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THE MORMXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1920
POfiZI DETERMINED
TO FIGHT TO F
State Banking Commission
Stops Payment on Checks.
RECEIVER APPLIED FOR
Italian Says He Will D-ie First
Rather Than Reveal Assets
to Anyone.
BOSTON, Aug. 9. The response ol
Charles Ponzi, who claims to have
made millions through dealing in in
ternational postal exchange, to bank
ruptcy proceedings brought against
him, and to orders issued by the state
bank commission today, forbidding
the Hanover Trust company to cash
checks signed bv him or his agents,
was his declaration tonight that he
would not pay une cent of money at
his office.
"Though I anticipate there will be
a small run on my company after
today's developments," he said, "1
will not pay the notes that have run
45 days. Neither will I pay those
which the depositors desire, without
any interest. But I will tell my de
positors that the Hanover Trust com
pany would gladly honor these checks
and cash them, but the bank com
mission says that this cannot be done.
Two Accounts In Bank.
"In the Hanover Trust company 1
have two accounts, my own personal
account and another one. My per
sonal account is over a million and a
half, more than six times the amount
I have out in notes. But the bank
commissioner has refused to permit
me to transfer my personal account
to the other one, by what authority I
do not know."
In a statement to newspapermen
earlier in the evening Ponzi discussed
the statement issued today by Attorney-General
J. W. Allen, which
charged that inquiries by state offi
cials had so far failed to confirm his
6tatements that he made his profits
through the purchase of international
reply coupons.
"When Attorney-General Allen starts
in to ascertain what my liabilities
are, I will give him all the help pos
sible," he said. "And when he is fin
ished I will show him money to cover
them. But he is endeavoring to find
out what my assets are, where they
are and how I made my money, and
nobody knows that but Charley Ponzi.
and nobody else is going to know. 1
will die before I disclose these facts
to anybody.
Will Fight to End,
'I have played fair with every
body. I have paid all, regardless of
the attack and the impediments
thrown in my way by the state au
thorities. "That I am solvent there is not the
lightest doubt in anybody's mind.
"Why, then, should my investors
be delayed in receiving payments
which are rightfully theirs when 1
have the cash available to do so?
"1 am not going to run away. That
Is what the officials would like to
have me do. v
"I am a fighter and I am going to
fight them to the end, and 1 am go
ing to win my fight."
Attorney-General Allen tonight sent
to Boston newspapers the following
advertisement:
"All persons holding unpaid notes
of the Securities Exchange . Trust
company, or of Charles Ponzi, are re
quested to notify in person or by
mail, the department of the attorney
general, giving the number and date
of the note, the amount loaned and
the amount due, the place where the
loan was made, and the address of
the holder. A copy of the note should
be furnished where possible. This
Information is desired in completing
the investigation now being made by
the department."
ltankruntcy Petition Klled.
Action to check business dealings
of Charles Ponzi, who claims to have
made millions through international
postal exchange, was taken today'
through an iflvoluntary petition in
bankruptcy filed by three men who
hold notes totaling T50, and by Bank
Commissioner Allen, who ordered the
Hanover Trust company to pay no
more checks of Ponzi because of an
alleged overdrawing of the account
at that bank.
An increased activity in federal and
state investigations was also noted.
Attorney-General J. W. Allen gave out
a statement which charged that in
quiries by state officials had failed
to confirm Ponzi's claims that he has
dealt extensively in international
reply coupons.
Fonxl Reiterates) Statement.
Late today Ponzi was closeted
th United States Attorney 1. J.
Gallagher and lidwin L. Pride, fed
eral auditor, engaged in going over
his accounts. One of Ponzi's attorneys
said they were "checking up on the
audit."
Ponzi in a statement reiterated that
he was solvent, and that he desired to
have the investigations' completed as
soon as possible so that he might
resume business. He said he had a cer
tified check for Jl.SOO.OOO. subject to
30 days' notice of withdrawal, at the
Hanover Trust company, where it is
alleged he has overdrawn one ac
count, and added he had in deposit
at other institutions here amounts
more than sufficient to cover all lia
bilities. Bank Commissioner Allen, in a
statement explaining his order to the
Hanover Trust company, said that
he had found that the account of Lucy
MarteUl. trustee for Ponzi, had been
overdrawn, and was therefore com
pelled to take action.
