THE MORNING ORECONIAX, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1920
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Merchant Marine Policy Is
Now Before Senate.
GOVERNMENT TO GIVE AID
Board Continued With Seven Mem
bers and Interests of All Sec
tions to Be Considered.
its islands. except as to vessels al-1
ready admitted,, which are owned by
citizens, so long- as they are so owned.
American ships are exempted from
the war profits and excess profits
taxes for ten years, provided the
amount of these taxes is invested in
new ships. Depreciation of vessels
sold is to be deducted from the pur
chase price from time to time. All
American mails are to be carried on
American-built vessels if practicable.
Cargo vessels are permitted to carry
out over 12 passengers and Alaska
vessels may carry the full number for
which they have accommodation.
Railroads Are Restricted.
Railroads are forbidden to give re
duced export and import rates to for
eign vessels unless the board finds
that adequate shipping facilities are
WASHINGTON", May 12. (Special.)
The shipping bill now under con
sideration by the senate was pre
pared by a subcommittee of nine as
an amendment to the bill passed by
the house last November. It begins
by declaring the policy of the govern
ment to be that "it is necessary that
the United States should have a mer
chant marine sufficient to carry the
greater portion of its commerce and
to serve as a naval and military
auxiliary, ultimately to be owned and
operated privately by citizens." It
continues the shipping board in ex
istence with seven members, and in
sures that the board shall give due
consideration to the interests of all
sections by assigning two members
each to the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts and one each to the gulf, great
lakes and interior, not more than one
to be appointed from any state.
Appointments are to be for six years
and terms are to overlap, so that
there shall always be experienced
members on the board. Members are
to be appointed "with due regard to
fitness for the efficient discharge
or their duties."
Time Limit on Sale.
"While the board is to sell all mer
chant ships, no time limit is set with
in which sale is to be completed. Thus
the government is protected from the
sacrifice incidental to a forced sale.
It is to sell the fleet "as soon as prac
ticable with good business methods
and the objects and purposes to be
attained, to persons who are citizens
of the United States," with certain
exceptions, and "on such terms and
conditions aa the board may pre
scribe," but completion of payments
must not be deferred more than 20
years.
In fixing the price, the board is to
take Into consideration the prevailing
domestic and foreign market price,
the available supply and demand, the
freights received and the prospect of
tneir maintenance, the cost of con
struction under prevailing conditions,
as well as that of the vessels to be
soli.'and "any other facts or condi
tions that would influence a pru-
aent, solvent business man who is not
torced to sell." The only exception
to sale to citizens is that the board
may sell to aliens vessels that are un.
necessary to the promotion and main
tenance of an efficient American mer
chant marine.
' All Ports Recognized.
steamship lines are to be estab
lished from all ports where commerce
can be developed, if not by private
operators then by the board itself
until private enterprise is ready to
step tn. The board is directed to in
vestigate and determine what steam
ship lines should be established from
ports in the United States and its pos
sessions : "where adequate terminal
connections with rail carriers can and
will be made or already exist." It is
to sell or charter vessels to citizens
who agree to establish and maintain
such lines. If no citizens can be in
duced to do this, the board itself must
operate vessels until business has de
veloped so that they may be sold. The
postmaster-general Is to contract
with the board for carrying the mails
over such lines. Preference in estab
listing lines or in selling those which
the board . has established is to be
given to citizens who have "the sun
port, financial and otherwise, of the
domestic communities interested or to
citizens then maintaining service to
or in the general direction of the
woria market to De reached. Lines
already established are to be main
tained until the board determines
that it Is unbusinesslike or against
the public interest.
The board is directed to investigate
the territorial regions and zones trib
utary to various ports, "taking into
consideration the economies of trans
portation by rail and highway and the
natural direction ot the flow of com
merce. Jt is to investigate the
causes of congestion at ports and the
remedies for them and to investigate
water terminals and their facilities
with a view, to devising and suggest
ing the types most appropriate. It
win advise with communities regard
mg the location and plan, and will
investigate the practicability and ad
vantages ot harbor, river and port
improvements, also "any other mat
ter that may tend to promote and en
courage the use by vessels of ports
adequate to care for the freight which
would naturally pass through such
ports."
