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TICKET IS DECLARED
BEST IN 20
Ralph E. Williams Satisfied
With Nominations.
LITTLE SORENESS SHOWN
Hard ins Declared Ik-st Fitted in
F.xerj Way Among Aspirants for
.Presidential Honor.
'"Harding and Coolidge make the
bent ticket that the republicans have
had In 20 years. This ticket will be
elected in November," declared Ralph
E. Williams, republican national com.
mittecman for Oregon, who returned
from Chicago yesterday.
"There is less soreness over the
nomination than I have ever seen at
any of the four national conventions
which 1 have attended." continued
Mr. Williams. "All of the defeated
aspirants are willing to support the
ticket. Of course, each man would
have preferred the honor himself, but
all are agreed that Harding is an ad
mirable selection. He is the be.it
fitted man. by temperament and abil
ity and everything else, of any of
the various candidates.
( holer Drrlnrrd Pleasing.
"His nomination is pleasing and it
Is worthy of note that insofar as the
faction leaders' are concerned, they
are at last united on him. There is
no lack of harmony among the load
ers and if the supporters of the men
w ho were defeated for the nomination
feel as kindly toward the ticket as
do Johnson, Wood, I,odcn and the
lest, Harding and Coolidge will sweep
into office by a tremendous vote.
"It is remarkable the way Senator
Harding came up. There were 22, 000
guests at the convention and the
Harding sentiment among them was
strong and kept increasing as the
balloting progressed."
Mr. Williams is now senior member
of the national committee, with the
exception of Henry McCoy of Ma
nila, P. I., who has served since 4904
The Oregon committeeman is one of
t lie five steering committee which has
the duty of laying out the preliminary
plans of the campaign. On this com
mittee are Charles U. Hilles of New
York; former Senator John D. Weeks,
A. T. Hert of Kentucky, Jake M.
Hainan of Oklahoma and R. H. Wil
liams of Oregon. They will be 'n
charge until the executive committee
is appointed to handle the campaign.
The executive committee will hayc
15 members, seven of whom will be
women. There will be three men on
it in addition to the five on the steer
ing committee.
About July 1 the executive commit
tee will be announced, after a confer
ence with Senator Harding. The as
signments of subordinate committees
and a division of duties and respon
sibilities for the campaign will be
made following the conference with
the nominee.
Women Receive Recognition.
The recognition of women on the
executive, on almost a 50-50 basis
is something new. Heretofore the
women have been considered, but have
boen classed as associates and not
actual members of the national com
mittee. At the Chicago convention Com
mitteeman Williams had an allotment
of oS tickets. This limitation did not
worry him, however, for he supplied
tickets to 117 people from Oregon.
Every man. woman and child from
this' state who wanted to get insid?
the convention hall and see the shov
was taken care of.
"The republican nominees will be
elected hands down," predicts Mr.
Williams.
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!EX-PREMIER HELD RESPONSI
BLE FOR OIL LOSS.
Result of Negotiations With Britain
Over, Mesopotamia Far From
Satisfactory to Paris.
BY LINCOLN EYRE.
V fCopyriBht by the New York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
PARIS, June 17. tSpeclal Cable.)
Oil poured upon the troubled waters
of the Millerand negotiations with
Urcat Britain anent the various peace
treaties evidently serves to churn up
. rather than to calm these choppy
seas. That is the deduction political
observers reach by a study of the
premier's latest tussle with his par
liamentary opponents over France's
failure to get possession of Mosul and
the oil fields surrounding that other
wise Insignificant Mesopotamia town.
Andre Tardieu and other politicians
representing the Poincaire or treaty
frainers' faction in the chamber of
deputies, charged Millerand at a re
cent sitting of the chamber's foreign
relations commission with having
surrendered French rights in Asia
Minor to the British. The premier's
reply was that his predecessors
meaning Clemenceau. Tardieu and
others who represented France at the
peace conference had tied his hands
where Mesopotamia and Syrian man-
date? were concerned.
The governmental press even goes
so far as to print the following re
mark allegedly made by the "Tiger
to Lloyd cieorgo in the early cays o
the conference:
"Had 1 known the importance
Mosul and Mesopotamia I should
never have ceded them to you" by
which is Implied, of course, tha
Clemenceau sacrificed France's share
of the Asiatic oil wells through shee
ignorance.
