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K VOL. LX- NO. 18.958 Entered at Portland cOrejron) PoBtofftce as Second -Class Mttr. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1931 PRICE FIVE CENTS K BIBLE FALLS; 43 MEET DEATH 1 6 Yankees, 27 Britons Killed in Accident. ZR-2 DROPS INTO RIVER FOOD PRICES REDUCED BY LOCAL CAFETERIA Monster Airship Purchased by United States From England Is Wrecked. NAVAL CRAFT ON TEST TRIP Flight of 34 Hours Ends in Disaster 1000 Feet Over Humber Near Hull. HAM, EGGS JDfB POTATOES TO BE SOLD FOR 2 0 CENTS. Washington-Street Restaurant Man Says Pre-War Quotations Are Here to Stay. Ham and eggs, with potatoes, for 20 cents brought the echo of another price war to Portland. The proprietor of a dairy lunch on Washington street declared last night that the new price scheduled, -which is exactly the same as the charges for food were in his establishment in 1917, is here to stay. At 12 o'clock last night the new price schedule was inauguruated, with the result that breakfast dishes, such as bacon and eggs with potatoes, were being sold for 20 cents; two eggs cooked any style for 10 cents, pork chops for 15 cents and pork sausage with potatoes for 15 cents. The new schedule not only prevails In the breakfast dishes. Dinner and lunch specials will be sold at the same reduction. For Instance, the prices of foodstuffs for these meals will include roast beef at 10 cents, roast pprk and apple sauce at 15 cents, and roast veal with dressing 15 cents. Steaks have also met the price ax, and it is now possible to obtain them for from 15 cents for the small steaks to 4t cents for the special T-bone cuts. There has been a general reduction in restaurant prices in Portland with in the past few months, but the fig ures quoted yesterday were said to be the lowest since pre-war days. PERCE PACT WITH Tl SOLDIERS SAVE DEAD BUDDIES FROM FIRE 0 RIAISS GNED PIERS OF HOBOKEX ENVEL OPED IX $5,000,000 BLAZE. One With Germany Meets With Delay. Volunteers of 1 3th Infantry Per form Herculean Task In Res cuing 5 00 0 Bodies. TECHNICAL POINT IS RAISED HULL, England, Aug. 24. (By the Associated Press., Sixteen officers and men of the United States navy and 27 officers and men of the British navy met death today in the collapse of the great dirigible ZR-2 over the city of Hull. All except one of the Americans on board the ill-fated craft perished, as far as could be ascertained at mid night tonight. The surviving Amer ican is W. O. Walker of Commerce, Tex., who was burned badly. Only five men of the 49 who were making the trial trip in the dirigible prior to the vessel's being turned over to the United States navy are known to have been saved. The American officers who started the trip included Commander Louis H. Maxfield, Lieutenant-Commander Emory Coil, Lieutenant Henry W. Hoyt, Lieutenant Marcus' H. Esterly, Lieutenant-Commander Valentine N. Bieg and Lieutenant Charles G. Little. Eleven Enlisted Men Aboard. The American enlisted men who went up with the craft from Howden were: C. I. Aller, Robert Coons, L. E. Crowel, J. T. Hancock, William Julius, M. Lay, A. L. Loftin, A. I. Pettit, W. J. Steele, N. O. Walker and George Welsh. The British losses include the fa mous air veteran, Brigadier-General E. M. Maitland, and all the other of ficers on board except Lieutenant Wann, the commander of the ZR-2. Starting from Howden Tuesday morning on a test flight to Pulham, the big aircraft had been afloat for 34 hours, at times in bad weather, and was returning to the Pulham airdrome at the time of the disaster, which constitutes the most terrible . r i J a; i x us Kinu. in peace umes. j Secretary ine sister snip oi tne la-i mous R-34, the first dirigible to J cross the Atlantic, was on her final EXCHANGE BILL ENACTED Dresel Asks Permission Query Washington." to RULING TO BE REQUESTED Amendment to Law Exempting Homesteads From Debts Also Wins. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, D. C, Aug. 24. Bills providing for the exchange of lands in the Deschutes national forest of Oregon and the Rainier national for est of Washington were put through the ho.use today by Representative SinnotU The legislation permits the government to consolidate its. hold ings in a compact body by changing other lands outside the forest for privately owned lands within these two reserves. Mr. Sinnott obtained also the pass age of a bill amending the law ex empting 160-acre homesteads from judgments for debts contracted be fore the Issuance of patent so that the same exemption is granted to the 320-acre and 640-acre enlarged homesteads. LAND OFFICE JOBS FILLED Seven Candidates for Oregon Nom inated by President. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, D. C, Aug. 24. Seven of the candidates recommended last week by Senators McNary and Stan field for land office positions in Ore gon were nominated by the president today, as follows: La Grande Carl G. Helm, register; John H. Peare, receiver. The Dalles James W. Donnelly, register; Thomas C. Queen, receiver. Roseburg Fred W. Haynes, re ceiver. Burns James J. Donegan, receiver, Lakeview Frank P. Light, register. i Harry J. McDiarmid was nominated today for postmaster at Bandon, Or, and Ross R. Cain for. Postmaster at Crane. Technicality Does Xot Involve Con tents of Treaty Governments in Accord' on Official Text.' VIENNA, Aug. 24. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The treaty of peace between the United States and Aus tria was signed here this afternoon, Arthur Hugh Frazier, American com mlssioner in Vienna, acting for the Washington government. Such expedition and secrecy attend ed the preliminary Negotiations and today's simple ceremony that the late newspapers today furnished the first news that the United States and Aus tria no longer were even technical enemies. The terms of the treaty are being withheld for the present. It is un derstood that the government does not desire public discussion of the treaty pending its ratification by the foreign affairs committee of the par liament. The committee will meet Saturday to prepare the ratification of the treaty for consideration by par liament when It reassembles. Ceremony "Without Formality. The ceremony of signature was de void of formality. Mr. Frazier, accompanied by Secre tary Shoecraft, arrived at the foreign office at 12:57 o'clock this afternoon They went Immediately to the chan cellor's bureau, where they were re ceived by Chancellor Schober and few other officials. The documen was In readiness and was signed at once. A brief and informal exchange of congratulations followed, Mr. Frazle saying the occasion marked a vital step in the restoration of peace and expressing the hope that it would have a great moral as well as ma terial effect , upon Austria. Chan cellor Schober, with ill-concealed emotion, voiced deep gratification upon the restoration of relations with the United States. FALL BACKS PARK CHANGE BIG EXPORT FINANCE DEALS NEAR FINISH EARLY MOVEMENT OF FARM PRODUCE ASSURED. JAPAN WELCOMES E TO War Finance Corporation Reports Negotiations Involving Nearly $20,000,000 About Closed. BERLIN. Aug. 24. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The peace treaty be tween the United States and Germany NEW TORK, Aug. 24. (Special.) Bodies of 5000 American soldiers who died in France, ranged in rows on pier '4, Hoboken. narrowly escaped cremation tonight In a fire that de stroyed piers 5 and 6, threatened for a time to consume other piers and to spread Into the city of Hoboken. The steamship Leviathan, moored at pier 4. was in danger for a time, but was saved by flreboats. Piers 4, 5 and were used by the army transport service. . No accurate estimate of the loss has been made, but it will run somewheie between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000. Five hundred volunteers, recruited by Major Garrison, in command of the 13th infantry. almost Immediately after the discovery of the fire, moved 500 bodies in less than an hour to places of safety on piers 2 and 3, op erated by the United States Mail Steamship company. These men worked under great dif ficulties and in danger of their lives Swept by .waves of heat Intense enough to break adjacent windows and at least handicapped by the Ho boken City lighting, they never fal tered until their task was finished. Each of the bodies of the American heroes, brought home, for burial "with military honors, was in a lead coffin. this in turn being In a rough wooden box. The combined weight of each of the wooden and leaden boxes was 650 Dounds. which made the removal of the bodies a herculean task. Not only did the Hoboken lighting system fail in the emergency but Just when the peril to the city itself from the waterfront blaze seemed most Im minent, the water aupply proved un equal to the demands upon it. Except for the presence at the scene of the flreboats William L. Strong, the New Torker and James Duane of the New York city fire department. It is doubtful if the blazecould have been controlled. These boats not only fought the flames from the river side but also supplied water for the land engines. The fire was discovered at 6:30 o'clock and was reported under con trol at 9 o'clock, with all danger to the Leviathan and to the buildings In the Hoboken waterfront and to the other piers at an end. " The most serious damage from the fire was the destruct'on of the army transport headquarters building, which incluuded the barracks of companies C and D of the 13th infantry, the can teen, the guardhouse, the postoffices, the machine shop and other depart ments. About 20 prisoners were taken from the guardhouse to the Hoboken city hall. Only one man was injured in the fire. He was James Mclntyre