TTTE M03KW2rG OREGOXIAS, WEDNESDAY. MAT 31, 1923
PORTLAND STUDIES
EAILR04D SYSTEMS AS POSSIBLY AFFECTED BY SUPREME COURT DECISION AGAINST SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
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ILH DECREE
Possible Reaction on City Is
Debated Here.
LOCAL EFFECT DISPUTED
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Order Separating Southern, and
Central Pacific Roads May
Be Harmful, Is Fear.
The decree of the United States
supreme court ordering the separa
tion of the Southern Pacific and
Central Pacific railroad systems has
loosed a flood of speculation among
shippers and those familiar with rail
road history of the coast. While of
ficials of the systems affected as yet
have little to say about Immediate
effects of the dissolution, Oregon
railroad and shipping interests are
busily figuring on what the future
may bring forth.
Perhaps of paramount Interest, as
several authorities pointed out yes
terday, Is the question as to whether
the Union Pacific will not obtain
control of the Central Pacific. If
the Union Pacific does thus obtain
& direct overland outlet at San Fran
cisco, as well as Portland, as many
predict will be the case, what will
be the effects on Portland?,
Proposal Not New.
Control of the Central Pacific's main
line from Ogden to the San Francisco
gateway by the Union Pacific Is not
a new proposal. In 1912 the papers
were all prepared and the stage set
for sale of this line to the Union
Pacific. Because the sale was to In
clude exclusive lease of the short
cut line from Sacramento to the bay,
the California state railroad commis
sion objected and the deal fell through.
In 1921 the report of Professor
William Z. Eipley, made to the inter
state commerce commission on con
solidation of rail lines, recommended
that the Central Pacific be made a
part of the Union Pacific. This was
one of a few of his recommendations
the commission did not accept.
Decision la Reversed.
The interstate commission said In
Its findings that "the possible trans
fer of the Central Pacific from con
trol of the Southern Pacific company
to the Union Pacific is one of the
gravest single issues calling for de
termination." Through 15 pages of
Its findings it then debated the ques
tion before reaching the conclusion
that control by the Southern Pacific
should not be disturbed.
Obviously the supreme court deci
sion upsets the conclusion of the In
terstate commerce commission. It
Elves Justification for Professor Rip
ley's recommendation.
It is said for Portland shipping in
terests that acquisition of a coast ter
minal at San Francisco by the Union
Pacific might affect this city adverse
ly, but there is no particular fear
that it actually would: hurt Portland.
Shorter Route Menaced.
Fear ia expressed, however, that
dissociation of the Central Pacific
from the Southern Pacific may serl
ousily delay the Natron cut-off proj
ect and the proposed Unking of Klam
ath Falls with the Central Pacific
branch north from Fernley, Utah. The
latter project would provide a much
shorter eastbound) route for southern
Oregon product than now exists.
An official of the Southern' Pacific
Testerday expressed) the opinion that
a rehearing of the whole merger suit
may yet be had before the supreme
court. He pointed out that the decree
was that of but one Judge, while there
was dissent by another. The fact
that the case has been befora the
court since 1914 might constitute an
other reason for the granting of a
rehearing, this official held,
BANKERS ASK GUARANTEE
French Family at The Dalles Has
Plan for Settlement.
THE DALLE S, Or., May 80. (Spe
cial.) Members of the French family,
directors of the defunct French & Co.
bank, desire a guarantee from the de
positors of the bank that property
owned by the estate will be considered
as full settlement against claims of
the creditors, before the property is
placed In the hands of a trust com
pany, it was announced today.
A meeting of depositors has been
called for Monday night, at which
time the issue will be settled one way
or another. Unless this guarantee Is
forthcoming, the Frenchs may refuse
to turn over their property for use in
liquidating the deficit left by the
bank, it was said. Under the plan, de-
cided upon, the French property, con
slating of many valuable business
blocks in The Dalles, would be placed
under the administration of a trust
company ror four years, the money
realized from the same to be used in
paying the depositors in full. If, at
the end of the four-year period, 100
per cent has not been paid, enough of
the property would be sold to make
up the difference.
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'RUU" Miil'" Y " ROCK ISLAND - SOUTH ERKi PACIFIC SYSTEM -
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nuj cancelled Ched
proves it
What can the merchant do but admit his
mistake and apologize; your cancelled
check leaves no room for argument it is
undeniable proof that the bill has been
paid.
To err is human. The merchant who, be
cause of some mistake in his records, asks
you to pay a bill twice, should not be
judged too harshly.
Pay your bills by check and leave no room
for argument.
Small accounts
are welcome
GLTOK
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'Jori1iae Portuvnd. Oregon Qid
TUMALO RECLAMATION PRO J
ECT TO BE COMPLETED.
