THE SUNDAY OREG ONI AN, -PORTLAND, 31 AY , 23, 1920
AHACK ON BRITISH
MARINE ASSERTED
Menace in Benson's Order
Seen bv Shinnina Exoert.
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SIMS' CHARGES RECALLED
Shipping Board Order
American Registry Only
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LONDON, May 22. Archibald Hurd,
chipping1 expert, commenting in the
Daily Telegraph on the announce
ment from Washington that the
United States shipping board has is
sued instructions that managers and
operators of vessels belonging to the
board must obtain their classification
from the American bureau of ship
ping, says:
"It may be merely a coincidence
that the president of the shipping
board is now Kear-'Adniiral William S.
Benson. This officer's name has re
cently become familiar on this side of
the Atlantic in connection with the
controversy aroused by Sims indictment-
of the navy department
Having cited Read-Admiral Sims'
anti-British charge against Benson,
Hurd continues:
"Npw that this officer is at the
head of a government organization
which owns a large number of vessels
built under a war scheme, the coin
cidence may have no significance.
but there it is. and let us remember
that two great parties are marshal
ling their forces for a presidential
election."
WaMhinfcton Backing. Seen
Having referred to the agitation In
America to have her mercantile ma
rine, built, owned, manned, operated
and Insured by Americans and to the
defeat ot the ship subsidy bill, Hurd
goes on:
"The prime movers in the American
shipping campaign were given new
courage during the war, and Benson
as president of the shipping board is
playing up to them by insisting that
the shipping it now owns must be
classified not by Lloyd's Register or
any other organization, but by the
American bureau, its expenses being
met apparently out of government
funds. In other words, this organi
zation will receive subsidies and
therefore will in some measure be
under government control subject to
national if not party bias, for party
politics in the United States some
times invades the commercial field.
"At any rate, the result of Admiral
Benson's policy must be to place in
shackles this classification society,
which, at the end of last year had
about 600 steamships on its register,
compared with 8500 on Lloyd's. The
Idea is that it will, with government
patronage and subsidies, be able to
oust Lloyd's Register so far as government-owned
shipping in the United
States is concerned.
Xaval Men Poorly Regarded.
I have no prejudice, I need scarcely
explain, against naval officers, Ameri
can or otherwise, but many of them
do not understand either the sea, on
which they should spend many years
of their lives, the science of sea
transport or the principles of com
merce. Very few people, indeed, real
ize that when government, with ar-
tificlal restrictions, interferes with
sea affairs they become themselves
very much at sea and involved in
ruinous and useless expenditure.
"The seas are free, and it is only
in conditions of freedom that a
healthy mercantile marine and healthy
foreign commerce can be carried on.
Those who are described in American
language as flagwaggers, have evi
dently come to the conclusion that by
artificial means the American com
mercial flag can be made supreme.
"So on the eve of election we have
many manifestations of what is re
garded as a national or patriotic pol
icy. They regard Lloyd's Register as a
British . institution and it is thought
to be a bold, independent thing just
now among 'certain sections of the
Americans to twist the tail of the
British lion.
Lloyd" tolled to the Skies.
1 do not know what opinion the
management committee of Lloyd's
may have upon the action of the ship
ping board, but 1 feel convinced they
will regard the matter with the
equanimity which becomes those who
are responsible for an institution
which has weathered many storms
and never was more prosperous than
today. Lloyd's Register has long
ceased to be a purely British institu
tion, and that is its strength.
"It has no national bias, much less
political. Its certificate of 100-A1 re
ceives its daily tribute in every port
and count in g house in the world.
The confidence with 'which it is re
garded abroad Is attested by the fact
that it has representative committees
in France, Sweden and the United
States and an arrangement with the
Veritas Adriatica at Trieste.
"Its virtue lies in the fact that it
has nothing to do with either the
British government or any other gov
ernment, but is a voluntary associa
tion of underwriters, shipbuilders,
chip owners and merchants."
for the sick and destitute hitherto
sent to eastern Europe .had not been .
distributed with that amount of su
pervision which circumstances do-,
manded.
The council decided to exert every
effort to suppress the white slave
traffic until the international confer
ence called to consider that problem
has met and reported.
bignor Tittoni said Fridtjoi ftansen,
the Arctic explorer, has accepted the
league's invitation to take measures
as quickly as possible toward re
patriating the prisoners of war of all
nationalities who are still in Serbia.
Nansen's headquarters will be at
Christiania for a time.
