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TUB MORNING OREGONTAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1923 IWIOfJISTSWiLL : STRIKE, SAYS LEWIS Head of Mine Workers Confi dent of Support. SITUATION HELD FORCED Kesponsibility for Strike Scheduled for April Placed Upon Opera ) tors of Properties. SPRINGFIELD, 111., March 28. Kon-union coal miners in both an thracite and bituminous fields will Join in large numbers with union miners in the coal strike April 1, John I Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers, predicted today. In a statement. Mr. Lewis said: "There is no change in the mining situation. My reports from all sec tions of the country indicate that the organized mine workers and a great number of unorganized miners will cease work on April 1. This will Include the anthracite and bituminous fields and is indicative of wonderful unity of thought and steadfastness of purpose among the mine workers of the country. "The mine workers have no alter native but to take this action. The situation is forced upon them by the arbitrary action of the, coal opera tors and the American public may well place the responsibility where it properly belongs." CHICAGO, March 28. Illinois miners and coal operators will meet here tomorrow in a wage scale con ference in conformity with their ex piring contract. Neither side, how ever, expects an agreement to result. Frank Farrington, president of the miners of the state, called the meet Ing to carry out his expressed inten tion of abiding by the present con tract, but in view of the decision of the international policy comnrfttee of the union not to sanction separate state wage agreements, operators to day said they had no hope of avert lng the walkout set for Saturday morning. COLUMBUS, O.. March 28. The open shop is not an issue in the present mine controversy, according to a statement issued here tonight by the Southern Ohio Coal Exchange, an organization of operators of the Hocking and adjacent fields. In past scale meetings, the state ment says, miners always have been represented by officers of the Lnited Mine Workers and ho other method of making agreements Is contem plated. IIV.MAX KXGIXE NEEDS FUEL Head of Shop Crafts Unions Ad dresses Jjabor Board. CHICAGO. March 28. Industries should use the same principle in sup plying energy to their employes as in supplying coal under their boilers, B. M. Jewell, head of the shop crafts union, told the railroad labor board today in presenting a budget requir ing $2636.97 a year for sustaining a workingman's family. -America, "with such productive power . and such natural resources, should afford all her workers more than a shabby existence," Mr. Jewell declared. In continuing his fight against wage reductions sought by 604 railroads before the board. To secure what Mr. Jewell's budget provides for, however, the labor lead er said, railroad mechanics would have to earn 40 per cent more than they now receive. His budget, Sir. Jewell said, was based on the needs of an average railroad mechanic's family. It pro vided, he asserted, no more than a "sane supply of food and only the barest minimum in other respects." The food menus, samples of which he presented to the board, would fur nish the wage-earner 4140 calories a day. The $2636.97 family budget, Mr. Jewell said, was about J300 more than the department of labor's budget. "Some people will undoubtedly comment upon the absurdity of a mere worker expecting an income of this size," eaid Mr. JewelL "If they are honest they will recognize that they are remarking on the absurdity of the workers receiving as much goods as are enumerated in the budget. If such people are- really honest they will enumerate the arti cles which it is absurd that a work er's family should have and will state what, in their opinion, a worker may expect as the minimum allowance in return for his service to society. "Under the 67V4 cents an hour rate which the railroads propose, a me chanic can make $1651.40 a year, $1000 less than the amount necessary to purchase the essentials, listed in the budget. "Then there is the rate of 40 cents an hour proposed for helpers. With i not an hour of regular working time missed during the year, this means annual earnings of $979.20. The al lowance for food of $383.20, provides 10 cents a meal for the man and 6 cents daily for the youngest child. For clothing $180 is allowed. "Every article of clothing must wear from two to three times as long as is contemplated in the budget pro vided by the economists for the work ers. Three summer un'on suits must do about three years' service. Thej man's suit must wear eight years, his winter overcoat ten years. Oatmeal, potatoes and coffee prevail in the menus because coffee acts as a stim ulant jn place of adequate nourish ment and oatmeal and potatoes are filling." educational unit, raising the main building. Installing a new concrete basement and remodeling the interior and exterior of the First Presby terian church were the chief improve ments proposed at the annual con gregational dinner of the church last night. Election of officers and re ports of secretaries followed the dis cussion. The church trustees were empowered to secure plans and esti mates for the work proposed, and fol lowing their investigation