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Ji THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY, APR Hi 19, 1923 HOUSE ROW BITTER row MEASURE "Big Force" Men Accused of "Backing Down." FIGHT RAGES FOR HOUR Failure to Offer Amendments Add ing to Appropriation for Com ing Year Starts Storm. WASHINGTON', D. C. April 18. Decision of "biff navy" men on the heels of their victory for a bigger enlisted force not to offer amend ments to the 1923 naval bill providing money increases for shore station activities provoked a bitter row in the house today, in the course of w-hich Chairman Kelley charged "they had backed down, expecting the sen ate to complete the job." Starting unexpectedly, it raged for an hour or more and drew many into the fray. The "good faith" of those who had changed their plan at th eleventh hour was questioned by Chairman Kelley and Representative Alondell, the republican leader, an quickly resented by those wJio ha put through the- amendment Increas ing the personnel from 67,000 4-6,000. Storm Breaks Suddenly. Ready with proposals, one callin for J6,0(K.000 additional for the bu reau of construction and repair, an another $2,000,000 for the bureau ngineers, the forces opposed to the committee measure agreed to let th Dill get along aa framed. When th englzieer aection was reached and no a. voice was lifted in an effort amend It, the leaders on that side glanced up at Mr. Kelley and grinned anii Mr. Kelley grinned back. Then all at once the storm broke. It came while the house was consid ring the Item providing commission , la The navy only for 2O0 of the 64 members of the first-year class Annapolis. Pending was a proposal to commission all. Denial la Made Later. , There came later a denial from Sec Tetary Denby, transmitted through -Representative McArthur, republican, Oregon, of the charge that the de partment contemplated putting- into aervice a large number of destroyers more than allotted by the bill. Hal a dozen members, including Repre entatives Tague, Massachusetts, and Raker, California, both democrats, re sented the insinuation that thei stand for an adequate navy was actu ated by selfish motives In behalf of navy yards. The storm subsequently blew away, hut it broke again with unexpected Tury when Mr. Mondell. pressing th Dig-navy iorces, declared he was surprised that the amendments had not been offered when the section were reached in view of the request last week that they be passed over until the personnel had been fixed - Mr. McArthur, one of the leaders lor the kfc.000 enlisted proposal, de clared that Mr. Mondell ought to put In the amendments himself, "or for ever afterward hold his peace." Mr. McArthur said he was not concerned with any effort to obtain navy-yard increases and that he would not nec essarily vote for the amendments, which had been expected, but which were not introduced. Propaganda I hnrned. After conveying Mr. Dehby's denial - of the reported proposal to add to the fleet, Mr. McArthur said he had been informed by Rear-Admiral Pot ter that the cost of maintaining 19, 000 additional enlisted men would be J22.000.000 and not $60,000,000. as claimed by supporters of the bill. Mr. McArthur declared that backers of the bill were "given much discomfort, because we did not load it with shore station pork, as they had thought." A poster displayed at the Brooklyn navy yara and signed by Captain C. I. Vogeisang, the commandant, sav ing among other things there was the possibility of some yards closing if xne Dili was passed and read to the house by Chairman Kelley "as an evi dence of navy propaganda to get more money. Commissions Are Limited. The provision limiting commissions as ensigns to first classmen at An- napous was approved. The amend ment by Representative Swing, re publican. California, increasing from approximately $15,000,000 to $19,000. 000 the amount appropriated for sub sistence of officers and men to meet the increased personnel, was adopted S3 to 77 The bill 13 expected to reach its passage stage tomorrow. Chairman Kelley declared during debate that the enlistment amendment ought to be voted down and that there would be no escaping a rollcall. After a final checkup tonight, Mr. McArthur, speaking for tiie leaders on his sMe, said the f 6.000 proposal on rollcall would win by 60 votes. Colonization company in thia county, recently returned from a trip through the forest above Cascadia, inspecting trails and telephones. He round mucn more siiow In the mountains than Is usual at this time, and there will be more work than usual In clearing the trails and repairing the telephone lines. . He will soon put on a crew to do this work on the company's tim ber lands, which extend from the Sweet Home section to the summit of the Casoeraes. The company maintains a fire pa trol through the summer in addition to the patrol maintained by the gov ernment. Mr. Nye is also in charge of this work for the company and has seven or eight assistants through the season. In Lebanon he purchased a truck to use in forest patrol work. The truck will be kept loaded with supplies and fire-fighting equipment, and w&en informed of a fire the men can start out in about five minutes. PANTAGES SUSPECT HELD "Jingling" Johnson to Be Quizzed on Robbery of Safe. Mingrlingr' Johnson, known tn police as a competent safecracker, fcut who . claims to have "retired" from active operations, was arrested last night by Inspector Thatcher's men in the Pantages theater as a suspect in the Pantages theater rob bery staged