Allen Kxplnlns InvctitlRntlon.
"Although Mr. Ponzi claims that his
dealings in international reply cou
pons have been conducted on a very
large scale, aggregating millions of
dollars, the Investigation has dis-
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Mr a. Roue Ponzi f standlngr). wife of Charle Ponzi of Boston, bead of the
Securities Exchange company, and Fonzi'g mother, whom be recently
brought from Italy, in front of their palatial borne on $ locum road, Lex
ington Center, near Boston.
Ponzi has startled the world by his offer of 50 per cent on money for
less than 90 days and is said to have made more than 98,000,000 within &
year and expects to make $30,000,000 before October 1. The federal and
Massachusetts state governments are investigating his business to deter
mine whether he is solvent. Since the investigation Ponzi has paid back a
million dollars to frightened investors, who wanted their money back.- He
came to this -country from Italy a few years ago with only $2.50 in his
pocket.
closed nothing- to confirm his state
ment,", said Mr. Allen.
"Mr. Ponzi ha3 stated he will not
permit an examination of his assets or
how he got them. He has, however,
undertaken to state in some detail
his assets, including deposits in banks
and trust companies.
"The investigations show he has
been making payments to holders 01
his notes by checks on certain insti
tutions in which he has been deposit
ing moneys received in exchange for
his notes.
"Mr. Ponzi has not submitted any
proof that any of this money has been
received from Europe or from derl-'
ings in international reply coupons.
Amounts Kail to Tally.
'In his statement to me, made after
the close of business Monday, August
2, he said that in making payment to
noteholders he had used only two
trust companies, one to the extent of
150.000 and the other to the extent of
$4,000,000 or over, and that in the
latter institution he had at -least
$1,750,000.
"Information obtained disclosed that
his total, balance in these two ac
counts at the close of business that
day. excluding the certification of de
posit, was only $121,436.51.
"Mr. Ponzi further stated 'we are
not touching outside bank accounts.'
"The investigation already dis
closed substantial withdrawals had
been made from his account in out
side banking institutions at that
time."
The petition in bankruptcy alleged
that Ponzi was insolvent, and that
about July 15 he transferred part of
his assets to Charles Hoffman, n
creditor. The amount transferred was
set in the petition at $3000.
GIRL'S RELESSE SOUGHT
INMATE OF SCHOOL IS SEX
TEXCED TO 3 YEARS.
.Municipal Court Without Authority
to Impose Penalty on Health
Parole Violators, Is Plaint.
Release of Hazel Edwards, sentenced
to three years m the state industrial
school for gins in the municipal
court, is sought by habeas corpus pro
ceedings brought before Circuit Judge
Kavanaugh yesterday by Attorney E!d
ward J. Shinners. The matter was
taken under advisement.
The authority of district courts to
impose sentences for the violation of
paroles of persons under control of
the state board of health was denied
by Circuit Judge Tucker last week in
an opinion expressed iri" a habeas
corpus proceeding brought by the
same attorney in the case of Eva I
Workman. The lawyer held yester
day that the municipal court had no
more authority in such matters than
the district court.
The attorney argued from two view
points in the case, saying first that
the maximum authority of the munici
pal court would have been a fine of
j$1000 or jail sentence of one year,
and. second, that the court could not
Impose sentence because at the time
it was established there was no such
crime as that of breaking quarantine.
The girl was sentenced for violation
of parole.
Deputy District Attorney Magutre
and Attorney Mclnturff said that the
court has as alternative to a jail sen
tence of one year or fine the sending
of a girl to the industrial school.
Salem Man Passes.
EUGENE, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.)
Richard E. Pearce of Salem died sud
denly of heart trouble at Belknap
springs Saturday afternoon. The
body was brought to Eugene yester
day and will be taken to balem today.
Mr. Pearce was 51 years of age and
was born and resided in Polk county.
He was single. Mr. Pearce went to
the springs in hopes of ridding him
self of rheumatism.
Read the Oregonian claied ads.
GREATEST FINANCE WIZARD."
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PARK SITES ABE OFFERED
TWO WEEKS IX RECREATIOX
WOODS COST $8.41.
