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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, "p6rTLAND. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1S20. THREE DELEGATES ELECTED TO THIRD PAIOTIVEHIN -. Three 'delegates were elected to represent, Oregon at tbajriatlonal convention of the Committee of 4 S at the meeting of the local branch T that organization at the public library Tuesday night. They . were J. II. Hart, formerly of Reed col lege, E. E.'Schwartztauber, a teach - er at Lincoln high school, and "W. P. Adams, lawyer of Portland. J The state organization is entitled to tlvjt delegates, though but three were elected. Another meeting will be held Saturday evening, however, at whlcle it 1 expected that the other two will be elected. - . -v . . t .- ,- The meeting wm well attended, the chairman being S. K. Howard. The se , lection of delegates came after a gen- eral discussion- of the purposes of the meeting and of the best course to be followed by the organization during the coming campaign. A. number of those present urged, that no action bV taken until after the close of .the San Francisco convention, when It would be possible to determine whether the Committee of 48 could swing its support to the Democratic nominees and platform. It was deter mined, however, to name the delegates so that they would be in position to at tend the national convention which has been called to meet at Chicago July 10 ' tO 13. . - . . ' It Is being argued by some of the lead ers of the local movement that there will 'be no third party movement in the com - ins campaign provided McAdoo is the Democratic - nominee. George Cleaver, state committeeman of the committee, held to-that opinion. ; He predicts that should McAdoo win the Democratic nom ination that , the third party will swing to his support, but, he contends, should Palmer, Cox or some others now men tioned, be selected to head the Demo cratic ticket that there will be a coali tion organization born at Chicago which will put a full ticket in the field and i wage an active and aggressive campaign '-between now and November. PLANKS FRIENDLY TO " LABOR, DRYPREDICTED (Con tinned From Flit One.) mitted to the subcommittee a treaty plank as follows : "We advocate adoption - of the peace treaty without reservations which, would Impair its Integrity. We believe this ts the best and most practical way to re store peace. .. But if . such differences of opinion exist as to the form or sub stance of the reservations proposed as to prevent such .ratification, then we de mand that they be so harmonised that the treaty will be ratified without nec essary delay. This is a solemn duty we owe the country and humanity. Pomerene's plank - expresses the view of that group of Democrats, who, while supporting he president, deem ratifica tion at once the essential thing: ' Through Senator Walsh, Mrs. Robert Armstrong Dean, president of the Cal ifornia. Federation of Housewives league, submitted to the full committee, a plank arainnt Brefiteertnr. It Drovided t ; Additional legislation to make the Le ver act more effective. Prevention of boarding, speculation and manipulation of foodstuffs. federal control of the warehouse sys tem. : W- Early In ; the eveulng the committee discussed the League of Nations plank, Senator Walsh ox Montana, an .insur gent" who favors reservations, taking a leading part. Walsh urged that the Wil son plank, as the latest draft of the league plank Is known, should not be adopted- - He said Its demand for treaty ratification without substantial reserva tions would act as a boomerang upon the Democratic party, and pointed out the futility of expecting unqualified rat ification, . without - a strong reservation to Article X. unless the Democrats won overwhelming control of the senate. Even then. Walsh Indicated. It would be diffi cult to get enough Democrats to vote for ratification unless Article X ; was modified bv a stronsr reservation. : After exoressina- his views on this subject with considerable vigor, Walsh left the .meeting and did not return. He denied that discord caused him te de part. "- :' -v'- - ;' '--Senator Glass said at the conclusion of the session that it was difficult to predict when the sub-committee would finish its work, but indications were it would not be for 24 hour " This would throw the reporting of the platform to the full convention over Thursday