The discussion on the recent labor
conference in Washington will be in
troduced by Matsui, the Japanese del
egate, while a Spaniard, Tuinon de
Leon, will bring forward that impor
tant question, the league's budget and
the audit of its expenses. Great Brit
ain apparently will bear by far the
largest part of the financial burden of
the league, while France will come
next. Efforts will be made very soon
to recognize the secretariat,, which
hitherto has been composed almost
entirely of English, and to convert
it into a really international organ
ization. Albert Thomas, director of the in
ternational labor bureau, will lecture
at a reception given to the council of
the league. His subject will be "The
League of Nations and the Interna
tional Organization of Labor."
STRIKE OF STUDENTS
AT LA PLATA FATAL
One Killed in Shooting Affray
in Lecture Room.
FACULTY CALL ON POLICE
Kins Leaders Actuated by Bolshe
vist Ideas and Red Flag Hoisted
on University Buildings.
SEA LION HIDES DURABLE
Plan Proposed to Reduce Reported
World Leather Shortage.
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, May 22.
Thousands or sea lions on the British
Columbia coast which destroy annual
ly vast quantities of cod, salmon, hal
ibut and other food fish, may be
slaughtered and their hides placed on
the market. This proposal was made
by Premier Johu Oliver, and is being
considered by fishermen and others.
The supply is almost Inexhaustible,
it is said, and tanning of the hides
would assist materially in reducing
the reported world leather shortage.
One Prince Rupert pioneer declared
recently that with three companions
he had killed TOO sea lions on the
Queen Charlotte islands, in two days.
The hunter must be a crack shot, for
it is said there is but one vulnerable
spot, just behind the ears, and
wounded lion will flop into the water
and sink instantly.
The sea lions, it is said, weigh from
2000 to 2500 pounds. The bides are
nearly an inch in thickness and make
a tough and durable rough leather
such as is used in workmen's " gloves
and saddles. -
F'ishermcn declare that a -sea Hon
will eat 50 pounds of fish in a day,
SURVEYING WORK ARDUOUS
V. S. Engineers to Check Up Flat
head Reservation Lines.
HELENA, Mont.. May 22. A crew
of ..survey men operating under .J.
Scott Harrison, assistant United
States supervisor o surveys and com
manded by George F. Rigby, a local
surveyor, is soon to attempt what is
believed to be one of the most arduous
pieces of work in the annals of Amer
ica. They will re-run the entire line
of the Flathead Indian reservation in
the western part of the state.
The line was run many years ago
and needs re-touching, it is said. The
work will take the survey crews into
some of the wildest portions of the
American continent and they often
will be days' travel from a town,
They will take two pack. grains and
light tents and will break tmp each
day, as they move forward, relying
on the packers for food and trusting
to luck, later in the summer, -for
water. ' -. .' -
The work lies in the heart of the
forest fire area and the crews will
cross mountain ranges that are prac
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BUENOS, AIRES, May 22. The.
students' strike at the University of
La Plata, which culminated recently
in a shooting affair in a lecture room
and the killing of one of a group of
students taking an examination, is
attributed by some newspapers to the
incitement of politicians and . by
others to "the absorption of anarch
istic ideas" by student agitators.
The tragedy wu the most serious
of a number of acts of violence on the
part of the strikers that have .oc
curred during the past few months.
Demanding reforms In the adminis
tration of the university, including an
enlargement of the rights in the con
trol of the' administration already
possessed by the student body, -the
strikers took possession of various of
the university buildings on four dif
ferent occasions and ejected- the fac
ulty. The faculty have had to call on
the police to oust them, having been
powerless to maintain discipline..
The strike was at first regarded as
"college boy nonsense," but was soon
given a serious asject by the news
papers because of evidence that the
ringleaders were actuated by bolshe
vist ideas and because it has led to
threats by the federal administration
to remove GoveriAr Grotto of Buenos
Aires province and appoint ah 'Hnter-
venor" to rule in his stead. Governor
Grotto - is a political opponent of
President Irygoyen and anti-adnrin
istration newspapers have accused
politicians of ' the . president's party
with inciting the students to create,
disorder to make 'an additional excuse'
for Governor Grotto's removal.
When the students first declared
the strike by their organization, the
"Federacion Universitaria," they took
forcible possession of the central
building of . the university and hoisted
the red flag on the flag staff. They
were dislodged by the police and
leniently dealt with. This perform
ance was repeated in several other of
the university buildings.
