6 THE MORNING- OltEGONIAN. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1920 USE OF EX- GABLES TD GDNT1KUE Agreement Is Reached at In ternational Meet. POWERS RETAIN CONTROL Further Sessions of Conference Ar ranged, Delegates Coins Home to Consult Governments. "WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. Sessions of the international communications conference, threatened by disruption several days ago over failure to agree on disposition of the former German cables, will continue under a modus Vivendi adopted today at a plenary session. Representatives of France, Great Britain and Japan In the meantime will return home to confer with therr governments relative to the primary . questions at issue, none of which had been settled at the sessions, which began here October 8. The ambassadors of the three nations will continue negotiations as substi tutes for the specially appointed del egates. The modus. Vivendi as drawn up at today's session and made public by the state department tonight fur ther provides: Present Status Continue "That after January 1 the German cables seized by Great Britain, France and Japan during the war shall be operated as at present, but for the financial account of the ac tive powers (Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy and the United States, provided, however, that In account ing for such operation the income, after deducting expenses, shall bo apportioned in accordance with the final disposition to be made of sucn cables. "That should a final agreement as to disposition of the cables not be reached by next February 15 the con ference shall immediately arrange for a new modus Vivendi to become ef fective on or before next March 15." Concessions making possible to day's provisional agreements were understood to have resulted in large part from pressure brought to bear in the conference by Acting Secretary of State Davis, who last week ob tained from the senate foreign rela tions committee assurances of sup port for, the American delegation's contentions. The American and Ital ian delegations were understood to have objected to any adjournment of the conference without some sort of an agreement. Yap Not Yet Dispose Of. Disposition of the island of Yap, center of cable communication in the Pacific, for which it has been sug gested Japan be given the mandate, as well as the settlement of the prin ciple insisted upon by the United States of equal landing rights on the island for the cables of all countries, were questions left unsettled. It was stated that the eventual disposition of Yap might be arrived at only by a settlement entirely independent of the communications conference and after an examination of the status of Ja pan's title. The principal other bone of con tention which prevented a settlement at this time of the disposition of the former German cables was the re fusal of the French delegates to ad mit the claim of Italy or the United States to the German trans-Atlantic cable held by France connecting New York with Brest. INJUNCTION UNDER WAY PAPERS IX SAXTTARIUM CASE BEIXG PREPARED. Member of Legal Department of State Board of Health at Rose burg to Enter Fight. ROSEBURG, Or, Dec. 14. (Spe ciaL) H. G. Mclnturff, of the legal department qf the state board of health, arrived, in Roseburg today to bring injunctioSi proceedings against the Winchester Sanitarium company. He is being assisted in the suit by l'i3trict Attorney Neuner, City Attor ney Wimberly and Attorney Coshow, representing Dr. Esther Pohl Love joy of Portland, and Steve Pearson, - both of the latter owning property adjoining the site of the proposed eanitarium. The noc-essary . papers were being prepared today. The suit is being brought against the Winchester hos pital for the care of tuberculosis, George A. Lovejoy, president of the corporation; V. Lr Ruiter, vice-presidents H. E. Gurney. secretary and C W. Frazier, the ' contractor who. has oharge of the buildings now under construction. The suit is the out growth of an attempt on the part of Dr. Lovejoy to prevent- the construe. --. tion of the hospital, partially because she owns property adjoining the san itarium and for the reason that it is alleged the refuse from the hospital will contaminate the waters of the North Unvpqua river from which the city of Roseburg receives its main water supply. The state board of health and Mr. Lovejoy are bringing separate ac tions against the sanitarium company and will endeavor to stop the con struction or operation of the hospital on the grounds that it will prove a nuisance and menace to the health of the community. PRICE FIXING REQUESTED (Continued From First Pajre.) "and for the outlet of farm produce direct to the consumer It should benefit both the vendor, who grew or raised his own commodities; and it should benefit the customer. "I believe that the present show ing is such that immediate reform, through the restoration of the price fixing power, should be undertaken by the eity council. A public market that has ceased to be of benefit to the public