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Newspaper Page Textmi TtfE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1820.1 NORTHWEST STEEL - - - IS NOW KORTHVEST BRIDGE COMPANY r : ' - -- - After A active , wartime program which gave to the EmergencyFleet corporation J steamer and to pri vate ,- Interests , three others, the NerthWest Steel company, ha gone ott of business." aqd its plant In SqtithJPortland has been taken over by the Northwest ? Bridge , A' Iron company, according to -announcement rnade by the new operators Thursday afternoon. ' ! -f Representatives of' the .Northwest bridge A -Iron company said iba -Notth-weet Steel company had done nothing1 , since December 1, and that the reoent contract; for ships announced r as pTo-J cured 'jdr the former: operators of ; the yard were in reality taken by their of ficers for the Northwest fridge A Iron fcompany) r TAJfKEjES TO BE BUILT ;. ." - The nsw operators wW begin; eon- ttruetloni within six weeks, " of :' seven teei tanikers pf 14,000 dead-weight tons capacity for U4 Swlftsure ; Oil Trans port company, subsidiary of the pan ada A France Steamship company. Directors of the Northwest Bridge ft Iron company are W. It- Bowles, W. H. Cullers 4nd L. Jt Banks. J. R.; Bowles, president of the Northwest- Steel corn, pany, arid Walter B, Beebe, vice presi dent, are not interested in the new concern I Bowles has not announced his newjplans. but Jt, Is said 'he! will i make an extended pleasure trip to Eu rope this summer. , W. Ri Bowles is , the son of a" D. Bowles, one of the officers of; the Co lumbia (River . Shipbuilding corporation, and a nephew of J. R, ppwjes, : i ,t-i - Construction of the tankers-will begin . within -ifx vweeks, it was announced. The five Ways at the Northwest plant are to-(be consolidated into fourX wid ened anq lengthened. About 80 Nfet additional length will be necessary far the construction of the huge oil car riers.? J.v,'"' 'Li, OWS AnOT TO PREVAIL The; open shop plan of 'labor employ- ; ment wijl be followed and only Ameri cans will be employed, : not foreigners being taken unless then .can at least show their first papers. The 44-hour . week will be' observed and the wage scale adopted at the San Francisco conference .loat August,, whereby; an In crease 1, cents an "Jiour over the , Macey scale, was granted, will be car ried outi ---.- Thus, ship "Joiners will ' receive ' 14 ; cent an! hour, while Journeymen pipe fitters, machinists, boilermakers, black smiths, ' ship fitters and riggers will get 88 cents an hour. Helpers win re ceive It eents. and common labor 80 , eents. About 4(to"nj?n aj-e to be em ployed. The wages, are said to be 8 ceftta higher- on alt classifications than ; prevail in the Paciflo Coast navy yards or in the private construction yards of the Atlantic Coast ' 'The machine work tor the new plant, it is understood, will be done by the Smith ft Watson company. The Heasa- Martin . Company formerly did the ma chine work f or , the Northwests Steel company, .;':.. : , i .. 4..' r".-f- gy -yet- SPUD PRICE is cut: DOWN BY BOYCOTT TSrnorr. Miciw ' April i b - (I. N. fi.) On Tuesday of this" week potatoes were "selling i at ii s Diuuieu , . j :- Wednesday the Detroit Fed eration of . Women's dobs and the Detroit Stewards club Insti tuted , two weeks - boycott against the purcWso or yse of the vegetable and the principal hotels and restaurants banished the taber from tbejur menus. Today potatoes are quoted at $4.25 a Jbnshel and the boycott leaders ' declare they . will force the prion ia 4)efonMJjej; end their campaign. -y. --.V, '" -'Z&gs .will be the next food:, article boycotted. ? . - ' 7 - subject"1 when the - presence of re porters. . ' ' IThe result is that few people not connected--directly wita-tha strike Jtave sjny Very clear idea of what th.e strjka ' is really about and what 'manner ot'peo pie the strikers aire, f A magasine editor asked! me what, kind of men were jtrlk tng. He seemed W hv jna 4daa that they were some special reed or pjan. As a matter of tact they are, the most Ordinary, men imaginable, ffhey' are just average railroad- - men and.' everyone know that they are Just folks, - Some few of them are violent and In clined to revolutionary v talk. Most of them are conservative, auief. a Utfle.blt frightened by. the 'magnitude of.