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CITY EDITION
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THE WEATHEK Tonight and Friday.
rain: easterly winds. .
Minimum temperatures: i ;.
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Pocatello ....... 12 ' -New Yorki..... 33
Los Angeles .... 6 St. Paul 24
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VOL. XIX. NO. 241.
Entered u Second Clue Matter
I'osto-.ice. Portland, . Oregon
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1920.- TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
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Tax Reduction Depends on Rigid
Economy, Says G 0. P. Key-note;
'Refunding of Victory
Notes Into Long-Term Debts.
Hy Herbert V. Walker
t'niUd Press SUff Correspondent i
Washington, Dec. 16. (U. P.)
.Taxes can be reduced during 1921 if
congress cuts government expendi
tures, .Republican Leader Mondell
told the house today.
Mondell advocated reduclngpproprla
lionsfrom $1,500,009,000 asked by gov
ernment departments, to $3,250,000,000,
and opposed the claim or Secretary of
the Treasury Houston that government
J revenue must be kept to $4,000,000,000
annually-for at least two years.
. lie also opposed attempts, to reduce the
war debt heavily during the next few
years,-asserting the nation already has
paid 44 per cent of its war bill if war
loans to the allies are. not considered.
RKKCNIHSti IS ADVISKD
. Victory notes totaling about $1,500,000,
000 maturing May 0, 1023, cannot be
paid without increasing taxes and shotild
Vie refunded into- long term, obligations,
he said, adding that even witH taxes reduced-it
will be possible, through strict
economy, to substantially reduce the
floating debt, as represented by treas
ury certificates and War Savings
Stamps. !
Mondell is understood to have out
lined the general views of the Republi
can leaders, mid strong efforts to frame
the financial and revenue policy of the
house along these lines are -probable.
A general agreement has been reached
to -make ': big. (dashes in the appropria
tion bills, which Mondeil said is essen
" tint to any tax reduction.
Iareest reductions will be made In
the arm$', "navy and sundry civil appro
priation bills, for estimates totaling
$935,000,000 in excess -of the current ap
propriations have been submitted, Mon
dell predicted.
"The people are tired of enormous fed-
( Concluded on T'g Two, Column Tire)
FIRST GANGSTER
GOES TO " TRIAL
San Francisco Dec. 16. (I. N. S.)
Twelve temporary jurors were in
the jury box at 1 o'clock this after
noon fn the cae of Edmund (Spud)
Murphy, first of the Howard street
gang to be tried for as.saulj.ing
young girls. . . '"
One woman, Mrs. Kdith Burnett, was
included among the tentatively chosen
to hear the case.
Following" the selection of the 13 tem
IKirary jurors, court recessed until later
this afternoon, when the real battle over
the Jury "wiHhegin. .
One woman member of the jury panel
of -40 declared she favored -the Santa
llosa lynchii.gs when the trial opened.
Murphy appeared in court resplendently
Httired in a new suit and new silk shirt.
Mis wife and -yearTold child sat by his
side, llis mother, weeping softly, sat
-on the other" side. The wife's face bore
signs of-recent tears.
Americans 'Molested'
By Greek Troops at
Smyrna, Is Report
Varls. Ixc 16. (IT. P.) American
citizens in; Smyrna have been "mo
lested," following declaration of a state
of siege by Greek troops, the French
foreign office declared today. Official
dispatches gave no details.
- .Americans In Smyrna were believed to
be Red Cross and other relief work
ers, who entered the region with allied
troops and have remained during Greek
occupation.' . : .
H. Wallace May Be
Named for Cabinet
Miami.' lec 16. (T. N S.)
Henry C. Wallace, . editor of Wallace's
Farmer of Des . Moines, Io a, wil be
the next secretary of agriculture, it was
predicted today by Senator Albert D.
Cummins i of Iowa, who arrived last
night -to spend the winter here.
