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TIIE MORNING OREG ONI AN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1020 2". T V'. CUMMINGS WILL OPEN CONVENTION Party Chief to Call Demo crats to Order. ' REPUBLICANS ARE RAPPED j Majority in Congress Held Reopon- ' aible for Defeat of Treaty , od League of Aatioos. CHICAGO, April 20. Homer S. Cummings. 'chairman of the democra tic national committee, today was se lected to preside as temporary chair-, man of the national convention at San Francisco June ?8 and .deliver the keynote address wLich will announce the party policies in the forthcom ing campaign. ... , Tb convention slate was framed at a luncheon at the Iroquois clu and the democratic chieftains there as sembled then listened with interest to a speech in which their leader sound ed what thty said probably would be the main point of his "keynote ad dress." " " ' ' " I Coagrciis Majority Lashed. The republican party has lost its moral character, he declared, in launching a vigorous attack upon the action of the majarity in congress In defeating' the peace treaty and league of nations and particularly the meth ods by which control of the foreign relations committee was held by the republicans. "The whole figh ton the league of nations dates back to a corrupt elec tion in Michigan," he said, "and a con victed criminal is the thing upon which republican supremacy rests." He was convinced that the people of the United States wanted the league of nations. The republican congress had debated the peace treaty for . eight months and had failed "to pass one constructive piece of legisla tion." War Credit Is Claimed. Turning to th ewar, he declared that "not chance, but brains," won It, and for this leadership, he main tained, the democratic party was en titled to credit. - "It matters not what they may say of President Wilson, he. added, "his fame is immortal and future generations will render trib utes of praise and obligation to this great democrat." Mr. Cummings expressed absolute confidence in the outcome of the coming presidential campaign. He, claimed for the democratic party credit for passage of the income-tax law, revision of the tariff, creation of a non-partisan tariff commission, es tablishment of a department of labor in the cabinet and ' the Clayton amendment to the Sherman anti-trust act, which amendment h.e termed "the-Magna . Charta of labor In this country." Mr. Cummings also called attention to the federal farm loan -system and the federal reserve banks. Old-Tine Poaies Recalled. The slightest Jolt used to start a panic and bring the old financial structure about pur ears," he said. "For a generation the republicans had promised to reform this system, but they oouid not becas.se their leaders were interested in preserving it. When a democratic congress was about to pass the federal reserve act it was Lodge, Root, Smoot, Penrose and every reactionary senator who opposed this great remorm, the same men who today are attacking the democratic administration and the league of nations." Relation of democratic women to the party and their part In the di rection of its affairs would be decided by the San Francisco convention, the national executive committee decided today. Meeting with members of the wom en's advisory board, the committee appointed Mr. - Cummings chairman of a sub-committee to draft the pro gramme and plans under "which the enfranchised women will work. Their findings will be- presented to the con vention for adoption. ' Women Share ia Council. Today's session was said to be the first In which women have had rep resentation on the national executive committee. "Plans for the convention were vir tually completed today with the selec tion of the temporary officers. Be , sides Mr. Cummings, these officers are: E. O. Hoffman, national com mitteeman from Indiana, secretary; W. R. Hollisterj Missouri, assistant secretary: Colonel John I. Martin, St. Louis, sergeant-at-arms of the na tional committee, to be convention sergeant-at-arms: J. J. Hughes, Okla homa, assistant serjeant-at-arms. Colonel Martin, who has been ser geant of the national committee for the past 25 years, has officiated at four previous conventions. Convention Hall Problem. Objection to the San Francisco con vention committees arrangements and particularly to the size of the hall were renewed following the ap