Portland y( Contracting Company
" Agrees to "Perform ! Work
lor $317,751.75.
BEND, Or., May ' SO. (Special.)
Reclamation of the remaining 11,000
acres of the 16,000-aere Tumalo Irri
gation project was made certain last
night when the directors of the Tu
malo district awarded the contract to
the United Contracting company of
MAXIM G0RKYSHUT OUT
Russian Author Is Not Allowed in
Franco to Recover Health.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub'
llshed by Arrangement.)
PARIS, May 30. (Special Cable.)
Premier Poincare has aroused French
literary men, the entire radical so
cialist press and the followers of both
by refusing to allow Maxim Gorky,
the Russian author, to visit France.
Gorky is ill and wishes to take a
rest in the south part of France.
Anatole France, Romaln Rolland
and Henri Barbusse have made a
personal appeal to the government to
allow the Russian to recover his
health on French soil, but the Poin
care cabinet has refused to heed their
requests.
Now a huge petition Is being signed
by deputies, authors and artists be
longing to all parties, but there is no
Sign of the government relenting.
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PACIFIC LINES AS LEFT BV DECREE ANNOUNCED MONDAY.
HOLDINGS. BELOW SOITHER.V
IS
WILLAMETTE VALLEY WORK
TO BE INSPECTED.
State Association Signs Up 2 0 Cars
for Trip Planned for Jane
1, 2 and 3.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis, May 30. (Special.)
The three-day field tour of Wil
lamette valley wet lands by the Ore
gon State Drainage association,' June
1, 2 and 3, is expected to speed up
drainage and improvement of the
1,000,000 acres in western Oregon.
Officers of the association, drainage
specialists from the United States
department of agriculture and the
state college, and farmers interested
in drainage reclamation, will inspect
wet and drained areas on both sides
of the river.
Registration indicates that the in
spection party will be larger than
ever before. Twenty cars already
have been signed up for' the entire
trip, while county delegations headed
by county agents will join the main
party for visits to local points of
interest.
The itinerary of the tour is as
follows:
Thursday Start from Marion hotel,
Salem, and inspect tile plant and Lake
Labish reclamation. Luncheon with cham
ber of commerce. Arrive at Albany 2:30
alter inspection or Albany bottom proj
ect. Visit Oak creek and other nearby
projects, and farm of Percy Stearns, which
has been successfully tiled. Go by way of
ir-iainview 10 rownsvine ana examine
Sodom ditch, to Coburg by Country creek.
Rowland and Coburg projects. Irrigation
projects on way to Eugene, where enter
tainment will be provided by chamber of
commerce.
Friday Start from concrete works and
visit Long Tom and Amazon projects west
of Eugene, see ditching at Meadowvlew,
and Inspect projects at Muddy, north of
Monroe, reaching Corvallis for luncheon by
the association in the college tea rooms.
Ohpprve students In drainage work laying
tile, and study experimental drainage on
station farms and on farm north of Gran
ger, and extensive tiled fields on Knowl's
ranch, five miles north of Independence.
By way of Crowley project trip will be
continued to McMinnville, where entertain
ment will be provided by chamber of com
merce. Saturdays-Study of drainage problems in
Dayton prairie, Wapato lake, and Wash
ington county district No. 7. Luncheon and
adjournment at Fores Grove.
Rev. "W. H. Boday. The class Is com
posed of 24 girls and 12 boy a.
DAMASCUS HAS FIGHTS
Serious Disorders Reported In
Many Large Cities of Syria.
DAMASCUS, May SO. (By the As
sociated Press.) Serious disorders
are occurring here and in many of the
large cities of Syria as the result of
the arrest of Dr. Shanbander, the
Ghandi of Syria. General Gouraud,
the French high commander, has just
arrived in Beirut from Paris and has
taken personal charge of the situa
tion, which is regarded as grave.
In spite of threats made by Gen
eral Gouraud that he -would resort
to stern measures in dealing with
anyone who might be found desirous
of disturbing public security, fresh
disturbances again occurred in Horns,
Hama, Aleppo, Daraa and Houran,
necessitating the dispatch of troops
to quell the rioters. All the prisons
are filled with revolutionists. In a
statement issued to the press. Gen
eral Gouraud attempted to regain the
confidence of the people by telling
them of new arrangements reached
between himself and the French gov
ernment and French societies, for the
economic development of the country.
Hood River to Graduate 36.
HOOD RIVER, Or.. May Sft. (Spe
cial.) An upper valley resident yes
terday told of the burning of
the class of 1922 of the Hood River
high school will be held at the school
auditorium Thursday evening, when
the address will be delivered by B. F.