Two Informing Features
I n The Sunday Journal
Two news features of The Sun
day Journal that: appeal to the
readers1 who would, be thoroughly
informed - prv current events at
home and abroad -are published
under the respective captions:
"The National Capital" and
'"Kuropean Press Comment."
The National Capital" in
cludes a news symposium of Te-
cent, events in - Washington and,
is prepared by The Journal's
Washington bureau."
"European Press Comment" is
a digest of continental views and
reviews prepared for The Sun
day Journal by William Ivy, : for
eign correspondent of the Con
solidated Press Association.
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FELT IN ALGERIA
Paris, Dcc.; 1 6.; ( I. N. ' S. ) Two
violent earthquake. shocks visited
Algeria this morning, each lasting
several, seconds. No details as yet
are at hand as to what, if any dam
age or loss of life was caused.
GEORG KTOWX UNIVERSITY' '
RECORDS SEVERE QUAKE
, Washington, Dec. 16. (I. N. S.) The
seismograph at Georgetown ... university
recorded one of the most severe earth
quakes in years this morning.'
The first record of the shock came at
7:25 a. m. and became most pronounced
at 8:07 a. m. At 11 a. m. it was still
on, according to observers. There was
no indication of the probable location of
the quake.
BERKELEY SEISMOGRAPH
REGISTERS SEVERE SHOCK
Berkeley, Cal., Dec. 16. (I. N. S.)
The university seismograph early today
registered the worst quake in years. The
distance was estimated at approxi
mately 5900 miles from here by L. A.
Bond, seismologist.
t'liicago Records Shock
Chicago, Dec 16. (U. P.) An earth
quake of great force was recorded on
the government seismograph at the Uni
versity of Chicago here today. Officials
described it as being the severest in the
last two years. The center! of the quake
was said .to be -3080 miles: away. The
quake- is believed to be in ah easterly di
rection. ..-
Will H. Hays Asks'
County Chairmen to
Give Moneyed Help
The campaign chest of the Republican
rational committee, which is groaning
with hunger because of a" large deficit',
yearns for some J3600 largess from the
uncorked pocketbooks and kindly hearts
of the enthusiastic champions of - Hard
ing and Coolidge of Oregon. ,
Jack Day, chairman of the Multno
I man county central committee,, has re-
ceived a letter from Will Hays, chair
tman of the national committee, asking"
that he please coax $100 out of stal
warts of his political bailiwick. Day
has been making good headway on the
job. , AH other f!ounty chairmen . have
been sent the same letter by Mr. sHays,
who says he would rather have a whole
flock of small contributions than a few
big ones. -. . J - "',-' .:-v'. . i-:. '
Just how much the deficit amounts to
is not announced, .but presumably would
be represented in the approximate ag
gregate by multiplying the total num
ber of counties -in the United States by
ioo. .
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MIEAN
IS
Vashington, Dec. 16. (TJ. P.)
Edward B. McLean of Washington
will be chairman of the Inaugural
committee that will have charge of
the inauguration of president Hard
ing on March A.
This announcement was made, today
by Will 1L Hays, chairman of the Re
publican national committee.
An executive , committee was ', also
named as follows:
Kdward F. Colladay, Washington ;
Pamuel J. Prescott, Washington; Fred
W. X'pham, Chicago; Jess Smith, Wash
ington Courthouse, Ohio. .
$100,000,000 Road
Aid Bill Appears
Likely to Continue
Washington. Iec. - 16 (WASHING
TON BUREAU OK THE JOURNAL)
The house roads committee probably will
favorably report the Chamberlain-Mc-Arthur
bill to continue the present
federal aid road plan, with $100,000,000
each, year for four years. To get the
appropriation it will also be necessary
to secure action by the appropriation
committee, and this seems doubtful.
"I feel that progress has been made
when the committee reports the bill,"
said McArthur today, "as this means
this committee is against the Townsend
bill and that" later, on legislation will
follow the lines of the present law.
