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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1917)
9 TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. MAT 27, 1917. FOOD PRODUCERS OPPOSE RATE RISE Other Shippers Appear Before Commerce Commission to j.- Protest Increase. BIG NUMBER REPRESENTED traffic Organization, Boston Cham ber of Commerce and Commer cial Interests of Sioux City Favor Granting Request. WASHINGTON May 26. Food pro ducers and other shippers opposing the request of the railroads Tor a general 15 per cent Increase in freight rates began today the presentation of their tide of the case to the Interstate Com merce Commission. Several trade bodies also submitted evidence on the side of the roads. Representatives of Western food producers and Jobbers, fruit jar and bottle interests, natural ice manufac turers of New Jersey and Chicago, and the Colorado Grange appeared in op position to any increase. Those who supported the plea of the roads that an increase is justifiable were the Chicago Traffic Commission, the National In dustrial Traffic League, the Boston Chamber of Commerce and a committee representing Sioux City, la., commer cial interests. The Western food producers empha sized that no additional cost should be placed at this time on food products. persons were killed here late today, when a tornado struck this hamlet and destroyed six or eight houses. About 20 persons were injured. -Westervelt Is in Shelby County on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. The dead: Mrs. Mary Chrlstman. Miss Myrtle Christman. Mrs. Sadie Jackson. David McDonald. EAST 8T. IX)UIsT"lll.. May 28. Re ports received by the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railroad indicate that one person was killed and two were fa tally injured In the tornado at Modesto. IH. The property damage, according to the report here, was not large. JOLIET. 111., May 2. Manhattan, I1L, 10 miles southeast of Joliet. was partly wrecked by a wind storm late today and wreckage strews the road way for two miles out of the village, UNION COAL MII1EHS PROTEST TO WILSON Assertion Made Plan of De fense Counsel Disrupts Labor Agreements. A call for help reached this city to- GRAVE DANGERS FEARED night, saying that many were injured UnH,L UHWUCnO TCHntU and nossiblv some dead. Stores and homes were blown to bits. Elwood, six miles south of Joliet. was also damaged by the atorm. One boy was killed by lightning. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. May 26. Tele phone messages received here from Ashmore. 111., asked that all available physicians be hurried to Charleston, 111. The information was that scores had been injured in a tornado which struck Charleston and vicinity late this afternoon. "Wires to Charleston are down. Miners Must Not Be Chained to Soli in Spirit of Old Russian Serfdom, Declares Head of Mine Workers' Union. NEW YORK, May 26. Declaring that the programme recently outlined by the committee on coal production of the Council of National Defense would "place the great coal areas of the Na tion at the dictation of the avowed enemies of union labor, with all the calamities that would entail," John P. White, president of the United Mine workers of America, today addressed a protest to President Wilson and the members of the Council of National Defense. The mlneworkers, he asserted, "must not be chained to the soil in the spirit of the old Russian serfdom," as the ar rangement proposed by the committee on coal production "would chain them." A matter of grave concern to our Nation has been precipitated by the sudden development out of your, or- SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Mav 26. One 1 ganizatlon of a committee on coal pro- company of the Fourth Infantry, -Illi-1 auction whicn sets aside a complete nois National Guard, were ordered to I National agreement between mine- Mattoon. 111., for patrol duty, it was an- I owners and mine workers just re 'Easy to Pay the Edwards Way"! ST. LOUIS, May 26. According to ad vices emanating from the office of the Big Four Railroad in Charleston, -111., tonight. 