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THE OREGON DAILY joKfJAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY, MARCH C. 1919. SEATTLE GETS SHIP; PORTLAND DOESN'T Northern City Gets, Craft for r Cuban Lumber Trade When . : This Port Can Not Why? ' Iteported. action of the United States shipping board In releasing: two wooden ships built at Seattle as lumber-camera to the north-coast of Cuba, following a refusal of the. division of operations to amisn a wooden ship from the Columbia river for the same trade, has aroused the Portland Chanrber of Commerce to action. I With some six wood vessels ready !n the local harbor to go to sea at short notice and more than 40 others await ing a few minor additions to their equipment, the local authorities feel that Portland has apparently been an fairly dealt with. Early In February one of the largest lumber exporting- firms of Portland re ceived an order from a prominent Cuban agent. " The first-shipments were de signed to cover. Oregon pine, and later tshipmenta of Douglas fir were promised. That the new trade offer, meant much to Oregon and opened the way for the development of a new outlet for pine and fir was evident. , .-' Beqoeit I Sealed Following the receipt of the order front Cuba a large ship operating con cern made a request of C. D. Kennedy, head of the Portland branch of the di vision of operations, for a wooden steamer. This request was: denied, after Mr. Kennedy had taken up the matter with his San Francisco office. Kennedy informed the Portland inquirers that there were no government wooden steam ers available for the Cuban trade. In the early stages of the negotia tions the Cuban representative discussed the lumber shipment project with W. D. B. Dodson, executive secretary of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. It was not . known that Puget sound had captured the' business, however,; until the news Was conveyed in a newspaper dispatch from Seattle. Wednesday. The dispatch stated that the Pacific Steam ship company had closed a deal with the shipping board for the use of two Seattle built wood ships, the Daca and Octarara. It was also stated that the lumber for the Cuban trade would be loaded at Puget sound. Investigation It Started ' s Mr. Dodson today said: "I have al ready started an Investigation to learn the reason why Portland did not get the woodefi tonnage for the Cuban trade. It is a-matter worthy of serious Investiga tion, because of the opportunity which is given to furnish a new outlet for our home lumber. An explanation from the federal shipping , authorities has been asked. With a large number of wood ships lying idle in' the local harbor, it seems that the government could -use these ships just as well as those of the Sound." - Mr. Kennedy, chief of . operations for : -the i Emergency Fleet corporation, de clares that he acted solely under in struct Ions, in reporting that .there were no government wood ships available for (he Cuban trade," He said: "I have aaked a fuller explanation from the authorities higher up, and ex pect to have something definite soon. I do not believe in acting hastily regard-' : " 1 " ' 1 1 ' ,, ' I n -?" 1 ' rr- n !.- -. ... .- ' -a Good Tasty . Wholesome Two Special Luncheons For Friday Short Ribs .of Beef, Bouillon Potatoes 40c Salmon Croquettes Head Lettuce, Cream Sauce Thousand Island Mashed Potatoes Dressing Tea, Coffee, Chocolate er Milk Every day you will find specially prepared dishes at the Hazelwood prepared with the idea ; of" giving you variety and choice. Take Lunch at the Hazelwood Tomorrow 12? Broadway Friday and An Opportunity for You to Ina-, the riroDoeitlon. for It Is assumed ! that those responsible are fair minded men, eager to treat justly with alt ship ping problems.' ' Trade Meh Wasted , The. government's lumber rate from the Pacific coast to New York 'is S$IS a thousand. In making the request for the ' carrier the r local - exporter, , ftvl stated, would have gladly-bettered this price, in order to have landed the busi ness. If Puget Sound obtained the busi ness because of a higher freight rate offer, it is argued that Portland "could have mad the same rate, had not the flat . refusal to release the ships been given. , -. - The grade of the lumber desired In the Cuban trader is said to be largely side cut timber, just the kind which the mills of Oregon are anxious to unload. The chance to market Oregon pine in prefer ence to Southern pine, and the oppor tunity for sales of Douglas fir offered in Cuba means a great