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THE OREGON ' DAILY- JOURNAL, POR TLAND. FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1319; PLANS TO WELCOME RETURNING TROOPS RAPIDLY FORMING Mayor Baker Replies to Message of Greeting With Promise of Hearty Reception for Men. LIBERTY WAY TO BE TRIMMED Meeting of Representative Orr ganizations Next Monday Eve- ning Will Perfect Plans. NAYY ELECTRICIAN ! ., DIES ON BIRTHDAY PAVING EXPERTS With Information from Oregon con gressmen and from thn war depart ment .practically making certain the routing of the 65th coast artillery through Portland, the reception and welcome committee for returning ol diers and sailors Is making final ar rangements for receiving the men. A telegram from Lieutenant Ray JDeburgh was received by Mayor Baker this .morning. The message aald : "Portland and Oregon contingents of , the 65th . coast artillery Just arrived front France homeward bound. Send warmest greetings and heartiest re membrance to their friends and rela tives." The fallowing answer was sent by " Mayor Baker: ,- - "Answering your most welcome tele gram of greeting, will say that Port ' land and Oregon awaits you with open arms and heart. We will show you bow we feel about it when you ar rive here." The Rotary club, which has under taken to decorate the interior of Lib erty Temple, will start work Immedi ately. Liberal donations of flags, bunting, flowers and material have al ready been offered. Definite plans for decorating Liberty Way will be made this afternpon when representatives of the Institute of Ar chitects will meet the Liberty Way decorating committee at the United States National bank. -The general reception committee, headed by George Arthur Brown, has called a meeting' of representatives from every active organization in Port land, both men and women, for next Monday evening at 8 o'clock, at Lib erty Temple. Frank H. Hilton, secretary of the aldiers. sailors' and marines reten tion and welfare committee will leave ur Camp Lewis tonight to visit Ore- men now at that camp. iVV , ' " ' I f ' ' ' A II w I 1 rrrTm,aivr,'M'm a Henry Leo O'Shea Henry Leo O'Shea, electrician, first class general, u. S. naval reserve force, was drowned on his birthday anniver sary, January 4. in New York harbor, while attached to the U. S. S. Western Star. O'Shea was born in Portland and lived here, all his life, residing at 248 Ivy street. After finishing school he fol lowed the electrical business with un usual success. For several years he was associated with Albert Meserve, and prior to his enlistment i the navy was with E. L, Knight Electric'al company. He Is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael O'Shea, his sister Mar garet, and brother Walter, now In the merchant marine and stationed In South Atlantic waters. ,, The body was recovered and rent home, funeral services being held last Saturday. 3 A; artacans Give Up Wilhelmshaven Hold After Street Fight Berlin. Jan. 30.- (TJ. P.) The Sparta- cans, after completely dominating Wil helmshaven for several days, have com pletely surrendered, according to advises received here today. H-Report received yesterday describing street fighting in Wilhelmshaven said the Spartacans had surrendered in Cux haven and Bremerhaven. Miss Mary Isom, Late Of Central Library, Very Active Overseas Miss Mary Isom, librarian of .Central library, who left Portland last Summer to take up library work in France, is now organizing library work ,at base hospital No. 11 at Nevres, France. The, library at Mesves-Bulcy. base hospital No. SO, where" she has been stationed until recently, has been placed 'in charge of Miss Bess McCrea, formerly of Cen tral library and later librarian at the Northwest Steel company. Miss Mc Crea went to France to do Red Cross work, but her libraial abilities were work, but her librarial abilities were her regular occupation. Charles E. Ruby, librarian at Camp Lewis, has been assigned to overseas work and will leave shortly for France. NBG POWWOW OVER COST ITEMS Free-for-AII Battle In Legislative Controversy on Paving "Costs and Efficiency of State Work. RESULT IS STILL IN DOUBT State Highway Commission De nies Charges That Its Endeav ors HaVe Been Unsuccessful. (Continued From Fre On) Governor Lister . Slightly Improved Olympla, Wash., Jan. 31. (U. P.) While no official bulletin was issued on Governor Lister's condition this morn ing. It is known that he has shown a light Improvement ince yesterday. The governor has heretofore refused to leave the state on account of ill health and reiterates his Intention now to stay In Olympla. Bplsheviki Termed "Unworthy of Trust In a Peace Meeting Vladivostok, via