is an admitted failure for its chief purpose stands defeated." Commissioner Bigelow said that the market master's report on Yam hill street profiteering, together with the recommendation that municipal control of maximum prices be re stored, will be laid before the city council at an early meeting. He i confident that the showing is so con elusive, and conditions so plainly at Variance with public Policy, that af -firmative action, must and will bfc taken. There is abundant evidence as re cent as yesterday that the amal gamated association of rural chicken-ilrest-ers no social pun intended have successfully raised their wage scale. Neither the market master nor other observers digni fied the situation as poultry profiteer- ing, but they did emit sundry clucks of astonishment as they gazed- upon the price tags that decorate the poul try scans. Plucked hens of four nounds welarht. which is the ring-side average of pub lic marKet poultry, were quoted last year at $1.13 wholesale, and aold in. the public stalls, where countrvmen displayed them, for $1.36, or an ad vance of 24 cents over wholesale. Market Prices Raised. The prices in general were high, but the profit in this instance was not apparently exorbitant. Jl similar fowl today, fattened on cheaper feed for the cost of poultry sratch has declined materially is quoted whole sale at $1.20. But the price asked for the same bird at retail on the pub nc mar.net is $1.80. or an advance of 6Q cents over wholesale. "The public market is contributing to the plucking of the customer," de declared Marketmaster Eastman. "Here, where the housewife has every reason to expect an early reflection of the price decline in all commodities, she finds that prices in general are higher than they were last year. Why is it. with cheaper feed, that produc ers are' compelled to ask more than three times the profit of last year on a dressed chicken? Not only is the public being denied the reductions that it should receive from the vend ors, but actually these fellows have arbitrarily increased their charges.' On the "inside" markets along Yam- st-s sj.'IF Tl THIS BUILDING IS INTENDED AS hill, over which the market master has no supervision, a comewhat simi lar attitude was observed. Fancy pork was listed in the present whole sale quotations at 14 cents. Yet for pork shoulder steaks, not at all fancy, dealers were asking and getting as high as 30 cents a pound, while for loin steak they were receiving as high as 40 cents. Just what happens to the porker, from the moment he leaves the chilling room, rather humbly rated, to that instant when he1 appears on the block, considerably enhanced in value, is one of the most pressing puzzles of -the times. "The retail price of pork is far too high, considering the wholesale mar ket," commented a patron. "Here, too, it is noticeable that the public is not receiving the proper benefits of the price decline. Pork loins should retail, if a just reduction were made, for not more than dealers are asking today for pork shoulders." Bakers Are Criticized. Criticism along the market was also directed toward the price of bread. Though slight reductions have been made, it was pointed out that the pound and one-half loaf, for example, was selling for the same figure ap proximately that it brought when flour was $13 a barrel. And bakers' flour yesterday was quoted at $8.75. Another item that entered into the bakers' argument for higher bread prices, some time ago, was shorten ing. They declared that the unprece dented cost of this ingredient made an advance urgently necessary. Shorten ing has been selling for at least 20 per cent less, so it was charged, while bread moved blandly on at the old figure. Prohibition Director Sued. CHICAGO, Dec. 14. A suit in equity to restrain the district federal prohi bition, director, Ralph W. Stone, from refusing to issue prescription blanks for alcoholic liquor to physicians, as required by the doctors, instead of a limited number each month, was filed today in the United States district' court by Dr. E. P. Murdock, president of the American Protective Medical fraternity. It is asserted that the 18th amendment merely forbids the use of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes and places no restrictions on medical uses. WATCHES and CLOCKS Suitable for Christmas Gifts Hardly aay other gift will take the place of a really good time piece; few others can be so greatly appreciated and desired. Great care has been exercised in choosing the watches and clocks for this store; they are all prod ucts of the best manufacturers; every conceivable design and shape. Prices are reasonable con sistent with the quality. " Convenient Terms without extra charge. T-arpremt DIunoM realer In Oregon, 334 Washington St. Opp. Owl Drug Co. if i. r & Ml F .'I ilU CDUFOTY'S HOSPITAL MAY COST MILLION Increase Foreseen by Com missioners in 1916. $250,000 ALREADY SPENT Latest- Request Is for $450,000 and Guessera Hope to Stop at $750,000. Originally starting out aimlessly with an appropriation of $100,000, the