Sunday morning, when the safe was blown and $1800 stolen. Johnson was enjoying the per formance. Inspectors said they had received a tip that Johnson was involved in tthe robbery and that he would be closely questioned. ELECTION PARLEY TODAY Chamber Members " to Discuss Tickets and Candidates. Members of the Chamber of Com merce will meet this afternon at 3 o'clock in the green room to discuss tickets' and candidates for the elec tion of directors to be held next week. The nominating" committee has named Max Hirsch, Roy T. Bishop, Ralph D. Burnside and James. F. Clarkson, and the, members have nom inated by petition Harrison A. Whit ney and A. C. Callan on a separate ticket. The house committee has nominated by petition Clay S. Morse, chairman of the house committee this year. Five directors are to be elected and the election will take place all next week from Monday to Friday night. The members today will discuss the posible combination of the tickets. T. H. Edwards, chairman of the elec tion committee, has announced that all petitions must be in by tomorrow morning. PUBLIC IS ACCUSED DFNARCOTIGSLAXITY Mayor "Answers Query Mrs. Thompson. of DRUG EVILS DISCUSSED Canon W. H. Bliss Gives Interest' ing. Address at Auditorium. Governor Also Is Speaker MR. WITHYC0MBE RETIRES Brother of Late Governor 'Will Not Make Race for Office. SALEM, Or., April 18. (Special.) James Withycombe of Yamhill, who recently filed for the republican nom ination for governor at the primary election May 19. will not make the race. This was announced today in a letter received by tne secretary of state from Mr. Withycombe. Mr. Withycombe. in ftis affidavit of withdrawal, said his action had bee guided altogether by his niece. Miss Mabel Withycombe, daughter of the late Governor James Withycombe. "In deference to the wishes of the family of the late James Withycombe," said the candidate, 1 will decline to make the race." "With the withdrawal of Mr. Withy combe from the contest, there are six republican candidates in the field Ben W. Olcott. Incumbent; Charles Hall of Marshfield, L. B. Bean of Eugene, J. D. Lee of Portland, I. L. Patterson of Eola and George A. White of Portland. LAW DON AND BROWN WIN (Ocmtimied From First Page.) mayor in, the primary election today. having received approximately 13, 500 votes against approximately 10,000 'El '"IT ! si 1 - - - ! ! ...... a,,,." I Mrs. Henry Landeg, elected to Seattle council. otes cast for the other 11 candidates, 'red Shoemaker, who resigned as city commissioner to make tne race, was second. For councilman, Claire Bowman and H. Roy Harrison were the high men n the final election on May 2 they will be opposed by J. J. Murray and Harry M. Smith. Thirteen candidates were in the race for the council Mr. Fawcett has been, mayor five lmes before and was recalled? twice. Orpheum m-atinee toi y. 1 5-25-Po- A d- MOUNTAIN SNOW IS DEEP M. J. Xye Returns From Trip Into Cascades Inspecting Wires. SWKKT HOME, Or.. April 18. (Spe cial.) M. J. Xye. who is In charge of the lanos of the Oresron and Western sic' I rate 5 Sir I, -as' There's a world of difference between clothes that are tailored and styled correctly and clothes that are just clothes. omm bro: TAILORS Northwestern Bank Bide. 101-106 Mezzanine Floor. WOOD FUEL IS CLEANEST Costs Less Than Other Fuel. um nr a tvt fc S. & H. Green Stamps FUEL CO. Broadway 6333 Automatic 560-21 At the close' of-an address full of interest on the narcotics evil last night at the auditorium by Canon W. H. Blis-s, president of the Seattle White Cross, Mayor Baker was asked by Mrs. Alexander Thompson, presi dent of the Portland Federation of Women's clubs, why it was that city officials had) taken, no interest in the war on narcotics until five months ago. Mayor Baker replied that five months ago, when an active campaign started. Mrs. Thompson, as1 head' of the wamen's clubs, had been askeJ to co-operate, but that during the series of meetings since that tima Mrs. Thompson had not had! sufficient interest to attend any save that of last night. Interest Declared Larking. "Tt is just because women who hold positions such as yours take no in terest in these things that officials do not bestir themselves," replied Mayor Baker in effect. He said, for Mrs. Thompson, that her organiza tion had! been represented) at the aeries of meetings by a committee. A man in the audience, rather touched by ttie mayor charging the public with criminal indifference in not supporting the anti-narcotic cru sade and by not packing the audi torium at last nights meeting in stead of turning out only 800 strong, said he presumed the public left it up to the enforcement of the -Harrison act by federal officials. "Yes," retorted! the mayor, "a lot or you leave the enforcement of the prohibition law to the fedieral offi cers, too, and go right ahead! patron izing the bootleggers." A man from a small city up-state testified "that an addict in his town was unable to get narcotics there, but got a supply readily enough from a prominent Portland' drug firm. Governor Olcott Speaks. Governor Olcott made a short in troductory talk, saying that. Impor tant as the armament limitations con ference proved, it dealt with no more vital problem than that of the war upon narcotics. Canon Bliss quoted Mayor Bauer for the statement that 20 years ago there were perhaps 25 addicts in Port land! while today there are 6000. He said the 2,000.000 or more addicts in the United States spend1 S10, 000,000 daily for their supply of drugs. In Portland alone, he