The violence which culminated in
the -death of a student occurred in the
College of Medicine when a- number
of striking students attempted to pre
vent other students from taxing an
examination and rushed into the lec
ture room, flourishing revolvers. Fist
fights between the strikers and the
orderly students were followed - by
the firing of about 50 shots and Felix
Viera. a youth who had come from
Paraguay tp take the examination,
fell wounded. About 130 students
were arrested in a police roundup
which quickly followed and 120 re
volvers were taken from them.
SINN0TT URGES- RELIEF
Special Claims for Chrome Pro
ducers . Get . Favor.
OREGO.N'IAX NEWS B U R E A U
Washington, May 22. Representative
Sinnott today appeared before the
house rules committee and asked that
a special rule be reported permitting
consideration, before the recess, of the
bill allowing chrome claimants, whose
claims have been rejected in whole or
in part by the secretary of the in
terior and the war minerals board to
appeal to the court of claims.
Mr. Sinnott contended that the war
minerals claims act was designed by
congress to be liberally construed, but
asserted that it has been rigidly and
technically enforced, and in conse
quence many claimants from Oregon
and other states stand to lose heavily
because of investments made in good
faith with a view to supplying war
needs of the government . in time of
emergency.
DISABLED SOLDIERS ANGRY
KEQUEST TO MOVE HOSPITAL
STIRS "CP TROUBLE.
ARMENIA WAITS ON 0. S.
"LEAGUE TO SEEK SOLUTION" IF
MAXDATE IS REFUSED.
Signor Tittoni, President of Italian
Senate, Says Country Better
OH Under One Power.
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ROME. May 22. (Special Cable.)
At the public meeting of the council
of the League of Nations, held after
two secret sittings, Signor Tommaso
Tittoni, president of the Italian sen
ale, declared if America refused to
undertake the Armenian mandate it
would be necessary for the league
again to consider the question. Tit
toni said:
"We think Armenia wonld be much
better off under one power than under
the society of nations, and we fer
vently hope tnat the American presi
dent will answer the unhappy coun
try's appeal."
Arthur Balfour read the report of
the commission sent to Poland and
eastern Europe to inquire into the
condition of those ill and poverty
stricken in that territory.
"V are told that, thanks to funds
and supplies sent by America, also
Great Britain, these countries have
enough clothing, food and medical
stores to last them over harvest time,"
said Mr. Balfour. "But this is on the
condition that those etores are prop
erly administered ana aistriouted."
Although Mr. Balfour did not say it
he left the impression that the stores
MULE REBUKES ELEPHANT
Playful Pachyderm Punished for
Attacking Bystander.
KANE, Pa., May 22. (Special.)
While a circus parade was in progress
here today one of the elephants,
thinking possibly to relieve the mo
notony of the thing, gave its trunk
a toss in the air and then brought it
down with a resounding smask on a
mule that had been standing at the
curb, quietly watching the sighted
In spite of the handicap of being
hitched to a delivery wagon, the mule
promptly wheeled about, took quick
aim and delivered two kicks with
lightning swiftness. The kicks caught
the elephant squarely on the knees.
It stopped for an instant, but if it
even momentarily contemplated fur
ther interchanges with- the mule, it
gave up the idea. It finished the
parade with a decided limp.
PRAIRIE DOGS WIPED OUT
"Town" of 1,000,00 0 Inhabitants
Xow TTttcrly Deserted.
PHOENIX. Aris., May 21. Com
plete extermination of what was con
sidered one of the largest prairie dog
"towns It the west has been reported
to the predatory animal inspector's of
fice here by the Chiricahua Cattle
company of Cochise county, south
eastern Arizona-
More than 1.000,000 prairie dogs
were estimated to have lived on the
company's ranch of more than 30,000
acres until the management started
an offensive campaign against them.
Now their vast honeycombs of under
ground burrows are utterly deserted,
the company reported.
Mcnlo Park Association Objects to
Presence of Tubercular Pa
tients on Streets.
PAXjO ALTO, Cal., May 22. Char
acterizing the members of the Menlo
Park improvement association as
"un-American .plutocrats, more than
S00 gassed and wounded soldiers in
base hospital No. 24, formerly at
tached to Camp Fremont, near here,
met last night and unanimously
adopUd resolutions opposing the
campaign of the association to have
the hospital removed as a "menace
to health." Recently the association
importuned the United States public
health service and other interested
official bodies to order the hospital
elsewhere, "because of the number of
tubercular patients appearing on the
streets.
