13 TALE OF LOOTING AND MURDER IN CHINA ' IS RELATED IN LETTE R TO PORTLANDER Lloyd E. Gale, American Company Agent at Hankow, Declares "Whole Country Is Fast Approaching Chaos and Business It at Standstill" Natives Reported in Fear. Better Drug Stores! Proposed 30-Minute Limit in Wholesale Slaughter Is De clared Unwarranted. Broadway Opposed. cPorwder Stiffs that sold during the High-Price Era DEALERS' STAND BACKED FINLEY GIVES HIS VIEWS at izc are Norm ior in The Oivl nia Store Association Contends Convenience Ex-State Game . Wardem and Biol ogist Challenges Statement Made ' Ty Gold Beach Man. to Public Demands Service In Streets at Times. THE SUNDAY OREGOXIANY PORTLAND, JULY 24, 1921 AUTOMOTIVE TRADES EM PIfiKli FRAY SEA LION MENACE TO SALIVION DENIED n. I L . ' I , ' K I ! s f I ' & $. t , The Portland Automotive Trades association, with more than 200 members is pledged to stand behind the north Broadway automobile dealers in their fight to get a two hour parking: period for lower Broad way in place of the 30-minute limit provided in the new parking ordi nance. A communication setting forth the stand of the dealers is in the hands of City Auditor Funk for presentation to the council next Wednesday. Public convenience demands serv ice at the most convenient points, even if the streets are partly utilized, the dealers' statement declares. The etand Is taken as a matter of prin ciple to protect the automobile men from encroachment upon privileges that are granted other classes of busi ness. Pnblle . Convenience Set IPf The principle of public convenience is recognized by every municipality," the dealers' communication pointed out. "Business houses are permitted to monopolize the streets in front of their establishments under the guise of freight entrances. Department stores are permitted practically to blockade certain congested downtown treets of Portland. 'Theaters are granted street sign permits which violate the law. on the theory that they are a public con venience. There are more than 35,000 motor vehicles In Portland and per haps more than half of the adult citizens are constant or occasional users of them. These citizens are entitled to convenience in automotive service and that convenience cannot be offered if the city pursues the policy which will drive service estab lishments into isolated sections of the city." All-Day Parking; Opposed. The association further states that all-day parking allows the business folk to park their cars in front of automobile service concerns and ham per them. Therefore they oppose all day parking in the district. Thirty minutes is not sufficient for even minor repairs, they state, but two hours is apparently the ideal time In the minds of the automobile deal ers. Many of the establishments do not have room for drive-ins and must depend on the use of the streets for making minor repairs, tire changes and the like, the . communication states. Whether or not the dealers will be able to influence the council to make immediate changes in the new park ing code; is doubtful. Mr. II nrbur Demands Trial. Commissioner Barbur declares that the dealers should be willing to let the new restrictions be given a fair test. 1( it proves that the automo bile men are suffering unduly from its provisions they can rest assured that the council will grant them re lief. Commissioner Barbur says. The traffic situation is critical, however, and all classes must be prepared to stand their share in the changes -If it is successfully overcome. The question is not merely that of 30-minute parkins or two-hour park ins, in Commissioner Barbur's mind, but living up to the spirit of the ordi nance in an effort to give Portland better utilization of her streets for the benefit of the public as a whole. Two Honrs Held Imposition. With two-hour parking the dealers easily can move their cars often enough to keep within the law with out improving traffic conditions in the least. The 30-minute provision is not a matter of holding a stop watch on a man and moving him out on the rims if he has not had time enough to put on a new tire. The 30-minute limit will mean that the streets will not be used for mis cellaneous storage and display pur poses. Commissioner Barbur believes, but that dealers will find storage fa cilities elsewhere for their cars that are not needed. Service Not to Be Hindered. The cars of the motoring public which come for service, will not be forced to double park to gain en trance to a service house, but will have opportunity to park at the curb, make reasonable repairs if necessary or arrange for service. All members of the council have not made definite announcement of