Irvine of Portland.
The baccalaureate sermon was
preached at the Riverside Community
church Sunday morning by the p as t o r,
Hood River Orchard Home Burns.
HOOD RIVER, Or., May 30.-An
upper valley resident here yesterday
announced news of the burning of
the home of Walter li. Mason, pioneer
orchard developer of the community
and goods roads enthusiast. The
fire, which resulted in a damage of
$5000, partly covered by insurance,
was caused by a defective kitchen
chimney. But a small amount of fur
niture and household goods was
saved. ,
Auto Camp .Popular.
HOOD' RIVER, Or, May 30. (Spe
ctal.) Recent warm days have made
the free automobile camping park
here one of the most popular places
of the city. The passage of transient
tourists has increased rapidly the
past week, and now each night finds
an average of 10 camping parties at
the oak-covered camp grounds. Scores
of Portland folk motored here Sun-
cay and today on outing parties, and
the park was crowded with pic
nickers.
Virginia Apple Crop Failure.
HOOD RIVER, Or., May 30. (Spe
cial.) Advices received here from
W. F. Wagner, owner of a Willow
flat orchard place, who resides at Phil
aiielphla, were to the effect that the
frosts prevailing last month overVir
ginla cut down the year's apple crop
in the commercial districts of that
state by 70 per cent. Mr.. Wagner
wrote, however, that the peach crop
of the state would be up to the iO-year
average.
Auto Park to Open.
REDMOND, Or., " May 30. (Spe
cial.) The public automobile camp
grounds of Redmond will be thrown
open to the traveling public June 1.
It Is electrically lighted, it has run
ning water, a large community
house containing a range and all
necessary furniture and plenty of
fuel. S. B. Whitten will be on the
job at all times to give to the trav
elers any information needed and
to see that they are made comfortable.
Redmond Graduates 22.
I'FDMOND, Or., May 30. (Spe
clal.) Graduation exercises were
held Saturday afternoon at the gym
uasium for 22 students who had just
completed the eighth grade at Rd
xnond.
That Tired Feelin:
Is Just A Much a Warning as
"Stop, Look and Listen."
It Indicates run-down conditions
and means that you must purify
your blood, renew your strength
tone, and your "power of resist
ance," or be in great danger of se
rious sickness, tba grip, flu, fevers,
contagious and infectious diseases.
Do not make light of it. It is
serious. Give it attention at once.
Ask your druggist for Hood's
Sarsaparilla. He knows this good
old family medicine is
Just tha Thing to Taks in Spring
for that tired feeling, loss of appe
tite, debility. It is an all-the-year-round
medicine, wonderfully
effective in the. treatment of scrof
ula, catarrh, rheumatism and run
down after-disease conditions.
"My husband has taken Hood's
Sarsaparilla every spring for
years, and it always puts him in
shape. He is 58 years old." Mrs.
N. Campbell, Decatur, 111.
A mild laxative. Hood's Pills.
ood's Sarsaparilla
OVERCOMES THAT.JTI.RED FEELING, BUILDS Ufi HEALTH
I The Last Week
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You have until- next
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Don't Delay!
yon have a small rag, either Oriental
or Domestic, not over 15 square feet,
phone East 7300 and tell ns. We'll call
for H, give it a thorough cleaning and
return it without cost to you.
Many people have taken advantage of
this offer and as a result, are now
boosters of "The EnJce Way."
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Mam Plant
East Third and Ash
Branches
283 Alder St.
Liberty Theater Bldg.
365 E. 15th St. N.
Near Broadway
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East 7300
Exchange Sewlce
to All Branches
Portland at a bid of 3317,751.75, a cost
of virtually 29 an acre.
Bonds will be taken in payment.
C. M. Redfield of Beni for many
years engineer for the Central Ore
gon Irrigation company, has been
named district engineer, and under
his direction work will be started at
once on the construction of a diver
sion dam across the Deschutes within
tbe city limits of Bend, and on a canal
to carry surplus flow of the river,
which will be insured by storage at
Crescent lake, to the Tumalo feed
eanal.
Total cost of the reclamation proj
ect, including the bid on the work
which the United Contracting com
pany will have oharge of, will amount
to JoOO.000, according to P. N. Wal
lace, secretary of the district board
of directors. Metal flumes will be used
in conveying the water.
Read The Oregonian classified ads.
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Disastrous fires
take toll
In 1920, 15,219 people were burned
to death and 17,641 more were ser
iously injured in fires!
A hundred homes burn every day in
the year, yet fifteen millions are home
less largely because, of housing
shortage.
By far the great majority of fires are
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