THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1920
EARLY RAIL WAGE
If
AWARD
PROMISED
Board Replies to Inquiry
' President Wilson.
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COUNTER CLAIMS MET
first trip under oil fuel. She was not
pressed coming- down the channel, but
she can make 23 knots under normal
conditions, while the abolition of
coaling: enables her to turn around
in one-third to one-half less time.
As a luxury ship the Olympic stands
foremost, and could not be built and
fitted today at less than 5,000,000.
She Is the last -of her class, for the
White Star's biggest orders to Har
land &. Wolff, famous Belfast ship
builders, in the future will be for
about 30,000 tonners, as against the
Olympic's 46,000. Monster liners have
not proved paying propositions and
henceforward the wealthy traveler
must be satisfied with less elaborate
and less artistic magnificence and
variety without the sacrifice of com
fort. Every first-class stateroom has a
cot bed and is fitted and decorated
with excellent taste. i
Some Delay Also Iaid to Many
Classes of Workers Now
Being Considered.
WASHINGTON. June 24. Assur
ances that the railroad labor board
would expedite its award in the rail
road wage controversy were received
today by President Wilson.
The board's message to the execu
tive was in reply to an inquiry by the
president a3 to possibility of hasten
ing the awtrd or of announcing a
tentative or partial settlement. The
reply of tbe board had not been made
public at the White Hou.sc tonight.
It was understood to set forth that
some delay must occur in a matter in
which there are so many conflicting
claims, so many classes of workers to
be considered and so much evidence,
both written and oral, to be reviewed.
The president in his message to the
beard in Chicago said:
"Reports placed before me show
transportation situation hourly grow
ing more difficult and I am wonder
ing whether It would not be possible
for your board xo announce a de
cision with reference to the perdint,
wage matter. At least would it not
be possible for your board, if it has
reached no final conclusions relative
to these vital matters, tentatively to
iSTee upon a settlement or even a
partial settlement?"
The walkout today of yardmen at
the Potomac yards across the Poto
mac river from AV'ashington resulted
in the placing: of temporary embar
goes on all freight passing through
the yards.
PHILADELPHIA, June 24. While
the railroad strikers claim they have
made small gains in the eastern sec
tion of the country today, the Read
ing and Pennsylvania railroads both
asserted freight conditions in this sec
tion were much better.
strike headquarters announced the
striking trainmen and longshore
men have entered into an agreement
not to return to work until demands
of both have been met. The long
shoremen have been striking for
weeks for increased wages and short
er hours.
EX KAISER IS ATTACKED
SLIGHT BUILET "WOTJXD MADE
BY DISGUISED MAX.
E EXPELS
MOTOR. CAR HEAD INTIMATES
COCKT PROCEDURE.
Assailant Believed .to Have Been
Emissary of Rad-ical Who
Feared Coup d'Etat.
(Copyrisht by the New York World. Pub
lished by Arran cement.)
PARIS, June 24. (Special cable.)
Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm was shot In the
jaw on the afternoon of June 18 in
one of the halls 'of Doorn by a man
disguised as a Belgian workman, .but
who is believed to be a German be
longing to one of the radical parties
in Germany, according to a report re
ceived this afternoon. The assailant
has been arrested by the castle
guards and handed over to the police
authorities, but so far he is unidenti
fied. The ex-kaiser's wound is said
to be superficial.
Wilhelm was walking in the hall
when one of the workmen engaged
in repairing his present habitation
stepped up to him. revolver in hand.
The ex-kaiser sprang at his assail
ant, but in the meantime the man
fired. While the two still grappled.
the castle attendants came to the
rescue and overpowered the would
be assassin. The latter refused to
give his name or any other details
when brought up before a magistrate.
Up to this evening no word had
been received by Dr. von Mayer, Ger
man charge d'affaires here, regarding
the reported attempt.
Dr. Wertheimer, director of the
German press bureau attached to the
charge d'affaires' office, was inclined
to the belief that the alleged assail
ant probably acted as an emissary
of the extreme socialists to head off
a possible royalist coup d'etat.
Wertheimer also intimated that the
ex-empress sudden illness, reported
this morning from Amerongen, where
she was visiting Count von Bentinck,
may have been due-to news of the
attempted assassination communicat
ed to her from Doorn.