their stand on the Broadway question. It is probable that further investi gation will be made before Wednes day. SODA MAKER IS ACCUSED Arrest of James II. Duncan Or dered on Adulteration Charge. A warrant was Issued yestePSay by Federal Judge Wolverton for the ar rest of James H. Duncan, who is charged by United States Attorney Humphreys with adulterating a bev erage known as "Wine-O." Mr. Duncan is manager of the As toria Soda works. He is charged by government officials with having substituted saccharin and phosphoric acid for sugar and fruit juices and to have added artificial coloring unlaw fully. The government stepped into the case when it was charged that the federal laws were violated by an in terstate shipment of the beverage from Oregon to Washington. Chocolate Adulteration Charged. . Three hundred pounds of chocolate coating shipped to Portland from San Francisco on steamer by the Riesner Chocolate ' company has been libeled by United States Attorney Hum phreys. The government alleges that the chocolate is not pure, charging that it has been adulterated with cocoa shells. United States Marshal Mann has been ordered to seize the shipment and if the case is prosecut ed, it is probable that the hearing will be held in San Francisco. Japanese Fisherman Fined $23. S. Okamato. Japanese, of Indepen dence, paid a $-5 fine at Dallas Wednesday for angling In the. waters of Lost lake without a license. Roy liremtner of Salem, deputy game war den, made the arrest, and In addition to being without a fishing license, Okamato was also without an alien license. The case was reported to the state gams warden's office here yesterday. . Phone your want ads to The Ore gonian. Main 7070. Automatic 560-95. ssssa I a i mi IHlSi ' 2?7sr jm J S , , J. 11'" f hziii V; v'; 1 7 If ; I ill VV -s" V) Hi II , -'r-il " - - ' ' A PICTURE of distressing condi tions in Iehang, Wuchang1 and npfphSnrino1 PhlnAA fitiAa wi.h were the scene of looting and murder last month, has been received, in a letter from Lloyd E. Gale, a Portland boy, to bis mother, Mrs. D. C. Gale, ot 111 East Forty-eighth street. Mr. Gale, who is acting agent for the American Trading company at Uankow, China, has been in China (or more than two years and writes thai "the whole country is fast approach ing chaos and business is at a stand still." Hankow is just across the river from Wuchang, where half the busi ness section was burned to the ground by looters, according to Mr. Gale's letter. "This confounded country is going from bad to worse and the natives here are living in daily fear of the Hankow native city being pillaged and burned," wrote Mr. Gale on June 19. Town Looted by Soldiers. "Ichang, up the river from lere, was looted again by unpaid soldiers and they were then put on a boat and sent to Wuchang, the capital of this province, which is just across the river from us and 20 minutes from our bund by ferry. The night they landed in Wuchang they plundered the whole city, killed many people and burned half the business section literally to tllS ground. We were on tenterhooks for several days, as they promised to loot Hankow the same way. "The military governor, Wang Chan Yuan, has just returned.-to Wuchang from Pekin. where he 1iad extorted several millions from the government to pay these and other soldiers, but upon his return it is said that he is- CELEBRATION AT PLYMOUTH DESCRIBED FROM NEW YORK y " Correspondent Decides He Cannot Bear Mingling With Sifht-seers Who Attend Pilgrim Tercentenary, and Writes Account While at Home. BT ROBERT C. BENCHLET, Aanoftate Publisher or Lire. (Copyright. 1921, by The Oregonian.) NEW YORK, July 23. It is such a long trip up to Plymouth, Mass.. and the place is prob ably so crowded with sightseers stag gering about in celebration of the Pilgrim tercentenary, that your cor respondent can't quite bring himself to cover the event in person. A man has his health to think of. We are not very well equipped, therefore, to write a dispatch on the tercentenary celebration, but from what little we have seen of pageants and red-hot sporting events of that nature, we feel that it ought not to be difficult to work up a little story about the thing without going up' there at all. In the first place, it is more than likely that the whole affair has been placed in the hands of a professional producer from New York city. If such is the case, it is unquestionably a big affair. A tremendous boulder has probably been made of papier mache, big enough to accommodate a company of 300. (The original Ply mouth rock is really a dinky thing on which to stage a modern show like this.) lip the harbor comes a flo tilla of "Mayflowers," all agleam with electric lights, with designs in colored bulbs on the foremasts spell ing "Plymouth, 1620-1920. A live wire town." Cnorns Girls Included. k Then motor launches bring the cast from the ships to the rock, on which is centered the glare from 25 high powered spotlights. First come a cho rus of girls, dressed a cabin boys. Thtn a chorus of boys, dressed as I -4 ,WW-St 'fT$x5l ' j ',1 g-xw-. in I -ii .i II - 4 Ei?