new county hospital being con structed on the brow of Marquam hill is in a fair way to cost a million dol lars or more. In its construction the new hospital NEW COUNTY HOSPITAL AS IT NOW APPEARS. VI Tl - - bl w-5 fi rj i. r r f 5 FIRST UNIT IN EXTENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ON MARQUAM HILL. is doing the very thing that the budget advisory committee feared and warned against November '17, 1916. The budget advisory committee did considerable thinking when coun ty commissioners asked for $150,000 to be appropriated in the budget for a new county hospital to be built on the hilL The main idea of the county com missioners was that there should be a new hospital and that it should be erected-on the hilL. The commission ers had no plans and no idea of costs, but thought that $150,000 would build a very nice unit. Far Stjchtedness Evident. -The.advisory committee rubbed its collective chins, squinted collectively at the ceiling, and offered and adopted unanimously a recommendation. This recommendation In the light of De cember, 1920, shows that the mem bers of the advisory board were far sighted back in November, 1916. The courthouse was expected to cost $800,000 It cost more than $1,500,000 when finished. The budget committee was thinking of the court house when the county commissioners were asking for an appropriation for a new county hospital. - "This hospital, announced a mem ber - of "the budget committee, "may ultimately cost far in excess of what was contemplated first." Acting on this thought the com mittee drafted and adopted a resolu tion to the effect that a committee consisting of taxpayers and doctors investigate the proposition of a hos pital and get estimates of the work, without expense to the county. This data was to be obtained, according to the recommendation of the budget KODAKS PENS - I P SAY "MERRY XMAS" with an E N S I K O D A K S I P E N S I K O D A' K S i P E N S 1 K O D A K S I P E N S from WHOLESALE AND RETADL PORTLAND'S HEADQUARTERS FOR EASTMAN KODAKS Eversharp Auto Point Sharp Point Always Sharp Pencils We have the largest display of Eversharp Pencils and Pens in our Broadway store ever exhibited in the United States. 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At the end of 1919 only a few thousand dol lars had been expended out of the $200,000. and the $192,000 balance lapsed. f4S0,OOO Additional Asked. For 1920 the county commissioners planned as usual to build the first unit of the hospital and $250,000 was put into the budget and all has Veen used, and for 1921 the commissioners are asking for an additional $450,000. Thus the new county hospital which in 1916 was thought could be built for $100,000 and in 1919 was thought could be built for $200,000, has al ready had expended on it $250,000 and $450,000 more is asked. Commissioners any : . --T-'- v j.t r ix ---- 4 - IM admit that It will not cost lees than $750,000, but the commissioners have not been as good guessers as was that advisory budget committee back in 1916, which foresaw exactly what would happen to the hospital prop osition. ROAD FUMP IM REACH (Continued From First Papre.) matz, appellant; appeal from Multnomah county; action to recover money or serv ices. Opinion by Justice Johns. Judge Q. U. Gantenbein reversed. State ot Oregon va. Lark N. Evans, peti tion for rehearing denied in opinion by Justice Harris. Joe Obermeler vs. Ksther Mat tt son, mort gage company Holland-America, and John Van Zants, appellant; petition for rehear ing denied in opinion by Justice Burnett. C. F. Stone va. First National Bank, of Tillamook, Bank of California, National association and J. T. Burtchaet, et al, ap rt 1 lants: motion to dismixM nvcrni luH n ! opinion by Chief-Justice McBrlde. r f'i.f-t I C C.a rtf.r. u nnollgnt v CI Estate company; motion to dismiss over ruled in opinion by Chief-Justice McBride. ' A. M. Logan and Fisher C. Logan vs. R. B. Cross, appellant, petition for rehearing; former opinion modified in opinion by Chief-Justice McBride. Kdith M. Rahn, appellant, vs. Charles Grey; motion to dismiss allowed in opinion by Chief-Jutftic .McBride. PKOGRA5DIE IS OUTLJXED Contracts for 55 4 Miles to Be Awarded in January. Kor the January meeting1 of the state higrhway commission contracts will be awarded for 55 Va mi Lea of work. Of this mileage, 21 miles will J. f ' j " . : i. - "TIi -- KODAKS PENS KODAKS I P E N P I K O D A K S I P E N S I K O D A K S I P E N K O D A K S I P E N S I Waterman Moore Conkiin Jheaffer Fountain Pens be for hardsurface on the Pacific highway; 19 miles of grading on the old Oregon trail and 14 miles of surfacing on the Columbia highway and 1 miles of grading and gravel ing on the coast highway. This was the agreement reached yesterday noon by R. A. Booth and John B. Yeon of the state highway commission. As soon as the commis sioners agreed on these sections Chairman Booth telephoned to the highway department at Salem to pre pare the call a for bids. Estimates for all this work have been compiled by the engineering force. One of the