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THE MORXINO OREGONIAN. SATURDAY. APRIL 15. 1922 FRENCH 10 SOVIET DELEGATES MULE Informal Meetings Give Hopes for Compromise. MOOT POINTS COVERED Allies Insist That Russia Recognize Czarist Debts Before Making Claims to Entente. GENOA. April 14. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The bolshevik dele- c-atns and the reDresentatives of ' France to the economic conference broke bread together today at the residence of Premier Lloyd George, and there has been an appreciable - rise, as a consequence, in the ex ' pectations that the conference may have good results, even in the most pessimistic quarters here. The occasion for the meeting of the " soviet and French delegates at one table was m. conference which began at 10:30 o'clock this morning and ' lasted throughout the day, in -which i. t. t : T? nl irl i ti Ttallan nnri British representatives participated and during which. Mr. Lloyd George invited au oi mem to lunuueuu. Compromise In Hope. The meeting was called by Mr. Lloyd George for a discussion of the Russian problems, with the purpose of clearing up uncertain points of the London experts' report before the Russians present their final reply to it. This carrying out of the most vital part of the business of the confer ence into such an informal gather Ing, where personal contract may possibly remove much of the animos ity displayed in the public sessions, has created a general feeling that a compromise may be arranged on the Russian problem which will afford a satisfactory working basis for the reconstruction of Russia. The keynote of the allied position at the conference today was that Russia first must satisfy past pledges before obtaining any concessions for the future. In other words, Russia must recognize the debts of the czarist government before soviet claims against the allies can be en tertained. Germany Aaked to Attend. Tomorrow morning the experts of the four inviting powers who were present at today's meeting, again will gather at Mr. Lloyd George's villa, and in the afternoon they probably will be joined by the principal dele gates of the five countries. Germany has not been asked to attend these private conferences, as she was not a party to the making of the London experts' report. The straightening out of the most points in the report will be effected at informal meet ings before Germany is called in. It has been expected that Russia would make her reply to the report of the experts tomorrow, but this reply now has been postponed indefinitely. The Russians have caused a state ment to be circulated through M. Ftakovsky, the Ukranian premier and other delegates, to the effect that Russia already has enacted laws and made court reforms and regulations affecting foreigners residing in Rus sia which meet many of the criti cisms of the London experts" report regarding the soviet government and that they also have expressed a will ingness to acknowledge pre-war debts and signified their purpose to erase their claims against the allies arising from the operations of the Wrangel, D e n e k i n and Yudenitch armies against the soviet regime if the allied war claims against Russia are wiped out. PROMPT REPLY INSISTED ON Russians Must Answer by Today, Asserts Iiloyd George. LONDON, April 14. (By the Asso ciated. Press.) A Reuter's dispatch from Paris tonight says a French Bemi-official statement, issued at the close of today's meeting of the "big four" of the Genoa conference, quoted Prime Minister Lloyd George as hav ing declared that unless the Russian delegation had given a favorable reply by 11 o'clock tomorrow morning to the proposals presented this week, tho Genoa conference, so far as the Russian question was concerned, ould bo ended. The meeting or the commission tealing with Russian affairs was again postponed today, going over to next Tuesday on request of the Russians, who are waiting for in structions from Premier Lenine. While it was Russia and not Ger many whose problems were press ing to the forefront tnrtav tv.., h ousslons outside the committee ses sions brought the broad question of Germany's posit'on into consideration, chiefly in connection with the atti tude, of France toward the confer ence in general. This arose through the suggestion which Is coming from various quar ters here that as the conference pro ceeds, there is a growth of the same tendency as existed at the Washing- ion conierenco lor trance to fall Into the position of defendant, and to some extent also