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CITY EDITION If All Here and If All True1 THE WEATHER Tonight nd Thursday CITY EDITION . - . ! WAaf Wa A Secret ' " et Om onwilHnf fcrtdsf Dorothy Deacon's sppesl to Um Pop to anal br aurriasato Prtoce Hd well mr eleec the B)ritTy of ber forced mddln. U' o icUrwtins torjr u (old is Best pointer's Joorml -Uifuiu Section. , , lair; wioas mosuy nortneriy. h-.-lt "M Inlmttm tMnfuraliifH TummIs ' - f Portland 13 Memphis 3 Sheridan. Wyo.. -4 New York......;S0 Lob Angeles 41 St. Paul ..10 PORTLAND OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1920. EIGHTEEN - PAGES. VOL. XVIII. NO. 261 Eatond u aecond-Clua Mttr. Poctofftee. 'Portland. Oroit PRICE TWO CENTS. ON TRAINS NO NtWt TANOS fl V eiNTt 'fflTORYFQR PORTLAND GR0 WERS MUST PA Y FOR Mi UNDER NEWRA TE8; . GRAIN OUNTAIN SER VICE , : . t-.m i 4 CASH DRAWER, CUSTOMERAND i CLERK ROBBED Two Unmasked Men Help Selves . To $100 Cash and Gold Watch At Pharmacy at 6th- and Alder. Night Clerk and Customer Taken To Cellar After Their Pockets Are Rifled by Bandits. i i her xennational holdup was Ago at 4 o'clock thl3 morning '.xv heft two unmaAked men walked into the Frank N'au drug store at Sixth and Alder streets and, at the point of a revolver forced John C. ". Breckman, the night clerk, and F. H. Heuer. a customer, to turn t over about 100 In cash and a gold watch valued at $40. The bandits first asked for some red precipitate, a poison, and when this was refused they drew their revolvers and forced the two men to walk In front of them to a. darkened corner of the store. There they went through their pockets, taking about $18 and the gold watch - from Brockman, and $10 from Heuer. Upon Heuer's explanation that he llvd In Camas. Wash., and that ha n..ll money to get home with, the robbers al- oweo nim to aeep z in silver. The holdup men forced their victims -. into me cellar, while they cleaned the ah register or 80 and made their cp. . Inspectors Hill, Cahlll and Moore and , "lotowjycle Policemen WrighWi Wiles nd Stljes responded, to the. call and are . nvastlgatlng the robbery.. They could rind no trace of the bandits.. ,The nn h; ire deeMribe4 aabotit rtT years old. wie Ing about 6 feet 7 Inches, the other -feet 5. Inches tall. The taller man -Ha smoothly shaved, -weighed I shoot y bounds, wore - black hat "i'and ; a r'iitk overcoat and -wielded a smalf ble ' volver of good make. - The smaller ian weighed about i0 pounds, wore dgrk suit, overcoat and cap, and used Ions) barreled revolven Both of the bandits spoke good Fng- ;-'h. They seemed nervous about their vork and hurried through it with the greatest possible speed. J Paper Shortage Is Threatening Lives Of Small Dailies Chicago. Jan. 7. (I. N; 8.) Seventy three editors and publishers of small iKtlleft In Illinois and Indiana met here t-day to dlscues measures for the con servation of print paper. Many of them declared that the lives of small dallies were at stake because of the pappc shortage. Today's meeting was one of a series called in various sections of the country by P. P. Olaas of Birmingham. Ala., president of the American Newspaper association, snd arranged for Bradford Merrill of the Hearst publications In New Tork. Change of Venue , For I. W. W Likely Montesano, Wash., Jan. 10. (U. P.) Transfer to Tacoma of the trial of the 11 alleged I. W. W. accused of murder ing Lieutenant Warren O. Grimm in Centralis, November 11, was indicated here today. It was stated that Superior Judge John M. Wilson would Sign the formal, order late this afternoon approv ing the change of venue from Grays Harbor county to Pierce county. Living Expenses Portland Are Below Other Cities A Old H. C. L. hasn't hit Portland so hard after all. The Rotary club's committee on industrial relations has reported that the average fam ily expense in Portland for 22 prin- ' cipal items of food Is $449.01, which is a lower sum than any other of the principal cities of the United States; r " ' - Although the cost of living Increased : . 