32 persons were killed in the tornado that struck there this after noon. Long distance telephone connec tion had been established with Charles ton, but it was interrupted before it could be learned how many were in jured. DECATUR, 111.. Slay 26. Railroad offices here have received word of seri ous Joss of life in the storm at Charles ton, 10 miles east of Nattoon, estimates placing the number of deaths there as high as 250. A company of the Fourth Infantry, National Guard, has been or dered to Charleston from Paris. and declared that a 15 per cent rate nouncea tonight by Adjutant-General cently arrived at in New York City,' increase tvouia aisturD aii existing aa- Dickson The soidiers entrain at Ef- said Mr. White, in his letter to the juL.Mnta ueiween aistnouting centers finsham. President and Council of National De an well as many future contracts in canned goods and dry cereals. Already, they said, their products had sustained an advance of 2.3 per cent since 1914. Fruit Jobbers Protest. I A. Kinney, speaking for the West ern Fruit Jobbers and the National League of Commission Merchants, com posed of 30,000 growers, distributors, shippers and receivers, said the pro posed increase would fall heavily on the whole industry, and George J. Klndel, representing the Colorado in terests, proposed that an increase of 1 .cent per hundred pounds would be more equitable. The problem is not one of higher or lower rates, but of differen tials. Mr. Kindel said, contending that Houses in Assumption and Dunkel I fense. "By that agreement the basic industry of the Nation was placed on an assured foundation of adequate and uninterrupted coal supply. Co-operation la Offered. 'Speaking on behalf of the half mil lion workers of our organization, I call to your attention the fact that these are reported torn from their founda tions. CHAMPAIGN, 111.. May 28. Word of the disaster at Mattoon reached this city when a messenger came by auto mobile to ask help, fie estimated that the dead might total as high as 3o0 when reports were in from the farm-1 two notable conferences of the central ing regions. I competitive field and the anthracite A relief tram was made up by the I field offered to include, as an auxiliary Illinois Central as quickly as possible I to your own Council, joint committees and all available doctors and nurses of operators and workers to direct the were sent to the stricken city. production of coal on that basis of mu tual interest and mutual confidence and KAXSAS DEAD NUMBER 2 4 efficiency. "Doubtless through the immense I 1 A ioiii. rf Hllti.. .aat Imv linnn vnu inTraSner 1een,,8!.n?tfd.aa,nSt TweIve 1UUc'i at Andale and Others ?hat offer has been completely ignored unaer a 1& per cent general increase. . ,,,,, . ,,. ..,,, ,, oPu d' satisTy'he'sugaftrus?: whicn WICmTA. Ka, May 26The death protested against in time, and if not seems to get what it wants" ",,,v" list as a. result of yesterdays tornado successfully resisted at once, yourcom- W IL Younir renrP8fi,Hnr ih. -it near here t 24 shortly -rafter inittee on coal production-would place ,wV. ? " " i"?,..., "11.": noon today, the figures having been the great coal areas of the Nation at compiled from reports from the strick en district. These showed 12 to have been killed at Andale. a small town 23 miles north west of here, nine in the country dis trict near Sedgwick, two near Newton and one near Elblng. Eleven were said to be injured seriously at Andale. ieclared that since food products already had sus tained an advance of 23 per cent since 3914, it would be manifestly unfair to make any addition now. C. C. Childe, representing Sioux City commercial interests, declared they were not opposed to a general increase provided the Commission found it necessary. He asked that the relation between interstate rates and intrastate rates In bouth Dakota be preserved Potato Men Oppose Rise. The Eastern Shore Produce Exchange. composed of 5000 Virginia producers of Irish potatoes.' also entered a nrntcut through S. P. Westcott, who pointed out mat growers already had been bur dened by man new items of expense. H. C. Barlow, chairman of the traffic commission of the Chicago Chamber of I Head of American Association Says commerce and representing the Indus- BALL PLOT IS REVEALED PLAX TO FORM THIRD MAJOR I1UCIE STIRS MAGNATES. trial Traffic League, composed