deal to lumbermen and affiliated industries of Oregon, es pecially at this time when the sudden efding of the war has necessitated the shutting down of some of the mills and camps. t J. L.Doak, Insane, Is to Be Sent to California Asylum ' Salem, March 6. J..k L. Doak. who killed his brother In the Holllnshed hotel in Los Angeles a year or two ago, is to be deported to California from the Ore gon state hospital for the Insane, ac cording to - Superintendent R. E. Lee Steiner. . Doak was first committed to the Ore gon asylum from Oregon City in 1915 as an alcoholic. He was given a parole and ran away from: the Institution, making his way to relatives In Califor nia. There he had trouble, which ended in his killing his brother. He was again adjudged .insane and was sent to the Patton institution of California, and later was given treatment In a private sanitarium. Returning to Oregon about six months ago, he was convicted in Multnomah county of forgery and was sentenced to the state penitentiary. A week ago Gov ernor ' Wlthycombe gave' him a condi tional pardon, that he might be legally committed to the asylum. Dr. Steiner pronounced him incurably insane and has obtained permission from the Cali fornia lunacy commission to return him to the authorities of. that state. At the same time, J. I. Ewing, who was committed to the asylum two weeks ago, will be returned to Stockton, Cal., where he belongs. Third in Series of 'Goof Tests Tonight The third in the series of army intelli gence tests will be given at Lincoln high school Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Dr. S. C. Kohns head of the Reed psy chology department, is directing the tests through authority of the war depart ment. ' Mental standing . of the civilian population is sought through these tests, which are open to the public. The last tests were taken by capacity crowds, and many were turned away. Friday evening two rooms will be available for the tests. , Allan Pratt and Kenneth Irle, advanced . Students of psychology at Reed, will aid Dr. Kohn In administering the army exams. 50c 388 Washington Unusual Electrical Demonstration For these two days we have arranged a special display with an expert lady demon strator to show yoa the tremendous advantages of having an , t APEX ELECTRIC SIMPLEX ELECTRIC IRONER m your home. For a limited time we have made it possible for you , to secure this wonderful laundry team for the special 'small initial payment of &M down -Balance on Easy Monthly Payments Like Paying Laundry Bills J. C. ENGLISH CO. Everything Electrical 148 Fifth St., Second Floor Between Morrison and Alder GOING EAST TO FIGHT : FOR LUMBER TRADE F . fjrf Chester J. Hogue LUMBER MARKET OF NEW ENGLAND TO BE NVADED BY WEST West Coast Association Will Open Offices in New York Under Former Portland Manager. The "West Coast Lumbermen's asso ciation has arranged to open an office in New Tork city for the purpose of se curing a share of the New England lum ber trade. This office will be in charge of Chester J. Hogue, who has been Ore gon secretary of the association since 1916, with offices in Portland. Mr. Hogue will leave for the east Friday night, first visiting the annual exposi tion of American railway appliances at Chicago and going direct from there to New York. The lumber market of New England has depended largely upon local spruce and hemlock and on yellow pine from the south for its supply. The value of New England spruce for paper pulp now has practically withdrawn that wood from use as lumber and the supply of southern pine is becoming less each sea son. These conditions, coupled with the ex cellent advertising given west coast lumber during the war, open a splendid market for northwestern spruce, fir and hemlock in the North Atlantic states. Western spruce possesses all the good qualities of the. New England spruce and because of its larger growth may be cut to better advantage, say officials of the West Coast association. The same is true of western hemlock. Valae of Douglas Fir Reeogalzed Douglas fir has been little known in the eastern lumber market until recent years but its value as building material in mill construction is being recognized, especially since Its Introduction for war uses. Tests made at the federal forest products laboratory at Madison. Wis., have shown that Douglas fir compares favorably with yellow pine in every way. Data of the experiments conducted at this laboratory are now available and are having a marked effect In destroy ing the prejudice in favor of yellow