Since the ex-emperor bought Doorn
castle, four weeks ago. extensive re
pair work has been going on. there.
Wilhelm was taking his afternoon
walk down one of the halls of the
chateau when he was assailed by a
man dressed as one of the workmen.
OIL PROBE CAUSES
INDICTMENTS OF 64
Four Companies, 10 Brokers,
50 Individuals Included.
FRAUD, CHARGE OF U. S.
LETTER IS AUTHENTIC
New York Body Bascs Action on
Controversy I'crtainin
Corner on Stock.
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NEW YORK, June 24. Allan A.
Ryan, chairman of the Stutz Motor
Car company, who became involved
in a controversy with officials of the
New York Stock Exchange at the time
it was alleged a corner existed in
Stutz, has been expelled from the ex
change, the board of governors an
nounced today.
This announcement followed a pro
tracted executive session, when th
board quizzed many witnesses.
It was said at the exchange that no
member of the governing committee
who was interested in Stutz stock
voted on the expulsion.
No statement was forthcoming from
the governing committee, but Mr.
Ryan issued the following:
On Juno 16, last, in my answer to
the board of governors and to the
public 1 was able to forecast and,
therefore. I announced in advance the
decision which they handed down to
day. Their action behind closed
doors is only another proof of what
I have consistently declared, 'nous
verrons ce que nous verrons.' " .
After having phrased in French his
prediction that "we shall see what
we shall see," Mr. Ryan issued an
other statement which dosed with
the sentence: "For such of the i
Justice worked upon me as is remedial
in the courts I intend in due season
to seek appropriate redress."
This was interpreted in Wall street
as confirmation of reports that he
intended to bring against the stock
exchange and some .of its officials
legal actions involving $10,000,000,
PRINCE MAY GET OFFICE
Election of Harding Assures .Ha
waiian of Being Governor.
HONOLULU. T. H., June 24. (Spe
cial.) J. K. Kalanianole, delegate to
congress from Hawaii, is slated to be
the next governor of the territory,
providing, or course, that nominee
Warren J. Harding is elected presiden
of the Lnited States. The delegate i
a Hawaiian prince and should the
honor of the governorship be con
ferred on him he will be the first man
of Hawaiian birth to hold the chair.
At present Charles J. McCarthy, a
democrat, is governor.
Senator Harding's Secretary Ac
knowledges Public Document.
WASHINGTON, June 24. The let
ter made public by Frank P. Walsh,
former chairman of the war labor
board, in Kansas City qubting Senator
Harding, republican presidential nom
inee, as expressing a very sympa
thetic feeling toward the Irish inde
pendence movement," was said to be
undoubtedly authentic by George
Christian, the senator's secretary, to
: v. . .
Declaring that he was speaking for
Senator Harding, Mr. Christian said:
'Mr. Walsh simply gave out a copy
of a letter written to him by the
senator. When the matter regarding
the letter came up some days ago we
tried to find a copy of the letter in
the office files, but could not locate it.
There was no hedging and no at
tempt to cheat about it. The letter
is undoubtedly authentic."
Government Declares Public Has
Been Fleeced. Out or Many
Millions of Dollars.
NEW YORK, June 24. With the
breaking of ecals today on Indict
ments charging 14 concerns and. 50
individuals with fraud, government
agents let it become known that they
bad begun a nation-wide roundup of
alleged wildcat oil company pro
moters, who are said to have swin
dled the public -out of millions within
the last few months.
The defendants, oil companies,
brokerage concerns, and their officers
and salesmen, are charged with hav
ing used the mails to defraud. They
are alleged to have made gross mis
representation and to have in some
cases paid impressive dividends out
of receipts on stock sales.
' In one case, the indictments
charged, salesmen disposing of stock
of the Crown Oil company falsely
represented that a eon of former
President Roosevelt was an officer
of the company, which it was claimed
would soon rival the Standard Oil
company in volume of business.
Shares of this company, according
to one of the indictments, were sold
to investors In Chicago at $2.25 a
share, and to "evade the weetern
blue-sky law" later were disposed of
here, at S3, after costing brokers
only IVt cents a share.
Indictments Returned.