of 350 firms, said that in a referendum on the question 112 members had voted for and only 17 against a rate increase during the present emergency. He asked that the old relation between the lake and ail rail lines be restored, should the increase be allowed. J. A. Brown, of the Chicago Board of Club Owneri Will Art In Concert to Defeat Disrupting Efforts. CHICAGO. May 26. Existence of a plot to wreck the American Associa tion and form e, third major league was revealed at a special meeting of the dictation of avowed enemies of union labor with all the calamities that that would entail. I,abor Standards in Danger. It -would defeat the maintenance! throughout the war of those union labor standards of justice and efficiency to which the President of the United! States only a week or two ago so nobly pledged himself and this Government to maintain. It would set at naught thoso principles of industrial square! dealing which not only the United Mine Workers have successfully advanced. but which great associations of mine owners themselves have most splen didly and patriotically agreed to and Indorsed. 'Perhaps most of all, it would set the mine owners who have recognized decent, humanitarian standards among their workers at the mercy of the cut throat competition of the worst em ployers In the business. It would dis- rupt all standards, all decency, all genuinely patriotic ideals." "":". VJ , VJ ,CBS? ooara ,1 the association here today. The meet- I?;h X k. !,ncr(ea"e ! ing was for the purpose of formally granted the lake lines be made to-meet I -..,: ,, .t.u iv, nji.u i .1.. ..Icancelmg the inter-league series with the conditions surrounding the rail routes. Speaking for the Boston Chamber of Commerce, W. 11. Chandler said the organization had gone on record by a vote or 1317 to 30 as ravoring a rate increase. Under cross-examination he said there were several State street the clubs of the International League. The vote ror tne cancellation was unanimous. The plan to disrupt the association was outlined in a statement issued by Thomas J. Hlckey. president of the organisation. Hlckey, while declining RECALL MOVE FAILURE PETITIONS AGAINST DR. A. W. SMITH 2000 SIGNATURES SHORT. rectors, an' that Howard Elliot, of the fcew Haven, also was a director. (Continued From First Page. ing, but it was believed that many of these would be found tomorrow. Robert G. Duncan. Secretary of I Grocers Association. Active Spirit Behind Agitation. The proposal to recall Dr. Alan Welch Smith, school director, has failed by more than 2000 signatures, unless by ome new interpretation of the law it I is found that the recall can be author ized on signatures equal to 15 per cent! bankers on the Chamber! board of di-to mention the names of persons al leged iu uo imck ol m movement. said that a meeting of the association club owners would be caleld in the im mediate future and "all members will TORNADO BRINGS DEATH ?ci ,tn.c.?rt to defeat Mr. Hickey's statement In part fol lows: - It is safe to say that when the meetinor la called and ail cluh nwTtara are nresent thev will cl.nH aa a Knv 0( the school population of 6 to 21 A heavy hail Storm, which followed I and pledge themselves to . an- agree- I years instead of 15' per cent of the the wind, hampered the work of res'- ment 'or tn f u'l protection of the school census of 4 to 21 years. ;,!, Amor,ca.n Association. - The petitions calling for Dr. Smith's , -.. v joe jinaer, presioent ana manager recall were filed yesterday afternoon were Deing aug irom we rums 01 " wwmpuj t.iuo. saia ne under- where it was revealed that Robert O. wrecked buildin trs. rTli . "V ' , ".Von oz. "- Duncan, secretary of the Portland Oro - - in ra major ifluru" mciuasn n nrimT nn . 