of en gine company No. 6, Hoboken. As h was opening a hand fire extenguishe It exploded, burning his hands se verely. He was removed to the Ho boken city hospital. WASHINGTON. D. C Aug. 24. Negotiations for advances to finance agricultural products for export sales (Concluded on Page 2. Column 1.) SALEM, The body Or, , Aug. of Leslie 24 (Special.) Tooze. who was (Concluded on Page Column 2.) nvolving approximately 320.000,000 are nearlng completion, tne war finance corporation announced to day. Final action on seven transactions will be taken within a few days, the corporation added. The seven prop ositions are: . Oklahoma Cotton Growers' assocla tion. 200.000 bales of cotton; Texas Farm Bureau association, 300.000 bales of cotton; California Prune and Apricot Growers, Inc., ' 25,000,000 pounds of prunes; Washington Wheat Growers' association, 8.000,000 bush els of wheat; Idaho Wheat Growers' association. 2.000.000 bushels of wheat; Oregon Co-operative Grain association.- 2,000,000 bushels of wheat. and the Montana Wheat Growers' a sociation, 1,500,000 bushels of wheat. A complete agreement on terms of the agricultural exports credits bill, which has been in controversy be tween he house and senate, was reached today by conferees. : The dis agreement, outside of the controversy over the anti-beer bill, was one of the principal obstacles to the recess pro vislonally 'arranged for congress. The measure as agreed to empowers the war finance corporation to issue $1,500,000,000 in its own bonds and to lend $1,000,000,000 for financing gricultural exports. The house re fused to agree to senate provisions which would allow the corporation to lend directly to European purchasers of the commodities, but the com promise will allow the finance cor poration to lend to .anybody, provided satisfactory collateral Is furnished to it for the sums advanced. The extra $500,000,000 of war finance corporation securities au thorized by the bill, it is expected, will be sold and the money utilized for purchase of railroad securities. Conferees' also agreed to eliminate the senate provision allowing the war finance corporation to lend $200,000. 000 to the federal farm land bank. LOGGER KILLED BY AUTO While Being Cranked, Car Throws Victim Against Wall. SALEM,. Or., Aug. 24. (Special.) W. O. Wilson, employe of the Foster Lumber company at a camp on the Big Duckismute river, near Hoskins, was fatally injured today by being thrown against the side of a garage by an automobile which he was cranking. The injured man was attended by an Independence physician, but died while being brought to a Salem hos pital. Wilson is survived by his widow and a child. The funeral services will be held in Salem, where Wilson resided prior to accepting employment with the lumber company. MOV DISARM nvitation to Join in Con ference Accepted. HARDING'S INITIATIVE LAUDED ALBERS' WILL FAVORS NEPHEWS AND NIECES 150 SHARES EACH OF STOCK IN MILL ARE BEQUEATHED. CONGRESS KNOCKS Heavy Burden of Armament on World Recognized. FRIENDSHIP IS INVITED Hope Is Expressed Agenda Will Be Agreed On Prior to Sessions to Insure Harmony. WHEN MAN BEGINS TO THINK HE HAS CONQUERED THE ELEMENTS. (Snftrlal 1 Spirtarv will ica. uiji pnui w ucni owwicu uy i upon congress the Inclusion of "Dla- to Lrge Inclusion of Diamond Lake In Crater Area. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Aug. 24. urge the United States navy and taken across the Atlantic by an American crew especially trained for that pur pose. She was 695 feet long and was built to carry a crew of 30. Her speed was estimated at 70 miles an hour. The American navy was to pay $2,000,000 for the craft. 1000-Foot Plunge Taken." While flying at about 1000 feet over Hull, spectators saw the ZR-2 seemingly buckle amidships and plunge downward over the city and into the Humber river. One theory of the cause of the disaster is that, while the ship's rudders were being tested, the giant craft took a sharp turn, which caused her framework to buckle, and that the explosion of a gasoline tank completed the tragedy of the air. The actual cause, however, may never be known. A rumor had been afloat for some days that the ZR-2 mond lake in the Crater lake national park upon his return to Washington, according to T. L. Slanley, secretary of the chamber of commerce, Just re turned from accompanying the Fall party to Crater lake. Stanley stated Secretary Fall said he would approve annexation in conformance with the terms of the pending McNary bill. Secretary Fall's party planned to leave Crater lake this morning fol Medford, where E. O. McCormick's private car will be waiting to take them to Portland. ROBBERY BIT THEATRICAL Loaded Rifle, Jerked From Clerk Used in Two Holdups. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24. Will iam Meyers, 26 years old. Jerked a loaded rifle away from a clerk who was demonstrating the weapon to day, lined the clerk up against the wall and disappeared with the rifle, according to the police. Later he held up the proprietor of a pawnshop at the point of the rifle, was structurally weak, but this was j took $8.60 in antique coins from a stoutly denied by all in authority. . Tens of thousands of spectators saw several men climb outside the balloon and drop from the falling mass, which was enveloped in smoke, and others jump into the Humber as the crippled craft came over the water. As the dirigible struck, the wreckage above the water was burn ing and there was slight chance for any of the men caught inside to escape. Rescue Is Prompt. " Tugs immediately put out into the stream and brought ashore sur vivors, who were taken in ambu lances to hospitals. Amoag these was the American (Concluded ea Page 4, Column 1.) tray in the window, fired a shot at the proprietor as the latter dashed out the door and then was disarmed by a policeman after a hand-to-hand struggle. A charge of attempted rob. bery was placed against him. EX-SUGAR REFINER DEAD William Frazier, 82, Passes Anaj . at Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 24. Will iam Frazier, 82, widely known sugar refiner and head of a family long prominent in the financial and social affairs of this city, died today at his home here. Death was attributed to the infirmities of age. Mr. Frazier was head of the Frank lin sugar, refinery until his retire ment from active business several years ago.' i....................................... ........... .... i WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 84. Japan's "hearty and appreciative" ac ceptance of President Harding's invi tation to participate in the Washing ton . disarmament and far eastern conferences was expressed In a note received at the state department today from the Japanese minister of foreign affairs. The Japanese government, in ac cepting the invitation, however, ex presses the hope that the agenda of the far eastern conference would be arranged prior to the meeting, in accordance with its suggestion that matters concerning only a few na tions, or which are accomplished facts, not be brought into the discus sions. Japan Lands Harding:. The text of the Japanese note in part follows: "In communicating to you for trans mission to the president the hearty and appreciative gratitude for this in vitation by the Japanese government. I would ask you to be good enough In the first place to say to Mr. Harding with what pleasure the government sees him take the initiative in this all-important matter. His great of fice, the pacific traditions of your republic, and his own high personal qualifications Invest his act with a personal appropriateness which must be universally felt and recognised The peace of the world has long been a chronlo object of solicitude to the Japanese government people. That attitude has not remained a Platonic policy it has followed out in action. It results naturally from this Pacific attitude toward world problems, that government and people alike shoifld welcome the idea of the limitation of armaments and the removal of the deadening burden on industry and cultural development which swollen and competitive armaments create. Hopes For Success Spoken. "This government is also com pletely sympathetic to the valuable suggestion advanced in your note. that it may well be desirable that the use of novel agencies of warfare should be controlled. "The discussion and removal of any causes of misunderstanding which exist, and the arrival at an eventual agreement with regard to general principles and their application which will insure friendship and good mu tual understanding between the na tions are regarded as of great value and importance. My government would emphasize the pre-eminently vital interest which Japan has in the preservation of the peace of the Pa cific and the Far East. She has de voted her utmost efforts toward se curing its permanence and Its main tenance might well be to her a matter of prime concern. She therefore finds it accords entirely with her inmost desires to reach in conference a measure of understanding which shall Insure peace being placed once for all upon a ptrmapeni oaiii in tneee re gions. It is earnestly hoped, there fore. In Japan that the conference will secure really useful results and prove a practical success. Harmony Is Sought. '"The Japanese government gladly concurs in the proposal of the United States that the scope of the discussion or Pacific and far eastern problems shall be made the subjects for a free exchange of views prior to the as sembly of the conference. They hope that the agenda of the conference will in this way be arranged in har mony with the suggestions made in the memorandum of the Japanese ministry of foreign affairs of July 26, 1921. bearing on the same subject, in order that the labors of the con ference may meet speedily with the fullest measure of successful achieve ment. "The undersigned cannot conclude without again expressing the thor ough and hearty sympathy of his government with the thesis so clearly and Justly stated In your note, ot the crushing encumbrance and men ace which modern armaments pre sent to civilization. No effort can be too unremitting to reduce that men ace and encumbrance. In the full consciousness of this fact, the ini tiative of the president of the United States is warmly welcomed and deeply appreciated, and I would ask you so to assure the president," Postmaster Tests Ordered. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, D. C. Aug. 24. The ciivl service commission was request ed by the postoffice department today to arrange examinations for the selection of postmasters at Cen tral Point. Enterprise. Falls City, Glendale. Lebanon, Mill City, New berg, Salem, Springfield, Wasco, Weston and Woodburn, in Oregon, Sister Receives All Insurance Money No Intimation Given as to Size of Estate. OREGON CITT, Or., Aug. 2. (Spe cial.) The bulk of the estate of Henry J. Albers, wealthy miller who died at his home in Milwaukie re cently, is left to his nephews and nieces, according to the will filed for probate in Clackamas county court today. Nephews and nieces who receive 150 shares each of stock in the Albers Bros. Milling company are: Agnes. Theresia, Hermena, Bernard. Alfred and Ernest Albers; Anna, Frank and Theresia Terheyden. Mrs. Anna A. Terheyden. Albers sister, receives all life insurance money. A bequest of $2500 in cash is made to St. Joseph's Catholic church of Portland. The remainder of the .estate is divided equally among the children of Albers' three brothers Frank, George and William. Executors of the estate are William and Frank Albers and Dr. Ernst A. Sommer of Portland. J. E. Hedges, James Lobbett and Clyde G. Huntley were appointed appraisers. No intimation was given as to the size of the estate. Henry Albers" death followed a breakdown attributed to espionage charges brought against him. OFF FOR 30 DAYS Recess Until September 21'AgreedOn. ACTION ON BEER POSTPONED House Not to Resume Work Till October 31. PRESIDENT AT CAPITOL WEST-BOUND FREIGHT CUT Lower Rates on Many Manufac tured Articles Announced. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24. Reduc tions in westbound freight rates, ranging as high as 45 per cent, have been declared by the transcontinental rail carriers for hundreds of manu factured articles, including all types of furniture. G. W. Luce, freight traf fic manager of the Southern Pacific company, announced today. The new rates become operative October 3. The rates are on shipments origi nating east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers The reductions are intended to meet water competition. Luce said. Reduced eastbound rates were an nounced yesterday on several classes of foodstuffs and other commodities to become effective on the same date. NEW BRITISH BOND' URGED Imperial' Constitution Xecessary Declares Lord Mllncr. LONDON. Aug. 24. An imperial constitution, which would include within its scope the United Kingdom and all British dominions, is neces sary, declared Lord Milner. formerly colonial secretary, speaking last night at a farewell dinner given in honor of Premier Massey of New Zealand, who sails for home Thursday. . Lord Milner added that a constitu tion in some form would become ab solutely Inevitable. He said it might not be a written document, but that it certainly should be something more tangible than the present agreement VIRGINIANS UNDER ARMS Shipping Board Deficiency Bill Is Signed, Also Expense Provision for Coming Conference. WASHINGTON. D. C, Aug. 24. Congress put aside its work tonight for 30 days after a determined fight against the anti-beer bill had forced those in charge of It to withdraw it for action by tlte senate next fall. Prohibition leaders early In the night abandoned their effort to hold up the recess until it had been passed, falling even to obtain an agreement fixing a date for a vote on it by the senate after congress reassembles next month. Senators opposing the bill because of the provision which would subject 11 of a man's property except his home to search for liquor without a warrant held the floor until its man agers saw no hope of a vote, and had it laid aside. Announcement of adoption by the house of the recess resolution was made to the senate while Senator Stanley, democrat, Kentucky, was In the midst of a speech attacking pro visions of the anti-beer bill. After It had been laid aside temporarily sena tors opposing it were on guard to see that It was not called up again in an attempt to obtain a quick vote. President Harding arrived at his office at the capitol while the debate on a bill for a