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-1 m keat pack i r KEPT OFF MARKET Producers Would ; Have Supplies ; 3' Not Now; Needed by Army, , ' Exported to' Europe. T Washington, May 13. U. P.) After a eerie of dod conferences, the big packers have succeeded In holding off -from' the market 264,000,00 pound of .army Yneat. bought by the war depart- ment and no longer needed. It waa ' learned today. . 'J ' Thl f- waa disclosed In a statement "wiade by the War "department showing VthaV millions of pourfds of meat, at the ' packers' request, will be restricted to Henport; at least temporarily, and should thls' prove Impossible "it would be sold Sunder war department direction at regu i !?lar prices.. ; PACKERS GIVJ5 ADVICE ,The t, war , department, " It developed, v.called in representatives of Wilson, Mor " tris. Armour. Cudahy and 1,1 bby, McNeil & ribby to advise, as to some methods of disposing1 of thts'huge surplus with-' .-out affecting meat prices In this country . The ' enormous stores of meat represent two years' output of the big packing plants . and the packers -protested strongly, against turning if loose on the market, declaring it would seriously ' - affect prices. , Packer representatives urged that the ' rmy export this meat to famine stricken t'swntiiea. If this develops 'to be im 'iractlcal, the director of sales of the , a ar'dpartment could then turn over the. meat for ' distribution by the packers, Training control over the prices. .lV Bt;PPJ-Y OX HASH The surplus meat stores are -summar-15-ed- by the war department in an of fl-'-I ., til. statement as follows i VHtpast beef, 12,000,000 six-pound cans; TTXkCOO two-pound cans ; 9,000,IKW one- , prtujd cans : 378,000 12-ounce cans : corned '-WifV 5.60O.OO0 six-pound cans ; 18,000,000 'it-Ounce cans: 9,000,000 one-pound cans: r!74.250,000 12-ownce fcana ;. corned beef hash, '. HO, 120,000 i onev?and two-pound cans; f bacon. : 4 7.SJ0.3 20 -pou nd s. T "The foregoing quantities of packed ' .products represent the combined output .- of the packing- houses for five months ? "during the war, when the plants were kept In operation continuously to meet xhe demands "for army subsistence," the . -war department official statement said. '"It la explained by the committee of ,,t packers that this amount was a normal - production of these plants over a period X, of two years and-.to place thia quantity i of packed meats on. the market at thisv time would seriously affect prices on 'both canned and fresh meats. PACKAGES- NOT FA34CY : ' "The. representatives of the packing ' ':-t industry strongly advised 4that all of this stock be disposed of for eixport. It was . hoped that it could be sold abroad to re--.; lieve the food situation in many of the countries now on short rations. It was also suggested that negotiations be in , - stitated through the American relief ad .' ministration, the allied liquidation com- mi t tees and. organizations now aiding in 4the - feeding of some of the famine Stricken countries. Should It be lmpos- Bible to sell this stock , of canned- meat " for export, then the directors of sales 1 - would control the sales, fixing of prices ' . and distribution with; the packing Indus try acting as agencies' for Its sate, i ' The packers said the army meat was 1 not put up in fancy packages, , and that It would be hard to sell. Bulgars Show Fight : Toward Koumanians Milan, May 13. Renewal of hostilities !" between Bulgaria and Roumania is Im minent, wires the Budapest correspond ent -,of the Secolo. The Bulgarians, he I adds, have occupied a portion of the I lobrudja.l which by the allied peace arrangements is to revert to Roumania. Bulgaria is expected to try to hold the province bj force. . iber&Jfes .President 'Washington, May 13. il. X. S.) Charlea I. ' B King, . present secretary of state and head of Liberia's delega tion to the peace conference, has been elected president of Liberia, the state department was advised this afternoon. Springtime : is "clean-up" time Wfail you - are doing: yora spring cleaning, consider the need of repainting jour floors. A painted floor -is. a dean floor or, at least is easily cleaned.; No cracks ; no germ-catching worn p ; no unsightly blemishes. T i(r-M-Me "in CaUfomia for . Pacific .Coast conditions ."and climate. Spreads e.aTTf dryerforms a hard, yet elas tic coating which lasts and wears twice as lone as the average paint. i . There is a B-H product for every use. Call today and let us prove it to you I Strowbridge Hardware & Paint Co. , '; 106-108 v Grand ; Are. East T6S ' - Hi. - Distributor for ' " BASS-HUETER PAINT CO. f oan rrancitco Radicals Advise ; Tellbw Workers' 4 To Aid Idle Men i. Chicago, May .U-iV. P.) "Organize, march on and take what belongs ' to you." was the advice given at a radical mass meeting staged by the national convention 4 of the L W. W. here Sun day night. ; ; i . - ' "Fellow A Worker- Roberta Bruner pleaded for an organization to help the unemployed and gain freedom for im prisoned radicals. , i i Police ef Gary and Hammond, Ind put a quietus on demonstrations planned in those places 'on. Sunday. A mass meeting in Hammond was broken- up by a force : of armed officers while three radicals were arrested in Gary and the rest dispersed. . --N- . , 0 C. LE1TER TO HANDLE CAMPAIGN OF He Explains Object Is to Provide Emergency Work for "Returned United State? Soldiers. O. C. Letter, advertising manager for the Brownsville Woolen Mills, has been appointed manager of the state cam paign tor reconstruction measures, sub mitted by ' the recent legislature to the people ; for indorsement at the special election on June 3. . I On Wednesday Mr. Leiter will open offices in the Morgan building In the suite formerly' occupied by the selective service executives, and will be assisted In the campaign by Monroe Goldstein. ' 'The. purpose of the measures to be presented to the people," explained Mr. Leiter, "is to keep th wheels of Indus try moving., If passed, an emergency fund of $5,000,000 will be provided. It Is not the intention of the governor or the state board of control to spend money in competition With legitimate In dustry during busy seasons. It ls,a mat ter of Justice to returning soldiers, sail ors and marines that ! the state of Ore gon should take time by the forelock and provide employment-at useful pub lic work, provided such an emergency arises. "No one can study the reconstruction measures - without becoming absolutely convinced that their passage is not only good business but also far-sighted pa triotism. Time is 'short ' for making a campaign and the state reconstruction committee appeals generally to citizens to study measures carefully, enlist in the movement, and make every effort to se cure a large vote" at the polls on June 3." $200 Fine Imposed; Jail Sentence for Ah May Suspended Several heavy fines! were imposed In the municipal court Monday morning by Judge Kosarnan on violators of various city ordinances. Ah May, 311 Flanders street, was fined 1200 and elven a sus pended Sentence of 60 days In the county jail on charges of having lottery tickets and lottery paraphernalia In his pos es ss ion. He -was arrested at 10 o'clock Sunday morning by Patrolmen Morris and Well brook. Guy Bendenelli was fined $200 for violation of the prohibi tion law. Officers Presby. Traver and PHyde made, the arrest. On charges of disorderly conduct, Joe Little was fined $10 and given four days in Jail. Elsie Gray seven days in jail, Mary 'Simpson seven days In jail. D E. Bourne, $10 ; Carmen Dugordln, $25 ; Jessie Kelly, $10; Emma Moore. $10, and Cecil Robinson, 5. Charges of violation of the prohibition law brought a $50 fine for Eric Ericson and Axl Scott and a $25 fine for Harry Crosby. Six persons arrested in the Eaton hotel by Sergeant Brothers and Officer Nolan failed to appear, for trial this morning and forfeited their ball of $10 each. They gave the names of George Campbell, D. S. Cosgrove, A- Meyers, Peggy Landon. Helen Witten and Louise Story. ' ; CHOSEN PORTLAND BUILT SHIP MAKES GOOD Trip of 22,000 Miles Made With out Repairs? Rouh Seas Met With on Atlantic. - Another Portland-bunt ship has estab lished a remarkable record in the service of the United States. The U. S. S. West Compe, built by the Northwest Steel company, ; has traveled 22,000 miles without a single breakdown or repair, has carried flour across " the Atlantic without a sack being wet from leakage. althouah the decks were, continually awash, and is declared by her engineer to be in better condition than the day she sailed according to a letter received by Fire hief Doweil, from Lieutenant George . N. Hampson, former Portland fireman, now aboard the West Compo. , Although the West Elcajohn, built by Skinner & Eddy at Seattle, left 21 days ahead of the West Compo, she arrived in Gibraltar but one day in advance of the Portland Bhlp, which is now employed aa an auxiliary vessel to the Amertcan squadron in the Adriatic sea. The West Compo Joined the American squadron at Gibraltar and lias followed it to aimosi every important port on the Adriatic sea. according to Lieutenant Hampson., and will go to Montenegro, Turkey and other Black sea ports before returning home. BECOBD IS WONDERFUL . "This ship, built by the Northwest Steel company, has sure