paving projects will be hard-surfacing for six miles from Roseburg south toward Dillard, which will connect it with the hard-urface now laid from Dillard to the point opposite Myrtle Creek. A six-mile paving contract is con templated for the stretch between Walker and Divide, or rather coming within half a mile of Divide. To connect the paving at Junction City and Monroe, a contract will be let for paving nine miles. This will link up other paving jobs. The pave ment now runs from Goshen north through Eugene to Junction City and the proposed contract will push it north to Monroe, where .it will join more pavement. Nineteen miles of grading will be contracted on the old Oregon trail from Nelson to Huntington. From The Dalles to Deschutes, on the Columbia river highway, the com mission will contract, for a macadam surface. This is a 14-mile project. Curry county will receive 1 miles of grading and graveling from Port Orford south to Hubbard creek where the commission is now completing a section from Hubbard creek to Brush creek. ' At thn time the commissioners defi- r nltely decided on this programme yes terday word was received that the supreme court had reversed itself on the county bond decision. The com mission has advanced $900,000 to counties and now- that the bonds are declared valid by the supreme court the commission need not worry about reimbursement. The advance was work which the state highway com mission did for the counties, such as financing grading of state highways. PRESENT MEASURES OPPOSED Oounrty Judges and Commissioners Discuss, Limitation Amendment. Discussion of the 6 per cent tax limitation by officials yesterday at tending the convention of the State Association of County Judges and Commissioners developed strong ob jections to the present measure and probably will result in the adoption today of resolutions proposing changes. The opinion seemed general that counties were forced to take from their road funds amounts needed for administration and other purposes. In some cases, it was brought out, such Email levies were being made at the time the limitation was first put in force that this slight annual increase has not grown in proportion with the needs of the government. IMPROVEMENTS PROPOSED Work on Highway to Be Consid ered at Local Meeting. SALEM, Or, Dec. 14. (Special.) 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The roads to be im proved, together with the character of work, follows: . Huntington Nelson section, old Or egon trail in Malheur county, 19 miles of grading: Port Orford Hubbard creek section, coast highway in Curry county, 1.5 miles of grading; Seufert Deschutes section. Columbia river highway in Wasco county, 12 miles of graveling; Lexington to the Gilliam county line section, Oregon-Washington, highway in Morrow county, 25 miles of crushed rock macadam. Rose burg' Dillard section. Pacific high way In Douglas county, 6.7 miles of paving; Divide to Walker station. Pa cific highway. Lane county, 9 miles of paving. CLACKAMAS TO SELXi BONDS Original Plan, to Be Followed hat Bridge Idea Is Dropped. OREGON CITY. Dec. 14. (Special.) By a ruling handed down by the supreme court today, the $1,700,000 road bond issue for Clackamas county was declared valid. This decision was brought about by purchasers of bonds in Union county, who, on the refusal of the treasurer of that county to pay the Interest due on bonds sold there, brought suit to determine the validity of the bonds in Union county the su preme, court automatically made the Clackamas county issue valid. While the bonds here will be sold under the original plan to purchasers the amount of $250,000 for a ew bridge across the Willamette river. connecting West Linn and , Oregon City will go by the board. The rea son for this is that if the $250.0io bridge bond Issue was included, the county would then exceed the limita tion act of 6 per cent as made plain by the law. FURLOUGHS ARE OFFERED Men Enlisting Now Need Not Re port Until ATter Holidays. Men who enlist in the navy prior to the holidays wilt receive furloughs from December 15 to January 3, in clusive, and at the expiration of that period they may report to the main recruiting station of the district in which they are in for orders, accord ing to advices received by the local navy recruiting office yesterday from Washington. . - It is the Intention of the navy de partment to recruit 400U men this week, this being the quota which must be maintained weekly by re cruiting officers if they hope to se cure, 143, 000 men before March 1. Recruits enlisting at present will be given an opportunity to join the fleet in its world cruise, which is sched uled to begin June 1, 1921. JANITORS DEMAND RISE 25 Per Cent Increase or Strike Is Ultimatum or Union. CHICAGO, Dec. 14. Chicago Jani tors issued their "Happy New Year" message to apartment dwellers today. Unless demands for a blanket in crease of 25 per cent in wages are granted, union janitors will desert their fires and go on strike December 31, according to Wm. Quesse, presi dent of the union.