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THE OREGON DAILY. JOURNAL, -PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER - 24, 1919.
CEMENT FREIGHT
REMEDY NOW UP
TO COMMISSION
Witnesses Finish Testimony in
. Case Involving Operations of
California and Oregon Firms.
' RAIL ROUTES ARE EXPLAINED
One of Witnesses Blames Water
Lines for Low Rate by Rail
From California.
"Whether alleged discriminatory
ratei in favor of California "against
the Oregon Portland Cement com
pany of Oswego and lack of proper
car Interchange facilities between
the Southern Pacific and the Oregon
Electric will be remedied, la now up
to the interstate commerce commis
sion to decide. The three-day hear
ing In the federal building before
Kxaminer Butler of the commission
ended at 11 a. m. today.
Recommendation of the Portland dis
trict freight traffic commission that
the rate on cement from California to
Willamette valley points be Increased 5
cents a hundred pounds was introduced
today by the Oregon Portland Cement
company. Tho report was made nix
months ago and was concurred in by the
San fFranclsco district freight traffic
commleslon, the traffic commission at
Chicago, and Is now betng considered
by the director of -traffic at Wash
ington. RATE EXPERT TESTIFIES
Fred Prebstel, rate expert for the Port
land district freight traffic commission,
this morning testified that a car shipped
from Oswego destined for Donald, Or.,
about 30 miles, now travels 12V4 miles
before Interchange at Jefferson street.
The route at present, he said, was from
Oswego over a bridge to East Portland,
over another bridge to the Park street
station, then over the United Hallways
to Jefferson street. Interchange be
tween the Southern Pacific and the
Oregon Electric at Jefferson street
could be accomplished in a six mile haul,
he declared.
WATER LINES BLAMED
Intense water competition holds down
California-Oregon rail eement tariffs,
witnesses before the interstate commerce
commission examiner declared Tuesday.
There Is not now, nor has there ever
been, a conspiracy between the South
ern Pacific railroad, the San Francisco
& Portland Steamship company, and
California cement manufacturers to
' maintain discriminatory rates unfavor
able to the Oregon Portland Cement
company at Oswego, they said.
Speeding up in order that Examiner
' Ulysses Butler of the interstate com
merce commission may hear other rate
cases, witnesses Tuesday In the cement
tariff question denied accusations that
unjust rates are- maintained which rob
the Oswego concern of its rightful mar
ket. OSWJEGO RATE DEFENDED
J. B. Keller, traffic manager of the
Pacific Portland Cement" company of
California, said business has been built
In Oregon on present California-Oregon
rates, that they were not unjust and
should not be changed. Oswego's rate,
he declared, was not excessive.
ft- W. Pickard, assistant general
freight agent of the Oregon Electric,
testified that his company was willing
and prepared to handle at Jefferson
street, car interchange with the South
ern Pacific. Car interchange is one of
the questions Involved in the Oregon
Portland Cement company's suit, lack
of Interchange depriving It of through
service to Oregon Electric points now.
L
LINES MAY RESULT
(Continued From Ptr On)
on the return to the corrrpany under
the plan, municipal ownership was
breached by Commissioner Bigelow
NeweU had explained that a minimum
niurn ana interest on tne bonds were
assured by the franchise, and that when
the profits dropped below the minimum
farea would be raleeM, virtually placing
the city of Portland behind the com
pany's bonds. The risk on bonds would
be absorbed, resulting in a lower inter
est charge.
"Why shouldn't the city buy the bonds
at their present value," interpolated
Commissioner Bigelow. "and reap the
reward of their Increase in value re
sulting from guarantee of the interest ?'
BAKER OPPOSES SCHEME
"The minute there is organized effort
to buy the bonds of the company the
prtee would rise," President Griffith of
the company replied.
"But shouldn't the, city receive the
benefit of the increased value accruing
from iU own action r was BigeloWs
return.
After declaring that the city would be
making a bad business deal by taking
the property as a gift. Mayor Baker
suggested that the municipality see if
the company earned a revenue under a
r.ew plan, and then take it over it it
was found to be good business.
Questioned by Chairman Buchtel of
the public servkie commission as to how
the public waa to benefit under his plan
J. P. Newell explained that the public
would be benefited by being assured
CITY-OWNED
When You Invest Your Savings
You should be guided by the same
rules of safety that have made this
company the success that it is.
