Morning Oregonian., December 15, 1920, Page 4, Image 4

TTTT3 MORXTXG OREGOXIAN, WEDXESDAT, DECEMBER 15, 1920
DIVORCING OF FLEET
ADVISED
Investigating Body Hears
Suggestions of Witnesses.
LACK OF POLICY RECITED
Witness Declares He BelieTes All
Money Spent by Goethals Is
Accounted For.
stable Fortune and charged with
violating the pure food act.
Charles Catta, proprietor of the
Brunswick restaurant, was arrested
for serving butter containing less
than- 3 per cent butterfat. He
pleaded not guilty In the justice
court, and his hearing will be Mon
day noon. R. Cameron, who runs the
Falls restaurant, was arrested on the
same charge and fined flQ and costs
before Judge Stipp.
John Stanich, owner of the Oregon
City fish market, was arrested for
diluting oysters with water, and
after pleading not guilty as charged
his hearing was set for Monday
morning at 10 o'clock In the Justice
court. George Newton, proprietor of
the Quality restaurant, was fined io
and costs by Judge Stipp for servins
butter containing less than SVt per
cent butterfat.
THUGS ROB AND BEAT
TWO CORK PRIESTS
Bullets Poured Into Street
Car Carrying Women.
forcemeats were rushed up nd re
lieved them. No casualties were reported.
MILITARY
PROBES
FIRES
5
IS
VICTIMS ARE CRIPPLED
Gunmen Try to Force Clergyman
to "Write "To Hell Witli the
Pope" In Street.
IUZELTOOD PItESlDEXT SAXS
CHARGES ARE UXJCST.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. Reorgan
ization of the shipping board by ul
vrocing from it the emergency fleet
corporation and the selection of men
experienced in various lines of the
shipping industry for the manage
ment of each organization were
among "constructive suggestions"
submitted today by Martin J. Gillen
of Wisconsin to the hou&e commit
tee investigating the board's opera
tions. Mr. Gillen was executive as
sistant to John Barton Payne when
Mr. Payne was chairman of the board
and recently declined appointment to
the new board.
Separation of the board and the
fleet corporation. Mr. Gillen said,
would enable the board to give its
entire attention to the management
of the wartime heritage of 1400 government-owned
ships. The value of
these ships was placed by Mr. Gillen
at $1,500,000,000.
The fleet corporation should func
tion only as "a liquidating corpora
tion." Mr. Gillen said. "Its duties
would be to clean up the vast volume
of accounting, completion of con
tracts, sale of ship and surplus ma
terial which the armistice left on the
government's hands. Surplus ma
terial and housing projects to be
handled are valued at approximately
J48O,0O0,0O0."
Snssntiom Are Given.
Among other suggestions were:
Reduction of present operations of
government ships from 176 to 60
entailing a saving in overhead' ex
pense and preventing confusion.
Readjustment of .sales contracts
made and to be made by reducing the
tonnage to a market value-suggested
at tlOO to J125 a ton in order to
create an investment market in the
United States for shipping.
Regulation and license by the ship
Ping board of all companies and per
sons engaged in warehousing, docks,
stevedoring, ship repairs, towing and
bargeing to control alleged evils
which interfere with upbuilding Am
erican shipping.
The establishment of a uniform, ad
equate system of accounting and the
compelling of masters and deck of
ficers who purchase supplies for ships
to make oath at time of receiving
their salaries that they have not ac
cepted bribes, bonuses or rebates in
any form.
Investigation of the curtailment of
activities of the army in alleged use
of its transports in commercial busi
ness and the turning over for com
mercial shipping purposes of piers
and warehouses now held by the war
department.
Funds trged For Treasary.
Mr. Gillen also urged "that all
funds received be paid to the general
treasury of the United States and that
tanners not needed for shipping
board's own service, as well as cargo
and passenger ships be sold.
In conclusion, Mr. Gillen expressed
his conviction that the American peo
ple would demand that the control of
the merchant marine be placed in
strong hands and kept unshackled
"from evils which now threaten its
very existence."
The government's failure to outline
a definite future policy regarding the
merchant marine is holding back de
velopment of American shipping by
private capital virtually at a stand
still. William Denman, first chair
man of the shipping board, declared
before the investigating committee.
