THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY. JULY 25, 1021 3 PROHIBIT! OOHS FAMED DMG NOOK "Champagne Porch" Fails to Pay in Dry Gotham. . OANCE HALL SUBSTITUTED Resort of Rich Jn Plaza Hotel Is Being Altered Into Splendid Ballroom for Patrons. NEW YORK. July 14. (Special.) Farewell to the famous "Champagne porch." That exclusive little nook, entwined with rare flowers, extending out to ard Fifth avenue on the east side of the Plaza hotel, where none but those possessed of sufficient wealth to drink the finest vintage of France In days gone by dared enter, is going. It is the last of the widely known Fifth avenue retreats of its kind. Where once Jeweled women and European royalty could be found al most any night bent over the rarest foods and the finest drinks there are now only dust and broken bricks and the sound of hammers and saws. The Champagne porch, where the Prince of Wales viewed the splendor of Fifth avenue's stream of traffic, where small fortunes have passed in payment of dinner checks on a night, where society gathered for its most elegant splurges, is doomed. With prohibition it became unnecessary, unfrequented, and would not pay for Its own upkeep. Revenue Formerly Huge, So, in making the 300-room annex to the Plaza, its manager, Fred Kterry, decided that this tiny spot, where only ten tables sat, but which returned in revenue as much in a Bummer as the entire dining room, owing to the class of patrons who chose it, should be abandoned. The Champagne porch was 40 feet long and 15 feet wide. Before the days of prohibition it was utilized only by parties that made reserva tions far in advance, and from its oriental rugs to Its costly chandeliers, from its rare appointments of tables, chairs and chinaware to the very uni forms its waiters wore, it was fur nished with the most expensive ma terials obtainable. Ordinary dinner patrons were not placed there. Din ners costing anywhere from $50 to J500, according to the number of guests, only were served there. In other words, it was the restricted rea of the exclusive hotel. Outside the rose and vine-covered posts and pillars of the porch news boys used to come, peering in at the diners, and invariably they went away with substantial coins in their dirty hands. For this was the post where the rich could be found. The boys soon learned its class. Champagne Kiowa Freely. Champagne flowed there like so much lemonade at a Sunday school picnic. At $10 or 15 a bottle the price of a dinner, including the reg ular food, tips, expenses of cover charges and the like, mounted until few but the most plentifully supplied financially ever went there. Now it is going. It is already half torn down. Its furnishings are to be transferred to the new main dining room that will be located in the cen ter of the hotel. The entire east side of the Plaza (the Fifth avenue side) will be turned into an entrance and lobby. A new dance floor is being installed in the new addition to the southwest side of the hotel that, ac cording to its builders, will be one of the finest in the country. "We wanted to keep 'the porch' In Its former condition and serve ginger ale and elderberry Juice," Mr. Sterry said, "but it couldn"t be done. We'll try to give them as nice a dance room as we had a champagne room before." HART STILL UNDER FIRE (Continued From First Page.) monthly salary a warrant for tilo on account of the maintenance of has mansion, it is inconceivable that he would expect to escape censure for charging other personal expenditures to other funds. ltrnioval Is SuKKeated. "I supported him for nomination and in the election upon his record as acting governor and on represen tation of his friends and himself that he would give Washington an eco nomical administration. He has failed to do this. I oppose him now because I prefer his removal to the triumph of bolshevism in this state, a thing inevitable unless the repub lican leaders Join in correcting the policies chargeable to the dominant party through the Hart adminis tration." The agitation that has resulted in a general demand for a retrenchment policy by the state administration was Started June 21 by papers of the etate, and reached a climax a few days ago, when a number of the republican editors of the state met and. under the leadership of Kditor Sefrit and J. C. Kaynor, an editor in Ellensburg. and demanded a "house cleaning at Olympia." The governor was asked to explain his policy of what they termed profligate spending at a time when there is sifch a state-wide de mand for the reduction of taxes and the curtailment of expenditures. Party Declared Threatened. The editors contended that the ad ministration policy threatens to dis rupt the republican party in the etate, and that it is practically equiv alent to turning the state over to the farmer-labor party at the next elec tion. Following are a number of the spe cific' charges brought against the Hart administration: f Four Fords were bought by the chief highway engineer, James A. Da vis, in April and May. One, from the Spedden Axito company, Chewelah, cost J650. 