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THE MORNING OREGOyiAN, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1922 I PRINCIPALS IN SENSATIONAL BREACH OF PROMISE CASE NOW IN NEWS. YOU MAY GET THIS TOUCHING MELODY OVER YOUR RADIO NEXT WINTER, E No, Perry, Not in Portland! Gas Co. Sales Dept. Permanent Stabilizing" . Coal Industry Aim. rime. CovEb .cke; CHANCE PRESENTED NOW "S.e.YVfeta US, "SO WE.LL - Indications Are That Hoover's Plan for Solution of Problem Is to Go Into Effect. PRESIDE WOULD "THE. G BY MARK SULLIVAN. (Copyright by the New York Evening ;. rost. rumisdea Dy Arrangement.) WASHINGTON, D. C, July 27. (Special. ) Anybody who has access " to expressions of public feeling t throug-hout the country must be aware that there is just beginning , a rising tide of appreheifsion, more acute than before,' on the part of manufacturers and other business men as to the possibility and effects ' of a really serious coal shortage. It is said, among other things, that . this psychological factor has slowed " down or halted the business activ - Ity which was just getting momen tum. This apprehension is accom. panied by a disposition to make t dub'ous queries as to whether the administration has handled its rela tion to the coal strike in the best . imaginable way. If you were to give a single answer to the question it. would probably be that Mr. Hoover for more than a year has foreseen that this situation was coming, has - looked forward to it and has put an ,, immense amount of work himself, -.besides that of his department, into ' preparedness for it." The mere fact that there was so large a degree of ... preparedness on the part of the gov- ernment to handle the situation jus - tifies the guess that it would have been difficult to do better than has been done. ' Public Vitally Concerned. 2. Of course, it might as well be ad mitted that if the government had kept out of the situation and merely announced that it would at no time take any hand in the strike except to maintain order, probably more coal would be coming out of the t mines today than is the case. The moment President Harding cauea ior arbitration production at nonunion mines was increased dally. .Moreover, tne price of coal was , reaching a point that made tt ; profitable and tempting for the op erators to open their mines, pay any wages the miners asked and pass the bill on to the public in the :,. shape of an increased price for coal. But it has become a part of the public policy of the country that tho federal government shall take no i tice of coal strikes and save the . public both from the scarcity of coal and from the high prices involved .' in such strikes. It may or may not De good policy, but it is overwhelm- ingly assented to. Old-Timer in Minority. The number of people has become very small who hold old-fashioned v views about the constitution, or that ' there is in the constitution neither authority nor obligation io4 the ex ; ecutive department of the govern- ment to guarantee a comfortable winter. About the only conspicuous man in public life who still holds " tnese old-fashioned Jeffersonian and " Jacksonian views about the limita- tions of the constitution is Sena- , tor Reed of Missouri, and anyone " who believes that Harding should have kept himself out of the coal J strike ought also to hope that Jim Reed will win in the Missouri pri- - maries next Tuesday. Undoubtedly .;: the administration was compelled r to lay hold of the situation by the overwhelming weight of public opin- - Icn and was justified by precedents j established, by Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt. Having determined to intervene, it is evident that the administration - determined to do it thoroughly. It . .ucm nuw, ana wyi De more apparent later, that the administra- tion is going to try not only to cure . the present situation, but to take - steps which will prevent the recur- rence of it in future years. That is ? what the White House talk of guar- anteeing to the miners at least 280 , days' of work a year means. Courage Now Required. It is a daring thing to do, 'to go 2 beyond the present emergency and . dig into the deepest fundamentals of the coal business at a moment of such chaos as the present. It is the . more daring when additional com r plexity is given to the situation by the concurrent railroad strike. It would be much simpler, and the .': chances of easy success would be ; -greater, if the administration con- fined itself to the emergency only, and let the larger matter await a ; time of less difficult conditions. But the thing Hoover learned ;;' during the past year is that when .), things are going relatively smoothly .. , the various parties interested are " unwilling to take the necessary ., steps for the permanent stabilizing C of the industry, it is well known that for many months Hoover has :, had the thought-out plan that goes to the heart of the industry. He has urged it on the parties inter- ested, but they have been unwill :. ing. ':- The present emergency gives the government Its chance to put the ", permanent cure into effect. What the details of this plan for per manent stabilizing of the coal in "1 dustry may be are not known. From such hints as come out of the White House one would guess that there .