We invite you to consult us regard
ing OUR plan jused by thousands in
Oregon for systematic, continuous sav
ing. Write for folder explaining the
above plan.
ffifgfffntll iff Insurance Company
Horner Off 'Portland,, Or.
A.L. MILLS. Pres. C S. SAMUEL,
Man and His Wife
Sit on Same. Jury
In Superior Court
Aberdeen, - Wash., Sept J. Mr.
and Mrs. A. K. Johnson are serving
on a Jury Jn the supreme court.
Johnson u a real estate dealer. He
urged his wife to stay on the Jury
though she desired to be excused.
He said it would help him to get
away and attend to business. -The
court refused to excuse either.
that it was paying only what it cost
to operate the cars, and by knowing that
a reduction in farea would result as soon
as business would permit
MINIMUM PROFIT FIXED
"The reduction in the interest charge
will be reflected In the rates," he as
serted, "Good service and a saving
in materials would result from employes
sharing earnings of the utility. And
fares could be reduced by the city coun
cil the minute the company, reached the
maximum return."
That the tentative minimum and max
imum returns allowed the company by
the Newell plan, 1 and S per cent' re
spectively, might be changed to 5 and 7
and be mora workable, waa the state
ment of representatives, and it was
suggested that the employes' bonus be
cut to 5, rather than 10 per cent. Such
an alteration would react in speedier
reduction of fares. It waa claimed, and
would allow the utility to obtain new
money.
A new valuation of the properties of
the railway failed to meet with en
thusiastic approval. Although the com
pany desires a new valuation, maintain
ing that the one fixed by the public
service commission in 1916 is too low,
members of the commission questioned
if a valuation set now would not be
based on cMap money. It would re
sult in an unfair figure from the pub
lic viewpoint, it was stated.
SEPARATION PROPOSED
Newell explained that under his plan
complete separation of the street car
and light and power properties would
be effected, with assignment to the car
properties of a just proportion of the
floating and bonded Indebtedness. He
declared that the power department
should sell to the railway company, and
that a separation would be more nearly
just to patrons of both. The burdens
would be distributed more equitably and
the valuation of the car property would
be reduced, he said. He suggests that
the bonds of the company be approved
by the municipality prior to sale, af
fording patrons a means of deciding
what bills they shall pay.
Representatives of the three parties
will be called together Monday for ap
pointment of the commission.
La Primera and
Johanna Smith
On Way to Ports
No further Information had been re
ceived by steamship agents this morn
ing in regard to the collision of the
steamers La Primera of the W. S. Scam-
mell fleet and the Johanna Smith of
Coos Eay off the California coast Mon
day night. The La Primera waa due at
Astoria about noon, according to re
ports at the Merchants' Exchange.
The collision occurred In a fog, pre
sumably off Crescent City, as the mes
sage. ..was relayed from Eureka. Both
boat b are said to have been badly dam
aged, but are proceeding to their ports
under their own steam.
- The Johanna Smith left Marshfleld
Monday nooh with a lumber cargo from
the Smith mill for San Francisco bay.
The La Primera is bringing S35 tons of
coarse freight to Portland from the
Golden Gate.
Gay Time Beyond Her
Means Lands 17 Year
Old Girl in Custody
San Francisco, Sept 34. -(I. N. S.)
Miss Kate Butler Kennfedy, 17-year-old
daughter of Professor P. B. Kennedy of
the University of California, today is
held at the Oakland Detention home
charged with passing forged checks.
"I wanted to have a good time and
live as some of the rich girls do," waa
Mlsa Kennedy's explanation.
Kennedy Is a professor of agronomy.
He admitted that he had been brought
to financial ruin In his efforts to make
good the checks his daughter Issued. He
said he had known of her operations for
some time ar.d had made good all her
checks until his money was entirely ex
hausted. "1 feel sorry for my father," she said,
"but I knew that he would shield me
until his last dollar was gone."
Pilot Rock Woman
Dies of Poisoning
Pendleton. Sept. 24. Mrs. Newt Roork,
aged 59, died Monday night at her
home at Pilot Rock as the result of
blood poisoning. Mrs. Roork Is sur
vived by her husband, two brothers,
Charles Olcott of Pendleton, and Louis
Olcott of Portland, and a sister. Mrs,
W. W. Harrah. of this city. Mrs. Roork
was born at Pilot Rock and spent her
entire life there.