Forest Service Eager (o
Lands, if City Will
Its Full Part.
Furnish
Do
Co-operation between the forest
service, city officials and various or
ganizations of Portland interested In
public welfare was started yesterday
afternoon with a view to setting aside
portions of forest service lands for
municipal park sites, to be open to all
for recreation purposes.
"The greatest opportunity ever of
fered the city," was the way in which
W. F. Woodward, who acted as chair
man of the meeting, termed the offer
of the forest service to give the land
and attend to sanitation, fire protec
tion, water and trails, if the city and
organizations will do the rest.
The main object of the proposed
plan is to furnish outings f6r those
who otherwise would not know the
wonders of Oregon forests to use the
forest lands to build up the health of
weak children and tired mothers and
in the broader aspect, to make a play
ground for rich and poor alike.
Just what forest lands will be used
or are available for this purpose has
not been definitely worked out at
present.
Dr. Frank A. Waugh, landscape
architect and collaborator in the Unit
ed States forest service, who has been
in Oregon ami Washington for the
past month, presented the question
yesterday to representatives of 20
organizations in the green room of
the Chamber of Commerce.
. He explained the uses that other
cities, particularly Los Angeles, had
made of forest lands and stated that
in 1917 a two-weeks outing in one of
these forests, including transporta
tion, cost only $8.41 a person.
MINISTER IS DISCHARGED
Disturbing Peace Complaint Is Dis
missed by Court.
VANCOUVER. Wash., Aug. 9.
(Special.) Rev. Phil Arnold, who has
been holding revival services in a
tent at Twenty-first 'and Esther
streets and who was arrested for
disturbing the peace, was released to
day, the case being dismissed. When
arrested he was released upon his
own recognizance.
It was charged by neighbors close
to the tent that there was too much
shouting and noise late at night at
the meetings. The services are under
the auspices of the Church of the
Nazarene. A local congregation has
been organized here and will incor
porate soon.
MISSING GIRLS REPORTED
17-Year-OId Oregon City Lasses
Thought to Be Runaways.
OREGON CITY, Or., Aug. 9. (Spe
cial.) Beatta Jones and Bessie Davis,
two girls about 17 years of age, living
east of Parkplace, were reported to
Sheriff Wilson as missing today. It
is thought that the two girls left
about 5 o'clock this morning. The
mother of the Jones girl reports find
ing her daughter's dress just outside
a window where she made her escape.
The two girls are chums. The Jones
girl had between $25 and J30 with
her. She has been employed at the
woolen mills here for some time and
was a student at the local high school
last year.
Tinibe Sales to Be Inspected.
E. E. Carter, assistant forester in
charge of the timber sales branch of
the Washington. D. C. office, will ar
rive in Portland Monday to inspect
the timber sales in this district.
3
OF CORN PREDICTED
Crop Conditions in Nearly
All States Improve.
WHEAT FORECAST IS CUT
Potato Yield Promises to Be One
o Biggest Ever Gathered
in United states.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9. A 3,000.-
000.000-bushel corn crop for the third
time in history was forecast today
by the department of agriculture on
conditions existing August 1. As
August is the critical month for the
crop, it is uncertain whether the
promise of a crop almost equal to
thosc of 1912 and 117 will be ful
filled. Improvement was reported during
July in the important corn states,
with the exception of Illinois, and a
crop forecast 224.000,000 bushels
larger than that predicted July 1 was
issued.
Spring wheat was adversely affected
during July, principally by rust, and
the production forecast was reduced
29,000,000 bushels from a month ago.
or to 262,000,000 bushels. The pre
liminary estimate of winter wheat
was 15,000,000 bushels larger than
forecast in July, making the combined
wheat crop only 14,000,000 bushels
smaller than estimated a month ago.
The total of 795,000.000 bushels was
predicted.
Bis Spud Yield Assured.
There was improvement in the po
tato crop and indications are that the
crop will exceed 400,000.000 bushels
for the fourth time in the country's
history.
Tobacco has shown additional im
provement and probabilities are that
it will exceed the record crop of 1918
by about 200,000,000 pounds. Total
production is forecast at 1,544,000,000
pounds. -
Production forecast was as follows:
Bushel.