While federal officers were seek
ing Louis C. Van Riper at Atlantic
City and Boston for alleged connec
tion with the ale of Ranger oil
stock, the promoter and his counsel
appeared at the federal court to an
swer the Indictment. Bail was fixed
at $2000.
The companies involved are the
Ranger Oil company, W. P. Williams
Oil company. Great Western Petro
leum corporation and Crown Oil com
pany.
Brokerage concerns indicted were
Stickney, Raylinson & Colclough of
Boston and Curtis, Packer and Co
United Securities company, H. Kent
Holmes & Co., H. Morgan Pollok &
Co., Thompson, James & Co., Cross
man, Sherman & Co., George A. Lam-
bac, E. M. Fuller &. (Jo., and Green
baum. Bigelow & Greenbaum, nearly
all of them with headowarters in this
city.
Some, of the brokerage houses had
connections in other cities. The
round up now being conducted is said
to be the beginning of a nation-wide
campaign against alleged oil stock
swindlers, who are credited with
having cleaned up millions of dollars
within the last few months.
The Indictment against the Ranger
Oil company and others, charged that
Curtis, Packer & Co. 'sold to invest
ors, at more than $1 a share, 1.000,
000 shares, which they are eaid to
have bought at 20 cents.
Millions Involved.
It also is charged that a brokerage
firm of which Ashley L. Holbrook
was said to be the president, and with
which Louis C. Vanripcr, Charles R.
Morton and John L. McLean were con
nected, represented that new wells
were being drilled on the Ranger
property, when effort to procure oil
there had been abandoned.
The United Securities company, of
which Van Riper was said to be presi
dent, is charged with disposal of $300,-
000 worth of Ranger stock.
In the Indictment concerning dis
posal of W. H. Williams' oil stock
John J. Kean. Thaddeus M. Rice. Ed
ward S. Hinshaw, J. W. Sanders, W. C.
Eyle and Henry M. Shumate, said to
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and then disposed of it to investors
at $5, on false representation that the
oil company was paying dividends of
12 per cent.
Misrepresentation in disposal to in
vestors of stock of the Crown Oil
company of Delaware, capitalized at
$3,000,000 also Is charged. Payments
of "dividends" is charged, out of
money derived from sale of the stock.
GERMAN RULE ANOMALOUS
Government Alternately Minus
Chancellor and Cabinet.
BERLIN. June 5 4. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Germany for the past
48 hours has been ruled by a chancel
lor without a cabinet and by a cabi
net without a chancellor. This anoma
lous situation, growing out of the
present cabinet crisis, continued
throughout today, the greater part
of which was devoted to party con
ferences.
At 8 o'clock this evening the three
bourgeois parties and the majority
socialists adjourned their conferences
until Thursday, when it was expected
that Phillip Scheidemann's party
would have united on some agree
ment which would satisfy the demo
crats that the proposed government
would have sufficient recognition from
the majority socialists to enable t to
exist.
American Truck, Ambulance Con
voy Narrowly Escapes Capture.
WARSAW, June 22. (By the Asso
ciated Press.)- The Americans who
were in the thick of the fighting
around Kiev recently have reached
Warsaw safely. They were the last
to leave the city and were forced to
pass through the zone of fire.
The American convoy. of trucks and
ambulances was surrounded at times
by troops of bolshevik cavalry and
twice narrowly escaped capture.
bo directors, were Indicted with Jo
YflWKS; AT K FU ARF RAFF seph H. Byrd. alleged promoters of
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lock and Co., Thompson, James & Co.,
and Crossman, Sherman &. Co. of New
York, and Stickney, Rawlinson & Col
clough of Boston.
H. Morgan Pollok and partners :i
the brokerage firm of William H. Day
and Daniel H. McKetterick also were
indicted, individually, with W. E.
Heffron of Thompson, James & Co.,
Robert Stickney and John C. Col
clough of their Boston house, and
Alexander Crossman here.
OH Stock Salesmen Indicted.
Other shares of the Williams stock
were said to nave been disposed ot
to investors through H. Kent Holmes
& Co and Salesman Edward A. Nel
son, 7aek Nelson, W. H .Havlin and
Frank Werner, all defendants.
The indictment states that the Will
lams property was misrepresented as
yielding 600 barrels of oil a day, whi
its total daily capacity was bu 10
barrels.