4 i .j 1 i City Officials asserted that there of both the American Association and k", ' J.tV JS a possibility that the death list International League. The four lead- by George R." Alexander, husband of vMatafiqlli, inffA aA I J i 1 Z." 1 . c... -v . I " i e via Aiexanoer, oeposea tcacner. IOS seiecieo. to mane UP me new league, who trial wna a dexiltorv enMnn ew reports irom the surrounding I noT oa'- ... ' I for many weeks. farmers were available, but it was not of 4S games with the international believed that the damage anywhere in League, the club owners pledged them this vicinitv was aa frr-at a in Mat, 8e v" lo. reauce tne salary or high - . I M T" 1 1 ( 1 nl ovum V Eft . . I ' " - " ' lOOll. On checking, the petitions were found to carry 6H5 names, which were 2117 under the 7262 generally held to be necessary. - according to law. - Deputy A-hnnl flerW Ra Iter nfTerrt In keen flayers refusing to accept the reduc- I nnen the nnire until mldnlrht If the In addition to pleas for doctors and tion be cleaned- petition circulators thought they could nurses, the Mayor sent an emergency call to povernor Lowden for at least two companies of the State National to be used in policing the ruins. The wind played many strange pranks, scantling from the lumber yard passed entirely through a home in which the family was dining, hurl. ing through the air over their heads and out through a. window without in juring any of the diners. Wire and rail traffic was practically at a standstill for hours after the dis- aster, miles of telegraph poles in each direction from Mattoon being leveled. WKSTERVELT, HI.. Way 26. Four NERVOUS. SPELLS Aid Combination of Troubles Relieved by a Combination or Medicines. A quotation f rom . one recent letter "T have been taking noom isarsapa- rilla and Pepttron Pills as a count of medicine and find this combination hi worked like a charm. They told me I liad neuralgia, and certainly I was in a very low low and discouraging state of health. I suffered extremely with nerv ousness and had neuralgia pains co I could not sleep nights. "Those nervous spells were awful! "I heard about taking Hood's Sarsa barilla and Peptiron Pills one before jneals. the other after the suggestion struck me favorably, so that I nave taken the medicines carefully and faithfully with most pleasing result. "It is a long time now since I have had one of those severe nervous spells. 1 can do a good day's housework, can work in my garden and walk a mile- Mrs. Fred J. Weekley, Bagdad. Fla. Your druggist will be pleased te sup. fly you with ' these good medicines. 23Q0 TROOPS ARE SAVED i JAPANESE DESTROYERS WITH TRANSYLVANIA DO FINE WORK. Official Report by British Admiralty Gives Number on Board Tor pedoed Vessel as SOOO. TOKIO, May 26. An announcement Issued by the Admiralty today says that the British troop ship Transyl- vnnia. which was torpedoed In the Mediterranean on May 4, wa being escorted by Japanese destroyers. The destroyers engaged the submarine. According to the announcement, the Japanese rescued 2800 out of 8000 produce the 2117 names, but after a brief parley and Mr. Duncan s dlscov ry that he might have enough names under a new interpretation of the law. the matter was dropped and, the office closed. Unless the law is reinterpreted the recall proposal has failed. The recall .petitions directed against Dr. J. Francis Drake, started a few days ago and subsequently dropped. also were circulated by Mr. Duncan Mr. Duncan, always a man of posi tive opinions and decided statements, said he alone is fathering the recall movement and that he represents no one but himself. His motive, he says, Is a desire "to clean out the whole school organization.' "I am paying for every name on the recall petitions obtained by paid clr culators out of my own pocket, includ ing the printing bill," he said. "I have paid out about $500 so far. I expect to clean out the whole board. "I also expected to recall Dr. 'Drake. but I was persuaded to give that up by people who are with me on the Smith recall, but who said Drake has been Bringing a Great Flood of Bargains to You Buy a Home Edwards Will Furnish It "The Easy-tO' Pay- Way Tapestry Overstuffed Davenports Chairs and Rockers How Is This One? Bi feet long, spring seat, spring back, roll arms, 3 loose cushions. In a word Edwards' best $54 value S3485 'Easy to Pay the Edwards Way" $330 Cash, $1J00 Week NEVER before has Portland known of such prosperity $30,000,000 worth of ships now under contract. The weekly payroll of this industry alone amounts to the handsome sum of $106,220. NEVER in the history of this store was the time to buy overstuffed more op portune. To make room for the im mense reserve stock, which must be moved from the basement. DO