69 per -cent In Portland between 1914 - .ahd 1919 for the 12 principal items of . food, the rate of increase was lower in ii ' but one -other -principal city. I Oeorge V : C. Mason, chairman of the' committee, '.sald: . . , -' - "From this table (statistics from the t ; "Monthly Labor Review') we see that the increase In all Items of expenditure In the cltr of Portland was I9.lt per . cent . Indicating three cities with a lower Increase and 11 cities with a higher Increase. - We find that of the 23 principal food items combined, Port - land's increase : U 69 per cent, ;with -K oat? one city lower, and one city as low, ' and 37 cities higher, a , " ' . WORLD USES JOURNAL TAB ON TREATY TfT ASHINGTO N,' Jan. 7. " (WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL) 4-The con gressional Record today carries a telegram from The Journal Hhowtng the results of the treaty poll, which Senator Chamberlain read in the senate yesterday, and also reproduces the form of ballot as It appeared in The Journal. The poll was also i published today by the New York World s evidence of Oregon's voice on the peace settlement. TREATY SENTIMENT Voters of the Pacific Northwest Want Peace Terms Presented By President Ratified. 1 For compromise and Immedi ate ratification, 555. 2 -For Lodge reservations, 93. 3 For ratification of the treaty substantially as submitted by the president. 9307. 4 Against any ratification, 103. The members of the . United States senate, ' upon whom rests ! the responsi bility ,of adopting or rejecting the peace treaty and League of .Nations covenant, know' the overwhelming sentiment in the Oregon country, in favor of adoption of the. pact substantially as presented by President Wilson. i At: the opening of Tuesday's session the returns as shown by The Journal poll were read in the senate by- Senator Chamberlain. , Republican "and. . PeJp.0 cratte "leaders also were directly ac quainted "With popular opinion In the Pa cific Northwest as .registered : through The Journal. , SAME SEJfTIJtEHT ETEBTWHEBE From'an parts of the Oregon country ballots continue to be received. Whether ihey bet from the up country or from the - city the verdict everywhere is .' the same: Adoption of the treaty without nullifying reservations- and expressions of confidence In the leadership of Wood row Wilson in the treaty fight . "I favor immediate ratification of the peace treaty and League of Nations cov enant without any reservations what ever," writes Betty Smyer. "Wilson Is a world patriot and a world statesman and he was the leading power in form ulating ' the ' League of Nations while many of his opponents are actuated by Intolerant, tyrannical motives." WOULD RECALL SENATORS F. Chandler of Portland expresses himself along the same lines. "I favor our great president's plan. I would rather trust him than all. his opponents. I -would like to recall those senators who are keeping the world unsettled and choose men who will carry out the will of the people." W. J, Van Horn of Fossil writes : "In talking with people of this vicinity I find sentiment in favor of the league and peace treaty in about the same ratio as shown by The Journal vote. A demand for more ballots is met by restoring extra coupons on the .editorial page. If you have not registered your choice, you are urged to do so at once and mall or bring your coupon to The Journal office. Cabinet Quits When Reds Renew Rioting London, Jan. 7. (I. N. S.) Premier Stambulinsky and the other members of the Bulgarian cabinet have resigned fol lowing a Bolshevik outbreak, according to a dtspatch today front Sofia, quoting a semi-official statement. m Far 'We find that the average family ex penditure for 22 food items' cost In Portland $449.01. which is lower than that of any other city, there being II cities higher than Portland." 1 The committee declared that, based on the cost of living, thjere is no rea son why wages of labor should be higher in Portland than elsewhere, but also stated: , 'We have compared the wage scale paid In Portland with 'that of New Tork city in 14 lines of. building work. We find that only in one line Is the wage as high as that In Portland." Reverting to the cost of living, the committee's report showed that In five years the cost has Increased 74.01 per cent In Seattle for all Items of expendi ture combined and S2.3 per cent for 22 principal food items, while the average .family expense for the principal food items Is $611, as compared with Port land's $449.01 . San Francisco's average family ex pense for the principal Items of -food Is $469.97; that of Los Angeles $467.41 The family expense, similarly, is $672,94 (Concluded on .ps Tee, Colon Six) UNION PACIFIC TO DECIDE ON SHIP SERVICE Establishment of Coastwise Pas senger Service and Offshore Line Possible in Near Future. Conference on Projects to Be Held at Portland; System Al ready Has Made