Tardieu's reply to this accusation i
a long statement purporting to show
that CJemenccau consented to iet Brit
am have Mosul only on condition tha
all Syria be placed under a French
mandate.
"()n February 8, 1919," the state
ment runs. "Britain handed us a map
which modified in the east and south
the Syrian mandate area. From that
moment Clemenceau refused to con
clude the proposed agreement. The
situation remained unchanged up to
his retirement from the premiership."
Tardieu's version of his former
chief's remark to the British premier
Is as follows:
"If. in neccmber. 1918, you had told
me in demanding Mosul that you
would also demand a large part of
Syria 1 should have refused you
Mosul from that moment."
Through the medium of Le Temps,
the Quai d'Orsay retorts by quoting
the following declaration by Clemen
ceau to Lloyd George, taken from the
minutes of the supreme council's sit
ting of May 21, 1919:
"When 1 went to London last fall I
said: You let me know what you
want in Asia so as to dissipate any
ground for misunderstanding between
tin' You replied: 'We want Mosul.
; -which by the Sykes-Plcot treaty of
YEARS
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and I have done so, despite the Qua
d Orsay s opposition."
The British premier's reply consti
tuted a confirmation of the "Tiger's"
statement.
The following day, still according to
the official minutes published in Le
Temps, Clemenceau repeated nis on
ception of the Anglo-French under
standing about Mosul.
In view of these commitments by
the then head of the French govern
ment, Millerand, his supporters argue,
could not possibly claim Mosul when
the Asia Minor mandates were dis
cussed at San Remo a year later, and
did all that was possible in getting
Britain to agree to give France 25
1316 is plainly in the French zone of
peEn'we'ui" " obtalned frora ""ONLY 3000 GALLONS LEFT
Outside of political circles I find
public opinion unperturbed by these
disclosures which, however, arouse
considerable disgust as a revelation
of the cynical greed animating the
great powers in their dismemberment
of the former Ottoman empire.
Poincaire's partisans, who are neg
lecting no weapon in their assaults
upon the Millerand ministry, may
force a debate on the Mosul question
in the chamber. That it will have
any effect other than to increase the
tension between Paris and London at
a time when a soothing syrup rather
than a powerful emetic is badly
needed is scarcely probable.
BUNKERS' SESSION BUSY
RILE IX ORGANIZATION OF
CONVENTION CHANGED.'
N. L". Carpenter of Citizens Bank
or Portland Is Elected Pres
ident of State Body.
Portland bankers who attended the
annual convention of the Oregon
Bankers' association at Eugene
Thursday and Friday report that it
was one of the most successful ses
sions ever held. More than 150 rep
resentatives of Oregon, banks at
tended. N. U. Carpenter, president of the
Citizens' bank of Portland was elect
ed president, having served as vice
president last year. William G. Tait,
of the. First National bank, Medford,
was elected vice-president; John L.
Hartman of Hartman & Thompson,
Portland, was re-elected secretary,
and I,ymna O. Rice of the First Na
tional bank, Pendleton, was elected
treasurer.
One important modification of the
usual practice of the organization
was the adoption of a rule authoriz
ing the president to appoint a com
mittee of five members on resolu
tions jo days preceding the next an
nual meeting. The time at the dis
posal of a committee named at the
annual meeting heretofore has been
too short to enable study of impor
tant matters.
The report of the agricultural com
mittee showing the activities in en
couraging boys and girls throughout
the state to engage in raising live
stock and farming was approved by
he bankers. It was decided that the
association would invite the co-operation
of the Oregon State Chamber
of Commerce to promote greater ac-
ivities in this direction. It is pro
posed that a specialist be employed
as agriculturist to devote his entire
attention to the work, co-operating
with county agriculturists to extend
he formation of pig clubs, calf clubs.
poultry clubs and calling upon the
banks to finance the enterprises by
extending credits to the boys and
girls.
COLLEGE TO AID VETERANS
nstitution at Albany Plans for
Preparatory Department.
