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THE MORNING ORKGOMAX. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 23, 1920 BUILDING STOPPED FOR TRUST PROBE New York Cancels Contract for $7,000,000 Courthouse. EXTORTION IS CHARGED Iabor Leaders Declared to HaTe jtcm for Getting Money From Contractors of City. XEW YORK, Oct. 22. (By the -Associated Press.) New York is ready to suspend all puoiic orka yntilit is learned whether there is "open competition in bidding for the work." This announcement -was made late today by Mayor Hylan when the Joint legislative committee adjourned until November 4 after, its counsel had asserted it had only scratched the surface in iis investigation of the 'building trust." Developments in the building situ ation came in a dramatic fashion to day after Mayor Hylan had addressed the board of estimate, declaring that the building trust, the milk trust, the coal trust and the other trusts have built a wall about New York greater than the great wall of China." ST.MMMMKI Job Canceled. While the legislative committee was questioning witnesses in one chiimbtr of the city hall, tli board of estimates, meeting, in another, res cinded four contracts involving ap proximately J7.0UO.UOO of work on New York county's proposed court house. The mayor also authorized Commissioner of Accounts Hirshfieid to make searching investigation ol all contracts for schoolhouses. "I want the people to know they will bo prolected against men who are seeking means of combinations and unfair practices to mulet the people." explained the mayor. tho lilative committee held but a brief session today. Samuel I'ntermyer, committee counsel, ex amined several witnesses regarding the activities of the alleged labor contractor combination which, he as serted, was stifling construction work. Important developments were: Kel'usal of Robert P. Bindell, presi dent of the building trades council, to lake advantage of the opportunity Blven him by the committee to refute testimony of Kphriam Levy and tlporse Barker regarding a bribe of $'.";. 000 paid to alleged labor agents to call off a strike. Labor Afcuurd of Uxtortlon. Assertion by Mr Cntermyer th.it a widespread system of extortion was being practiced by unscrupulous labor leaders to obtain vast sums of money from employers under the threat of calling MiiKcs or actually doing so. jestimony to the effect that up ward of 400 plumbing contractors in New York submitted their proposed liids for plumbing work to a central clearing-house under the "code of practice" before they were offerad a prospective client. A dramatic moment came when Milton Sihnaicr. a plumbing contrac tor, pleaded on the witness stand with committee counsel not to continue, tiuestions which he said would imperil 1, is "million dollars worth of business" by withdrawal of labor. Prosecution Are Threatened Schnaier made this appeal after testifying that he had subscribed vnder pressure to the "code of prac tice" of the plumbing contractors. This organization, he said, consisted of the 4"0 contractors of "the Fifty Kighth Street association, who sent their bids to John T. Hettrick, a law yer, who is alleged to have operated the "code." Schnaler said that under the "code of practice" four per cent of the an nual gross income of the 400 plumb ing contractors was paid into Mr. llet trick's office, one per cent ot which went to Mr. Hettrick. "What becomes of the other three per cent is liriiulell anywhere in that?" queried Mr. Untertnyer. "I have no means of knowing," said Srhnaicr. "I can only have my sus picions." The legislative committee, it Is understood, considers that it has suf ficient evidence to start "criminal ac tion in a number of cases at once. FIREMEN IN CAMPAIGN location of City Hall In Park Will Bo Fought at Election.. OREGON CITY. Or., C-t. 22 (Spe cial.) The controversy over the lo cation of the new city hall, which is to house the recently purchased mod ern fire apparatus, took a new turn last night when the volunteer fire men at their annual meeting and banquet adopted by a unanimous vote i resolution favoring a down-town location for the building. There were about 75 firemen, rep resenting tile several companies of the city, at the meeting and a com mittee consisting of Fire Chief Seller, as chairman; Gerald Warner of Foun tain Hose company No. 1, Ed Lavier of Cataract Hose company No. 2. Fred "MrOausland of Hose company No. 3, Hay Welsh of Hose company No. 4 and Ted Miller of the hook and ladder company was appointed to