Inquiry. Opening of a coastwise passenger service with two or more new and thoroughly modern steamers and an Intensified development of off-shore shipping for this port, will be mat ters to be finally decided upon at a meeting of the Union Pacific rail and water officials in Portland early in February, according to advice received locally this morning. Carl R. Gray, new president of the Union Pacific system : Harry M. Adams, vice president, in charge of traffic and other traffic and operating officials, will meet at Portland Frank W. Robinson, newly appointed manager of traffic : Frank Shaeffer, manager of the San Francisco & . Portland Steamship com pany, and other Portland and San Francisco rail and water officials, dur ing the first or jsecond week in Febru ary. LOVETTS STATEMENT RECALLED Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the board of directors of the Union Pa cific, system, during his visit In Port land during the fall, announced that the Union Pacific would make a spe cial effort to develop water-borne traf? fic. through Cortland. . j L , C;, -Since the. visits of "Lovett the Union Pacific "has made .'several negotiations for steamers to be used on coastwise operation ..out of i Portland. ' In ever instance, failure was reported, because available ships were not modern or speedy . enough - to participate in the keen, competition sure to come on the coast after the release of railroads to private .control. One steamship official of the San Francisco & Portland company, which Is subsidiary to the O-W. R. & N., said several weeks ago that the Union Pa cific had decided to have new vessels built for the coastwise service and that contracts would be released aflter the Portland meeting. "Bvery move the Union Pacific has made since it started reorganization has been to capture traffic," says one high local official of a competing railroad line. " "The first move the system made was to appoint Harry M. Adams to the of fice controlling traffic," says this offi cial. "Adams is undoubtedly the best .railroad traffic man In the United States. He has a thorough knowledge of water traffic also. Cart Gray, the new president, is an excellent traffic man. and so with all the officials In the traffic department. "The Union Pacific win undoubtedly go into water-borne trade competition as well as rail-borne. It may be a fur ther movement to make the Union Pa cific the greatest traffic moving road across the continent and it 1b sure that passenger traffic is not to be neglected." TRAFFIC WAR POSSIBLE Officials of the Union Pacific have often stated in the last few months that they would declare a traffic war to prevent all cargo being shipped via the Atlantic coast and the Panama canal. Judge Lovett, during his visit in Port land,' -said the strategic position of the Pacific coast and the importance of trans-Pacific trade could no longer be disregarded and that transcontinental railroads, in a spirit of self-preservation, must enter actively into importa tion of foreign trade through operation of their own steamship lines. T While Reports Are Awaited on First Two " Killings, Another Tragedy Is Reported. Washington, Jan. (TJ. P.) Gabriels Porter, an American citi zen in the employe of the Fenn-Mex company, was shot and. killed by a Mexican federal army officer at Tuxpam December 21, the state de partment was advised today by the American consul at Tampico. "The consul has been directed by tele graph," the state department announced, "to report, further information and if warranted by the circumstances, to urge the' legal authorities In the Tampico flia trict to arrest ait punish the guilty per sons." . . - i The state department, so far. has not received a' complete report on the details of the murder of two American employes of the International Petroleum company at Port Lobos, P. J. Roll and Earle Bowles,' ' ; The - killings reported - yesterday -and that - of - Porter, . reported today,- may bring a new strain on Mexican relations If it 8fiovn that Carranza soldiers are responSiBle. ttJ was believed here. MEXICANS MURDER ID AMERICAN MOUNTAINS AT TWOTHQUSAND BAKER SEEM TO DEAD IN QUAKE BE Oldest Residents Are Mystified When Peaks and Trees As sume Fantastic Shapes. Objects Distend to Enormous Sizes, Then Contract in Min iature; Atmosphere Blamed. Baker. Jan. 7. -Mountains, forests and snow peaks are cutting queer antics around Long; Creek valley in Grant county, according to word re