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V V THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1820. STANDARD OIL GO. IS ONLY ONE THAT HOLLERS SHORTAGE The Associated Oil company tank ex W. F. Herron, is due at wlllbridge today with a cargo of gasoline for Oregon motorists. Both the Associ ated and Union companies, as well as the jShell company, are supplying the demands of their patrons. , The Standard Oil company, pleading a shortage, will not have additional rasollne sucoUes unUl May 21. when 500,000 gallons wlll arrive i at will- bridge .bn a tanker that rings '000 gallons for Washington. The shortage has not seriously affected any company , but the Standard, au thorities admit, and - that company's shortage is only oil gasoline which con forms to the. Oregon "specific gravity test. Washington and other Pacific Coast states which do not have the gravity - test are being supplied normal ly, and In Portland Is a large reserve, stock of Standard gasoline for Wash ington. - HELPS 8TAITDARD CASE - Standard's competitors are not -heralding loudly the ' fact that they' have practically . normal supplies. The ef fect Is enhancing the force- Of the Standard company's attitude against the Oregon law requiring a gravity tested gasoline supply, users declare. When Standard started Its Campaign to overthrow the Oregon statute it tacked 1 Vt cents a gallon to the cost of gasoline sold in this state. When sales remained normal It pleaded shortage to pave the way for another advance In price, according to the opinion expressed by C I Boss Port land automobile dealer. ' . Fred W. Volger; president of the Northwest Auto company, admitting that he has never made comparative tests - between "specific gravity" and "boiling point" tested gasoline, declares that the public Is a bunch of "boobs" New Profession for Women A new occupation for women Is offered by the Food Department of the General Chemical Company. It provides fin part time work and Is especially adapted for young married women who have had some - business experience and whose household' duties leaye them considerable free time. This new field of work Is In an or ganization to be known as the Ryson Service Staff. Its purpose will be to bring individual homes in touch with the most advanced Ideas In cooking, baking, and other domestic tasks. Positions in the new service will offer valuable opportunities for dig nified and profitable sales and ad vertising work. Local representa tives of the Ryzo.i Service Staff will be needed. They will work on a sal ary and commission basis. - The chief requisite for positions On the Ryson staff is a thorough knowl edge of Ryxon Baking Powder. It is also necessary for applicants to un dereaUtnd the modern Ryson method of" level spoonful measuring which has asmired scientific accuracy in home baking with uniformly success ful results. This method is deeecribed In the Ryson Baking Hook. Letters of application for appoint ment to the Ryson Service ; Staff, containing a concise . statement of qualifications, should be sent immedi ately to the Food Department, Gen eral Chemical Company, 25 Broad Street, New York City. The- jibw Ryzon Baking Book (original price $1.00), containing 250 practical recipes, will be mailed, post paid, upon receipt of 30 cents In stamps or coin. Or If you will pur chase two or more pounds of Ryson at once from your grocer, sending us his name and address promptly, we will mail you a Ryson Baking Book free. General Chemical Co.. Food Department. 25 Bread St., New York, N. Y. usi - .. ilmin n rlfes. . 7-V 1 I . t o o a y -NP-A ' f ' ' ' SATURDAY ..JPC mU 's8; : rem W cc 2; Photoplay l . . ,mm - eS'Wia Oil trust. . . , - -1 . "They "have the upper hand and will penalize us in the end," Vogler says.? Meanwhile : the Standard Oil com pany continues to supply pleasure cars with 20 per cent of their gasoline tank capacity and the shortage situation is summed up by J. D. Bakiley, district ales manager, as follows: ; U "After a week ori 10 days of talk the gasoline situation In Oregon is just where it was." .. . ! s k-, - - , . . HOOVER SAYS LEAGUE, NOT! MAN, IS ISSUE (ContiiiMd From Psa Ona). Uon. then, the Republican primary fight here will be against Johnson and for him. The first consideration of the Hoover camp will' be to defeat him. The second line of attack 'will be to urge voters throughout the state only to elect delegates to the national con vention who are pledged to support a plank Indorsing Immediate ratification of the League of Nations in the