- would be, on the- part of the oper- ators, a guarantee to the miners of ';v?a minimum number of work days in .. . a year and that the operators would be permitted under government scrutiny, to torm regional co-opera-' tive selling agencies, somewhat like - the farmers' co-operative associa .. tions that have Been so beneficial both to the farmers and consumers. clgok for this sign at Caias and other dealers They will flush your crankeu with Clol Fluhini Oil ufe. thorouth nd rSU with Zerolcne ior Cor rect Lubrication. STANDARD OIL COMPANY , (Cilifernw) . . ' I CRANKCASE Pill JL CLEANING llllll ggf . SERVICE ir HIGH SOCIETY FOLK TO BE CALLED AS WITNESSES. What Actress Missed by Not Be ing Wed Is One of Problems That Is Fascinating. (Continued From First Page without word from him and Evan sent the last message Sonny has ever had from her. 'You failed to keep your prom ise today. What can it mean? Is It possible that you are going to force me to take legal steps against you? As ever, Evan.' "No answer has ever come.' Ferxeoution Is Charged. Besides ' this, Mrs.. Fontaine has said that her daughter was the vic tim .of persecution just before the birth of the baby. Her account contains references to a secret pas sage dug by hired investigators into the cellar of a lonely cottage In the Jersey woods in which the two women were at one time in hiding; It alleged an unheard-of violation of their privacy when the things they wrote and the things they said and the things they whispered were re corded for enemy ears by means of dictaphones, bribery and theft; it affirms that old friends of the' Fontaine family who had the temerity to support them at the trying moment when Evan was a penniless patient in a maternity hos pital severed their friendships be cause they lived in a fear inspired by a campaign of intimidation". The most determined attempts were made to intimidate the two women when, the exile to Towaco nded, Mrs. Fontaine brought Evan to a hotel In Grammercy square. New York city, to await the moment for childbirth in the nearby Lying- in hospital. By this time Evan had been long unemployed and the women were near their last dollar. In their extremity they accepted loans from John J. Meagher, Chica- goan, to whom Evanhad once been engaged. They did not know until nearly a year later that the rooms which were so politely vacated by the manager of the hotel himself that they might have the square view had been rented for the two weeks prior to their arrival by a representative of the Whitneys. Nor did they suspect, until Adair told them, that it was tastefully and quietly furnished with a nice as sortment of dictaphones and that several of the hotel employes had become agents of the opposition. STRIKES WORRY CHIEFS (Continued From First Page.) survey, certification and policing certain local needs under priority orders issued or to be issued. Emergency most acute and requires best efforts of all under common plan If distress, which will come, is to be mitigated." Mr. Atterbury's visit to the Whit House was believed to mark the be ginning of a series of conferences by the president with rail executives n an effort to bring about a solu tion of the seniority problem. Mr. Atterbury upon emerging from the White House indicated that the president had not been able to make much progress. President Harding also conferred today with Director-General Davis of the railroad administration. Sam uel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, com menting on the interstate commerce commission's emergency orders, said that If the action of the government s what it appears to be in assum ing control of coal and food move ments by rail, the workers and the people generally have every right to feel a sense of satisfaction. HEAVY SAVING PLANNED (Continued From First Page. sion at the Multnomah hoteL The meeting will be participated in by lumber producers from the Pacific northwest and elsewhere. Policies of association concern will be dis cussed, notably the question of adopting the plan of standardiza tion. Today the visitors will inspect municipal terminal NO. 4 and will have luncheon there. At night there will be a dinner to the national di rectors. Bootleggers Heavily Fined. TILLAMOOK, Or., July 26.