-V. sued a proclamation to the effect that no money would be paid out by him and that all the soldiers in this divi sion were, hereby disbanded those who h'ad the price could go to their homes and the others could get coolie jobs or starve as they pleased. Nat urally the whole bunch took the only means of collecting they were famil iar with and. yiat was to loot and burn the city, which they did in proper style. It was a mad orgy of human (?) hoggishness. Wreckage Is Visited. "The next day I went over to Wu chang to view the wreckage, and It Is unbelievable. To 'save his face' the tuchun wang sent a large party of the looters up north on the railway and gave orders that an ambuscade should be prepared for them at a little station north of Hankow. This was don and when the train pulled in to the station the engine was uncoupled and run ahead and these soldiers in the ambuscade opened up on the train from all sides with machine guns and killed every man, woman and chiid on it nearly 1600 of them. The loot cabin girls. These are followed by a boatload of pretty Dutch maidens evidently proseltyed during the stay in Holland. They wear wooden shoes and do a brief clumpety-clumpety dance on a ledge of the rock. Song, the closing lines ot which are: Twelve little Dutch girls. Can't do much, girls. Xo take the "grim" out of Pl'.grim. you see Then comes a rowboat with an Ev inrude motor in it, containing the comic relief, who is dressed aa a Pil grim father. He is simulating intoxi cation and reaches continually to his hip for a flask from which he drinks with comic relish. In attempting to climb up on the rock he slips into the water and is drowned if all goes well. Bis; Scene Staged. Now comes the big scene. The) cabin boys and girls, together with the Dutch maidens, all turn toward the mother ship of the fleet of "May flowers'lland point in the direction of a large motor-propelled float, which is making its way rapidly through the water. The chorus is sung in uni son, the burden of which is as fol lows: All hall! all half! ye brave little pilgrim band! All hail! all hall! a royal welcome to this land! It's the land of the free and the home of the brave And the Star-apangled Banner forever shall - way. Away down south In the land of cotton Plymouth Rock shall n'r be forgotten. So hail! all! all! During the last three "all hails" an hands of the chorus are raised aloft and the fingers wiggled, giving a smashing effect as seen from the shore in alternating red and orange spotlights. At this point the float draws along T sr i ii -1 - -sss" was then brought back to Hankow and sent over to Wuchang, where it will (not?) be returned to the looted shopkeepers. "One of the missionaries of Wu chang climbed over- the city wall of Wuchang the morning after the loot ing, as the gates were closed, and he borrowed my camera to take some pictures with. I am sending a few of them. Anyone caught with looted goods in his possession was executed in the streets forthwith and fox sev eral days the streets were full of bodies and heads were hung over ail the city gates. "The worst of it Js that there are a bunch of lookers still in the city bar racks with all their loot and they will not surrender to the tuchun, and in addition they swear vengeance on the tuchun for the slaughter of their com rades at Siao Kan railway station. In addition to this the Hankow Chinese chamber of commerce is busy making donations to tne troops stationed in Hankow to keep them from looting Hankow, as Hankow would be the richest pickings in the whole Yangtze valley. side and, one by one, the famous pilgrim fathers and others step down the brocaded gangplank onto the rock. A colored page with a mega phone' announces the name of each as he or she descends, and individual applause is accorded to everyone. An especially hearty greeting Is given to John -Alden and Prisoilla. because ot the sentimental regard, in which they are held by the public, and .also to captain Miles stanaish for the sports manlike way in which he is later to accept defeat in bis affair de coeur. Indiana Take Part. As soon as the principals are all landed on the rock and the float has backed away a fleet of canoes is seen coming out from the- shore, contain