Winter wheat 5S3.0o0.000
Spring wheat 2BJ.OO0.000
All -wheat 7ttfi.000.000
Corn S.003. 000.000
Oats 1.4OJ.0OO.OOO
Barley
iim.ooo.ooo
77.800.000
14,800.000
402.000,000
101.000.000
1.544. 000. 0O0
14.300.000
52.000.000
88.000,000
18.600.000
Kye
Buckwheat
White potatoes
Sweet potatoes. . .
Tobacco (pounds)
Flax
Rice
Hay .tame (tons).
Hay, wild (tons .
Suz&r beets (tons)
S.ttOO.OOO
Apples, total (bushels) zis.uuu.uihi
Peaches 45.500,000
Peanuts 3S.70O.O0O
Kafirs 12U.COO.000
Crop Conditions Xoted-
Condition of the crops on August 1
was:
P.C. Normal. P.C. Normal. I
Spring wheat. ,.73.4'Sweet potatoes. ..86.9
Corn Stt.TITobacco 84.1
Oats 87.2! Flax 80.1
Barley S4. 91 Rice SS.T
Buckwheat 90..MHay 90.5
Whits potatoes.. 87. OlSugar beets 91.9
Oats remaining on farms August 1
is estimated at 56,420.000 bushels,
compared with 93,045,000 bushels a
year ago.
Condition and forecast of produc
tion of spring wheat by principal
states include:
North Dakota 73 and 77.794.000
South Dakota 70 and 32,380.000
Montana 6S and 21.760.000
Washington 64 and 21.233.000
WASHIXGTOX ESTIMATES CUT
Outlook for Wheat Jjcsa' Favorable
Than Month Ago.
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 9. Drought
and hot weather have lowered the
July 1 estimate of wheat production
in Washington by more than 3.000,000
bushels, the monthly report of G. S.
Ray, field agent of the federal bureau
of crop estimates, for August 1 indi
cates. The report was issued here
today. The Washington crop is placed
at 39.240,000 bushels. Last year the
production was 40,100,000 bushels.
The winter wheat crop of the state
is estimated at 18,007,000 bushels,
based upon a preliminary estimate of
24.5 bushels per acre. Tills compares
with 19,800,000 bushels last year.
The spring wheat production is es
timated at 21,233.000 bushels, com
pared with 20,300,000 bushels in 1919.
Heat and drought lowered the condi
tion from 79 per cent of a normal
on July 1 to 64 per cent on August 1.
Oats dropped from 90 per cent of
normal on July 1 to 80 per cent on
August 1. The indicated yield is
13,314,000 bushels, compared with
12,800,000 bushels in 1919. Oats re
maining on farms in the state on
August 1 amounted to 1.5 per cent of
the 1919 crop.
Forecasts of production of other
crops in Washington and the condi
tion August 1 are:
Barley, 4.587.000 bushels: 86 per cent.
Corn. 1.378,000 bushels; 84 per cent.
Rye. 88 per cent, or 9.5 bushels per acre.
Potatoes, 7,663,000 bushels; 86 per cent.
Hay, 66 per cent.
Apples. 15,978.000 boxes; 70 per cent.
Peaches. 739.000 boxes.
Pears, 690,000 boxes.
Hops, 4,608,000 pounds; 96 per cent.
Sugar beets, 63 per cent.
LOOP ROAD DRAWS PRAISE
FORESTRY ARTIST PAYS BIG
TRIBUTE TO SCEXERY.
Completion. " of Mountain Road and
Junction With Columbia
Highway Favored.
The Mount Hood loop, when con
structed, will form one of the finest
recreation and scenic trips in the
United States, in the opinion of Dr.
Frank A. Waugh of Amherst, Mass..
landscape architect, a collaborator in
the United States forest service, who
has Just returned from a trip over
the proposed road. Dr. Waugh, ac
companied by C. J.. Buck, in charge
of the department of lands of the
forest service, and several engineers
went over the route carefully to de
termine the relation of the road to
the best scenic effects possible.
Dr. Waugh is here to co-operate
with the forest service In opening
up as much of the country for recre
ation as possible so that the largest
number of people may profit by it.
