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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 2, 1917. REBUFFS DISMAY PEACE ADVOCATES Council Names Executives and Disbands When Illinois Governor Objects.' POLICE BREAK UP MEETING leaders of Conference Declare Pur pose of Forming National Or ganization Accomplished In Spite of Interference. . CHICAGO, Sept. 1. The organizing committee of the People's Council of America for Democracy and Terms of Peace disbanded here tonight. Louis P. Lochner, executive secretary, issued the following statement: "We have formed a permanent or ganization, which was our purpose, and we are satisfied. This was done before the police stopped the meeting in the "West Side Auditorium and we are now disbanded." ' . Executive Committee Named. What the meeting accomplished be fore the advent of the police was to appoint a nominating committee. This committee was said to have power to act as an executive committee. The members of the nominating comlttee are: Professor Robert M. Lovett, Univer sity of Chicago; Victor Berger, Mil waukee; James Salutsky, New York; Mary Winson. Philadelphia: Emily Green Balch, Wellesley College: Frank Stevens, Delaware; Sara Bard Field, San Francisco, and L. Maybrick, San .Antonio, Tex. Governor Takes Hand. The summary dispersal by the police ton the Governor's order of the meeting of the organization committee here late today added Illinois to the forbidden states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Utah. Seymour Stedman, local Socialist leader and chairman of the meeting, counseled the delegates, who numbered 200, to stay in Chicago, promising that a court order permitting the meeting would be applied for next Monday Delegate Still Belligerent During the afternoon there were a number of groups in conference, but darkness fell without the tired advo cates of peace knowing what was to be required of them. They were still bel ligerent, however, and some who sug gested leasing an excursion boat and holding the meeting on Lake Michigan, were branded as lacking the courage ft their convictions. The council is said to have a large number of local chapters, but no Na tional organization to co-ordinate their efforts. It was to form such a body that Louis P. Lochner, executive sec retary, sought a meeting place. ' Governor Orders Action. Governor Frank O. Lowden's atten tion was called to the meeting by the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, which alleged that the gathering was "avow edly antagonistic to our National pur poses in the present world crisis." The Governor first ordered 'that troops take the situation in hand, then changed ..his mind, and got Chief of Police Scbuettler on the long-distance telephone. The latter at once sent W. H. Westbrook. assistant chief, with 20 men in automobiles to the West Side Auditorium, where the meeting was In progress. The meeting was dispersed without disorder. The Governor gave out the lollowlng statement: "The Governor is charged with the responsibility of preserving peace in the state. If, in his judgment, disorder and riot are likely to result from this so-called peace meeting, it is his duty and he has the power to prevent the meeting. His 'understanding is . that, while the meeting purports to be in the interest of peace, it is really in tended to obstruct the Government in the prosecution of. the war and is cal culated to produce disorder and riot ing in Illinois. He will not. therefore, permit this meeting to be held in Il linois." Mayor Thompson did not see the sit uation as did the Governor. "I can do nothing to prevent them from meeting In Chicago," he said. "Pacifict3 are law-abiding citizens." Meeting; Moves Slowly. Had the meeting proceeded with or dinary spee-. an execut! e committee to give the organization permanency might have been elected before the po nce arrives, lor delegates were In ses- Elon for three hours before the sudden climax. But the affair moved slowly. It seemed as If everyone present had motions to offer. Finally, however, a nominating committee was chosen, to present 11 names for membership on tne executive committee, but it was un able to meet because of the police. It was reported . it' met privately else Where later. The delegates were not aware of the explanation by Dr. David Starr Jordan that his connection with the council was temporary and largely honorary. uum iuty reaa n in tne new. .apers. BEACH ROAD IS WANTED WARUE.TOv PLASS TO BUILD SEA nEsonx. Citizen to Be Asked to Authorize Issu ance of 945.00O Bonds to Con . struct Keir Highway. WARRENTON-. Or.. Sept. 1 CKn. cial.) The Warrenton Commercial Club determined, to have a hard surface road from the center of town to the Pacific Ocean on a line almost directly west from the Spokane. Port land & Seattle Railroad Company's depot. A special committee, consisting of F. M. Warren, Warrenton's Mayor; E. II- Flagg, editor of the Warrenton News, and O. S. Wigglesworth, have 'prepared a petition for an initiative election to be held in October upon authorization of a $45,000 bond issue by the city of Warrenton with which to grade and hard surface the pro posed Beach road a distance of ap proximately two miles. Signatures are being freely secured and indications are that this project will be adopted try a majority of the voters. This road will open an attractive beach property within the city limits directly adjoining Fort Stevens Mili tary Reservation, which, when com pleted, will afford an outlet for troops stationed there via the road to the ocean beach, there being a hard sand beach between the two roads. Auto tourists coming down the Co- lumbia River Highway will strike the ocean at this point and can drive to Gearhart along the beach. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. -Main 7070, A 6095. FIREPROOF SKYSCRAPER IN HEART OF BUSINESS DISTRICT WHICH IS TO BE ALTERED AT EXPENSE OF $200,000. mmmm - -Zcrsl T'"mvm V J. - I ww - -'- ' . i-Jl k.j S i-V rf4 - r tfr-vv mr 9-"' I if-1 ' Tr PSi esq pspg 1 43 ' i S aS Twelve-Story Structure at Southeast Corner of Fifth and Alder Streeta Will" Be Known as "Ciico Building." BIG LEASE CLOSED Gas Company to Occupy Part of Failing Structure. 'GASC0 BUILDING" IS NAME Eight Upper- Stories "Win Be De voted to ...General Offices. Rosenblatt Firm to Stay :-on Ground. Floor. fContinued From First Page.) schemes, but I feel convinced that our present plan is the most, feasible and practical that' could be devised. . Location la Central. "The -location of the Gasco building will, . render it admirable for an office structure as it is situated in the heart of the retail district and is convenient to the various public buildings, par ticularly the Courthouse, which means much to lawyers. "Our plans' indicate . that there will be about 30 offices on each of the eight upper floors, making approximately 240 in all." The space leased on the ground floor of the building by the Pacific Power & Light Company is L-shaped, facing on either street back of the corner posi tion held by Samuel Rosenblatt & Co. This arrangement will give the com pany offices entrance from both thor oughfares and also will permit easy passage through the entire length of the big "L" arcade. In addition to all of the second and third floors, the lesssees are to have a large portion if not alll of the fourth floor and a con siderable part of the basement, where the gas appliance show room is to be installled. Company'a Quartera Crowded. The Portland Gas & Coke Company has been a tenant on property of the Henry Failing estate at the southeast corner of -Fifth and Yamhill streets since 1904. That building was erected to provide temporary quarters for Roberts Bros, during tfie time that the Failings were building the Mohawk building, which still is occupied by Roberts Bros. The Portland Gas & Coke Company has been crowded in its quarters, and the big lease deal which was concluded yesterday has been talked of for three or four years. Guy W. Talbot is president of the Pacific Power & Light Company, and by virtue of that office exercises lead ership over the Portland Gas & Coke Company and the Walla Walla Railway Company. The latter concern operates the carlines within the city of Walla Walla, Wash., and between Walla Walla and Milton-Freewater, Or. The Pacific Power & Light Company at present occcupies alll the 12th and a portion of the 11th floor In the Spal ding building. Third and Washington streets. The lease to the Pacific Power & Light Company -will extend nominally for a five-year period. Original Cost la $506,000. Just what disposition will be made of the property of the Failing estate at Fifth and Yamhill streets, which will be vacated by the Portland Gas & Coke Company, remains to be seen, Mr. Al vord said yesterday. A number of ap plications already have been made for the leasing of proposed buildings, but no definite plan can be put forward until after the departure of the present tenants on the first of the year, though a decision as to the future plans may be reached before that time. Following its completion at a cost of about $500,000, the building was oc cupied eight months by the furniture firm of I. Gevurtz & Sons. Since the financial failure of the Gevurtz com pany in 1913 the building has remained idle for the most part. It was occupied for a time by Meier & Frank Company as a temporary annex during the con struction of the new unit of the Meier & Frank building. For the past 18 months the main portion of the ground floor, including the corner, has been occupied by the clothing firm of Samuel Rosenblatt & Co. under a least tenure which was acquired after John B. Yeon paid the Rosenblatt concern $10,000 to cancel the lease on the corner of the Yeon building. Mr. Yeon made this deal in order that be might have the J-UifcH mm .r.y,-,i mm mr 1W HJi waaacittaBttaaaaBaaiaBmiMU opportunity to close a lease deal with the F. W. Woolworth Company for the same premises. UNDERTAKERS BAR BURIAL Baker Cemetery Owners Refuse Body Prepared by Competitor. BAKER, Or., Sept. 1. (Special.) The body of 4-year-old Elvira Louise Funk, lies in the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Funk, waiting for the mighty wheels of the law to decide where her burial place shall be. The little "girl died last night and the fu neral is scheduled for tomorrow. Welch & Co., undertakers, who own Mount Hope Cemetery, the