plat form 'ad opted by the convention. - The third tme of : attack and nere is where the Hoover forces will con centrate their endeavor so far as the furtherance of Hoover's nomination is concerned will be ! to win the Oregon delegates to the promise to swing to Hoover when the breakup comes In the convention, as a second choice, ana to stay with him until he is nominated or . until It is fully apparent that be cannot be. f . Hoover's campaigners throughout the country have not been battling for the first; ballot nomination. They nave been atempting, however, so to align delegations throughout the country that when the generally wpected initial deadlock begins . to i disintegrate and the real battle for nomination gets under way Hoover will swing into the contest and win. , The Oregon develop ment, his managers - and friends con tend, is not repugnant to this general plan of political strategy. HOOVER'S; STATEMENTS ASK, t BACKERS TO HELP LEAGCE 1 By Fred S. Ferguson j New Tork, May 14. - Herbert Hoover would make the Oregon pri maries May 21 a clean-cut test of whether the Republicans shall adopt a league, or an anti-League of Na tions plank in their platform at Chicago. ;' i : : u 'r:''- j! To this end, in a statement issued Thursday night, he proposed sacri ficing, if necessary, whatever chance he has to carry the primaries In a held of four in order that the league vote might j be concentrated. ! Against Senator Hiram Johnson, leader of the antNleague forces, are arraigned in Oregon General Wood. Governor Low den and Hoover alT advocates of the league. Hoover designates Johnson and President Wilson as "fellow destructlon ists" In preventing America from enter ing the League or Nations, and in order to obtain a clear expression of Repub lican sentiment in Oregon suggests that his supporters there center their efforts upon getting out i a strong pro-league vote,. Instead of devoting themselves to work entirely In his behalf. WIDE INTEREST IJf OREGON I Reports : from Oregon : indicate that with the vote split between Wood, Low- den and Hoover, Johnson haa a good chance of carrying the state. The Hoover statement came as a distinct surprise in political circles here, aroused new in terest in the Oregon vote and caused widespread speculation as to the effect the position taken by Hoover would have on the result, . . i Whether be is considered as a possible nominee at Chicago or not. Hoover be lieves that the Republicans should have a strong League of Nations plank in their platform. This would be an In dorsement of the i present treaty, with proper reservations. . He has with him In this position all other Republican can didates with the exception of Johnson FIRST BATTLE HERE . ... : In addition, his' boomers point out, 15 Republican senators are Up for reelection for trying . to tight the Standard ICE CREAM is Nature's own dessert. It is refreshing, delicious, rv?rnxrat? valuable strength and health builder. MAID u cr V . . .ce Cream s made from pure cream and sugar, flavored with delightful fruit juices, it is rich in" "Vitamines," the substance which gives youth to the young and strength and long me to the old. J ! r it VF, CREAM OF CREAMS-all flavors,' in bulk or brick, at all first-class dealers.: Always ask for MAID O'CLOVER if you want the BEST. j " II Ta TO W Si A m I i ' IBS & n .November, after having stood through out the past senate session for adoption of the treaty with reservations. ' They do not relish going Into a campaign on an , out-and-out anti-league.' platform, league advocates here declare, This is particularly true when they know that the Democrats are preparing to go into the ' campaign arguing that failure to enter the league will make it necessary to enter upon an , extensive period of increasing armaments, with a consequent increase in taxation. ? , President Wilson chose Oregon as the first battleground for the league by urging the Democrats to go on record for straight ratification.