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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1921)
G. TOE SUNDAY OKEGOXTAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 14, 1921 SHINGLE MEN HAPPY OVER DUTY OUTLOOK Proposed Erimination Puts Industry Qui Vive. 'PRICES TENDING UPWARD British Columbia Xanofactnrers Tryin to Get $3.10 for 5X to Jobbers or $3.50 to Trade. domestic business and the increase In general trade on the prairies, the saw mills of the association are experi encing a busy time with only a little more than 20 per cent curtailment during the last week. Lost Stocks Reduced. With practically all the logging camps closed, there is a gradual re duction in the big stock of logs which .was reported a few weeks ago. Good fir logs bring a fair price, but the in ferior grades have difficulty getting a bidder. Shipments of logs to Puget sound have been heavy recently and Japan has been a strong factor in ab sorbing logs from this market. The majority of the logging camps say that they will not open again un til October and not then unless the market is much improved. However, some of the lumber mills that have been depending on the market for their logs will have their own camps this fall and will operate them as de mand presents itself. GOLD ONLY FREIGHT TO LONGSHOREMEN VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 13. (Spe cial.) The shingle industry of Brit ish Columbia is on the qui vive this week over the possibilities of having the proposed 50 cents a thousand duty on shingles going into the United States reduced or eliminated entirely. According to the latest reports from Washington, congress hurried the tar iff bill through without giving much consideration to the commission which was appointed to investigate the con ditions of the industry in both the United States and Canada, but the sen ate does not Intend to be so hasty and will go into details in connection with the commission's report. This report, it is understood, shows that there is only a differential of about 10 cents .a thousand against shingles being manufactured in Can ada than in the States. That is, it costs 10 cents more a thousand to make shingles in Canada than in Washington. Anti-duty men take this as indica tive of a possibility of having the duty eliminated entirely. Cedar Users at Vancouver. Shingle manufacturers and cedar users on Puget sound visited Van couver this week to discuss the pro posed duty of $1 a thousand on cedar logs going into the United States. When the bill was first drafted there was no mention of cedar logs and the exporters as well as the buyers of this class of timber were resting in the hopes that they had been forgotten. When it became known that the duty would also apply to cedar logs there was a wild scramble to try to prevent the measure going through, as the purchasing of cedar logs in the British Columbia market has been large recently. Another feature In connection with this cedar log business is that Seattle and Tacoma brokers have been buying cedar logs in the Vancouver market, rafting them to Seattle and loading them on steamers for export, because space was available out of Seattle when it could not be had from Van couver. As there is nothing in the bill which deals with these logs in transit, it may mean that these bro kers will have to send the steamers to Vancouver to load. Trade Is Disturbed There has been a general tendency on the part of shingle makers to raise their prices recently, particu larly on 5X shingles. For several weeks there has been a disturbing ele ment in the shingle trade, as one mill undercut the brokers and upset the market. This mill, however, was closed during the last week by force of circumstances and the shingle men are trying to get $3.10 for 6X to the jobbers or about J3.30 to the trade. Shippers of cedar poles to Atlantic states and to large companies in vari ous parts of the American continent are having considerable difficulty. Many of these contracts were taken at high market figures and the com panies are now culling to such an ex tent that four different concerns are afraid that they cannot weather the attack. No little circumstance or con dition goes unnoticed by the com panies and the poles are turned back with such force that they are finding it hard to meet their wage demands. . Orient After Cedar Poles. The orient wants cedar poles, but they must be from 10 inches to 24 inches in diameter and 13 feet long. Several hundred thousand feet of this class of pole is on the Inquiry sheet and the order should be placed during the coming week. The Canadian Robert Dollar com pany has accepted an order for -sev eral million reet of No. 1 common lumber to be shipped to the New Eng land market. This company, in pio neering in that market, has decided to set a high standard