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24 TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 1020 THE WOOD HULLS SOLD BY RODGERS Captain Haskins Buys Aban tis. Abdera and Doylestown. DOUBLE PROFIT IS MADE Sliioninz Board Pays $5000 Kach for Removal From Ways Com pletion of Craft Planned. Two unfinished wood hulls on the ways at the Grant Smith-Porter ship yard and one at the Standifer North Portland yard were purchased out right yesterday by Captain W. Z. Has kins of the Oregon Stevedoring com pany from George F. Rodgers, who has a contract from the emergency fleet corporation to remove all un finished hulls on the ways of the country's shipyards. Mr. Rodgers, who is now In Philadelphia, was rep resented In the negotiations by J. P. O'Connor, assistant general manager of the George F. Rodgers fahip com pany. Captain Haskins stated yesterday that he will complete the hulls as soon as possible as five-masted sail ing schooners. After their completion. he said, he will operate them, himself or sell them if offered a sufficiently attractive figure. "I have some ideas of my own about shin deslem and eauipment that I have been wanting to put into practice all my life." said Captain Haskins, "and this is the first good oppor tunity I have had. These three schooners, when 1 am through with them, will have the last word in ef ficient machinery for the rapid han dling of cargo, especially lumber. All will be equipped with up-to-date deck machinery, including fast winches and long steel booms. There will also be some other departures from the conventional schooner." Work to Be Started Soon. The three huJis acquired yesterday by Captain Haskins are the Abantis and Abdera at the urant smun Porter yard and the Doylestown at the Standifer yard. The two at the Urant Smith-Porter yard are listed by the emergency fleet corporation as 4S and 32 per cent completed, and the Standifer hull as 50 per cent com plete. These figures, however, are based on their completion as steam ships. Captain Haskins figures that as' sailing schooners the Grant Smith Porter hulls are 51 and 69 per cent completed and the Standifer hull 83 per cent. There is no hindrance to the Imme diate starting of work on the Doyles town at the Standifer yard, and the purchaser intends to begin the com pletion of the vessel as soon as pos sible. This schooner should be In the water in 20 days, he estimates, and ready for loading in from 35 to 45 days. Arrangements must be made with the emergency fleet corporation before work on the Grant Smith-Porter ships can be started, as the yard where they are lying is now being used as a concentration warehouse by the supply and sales division of the fleet corporation and is piled full of surplus shipbuilding material which would interfere with the completion and launching of the vessels. Double Profit Is Made. The sale of these three hulls rep resents the first fruits gathered by (ieorge F. Rodgers under his unusual contract with the emergency fleet corporation, whereby Mr. Ttodgers is to receive from the fleet corporation the sum of $5000 for disposing of each of the 34 unfinished wood hulls re maining in the country's shipyards as the result of cancellation of ship con struction contracts after trie signing of the armistice. In this case, Mr. Rodgers will re ceive $15,000 from the government for ridding the shipyards of these hulls, plus the purchase price received from Captain Haskins. His only ex penditure in this transaction is the cost of maintaining a small crew for a few days at the Grant Smith-Porter yard preparing the two hulls there for launching before he entered into negotiations for their sale. Mr. O'Connor stated recently that under Mr. Rodgers' present plans all the unfinished hulls on the ways in the United tSates are to be sold and completed and that none will be de stroyed. . Demand for Holla Grows. The contract with Mr. Rodgers was executed by the emergency fleet cor poration only after a vain attempt to sell the unfinished hulls or give them away. Because of the shortage of sail tonnage, operators are now begin ning to see the value of the unfin ished hulls, and Mr. Rodgers and his associates now believe that all such unfinished hulls as can be completed at small expense will find a ready a le. Work of preparing several unfin Ished hulls for launching from the Pnget sound yards was reported sev eral days ago to be under way. It is understood that negotiations are already in progress for the sale of these hulls. With the sale of the Abantis, Ab dera and Doylestown, only four un finished hulls remain in the posses sion of Mr. Rodgers In this district. They are the Meridan at the Wilson yard and the Calpunia, Calydon and an unnamed hull at the McEachern yards at Astoria. The hulls sold to Captain Haskins were the only ones remaining on the ways In Portland. fi-VUXXE SHOW IS PLAXXED Nation-Wide Interest to Be Created in American Merchant Fleet. SEW YORK, Jan. 24. For the pur fe of creating nation-wide interest in the development of the American merchant marine, a series of demon strations showing marine resources of the country will begin here April 12 and last one week, it Is announced by the National Marine league. According to P. H. W. Ross, presi dent of the league, the demonstrations will consist of parades, dinners, at which prominent marine authorities will be speakers, expositions of ship moaeis ana exhibits of cargo handling and shipping devices. John Barton Payne, chairman of the United States shipping board. Secretary of Com merce J. "W. Alexander and other men prominent in Americas commercial development will be in" attendance. vvni.o centering in New York, the demonstration will be nation-wide in scope, it was added. The league, according to its ofTicers. now has more than 9000 members, in cluding not only prominent steamship men, but executive heads of many of the largest manufacturing, banking ana general ousiness iirms in every state or tne union. Pacific Coast Shipping Notes. ASTORIA, Or., Jan. 24. (Special.) Jjiaen witn mmuer rrom Jinappton and Vi a una, iiie iiim schooner Santa Bar bara sailed at 1 o'clock this morning for oan uiego and Ban