ceived in Baker, and residents are puzzled by phenomena never seen there before. The mountain ranges north and west of Upper Long creek are reported to be assuming curious and startling shapes on clear days, rising at times to great heights, until they resemble huge pil lars, then returning to their normal size, or becoming flattened until hardly vis ible, although but a few miles away. They are described as sometimes taking the shape of a gigantic thimble that will gradually resolve into a sharp peak with overhanging top. Bologna mountain, residents claim, sometimes rises until it forms a massive block, and then great arms will extend from its sides. Juniper and pine trees, even, on the nearby foothills, seem to have become infected with the malady that has at tacked the mountains. Their heights are occasionally magnified enormously until they appear 10 times their normal size. : Whole forests appear -to be grow. Ing In mid-air, with blue sky above and beneath them, while mountain sides upon watch - trees :ate& ordinarily yscarealf visible appear so enlarged and hear that an uncanny effect Is produced upon the observer. Mountain- ranges that under usual conditions are not to be seen from the lowlands loom In grandeur over the valley. " The greatest phenomenon reported Is a large snow mountain that first made its appearance two weeks ago. It re mained In sight for a time, then .disap peared, but it has since returned, and with its advent it is reported that other mountains have begun apparently to move. These astounding apparitions are at tributed to atmospheric conditions, and are believed to be mirages.- but It is claimed that this Is the first time In history that such Beemlng miracles have been known In the Upper Long creek valley. Every clear day .sees new forms among the mountains and discloses new natural wonders. . ST. HELENS FARMER IS KILLED BY BLAST 'Body Hurled Oyer Hundred Feet Through the Air and Fear fully Mangled. St. Helens, Jan. 7. While blast ing on his farm, three miles west of St. Helens,' Tuesday afternoon,, A. Almroth, a farmer, 60 years old, was blown 110 feet through the air and killed. His body was horribly mangled. Almroth took 20 sticks of powder from his house to the field, and half an hour later Mrs. Almroth heard a loud blast. When their 10-year-old son returned from school he went to watch the blasting and found his father's body. It is believed the accident occurred when Almroth was tamping the powder about a ' stump. Mrs. Almroth and the son survive. Chicago's Birth Rate Slumps During Year Chicago, Jan. 7. (I. N. S.) An alarm ing drop in Chicago's birth rate was re vealed here today by city health author ities. The figures for 1919 when com pleted. It was said, will show a decrease in babies during 1919 of 18 per cent. Of ficials were inclined to blame the de crease on the war and its attendant evils. BALLOT ON ONBIG JAG MEXICO FEARS Tots eae ebatea Indicate pretense by X aatife tm soa Z favor eomtororoise on reservations and, Immediate ratification of peace treaty 1 and League of Nation covenant; I favor ratification with Lodge reservations. 1 0. 2 r 1 I J covenant substantially as wiison. Or, 4 X am opposed to ratification Name Address '. , im is sad smU te The Jesnsl LbattadW Great Fissure Opens, Emitting Clouds of Sulphurous Smoke; Earth Rumbles Like Thunder. Towns 4re Wiped Out, Terrorized People Abandon Homes, Rivers Leap Banks and Flood Country. Mexico City, Jan. 7. (U. P.) Estimates of total dead in Satur day night's earthquake ran as high as 2000 today. Late advices tended to substantiate a report to the sec retary of war that 1000 were killed at Cosautlan. The town of Chilcotla, Vera Crux, was reported to have been wiped out. The wholei side of the hill on which the town was located collapsed, it was said, dam ming khe Pescado river and flooding the wrecked town. Many lives were lost in the sudden Inundation. Others were crushed to death by huge boulders which catapulted down the mountain side. TILLAGE DESTROYED The village of Saltilla. near the city of Vera Crus, also was reported partial ly destroyed. It was situated on the slopes of an. old volcano. Thirty soldiers were reported killed at Teocola, when a church tower col lapsed, smashing several adjoining houses. Fearing further shocks, natives In this district .were reported to have fled toward the larger cities. . Near Saltlllo la Fragus, dispatches said, a' great fissure opened In the