-the damage they are doing, very much hurt' py the charges that; they are : revohii iionary, bewildered by so great an op- position from press and publid and' grimly certain that they are in the right jnbrally as well as every other way. ' . '- They are suspicious as children play- ng : Indian. - Every atranger that comes' pear their headquarters is Spotted and very openly? shadowed. All afternoon two strikers shadowed me around Jer sey City. I Identified myself to them and they looked at my papers with in terest but kept on fallowing me. - we think you are what you are an light,? one of them explained at length, "but we waa told to watch you and we got to! obey orders. v It is an rather pathette. There may be despicable demagogues and danger ous radicals' at work, among the men, but certainly most of ' them ' are like scared, hurt children being ostracised py their playmates. " HOME POLICY FOR i FORESTS IS GOAL (Contlmud "Iroi riw Ose) -I .: Cotlflnd fo Pise Qb)1 i terday they abolished It. The reason glyep was, "The papers won't give us a square deal." 50T A SPECIAL CLASS ? , It J isjdifflcult to get . wdlviduala to talk. One and all are 'suspicious. One ot them confided to me today that they had been ordered to keep mum on all reciprocation, that there be' "far more liberal federal appropriation for fire prevention In cooperation with, the States, . .-. I . Creation in each state, where luch does not already exist, of a strong for estry department governed by. a non poHtlcal board representative, of aU In terests involved. ' . V .'; : '-" BEPRKSEjrTATIOy GENERAL ' AH the Pacific slope lumbermen and timber owners' uissociaUons except for California redwood were dlrectlyi-epre-sented at the meeUng to arrive afa pro gram and declaration of principles for the Western lumber industry in connec tion nith a national and Western for est polioy, especially relating to re forestation to insure future crops. Those present were r Huntington Tay lor of Coeur d' Alene,' Jdaho. represent ing the Idaho Timber 'associations and the Western Pine association ; J. J. Donovan, Belllngham, Wash and George S. Long, Tacoma, Wash., for Washing ton Forest Fire association and the West Coast Lumbermen's association; f WW W . X. "S. m TIMES TO0AY! SPARKLING RADIANT THRILLING ALICE J6YCE - "V- in: - r ' . "THEJSPORTING DUCHESS STARTING TOMORROW DUSTIN FARNUM A V W a Xir cr ' r t. ... ' . . . riKi-wii wiin uufllAS' MASTERPIECE 1 f'THE CORSICA BROTHERS" 1 Chicago, April 16. (I, N. a While the Misses Irene and Jose phine Kellenbaumwere "sojodrainf recently at .the,Mayo sanitarium , at Rochester, .Minn. they met a hand some stranger ,who gave his name as HF. J. Fpts.; "A iromanoe . with Irene f followed, eliminating iiJ an eloperrffnT and marriage at Winona, Mlniiu : - The coupler came to Chicago, the bride groom , vanishing--soon thereafter with -Irene's 8300 diamond ring and a check or her f iOOO fur " coat, - in storage at Portland. Or.' Irene notified the Tort land police to be on the' fookouT f or her husband and Identified hhn at the Chi .cagoyrRogoes. Gallery" . Oliver JWl Barger, wanted in Kansas City, Mo, on a bogus eheck eharga. ",.,,, ! Through a description , sept about the oountry -Sarger was arrested today at Lincoln, Neb. i Irener nadder but wiser, lg living at the t. W. C. Aare. i. ? -A- i. ,i . if .