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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1918)
TIIE SUXDAT OREGOXIAX, rORTLAXD, DECE3D5EE MILLS SUSPEND FOR INDEFINITE PERIOD Henry, 6C5 Ladd avenue. The front of the car passed over his body. The injured man, who resides at East St. Johns, was taken to Good Samari tan Hospital in a very serious condi tion. He was severely bruised about the head and chest, and it is believed that his skull is fractured. At a late hour last night he had not regained consciousness. The driver of the automobile that struck Calabsa reported to the police that he was driving north on the ap proach to the Broadway bridge when Calabsa, who was crossing the bridge, stepped in front of his machine. Mr. Henry took the injured man to the hos pital. John Kuebrich. B7, of 490 Twenty ninth avenue Southeast, suffered pain ful bruises to the head and shoulders when he fell from a streetcar on Twenty-ninth avenue Southeast. Mr. Kue brich fell as he was stepping from the ARMISTICE SIGHING E Make This a Musical Christmas Operators Inclined to Await More Favorable Market. Eugene Pastor Tells of Effect of News on People. MATERIAL COST TOO HIGH EXCITING SCENES FOLLOW Owners Say It Is Impossible to Sell Lumber at Profit TTnder Present Conditions. Rev. J. A. Jloran Returns From Year's Service With Knights of Columbus. PORTLAND TOUTH KILLED IN ACTION IS LAUDED BY A It MY OFFICER. 14 DAZESWEARYFRANC i Xo less than one-half the lumber mills in and about Portland are closed down or will be closed down tomorrow, many for indefinite intervals. Condi tions in the industry have not improved in the past two weeks and many own ers are inclined to await better prices and more favorable trend In the trade. Millmen declare that the high cost of materials and labor make it impos sible for them to obtain a reasonable profit on the prevailing market. Some of the operators have explained the closing down of operations merely as a holiday observance, extended possibly to permit of making plant repairs. The inability to realize a profit is frankly said by others to account for the shut downs. O. M. Clark, president of the Clark & Wilson Lumber Company, said yester day: "We will shut down Monday, nom inally to make repairs, but I cannot say when we will resume. The market is not holding up as it should. The mlll3 can't put lumber into the yards for the price they get for it. "Our firm has its own stumpage. Others which have not are in a worse predicament. We can run whenever we get valuo out of our stumpage, but "many mills cannot. Fully half the mills about here are 'down' and it will take readjustments to cause them to operate again. Material, logs, labor everything is very high." Among the mills, mentioned as hav ing either ceased operations or having such step under consideration are: Bridal Veil Lumbering Company, Clark & Wilson Lumber Company, Monarch Mills, Eastern & Western Lumber Company, Cascade Locks Lumber Com pany, Oregon Lumber Company, Oregon Ship Timber Mills, North Portland Lum ber Company and West Oregon Lumber Company. PORTLAND ADVISED TD ACT PORT ADVANTAGES ARE TOLD BY MAJOR. SAMUEL. WHITE. Speaker Urges Organization of Com pany to Build and Oper ate Line of Ships. "We want Portland-owned lines ply ing to South American and other Pa cific ports," said Major Samuel "White last night, who is in Portland on 10 days' leave of absence from staff du ties at the headquarters of the West ern Department of the Army at San .Francisco. Major White is on the staff of General Morrison, and is one of the two representatives of the Judge Advocate-General's department engaged in review work at headquarters. "All Pacific Coast cities are reach ing out for Pacific trade. We do not want Portland to be the tail-ender in this matter. I am satisfied that if 25 substantial Portland men would band themselves together and organize a company, the stock would all be sub scribed quickly in Oregon to send Portland-owned ships to the ports of the world. "Seattle and San Francisco and other ports to the north and south are alive to the situation and getting ready for the greatest activity in commerce that has ever been known. The Pacific Ocean is to be the great commercial center of shipping. Let Portland men wake up to the matter at once and make their plans to get into the ship ping development without delay. "For several years to come there is going to be more money made in ship ping than in any other line of busi ness, I am convinced. There are lots of men in Oregon who are willing to do their part in financing Portland owned ships, and I believe it is the time for some of them to act. Unwise legis lation in the past caused the American merchant marine to decline from the once proud position of commanding more than 25 per cent of the ocean commerce of the world. Some of the errors have already been corrected and it is an opportune time for restoring the American flag to the sea. Those ports that are most active in sending their own ships into the trade will reap the greatest benefits of the new com merce." RAILROADS FACE BIG JOB Approximately 7,250,000 to Be Transported to Homes. WASHINGTON-. Dec. 21. Demobiliza tion of the Army will place upon the railroads of the country the task of "carrying approximately 7,250,000 men, according to estimates today by Director-General McAdoo. This includes the transportation of both the expedi tionary and the home forces to the camps where they are to be mustered out and then to their homes. The esti mate Is based largely, it was said, on figures showing that In the creation of the Army and transportation of part of