only public burial place of the city, have ruled that unless their funeral services are employed that they will refuse to sell lots in the cemetery. The parents employed Earl West, a competing undertaker, and therefore a burial place for the child was refused. Mr. and Mrs. Funk, in connection with West, today filed a writ of mandamus with Circuit Judge Anderson asking that Welch & Co. be compelled to sell them a lot. BIG CELEBRATION PLANNED Portland Delegation Expected at Oregon City Labor Day. OREGON CITY, Or., Sept. 1. (Spe cial.) Oregon City plans to hold the largest celebration Monday ever held here in honor of Labor day. Delega tions from Portland are expected to arrive and participate in the parade, which is. to start at 9:30 o'clock. The procession is to be led by the fife and drum corps of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Queen of Labor, little Irene Mrosik. Following the parade the marchers will disband at the Hawley mills and take special cars for Canemah Park, where a picnic will be held. C. E. Spence. state Grange master, is to be the speaker of the day. Farm KIre Loss $7500. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 1. (Spe cial.) Hay worth $3000. three horses and several head of cattle were burned in a barn fire at the Ballinger farm at Sara. 12 miles north of here, yesterday. The place is under lease by Mitchell & Ross, dairymen. The loss exceeds $7500. Spontaneous combustion in the hay is held responsible. Oregon City Lovers' Mecca. OREGON CITY, Or., Sept. l.(Spe cial.) Marriage licenses were issued here to Clara Howard, age 29, and Jo seph Copeland, age 27, of St. Helens, and Eugenie Massman, age 37, and' Henry George Hamel, age 40, of 287 Tillamook street. Portland. Lift Off Corns Doesn't Hurt! Few drops stop soreness, than corn or callus lifts off with fingers. The world owes thanks to the genius in Cincinnati who discovered freezone. Tiny bottles of the magic fluid can now be had at any drug store for a few cents. You simply apply a few drops of freezone upon a tender, aching corn or a hardened callus. Instantly the soreness disappears and shortly you will find the corn or callus so loose and shriveled that you lift it off with the fingers. Not a bit of pain or soreness is felt when applying freez one or afterwards. It doesn't even irritate the skin or flesh. For a few cents one can now get rid of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn be tween the toes, as well as painful calluses on bottom of feet. Everyone who tries freezone becomes an euthu siast because It really doesn't hurt or pain one particle. Ladies! Keep a tiny bot- tie on the or callus dresser and never let a corn ache twice. Adv. Ml n DUTCH GRAIN SHIPS HOT ALLOWED TO GO Government Would Know Ex tent of Crops Before Ex- -ports May Be Shipped. ANTIPODEAN GRAIN WANTED Xeutrals . Assert Concessions Are Great in Agreeing to Divide Grain With Belgians Ra tioning1 to Be Strict. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Indication that the United States intends to ra tion the northern European neutral countries in the strictest fashion were seen today In the admission that the Exports Administrative Board had dis approved of an arrangement suggested by the Dutch Minister here and the Belgian Relief Commission for division between Holland and Belgium of the nearly 100 Dutch grain cargoes held in American ports. The first news that permission for the ships to sail had been denied came today in a dispatch from Rotterdam. The general understanding had been that the arrangement would be ap proved and that some of the ships would sail immediately. The exports board, it was learned, will let no food cargoes go to European neutrals for at least two months, or until the American Government has as certained its own food requirements for the year and the size of crops to be harvested. All of the neutrals, it is said, can feed themselves without dif ficulty until this information is avail able. The United States wishes to know also the size of the 1917 crops In the neutral countries. Xeutrals N'ot to Go Hanxry. It was made clear that the United States has no intention of letting neu trals go hungry, but emphasis was laid on one fact, that the Government feels its first obligation is to the American people and to the allies. A counter proposal that has been made to the Dutch, which the other neutrals are invited to accept. Is that all neutral vessels now in American ports loaded with foodstuffs discharge their cargoes and proceed to Australia and Java for wheat and sugar. These cargoes would be brougnt back to the United States and divided between the United States and the neutrals. American Government officials feel that in asking the United States to supply them, with foodstuffs the neu trals should be willing to increase the general food supply. This they would do in transporting food cargoes from Australia and Java, where large sup plies cannot be moved because of the general lack of shipping. The neutral ships would have returned within two months and by that time the United States would be in a better position also to say how much it can spare from its own food store. Neutrals Object to Plan. Most