Pays Fine tor Fast Driving
"Just because you were in a hurry is
no excuse for breaking the law," said
Municipal Judge Rossman this morning
as he assessed a $35 fine on R D. Fon
tana, who pleaded guilty to a charge of
speeding. Fontana was arrested on the
LlnntoVi road Tuesday by Deputy
Constable O. S. Smith while traveling
between 35 and 40 miles per hour. Fon
tana said he was in a hurry to get to
St. Helens to keep a business engage
ment Gen. Mgr. B. N. BTRONQ. Asst. Mar.
BREAK IN RANKS
REPORTED AT GARY
Rollers Said, to Be Ready to Go
Back to Work With Cr$w
of 800 Men.
By J. Jj. O'Sulllvan
Unit! Ptbm fluff CorretporxWot
Gary, Ind.. Sept. 24. (U. P.)
Strikers tn the Calumet steel district
for the first time since they walked
out seemed to realize today the seri
ousness of the business at hand. Al
though streets were crowded almost
constantly there was little of the
hilarity that was so noticeable pre
viously. The men were not spend
ing In free fashion. They were sav
ing it for the long pull they believe
is ahead.
The average Gary steel worker Is "well
heeled," according to finanlcal institu
tions. Bank officials say that , without
outside aid the average striker should be
able to live comfortably until December
1, without working. Union headquarters
today sent workers to homes of the
strikers to keep up the morale of the
families arttl to urge saving of funds
In every way possible.
OS TO EETCK5
With the exception of the announce
ment of 40 rollers employed at the
American Sheet and Tin Plate factory
that they would return to work today
with their crews, totaling 800 men, the
strike situation was apparently at a
standstill.
Steel company officials were jubilant
over the rollers' action. They declared
it was the first break in the ranks of
the strikers. The rollers are the highest
paid skilled workera in the industry.
Those in the tin plate plant have been
making from $30 to $60 a day.
FEAR OP BODILY HARM
These men claimed they remained
away from work the first two days of
the strike for fear of their bodily safety.
When city officials promised to safe
guard them, they agreed to go back.
Mike Telovlch was held under $10,000
bond todafr charged with distributing
Bolshevist literature and advocating
overthrow of the government. He was
held under a state law passed by the
last session of the Indiana legislature.
WEAKNESS INDICATED AT
CHICAGO; FURNACES START
Chicago, Sept. 24. (I. N. S.)
The flrsJt sign of weakening among
the steel strikers in the Chicago dis
trict waa noted today; when four
large blast furnaces, banked by the
steel strike, resumed 'operation In
the plant of the Illinois Steel com
pany, at South Chicago.
At the mill it was announced that a
steel slab mill and a blooming mill will
resume operation late today.
Between 2000 and 2200 men were re
ported Inside the mill today. The num
ber in the mill late yesterday was placed
at 1600.
United Mine Workers
Want Wage Increase;
Strike Is Alternative
Cleveland. Ohio, Sept. 24. (U. P.)
The United Mine workers of America
convention delegates were scattering to
all parts of the country today, de
termined to call a nation-wide coal
strike on November 1, unless a satis
factory wage and working agreement
is reached with the coal operators on or
before that date.
The convention adjourned late yester
day after indorsing the ware and hour
scale and clothing their officials with
the power to can the strike. A flat In
crease of 60 per cent In wages for all
classes of work, time and a half for
overtime, a six -hour day and a five-day
week will be demanded at the confer
ence of miners and operators in Buffalo
tomorrow.
Travelers Camp
In The Dalles as
Gasoline Runs Out
The Dalles, Sept. 24. After several
eleventh hour rescues from gasoline
famines. The Dalles today Is without
fuel for gas chariots. Tourists in the
city are still here because they can't get
out. One of the garages reported that
several tempting offers had been made
to have the cars in storage drained, that
some of the overland travelers might get
out of town.
One party en route to Bend was un
able to leave town. They had enough
gasoline to get to Dufur but were afraid
that there was no more gasoline there
than in The Dalles.
The Standard Oil company, whose
supply has been running low for sev
eral weeks, has not a drop In Its tanks
and does not know when it will get a
shipment.
Fred L. Boalt Is
Reported to Be
Slightly Better
Physicians attending Fred L. Boalt.
editor of the Portland News, reported
his condition toftay to be more favorable
than Tuesday night.
Boalt waa injured Monday In a fall
while engaged in amateur athletic stunts
at the home of Dan E. Powers, attorney
for the News. He was taken to the
Good Samaritan hospital where an op
eration revealed serious internal injury.