pearance before the committee on ar rangements of Postmaster Charles F. Kay. chairman of the San Francisco committee, and Isadore B. Dockweiler, national committeeman from Call fornia. who explained the plans be ing made to handle the guests and the convention. Suggestions that the convention might be moved across the bay to Oakland or elsewhere were dropped. A committee of five, with Charles Boeschensteln of Illinois as chairman, was named y Mr. Cummings to draft resolutions of sympathy and respect to be sent to the family .of Roger C. - Sullivan, former committeeman from Illinois, who died last week. The resolutions will be presented to the contention for adoption. Kentucky Member Rrftljjrna. General William B. Haldeman of . Louisville announced his resignation as national committeeman from Ken tucky because of ill health. The executive committee and com mittee on convention arrangements will meet at San Francisco early in June, it was decided. Those present at today's meeting were: John T. Barnett, Colorado: Charles Boeschensteln, Illinois; Isadore B. Dockweiler, California; E. C. Hoff mann. Indiana; Thomas Taggart, In diana: Wilbur W. Marsh, Iowa; Ar thur" F. Mullen, Nebraska; N'orman K. Mack, New York: William B. Haldeman. Kentucky: Homer S. Cum MiBs; Mrs. John B. Castleman, Ken tucky; Mrs. George Bass and Mrs. Kellogg Fairbanks. Illinois; Mrs. Stiles Burr, Minnesota; Miss Elizabeth Marthury, New York, and Mrs. Pattie Huffner Jacobs, Alabama. Miss Mar , thury is a delegate at large to the ! national convention and Mrs. Burr an ! alternate at large. RAINIER HEAD VISITS T. II. Martin Confers on Plans for Tourist Accommodations. T. IL Martin, manager of the Rai nier National Park company, was a Portland visitor yesterday. While here he conferred with W. D. B. Dod son, executvie secretary of the cham ber of commerce, in regard to plans for attracting and caring for tour ists during the summer season. He also called on the general passenger agents of the railroads regarding the prospects for travel, which all are agreed will be the largest that has ever come to this section of the coun try. Reports received from the east ern roads indicate that the special-car movement for the Shrine convention will bring into use every available special Pullman car in the service. Last reports were that the available supply of dining cars has been ex hausted. - MURDER STORIES DOUBTED Ohio Authorities Do Xot Connect . Two Slayings. STETJBENVILLE. O., April 20. Jefferson county authorities' discredit beliefs expressed in Martin's Ferry yesterday that the brutal slayer of little 11-year-old Frances South at Adena March 25, is the same that murdered Mrs. John Burkhardt -and daughter Lillian at their home in Martin's Ferry Friday night. The sole purpose of the Martin's Ferry double murder appears to them to have been for the purpose of ob taining valuable papers since a large sum of money in a safe was left un touched, and yet the safe was ran sacked. Harry Miller, who confessed to the Adena crime at a religious service last week, will be sent to an asylum this week. His story of the crime is entirely discredited. LAND STUDY ORDERED Suttles Lake Irrigation Project to Be Investigated. SALEM, Or., April 20. (Special.) R. D. Cooper, a civil engineer with headquarters at Burns, -has been em ployed by the state irrigation securi ties commission to go to Jefferson county and appraise the lands in cluded In what is known as the Suttles lake irrigation district. The district has voted bonds in the sum of J 50,000, and now asks that the securities be certified and that the state guarantee interest for a period of five years. Under the law, the Irrigation securities commission will not be in a position to certify to the bonds until the lands included within the district have been ap praised. BIG WOOL CENTER IS GOAL (Continued From First Page.) ing the 1920 season, with shipment soon beginning. .The sales will be heyi at the wool warehouses, or at the public docks. In the event that any grower prefers to have his wool handled independently. May 25 has been set as the date for the first sale, with sales to be held every two weeks thereafter throughout the season. Under the agreement between grow ers and warehousemen, the estab lished warehouses will handle the shipment on the following basis: No transfer charge is to be made. A storage charge of 58 