Pedro. After discharging fuel oil In Portland, the tank steamer Col. E. L. Drake dropped to the lower harbor at 10 o'clock this morning headed for California. ABERDEEN", Wash., Jan. 24. (Special.) The steamer Daisy, which rammed un der the West bridge in Aberdeen several days ago and which has been held up on a federal bond of J4OO0 pending settlement of claims, sailed for southern ports yes terday. Deputy Sheriff Elmer Gibson, under whose care the vessel was held, having re ceived orders to release the ship. The steam schooner Bee of 375 net tons cleared last nieht with a miscellaneous cargo of lumber and building materials i valued at $26,580. The Bee is bound for Honolulu and carries 464.0O0 feet of lum ber and shingles and $13,000 worth of builders' hardware, consisting of brick. tile and other building supplies. The cargo is considered unusual for the racl oi na bifh vain. Mn,l the vessel's small tonnage. She is commanded by Captain C. Thorsell. The steamers Multnomah ana urays nar- bor have finished loading and are await ing a favorable bar to clear. Th. tamee f1heha.ll. a scnooner. me Multnomah and Grays Harbor are in port. SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 24. (.Special.) Formal notification that tne Northwestern Towboat Owners' association has been elected to membership In the chamber of commt.rce of tha United States was re ceived this morning at the association's headquarters in Seattle. The association Immediately will appoint a councilor to represent it in the national chamber. Authorization to protest against the dis crimination of the shipping board in giv ing New York brokers l1, per cent com mission on freight obtained for shipment on shipping bosrd vessels was given I. O. Hadley, director of the foreign trade bu reau of the chamber of commerce, by the board of trustees today. This action was taken by the trustees ss a result of a let ter received from the Galveston chamber of commerce in which was stated that the Galveston chamber was endeavoring to get the ports on the Pacific coast and Gulf of Mexico to join in a protest to the shipping board relative to the fees paid New York brokers which were not paid brokers at any other point. King Winter has been making s play ground out of the fishing banks off Yaqu tat, Alaska, and extremely cold weather is being experienced, according to word brought to Seattle by the schooner Alten. which reached port yesterday. The Alten sold her catch in Prince Ru pert. She had 60.000 pounds of halibut and received from 11 cents to 13 cents a pound for her fish. The master of the Alten said he spoke to the Seattle fishing schooners Common wealth of the Booth Fisheries, and Pan ama, owned by Henry Austrem. off Sitka. no two vessels have been out for a long uu oume anxiety was expressed fot catches in Sitka and returned to the fish- NEED OF INDUSTRIES IN CITY IS SHOWN Portland's Great Natural Ad vantages Must Be Used. EVERY FACTOR FAVORABLE Location, Climate, Soil and Agri cultural Production Nearby Conduce to Growth. factor in the conduct of its own in dustries. The problems which some indus tries have faced, for Instance, in their transportation difficulties, in the sat isfactory arrangement of freight rates, etc., could possibly have been easier of solution if, instead of the ef forts of the particular directorate con cerned, there had been a co-ordination of effort on the part of the community at large. The citizens of the fairest city ot the Pacific northwest have a large work to perform if they would dis charge their duties to the community. For the development of the present industrial life, for the encouragement of new industries, and also for the resuscitation of others, rendered de funct, the public can do much, if it will but recognize their community value. FEDERAL AID URGED TO BUILD UP FLEET Chamber Committee Wants Government to Cut Price. TAX EXEMPTION ASKED ing grounds. t'' Wash.. Jan. 24. (Special.) I.V.H r""- naroormaster W. G. Row i-.T mat tne import and export iscoma for the year 1!1 vaiue L'jl.24a.S30 with a total tonnage of freight handled during the ear of -.C&l.,j.i (0ne. The tota value of tne import trade amounted to flso.e.VI. w.,a",the. business $l-0.r70.77S While this business Is not quite as heavy as last year, it shows a growth over pre VL",y.'. ye,ars- wnen conditions and shifting freights did not affect the marine trade to the extent they did In 191S or tne close of last year. The steamer Gray Robin of the Robin line arrived here this morning and is load ing copper for the orient. The Gray Robin is one of the finest American freight ships that has ever visited this port. This is her maiden voyage. It is expected sha will ftail Sunday night. Babare Brothers. Tacoma, shipbuilders, have commenced work on their marine ways and have four fishing boats laid down at their new yard here. The ways will be large enough to accommodate smaller sound vessels. It will probably be the latter part of next week before the schooner Columbia finishes loading lumber here lor the west PORT TOWNS END, Wash..' Jan. 14. (Special.) Notwithstanding that freight offerings from the Orient are heavy, the Japanese steamer Kohshun Maru, now three days overdue, is coming In ballast as a result of the low freight rates. The steamer is in the service of the Trans oceanic company, which prefers to send the big craft across the Pacific light than to bring freight at the prevailing low rates, the company claiming that after paying stevedoring charges of loading and dis charging there would be nothing left for the company. The Kohshun will load out ward at Seattle, a cargo having been as sembled. Announcement has been made by the .Nippon YUBen Kalsha Co. that Its big steamers brought from the Atiantic during tne war will b. retained on the Pacific and operated between coast ports and the Orient. From present Indications the newly es tablished steamship service between Puget sound and the west coast of South Ameri ca by the shipping firm of Thorndyke & Trenholme. will be permanent, the com pany having received a cablegram from the southern terminus stating that a cargo has been obtained for the steamer Valdez for her return