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VOL. LXI NO. 19,109 En, a t p Foatofflce as Becond-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY J.1, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS DOCTORS TO BE ASKED TS WORKERS IN ENGLAND $212,881,000 LENT TO U. S. FARMERS MILWAUKIE REFUSES TO RECALL MAYOR MR. HALL ENTERS PLAN BEER BOYCOTT BREWERS' THREATS TO CUT WAGES RESENTED. TO HELP FILL CHEST El I BONUS SALES TAX T E WAR FINANCE CORPORATION REPORTS TO SENATE. RECANVASS OF PROFESSION IS JOHN M. SNYDER VICTORIOUS BY MARGIN OF FIVE VOTES. TO BE STARTED. DEMOCRA ON HARDINOAQVISES PORTLAND PLEADS D R IV FOR GREATER POR GOVERNOR Republican Seats in Con gress Sought. POLICY DECLARED AIMLESS Opponent Cannot Believe Arms Parley Is Success. ECONOMIC COURSE IRKS Mr. Hull Dissatisfied With Record at Capital and Blames Admin- Y istration for Everything. IXDIANAP0LI3. Ind., Feb. 16. The democratic congressional campaign in the middle west was opened here tonight by Chairman Hull of the na tional committee with an address in which he declared "aimlessness and Inaction" to be the controlling policy of the republican administration. Speaking before the Indiana Demo cratic Editorial association. Chair man Hull asserted that republican leaders "with all their falsehoods exposed and all their promises broken," were pursuing1 "a rudderless course while the people continue o cry out for relief." He added that "in the meantime the Lodges, the Newberrys and those of their ilk in control of the republican party, are having their frequent political Bel shazzer feasts in the nation's cap ital." The democratic chairman alluded to the arms conference at several points in his address, at one time declaring its "proceedings and achievements," to have been "gross ly exaggerated," and at another mak ing the charge that the republican administration through the confer ernuj had "surrendered more of our national sovereignty than has been previously surrendered in more than a hundred years." Kconomlc t'oarae Criticised. Particular stress was laid Uy Mr. Hull on what he declared (htflrVthe inability of the republican adanin istration to cope with disturbed eco nomic conditions, and in that con nection he charged that republican leaders in 1920 deceived the people by failing to point out the imminent depression. "In my judgment," he told, the Indi ana democratic editors, "cattle were never more deliberately led to slaugh ter nor sheep to the shambles than were the American people led over the precipice to chance conditions and ter rific business demoralization by the national republican leadership from 1918 to 1921 .... no people, frei or serf, were ever worse flim-flammed and buncoed than the American elec torate by the republican political pa triots in control prior to the Novem ber election in 1920. Since that elec tion the people, following this same republican leadership, have waltzed down the economic decline to the level of Industrial panic. In this condition of almost unparalleled distress the republican administration, while rather sheepishly admitting condi tions, has no views as to causes or remedies." Vice-President Mentioned. Time was, Chairman Hull declared, when the American YOters believed "that republican administration and business prosperity go hand in hand," but, he added, "never again will the American voter be duped by the false and hypocritical doctrine that repub lican administration means pros perity." The democratic chairman several times referred to the address recently made by Vice-President Coolidge in Indianapolis, and criticised the vice president for what he described as his "egregious blunder .... in his claim of congressional economy and his deadly silence on the Newberry scandal which took place under his very nose." Republican claim of sav ings in governmental expenditures, he continued, "was not actual but a mere paper saving." Before entering upon his discussion of the arms conference, Mr. Hull paid his respects to Senator Lodge, de claring "his tortuous course in poli tics is most remindful of that of Cata line, the political conspirator in the Roman senate, while his statesman ship most nearly resembles that of Aaron Burr." Arms Conference Rapped. "The people are already conclud ing," he went on, "that it would have been far wiser to have the affairs of the nation directed by the common sense and practical statesmanship of a democratic administration than by the boasted republican 'best minds' which the public are even now view ing as another republican myth . . . Root, Lodge and all of them spent three months with England, France, Japan and China in the recent small disarmament conference with one two-hundredth part of the task of Versailles and came out third best. Japan walked off with the highest honors and England second. "Viewing the present morass and chaos into which American thought and business has been drawn by self ish republican politics," concluded Mr. Hull, "it is clear that the first need of the country is the development of a sound public opinion that will gve in Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) Members of Federation and Trade Unions Will Be Asked to Go Without Drinks. (Copyright by "the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) LONDON, Feb. 16. (Special Cable.) A trade union boycott of beer as a protest against the threat to reduce the wages of brewery employes espe cially as the price of the brew does not come down was threatened in a resolution adopted unanimously at a conference of the national transport workers' federation today. As a result the members of the fed eration and trade unions generally will be asked to boycott beer. Whether the "honest British work man" will forsake his "arf pint" in the interest of unionism is a question which meets considerable skepticism on both sides of the bar. For despite its high price, beer is still the cheap est form of intoxicant on the market. If individual unions decide to boy cott the brewers it will create an embarrassing situation in some Lon don districts. Here there are no union halls or offices and it is the custom to hold meetings in some con venient "pub" where the dryness of the proceedings can be mitigated with a judicious combination of malt and hops and the chairman's remarks are interrupted with shouts of "fill 'em up again, George." SHOT EATEN IN DUCKS Burnside Fisherman Suffers From Poisoning Caused by Lead. ASTORIA, Or.. Feb. 16. (Special.) Suffering from lead poisoning induced by shot which had accumulated in his intestines through eating wild aucks, John H. Bell, well-known Burnside fisherman, has been at St Mary's hospital for several days in a critical condition. Already strong purgatives have removed 200 or more shot from his intestines and an X-ray examination yesterday showed that there were at least 100 more of the little leaden pellets lodged in a large intestine. The case is one of the most unusual ever reported here and is being fol lowed with interest by men of the medical profession. BEND SCHOOL ROW ENDS Directors to Start SprnSg Class fos First Grade. t . . BEND, Or., Feb. 16.SpeciaU In the. face of a threatened mandamus action, directors of the Bend school district today .reconsidered a previous decision to admit no beginning pupils to the local grade schools for the spring term. Economy dictated by the defeat of the district budget late last year promoted the original decision. W. P. Myers, legal representative of parents whose children have been refused admission to the first grade, had served notice that he would start action in the court to force school officials to allow the beginning of a first-grade class this term. PRISON ADMITS CONVICT Charles W. Rowan Locked Up After Week of Waiting. LEAVENWORTH. Kan., Feb.-16. Charles W. Rowan, who spent a week in Leavenworth attempting to gain admission to the federal prison to serve a sentence of a year and a day on conviction of using the mails to defraud, was admitted today. - Rowan went to Milwaukee and brought back the commitment papers in company with a United States .mar shal. BLOW CLEARS BLIND EYE Sight Brought Back to Girl When She Bumps Forehead. JOILET, 111., Feb. 16. A blow over the left eye, blind since babyhood, brought sight back to Miss Maud Ann Naismith here last night when she and her brother were performing gymnastic stunts at their home. While going through some exer cises with her brother in their apart ment. Miss Naismith bumped her eye on a bar. Instantly her sight was restored. FARM LOANS APPROVED Advances Aggregating $5,735,000 Authorized by Government. . WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 16- Approval of 187 advances for agri-J cultural and livestock purposes, ae- I gregatlng $5,735,000, distributed be tween 25 states, was announced to night by the war finance corporation. At the- same time the corporation announced sin advance of $1,000,000 to a financing institution organized to promote the exportation of cotton. WOMEN LOOKOUTS BARRED Forester Acts Because of Lack of Employment Among Men. EUGENE, Or., Feb. 16. No women will be employed as forest fire look outs in the Pacific northwest this year, according to announcement re ceived here today from the district forester's office. - ' Tbe lack of employment among men was -the reason given for ex cluding women from the service this year. Delay in Legislation Is Al ternative Suggested. FARM BLOG RAPS PLAN Return to Excess Profits Levy Is Threatened. ALL SIDES MOVE SLOWLY Whole Problem Is to Receive More Carerul Consideration Pres ident Sends Letter.' WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 16. Pay the soldiers' bonus with a general sales tax, or postpone the legislation, was President Harding's advice to day to congress Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee and Chairman McCumber of the senate fi nance committee said they did not think the bonus would be postponed, but were silent as to a sales tax. Leaders of the agricultural bloc were outspoken, however, against this tax and threatened to counter with a programme which .would in clude re-enactment of the excess profits and higher income surtaxes and an increase in inheritance and some