cents a. bag will be imposed for the first month, in cluding cost of unloading, weighing, marking bags, etc Thereafter the charge will be 20 cents a month.' An additional charge of cent per pound, a minimum fee, will be made for baling. For preparing the wool for sale the warehouse will ' impose another minimum charge of cent per pound. Loss on Fees Expected. Wool growers say that there is no margin of profit for the warehouses in these fees, and that to handle the wool at the minimum figures may mean an actual loss. The warehouse men, however, entered into the agree ment readily for the advancement of Portland as a wool center. The growers also adopted resolu tions condemning the denim crusade against clothing costs, branding the movement as the propaganda of southern cotton producers, and .as serting that the cost of wool as a raw material is not a factor in the ex horbitant price of garments pointing out, as well, that Oregon citizens who are lending aid to the overalls protest are indirectly retarding the interests of the wool growers, who are con ducting one of, the most Important in dustries in the state. Big ahnramea at Meeting. ' Present at the conference were many of the largest and most suc cessful sheepmen of the state. Among those in attendance were Jay Dob bin, president, of Joseph; Mac Hoke, secretary, Joseph; Dan P. Smythe, Pendleton: R. N. Stanfield, Stanfield; S. W. McClure, Pendleton: K. G. Warner, Pilot Rock; Jack Hynd, Heppner; County Agricultural Agent Hunt, Heppner; R. A. Ward. Bend, and J. C. Emery, Douglas. Though the entire membership of the association was not represented at the session, it is felt that the movement will now go forward speedily, and that not only the entire Oregon crop, but a major part of the entire northwestern crop, will hence forth be concentrated in Portland. S. & H. green stamps for cash Holman Fuel Co. 'Main 353, 560-21. Adv. Thirty Feet of Danger . The intestine bend arfd twist and turn, on them selves more than thirty feet of them afd when' food waste clogs them op, irritating and dangerous poisons are formed'' and carrie.d by the blood through the system Remove this food waste regularly with Nujol the modern method of treat ing an old complaint. ancitdUiKannnn4nmnnnMnnfflUBttauti)auaaM If BILL PASSED OVER TO CONFEREES Senate Adopts Measure by Vote of 46 to 10. 9 DEMOCRATS OPPOSED 2 2 Boorbons and 2 4 Kepublicans Jorn House Measure Is Widely Different. WASHINGTON. April 20. The army reorganization bill was passed today by the senate- and now goes to con ference. The measure provides for a regu lar army of 297,000 officers and men, a national guard of 425,000 and a vol untary, system of military training for young men between the ages of 18 and 21. . The vote on the passage of the bill was 46 to 10. Opposing the measure were one re publican, Gronna of North Dakota, and nine democrats: Dial, Harrison. McKellar, Overman, Reed. Shappard. Simmons, Smith of South Carolina, and Trammell. Twenty-four republicans were Joined by 22 democrats in supporting the bill. . Bills Widely Different. Except for the provisions fixing the else of the regular army and the Na tional Guard, the senate and house measures are widely different. The house bill authorized a regular army of 299,000 men and 17,832 officers, while the senate measure provides for 280,000 enlisted men and 17,043 officers. Universal military training prom ises the principal obstacle for the sen ate and house conferees. The house bill made no provision for training, leaders there planning to bring out a separate training measure. In the senate measure provision is made for four months' training after January 1, 1922. Under both the senate and house bills the national guard would con sist of 800 men and officers for each member of congress and be supported by the federal government, although under "direct' 'orders of the govern ment of the several states. Staff Revision Provided. Provisions in the senate bill for gradual reduction of the regular army to about 200,000 men in five years were ilimlnated by the senate after substitution of the voluntary for the compulsory training system. A plan for graduated reduction of the regu lar establishment is contained in the nouse Dill, However, Another, provisio nof the senate measure calls for modified court martial procedure. Attempts to Insert a similar provision in the