ALBANY. Or., June 17. (Special.)
For the benefit primarily of former
service men. Albany college will es
tablish a preparatory course at the
beginning of its nexj. school year this
fall. The course will embrace two
years work preceding regular college
work.
Albany college formerly maintained
a preparatory department which could
be entered by students who had com
pleted regular grade school work. The
course carried them from that point
until they were ready to enter the
freshman year in college.
"MOVIE" OPERATORS FEW
Special Summer Course Offered for
Training Purposes.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL, COL
LEGE. Corvallis, June 17. (Special.)
A course in care and operation of
moving picture projectors will be
summer-school innovation. A grow
ing interest is shown by high schools
in supplementing ordinary classroom
nstructlon by "movies," and trained
operators are scarce.
Various types of machines will be
used. The students will learn the pe
culiarities or each type and the prop
er methods of caring for them. The
course will run .from June 28 to
July 9.
KANSAS BANK IS CLOSED
Depositors of More Than $100,000
Held Fully Protected.
"WICHITA FAXLS. Tex.. June 17
The Thrift bank, a private institution
at Wagoner City, failed to open for
business today. A branch of the bank
at Bridgeton also was closed.
No explanation was given, but offi
cials of the bank are reported to have
said that , depositors with an aggre
gate of $100,000 are fully procected.
FACE VERY BAD
WITH jlPLES
Swollen and Itchy. Hard
To Sleep. Cuticura Heals.
" I was thirteen when my face and
back were getting pimples. The pim
ples would get very red,
swollen and itchy, and it
was very hard to sleep at
night. Thepimpleswould
come to a head and my
,. yfi face was very bad.
- "I was troubled about
two y.ars before I used Cuticura Soap
and O.'ntment, and I used four cakes
of Soap and three boxes of Ointment
when I was healed." (Signed) Miss
Mazie Johnson, 2014 4th St., Sacra
mento, Cahf., June 16, 1919.
Use Ctiticura Soap, Ointment and
Talcum for all toilet purposes.
Sai.pl. Sm k Tm Vf Mall. Adrfreaa: "Oat!sr
Labaratorta,,- pt. H. MaldB, Ulu." Sold vry
ghw Soap 2&e. OintznantKandSOa. Talcum 26c
jfjnja; Puti cur Soap ahavva without mas.
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GASOLINE SHUT OFF.
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Purchase From Rival of
Standard Oil Proposed.
Agent of New Association to Be
Portland Today to Investi
gate Supply Situation.
BEND, Or., June 17. (Special.)
Under the direction of a citizens' com
mittee headed by Mayor Eastes. W.
R. Speck, Standard Oil manager here,
today suspended deliveries "f gaso
line to all garages 'and service sta
tions. With only 3000 gallons of mo
tor fuel on hand, and no shipments
promised, sale of gasoline will be con
fined to the pine milling companies,
mail stages, physicians and proprie
tors of milk routes.
Passenger stages to Burns and
Klamath Falls are left without any
supply and deliveries by Bend mer
chants will be made by team and
wagon instead of by auto. The mills
already are supplanting the internal
combustion motor by horses wherever
possible.
Aroused over the situation, local
garage men today organized the Bend
Automobile association, with Walter
G. Coombs as president, and raised
$1000 for the purchase of a car of
gasoline from some company not rep
resented here.
Mr. Coombs will be in Portland to
morrow to attend the meeting of the
Oregon Auto Dealers' association and
will decide at that me whether it
will be advisable to attempt to ob
tain two more cars of gasoline for the
local organization.
GASOL1XE NOT PUBLIC UTILITY
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Commission Without Power to Reg
ulate Distribution or Price.
SALEM, Or.. June 17. (Special.)
The Oregon public service commission
has no more legal authority to reg
ulate the distribution or price of gas
oline than it has to regulate the dis
tribution and price of wood and coal,
according to a legal opinion given by
Attorney-General Brown today.
"Gasoline is not a public utility
within the meaning of the law." said
the attorney-general in his opinion,
"and you have no more power as a
commission to regulate the distribu
tion or price of the product than you
have to regulate the price of distribu
tion of coal or wood. You have no
power to fix the distribution or allot
ment to the public nor to regulate the
price or distribution of coal to the
public utilities of Oregon, nor have
you any more or greater authority
or power to distribute or make the
rules for the distribution of gasoline.
