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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, MAT . 22, -1920
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TO SPEED IIP. CARS
Committees to Be Formed to
Rush Equipment Forward.
PORTLAND IS ONE CENTER
Heavier and Faster loading, Use
of Cars Only as Xeeded and
OtUer Rules Are Made.
WASHINGTON. May 21. Attack on
the freight congestion which has
threatened to paralyze the national
arteries of transportation will be con
centrated immediately at a score of
Junction points, operating- officials of
the American Railway association
were instructed tonight.
Formation of committees at each of
80 "gateways" was ordered, the duties
of which will be to dig cars out of the
mass and see that they are forwarded
expeditiously.
These instructions weTe supplemen
tal to the action of the interstate com
merce commission covering drastic re
routing and equipment pooling, which
were 'designed to deal with the coo--gestion
as a whole. .
Portland to Have Committee.
The car committee will begin work
Monday at the following cities:
Omaha, Seattle, Baltimore, Cincin
nati. Toungstown, O. ; Minneapolis, St.
Paul. 'Norfolk, New York, St. Louis,
Boston, -Denver, Philadelphia, Buf
falo. Portland. Or; Peoria, Birming
ham, Kansas City, Cleveland, Detroit,
Washington, D. C. ; New Orleans,
Pittsburg.. Louisville. Galveston, At
lanta. San francisco, Dallas, Toledo
and Chicago.
Railroads entering each of these
cities were asked to designate a rep
resentative' on the committee em
powered to direct the handling of all
traffic at its terminal. .
In addition to the committees, ad
visory groups also were authorized
whose membership will consist of one
railroad official, one shipper and a
representative of the interstate com
merce commission.
Speeding: Up Attempted.
The advisory groups will work with
both the local car service committee
of the roads and with the interstate
commerce commission.
First attention of the new freight
controlling bodies was ordered given
to the following activities:
Obtaining prompt loading of equip
ment. -
Loading of cars to full visible 01
carrying capacity.
Placement of car orders in accord
ance with necessities.
Reduction of use of equipment in
train or transfer service when move
ment can be made by motor truck or
wagon. .
Development of practicable ar
rangements for expedited through
merchandise, cars.
TRICKERY IS CHEEP
MRS. THOMPSON ACCUSED BY
DTi. ESTHER POHt LOVEJOY.
Opponent Declared to Have Used
City Schools in Effort to
Further Candidacy.
Definite declaration that the Port
land city echools had been used to
further the candidacy of Mrs. Alex
ander Thompson for the democratic
nomination for representative in con
gress was made by Dr. Esther Pohl
Lovejoy, Mrs. Thompson's opponent,
at the meeting of the City and County
Medical society at th Portland hotel
Wednesday.
"Because of political trickery the
meetings in the schools, including the
spelling bees, were used for political
trickery," Dr. Lovejoy declared.
'The millage committee did not
realize that a political job was being
put over on it.
"As a result, a great mass meet
ing of the combined schools and the
Women of Woodcraft had been ar
ranged for tonight, and it was only
because the millage committee and
the Woodcraft women realized that
they had been made a cat's paw by
this lady that the meeting at the
last moment was canceled."
Dr. Lovejoy declared her opponent
was -a Christian Scientist and had
opposed a health legislation at Salem.,
"I give you my word." added Dr.
Lovejoy, "that while I do not see eye
to eye with many of you. yet you can
count on me to get completelybehind
the entire health programme which
is to come before congress."
FOREIGN PRESS AROUSED
ALL CANDIDATES SUPPORTING
"BI-LIXGUAL BILL" OPPOSED
Carroll, which was destroyed by fire !
a lew days ago, stands a giant tree
of a rare variety. The tree was
damaged considerably by the fire and
the Incident calls attention to the fact
that the tree is the only one of its
kind, in Genesee county and perhaps
in western New York. None of the
old residents of Byron, who have
watched the tree 'grow for" decades,
have seen a tree like it in any of
their travels.
J. Fred Rose of South Byron, an
expert on orchards and trees, recalls
that half a century ago he learned
the history of the then massive tree
from Charles E. Cook, a son of Elias
Cook, who many years ago was an
Influential resident of Byron.