for quality of lumber and the .Douglas fir that will be shipped there in the next few weeks will be tight-knotted stock, di mension material and small timbers. This market has objected to the loss of inch in all dressing standards. Southern pine dresses on 2 by 4s to 1 inches by inches, while the regular measurements for this mate rial as supplied the prairies is ISt inches by 2 inches and does not mix well with the heavier material. The Dollar company will cut lum ber to the larger sizes "and will do everything possible to give the New England market what that market re quires, not forcing the smaller prairie cuts on Boston buyers. The first shipment of this new order will be sent out the end of this month. Douglas Fir Used. Douglas fir was used in the re building of the plank walk at Atlantic City and has given such satisfaction that it is possible further orders will be received from that district, as two inquirers are already in the market for material with Atlantic City as de livery point. All the mills are looking for an out let for the hemlock logs they have on hand or can secure at a reasonable figure and hemlock quotations are be ing made on many of the big specifi cations as a side issue. Owing to the improvement in the MARYLAND HEW FLAGSHIP POWERFUL FIGiHTLVG CRAFT TO JOIN PACIFIC FIEET. Super dread naugh Held Superior to Any Other War Vessel Flying Naval Flag. LOS ANGELES, CaU Aug. 13. The world's mast powerful sea-fighting craft, the super-dreadnaught Mary land, soon will become flagship of the Pacific fleet, according to Infor mation received by base officers here. In every respect the Maryland is the latest achievement of American naval architecture, and, according to arma ment, naval officers say, it should be able to put any other fighting unit out of commission. Sixteen-inch guns, eight of them the largest ever mounted on a battle ship, form the major battery of this great engine of war. These mammoth guns are located in four turrets of two guns each, and fire a shell weigh ing 2100 pounds for a distance of mora than 20 miles. These guns are 67 feet in length and for each full charge approximately 480 pounds of powder are required. The secondary battery consists of 14 five-inch guns, carried for use against torpedo boats, submarines and small draft. In addition the Mary land has four three-inch anti-air craft guns, a three-inch landing gun, six 30-caliber machine guns and two under-water torpedo tubes for firing the largest and longest range tor pedos. The Maryland was launched March 20, 1920, and recently completed speed trials off the Virginia Capes. The technical description follows: Length 624 feet; beam, 9TA feet; draft, 30 feet; weight, 32,000 tons; speed 21 knots; propellors, 4; horsepower, 30, 000; oil capacity, 1,400,000 gallons; oil burning boilers, 8. It was built with quarters to house a commander-in-chief, and the navy department re cently decided it should be flag6hlp of the Pacific fleet insteaa oi me California, which had been assigned to replace the New Mexico as Pacific flagship. Three more vessels of the Maryland type will bo the Colorado, Washing ton and W est Virginia, under con struction. School Board Lets Contract. nAT.T.A.q tr Aiiff- 13. fSnecial. The Dallas' school board this .week let ..a,-...- W T rnv nf thin nitv for the remodeling of the old Dallas college DUllaing, wnicn nas oeen un used for several years, into a modern thrAA.rnnm hiinpnlnw RnhnnlhniiRA. School will open here September 12, three weeks earlier than has been the custom for several years. Precious Metal Is Handled as Though It Were Pig Iron. LINERS CARRY MILLIONS ANNOUNCEMENT THE ITALIAN RESTAURANT is now under new manage ment. First-class service and strictly Italian cooking. TRY OUR SPECIAL ITALIAN DINNER First and Stark Sts. TONY GASQLA, Prop. Xew York Subtreasury Holds One Fifth of World's Supply Vast Treasure at Bottom of Sea. NT3W YORK, Aug. 13. Gold, tons of it, coming here in every large pas senger liner that plies the Atlantic, is handled by seamen and long shoremen as nonchalantly as if it were scraplron. On such ships as the Olympic ar rive millions of dollars worth of the precious metal shipments such as would have swamped an old galleon sailing the Spanish main. But the heavy, steel-bound boxes of ingots or coin stored away in the holds of the giant liners arouse among pas- sencer anA Ar.ur f.. 1 .tA..aa than the presence of an- Internation ally known actress or prize-winning Pomeranian. f 1500,000,000 In One Place. It was recently announced that the United States sub-treasury vaults here already hold $1, 600.000,000 in gold, one-fifth of the world's entire supply. Gold is classified as freight and a certain rate per ton is paid for trans porting it, although, due to its value, special consideration is given to its safety. On