other such taxes. This plan also was favored by some democratic leaders. Acceptance Is Forecast. Proponents of a sales tax professed, to be confident that because of the strong desire in both the house and senate to put through the' bonus bill at this session, a majority of mem bers would come to accept this levy rather than see the bonus programme defeated. Pending more careful consideration of the whole problem, and a possible further ' reaction from the country, there seemed to be a disposition on all -sides to move slowly. The president's letter, addressed to Representative Fordney, was read at a joint meeting of republican mem bers of the house and senate commit tees dealing with the bonus question, who agreed after some discussion to leave the matter in the hands of the majority members of the house com mittee. Meeting Is Scheduled. It was announced that those mem; bers would meet tomorrow, but it was indicated that the tax question would not be taken up immediately. Officers of the American legion will be called in first, it was stated, to give .their views as to Mr. Harding's suggestion that instead of extending the cash payments over two and one half years, payment should be de ferred until "the day when wo may safely undertake to pay at once in full." Leaders generally, both republican and democratic, said it was too early (Concluded on Page 4, Column 1.) BARNUM WAS vmy me.sY yoor rAoN.v tixjf o7?o nhe.n you C(M lArXKE. VOfA 40 To 75" O N VvU'S SVOdK f OUGUV V6 Ei? THIS VOCJ- "lEV? BVV NAHT Vo SWW'YOU UH$LF'SH Ijft'tA- Advances to Assist Exporters Are Placed at $50,245,000, Mostly to Cotton District. - . WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 16. Financial assistance aggregating $263,136,000 has been given by the War Finance corporation to Ameri can exporters and farmers since en actment of the law reviving the cor poration, according to a statement from Director Meyer, submitted in the senate today. The bulk of the corporation's ad vances have been to banks and other financial institutions and agriculture co-operative organizations for loans to farmers. These, Director Meyer stated in a letter to Senator Ash urst, democrat, Arizona, aggregated $212,881,000. Advances to assist in American exports, it was stated, amounted to $50,245,000, of which $33,572,000 was to assist exports of cotton. Of the corporation's advances to federal revolving fund for loans to agriculturists, $164,503,000 was, to banks and other financial institu tions and $43,307,000 to agricultural co-operative associations. Of the agricultural advances $23,404,000 was reported as loans on cotton, $21,290,000 on grain, and $53,831,000 on livestock. By states, Mr. Meyer reported the principal agricultural advances as follows: Iowa, $20,249,000; North Dakota, $13,259,000; Texas, 512,667.000; South Dakota. $11,098,000; Utah, $10,451,000; Nebraska. $9,335,000 and Minnesota, $8,235,000. 18 NAVY CREWS WANTED Secretary Denby Supports Original Claim for 90,000 Enlisted Men WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 16. To maintain a fleet of 18 battleships as agreed on by the arms conference, the United States must provide 1,8 complete battleship crews. Secretary Denby declared today before the house naval committee in supporting his original request for 90,000 en listed men. Mr. Denby insisted that the ques tion for congress to decide was whether it would appropriate suffi cient funds to keep the treaty navy at its maximum stage of efficiency. Questions by members indicated that in seeking to cut down the en listed personnel they had in mind the proposal to ehift whole crewa, espe cially from sister ships, so as to have a certain number laid up. ' NEGRO SAVANT UNDER FIRE Veteran Bureau Chief Demands Re moval of Alleged Graft. WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. 16. Di rector Forbes of the veterans' bureau announced today that he had served notice on a delegation representing the Tennessee board of education that unless W. J. Hale, negro president of thc Tennessee agricultural and in dustrial institution, was removed from office within 24 hours all ex service men now assigned to the in stitution would be transferred. I.'ale was charted with extortion in having loaned veteran students under his care sums of money at 10 per cent, taking their compensation checks as security. RIGHT THERE'S ONE BORN Group Lists Are Being Checked at Headquarters Workers Still ;- Show Spirit. Doctors form the first of all occu pational groups in Portland to start the recanvass of their professional brothers for the community chest. This is felt to be particularly fitting, since doctors are called upon first in so many other emergencies. They began work yesterday after a committee of three had been named by President Guy Strohm of the Port land City and County Medical society. Dr. Allen Welch Smith, Dr. W. M. Killlngsworth and Dr. A, G. Bettman form the. committee. Group lists being checked at chest headquarters show many have been overlooked In the early canvass for funds. This is true in the case of doctors as in all other classifications