-- . '..;Tiif CAPTADf CmCLE TAKES L, -y- care ow mESs oat Police Captain Harnr. Circle recantly received . a letter . from : Irene ' Kellen baum, who ttpktA him- to. ate lhat a Check for storage of her , fur ipoat be not " honored 'by 'the storage , edmpahy In case it should be presented, She said she had left the fur here Janu ary X- She aald errhooje is at Pop lar, Mont -Nothing was said about her romance, Circle aald, . Otar-jequest re garding-'the; storage check, has been taken ; care ot so that she would not lose tijat; valuable property, mm elopes 1 w H ER E! If J G AN D FUR BEST DECORATED AUTOTOGETSSQO W. Freeland ; Kendrek imperial potentate of " the Ancient .Order of the Nobles of the Mystic i Shrine, haa offered a ISOOTfcaah prize tl h awarded o the indivldtial entering the best decorated automobile In the floral parade to be held Thura day afternoon, June 34, annuonce ment to this effect having been made today ; by Wiathrap' Hanv inond, member of the board ot gov ernors of the Portland Rose Festival association and chairman of the floral pageant eoxamittee. "-' This prise constitutes the largest sum of money ever offered In Portland for the winner In a pageant, and Is expected"! to stimulate competition among the In dividual automobile entraata : -.the, division in which the vr. Tr land keqdrtcH: trophy win be.the grand prise is in" charge of a'eommlttee com posed of Mesdames Helen Ladd COrbett, Ouy Talbot, Jefferson Myrs, Fred a Morris and OY J. FrankeU Persons de Siring to enter In this division' are re quested to communicate with a member of this committee; Judges for the floral pageant will be selected by a committee consisting of Kelson O. pike, Eklward Bhrman, Charles E. Cochran and Arthur H. Oevfra . 'Af-.'i v,- C. a Bmlth, San Francisco, California White and Sugar Pine association, also a Joint committee of all California in terests: H. M.i Fox and C S. Chapman of Portland, for Oregon Forest Fire as sociation, and E. T, Allea ef Portland, aU of the foregoing being members of a committee on forest policy appointed at last October's annual ' meeting of the Western Forestry and Conservation as sociation. The only member absent was H.-C. Miller of Montana. With this committee also -met . T, A McCann. Bend, and A W. Cooper of Portland, representing the Western Pine associa tion.; a B. McLeod, portUnd. Oregon Forest Firo asseoiatlon; J. T, Dougall. Portland, -ColumbU River, Loggers' In lormation bureau, and George Mi Corn wall, editor of th flmbermaa. V JTATIOSAL PLAV ADOPTED As a national policy dealing with the country as a whole, the platform to be S resented as the West's stand try Allen the second American Lumber eon gross to be held at Chicago next week WM.adopteJ This consisted (of l "com mandmenta,w containing the provisions far acquirement by federal and state governments ; of . larger, forest areas, largely of cut-over land. Condemning and paying for tha land If private own ers refuse to sell or to keep the land In timber themselves; reirabursment to the states for loss in taxes; assistance in obtaining .state legislation for forest protection ; conduct of land classifica tion ; greater congressional - appropria tions foe fire prevention ; making army facilities, especially aviation,- available for forest protection : consistent policy of marketing ,i publicly owned timber lookinar tsmrf atahlliu t imi t . prices; recognition of forest service as teaaer or pudiic jorestry thought and effort y cooperation of private, state and federal forest arenoies; nrnnttitHa titude from the American public, y Alien leaves lor L'nicago tonight. He will present the platform to the national association. , - i - - f r - ; ' 6 FOLLOW THE LEADER VI He ran a email ad. He grot na customer. 'The easterner waa satisfied. The .satisfied customer ent';1n 19 'of hl trlerias--each one Jof the 10 friends aenf ln,,10 more and -Q ... so on. ' The. ope man shop f. 'grew to befa'factoryv . ' ;And the "fcrfce- ofa small A f ; want-ad pay about It words 1 ' 4s only 25 eenta --'"' . IJT TIIC JOURNAI,.