THE OREGON DAILY JOU RNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON
MONDAY, JULY 12, !.
COUNTY HELD HOT
LIABLE FOR WORK
OF SPECIAL MEN
la an opinion given to the county
commissioners Monday morning.
District Attorney Evan holds that
Multnomah county is not liable for
the payment of services rendered by
special deputies appointed by County
Clerk Beveridge. at the request of
petitioners, for the purpose of ex
pediting the checking of names on
the Several " Initiative petitions re
cently filed. ,
The Initiators of the petitions delayed
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the regular forces of the county clerk's
offloe would have been unable to handle
the work in time tor fills. They th-sn
offered to pay the cost of the speedal
deputies if , they were put on the tasn.
Kilt- lati ,nn,lMl in ttt fvin ntv fnrn
missioners to make the .payment from
county funds. The total cost for the
extra deputies on the five Initiative pe
titions will be about $3000. . -
MRS. H<ON ASKS TO BE
NAMED SOJTS1 GUARDIAN
Mrs. Josephine B. Holton filed a peti
tion in the circuit court Saturday for
appointment as the a-uardian of her
minor son, Cyril Kenneth Holten, 10
years old.' She says this step Is neces
sary to protect his interests In his
father's estate. : ". . 1
Mra Holton says she and Frank Hol
ton were divorced and the custody of
the boy was given to her."- At the time
of the divorce Holton owned properties in
Walnut Park and Broadway Additions in
Portland, and in Dundas tract, , near
.Mosler, she says.'" She . says Holton re
married, taking- Jean Clarke as his wife,
and living- with her until his death in
December, 1819. They had no chjldfen
and Cyril Kenneth. Holton is the sole
heir. All the real property owned by his
father was secretly and fraudulently
transferred to Jean Clarke and her
brother, 'John Clarke, and that at Hol
ton's death no probate proceedings were
ever Instituted, the mother charges.
CHARGE AGAINST GYPSY GIRL
DROPPED BY COMPLAINANT
Annie Lee. a picturesque Roumanian
gypsy girl, was freed Saturday from the
charge of larceny from a person, made
against her by Grant ! Adams. The
chsrgs wss dropped by Deputy District
A ttorney Hammersly, at : the request -of
Adams, after the girl had been taken
into custody and an investigation was
stsrted. Adams claimed that the girl
had taken from him on the street a cer
tificate of deposit for $140 on the Bank
of East Portland. -The plrl told a dif
ferent story, but declared the certificate
of deposit had been torn up, and Adams
decided he wanted the matter dropped.
Marriage Licenses
Vancouver. Wash., July 12. Marrlajre
licenses were issued Saturday to Kath
ryn Clearwater, 22. and Raymonl
Skews, 22; Portland : Harry Maheur. 2.
and Frieda Funk, 20, Portland; Alvin
Sievers, 28, and Lulu EiJeen Nelley, 29.
Portland; Joptha Bramlette, , and
Mrs. Anna Pierce, 43, The" Dalles; Le
Roy John DeOrave, 21, Seattle, and-,
rore Josephine Brown, , 20. - Portland ;
James Roy Barrett, 24. and Mary Mabel
Marsh,' is, Portland t John McElroy. 3 4,
and Gertrude Morrow. J4. Portlan.l
Roy. Crittenden, 29. Portland, and Ade
laide Peterson, 20, Kelso ; A, Burgt.
8, Forest Grove, and Jelia Van Blari
can, 67, Portland ; J. Christiansen, 37,
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wm . jeorg- vecu ctstaorooK, zi, uar
son. and Mabel Charlott Balfour,; 16.
Portland ; .- Charles Henderson, legal,
Camas, and Irene Enumbres, legal,
Wsshougal; Barry A. Hoist, 23, and
Hazel Heater, 26. Seattle ; Edward , W.
Franklin, 36. and Violet R, Abbott. U,
Reed sport. Or. ; Everett Lowck. 31. anJ
Msud .Sawvel. 27. Oregon City : Gay E.
Evans. 23, Vancouver, and Mary E.
Barrel. 22. Nebraska ; Stanley M. Ar
thur. 27, and Ida M. Crater," 22. Portland.