to Puget sound. The Valdez will be followed to the west coast by two other steamers, the chartering of which is now being negotiated. Coming from Sydney, the schooner Rosa- mond is reported in the straits enroute here. She will load lumber on Puget sound for Cape Town. COOS BAT, Or., Jan 24. (Special.) Five navy men are repairing the old coast guard station two miles below Empire and will convert the place into a compass radio station, other sites were Inspected including the government plot at the Araga lighthouse, but the station site was chosen because it furnished good quarters with a little repair work. Reedsport, on the Umpqua river. Is sadly handicapped by the lack of cars for ship ping lumber from the four mills now man ufacturing there ami water transportation will be resorted to. All docks are piled high with lumber and the situation is be coming embarrassing to operators. C. McC. Johnson starts to San Francisco in the morning to arrange for a steam schooner to ply there regularly. The steam schooners G. C. Undauer and Johanna Smith sailed at 2:15 this after noon, tha former for San Pedro, the latter for Bay Point. Both carried lumber car goes. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND, Jan. 24. Arrived during the night Barkentine George U. Hind, from San Francisco. Sailed at noon Steamer Rose City, for San Francisco: sailed at 10 P. M., steamer Silver Shell, for San Francisco; sailed P. M., steamer Abercos, for oriental ports. ASTORIA. Jan. 24. Sailed at 12:30 A M. Steamer Santa Barbara, for San Pedro; railed at 10:30 A. M., steamer Colo nel E. 1. Drake, for San Pedro. SAX FRANCISCO. 7 A. M. Steamer F. land. Jan. 24. Arrived at H. Buck, from Port- 22. Arrived Steamer Portland for New York BALBOA, Jar Nishmaha, from for orders. j SAX PKDRO, Jan. 23. Sailed at 4 P. M. Steamer Trinidad, for Columbia river. Arrived last night Steamer Yel- I owstone, from Columbia river; arrived at ! P. M.. steamer Atias, towing barge 03, from Portland. PORT SAN LUIS. Jan. 24. Arrived Steamer Lansing, from Portland. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 24. .irrived Steamers Mukilteo, from San Francisco : Kohshun Maru, from Kobe; Alaska, from southwestern Alaska; Morning Star, from Xanaimo. B. C. : Fulton. from Powell River, B. C. ; P. W., from British Columbia ports. Departed Admiral Rodman, for Ocean Falls, B. C. : Coaster, for Vancou ver. B. C. ; motorshlp Benowa, for Kilin dini. South Africa. TACOMA. Wash., Jan. 24. Arrived Steamers Skagway, from Alaska ports: Chllliwhack and Amur, from British Co lumbia ports; Robin Gray, from Seattle; Celilo, from San Francisco. Sailed Steam er La Touche, for Alaskan ports. MANILA, Jan. 10. Arrived Colombia, from San Francisco: Suwa Maru, from Seattle. HONGKONG, Jan. 19. Arrived Uncas. from San Francisco. HONGKONG, Jan. 18. Arrived Empress of Asia, from Vancouver, B. C. Sailed Katori Maru, for Seattle. SAX FRANCISCO. Jan. 24. Arrived Steamers Genoa Maru, from Balboa; Ma noa, from Honolulu; Carlos, from Grays Harbor; Avalon, from Wlllapa; West Keene, from Kaanapall: Argyll, from Se attle; Frederick H. Buck, from Astoria; Saginaw, from Port Angeles. Departed Steamers Lucerie, for Kobe; Casper, for Casper. BY JOHN BALIOU The city of Portland has enough natural advantages and incentives, from its location in the Willamette valley, to justify its claim for the establishment of large Industries. The natural mart of large agricultural areas just without its boundaries, its facilities for the dispatch and re ceipt of merchandise, by rail or by water, are obvious. If the earlier years of Portland's story. In relation to the development of the Pacific slope, lacks here and there that particular asset which has marked the rapid rise and expansion of cities less favored, the enterprise of the present day business leaders of Portland is marked throughout with those characteristics which make pos sible the establishment of strong and enduring institutions. Portland's vital need is for the erection of such institutions. The city of roses requires the establishment of industries and manufacturing plants. Its greatest asset is in be coming a city of home-builders. With the establishment of industrial plants and the development of factories, of one-kind or another, comes the possi bility of home-building. In short, to be successful in the fullest sense of the term, Portland needs payrolls. Activities Center in. City. The vast forests of the state of Ore gon, with their huge fir and spruce trees, are but a part of the natural endowment of the state. The activi ties which attend the varied opera tions which are necessary to turn these giants of the forests into dwell ing houses and into countless other useful forms, vast though they be. are small in number when considered with the boundless other possibili ties of the state. Naturally, a large percentage of these activities center in this pleasant city. The teeming waters are another fruitful source of interest. The can ning industries which flourish up and down the length of the Colum bia, and in many of the estuaries and bays of the coast, draw their shining spoil from the streams and rivers and the deeps beyond. The red, warm earth in the beau tiful valleys is not less sparing in its reward. Oregon's apples have long carried the' breath of the mild Pa cific to the tables of the great in older lands. , Its berries and its fruit juices are among the latest of its cohorts to herald the wonders of the west in the lands of the east. Crossing the Cascades, there are the open expanses of wheatfields, with evidences of bounty which nature denies' to many other areas. Nature Prodigal Sn Orejxon. So, with its timber, its teeming waters, its tempting fruits, its toss ing wheat fields, its herds of cattle, droves of sheep. itsmines. its smiling valleys and towering snowpeaks, .Ore gon has reason to salute the liberal hand of nature, who has been prodigal in her gifts. This is scarcely out of the realm of the primitive, however. The earliest peoples used the trees of the forest, the fishes of the sea, the fruits of the earth, and the four-footed creatures which they had domesticated, and found them sufficient