- Smpot Is Accused l ; Of Choking "Certain?' Wfshingtbii'Repqrts r ; ijp ' - z , Z f 5Br taltei tfya) ' r Boston,' April Roget W.; Babson. hi a "letter to- Senator " Re4 :. Smoot Thursday, accuses the Utah senator aid his associates of trying to . hold an in visible control over a large portion of Ih Washington news; - The letter, with ita counter charges and accusationa Is a sequel , to the re eent epbrf"e the Joint corpmltUe "tor Printing at Washington, ef ' which Ben-? ator jhnoot is chairman, makfng certain charges as to the . disposition of " the Official 'Bulletin. . - - - - - A part ef the letter follows:' - "For some time Vou and your associ ates have triad to hold an Invisible con trol over a largo, portion of , the Wash ington news. This is unfair to the news papers of the nountry, This foreed Jhe government bureaus to issue bulletins of thai r-own and left a field for a oetitrai publication. such as the United States Bulletin, which I coatroL and which you are attacking. ' This pulleUn serves AD the departments alike" and publisher ma-j trnar which, for one reason or another, doesn't interest the newspapers. "For some 'time "this development haa oirrlea yon aad your associates. , Ton haye seen your control drifting away while At the Same time the government officials were continually expressing themselves, with more freedom. Therefore. you had at tached to a recent appropriation bill a rider -wbjch requires all government bulletins to receive' the ; O-K. Of our Committee before they can be published. In bo oountry-riot even in Russia or (Jermany has there been given to any pian "uch"T6wefwlseBwrvenuffffrit efflciata." - - MM GETS FIRM DEMAND FROM ALLIES (Cwitisatd - from Alt Om) government troops in the neutral sane of the Rhlna " '. ? ' :" -- ; ' This meeting wlU probably be the most important since the conclusion of the Peace conference because of the vital Is- ue which will be under deliberation. in aaaition to the uerman situation the allies' program incjudes: The Flume dispute between Italy and Jugoslavia.'; .... - . , Russia's offensive against he Poles and the Question of opening commercial relations between Russia and the alHea Turklph term and the grave situation In Anatolia where Mustanha - Kemal of Natfenallste. The HungarienpHuation ; MILLEBAVD MA PHOTEST ; . While the old-time cordial relations have peen restored between France and Great 'Britain following the interchange pf notes over the French military meas ures in Germany, it is possible that Premier MUlerand may protest against the British action taken , at Con stantinople. r' ' ' -j i It was reported front San Remo today that hotel aeeommodation had been re4 served for an American . delegation In the event It attended the conference. .The Turkish and Greek delegation will be quartered at the name hotel. . ' '' 'J Premier Lloyd George wijl be sche44 nled to reach Italian soil' today., r Rome (Dispatches say i he will be formally greeted by Premier Nitti. The British premier" made the trip to Italy by sea. - ' - ,'- - V -. J ,; BERLIN PREPARES AGAIXST ;-'- :'SUSPECTPa SflLITART COUP, ' Berlin, Aprb 15. (jflght) (U. p.) Fearing , a new raiitary. ooup, the gov-; emment tonight took extensive' pre cautions to guard itselt . " j The district around government build ings was barred to the public. Fifteen RUSSIANS FIGHT WITH IAPAIIESE; - HUNDREDS SLAIN --ys" r -i. - i -Washington, April -(I. N. S.) Japan willend fresh troops to' Siberia . during the latter ! part of April, the state department wag ad vised today in a cable from the war office at Teklo," These troop; are o be - sent for the relief ot the ' 1 Ith and lth Japanese dlylsiops now la Siberia and wU) be sent from Migatl and Fushlsha. ' " ' : ' London, April IS. tLT. S. In a vio lent battle at Habarovsk, 137 Japanese soldier and 400 Russians were killed, said a Central News dispatch from To- klp today. ; I , Fifteen hundred Russians ware made prisoners by the Japanese. . ; Habarevsk,' or Khabarovsk, Is an im portant Siberian city, a little more than S00 miles north of Vladlvostolc It lies on the Ussurl branch : of the .Trans-Siberian railway. Its population! is 16,000 and it is. a large trading center.' BRITISH SQUESrTjrAPAJf TO EXPLAIN JgSBf&TISSil London, April. 4--Moyes of the Japa nese in Manchuria and Eastern Siberia have drawn the attention of, diplomats j to the Far Kaat, - and ' ,lt la predicted that furthea Inaulrits will bt made by the. British government .with regard to Line intentions of the Japanese. war errice reports indicate an unusual activity of British representatives in the far east. . i. j- .