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THE SUNDAY OREGOIAJf, PORTLAND, JULY 13, 1919. ARMENIAN SUFFERING PWDTO IP nniniiininv mini I 3 M Mm m aW Mill V o unArniuHLLi iului & Lieutenant John A. Shishmani an Writes Sister in Portland. NEED FOR AID IS GREAT Efficient Relief Blow in Heah, Boss, am Portland fuel dealers w'at handles Genuine Chunky Coal. More will handle Chunky Coal, Boss, as Ah am soft coal w'at am hard to beat. Arm Fael Co '. Ernst Colambla Fael C. Wood lava lit J. H. Hheaard Woodlawa Willamette Fael a Sapply Broadway t144 Sell wood Wood Coal Co. gellwood 1(7 Tferthwest Linker Fael Co Tabor f811 . Jonae Leather Co..... , Cola m Ma 111 T. A. Caaaakerlsla Tabor 4ii Millard i'mi rial Co Tabor 114t 1- T. Hewlu Tabor til OKDsm now betoks btarce ' I T f w, labor ui 37-1 173 and Jealousy Between Saw a JO f IV '-tttVf J fM tlona 'to Be Considered. f y I&tt 2a23u - fpl Tho sufferings of the Armenian at - t& M fS1 tha bands of the Turka and their great JLaw fiJ Jf sw - ataaaaiaaa 3a1 Tieed for aid la graphically described In fjSJ HKwJ mmmm r a letter received by Mra. H. O. Cartosian Ljy: mlTt T. fp jt Mw& xMl M h J SiiW ; Commercial Coal ntST SwtX j r klml Sales Co. . WW f IpVJ l-y' Y-i Oregon Building. Xl "J Ifiil, 4 Jfr jlP v- "'rf:: J. L. Shaw, Manager gj Lleateaaat Joha A. Sklahaaaalaa, i J J ""VrSx'Se'rrlyT:: j lSk2X laBOAJ f Frcaca. i .............- from her brother. Lieutenant Joh Hhl!hmanUn of the Leclon Armenienne. Lieutenant Shiahmantan. who Is now stationed at Adana. was recently deco rated by tho French ftoemment with the croix d guerre with silver stars for bravery. Lieutenant Shishmanian has been in the service for over two years. He ex pects to get his discharge soon and will return to this country for a time, stop ping In Portland to visit his sister. His mother. Jlrs. G. N. Fhishmanian of Fresno. Cal.. and his father have come here to meet him. His father was missionary of the Christian, church In Turkey for 2 years. Karly Kdaratloa fa Coaataartaople. Lieutenant tihlshmanian has divided his time between Europe and America. He Is a graduate of the Roberts college for boys In Constantinople, of the Uni versity of Kentucky and the University of Virginia law school. He was a prac ticing lawyer in Fresno at the time of Ms enlistment. He was wounded dur ing the war. "Tou will be surprised to know mat your brother really hates to come Back." he writes to hla sister. "My physical condition is the leaat of all considerations when I realize tha tre mendous amount of work there is to be dune In this rglon. However, without funds I am absolutely helpless and so Is averyone else. Efficient relief is very, very slow In organizing and there is still the Jealousy and rivalry botween nations to be taken Into con sideration. Armenians are nobly doing all they can to help their own. but oh. what poverty, what degradation and misery around me here. 1 wonder how long it will last. now Deported t.ath.red In. -Our little orphanage was built for 1" and we have placed over (00 there. I have sent In several that I took out of Turkish homes. They are little girls and boys who were forced away from their fathers and mothers bv Turks who were trying to make Turka of them. "Then there are the refugees. Iregs of the deported thousands who have been gathered here over six thousand of them. The women have been put to work at making lace and ruga. Oh. If I rould stay and organize them Into something efficient and ..enslble. Ar menian relief has hardly started. It Is erro'irajrlng to see how Armenians are hnldtng their own. but of course their means are very limited for the givers themselves were among the de ported also. Haadrrda of Orphau Taere. "1 may try to bring with me a young orphan ahoiu I saved from a Turk a few months ago. a bright boy of 11 or 14. His father and mother were maa aarred. Ha has the makings of an ar tist. Apparent!;- a fine family, for he is refined and modest and very ssnsl tlve. Lieutenant Sallaljtan. who la from Marseilles, haa adopted a beau tiful little Armenian girl of t years, who hss nobody In the world. There are hundreds of these. Don't yon want a f.w In a letter to his mother Lieutenant Fhtshmanlan deecrlbes the aufferlnga that war brought to the Armenians. "Port Tol. before the wsr. he writes, "was surrounded by Its wealth of orange groves: clean, thrifty and very contented: entirely Armenian with lta old-fashlnned church and winding streets, its pretty girls and hlgh-epir-Ited