Toklo, Jan. 30. De layed.) (U. P.) General Hovarlh, manager of the Chinese-Eastern rail way, declared today the proposed con ference of all Russian factions on the Princes islands, sea of Marmora, is im practicable. "We cannot trusl the Bolshevik! to ob serve a truce, were one declared," he said. "The decision of the peace con ference is impracticable." Official estimates today of the strength of the Bolshevik army on vari ous fronts was 290,00K with reserves of over 1,000.000. T Final Clearance Every Winter Hat remaining: in stock has gone to the third floor for quick clearance at ' . $2.50 Not one hat excepted. Dress hats. Street hats! Among them are Gage Bros.' velours. J Every Velvet Shape $2i00 Including beaver faced models. Every Girl's Hat $1.00 Absolute Clearance Saturday All Sales Final No Exchanges. N$ale 3rd Floor a. ment just as good for half the money, Then came the highway commission and its figures In refutation, . They con tended that the facts alleged did not square with comparative conditions, that the county pavements were not up to state standard, and that the state had got more than a dollar in roads for a dollar spent. . .. It was an interesting discussion, but not conclusive, uptil all the data as sembled is checked and compared. That is the job for the joint committee. Judge Bushey. county judge of Ma rion county, said he was confident that his county could build roads as cheap as any contractor, if not cheaper, and he believed this could be done because the county had done it. John R. Penland, city engineer of Albany, said Albany had paid $1.15 for pavement In Albany, while the construc tion cost was 65 cents, not including the overhead for five-inch pavement. Part of a three-inch base and two-Inch top and the rest on "a three and a hlf inch base arid one and a half Inch top. It was all bltulithlc asphalt. Said -Contractor Got It? Senator Hurley wanted to know what became of the difference between the cost price and the. contract price, and Penland said the contractor got it Senator Smith of Coos wanted to know how far the material was hauled, and Penland said it was right at band. Sen ator Norblad wanted to" know who was responsible for his appearance before the meeting, and Penland said C. K. Spence asked him to appear. Norblad asked him to tell what the life of the pavement' would be, and Penland said from 10 to 25 years. Senator Shanks asked the cost of day labor, and Penland said from $2.25 to $3.25, but most of It around $2.50 per day. The cost of the gravel was 75 cen and he sand from $1 to $1.80 a yard. State Engineer Nunn stated that Pen land was now employed by the state highway department and he asked him if the Albany pavement could be laid for the same price now. Penland said it could not, but that he could not venture a statement as to the percentage of in crease. W. J. Culver, roadmaster of Marion county, said that during 1915 three mlies of asphaltic concrete pavement were laid in the county, on a gravel roadbed, and 2 inches thick, at a cost of 67 cents a yard, including grading charges. ltlS Cost! Are Cited During 1918 the total cost of pavement was about 86 cents per yard. The pave ment was iVt Inches thick. The road was 15 feet wide, he said. The average cost of the material at the yard was $1.32. The county did not own its ma.- chinery and paid a rental charge, but did not figure wear and tear or depre ciation. In answer to a question by Hurley, Culver said he had no previous experience in laying pavement and. that his salary was ,$1"5 a month. The gravel shoulders were not completed and their cost was not tincluded in the cost figures given. The average distance of haul for material was two miles. La Folette asked if there had been any expense of upkeep on the first pave ment laid, and Culver said there had been none. C. E. Spence, master of the state grange, was the next speaker. He said he did not speak as an expert on pave ment, but had studied the paving ques tion, we said he had criticized the hurh way commission because the people had been promised there would be more ef ficiency, and that If prices were too high the commission would do its own work. It had bought a . plant but had not usea it. In Clackamas county In 1915 a pave ment had been laid, five-Inches thick for less than 80 cents a yard, and In 1918 the cost was 91 cents. Overhead Costs Discussed Spence went Into the cost of over head paid by the paving companies. They had high paid officers, high paid attorneys. They must pay dividends and were working for profit. There were patents and euits and advertising. They maintain a corps of paving pro moters with which all the counties had paid