it to the seaboard for embarkation, the railroads had carried 8,700.000 men. Mr. McAdoo stated that the troop movements in December would total 400.000 men, due to the double trans portation practically of all troops. ALASKAN SOCIETY PLANNED Former Residents of Far North Sleet to Organize. Seventy-five former residents of Alaska, at present residing in Portland, attended a get-together meeting at the Imperial Hotel last night. The meet ing was held with a view to organiz ing an Alaskan Society here eimilar to the various state societies already in existence. The gathering was called at the suggestion of Mrs. Eva L. Weatherred. Committees were appointed to han dle the various matters of organization . and a schedule of regular meetings will be announced coon. Headquarters of the society will be at the Imperial Hotel. PEDESTRIAN IS RUN DOWN Matero Calabsa Struck by Automo bile and Seriously Injured. Matero Calabsa, 56, was struck and knocked to the pavement on the ap proach to the Broadway bridge last night by a machine driven by Harold f ' " -! I." ,V V -t 4 4' I i- r ' - u - ! .TV 1 I X t Private William Harold Morrow. Mr. and Mrs. William Morrow, 92S East Davis street, have re ceived a letter from Captain Severs, with the 91st Division, concerning the death of their son, William Harold Morrow, who was killed in action September 28. Captain Severs writes: "I wish to extend to you my sympathy on the death of your son, Harold, who was a member of my company. He had been sick for several days before going into action, but remained with the company for fear that he would be sent to the hospital before the fight. During the action he act ed as squad leader and would have been recommended for pro motion had he survived. Several times on the first two days of the battle he came under my ob servation, leading his group In a cool and soldierly manner. He was killed while advancing through a barrage." platform to the street. He was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital. BAKER MURDER HAS SEQUEL Men Returning From Funeral Are Fired I'pon From Ambush. BAKER, Or., Dec. 21. As a sequel to the murder of Ira Langley, wealthy cattleman, December 18, Quincy Cart wright and John Griffin were fired upon from ambush today at the very spot where Langley fell dead. Neither man was hit. They raced their horses and escaped before more bullets were fired. The two men were returning from Lime, Or., where they attended the fu neral of Langley. As they approached the spot where Langley fell on Dixie Creek, two shots were fired, evidently from a high-power rifle. After a thorough search through the Rye Valley country, a Sheriff's posse returned to Baker yesterday, after finding no clew to the murderer of Langley. ALLEGED FUGITIVES TAKEN George Louis Said to Be Wanted at Roseburg for Thert. I George Louis. 19, was arrested last night at Fifth and Morrison streets by Inspectors Howell and Graves. He is booked as a fugitive from Roseburg. According to the information given by the officers Louis is charged with steal ing a $70 guitar and substituting a cheaper one. It is said that Louis Is a member of a musical troupe. Malcom A. Palmer, 16, was taken into custody last night at Third and Oak streets, and booked as a fugitive from San Francisco. It Is alleged that Palmer stole two barrels of whisky from a firm at San Francisco. HUN CABINET IS STRONGER (Continued From First Pape. ) secretary to the National Ministry of Justice. Cohen left here yesterday for Moscow, ostensibly on official business in connection with the transfer of Rus sian prisoners. The fact that M. Radek. who con ducts the Bolshevik propaganda bu reau, was in close touch with the or ganization headed by Dr. Karl Lieb knecht, is generally accepted as proof that the funds furnished by Joffe were liberally placed at the disposal of the Spartacus element, who suddenly were put in a position to establish an offi cial organ and otherwise conduct an extensive terrorist campaign. Reckless Driver Sentenced. William Stoores was sentenced to a term of 100 days In jail yesterday in Municipal Court for driving an auto mobile while intoxicated.' Stores, who the police say, is a switchman for the O.-W. R. & N. Company, was arrested Wednesday afternoon by Sergeant Ervin. The officer reported that pre vious to his arrest Stoores had col lided with a machine at Fifteenth and Everett streets. Judge Ross man ad ministered a stern rebuke to the driver when he was sentenced. Murderer Hangs- Self. MUSKEGON, Mich.. Dec 21. Milo H. Piper, charged with the murder of Frieda Weichman, of Chicago, commit ted suicide in his cell In the County Jail early tonight by hanging. The body was discovered bv Attornev Charles B. Cross, who had called to consult with him. Piper was last seen alive about 7:30 o'clock. Old Resident Dies. Morris Ball, .a resident of Portland since 1868, died late last night, aged 74 years, at his residence, 210 Twelfth street, where he lived with his sisters, Mrs. R. Morris, Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Zelena and Mulvena BalL Michael Ball, a brother, and Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Cole man, sisters, live in Seattle. Notice of funeral will be given later. City Attorney to Speak. W. J. LaRoche. City Attorney, will be the speaker at the meeting of the members' council of the Chamber of Commerce at noon Monday. His topic will be "Reclaiming Adjacent Shores and Removal of Swan Island. EUGENE. Or Dee. 31. (Special.) How France, with every nerve . time strengthened In Its determination to defeat the invading Hun by four hard years of war heard, paused In a stupor that