TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1920
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children, his place was taken five
years ago by Mr. Petty. Since that
time Mr. Petty had never lailed to re
member the little ones. His last
turkey donation to the home at Park
place was made last year.
Charles Heton, whose home Is at
Milwaukie. has already donated two
large geese for the Thanksgiving
dinner, and the children are delighted
and looking forward to a big feast,
realizing that they are not forgotten,
although two of the best friends the
baby home has had have gone.
There are at present 58 children
ranging from 5 to 6 years at the
home, besides 12 ranging from 2 to
3 years and 24 infants. The young
est child is 3 months' old.
DEFLATION AT STOCK
EXCHANGE GOES ON
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"What You Need Most in Your Home"
Only 6 Days Left
SHIP FIRM
Mens
Store
Fifth
Floor
Men's
Store
Fifth
Floor
oUmrtart Wauc
J "Merchandise of M
Merit Only
Hold on Board by Foreign
terests Is Alleged.
In-
1,500,000 Shares Sold in
Heavy Trading.
in which you can buy a
Washer & Wringer
FEEDING PLAN IS RAPPED
LOSSES TIP 10 POINTS
Industrial and Special Issues Be
Cost to V. S". Under Present System
Placed at $24,000 Day More
Tban During War.
SETTLEMENT OF DEUXQUEX1
CLAIMS IS OBJECT.
cline Greatly; Shippings Con
tinue Fairly Steady.
Etectfic
NEW YORK, Nov. 19. Present and
former "high officials'" of the United
States shipping board will be asked
to testify before the Walsh congres
sional committee Investigating the
board's affairs, it was indicated today.
William Denman of San Francisco,
who was the first president of the
emergency fleet corporation and the
first active head of the shipping
board, and around whom much of
the "wooden ship controversy", of 1917
centered, appeared today and volun
teered to testify. He was informed
by Chairman Walsh that the com
mittee expected to hear all of the
Officials.
Denman was told the committee
would hear him before he returned
to the Pacific coast. Following the
Thanksgiving holidays, the commit
tee expects to go to Washington for
the opening of congress.
, Foreign Hold Is Alleged.
Allegations that foreign interests
and men who "had always been op
posed to the upbuilding of an Amer
ican merchant marine" had worked
their way into subordinate positions
with the shipping board with the
Intention of helping foreign compe
tition were made by Ed'gar F. Luck
cnbach, a shipowner and operator.
Ho said that among the alleged
favored "firms in allocation of ships
were subjects of Great Britain." He
testified he did not include in this
indictment any of the board officials,
and he added there were others be-
ides himself who felt "that foreign
Interests were favored."
He charged the Kerr Steamship
company of New York had been
allowed to make "three free trips"
that is, exempt from charter hire
with vessels the firm purchased from
Austrians after this country entered
the war. Mr. Kerr and Mr. Clegg,
Kerr's associate, -Jie said, were then
IBritish subjects. When these free
Crips were granted, he asserted,
freights were... the highest in the
world's history.
Discrimination Is Charged.
Discrimination in " allocations, he
charged, dated back to the time this
country commandeered the Dutch
ehips in American waters. "Some of
these ships," he said, "were allocated
to British shipping firms while Ameri
can operators 'stood by.' "
Alleged discrimination in allocation
liad put his firm out of the Australian
trade a trade which he had spent
thousands of dollars to build, he as
serted. He said he was given but
one ship for Australia, while Welding
King, who had not a single dollar
invested in American shipping, was
allocated 17 boats for the Australian ,
eervice.
It is costing the United States gov
ernment J24.0O0 a day more to feed
the 60,000 men on shipping board
vessels under the existing system of
purchase of supplies than it did
during the war, before its ships were
allocated, R. H. Gregory, the board's
port steward in the North Atlantic
district, told the committee.
Direct Purchasing Recalled.
Gregory said that during the war
all supplies were purchased direct by
the board. Now each operator pur
chases the supplies and "the bills are
paid by the government."
He estimated that the basic rate
for each man each day is about $1.25.
During the war the estimated basic
rate was 83 cents.
In New York alone, he added, there
are 80 purchasing agents for as many
operators of shipping board vessels.
They are bidding against each other
for ship supplies and the government
eventually pays the bills.
The navy department, he said, feeds
its service on an average of lass than
$0 cents for each man each day.