The story is thafas many as 100
years ago the agricultural depart
ment at Washington .obtained small
specimens of the Ailantus, or tree o
heaven, for trial. Cook obtained a
few of them and gave one to a car
penter by the name of Nathan P.
DelaDP. who nut it out in his front
yard where he lived in a small -house
previous to. the Carroll family buying
the place and building the house
which was destroyed by fire.
Whether any of the other trees ob
tained by Cook lived or if so were
later destroyed Is not known. The
tree on the Carroll farm now is over
two feet in diameter at the base and
50 or 60 feet tall. The Ailantus is
deciduous, and when leaving out the
peculiar reddish color of its very
Targe leaves is noticeable.
The father of landscape gardening
in Genesee county, A. J .Dowling, in
his book, "Landscape Gardening,"
written in 1S49. has this to say about
the tree:
"The appellation- tree of heaven
probably was bestowed on account of
the rapidity of its growth and the
great height which it reaches in the
East Indies, its native country. Dur
ing the first half dozen years it out
strips almost any other deciduous tree
in vigor of growth and we have meas
ured leading stems which had grown
12 to IS feet' in' a single season.
"The tree seems to have a. trouble
some habit of producing suckers. The
branches of the tree are almost en
tirely destitute of the small spray
common to most forest trees and have
a singular naked look in winter, well
calculated to fix the attention of the
spectator at that dreary season. The
largest Ailantus trees in America- are
growing in Rhode Island, where they
were introduced from China under
the name of the Tillou." ,
IRISH KU-KLUX IS FEARED
AXTI-SIXX FELX ORGANIZATION
BELIEVED AT WORK.
Circumstances in Murder of Lord
Mayor or Cork Indicate Loyalists
Are Out to Avenge Death.
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TO LINES APPROVED
Interstate Commerce Com
mission Acts on Railways.
FREIGHT JAM ATTACKED
LONDON. A most significant event
has transpired in Ireland while the
American newspapers have been de
voting their front pages for the most
part to the German revolution.
For, while the British newspapers
persist in regarding as a "deep myB
tery" the murder of Lord Mayor Mac
Curtain of Cork, the circumstances in
dicate the first tangible evidence of a
secret anti-Sinn Fein organization,
operating along lines similar to the
Ku IClux K.lan in America, and formed
to avenge the numerous brutal mur
ders recently of, soldiers, policemen,
members of the royal Irish constabu
lary. and other loyalists.
The theory advanced that MacCur
tain - possibly was slain by the Sinn
Fein for alleged treachery is regard
ed as untenable, because his actions
and his utterances up to the moment
of his death were whole-heartedly
Sinn Fein, and -the -murder followed a
fiery speech by MacCurtain only a
week previously, during which he bit
terly denounced the metlibds pursued
by the police and constabulary against
the Sinn Fein.
For some weeks there has been a
growing restiveness on the part of
many of the populace, who, while !
Irish, nevertheless are loyal to the
empire. This restiveness has been on
the increase since the beginning of
the progressive demobilization of the
Irish regiments which participated in
the war. There has been a well-defined
and more and more outspoken
resentment sown at the crimes com
mitted against those who have been
responsible for upholding the law.
Ku Klux methods closely were ob
served throughout the developments,
which came to a head in the murder
of MacCurtain. First an anonymous
warning to prepare for death was
delivered at his home. .v
Then, on the occasion of the killing,
his assailants swept down upon his
house in a body of six of. them, dis
guised and with blackened faces, en
tering the house, while others, simi
larly disguised, surrounded the place,
keeping away pedestrians while the
crime was being committed.
The speed and machinelike com
pleteness and directness with which
the whole proceedings were conducted
indicated strongly that the murder
had been carefully rehearsed and then
carried out according to the pro
gramme. . '
That the mayor's family is auspi
cious that an anti-Sinn Fein organiza
tion is the secret genesis of the mur
der of the lord maor was indicated
when the solicitor refused to permit
any former member of the police force
to sit on the coroner's jury.
What will be the next blow struck
by this clan of loyalist if such an
organization does exist, is a question
discussed rather generally in politi
cal quarters today.