YOU KNOW That only about three feet more of this high water, and our b a s e ment will be flooded? That unless our re serve stock is moved. serious damage will be done? Our temporary ware house at 64-6 Broad way has been leased by a permanent tenant. We desire to make room in our own build ing and nave the ex pense of double moving? T hat prices on all lines are most interest ing just now. ami Hie terms are the easiest? Many homes will be made happy by new f uruishinvrs this week? Your home SHOL'LD BE included: EVERY price on sample pieces of over stuffed has been flooded. YOU will enjoy this treat at bur expense. The most luxurious Davenports, Chairs and Rockers at prices that startle. It Will Be Impossible to Duplicate These Come Early! $25.00 Tapestry Overstuffed Rocker $16.75 $32.50 Tapestry Overstuffed Fireside Rocker $19.95 $34.50 Tapestry Overstuffed Arm Chair $24.75 $45.00 Tapestry Overotuffed Fireside Rocker, with mahogany , base. $29.75 Here We Have Two Beautiful Matched Sets Sold Separately or as a Set $153.00 Tapestry Overstuffed Wing-Back Davenport, pillow arms, pillow back, three loose cushions. $99.00 $69.50 Arm Chair to match $49.00 $03.50 Rocker also to match $49.00 -$80.00 Tapestry Overstu D a v e n p ort. spring seat, tip back, roll arms. A reul beaut $59.50 $37.50 Rolled Arm Chal match $26.75 $37.50 Roll-Arm Rocke match. $26.75 ffed ring at r to r to $77.60 Tapestry Overstuffed Davenport, three loose cushions, $49.50 $$9.73 Tapestry Overstuffed Davenport, spring edge, three loose cushions, $69.75 $155 Tapestry Overstuffed Til low Arm. Pillow Back, Spring Built Davenport, with three loose cushions. Here is more lux urious piece of furniture than you anticipate at ' $119.00 Brass Bed Sp'c'ls $32.50 Brass, Two-tnch Continuous Post Bed. with five one-inch filler rods. Beautiful satin finish, priced now at $23.85 $27.50 Two-Inch Stub-Post Brass Bed. A very attractive style la rjoh satin finish, $19.85 $15.50 Two-Inch Stub-Post. Guaran teed Tarnish-Proof Brass Beds, while they last at $10.90 A - r," i 151 it 1 I' I I I I ,1 :.( ' . V- 'If i ; 'Juniata and Bristol' ' ART RUGS HAVE TOU delayed buying rnics on account of the cost? If so, the problem is solved. They are of mixed wool and will wear surprisingly well. 9x12 Rujrs. Regularly J10, !xl0-6 Ttur:. Regularly $8. Regularly $, $6.95 $5.90 $3.85 " Pay the Edwards Way, " 50c Week AHappy Home fjj 1 J 1 a. a 1 m It "Stay Sa.tlsfaOory"ai We'll Take Your Old Stove in Exchange Out- oUTown Folks Nothing; in tlie world is mow inter esting to know than Just how to make your dollars do the most. Thousands already know, when it comes to fur nishing; a home. We want you, too, to know the many adwntag-es offered by Kdwards. Order today; jour credit is good aa cash. M1U1MA flOOD PLACeTO TRADE i a u II n r i aatiar in-i- n a t- u rAJIIIMIWII Everyone Is Interested When an opportunity is given them to dispose of what is not wanted to a rood advantage. TCvery little clisnge. no matter how small, is an improve ment snd makes your home more at tractive and Inviting to yourself and everyone else. Apply your old furni ture aa part pay on the kind you want. 12 Blocks North of Washington: i A a f Your Credit Is Always Good at EdwardsPj Ask Your Neighbor About Edwards Service! j HAWLEY OPPOSES RISE PROTEST SENT INTERSTATE COM MERCE COMMISSION. Mere Time Also Asked for Western Shippers to Preaent Their Side of Proposed Rate Increase. nrnvTiu vrirxvs T5TTWTT ATT- Wash ington. May 26. Representative Haw- ley today wrote tne interstate com merce commission in yruicov "'nt the allowance on July 1 of an increase i c n.nt in all freight rates. On his recent visit to the Paclflo Coast he said he rouna sentiment ucucrm against this advance, because the Western railroads are now ru.ru.na sufficient profits. Many industries. especially iuiuc' 1 " ' Ing from a period of depression, cannot Pear tne increano "u -. and oecauHe pi 1 ' ' i 4i...im(nlinir eme- unscientitio a 1 u,ow. ..... . , . - cially against the West with its long haul, he urges that no Increases be allowed wv upon t.IO-. ... after full hearing in which the public! shall participate. Mr. Hawley also protests against alf lotting only an nour ana a nan to the .Western lumbermen