lngr Indian maidens dressed in badges bearing the words. "Welcome. Pli grims. Reception committee." On the canoes are signa reading, "Any Pll grim in uniform hop in. for a rids ai far as we go." The chorus of Indian maidens climbs on tne rock with the rest and per forms a dance, during which th Pll grim Fathers keep time by clapping their hands. Gradually more and more people get on tne rock: it sinks alow ly -into Plymouth harbor, while the entire company sings "Brine-ins: In the Sheaves" and "Hail, Hail, the ("Sanp'a All W " At last It disappears from view with all on board. (Thunderous ap plause.) Here Comes the Bride. Detroit News. Sound forth the cheerless march: Sing lustily, ye choir; And with thy slnrlng strencth The bride and groom inspire. Stretch forth thy necks, ye guesta That ye may catch a glimpse A down the alale they come These two mUgulded simps. Bow down thy beads, yea all. .nu aue-ni prayer prolong! Bow heads, I say. in prayer Another man's gone wrong.'' S. & H. green stamps for cash. Helman Fuel Co., coal and wood Main 353; 660-21. Adv. - Statements 'made recently by W. M. Hunter of Gold Beach, Or., that seals and sea lions along tne Oregon coast are such a menace to the salmon in dustry that wholesale slaughter of the mammals is warranted, have been branded as absurd by William L. Fin ley, ex-state game warden and state biologist, and now connected with the national association of Audubon societies, a body working for the pro tection of harmless birds and animals. "The statement that 1,840,000 salmon are eaten each season by eea lions .along the Oregon coast is ab surd and not based on facts," said Mr. Finley. "It has likely been given out to minimize the inroads that are being made upon the salmon runs by the purse seiners, trap men and glllnet ters. By making people believe that a few colonies of sea lions along the Oregon coast were doing such an im mense amount of damage, it shifts the blame and, gives commercialism a reason for destroying another spe cies, that is, the sea lions along the Oregon coast. . Complnlnta Are Noted. - "For many years the salmon fish ermen of San Francisco bay com plained that the colony of sea lions opposite the Cliff House were ex terminating the salmon run that went up the Sacramento river. The fish ermen at Monterey bay had the same complaint. The California fish and game commission sent the late Pro. fessor D. Ij. Dyche to make an in vestigation. He killed 25 sea lions and upon examination of the stom achs, found not a trace of fish in any of them. The sea lions were living largely on squids or octopus. The sea lions on the rocks opposite the Cliff Hou:e near the entrance of San Francisco bay have always been a great attraction. It is one of the few places where hese big sea mammals can be seen by the ordinary person, and --until the salmon cs.nners can offer a reason based on facts for their destruction, the state of CalN fornia has not allowed them to be killed. "Later on. a commission consist ing of three naturalists, the late Cloudsley Rutter of the United States fish commission. Professor Edwin C. Starks representing the California Academy of Sciences, and Robert E. Snodgrass of the California fish and game commission, visited most ot the sea lion rookeries on the coast of California, Oregon and Washington. Off the mouth of the Columbia river the fishermen claimed that the sea lions were doing great damage to salmon fisheries. But Mr. Rutter was not able to secure very much con vincing -evidence. As a whole, their investigation showed that compara tively little damage was done to fish eries by sea lions. Iavesttaratlon Xs Urged. "'In the face of such scientific evi dence as we have, before the Oregon fish commission carries out its whole sale slaughter of sea lions and spends a lot of state money, it might be well to Join with the United States bureau of fisheries and make some additional investigations. "Many of the commercial fisher. men do not distinguish between the two sea mammals, the sea lion and the seal. The latter. I believe. Is more destructive, as they frequently enter the rivers and bays and mu tilate a salmon that has been caught and held in a net. An investigation of this kind should be carried on by some of the scientists of the United States fish commission, rather than by commercial fishermen or by poli ticians. "Inasmuch as the Oregon fish com mission has hired a sea lion hunter and is equipping a sea-going boat to destroy the sea lions off the Oregon coast, it is likely that before the work is completed, notice may be given-by the bureau of biological survey that the fish commission or any of its em ployes are subject