each of these big ships is a vault, known in ship language as the strong room. It is a big box or chamber, heavily lined with armor plate steel located In one of the lower holds in such a position that it can be approached from but one direction, by a passage opening from but one door or hatch There is no space around the strong room for a would-be thief to work with a drill, and. Indeed, if he should get In he would probably find him self a prisoner. Careful Check Made. Delivered to the ship in a European port the purser carefully checks the number of boxes, notes the stated value of the contents, sees to it that proper customs permits for shipment have been issued and in the name of the ship signs the bills of lading. Under his personal observation it is stowed in the strong room, where it is again checked. The room is locked and the keys and combination of the door are retained in the purser's own pare. On several of the ships electric alarm devices add to the protection. On arrival in New York the gold shipments receive first attention after the passengers have been discharged. A special force of longshoremen under the eye of a trusted boss is led to the strong room in company with a representative of the bank or banks to which the gold is assigned. The boxes are checked out, loaded on trucks, a certain weight to each man, and trundled away to waiting vans near the ship s sides. The longshoremen who handle the treasure make no fuss about it; it is all In a workday of eight hours, and gold or plglron, it is the same to them. However, once in the vans when the ship is released of respon sibility, there is a show of guards. What would happen to the gold if the chip should meet with an acci dent and go down? "It would have to go with the ship unless conditions were such that it could be removed after the lives of all on board had been saved," Is the answer of the lines. Like other freight, it is in sured, and not even treasure must be taken into consideration when lives are. at stake. Gold shipments which have gone down are occupying the attention of scores of marine experts today. Numerous devices have been patented and many lives have been lost in at tempts to salvage sunken treasure. Among hundreds of others a rich re ward awaits the man who can salvage the treasure lost with the Lueitania. 4000 CHEMISTS TO MEET Americans and Britons to Discuss Latest. Discoveries. NEW YORK, Aug. 13. American and British chemists wili compare notes and discuss the latest discov eries, in the chemical wordd at a four days joint meeting of the American Chemical society and the British So ciety of Chemical Industry in New York beginning September 6. About 4000 delegates are expected! to attend. The British delegates, who will first held Joint meetings with the Cana dian branches of the society at Mon treal and Toronto, will be officially welcomed to America at Niagara Falls by Governor Miller. Before coming to New York, the delegation, will visit Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany and inspect factories and laboratories in those cities. The Britls-h chemists will be beaded by Sir William Pope, who was knight ed, for his valuable services to the empire in the production of mustard s in the war against Germany. Other prominent scientists in the party will include Dr. Louis A. Jor dan, who aided the Italian govern ment in the manufacture of explo sives; Dr. Andrew McWilldams, one of the best known steel metallurgists in England; Dr. Andrew Smith, an ir-ternational authority on explosives. and Dr. William Atack, an authority on eyes. LABOR ID VETERANS JTO- ASSEMBLE Soldiers of Foreign Wars Will Hold Xational Encampment. DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 13. Six thousand delegates from 803 posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars are expected at its national encampment here September 19 to 24. Soldier legislation, particularly for relief of disabled veterans and a na tional soldier bonus, will be consid ered. An invitation has been extended Lord Byng of Vimy, governor-general of Canada, to be the guest of honor. National officers of the veterans include Robert G. Woodside, PiAs burg, commander; Walter I. Joyce New York, quartermaster-general R. W. Elton, New York, adjutant. Charles Penburn, Brdgeport, Conn., chief of staff; Charles Lemkuhl, De troit, inspector-general. GROWERS HIT BY DEPRESSION Workers Initiate Movement to Build Temples. FARMERS ALSO WAKE UP Southern Producer Forsake Rice, Cotton and Tobacco for Other Agrlculutral Crops. BY RALPH BARTON. (Copyright, 1921, by The Oregonlan.