or possibly Friday. U.S. Court to Take Care Of of All Cases Naturalization All jurisdiction over naturalization affairs will be given up by the circuit court of Multnomah county aer July 31 except the clearing up of such appli cations for citizenship as may be filed In this court before that date. .This is a decision which has been reached by the circuit Judges, following a suggestion from the bureau of naturalization that duplication of work could be avoided by providing for the filing of all citizenship applications in the -" United States dis trict court ' The order providing for this change was signed. Tuesday by Presid ing Judge McCourt. -' Electrical Code Is v Changed by Council An amended electrical code, modified to conform ; with the national electrical code, now to effect In almost every large city . of the United States, was passed by the city council this morning. The ordinance was submitted by Commission er Barbur, after the, department of pub lic works ' had thoroughly revised the code. "y ,i j r' - Si -ME. Mf - Athletic , U N I O! N S U ITS Regularly Priced $250, $3, $4 ' $1.95 Three Garments for $5.75 v Well-made, easy-fitting, cool and comfortable. Three in a box. - See the window display. BEN SELLING Leading Clothier Morrison at Fourth . SxBmse without Soreness P lioep ii hanay LIMEMEET TO SOLVE LI m MET PROBLEM With a limited market for lumber In the . East and a. shortage of cars for transcontinental shipments, is It better that a few mills in the Wil lamette valley should ; run double shifts and a number of small mills shut down, or that all of the mills run.- single eight hour shifts and share -whatever business is pre sented? 1 . '' ; "- ' '. . : This is the problem presented at a conference , of lumbermen: and officials of the 'Southern Pacific company In the office of the Public Service cororsission at the courthouse Tuesday afternoon. After a lonr and heated discussion S. B. Cobb of the Standard Box Lumber company was appointed chairman of a committee to handle the situation. Reports .submitted by the Southern Pacific company showed that an average of 150 cars per day, or about 44 per cent of the actual demand, is beine su Dolled the mills in Willamette valley south of roriujio.- Distribution of these cars has been bandied by the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's association on the basis of capacity output on the mills. The Booth-Kellr mill at Snrinrf ield. with a capacity of 250.000 feet in eight nours, and the North Bend Mill A Lum ber company of North Bend, with a dally capacity of 100,000 feet, have been op erating day'and night shifts and claimed a double allotment of cars. Other mill operators objected to this method of dis tribution and many of them threatened to put on double shifts and demand cars in proportion to the incre.ased cut. According to L. A. Nelson, secretary of the West Coast Lumbermen asso ciation, the market for lumber in the East has been falling off rapidly during the past month. Labor troubles in many eastern cities have resulted in a total discontinuance of building operations, he said, and freight congestion at eastern terminals interfere with prompt deliv ery of shipments. - Carloads of lumber are often 150 days in reaching the At lantic seaboard from Oregon and Wash ington, whereas under normal conditions deliveries - are made in about 10 days. The result -of the demoralised 1 condi tion of 'the eastern lumber market is a serious 'menace to the lumber ' industry in Willamette valley and the smaller operators fear that they will be crowded out of a share In the imlted i business by the larger mills. Philip Boehner, head of the .Boehner Lumber : company of North : Bend, stated - at the conference Tuesday afternoon that be could save $5 per thousand ; by operating a night shift, but that he had discontinued the night shift out of fairness to the smaller mills, f i- " T. The Booth --Kelly Lumber company has been operating two eight-hour ; shifts for the past two years and the i North Bend Mill tc Lumber company has oper ated two shifts intermittently. ; Twenty lumber companies were represented at the conference.- i '.