house bill failed on a point of order. Both senate and house bills provide for radical revision of the armv sren- eral staff and war department bu reaus. .The general staff would be smaller under the senate plan than under tne house provision. The sen ate bill authorizes separate finance, construction, transportation, chemical warfare and aviation services and also establishes the army nurse, den tal, veterinary and chaplain's corps. Senate conferees were appointed immediately after passage of the bill. They are Wadsworth, New York; Sutherland. West Virginia, and New, Indiana, republicans, and Chamber lain, Oregon, and Thomas, Colorado, democrats. PT to Be Increased. Increased pay for commissioned of ficers and the enlisted personnel of the army, navy, marine corps, coast guard and public health services was agreed upon today by house and sen ate conferees. The amount, duration and other de tails of the increase remain to be worked out.. The house conferees receded in favor of the general prin ciples of the senate measure, which provided for a 20 per cent advance for all members of all the services. The house measure provided a raise of"31 per cent for only the enlisted personnel of the navy. Under tfie senate bill, the Increase was to be permsinent, while the house measure limited ft to one year. DEFICIENCY BILL PASSES Measure Providing $390,000,000 for Rails TJp to Senate. WASHINGTON, April 20. Without a dissenting vote the house today passed the deficiency appropriation bill providing $390,000,000 for the rail road administration to wind up its affairs. The bill also directed that its $90.- LASTING satis faction in the ownership of an Oriental . requires that it. be of highest stand ard, both in mate rials and workman ship of Persian looms. No rug can enter here that is - not of the enduring kind. Atiyeh Bros, Tenth and Alder Watch for The Comet ARM 000,000 worth of liberty bonds be bought at par by the war finance corporation and the proceeds used by the railroad administration In liquidating its business. With these funds, congress will have appropriat ed a total of $1,780,000,000 for the roads. The bill.' which now goes to the senate, also included $7,000,000 for hospital treatment of disabled soldiers. FINANCIAL TOILS AVOIDED Reed Engineering Company Helped to Make Good Deficit. VANCOUVER. Wash, April 28. (Special. Financial difficulties of the Reed Engineering company, through which part of the payroll of last Saturday was not forthcoming, are in a fair way to be amicably set led. It is alleged that the company contracted with the Powers Furniture company of Portland to manufacture a certain amount of furniture, to be made of spruce. The furniture was made, it is alleged, and when deliv ered it was discovered that It had been made from fir. The furniture company refused to accept the ship ment or to pay for It. The Reed com pany had been counting on the amount received from this furniture to meet the payroll and issued checks as usual. When the money was not forthcoming it was too late. Some of the checks were cashed by local merchants, but the bank re fused to honor them. -Means are now being taken toalse a sufficient amount of money to make these checks good and the company will continue. It has a large number of furniture contracts and has five boats on the ways in addition to three launched which are practically com pleted. PAYROLLS SHOW NCREASE Employment Situation Reported Better Than Year Ago. WASHINGTON. April 20. Improved industrial conditions and a revival of business activities following the can cellation of government contracts last year were responsible for the large increase in the volume of em ployment in March, 1920, as compared with March. 1919, according to a statement today of the Department of Labor. Greatest were shown in the woolen, men's ready-made clothing, cotton finishing and automobile manufactur ing Industries. All industries report ed Increases In their payrolls for last March as compared with March, 1919. SIGNAL TRIAL UNDER WAY Attempt Being Made to Communl- cate Willi Mars. OMAHA. April 20. An attempt is being made this week to pick up wireless signals which the alleged inhabitants of the planet Mars are believed by experts to be sending out to the earth. This announcement was made today by Dr. Frederick H. Mille ner, wireless expert of this city. Dr. MiUener explained that