men. Araaealaaa Drtvea Oat. Then came the war and the Hun of ficers and the Turkish soldiers. They took the schoo. house for barracka. They drove the leading citlsens out of their homes and got In themselves. Then came a fearful order from the dread city of "lstamboul" from one whose name every Armenian pro nounces with a curse Talaat Bey and women and donkeya and the children irad cattle were driven out at the point of the bayonet and told to march whither? No one knew." Then he draenbea how Armenian girls were made the servanta and slaves of Turkish maatera and how eomo of them w. - re-cued later by the Armenian troops from the hands of the Turks, who claimed that they had become Mo hammedans and embraced the "true" religion. I RAILWAY SCHEME OUTLINED SYSTIlM OF -VXXCAL bate re adjustment ADVOCATED. Citizens National Railroads League Opposes Return of Lines to Pre War Conditions. SAX-EM. Or July 12. (Spcia4.)H. H. Corty, fntmber of th Oregon pub Mo service commission, yesterday received a copy of the platform adopted by the Citlsens National Railroad League, which recently closed its sessions in New York. The platform follows: The Citlsens Nation Railroads leasee Is opp d to aevan.mnt ownerohip and te the return of the railroads to pre-war con ditions. We stand for a plan by which the rail roads can be operated under private owner hlp la best Interest of the public, the em ployee ana the ir Kit I mate security bolder. aucn a plan would provide for: A u n i fled rail road system under private ownersnip, opera tea by res ion. Valuation of tbe railroads by the valua tion adjustment commission, so a ' to rfve at an aetual true money value of the properties. A federal railroad corporation, which shall absorb tbe equities of all tbe roads over and above their bonded debts and Issue In payment pf those equities Its own stock on the basts ef one share for every 910e actual value ef existing- stock. Rates te yield a dividend en the aew stock not te exceed S pr cent. Interstate commerce commission te build up a scientific rate structure by distributing Justly the oost of operation of the railroads among the Industries and commodities that can beet afford to stand said cost and make such lower rates as are necessary for such Industries and commodities as need lower re too. Hhould the Income of the federal corporation In a given year exceed the full cost of operation a part of this excess shall go to the railroad employs and executive as a profit-sharing distribution to efficiency and Initiative. The remainder shall be used for property Improvement and extensions in the public Interest without capitalisation. The Interstate commerce commission shall make an annual revision and readjustment for the purpose of correcting any deficiency or excess In rates. lanasement of the federal corporation by a board of governors, numbering 7 to It, repress ntlng the security holders, the em ployes, ths farmers, the shippers and the government. The manner ef nominating this board ef governors or trustees shall be determined by cons-rees. This Is an outline of a plan which the league believes. If adopted, will result In ths most soonomlcal and scientific opera tion of the railroads In the best Interests f the American people. It will eliminate all exploitation and profiteering and avoid the weaknesses which government owner ship must entail. of way for the Pacific highway will be heard. The attorneys in these cases hava stipulated for trial without a jury and will let Judge Darch make the decision, so the jurors called for the coming term have been dismissed Thesa cases will be heard in Kelso In strad of In the county seat in order to save extra expenses to the state for fees and also to save tbe witnesses the time it would take to go to Kalama. Kelso, being more centrally situated, all the witnesses and others interested ran attend- court without much incon venience. II I aeT'ifl utr M k. - ' tw.'