'Another, from John Ray mer & Co., Davenport, cost S647.S5. A third, from the Bowen Auto com pany. Tonasket. cost S94. The fourth, from John Raymer & Co.. cost $729.10. To pay for this last car it was neces sary to charge $500 to the motor ve hicle fund and $229.10 to the public highway fund. Touring Car Purchased. L. D. Crowe of the grain department Of tne department of public works. VHt . 191S Oakland touring car March 2S, from the Shields Livengood Motor company, Yakima, for $725. and two days later got a Ford touring car and extras from F. A. Williams, Spo kane, for $727.60. Ernest A. Scaborg of the department of fisheries and game, at public expense, April 29. bought from the Bronson Motor Car company. Olympia. one seven-passenger touring car. make not specified, with accessories. costing $2446. Ss. Grant J Hinkle. secretary of state, got a Buick from the Bronson Motor Car company on March 14. It cost the people $1609.95. including bumpers xtra tire, spotlight, chains, lenses and swipe. - It Is said Secretary Hinkle objected strenuously when he learned a car had been bought for him at public; expense, but was practically com pelled to take it, "because everybody was getting one under the new effi ciency administration." L. L. Thompson, attorney-general, drives a Ford sedan that cost the state $952.34.. It was bought March 16 from L. E. Titus, Olympia. As in a number of other instances, an old car was turned in to help pay for the new.. The attorney-general's sedan cost $5G6.34 cash, 450 having been al lowed for an old car. Governor Hart's critics charge that it would take a small army of ex pert accountants weeks to segregate payrolls and expense vouchers to make a comparison of this month's expenditures With those of the same month a year or two years ago, and it is doubtful if it could be done even then. Card. Cost V420.CO. A voucher in the state auditor's of fice here shows the cards which figure in the dispute were or dered from the Lowman & Hanford company, Seattle. December 23. The bill from Lowman & Hanford was for 2000 Christmas cards and envelopes, costing $426.60. The bill went un paid until April 4, when it was audited and allowed, after Governor Hart had certified its correctness and ordered it charged to the fund provided him for investigation purposes and sur vey of public lands. ' This is the transaction which the governor ad mitted to the bar association was "open to criticism." He did not, how ever, offer to refund the money to the state which he had expended for the cards, as pointed out by Mr. Sefirt. Since the new "efficiency" admin istration stepped into the harness at the capital there has been a rear rangement of offices. This has re quired a rearrangement of funds and rearrangement of duties. Critics of the administration charge that the favorite pastime of officials today s the Juggling of figures to show the "vast saving" of money they have been able to make.. Saving Declared Myth. Tet the payrolls and expense vouch ers, it is alleged by the governor's critics, show nothing of the sort. One critic has charged that: "The average 'citizen trying to find anything out is completely lost jn a maze of vouchers and pay-roll sheets, but a glance will show him that in the very department where they pay roll is said to have been cut, new employes have been added and old employes' salaries raised. In another department eight experienced girl em ployes were discharged to 'reduce ex penses. The fact was made public by the head of department, but he said nothing when he replaced the eight discharged employes with eight inexperienced girls, and' later put on eight more, making 16 inexperienced girls In all, to do the work former ly done by eight." STRIKE APPEALS SUITED PROTEST OF OPEX-SHOP PliAX IS SHAPING. Committee Prepares Appeal to Building Trades Unions for General AValkout. SAN FRANCISCO, July 24. Follow ing its decision to appeal direct to the various individual labor unions, rather than wait for the executive committee of the labor council to act on the general strike proposition, the strike committee of the conference commit tee of the buildiner trades unions of the bay district today was busy pre paring a "statement of facts" to pre sent to the unions during the coming week. The statement, it was said by mem bers of the committee, will contain an urgent appeal to the labor unions to call a general strike as a protest