- fr-.s- ...' PORTLAND TAKES STEPS TO KEEP OUT PLAGUE (OontiBU(3 Prom ' Pm On. Its wooden constructed docks, has long been infested with rodents. - In May two' ships arrived from : the Orient, Dr. Panrlsh said.' Both vessels, like all deep-yater ships, were rat car riers. The plague has been sweeping through Japan and China and govern ment reports indicate that the disease reached North America this time on ves sels from the Far East, passing through the Panama canal and docking at Vera Crux, where the first outbreak was re ported. - ' -: While Dr. Parrlsh was doing this, Captain Jacob Speie harbormaster, appeared before the city council and se cured i the Immediate passage of an emergency ordinance giving him full power to -regulate the docking of ves sels, and specifying that rat guards must be used on all land lines. The ordinance also provides that ships must be fended away from the docks at least six feet with floats, to prevent, rata from jump ing ashore. The -ordinance becomes ef fective at once. -; ---5 . 1 : When , the public : health officers ar rive here. Dr. Parrlsh said, they will be asked to assist in a survey of the waterfront. All docks will be thorough ly examined, rat specimens will be taken and examined to see whether or not they are infested with fleas, and steps will be taken towards a campaign Of extermination. i; ; - i: "Ton can do all the trapping and poisoning possible against rats and you cannot exterminate them," Or. Parrlsh said. "The only satisfactory procedure is to build against them. Wooden struc tures will not bar rats. The docks should be of concrete or some other substance they cannot gnaw through. Tve been fighting to protect the city against rats for three years and something must be done now. The- plague has not reached Portland and I do not say it will, but it is a menace." - I There are some regulations " existing now providing for rat guards on ship's lines, but there has been little enforce ment, and the matter of using floats to fend off ships has been largely dis cretionary. Captain Speler said the rats along the waterfront are more abundant now than he has ever seen them. NDIAN VAR VETS ' RECALLEPIC SCENES (Oonttauei Frost pas OnaA ' ' concrete demands' for delivery to con gress. - After several veterans had recited their cases and the troubles' the organi sation has had in getting recognition contrasted with that granted Civil war veterans and others. Congressman C N. McArthur spoke. - McArthur explained the failure of, con greea to act as due to the fact that Its western . membership cannot, in point of numbers, act against the eastern repre sentatives, men who have no conception of Indian war service nor the needs of Indian war veterans. t Clarence R. Hotchkiss. editor of the Oregon Veteran, also spoKe. PLEASEBE Br AFTERirOOS 'The morning program was entirely devoted to business discussion, while the afternoon program was of a social na ture. :i It was planned and carried out under the direction of Sons ad Daugh ters of Veterans and included among others the following numoers: Orches tra ; solo dance, Aneta Belle Austin ; violin solo. Milton Dunham; baritone solo, L. Carroll Day I reading. Roberta D. Jones ; solo, Marie - Fisher ; Scotch comedian, Mr. Graham. -: At the noon hour the' Sons and Daugh ters served a bountiful banquet provided by 'Portland business ' houses. Great tables were heavily laden with a wide as sortment of edible temptations, includ ing a supply 'of chicken that might have fed an array. Officers of the Sons and Daughters organisation in charge ; of the program and banquet - .were :, Mrsf Mathew Steele, 'president; Mrs.' J.- W. Martin, vice president ; Mrs. . Rose Young, sec ond vice . president ; Mrs. Minnie Mc Gregor, treasurer, and Hosia Wood, sec retary. , ' Presiding at the -meeting is Cyrus HI Walker of Albany, 83 -years old and a veteran of Indian wars and the Civil war. Walker, dean of pioneers. Is grand commander of the veterans or r an tea 1 1 no and Is further- distinguished as the old est living white person born west of the Rocky niotyi tains. MAICT TAR58 HE CAS SPlX ' This veteran and pioneer was born at the famous Whitman f mission in 1828 and many are the stories he can tell of those days and nights in the wildwood when his young ears were initiated for the first time to that quaint melody of coyote . howl and Indian" war whoop. Walker fought Indians valiantly , and added to his laurels as A soldier when be. served as a first, lieutenant in B company. First Oregon -volunteers,,,, dur; ing the Civil war. -; ""s, i Another member of the same company who is a hale and hearty participant in the day's activities is John W. CuUen of Portland. Cullen. over whom the ex periences of 82 years have fallen, has a pioneer . and Indian war story to : tell that rivals' the most melodramatic imag ination. He was a member of the same Civil war company as was Commander Walker and : when Second ' Lieutenant Phil Sheridan, destined to be i a com manding general, was transferred from Fort Hoskins, Cullen ' succeeded to his place as post adjutant. 