earth, belching ' forth 4 clouds- of sulphurous smoke., Rumblings like thunder came from the tnterto :othe4Ueddlnr HOMES ABAtfDOWED -At Jalaoa. It was said, many people have abandoned their homes, fearing the .damaged buildings wfll eollapse. Hun dreds of bodies nave been recovered from the ruins of this town, according to reports here. Jalapa and many near by towns were reported without lights or water. Another dispatch said 23 bodies had been recovered at Amapa sapa. The town of Tlaxtacuya, situated at the foot of an old volcano, reported Smoke was pouring from the volcano's crater, and that there was continual rumblings from the earth. Reports from the Tuxpam oil district said many wells were spouting geysers of oil as a re sult of the internal upheaval. The seismograph at Mexico City re conded three more slight tremors yes terday. N. YnSMEDTO RESCIND DRY ACT Governor Smith Requests Legis lature to Put Prohibition Is sue Up to People. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 1. (I. X. S.) The state assembly passes the res olution denying; Ave Socialist mem bers right to sit in that body. Albany. N. T.. Jan. 7. (I. N. S.) The New Tork state legislature convened at noon today and was asked ?-y Governor Alfred E.- Smth to rescind Its action ratifying the national constitutional prohibition amendment and put the question of whether the state should go "dry" or "wet" directly up to the people at the coming general election. The governor, in his message !to the lawmakers, declares that grave doubt exists as to whether the eighteenth amendment was legally adopted by the states and charges that the Republican party lash had to be used last year to whip the majority Republicans into line for ratification, though many were per sonally opposed to ratifying the amend ment. '1 The governor also called on the legis lature "to adopt a concurrent resolution urging New York's representatives in the United States senate to seek from congress immediate ratification of the peace treaty. PEACE TREATY presented to the senate by President In any form. ef ballot to aattfld obm H-teqssrted, . - LOVE WINS AFTER WAIT OF 40 YEAKS TJ'UGENE, Jan. 7. Joseph Irv. lne Barbee, a prosperous farm er living near Eugene, and Miss Eliza Lee Spencer, were mar ried today, following an inter ruption of 40 years In their courtship. Both bride and groom are 8S years of age and It was In their early 20's that the court ship began. Then something happened and they parted. Last fall they met again and the courtship started all over again, Just where they left off In 1880. LODGE REFUSES TO ACCEPT PLAN Treaty Solution May Now De pend on Attitude Wilson Takes in His Message. Washington, Jan. 7.- (U. P.) Senator Underwood in the senate today served notice on those work ing for a treaty compromise that If they do not speedily reach n agree ment he will call np his resolution for a conciliation committee. By L. C. Martin Washington, Jan. 7. (U. P.) Democratic proposals for a peace treaty compromise are unacceptable in their present form to Senator Lodge and his followers, because they, fail to agree with the Lodge view on article 1 0, senators of the Lodge group said today. F The Democratic 1 reservations, nre- parea ny senators McKellar Kendrick and Swanson. and handed to Lodge late yesterday, will be revised by mild reser vation Republicans and returned to the Democrats. OBSTACLES LOOM UP If the Democrats will accept the modi fications there Is a possibility that an agreement may be In sight, senators said. But those best informed pointed to a number of obstacles which mustbe overcome before any suggestion can re ceive the 64 votes necessary to ratify the treaty. First, it was pointed out, much de pends on what President Wilson says in his Jackson day message to Demo crats. If he again demands unqualified ratification all efforts at compromise may as well be dropped. DEMOCRATIC CLAIMS DENIED Again, Is was emphasised, claims made yesterday by Democrats support ing the new proposals that 44 Demo cratic votes would be cast for It are not borne out Except those Democrats directly concerned In preparing the reservations, not a Democratic senator has had a look at them. The claim of 44 votes Included the sup- ( Concluded on Pee Two, Column Three) Guards Find Guns; Plans for Breaking Jail Are Frustrated Marysville. Cal., Jan. 7. (U. P.) Dis covery by guards of guns and knives concealed in cells of the Jail here today is believed to have foiled an attempted Jail delivery. The two principal prison ers. Chester Clark, alias Harold Slmms, and Thomas Slmms, "Were held today without ball to answer to the superior court for the murder of William Mitch ell here December 22. Clark is wanted In both Spokane, Wash., and Beaverton, Or., in connec tion with bank robberies. Salt-Lake Paper to Share All Profits With Its Employes Salt Lake City. Utah, Jan. 7.