against the "American" or open-shop plan. James 33. Dewar, an active member of the conference committee, declared that plans for a central committee of workers were being perfected and that actual formation of the commit tee would be started the early part of the week. This central committee will be or ganized along the same lines as the employers association and will be composed of representatives of all unions irrespective of their affilia tions. CLEVER RUSE IS STABEO PAROLE OFFICER WORKS FAST TO OUTWIT PURSUER. Ball Game Plans. Instead of Ar raignment in Court, Follows Chase of Two Miles. SALEM. Or., July 24. (Special.) "With the plea that he was en route tc Portland to arrange for a base ball game between members of the police department there and the state penitentiary nine probably saved Percy M- Varney, state parole officer, from being arrested on a charge of fast driving. While passing through Milwaukie Mr. Varney was detected by George Kelly, motorcycle patrolman, who went in pursuit. The chase continued for several miles, but finally the pa trolman overtook the car in vhieh the parole officer was riding. "What in thunder is your hurry?" shouted the speed cop as he drew up alongside the parole officers' car. "I was hurrying to Portland to ar range a game of baseball between the members of your department and the penitentiary nine," replied Mr. Varney. "Agreed," replied Kelly, and the date was fixed. Mr. Varney then continued his way into Portland. KIma Strawberry Patch Good. ABERDEEN', Wash., July 24. (Special.) W. H. Harding of Klma has reported the sale of more than BOO crates of strawberries from a field of an acre and a quarter, which he sold for an average of more than $3 a crate. The price was made pos sible by his favorable location for the automobile trade. Harding's son, Karl Harding, has set out this sum mer a five-acre field-of strawberries and an acre of gooseberries. reaches Sent Abroad. SALEM. Or., July 21. (Special.) Another carload of prunes left here yesterday consigned to England. This was the 2th car of prunes to be shipped abroad s:nce the "Mistland label was adopted last fall. Crops Reported Good. MORTON". Wash-. July 24. (Spe cial.) Klickitat prairie farmers are harvesting the finest quality of grain and largest crops in many a year. So great is the yield that every man and boy has been pressed into service. 600 Arrested lor Assassination. BELGRADE. Jugo-Slavla, July 24. More than 600 communists and rad icals and several persons prominent socially have" been arrested in conse quence of the assassination Thursday of Minister of Interior Crashkovich. TARZAN OF APES IS OUT-TIMED iW Story of Girl-Grabbing Gorilla Is Unfolded. ATCHISON SCRIBE SCORES Xew York Papers "Scooped" by Kansas Reporter, AYho Tells of "Horrible" Adventure. ATCHISON. Kan., July 14. (Spe cial.) From the "Main Streets" of America, as has frequently been pointed out, come our true geniuses. There flourish the truly worth while qualities daring, energy, imagina tion, in a degree not to be discovered among anaemic city dwellers. As a case in point, consider Atchi son, Kan., and the story of the girl grabbing gorilla. An Atchison man, a reporter for the Atchison Globe, dis covered tHis amazing story and the GJobe gives it to the world, chival rously omitting names. "A story," declares the Globe, "so gruesome in its details that even the sensational New York newspapers have not dared to exploit it, has been brought back to Atchison by a Globe reporterwho has been east. ('Gene Howe, editor of the Globe, recently took in the Dempsey-Car-pentier affair, but the Globe doesn't say who the geniusof this reportorial feat is.) "It is said." avers the Globe further and what a multitude of contingen cies are forestalled in those three lit tle words "it is said" "a party of wealthy New York people stopped over in South Africa on a round-the-world tour. The party included., a young woman,' said to be pretty and attractive. "The party made a flying sight-seeing trip into a jungle. While walk ing along a pathway, it is said (ah. helpful little phrase) a mammoth bull gorilla suddenly surprised the party by jumping down from a tree. The gorilla grabbed the girl, picked her up in his arms and disappeared in the' tropical growth. Girl Finally Rescued. "The parents of the girl were told Instances were known where gorillas' had carried away native women and had not killed them. A month later the girl was found wandering about the forest by natives and was restored to her family. "The girl when found by the na tives was delirious and it is said her hair had turned snow white. After she had been rescued she collapsed and for weeks was on the verge of death. However, she has entirely re gained her health and it