THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX,' rORTLAXD, APRIL 2o, 1920
BLAZE IN BASEMENT
Auditorium Hotel Guests Are
Routed by Fire.
FRIGHTENS LODGERS
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$20,000 DAMAGE ESTIMATE
Snxikc in Basement Makes Fire
Difficult One to Fight Lot of
Potatoes Destroyed.
Fire which started in the base
ment of the Auditorium building, 208
Third street, early yesterday morn.
ing caused consternation among the
lodgers, in the Auditorium hotel and
resulted in damae'e estimated at $20,
000, the principal loss being stock
and groceries of the D. C. Burns
company store occupying the first
floor and basement of the structure.
Claude Chenon of McMinnville, one
of the lodgers on the fourth floor
of the hotel, jumped from the window
to the court tnree stories below and
sustained a broken foot.
The fire is believed to have been
caused by either spontaneous com
bustion or one of the lights coming
in contact with goods in the base
ment. The fire was .first' discovered' by
John A. Johnson, one of the lodgers
in the hotel, who noticed the smoke
in the hallway. The alarm was Im
mediately sent in.
Blase Stubborn .One.
The fire proved a particularly
stubborn one to fight owing to the
fact that it was confined to the
basement and there was so much
smoke there that it could not be en
tered. It was necessary to chop holes
in the floor and turn streams of
water through.
When the alarm was given pan
demonium broke loose among the
lodgers in the hotel occupying the
upper stories of the structure. Many
of them flocked to the street in scant
attire. Besides Chelton, an unidenti
fied woman and man also Jumped to
the court, but were uninjured. Chel
ton was treated at the police emer
gency ; hospital and later' left for 'his
home.
Fears that one woman, whose name
was not learned, might jump from the
fourth floor to the sidewalk below
caused the firemen to get out one of
the life nets. The woman appeared
at the window and the firemen
thought for a time that she intended
to jump.
Car Traffic Held I" p. '
Owing to the network of fire hose
and the large amount of fire appara
tus In the street, car traffic on Third
street was held up for about an hour
while the fire fighting was in prog
ress. The fire was finally gotten
under control at 6:40.
A feature of the blaze was the ex
ploding of a large number of cans of
olives as a result of the heat in the
basement, the effect, being similar to
that of miniature bombs.
After he had made his sensationaj
jump Chelton reported to the police
that he had left his purse, containing
between $6 and $7, under his pillow
in his bed. It was recovered by Pa
trolman T. H. Willett. W. H. Nichols,
another lodger, reported that he had
left his purse, containing several dol
lars, in his room and when he re
turned was unable to find it. . .
Lot of Potatoes L,oat.
The loss to the groceries, stock and
fixtures of the 13. C. Burns company
was estimated by Fire Marshal Day
at $15,000. This included a carload
of salad oil, 75 sacks of potatoes and
a large quantity of canned and bot
tled goods. The loss to the building,
owned by E. bZ. Kedfield, was esti
mated at $5000. The hotel suffered
only smoke damage. The. loss is
partially covered by insurance, it was
announced.
JEWISH RECORD GIVEN
War Losses Enormous, Reports
Zionist Church Delegate. .
LONDON. Dr. Max Nordau told the
Knglish Zionist federation the other
day that in the world war the Jews
had furnished 000.000 soldiers to the
various armies. This, he said, was
about seven per cent of the whole
number of Jews, a proportion equaled
hy few and surpassed only, he be
lieved, by the FrencS. The Jews had
lost 80,000 dead and had about 200,000
casualties
But what had the Jews fought for?
he asked. Even in the advanced and
highly civilized countries of the west,
he coi. tinned, a huge wave of anti
Semitism was welling up: in then ew
countries that had arisen in the cast
the most criminal passions were let
loose against the Jews. In this dam
picture there was one bright spot,
the British declaration in favor of a
Jewish national home in Palestine.
FLOTILLA HANDED' OVER
Australia Receives Gift oT Six. De
stroyers From Admiralty.