of the Dutch ships in American ports are loaded with corn, which has spoiled and is fit now only for cattle feed. This was taken into considera tion by the exports board, which held that the need for cattle feed is much She's 11 A. M. to 11 P. M. starts this '25 morning ' ,MV i i greater now In the United States than in Holland. It is not known how the neutrals will look on the suggestion that all their ships, numbering about 150. discharge food cargoes, but it Is known tnai Chevalier van Rappard. the Dutch Min ister, doesn't view It with favor. Mr. Rappard - takes the position that his government already is making great concessions in offering to share Its food cargoes with the Belgians. The food administration had ap proved the arrangement entered into between the Dutch Minister and the re lief commission. Announcement today in Ottawa that a representative of the food adminis tration had concluded an agreement whereby the Canadian and American Governments will work in closest co operation in the administration of food control dr.ew the statement here that with Canadian assistance supervision of food distribution and control of prices in the United States will be made much easier. Canada now Is expected to fix a wheat price Identical with the American scale. - - Telegrams reaching the food admin istration from various interests through the country generally approve the wheat prices fixed. Protests arrived from both Chicago and St. Louis, to day, however, where each city contends that the other was favored in the schedule of differentials announced by the wheat corporation. CAMP PAYROLL IS HUGE GOVERNMENT DISTRIBUTES S 600,000 AT AMERICAN LAKE. Half of Grosa Amount Goea to 10,000 Workmen Engaged In Construc tion of Military City. TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 1. (Special.) Soldiers and civilians alike shared in the great payroll at Camp Lewis today, when $600,000 was distributed by the. Government and building contractors. Half of this went to the approximately 10,000 workmen helping to construct the military city in record time. The remainder was paid to the 1400 officers who came from the Presidio. Some will get a full month's pay and some that portion of the month since they left the Presidio. Four thousand enlisted men at Camp Murray also received pay. This is the largest civilian payroll to date. The Milwaukee Railroad let a con tract today to C. Matson & Son. Tacoma contractors, to grade five and one-half miles of right of way from Glendale, on the Tacoma Eastern, to Camp Lewis, and will build a line there to give serv ice to the cantonment.. The extension will cost $80,000. According to information reaching the Army post today, 19 officers were ordered from Fort Sheridan. 111., to Camp Lewis, to teach soldiers the us of the bayonet. Transportation arrangements for the conscripted Army have been made by Major-General Green, Adjutant-General Maurice Thompson, of the state troops Major F. W. Liggett, and Lieutenant Albert Moodie, who had charge of the draft, combined with S. J. Miller, traffic director of the troops, representing the American Association of Railways. 2 WOMEN SEEK DAMAGES Injuries Held Due to Carelessness of Streetcar Conductors. Alleged carelessness on the part of conductors in starting streetcars before all passengers had alighted is the basis of two personal injury suits filed yes terday in the Circuit Court. In one action Sarah Berlant demands $10,000 in damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained November 19, last, while young", she's beautiful, she's talented you'll love In a dashing, spirited, romantic drama, with more than a touch of comedy. 6 Off9 The story of a pretty girl, a fast race horse and a million dollars. Closed Monday Labor Day Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co. The Home of HART SCHAFFNER & MARX T Good Clothes ' v Southeast Corner Fifth and Alder "Don't Get All Balled Up" Ground Gripper Shoes can be purchased only at tho address below and they are made of the very best leathers and can be bought for less than other High Grade Shoes. Owing to the fact that we have Three Factories that make nothing but Ground Grippers and that this store sells nothing but these shoes, our ex pense is cut to the minimum, thus enabling us to give more for your money. Besides being the best value, they are the most comfortable shoe made and will correct your trouble. Tan or black for men, women and children. Ground Gripper Shoe Store 381'2 WASHINGTON STREET. alighting from a Third-street car. She says she was seriously injured. Mary C. Sturgis is the other plaintiff in a suit for $10,000 damages. She al leged to have received injuries of a permanent nature when a Mount Scott - Our . comedy feature today that merry, mirthful Keystone delight, "Lost A Cook" With funny Mack Swain to chase the blues it's great! e i !!! car was started before she had alighted. The accident occurred December 28 last, she asserts. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Main 7070, A B095. Columbia Supremacy Is based not alone on its at mosphere of re. finement, but on the splendid merit of the shows it pre sents here's another to prove it Today mi ,1 II