during this week the earth and Mars will be closer together than at any time dur ing the year and for that reason the experiment will be conducted now. DEAD TO BE REMOVED American -Bodies In Fighting Zones "Home" After September 15. WASHINGTON. April 20. Removal of the American dead from within the fighting zones in France for trans portation to the United States will begin after September 15. Bodies of men burled outside these zones now are being moved. The war department said the return of the bodies would be limited to those whose removal had been re quested by the next of kin. J. V. Km Ing Severely Burned. EUGENE, Or., April 20. (Special.) J. W. Ewing, head of the Ewing Lumber company at Not I, was se verely burned on the hands and arms yesterday morning while carrying a flaming can of gasoline from a burn ing pump house at the company's sawmill. The fire was extinguished but not before considerable damage was done. He came to Eugene yes- We Thank You All i Open Saturday Nights Checking and Savings Accounts 1 'V. 7 If "t terday ment. afternoon for medical treat- Divorce Granted Husbnnd. THE DALLES, Or., April 20. (Spe- ! cial.) Because his threatened his life. wlfe repeatedly nagnred him and T WAS a wonderful welcome you gave us yes terday when we opened, for the first time, the bank of Friendly Service. And we wish to thank you, each and everyone. ' To the many firms and people who opened either checking; or saving accounts we wish to pledge our selves anew to serve yo well and to work with you sincerely. ' ' . "Friendly Service," as many have already learned, goes much further than providing merely a safe depositary for your funds. It need no longer be sought, because it is here. You may not need "Friendly Service" today. Tomorrow the seasoned advice of our experienced bankers may save you loss or put you on the road to higher pros perity. In passing, drop in, any day, and meet our of ficers and, if you care to, discuss your problems with them. Peoples Bank Capital and Guarantee Fund $110,000 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS E. T. Ornwrtl, PrnMnit Cllffrd F. Bld. Vice-President Hugh C. GrawelL Cashier Directors COKRAD P. OLSON CEO. A. LOVEJOV Free. Union Savings Western Mgr. & Loan Assn. Guaranty Fund Life FRED W. VOr.LER President Northwest Auto Co. W. M, McTOiXELL W. Q. BUFFINGTON General Agent Pacific Pres. Union Safe Deposit Mutual Life & Trust Co. n. I.. BODST Chairman Grievance Committee Brotherhood Ry. Engineers. A. K. PEAKK, Kealtor DR. U. O. ROBKR1I Gordon Building, Where Fourth Crosses Stark The Days of Our Unusual Fur Sale Are Rapidly Passing Many Portlanders, wishing to buy the very best in furs, and appreciat ing the large amounts saved on the furs purchased here this week, have taken advantage of the reductions of from 10 to 20 on all our fur coats, capes and coatees. The needs of next fall and winter should be cared for now, as the prices then will be greatly in advance of those we are offering now. Furs are steadily increasing in value. Take the opportunity offered you by this sale ! Choose Now the Fur' You Want A deposit paid on the fur of your choice will hold it at the sale price and you can pay for it at your earliest convenience. Choose your fur nowt It will be kept carefully for you until you have paid for it. This Sale Ends on MANUFACTURERS IMPORTERS FURRIERS BROADWAY AT ALDER PORTLAND. OREGON was cruel and Inhuman in her treat ment of him, Albert J. Price was granted a divorce today In circuit i court, George W. Stapleton presiding in the absence of Circuit Judge Wilson. Read The Oregonlan classified ads. Our Values Are Appreciated Every day numbeis of our choicest wraps are sold. But for those who are delayed in attending this great sale we are daily supplementing our stock with new creations from our own workrooms. Saturday, April 24 YOUR SP Contains Vertebral Lesions The Cause of Your Ailments DISEASES OF THE R;e, Ear, Nose and Throat. Lun aad Bronchi. Asthma, Tubercu losis, etc Heart. Palpitation Poor Circula t i o n. Leakage. High Blood Pressure, etc. Stomach, Acute and Chronic Dyspepsia, Ul cer, etc. Liver. Jaundice, Biliousness, Sal low Complexion. Kidneys. Bright' Disease, Dia betes, etc. FEMALE DISORDERS Chronic Coaatlpa 1 1 a Nervous Kxhauation. O o I t r. Tumor. Rupture, H m orrhoida (Piles). Lumbafro. 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