made a won derful record," the letter states. "I think no ship built anywhere has made a bet ter : we have traveled 22,000 miles since leaving Portland and iiave never had a single breakdown or repair. We can leave any time and it loon as tnougn we can travel the other 10.000 miles without trouble, as the chief engineer -says she is in better shape now than when new. We have not had a Single wet sack of flour from, leakage and our decks were full of water all the tim crossing the Atlantic, --for we bucked a strong gale all the way across and our crgo was In the ship for two months." Serious disorders are reported m j.taiy and. Austria by Lieutenant Hampson. "The Italians want a republic and the Bolshevik! are very strong rioting goes on every day and, a general uprising Is expected most any day, both In Italy and Austria. The Italian soldiers re fuse to quit the' army unless jobs are found for them, and the political situa tion is certainly boiling. I don't know what the poor devils in this part of the world would do if it weren't for the flour they get from the United States. Some of our flour wen to Bohemia and Some of our flour went -to Bohemia and Austrians. The people here have abso lutely nothing to do those who are not prisoners are in the army and no agri culture has started yef" MINES STILL ENDANGER hips in the Mediterranean are troubled by floating mines and lack of aids to navigation, says Lieutenant Hampson. "The coasts of Italy and Austria are lined with mines and we have already exploded eight that were drifting. Thf.y break away from the mine fields and we carry a one pounder to explode them. In some places w-e cannot run at night as buoys and land marks and lighthouses were all put out of commission and have not been fixed up yet" Lieutenant Hampson expects to return to Portland this '. winter with his ship. Ex-Service Men to Do Decorating for Victory Rose Show Decorating of the downtown buildings for the Victory Rose festival will be in charge of W. G. Richardson, a returned soldier, and a group of workers, all of whom were service men. Indorsement has been given Mr. Richardson by the board of governors of the Rose Festival association and by Mayor Baker, who has issued an appeal to the merchants of the city to employ him, impossible, In decorating work. Mr. Richardson will use the combined stock of all the local decorators, and his employment, states Mayor Baker, will mean that the money spent on decora tions will be retained In Portland. A movement to have an exhibit from each of the shipyards; in Portland and Vancouver anchored In , the middle of Portland harbor during the festival has been started by President Ira F. Riggs of the Rose Festival association.: The suggestion was made by Captain Jacob Kanzler, who recently returned from overseas. "In Festivals of the past," said Mr. Kanzler, "we have omitted any thought of material gain in connection with our role as host to thousands of. visitors from everywhere. Everything -In our enter tainment has been free and so it should always be. But there is no reason In the world why we should not conduct an ex cellent exhibit of the things we make in Oregon with our own hands and mills this for our own edification ad educa tion, as well as convincing our visitors that 'we do not live on perfumes alone" Captain Hardy 84; Birthday Tuesday Captain William II. Hardy, veteran of the Civil war and the only surviving member of the Perry expedition to Japan in 1854, is celebrating his 84th birthday today. Captain Hardy is serving on the Multnomah county grand jury end the birthday celebration will be a quiet affair on that account. Cap tain. Hardy was born in the state of Maine and is still hale and hearty. : Hair Often Ruined By Careless " Washing Soap should be used very carefully. If you want to keep your hair looking, its best. Most soaps and prepared sham poos contain too much , alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and ruins it. - . The best thine- for ordinary mulsifled cocbanut oil shampoo twmcn is pure and Kreaselesal. and im better than anything else you can use." one or. two ieaspoonfuls will cleanse the hair and scalp thoroughly. SimnlV moisten the hair with water and rub it In. It makes an abundance of rich. c i ii j ia.uicr, wnicn rinses out easily, removing every particle of dust.: dirt, dandruff "and excesaiv nil - Tk.' ... dries quickly and evenly,', and it leaves m Kup noii, ana ine nair fine and silky, bright, lustrous, fluffy and'euv to manage. - - You can ret nmilstiflMt mnunnt ti - any pharmacy. It'a -very cheap, and. a icw ounces wm supply every member of the family for months. Adv. , Pasco Schools Will Close for Summer Holidays This Week . ;--"- " "- "v."