Reports from - the bedside Tuesday
night1 carried small hope of Boalt's re
covery.
Exceptional Price
Paid for Klamath
White Pine Timber
Klamath Falls. Sept. 24. One hundred
million feet of California white pine in
the Cliff Boundary unit, Klamath Indian
reservation, was . sold Tuesday for
$5.13 1-8 per thousand feet for standard
and f 1.28 for inferior ta the McComber-
Sbvidge Lumber company of San Fran
dsco. Four others submitted bids. The
timber lies just east of the railroad be
tween Chiloquin and Kirk. This is con
sidered a staggering price.
610,000 SILVER
BULLION FALLS'
INTO THE BAY
CAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24.
(U. P.) Divers were busy
today off Pier 42 picking; up 10
bars of silver that slipped Into
the bay while a $10,000,000 ship
meat of cold and silver bullion
waa being loaded onto the Pa
cific Mall liner Colombia.
The 10 bars are worth $19,000.
The shipment Is consigned 'to
the Orient by San Francisco
banks.
PRESIDENT TO
FIGHTJO FINISH
(Ooetinved From pure One)
throughout the world, most of the news
paper editors with whom we have talked
give it'aa their conclusion and judgment
that the people would rather see the
covenant unqualified and America un
dertake to amend it later when once
tne league la established, than to see
the work of the Versailles conference
thrown into confusion and chaos again
by a handful of senators. It was a
Republican chairman at Reno. Nev..
who exclaimed that he denied the right
of a few Republican Senators at Wash
ington to commit his party to a course
of opposition to the League of Nations.
JOH5S05 AMENDMENT SXEIOUS
Certainly the president thinks mat
ters would be brought to a serious cli
max if the amendment fostered by
Senator Johnson and requiring a
change In the number of votes In the
assembly were to pass. Senator John
son has argued that America should
have six votes if Great Britain has six.
The president has replied that Ameri
ca's one in the council constitutes a veto
against Britain's six in the assembly
for the latter body is a debating society,
while the former is the body which orig
inates action. He has said that the
British empire, being composed of self-
governing nations like Canada. New
Zealand, Australia, India and South Af
rica, has been given the right 4o have
those states participate in the debates
of the league by sending a delegate to
represent each dominion.
Mr. Wilson says that sacrifices made
by those colonies in the late war as
well aa their close kinship for America
argue that they would be as Apt to con
cur in the views of America as dis
agree, but that in any event since an
affirmative vote by the United States
In the council is needed to make the as
sembly's opinions valid, it does not mat
ter how many delegates any country
has. So the Johnson followers have
said that America should have six, too.
V. 8. HAS VETO POWEB
The basis of representation, however.
has been self governing nations and the
foreign, policy of the British colonies is
handled independenUy by them. Canada, I
for Instance, negotiated a treaty in 1810
with the United States. Once the bars
are let down and America is given dele- i
gates on the basis of her 48 states, as
has been suggested, other nations would
seek to have their provinces thus repre
sented, with the consequence that the
assembly would be un wieldly. So the
president argues that inasmuch as the
United States by her vote in the upper
house of the league namely, the coun
cil can veto any opinion rendered by
the lower house, the assembly. Insistence j
by the United States on a theoretical i
equality might wreck the whole project. I
The president found a warm greeting
In Utah, especially in Salt Lake, the
home of Senator Smoot, Republican
leader. The street crowds at Ogden were
undemonstrative, but those at Salt Lake
were cordial and enthusiastically ani
mated.
Practically all the Republican and
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GLET OtJB SELXIjra PLAIT
Democratic newspapers of" the state,
with ftne exception, are for the League
of Nation, and S. Heber J. Grant, .head
ui the Mormon church, has Just come
out with a declaration in favor of the
covenant and the league, saying that it
Is well within the creed of the church.
But again, how shall the militant pub
li opinion which Mr. Wilson is leaving
in his wake as he travels eastward,
"assist the judgment of the senate," as
the president himself suggests?
' Organized opposition to the League of
Nations is encountered everywhere. For
instance the Irish societies have trailed
Mr. Wilson in all cities with full page
advertisements against" the league.
There is ne Question about the fact
that antipathy to Great Britain which
cropped out before the United States
entered the war In the period when a
large section of American opinion was
being asked to believe that British gold
waa corrupting our newspapers and that
because the Lusltania was a British
ship, the wrong done American cltisens
should not be avenged, is again coming
to the surface.
