," there is but one genuine Lysol Disinfectant -made, bottled, signed, and scaled by Lctm Si Fink, Inc: Lysol Toilet Soap 25c a Cake Contains the necessary proportion . pf the antiseptic ingredients ol Lytoi Disinfectant to protect the skin from gerra infection. . It is refresh ingly soothing and helling and help ful for improving- the skin. Ask your dealer. If he hain't it, him to order it Jor you. graham, $11. 80; valley, $11.40; straights, $11 per barrel. MILLFKKD Prices t. o. b. mill, city cartage J1.50 extra. Mill run, car lots of mixed cars, $40 per ton: rolled barley, $72; rolled oats, $05; ground barley, $72; scratch feed, $M. CORN Whole, $74; cracked, $76 per ton. HAT Buying prices, f. o. .b Portland: Alfalfa. $30.50: cheat, $1; oats and vetch, $26; valley timothy. $27 028. Dairy and Country Produce. BUTTER Cubes, extras. 62c per pound: prints, parchment wrappers, box lots. 63c per pound; cartona. 64c; half boxes, ic more: less than half boxes, lc more: Lut- erfat. No. 1. 6213c per pound at sta tions; Portland delivery, ordinary grades. 64c : A grade. 66c. LOGS Jobbing prices to retailers, Ore gon ranch, case count, 37c; candled, 38c; selects, 40c. CHEESE Tillamook, f. o. b. Tillamook: Triplets. 32c; Young Americas. 33c; long- horns. 33c. Coos and Curry, f. o. b. Myrtle Point; Triplets. 3lc; Young Amer ica. 32c. POULTRY Hens. 3437o: springs. 33J I 40c; ducks, 45c; geese. 20 tr 25c ; turkeys, live. 40c; -dressed, choice, 50c. fc.AL francy, 24c per pound. PORK Fancy. 21 lie pound. runs, auu rgeiamTO. FRUITS Oranges. $2.75 7.75 : lemons, per box; bananas. 10(o-llc per pound; sp ies. si..vjr-t per box. lettuce, $2,7543.75 per crate; cucumbers, si " " r - ,i . . . 1 - .... crier, itg iu per crate; norgerauian, per pound: garlic, 40$45c per pound: cauli- $4.25 per box: parsnips. $3.50 per sack: artichokes. $1.75 per doxen; peppers, 40 50c per pound; spinach, $1.65 per box; pound; asparagus, 14(nlSc per pound. POTATOES Or-trons. Srt.50 Der sack: Yal'-lmas. $7; sweets, SHiYlOc per pound. ONIONS Oresjn, $6fe 6.50 per sack; Australian Browns. $7 per sack. Staple Groceries. Local Jobbing quotations: SUGAR Sack basis: Cane granulated. 16c per pound: extra C. 15.60c; Golden C. $15.50; Yellow I), $15.40: cube. In barrels, $16 85; powdered, in barrels, $17.45. NUTS Walnuts, 323c; Brazil nuts. 30c; filberts. 35c; almonds, 35&3Sc; pea nuts, 15&15V)C; chestnuts, 25c; pecans. 32c; hickory nuts, 15&16c; cocoanuts. $2 per dozen. SALT Hair ground, loos, $17.10 per ton: 50s. $10.50 per ton: dairy. $2l.50&28 per ton: best refined. 50s, $36.o0. RICE Blue Rose, ltic per pound. BEANS Whjte. 8Wc: pink. 84c: lima. 13c per pound; bayous, 10c; Mexican reds. 8c per pound. COFFEE Roasted, in drums, 3U0oic. Provisions. Local jobbing quotations: HAMS All sizes. 36W3!)c; skinned. 29 39c: picnic, 24&25c; cottage roll, 30c. LARD Tierce basis, 251,fcc; compound. 25c per pound. DRY SALT Short, clear backs, 2j02c per pound; plates, 23c. BACON Fancy, 44 6 32c; standard, 33 41c per pound. Hides and Pelts. HIDES Salt hides, under 45 lbs., 28c; green hides, under 45 lbs., 25c; salt hides, over 45 lbs., 21c: green hides, over 45 lbs., ISc: green or salt calf, to 15 lbs., 57c: green or salt kip. 15 to 30 lbs., 30c: salt bulla. 17c; green bulls, 14c: dry hides. 32c; dry salt hliies. 26c; dry calf, under 7 lbs., 55c: salt horse, large. $S: salt horse, me dium, $7; salt horse, small, $6: dry horse, large, $4; dry horse, medium, $3; dry horse, small. $2. PELTS Dry pelts, fine long wool. 35c: dry pelts, medium long wool, 30c: dry pelts, coarse long wool. 25c: salt pelts, long wool. March take-off. $3 to $4; dry goat's long hair, pound, 28c; dry goat's short hair, pourd. 20c. Hops. Wool, Etc. HOPS 1919 crop, 82c per pound; 3-year contracts. 