is said this fall she will marry an army officer to whom she was engaged at the time she was carried into the forest. New York people are applauding the of ficer, and they say he is a real man. "Because of the prominence of the girl and her family connections, the New York newspapers have contented themselves with veiled references to the adventure and no . names have been printed. But the story is being passed along from mouth to mouth until it has been told in nearly every home in the east. "It is said the girl has related that when she was picked up by the gorilla, she expected to be torn to pieces, but that the animal handled her gently. He carried her deep into the forest, and then tried to make her climb a tree in which he had con structed a small hut. The girl said she fought against being carried up the tree and that the gorilla then spent an entire day building another hut on the ground. "She said the gorilla forced her to remain in that small habitation with him 31 days. She was permitted to walk about the forest in the after noons, but the gorilla always kept her in sight. Several times she tried to run away, but the animal punished hes-by severe slaps. Big Beast Is Tricked. "She finally made up her mind her only chance 'of escape was humoring him and acting as if she did not care to run away. The huge beast, tricked into trusting her, began to leave her for longer periods as he tramped through the forests gathering fruit and one morning she managed to elude him and to find some natives who were in the jungle searching for her. "The girl said the animal had not been unnecessarily brutal. She said he was at least eight feet tall and did not weigh less than 400 pounds. The girl of whom this story is told is one of the most wdely known in the United States. Her father is many times a millionaire." The social status of the gorilla is not set forth, but the Atchison genius next day was authority for the state ment that the girl's brother had de cided to make the matter an affair of honor, and will devote his life and fortune, or so much of it as is neces sary, to seeking the life of the amor ous ape. He expects to recognize the animal by two missing toes on its left foot The authors of the "Jungle Book." "Tarzan of the Apes." and the shade of Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote "The Murders in the Hue Morgue," are be leved to b looking with apprehensive eyes toward Atchison. In conclusion it might be said that the Globe was "called" by one of its readers, who pointed out that gorillas are not found in South Africa, but on the west and east coasts and central part of that continent. But. anyway, it makes a good "hot weather story." OSAKA SCHOOL HEAD HOME Principal of Commercial Training Institution Makes Flying Trip. EUGENE, Or., July 24. (Special.) Professor M. B. Madden, head of the Osaka Commercial Training school at Osaka. Japan, arrived in the city yes terday and has been a guest at the home of his relatives. Mr. and Mrs. R. McMurphey. He made the trip across the Pacific during the sum mer vacation for the purpose of plac ing his son in a good home in Port land, where the boy will take a course in the high school. Mr. Madden will leave for Japan by the steamer Empress of Russia Au gust 5. He telis of a flourishing school at Osaka, with an enrollment of 1200 pupils, the courses being en tirely confined to commercial lines. WOOD BACK IN MANILA Many Natives Want Independence With U. S. Protectorate. MANILA. P. I., July 24. After a trip through the Visayan islands members of the Wood-Forbes mission investigating conditions in the Phil ippines returned to Manila yesterday to spend a week before starting on ' the last leg of their journey through Mindanao and other southern Islands. At Cebu the mission separated for several days, meeting again at Baco lod, the capital of the province of Occidental N'egros, the chief sugar raising province of the Philippines. At several meetings held -in the province and at Cebu virtually all of the speakers advocated independence under United States protectorate. In the province of Occidental Ne gros many speakers devoted their entire remarks to a discussion of financial conditions and the difficulty of obtaining money with which to handle the sugar crop. Others advo vated independence under a protec torate. At Iloilo, the financial center of the sugar trade, the speakers were undecided in their opinions regarding independence. ITALIANS PLAN TO BUILD ERECTION' OF THREE-STORY STRUCTURE PROPOSED. Federation Vice-President Says Arrangements AVill Be Cora . pieted at Later Date. A three-story building to cost from J100.000 to 150,000 will be con structed on the southeast corner of Madison and Fourth streets this fall, accordi-rsr