for their need. Primitive people in lands still primi tive, live in the same content. The race has journeyed far beyond the simplicity of these earlier days. It has turned from a purely agricultural people to the intensity of a modern industrial people, and in turning has developed new needs, new desires, new aims, new visions. The system of living has become more complex. People have "moved in" from the farms and have come to dwell in the city. This iife in the city has brought with it new de mands and new problems. Men have discovered that the comparative iso lation whih is characteristic, some what, of the purely agricultural life, has given place to an interdependence which is a part of the life of the city. CitieM 3iow Crowded. It was the substitution of ma chinery for the older handicraft which began the migration from the farm and with succeeding years and the rapid development of mechanical methods, that migration has resulted in civilization being largely described as consisting of large cities, crowded to their capacity with people, whose livelihood is based on the further de velopment of those mechanical meth ods, while the agricultural areas are ( thinly populated and underdeveloped. B'or this, reason, progressive com munities have' looked to the matter of the establishment of every possible form of industrial activity within their borders. Leaders of civic life and affairs have felt it to be a duty to assist by every means in their power and to encourage as far as pos sible, the location of factories, mills and manufacturing plants in their cities. This encouragement is void of effect, however, if these leaders are not able to enlist in their behalf the favorable sentiment of the entire community. It is to the community, then, that, the appeal must be made for obtain ing and holding the necessary indus trial institutions, which, by their es tablishment, strengthen the commu nity and make it possible to attain larger growth and greater prosperity. The community should give ready ac quiescence in furnishing desirable sites for industrial expansion and the needed assistance in the development and successful conduct of the indus try established. Community Bsckisg Needed. The establishment and successful conduct of industries in any com munity is not merely a concern of the promoters of" the Industry. It is a community concern. The people of Portland, its merchants. Its civic lead ers, its butchers, its grocers, its householders and Its entire popula tion is vitally connected with the ex tent of its Industrial life. Community sentiment can be a strong factor in inducing new indus tries to make their home in this city, as well as to encourage established concerns in programmes of expansion. It can contribute materially "to the continued success or the gradual fail ure of any enterprise located in its midst. It can best serve its industrial life by acquainting itself with the facts and fears, with the principles and problems which confront and oft times confound Industry. By its attitude it can assimilate those facts, dispel those fears, pro- REPAIRIXG CONTRACT IET " t Overhauling of Duquesne to Be Completed in 12 Days. A contract for repairing and over hauling the shipping board steamer Duquesne, which came here from Honolulu to load flour, was awarded yesterday to the Pacific Marine Iron works by C. D. Kennedy, agent of the division of operations of the emer gency fleet corporation. The con tract amounts to about J27.000. Mr. Kennedy eaid, and the work is to be completed in 12 days. The Duquesne '".has been in active service more than a year and Is In need of cleaning, painting and general overhauling. is expected to be ready to start load ing her flour cargo early this week. Gas Buoy Goes Out. The Clatsop spit -whistling gas buoy No. 6, the turning buoy just inside the entrance to the Columbia river, is extinguished, according to a tele phonic report last night received by Robert Warrack, superintendent of lighthouses for this district. Mr. War rack says that the buoy will be re lighted as soon as possible. BETTER FARM RECORD AIM Marine Notes. The urmv transport Maries Is scheduled to load at 8 o'clock this morning from the Irving dock, where ah has been loading the last or her fort land cargo ot iiour, j for Astoria, where she will load the rest of her cargo. The Marica came here from Honolulu to load. The tanker Silver Shell, the first of the Sheit company's tank steamers to come to this port, is expected to finish discharging her oil and leave down at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The tank steamer Oleum left down for California at 4 o'clock yesterday after noon. The steamer West Hartland moved from the Clark-Wilson mill to the Union Oil company's docks for fuel oil yesterday af ternoon. She will return to her berth to day to continue loading. The steamer Coaxet. plying between Portland and the' orient In the service of the Pacific Steamship company. Is on schedule at all ports, according to infor mation received "by her operators. She left Shanghai for Hongkong January 14. -Carrying passengers and freight, the steam schooner Klamath will leave St. Helens for San Francisco at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. The steamer West Hartland. loading a full cargo of lumber for Oarlen. Man churia, Is expected to finish loading today or Monday and sail Tuesday. The motorship Admiral Mayo, which has been at the Inmac-Poulsen mill for sev eral days loading lumber for Australia, will go to the Standard Oil doks today to take on her fuel oil for the trip, and wll, then drop down to k'Him. t ....... loading. She will finish at HV.tnn,i rt put to sea the latter part of this should week. Extension of Credit Advised to En able Shipping Men to Take ' Over Vessels V. S. Has. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. A plan sponsored by the ocean committee of the United States Chamber of Com merce for the disposal of all ship ping board vesseis for private opera tion was presented to the senate com merce committee today by H. Sumner Myrick of Boston, vice-president of the chamber. Formation of regional organizations virtually to underwrite operation by shipping firms, government aid in some form, establishment of re-fueling stations under the auspices of the shipping board, exemption of the ships from taxation and promulgation of a general policy by congress declaring the attitude of the government toward the merchant marine were among suggestions included. The shipping board has available for sale 517 vessels of more than 4300 gross tons each, not including Ger man ships taken over at the begin ning of the war. Mr. Myrick said all of these vessels would be taken over by the present interests if sufficient inducements were offered. In addi tion, there are 327 ships under con struction, he pointed out. Ship prices now asked are out of proportion to the value of the ships. Myrick said, and marine companies will not pay the shipping" aboard $50 to $75 a ton more than it would cost' to build new ships. He recommended payment on the basis of 25 per cent down, with a first lien mortgage on the ship, and the balance in fixed pay ments distributed over a period of 20 years, with interest at 4Vi per cent. "I don t think our shipping men ought to be taught to rely too much on the .government," Mr. Myrick said. "Let them learn to stand - on their own feet." If all of the shipping board stertm- ers could not be sold to private in terests immediately, Mr. Myrick said he favored leasing the surplus for private operation on government account. Federal Agent Pleads for More Ef ficient Accounting. THE DALLES. Or., Jan. 2t. (Spe cial.) In order that the farmers of Wasco county may better place their affairs on a business basis, R. V. Guan. federal farm management Instructor, will speak to groups of farmers. In struction will be given in the keeping of records and the making of income tax reports. will be facilitated. "Farmers throughout the country sre realizing that their production costs must be calculated scientifical ly." said Mr. Guan. "By a system of records the efficient farmer able to tell what his wheat ' and other crops cost him. will know just where his business stands at the end of each year, and can determine what are fair market prices. The records system is being" received generally with favor and is fast placing farm ing upon a better basis." TO GET FLOUR1 $1,000,000 CARGO GOES TO! RELIEF OF EW REPUBLIC. I Local Product Will Be Transport ed in Last Emergency Board Ship Built in Portland. Notice to Mariners. The following affects the aids to navi gation in the J7th lighthouse district: Oregon Vaquina river, beacons. 2 and 6 reported carried away about January 17. 120. will be replaced as soon as practic able. Oregon and . WKshlnirtnn ,. ... v, ; river, main channel gas and whistling , ".iionw reiioriea not sounding, will Be repaired as soon as practicable. Oilman ledge gas buoy, temporarily Discontinued and its position marked by a, niBi-vmss nun Dtloy, t-nannci buoy o. 10, temporarily " 10 a gas Duoy snowing an occult ing white light of 3 seconds' duration every o bccuuui on a conica.l skeleton superstruc ture. Knappton channel lisrht and Rrava hv light heretofore reported carried away by ""t replaced ana relighted January 1! and January 11, ly:, respectively. Kyan rolnt light. Cape Horn light and Wind river light, carried awav recently hu the ice, will be replaced as soon as prac- vvasnington vviuapa bay. bay center cutoff channel, error in notice to mariners No. - of January 15. 1820; should read beacon 2 carried away about December .). l!l, instead of beacon . Grays harbor, north channel to Aber deen, north channel cutoff buoys, 2 and 3 reported missing January 20, 1V20, will be replaced as soon as practicable. Admiralty Inlet. Port Townsend canal front light reported carried away January l. l'.tju, wui be replaced as soon as prac ticable. ROBERT WARRACK, Superintendent of Lighthouses. REED SEMESTER ENDS Examinations in All Departments to Be Held This W eek. . Reed college's first semester of the 1919- 20 term ended yesterday. Exam inations in all departments will be held this week. The new semestjer. will begin with registration on Feb ruary 2. Several applications already have been received. Reed's teaching staff, with the ad dition of Professor Boas, head of the English department; Dr. Rebec, acting professor of education, and Miss Mc- Gee, assistant in French, Is now prac tically complete. Professor L. H. Bailey, dean of the college of agriculture of Cornell uni versity. Ithaca, N. Y., will meet Reed students and faculty Monday noon, February 2, for a discussion of the needs of more agricultural production. The meeting in the men's social room is open to the public. As a fitting close to the steel ship- I building programme of the emergency j fleet corporation in the Oregon dis trict, the 9500-ton steamer Bearport J now on the ways of the 3. M. Standi- fer Construction corporation, the last j steel vessel to be built for the ship- j ping board in this district, has been aelected to take a $1,000,000 cargo of Oregon flour to the new little re public of Armenia, it was announced yesterday. This cargo has been purchased by the United States Grain corporation and is to be sold to the Armenian republic on credit. That the flour to go to the relief of Armenia should be Oregon flour and that a Portland- stem or j built ship should carry this cargo, is will be tf,e result of the work of Samuel C. Lancaster, state chairman of the near east relief committee, the na tional organization that has under taken the work of relieving the starv ing In Armenia, Persia, Syria and other small neighboring states. Mr. Lancaster has accomplished this re -Bult by deluging the government of ficials from Herbert Hoover down, with telegrams and letters. The steamer Bearport is scheduled to accomplish her launching and her river trial and go on berth for load ing by February 20. She has been as signed by the emergency fleet cor poration to "the Columbia-Pacific Shipping company for operation. The freight charges on the flour, the in surance of the vessel, the cost of load ing and the administrative expenses of the vessel's operation are to be borne by the near east relief organization. U. S. Naval Radio Reports. (All pnoitinns reported st. K P. M. rester- duy I nles Otherwte Indicated. PHYLLIS, Everett for San. Pedro. 