"Some of the men on shipping board
freighters would kick if you gave
them turkey three times a day," he
replied, when asked if any complaints
Had ever been made.
Many Shlpa Declared Faulty.
Edgar Luckenbach of the Lucken
fcach line, who said that during the
war His entire fleet or 18 steamships,
loiaung 2u,uuv tons, was comman
deered, said his company had bought
from the shipping board J22.000.000
worth of vessels "more than any
tner operator has bought."
Many ships he purchased from what
le characterized as the "slipping
board" were faulty in construction,
with "leaky rivets, leaky decks and
eo forth." More than 60 per cent of
xnem, ne saio.. had to be drydocked
for repafrsi.
Mr. Luckenbach said he purchased
Bhips from the shipping board in 1917
wnen tney were 85 per cent comnlet
cd, only to find he was charged an
excess of 83,792.216 "run up in over
charges and estimates under the cost
plus plan."
V. S. Profiteering Charged.
In the two years since he purchased
the ships he has been unable to pro
cure an accounting of the alleged
overcharges, he said.
Mr. Luckenbach said he had become
disgusted with the way American
chipping firms were treated by the
board, and has asked permission to
put his vessels under a foreign flag,
so that he could get consideration as
a foreign owner when he went to the
board.
For one of the Luckenbach ships
the government paid 844,397 in char
ter hire, which earned for the gov
ernment $356,000, Mr. Luckenbach
said, adding that another Luckenbach
steamer for which a charter fee of
8377.781 was paid earned for the gov
ernment $1,159,024. This. Mr. Lucken
bach said, was "profiteering by the
government."
BABES HOPE FOR GOODIES
Death of Two Benefactors Felt by
St. Agnes Baby Home.
OREGON CITY, Or.. Nov. 19. (Spe
cial.) With their big-hearted friends.
Dr. W. E. Carll and James Petty, gone,
called by death, the children and the
Sisters at the St. Agnes Baby home
are now wondering who will be the
next to take these Good Samaritans'
places to donate goodies for their
Thanksgiving dinner, as had been the
custom of these two men.
After the death of Dr. Carll, who
Bad looked after the little ones each
year and donating turkeys toward the
Thanksgiving dinner of the homeless
Wounded ex-Service Men Will Get
Christmas Tree In Hospital;
Miss Doyle Appointed.
With the appointment of Miss Jane
V. Doyle as chairman of a newly
organized hospitalization committee,
the state executive committee of the
American Legion, department of Ore
gon, began yesterday on this state's
share in the legion's national move
ment to clean up all cases of sick
ex-service men who have unsettled
claims against the government.
A census will be taken of all hos
pital cases, records will be kept in
national headquarters of the legion,
and all claims will be cleared up with
the least possible delay, according to
Edward J. Eivers, state adjutant, who
has just returned from a conference
of department adjutants with Fred
erick W. Galbraith Jr., national com
mander, in Indianapolis.
One of the aims of the legion will
be to see that there is a Christmas
tree in every hospital in the United
States where there are disabled sol
diers, sailors or marines. Local posts
will be called upon by department
headquarters to plan frequent enter
tainments for the wounded men.
The hospitalization committee,
which formerly was the benevolence
committee, will conduct an intensive
campaign in Oregon, visiting all hos
pitals possible and compiling the re
ports desired.
TRAIL STRONGLY BACKED
Early Completion of, Yellowstone
Highway Recommended.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov. 19.
(Special.) The Yellowstone Trail as
sociation at its meeting here today
got solidly behind the proposed Pasco
Kennewick bridge across the Colum
bia and recommended an intensive
drive to put it over. The bridge is
on the trail and if completed would
render use of ferries between Walla
Walla and Seattle unnecessary, as a
bridge is now being built across the
Snake river between Burbank and
Pasco. Every committee brought in
recommendations for its support.
About 50 from all parts of the state
attended the meeting. Reports showed
that travel over the trail increased
last year by 50 per cent. About 84,
500,000 was spent on the trail last
year. The budget for the trail next
year allows $40,000 for publicity bu
reaus, route folders, trail marking
and maintenance of the general office.
BURGLARS STILL ACTIVE
Four Crimes Yielding Small Re
turns Reported to Police.
Four small burglaries were report
ed to the police yesterday, each show
ing that the operators engaged on the
job were men of ability, for they made
a wise selection.