to P. Tusi, vice-president of the Italian federation here. A meet ing was held yesterday afternoon at St. Michael's hall to discuss the final plans, but owing to the fact that only about 90 per cent of the sub scribers to the new building were in attendance, the final arrangements were not completed. A meeting will be held the last Sunday in August, when the arrangements will be com pleted. About $40,000 of the required amount has already been subscribed voluntarily and little trouble is ex pected in raising the needed amount. The stock is limited to $1000 to each person. The plans for the building as they were discussed yesterday are for a three-story structure. On the ground floor will be four stores. The second floor will be made into a ball room, with a balcony as the third story. A stage will be constructed in the ball room, where entertainments and Italian productions will be staged. Articles of incorporation were filed Saturday, according to Mr. Tusi. The Italian federation was organ ized among the Italian residents of the city in 1916, and the plans for the building were started about two months ago. Italian marble will be used in its construction. BOY IS KILLED By TRUCK WHEEL RESTS OX YOUTH'S HEAD AS VEHICLE STOPS. Banks Lad Hurled Face Downward in Attempt to Climb to Top; Accident Shocks Driver. BANKS. Or., July 24. (Special.) Sam Maxwell, 11-year-old son of Will iam Maxwell, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon by a truck loaded with rock from the crusher. John Baker, driver of the truck, did not see the boy until after stopping: the ma chine. When he stopped one of the rear wheels stood on the boy's head. According- to the story of a man who was riding" horseback -just behind the truck at the time the accident happened, the driver had stopped to talk with someone he had met and had but just started on again. The boy had come up from behind the truck, he said, and tried to set on the moving vehicle. His hand failed to grasp the short hand-hold at the end of the seat and he was thrown to the ground face downward. The rear wheel struck the body above the hip, and rested on the head when the truck came to a stop. Will Baker, a brother of the driver, was on the seat of the truck along side his brother. Will sighted the boy and called to his brother to stop. Mr. Baker was credited with being a careful driver and the accident proved a severe shock to him. FIRE DAMAGE IS $3000 Coffee House at McCleary, AVash., Completely Destroyed. ABERDEEN, Wash.. July 24. (Spe cial.) Fire of unknown origin com pletely destroyed the Greek coffee house in the business section of Mc Cleary at 3 o'clock yesterday morn ing, entailing a loss of approximately $3000. When discovered the fire had gained such headway that the volun teer firemen could not save the build ing, but kept the flames from spread ing. The building was a story-and-a-half frame structure and was owned by James and George Lervos. The loss was covered by insurance. MEREDITH VISITS IDAHO Preparations Made to Place Xew York Settlers on Land. BOISE. Idaho, July 24. (Special.) E. T- Meredith, former secretary of agriculture and who was a member of President Wilson's cabinet, is in Idaho looking after his large land interests here. He is the owner of a large amount of land in the Buhl section, and this he is preparing for the New York settlers who are com ing overland to Idaho in a caravan. Frank Brown, secretary to Gov ernor Davis, this week inspected the lands, and said their location was ideal for the new settlers. Crews of men are at work preparing the lands. Tfead The Oresnian claspifipd ads. yi Cool for Post. Toast ies for breakfast or lunch Crisp, sweet, satisfy ing ready to serve with cream or milk Sold by grocers everywhere! WAR TO BE WAGED MPS Gasoline and Oil Short Meas ured in Kansas. FRAUD FOUND GENERAL Owners of Motor Vehicles Lose Thousands of Dollars Monthly Through Unfair Dealing. TOFEKA. July 18. (Special.) How much gasoline and oil have the motor car owners of Kansas been "gypped" through short measure in the last few years? Nobody knows. But the best stl rrrate obtainable through the state oil department indicates that they paid $45,000 in May alone for gasoline that never went into their cars. Ttve state department under direc tion of H. H. Motter, the new chief who took charge in April, began an investigation recently of the gasoline pumps at the retail stations of the state. Up to date only 124 pumps have been inspected, but 86 of the 124 were found to be delivering short measure to the customers. The short age varied from 12 cubic inches up to one pint, and even one quart on the gallon measure. Three Armls Made. Three arrests have been made by the department of retail dealers and the