'No one knows what the policy of
the government will be." Mr. Denman
said. "Private shipping companies
won t go ahead with construction
programmes when they do not know
what the government intends to do
about disposing of ships it already
has constructed.
"The government must assist if the
United States is to have a large pri
vate merchant fleet," Mr. Denman
said, adding that the government
tihould quit "drifting along on Brit
ish and German propaganda in re
gard to shipping- as it has for years"
Mr. Denman told the committee
that during the early days or the
war "hysteria spread over Washing
ton almost Anglo-mania In charac
ter." A number of men engaged in
chipping in New York with whom
we consulted were tied up with Brit
ish shipping interests," Mr. Denman
added. "This was unfortunate, as
there was need for the United States
to secure all the shipbuilding facil
ities possible."
Procedure IVaa Cautions.
-we had to proceed cautiously," he
continued. He mentioned P. A. S.
Franklin, of the International Mer
cantile Marine company, as one of
those British shipping connections
who had advised with the board, but
added that Mr. Franklin "offered us
valuable advice and never was un
American." Scarcity of "shipping brains" in the
country is one of the great weak
nesses of the United States in inter
national shipping, Mr. Denman de
clared. "We are hopelessly behind
Norway, Sweden. Denmark, Holland
and Great Britain, because we haven't
the men who understand the shipping
game."
Commenting on what he described
as blunders of the Hurley adminis
tration, Mr. Denman said that during
nis successor's regime "many agents
of the government began to operate
bhips, collecting freight running into
hundreds of million dollars." and that
"no system of handling this business
was devised."
Asked by Representative Kelly, re
publican of Michigan, who was re
sponsible for accounting for funds
and materials used by the shinnine
board while he was its head. Mr. Den
man said responsibility rested with
Major-General Goethals, who was
then head of the emergency fleet
corporation.
"Ill wager" the witness continued,
'that every dollar spent wJiile Gen
eral Goethals was in charge can be
located."
Difficulty in making a proper ac
counting, Mr. Denman asserted, arose
after he left the board and were
largely the result, he contended, of
the failure to separate the operations
and construction activities of the
board.
Health Bureau Retorts That Odors
Will Cause Complaint About
Poultry Establishment.
E. W. Ellis, president and general
manager of the Hazelwood company
has protested that charges of the city
health bureau to the effect that the
poultry establishment maintained by
his company at IS Front street was
insanitary were unjust.
Gordon Lang, chief sanitary inspec
tor, in a statement issued yesterday,
said that no charges of insanitation
at the Hazelwood company bad been
filed, but that complaints against
the odors from the establishment
formed the basis of the reports made
to the members of the city council.
Mr. Ellis in his statement declared
that his company had never experi
enced any trouble with the health
bureau about insanitary cond;tions,
and that he had never received noti
fication of proposed revocation of his
license.
"Members of the city commission
have not visited me or informed me
of intention to revoke my license,"
said Mr. Ellis. "The first I knew of
such action was when I read of it
in the newspapers."
Chief Sanitary Inspector Dang said
yesterday that inspectors had fre
quently called at the Hazelwood es
tablishment, and that suggestions had
been made that some steps be taken
to move the poultry department to
some section in the city where the
odors would not offend a large num
ber of people.
City Health Officer Parrish yes
terday announced that he was plan
ning to confer with members of the
city council over the proposal for
the erection of a building in a proper
location, where all poultry killing
could be handled in a sanitary man
ner.
ISTS TO TEST
CORK, Dec. 14 Amons the !:
tims" of Saturday night's terrorism
preceding the fires here are two
priests, the Rev. Patrick' MacSwiney,
closely related to the lord mayor of
Cork, and Father McCarty. Both are
reported to have been severely nan..
died by armed, uniformed men."
Father McCarty's injuries were
severe that he was unconscious yes
terday and is still unable to leave his
bed, while Father MacSwiney
scarcely able to move owing to lame
ness and bruises.
The two priests have told the cor
respondents how they, with other
passengers, including women, were
held up in a tram car Saturday night
by men wearing long coats over police
uniforms.