will sub mit a report on the advisability of starting work this spring. H. E. Holmquist and W. G. Powell were re-elected to serve three-year terms on the governing body of the church. Deaconesses elected- were Mrs. A. J. Morley, re-elected for three ACTOR AT HIPPODROME: PROUD OK FAMILY TREK. t ; . i : " i: 1 Frank A. Ford. Frank A. Ford, who is ap pearing as the lead in a comedy drama at the Hippodrome this week, boasts ancestors high in the theatrical world. The Jef fersons, the Deanes, the Chap mans, Drakes and the Fords are in this family tree. It was Ford's father, who, while manager of the Washing ton theater in which Lincoln was shot, was detained by the authorities because Booth had slept at his house three nights before he committed his crime. Ford's grandfather and grandmother date their careers back to the '40s of the last cen tury, when they -operated the first "boat show" on the Ohio river. Ford has engaged . In practically every line of theat rical endeavor. From boyhood he has played before the foot lights and, in addition, has managed theaters and has been stage manager for big produc fflMLUIEIBIE (D). Furs and individual style shops. Broadway at Morrison years, and Mrs. R. E. Taggart, for two years. T. W. Tebb was re-elect ed for three years and Arch M. Harr for the same term on the board of trustees. AUTO DRIVER RULING OUT Washington Courts Must Penalize Intoxicated Chauffeurs. OLYMPIA, Wash., March 28. (Spe cial.) It is mandatory upon the courts that cancellation of a motor vehicle operator's license shall follow conviction of any operator on a charge ofi-dnving while intoxicated or under the influence of any narcotic drug. while mentally or .physically disabled, or for making any false statement in any application for a license, Attor- ney-Creneral Thompson held today in a formal opinion to L. D. McArdle, di rector of efficiency. The cancellation Is for a term of three months when, upon proper show ing. the director of licenses, in his discretion, may issue a new license. Cancellation of license in these cases means complete cancellation, the attorney-general held, and not the substitution of a blue license for the original white, or a yellow license for the blue. TAX LEVY CAN CONTINUE New Town of East Stanwood Not Hampered by Restrictions. OLTMPIA, Wash., March 28 Until the next regular levy the town of East Stanwood, which was incorpor ated in February of this year, has the power, notwithstanding constitutional and statutory debt-limitation pro visions, to .'ssue warrants necessary to maintain its corporate existence, such warrants to be included in the next regular levy of taxes, according to an opinion rendered by Attorney General Thompson to Thomas A. Sti ger, prosecuting attorney of Snoho mish county. "In order that all questions as to the validity of such warrants may be foreclosed, however, we think it ad visable to have the voters pass upon the question, even though decisions of the courts would seem conclusively to establish the legality of such expen ditures, the opinion read. LIQUOR BUSINESS PROBED Canadian Shipments to Mexico Possibly Diverted. VANCOUVER. B. C. March 28. (Special.) Hector Villatori, Mexican consul at this port, is investigating landing -seals and certificates for liquors shipped to Ensenada in bond from Vancouver. According to reports here recently, seals and certificates have been forged on some of the reports re turnable to the Canadian authorities. s the seal is only a rubber stamp and the certificate a filing in a form pro vided by the Canadian authorities, officials here say it would be easy to forge such certificates and lead the Canadian government to believe that liquor shipped in bond had been dis charged at Ensenada, when it might have gone to some prohibited port in the United States. BIGGER CHURCH PROPOSED Aberdeen Presbyterians Plan Va riety of Improvements. ABERDEEN. Wash.. March 28. (Special.) Addition of a three-story VICTIMS ARE RECOVERING No Charges Yet Filed Against As sailant in Seattle. SEATTLE. Wash., March 28. Frank W. Speir, patrolman, and Mrs. Blanche L. Baker, wounded yesterday by John G. Alonge, New York in surance adjuster, when he' fired twice at his wife, from whom he had been estranged, were reported recov ering today. Captain of Detectives Tennant said no charge would be filed against Alonge until the recovery of his vic tims. Mrs. Alonge was not injured. Mail Contract Awarded. CENTRA LIA, Wash.. March 28. (Special.) C. E. Mitchell has been awarded a four-year contract for carrying mail between Winlock, To ledo and Knab. Mr. Mitchell has been operating an auto stage between the points named, and in addition to his mail contract has been granted a certificate of public convenience and necessity by the state department of public works to handle express and do a general stage-line business. Orplieum matinee today. 