1 K S1 Many honors are being showered upon W, D Stlllwell, oldest living war veteran In - attendance - at the convention and .probably the oldest pioneer citizen of Oregon able to attend the pioejeer con vention whicH opens at The Audit orlu Thursday Stlllwell will soon be 96 years old,: but he's still wide awake In pioneer day dis cussions, though he doesn't see nor hear so well as he did a year ago. Stlllwell spent the winter in San Diego, Cat., and just by way of completing a round of pleasure M is contemplating a delight ful summer, with' his daughter at Sea side. ..i ' . -.. t -." -.. ' Stillweil . crossed the' plains to Oregon with his parents in 1844 and for many years has been living In Tillamook coun ty, where he actively farmed a big acre age until recently. He was born in Ohio and after coming to Oregon, participated in the Cayuse and Tskima Indian wars. TWO OF - Ite 8TBYIVE f Of 120 ' comrades in . the company of which Stlllwell was a member , In the Takima war, only he and one - other remain to recall those :stirring times.. Among the veterans who had regis tered Wednesday morning were: W. H. Gates, W. D. Stillweil, John Kelly, John R, Boyd. J. W. Cullen. Cyrus Walker, W. R. Boyd. Edward Wicks, G. B. Biggs, Peter De Moss, T. N. Faulkner, J, A. GulHford. D. A. McKee, Joseph Gro shong. C . A. Wallace and Sam Gattoru Widows and wives of veterans pres ent are: Mrs. L. A. Dixon, Mrs. A.'. L. Stlnson, Mrs. J. A. Gulllford, Mra D. A. McKee and Mra Mary B. HowelL Most of trjose present at Wednesday's meeting of veterans will be on hand Thursday morning for" the forty-eighth annual reunion. of the , Oregon Pioneer society at The-' Auditorium. - whereplo neers from all parts of the stato will gather for social and business meetings. CITY WOULD BUY' ROSE CITY CLUB : City . Commissioner S. C. Pier has made an offer of $50,000 to Henry Teal and associates for the Rose City Country ; club property f for play ground purposes. This is the 'Rose City speedway, including: 92 acres. On it is located the mile dirt track, said to be the best on the coast. . : The assessed valuation of this prop erty is : $62,400. This Includes the steel frame grand stand, for which the as sessment valuation is $3000. The land is given a valuation ; pf- $59,000. -' The city's offer also includes an agreement 'to pay assessments amounting to about $7500. ".' ' , Commissioner :. Pier : declares this ' is the best-location" for a '-playground in the Rose City Park district : Plenty of facilities are offered for baseball dia monds and tennis courts, and the grand stands and bleachers . will provide .ac commodations for crowds witnessing outdoor pageants, for which locations now available are Inadequate. f - J Efforts will also be made to have the Multnomah- county fair take place at the speedway Instead of Gresham, if the site is secured. Pier said. - Thieves Take Loot Prom Hotel Eooms: And Dwelling House . Walter Bean, 601 Lexington street, re ported to the- police that $7$ in currency was taken from his home Tuesday night. Thirty-three hand towels were taken from the Larrabee hotel, 227 Larrabee street, according to Ida Streiter, land lady. A dark suit and a watch were taken from; the room occupied by H. G. Johnson at the 'Morgan hotel, accord ing to his report filed at police head quarters. Sam, Dahl reported that a suit, a watch and chain and black, bag were taken from his room at the same hotel. ' - - Carlton Teachers to Get Higher Salaries Carlton. Or., June 30. The -school budget for next year, carrying appro priations for the salary of one more teacher in Ahe high school and for in creased pay for all members of the staff, was passed by a narrow majority, 48 to 42. : The budget was killed last year by a vote of 17 to l.v . MAP. ltl OVEBLAUD Model 90 Touring car, only $700. This car is in excellent shape, good tires, good paint, good upholstering. It is seldom such a snap as this can be found. This car must be sold this week. $7fJb is the price bring your money" with you. Can arrange terms on- pare Covey Motor Car Compan rrsiusgtoa est at zuu Dmpany Mala 62f4 Mir MURPHY, CARTOONIST, PAYS PORTLAND VISIT "Hello, Jimmy," ran around The Journal office this morning in what the musicians would call a cumu lative crescendo..