-- - a ' ' f ., T ii - - : f Vf. - :l 1.3 1L IRRIGATION SAVES CROPS Spirit of Farmers Shown in Coneer ration of Water Is Praised. BOISE, Idaho. July IS. (Special.) Everett M. Sweeiey of tbe public utlli ties co omission praises tbe spirit shown by farmers on irrigation projects where there is a water shortage. . He has Just made an inspection of the Twin Falls south side project, one of the biggest In the state, and says that, so far at tha wheat crop in that section is con earned, it is safe. For 0 days all of southern and east era Idaho haa been without rain, caus ins a heavy consumption of water and greatly reducing the suDDly. The heavv lose of crops, which was anticipated at one time, win not now be realised. ARMENIANS ARE DOOMED Hoofer Reports 300,000 Refugees Face Certain Starvation. NEW TORK, July 1J. Declaring it now Is too late to save from death 200,00 of the 700,000 starving Arme nian refugees In the Caucasus, the American relief administration an nounced last night that the American committee for Armenian and Syrian re- iter naa "pledged every dollar at its command" to aid in relieving distress in that war-st icken district. Quick and efficient aid will be neces. sary to save even 600.000, it was stated in official reports received at Paris by Director-General Herbert Hoover. GERMAN BANKS COMBINE Com 1 its Court to Sit at Kelso. KHTLPO. Wuh, July Special.) Judge Parch will hold superior court In Kelso next week when a num h.r of eondemnaf Ion faes for rieht Plan Calls for New Branch York. Office in 5. Picture your car as you first saw it with its dazzling radiancy-and you will have some idea how it will look when cleaned and polished the O-Cedar way. of itfo.'l i ii . WSJ s . c s 1) O' lflr O-Cedar Polish is sold by all Dealers 25c to $3.00 Sizes for your Automobile hrrveH Chemical Company, Chicago Toronto London Pari Use O-Cedar Polish the O-Cedar Polish Way First, remove mud, dust, etr, from your car by washing with water in the usual way. If you have used oils, or wax, it is best to use Ivory Soap to remove. Pour about 4 ounces of O-Cedar in a pan aad add a quart of warm water. Saturate a clean cloth in this and go over the body of the car. Do not attempt to clean too much at a time take one side of the body or a fender first. Follow by rubbing with a dry cloth. But little rubbing is required to produce a hard, dry, lasting lustre. 03 ot NEW TORK, July It. Seven leading German banks are considering forma tion of a "kartel" for the handling of all foreign business, according to a re port current in financial circles here yesterday. According to this report, tbe plan calls for establishment of a branch office in New York, with possibly branches in other American cities. It was pointed out by financial e- perts that If this plan were carried out it might abolish the business of dealers in foreign exchange on German cities. GLACIAL GEYSF3S VIEWED Compressed Air Sends Pools of Mountain Water Skyward. HOOD RIVER. Or., July 12. (Spe cial.) Guests at Cloud Cap inn were privileged yesterday to see the spec tacular phenomena of glacial geysers. The warm days early this week sent great volumes of water pouring down from the snow banks on the peak and ate away the surface of the great ice ields. The force of eorapressed air blew rreat holes in Eliot glacier and sen the pent-up floods spouting skyward hundreds of feet The picturesque die play was accompanied by explosions like cannonading. FOREST ROADS SURVEYED $5000 to lie Spent This Year Road to Base of 31 1. Adams. OULER. Wash.. July J J. (Special.) Engineer Carl V. Hersey of Portland who Is engineer for the Columbia na tional forest, is at work with a crew of assistants surveying the road from Trout lake to Goose lake, some 16 miles to tbe southwest of Guler. Mr. Hersey has Jnst completed a sur vey and location of the roal to Mor rison valley at the base of Mount Ad ams, and F. H. Brundage, supervisor of the forest, states that he will spend $5000 on this road this summer and that he has $16,000 available for has year. This will make a very good au tomobile road on a grade not to exvi ceed 7 per cent from Guler to the aurait mer snow line of Mount. Adams. bin;; ILlIII!li!IIlIII!lII!I!!II!IIIII!l!!II!iI!lll!II!IIIilIl!li!!lll!IIIIIIIuIIIII!illl Idaho Enthusiastic for Good Road. BOISE, Idaho. July 11. (Special.) Governor Davla la highly pleased over the enthusiasm shown by the people la northern Idaao for good road a He haa Just returned from a trip to tha panhandle by automobile with Commis sioner Hall of the state department of public works. Both were pleased with the way in which highway construction work has been carried on and the determination ahown to put In as many miles of hard surface road aa is NOTICE! Telephone Operators On Strike Operators now on strike, who desire to again take up work with this company should report in person or by telephone, at any Central Office in Portland or at Room 601, Sixth Floor, Telephone building. Park and Oak streets. 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