"I do not feel over hopeful of aft appro
priation at this session, which is to be
regretted, in view of the . uncertainty
irhich will result in states where legis-
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Farmers Urged to
Sell Products and
Settle With Banks
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Bismarck, N, D., Dec. 16. North Da
kota . farmers will be asked by bankers
and state officials to make an orderly
liquidation of debts " by sale of their
products. - . - ;f -
-This' was ' decided upon" Wednesday
night .by a special committee- represent
ing bankers and state officials meeting
here to devise ways to bring about im
mediate improvement i in the financial
situation in - rural communities where
bank credits are Strained.
Many North Dakota banks have failed
in the last two months because of inabil
ity of farmers to meet payments on loans
because they were holding their prod
ucts for higher prices
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OFIKURA
IN
jOne of Objects of Large Gather
ing Is to Create Cooperative
Marketing Organization; Estab
lishment of Stores Suggested.
By J. G. Ii. Brickcr
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 16. (I. N. S.)
Doubt as to the ability of farmers
to continue their "strike" against
low prices by withholding cotton,
grain and other products from the,
market, was expressed here today as
representatives of approximately
3,000,000 or more agriculturists
went Into conference to discuss plans
for creatinfe a national farmers' co
operative marketing organization.
Lack of sufficient credit to farmers,
it was said, would soon force them to
release huge supplies of wheat, corn,
cotton and other crops which are being
held for higher prices.
ORGANIZATION SUGGESTED
Immediate organization of the farm
ers of America into a gigantic cooper
ative selling bodjP was vrgefl by Charles
S. Barrett, president of the National
Farmers" union, as the only means of
solving the agriculturists reported dis
tress due to low prices for their prod
ucts. Addressing the conference, Barrett
declared that if farmers of the country ;
'were to Hell their wheat, cotton and i
other staple crops at present prices they
would suffer an aggregate loss of per
haps $5,000,000,000 dollars, or about one
fourth of the national debt.
"Every day that passes without con
certed action being taken to restore ag
riculture to its rightful place among
.
i the business of the nation means "a
loss of millions of dollars which can
never be restored to the farmers," he
declared.
FAVORS COOPERATIVE SELLING
Maurice McAuliffe of Salina, Kan.,
president of the Kansas Farmers'
union, declared the farmers of his state
had obtained 5 to 7 cents above the
cooperative selling, iwo nunarea mu
st lion collars - worth of - bumness- wa
done, by the Kansas farmers selling
through . their cooperative scheme- last
year, McAuliffe declared.
"We have- called this convention be
cause we believe the time has come for
such cooperation as will .stop Interme
diary manipulation," explained Barrett,
who called the conference. "We are
going to have' the greatest cooperative
business in the world. The farmers are
entitled to run their own business, and
if we can perfect plans the middleman
; speculator will go."
j '"VOCATES STORES
I Among the organizations represented
at the meeting are: American Society
1 of Kquity, National Equity union," Penn
sylvania State grange, Intermountain
Farmers' union. Rural Progress Asso
ciation of Pennsylvania oE which Gif-
ford Pinchot is president),' National
Milk Producers' federation. Citrus Fruit
Growers' Federation- of Florida, Na
tional Wheat Producers' federation an
the Association of Potato Growers of
New Kngland.
i Barrett recommended a chain of
stores over the country which would
be conducted by the farmers and sell
direct to the consumers, eliminating the
middleman. He said this would save
the farmer GO per cent in the cost of
marketing his products, bring him bet
ter prices and at the same time give
the consumer the benefit of greatly re
duced prices.
F
GAS RATE PLEA
Earnings of the Portland Gas &,
Coke company would be entirely '
wiped vout by the increased cost of
oil after January 1, if the public
service commission refuses- to grant
the company's application for an in
creased rate for gas, according to
figures submitted at a hearing be
fore the commission at the court
house this morning.