Many people, he explained yesterday,
are already taking their vacations in
the national forests, but there are
many more who have never availed
themselves of this privilege.
When the Mount Hood loop road is
completed to Government Camp,
thence to Hood River, so that trav
elers may return to Portland via the
Columbia river highway, a complete
trip of about 200 miles will be fur
nished. Dr. Waugh said. He hopes
that tourists and Portlanders will use
the road and the adjacent forests for
recreation purposes, not merely for
sightseeing.
Construction is now started in the
south end of the loop link near Gov
ernment Camp, he stated, and con
tracts will be let soon for the north
end in the neighborhood of Parkdale.
Engineers are now making a detailed
examination of the portion to be con
structed. Actual road construction
there will probably not begin until
next spring, and the road will not be
finished for two or three years.
Dr. Waugh's party made the, trip
on foot part of the way, since the
country is so wild that there are no
trails for horses. It is rocky, heavily
forested country, he said, and will be
very picturesque for a highway.
It is Dr. Waugh's hope that organ
izations will build lodges along the
road and that a few hotels will also
be constructed. Summer homes may
also be built on land leased from the
forest service.
Dr. Waugh, who has been a month
in the forests of Oregon and Wash
ington on his third visit here, will
leave Sunday and, after stopping at
the Yellowstone national park and in
the middle west, will return to his
home in Amherst, where he Is pro
fessor of horticulture and landscape
gardening at the Massachusetts Agri
cultural college.
LOST BQYS ARE POUND
TOUXG MEN
HOOD WANDER. OX MT.
2 4 HOURS.
Guarascll and Rolirer Reach Camp
as Searching Party Makes
Ready to Leave.
Charles Guarascll of 138 Dakota
street, and Arthur Rohrer of Forty
second and East Main, lost on Mount
Hoodi for 21 hours without food, wan
dered into Government camp yester
day morning at 10:30, tired and hun
gry,' but otherwise none the worse for
their experience.
In coming down the mountain from
Crater rock, they took the wrong
snow line, and were lost in the timber,
and wandered about until they came
upon a sheep herder, George Peters,
who directed them to the camp.
Reports that the boys, who are
about 20 years old, had been found
reached Portland just as a searching
party was being organized by E. H.
Dowling. chairman of the walks com
mittee of the Mazamas, at 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
Word that the boys had been lost
was brought to Portland yesterday
morning by Ij. F. Pridemore, proprie
tor of government camp hotel, who is
always on the look-out to see that
those who attempt to climb the moun
tain return safely. He came to Port
land to organize a searching party,
convinced that the boys must have
become hopelessly lost in the dense
timber, or had fallen down a crevasse.
CIVIL ENGINEERS CONVENE
30 0 ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND
SESSION' IN PORTLAND.
125 Registered Yesterday for Fif
tieth Anual Confab; Business
Meeting Starts This Morning.
About 300 engineers from all por
tions of the United States are expect
ed to attend the opening session of
the 50th annual convention of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
today at the Multnomah hotel.
Of this number about 125 registered
yesterday afternoon, some of them
coming early to attend the conference
of the board of directors. The even
ing was devoted to showing the vis
itors around the city in automobiles.
The business meeting will -open at
10 o clock this morning with J. C.
Stevens, president of the Portland
section, acting as chairman. He will
introduce Governor Olcott, Mayor
Baker and some representative of the
Oregon Technical council, each of
whom will deliver an address of wel
come. Response is to be made by
Arthur P. Davis, president of the na
tional organization, from Washing
ton. D. C. The meeting will then be
turned over to him.
NEVADA FIRM ADMITTED
Superior Dredging Company Gets
Permit to Operate.
SALEM, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.)
The Superior Dredging company, a
Nevada concern, today received a per
mit from the state corporation de
partment to operate in Oregon. The
capitalization was given as $1,000,000.
George W. Stowe of Baker is attorney-in-fact
for Oregon.
Articles of Incorporation were filed
by the following concerns:
Dick son-Marsh Motor company. Hood
River; incorporators. R. A. Dickson, E. J.
Marsh, Ernest C. Smith.
McMlnnvllle Motor Car company, Mc
mlnnville; incorporators, Escar H. Peter
son, A. N. Jacobsen, A. L, Lienenweber;
capitalization, f 10,000.