in a position of political Isolation. This, it is pointed out. is chiefly the result of France's rigid stand on the question of German reparations. However, while determined to ad here tenaciously to the decision that there bo no discussion of reparations at this conference, French spokes men today declared it would be un fair for the impression to go abroad that France was indisposed to help Germany to get on her feet. As to the Russian question, it is reported that Mr. Lloyd George de sires to have this settled, insofar as this conference can settle it, before his departure at the end of the month. The remainder of the questions at Issue those of finance, economics and transport might be discussed after ward either here at Genoa or else where, it is pointed out. In. the latter case, it is probable the commission on transport would meet at Brussels and that on finance at London. No local1 lty has been mentioned as a possible meeting place for the commission on economics. its absurdities? The further we pro ceed with it the more absurd it gets." Mr. Steed comments that notwith standing his respect for the eminent statesman quoted he finds it impos sible to accept that conclusion and does not think the time opportune to write a critical story of the confer ence. The conference, in his opinion, should be counted a success if it leaves the European situation no worse than before. Referring to the reported plan of Prime Minister Lloyd George to pro pose a military holiday, Mr. Steed I discusses it in connection with the Cannes resolution that all countries refrain from aggression against their neighbors, and asserts that at tempts to give practical value to the resolution must take into account that it Is superfluous insofar as it merely duplicates article X of the league of nations. He questions, since Germany and Russia are not yet members of the league, whether it would be worth while to duplicate an important provision of its covenant in order merely to admit Germany and the bolshevik!, or whether their adhesion to article X, pending admis sion to the league, would not meet the case. Moreover, says the editor, coercive measures against infractions of the engagement, undeniably are neces sary, and should Great Britain pro pose them it is expected the British delegation would indicate-the forces England is ready to supply in event of violation. In the opinion of Mr. Steed the Russians, on strong grounds, are op posing the London experts' report con cerning Russian debts, mixed trib unals, consular representation and the protection of foreigners. The proposal regarding Russian courts and the application of foreign law obviously is incompatible with soviet jurisprudence, which is based entirely on new principles," he con tinued. "Since there is not yet any definite bolshevist civil or penal code, the bolshevist courts, guided by what is known as a 'revolutionary con science.' discriminate in favor of the accused, provided they can prove proletarian origin or 'services ren dered during the revolution.' "To ask the bolshevlsts to renounce the advantage conferred by this sys tem of jurisprudence is, obviously, unfair; yet, unless it is renounced, the conference may find itself on the horns of a dilemma or, at best, mov ing in a vicious circle." SEMEHDFF HISSED 10 BOOED IN JAIL Cossack Leader Still Held for $25,000 Bail. POLICE CHECK CROWDS Tlirong Roars Angrily and Pushes Forward When Prisoner Is Taken Out for Exercise. GOVERNOR REtLY UPHELD HARDING HAS UTMOST COXFI DEXCE IX OFFICIAL. Executive Does Not View Situation in Insular Possession as Serious In Any Way. WASHINGTON, T. C. April 14. President Harding has the utmost confidence in the integrity of Gov ernor E. Mont Reily of Porto Rico, it was said today at the White House. The executive, it was added, does not view the situation in the insular pos session as serious, although it was said there have been some irritating features in connection with recent developments there involving Govern or Reily and other officials. Action by President Harding was forecast today following a visit of Secretary Weeks to the White House. The secretary of war said that he had arranged for an extended conference later on insular matters, particularly with respect to the Philippines ana Porto -Rico. Justice E. Finley Johnson of the Philippine supreme court, who is now in Washington, is expected to partici pate in the contference on matters re lating to the Manila administration. There were no indications as to the nature of the action the president might take in the Porto Rican con troversy. VALLEY TO BE EXPLORED Expedition Starts From Balboa for Hostile Indian Region. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) BALBOA, Canal Zone. April 14. (Special Cable). Mitchell Hedges, an English explorer, with Major Fitz- vv uliams, manager of a plantation and a taxidermist, started from Colon yesterday for a four weeks' trip near the Colombian border. Hedges hopes to enter San Bias bay ancKlo cross the continent divide into the Cnucunaque river valley region which, because of the hostility of the Indians, has not yet been explored. Hedges seeks data concerning the inhabitants of the region and spec' mens of Its mammals and reptiles. NEW YORK, April 14. General Gregorie Semenoff. ataman, of the Cossacks, was still in Ludlow street Jail tonight waiting for J25.000 bail. Crowds perched everywhere waited for him, not to cheer, but to hiss and "boo" the leader of the Cossacks. Most of the thousands who milled about the Jail during the -day knew the Cossacks. Most of them were men and women of Russian descent who live in the thickly settled dis tricts of the lower east side. If they did not know themselves what the hard riding Cossacks can do, they had been told by their fathers or mothers who had fled from Russian massacres. They had no love lor Semenoff.. Police Reserves Called Ont. Early in the day police reserves were called out. They milled with the throng, ready to avert any pos sible trouble or to open a passage way through the crowds when callers came to the jail. Once or twice the reserves went into the -tenements nearby and drove the people from the roofs. When the rotund general with his unmistakable mustaches, which flow over his broad cheeks to points under his eyes, was taken out for exercise, the angry roar of the crowd drowned all police orders and there was a concerted but futile push to ward the jail doors. Colonel Kroupsky, a former czarist officer, once district attorney in Petrograd, went to visit Semenoff, his chief. He was hissed and booed as the police made a wide lane for him by main force. The colonel would not talk. He hurried inside, conferred with the general and hurried out and away. Mme. Semenoff, the smiling young woman who has stood behind her husband for more than a week of trouble, did not visit the jail. She contented herself with going to church and sitting in her hotel wait ing for news of a bail bond. Ef fort to Win Release Falls. During the day the general's attor neys were busy seeking to get the $25,000 bond, but company after company refused on "patriotic' grounds. An effort to have Semenoff released through a legal vacating or his arrest failed and the crowd milled on. A new effort to release the Cossack will be made tomorrow. It wyi be through habeas corpus. If it fails there is nothing the attorneys can do, they say, but wait until the end of the hearing in which the Your oveta Home & Foreign Trading com pany is seeking to get information on Semenoff's property. The general wants to sail fcr Europe next week, but his attorneys today said he probably would not. last seven months in the islands south j of here. j The letter to Dr. H. G. Gregory, head of the museum, said that 600 j species of Marquesas plants had been collected by Professor Brown and Mrs. Brown, who accompanied him. These are "most valuable, are mainly entire ly new material bearing on the age and origin of the flora of the Pacific ocean," he wrote. "The ancient Mar quesang knew plant anatomy and bad names for everything in the anatomy cf a woody stem that can be seen without a lens. One of the members of the royal family, who constitute the most intelligent Marquesans, and have given us considerable help, se lected a woody stem and indicated each of the various tissues of the stem giving each the native name." - OHIVE FOR BILL PLANNED FRIENDS OF SMITH-McNARY MEASURE ARE LINED UP. AT PEACE TABLE CONFERENCE OPENS IN DUB LIN, BUT SESSION IS SHORT. CRITICISM HELD INOPPORTUNE Conference Success if Europe Is Iieft No Worse, Says Mr. Steed. GENOA, April 14. (By the Asso ciated Press.) In a dispatch to the London Times today Henry Wickham Steed, editor of the paper, quotes a European statesman "who, since it was decided at Cannes to hold the Genoa conference, has worked lnde fatigably to assure its success," as exclaiming yesterday: "Cannot some body write a true history of this conference; cannot some critic show LOGGER DIES OF INJURIES Aberdeen Man Hurt Six Months Ago Succumbs. ABERDEEN, Wash., .April 