TIIF MOTtXING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1021 FINAL RAIL CLAIMS TOTAL $243142,061 Report Is Made to Senate by Director Davis. $152,380,000 IS AVAILABLE Much Larger Sums for t'sc in Set tlement Held In Securities. Detailed Data Refused. WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 12 Tfnnl nuvmpnln tn r-iiilrnnriH hv the . . . . j -- - - government on claims and adjust") ments arising out of war-time con trol are estimated to require I24J, 042,060, according to a report sent by Director-General of Railroads Davis to the senate today in response to a resolution Introduced by Senator La Follette, republican, Wisconsin. He raid that the aumlnistration had available cash credits with the treas ury of $152,380,000 for use in the set tlements and likewise holds much larger sums in securities. He refused to report on a section of the resolu tion which requested details and Items of the settlements made with the individual roads. "It is submitted that presenting the Information asked for would hinder and delay the progress of the work of the railroad administration." the report said. Lump Sam Explained. The director-general explained the "lump sum" payments had been made the roads, after agreements had been reached with the owning corporations with giving notice of the govern ment's estimates on each disputed Item to avoid "wrangles of compari son" with the officers of other roads seeking to settle their claims. From its institution In 1918 to De cember 1, Mr. Davis said, the central railroad administration had received 12. 478, 872.520, this being exclusive of the revenues of the railroads through their own offices. Millions Spent on Equipment. Direct appropriations of congress accounted for SI, 750,000,000 of the central fund, and some $800,000,000 was the total of working capital ob tained in taking over the companies. In addtlon the war department paid 3221,705,000 to the administration for transportation, the navy 111,359,000 and the postoffice 365.575.000. The government spent for additions and betterments on the roads during the control period 31,144.681.581, the report estimated, of which 3381,649, 497 was for new equipment. STUDENTS TO GIVE PLAY "The Twig or Thorn" Scheduled at Willamette University Tonight. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY. Salem, Or.. Dec. 12. (Special.) "The Twig of Thorn," a play by Marie Warrem, will be staged in the university chapel Tuesday night, according to an announcement today by Professor Minna Harding of the public speaking department. About the story, which is a simple Irish tale, is woven much Gaelic imagery and poetic fancy. Miss Martha Mallory of Portland will take the lead while Virgil Anderson of Salem will support her. Practice has been held for nearly a month on Henrlk Ibsen's classic, 'The Doll's House." This play will be staged immediately after the holi days. Miss Lucille Tucker of Salem, a senior in public speaking, is star ring while Roy Skeen plays opposite her. STILL AND TWO TAKEN Complete Outfit Is Found in Farm Home Near Vancouver. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Dec. 12 (Special.) Mrs. Cecelia Candiana and Frank Newhouse, living on her place near the Main street road two miles east of the city, were arrested today on a charge of manufacturing liquor. Sheriff Thompson and deputies found four gallons of finished product. 80 gallons of raisin mash, a good copper tll of eight gallons capacity, and other necessary paraphernalia for making illicit liquor. Newhouse said he had been making liquor for only two months, but it Is believed by the sheriff he had been at It much longer. A new car and one about a year old were found at the farm home. The house was luxurious ly furnished. Mrs. Candiana owns the property, which Is worth several thousand dollars. Both were released on cash hail. W00DBURN BOY ACCUSED Jjad Charged With Contributing to Delinquency of Girl. WOODBITRN. Or., Dec. 12. (Spe cial.) Arthur Peterson of Woodburn, aged 17, had a preliminary hearing in Justice McCord's court today on the charge of contributing to the de linquency of a girl and the case was transferred to the juvenile court at Salem. He bought a ticket and ac companied Amelia Van Damme, aged 13. to Portland. Roth said they went to look for work. When night came he offered to get the girl a room at a hotel, but de cided to take her to her sister's home In that city. While there he wrote a postal to his mother, with the girl standing by his side, saying, "Say hello to Amelia." LINN TO INTRODUCE BILL People of County Would Redeem Outstanding Warrants. SALEM. Or., Dec. 12. (Special.) Edward Cuslck. Albany banker and member of Governor Olcott's high way legislation committee, today said that the people of Linn county prob ably would Introduce a bill in the legislature during the special session providing for redeeming outstanding warrants for approximately 3250,000. The legislation, if accepted by th legislature, will be in the form of a constitutional amendment, and will have to be submitted to the voters at a special or general election for ap proval. HARVEY McCAIN VICTOR Willamette Graduate Numed C. S. Attorney in Alaska Division. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY. Sa lem, Or., Dec. 12. (Special.) Word has been received here that Harvey G McCain, graduate in the class of 1912, has been appointed United States at- torney for the third division of Alaska. He will be stationed at Valdez. While a, student at Willamette, Mr. McCain was prominent in athletics, forenslcs and other student activi ties. He represented the university on several occasions as Intercollegiate prohibition orator, winning the state championship one year. He was unan imously elected president of the stu dent body In 1912. The appointment of Mr. McCain is said to have come as the climax of a dramatic political fight in Alaska As president of the republican or ganization at Anchorage, Mr. McCain was chosen to preside at a mass meet ing held in honor of the new governor of Alaska, Scott C. Bone, on his recent visit to that place. BERRY GROWERS TO MEET OHEGOX IXTKKESTS TO HOLD FIKST ANNUAL SESSION. Productlon and Marketing Will Be Discussed by Experts at State Conference. SALEM, Or., Dec. 12. (Special.) In their first annual conference the berry growers of the state will meet at Salem. December 20. 21 and 22. The programme is being arranged by the Ur-gon orowers uo-operative asso ciation and the meetings will be in its offices. Leaders in berry production and marketing will speak on the latest developments in the industry. Speak ers from outside of the state are in cluded on the programme and ex perts from different branches of the Oregon experiment station will give information on berry culture and dis ease control. The meetings will be rounded out with talks by successful growers. J. L Stahl. horticulturist of the western Washington experiment sta tion, will talk on berry culture tn the famous Puyallup valley of Wash ington, and C. D. Bill, manager of the Sebastopol Berry Growers' asso ciation of California, will tell of the experiences of the California asso ciation in marketing the berry crop of that state. Dr. Zoller of the Oregon experiment station will describe the newly dis covered methods of controling die back of loganberries, which caused such great losses during some sea sons, and a number of interesting speakers from the Oregon Agricultu ral college will speak. LEAGUE INVITES PUBLIC Hydro-Electric Men Ask All in State to Share Activities. With the exposition of 1925 in dorsed by a four-to-one vote by Port land and ready for submission to the voters of the state within a few weeks for final ratification, the Co lumbia Hydro-Electric league, the or ganization which conceived this project, is inviting the co-operation of the citizens of the state in its ac tivities. Technical knowledge is not essential to membership in the league. Applications for membership may be addressed to the secretary of the league, 305 Oregon building. The purpose of the Columbia Hydro Electric league, through the expo sition, is to develop the resources of Oregon through the harnessing of natural water power, now dormant throughout the state, for power and irrigation. 0BERG H0ME SEARCHED Sheriff Looks for Liquor in House of Recant Candidate. VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec 12. (Spe cial.) The home of Axel C. Oberg, candidate for sheriff in the republican primaries last year, was searched by Sheriff Thompson yesterday. The sheriff was looking for liquor and found but a half pint of moonshine in a pint bottle. Oberg said this was being kept for medicinal use. No arrest was made. Mr. Oberg wanted it to be known that no great amount of liquor was found in his home. Though Sheriff Thompson is a democrat, the only one to be elected at the last general elec tion in this county, Mr. Oberg said that he will vote for him at the. next election. If he runs. Gaston to Have Big Tree. GASTON. Or.. Dec. 12. (Special.) Gaston is to have a community Christ mas tree Friday night, preceding Christmas, at the school house. The main attraction will be a gorgeous twinkling tree tn the big assembly hall, loaded down with all kinds of goodies for the children and there need be no child in the whole district to go without its hand full of goodies and a joyful evening of festivity and gladness. The programme will be In charge of the teachers of the public school and the Congregational Sunday school and the committees on prep arations for the affair include nearly every family in town In one capacity or another Rev. Mr. Butler, pastor of the Congregational church. Is gen eral chairman. Students Build Balconies. Students at Union high school No. 2 at uresnam nave oeen woraing me last rew days on swinging balconies school was built adequate facilities lor speuLiiiuiM .it ine Kuiuen were over looked. The school board has offered tn ftifnloh tha malirlal it lh ..11.