Redmond Union High School Improve
ment company, Redmond; incorporators,
W. M. Wilson, Guy E. Dobson, B. A. Ken
dall; capitalization, 18000.
Reformed Church of Hillsdale, Or.; in
corporators, Frank E. Stuck!, John Rax,
Henry Haz; property valuation, IGO00.
FRENCH WORK TO END
Fatherless Children Closes Office
in Portland August 17.
Miss . Genevieve Thompson, state
chairman of the Fatherless Children
of France, will close her office, 213
U. S. National Bank building, August
17. She has had charge of this work
for nearly two years. Miss Thompson
announces that after August 17 no
more checks will be received. She
asks that everyone desiring to take
orphans again this year renew be
fore the date of closing or send their
renewals to the New York headquar
ters, 665 Fifth avenue. Mew York.
During the time that Miss Thomp
son was in charge of the work more
than J40.000 has been sent to the war
orphans. Portland, Eugene and some
of the smaller towns of the state
reached their full quotas. L. N.
Brunswig, Pacific coast chairman of
the Fatherless Children of France,
will be in Portland August 17.
Democrats Canvass Texas Vote.
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 9. The state
democratic executive committee met
today to canvass the returns from the
July primary and to arrange for the
run-off primary August 28. Official
returns from all but seven counties
indicate former Senator Bailey had
a lead of 2522 over Pat M. Neff of
Waco for the gubernatorial nomina
tion.
Tourist Traffic Wanted. .
The best way of caring for tourists
so that they will become Portland
boosters and ways to bring visitors
to Portland, were discussed at an in
formal meeting of presidents of Port
land clubs, called yesterday after
noon by W. J. Hofmann, president of
the Pacific Northwest Totifists' asso
ciation. About 20 were ?esent.
HANDS-OFF RUSSIA,
SAYS BRITISH LABOR
Government Warned Against
Intervention.
DIRECT ACTION PROPOSED
War Against Soviet Power Over
Poland Would Be""Intolerable
Crime," Say Workers.
LONDON, Aug. 9. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) War between the allies
and soviet Russia over Poland would
be '"an intolerable crime against
humanity," and British labor has
warned the British government that
organized labor will be used to defeat
such a war. This decision was reached
today at a meeting of the leaders of
British labor.
It was "resolved to take such stepe
as may be necessary to carry the deci
sion into effect."
A "committee of action" appointed
ill see Premier Lloyd George to
morrow.
The conference is regarded as an
opportunity to present an ultimatum
to the government threatening direct
action.
Independent liberals met in the
house of commons tonight and passed
resolution protesting against inter
vention against Russia by way of i
blockade, men, money or munitions.
British workingmen held meetings
In many manufacturing towns today.
notably at Liverpool, Glasgow, Man
chester, Nottingham and London, and
protested against a war to help Po
land. A feature of the London meet
ing was the presence of several rep
resentatives of organizations of for
mer soldiers.
A general strike in all the princi
pal organized industries was advo
cated in resolutions adopted.
DBEGDN GIRL IN TURKEY
MISS ALICE MOORE RUNS
GERMAN ORPHANAGE.
O. A. C. Graduate Tells of Plight
or Waifs Who Suffered Dur
ing Armenian Massacres.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis, Aug. 9. (Special.)
With less than half her journey round
the world behind her. Miss Alice
Moore, a Corvallis graduate in agri
culture at O. A. C, 1917, reports her
self at Malatla. interior Turkey, run
ning a big German orphanage.
Miss Moore started on her world
tour February, 1919, amd it took her
until June to reach her present loca
tion. The orphanage was taken over
from the Germans by the American
relief committee after the plant was
totally demolished in the Armenian
massacres. So devastated was the
water system that scarcely a native
left living but suffers from malaria.
"The work is not so agricultural as
a graduate of agriculture might
wish," says Miss Moore in a letter to
Dr. W. J. Kerr, president of the col
lege, "though the orphanage has a
few small wheat fields. These fields
are ploughed with a rough timber
hewed from a tree, although good
American steel plows have been of
fered. The natives reject these after
lifting them, with the remark that
they are too heavy for the oxen to
draw. The wheat is planted by band
and harvested in the same way, gen
erally by pulling.