-- .!v"' "L r-Vu - Pasco, : May -13. .Pasco , Bcboola .. will close for the summer holidays this week. The jprincip J event of the week will be thi commencement program Wednesday evening. Graduates thia year from the Pasco high school ars : Elmi Kathryn, Andersen, Pauline 'Marie -Anderson, Thomas Harvey EUHson, Eugene L. Holt. Markwood James Hull, Herbert Smith Leonard, Jessie Xlmenia Maxfield, Shu ford William Pyles,: Eva May Reasoner, Mayme G. ' Rehberg, Dorothea Lucille Snyder, Ruth" Emma Taylor, Marion Elizabeth Turner and Elizabeth Dore Van Slyke. ; ! , Galvani Speaks in Pasco Piim Miv 13 The Pawa Chamber of Commtrce has elected the following directors: C. B.-Shoemakei manager Pasco Flour mlils; O. H. plaon, editor Pasco Herald ; V. B. Cox, president Cox Investment company ; Charles W. Johnson. torney, and C. F. Stinson of the Western Grain & Seed company. W. II. Galvinl of Portland addressed the meeting of the chamber. Burning Stealer Puts In at Seattle Seattle. May 13. (I. N. S.) With smoka still Issuing from the lower part of her hold No. S and the deck bulk heads warm from the smoldering flames, the big liner Manila Maru of the O. S. K. line, with 200 passengers and a cargo valued - at more than " $2,000,000, the steamship which was afire nearly a week ago 1000 miles off Cape Flattery, arrived here shortly before noon Monday from the Orient. Captain Kobayashi said that in all probability the cargo in hold No. 5, consisting of rice, peanuts, wood oil. matting and Chinese and Jap anese merchandise, has. been destroyed. a New Goody IkotbeSj irepres 33x4... ......, 34x4........... 32x4. 33x4........ 34x4 35x4 ........ . 36x4 ......... 33x5. 35x5 36x5... t: r37x5 '-""0" ' .- QA OLD GUARD WILL RULE THE SENATE Progressives . ahrj. Standpatters Get Together 'After Com promise Agreement Y Washington, May 13. (L N. S.)-Con-ferences Monday afternoon between old guard and progressive Republican- lead ers of the senate resulted in the follow ing 'compromise program being: tentat tlvely, agreed upon : v Senator Johnson, California, progres sive, for president pro tem of the senate. Senator Penrose, Pennsylvania, old guard, for chairman senate finance com mittee.. Senator Jmoot, Utah, old guard, chair man senate appropriations committee. Senator Warren, Wyoming,, old guard, chairman senate military affairs com mittee. It was understood, after Senators Borah and Johnson had conferred with Senator Lodge at the latter's residence, and another conference of progressive Republicans had been held in Borah's office, that the threatened fight against Penrose and Warren would not be car ried beyond next Wednesday's Republi can senatorial conference, if it devel oped to any extent in conference at all, and that the progressives, realizing that they could not encompass Penrose's de feat without jeopardizing Republicans' control of the senate, virtually agreed to the. old guard proposal, that Senator Johnson be made presiding officer of the senate and recognition of the progressive wing of the Republican party with which Johnson is prominently identified. Troops Occupy Leipzig Berlin, May 13. (I. N. S.) German troops have . occupied Leipzig; Ann edtQle eair mately Effective The following is a schedule of retail list prices on Goodyear Automobile Tires land Tubes applying on and after- Monday May 12, 1919 ( Cut Oat and Preserve this List) GOODYEAR SIZE Smooth Tread I 30x3..... , 12.90 16.80 19.45 25.65 260 "27.40 28.10 35.55 36.60 37.80 39.55 42.50 45.10 49.95 30x3........., 32x3.. ....... 31x4....t:.:.7. 32x4. ; I 4 4 t Additional information can ' be had from any Goodyear Service Station Dealer Suicidal Intent Is .;m Announced in Note; Husband Is Gone . "I'm afraid I'm going crazy, so X will kill myself. You and the children can run the farm right now, I hope, f X bid my last good bye."- This - was the conclusion of ' a letter received Monday morning by Mrs. F. R. Schroeder of Vancouver from her hus band, whom she last saw Saturday, when he left their farm to attend' to some business with a Portland real es tate firm, she told the police Monday aft ernoon. A. search for, the missing man has been started. No unidentified body of a man . has been found in the city since , Saturday. . police say. : ; - . - ' The letter from - Schroeder was long. It touched on many personal things and seemed to be an attempt to clarify all his affairs. It was dated Saturday and was written on stationery of a real estate firm." r . Mrs. Schroeder described the missing man as 39 years old; 5 feet 11 tnches.ln height; weight, 160 pounds; brown hair and blue eyes. The third finger of his right hand was amputated at the first Joint. When his wife last saw him he wore a dark coat, white canvass ' trous ers, black shoes and a. soft brown hat Government Defeats Eevolt in Venezuela : i Washington, May 13.