- The Hoover statement is calculated to Inspire Oregon Republicans to concentrate on one pro league candidate in order to beat John son decisively. - - r - - . TWO LEASERS EXTREME i ' Hoover's telegram follows; "Chester Murphy and O. C. Leiter, : ,,, "Hoover Republican club, v "Portland, Or. "I beg to reply as follows to your re quest for my views on various matters arising In the Oregon primaries j "The president has declared that the Democratic party must demand the ac ceptance of the League in full as pre sented by him to the senate. Senator Johnson demands that the Republican party oppose the league altogether. Two more destructive attitudes . towards : a great Issue could not be found. "An emergency is created by this al liance of destruction The aspirations of the great majority of our people will be thwarted by either of these extremes. TAKES MIDDLE GROUND I j "This majority is fixed in its determi nation that the United States, both for our - own protection and in the interest of the welfare of the world, shall join the league by ratifying the treaty, which provides for substitution of methods- of peace for methods of war, but that we shall do ao only under assurances of no infringement of our constitution and our tradltiona . ;,.!: "The inflexible attitude of the presi dent and his supporters, and of Senator Johnson and his supporters has brought this issue into the election at ; an im measurable moral and economic cost to our own country and to the world. If the Republican party, however, - Is to voice the will - of me people and Is not to forfeit the certainty of leadership in the "next four years, it must embrace the great opportunity which the majority of the American people are prepared to give it. It must support the league with reservations. It must not fall into the trap that the president and Senator Johnson are enticing it Into. ROOSEVELT ADVOCATED IT ' "A league for the reduction of arma ment and the prevention of war Is not the property of any one party. It was early enunciated by Theodore Roosevelt in his address In 1910, following I the award to him of the Nobel peace prize, and it has been consistently advocated by Republican leaders ever since that time.' ; - r :,!.. ;, 4 "Furthermore, the one league that the world has now evolved after all the sacrifice of five years has been adopted, under proper safeguards to the United States, by the majority of the Republi can senators, the great leaders of the Republican party and various state plat forms, and has already been joined by 2t nations. TEST TSOT COjrCHJSITE - "I. therefore, hope that the more than 1000 clubs that have sprung up in the country advocating my name at the Chi cago convention will, in addition to the primary task they have undertaken, con tinue to keep to the forefront their real purpose of the right alignment of i the party on the many issues before us, and that they will use their utmost influence that the Republican platform shall i In dorse the prompt ratification of I the and approve the reservations. In the purely local situation in Ore gon the efforts of my friends to secure expression in that state of such ; views through the petition by ! which they placed my name on the ballot would ap pear to me to be impractical, as no real test can be made by this means. : SPLIT VOTE CERTAIN I : "I note the statement that the clubs require large funds to expend into a detailed county , and precinct organiza tion and for expenses of public speakers and clrcularizatiOn of voters in order to place themselves on an equality with the several highly developed organiza tions which have been in the field for months. Large expenditures purely for the v advancement of my nomination are repugnant to me. : : X cannot sanction them. i . "I understand there are five candidates on the Republican ballot, of whom I have many friends. Some of these candidates are for and some against the league. No one of these candidates can withdraw. ; consequently there will be a great split in the vote between mere names result ing in the clouding of the vital issues. ISSUE COME8 FIRST "The total vote recorded against the no league' candidates may give some indication, of Oregon's views, and every effort should be directed to this end rather1 than the - advancement . of " my name. , , - : ... . ' - - "It seems to me, therefore, that It is much more important that the clubs that have been formed on my behalf In .Ore gon shall devote themselves energetically to every means of securing expression from the Republicans of that, state re gardless of candidates for the, firm ad herence of the Republican party to the prompt ratification of the treaty as sup ported by the majority of the Republi can senators Instead of expansion and effort to advance . my. name. . "(Signed) "HERBERT HOOVER M" ARTHUR IS AGAXS ASKED , TO DEBATE OJT PLUMB PLAN The : Plumb Plan league, with head quarters -In the Beck building, has again demanded of Congressman McArthur an answer to its last telegram, challenging him or bis representative to debate. The telegram sent McArthur is as follows: "We are