412 miles from Everett. GOVERNOR, Seattle for San Francisco. 02 miles north of Capo Blanco. J.- A. MOFFETT, Richmond for Point Wells, 40.1 miles from Point Wells. CORDELIA, Port San Luis for Van couver. JOHANNA SMITH. Coos Bay for San Francisco, 17 miles south of Coos Bay. Columbia River Bar Report. NORTH HEAD. Jan. 24. Condition of I lie bar at o P. M. Sea choppy; raining, wind south, 34 miles. Columbia Ktver Bar Report. NORTH HEAD. Jan. 24. No rennrr Wire down. EGERIA DISCHARGING CARGO Barge Built at Astoria Will Be Con verted Into Schooner. The 'barge Egeria, selected by a syndicate of Portland men for opera tion as the first unit of a home-owned fleet, began discharging her carg shipbuilding materials at the supply and sales division concentration yard at St. Johns Friday, and is expected to finish discharging in about ten days. She will then- go to the plant of the Coast Shipbuilding company in South Portland for conversion into a steam schooner. The Egeria, on her way up from Astoria, where she was built, to un dergo conversion at Portland, brought a full cargo of surplus shipbuilding material from the Astoria wood yards. As much of this material as is needed for making the Egeria over into the largest steam schooner afloat will be retained aboard and taken on to the Coast shipbuilding yard. SHIPPERS INVITED TO CALL " O Oriental Traffic Managers Would Help Place Products. ;, Joseph F. Buckley, oriental traffic agent of rlie Port cf Portland, who is to be the port representative in China and Japan, has taken a desk at the office of the port commission, where he desires to have manufacturers who wish to place their products in the trans-Pacific markets call. While he will be occupied in traffic matters, it will be his aim to lend ev ery possible assistance in putting manufacturers in touch with trade opportunities, and to this end he is to gain the fullest possible knowledge of manufacturirfc; industries produc ing articles demanded by that trade. Where manufacturers care to provide him with their code he would utilize it in cabling important information. OIL MEN TO MEET HERE Standard Company Salesmen to Discuss Problems. Salesmen and special agents of the Standard Oil company located through out Oregon and Washington will meet in Portland tomorrow and Tuesday for the annual general meeting for this district. Professional topics will be discussed and plans laid for the general sales campaign for the year 1920. About 100 employes are expected to be present. N The sessions, which will occupy mornings and afternoons of the two davs. will occur at the Multnomah rgo of i htel and win be under the leadership oi J. r. riaisi:y, gfiicini uit&ittiKr the company at Portland. The pro gramme will consist of talks along professional lines by the different special agents and salesmen and a discussion of the plans and the out look for the coming year. HERE CRAFT DECLARED FINEST EVER BUILT AT EUREKA. Vessel Will Load About 1,600,000 Feet of Lumber Here for .Sou Hi Africa. The barkentine George" .U. Hind, which arrived in the harbor early yes terday morning to load lumber for South Africa, is the finest vessel ever turned out from the yards of the Rolph Shipbuilding company at Eu reka, and Is one of the best furnished sailing ships afloat, in the opinion of her master. Captain N. P. Carlsen, who personally supervised her outfit ting. Captain Carlsen retired rrom a long life at sea two years ago to take a shoreside position in the Rolph shipyards. Wher. the new barkentine was ready to begin work, it developed that there was no skipper available in San Francisco to whom'her owners were willing to entrust the pride of their fleet. so Captain Carlsen brought her to Portland. He expects i to be relieved and return to MACHINERY' SENT OUT Abercos Carries Sltiiiineiits for In dia and Sumatra. Part of the cargo taken out of this port by the Admiral line freighter Abercos, which left down the river last night, consists of two shipments of Portland-made machineryr one for India and the other for Sumatra. Both shipments will be transferred at Hong Kong and carried to their ports of destination in other American bot toms. The Abercos took out a widely mixed cargo including lumber, flour, paper, machinery, pipe chemicals, cotton and many other items, total ling 10,600 measurement tons, or about 7500 tons by weight. BRITISH STEAMER HAS LlCjl'OK Crown of CuHlile Loads Beverages Before Dry Era's Arrival. HOUSE TO ATTRACT TRADE Exposition Home in New York to Be Made of Oregon Lumber. C J. Hogue. who left Portland a year ago to become eastern repre sentative of the West Coast Lumber men's association, will have super vision of the construction of a house that will be the center of attraction at the "Own-Your-Own-Homc expo sition in New York City. The house will be built entirely of Douglas fir. Sitka spruce, western hemlock and red cedar from Oregon and Washing ton. The design of Walter Bradnee Kirby has been accepted, and the erection of the building will be the first step in a trade expansion cam paign to be put on by the association. The acute shortage of homes in New York and throughout the east has caused an effort to find a solution. FARMERS TO BE GUESTS GRESHAM PLAN'S WEEK WORK AND PLAY. FOR More Headaches are relieved with glasses than with medicine. When your head aches and you feel tired and nervous, don't think you are ill vouvs may be a case of EYE STRAIN. Before resorting: to "dope" for your headache, let me examine your eyes by my scientific method, and if any amount of eye-strain is found, make you a pair of Perfect-Fitting; Glasses. A simple method, but it gets results. DR. WHEAT Eyesight Specialist Second Floor Morgan Bldg. Entrance 346 'z Wash. St. Gresham. He -vas released on ball because he has a wile and young son. Programme lo Open February Includes Talks on Many Live Farm Questions. GHESHAM. Or.. Jan. 24. (Special.) The city of Gresham will hold open house February 9 to 11, designated as farmers' week by the Multnomah county farm bureau co-operating with the Gresham business men's club. County Agent