A. E. Munger's drug store, 335
North Seventeenth street, burglars
broke the glass of a rear window and
took about $25 worth of perfume, ci
gars and candy.
Mrs. Iva Johnson, 6020 East Eighty-
third street, reported that the family
wash had disappered during the night
Clothing was the loot taken from
the store run by Mike Passilon, 228
Couch street, and when the operatives
found that there was no money in
the cash register they took it and. it
afterwards was recovered from a sec
ond hand store. where it had. been sold.
Just five minutes was enough for
some sneak thief to enter Mrs. w,
H. Knoll's apartment at 235 Eleven Ui
street. On her return after running
an errand she found her purse con
taining $15 missin.gr.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19. Deflation of
values on the stock exchange and the
principal commodity markets was re
sumed In heavy volume today, sales
of stocks aggregating 1,500,000 Bhares,
a total only a few times equalled this
year.
Extreme losses in the Industrial
and special issues extended from two
to ten points with no material rallies
at tho close. Fully 100 shares were
at lewest prices of the year. United
States Steel at SO made a new mini
um for three years and Bethlehem
Steel, whose -earnings recently were
reported as very satisfactory, estab
lished a new low record for five years
at 51.
Today's additional depreciations af
fected che oils, motors, equipments,
and food, tobacco and leather spe
cialties, but shippings, outstanding
features of the previous day's collapse
were fairly steady.
Advices dealing with financial, com
mercial and industrials retained all
of their recent discouraging charac
teristics. The one exception was the
oney market, but relaxation was of
little avail in the face of more un
favorable factors involved In the ex
tensive process of economic readjust
ment.
Sober consideration of the American
dividend suspensions created a pain
ful impression in financial circles be
cause of the hearing of the episode
on the country's export trade and
American merchant marine.
Indianapolis Bread Price Cut.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 19. A drop
of 2 cents in the price of a pound loaf
of bread and 3 cents in a one and a
half pound loaf, effective November
23 in Indianapolis, was announced today.
IRISH SCHOOL DESTROYED
Ulster College Fire Believed of In
cendiary Origin.
BELFAST, Nov. 19. The Ulster
college of Irish at Clough-Aneely,
County Donegal, was destroyed by
fire today. The co-operative stores
there were burned.
Both fires are believed to have
been of incendiary origin.
Camp Lewis Eleven Breaks Tp.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Nov. 19. (Spe
cial.) A grid game between the
Grays Harbor American Legion team
and an eleven from Camp Lewis,
scheduled for Thanksgiving day after
noon at Electric Park here, has been
canceled by the camp players. The
cancellation of the game has cost the
local players a considerable sum of
money in advertis'ng and other inci
dentals. Failure to hold the team
together was assigned as the reason
for marking the game off the Camp
Lewis list.
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Just think ending; washday drudgery and saving
money, too! That's just what you do when you wash
the easy Western Electric way.
Hundreds of these washers are now in use in Port
land. Every owner is highly enthusiastic over hers.
Now is the time to place this work-saver in your home !
Take advantage of this offer:
Refiners Cnt Sugar to $9.5 0.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19. The
price of refined cane sugar was cut
to $9.50 a hundredweight at the re
fineries here today, making a reduc
tion of 50 cents. Beet sugar dropped
to $9.30 at the refineries.
Alfred P. Ferguson, 78, Dies. ;
THE DALLES, Or., Nov. 19. (Spe
cial.) Alfred P. Ferguson, 78 years
old, an early settler in The Dalles
and Wasco county, suddenly died of
heart disease Thursday night at his
ranch near Eight-mile, after arising
from bed at midnight and putting on
his slippers preparatory to getting a
drink of water. Mr. Ferguson came
to Wasco county in 1874. He is sur
vived by his widow and three sons,
all of The Dalles.
Loaded Bread Truck "Wrecked.
HOOD RIVER,
clal.) One of a
trucks engaged
Or., Nov. 19. (Spe
squadron of motor
in bringing bread
DOWN AND A FEW
EASY MONTHLY
PAYMENTS
means the end of your washday troubles forever!
SALESROOM OPEN THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING UNTIL 8 O'CLOCK FOR CONVENIENCE
OF SATURDAY SHOPPERS
PHONE MAIN 7370
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Electric Service Co.