--'f-,:. JCxplanatlon have already been asked for as to the selaure of Vladivostok gov ernment buildings and the disarming of government . troopa : ."" Eegulars Ard 'Urged - As Pfotecon for NatioSalj dapital Washington. AprU ni(L K. & Maintenance of regulars In and around the national capital, to protect it from the "forces of unrest at work in this Botanical Exhibit ' Of Sweetsers Draws,; ; AtMiririgvThr6ngs b- " ---'" ; -- ' - '' The botanical display of professor and Mra.,. A" R Sweeteer of ;the Uni versity of Oregon la attracting wide at tention at .the Audubon society exhibit at Central library this Week. Sweeteer is sjp laitructor" in ' botany. and mhC SWeeUe?' Is "aalehted artist and bei tween - them '.'they have, acquired "171 water color vdrawlagg of Oregon wild flowers. ' t . Ptesh flowers -of those in season -are' brought jn. eachday 'and exhibited --as a part of the display.. The Sweetsers are on hand to answer questions per taining te wild -flowers. Teac'here In Portland schools have been invited te bring their ciassea jo, thebotanioai ex hlblt ' .v ' ' '' Stolen Motorcar Recovered v A heavy motorcar stolen Thursday SnlMr" Skotheim's homo. Clackamas street, early today was found at Eighteenth and, Beech streets. Where It had been left several houra before. A Wily club and some tools, said "tp be a burglar's -et. were found p H" irons seat. WNSMItEO BY SONORA REBELS - -Agua Prieta. Sonora, MexK?or April 1.(U. P. Four towns in Sinaloa have fallen before the invading So-, nora state treepa aeeerdlng te a ''t port to divisional .-headquarters here today - from - Qenerl FJIbres,-j com-V manaing the invading column. , The first battle between, Carranslsfa. troops and. the- Sonera secessionists took Paee at the town . of Choix, Sinaloa, Vfhere, the Carranilsta- garrison sur rendered after one hour's resistance and joined the Sonora movement. ' , 'V.-:.? .v. f. f x Border Porta of Entry Closed i Washington.' April 18. (I. N. S.) The Mexican government has ordered closed the ports of entry at Nog ales, Ouaymss, - Agua Prieta. Sasabe and Kaoo. the state department was advised today. This step is taken in connection with the uprising in Sonora " Carranza Aska Toopa, Passage Washington. April H. (U. P.) The Mexican government has asked the state " ! - 1 1 . vSw . IV- Pasha has massed an antl-aUIed army jeountry," was urgea in the senate xmb at Nattonaifata. ' fafterhoon by Senator Frelinghuysen, Be publican, of New Jersey. Frelinghuysen said, the national cap ital was not sufficiently protected now. He declared a mob pf only 2Q00 seised the czar'ssgovemmeht at Petrograd. tie aald the American army -was now scat tered along the Mexican border, uv the insular possessions of the . United States or at remote, army posts. He favored the centralisation of the? country's- mil itary forces, I i tanks. 20 armored can and a number of machine gun companies were brought into the city and put on guard. '-Armed detachments patrolled the WUhelmstrasse and Untej? dn Linden. The government denied a report that Major Blschoff and General Von Loett-wlta,- alleged monarchist plotters, - had been arrested. ' i U. S. Not to Be:There Waphlngtop, Apffl H-tL N. S.) The tir.ited States will not ee represented at the San Remo conference of the allied premiers unless an American representa tive is Invited to attend as an observer aesl thus far no such invitation has been received, it waa learned at the state de partment today , 1 ! - ii- i '' ' e COMING TOMORROW! j vyys I " The MAMMOTH 500.000 FFAtiirp SEE Anita Stewart win' the thrilling j 3 horse ; race. . The! whole picture is I 7 chock full o' thrills; exciting and ah- J i sorbing ; scenes. ' " You have newer j vv. reallr seen In Old Kentuclrw" nn;i I . t b . . .a . M er . you nare leen tnu production. ; ' v- -1 JI "THE COPPERHEAD" LAST TIMES TODAY V COJLLf M B I A O R C H ESTR AX . 1 -V, - - ALWAYS - M 'J2 I f f rourbh bfe. 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