Abrogation of All Rules Governing
Car Service Is One of Tlirea,
Vital Steps.
WASHINGTON, May 21. A loan of
at least $125,000,000 out of the $200,
000,000 revolving fund to enable rail
roads to purchase equipment required
to meet transportation needs of the
public was approved today by the
interstate commerce commission.
The commission in a few hours has
taken .tlyee other important steps
toward breaking the freight conges
tion. These we,re orders for:-
Forwarding of traffic without ref
erence to previous routing; abroga
tion of all railroad rules governing
car service; transfer of 32,000 coal
cars from west to east, and of 20,000
box cars from east to grain fields of
the west.
Hearings Are' Scheduled.
These moves were expected within
10 days, members of the commission
said, but they expected that a much
longer period would be required to
"get the entire tangle straightened
out."
Hearings to consider applications
jr loans will be held here May 29
and 'the commission asked that appli
cations embody detailed statements of
the transportation needs which the
carrier would be unable to meet and
what service for the public could be
performed if the loan asked was not
granted, statements of security of
fered and the earning power of the
applicants.
"The $125,000,000 for equipment
might best be. disbursed," the commis
sion said, "through a national equip
ment corporation in which the carriers
would take stock for 25 per cent of
the cost of the equipment, the United
States advancing the cash for the
Stock up to $125,000,000 and the re
maining 75 per cent being financed
through a car trust.
Adequate Rental Suggested.
"Provision would have to be made
for adequate per diem or rental iwith
such an arrangement."
The commission estim ited that
equipment already ordered and to
cost $125,000,000 represented probably
less than 25 per cent of that needed.
"It is evident," ' the commission's
statement said, "that the equipment
required cannot be obtained unless
the carriers themselves assume the
burden of financing ths remaining 75
per cent."
.. The commission said allocation of
the. $123,000,000 for equipment would
be made according to the percentage
which the standard return of a com
pany bears to the total standard re
turn of all the railroads.
ELECTRICITY ONLY HQPE
Nation Looks to Industry to Save
Coal and Oil Supplies.
PASADENA, Cal., May 21. The na
tion is looking to the electrical indus
try to effect economies in thf lessen
ing store of coal and oil. the National
Electric Light association convention
was told today in a report from Frank
M. Kerr of Butte, Mont., chairman of
the committee on electrification of
steam railroads.
Mr. Kerr was unable to attend the
convention and his report was read
by H. H. Cochran."
OLD WEDDING IS VOID
Pair, Parted Since Marriage -Nine
Years Ago, to Remarry.
' CLEVELAND, May 2L After trav
eling more than 10,000 miles to join
her husband, -from whom she had
been separated since the day of their
wedding in Korea nine years ago,
Mrs. James Oak, formerly an instruc
tor in the Methodist college in Corea,
aralved here to learn that the oriental
nuptia ceremony, would not be le
gally recognized in this country.
The couple then procured a license
and made preparations for their
American marriage ceremony here.
CROP DAMAGED BY HAIL
Patch Two Miles Wide Swept
TlirougU Cotton Eiclda In Arizona.
PHOENIX, Ariz., May 21 Heavy
crop damage was done in cotton
growing districts of the Salt river val
ley by a freak hail and rain storm
today which swept a path two miles
wide. Toung cotton in the path of the
storm was reported totally destroyed
on many farms while cotton suffered
heavy damage.
Hail stones, in many instances de
scribed as large as walnuts', beat
down the cotton stalks.
'Rev. Lambert Rendrlck Dies.
CHICAGO, May 21. Rev. Lambert
Kendrick, 49, well known as a mis
sionary of the Passlonist Fathers or
der, died here today.
Australia Prelate Coming.
SAM FRANCISCO. May 21. Cabled
advices that Most Rev. Daniel Man
nix, archbishop of the Roman Catho
lic archdiocese of Melbourne, Aus
tralia, is on hia way to the United
States en route to Rome, were received-
here today by Monsignor P. L.
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Splendid assortment choice Hard Candies,
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, Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream, 80c per qt.
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Ryan, vicar general of the archdio
cese of San Francisco.
Joint Terminals to Resume.