IRISH IMPLACABLE FOES
Among the eight senators who are
understood to be opposed to the presi
dent of the- Johnson amendment with
respect to the votes of the'Brltish col
onies are some who have large Ilrsh
voUng populations In their respective
states. President" Wilson has agatnst
him an active Irish American and more
or less passive but subtly effective
German American strength. He has been
hammering the - hyphen repeatedly be
cause he thinks it is at the bottom of
the opposlUon to the treaty.
The fight has just begun because the
president means to go the very limit
in differentiating his kind of American
Ism from that which seeks to defeat
the treaty under the. guise of reserva
tions, amendments or interpretations
that mean a resubmission of the docu
ment and a reopening of the negotia
tions with Germany.
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COLONEL
LEADERS
ENTRY QUESTIONED
Immigration Officials Want to
Know How He Evaded In
spection in 1917.
Just bow Colonel John Leader,
teacher of military science at the
University of Oregon and a former
officer In the British army, entered
the United State from Canada, in
December, 1917, without proper Im
migration inspection, is today puz
sling local officials.
In a letter received by Immigration
Inspector R. P. Bonhara here. Vancou
verw B. C officials state that they are
denying application of Barbara Ann
Blake, II, for entry into the United
States until they obtain information as
to how Leader and the girl's mother,
governess of Leader's two children,
cleared the borderwlthout Inspection.
According to Barbara, the Vancouver
letter says. Ann E. Blake, her mother,
and Colonel Leader passed through Van
couver in December, 191T, -with Leader's
two children. There is no record there
of immigration inspection.
-Bonham, absent the next 10 days on
an inspection tour In Oregon, will visit
Colonel Leader and obtain from him in
formation as to his entry here. No
charges will be brought against the colo
nel if he failed to comply with Immigra
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simply be required to pass Inspection
according to law. '
SAYS HE WAS IN BRITISH
SERVICE WHEN HE CROSSED
Eugene, Sept. 24. Colonel John Leader
said today that it Is very likely he
passed the Immigration officials at Van
couver, B. C-. in December, 1917, when
he first entered the United States, with
out exhibiting a passport and with trifl
ing inspection.
"I am not certain that I had a pass
port." said Colonel Leader. "I think it
likely that the Inspectors passed me be
cause at that time I was in the British
military service. ' My experience had
been that io rigid inspection is ever
given to ordinary travelers. I know
that I have crossed the line half a dosen
times In 1917 to tend to business af
faire in Canada with barely a word to
the immigration officers."
Colonel Leader aaid that the mother
of Barbara Blake, governess of the
Leader children, has been expecting her
daughter for a week, and has no knowl
edge of her detention at the boundary.
Chilean Cabinet Has
Resigned; Bermudez
Heads New Ministry
Washington. Sept. 24. (I. N. S.) The
Chilean cabinet has resigned, the state
department waa advised this afternoon,
and a new ministry formed as follows:
Enrique Bermudez, prime minister and
minister of the interior; Luis Barros
Borsono. minister of foreign affairs ;
Julio Philippi. minster of finance; M.
Concilar. minister of publio works ; Anl
bal Rodrlquez. minister of war and
navy, and Julio Amor, minister of Justice.
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Fitzpatrick and Gary;
Will Not Meet During
inquiry by senate
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Washington. Sept. 24. (I; N. R.V
Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of tha
board of directors of the United States
Steel corporation, and John FUseatrick. :
chairman of the national committee or
ganizing the steel workers, will not far '
each other tomorrow when the senate
opens Its investigation of the steel strike.
Judge Gary last night telegraphed
Senator Kenyon that it would be incon
venient for him to appear tomorrow';
and requesting that his appearance be
postponed until a week from today.
This development robbed the invest !
gation of what promised to be a dra
matic feature. The fact that the recog- ,
nlsed leaders of the steel industry and ;
of steel labor were scheduled to faea
each other on the opening day of the
Inquiry had created the keenest of In
terest in the proceedings.
30High School
Students Strike on
Obedience Pledges-
Kl Paso, Texas. Sept. 14 (IT. P.)
More than 300 high school students were
on strike her today, following order! '
from Principal R. W. Fowler that Stu
dents sign an obedience pledge or quit
cnooi.
Students paraded yesterday, wearing
red emblems. Red has been adopted as
the strikers' color. The school board has
backed Fowler in hia stand, announcing ;
schools will be closed it the students re- -fuse
to give In.
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