It is charged that "dlvirTends" total
ling $12q,000 were paid out of $1,000.
000 realized from disposal of the
stock to investors. Total oil produc
tion xf the Williams property
amounted to only $20,000 worth, it
is charged. .
According to the indictment. George
A. Lamb & Co. bought Great Western
petroleum stock for $1 to $2
2000 WORKERS GET RISE
Boston liklison Company Announces
10 Per Cent Increase.
BOSTON. June 24. An increase of
10 per cent in the pay of all its em
ployes, effective July 1, has been
granted by the Boston Edison com
pany, it was announced today. About
2000 workers will benefit.
At the same time the company will
make a reduction of 5 per cent in
the price of electricity for lightin;
to its 115,000 retail customers.
The deceased had made her home
with a daughter. Mrs. Hattie A. Spen
cer, in Los Angeles for several. years.
She was a native of Illinois and was
85 years of age. Other sons and
daughters of Mrs. Lovell are David
Raker of Milford, Cal. ; Mrs. Lucy E.
Gilman of Susanvllle. Cal., and Mrs.
Julian Johnson of Sacramento.
SOVIET DEAL REPORTED
$5,000,000 of Farm Machinery to
lie Bought, Says Martens.
NEW YORK, June 24. Negotiations
for purchase by the Russian soviet
government of $5,000,000 worth of
agricultural machinery and rolling
stock from a large Canadian firm
have nearly' been completed, Ludwig
C. A. K. Martens, head of the Russian
soviet bureau here, announced today.
Despite denial by the Canadian
Manufacturers' association that any
of its -members had had dealings with
the soviet agents. Martens repeated
his statement that his representatives
had been favorably received in
Canada.
FEINERS GO FAST GAIT
Supreme Court Bench In Dublin Isl
Latest Proposal.
(Copyrisht by the New York World. Com
pany. All rlsbts reserved.)
(Special Cable Dispatch.)
LONDON, June 24. The Sinn Fein
advances day by day. Its latest move
is a proposal to set up in Dublin
supreme court whose function will be
to review cases and decisions which
have been received from the provin- j
cial Sinn Fein courts.' It la stated
that outside of Dublin, Cork and Bel
fast, Dail Eireann or Sinn Fein courts
now operate In virtually every Irish
county.
There are, however, some grounds
for believing that these courts have
an even wider area than that and It
is quite probable that in Countv rnh.
lin they now operate or are about to
operate, l ne fact is indisputable that
witnin tne last 13 days Dail Eireann
tribunals have been active in at least
out or tne 32 counties in lrplanrf
and have put the constitutional tri-
ounais out of court.
Reports are furnisher! nf si ..i-im-
inal trials In 4 1 republican courts and
oeiaus are given regarding the pro
cedure employed in the preservation
oi oraer.
Bend Family Moves to California.
SUSANVILLE, Cal., June 24. (Spe
cial.) Mr. and Mrs. George Weber of
Bend, Or., have come to SuBanvllle to
live. Weber has been employed as
bookkeeper for the Fruit Growers'
Supply company, which Is establish
ing' a large mill and box factory here.
Mother of Congressman Dies.
ALTURAS, Cal., June 24. (Special.)
News of the death in Los Angeles
of Mrs. M. Lovell, mother of United
States Representative John E. Raker
and Superior Judge Clarence H. Ra-
share, ker of Alturas, has been received here.
RAILWAY NEARLY READY
13-Mile Road Will Give Outlet for
Copper Mines.
VANCOUVER. B. C, June 24. (Spe
cial.; within 30 days it is expected
to have the rails laid on the 15-mile
road, which will connect the copper
mine at Copper mountain in the
Okanagon valley with the Kettle val
ley railway, it is announced.
Some 13,000.000 tons of ore are said
to be awaiting shipment. The 15
miles of railway traverse a most
difficult country, and cost $1,500,000
to build, without track-laying. It
has been heavy rock work, trestles
and bride-es all the way.
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Visiting Nobles
Kindy accept our best wishes for your own success
and the continued success of Shrinedom. Visit our
fair city whenever possible and tell your friends and
folks at home of the grandeurs of the great Northwest.