(Spe cial.) R. W. Keppler was found guilty yesterday by a jury in the justice court charged with selling intoxicating liquor at Paoifie City. Justice of the Peace Stanley imposed a fine of $300. Arthur Edmunds, whose trial was set for today on a like charge, pleaded guilty and was fined $100. S. ft H. green stamps ro Holman Fuel Co., coal ana Broadway 6353; 660-21. Adv. r casn. wood. Summer prices on coal. Phone Dia mond Coal Co., Bdwy. 3037. Adv. V mmm wm mmm wmmmm Plfiifpl mmmmmmm& iiPl5piipiiiiiiil c Photo From Keystone View Company. . Top Evan Burrows Fontaln and her nn. Belon- Cornelius Vanderbilt (Sonny) Whitney- Jr. LEVY TO BE S40.4D1709 i 1 STATE TAX COMMISSIONER FILES 1923 REPORT. Decrease of $715,000 From Fig- lire of 1921 Shown by Est!- mates Just Prepared. SALEM, Or., July 26. (Special.) The total tax levy for the year 1922, based on the tax rolls for the year 1921, is $40,401,709.21, exclusive of the so-called fire patrol levy of J72.296.41, according to a statement prepared here today by Frank J. Lovell, state tax commissioner. The state tax levy for 1921, based on the tax rolls for the year 1920, was . $41,117,367.71. showing- a de- crease of approximately $715,000 for tnis year. The decrease, Mr. Lovell said, was due to a reduction in the valuations in Multnomah county amounting to more than $1,000,000 The total levy, as segregated by the state tax commissioner, fol lows. State, $9,376,289.11; county, $3, 977,473.91; county, school and school library, $2,378,871.54; high school tuition, $683,885.24; special school, $8,138,617.20; general roads, $3,625, 397.36; special roads, $819,013.46; market roads, $1,135,167.79. Bond Interest and' redemption. Cigarette It's toasted. This on extra process Clves a rare and delightful quality impossible to duplicate. Guaranteed br cser $1,114,789.98; special cities and towns, $6,910,832.37; irrigation and drainage, $1,064,504.74; ports. $1, 222,986.31; miscellaneous, $53,080.20; fire patrol, $72,296.41. Phone your want ads to The Ore gonian. All its readers are inter ested in the classified columns. Shoes Success and Happiness Slioes that irritate end by making a woman herself irritable. You've met and done business with irritable women you know ' their uncon sciously reduced chances of achieving- success and happiness. Escape that irritation which im pulsively produces short answers, and causes people to form a wrong impression of you. Every Canti lever Shoe is made, like 'your own foot, with a flexible arch, and with a natural inner sole line, also with the trim rounded toe and the lower heel in style today. - - YOU FEEL BETTER No sTif'f shank cramps the free ac tion of your foot. Your ligaments and muscles all exercise as they need to exercise. Your circulation imDroves: your vigor and endurance are In creased ; you feel better, and, natur ally, you look better. Cantilever comfort might well he yours in place of the irritations of ordinary shoes. Cantilevers prevent and correct fallen arches. They will add to your health and good spirits; by freeing you of unnecessary Irri tations, they will help you to a larger measure of success and hap piness. Cantilever Shoe Store ' 2S3 Alder St, Portland, Ot. PRESIDENT'S PHYSICIAN RE .FUSES TO STEP ASIDE. Docfr Declares There are More Than Enough Hospital Beds for Disabled Soldiers. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, July 26. Briga dier General Charles E. - Sawyer, President Harding's personal phy sician and chief co-ordinator of the federal board of hospitalization. In a statement today declared he would not be '.'forced, cajoled or stam peded" into abandoning his policy In providing for the care and treatment of disabled war veterans. His statement was in reply to the demand of Colonel A. A. Sprague of Chicago, chairman of the national rehabilitation committee of the American Legion, that he "step aside" and make way for someone who would adopt a more liberal atti tude toward the disabled veterans. "It is the determination of the present administration to give-the disabled world war veterans the very best of hospital service that can possibly be provided," said Gen eral Sawyer, '"and it shall be mv constant effort and my policy to pro- ceea wun reason, efficiency and economy in carrying out such of its affairs as come to the attention of the federal board of hospitalization. From this position I will not be lorcea, cajoled or stmapeded." Answering Colonel Sprague's charges that the hospital facilities are inadequate, General Sawyer stated that there are over 10,000 beds unoccupied today in govern ment hospitals, and added that sev eral thousand additional beds are to be supplied In the near future. General Sawyer's statement was accompanied by letters from other members of the