40c average. MOHAIR Lqng staple, 40c; short sa ple. 25 30c. TALLOW No. 1, 12Hc; No. 2. lOtto per pound. CASCARA BARK Per pound, 10 11 : ear lots, 12MiC. WOOL, Eastern Oregon, fine, 40050c: valley, medium. 00'52c: coarse. 35 S 57c GRAIN BAGS Car lots, Oils. . LINSEED OIL Raw. barrels, $2.06; raw. cases. - $2.21 : boiled, barrels, $2.08; boiled, drums. $2.11; boiled, cases. $2.23. TURPENTINE Tanks, $2.3'J; oases, $2 54. COAL OIL Iron barrels, 14Hl"c; cases. 25 32c. GASOLINE Iron barrels, 27c; tank wagons. 27c; cases. 37c. FUEL OIL Bulk. $2.10 per barrel. T$ 3!3-c 11 ahrdl cmfw cmfwy cmfwy Turpentine Advances Again. An advance of 6 cents a gallon in tur pentine waa announced yesterday. Case lots are now quoted at $2.54 and tanks at $2.39 per gallon. 1919 Xotcs Xot Exempt. SALEM. Or.. March 31. (Special.) Mortgage notes appearing on the taxrolls lor the year 1319 are not ectarit! Lysol SHavinx Cream . in Tubes .Contain til naeauary proportion iof the antiseptic lnfrsdienuoi Lysol Disinfectant to Wllr germs on raxor aod shaving - brush (where, germs bound 1 ana to giuri th tiny eata (ronj infection and five an anti- antiB nhv- If VOUr dt:rf hwn'l U, ask blm to order supply for you- to be stricken therefrom as being; exempt from taxation, according to a lega.1 opinion given by Attorney General Brown today. Mr. Brown held in his opinion that while it was true that chapter 104. Oreson laws of 1919. provided that notes secured by mort gage on real estate were exempt from taxation, the law was not effective in 1919. This year, according to the attorney-general, notes shall be exempt from taxation. ORDERS ISSUED BY LABOR Objection ItaUcd 10 Giving Men Certain Hinds of Training. WASHINGTON", March 31. The fed eral board for vocational education in placing- former service men in vo cational work has followed instruc tions from organised labor, Douglas MacMurtrle of the Tied Cross institute of New York declared today before the house committee investigating the board's wcy-k. Labor representatives have objected to putting men in cer tain classes of training, he said, add ing that some men incurred the dis pleasure of organised labor because they had chosen rkilled work. Teaching of printing in six months under the vocational course, MacMur trie said. had brought protests from representatives of typographical unions. TRAVELERS' GLIDE. CP0S tIRECT I J SAILINGS I EUROPE. " f FROM WEST ST. JOHN, N. on arrival C. P. R. train from the west. 1 Date Steamship To I Apr. 8 Grampian Havre Ipr. 10 Em. of France Liverpool I Apr. 15 Scandanavlan Liverpool Apr. lit Pretorian Glasgow April 23 Mlnnedosa Liverpool Apr. 24 Metagama Liverpool Japan-C'liiua- Philippines, l-'rom Vancouver, B. C, to Yokohama. Shanghai. Manila. Ilonf KcinX fmt Steantahip Apr. 8 Empress of Russia Apr. 30 Monteatrla Apr. 28 Empress of Japan. All Information From ASTORIA S.S.ASTORIAN Daily (except Friday) round trips, Portland to Astoria. Leave Portland, Taylor-Street Dock. 7:10 A. M. Leave Astoria, Collender Dock, at 2 P. M. Excellent meals a la carte service, FARE $1.65 EACH WAY (Including War Tax) For further particulars Phone Main 8065 SAN FRANCISCO S. S. Rose City Depart 12 Noon SUNDAY, APRIL 4 From Ainsworth Dock Fare includes Berth and Meals City Ticket Office, 3d and Washinsto Phone Main 3530 Freight Office, Ainsworth Deck Phone Broadway 2S8 SAN FRANCISCO & PORTLAND S- S. LINES AUSTRALIA Honolulu, fiava. New Zealand. Tbe I'aJatiaJ faaaenger husntrri B. Id. !. -M At.AKA" K, U. 8. "MAaVlU Za,0O4 Tons 13.500 Ton Sail from Vancouver. B. C. For fares and sailings apply Can. l'ac Rail way. 65 Third bU. I'ortland. or Canadian Aual rwllan Royal Mail Llua, 4,a baysMOU feu. Vaacvuvcx, JB. C . III t 1 r CANADIAN PACIFIC .OCEAN SERVICES ' V Phone Bdwy. 90 f 65 3d St.. S Portland.