"We cannot enlarge the meaning of
the law by construction or by interpre
tation for the purposes of meeting the
situation as it exists today. The sit
uation may present a proper matter
for legislation, but not a fit subject
for the enforcement of the public
utility law as it now exists. Until a
law exists there can be no enforce
ment thereof."
The opinion was asked by the pub
lic service commission following re
ceipt of a communication from Will
J. Lester, president of the Portland
Garage and Repair Men's association.
in which it was stated that legal ex
perts had held that the commission
had authority whereby it could regu
late the distribution of gasoline.
now that the attorney-general has
held that the commission has no juris
diction to regulate the distribution or
price of gasoline, it is likely that the
egislature at its next session will
be asked to pass a law intended to
meet emergencies such as exist at
the present time.
SALEM. Or., June 17. (Special.)
The secretary of state today received
two checks aggregating $10,133.82,
covering the sales of gasoline and
distillate in Oregon for the month of
May by the Associated Oil company
of California and the Shell Oil com
pany of California. The Associated Oil
company tax for the month was
fi 056.65 and the Shell Oil company
$3137.17.
SEATTLE GASOL.IXE IS SHORT
Reduction In Ration Follows Use
of Oil in Spraying.
SEATTLE. Wash., June 17. (Spe
cial.) Too much consumption of gas
oline, together with the necessity for
the shipment yesterday to Wenatchee
of two cars of gasoline for use in
spraying orchards, again caused the
Standard Oil company to announce
a reduction in the gasoline ration to
Seattle Wednesday.
Effective Wednesday, pleasure cars
were allowed to have in all but three
gallons to a tank and trucks ten gal
lons, this ration to continue until ar
rival of the tanker Drake from Cali
fornia Friday night with ,1.300,000
gallons.
The Shell Oil company Wednesday
continued to give all comers whatever
gasoline they called for, but an
nounced that close watch is being
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BEND AU
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COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA
Portland's Peerless Picture Players
a
A Real
Neckwear Sale!
without question the greatest
neckwear sale Portland
has ever seen I
(My Entire Stock of Cut Silk Neckwear)
Six Thousand Men's Ties
Half
$5.00 Ties . . . $2.50
$4.00 Ties . . . $2.00
$3.50 Ties . . . $1.75
$3.00 Ties . . . $1.50
$2.50 Ties ... $1.25
$2.00 Ties . . . $1.00
$1.50 Ties ... $ .75
$1.00 Ties ... $ .50
Like All My Sales This Is a Genuine Sale!
Original Price Tickets on Every Tie
Let me show you what a REAL Neckwear
Sale Means
MEN'S CLOTHING SALE AND MEN'S
SHIRT SALE CONTINUE! AS
HERETOFORE
kept on the consumption of fuel with
the passing of the rainy spell. Re
cent inclement weather-. It is said,
has reduced consumption of gasoline,
but the fine weather of today may
bring a rush of business that will
cause the company to ration again.
Dealers supplied by the Union Oil
company are still getting a 50 per
cent stock as compared with the sup
ply given them last year, the company
said.
TACOMA ALLEGES UXFA IRXESS
Discrimination Charged In Matter
of Rationing Gasoline.
TACOMA. Wash.. June 17. (Spe
cial.) Discrimination against Tacoma
in favor of Seattle in the rationing of
gasoline is charged against the big
oil companies.
That Seattle service stations have
ample supplies and are selling their
patrons all that is demanded while
Tacoma stations are either sold out or
are giving customers but two or three
gallons at a time, was the statement
made today at the regular meeting
of the Kiwanis club by S. E. Brokaw,
secretary of the Tacoma branch of the
Automobile club of Western Wash
ington and others. A committee will
be appointed- to inquire into the
matter.
Mr. Brokaw declared he knew of a
case where one man was given 35 gal
lons of gasoline by a Seattle service
stationi when in Tacoma none was to
be had.
Gasoline Shortage Ends.
ALBANY, Or., June 17. (Special.)