and much is expected from a more thorough combing of various busi nesses and professions. By the end of the week it Is ex pected the recanvass of all the more than 100 different groups will be well under, way. How misfortune may come upon anyone, even the most thrifty and the community chest agencies become veritable life-savers to tide many families over periods of crisis is re vealed in the current operations of the public welfare bureau. A. R. Gephart, general secretary, reported such a case to chest headquarters yesterday. . A family of ten, the eight children ranging from 2 to. 17 years, is one of the many being helped temporarily by the bureau. This is not a group representing any social problem at all, it being embarrassed purely be cause of economic pressure. The man has been out of work f months, through no fault of his own, and just as careful plans as was possible had been laid for the winter. Every resource had been conserved to guard against a period of, unem ployment. Food had been canned and stored to the utmost limits. Yet this thrift was inadequate and it was only the good offices of a chest agency that prevented actual starvation by temporary relief. - Some emergency work was found or the man and the family will be cared for until it is again entirely self-sustaining-. Out of the army of chest workers is coming a spirit for the cause that is " Inspiring. - So stron'gly do the women in the drive desire its com plete success that . Impatience is ex pressed freley with those who do not give as freely as they should. There is a grocer in Portland who knows how fiercely this flame for the chest burns in the hearts of women actively engaged in the campaign. This man gave a very small subscrip tion. Very shortly thereafter a group of women chest workers paid their grocery bills at that store and stopped ordering there. The grocer inquired what was the matter and he was informed he had failed in his civic spirit and he could not expect business from that group. "Well, you come over tomorrow and we'll fix that up," he declared. Yesterday's total at chest head quarters was $495,799, and today will boost the total more than the $500,000 mark. EVERY MINUTE. Deeper and Wider Route to Sea Wanted. DELEGATES IN WASHINGTON Harbors Committee Is Ex pected to Back Plan. KEEN INTEREST SHOWN City Representatives Point to Past Co-operation Given In Fed eral Undertakings. . THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, D. C, Feb. 16. A greater project for the Columbia and Willam ette river channel improvement, a channel in keeping with the deeper draft of the steamships now visiting Portland, was requested this morning of the rivers and. harbors committee of the house by Representative Mc Arthur, Colonel George H. Kelly of I the Port of Fortland commission, and W. D. B. Dodson, manager of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. General Harry Taylor, for several years stationed at Portland in charge of United States engineer work, and now one of tha ranking officers of the engineer corps, was the first offi cial to adaress the committee. He explained how the engineers planned to use the $l,7o.000 for the improve ment recommended by them. A new pipeline dredge is to be built and a considerable amount of per manent improvement work is to be done if the project is passed by con gress. General Taylor said further that Portland had shown, the strong est spirit of co-operation with the government in rivers and harbors im provement of any district of the na tion, and that the engineers felt that the case merited special considera tion. -: Gains In Commerce Cited, Representative McArthur declared that Portland was the only large port of the Pacific that had made substan tial gains in foreign commerce the last three or four years; that ' an enormous volume of local cargo was moving out of the port, and that every producer was benefited by per mitting deep-sea ships to come 100 miles up the river to Portland; that Portland lias spent in the past yjars about $8,000,000 through the p-.rt commission and $10,000,000 through the commission of public docks for water terminal, revealing the splen did co-operative spirit of Oregon; that the great cargo movement of the last year, aggregating 1,656,702 short tons foreign exports for 1921, was but the beginning of the .export trade of the territory, and, further, that the Co lumbia river ports had already ex ceeded in volume of commerce the total for the state of Washington the Is st year. Co-operation Pointed Out. Colonel Kelly spoke of the co-operative work between the government and the local port body. He cov ered the splendid permanent im provement work being done by the government and the port, reducing ar.nuallj- the amount of dredging, and emphasized that no more effective channel and harbor improvement work was being done by a local com munity anywhere in the nation than at Portland. "We need a deeper and wider chan nel immediately," said Colonel Kelly. "We have steamship offerings of greater draft and length than the channel will now accommodate. Our business is Increasing