still waiting your answer to our recent telegram. We now demand explanations from you .as to why you voted for the Cummins-Bach bill when yeu knew that railroad rates would be increased, although Director General Hines and members of the interstate commerce commission stated' that gov ernment control would prevent any in crease in rates. "Why did you vote to thus tax the American people at least four billion dollars per year in increased cost of living and this for the sole benefit of four banks of Wall street? : "Why did you guarantee private in terests a fixed return to be paid, out of the public treasury? "Why did you vote for a bill which puts a premium upon inefficiency? "Why did you vote for a bill which is in its fundamental features nothing more or less than a cost plus contract to the railroad bankers? - You have surely noticed that Liberty bends have been falling and railroad .. stocks ' have oeen rising since tne uummins-juscn oiu was passed. You knew, or you should have known, when you cast your vote that you were simply transferring values from Liberty bonds to railroad stocks. Explain this. "Why was it necessary to vote the banks of Wall street 6 per cent upon railroad stock, including all fictitious securities, when the American peojiIe,.in supporting the war by buying Liberty bonds, were never guaranteed more than 4 per cent? We demand answers and explanations of all these questions. "We again challenge you, or any: rep resentative, to meet us on the public Platform." ABRAHAM TRIES TO SMOKE ; OUT STANFLELD ON ISSUE Albert Abraham, who is opposing R. N. Stanfield for the Republican nomi nation for the United States senator Bhip, again asks Mr. Stanfield to tell the public where he stands on toe League of Nations issue. In a further attempt to ''smoke him out," Abraham has addressed an open letter to the press, in which he says : On April 19 I" addressed an onen let ter to Hon. R .N. Stanfield, suggesting that , we submit Our candidacies to the electorate on me issue - of the League of Nations, stating mat I was against ine same, witn : or wimout me reserva tions proposed, c and stating that my understanding of his position was that ne was in lavor of the League of Na tions with such reservations. The -fact that I have received no answer whatever to this open commu nication, and the further fact that important-events have subsequently trans pired, has not only raised a doubt in my mind that I stated Stanfield's po sition correctly, but has. confirmed me in the belief that he does not desire to take any stand whatever on the question. The necessity for him taking a Stand In time for the electorate to pass on this question on its merits is so appar ent that I believe you will agree with me as to the propriety of making a demand on Stanfield to state his posi tion definitely, and that you will lend me your valuable aid in urging him to do so. If Stanfield's slogan or his official statements in any way indicated ' his v' with LOUISE GLAUM ftft ATM nwr ) . ! . . . - I sTsT sY ' .1 EUGENIA GILBERT FRANCESCO LONGO ' SOLO PIANIST position, there would - be no necessity for any further statement, But neither of these contain the slightest reference to tne question. is it not remara-anie tnac ; aitnougn 8tanfield - la a candidate for United States senator, he has made no state ment 1 whatever as to his attitude to ward the League of Nations since his candidacy was announced? 1 j 1 - 1 beueve mat a rair-minaea 1 wage or the situation would concede ! that the campaign -between my opponent and myself has been such that 1 personal considerations will cut so slight a fig ure as not to materially influence tne vote within the Republican party Upon the issue of the League 01 xsauons. - Furthermore, as you are aware.- my candidacy is not -involved with that of any other. Ana, aitnougn 1 am on me same platform as Hiram. I; am in the same position he was in i when f my friend Hughes visited California In 1916, with this difference : Hiram is now doing the visiting Instead of Hughes, INDIANA G. O. P. CONVENTION LEAVES SITUATION j MIXED (Br United Ntnro) i. V -i -Indianapolis. InU May 14.- Indiana Republicans do not completely under stand yet just what happened In the state convention here Thursday. The "big four", delegates-at-large are Instructed for General Wood. ! Six dis trict : delegates are also Instructed for Wood., Pour others -are Johnson dele gates. Sixteen others are unlnstructed. This split resulted from the close race between Wood and Johnson in the pri mary and the Indiana primary law. which makes necessary a majority, for a candidate before a delegation can be instructed to vote as a whole, j Only B00O votes separated : Woodlaitd Johnson in the primaries and only seven votes separated them In the Instruction of the delegates-at-large.