14. (Special.) A. W. Davis, 50 years old. who was injured about six months ago in a camp of the Wynooche Tim ber company, is dead as a result of his injuries. Davis suffered a frac tured skull when struck on the head by a falling limb. He was brought to a local hospital where his injuries were dressed and was discharged, but returned a week ago suffering from a relapse. Mr. Davis formerly lived in Seattle and it is said he was a member of a Masonic lodge. "GREAT MUSICIAN" BURIED Funeral Services Are Held for Mar tin Freeberthyser. ST. LOUIS. April 14. Funeral serv ices were held here today for Martin Freeberthyser, 89, the last of the fa mous Swiss bell ringers. Freeberthyser entertained Frederick William II of Prussia and was known as "The Great Musician." The Free berthyser family came to the United States from Switzerland in 1848 and as a theatrical troupe toured the country five times. Martin Freeber thyser also played for President Mar tin Van Buren. Lender of Auto Liable. OLYMPIA. Wash., April 14. (Spe cial.) When the owner of an auto mobile permits a person he knows is likely to become intoxicated to drive his car, and an accident follows, the owner of the car is jointly liable for damages resulting from the accident," the supreme court held today, affirm ing Judge Ronald of King county in the case of R. H. Mitchell and P. Mills versus R. I. Churches and A. E. Colbard. Churches owned the car which Colbard was driving when it collided with a machine owned by Mitchell and Mills. The latter got judgment for $747.25 against Colbard and Churches jointly. Umatilla Postofflce Advanced. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, D. C, April 14. The postoffice at Umatilla has been ad vanced to presidential class as of April 1 and the postmaster's salary fixed at 8 1000 a year. Ulster Parliament Takes Recess and Minister of Finance Ex presses Optimism. DUBLIN. April 14. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The peace conference summoned by Lord Mayor O'Neill of Dublin began its sessions in the Mansion house at 3 o'clock Thursday with leaders of all factions present. The conference adjourned late in the afternoon until Wednesday next without any agreement having been reached. It is reported the earnest wish was expressed by all the parties represented that there be no inter ference with public matters. At a meeting of the dock board the chairman of the custom house dock committee announced that in the recent whisky raid in Dublin nearly a million gallons of liquor were de stroyed. The loss to Donville dis tillery, he said, was $70,000. BELFAST, April 14. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The Ulster parliament has adjourned to May 16. Finance Minister Pollock expressed pleasure that the recent agreement reached in London between the northern and southern leaders had brought about comparative peace. He added that the Ulster government had taken the necessary precautions to meet any emergency that might arise along the border. CORK, April 14. Armed men at tacked the Middleton barracks, Coun ty Cork, yesterday from two sides. The occupants of the barracks replied from within, and the attackers failed to dislodge them. No casualties were reported. MEXICO WANTS SERVICE Through Bill of Lading Meeting to Be Held in Houston. HOUSTON, Tex., April 14. Manuel Padras, chairman of the executive board, and B. Valdes, general freight agent of the National Railways of Mexico, will meet in Houston Thurs day with representatives of American railroads making Mexican border con nections to arrange the re-establishing of through bills of lading privi leges between the United States and Mexican points. This announcement was made last night by George B. Aleman, general agent and purchasing agent of the National Railways of Mexico, with offices in Houston. Traffic officials joining in the conference will work out a plan of restoring privileges ex isting during the administration of Diaz. Since that time all freight has been re-billed at border points, entail ing considerable delay and extra expense. Committee Assigned to Canvass Membership of House Looking to Passage of Act. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington. D. C, April 14. Final plans for the drive in congress to enact the Smith-McNary J350.000.000 reclamation bill into law were com pleted today when western members received their assignments to com mittees which are to convass the full membership of the house in the in terests of the measure. Burton L. French, representative, Idaho, as chairman of the canvass ! committee appointed at a recent din- Ilcr ui tr o tri 1 1 i l '..ji..iv.. , the assignments and mailed out the notices to his colleagues. For the purposes of the campaign the states are separated into groups ana inree representatives are assigned as a committee to canvass each group. The committees, together with the state to which they are assigned, are as follows: Klnkald, Nebraska; Lyon, Kansas, and Summers. Washington New YorK tparw. Kansas. Tennessee. West Virginia and Washington. Coltoo. Utah: Lazaro. Louisiana, and Webster. Washington Louisiana, Mary land, Kentucky, Utah and Iowa. Larson. Minnesota: Rankin, Mississippi, and Sionott, Oregon Oregon. Minnesota, New Yoik (part). South Carolina and Mis- Lea, California; Riddick, Montana, and Smith, Idaho Pennsylvania (part), Maine, Idaho, Montana, Michigan, Arkansas and Connecticut. Raker. California; Williamson, South Dakota, and French, Idaho Indiana. South Dak6ta, Virginia, California and Massachusetts. Arentz, Nevada ; Drane, Florida, and Young. North Dakota Nevada, North Da kota, Florida, Pennsylvania (part) and Illinois. . Hayden, Arizona; McCormtck, Montana, and Vaile, Colorado Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey. North Carolina, Wisconsin and Oklahoma. Bankhead, Alabama; Barbour, Cali fornia, and Leatherwood, Utah Ohio, Mis souri and Alabama. Hudspeth, Texas; Lankford, Georgia, and Montoya, New Mexico New Mexico. Texas, Georgia, Delaware, New Hamp shire, Rhode Island and Vermont. trike Hi dJm af fra.i story RULES MADE FOR HUSBAND MAN WHO WOULD NOT STAY HOME MUST HELP WIFE. Co-operation . in Domestic Duties Imposed by 1 2 Regulations With Jail Alternative. As spring comes slowly up the way, over half a million men, accustomed to spend their days mining coal far underground, are out in the sunshine in their little gardens with their children dig ging up the soil and planting vegetables, while seedsmen in coal towns report a record business. Coal operators, as their mines are not working, have gone to join their families and play golf at Pine hurst or Hot Springs. Government officials blandly tell us that there is nothing in the coal strike situation to call for Federal intervention, the Secretary of the Treasury perceiving no harm to busi ness in the first weeks. But, perhaps, the great consuming public must be alarmed, anxious, frantic, in the face of the greatest strike in history, with all the anthracite and most of the soft coal mines shut down, with 600,000 striking miners added to the ranks of the unemployed. Quite the contrary, for, to judge from editorial comment, the public views the coal strike calmly. As one wrier puts it, "the public sits as a bored spectator until its bins are empty or its pockets." It is to be remembered that the strike which began on April 1st is a double-header. Anthracite and soft coal miners are striking together for strategic reasons, but with different ends in view and under different circumstances. The hard coal miners call for a 20 per cent wage increase and their representatives are now in conference with the anthracite operators. The soft coal miners call for the retention of their present wages in the face of the operators' demand for reduction ; but the bit uminous operators have been unwilling to meet the representatives of the workers in a joint con ference to decide on a basic wage-scale. When the strike was called on April 1st somfi 560,000 union workers, more than 400,000 in the soft coal fields, and an undetermined number of non-union men responded. For all the particulars the underlying causes, the situation as it now stands, and the prospects for settle ment of this great industrial upheaval you should read THE LITERARY DIGEST this week, April 15th. It presents the strike from all angles. Other leading news-articles in this number of THE. DIGEST are: Latest News From the Radio World The Radio Telephone On the Farm Combining; Radio and Wire Telephony A Life-Boat Equipped With Radio A Receiving; Station AVithout Aerial News by Radio for Rail Passengers Illustrated With Diagrams and Half-tone Photos PEORIA, 111., April 14. Arrested on complaint of his wife, who said her husband would not stay at home, Wil liam Beedler was sentenced by Police Magistrate Hall to observe 12 rules of the court, calculated to promote domestic felicity. They are: Take care of your children an hour each day. Help your wife prepare the break fast. Get a job at once. Stay home at least five nights a week. - Take