These men fired into the car and
roughly ejected all the passengers.
ined them up in a side street at tne
point of their rifles and searched
them.
Father MacSwlney's gold watch and
money were taken, and one or tne
men, when the raiders discovered the
priest, exclaimed:
Wow we ve got one or those iei-
low8 who have been advising people
to murder us."
Father MacSwiney, whom th men
threatened to shoot, was compelled
to divest himself of his outer cloth
ing and kneel in the road. Describing
his experiences. Father MacSwiney
said:
'Not doing so quickly enough, they
threw me down and ordered me to
write on the pavement to hell with
the pope'when they promised to let
me off. Then finding no means with
which to write, they pushed me away
with a curse, firing shots after me."
Father McCarty suffered more bodily
injuries than Father MacSwiney, be
ing beaten and kicked almost In
sensible.
Irish Rout Black and' Tan.
DUBLIN, Dec. 14. Armed men at
tacked a military motor lorry carrying
s-ix "black and tans" in the outskirts
of this city today. The black and tans
took cover in the postoffice. Rein-
ACTIOX OX PROHIBITION
PROMISED IX SEATTLE.
IS
City Council Proposes to Ban Sale
of Jamaica Ginger and Several
Other Preparations.
SEATTLE, Wash., Dec 14. Jail
sentences of 10 to 90 days and fines
of -not less than $50 for violators
of city liquor ordinances were pro
posed by the Seattle Retail Druggists'
association today.
The city council now Is considering
a new liquor ordinance to ban the
sale of Jamaica ginger by amending
the present ordinance.
The druggists would include ethyl
alcohol in the list to be barred from
sale as beverages, wine of pepsin and
an otner preparations unaer tne nan
of the internal revenue department
They would, however, allow the sale
of liquids containing not to exceed
one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol, .on
the ground that many of the articles
they sell for legitimate purposes con
tain that amount.
Incorporation of an emergency
clause in tne proposed liquor ordi
nance to make it effective as soon i
possible also is sought by the drug
gists.
It is said that Seattle druggists
who have trafficked in Jamaica gin
ger and other intoxicants have raised
a fund of 12000 to make a test case of
the state dry law.
MRS.INGER5QLL0N STAND
WIFE OF ACCUSED TESTIFIES
IX MURDER TRIAL.
Question of Relations With Slain
Man by Own Attorney Meets
With Objection.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Dec 14.
(Special) Attractively clad in a blue
serge suit and demurely, veiled. Mrs.
Gilbert Ingersoll was the chief fig
ure among witnesses called today in
defense of her husband, on trial fo
the murder of Henry Stoeshler, after
a quarrel of which Mrs. Ingersoll's
reputation was the cause.
Ingersoll took the stand In his own
defense. Neither of the witnesses
threw any new light on the case.
Asked point-blank by her own attor
ney if her relations with Stoeshler
had been improper. Mrs. Ingersoll
was prevented trom replying by an
objection.
litanley Ingersoll, the defendant's
12-year-old son by a former marriage,
also was on the stand. Examination
of witnesses closed today. The argu
ment starts tomorrow and the case
probably will go to the Jury tomorrow
night. Ingersoll said that his motive
in shooting was self-defense. He said
he feared a combined attack from the
two Stoeshlers and their relatives
of whom there were eevt -s.1 in the
crowd.
Cork Mayor and Sinn Fein Lead
ers Are Called.
LONDON, Dec 14. Investigation-by
military commission of the fires.
which swept Cork Saturday night and
Sunday, was expected to be completed
there today. Major-General Strick
land, commander of military forces
in Ireland, is the head of the com
mission, and the taking of evidence
began yesterday.
The mayor of Cork and two Sinn
Fein members of the parliament have I
been called to explain allegations they
have made in a dispatch sent to va
rious foreign ambassadors here rela
tive to outrages which they declare to
have been perpetrated in Cork during
the past week.
Announcement of the commission's
findings was awaited with keen in
terest as the question of who was
responsible for the fires in Cork has
assumed great importance. Rival ele
ments have been doine their utmost
to fix the blame on the auxiliary po
lice and the Irish extremists, respec
tively.
fair Hamar Greenwood, chief sec
retary for Ireland, asserted his be
lief that the auxiliary police dia not
start the fires and pointed out that
they were not equipped with incen
diary bombs which, news dispatcher
assert, were used to spread flames
in Cork.