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 13. (Special.) Working men and farm ers of the United States, the two larg est classes in the population and the classes which have perhaps been hit hardest by the period of industrial depression, are showing a rapidly growing tendency toward indepen dence In working out solutions of their own problems. There Is no longer. In the more progressive sec tions of farmers and union members. the "waiting" attitude; they are go lng ahead to make matters better themselves. Some Interesting aspects of this situation have just come to light so far as labor is concerned. Unemploy ment is the big problem confronting labor today. Because 6,000,000 men are out of jobs, the labor movement is weak; it must constantly make concessions, because of. the great reservoir of the unemployed ready to fill any jobs that are vacant. Probably unemployment is more serious here than in almost any country in Europe, though as yet the problem bas apparently given the government no great concern. Ap proximately 20 per cent of the wage earners of the country are out of work. Labor Temples Being Built. They are, however, beginning to find work for themselves. There has been in the last few months a widespread movement for the construction of labor temples buildings wheih pro vide headquarters for all the varied activities of the labor movement of a city and which tend to solidify the wage earners of a locality into a co hesive body. As an example, the case of Jackson, Mich., may be cited. Before the war a lot had been pur chased upon which to erect a labor temple and the growth of the city during the war. with suspension of building operations, increased the value of their land. During the last few months when the building trades have been hard hit, the union move ment of tha-city directed the building of the temple in order to give work ers in those trades something to do at a dull time. A similar policy has been followed in a number of other cities and labor temples are rapidly Increasing in number. Contractors Are Eliminated. In Boston, workers in the building trades have formed a co-operative building association, eliminating-the contractor and his profits. Recently, tdo, there has been a marked tendency toward experimentation by men out of work. Cigarmakers have estab lished co-operative factories, and the telegraphers contemplate a bank as a means of added security for their members and their organization. Farmers are likewise coming to de pend on their own efforts even in the south, where economic forces have thus far operated perhaps as crush In gly as anywhere In the country. Figures received by the department of agriculture show an absolutely un precedented run In the acreage in cotton, tobacco and rice 28 per cent. it is estimated, as a result of the low prices received for those products last year. But because- southern farmers had to pay high prices for everything they bought, they have turned much of their cotton, rice and tobacco land into other crops and thereby may free themselves from econsmic dependence on other sections of the country. Expert! Complete Survey. Experts of the University of North Carolina, who have just completed a survey of the rapidly increasing ten ant farmer problem in the south, look upon this plan of growing home crops for home consumption as the surest means of ending tenancy. The to bacco and cotton crops would then become surplus and incidentally mo nopoly products which could be mar keted for cash. These- experts fore cast that within ten years the south ern farmers, by following this prac tice would make themselves the rich est on earth and convert tenant farm era into property owners. Painter Breaks Both Arms. HALSEY. Or., Aug. 13. (Special.) J. A. McWilliams, while attempting to move an extension ladder in painting the W. H. McMahan residence today. was struck across the forearm by the ladder,-which broke both arm bones. He happened to be lucky enough to carry a little accident lusurance. The canvasback duck was known to the epicure long before it was de scribed by the naturalists. DAVIS TO BE OBELISK FOR COX FEDERATE LBADEIR TO BE CXVEILEJJ. Kentucky after the unveiling, by act oC the 1S20 'egislature. Two othc rtonuments commemo rate the derate president one in Richmoi -' Va.. the capital of the confederacy. nd the other in New Orleane. Both were built through efforts of the women of the south. Monument at Birthplace of Presi dent Erected Through De votion of Women. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Aug. 13. The Jefferson Davis obelisk, crowning monument to the president of the southern confederacy, will be un veiled June 3, 1922, at Davis' birth place in Fairview, Ky, on his 114th anniversary. The Davis homestead is about 140 miles from Hodgenville, Ky., where Abraham Lincoln was born. The obelisk, which will be 175 feet high. i within five feet of comple tion. It was planned originally to erect a shaft 350 feet, to be excelled only by the Washington monument, but the Jefferson Davis Home asso ciation decided to hasten the unveil ing in accordance with the wish of confederate veterans. Anxious to par ticipate in ttie ceremonies, the thin ning ranks urged completion as soon as possible. The work was started In 1917 and Interrupted by the world war. Profiles In bronze of Mr. Davis and his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Davis Hayes, on of the most beautiful women of the south, ornament the base of the monument, which Is 43 feet square. It contains a room for rrflcs. The shaft is situated In Jefferson Davis park, which takes in part of the farm on which the president of the confederacy was born on June 3, 1808, less than a year befove Lincoln The park comprises about 22 acres. Th town of Fairview gains its name from one of the most beautiful land scapes in the south. Cost of the monument to date is about $100,000, which was raised by popular subscription. Mrs. Roy Mc Kinney of Paducah, Ky., president general of the. United Daughters fo the Confederacy, at the head of a committee of daughters and con federate veterans, organized every county in the state to complete the shaft. General William B. Haldeman, for merly owner with Colonel Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier Journal, is president of the Jefferson Davis Home association, succeeding the late General Benntt H. Young of Louisville, four times commander in-chie-f of the United Confederate Veterans. General George W. Little field of Austin, Texas, and General Julian S. Carr of Durham, N. C, were promoters with General Young of the original conception. Care of the monument and park will be supervised b-y the state of New Mexico Just Can't Use Wooden Ships. "Rio Grande Won't Float Schoon ers," Ship Board Chairman Is Told. WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 13. The Albuqueraue. N. M.. cham ber of commerce has informed Chair man Lasker of the shipping board that it is unable to figure out "how to make use of, a wooden ship in New Mexico." Having received the board chair man's circular letter on wooden ship disposal, the chamber apparently de voted much thought to the problem nd found that only the "prairie schooners" of the pioneers and the later schooners much favored for cargoes "made In Milwaukee, Cin cinnati and St. Louis" had ever been successfully navigated In the state. Secretary H. B. Watkins of the chamber wrote: "We are 6choonerless. We are afraid we will be schoonerless for some time to come. It seems a pity. too, for the reason that our popula tion here were all good sailors and weathered many a rough sea. We are sorry we can t help you In peddling those wooden schooners. The Rio Grande just can't float 'em but we wish you luck. Adios." POLICE 'OFFICIALS HELD Commissioners In Victoria Said to Have Committed Malfeasance. VICTORIA. B. C, Aug. IS. Dr. Ern,est Hall and Joseph North, police commissioners here, were brought into police court Friday on & Joint charge of misfeasance in office. The complaint accused them of "procuring John Fry. chief of police, to omit to prevent crime by allowing the opening of gambling houses." Pre liminary hearing was set for next Tuesday. Fair Band Engaged. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 15. (Special.) The Stoudemeyer band of Portland will furnish music at this year's state fair, according to announcement made today. This band played In Salem during last year's fair and gave satisfaction. Phone your want ads to The 0-e-gonian. Main 7070. Automatic 660-95. FINANCIER HAS TUMOR Surgeons Discover Growth Xear II. P. Davison's Brain. NEW YORK, Aug. 13. An' opera tion Friday on Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. for an affection of the auditory nerve, disclosed a tumor near the brain, it was announced at Roosevelt hospital, where the opera tion was performed by four specialists. Although Mr. Davison was on the operating table for more than three hours, the tumor was not removed, It was stated, because of loss of blood and depression caused by the anaes thetic. His condition, however, was reported satisfactory. ROYAL NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE 'They Always Get Their Man." They Got DR. BRUMFIELD f J'.';--) :-'V Jl- 1 ::' JW7K I I 1 iwf St - f r ' I I ifv; ' I l I 1 U I , x I - .Z 7 'I A nh.ingr photo-drama of the north- a , , " f5 1 woods a rousing story of two men and ' f- ' ' ft iML$H a woman in the Great White Wilderness; i - -v v vts-fffff jj f Love, Jealousy, Red Courage; a crash- I ( , i V", "JSiSZti ing end a great picture. .A ' vvf - , ' r-? ' i I I s -( i ' BEBE DANIELS IN JAIL - ' ' tfcJ' " r 'Special pictures showing; her both Inside ; - t " - i - and out. Direction o'Jensen and yon Herfrerg "Try the Drug Store First" Fountain Service and Lunches Reduced ! 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