said, $15,000 goes into the hands of drug peddlers every day. "There is not a community of 50 persons in Oregon or Washington but has cases of narcotic addiction," he said. "In a village of 175 people in eastern Washington one of our agents found nine addicts within a few days. There is not a poolhali In the northwest but is the headquarters of a narcotic peddler, the most loath some individual on earth. "One man told me he sold S23.000 worth of dope In Tacoma within 60 days, recently. Since we have made it hot for peddlers in Seattle, they are coming to Portland, and Tacoma is full of them. There is no cure for drug addiction. It is a disease and not a habit. As far as derivatives I of opium are concerned, they con sume the fatty element of the nerve cell and the drug itself supplies the debilitated nerve with force. Here and there there have been cures. www liio grace oi ij-oa is me only imng mat can De said to be a cure. Students Declared Addicts "Our high school students are learning what it is to have 'snow parties!" Boys and girls of. 15, 16 and 17 years are in our clinic, addicted to drugs and venereally diseased. 1 That's what 'snow parties' mean. 1 "The narcotic evil Is the greatest menace in the world today. It is a crusade as great as one directed against liquor, war and preventable disease, all rolled into one." Mayor' Baker, who presided and in troduced the speaker of the evening, said 90 per cent of arrests by the police for petty crimes were of drug addicts and two-thirds of the pris oners in the county jail and the state penitentiary were addicts, while at the Cedars the majority of the women were addicts. He said the public does not realize the gravity of the menace, and urged that everyone get behind the crusade in the most active fashion. Rev. Oswald W. Taylor, president of the Portland White Cross" chapter, asked everyone present to .enroll as members in the new organization and thus identify themselves with the work. AVARXIXG GIVEN' TO STUDENTS Canoh V. H. Bliss Delivers Ad dresses in Portland Schools. High school students of Portland' yesterday, many for the first time, received a close-ui view of the trag edy that lurks in the path of nar cotic addiction. Canon W. H. Bliss told a brief story to the high school students. It set forth the ease by which young boys and girls can fall into the use of narcotics and the disastrous results that are certain to follow. He ex plained how all the students might aid the authorities in fighting against this evil, which, he ileld, was the greatest that has ever confronted the American people. Governor Olcott, Mayor Baker. School Superintendent Grout and E. K. Whit ney, assistant superintendent of schools, accompanied Canon Bliss on his tour to the high schools of the east side, which was made yesterday morning. . . The first meeting was held in Franklin high school, followed by meetings "in the Benson Polytechnic school, Washington and Jefferson. In the afternoon a mass meeting of pupils of the Lincoln high school and the Girls' Polytechnic school was held in the public auditorium, where Mr. Bliss again spoke. KIRBY TO APPEAL AGAIN Case of Alleged Murderer to Go to U. S. Supreme Court. SALEM, Or., April 18. (Special.) The habeas corpus proceedings brought . in behalf of Elvie Kirby, in the pen- : itentiary here awaiting execution for the part he played in the murder of Sheriff Til Taylor of Umatilla county, will go to the United States supreme court for final determination. This was announced today after the Ore gon supreme court had denied Kirby rehearing. Attorneys for Kirby base their pro ceedings on the cfaim that the capita punishment law is unconstitutional. in that in enacting the law the voters subtracted from rather than added to GPcT ) 00 J cJ Merchandise of cJ Merit Only In Justice to AH Women Who Are Entitled To Every Extraordinary Advantage That This Store Has to Offer It Is Announced That NoW omen s Dres ses Are to Be Sold Here Today or Thursday On the Third Floor B E C A'U SB Because there is to take place here next Friday a dress sale of such proportions, of such importance, and featuring such low prices, such amazing price savings, any dress sell ing today or Thursday is to pale into insignificance in com parison. v Details are a secret now Thursday's evening papers arid Friday's Oregonian will tell everything. the bill of rights. Attack also is made upon- the method of enacting the constitutional amendment re establishing capital punishment in Oregon. -. Orpheum matinee today, 15-25-50-Ad. - 1 1 ' ' ' I i 1 I Hfeddy Sailings tidLivei pool ft II Celtic II Baltic Hit t May Records Headed by the famous 24,541-ton Adriatic, formerly with the Olympic in the Cherbourg - Southampton route, four splendid liners are operated by the White Star Line in the service from New York to Liverpool, calling at Queenstown. ' The others are the Baltic (23,800 tons); the Cedric (21,000 tons) arid the Celtic (21,000 tons). These ships maintain a regular schedule of Satur day sailings. Aboard them the traveler enjoys a stand ard of comfort provided by' the same experienced White Star service which has made the international reputation of the Olympic and which today obtains as well on the magnificent Homeric and the world's largest shp, Majestic. You land in the greatest gateway to English travel near the Welsh Mountains, the Shakespeare Country, the famous English Lake District and Scotland. Early sailing dates: April 29, June 3. May 13, June 10. 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