: Claim Committee to Meet
, The Auditorium claims committee will
meet again In the city council chambers
w ruiiMmj mgni wnen me taking of
testimony to show whether- or not bonds
men of Hans Pederson, the contractor,
are morally entitled to further compen
sation from the city. ,
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Most recent photograph of ex-Empress Eugenie, taken three months
ago by special permission of her majesty, the queen of Spain, at Se
ville. It shows the ex-Empress Eugenie with the queen of Spain In
, the garden of the palace of the Duke of Alba, the nephew of the ex
empress. The ex-empress celebrated her ninety-fifth birthday May 5.
Many Logging Camps
Closed by Shortage
Of Cars Are to Resume
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At a meeting of the Columbia River
Loggers association Monday afternoon
In the Spaulding- buildirfg it was decided
that many . logging camps now closed
down would ' reopen July 19. Camps of
the Columbia river territory closed June.
19 for the annual cleanup. .
. Many sawmills buying from independ
ent loggers have been obliged to lose
down on account of car shortage, and
loggers expressed the opinion that there
are still too many logs in the river.
The price - remains steady at 18, $24
and 330. -y -.-.5-'- ,, : , 1 1
Alaskans Coming to
Annual Buyers' Week
Alaska, V British Columbia and Mon
tana, in addition to Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and California are going to have
merchants in Portland August 9 to 14
to attend, the eighth annual Buyers'
week sessions. aocordlig to advices re
Week sessions, according to advices re
the Buyers': Week committee.
Funeral f Josephine Keho
The funeral of Josephine Keho. aged
8,' who i attended the Madeleine parish
school. Will be held, from the Madeleine
parish church, . Twenty-fourth and Sis
kiyou . streets, Tuesday, at S - o'clock.
Death was caused by heart affections
resulting from influenza. Her father is
Joseph Keho. of the Meier & Frank
company, who has lately returned .from
Europei A,; younger sister, Katherine,
survives. . ( ; .:....::::.
Loggers' Legion to
Hold Annual Picnic
And Sawing Contest
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The annual outing' of the Loyal Le
gion of Loggers and - Lumbermen will
be held next Sunday at Rock Island,
in the Willamette river near Oregon
City.
Three principal "contests for the
championship of t the Northwest, how
held by . Tacoma, will be conducted a
log-rolling, tree-falling and log-saving
contest. ; In the log-sawing contest two
men will Work on an 18x13 fir log. Te
eoma holds the present record with 49
seconds for saving a log of this size.
Dancing will be a feature of the oc
casion : and a program has been pre
pared with several speakers, r Including
the mayor and the governor. The com
mittee in charge of the picnic consists
of W. A. Pratt (chairman y. W. A.
Thompson. John J. Drill, G. E. Veers,
S. M. Brown and W. E. Woods.
Rock island is reached by , launch
from the Oregon City : car line.
Girl Bead Visitor
Dies at Twin Rocks
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Twin Rocks, Or.. July 12. Elizabeth
Wilcox. 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. JV Wiloox - of Reedville. died
of valvular heart ' trouble here Satur
day." Wilcox hurried by automobile by
way of Sheridan, but arrived after the
girl's death. . She Is survived .. by - a
younger . sister and .- brother and her
parents
LAST EXPRESS :
OF FRAME DIES
Paris, July it.-Eugenie, widow
of Napoleon III and last .empress of
France, died at her home In Spain
Sunday.
: When Marie Eugenie Ignace Au
gustine de Montijo, daughter of a
Spanish count, was a little girl, a
gypsy fortune teller told her she
would some day occupy a throne and
live to be 5. ,
For 18 years the "beautiful Spaniard.'
as she was known In her prime, was em
press of France, and during most of that
period . her whims ruled not only her
own country but directed the -destinies
of Europe. &
For a time, while Napoleon SIX was ill.
she was regent. ' v
The gypsy's second prophecy came true
also. Eugenie was 85 years old May S
last. -, ' . - f"-y V;: J
For the people of France she has been
more than half a century the living
embodiment of historic days the glory
of the empire. Its fall, the revolution that
gave birth to the republic after the ig
nominy of the , defeat at the hands of
Prussia, 40 marvelous years of amaz
ingly swift reconstruction and then the
great war with its four years- of de
feat and suffering and the near debacle
and finally the day of revenge..
MANIPULATION
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Keep Your Bank
Balance Growing Up
Not Going Down
BANK .accounts require
careful cultivating
else they shrivel up in-:
stead of grow up.
It is no real benefit to you to open a Savings
Account and then forget or neglect your
duty to it.