pine which has long existed in the eastern states. Building regulations of New Tork, Philadelphia, Boston and other eastern cities specify yellow pine as a desirable building material and claim for it from 25 to SO per cent superiority in tensible strength. This prejudice in favor of yellow pine 'was due to propaganda work on the part of the Southern Pine association, according to members of the West Coast Lumbermen's association. Thought ShelVciiId Die from Eczema "1 went te Joans Hookias.HoapiUl. I went-tesevereWoetora, I tried other reawdiea. I taearht I weele die. DJS.D. corea me arter 1 baa give en ell hope t everpet well again ee rta. Mr. Eaum Wise. M rreaklinSL, altissere.. VT eoTMlvcs have seea D. D. D.nealee nutay eases ef severe skin treable that we knew it win nen yen see. la not w ant battle, ate. eoc and tlA The Owl rag Co., tsaidmore Drag Co. ACT. Witness An WASHER and loxinxini A i Iff FIGHT ON LEAGUE Nationwide Campaign Will Be Opened With Speech in Hew York Tonight. By I,. C. Martin Washington, March '. (U. P.) The nationwide campaign of the "senate 8T against the League of Nations constitu tion begins tonight In New Tork, , Senator Borah, leader of the opposi tion, will speak before the Society of Arts and Sciences there. On Saturday he will speak in Boston. Borah's speeches are the first of a series to be made In practically every state, in op position to the -provisions ef the league constitution as drafted at Paris. Every senator who Joins In the cam palgn, with the possible exception of Borah,' plana to make It plain to his audiences that it is not a League of Na tions he Is opposed to, hut this league as outlined in the tentative constitution. Borah is opposed to any league on the. ground that it ia America's business to1 stay out of permanent alliances witn ror eign nations. Other senators who signed the "rounds robin" presented to the sen ate by Senator Lodge favor a world or ganization upon some basis which Will make Impossible European interference with the Monroe doctrine, American commercial interests and American sov ereignty. Most of them think auch a league can be formed. They are willing to accent the present constitution as the basis for its organisation. What they insist on is modification or tnat constitu tion to meet objections they point out. They will emphasise to the country in the next few weeks this one point, many of them said today : "President Wilson is trying to force on the United States his League of Na tions. We favor a peace league but it is our right to point out and your duty to study the dangers that lurk in the pro posal as submitted." There Is no 1 disposition to attac.lt President Wilson except by pointing out that he, while Inviting discussion, stated Just before going back to- France that the constitution aia not neea amend ment. : The whole campaign Is to be based. Republicans say, on the -point above outlined, with these additional ones: That sponsors of the proposed league have no more authority for declaring the league will not interfere with the Mon roe doctrine and American rights than its opponents have for asserting it will Interfere. President Wilson said there was a reason for every provision, but in his two speeches in this country and his talk with congressmen, did not reveal one of the reasons. That the proposed league will fail be cause it tries to do more than the world is ready for now. That Europe is counting on America bearing the burden financially, mili tarily and economically of making the league a success. In addition to Borah, Senators Heed, Lodge, Knox, Cummins, Poindexter, Sherman and Kenyon have partially mapped out speaking tours. Reed, a Democrat, is not among the 37, nor is Kenyon, a Republican. Others of the 37 have received invitations to speak and will take some part in the countrywide debate. and was hot tire result of actual experi ment. ' Mr. Hogue's first duty as manager of the New York office of . the West Coast association will be to educate eastern architects and engineers in the ad vantages of using Douglas fir. Ship yards along the Atlantic coast already recognize the merits of fir for ship tim bers, masts and yards and a consider able supply of lumber products from Oregon and Washington now goes to these yards. . According to Mr. Hogue there ia a probability that the rate on lumber shipped via the Panama canal, which is now about $20 per thousand, will be re duced to approximately the rate effect ive prior to the war, which was $12.50 per thousand. Thia would give west