C. W. Pldtt, assistant treasurer of the
gas company, was the first witness
called. He submitted a financial state
ment of the concern covering the cost
of operation and earnings of the gas
company for ' 1919 and 1920, compared
with previous years, showing a steady
increase in the cost of operating the
business. '
LITTLE CKOSS-QPESTIOSISG
City Attorney La Roche asked that a
statement of the number of gas cooking
ranges and Gasco heaters in operation
in the city be prepared and submitted
to the public service commission. This
request was granted by officials of the
company and the Feport will be present
ed at Friday's session of the hearing.
H. L. Gray, public utility engineer in
the employ of the gas company, was
called to the stand by the company and
presented a detailed analysis of the cost
of producing gas. In response to ques
tions by. -John Laing. attorney for the
gas companyi he recited the significance
of a vast array of figures and there
was hardly any cross-questioning on the
part of La Roche r the 'publics service
commissioners. ,: -' :m, : 1. :
WA5TS PUBJC TO PAT
' Gray's analysis covered the 12 months
ending Septertiber 30. showing gross
earnings for that period amounting to
$2,443,618. The cost of operating the
company's business for the 12 months
l Concluded on l'ee Three, Column Six)
SHOWS
GURES IN
Faces
Return
War
to
Bread Owing to
Wheat Shortage
By Ilyman H. Cohen
War bread may come back. In
fact, there is a very strong proba
bility of the American "public being
compelled to consume bread late in
the season that will be toanufactured
from coarse grains mixed with
wheat.
That already there has been more
wheat sold "on paper" than can pos
sibly be delivered, unless the public is
put on a ration, is today acknowledged
by some of the leading inte.rests. Such
a statement was made some time ago
by The Journal, but at that time few in
the trade were willing to admit it. . -.
Famir.e-strkcken countries are de
manding bread. Huge sums are being
raised in this country to purchase
breadstuffs for the starving, and indi
cations are that not enough wheat will
be available of the 1920 crop of wheat
to supply this need.
Alt over the country there is agitation
to purchase a barrel of flour to aid the
wheat growers. This movement has as
sumed liberal proportions and is begin
ning to have its effect upon the supply of
w heat in sight.
Because of the severe losses that they
have suffered to date as a. result of the
previous sharp drop in wheat, millers
have actually been selling their wheat
and few of them have their normal sup
plies for flour-making. Farmers are
holding back their wheat and the result
is that stocks are scarce in the markets.
There is plenty of oats, barley afid rye
and corn to supply all breadstuff re-,
quirements. but wheat supplies are get
ting down to the bottom.
458,000,000 BUSHELS OF
WHEAT WILL BE USED LY U. S.
Walla Walla, Wash., Dec 16. The
people of this country will again be eat
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continued at the present rate.
This statement was made by the direc
tors of the Walla Walla Commercial club
at a meeting Wednesday in the interests
of the "buy-a-barrel-of-flour" campaign.
The statement was based upon data com
piled by J. Frank Pickell, grain statisti
cian sent by Herbert Hoover to Itussia
during the war to investigate wheat con
ditions. Mr. Pickell's figures as presented to
the directors show that, based on ' last
year's consumption, we will use in this
country 458,000,000 bushels of wheat and
lose 6,000,000 as mill screenings ; that of
ficial figures show that exports from
July X to October" 31 amounted to 146,
00,000 bushels; that 30,000,000 bushels
j, wor, ported ; , that ; 5.000,000 . bushels
were sold, but not shipped, during No
vember, and that 75,000,000 bushels will
be required for seed next year.
"There is always more or less unac
countable disappearance of wheat," the
report continues, "the amount estimated
by the Grain Corporation for the-1919-20
season being 45,000,000 bushels. We will
say 40,000,000 bushels for this season.
There is also 28,000,000 bushels used for
feed, according to the department of
agriculture estimate. This makes a grand
total of 843,000,000 bushels accounted for,
which suggests 87,000.000 bushels remain
ing on December 1 for export to June 30
and for the carry -over into the new crop.
The average carry-over from crop to
crop in first and second hands is 80,000,
000 bushels, as determined by 13. Frank
Howard's compilations, which- are the
only ones in existence" covering series of
a year. On this basis we have only
7,000,000 bushels left over for export over
and above normal carry-over, plus any
amounts that may come, in from Canada.