-, body will do the work. Work also is being done on atapeiton .Held tn preparation for a baseball diamond and tennis courts. Read The Oregonian c.assified ads. Mr. Arthur Moore Tells How Cuticura Healed Pimples "I had pimples scattered all over my lace. They were hard and red. and later festered and scaled over. They itched and burned and disfigured my face, besides being painful. I tried other remedies with out success. Then I tried Cuticura Soap and Ointment and used one cake of Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and I was healed in two weeks." (Signed) Arthur A. Moore, Oak Ridge, Mo. Once dear keep your skin clear by using Cuticura Soap and Oint ment for every -day toilet purposes and Cuticura Talcum to powder and perfume. Bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Before bathing, touch pimples and itching, if any, with Cuticura Ointment, dry and dust lightly with Cuticura Talcum, a pow der of fsicmsting fragrance. lupklMtllaWlfaltANmi:''l)UlmUk. onuclii, Dap. aysTlMlli 41 . Mm '' Soadaaarr whara. Soaattr Otatmaat Hand Me. TWewa 2fe. JSSS Cutw: ura Soap abmv DRAINAGE SESSION OPEN DECEMBER 28 Big Programme Arranged for Corvallis Meeting. MANY PROBLEMS VIEWED New Economical Method of Con 6tructing Ditches by Sluicing Is to Be Described. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallis, Dec. 12. (Special.) Officers of the Oregon State Drain age association have fixed December 28 as the date of their annual meet ing at Corvallis. This comes on Wednesday of farmers' week and will afford opportunity to hear other lec tures of Interest and to Inspect drain age experiment fields on the college farm. A strong programme Is being ar ranged. Arthur McPhllllps, president of the United States National bank of McMinnville, will give his experience with 40 miles of tiling he has in stalled. A new economical method of building ditches by sluicing will be described by W. W. Johnston of the soils department. Professor O. W. Israelsen. head of the irrigation and drainage depart ment of the Utah Agricultural col lege, will discuss drainage of irri gated land. Percy Cupper, state engineer, will speak on operation of the district drainage laws, and P. F. Honshaw, hydraulic engineer of the United States geology survey, will report on run-off studies in Willamette valley. Others to Take Part. Others expected to take part in the programme are L. H. Jess-up, drain age engineer of the United States de partment of agriculture; Senator Charles Hall, president of the state chamber of commerce: Samuel H. Brown, president of the drainage association, and W. L. Powers, chief soils for the college and experi ment station. With the improved labor market and cheaper materials the time seems ripe for great Increase in drainage ctivities. Six districts in Willamette valley are petitioning for district for mation at present. Some of these plan to do the ditching work them selves with the aid of steel V ditch ers drawn by tractors, and fresno scrapers, supplemented by sluicing. Providing outlets will stimulate ac tivity in tiling. One-third of Wil lamette valley requires drainage and half this area requires outlet ditches if tiling is to be done. V. S. Help Is Proposed. The new McNary reclamation bill will extend the help of the United States reclamation to drainage dis tricts on raw alkali or marsh land as in lake basins or south central Oregon, or the lower Columbia or any feasible projects that lack initial bor rowing power from present land value to finance themselves. The drainage association has Indorsed earlier drafts of the McNary bill and It will be considered with Interest at the coming session. 