--..-- v-.. - And James yE. S&ufphy ' grinned the grin that he made famous in The Journal, office when he was The J ournal'js cartoonist - away back in 1915. He admitted that he was glad to .be horae- again. , - But not to stay. 5 'Vlramy" Murphy is the! comic strip father" of Toots and Casper,' the quaint couple , whose doings are recorded not only In The Journal but In scores of other large newspapers throughout the United States..- i " : ; Though he went to San Francisco as cartoonist on, the Call when he left Port land. Murphy made the Bay City only a ' stopping . place on the way to New York, and when he arrived in New York he 'arrived big." both in cartoons and comics, -with the ; International Feature Service. r . 1 .. . Now he can : afford to do precisely what he is doing send ; "Toots and Casper on a dally journey to New Tork with his best regards while he and Mrs. Murphy enjoy the beauty and . coolness of spot Hke Portland. - ; , . H and Mrs. Murphy will be in Port land a week or 10 days yet, v, They are at the Benson. . - . -- . . ' , ; "Portland is still the finest home city I know. X. New York is the greatest money making city-on eartlu Editorial cartoons are going out," but the comic Is just gaining sway." These were the three conclusions which' he had firm ly reached and which he Interjected as he talked, over old ..times with , former associates.-.: . Apartment Robber' " Sentenced to Jail For 6 Months' Term Jack Andrews pleaded guilty Wednes day to -having taken clothing and r sil verware from a room in the Marvin apartments, 431 East Taylor street.1 and was sentenced to serve 180 days .in jail by Municipal Judge Rossman. . V ? In the. city jail - are Bernard Lustlg and Clyde E. Harrow, supposed accom plices of Andrews in the robbery of the Marvin apartments, during, the Shrine convention. Lustig and Harrow have maintained a surly attitude, according to Deputy District Attorney Thomas McGuire, and. refuse to state what ' plea they will enter J to a charge of simple larceny. ' It Is possible that they will be brought, to .triaj on Thursday. .? Har row was .a special policeman during the Shrine convention. - Miss Peterson, for Tears Instructor in; FaiUng School, Dies Miss Laura A. Peterson, for nearly 30 years' one of the mostpopular teachers of Failing school, dledas a result of an - operation for internal T" injury due to an ac- h cldent at Seaside two ' years ago : when . an enormous wave f ' hurled her 80 feet i and ' bruised her aarainst heavy Um- - bers. Miss Peterson v was born In Port- . , land, the daughter of T ;. v. pioneer p ar en t a " - Brlggs " R, and, June J Peterson. . ' 5w was educated Sphere : , and , i gave her home town "tJSiiX instruction. She took mm'ML?Zai great interest In her school work and one of, her greatest Joys ;wa receiving letters from boys in the service, boys of foreign birth or parentage who- had been taught Amer leanization in' the Portland schools. During her last Illness she thought con stantly of her graduation ; class with which she had been for three terms.' In terment will be in the family plot at Lone Fir cemetery. ; . ; 7 . Arthur .Ray Atwood Arthur Ray Atwood, S8, died suddenly Sunday nieht at the home of his par- rents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Atwood, j 71 Grand- avenue north, from a strokel of apoplexy, Atwood was a member of the old Oregon field artillery, battery A. He was in the service for about 15 years.-. . He volunteered for service on the border during, the .Mexican trouble and stayed In the service between that time an the beginning of, the World war. - He went through the entire war. and waVone of the few of the original battery to return home alive. - The vet erans of the old field artillery had charge of the funeral, which was held at 2 p. m. today at the East Side Undertaking es tablishment Interment was at Rose City emetery with full military honors. Be sides the parents the following brothers and sisters survive : Charles M.; Lyle E., and Margaret B. Atwood was not mar Wilson Is Quietly Pleased With Work .At San Francisco fBjr Tutted NewO Washington. June tt,Presldent Wil son was described as "pleased" with deliberations of the Democratic national convention at San Francisco. Further than this, little Is to be gleaned at the-Whlte House about what -the leader of the party thinks of its convention. JThex president Is" keeping hts oplnionsto himself, csrefully .re fraining from doing anything that might be regard efl as an attempt to Influence the convention. . ' He Is following proceedings with keen interest. Dispatches are carried to him hot 'from the wire every few minutes and enable him to know what happens almost immediately. 