--"The vote on. suspension of the rules to instruct for Wood was carried, 75 to 746. This vote was taken amid scenes bordering on disorder due to strong protest by John son supporters. . Senator Harry S. New, chairman, had to use his gavel freely and to order the aisles cleared before the vote could be taken. : Kehtner Out of Race San Diego, Cat. May 14. William Kettner, the only Democrat ever elect ed to congress from this district, who is now serving his fourth i term, i has announced that he will not 1 be a can didate for reelection. MYERS, BRED AND SORE, (Contiiiaed From Pace One). spirit if not the letter of civil service. and he faces toe opposition of Myers, Hamaker and their ' candidate. Stark weather. 1 i - S The incidents leading up to the re moval of Myers from the postmastership foundation stones of the opposition to Chamberlain as they are hold a good deal of present public interest. In May, 1919, two postal inspectors were sent to Portland to investigate the recommendation made by Myers that, for patriotic and economical reasons, .the position of assistant postmaster should be abolished. Myers told the inspectors who. called upon him mat unless they favored toe changes recommended by him it would be useless for them to make any in vestigation. He told them, also, that if the i assistant postmastership ' was not abolished he would relieve Harry Dur and, who held It, of all duties, so that his salary would be a total loss to the department. . , . -INSPECTORS FLOUTED ' ! As a result of the Investigation the inspectors reported mat no cause was found by them for the abolition of the position, but mat It was me desire of Myers to create a new .position, thus eliminating Durand. -As short time after that report was filed Myers preferred ' charges against the inspectors, and in August two other inspectors, not connected with the Port land district, came to make a further investigation. They asked Myers to fur nish them the facts upon i which he based his charges, which request Myers resented. He charged them with ulter ior motives, demanded mat they conduct their interviews with officials and em ployes of the postof fice in his - private office and in his presence ; j that they submit the report of the previous in- Com! r s S u n da y G I R L O F THE SEA" The First Perfect Underwater Picture ':, ATTACKS CHAMBERLAIN IK DANCING PROLOGUE vest! gat ion to him; mat they tell1 him their political affiliation, by whom as- i signed to make the inspection. He be came abusive, and failed to give them any Information sought ' until directed by wire from the department at Wash ington to do so. 1 l- As a result of the report submitted by these inspectors, which dealt in de tail with very serious and unsatisfactory conditions discovered In the conduct and administration of the office by Myers, came the f demand from the postmaster that he tender his resignation and leave Lihe service. i 1 xtezore uus aemana was puoiiciy known Myers visited various close per sonal friends of Senator Chamberlain l.i Portland, and asked that they wire the - senator to intercede for him and stop further action against him in Washington, i :- . ! He went to one of Senator Chamber lain's friends and asked , him to sign the following telegram: ' "i I have had talk . with ' Postmaster Myers. He is being misrepresented to you. Hd is not in opposition to you. He has no intention of opposing you in primaries or general election. We hope you will not be deceived by gosslpers to the detriment of us alL You j will recall that Myers rendered valuable service in 1914 and can do it again." MYERS THREATENS BOLT " The telegram was not sent. A day or so afterwards, subsequent to the publlca tion of the demand for Myers- resigna tion, he asked the same individual to sign and send the following telegram : "It is the general opinion here that Myers' removal is political and will re act in his favor. It is certain to cause you a bitter primary fight, which X hope you will avoid by having order rescinded. I will guarantee, if you do this, j that Myers will treat you square. This telegram was not sent to the. senator. During the interview, more over, Myers assured the friend of the senator whom he was asking to send the telegram, that if Chamberlain would have the order of removal rescinded Myers "would guarantee to keep Stark weather and Mrs. Thompson in line -for him." or words to mat effect. Senator Chamberlain did net attempt to secure the rescinding of the order of dismissal, an impossible task in the1 face of the president's executive civil service order, even without regard to the serious -charges contained in the reports of me Inspectors. Now he is facing the rbit- ter primary fight" mentioned in the tele gram dictated by Myers to be sent - to Chamberlain.. 