at the hear ing next Wedneaday, saying this is entirely insufficient time in which to present their protests and he made a similar appeal for- more time for the Northwestern fruitgrowers. Mr. Hawley also has written each Senator and Representative from the Pacific Coast, urging them to join In demand for more time for the North west shippers and also to protest against the granting of the 15 per cent increase. ENGINEERS ARE JN DEMAND Agricultural Students Takrn I'rom College to Fill Positions. OREGON" AGRICULTURAL. COU- L.T2GE. Corvallls, May S6. (Special.) General Interest In good roads through out Oregon is Indicated in the growing demand for trained highway engineers that is now absorbing approximately a man a day from the highway engl neerlna- classes at the Agricultural Col lege. Many of the men are going into the State Fnglneering and Highway troops on the Transylvania, winning the praise of Japan a allies by their shooting straight with them and if we bravery. The official British account of the Transylvania's sinking did not give the number of troops on board, but said that 29 officers. 373 of ether ranks and 11 members of the crew lost their lives. Xilquor Offender Gets 75 Pays. ASTORIA. Or.. May 28. (Special.) William Colberg. who arrived at Knap- pa a few days ago from Seattle, was committed to the County Jail today for 75 days in default of $150 in fines im posed on him by Justice of the Peace Carney. Colberg was fined $100 for bringing a gallon of alcohol into the statei illegally and ISO. for striking a woman. did not 'lay off him. they would not be with us on the Smith recall. ' MR. M'NARY TO BE' NAMED 'Continued Front First Pire. the two preceding Instances the men selected were of a different political faith from those they succeeded. In this instance a Republican will be named to succeed a Democrat. Judge MeNary is a native of Oregon and with the exception of a few years spent away attending school he has been a continuous resident of the state. WINS CLEAR, WHITE SKIN BY SIMPLE, NEW METHOD Vote 39-L. M. Davis, Commissioner. -Adv. A GIRL, whose face had been a mass of piroplee and blotches for years gave her friends a delightful aurprlse by appearing oi" .... plexion clear and white as new milk. The change was so marked that those who knew that for years the unfor tunate girl had tried everything won dered now sne nu o...-vh,4j" apparently impossible task. She ex plained that she had used a prepara- lion caiiou ii " - " had been recommended by her drug gist, and that Just one BO-cent bottle had penormea tne imntumm -n in her appearance. SantiscpUc Is used for all kinds of skin troubles. including acne, ecsema, sallowness. moth spots, dlscolorations, poison oak or ivy. etc. It la invaluable for sunburn, windburn, freckles and other troubles due to ex- noaure. banishing all soreness and leaving the skin white and softly smooth. ' Santlseptic Is easily procured at most drug stores, a good-sized bottle costing but 60c If your drugpist can rot suDPly it. twenty-five cents in stamps or coin sent to the manufac turers. the Ksbencott Laboratories, Portland, Oregon, will secure, poet paid, a large introductory bottle. Departments, but a large number are called Into the counties, which are preparing to meet the new road law requirement by placing trained men in charge of county road work. Ono entire party for eross-aeetlon- ing a highway location in Central Ore- gon wns made tip at the college out of college men. including Milton Harris. Raymond Archbald, G. Robinson and Harold Carter. The Empress of Germany has sold the magnificent diamond necklace that was presented to her by the late .1. P. Morean, of New York. New Summer Footwear Fashioned for Exclusive Tastes THESE models are made by the highest grade shoemak ers of the world and only the very finest material and workmanship enter into their manufacture. Such names as HAN AN & SON and LAIRD-SCHOBER & CO. are the identification mark of shoes of matchless quality and exclusive style. Our firm name, backed by twenty-five years of honest deal ing, stands as an assurance to you that every penny you spend in shoes at this store will be well spent. 129 TENTH. NEAR WASHINGTON. We Give S. & H. Green Trad ing Stamps. r 1