-lL N. S.) George E. Hale, general manager of the Telegram today announced that every employe of the publication had been taken into active partnership in the business to the extent of sharing In all profits. Under the profit sharing plan, effective January 1. the employes are to receive $0 per cent of the profits accruing to thebuslness- On the basis of last year's earnings, this means an annual bonus for each employe of more than $300. The Telegram is believed to be the first newspaper to inaugurate such a system. Sues to. Foreclose Upon Fishing Plant Eugene, . Jan. 7. The United States National bank of Eugene has brought suit for $3000 falnst Grant Horsford. Westley Grant.. Karen Horsford and Ellen Grant, alleging . that - they bor rowed that sura. The bank asks for foreclosure of a chattel mortgage on a three story. building, with contents, in cluding machinery and a complete fish ing plant, a gasoline fish boat, a gaso line' runabout boat, a': 10 horsepower marine gasoline erigine and-,nettingtto the .value of $2300. , t - " DISTRIBUTIVE RATES FROM I'iv, TO HEL0T0BEUNF1BYI.C.C. Tentative Report by Examiner for Interstate Commerce Com mission on Famous Rates Case Appears to Be Partial Vic- tory for Portland and Vancouver Claims. i Grain Rates From Northern Zone of Inland Empire to Port land Apparently Not Changed, Although Territory j South "of Snake River Gets Recogniti on as Tributary to Portland. Washington. Jan. 7. (U. P.) The interstate commerce com mission, in a tentative teport of its findings and conclusions in the Columbia river rate case, today upheld the complaint of the city of Portland that rates between Portland and Vancouver and points south of the Snake river were unduly prejudicial. I - ' The commission dismissed complaints against rates on grain from points in the "Inland Empire" to points in Oregon and Washington. The "Inland Empire" includes points in Idaho. Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington. The commission also found adversely to complaints of the public servicer commission of Oregon against rates on classes and commodities between Portland and Northwest points, which the public service commission claimed to be unreasonable. . This report, it is explained, is merely a tentative one and is not til final decision of the commission i , ' , The tentative position of the Inter state commerce commission Is appar ently that Portland and Vancouver are entitled to lower rates than Puget Sound or Astoria to or from points south of Snake river. The effect of such a de cision, if made permanent, will be to broaden - Portland's non-competitive trade territory, but not to the extent covered in the complaint of the Inland Empire Shippers' league. The-findings as reported, however, constitute a decisive victory for a Co lumbia basin rate case as a whole, and particularly -for Portland. According to the tentative finding, the zone north of the Snake river will re main competitive, both to Portland and Seattle. Most of the rates In the sone north of the equally competitive xone favor Puget . sound. LOW GRAIJf BATES DESIRED "The examiner for the Interstate com merce commission in his tentative re port has evidently denied Columbia river porta lowssr rates than Puget Sound port 8 on grain." said ex-Governor Oswald West, who conducted the Co lumbia basin rate case- for the Inland Empire Shippers' league. "If this Is true and his findings are upheld by the commission It means that for all time to come the gralrr rates pnld by the Shippers of the Inland EnpIre w)l be based upon the mountain haul of the northern lines instead of on the less costly service of the line following the Columbia river. As to distributive rates out of Portland it would appear that under the findings Portland and Van couver would be given added territory. FULL REPORT REQUIRED "However, it is difficult to know Just what the holding of the examiner Is until we get the full report. It may be his findings In the city of Portland case are such as to give Portland and Vancouver