15-25-50-Ad. X , ' Today only: new sports skirts 10.50 far below regular prices Tweeds, homespuns and plaided velours mostly in the swagger wrap-around style many models finished with fringe in an extraordinary selling today only at 10.50! Quantities of new and novel weaves all sizes and every new spring coloring will be found at this one low price for Wednes day only 10.50. Sports Shop, Second Floor ESTABLISHED 1864 A Charge Purchases Payable in May! DRY CMADA IS DEMANDED ANTI-LIQCOR - 'LEADERS URGE PREMIER KING TO ACT, Dominion Head Declares Himself Opposed to Prohibition, but in Favor of Temperance. OTTAWA. March 28. Prohibition advocates today called on Premier King to make all of Canada bone dry. The premier promised the sugges tion for a dominion-wide measure to supplant provincial liauor laws would receive careful ' consideration by the cabinet, but said no such measure would be introduced at the present session of the house of commons. Explaining that his ministers had had hardly enough time to familiarize themselves with their problems, the premier added that for his own part he did not favor prohibition in any thing, although he favors temperance n everything. He assured the dele gation that waited upon him that the government would do everything It could to foster the temperance move ment and in assisting the provinces to enforce the laws as they stood. In considering any measure to ban the manufacture, importation and ex portation of intoxicating liquors in Canada, the premier indicated that a careful study would be made of how the experiment was wormng out in the United States. The delegation was headed by J. B. Carson of Montreal, president of the dominion alliance of Canada, who referred to the liquor traffic as an "immense evil which must be dealt with In the most drastic way." He then introduced Secretary Ben Spence, who told the premier that the manu facture of liquor in Canada was on the increase. Importation also had increased since the war-time restric tions were removed, he said. Mrs. Asa Gordon, president of the Women's Christian Temperance union, said that the women of Canada had been asking for the measure for 4( years. MILK COMPANY ELECTS Ridgefield Concern to Open Cheese Factory April 1. RIDGEFIELD, Wash.. March 28. (Special.) The Ridgefield Milk Prod ucts company last Saturday night elected the following officers: N. C. Hall, president; F.rank E. G. Royle, vice-president, and OTdin A. Hiim secretary - treasurer. Directors - in cluded N. C. Hall. Frank E. G. Royle, Robert W. Smith, William Tetz Jr., and Ordin A. Hiim. The local concern will reopen its cheese factory here April 1, and al ready enough milk for a steady run has been assured. The plant's1 capac ity is 9000 pounds of milk daily. The company will operate three automo bile milk truck lines In this part of Clarke county, collecting milk as far north as La Center. here, which closed March 16, because of influenza, will reopen Thursday March 30, according to information obtained from reliable sources. . At first it was decided to close for one week, but as conditions did not per mit resumption it was decided to re main closed for another week. At the time of suspension more than half of the enrollment was ill. Professor C. E. Smith is principal. Ex-Mail Carrier Arrested. YAKIMA, Wash., March 28. Archie R. Mitchell, former rural mail car rier here, has been arrested at Gal veston, Tex., as he was about to sail for Japan and will be brought back to face charges of embezzling postal funds and rifling letters. , Mitchell was indicted here October 7, but the information was not given out until his arrest in the south. School to Reopen. RIDGEFIELD, Wash., March 28. (Special.) The rural school in the Sara district, seven miles south of . Reputed Forger Is Returned. MONTESANO, Wash., March 28. (Special.) Sheriff Gibson returned today from Seattle with W. J. Robin son, wanted in this county to face a forgery charge. It is alleged that Robinson signed names of officials of the San Carlos Timber & Trading Shave With Cuticura Soap The New Way Without Mujf saving Imbhim) lAMtMak stores WE FEATURE TODAY Full ONE POUND assorted flavors ft. Chocolates Regular $1 quality Per box today 39c Libby's No. 2 Grated PINEAPPLE Regular 25c, for today 14c Rosedale Sliced PEACHES (syrup) Regular 30c, for today 17c REMEMBER, WEDNESDAY IS SKAGGS FEATURE DAY PORTLAND LOCATIONS: 249 Yamhill St., 291 Yamhill St., 226 Yamhill St., East 10th and Burnside Sts., 811 Williams Ave., 52d and Sandy Blvd., Corner East Thirteenth and Miller Avenue (Sellwood), 906 Alberta Street. i NEW SHOW TODAY TILL FRIDAY 11P.M. re Stn. With an all-star cast ' ' yM VS IF IT BE A SIN for a girl to listen to the call of spring in her. blood THEN MARTHA QUE ED SINNED IF IT BE A SIN to be kissed by the man who promised to marry her THEN MARTHA QUEED SINNED IF IT BE A SIN to wed a man she loathed THEN MARTHA QUEED SINNED But if her father forced her into this loveless marriage, then upon whose heart is the sin? ALSO COMEDY- -SCENIC- -KEATES COMING SATURDAY RICHARD B ARTHELMESS in "THE SEVENTH DAY" if i 'iTli;r!iriri' c&mpany to checks which he passed n Aberdeen last summer. A number of merchants were victimized. Rob- inson was arrested in Portland two I him. When the charges brought months ago, but Seattle authorities there were dropped he was turned exercised a prior right and extradited 1 over to Sheriff ;ihson. NOW TODAY! ,-; sv Gloria and her gorgeous gowns were merely a trademark for her husband until a lot of things happened. Thereby hangs the tale. KNOWLES PICTURE PLAYERS Artists Who "Play the Picture." SCREENLAND NEWS The best issue yet. See Mary Garden's arrival and the famous, kiss. ::::::: Other items. mmmm dWk'fr l 1 1 i