"The grain is threshed with a drag
having sharp stones for teeth, and
generally cleaned by women sitting
in the wind and dropping the wheat
and chaff through the hands."
Miss Moore and another young
woman were in sole charge for almost
a year, but have now been joined by
a third girl. These Americans care
for 650 massacre-made waifs in the
orphanage, and about 300 additional
in their remnants of homes.
ISKY SEIZED
SEATTLE SUPPLY IS BELIEVED
TO COME FROM SLOOP.
Nearly 4 00 Quarts of Liquor Found
and Man With Three
Women Arrested.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 9. (Spe
cial.) Whisky valued at S00O was
seized by Seattle police in the Ballard
district at noon today.
Walter Allen, 36: Mrs. Walter Allen
29; Mrs. W. C. Warren, 49, and Mrs.
R. Pageant, 21, were arrested.
When the four moved into the
house, which had been unoccupied,
this morning carrying numerous suit
cases, neighbors became suspicious
and phoned the police. Five officers
were sent out and arrived at the house
just as an auto came, loaded with 396
quarts of whisky.
The automobile was Belzed and the
man and three women arrested. They
were taken to the Ballard station and
the police returned for a further
search. Another auto had just stopped
at the place, but when the two per
sons in it saw the police they made
their escape. Police believe they had
another booze cargo.
Police said they had learned this
afternoon liquor was brought here
aboard a sloop from Vancouver, B. C.
The vessel has left port, it is said.
POLICE BREAK - UP PARTY
"HOME BREW" JOLLIFICATIOX
EXDS IX ARRESTS.
Landlady of Lodging House Fined
$2 0 in Municipal Court ana
Six Men $5 Each.
Forty-three bottlev of beer . were
reported found by the police Sunday
night when a "home brew" party was
broken up at 207 East Fourteenth
street, and six men and the landlady
of the lodging house, Mrs. Anna
Woodward, were arrested on charges
of disorderly conduct. The men were
fined $5 each and Mrs. Woodward was
fined $20 in municipal court yester
day. The arrests were made following
complaints received by the police
from residents in the immediate
neighborhood who claimed that ca
rousals occurred frequently in that
rooming house. The men were found
seated around a table, each supplied
with a bottle of "home brew" and a
lunch, according to Inspector Burk
hart, who made the arrest. The men.
Prank Swanson. captain of a river
dredge. Frank Moran, Magrues John
son, Antone Olson, James Conley and
Ben Johnson, all river dredge em
ployes, said they were preparing to
have a quiet party when disturbed
by the police, and that there was no
body drunk and no disorderly con
duct. In addition to the 43 bottles of
"home brew," two five-gallon jars of
beer in process of making were found
on the premises, according to the po
lice. RIVER GIVES UP BODY
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Japanese Mother Despondent When
Children Depart for Nippon.
A body believed to be that of Kino
Sakinada, a Japanese woman who
jumped off the Alder-street dock into
the Willamette river and drowned
herself March 26, was recovered yes
terday at the foot of Stark street.
The body was taken to the public
morgue for further identification.
Kino Sakinada was 30 years old and
lived at Gresham, Or. Her two chil
dren had gone to Japan for education
in their native philosophy and her
husband had died. After the depar
ture of her children she grew de
spondent and committed suicide. The
body was identified by the clothing.
The authorities were hunting last
night for the dead woman's brother
to confirm the identification.
JAPANESE PR0BE BEGUN
Governor Gathering Data for Pre
sentation to Legislature.
SALEM. Or.. Aug. 9. (Special.)
Governor Olcott has Instituted an ex
haustive inquiry into the Japanese
situation in Oregon.
The governor has declared there is
no doubt that the Japanese problem
will be an important one at the next
session of the legislature and he is
arranging to have on hand all the
data needed by the state's lawmakers.
Frank Davey is the governor's spe
cial representative in the inquiry. He
has visited Astoria, Portland and
Hood River.
Conntess Szechenyl Suffers Shock.