law will be tested on these cases. Arrests have been made only where there appeared to be willful intent to violate the law, by juggling with the pumps. In a majority of cases the retailers themselves were surprised at the revelation of short measure ment. They had purchased the pumps on the representation that they were correct, and, without hav ing them tested, began to pump gaso line into the tanks of motor cars of their customers. There never has been a test of the gasoline pumps made in Kansas. Heretofore the state oil department contented itself with inspecting oil and gasoline at the refinery and let ting it go at that. Motter conceived the idea of looking beyond what the retailer was getting. He found out. They practically all are getting "short changed" on gasoline. Three Gave Exact Measure. Some of the pumps were short to the amount of one quart on the gal lon delivery just 25 per cent. Only three of the 124 pumps in spected thus far have been found to be delivering the exact measure. Thirty-five of them were delivering a slight over-measure. The average loss on all the pumps shows a shortage of 2 per cent. Kan sas retailers sold in May 11,235.750 gallons of gasoline. The loss to the buyers that month would amount to 224.000 gallons. When it comes to oil for motor cars the condition is even worse than in the sale of gasoline. The loss on gasoline averages only 2 per cent. The loss to the consumer on oil amounts to 7.25 per cent. This is occasioned by the use of bottles rather than .he use of standard meas uring cans. A practice has. grown up . of .using beer bottles since prohibition went into effect for delivering lubricating oil to the motor engines. The bottles are practically all short measure. With lubricating oil selling to the motorcar owners at $1 a gallon the loss in the aggregate would be as tonishing. Short Bottle. Ued. In some cases the retailers have resorted to the use of "Virginia Dare" bottles for delivering the oil. One of these bottles filled with oil is emp tied into a motor car before the un suspecting eyes of the owner for one quart at 25 cents, and the owner drives away feeling that he has "oiled up.", But a "Virginia Dare" bottle holds only 24 ounces of oil. A quart of oil weighs 32 ounces short age 25 per cent. The department figures that the motorcar and truck drivers of, Kan sas were "short changed" to the amount of something like $68,000 in. May alone on oil through this process "Where we find dealers selling oil from bottles that are under measure ment." said Mr. Motter, "we will order an immediate arrest. We are inclined to be "more lenient In the matter of short-measure pumps, because pumps are mechanical devices and subject to become out of order. But bottles and cans are not subject to adjustment. The retailer must knowwhether or not his measuring vessels hold the amount of oil he is selling." In the case of arrests made because of "short-change" pumps it was found that by the device of fitting the pumps with larger pipes .than is neces sary the pipes will displace gasoline and at the same time make the pump register the required amount. Mr. Motter holds that the juggling process of enlarged pipes was not brought about through ignorance or neglect. Strict Rules in Future. "Now that the matter has received sufficient attention to give proper notice to retail dealers to have their pumps tested," Mr. Motter said, "we will not be so lenient hereafter when we find a dealer selling from a pump which gives short measure." Another disclosure made by the In vestigation is that the first man who drives up to pump in the morning, after it has been idle all night, and orders five gallons of gasoline, in variably loses from a quart to a half gallon on the 5-gallon purchase. The pumps are dry, and, even where the pump is fairly accurate,, the first cus tomer gets "soaked" for a shortage. "It is not that the retail dealers of 1 Kansas have been crooked," Mr. Mot ' ter said. "It is rather throuprh the Thought a Hot Day up KstT tea rjrfcyfcay. cSle '4 .. Electric Ranges Simplify Work and Guarantee Results Through simplicity of operation Electric Ranges reduce the art of cookery to a science easily understood even by a child. Automatic features, possible only in Electric cooking-, transform hours of labor into hours of leisure. Electrical cooking is clean, c6ol, economical and simple. We invite you to investigate the modern way of cooking. PORTLAND RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER CO. ELECTRIC STORES ELECTRIC BUILDING and FIRST AND ALDER STREETS neglect of the state to make these investigations and ascertain if the pumps are in working order. A retail dealer takes it for granted that his pump is all right when it is set up by the