A supply of gasoline to relieve the
serious shortage which has existed
here the last few weeks is now as
sured for Albany. A car of 12,500
gallons which the Albany , Automo
bile Dealers' association ordered from
Bakersfield, CaL, arrived today and
three more cars are on the way to
arrive at intervals of four days. The
dealers say they will have enough
now to supply not only the local
trade but tourists also.
The
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SITE IS DECLARED IDEAL
Bend May Have Chief Central Ore
gon Landing Field.
BEND, Or., June 17. (Special.)
Crane Prairie will be made central
Oregon's chief landing field, with fill
ing stations for fire patrol planes and
radio base, if the recommendation
which C. H. Chapman of Portland,
representative of the Western For
estry association, will make to the
Cnited States air service, following
an inspection of available sites in
the Deschutes national forest, are
adopted.
Mr. Chapman was accompanied on
his tour by State Forester Elliott and
Forest Supervisor Jacobson. He de
clared the land practically ideal, as
the level turf at Crane Prairie will
need no work other than markings
for the guidance of pilots.
If a landing field is established, Mr.
Jacobson said this morning, it will
mean that planes with headquarters
"The brogue oxford is positively THE thing for street and
sports wear" says Lady Fashion. Certainly no more comfort
able shoe ever appeared in such attractive guise.
Specials on
Brogue Oxfords From
of I. Miller
Each, day brings in
new I. Miller foot
wear, designed for
dress, street and
f ports. Some are
shown in the window
many inside.
Morrison at Park.
A Real Boys' Clothing Sale
A Wonderful Sale of Boys ' Knicker
Suits to Help Reduce Clothing Costs
300-BOYS' KNICKER SUITS-300
Regular Prices, $10, $12.50 and $13.50
Bring
Juveniles' Scout-Style Khaki Suits
In Ages 6 to 12 Years
Juveniles' Military-Style Khaki Suits
In Ages 3 to 9 Years
Boys' Regular $1.50 Sport
In Ages 6 to 16 Years
BEN SELLING
LEADING CLOTHIER MORRISON AT FOURTH STREET
at Eugene can fly up the McKenzie,
swing north to Mount Jefferson and
south to Crane Prairie, taking on gas
for the trip home by way of Crescent
and Oakridge. Because of the length
of the flight, this would be Impossible
without an intermediate station.
ALBANY FINISHES BIG JOB
Tourists Passing Through City Xeed
Xot Leave Pavement-.
ALBANY, Or., June 19. (Special.)
From the time they enter the city
limits until they leave, tourists may
pass through Albany without leaving
the pavement at any point. The work
of paving streets which connect with
the Pacific highway at each end of
the city has been completed and all
other important roads connect with
paved streets also.
The principal residence streets, as
well as those of the business district,
have been paved for years, but ad
Tan Brogues at Si 4.7 5
Four handsome models in Norwegian grain calf
brown and tan, with perforated trimming. i
White Brogues at SI 2.75
Trim and modish, this oxford of Trojan Cloth with
buck trimming, perforated.
Wear brogue oxfords during Shrine week and your
feet will let you enjoy the festivities to the full.
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L MILLER FOOTWEAR
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the Boys on Friday and Saturday
joining the city limits at each end
there have been some streets not
paved. Work was begun last sum
mer to hard-surface those streets
which connected with the Pacific
highway so that there would be no
gap between the paved streets of the
city and the pavement of the high
way when it is completed. The work
was completed this week.
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n! eilers music building
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the House
Buying at this new,
exclusive boot shop
for women is especial
ly inviting because
your purchases may
be charged.
Mail Orders Given
Special Attention.
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In love with love, she
ran away and married
a knave. Then, when
the real man entered
her life! Come and
see if you agree with
what she did.
A Romance of
Youth and the
Dangerous Way
JOE ROBERTS
Banjoist
CASEY JONES
Singer
PATHE WEEKLY
PATHE REVIEW
KEATES AND THE
GIANT ORGAN
TICKET SALE Start Satnrday
THK LIBRRTl'fl MYSTIC
MIDNIGHT JAZZ MATI.NEB
Thursday Eve.. June 24
New Show Saturday
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