experience. They maintained ex pensive offices. They maintain an ex pensive lobby at the legislature. They finance promoting schemes In cities. They entertain prospective customers with banquets and they have idle periods when high priced experts are kept on the payrolls. The only way to avoid these overhead expenses was for the commission to do the work Itself. Hurley asked If Spence was opposed to the paving program two years ago. Spence said he had opposed the special road program but he was not opposed to good roads. He had always favored direct taxation for roads. Two years ago Clackamas county asked the leg islature to levy 9 mills road tax. The county would have given more than the six per. cent limitation would permit had it been possible. It was unfair to say that he was opposed to good roads because' he was opposed to the bonding program. Every farmer in the state wanted good roads. The prosperity of the state depended - upon good roads.. One of. the great- detri ments to . the . state iwas the isolation of Its people. ' Anyone who said ' that he was opposed to good roads stated what was not true. Graham wanted to know whether the Grange was as much -opposed to bonds now as It was two years ago, and Spence said Is was. He said the Grange wanted to pay as it went. Orton asked what road program Spence had ever supported, and Spence said he had been In favor of a pro gram two years ago which, had it been adopted, would have, given more and better roads than have been given. At the' request of Commissioner W. L. Thompson, Assistant Highway En gineer Dunn made a statement in re lation to the Clackamas county pave ment. The average cost, including the sub grading, of all the wok done, was I1.19H per yard, he said. Connty Costs Stated The cost of the Salem-Aurora road recently contracted by the department was $21,000 a mile. The cost of the Clackamas county road, exclusive of material, was $6613 a mile. If the road had been built the same as the department specified it would have cost $19,032 a mile. Dunn said that the Clackamas county pavement was not five inches thick, the thickness claimed, but about three and one half inches thick. The pave ment laid by the department was full five inches, Dunn said. Dennis asked if the state could lay pavement cheaper by force account than the contractors because of the overhead carried by the paving com panies. Dunn answered that it would cost the state for equipment, housing facilities and other necessities, $2,053,780 m order to equip the department to do all of Its highway work by force account or with its own men and plants. Dunn said the average cost of pavement laid by the department last year was $17,500 per mile, most of It 16 feet wide and six and a half inches thick. OFKR;On270,000 ' FOR P. S E. RAILROAD UNDER CONSIDERATION Medford Men Would Buy Short Line in Receiver's Hands; Tim ber Owners' Aid Sought. An offer of $270,000 has been made by A. L. Hill and other business men of Medford for the purchase of the Pacific & Eastern railroad property. The offer is now under consideration by the bondholders, according to W. F. Turner, receiver for the company. The road was offered for Bale for $300,000 some months ago. Proposals have also been received for the pur chase . of the rails and other portions of the equipment and, unless local people purchase .the line, the receiver will be compelled to accept offers made by scrap dealers. One attractive offer comes from interests about to establish a line in the orient. Operation of the road was suspended Thursday night by order of the federal court. All employes of the line with the exception of George W. Neilson, general superintendent, have been paid off. The Pacific- & 1-astern 13 33 miles in length, extending from Med ford to Butte Falls. Advices received today from Medford state that the local committee of bankers In charge of the proposed purchase of the line expect assistance from timber owners in the Butte Falls territory. Reformed' Gambler To MakeVTalk on 'Better Citizenship' - - " . . . . . . - . v It is to give to the public of Portland his message on good citizenship imd the brotherhood of mankind that "Three Fingered Jack" Godwini reformed gam bler, and evangelist, will deliver a series of three addresses in the public auditor ium, Sataurday night, at 3 p. m. Sunday and Sunday evening. His subjects will be "Bridging the Chasm," "Better Citi zenship" and "Justice to All." "Three-Fingered Jack" has Jived under every law on earth, has traveled around the globe five times, was arrested 66 times, shot 11 times, and conducted 17 saloons and 11 gambling halls at one time. In 1908 he was converted In Ta- coma. sine