11 'See Crater Lake Is Slogan 011 All Postoffice Matter . "See Crater-Lake" became Portland's official slogan Thursday morning when the postoffice began cancelling all out bound mail with this insignia. - i ' Arrangements for making an in ten Cars Must Go Make an Of fer Any reasonable offer on the following cars will be considered. . 1 .' j - 1919 Overland Tr., model ' 90, fine shape, good tires. 1916 Overland Tr., n e w paint, ; seat covers, good tires. ;- j 1918 Studebaker 6, beauty newly painted, good tires, fine running shape. ' i 1913 Winton 6, good run- ' ning shape good tires, ex cellent stage car, ! 1913 Studebaker Touring. 1913 Studebaker Sedan, i 1912 Studebaker Touring, take off the body and make a classy bug. , J 1916. Studebaker Delivery. 1917-Overland Delivery. I 1914 Overland Delivery. . . 1917, Maxwell Delivery. 1916 Red Tour'g, fine shape. 1914 Reo Tour'g, fine shape. 1915 Paige Touring. 1 1912 Stearns .Knight, a wonderful motor. Panel Delivery Body for small car, would cost $200 ' to build. Priced at $50. Those having use for any of the above cars should not let this opportunity pass. It is your great opportunity to owri a car if you would like one for this summer's driv-' ing. . - f- It will repay mechanics well to rebuild some of these caTs into bugs. ' ' .Better cars for hard serv ice cannot be obtained. Mr. Farmer, buy them "cheap and use them hard ' You .can make trucks out of some of these cars to a great advan tage. ! Mdtor Car amy; Used - Gair Covey Comp Washington St. at 21st ; Phone Main 6244 si fled campaign t , popularise - Crater Lake National park," in Southern Oregon was initiated .with S me introduction f uus postmark. - tim Women's Ad club committee, Mrs. wfj P. Strandborg and Miss Constance Mattihgly, made the ar rangement. Expenses will be borne by the Chamber of Commerce. ' ToiitH Huxt Trying To Stealf Ride on Automobile Truck AttempUng to stlal a ride on a truck cost t-year-old Morris Henderson seri ous injury thi sfternoon at : Corbett and Thompson streets, when he fell un der the wheels of a car driven by V. R. Shipley, 40 Main jstreet. . The truck is owned by the Warren Construction com pany, i . - a-: i Shipley, reporting th accident at po lice headquarters, aiid that he was driT Int slowly, along; th curb, when he was hailed by pedestrians and turned to see the child writhing ion the pavement be hind him. The boy was taken to the Good Samaritan hospital. One leg was found to have beefr crushed below the knee. Witnesses said that young Hen derson, who is beeved to reside at a nearby children's home. attempted to climb on the - truk, and - fell beneath um wneeis, 8 Li A S T TI MES TpDAY MBJMMIWf I IHV.U. . .m- , - JQHN BARRY MORE ' ; r ': : - ; - . . IN : Dir. Jekyll The production that has get a new mark in motion pictures. CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED COLUMBIA ORCHEST R A ALWAYS .(V In OIL ft. - . t ... ;): Mae Murray 1 " On With the Dance I The fifth big Columbia gpe f cial is a story of high lights and high life in gay New York. Faster, faster they go ! I0PE OF IDAHO GASOLIi'E Baker, May 14. All hope of re lief from Idaho for the gasoline shortage in Baker, authorised by Deputy State Sealer Dalzlel Wednes day, has been shattered by the an nouncement that Idaho dealers will not allow the exportation of any more fuel. The benefit derived from the tempo rary suspension of the test law here was thus confined to the receipt ot two truck loads of ffasoline, which has been doled out to the more essential Industries throughout the county. Acordlns to word received here, the Idaho dealers have based their refusal to permit further gas shipments on warnings from Salt Lake that Idaho may soon be subject to a shortage, and advice to reserve all gasoline for their own customers. , Pleasure cars are now being stored throughout the county, and within a short Ume it is expected that logging camps wiU close down. - and Mr. Hyde S t art g f Tomorrow & David Powell in BAKER DEFIED II II