One of the, greatest services the United
States National Bank can afford depositors
is to encourage the growing up of their ac
counts. '
"One of the Northwest's
Great Banks"
XJnitedStafes
National Baiilo
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lower rates to butter makers and con
densaries? COKTKOI, HEtl AS AIM
The writer- Is informed." says the
report, "that the league claims it
now has signed up 7 per cent of the
millc produced during the period unttl
1825. Its plan Is to set the entire 100
per cent and thus be able to control
the market and name the price." - -
To The Journal Monday, Alma y X.
Katz, secretary of the league, said the
organization officials had: not been
asked to give their views on the
sltuaUon by Investigator Mackay. -
Mackays report ' says i "As - to pro
duction costs. July, 1919, to July, 1820.
Alma D. Katz left with the writer a
statement of whlcn the following Is an
exact copy."
This' statement from Kats mentpns
that feed prices have increased 24.5 per
cent, and other increasing costs are
itemised. -
The report also says i "The writer
Informed . Albert 8. Hall, general man
ager of the league, that-, a report was
being prepared for the mayor's consid
eration," and that the league's prices
nutd ha discussed. ' '-y"
. Kats and Hall were both informed, the
report continues, that any statement irom
them would be appreciated, but up to
the time the report was written they of
fered Mackay nothing. , - , -"BBTOJTD
OF LAW"
History of the league was traced, the
league having been issued a charter June
8 of this year. It succeeded the Oregon
Dairymen's league, which , was ; a stock
corporation, whereas the present one
claims to be' a non-profit sharing asso
ciation- Commenting on this, the report
says : The writer is informed tne coange
in tlta nature of the corporation was
made under the guidance of Aaron Sa
plre, a lawyer imported from San Fran
cisco, with the object of reorganizfng the
league so it would be beyond "the pale
of the law prohiblUng price fixing. That.
I am Informed, is the reason zor tne
non-profit Sharing organization
The distributors do not claim the rise
in prices to be based upon a shortage
of milk." the report states. "They state
there Is a surplus of many gallons a
day. They state the law of supply and
demand does not enter into the situa
tion."
LOSXS TO HOLD PBICES
There Is shipped to PorUand dally
several thousand more gallons of milk
than the market takes at the prevailing
prices, says, the report,' higher prices
lowering the buying power of the con
sumers. ; The league, rather than placing
this surplus on.1 the market at a lower
price, is is charged, divert the milk into
other channels and - doea so at a lops!
this being charged back to the producers
on a pro rata basis.
- Mackay also declares that pasturage
conditions are excellent, and claims to
have much evidence 'ot this from various
sources. Kats. however, informed The
Journal lionday :
"The pasturage this year is , worse
than it has ever been, and If "our cows
were fed only oh pasturage they would
be producing- only .one-half as much
milk as is now produced. I am about to
call a mass meeting of dairymen to dis
cuss this, and other points In the milk
price debate."
MA YOB GETS BE POST
' Mayor Baker received the report just
at noon.
"You. may be. sure that if anything in
It Indicates' conditions that should be
presented to the grand jury, the dis
trict attorney er to the United States
attorney, I will see that action is
taken prompUy, the mayor remarked.
From various sources Monday - came
information that the United States at
torney has already begun an invest! ra
Uon of the milk sltuaUon, and it was
reported at the city hall that the city's
findings are to be submitted to the
federal grand jury without delay.
Producers of PorUand s milk supply
get no part , of the recenUy announced
advance in the retail distributer s price,
according to Katz. ., . - - ..r
No change In the producer's price has
been made since spring, when dairymen
fixed $1.10 a hundred pounds as their
demand from distributors, Katz declared.
Notwithstanding this the distributors
have advanced the cost! 1 cent a quart.
effective July i, and - have given the
dairymen to understand that no part of
this increase will go to the producer, he
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In a cost analysis presented Monday,
K.au pointed out, that dairyman sell
100 pounds .of milk, equal to an average
of 48 quarts, to distributors for $3.20.
The distributors retail the same 46
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Pesirle
A beautiful 4-passenxer model
in . this popular -make is now
available at our salesroom. We
have jast taken this car in ex
change on one 'of xur Cadillacs.,
It has never been offered for sale'
before, and quick action plus the
small sum of 2300 will secure it.
Terms - can be . easily arranged.