to arrest under the federal law if they kill any. of the sea lions on Three Arch Rocks reser vation off the Oregon coast." PEJREBRED5 SELL HIGH HOIiSTEtVS BRtXG TOP PRICES AT SATSOP AUCTION. Hamilton Herd of Xarly 60 Head . Represents Biggest Livestock Transaction of Tear. ' CHEHALIS, Wash., July 23 (Sp. eial.) With grross total receipts if J1S.110, the dispersal sale of the Ham ilton Brothers' herd of nearly 60 head of purebred Holstein cattle at the Brady farm near Batsop yesterday was the biggest event in the Pacific north west in the sale of livestock for 1921. The top price, paid for the heifer Chimacura Lut.ik.e Marie, a 2-year-old, was '(35, by 'William Bishop of Chi macum. Senator Bishop also took home with him two heifers, both be ing unnamed daughters of the .King of Chimacum, a great bull from bis own line of breeding. For one of these, dropped May 19, 1920, Senator Bishop paid S576; for the other, born June 17, 1921. he paid $335. More than one-third of the cattle sold were bought by breeders from Lewis county and will find homes tributary to Chehalls. One of the largest Individual pur chasers was the Taranikl Holstein company of Prosser, Wash., composed of E. F. Benson, former Washington commissioner of agriculture; Edgar O. Fawcett, and others. LIMBS MENACE TRAFFIC Property Owners Arc Warned to Trim' Trees. Low - hanging shade trees along Portland's streets are screening beau, tifirl homes from the sight of tourists and are becoming a menace to the tops of automobiles in many cases, ac cording to Mayor Baker. Plans are now-wilder way to enforce an ordi nance that provides for each property owner to keep the trees along his curb line trimmed so that no limbs hang lower than eight feet above the side walk or street. The matter is one of eivic pride and all citizens should see that their street appears the best possible to visitors and tourists, Mayor Baker There?s a Face Cream to Meet Every Fancy and Condition Day Creams, Night Creams,Massage Creams, Cleansing Creams, Liquid Creams, and many special creams. You will always find Nyal Face Cream 30c and 60c Woodbury's-Face Cream 23c and 50c Pond's Cold Cream .23c and 30c. Pond's Vanishing Cream.. 30c Anyvo Cream 69c D. & R. Cold Cream. 25c and 50c Hudnut's Marvelous Cold Cream.. .25c and 50c Luxor Cold Cream 50c Colgate's Charmis Cold Cream (tube) . . .25c P. D. Euthymol Cold Cream 25c' Red Feather Cream 25c and 50c Satin Skin Cream V 33c Hind's Cold Cream. 29c '.Pompeian Night-Cream (jars) 45c Satin Skin Vanishing Cream. 33c Ayer's Luxuria Cream. 40c Colgate's Charmis Cold Cream 40c B. & Hazeline Snow.'. .' '35c Ingram's Milkweed Cream. 39c Charles Flesh Food 50c A. D. S: Peredixo Cream (small) .-. . . . .35c Hebras Viola Cream .50c Egyptian Cream . .50c Nadinola Cream. 50c Palmolive Cream. 48c Antia Cream 50c Elcaya Cold Cream 50c Hudnut's Violet Sec Cream 50c Melba Skin Cream. . ... . . . , 50c Melba Cleansing Cream 50c A. D. S. Peredixo Cream (large) 65c llrttSMBMiiil stated. The ordinance provides that the police shall warn persons to com ply with the law, but it is hoped there will not be need to call the at tention of persons to their curb trees. The low hanging limbs tear auto tops and, following summer rains, bend almost to the street line, hin dering both pedestrian and street traffic. Artisan's Install Officers. The officers of Liberty assembly. No. 628, United Artisans, were pub licly installed Wednesday night at their meeting place, East Eixth and Alder streets, with Dr. William G. Keller acting as installing' officer, and the cadetw of the ayspmbly assisting. Thousands Are Nervous Wrecks Cross, Crabbed and Care-worn From Weak, Thin Watery Blood wfllruit ever suspecting the real cause of their trouble I ron-starva tion. A New York Physician says that MORE THAN ONE HALF THE POPU LATION OF AMERICA PERISHES BEFORE MIDDLE AGE sod that om of the chief contributary cemses of this terrible waste of human life is the devit alising weakness brought on by lack of iron in the blood. THERE ARE 30,000,000,000.000 RED BLOOD CORPUSCLES IN TOUR BLOOD AND EACH ONE MUST HAVE IRON. 0 r An enormoas number of people who ought to be strong, vigorous sod In the prime of life are constantly complaining of weak nerves, headaches, paina across the back, disturbed digestion, shortness of breath, a general 4 ran -down' coodi tioo, melancholy, bad memory, etc, when the real cause of all their Buffering is IRON STARVATION OF THE BLOOD, The proof ot this i shown by ths fact that when orgmnlc iron la supplied to their blood, that all their m altitude of yrap tomi often quickly disappear and the very men and women who were formerly so complaining now