STRACUSE. N. Y.. Aug. 9. A dis
patch from Raquette lake tonight
says that guides on the Harry Payne
Whitney preserve brought out word
that Countess Szechenyi, formerly
Gladys Vanderbilt of New York, was
suffering from the effects of a slight
lightning shock received near Forked
lake Sunday.
Phone your want ads to The Orego
nian. Main 7070, Automatic 660-95.
You Are Easily Tired Out,
Your Blood Needs Purifying
CloeKed-np Imparities Will
mine Your Health.
As summer approaches the impuri
ties that have been accumulating in
the system throughout the winter be
gin to clog up the circulation, causing
a general weattness ana aeDiiitaiea
condition that is generally known as
'Summer Sickness."
The first symptoms are usually a
loss of appetite, followed by a gradu
ally lessening of energy, the system
becomes weaker day by day. until you
feel yourself on the verge of a break
down. Children just at this season are
peevish and irritable, and become
puny and liieiess.
This whole condition Is but the re
sult of impurities in te blood that
have been accumulating and make
Children Cry
The Kind Ton Have Always Bmirht lias borne tlio signa
ture of Clias. U. Fletcher, and. has been made under his
personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no one
to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and.
' Just-as-frool" are but experiments, and endanger the
health of Children Experience against Experiment.
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proric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It contains neither
Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. For
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relief of Constipation, Flatulency, "Wind Colic ana
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and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the as
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All itching and pain usually disappears like magic."
Keep the mffected part well cleansed with Resinol Soap by day. For -sale
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SALMON CATCHES SMALL
TRAPS .WD SEINES IN RIVER
GET FEW FISH,
Pack In Southeastern Alaska De
scribed as Being Almost
Complete Failure.
ASTORIA, Or, Aug. 9. (Special.)
All classes of fishing gear on the
Columbia river were expecting big
catches of salmon last night, but the
deliveries at the packing plants to-
aay were light, A few gillnetters
made catches of 500 pounds, but there
were other boats which returned with
less than 100 pounds each.
The trollers are having but little
success and. while most of the purse
seiners operating outside are making
good hauls, the weather has been too
thick for them to venture outside re
cently. The traps and seines Inside the river
are getting only a few fish and. as
near as can be ascertained, only two
seining grounds are making money.
Private advices received from Bris
tol Bay, Alaska, indicate that the
pack of canned salmon there this sea
eon is about 50 to 60 per cent of nor
mal. The catch on the Koggiung and,
Naknek rivers was practically a fail
ure, while at Nushagak it was fairly
good.
The Columbia River Packers associ
ation plant has packed 37,030 cases,
but only 26,000 cases of those are
reds, the balance being kings and
chums. The Alaska-Portland Pack
ers' association's two canneries had
packed approximately 70,000 cases at
last reports.
This is less than the normal pack:
at one of the association's canneries
in former years.
P'ar below normal and almost a
failure is the way the salmon pack in
southeastern Alaska this season Is
described. The pack by ten of the
larger companies operating in that
district in 1918 was SS5.297 cases.
In 1919 that pack was over G37.00O
cases, while up to July 31 of this sea
son those plants had put up but 287,4
000 cases.
Resort Manager Arrested.
NEWPORT. Or., Aug. 9. (Special.)
E. M. Baker, proprietor of Nye
Beach natatorlum at Newport, was
arrested today on a warrant charg
ing him with assault and battery. A
patron lost something from a dress
ing room yesterday in his building.
Baker paid for the lost article; then,
it is alleged, struck his patron on.
the face with an electric flashlight.
In 1918 145,583 cords of hemlock
pulpwood and 35,385 cords of epruce
were consumed in Washington, Ore
gon and California.
themselves felt more distinctly with
the change of season. They show that
nature needs assistance in giving the
system a general housecleanlng.
Nearly everybody Just now needs
a few bottles of S. S, S the great
vegetable blood remedy, to cleanse
out all impurities It is good for the
children, for It gives them new
strength and puts their system in con
dition so they can more easily resist
the many ailments so prevalent in
summer. S. S. S. is without an equal as
a general tonir and system builder.
It improves the appetite and gives
new strength and vitality to both old
and young.
Full information and valuable liter
ature can be had by writing to Swift
Specific Co., 609 Swift Laboratory. At
lanta. Ga. Adv.
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