I5NDON. The flotilla of six de
stroyers presented by the admiralty
a a free gift to the Australian navy
has just been taken over formally by
the Australian high commissioner, An
drew Fisher, and is timed to arrive in
Sydney on Anzac day, April 25. They
are the Tattoo, Success, Taemania,
Stalwart, Anzac and Swordeman.
Mr. Fifher states that these nep
' vessels all of which have left the
slips since the armistice. differ so
greatly in design, armament, maneu
vering speed and range from the de
stroyers already belonging to the
Australian navy that if pitted against
them not one of the earlier vessels
could live for more than a minute.
"DOUBLE" NOT PRINCE
Woman With Eternal Autograph
Book Is Given Surprise.
LONDON.' The Prince of Wales
seems to have doubles in England.
In the company of two officers a
man entered a west end moving-picture
theater the other day. A lady
wittins: near the door arose, bowed and
presented the eternal autograph book.
The man took the book and, with a
serene countenance, wrote "J. J
Smith," and handed back the volume
with a gracious bow.
It was not the prince.
Lion Cnbs Get Irish Names.
ST. LOUIS. Mo. Three cubs born to
Hans ' and Gretchen, lions at the
municipal zoo on St. Patrick's day
are to be named Bridget. Mike and
Pat, it was announced. The parents
formerly were owned by a German
animal trainer.
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ALIENS CONTROL DISTRICT
JAPANESE AND HINDUS HOLIJ
VALUABLE LANDS.
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Sutter County, California, Has
About 24,000 Acres in Hands
of Little Brown Men."
. YUBA CITY, Cal. With a number
of unrecorded leases and crop mort
gages yet to ihear from, it now is cer
tain that data gathered in proof of
the encroachment of Asiatics will
verify the prediction that no less than
24,000 acres of Sutter county soil will
be tilled by these foreigners in 1920
and succeeding years.
The Japanese are leading in the
race to wrest the farm lands from the
whites. Figures now obtainable show
that they have brought under their
control between 10,000 and 11,000
acres: Only where it is jiecessary for
them to protect themselves as to
details of a contract are the Japanese
placing any instruments on record.
Most of their crop mortgages given
the owners of tne land are brought
in to' be recorded,, hut they are not
strong for placing on record theii
leases to land.
Data in such cases are being pro
cured haphazard by County Assessor
McQuaid, Farm Adviser Sullivan and
County Horticultural Commissioner
Stabler, who have been requested by
the state board Of control to get a
line upon the Asiatic advances in Sut
ter county.
Hindus either own or lease 5729
acres of land in this county. Like the
Japanese, they are prone to the rice
industry. . It is not an experiment
with either, as already both Japanese
and Hindu has to his credit healthy
bank accounts. The acreage actually
owned by Hindus, as shown by the
county's roll, is 234. The acreage un
der lease is 5729.
Seventy-six acres of Sutter land are
owned by Japanese. The Sutter Or
chard company, a Japanese concern,
has thirty acres; the Nicolaus Fruit
company, also Japanese, has twenty
six acres', and a private individual,
one K. Simuye, has twenty acres.
These lands either are secure under
the name' of native-born Japanese or
were procured before legislation pre
vented the purchase of California
lands by. Japanese.
EXPERIENCE IS TEACHER
Spendthrift Heir Has Wife Named
as Conservator.
CHICAGO. Walter S. Schlussel is
a living exemplification of that trite
old adage that "aburnt child dreads
the fire."
Mr. Schlussel is soon to come into
possession' of an estate of $250,000 as
the result of his uncle. Baron von
Schlussel, having been killed in the
war. So he came into Probate Judge
Horner's court and asked that a con
servator be appointed for himself. He
frankly told the judge that he once
possessed $2500. but he had traveled
the primrose path of wine, women
and song, and when he reached the
end of the path, he did not have a
dollar.
'And who would you like for con
servator?" asked the judge after it
had all been explained to him.
Violet," responded Schlussel.
"Violet?" the -Judge inquired.
. "Sure, my wife."