- I. N. S.) A revolutionary attempt against the Ven ezuelan government last Wednesday was put down hy i the government troops after spirited fighting, according to state department advices from Caracas this afternoon. General Manuel Rugeles, commanding the government troops, was slain. - The revolutionists, commanded by Emestino OHn. were completely re pulsed, the advices stated. : Dry slabwood and inside wort, green stamps for cash. Holman -Fuel Co. Main 353; A-3353 : A-4955. Adv. ouncun of ; :List Auatomm OT1 ooEJie g, a Monday, FABRIC TIRES i mm- v wav - t m r GOODYEAR CpRD TIRES AO-Wsatker Tresi Rib Tread I 15.75 20.00 2335 31.25 31.85 33.35 34.10 i 4Z50 43.85 45.25 4730 48.00 52.40 55.55 56.40 58.85 24.55 350 44.65 45.85 47.20 50.40 51.65 53:10 54.30 55.60 63.00 66.00 I, 1 69.00 K'R-O-N SHIP COST DATA BEING COMPILED Building ; Expenditures Will Have Very Much to Do With Pro gram's Continuance.- Statisticians of the Kmergency , Fleet corporation of Oregon, Washington and California - representing1 the steel and wooden shipbuilding . program of the shipping board, are speeding up compila tion of data to show the actual eost to the government of the ships built. .The figures will be used in connection with the proposed presentation to congress of the shipbuilding status throughout the country. Upon these . figures .depends largely the future policy of the shipping board as to a continuance of the ship building program. Captain Hiram E. . Mitchell of the wooden department of the . Emergency Fleet in Oregon, who has just returned from a conference of government math ematical experts at San Francisco, said: . ... :'; -. '., , "The work of compiling the mass of data relating to the building pf steel and wooden ships Is prodigious, and be cause of the fact that some of the infor mation has come from -Philadelphia, - the job is rendered all the more difficult. . W have on hand much of the in formation needed to show just what the ships cost the- government, . Careful tab has been kept on all work performed at the. yards in the Oregon district, the tabulation ranging from-the expense of laying the keel to the final completion of the vessel. But, in many instances, shipments of machinery were made to Portland . builders from machinery houses, in various parts of The country. In most instances, in order to save time, the waybills for these shipments were sent to Portland, and the bill for the goods was forwarded to the Emer l.ires .Prices Reduiicftioini of May 12 GOODYEAR TU2ZS AJ - Weatksr Treai 2.75 3.25 3.70 4.40 4.55 4.75 435 530 5.95 6.10 6.15 6.45 7.15 7.45 7.60 7.75 26.45 37.80 48.95 4930 50.65 54.05 55.50 57.00 58.45 59.75 6730 70.80 74.05 m gency .Fleet headquarters at ? Philadel phia. Therefore, to get a correct esti mate of the total cost of shipbuilding, it will be .necessary to obtain these cost bills from the Kmergency Fleet. "It has been estimated that the ma chinery. Including boilers and other deck equipment for a wooden ship, costs about $250,000. The cost of th hull la about 3450.000." : t Body' of 'Elderly Suicide Identified jcLouxi ot Ajxrviu tun. Oregon City, May 13. The body i of the aged woman, who ended her life Thursday In Johnson creek, was iden tified Sunday by 'her son. E. W.l Shaver. 1313 Belmont street. Portland, ! as that of Mrs. Mary . V. Elklngton. 475 East rEverett street, Portland. Mrs.j Elklng ton was 7s years old. At the request of the son the identification was withheld by the Clackamas county coroner until Monday afternoon. Mrs. Elklngton left a note at her home in which she made provision I for the sort said she was a clairvoyant and was born .in Ithaca, "N. Y. She was the widow of a Civil War veteran. Funeral services will be held at the jportland crematorium today at 3 o'clock. Spokane Teamsters : Go Back to Work . Spokane, .May 13. (U. P.lStriking Spokane teamsters and chauffers Mmr'n v voted to accept, the compromise offered by the employers , and , will go bac-u to- work, tomorrow, on a- basis of the 8-hour day, wage Increases running from 35 cents to 85 cents per day and the open shop. . The vote! was 295 to 6. In relinquishing their -fight for the closed shop the strikers were promised that they ' would all , receive' their old - jobs back and that .no. discrimination would be made, against them.- OHi asudl -Heavy Tewist 340 330 4.25 430 5.10 55 530 6.40 6.60 630 7.00 735 735: 835 835 8.75