If the board thinks any rates or
regulations subject to the jurisdiction
of the interstate commerce commis
sion to be detrimental to the declared
objects of this section, or new rates
or regulations or affirmative action
by railroads to be necessary,-it may
submit its findings to the interstate
commerce commission for action.
Ycnsrln to Be Built at Home.
For five years the board may set
aside a fund to be used in construc
tion or aid to construction of ves
sels. This aid must not exceed three
fourths of the cost, and on salo of
such vessels at least 25 per cent of
the price must be paid in cash. All
must be built In American yards, and
cost-plus contracts are forbidden.
Until sold all vessels are to be man
aged or operated, chartered or leased
by the board. An insurance fund is
also to be set aside. All property
other than vessels is to be sold. The
nousing law is repealed.
Net proceeds of the board's opera
tions prior to July 1. 1921, except op
erating capital, the insurance fund
and the construction fund, are to be
expended on construction, requisi
tioning or purchase of vessels. After
that date government funds are to
be withdrawn from investment as
rapidly as advisable and paid into
the treasury.
All water front property and ter
minals acquired during the war are
to be taken over, but the president
may transfer any part to the war or
navy department.
All vessels owned or sold by the
hoard are to have American register.
Sale to foreigners or placing under
foreign register is forbidden except
with the board's approval. In con
senting to sale to aliens the board
must require the proceeds to be in
vested in new ships built in the
United States and operated under the
American flag.
If the board cannot arrange for pri
vate lines to connect the Alaska gov
ernment railroad with Pacific and
other ports, it shall furnish service
until private capital takes over the
line.
The law excluding foreign-built
vessels from coastwise trade is re
vived and tha,t law is extended to
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CAR SHORTAGE HITS
iUSTRY OF NATION
Appeals to Washington Say
Production Menaced.
TIE-UP LAID TO STRIKE
George Wilson.
Gus Hill's minstrels will be
the attraction at the Heileg
theater commencing tonight and
for the rest of the week. The
company is a large one and in
cludes the dean of blackface
comedians. George Wilson. Mr.
Wilson has an entirely new
monologue this season. 'The
show is reported to be new in
every department, new songs,
new bits, new jokes, new fea
tures, novelties and other ingre
dients. There will be a street
parade this noon.
not given by American vessels be
tween the American and foreign ports
nterested.
The president is requested to give
notice within 90 days of the termina
tion of treaties which restrict the
right of the United States to impose
discriminating duties on imports in
foreign vessels.
Strict provision is made against
foreign control of nominally Ameri
can shipping companies.
Some modifications are made in the
provisions of the L.a toilette sea
men's law to diminish the temptation
to desert before a voyage is completed.
BARNES RECALLS THRILL
CIKCCS JUX TELLS . OK ADVEX
TCKE IX JCXCLE. -
Giant Gorilla Spring's at Animal
Hunter, but Lands In Trap
Set for Elephant. .
Al G. Barnes, head of the circus
which bears his name, has probably
broken and trained more wild animals
than any other living man. Speaking
of his experiences, he tells of a nar
row escape from death about ten
years ago. while on a combined busi
ness and pleasure trip.
Karly one morning, in the Uganda
country, he met a giant gorilla face
to face unexpectedly. lie was carry
ing a field glass, a canteen, an
elephant gun and two sixguns in his
belt.
The gorilla sprang for Barnes with
Its giant arms outstretched. Barnes
side-stepped and in doing so, his can
teen, swung from his shoulder into the
claws of the gorilla, who took a sec
ond to investigate, the noise of the
water inside as he shook it exciting
his curiosity.
In a twinkling Barnes had his guns
In position, but the gorilla 'suddenly
turned and ran right into an elephant
trap that Barnes had set several days
before. This gorilla is now one of
the inhabitants of the Barnes circus,
which comes to Portland for two
days, May 17 and 18.
Big Clamor for Coal 'With Demands
of Xorthwest and1 Califor
' nta Second. .
WASHINGTON. May 12 By the
Associated Press.) Congestion of
freight in the. principal railroad ter
minals, probably the worst since the
hard wfnter of 1917, Is beginning to
be felt in business and commerce all
over the country.