lower rates on grain from points south of the Snake. It may be that other phases of the case have been dismissed and that it has been tenta tively decided on the basis of Portland's complaint. The Portland and Vancouver complaint covered grain as well as dis tributive rates. If this Is the case, what the Inland Empire shippers asked may have been granted as to Portland and Vancouver, but not as to Astoria." "The tentative decision of the case appears to be a victory for Portland," said City Attorney Walter P. La Roche, who conducted the esse for the city of Portland. "If confirmed, the finding means that Portland will add to her non New Bill Is Aimincr tn Incompetent Drivers A bill to license drivers la being framed by C. C. Hlndman of the national safety council for presenta tion to the special session of the Oregon legislature. 'Its purpose Is primarily to empower the proper authorities to revoke licenses of chauffeur who. by reckless exploits, brand themselves as menaces to the community and to assure the public that drivers are competent when they attempt to pilot a carl It is all a part of the campaign for. safety. Rigid requirements are not to be ex acted of those seeking a license, under the proposed law. The real purpose is to allow revocation of licenses of chronic law violators. Under present conditions the -only means is by revocation of the license ef the car, and the driver can immediately turn to another machine and speel down the streets. And when the car license is revoked, an entire family may-suffer because of the reckless ten dencies of one member. -- Authorities turgest that the license bill provide, for Issuance Of a driver's; certifi IDAHO competitive territory the richest reglen n the Interior. I have expected that the decision of the Interstate commerce : commission would recognise -the i luetic ef our complain i as affecting the softs south : of ' the Snake river. Of course, ; such, recognition of our complaint as has been given constitutes equally a recog-, nltion of the water grade routs of. the Columbia river." t LAURGAARD OFFERS City Cngineer Would Widen Front Street, Locate Depots on War . terfront and Build Wall. Widening of Front street tO150 , feet, provision for all lnterurban ' lines to utilize this artery of traf fic, location of passenger and freight depots along the waterfront, and erection of a concrete retaining wall along the present harbor line from , Burnside to Hawthorne avenue, r features of the $1,000,000 water front program that City Engineer O.' ' Laurgaard 'will propose before th city council within the next month, according to his announcement to day. v ' Laurgaard fclll ask permission, first, for widening Front street. If this is granted he will open negotiations with property owners to agree on the plana. If this action Is Impossible, Laurgaard said he will urge that the ' property' from the Steel bridge to the Hawthorne bridge be acquired by the city by floaU' Ing a bond issue. After acquiring It. It ' would be leased out. according to Laur gaard's tentaUve plan. . " Six tracks would be placed in Front street and provision made for perm a-' nent terminals. .Laurgaard states that the Southern Paclflo and B., 'P. A&' ' railroads favor the new scheme. - ' ' Offered Dncf All I cate to those who have previously rltot- " ed a car for a year or more. Others maintain that all should be required to prove their efficiency, EXAMINATION UNDECIDED " " ( The method of providing competency, of drivers Is a point of disagreement, however. Some authorities suggest that -a certificate he Issued after application -Is made and the competency attested by -another person. Another proposal is that -the applicant swear that he Is an etfV dent driver. The majority ef authori ties, however, believe that a personal . demonstration of the applicant's ability to drive be required. Such a demonstra tion would not require much time, it I pointed out, and the public would be as- sured of the competency of the appli cant. Failing In one attempt to pass the required test, the driver could return ' In another week for a second. The city could appoint two examiners for .the tests It is suggested. And after 'the certificates were issued, the proper ay-' thotitiee would be empowered -to revoke them when it is discovered that the driv er is not competent or careful, r . i ' i - vA. R. Stanton of the Portland Texl : (CtsMla&ea ea rase Tvs. Tws- IMPROVEMENTPLAtl t t v