rapidly. Our people have done a big part. Their local funds have benefited the en tire region, covering 160,000 square miles. We think that the government ought to go further with us, for we are building up there one of the greatest ehlpplng ports that has ever been seen or ever will be on the Pa cific." Volume of Trade Discussed. Mr. Dodson dwelt especially upon the volume of lumber, wheat, flour, horticultural and agricultural prod ucts and phosphates that are now moving through the port, and that may be counted upon for future ship ping. "This shipping business is perma nent," said the chamber of commerce manager. . "We have but started the big movement. Lumber is sure of a heavy movement for 75 to 100 years, and phosphates, wheat and flour will be a perpetual commodity for ship ment through Portland. Do not feel that the government's channel im provement work will be for a com munity that is to see its shipping pass. Our great work is just ahead, and you will see passing through the channel we ask you to improve the greatest export trade of any Pacific port." All members of the rivers and har bors committee indicated the highest interest in the Portland case and con fidence was held that the committee will report favorably upon adoption of the new project, which permits dredging to 500 feet width, more per manent improvement work, and main, tenance of 30 feet or better at all times of the year. Incumbent Also Is Re-elected to Office by 196 to 178 Over G. C. Pelton, Opponent. Milwaukie refused yesterday to re call John M. Snyder "as mayor, vot ing 110 to 105 against the recall which was circulated last month by those who had been criticising the mayor. At the same time the voters re elected Mr. Synder as mayor. This vote was 196 for the mayor to 178 for G. C. Pelton, Mr. Synder's op ponent. Last month petitions were circu lated asking for the recall of Mayor Snyder. The criticism was made that Milwaukie had not been getting suf ficient money from the fights that had been .held in the boxing arena. The charge also was mado that Mr. Synder had used his office to further his personal interests and had' mis managed the town's affairs. FALL OFF BRIDGE FATAL X. M. Zimmerman Plunges Into Washougal River and Drowns. VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 16. (Special.) N. M. Zimmerman, 50, fell off a bridge into the Washougal river this afternoon and was drowned. Three boys saw him stagger and tum ble off the viaduct while he was walking in the direction of Camas. Mr. Zimmerman, who was for a time confined in the state hospital for the insane, is said to have been acting in a queer manner of late. He was living at the home of John Evans, half a mile north of Washougal. The boys who saw him fall into the river were Joe Wood, Vernon Van Camp and Jesse Alder. The sheriff and coroner investigated the case and decided that no inquest was neces sary. Mr. Zimmerman is survived by his widow, two sons, Iden and Orum, and a brother, E. J. Zimmerman. Mrs. Zimmerman lives at 609 East Sixth street, Vancouver. The body was re covered. GENERAL GOETHALS HERE Famous Engineer Passes Through Portland en Route South. Major-Gcneral George W. Gocthals, who has been checking the plans for the Columbia basin irrigation project, passed through Portland last night on his way to California. He will re turn to Spokane next week to resume his work there. General Goethals said he had noth ing for publication. According to re ports, he has been impressed favor ably with the irrigation project in. eastern Washington. He came to Portland from Spokane as the guest of W. F. Turner, president of the Spokane. Portland & Seattle railway, in Mr. Turner's private car. JAIL BREAK FRUSTRATED Kast Side Bank Robber Caught Sawing Way to Liberty. An attempt of Shelby Murdock, east side bank robber, to escape from his cell in the county jail was frus trated last night by Head Jailer Jack son, who discovered that Murdock had sawed part of a 12 by 14-inch hole through quarter-inch" sheet steel covering a ventilator shaft. Two hacksaw blades and part of a third were found in the' cell. The ventilator is large enough to permit the passage of a man's body, and through it Murdock could have gained the roof and made his escape at his leisure. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Wrathrr. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 47 degrees; minimum temperature, 37 de-grees.- TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds. Foreign. Genoa economic conferences faces delay. Page G. British workers threaten to boycott beer. Page 1. Haste in election in Ireland urged. Page 2. National. Senators propose Muscle Shoals Inspection. Page 3. $212,881,000 lent to American farmers. Page L Harding advises general sales tax to pay bonus. Page 1. President behind reclamation bill. Page 3. Democrats open campaign in middlewest. Page 1. . Senate asks how Pacific treaty was nego tiated. Page 2. Anti-lynching bill faces filibuster. Page 7. Forts In Philippines may be abandoned. Page 0. Portland pleada for greater port. Page 1. Sports. Rtckard Is. indicted on assault charge. Page 14. Mixed bout recalls Jiu-jitsu tangle here in 1910. Page 14. Colleges of state to plan relay carnival. Page 14. Pacifio Northwest. Mr. Olcott calls conference of governors on narcotics evil. Page 8. Oreat stride made by northwest fruit can- ners. Page 8. Milwaukie refuses to recall Mayor Snyder and re-elects him to office. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Higher apple prices check local demand. Page 3- Advajice In liberty bonds continues-, plge 23. Wool trade quiet on Boston market. Pag? 22. Dike in Columbia to be ready tomorrow. Page 22. Portland and Vicinity. Senator Hall announces gubernatorial can didacy. Page 1. Pastors denounce school dance regulations as poor compromise. Page 13. Doctors' to be asked to help fill chest Page 1. ' Mled Jury has Purdin murder case. ! Page 17. Drive on warrant shaving is begun. Page . Two bank robbers plead guilty here. Page 16. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 16. Senator's Candidacy is Announced Formally. PLATFORM PROMISED SOON Candidate Already Backed by Patriotic Societies. SITUATION CLEARED SOME Definite Announcement Is Made by Four Candidates Mr. Olcott Yet Says Nothing. Charles Hall, state senator, oi, Marshfield, who has received the gu bernatorial indorsement from the fed erated patriotic societies, announced his candidacy for the republican nom ination for governor of Oregon, ac cording to a telegram received by The Oregonian last night. A summary of the principles, on which Senator Hall has based his can didacy will be submitted to the voters within ten days, according to the mes sage. Following receipt of word that he had been selected as the candidate on whom the support of the feder ated patriotic societies would be cen tered, as announced Monday, Senator Hall said that he would give serious consideration to announcing his can didacy. The support of the patriotic societies, he said, was gratifying to him. Situation Made Clear. The definite announcement -of tha candidacy of Senator Hall aids In clearing the haze that has surrounded the coming gubernatorial contest up to the present time. True, Governor Olcott has not given the least public intimation as to his intention, but it is taken as a certainty that he will soon make his announcement of intention to seok re-election. It is possible that Gov ernor Olcott will await the announce ment of the various potential candi dates before throwing his hat into the ring. . While it was generally believed that the indorsement by the patriotic societies of Senator Hall would eliminate a number of prospective candidates, I. L. Patterson of Polk, who was considered to be contender for this indorsement, issued a state ment Wednesday that ho was still considering becoming a candidate, if Senator Patterson should run. it Is believed that he will look for some substantial support in the agricul tural districts as he is a "dirt" farm er, operating his own farm at Ecola, in Polk county. The entry of Senator Hall into the gubernatorial race brings the total of candidates who have made definite announcement to four. In addition to Senator Hall, J. D. Lee of Portland is actually In the race. Louis E. Bean of Eugene made his announce ment last Sunday, and Judge Stephen A. Lowell of Pendleton has entered. There are other possibilities who may be heard fro;n shortly. Colonel Kelly on Trip. Colonel George H. Kelly is known to be a potential candidate but no definite information as to his inten tions is expected until he returns from an eastern trip. Colonel Kelly was reported to have coveted the in dorsement of the patriotic societies and, following the announcement of the indorsement of Senator Hall, it was believed in many circles Colonel Kelly would not enter the race. As far as Judge Lowell of Pendle ton is concerned, he Is accepted as an active aspirant for the republican nomination for governor, having made an announcement that he would "probably be a candidate." With this announcement he outlined a platform to be used in the event he made up his mind definitely to run. Another possible candidate from whom some word is expected shortly is Judge William M. Cake of Portland, who is reported to be "look ing the field over" -vith a view of entering the race. BUSINESS GROWS BETTER Conditions Throughout Country Are Reported to Be Improving. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 16. Business conditions throughout the country are better than they wer a year ago, in the view of treasurj' officials, who declared, however, thai the improvement has been gradual and there was no immediate prospect of a sudden pick up in business ac tivities. Some seasonable activity might b looked for In the spring, they as serted, but in general only gradual betterment may be expected. MAN, 106, IS ARRESTED Sentence on Drunkenness Charge Suspended Due to Advanced Age. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 16. James Monroe, 106 years of age arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, was given a sus pended sentence today by Municipal Judge Breckham on the ground ot his advanced age.