Appeals for relief pouring into
Washington to the interstate com
merce commission, the railroad ad-
I ministration and to congress picture
the big railroad gateways choked
with thousands of loaded freight cars
unable to move because of shortage of
men and motive power. Although the
situation has been showing local ef-,
fects for the last two weeks, it now
is being shown in its nation-wide as
pects, and the appeals for relief com
ing to Washington contain predic
tions that unless the jam is broken
it will be reflected mere than ever in
decreased production, slowing down
of Industry and probably a. tremen
dous labor turnover.
Latest reports compiled here by the
committee on car service, American
Railroad association, whose principal
duty is to see that cars are supplied
to sections in greatest need of them
and to keep them moving, show 235,
000 cars tied up or delayed in tran
sit. Of this number, 85.000 are at
junctions, with no labor to transfer
them. On April 16 the total number
of cars tied up was 288,000. Much of
this was attributed by railroad people
to the recent strike.
82,411 Cam Urgently rrdrd!
There is pressing need today for
82,411 cars to take care of the most
urgent demands, railroad men declare,
although they say this shows a reduc
tion of approximately 10,000 over
April reports.
All renorts show that the tie-up was
forced ' A a head by the recent railroad
strike .not yet ended, according to
railwi j officials.
The most serious conditions prevail
at the gateways, blocked as seldom
before with thousands of cars, mostly
loaded with coal and foodstuffs.
After spending half of the day at
the telephone, V. C. Kendall, head of
the car service committee, announced
tonight that, while the situation wan
bad, it was not nearly so acute as ten
days ago.
Actual Tie-up Held Leu.
There is more noise, more of a
concentrated kick." he said, "but the
actual tie-up is less. But there is an
improvement. Last week's figures in
dicated a coal production of 9,000,000
tons."
The big clamor. Mr. Kendall said, is
for coal. Commercial stocks have been
depleted and, with the railroad sur
plus exhausted, the roads had to con
fiscate it. Now they are trying to fill
the gaps.
Demand for cars for grain from the
northwest and for refrigerator cars
for California and the southeast ter
ritory come next, he said, and added
to this was the ever-present difficulty
of moving back the empties.
At the time of the "unauthorized"
walkout of trainmen and switchmen
the roads were literally swamned
with business. Trying to meet this with
depleted equipment and with industries
running at full tilt, the strike, rail
road men asserted, was like the straw
that broke the camel's back.
Labor Figure Lacking.
No figures are available at feder
ation of labor headquarters as to the
actual number of employes still on
strike, itepresentatives of the train
men's brotherhood said they had no
estimates, although they stated that
24,000 union members who went on
strike were dismissed. Many of these
have gone back, but the number is
said to be far below normal. Railroad
men say the forces were inadequate
at the time of the walkout and that
higher wages offered by industrial
plants took away thousands.
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Hundreds of New Shirts
in a Colossal Sale!
It's Profit-Taking Time for Men
Wlio Have Shirts to Buy
Regular $3.50 and $4.00 Shirts .
Sale Price $2.45
Regular $5.00 and $6.00 Shirts
Sale Price $3.85
Regular $7.50 and $8.50 Shirts
Sale Price $4.85
Fine Woven Madras, Fancy Silk Stripe, Silk
Mixtures and Fiber Silks
New Shirts New Patterns New Colorings
Eclipsing in Genuine Savings
Any and All Other Shirt Sales
TODAY and FRIDAY
Are Your Last Chances
; of Seeing This 100fo
Production It is
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Morrison at Fourth
BEN SELLING
HOWELL BUN DESCRIBED
WITNESS SAYS BULLET LIRE
ONE IX GIRIS HE.D.
Ex-
from other guns. "Whetstone said in
his opinion the bullet taken from the
girl's head was so marked that it
could have been fired only from
Howell's gun.
Salem Man Heads FVatcrnitj .
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
May 12. ISpeeial.) W. C. Hoppes of
Salcui was elected president of Pi
Kappa Delta, local honorary educa
tional fraternity, at its latest meeting.