Covey tlctor Car Company
Washington at 21st, Main 6244
Belgian Avenges
; Wrong'Committed
-When War Raged
Spa, July llv-KI. N. a One Bel
gian got revenge on Germany today
by taking matters into hie own hands
while the allied diplomats were par
leying with the German delegates oa
coal deliveries. A German named
Schiff, who was wanted by the Bel
gian authorities for looting a cha
teau while stationed near Spa with
the ex-kaiser, came -her with the
German delegation in a minor ca
pacity. He was diplomatically pro
tected .from arrest, but today he met
the owner of the chateau. - The Bel
giaa knocked the German down and
was about to renew the battle when
British Officers Interfered.
WOMAN ENTERS CONTEST
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quarts at 14 eents. if the customer pays
in so vance, ana urns realises a - cross
of SS.5S. or a net realisation of $3.82
a hundred pounds. If the customer pays
his milk bill at the end of the month, the
distributor realizes a net of $3.70.
Out of the $3.20 paid the producer he
nets only $2.68 a hundred pounds, be
cause he has to pay his own hauling
charges. The producer also takes care
of the surplus milk.
Katz Monday received from Seattle
figures on the prices of milk which show
that distributors are required there to
pay the producer S 3.7 a hundred pounds
wholesale for milk of the same quality
as is sold ; In PorUand. Yet Seattle
customers pay only 14 cents a quart for
the same milk.
. Two Are Heidi
Vancouver, Wash.. July 12. Kenneth
McCauley of Seattle and Roxle Gtannot-
tasio. 18-year-old Italian, are being held
by the police pending Investigation of
a motorcycle theft.
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Mrs, , Maude Kennan of Mliwankee,
' Wis., Democratic nominee for oon
. gress In the Fifth district.
Mrs. Maude Kennan of Milwaukee,
Wis., left for the east Saturday night
after a three day visit with her nephew.
Walter Le. Instructor in aviation for
the Oregon-Washington-Idaho : Aviation
company at Guilds. lake. Mrs. Kennan
Is Democratic nominee for congress In
the fifth Wisconsin5 district, being op
posed to-Victor Berger, Socialist candi
date for the office.
Mra Kennan attended- the national
Democratic convention at San Fran
Cisco and stopped off here on her way
heme. She expressed confidence In -her
ability to defeat Berger in the Novem
ber election. Berber was elected to con
gress by. the Socialists of his district
and was recently '.unseated , because of
alleged unpatriotic utterances. : .
Building Code Is to
Be Revised to Meet
Increased Demands
Portland's bunding code, passed four
years ago by Ohe city council, is to be
revised. Commissioner A. X Barbur of
the department of public . works has
written letters to the cities of the United
States that have been active in building
recently, asking-for copies of their build
ing; codes, together with . suggestions
from city engineers for Improvement of
their own laws. When these have been
received and studied, Barbur will ap
point a committee of t representative
Portlands-men, knowing the building
game and they wilt draft the new code.
The present building code,, Commis
sioner Barbur declares, has not kept up
with the growth of the city, and in some
particulars 'Is too fc severe. The instru
ment is frequently the subject of crit
icism from builders because it ordains
requirements not made In other cities as
fully advanced in their programs as
Portland is. yyry yyyT-
There is a growing sentiment through
out the United J States for a national
bulldine- code, standard In every city. A
national etectrio code has been devised
and generally accepted. The Portland
code was recently made to conform with
the national code.
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New York, July 12. (I. N." S.)
Three men of the crew of the steel
steamship Lake Frampton are re
ported missing after a collision off
Atjantlc .City, N. J., today, between
that vessel and the Southern Facifio
liner Com us. In which the Lake
Frampton was sunk.
Spokane Woman May
Have Been Victim
Of 'Hypo' Needle
Spokane, Wash.. July 12. (U. P.)
Police today are working on the the
ory that a mysterious "Mrs. Broek"
found dead" in a bathtub in the llalh
oay hotel here July 6 was the victim
of a "hypo needle gang" which oper
ated In Portland and Seattle. The
woman wss found nude and lifeless
face down In the bathtub. There were
no wounds on her.
A local woman was "shot" by the
gang last week, losing- two rings. In an
east side hotel. It became known today.
The woman refused to give details when"
Interviewed by police.
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.During Shrine convention week a
woman collapsed on the street, telling
the police after recovery that she be
lieved herself to have been "shot" by
a hypodermic needle In the hands of a
man who had been standing near her.
This Is the only Portland report of the
gang's workings."
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Extremely convenient in the home,
too. Readily ' moved i from room to
room, to the .porch, or out on the lawn
In some homes, the children have one
of these portable Victrolas for their
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Hear these Victrolas today at any
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.' will play any of the more than 5000
records in the Victor Record catalog.
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