THE I OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,, PORTLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE - 1, 1S20.
BRYAt
ADVOCATES
PLAT1 TO PREVENT
LABOR TROUBLES
Washington, June 1. (I. N. S.)-
The League of Nations plan for the
4 prevention of war should be applied
to the prevention of labor troubles.
William Jennings Bryan ; told the
senate committee on education and
labor. , .-
Bryan advocated Investigation and the
direction of public opinion to labor
trouble.:' without any power of pre
venting strikes.
' - "Compulsory : arbitration is inconsist
ent with the Ideas Of . our country."
Bryan said. . He advocated compulsory
Investigation of labor troubles with both
parties to the controversy suspending
action: pending the investigation. '
.Partello Appointed
Summer Instructor
At Camp Kearney
Oregon Agricultural College, Corval
lis, June X. Major "Joseph K. Partello,
professor of military science . and tac
tics at the college, has been appointed
senior instructor to several thousand
men from Western colleges attending
the R. O. T. C. summer; camp at Camp
Kearny,, near 8an Diego. Cai- ,
Major. Partello will J leave this week
for. Ban Francisco 'for a conference
with General Liggett, chief of the West
ern department, before going south.
Captain Robert R. Glass, supply offi
cer, and Lieutenant B. E. Woody, range
officer, will also report to Camp Kear
ny. All will return to O. A. C. next
year. -?
Lieutenant Langdon H. Spooner, head
of the motor transport unit, will act aa
instructor at the summer camp of
that unit at Camp Holabird, MA, and
Captain E.!, T. Stamper of the engineer
unit will act , in a like capacity at
Camp Humphreys. Va
Student managers for . next year's
student publications were appointed by
the board of control as follows Karl
Price of Pomona. Cat. Beaver Annual ;
Harold Robinson of Forest Grove. Ba
rometer ; . Morris Bowker of Jtoseburg,
Commercial Print, student directory.
Donald W. Morse of Seattle' will be
' forensic manager for the student "as
sembly, rr V; .. : -S . ,
Roy 3. Keene of Salem, newly elect
ed president of the student assembly,
will be sent to- the Beabeck educational
- conference this summer. ; .
Wholesalers Force
jSugar Skyward; 80
. : Cents to Be Price
: K. TTranrinco. Jun , L IX. N. . S.)
Sugar took another Jump Monday.
The California A Hawaiian Sugar Re-
fining company' announced a new whole
sale basic price of 126.30 per hundred,
This marked the: largest siagle price
Jump of that staple, the , new quotation
being S.6 cents' higher than previous quo-
ttton. I" -" -!'.'; -' T' ;
.Thirty cent! sugar at retail will be
a reality her, vvnea the new allotment
gees on sale. s
Washington Grange
. Opens Annual Meet
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' Aberdeen, : Wash.; June 1. About 1000
people are here for the annual session of
the Washington i state grange, which
opened' today and will close June 5. ' The
gasoline shortage cut down the number
expected by automobile. S. J. Lowell,
national grange master of Fredonia, N.
,1.. snd J. Pampton. state lobbyist of
Washington. D. C... are among the "vls
. Itors. . ' ' .
Chautauqua Draws Crowds '
Brownsville Or., June l. A six-day
Chautauqua: began here Saturday night.
Larger crowds are turning out than ever
-.before. - ' .. ' "
EuckersMill, Near
Everett, Burned At
Loss of 8150,000
Bverett. Wash.. June 1. The saw
mill of Rucker Brothers' plant at Lake
Stevens. 10 .miles, from Everett, was
totally destroyed by fire early Monday
afternoon. Loss Is estimated at 1150,
000. Workmen were forced to run from
the mill to escape. The flames spread
when a belt caught fire, near the boiler
room, which prevented operation of the
pumps for a : tinfs and paralysed the
flrefightlng equipment. , The.- planing
mill, shingle mill and an extensive stose
of valuable finished lumber were saved.
Three dry kilns containing lath and
over 2.000.000 shingles burned. The lath,
mill, which was part of the main saw
mill, was burned. , -
The plani which had an output 1 of
160,000 feet In 10 hours, employed 250
men. - .
BDBOillC PLAGUE
REAPS MEXICANS
2 Prisoners Burn ;
Their! Way Out of c
Tacoma City Jail
. Tacoma, . June 1. (XT. P.) Two pris
oners burned their, way out of the city
Jail early : today and escaped. They are
T. C Harty, said by the police to have
confessed to many burglaries .' here and
iri Seattle, and a W. Sellers, L W. W.
organiser, who raised ; a defense fund
for the radicals tried i for the murder
of . American Legion men at Centralis
last Armistice' day. - -
' The two prisoners wrapped oil-soaked
rags around the end of a lead pipe
and placed the flaming mass against
the wooden ceiling of their celt A hole
was burned through the ceiling and Into
the city controller's office. The men
crawled through this opening and made
their way to the street.
The getaway Awas : discovered some
hours later, i when ' a ' passer-by saw
smoke pouring from the city hall win
dows. He called the fire . department
and the blase was extinguished. ;
. Mexico City, June 1. (I. N. S.)