Peter Spencer of Ashland was elected
vice-president. Ltster Gladden of
Eugene recording secretary, L.. C
Douglass of Salem corresponding sec
retary and Iyloyd Knlund of North
Bend treasurer. The membership
committee is made up of Verne Blue
of Ashland, I5o Cossman of Creswell
and Marcus O'Day of Centralia, Wash.
The following four members were
initiated: L. C. Douglass. Lloyd
Enlund, William Thornton of Eugene
and Roy Stroud of Trent.
Jolm.-ioii Speaker Billed.
EUGENE. Or., May 12. (Special.)
The opening gun. in Hiram Johnson's
campaign in Lane county will be fired
Saturday night when Colonel Harris
Wainstock of California will speak
at the courthouse, according to an
nouncement of Howard M. Brownell,
manager for the Johnson, campangn
in this county. Colonel Wainstock
Is former state market inspector of
California and is reputed to be an
eloquent speaker. Mr. Brownell an
nounces that he will have a number
of other speakers for Johnson here
later.
Eagle Adopted! as Mascot.
"VANCOUVER. Wash., May 1.
(Special.) A big American eagle re
ceived today by' the Columbia Dairy
Products company of this city, from
Mr. Morgan of - Weiser. Idaho, has
been adopted as'a mascot by officials
of the company and will be put on
display in a cage.
Police Officers and llreanns
' perts on Stand. at Murder
Trial.
1IARSHFIELD, Or., May 12. (Spe
cial.) Testimony regarding the gun
owned by the defendant and the bul
let taken from the head of the mur
dered, Lillian Leuthold, was intro
duced by the prosecution in the trial
of Harold Howell in the circuit court
at Coauille today.
Coroner Wilson, told of examining
ihe guns at the Howell residence be
fore the arrest. He said the boy's
gun was originally a 22-caliber and
had been rebored to fire a 25-caliber
shell and identified the gun which
was introduced as . an exhibit. The
bullet taken from the murdered girl's
head also was made an exhibit.
Ira Tucker, an officer of Bandon,
also testified about the gun. He said
the Howell boy told him it was a 22
gun, but failed to tell it had been
rebored for a larger shell. Deputy
Sheriff Clyde Gage told of firing the
defendant's ' gun and retaining the
bullets to compare with the one which
killed the girl. He was asked to turn
over these Duneis. ueietuve x.ncj
of the Pinkerton agency of Portland,
told of his questioning the boy and
like the other officers ' said that
Howell answered all questions freely
before and after his arrest.
Riley admitted that hi3 agency was
tn have S1000 reward for the con
viction of the slayer, 500 to be paid
by the city of Bandon and the rest
hv the, eountv. This fact was not
brought out, at the two previous
trlals.
G. W. Tribbey of Marshficld and
Sam Whe-tstone of Coiuille were on
th stand as experts on guns. Trib-
bev told of the manner a rebored
gun would mark a bullet differently
The Dalles Teachers Tew.
THE DALLES. Or.. May 12. (Spe
cial.) Due to low salaries paid
trained instructors in the local
schools, augmented by marriage of
several teachers. It appears that not
more than 50 per cent of the corps of
teachers now employed will take
charge of classrooms when school
opens in the fall. A few local teach
ers will leave this summer to take
advanced courses of study. They
will not return next school year.
The innovation of supplying com
fortable armchairs and rockers on
board the vessels of the British navy
is to be made soon. Heretofore it has
not been regarded as wise to give
men these comforts.
SUFFERED WITH RHEUMATISM
CATARRH AND STOMACH TROUBLE
NUMBER 40 GAVE RELIEF
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SATURDAY A DOUBLE-FEATURE BILL 3
Why Itch and Burn
With Skin Diseases?
Military Tests Put Ahead.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene.
May 12. (Special.) Classroom exam
inations for reserve officers' training
corps here have been advanced a
month to permit the officers to reach
the summer camp at Camp Kearney,
in California, June 10. These exam
inations are generally held at the end
of the college year. Twenty students
from the University of Oregon will
attend the summer training camp.
Stndcnts AVln Plaudits.
HOOD RIVER, Or., May 12. (Spe
cial.) Members of the Hood River
high school senior class won the
plaudits of a crowded auditorium
last night when they presented "She
Stoops to Conquer." The commence
ment exercises of the school will be
held at the auditorium tomorrow
night, when C. N. Clarke, chairman
of the school board, will award dinin.
vraffic between the United States and ' mas to the 26 graduates.