H. LIEBES & CO.
Trim Looking
Jersey Suits
Special Friday
and Saturday
$28.75
Reduced for this two days selling are a
large group of these smart little suits. For
sports, outing, motoring, business and
utility wear they are unequaledt Brown,
Tan, Beige, Navy, Heathers, Oxford.
Our New Second Floor
Underwear Section Offers
Tomorrow
Silk Breakfast
and Combing
Jackets
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A limited quantity only.
(When they are sold
there will be no more.)
Of soft tinted silks and
dainty laces in fascinat
ing styles.
Originally priced $7.50 to
$29.50. Today's price
$3.75 to $14.75.
Philippine Underwear
Gowns and chemise. Hand drawn and hand
hemstitched on good quality batiste.
$3.95
Another Shipment
Hand Made
Blouses
"Just Received and to Be Placed
on Sale Friday and Saturday
at $3.95, $4.95, $6.95
It seems impossible to obtain enough of these
blouses, but we have .been fortunate in re
ceiving about 300 more of them and will
sell them tomorrow at the same special prices
as quoted in the first sale.
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OLYMPIC USES FUEL OIL
Luxury Ship's Maiden Peace Trip
Starts on June 25.
(Copyright by the New York World. Com
pany, Publih(fl by Arrangement.)
(Special Cable. Dispatch.)
LONDON, June 24. The White Star
liner Olympic arrived at Southampton
from Belfast this morning after her
Cowlitz Clubs Are Active.
KELSO, Wash., June 24. (Special.)
F. .L Audrain, state club leader,
-was a Kelso visitor Tuesday, con
ferring with Miss Nora Kelley, club
leader for Cowlitz county, and found
that the organization of the clubs of
this county is progressing splendidly
under Miss Kelley's direction. Twelve
or more clubs of boys and girls are
now organized, with energetic local
leaders, and are taking hold of the
work in commendable fashion.
KEROSENE 121EAM
Northern lelslit Embargo Off. -I
VANCOUVER, B. C. June 24.
Coastwise shipping companies an
nounced today that the embargo on
freight to Prince Rupert, B. C, which
has been in effect for the past three
weeks on account of a strike of long
shoremen at the northern port, has
been declared oil.
KEROSENE KREAM
Invigorates and strengthens the hair
follicles, and alBO supplies -a. food to
impoverished cells.
DIRECTIONS
The ointment should be applied Just
before retiring, rubbing In well at the
roots of tbe hair, but care should
be taken cot to Injure the scalp br
a too brisk massaging. In tne
morning the KREAM should be re
moved, using warm water and as lit
tie soap as is necessary to clean the
scalp. This procedure should be fol
lowed every other night for -three or
four treatments. After this a very
small portion ot the ointment may
be applied to the scalp twice a week
lust to keep It moist and stimulate
a natural hair growth. At all drug-
slaw. iulu 6a tsatfcrrrAiit,
Arizona to Get Solar Station.
WASHINGTON, June 24. A solar
observing station will'be established
soon by the Smithsonian Institute In
the Haqua Hala mountains in Arizona,
to secure data for forecasting weather
conditions and temperature, the in
stitution announced tonight.
New Spanjsh War Pension Law. If
you served in the war with Spain, of
the Philippine insurrection, or China
relief expedition, whether you are re
ceiving a pension or not, write Wilson
& Co., 948 Market street." San Fran
cisco, California, regarding this law.
It provides a pension under certain
conditions for disabilities contracted
either before enlistment, in service,
or after discharge, also for certain
ages. No fee unless successful. Adv.
S. & H. green stamps for rash.
Holman Fuel Co. Main 53, 6S0-2L
Making Haste Slowly
A chunk of rosin seems as hard as glass. If
jrou strike it with a sledge it will fracture like glass.
And yet in time it will sort of melt down like
molasses.
Rosin is called a viscous substance, and while
it would be impolite to call the public the same
. thing, its action is something akin.
Some advertisers have attempted, with the
sudden application of a large advertising appro
priation and sledge hammer messages, to change
the public immediately in its habits.
In despair, at the seemingly impenetrable and
unalterable character of our people, they have
quit in disgust.
Time is a wonderful element in national adver
tising. ' .
Not only is. time an essential in the success of
a new campaign : it is the chief asset of protection
for an old campaign.
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