Prospects of a truce in Ireland ap
pear to have been blasted by the
most recent events in that island, he
declared.
Telephone service between England
and Dublin, which was interrupted
last night, was resumed this morning.
Dublin passed a quiet night, said
message to the Exchange Telegraph
company today.
RIFLE SHOTS AROUSE CORK
which the proposed Central American
union is being considered.
"Air Harbor" Bein Built.
PEACE RIVER, Alberta, Dee. 14.
Work has been begun on an "air har
bor" here, which will form the south
ern terminal to the proposed aerial
transportation system into the Mc
Kenzie oil fjelds, it was announced
today. -
Racing Devotees Robbed.
BATKONNE, T. J.. Dee. lt.Seveii
masked bandits, led by an unmasked
leader, obtained $30,000. it was es
timated, when more than 200 New
Orleans racing devotees were held
up in a cafe today.
The prestige of Oregonian Want
Ads has been attained not merely by
The Oregonian's large circulation, but
by the fact that all its readers are
interested in Oregonian Want-Ads.
8. H. rreen
Holman Fuel Co.
Adv.
stamps (or cash
Main 253. 680-11.
Except for Early Morning: Fusil
lade City Has Quiet Xight.
CORK, Dec. 14. (By the Associated
Press.) Except for a heavy fusillade
of rifle shots about 1 o'clock this
morning, which aroused the popula
tion of Cork, frightened by the con
flagration and disorders or Saturday
and Sunday, the night passed quietly.
No police auxiliaries were in evi
dence on the streets today, and it is
believed that all have left the city.
Many shopkeepers, refusing to accept
the assurances of the military that
order would be maintained, are clos
ing and departing, causing a further
increase of unemployment.
Hundreds of people, fearing further
trouble, have gone to stay with
friends in the suburbs and in many
cases persons are sleeping four to eix
in a room.
American Forces Xot Wanted.
SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal
vador, Dec. 14. Withdrawal of the
American forces in Nicaragua is asked I
in a measure sent by the Students
federation of Salvador to the Salva
dorean delegation attending the con
ference at San Jos", Costa Rica, at
M-LMEIBIE
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RESTAURANTS ARE RAIDED
Violations of Pure Food Act Are
Charged Against Proprietors.
OREGON CITY, Or, Dec. 14. (Spe
cial.) The proprietors of three res
taurants and one fish market were
arrested, in this city today by Con-
WEDDING IS A SURPRISE
Prominent Dallas Woman Becomes
Bride of Oregon City Man.
OREGON CITY, Or., Dec. 14. (Spe
cial.)1 Mrs. Anna M. Coad, prominent
resident of Dallas, Or., and Robert D.
Wilson of this city surprised their
many friends Sunday morning when
they were married at the home of the
bride at Dallas. The ceremony was
witnessed by only two friends. Rev.
Mr. James, pastor of the Methodist
church of Dallas, officiated.
Following the wedding Mr. and Mrs.
"Wilson left for Salem, where they vis
ited for a brief time the former's
brother, and arrived here Sunday eve
ning, where they have tanen up their
residence.
Mrs. Wileon was a well-known
business woman of Dallas.
The bridegroom is a prominent Elk
and former hardware merchant of this
city.
Braiding, embroidery hemstitching.
Booth's, Morgan bids, Adv. ,
Absolute Clearance
of Furs
Fur Prices Down to
Where Yon Want Them
The Joy
of receiving- a Fur Gift
is boundless.
The appreciation i s
lasting-. Year after year
as the fur is worn there
always remains a lin
gering memory of the
exulted spirit in which
it was given.
Decide a Fur
Christmas for Her.