There is a Way to Get Rid of
the Torturous Suffering.
Tou cannot boil water by applying
heat to the top of .the vessel. Yon
may possibly, after so long a time,
succeed in making the water luke
warm, but it will never get hot
enough to boil.
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Disordrra vrhlrli originate In
the blood ran le reached
only through the blood, and
no amount of loral treatment
applied to the surface can be
J expected to do any real good,
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The same principle applies tp the
attempt to get rid of skin diseases
by local applications " of salves, oint
ments, lotions, washes, etc, remedies
applied to the surface of the skin,
which can have no real corrective
effect whatever upon the disease.
Water cannot be boiled until every
atom has been thoroughly saturated
with intense heat, which can be ac
complished only by applying it in the
proper way.
So, also, there is a proper way to
successfully treat and get rid of dis
eases Qf the skin, and that is by get
ting in behind the millions of tiny
germs that cause the disorders, and
eliminate them from the blood, thus
going direct to the source of the
trouble, and attacking' them at the
starting point.
Those who rely upon local treat
ment such as ointments, salves, lo
tions, washes, etc., which are applied
to the surface of the skin, will never
be free from agonizing skin diseases.
because they are going about the
treatment just backwards. They are
treating the results of the disorder.
and not the disease itself. They are
attempting to boil water by applying
the heat in the wrong place.
'Xhese terrifying skin irritations,
eczema, tetter, boils, pimples, etc.
have their origin in a disordered con
dition of the blood. They come from
a colony of tiny germs which get
into the blood and multiply by the
million. Although commonly called
"Skin diseases" because they set up
the visible evidence of their disturb
ance on the surface of the skin, all
successful treatment must come
through the blood. This makes it
clear why you cannot expect any real
substantial relief from local remedies
applied to the surface of the skin.
There is no danger of ever being
afflicted with skin diseases as long
as the blood is in perfect condition
It is only logical, therefore, that the
proper treatment for pimples, blotches,
sores, boils, rough red scaly skin is to
purify the blood of the tiny germs
that cause these disorders.
When any of these symptoms ap
pear on any part of your body, you
should take prompt steps to rid the
blood of the germs whicn cause them
And the one remedy which has no
equal as a blood cleanser is S. S. S.
the purely vegetable blood remedy
which has been on the market for
more than fifty years. S. S. S. is sold
by druggists everywhere.
Do not expect to be cured or any
form of skin disease by the use o
lotions, salves, ointments or other
local treatment, as such remedies
cannot possibly reach the source o
the trouble, which is the blood.
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The recoaralKed blood purl- S
fter and tonic la S. S. S which
has been used for more than
! fifty Tear, and la today more
popular than ever.
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Begin taking S. S. S. today, and
write a complete history of your case
to our Chief Medical Adviser, who
will give yov special instructions
without charge Write at once to
Swift Specific Co., 185 Swift Labor,
i tory. AUajiia, Ga, Adv.
I think Number 40 For The. Blood
as a blood purifier has no equal.
When I began to take Number 40 I
was in very poor health, as I had
rheumatism, catarrh, stomach trou
ble, lead poisoning and an itch for
which I had tried numerous prescrip
tions without relief. I have taken
six bottles of Number 40 and am on
fast road to recovery. I feel that
I owe my life to it. as I was run down.
weighing only 127 pounds, but now I
weigh 148 pounds, my usual weight.
could write more, but this should
be enough to convince the most skep
tical. You are at liberty to use this
letter any way you desire." George
Klinker, Lima, Ohio. Number 40 is
demanded In gouty and rheumatic
conditions, poisoning, auto-intoxication,
constipation, indigestion, stom
ach, liver and kidney trouble, eczema,
burning and Itching skin eruptions,
sores, ulcers, glandular swellings,
mercurial and lead poisoning. Used
with remarkable success in functional
nervous trouble, asthma and difficult
breathing. Prepared by J. C. Menden
hall, Evansvllle, Ind. 40 years a drug
gist. Sold. by Laue-Davis Drug Co.
Adv.
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