hospitalization board indorsing his stand and assuring him of their support In his contro versy with Colonel Sprague. General Sawyer made public a copy of a telegram sent by Colonel Sprague on June 21, 1922, in re sponse to charges of other American The Charm of the Summer Home is in freedom from kitchen smells and kitchen drudgery. Keep the home sweet and clean and the meals whole some and ; appetizing by serving with fresh fruits and green vegetables. Shredded Wheat is a ready-cooked whole wheat food. Nothing so appe tizing as the aroma of baked wheat. Sets you up for work or play on sultry days the most real food for the least money. Two Biscuits with milk or cream make a complete, nourishing meal. Eat it for breakfast with sliced bananas or prunes;, , for lunch with berries; for dinner with sliced peaches; apricots, stewed raisins, or other fruits. Ready-cooked, rcady-to-eat. Pacific Coast Shredded Wheat Co., Oakland, Cal. The old M. T. bucket Is now a full bucket; Briquets filled the bucket And now all is well. W. H. B. Legion officials that Sawyer was responsible for delays in providing adequate hpspitalization, and that he is ineligible because of the age limit for his army position. Colonel Sprague's telegram said: "1 have been as closely in touch as any individual with the hospital programme for disabled ex-service men and I know and state here that the charge that the general has de layed the hospital programme is false. The latter part of the charge is too trivial and futile to answer. General Sawyer has given much val uable advice and assistance to this work and I am sure that misinfor mation and ignorance of facts are responsible for this ridiculous and unfortunate statement." ' Theft of Poor Man's Car Rated Heinous Crime. Federal Judge Puts Colprlt Away or Two-Year Term. AMERICA was made safe for flivvers yesterday when Fed eral Judge Wolverton sent Harry Wilson, convicted auto thief, to the Leavenworth penitentiary for a two-year term for the theft of a Ford automobile. "The thief who steals some poor man's Ford is a worse criminal than the one who runs away with a rich man's Cadillac," Assistant United States Attorney Maguire said. "The loss to the rich man is greater in dollars but the car can be replaced. The poor man, who has saved for years in order to provide himself P. and family with a vehicle for pleas ure, is the greater sufferer." Judge Wolverton, in commenting on the case, evidently was of the same opinion. "There are too many ' automobile thieves and too little a' regard for the law. and ttie other man's prop erty. Two years in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan." Wilson, with Thomas Murphy, took the car from Los Angeles, starting on a trip to the east. Mur Thousands are to ' "Scenic Wonder of the Earth" Beautiful and mysterious is this blue lake that lies within the heart of a hurnt-out volcano. . Comfortable accommodations and service are provided for visitors. LINES I . Upper Klamath Lake By going via Klamath Falls on your trip to Crater Lake, you may stop over at resorts in this section where fishing and camping are always fine. OREGON CAVES NATIONAL MONUMENT "Oregon's Marble Halls" This wonderful work of nature must be seen to be appreciated. It is reached daily by automobile from Grants Pass, over a good road. Accommodations and meals are provided at camp near caves. ' ' $21.30 and $23.55 Round Trip From Portland $10.00 Round Trip From Grants Pass Read about these places and others in our ,1922 "Oregon Outdoors"-folder and you will surely want to see them. For further particulars inquire at City Ticket Office, 4th st, at Stark; Union Depot, East Morrison St station, or write SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent. "If ever I get married, FU certainly try to forget the fact." Oscar Wilde. SURE DEATH as an Exterminator. uogp, squirrels ana utner Koaents. manufactured Only by DITUIS CHEMICAL CO., LOS ANGELES, CAL. Sold In atzes of 6 ox., 10 n. and 20 ok. We (iet Rid of Your' , Gophers for $1.00 an Acre. s " Thanks to the Summer Price on Gasco Briquets. phy did not know that it was stolen, paying Wilson $300 for a half interest in the machine. At Board man, Or., where funds ran low, the pair were caught burglarizing a ga rage. Murphy was tried by the state court at Heppner and sent to Salem penitentiary for a seven-year term. Phone your want ads to The Ore gonian. All its readers are inter ested in the classified columns. going ' Lake EXCURSION FARES $30.75 and $33.35 both ways via Medford $33.90 and $37.35 one way via Med ford and the other via Klamath Falls Gopher Git-'er Is all machine poisoned raisins and fruit. Gophers Do Not Eat Bar ley. They eat - raisins and fruit, the sweeter the better. ' Kills Gophers, Prairie Rats, 7 i