The bubonic plague has broken out
at Vera Cruz. A dispatch from the
Vera Cruz authorities to the min
istry of .public health - today said
.that ' seven 'new cases, were reported
on. Sunday- The majority of the
cases so far quickly proved fatal, v
i Dr. Gabriet Maida of the ministry of
public health has summoned a confer
ence of physicians to discuss the situ
ation and to take steps to prevent a
spread of the epidemic. -
A strict quarantine has been ordered
at Vera Crus. Passenger trains coming
to this city from Vera Crus are stopped
several miles outside of the capital and
the passengers are not allowed to enter
the city until examined by physicians. -V
Provisional President' Adolfo ;de. la
Huerta has arrived to take the oath of)
office. He " was welcomed at the Co- !
Ionia station by General Obregon, Gen
eral Calles, General Hill and a crowd
of ' several thousand persons.' .. s
"My first - action will be to confer
with the members of congress regarding
the actual situation throughout ! the en
tire country," said the provisional presi
dent. 1 shall do everything possible
to restore constitutional order, . to
strengthen the government ; and .bring
about actual peace everywhere."
Rose City park cemetery, Mies Moore
being seated on a chair in the back of
the machine. The chair tipped as the
truck turned from Seventh into Knott.
The hospital attendants discovered that
one arm was Injured, but probably not
broken. . --1
TJ. S. Asks Dismissar
Of . Anti-Trust Case
Washington, , June I.-(TJ. P.) The
government' today asked . the supreme
court- to dismiss- the anti-trust 'proceed
ings started several years ago against
.the Quaker - Oats company. The action
ends the case, which resulted when the
Great Western Cereal company 'and the
Quaker - Oats ' company - combined - en
June f 2. 1911. '
Babbit Makes Eun
-On Auto Speedway
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, June 1.
U. P J During the heat of the clos
ing aps of the 500-mile race - here Monday
a rabbit,' scared up from a nearby field,
found its way . onto- the track. Straight
up the-track, past the stands It came,
cheered by thousands of people. - It fin
ally disappeared under the stand with
out Injury. . : .
ILLS OF ASTORIA
CUT LUMBER PR G
E
Astoria ; June - 1. -Announcement
was ' made i that- beginning today
then wilt be a big drop in the retail
price of lumber on the local market.
The cut; will range from $7 ,per
thousands feet on rough lumber to
$15 a thousand on the higher grades.
The reduction In the prices of shin
gles, and lath will be between SO and
60 per cent' v ?- v-'-rp'-H'-';
One result ff this reduction Is expected
to j be 'an a.lded . Impetus to building
operations ih Astoria where residences
and business: houses are badly needed
and -buililing severely 'checked . by the
high prices of material and labor.
R. K. booth, manager ' of the ; City
Lumber A ; Supply company, selling
agent for : the local mills, said:
, "The primary object of this cut In
prices is to clear the , miUyards of their
accumulated stocks and at the same time
encourage building activities. The
transportation system of the country is
at the present itime greatly overloaded
owing to s lack ! of sufficient equipment
and the railroad yards of the East
and Middle West are badly congested on
account of the recent strikes. Conse
quently our rail shipments have been
curtailed and stocks are beginning to pile
up in the millyards. We are informed
it will be some time before traffic con
ditions will permit the normal rail. ship
menu eastward." ' "
Watchman Missing;
Drowning, Is Feared
Joe Rose, night watchman ; for - the
Pacific Bridge company, la believed to
have 'been drowned In -the Columbia
slough some time Sunday night, accord
ing, to reports , received late Monday
afternoon by the harbor : police. v Rose
rented a boab. Sunday evening from
the Weir boathouae on the slough to
go over to the dredge which Is at. work
ia midstream. Monday the rowboat
was found floating in the 1 slough near
the Derby street approach to the Inter
state-, bridge. :..
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I-' . lACt From ?MI!I1U:
Made in The City of Ncizrclli by Nuns
YOU hxvt never before seen such lace of t delicate
texture,! exquisitely wrought, strange, " beautiful, Ori
ental in d$iyn. .Imported recently, and donated to the
women of "Saint Helens Parish to be sold in behalf of the
New Churcjh Fund.- .
'Npw on I Display Sale Begins TuesM June i
Man Hit by Stick Dies .
Aberdeen, "Wash. June 1. Charles T.
Thompson, . assistant manager of the
Poulson - Automobile company in . this
city, .died Sunday while being ' con
veyed s by,' automobile from Mocllps
beach, following an accident . in which
a heavy piece of lumber fell across his
chest, causing heart shock. - w
' Atiyeh BrOGOriontal Rusa
S Tenth and 'AUer s Tenth mnd Alder
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Girl Is Injured in
Fall From Truck
Miss Ethel Moore, daughter of J. I.
Moore of 430 Union avenue, i fell from
the back of .a motor I truck at . Cast
Seventh and Knott streets Monday aft
ernoon and was taken to St. Vincents
hospital with severe lacerations over the
eye. . The family was on the way to
Portlaiid-Hoocl River
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" Busses Leave
Portland
: At St J Charles Hotel
at 9:45 m. and 2:45 p.m.
Returning
Leave Hood River
at 9:30 a. m. and 2:45 p.m.
Pare $2.25 Each Way
!54.10 for the Round
- .Trip - .
Praak Shepard,
, Pretld.Bt.
- Jaloff.
, Manager.
Phone Marshall 4381
Miller & Tracey
f Funerals for Less
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