your family out walking at night and on Sunday. Start a savings account. Wait on yourself instead of mak ing your wife wait on you. Repeat to your wife at least once a week your marriage vows. Wash the dishes every night. Allow your wife to handle the fi nances of the family; Go to church with your family every Sunday. Stop drinking. If this plan works, the judge said, he would try it on other erring husbands. If it does not, they will have to wash dishes, make beds, sweep floors and wash windows in jail. Russia Approaching" Recognition Ireland's Rocky Road Grows Smoother The "Soft Money" Issue Looming Ties With Germany Renewed Another Cabinet Fight Over the Forests How Europe Views America's Refusal to Go to Genoa Scottish Orange and Protestant Party Britain's Divorce Law "Scandal" Soviet Try-out in South Africa The West Is Wealthy Is the Corn Belt Drying Up? Heating Orchards With Stoves Killing Echoes With Paint A Jazz Ballet The President's Appeal to Halt Law Breaking Izzy, the Busy Rum Sleuth, and His Dizzy Life Gandhi, Enemy of Western Civilization Personal Glimpses of Men and Events Reviews of New Books Topics of the Day Many Interesting Illustrations, Including Cartoons The mw e at u mm mm w a 1 Be a Reader of I i JiJJL I Jjm JiSLai j) The IMeraryl w m The Literary Digest Atlas of New Europe I A new Volume; 20 large Colored Maps; descriptions of j ) all European Countries. Paper 50 cents; Boards $1.00 ( Order from Your Ne ws-dealer CORRECTION OF "MISIMPRES SIOX" IS REQUESTED. evening spent in the brook he gets soaked when the club strikes the water, but added: "I am no worse off than the spearer who falls head over heels when his weapon fails to hold him up after making a drive at a sucker and missing the mark." DOGS ATTACK WOMAN Attempt to Separate Fighting Ani mals Is Cause of Injury. LOS ANGELES, Cal., April K. Mrs. Iva Hart, 45 years old, assumed the role of peacemaker when she saw a number of dogs engaging in a bat tle royal on San Fernando road. The dogs, however, were not ready for peace, so looked upon Mrs. Hart as merely another combatant. When the dogs had finished their battle Mrs. Hart went to the receiv ing hospital, where various parts of her body, including a seriously bitten ear, were treated. FAIR EASTER PROBABLE (ConttnuPd From First Pajye.) day and a light thunder storm oc curred. The snow was mingled with the raindrops and none of it remained on the ground, even on the high bills. Pioneers said that the weather this spring is the worst they have seen in many years, although their diaries have recorded similar wet and cold periods at long intervals. FLORA FOUND ABUNDANT Marquesas Isle Fertile Region for Studies in Botany. HONOLULU, T. H.. March 8. (By ma.il.) The Marquesas islands are the most interesting region in existence for botanical studies, according to a letter received here from B. H. Brown, one of the scientists attached to the Bishop museum, who has spent the Community Club Meets Today. EATONVILLE, Wash., April 14. (Special.) There will be a meeting of the Eatonville community club to morrow night at the Edgertoiv "school for the primary purpose of adopting by-laws and a constitution. The speakers will include County Agent Oldroyd of Tacoma. J. G. Raley, cash ier of the Eatonville state bank; Mr. Davis of Benston, and others. The business meeting will be preceded by a short entertainment and followed by a basket supper. , Plantings to Cover Big Acreage. NYSSA, Or April 14. (Special.) Large acreages will be planted to potatoes and other crops in this vicinity. A crop survey made by the Nyssa Commercial club shows plant ings as follows: To potatoes, 893 acres; to lettuce, 96 acres; onions, 62 acres; other vegetables, 23 acres; grain, 2467 acres; red clover, 347; alfalfa, 2195. Secretary Declares He Does Not Approve Open-Price Associa tions on Economic Grounds. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 14. Secretary Hoover has requested Sam uel Untermyer of New York, in a let ter made public today, to "correct the misimpression" created W his assert ing that the commerce secretary was insisting upon legality of so-called open-price associations. Mr. Hoover's letter was in reply to one written by Mr. Untermyer regarding the confer ence of representatives of interna tional and interstate trad associa tions held here Wednesday at the com merce department. "Mr. Untermyer's statement," Mr. Hoover said in making public his reply, "apparently arises from his oversight of the word 'not' in various statements by this department on its economic views and relations to trade associations. "Far from extolling so-called 'open price associations," the department has consistently stated that it cannot and does not approve them on economic grounds. Whether legal or illegal, they constitute les than 10 per cent of the trade associations of the coun try, it is the function of this depart ment to deal with the 90 per cent of constructive elements in American commerce and industry, while rt is Unfterms'er's business to deal with the minority of destructive elements." In his letter Mr. Hoover declared there were a great number of legiti mate trade associations performing invaluable services in the business world, which should be assisted in every way to enlarge their usefulness. He added that he was familiar witto the activities of such trade organiza tions and knew none of them which had drifted into the twilight zone be tween legality and illegality. GIRL DRUGGED ON TRAIN Young Woman Found Unconscious on New York Street. NEW YORK, April 14. Miss Ruth Kennedy, found lying on the side walk in West End avenue early Thurs day, told police she had been drugged by two strange men while on an east bound train near Ashtabula, O. The young woman said she formerly lived in Milwaukee but had conducted a beauty parlor in Cleveland for some time. . She added she became dissatisfied and decided to come east and on Monday morning took a train for Buffalo. She became ill, she declared, on ths train and was given something to drink by one of the two men. They took her from the train at Ashtabula and gave her another drink, after which she said she became uncon scious. She was taken to a hospital. Liquor Aids "Hot Dog" Sale. LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 14. Al leged sales of "hot dogs" for 50 cents each, with a drink of bootleg liquor thrown in, caused a rush of business to the establishment of Dan Boedgis and Ben Duncle, according to the pro hibition enforcement agents who ar rested them. POLITICS SEEM IN PLAN FARMER HELD NOT NECES SARY ON RESERVE BOARD. Scheme If Carried Through Sure to Cause Trouble, Declares Member of Organization. SAN FRANCISCO, April 14. The proposal to put a farmer on the fed eral reserve board Is political, John R. Mitchell of Minnesota, a member of the board, declared in an address before a local club yesterday. 'Tut ting a farmer on the federal reserve board is like adding a fifth wheel to a wagon," Mr. Mitchell said. Mr. Mitchell declared that if the scheme were carried into reality dif ficulties would be sure to follow, because there was no room for politics in the banking system. He declared the board was the "most misunder stood and misrepresented" part ot the government's financial structure. Adolph C. Miller, another board mem ber, supported the statement. Mr. Mitchell declared that feellnu .was engendered against the board because many Individual Danners, members of the federal reserve sys tem, when unwilling to make loans, passed the responsibility for thpir apparent inability to grant accommo dations onto the federal reserve banks. Price structure has been stabilizing for three months, Mr. Miller M. Prices that have been low have gone up and exorbitant prices hava been lowered. "The return of complete prosperity and the solution of the economic problems of the United States can be gained only when the affairs of Europe are put on an orderly basis,' he said. 6. & K. green stamps for eaah. 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Helmer, who claims to have learned the trick when a young man in the old country, admitted that during an ORIENTAL CAFE Newly Re-opened, Fresh and Fragrant With Poppies and Cherry Blossoms Special 35C Lunch Served From II A. M. to 8 P. M. CHINESE AND AMERICAN DISHES AT ALL TIMES Dancing and Music DINNER AND SUPPER Lizar's Orchestra BROADWAY AT WASHINGTON STREET Lee Bing Goon, Manager REDUCED ROUND-TRIP FARES On and After Saturday, April IS OREGON ELECTRIC RY. Tickets on Sale Daily Return Limit Seven Days After Sale. ALBANY $1.20 BEAYERTON K CORNELIUS J.H5 CORVALLI3 I.KO " DONALD 1.0 EUGENE .. FOREST GROVE. . 1.50 HARRISBURG ... 5.05 HILLSBORO 1.15 JUNCTION CITY.. 5.85 OR EN CO i5 S A LFsM 275 TIGARD fSO TUALATIN SO WILSON VILLE .. l.!5 WOODBURN 1.95 Proportionate round-trip fares to all other stations south and west .of Garden Home. These fares apply in both directions. PORTLAND TICKET OFFICES: Third and Waahlnatan Sta. 'North Hank .Mutton Tenth and Stark Sl. 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