become strong;, healthy and vigorous, with even dispositions and sunny, cheerful natures. Nature put plenty of Iron in the husks of grains and the skins and peels of veg etables and fruits to enrich your blood, but modern methods of cookery throw all these things away hence the alarming increase, in recent years, in anaemia Iron starva tion of the blood, with all its attendant ills. If you are not willing to go back to na ture, then you should eat more such iron containing vegetables aa spinach and car rots and reinforce them by taking; a little organic iron from time to time. But be sure the iron you take Is organic iron and not metallic iron which people usually take. Metallic Iron is iron just as It comes from Vie action of strong acids on small all classifications well represented in The Owl Drug Stores and you will always find them offered at prices that are right beyond a doubt. Note these favorites that sell for 50c and less. Face creams are certainly not expensive. Owl Hieatrical Cold Cream is the most popular of all cleansing creams. It is supreme in quality and a leader in quantity; full-pound tins sell for 75c. Gently massaged into the skin, then re moved with a soft cloth, it clears the pores of dust and grime that soap and water cannot reach. Sanitol Face Cream. '. 50c Stillman's Freckle Cream 50c Suprema Cream 50c , Mavis Cold Cream 50c Woodbury's Cold Cream. 50c' Palmolive Vanishing Cream..'. . . ." 48c MAIL. ORDERS RECEIVE PROMPT ATIKMIOV. Broadway and Washington Streets. Marshall 2000 After the ceremony the cadets put on an exhibition drill, similar to that used by them at Astoria on July 4, when they won the championship cp offered cadet teams of the order in competitive drill. A dancing party has been arranged for the meeting of July 27. Finn to Be Deported. Alexander Kanckos, a Finn who en tered the United States from Canada without a passport, will be returned to his native land the latter part of this month. Notification of the de portation was made yesterday by R. P. Bonham, Inspector in charge of the Portland district of the immigration service. pieces of Iron and is therefore an entirely different thing from organic iron. Organic iron Is like the Iron in your blood and like the iron in spinach, lentils and apples. It may be had from your druggist under the name of Nuxated Iron. Nuxated Iron represents organic iron in such a highly condensed form that one dose of it is estimated to be approximately equivalent (in organic Iron content) to eat ing one-half quart of spinach, one quart of green vegetables or half a dozen apples. It is like taking extract of beef instead of eating pounds of meat. Over 4.000,000 people annually are using Xuxated Iron. It will not injure the teeth nor disturb the stomsch. A few doses will often commenceto enrich your blood and revitalise your wornout, exhausted nerves. Your money will be refunded by the man ufacturers if you do not obtain satisfactory results. Beware of substitutes. Always in sist on having genuine organic Iron Xux ated Iron. Look for the letters N. I. on every tablet. At ail druggmta in tablet form only. MIRACLE MAN BANISHES ILLS WITHOUT DRUGS Wm. B. Thofhpson, A. 1NL, -Ph.D., M. D Teaches People How to Banish Constipation,Headaches, Rheumatism and Fain of Every Description. By a simple method, easily learned and applied a child can do it you can banish the above-mentioned ills, also many others. No Drugs; No Electricity; No Ap pliances to Wear. Not a Mind Cure Nor a Food or Hygienic System just a simple re-dlscovery o Nature's fundamental- law. Thousands have used and are using this always available DRUGLESS pre scription and are enjoying boundless health. Write for full free informa tion. The price of this system is.with In the reach of all. We guarantee you satisfaction or money refirnded. Wm. B. Thompson A. M.. Ph. D., M. D.. "The Miracle Man." Founder of the Zonery System of Healing by Nerve Pressure. 3211-T West Washington St.. Los Angeles. Cal. Adv. Broke His Vow "After trying all remedies and doc tors for stomach trouble for eight long years I decided I couldn't be helped and swore I would never take another dose of any kind of medicine, but when I saw what Mayr's Wonder ful Remedy did for a friend, who also suffered from bloating as I did. I con cluded to try it myself. It helped me at once." It Is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the ca tarrhal mucus from the Intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, Includ ing appendicitis. One dose will con vince or money refunded. The Owl Drug Store and druggists everywhere. Adv. Phone yur want ads to The Ore eronian. io.:n i07U. AulomuUu 6u-b5.