three months' exten sion of the dye embargo was under way ready to sign bills. Among the first to be signed was the shipping board deficiency bill, with an amend ment carrying 1200,000 for expenses of the disarmament conference. Objection by democrats prevented senate consideration of a bill passed by the house imposing a duty of 90 per cent on war supplies sold by the government In France and shipped back to this country. The recess extends to September 21. The senate ended its work at 11:35 o'clock and the house at' 11:58 o'clock. The senate is expected to resume work upon reconvening, but Repre sentative Mon.deIl, the republican leader, obtained an agreement to have the house declare three-day recesses from September 21 to October 31. LEGION BARS ATTORNEY Invaders Reported to Be Headed for City of Logan. HUNTINGTON. W. Va Aug. 25 All citizens of Logan. Logan county, were called to arms at 2 o'clock this morning by Sheriff Don Chafin to repel a threatened invasion of armed men, according to inrormation tele phoned here by Wirt Stone, manager of a telegraph office at Logan. Stone said that an armed band was reported to have reached Jeffries, W. Va., across Coal river from Logan. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Highest temperature, 74 degrees; lowest, 55. TODAY'S Fair, westerly winds. Foreign. Dirigible falls'. 44 meet death. Pan 1. Datl 1 expected to reject terms. Page 3. Peace treaty with Austria signed. Page 1 Gas leak thought cause of disaster. Page 5. National. Deals for export ot farm products tnvolv ing millions about closed. Page 1. Things are breaking handsomely for Presi dent Harding, says umvan. ran e. McAdoo opposes rail funding bill. Page 3. Japan welcomes move to disarm. Page 1, Congress decides to take recess until Sep tember 21. Page 1. Domestic Organized women workers demand equality In union organizations. Page 2. Piers of Hoboken afire. Page 1. Two Oregonlans butt in wreck. Page 2. Taclfle Northwest. Will of Henry Albers favors nephews and nieces. Page 1. Telephone rate rehearing to be concluded today or tomorrow. Page 14. Southwest Washington fair Is well at tended. Page 14. Value of Columbia river salmon pack la.OOO.OOO less than last year's. Page 20. Oregon public service commission hears protest against Columbia highway pole line. Paga 7. Sports. Pacific Coast league results: At San Fran cisco, Portland 15, Oakland 8: at Los Angeles. Vernon 10. Seattle 8; at Sacra mento 0. San Francisco 5; at Salt Lake 7, Los Angeles 9. Page 12. Playground tennis favorites are victors. Page 12. Gearhart golf tourney under way. page 13. Job of matchmaker still left open. Page 12. Commercial and Marine. Bids for northwestern wheat advanced. Page 21. Export buying lifts Chicago grain mar ket. Page 21. Official recommends elimination of Ad miral line from Portland-orient service. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Mayor opposes giving water to land boom districts at city's expense. Page 10. Food prices reduced by local cafeteria Page 1. Swica minister entertained at Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Page 6. Aged workman found murdered In "Jun , glea" near Troutdale, Page 10 Ex-Assistant .Federal Prosecutor Involved in Election Forgery. SAN JOSE. Cal., Aug. 24. The state executive committee of the California department of the Ameri can Legion today recommended to the convention being held here that Thomas L. Lennon, ex-assistant United States district attorney at San Francisco be not admitted to legion membership in California. The convention accepted the report. The action was taken in connec tion with a telegram, alleged forged, sent from Chicago to San Francisco, withdrawing the name of a candidate, for office in the San Francisco post. The executive committee in re porting its investigation said E. F. Ridgeway .f San Francisco was equally implicated with Lennon in the episode. Xew Cotton Rute Aids Coast. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24. A re duction of freight rates on compressed cotton in carload lots from 11.50 a hundred pounds to 31.35 from Chicago and points west to Pacific coastports for export was announced today by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Ft Railroad company. Tne reduction will tend to divert shipments for the far east from gulf ports to Pacific coast ports, according to the company. THE STORY OF LULU BETT. Lulu Bett was a drudge. She made her home with her relatives but in no real sense did they make a home for her. Out of the situation grew the tragedy of a woman's life. But in the end Lulu found herself and rose above her circum stances. "Miss Lulu Bett," the novel by Zona Gale, will be pub lished in The Sunday Orego nian. The first installment will appear next Sunday. Read it and you will miss none of the subsequent installments. Ib is one of the big books of the year. 4