conduct a vigorous campaign to bring about the defeat of the measure that will be submitted to the people at the Novem ber election, and which provides that the new municipal building shall be located 'n MoLoughlin park. IRRIGATION FILING MADE Construction Permit Requested for Winona Reservoir. SALEM. Or., Oct. 22. (Special.) William T. Heed of Kansas City. Mo., today filed with the state engineer application to construct the Winona roservoir on Jumpoff Joe creek for the storage of 2872-acre feet of water. The development contemplates the construction of a dam 83 feet In heipht at an estimated cost of $100, OuO for irrigation of land in Josephine con nty. The Nibley-Mimnaugrh Lumber com pany of Wallowa would appropriate water for the development of 408 horse power. This company contem plates taking: 300 second feet of water from the Wallowa river for power development in connection with a sawmill. The cost of the project is estimated at $15,000. BOND SALE IS ANNOUNCED Mate Highway securities to Be Dis posed Of November 6. SALEM, Or.. Oct. 22. (Special.) State highway bonds in the sum of (1. 300,000 will be sold at a meeting of the state highway commission to be held in Portland November 6, ac cording to announcement made hi.-a tody. These bonds will be in denom inations of $1000, e.xcept each 38 th bond, which will be $500. Trie commission also will open bids at this meeting- for the construction of fivt oridges and the improvement of Jtppuximatfsly 55 miles of road. The bripes to be constructed include: Jackson county Four concrete struc tures on tlie. Airatf-Tra il sri-linn rf the Crater lake highway; cement and Bteel j construction. :' i One brl1(r nvir Rnma Fii-f nn t Vi ! -A pace-Trail section of the Crater lake biKhway concrete construction. .Marion-Polk counties Repairs to the support of the pony truss span of the intercounty bridge over the Willamette river at Salem. . , Grading and paving contracts to be awarded follow: Clatsop county Mi'fes Orossinfc-Warren-ton section of coat highway; 2.0 mflc-s of embankment construction. Benton county Corvallis-south . section of weal Bide highway; eight miles of JO foot pavement. Jackson county-Agate-Trail section of Medford-Crater lake highway; 14.35 miles of grading. Malheur county Valc-Jamieson section of John Day river highway; 17.8 miles of eigli t-f oot gravel surfacing. 'Yamhill county Newberg-West Dayton section of west fide highway; tt. miles of 16-foot pavement. HMEY HHPS WASTE TILLAMOOK IIKARS PLEA FOR KEPUliLICA.NS AND TARIFJT. Mismanagement of War Business Is iMtacked and Lack of Army Supplies Pointed Out. TILLAMOOK. Or., Oct. 21. (Spe cial.) The republicans held a rally at the city hall last night, when a large and attentive audience listened to .Representative Jtawley speak on the issLns of- the day. A large part of his address was devoted to the wasteful and extravagant manner in which the democratic party had con ducted the affairs of the country pre vious to and during the war. He sharply criticised the government in awarding war contracts and in not providing the. boys in France with proper fighting material, the Amer ican army having to depend upon the allies for bombing' planes, shells, guus and other supplies. He recom mended a budget plan which. would put the country on a financial basis and prevent the waste and employ ment of so many unnecessary em ployes. He was in favor of some kind of league, but not the league that Mr. Wilson brought back from France, for if that had been ratified it would have meant that the president could have sent the army and navy into foreign countries, he said. He made a plea for a protective tariff and said that if the republican party was re turned to power it would reduce taxa tion and pass a tariff bill that will protect the dairy, farm and manu facturing products of the country. The prospects arc that Tillamook county will poll a big vote for the re publican ticket, and it will not sur prise the republican leaders here if Harding will poll a more than 3-to-l vote and K. N. Stanfield will carry the county by more than two to one. GOVERNOR HART TO SPEAK Washington Executive to Bo Heard by Vancouver Audience. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 22. (Special.) Governor Louis F. Hart will speak in the Clarke county court house here tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock on topics of fhtcreat to all voters. John Gellatly' of Wenatchee. candidate for the office of governor at the primaries, and defeated bv Governor Hart, will also speak. The tnira speaker will be Clifford L. Bab cock, candidate for treasurer. This trio will speak first at the Grange hall. Orchards, at 7 o'clock. The distance is but six miles over a fine paved road and there will be ma chines to take the speakers from Orchards to Vancouver. United States Senator Wesley L. Jones will tpeak in the Liberty thea ter here Monday evening; Tuesday evening Forrest L. Hudson and T. V. Copeland will both speak for the re publican ticket. George F. Cotterill, candidate for senator on the democratic ticket, spoke tonight in tho American theater. Miss Jean Stovall and Anna Louise Strong spoke in favor of the farmer labor party tonight in the boiler makers' hall. STRANGE MAN IS SUICIDE Body Found Hanging in Shed and Identification Is 3ot Made. OREGON CITY. Or., Oct. 22. (Spe cial.) An unidentified young man, about 27 years of age, committed sui cide by hanging in a small shed on the property of H. xJethke at Oswego last night or an early hour this morn ing. He was discovered by Mr. Bethke this afternoon. E. L. John son, coroner, did not hold an inquest, as it was a plain case of suicide. There was no mark of identifica tion on the body, except there is a laundry mark on the band of the trousers, XI-O. He was about 5 feet S inches, weighing about 170 pounds, and had wavy, light brown hair, gray eyes, with protruding forehead and sharp nose, -. PAY FOR SCENERY URGED Forests Along Highways Should Be Paid For, Says C. S. Chapman. SALEM. Or., Oct. 22. fSpecial.) Remuneration for property desired for public purposes in connection with the campaign to conserve the forests abutting- the ecenic highways of Orepon where the ownprs are not Theres something about ihem youlllikc- w II t i T Regularly Priced $18, $20, $22.50 $14.85 .Priced $12.50. J? or Boys of Years. ...... ......... ... . .,. . .... . able to make donations was advo cated in a letter received at the ex ecutive offices here today from C. S. Chapman of the Western Forestry and Conservation association. "It would be unfortunate." said Mr. Chapman's letter to the governor, '"if public sentiment condemned to the point of interference the legiti mate removal of stumpage along highways, for this would often ham per the man Or company in no posi tion to donate any trees to the pub lic." Irrigation Plans Discussed. SALEM. Or., Oct. 22. (Special.) Percy Cupper returned here today from Redmond, where he conferred with Fred Herman of San Francisco and A. J. Wiley of Boise with regard to plans for the development of the north unit irrigation project. A. L. Trowbridge, engineer, was also pres ent at the meeting and explained the plans In detail. The north unit proj ect contains approximately 100,000 acres of land and is a part of the Deschutes district. Bonds in the sum of $5,000,000 have been voted for the development of the project and con siderable work, already completed. Water Company Incorporates. SALEM. Or.. Oct. 22. (Special.) The Coltoni Water company, capital stock $5000. has been incorporated by Alfred Danielson, Oscar Hunt and Martin Lundstrom, according to ar ticles filed today. It is the purpose of the corporation to install a water supply system. Notices of dissolution have been filed by the Portland Tinware Sheet Metal Manufacturing company and the Modern. Bakeries. France Sues for $1,372,100. NEW YORK, Oct. 22. Action by the French government to recover fl. 372.100 alleg-ed to be the value of Twenty to the package TODAY Four Great Specials in the Boys' Shop Boys' Belted Suits Nearly Every One With Two Pairs "Knickers" Regularly Priced '$25, $27.50, $30 $19.85 Every Size for Boys of 8 to 18 Years Boys' Corduroy School Suits Regularly Boys' Winter Overcoats Regularly $13.50. $15, $16.50. For Boys of 11 to 18 Years All Shown in the Boys' Shop on the Second Floor BEN SELLING . Leading Clothier Morrison at Fourth war equipment which went down with the steamship North Cambria August 2, 1918, was instituted in admiralty court in Brooklyn today against the Commonwealth & Dominion Line, Ltd., of London. It was alleged that the North Cambria collided with another ship of the eame line. Standard Oil Tax $33,206.59. SALEM, Or.. Oct. 22 (Special.) A check for J33.206.69, covering salo of distillate and gasoline in Oregon by the Standard Oil cnmnanu n f Cali fornia, for September, was received ai me oiiices oi tne secretary of state today. A statement or unre ported sales by the company for the mnnthi rt Mav .Tuna .Tutw a A . gust, aggregating a tax of 401, also was