S. t. Hall, working with A. W. Metzger. E. W. Aylsworth and Arthur Dowsett. local merchants, has arranged a full week for the farmers and their families who were unable to take advantage of the farmers' week programme at Oregon Agricultural college in December. Kach day will be dedicated to a special project. Farm crops and soils will be discussed on Monday and Tuesday. These subjects will be han dled by Professors G. B. Hyslop and W. L. Powers of Oregon Agricultural college. Professors A. H. I.unn and C. L. Brewster of the Oregon Agri cultural faculty will hold poultry demonstrations and discuss hatching, brooding, culling and marketing on Wednesday. Horticulture day is Thursday, with Professor W. S. Brown, one of the foremost authorities in the country, in charge. Other speakers will be J. K. Stansbury. state horticultural inspect or, and C. 1. Lewis, manager of the Oregon Fruitgrowers' association. The dairy programme will occupy all of Friday and Saturday morning. Professors K. B. Fitts and K. L. West over, O. A. C. experts on dairying, ore the headllners. H. C. Seymour, children's industrial club leader, will be a speaker on Sat urday, and County Club Leader Ethel Calkins is arranging for some demon slrations by the children's clubs. CHICAGO HASM808 CASES Influenza Total -122 Below Pre vious Day Situation Brighter. CHICAGO. Jan. 2 4. Influenza and pneumonia eases decreased today in Chicago as compared with the number reported Friday, and tonight Health Commissioner Kobertson declared the situation was encouraging. Influenza cases reported today numbered 1S0S, a decrease of 42 as compared to Friday's reporis, al though deaths numbered ul. three more than yesterday. CONNORS' HEARING NEAR Patrolman. Involved in Mack Girl Case, lo lie Arraigned. Jack Connors, who is charged with a statutory offense against Evelyn Mack, 14-year-old girl, who accused Patrolman Beaver of the same of fense, will receive a hearing In the municipal court tomorrow. Connors was arrested Thursday night in Vancouver. Wash., by Detec tives Tichenor and Mallet. On motion of Deputy District Attor ney Deich yesterday, charges against Lloyd Born, who was said to have given Evelyn Mack and Mable Schroe der money following their escape from an operative of the women's protect ive department, were dismissed. DAILY METEOROLOGICAL RKPORT. PORTLAND. Jan. 4. Maximum tern perature. 54 degrees; minimum. l iegre?!i. Rive reading at 8 A. M.. 3 1 feet: chance In laa: -4 hours. o. foot. Total ralnfal (3 P. M. to 5 P. M.. 0.3 inch: total rain fall lince September 1. 191!. 11.71 Inches normal rainfall since September 1. 1M. ;17 inchea; deficiency of rainfall since Sep tember 1. lill'J. tf.KG inchea. Sunrise. 7:42 A. M. ; sunset. 5:O0 P. M. Total sunshine. January .4. none; possible sunshine. 9 hours, '.'3 minutes. MooiirJ.e. U:04 A. M.: moonset. i:-0 P. M. Barometer (reduced to sea level) at 5 P. !.. 30.00 Inchea. Relative humidity at o A. M.. 87 per cent; at noon, 03 per cent; at 5 P. M., SS per I cent. THE WEATHER. DAILY CITY STATISTICS Marriage 1-icenj.eH. BI.ESSIMI-STEVK.VS ileorKe M. M!e-.- inK. 4- ltl.s1 fc.at Hr.miiway. and Gust Stevens, :t7, L'lL i'olk street. CLARK-IHMIIKS H. H t ark. ". Cir. bonad;i. Vah.. and Anne M. Hughes. JO. New Huston hotel. l-'OX-MA t'KKsril AT William K. I"ox. 'j:l 1137 Cleveland avenue, and Marie Ann Maurevchat. l':l. :M Atl'ina avenue. STAfCH-STAt'OH Herman W. Stanch. 4. ."VS te'v Mrcet, and Edith Mar Slaurh. 47, ."i- ivlav sircet. t'ANEl.l.-nilANNAX Char'.es Edwarrl Cane!!. HI. ."' Front street, and Lillian Mav Rrcnnan. IS. .VI"J Front street. ZEXSKR-BONTHllOP l.eorRe W. Zen ker. 4t. Jm I'nion avenue, and Mrs. Edna Bonthrop. Icual. 370 c'tiuch t-trtet. ERWlN-l.lNN lavid Ramseur Erwin, lefial. Seattle. Wa.-h.. and Margaret L.ina. lcpal. ll East Pine direct. H A M KICK-W ESl'OTT Herbert Wllmer H&mrirk, :'.'. Cherry drove, and Cynthia Ann Wescotl. 3. Wheeldon annex. VICTOR-PI A.ZA Joseph Victor, 23. f!S Seventeenth streel. and Josephine Piazza. Is. 3JS EaJit Twenty-second street. Vancouver Marriage Licenses. TRIPP-THOMPSON l.ouls A. Tripp. 41. or .Sheridan, or., and Elsie M. Thompson, "j;l. ot Portland. I. A WRL.A li-ANDKRSON C. J. U. nlad. 4o, of Vancouver, Wash., and Jo sephine Anderson. :I3. of Portland. WRAXSTED-CH A HV Paul Wrangled. SS. of Portland, and Katie Chard, US, of Port land. PR A WITZ-MCRTOV August Prawitx. ro, of Vancouver. Wash., and Kathrlne Morton. 37. of Vancouver. W"ash. l.EDKORD-.MORUAN Walter Idford. 27, of Wamic. Or., and Hazel Morgan, 1ft. of Wamic. or. BEKT-VOl'NO T. A. Hurt, legal, of Vancouver Barracks, and Cathrine Voung, legal, of Vancouver, Wash. KllliSON-BAK ER W. .1. Folson. 3. of Portland, and .Bertha Baker, 3S, of Port land. JOHNSON'-KENNEPT .T. "W. Johnson. 3fi. of Portland, and May Kennedy, 35, of Port land. WAl.H-MOr.RISON George "Walsh. 24, of Portland, and Bobbie Morrison, 35, of Portland. EDWARDS-CI.A RKE Earl R Edwards, 1!), or Portland, and Vivian T. Clark, IS. of Portland. I.A WTON-FORSVTH Perry A. Lw(on. C4. of Portland, and Oiga jVorsyth, U4, of Portland. the vessel sails fornia before Africa. Because of the long voyage ahead of her, the George U. Hind will go in drydock here as soon as the dock Is available for an additional coat of paint on her bottom. She is the lat est product of the Rolph yards, and this is her maiden voyage. She is under charter to Balfour, Guthrie & Co. The George TJ.Hind is a four-masted barkentine carrying 5500 square yards of canvas. She is 260 feet over all In length, has a beam of 44 feet and a 19-foot depth of hold. She will load about 1,600.000 feet of lumber. . The British steamer Crown of Cas tile, loading lumber for England. Is expected to sail tomorrow. This ves sel has 'a fortune in alcoholic bever ages under bond in her hold. This cargo was loaded at San l-'rajtcisco Just in time-' to escape conficsation under the new constitutional amend ment. The Crown of Castile is one of the vessels in the service of the Harrison direct line, represented here by Bal- Cali- four, Guthrie & Co. The steamer Tac- ror I tician or mis line win oe aue nere ror loaaiug ror European ports in March. Shot Injures Watchman. G. A. Barry, 33, of 113 Fourteenth street north, a watchman at .the North Bank dock, accidentally shot hiirelf in the left leg below the knee while examining his revolver at the dock early yesterday morning. He Tides at .Astoria Sunday. High. Low. .ai A XT S3 feet I n-1 A 1 o A rt 2:4,3 p! M...ti.3 feet;;23 P. 21... 