"We, the disabled and broken sol
diers and sailors of the late war are
aware of the fact that the presence
of war veterans on the streets and
roadways is an unpleasant reminder
to the 'patriotic sons of Menlo Park
who did not go t,o the common de
fense of the nation, the resolution
said.
IDAHO MOTHERS ELECT
State Congress Indorses Measures
and Aamcs Delegates.
BOISK, Idaho, May 22. (Special.)
The Idaho mothers congress of Parent-Teacher
associations held its an
nual meeting at Gooding the past
week, at which time the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year:. President. Mrs. John Thomas,
of Gooding: vice-president at large,
Mrs. S. J. Ewen of Boise: secretary,
Mrs. William Hull of Barber; treas
urer, Mrs. C. W. Tenney, Gooding.
Delegates to the national conven
tion which meets this year at Madi
son, Wis., were elected as follows:
Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Ewen, Mrs. Hull,
Miss A. J. Norris and Miss Apipia
Robinson. The congress Indorsed the
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FOR the information and benefit of friends
or customers who, during the. busy week
preceding the primary election may not
have had the possibilities afforded by this sale
forcefully brought before them, I publish here
the following
FA CTS
concerning this, Portland's real clothing sale:
1. Every man's, young man's and boy's suit in
my store is included- There are no reservations.
2. My stock includes some of the best-known
makes of clothes in America Hickey-Freeman
clothes for men; ! System clothes for young
men ; Skclny clothes for young men and boys ;
Wearpledge insured clothes for boys, as well as
other makes of proven reliability.
3. My regular prices on these clothes afford
less profit than usual, because I have earnestly
sought to keep clothing prices down, rather
than up. - .
4. The reductions, amounting to 20 (and
more in many cases) have been made from
original prices. Not one price ticket has been
changed or removed. The table of reductions
is shown in the adjoining column. - The cus
tomer makes an actual saving on each suit; on
a man's suit this saving amounts, to several
dollars. ; ' ' ." '
5. More than this : If you bought a suit at my
. store during the month of May before the be
ginning of this sale, bring me the sales slip and
" I will pay you the difference in cash I If your
'account was charged with a suit during the
same period, it will be credited with the dif
ference! '
Wouldn't you call this a
real clothing sale?
Sale will continue all this week ; come as early as
you can. The response has been tremendous,
increasing rather than diminishing at the week
end. There are hundreds of my best suits on
hand, affording you an unrestricted choice.
Reductions on Men's and
Young Men's Suits
All Men's $75 and $80 Suits now $60
$65 and $70
$50 and $60
$40 and $45
All Men's
All Men's
All Men's
Suits now $50
Suits now $40
Suits now $30
Reductions on Boys' Belted Suits
With one and two pairs of "Knicks"
$15 Belted Suits for $ 9.65
$16.50 and $18 Belted Suits for $13.65
$20 and $22.50 Belted Suits for ..... . $14.65
$25 and $27.50 Belted Suits for $17.65
$30 and $35 Belted Suits for . . $22.65
Reductions on Suits for Juveniles
All Juveniles' Suits up to $7.50 now ... $ 4.65
All Juveniles' Suits up to $10 now ... $ 7.85
All Juveniles' Suits up to $15 now ... $ 9.65
All Juveniles' Suits up to $20 now . . . $13.85
Men's Colossal Shirt Sale!
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Shirts at Less Than Present Wholesale Prices! The Most
for the Money of Any Sale in Portland
Regular $3.50 and $4 Shirts $2;45
Regular $5 and $6 Shirts '.. $3.85
Regular $7.50 & $8.50 Shirts $4.85
BEN SEL
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LEADING CLOTHIER
MORRISON AT FOURTH
Sheppard-Tcwner maternity and in
fant 41U; the Fest trill, and the Gard
Curtiss act.
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Bees Capture Baggage Car.
BIG TIMBER. Mont, . May . 22. A
local beeman sent to Texas for a large
consignment of the insects. While
still some miles from here- a case
broke and the inhabitants eallied
forth and took possession of the bag
gage car, holding it until the arrival
of the train here. Luckily the beeman
was on the station platform, waiting
for his- pets, and he. soon rounded
them up. .
Phone your want ads to The Orego
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Delicious
Vegetables and Berries
together with the most ap
ptizingly . prepared, meats
and the daintiest of sal
ads, tempt the appetite at
the Portland Hotel' these
spring days.-.
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sonal wear or for investment.
Our diamonds meet the critical test of those who
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This Season's Silk and Beaded Bags at a
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