remitted Dy tne corporation to the secretary of state. Soldiers' Home to Be Inspected. SALEM, Or., Oct. 22. (Special.), sam A. is.ozer, secretary of state; O. P. Hoff, state treasurer; Don H. Upjohn, private secretary to Gov ernor Olcott, and R. B. Goodin, secre tary of the state board of control, left tonight for Roseburg, where they will make the regular biennial in spection of the old soldiers' home. Withdrawal of Dry Denied. CHICAGO, Oct. 22. Virgil G. Hin shaw, chairman of the prohibition na tional committee, denied reports that he said were flooding his office that Aaron S. Watkins, prohibition presi dential candidate, planned to with draw from the race. Timber Sale Anticipated. EUGENE. Or., Oct. 22. (Special.) With a view to the sale of 20.000.000 TODAY o KATHERINE McDONALD .OTORIOlS MISS LISLE N o M w $9.85 $11.85 feet of timber near Powers, to the Coos Bay Lumber company, H. E. Haefner, forest examiner of the Sis kiyou national forest, passed through here yesterday. He will crutse a tract of timber in the Siskiyou forest. It is said that the timber is accessible to the logging railway. PRAISE FOLLOWS ATTACK French Papers See Friend In Pre mier Iiloyd-George. (Copyright. 1920, by the New Tork World. Published by Arrangement.) PARIS. Oct. 22. (Special cable.) Recent vicious attacks made in Le Matin and other Paris newspapers against Lloyd George brought out to day vigorous defense of the British premier in Le Temps and La Vlctoire. Today's articles are evidently in spired by the French government, which Is extremely anxious to come to an understanding with England with regard to reparations, and feels the personal assaults on the British chief are likely to harm these efforts. Lo Temps declares Lloyd George is a real friend of France and reproaches his critics with not appreciating the difficulties he has to contend .with at home. The article continues by ask ing what other British statesman could be found who would be friend lier to France. Gustave Herve in La Victoire writes in similar vein. Whitman Hears K. A. -Ballinger. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla. Wash., Oct. 22. (Special.) Rinhard A. Ballinger o" Seattle, secretary of the interior during President Taffs administration, spoke before the Whitman student bodv in Memorial hall yesterday on "Qualifications for A L L W E E K The romance of a woman who dodged the reporters from one end of England to another. SHOULD TAILORS TRIFLE 'TRAILED BY THREE" Chapter 13 SCENIC TODAY 3 Here's Jackson Gregory's novel scintillating with refined humor, seasoned with thrilling moments, staged with fascinating beauty, and as its central figure stands the inco-v LI- TC- . V .7? paiaoie i ai uuiii seen his best. STARTS TODAY KEATES' CONCERT On Our $50,000 Giant Organ 1. Come' Le' Va. . .Lid yard 2. Concert Waltz, Wed ding of the Winds, By John T. Hall 0. Prelude. . . Sergei Rachmaninoff 4. Hawaiian Echoes.... . ..Arr. Henri A. Keates SUNDAY AT 12:30 LIBERTY Citizenship." He also told of his offi cial life at Washington and his ex periences there. Insane Man Kills Himself. SALEM. Or., Oct. 22 (Special.) niuis Selmar, aged 31 years. corr mitted suicide at the state hospital here today by severing the arteries of his neck with a safety razor blade. Selmar was an Austrian and was com mitted to the hospital from Multno mah county last September. Steamer Airnie Dismasted. TOULONT. France, Oct. 22. A wire t 4 i 1 L - t ill 1 wMi ' . ' ijf 1'''' ( iiz JOYOUS TROUBLEMAKER WORLD'S NEWS LIBERTY PICTORIAL DIGEST "1000 POUNDS OF HARMONY" -f -nlrMiii,'h inmi rltiaff.il imi ntifll less message received today said the American steamer Airnie has been dismasted north of the Island of Ma jorca, in the Mediterranean sea. Aid has been sent to it. Socialists Vote for Soviet. STOCKHOLM, Oct. 22. The dele gates at a conference of the left wing of the socialist party deciHed today by a vote of 39 to 8 to adhere to the Moscow Internationale. Striking Miners Resume Work. MADRID, Oct. 22. News received today from Rio Tinto was that more "SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT" One of the best of the always good pictures that you see at the Columbia. Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Monte Blue and others in the intimate life story of a woman. De Mille directs. wwf .f) iur lt- -mmM than 1800 striking miners resumed work". Twenty years were required to translate the Bible into one language Tahitian. t Cuticura Soap The Healthy Shaving Soap Cu tteorn Bop hw without mmg. twm j mttm m 2Bc.