could not comprehend nor bring Itself to a realization that their goal had been achieved, received the news of the signing of the armistice and then broke Into a wild spree of jubilation, la graphically told by Rev. J. A. Moran, wso returned last night to the pastorate of St. Mary's Ctaholic Church, of this city, after a year's ab sence on the firing line in France as a Knights of Columbus worker. Father Moran was In Bordeaux when the news of the signing of'the armis tice spread over France. "I was on my way to my hotel in Bordeaux," said Rev. Mr. Moran, "when 1 heard of the signing of the armistice. No official information had been published. The streets were unchanged. The same crowds, the same buying and selling. I mentioned the good news to some French people, but they were slow to believe unconvinced of their good for tune. Four ' years of war is a long time, and they could not, in a mo ment, shake off the horrors of the past. People Slow to Believe. "I walked on. down the Rue St. Cath erine, to the Knights of Columbus head quarters, and as I drew near, the glad news of the signing of the armistice was shouted by hundreds. The papers contained the Joyful tidings. The peo ple gazed anxiously at the glaring headings, and, for a moment, all was still. A sort of stunned silence seemed to enthrall them. "The great goal for which they had long prayed, had been reached, and finally the windows of their memory opened. A long, loud hurrah rent the air, caps went soaring high, men danced and hugged each other, while women wept. They were tears of joy, mayhap, but who shall say they were not also tears of sorrow, for even In her hour of triumph France could see the graves of her soldier dead. "Marie, the French maid of the Knights of Columbus recreation room, was- standing in the doorway, arms akimbo, humming the Marseillaise.' " 'Marie,' I said, 'Tonight you will celebrate, you will go zig-zag.' " 'Ar, non, monsieur," she answered, 'zig-zag non monsieur, pas zig-zag ma tete. (My heart will have a great time: my head will steady.) Wise maid of France. "Just then I awakened to the reali zation of peace. A great shower of confetti caught me in the face, almost blinding me. The crowds were begin ning to celebrate. They blocked the streets for miles around and there was no alternative but to be -whirled away in happy maelstrom. Flowers were showered from the balconies df the Rue St. Catherine as the gay throng marched to the Allee do Tournay, the center of Bordeaux, where the Amer ican band opened the festivities by ren dering the National anthems of Franco and America. French Hall Comrade. "Throughout the night the merry making continued. Music, song and speeches were the order of the night as France drank her cup of happiness to Us dregs. Fain would I have re mained with them, but 1 had to go on board the boat that was ready to carry me to my land of hearts desire. Time and tide wait for no man. but I was compelled to stop a hundred times on my way to the wharf to shake the hands of the French soldiers, who greeted me as a comrade and some times emphasized their camaraderie by kissing me on both cheeks. One could stand more, knowing that the hideous nightmare of the past four years was now at an end." With the exception of the first month. Father Moran was on the firing line ad ministering to the needs of the men of the 149th and 150th Field Artillery. Shoulder to -shoulder with them, he went through the same hardships as they did until he took down with in fluenza. "The St. Mihiel offensive was easy," said the chaplain. "The Germans were not expecting an offensive on that front and were completely outguessed. The Argonne battles were entirely dif ferent. Our boys were directly up against machine gun fire at all stages and the casualties were heavy. The ac curacy of the Hun fire told on our troops as they attacked strongholds and pill boxes. These battles will long remain In the memory of the Yanks who took part and came through. The relief which the armistice brought will, to a large extent, help to relieve the tension which the battles caused, but In looking back the hardship and suffer ing remain as a dream. TAXPAYERS 0. K. BUDGET Clackamas Connty Goes Limit Under 6 Per Cent Limitation. OREGON CITY. Or.. Dec 21. (Spe cial.) The taxpayers of Clackamas County, at the annual budget meeting here today, appropriated ail of the money available under the 6 per cent tax limitation amendment and regis tered their approval of every project In the budget submitted by the County Court. The appropriation of (42,750 for hard surface paving was increased to $57, 000. The Item of $7125 for state co operation was increased to $35,000 to provide for grading the Pacific High way between the west end of the Wil lamette River suspension bridge at West Linn and the Multnomah County line. An increase of $1200 was given the County Surveyor's office for salary and expenses of an assistant, and a 4 -mill levy for a sinking fund for the construction of a new bridge across the Willamette at Oregon City. ELECTION CONTEST FILED Martin White, of St. Helens, Asks Recount of Ballots. ST. HELENS. Or.. Dec. 21. (Specfal.) Martin White, defeated candidate for County Judge, has filed proceedings asking for a recount of the votes. W. J. Fullerton. successfull candidate, is made the defendant. Mr. White alleges that he has discovered Irregularities in the count of the vote in several pre cincts. The official canvass gave Mr. Fullerton 786 votes and White 783. Mr. White claims the correct total should be: Mr. Fullerton, 755; and Mr. White, 804. 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