which- time he has striven to redeem mankind. ; . Since America entered the war he haa voluntarily visited" 75? logging camps, sawmills, mining camps and - other in dustries, far Into the wilds, wherever he could find groups of laboring men where the seeds of discord were be ing sown. by the radical element, to preach the gospel et good citizenship. Daylight Holdup Nrls $1700 Chicago. Jan. 81. (I. N. S.) Three masked bandits entered the office of the Bosch Magneto company shortly after noon today, covered the cashier with revolvers, took the payroll, total ling $1700, then escaped in an automo bile. - George H. Martin began suit for $10,000 damages in the circuit court Thr;l;iv against Lang,. Co., his employers, charging negligence. The alleged acci dent occurred September 11 last. , Values Hand at $10,000 Declaring that his hand was badly crushed while handling a case of coffee. NEW Victor I Records i1 03T SALE 8ATTJBDAT NOSMSO Some Splendid Ones COME EARLY GJJoHiBOHPiAiiaCa Iff SIXTH ICTI$LAS BECOBDS PIANOS Simlck Submits Figures Senator Dimick followed Dunn. He had the original figures of the Clack amas county, road work as furnished by the roadmaster of that county, he said. In 1916 the county laid theiIilwaukie SelLwood road, 18 feet wider from 2 to 8 inches thick, for 55 cents' per yard. The Grays Crossing road was laid for 45 cents, also 18 feet wide. In 1917, a road was laid for 98 cents per yard. The total cost, including grading and mixing the material, was $1.52 per yard. Dimick gave the figures from various jobs showing the costs ranging about 98 cents to $1.05 per yard, with an average, thickness of about 4 inches. In 1918 the county laid road for $1,115 per yard, he said. The average cost was $1.18 per yard, including all grad ing and other costs. Another road was laid for $1,175 per yard. Another cost $1.34 per yard. The county had $10,000 tied up in its paving plant and 6 per cent was added for depreciation and 8 per cent for maintenance. Dunn said Dimick had apparently made an effort to discredit the state ments he had made by not reading part of the figures his roadmaster had given him. The figures showed the average cost of pavement was $1.50 a yard. The cost including sub-grading was $1,195 per yard. Dennis said that until the engineers could get together and compare con struction conditions comparisons could not get the committee anywhere. R. S. Doolin, superintendent 'of the Portland paving plant, was the next speaker. The Terwllliger-boulevard was paved at a cost of 69 cents per yard. It was a resurfacing job. 2 inches thick. The Nicolal street pavement cost 85.3 cents per yard, 3 inches thick. W. L. Archambeau, formerly with the Warren Construction company, said he Intended to show that there could be no competition In paving under the high way department's specifications. Under the specifications the highway depart ment automatically became a part of the paving combine. The only way a bid could be taken would be through the patented mixture agreement of the Warren company, and no one could get a contract unless it had an inside, agreement with the company. He knew the inside. If anybody bid on the licensed mixture agreement, it was a pnony bid. Joker Is Pointed Out The joker was in the weariner surface The most expensive wearing surface was mixed with sand and the cheapest was gravel. The contractor would use either gravel or sand. There was no specifica tion for bitulithic cement, but there was a rigid specification for asphaltic ce ment. The cement specifications were so rigid that a contractor could not bid on them safely, because the bitulithic spe cifications would permit the contractor to remedy defects on pavements laid. while the cement man must tear up his pavement and relay it. The force ac count agreement was simply throwing a ball to the bitulithic push. The cost arguments made did not set tle the question. But the remedy was free and open competition. He sug' gested that the guaranteed pavement be cut out, as it throttled competition, and was put there to keep out the little bidder. The guarantee was not worth the paper It was written on. He said the commission could save $3,000,000 out of the ten million of the bond issue, if it would follow his sug gestion. W. L. Thompson, chairman of the high way commission, said that the commis sion had been doing just what Mr. Archambeau had suggested. No' con tract had ever bee.i let except to the lowest bidder. He said : No contract had ever been let to the Warren company unless they were the lowest bidder. The commission had but one idea and that was to get the most miles possible for the money spent. Entitled to Fair Profit 'The contractor was. entitled to a rea scnable profit. The profit on the Sa lem-Aurora job was not more than $1000 a mile and the contractors will make an estimated profit of $108,000 for the 90 miles to be paved this year. "Interest on equipment needed by the commission would reach approximately $184,000 ror the same work. No con tractor had made money and many had gone broke. 