1 " THE DALLES - 5807 GIVEN IN CENSUS :.. (By United Newt) - -" Washington," June 80. (U. P.) The census bureau today announced the following .1920. population; fig ures: ' - ,.-- '. '. , " i ' : ' . v Monterey Park, Cal., 410. ' V San Luis Obispo, ' Cal.. 5895 ; increase 718, or 14.8 per cent. ? s The Dalles. Or.. 6807; increase 927, or 19 per cent. Alameda county. California. 114,127 ; increase 97,996, or 89.8 per cent. , Mendicants Barred F rom Peddling on Streets of Portland Samuel 6. Goldsmith n Funeral service for Samuel S. Gold smith, traveling salesman for the North ern Flour Mills company, who died Fri day night after watching the parade, was held this morning at 10 'o'clock at Holman's chapel. Interment was at Riverview cemetery. Special Rates for 'Fourth1 Arranged Special passenger rates to Hillsboro on the red electric and Oregon electric lines and to Oswego on'Tiha S. P. electric will be made effective July 4, for, the ac commodation of - holiday : crowds travel ing to these points, , according to an nouncements - made by passenger off i- iclals of the two roads this morning.- Mendicants will receive no more per mits to peddle in the streets of Port land. . . - ' ) - The city council Wednesday repealed the ordinance which, . authorizes the granting of permits to Indigents, and as peddling '.without licenses is prohibited, the crippled : shoe - string vendors will have to go elsewhere. ' t -:- t . - City Commissioner Pier said there was favorable, comment "from hundreds of visitors in Portland last week on the absence of beggars - and troublesome street merchants. ' ; . , , . Park and Flanders .To Have New Block Plans have been prepared for the erec tion of a three story brick and concrete building, 100x100, on property owned by Elizabeth Barron at the northeast cor ner of Park and Flanders streets. The site has been leased for a 10 -year period by Chanselor A Lyon, dealers in auto mobile accessories, i . , ; STANDARD 0! PI OFFICIAL IGMES DEALERS' W. Oil company officials Vi'eO. -- V; refused to comment on V-.q i.-.f' s of a report made public by i, spc ! it committee from the i. Dealers" IIos, r Car association which declare" tha shortage of gasoline is purely arti ficial, made by he companies as a means of preparing the ;. public for an increase 4rf-price. " There's . no use in making reply to sijch a. statement.", said J. E. Balsley. representative for this district of the Standard OU company, "'Kveryone knows! the shortage Is actual and not imaginary. Everyone knows that the automobile In dustry has gone far ahead of fuel pro duction, very one-knows that, though real, the Shortage .Is temporary and will be relieybd early' in the fall when our big new refinery at -Richmond, Cal., Is completed, go we can get more gasoline out of a given, gallon of crude oil -.'To say j anything would merely be to prolong a silly controversy." The committee consists of C. L. Bona, W. H. Walllngford, J. H.iOaham. A. B. Manley. ir II. ET-Jng snd M. O. WISklns. The reptrt points out the "peculiarity" of the present shortage Iri ' that when ever gasoline was imported to c itry communities through indei'wndent sjurcep Che oil companies'cut the prlre." It com ments on the report that, while gasoline consumption Increased' during the early months of 1820. production went forward 14 per cent faster." , New York Telegram Goes to Three Cent n New York, June 30. U. P.) Begin ning tomorrow the price of ' both the Evening Telegram and the Kvenlng Sun will be 3 cents, Frank A. Munney, owner, announced today. - High cost of labor and print paper was given as the reason. To Sell Pet G PHONE MAIN -7173 A "Want" 'ad in Tho Journal will bring you a buyer. ' BEGINNING' TODAY FOR 3 DAYS ONLY trfNW4 i.Vl W4Ni i U II rr I r ill fni OWEN M ... m w la 1 1 W s" . ' -X. ttL W slsssssssw M M ' M OK mmm fL A