All Furs Now
Greatly Reduced
Listing of a limited few of
the many unusual values
Former Sale
Price . Price
Hudson Seal Coat, 36-inch length,
. skunk trimmed. $700 495.00
Hudson Seal Coatee Wrap, large -
beaver cape collar 650. 385.00
Mole and Squirrel Coatee Wrap. . 675 385.00
Hudson Seal Coatee..,. 425 295.00
Natural Mink Five-stripe Throw '
Scarf , 425 275.00
Kolinsky Cape, trimmed with tails 425 2T5.00
Natural Squirrel Cape Stole 375 197.50
Pointed Fox Animal Scarf, two
-skins . ........ 250 177.50
Russian Fitch large Throw, with
pockets ,325 177.50
Black' Lynx Throw Scarf, liberal
size 225 137.50
Taupe Fox Animal Scarf, silk lined 165 97.50
Taupe Nutria Throw with pockets . 135 85.00
Georgette Wolf Animal Scarf, silk .
lined 75 57.50
Ermine Choker Scarf ... 85 57.50
Skunk Animal Choker : 50 29.50
Natural Raccoon Double Fur Ani
mal Scarf 35 24.50
Silver Coney Cape Collar. . . ." 35 22.50
(Hudson Seal Dyed Muskrat)
KSTAMJSTftCD 104
BROJKBVuXY AT MORRISON
CdD.
The Intimate Gifts You Want For Women
and Misses Will Be Found in This
Christmas Sale of Broken Lines
Silk Underwear, Philippine Underwear,
Petticoats, Blouses, Sweaters
assembled and marked extremely low for quick selling
all broken lines accumulated from heavy Christmas
selling.
Silk Underwear
7 CamisolesT values to $2.50, at $1.95
A large assortment of tailored, lace-trimmed camisoles
in crepe de chine and wash satin, bodice top and built
up shoulder, flesh color and white.
Wash Satin Petticoats $3.95 . '
Values to $8.50
Assortment of lace-trimmed and toilored styles, flesh
color only, slightly soiled from handling.
Kayser Italian Silk Vests $2.95
Bodice top, built-up shoulders, flesh only.
Kayser Italian Silk. Bloomers $3.95
Well made, renforced, flesh color only, complete range
of sizes.
Extra Heavy Bloomers $4.95
$8.50 Values
The elastic at knee and waist in some of these garments
is not good, but the silk is in perfect condition.
Heavy Italian Silk Vests $3.95
Originally $5.93
Bodice top and built-up shoulders a splendid wearing
garment flesh only.
English Sateen Petticoats $1.95
$3.95 Values
White and flesh color, straight line with folds at bot
tom, slightly soiled from being shown.
Philippine Underwear $2.95
Values to $4.93
A small assortment of broken sizes, consisting of en
velope chemises only. Hand worked and hand made.
75 Wool Sweaters at $6.95
Values to $12.50
Tuxedo models in many desirable colors, some with
brushed-wool collars and cuffs, others with self collars
and cuffs.
Silk Sweaters Reduced to $29.50
Values to $65
Made of pure thread silk in stylish slipon and tuxedo
models, plain and fancy weaves, a good assortment of
colors. Reduced from our higher-priced assortments, ,
ft
300 Blouses
$4-95
for disposal
at
Georgette, taffeta, tricolette and crepe de
chine blouses and 'overblouses in flesh, white
and suit shades from higher-priced lines, as
sembled at one price in this sale.
Not all sizes in each style, but sizes from 34
to 46 in the assortment.
300 Jersey Petticoats
Equal to et' rr
our $5.95 $ -4.95
grade, at.
A special purchase of all jersey petticoats of
soft, heavy all-silk quality. Petticoats equal
to our regular $5.95 quality, but were ob
tained so that we can offer them at this low
price.
A good assortment of all desirable colors
and combinations
giikllndentear
forJJainttuttS
C ESTABLISHED 1864 "
BROADWAY AT MORRISOS
NEW SHOW TODAY
TOM MOORE
in
'THE GREAT
ACCIDENT'
A Rattling,
Baffling Ro
mance of" an
Accidental
Mayor.
NEWS
COMEDY
Peoples
Orchestra
1
Concert Tomorrow, 3 P.M.
PEOPLES ORCHESTRA
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Coming
Saturday
Shirley
Mason
as
"The Little
Wanderer"
PLAYING ALL THIS WEEK
CHARLES RAY
'PEACEFUL
VALLEY"
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petal prvdne
tlom. created un
der kla npenri-
lea, and
knockout from
every uclb
Atmos
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