1 "The state of Oregon would not accept the improvement made by the city on the Terwilllger boulevard. It "was not the same kind of pavement laid by the state. "If you men have got the nerve to pass this $10,000,000 bonding act and put the emergency clause on it to keep just such men as Spence from putting the referendum on it, the people will back you up," Thompson said in dosing. L N- Day said that the charge made against the commission and its opera tions was a base slander upon the com mission, that they were high minded men. He said Archambeau did not give a correct statement about paving speci fications. R. A. Booth closed the discussion. He said the commission was Actuated only by a desire to give the best roads pos sible for the least money, that it was trying to davits duty to the public, that ne cua not like ta serve upon It. but that he did not Intend to be run off either by grafting contractors or politicians, "?--'. President to Leave France February 15; Stay Here Is Short Paris," Jan. 31. (By British Wireless) President Wilson will leave France on February 15 and return to America in order to be present at the closing of congress on March 4, it was learned from an authoritative source Thursday night. President Wilson will' stay In the United States a few days only, after which he will return to France. His absence from Paris will not exceed three weeks. During the absence of the president. Premier Lloyd George and Premier Or lando will doubtless gp to England and Italy, respectively, where their duties as heads of those governments claim them. The work of the conference will con tinue during the absence of the three leaders. Most of the committees have now. been appointed and are ready to commence examination of the various problems assigned for their consideration. Stolen Auto Found By Police,1 Machine Had Been Damaged Late Thursday afternoon Coroner Smith's automobile was found on Mac adam road by the! police. The car was near the Riverview cemetery. It was returned to the owner. The igniAion system haa been put out of commission. Eight other automobiles were stolen Thursday night, according to police rec ords, three of which had been found this morning. The owners are D. S. Robinson, 839 Glenn avenue ; E. C. O'Reilly, 7-05 Davis street ; Ralph W. Hoyt. 722 Main street; D. W. Alton, 305 Corbett street; A. Brix, 863 Main street ; John English, Clyde hotel ; L. L. McKenna, 509 Oregonlan building, and D. Newbegin, 400 Holladay avenue. Thief Suspects Are Caught in Act of Ransacking House When Mrs. W. E. Coovert arrived at her home at 590 Maiden avenue Thurs day evening she found intruders inside, but before she could catch sight of them they had escaped. She found the house turned topsy turvy, but so far nothing has been reported missing. Peter Kikes, operating: a "restaurant at 155 North Sixth street, reported the larceny of $40 from his place of busi ness Thursday. The home of Mrs. Linda Topham, 1735 East Fifteenth street, was entered by a thief Thursday. A gold braclet was stolen. New York City Gets Big; Would Be Free Albany, N. Y., Jan. 31. (U. T. Making the city of New York a separa rate state of the union, to be named Liberty, Is proposed in a bill introduced In the senate today. Retaliation Against Britain Not to Come Washington, Jan. JL (U. P.) No re taliatory measures against Great Britain will be taken by the war trade board oecause or recent . import restrictions against American goods, it was an nounced today. , DANCING DE HONEY'S BEAUTI FUL ACADEMY TWE7TTT-THIRD AKB WASHINGTON NEW CLASSES FOR BEGINNERS start' Friday erea lav, JB. ry SI. aad Heaeay eve aiug, February S. Ad Tanee . class starts uext Tuesday ereulag. All popular aad ballroom dance correetlv taaa-ht i a ,oV, LADIES $2.50, GENTLEMEN S5 to all joining these classes this week. Take one or four lessons a week. Tickets are good until used. The only school teaching from 8 to 11. fMantv of tic. No embarrassment Separate step room and extra teachers for backw&i-A pupils. A thorough printed description of all dances free for pupils. Join these new classes. Learn from professional dancers where you will ; meet refini k- f I01 1 enjoy , yourself. Private lessons all hours. .-Call afternoon 6r evening. 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