coast lumbermen practically an even break in competition with yellow pine producers. Mr. Hogue expects to secure offices in the Architects' building on Madison near Thirty-ninth street for the New York headquarters of the West Coast association. He will, have on display samples of Oregon and Washington lumber products, including Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, western hemlock and red cedar. He will also have an equipment of lantern slides and a mass of data and printed literature advertising the merits of western woods. Mr. Hogue opened the Portland office of the West Coast Lumbermen's asso ciation in October, 1916. Prior to that he was for 15 years in the engineering and construction business in Portland and Boston. In June, 1918, at the re quest of Monks & Johnson, Boston de signing engineers, Mr. Hogue took charge of the supervision 0f construc tion of the $25,000,000 government ship yard at San Francisco. When1 this project was abandoned by the govern-, ment in November he returned to his Office In Portland. " Mr. Hogue Is 43 years old, is married and has two children. The Portland of fice of the West Coast association will be continued in the same location. Mr. Hogue's successor has not been ap pointed. Henry Ford Will Pay Income Tax of About $6,000,000 Detroit. March . (U. P.) Henry Ford only made . upwards of a dozen million dollars last year and therefore the income taxes he will pay in the next few days will be less by a million or so than last year, it developed here today. For the last few days a large staff of accountants, attorneys, clerks, and stenographers have been hard at work figuring up Ford's debts to the gov ernment and today the Job was far from completed. It waa estimated Ford'a Income taxes would amount to around $6,000,000. ' t M , I ' ."1 ' SENATORS LAU Idahq Legislators , ; Hope to Complete : Session by Friday Boise," IdaJio. March.. 6.W IT. ' P.)- Idaho will have a representative of the war camp community service in New York with "a fund of $1000 to-expend for returning soldiers if a new senate Joint resolution introduced to day eheuld go through. , Teachers are exempt from the - oper ations of - the workmen's compensation act In a senate bill whWh passed the house Wednesday afternoon and goes to the governor. OtheV" senate. bills te Hearty L Fun Began 11 o'Clbck This Morning w i W'f 1 ft fly ! : s ; , M ( (a j M X 1 r 1 !;' A ffl p. ..? - "T i: ? W& : V J ( AND Alwavs "RIDING WILD'! (- MmricH Two ThrUI-FUled ReeU of. Excitement - - - . '! . t tin link ir GaU Gunpowder and Grit Oh, Boy, but it's fat iOU,UUO 'Urtjan 7 ' -- " "i .. ' . " '.. ' " " i ' t -- . 4 pees were : . One providing for a fed eral survey ef the state of Idaho ; a memorial asking congress for one mil lton dollars te complete the Fort Hall irrigation project and a senate bill which would establish a bureau of child hygiene. . " - Legislative leaders believe they will be able to finish the session Friday. - - . . Dr. Allen Reappointed , Vancouver,. Waah., March 6. Lieuten ant Governor Hart has reappointed Dr. J. T? Allen of this city to membership on the state board of dental examiners. Dr. Allen has served on the board for nearly two yeara He came to this city about six months ago from Dayton, Wash., and ia now associated with Dr. N. J. Taylor. aughter's the Best for the Liberty Guest n rrvr i I l ii ' f I i i i i "Sife: "LJBERTV C01ERrJ!! ' ""asssslsl THREE DAYS Berger and State ; Senator Held on Espionage Charge Madison, Wis., March ,6.-(1. N. 8.) Victor L Berger and State Senator L. A. . Arnold were arrested today on an indictment for espionage brought in the LaCroese ' federal ' court and r ar raigned before Judge Sanborn, when they were released on $5000 bail pend ing trial. - .- ' : : The, men are Charged with circulat ing published material tending to im pair the fighting strength of the army. NO LONGER the document complained of being Ber gar's platform in his campaign for United States senator In lSli. Senator Arnold is indicted for circulating thi same material a hla pledge of faltli to" Socialism. . Senator Arnold Is one of Berger's first Wisconsin followers and has hell many offices under Socialism 1n Mil waukee county, v The two were indicted by the federal grand Jury at LaCroese, November 80 last and their trial was set for the term of the federal court to be held at Eau Claire beginning March 10. . , Cold Caaae Grip aat Iftfiatais LAXATIVE HROMO QUINtMt Tahtot hM the nm. Thr Is only on "Brone Qulaln " B. W. GROVE'S ifiutnr oa fc. tOa Ad. I