mechanics." Seek. Regulation of Pump. The state department is not mak ing the investigation in order to prosecute the dealer, but to prose cute and regulate the crooked pump. One or two instances have been found, it is said, of the working of a trick through the use of the at tractive glass pumps. The consumer likes to see the glass pump work. He gets so intent upon watching the gasoline in the glass, as it bubbles, that he fails to watch his gasoline task. If the man who works the pump desires, it is said, he can fill the pump with five gallons of gas. The owner wants ten gallons? All right. By turning a little valve the pump will close up the pump in the gasoline well and bring the five gal lons back from the motor car tank. The last five gallons pumped into the motor car is the first five that went into it. But thee has been no serious loss from this practice in Kansas. : n School Election Called. MORTON, Wash., July 24. (Spe cial) The board of directors of Mossyrock school district has called a special meeting for July 30 for the purpose of voting a special 4-mill ad ditional tax. The money will be used for school Improvements. The Mossy rock high school alumni are consider ing plans for the erection of a com munity building. Kqualization Board to Meet. KELSO. Wash., July 24. (Special.) The Cowlitz county board of equal ization, composed of Commissioners Albert Maurer, P. A. Parker and James Ferguson. W. M. McCoy, as sessor, and L. P. Brown, treasurer, will hold its first meeting to con sider complaints upon 1921 taxes Monday, August 1. ( Shoes Wear Out So Do BATTERIES Harper 03h Burg-Inc- NINTH AND EVERETT STREETS, "and seven conveniently located branches" Mrs. Erma Delinas Communicate with River News, Rio Vista, California. C. W. Flodin, publisher - W is f ills 1 WKaf is iro an a ARMY UNITS ME REDUCED FOURTH DIVISION CUT BELOW PEACE STRENGTH. Reduction Exceeded by More Than 3 0 Per Cent When Order Stop pins Discharges Received. TACOMA, Wash.. July 24. (Spe cial.) The Fourth division at Camp Lewis now numbers but 350S men, having lost 2109 soldiers by discharge since July 1. The division is 6637 under its authorized peace strength. There will be no more discharges from the Fourth division units, all hHvfnx lost more than 30 per cent of their enrolled strength on July 1. when the war department halted dis charges three days ago, except in or ganizations whose present strength is more than 70 per cent of their per sonnel on July 1. Soldiers will be discharged from camp commands net affiliated with the Fourth division. These discharges are being handled from 9th corps headquarters in San Francisco. When discharges were stopped, the division had released 424 men more than the 30 per cent prescribed. At present there are 414 soldiers formerly members of the 57th and 59th coast artillery regime: ts who are attached to the Fourth division. They were transferred out ot their former organizations pending action on their applications for release. What their status is has not been determined. In case their discharge's are withheld they will be absorbed by the Fourth division. The present enrollment of regimen tal commands in the di- ision fol lows: 59th infantry 620, 47th infantry 438, 39th infantry 432. 5Sth infantry 387. 77th field artillery-;??. 16th field When a pair of shoes wear out you have been notified in advance by the thinness of soles or crack ing of the uppers or some other easily recognized sign. But when a battery wears out you may be taken by surprise, because batteries often go strong until the last minute. The way and the nly way to cut trouble and worry and cost to the limit is to buy the best battery the Willard Threaded Kubber Battery. Its Threaded Rubber Insulation gives you the most miles of uninterrupted serv ice per dollar. artillery 380, 4th engineers 292. 4th medical regiment 147. The authorized peace strength of an infantry regiment is 1490. A f.eld ar tillery regiment is entitled to 1003 men and an engineer regiment to 710. The strength of a. medical regiment is 277. $1,176,000 Paid War Corporation. WASHINGTON". D. C, July 24. The July re-payment installment of $1, 276.000 on loans made last year to a group of backs to finance wheat ex ports to Belgium, has been received by the war finance corporation. The total advance was $11,229,000. Re payments now total $2,353,000. while $3,300,000 is due in August and Sep tember and must be paid In full by September, 1922. Farm Home Burns. CKNTRALIA. Wash.. July 24. (Special.) Fire of unknown' origin Friday destroyed the farm home of Robert Allbritton. north of Tenino. Practically none of the household contents was salvaged. Part of the loss is covered by insurance. 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