128 Yz East Tenth Street, Near Washington
here from Portland daily was wrecked
at daybreak on the Columbia River
highway, near Mitchell Point tunnel.
The wreck was caused by skidding
on a sharp curve. The car went
down an embankment about 30 feet
and was wrecked, but the driver,
thrown clear, was not injured. The
canyen side was strewn with several
hundred loaves of bread and other
pastries.
- Greek Gunman Insane.
MEDFORD, Or., Nov. 19. (Special.)
Jim Theodore, a Greek, charged
with attacking trainmen with a
weapon, after refusing to plead guilty
in circuit court, although admitting
his guilt, was adjudged insane by a
jury and will be remanded next Sat
urday. Doctors who had examined
him pronounced him sane. Two
months ago Theodore .boarded a
Southern Pacific train at Grants Pass
for Medford without a ticket, and
when cash fare was demanded drew
a revolver and threatened to kill the
conductor and brakeman.
Receipts Far Exceed Budget.
SALEM, Or, Nov. 19. (Special.)
Receipts of the state treasurer's
office during the years 1919 and 1920
exceeded by more than $19,000,000 the
estimate contained in the budget pre
pared by T. B. Kay, ex-state treasurer,
shortly before he retired from office
and was succeeded by O. P. Hoff.
Mr. Kay estimated that the receipts
of the department for the years 1919
and 1920 would total $22,000,000,
while a report prepared here today
shows that the revenue of the of
fice foi the 24 months - aggregated
$41,000,000.
The Oregonian publishes practi
cally all of the want 'ads printed In
the other three Portland papers, in
addition to thousands of exclusive
advertisements not printed in any
other local paper.
What would you call such a man?
A man who drovehis automobile with
the top down in a pouring rain?
Isn't he deserving of the same name if
he neglects to put on Weed Tire Chains
when roads and pavements are wet and
slippery?
What do you call such a man?
Write it on the line below and mail it to him or to us.
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GENERAL SALES OFFICE : Grand Central Terminal. New York City
DISTRICT SALES OFFICES: , -
Boston. Chicago, Philadelphia. Pittsburg, Portland. Ore, San Francisco
I This Has Been a Pulsing, Hustling,
Bustling, Busy, Successful SALE! J
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A Great Outpouring of Great Values
Men's Suits
$30.00
Men's Overcoats
$35.00
Many at Half Price!
An event in which we go farther than the Rochester clothing manufacturers in cut
ting prices of men's clothing from 33 1-3 to 40 per cent. An event in which we are selling
Men's Suits and Overcoats at prices which are lower, quality considered, than any quoted since
the war AND BEFORE THE WAR.
A bold statement, say you? Yes, indeed, but we can substantiate it simply by
inviting you to come and see for yourself. .An event that has proved so popular that we have been
compelled to add more clothing to the lot, taking suits and overcoats from our regular stock re
gardless of their regular prices, irrespective of their cost and marking.
Many Suits and Overcoats at Even
LOWER Than Half Price
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: Every man who has come to the Men's Store to see
these suits and overcoats has purchased either one or the other NOT A SINGLE CUS
TOMER HAS. LEFT WITHOUT MAKING A PURCHASE.
Fifth Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
Other Interesting News for Men
The Manhattan Sale continues offering all Manhattan Shirts, Collars, Pajamas and
Underwear at a 30 per cent reduction.
Also the Sale of Men's Stuttgarter and Globe Underwear at decided price reductions.
Street Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
to
increase
Ocean
Service
Between '
PORTLAND AND SAN FRANCISCO
by the
San Francisco & Portland Steamship Company
The popular ocean service of the "Rose City" has been augmented
by the addition of the finely equipped steamship "Alaska," and the
two will operate between the ports named on the following schedule:
Arrive I Leave " " "
STEAMERS Leave Leave San San Arrive Arrive
BX Portland Astoria Francisco Francisco Astoria Portland
Alaika Nov. 21 Nov. 21 Nov. 23 Nov. 26 Nov. 28 Nov. 28
RMCltr.... Nov. 26 Nov. 26 Nov. 28 Dec 1 Dec 3 Dec i
AlaVfca Dec. 1 Dec 1 Dec a Dec 6 Dec. 8 Dec 8
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Broadway 4600.
CONSOLIDATED TICKET OFFICE, Third and Washington Streets.
Phone Main 3530.
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