'The coming congress should be of great interest to wet land owners, drainage engineers, commissioners. attorneys, bond brokers, contractors: county agents and public health offi cials," said Professor Powers. "It is especially for community improvement clubs and directors of drainage dis tricts having their problems before them. Every drainage district in Ore gon would do well to have delegates present." The annual drainage banquet will be held December 28. Those inter ested have been asked to notify W. L Powers, secretary of the stats drainage association at Corvallis, as to who will represent their com munity. FARMERS TO MEET TODAY Nearly 500 Producers Expected at Oregon City Conference. nRTinoM rrrv Or r is CRnA- clal.) The first annual farmers' week to be held in Clackamas county will open tomorrow. Nearly 500 farmers are expected to attend the sessions in Moose hall. The first day's pro gramme will deal primarily with poultry. At the opening session at 10 o'clock. H. E. Cosby, extension specialist of Oregon Agricultural college, will speak on "Poultry Parasites and Their What to Take for CONSTIPATION jjTake m Take a gooddoseof Carter's little Liver Pills IITTLE PILL Genuine hear Never say "Aspirin" without saying "Bayer." WARNING! Unless you see name "Bayer" on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 21 years and proved safe by milions for Colds Headache Rheumatism Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain Accept only "Bayer" package which contains proper directions. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets Bottles of 24 and 100 All druggists. Aspuiu Is tie trade mark of Bayer Uuuftctare of McaoaoeUcaddester of SalicyllcacM Control." Lunch will be served for the visitors at noon and at 1:15 R E. Sheriff of the Pacific Co-operative Producers' association will speak on the work of his organization. At 2 o'clock the Producers' Co-operative Supply company and Its value to the dairymen of the Willamette valley will be discussed by C. S. Whit- more. Following this discussion Mr Cosby will speak on the activity of tlte farm bureau in its relation to noultry producers. J. E. Larson, formerly of Oregon Agricultural college and now manager of the potato department of the Washington Growers' Packing cor poration, is to speak Wednesday. A. H. Lea of the Oregon Grain Growers is also on the Wednesday programme. On Friday, horticulture day,, co-operative marketing will be discussed. C. t Lewis of the Oregon Growers' Co-operative association will discuss organization plans. COMMUNITY HOUSE LIKED Monmouth Building Is Visited by 18,000 Persons In Year. MONMOUTH, Or., Dec. 12 (Spe cial.) A report has just been made covering the first year at the Mon mouth community house. The com munity house was built by the Baptist convention of Oregon largely from funds contributed by citizens of Mon mouth, and the church services of the local Baptist congregation are held then- According to the report there have been 18,000 visitors in the building since it was opened to the public a year ago, not counting the attendance at church services. Meetings held in the building, ex clusive of those connected with the Baptist church, numbered 297. Among the organizations using the building were the grange, Oddfellows. Mothers' club, Commercial club. Community club. Hoy Scouts and Campflre Girls. The library and recreation features were used freely. ENTERTAINMENT IS GOOD Talent Makes Hit at Lynch School Near Gresham. GRESHAM, Or., Dec. 12 (Special.) What was held by the majority of those who saw it the best school en tertainment ever given hereabouts was put on by the. Parent-Teacher association in the Lynch schoolhouse, three miles west of Gresham, last Friday evening. The talent was from Portland and in the vicinity of Gresham. The Gresham high Bchool orchestra helped on the programme by filling In between numbers. Donald Confrey and Elanor Winder gave a dramatic sketch. "A Considerable Courtship" proved to be a good playlet, while esthetic dancers from Portland made a hit. The school building was packed. GIRLS BUSY IN TEA ROOM More Than 5 000 Persons Served by Co-eds at Corvallis. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, Dec. 12. (Special.) College girls taking institutional man agement have served aOOO persons this term in the new tea room, according to Miss Winifred Hazen, instructor in charge. The girls take turns in working as cook, manager and head waitress for two weeks at a time. Regular noon and night meals open to the public, banquets for the Y. M. C. A.. Red Cross, sororieties, Y. W. C. A. fraternities and other campus organizations, and special dinners for national conventions, Portland visi tors, alumni, staff and private par ties have been provided. Fraternities Greet Friends. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, Sal tern. Or., Dec. 12. (Special.) All fra ternities on the campus were hosts to students and friends of the uni versity at their annual open hous-j Saturday evening. About 500 people were In attendance at the men's houses. In the receiving lines were the officers of the fraternities as well as a number of representatives from the faculty. Lausanne Hail, girls' dormitory, will entertain Saturday evening. Forger to Be Sent to Idaho. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Dec. 12. (Spe cial.) Raymond Mobley, being held in the county jail on a charge of forgery, will be sent to Idaho and de livered to the authorities there. Mob ley was convicted of forgery in Idaho and was paroled. He was not to leave the state. He came here and passed a number of worthless checks. He has been in Jail several weeks. Dean of Women Goes East. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Dec. 12. (Special.) Miss Mary A. Rolfe. dean of women, left Satur day for her home in Illinois for the the Christmas holidays. She is re- -then taloe Z or 6 tor a lew mgnts alter. They cleanse your system of all waste matter and Regulate Tour Bowels. Mild as easy to take as sugar. 9 - SmaD PHh The And cuperating from an illness that kept her from active duty the past week. Students have expressed the hope that she will recover sufficiently to resume her social etiquette lectures on her return in January. EGG DEALER FINED $99 Failure to Brand Product Properly Causes Arrest. A check on the observance of the state's pure food laws in Portland by the state dairy and food commis sioner resulted yesterday in a fine of $99 on J. W. Savinar, manager of Savlnar 4 Co.. Inc., 100 Front street, on a charge of selling storage eggs that were not properly branded. The case was heard before District Judge Deich. According to E. L. Melton, deputy dairy and food commissioner, who made the arrest, the Savinar company had sold a case of storage eggs to a retailer without proper branding or billing. C. L. Hawley, dairy and food com missioner, wishes the arrest to stand as a warning to both wholesalers and retailers of food products in the city. All eggs placed on sale by retailers must be displayed under cards desig nating them as either "fresh'' or "storage." New Washington Auto Tags Out. VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 12. (Special.) The first 1922 Washington state automobile license plates ar rived today. They are of a pleasing chocolate brown background with New Year's Oregonian 1925 WORLD'S FAIR NUMBER Annual Number January 2, 1922 You will want to send copies to your friends in the east. Order now for delivery on January 2. Single copy 5c; postage, 6c in United States and possessions; foreign 12c. Fill out blank form and send to Oregonian Office, Sixth and Alder. THE OREGONIAN, Portland, Oregon. Gentlemen: Enclosed find , for which mail The Oregonian's New Year's Annual to each of the above addresses. (Inclose 11c for each address in United States or Possessions, 17c for each foreign address.) The Telephone Directory Good telephone service depends vitally upon care in calling telephone numbers. A wrong num ber called causes loss of time to you, to the party called and to the operator. Every instance means avoidable inconvenience to all concemed. It is not the loss of time to you alone or to the operator that concerns us most, but it is the annoy ance to the party called. Your mistake cannot be explained to him, and the Telephone Company is held responsible for your error. Consulting the current issue of the telephone di rectory, instead of trusting to memory; giving your number clearly, and quickly correcting the operator if she misunderstands your call, will greatly in crease the efficiency of the service. Pacific Telephone Telegraph Company white letters. In size they are 4x13 to two weeks from the time the ap inches and of fairly heavy material, plication is made. The first applica Plates usually arrive from ten' days tion was marie December 1. From now until rhriima to every purchaser of Hot Point, Vnl versal, Amerlean Beauty. , Ins houae Electric Irons, (.rllla, Toaat era, Percolatora, Waffle Iron or Curling; Iron., we will ajlvc you a Krc C'brUtmaa Present of a $1.00 Benjamin Double Socket. Evinrude Electric Store WHERE PRICKS ARK LOW EH. Evlnrndr Motors, Electric Supplies Phone Mamhall 17SS. 21 1 Morrison, .Near First Look for the Sign "ELECTHK ." MTOPEJI SATURDAY NIGHTS UNTIL O'CLOCK. NAME STREET TOWN STATE p a. 7 There is one Electric Store where prices are lower. FREE! $1.00 In Merchandise DANGEROUS GERMS MAKE THROAT SORE KEEP your mouth and throat practi cally germ free by dissolving.evrry hour or ao, a convenient-to-take, pleasant tasting yet powerfully antiseptic Formamint 1 ablet, whenever you are in a place where germs are thickest; illy ventilated street cars, intcrurbans, rail road can, shops, theatres, and schools. 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