0.6 leet , problems, aad thus become a prime Jury was not serious, was taken to bt. Vincent hospital. claim those principles and solve those where attendants announced the In- City of Topeka Leaves Jan. 30. The steamer City of Topeka of the Pacific Steanship company's coast wise service, which is undergoing re pairs In drydock at Seattle, will leave P.uget sound January 30 for San Fran cisco with freight only, according to Information received yesterday by Frank O'Connor, Portland agent of the company. On reaching San Fran cisco the City of Topeka will go back on her regular run, touching at Sa,n Francisco, Eureka, Marshfield, North Bend, Astoria and Portland. Sand Ballast Discharged. The shipping board steamer Aniwa, which arrived January 22 from Hono lulu to load flour here, yesterday dis- MAN FOUND IN BRUSH K. ltcnjamin With Icicles in Beard Nearly Frozen. K. Benjamin, who said he was a second-hand store man. was found lying in the brush at East Twenty fifth and Emerson streets yestrduy afternoon by Motorcycle Patrolman It. U Schad. Benjamin had icicles in his beard and was nearly frozen from exposure. A charge of drunkenness was placed against the man, as he had evidently been imbibing too freely. ETAT10.N6. Wind The union of South Africa annually produces between 4.0UU.000 and 5.000, 000 gallons of wine. Weather. SOCIAL CALLER JAILED Breaking of Smallpox Quarantine Churgcd Against Man. A social call upon Mary Medak. who is quarantined for smallpox at her home on East Forty-third street near Woodstock, resulted in John Betarna vich being arrested yesterday after noon by Police Sergeant Brothers on a charge of entering a place where a quarantine has been established. Betarnavich will have a hearing in the municipal court tomorrow. His bail was placed at $50. Armenian Woman to Speak. Baker I -"4 SS 0.00 12 SB .'Cloudy Boise ! 2S, 44.0.rr. .;se Ifloudy Boston I 3O'0.7s 14:N ISnow Culgarv '-."IO-1J.0.O0 . .'SE Iciear Chicago I "-'l' S2 0.cn 10'Nn!snow Denver -41 31". O. Oi) . . i N" K j Pt. cloudy Des Moines.. 14, "JO'O .O'Jj . .' N W! Clear Eureka 4ti; 5-' O.n-Ji . . IE ICIoudy Galveston .. 5U. . . O.OO; . . ' . . ..I Helena -4i 1 4 0. oo-. . N" iCloudy Juneaut 4 'M O.IKI'. .IN ICIear Kansas City "JH'O.OO 14 N ICIear Eos Angeles. J .": 7l!0 .ooi . . SW iCloudy Marshtleld .1 .'ll ." 0. 1 o! . . is -Cloudy Medford ...I 3S 4 0. 00! . . iN WlCloudy Minneapolis I 2!' 4 0.O2-. .'W ICIear New Orleansl "Jl ... O .OO' ..'... .1 New York...! 3"J! Sit 0.U0 14NE iCloudv Norlh Head, .ttl' . . . 10 . OO! N. Yakima., isi Lr,'l . 1 s . . Ise Cloudy Phoenix I 44! 7-' O.oo: . . IN W!Clear Pocatello ..I irt. 42 n.lKP-14 S Ifloudy port'and ...I -H; ."4 O..VJ 10SW I Kaln Koseburg .-I 401 SMn.2l..iS ICloudv Sacramento .1 -! n.OOl . . !.N" Ipi. cloudy St. Louis I 'X'. 2c;-li.Oii!..!NW:ciouclv Salt Lake., asi 44 O.OO . .'SE 'Pt. cloudy S.n niego.. ."4' Ho 0 . 00 1 1 4 N W ICloudy San Kracic'oi 441 .". O . OO .. i N W Cloud V Seattle I 32' 42O.!W:l0'S 'Cloudy Sitka', I 'l.i'..!XE ICIear Spokane I '-'O J2;n.4' . . ;e isieet Tacoma ! 10' 4fi 0. so ;0 S V i Rain Tiitoosh la'dl 321 40 0.KS10SE IKain Valdezt ..! KO.Orti..! 1 Walla Walla! 22' 24 0.14 ..1W iCloudy Wain najton r,-...u.oo Winnipeg" ..(-26-14 0 Wins Back Good Looks Kow a Complexion Disfigured With Pimples, Blackheads, Muddiness. And the Sallow Appearance Gives Way Before the Wonderful Stuart's Calcium Wafers. Tou might look at half a dozen girls who have made their complex- .oo; SW ICIear t A. day. M. today. P. M. report of preceding FORECASTS3, and vicinity Rain: southeast- Portland erly winds. Oresjon and Washington Rain west por tion, rain or snow east portion: moderate out r.easteriy gale on the coast. Idaho Snow. Ogden Forest Officials Here. "Aic . 4s&: ions beautiful by clearing their skin with Stuart's Calcium Wafers and b puzzled to decide which is the pret tiest. It is remarkable what happens whon these unsightly pimples, black heads, .etc.. and the muddy, oily a L1 pearance disappear. Beautiful skin Is lovely in the extreme. Stuart's Calcium Wafers bring in a short time a more beautiful com plexion. By cleaning out the pore. throwing lf all SKin aisooii-rations. Two forest service officials from Ogden. A. H. Cousins, property as--sistant. and J. O. Falck, property- Mrs. O. F. Lamson of Seattle, who is auditor, are here on an Inspection thev do their work of beauty building a, imiive ui --vi ineii in, win arrive in i trin and will attena some oi tne ure- almost peiore anjunc can ucuc u. Portland on the early morning train. . eon ranger meetings being held and will speak at the Forbes Presby- throughout the state. Ogden is the terian church at 11 A. SI. She will speak this evening at McMinnville at the Christian church, and on Monday evening will address a special meet ing at the First. Presbyterian church. 12th and Taylor. Mrs. Lamson is a graduate of Johns Hopkins upnlver- charged a portion of the 800 tons of sity and one of Seattle s prominent sand ballast which slye brought from society and club women. She will the Islands Into the wooden steamer make a speaking tour of the state in Clackamas, which Is soon to load ties the interest of the approaching Near for the United Kingdom. The Anlwa East Relief campaign. supply depot of the forest-service the northwest. Oet a 5o-cetit box of these wonder ful wafers from any druggist any where. AdV. Allen Radical Gives nail. August Uney. radical alien, has been released under $1000 bonds pend ing his deportation hearing, according to announcement yesterday by Immi gration authorities. He has been Identified with the communist labor party and. livvs v a farm near ST. HELENS SHIPBUILDING CO. Bi:lL.DKRS OF WOODKI VKSSGLS, nllt.E;S A NO DREDUES. SPECIAL ATTKN'I IO-V TO GENERAL UK 2' A I It WO UK. We are equipped to give complete sat isfaction. Portland office B24 Roani ot Trade Building. - Phone Main. 607.