OMAHA, N'eb.. May SI. The Joint
Terminals company which operated
m Omaha during the war is to be
restored, Vice-President Calvin of the
Union Pacific said today. The pur
pose is to relieve freight conges
tion.
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Prejudices or All Who Speak For
eign Languages Appealed To
for Aid in light.
The campaign of propaganda of the
foreign language newspapers in Ore
gon has, during the primary cam
paign, been directed against candi
dates for legislative or executive po
sition who have stood firmly for use
of the English language. The Ore--gon
Posten. published in the Swedish
language, and the German N'achrich
ten have been especially vigorous in
this direction, and have centered their
opposition against David K. Lofren,
candidate for joint representative in
the Seventeenth district consisting of
Multnomah ana Clackamas counties.
As a member of the legislature rep
resenting this district Mr. Lofgren
voted for and' vigorously supported
the so-called "bi-lingual newspaper
bill," which was aimed at curbing un
American foreign language news
papers in the type of propaganda that
is displayed by these organs in their
fight on certain candidates.
The foreign language newspapers
have appealed strongly to the preju
dices of those who speak the foreign
languages and refuse to accept the
employment of the language of the
country in claiming the protection and
benefits of citizenship. Mr. Lofgren
was born in the United States of for
eign parentage, but has shown by his
record as a legislator that he is thor
oughly and loyally American.
Europe Sends Settlers.'
HALIFAX, X. S. Immigration from
Europe is very heavy at the present
time, as many as 2200 passengers be
ing handled at one pier in the course
of a day. These left the city on five
special trains for various ' points
throughout Canada.
Six weeks of THE LITERARY DIGEST'S presidential poll of . the nation, with only
two weeks' returns still to be tabulated before the meeting of the first of the great national
conventions, have resulted in the gathering of nearly 1,500,000 ballots, fairly distributed
over all sections of the country. That "silent, inscrutable majority," as the Washington
Herald calls it, which does not express itself either at party primaries or party conventions,
undoubtedly has revealed something of the state of its mind in the columns of figures
classified in THE LITERARY DIGEST for May 22d.
It is the practically unanimous verdict, at least of the hundreds of editors North, East,
South, and West, that the balloting gives a genuine indication of the way in which the
United States will vote for its next president. It is not too much to say that the results-of
: this gigantic poll of the Nation will be a considerable factor in determining the candidates
to be chosen by the Republican and Democratic conventions. ,
" Other articles in this especially good number of THE DIGEST include :
- Farmers Must Have Help or City
Folks May Go Hungry
A Note of Grave Warning Is Sounded in This Article Which Consists of Expert Opinions
of Agricultural Journals Upon the Increasing Shortage of Food
FIRE DAMAGES OLD TREE
Aged Giant Obtained From" De
partment of Agriculture.
BATAVIA, X. Y. In the front yard,
close to the farmhouse of . William
Sugar Beets for Coast.
VAXDERHOOP. B. C. After the
successful experiments with sugar
beets last year in the Hazelton dis
trict a considerable acreage is being
planned here for this vegetable. The
seed has already been obtained from
Colorado.
Aged Criminal Lawyer Dies.
ST. LOUIS. Mo.. May 21. Charles
P Johnson, S4, prominent criminal
lawyer and former lieutenant gover
nor of Missouri, died today.
S. & H. green stamps for cash.
Ilolman Fuel Co. Main 353, 660-21.
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Profiteering and High Prices
The Railroads' Plea for Funds
Justice for Alien "Reds"
Doubts About Mexico's Future
A Canadian Minister at Washington
Japanese Alarm at America's Navy
American "Meddling" With Ireland
Near-East Talk of Uncle Sam
Bad News for Dishonest Milkmen
Mining for Oil
Parer Pulp From Flax Straw
Pittsburg's Artistic .Plaster for Bolshevism
Are Postal Employes Human Beings?
German Plays Knock at London Doors
Screen Technique for Spoken Drama
Too Much Gloom in the Pulpit
The President and His Cabinet History
As an Executive Body, etc.
Imports and Exports of Textiles
Eugene V. Debs, a, "Presidential Impossi
bility" Disabled Soldiers, in "The Battle of Fifth
Avenue"
Best of the Current Poetry
Topics in Brief
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