So Schlussel formally was declared
a "spentthrif t," and his wife duly ap
pointed his conservator. She will take
abs&lute control of the fortune com
ing, over from Germany, providing,
always, that the German tax col
lectors do not beat her to it and ab
sorb all of it.
MANY ADVISORS COMING
Foreign Trade Convention Arouses
Widespread Inter"esl.
NEW YORK. Interest in the sev
enth" national foreign trade conven
tion to be held at San Francisco,
Maf 12-15, is being expressed every
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ing to the National Foreign Trade
council, by the appointment of dele
gates on behalf of local chambers of
commerce as well as various trade
organizations.
Among the appointments already
made are those of the National Insti
tute of Inventors, the Washington
Board of Trade, the American Asso
ciation of Wholesale Opticians, the
National Wholesale Lumber Dealers'
association. the Lewlston (Idaho)
Commercial club, the Southeastern
Millers' association! the Pennsylvania
State Chamber of Commerce, the
Electrical Manufacturers' club, the
Akron Chamber of Commerce, the
National Jewelers' Board of Trade, the
American Paper and Pulp association,
the National Association of Finishers
of Cotton Fabrics.
Steps are being taken by such na
tional associations as the American
Manufacturers' Kxport association,
the National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce
of the. United States, as well as the
Associated Advertising Clubs of the
World, to provide for adequate repre
sentation at San Francisco.
Great interest is being manifested
by trade associations this year, ac
cording to Secretary O. K. Davis of
the National Foreign Trade council,
on account of the promised attend
ance of trade' advisors from 30 lead
ing nations bordering on the racific
ocean.
Special steamers will provide ac
commodations for delegates on the
Pacific wean, while two or three
transcontinental trains will furnish
transportation for' delegates In the
east.
LEVER HULME IS BLOCKED
Hebrides Residents Reject Plan for
l'lshing Fleet.
LONDON. Lord Leverhulme has
encountered the religious prejudices
of the , Scotchmen who live on the
extensive property he has purchased
in the cjjiter Hebrides and has suf
fered a rebuff. He had planned to
make Stornoway, on the island of
Lewis, the headquarters of a huge
fishing fleet that should sweep the
seas for 500 miles around. The
project involved Sunday labor ' and
the islanders whn aHh'cpA u
strict and intense form of the Pres-
oyierian iaitn, rejected it.
l...,, incident, the
periodical Common Sense, says:
iora i-.evernulme is a man of big
ideas and new ideas while the popu
lation over whom he has declared the
rights oflairdship are folk of old
and Intense Ideas. Hence the in
evitable collision." . .
CLIFF DWELLING FOUND
Ancient Cities to Be Explored by
Collep-e 'Savants.
SALT LAKE CITY. Efforts, to
reach and explore ruins of ancient
cliff cities, known to exist in Zion
canyon. Utah's newly created national
Dark in t h r soii'hwMifpm n. r . v. .,
state, will be made during the com-
iiir summer Dy a party of archeolo
gists and geologists. several of
w,hom are attached to th tTnivA.oitu
of Utah here.
Th-j cliff cities never have been
visited because of their inaccessible
locations on the high bluffs. It is
hoped, however, that this difficulty
will be overcome by the lowering of
the explorer from the tops of the
bluffs by ropes. Long range photo
graphs taken show that the cities
are large and their adobe houses are
clearly outlined and appear to be in
perfect preservation. t
LIBRARY SERVICE NEEDED
Workers to Be Encouraged to Study
Social Problems.
NEW YORK. Extension of library
service broadly among industrial
workers and manufacturing plants of
all sorts as a contributory factor In
allaying social and industrial unrest
throughout the United States will be
encouraged by the American Library
association. It-was announced.
Introduction of books dealing with
social and industrial problems amors j
wvmiriB is cxpeciea to oroaaen tne
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have large bearing on the attitude of
labor toward existing conditions.
The organization also proposes es
tablishment ot service in rural com
munities on board ships, in light
houses, coastguard stations and for
soldiers, sailors ard , .marines. An
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