RAID ON STILLS
- Mystery shrouds the identity of a
young woman found by federal of
ficials in a backwoods distillery
Wednesday night, in a lone cabin
five miles south of Crown Point.
"Her name is not being revealed by
the government,'' said Assistant United
States Attorney Flegel this morning.
Ralph Knight, another occupant, was
arrested by the raiding party after they
found two 20 gallon stills, 600 gallons of
corn mash and about one gallon of the
finished product. He is held in the
county jail in default of $1500 bonds.
When the officers swooped down on
the cabin. Knight refused to allow en
trance without a search warrant.
Joseph Beeman, one of the officers.
agreed to stand guard, while the others
returned to Portland for a search war
rant. -
Several hours passed and the officers
did not return, but Knight still kept
the door locked to prevent Beeman from
entering.
He took pity on the officer,
however, ' and handed him sandwiches
through the window. Finally Knight
opened the door and said : "Come on
in Joe and kick her over. It's bum stuff,
anyway." Flegel said a large quantity
of liquor had been disposed of before
Beeman was admitted.
On August 26 Knight and Gerald Ja
cobs entered pleas of guilty in the fed
eral court to operating a large still in
an east side house. Each was fined
$250. Previous to the time of the raid
on that house the young men are said
to have equipped a "fort" in the attic in
order that they might put up a .battle
should the officers surprise them. This
plan was given up later, Flegel said.
Church Dome Falls,
Injuring 7 Workers
Long Beach, Cal Dec. 16. (L N, S.)
Seven workmen were injured seriously
this afternoon when the reinforced con
crete dome of the new First church
(Christian) under construction here,
collapsed, and many tons of debris was
carried through the church building,
practically demolishing it.' About. 60
mechanics . had been, employed on the
structure and all but the seven hurt
had left only a few minutes before to
eat their lunches.
MYSTERY
WOMAN
HOLDS UPR.R.
OUSTER ORDER
State Public Service Body Enters
Terminal Tangle on Side of
Portland; Decision Favors Two
Hill Lines; Civic Clubs Join.
The Oregon public service com
mission ' launched itself into the
union terminal controversy on the
side of Portland today with a vigor
which predicted uncomfortable
hours for the railroads opposing the
terminal plan.
The Northern Pacific Terminal com'
pany was called upon by the commiS'
sion for a stay of execution of its order.
effective December 31, ousting the Great
Northern and the S., P. & S. from use of
the present, terminal facilities and was
given by the commission until Saturday
to answer. .
COMMISSION IXFICHT
A determined course of action to com
pel the railroads to join in providing
Portland with terminal facilities was
outlined in the commission's formal
statement
The statement addressed to J.' P.
O'Brien, president of the terminal com
pany, and signed by Public Service Com
missioners Buchtel, Corey and Williams,
avers : ,
'In view of the interest of the public
in this matter and the general Inconven
ience if the order is carried out, you are
requested to cancel this order and with
hold action in the matter until the com-
mission' ;has an opportunity to make an
investigation, as it nrODOSes to do at
'J -
once.
"Considering the urgency and the short
time intervening until your order by Its
terms will take effect, we will thank you
to give us your answer to this communi
cation by noon, December 18, 1920."
WILL PROTECT PUBLIC
A statement addressed to City Attor
ney LaRoche by the commission declares
that immediate action to protect the pub
lic interest will be the commission's
poltcy. i
As the issue stands, the Union Pacific
and thei Southern Pacific, owning 60 per
cent of the terminal company, bear the
full brunt of responsibility for bringing
the terminal controversy to a head by
their support of the ouster order directed
at the Great Northern and S., P. & S.
The Nerthern Pacific, owning 40 per
cent of the terminal company, was un
willing to evict the, other two northern
lines. The' Great Northern has an
nounced its readiness to make its share'
of capital investment and the S.. P. & S.
to pool its terminal properties in a gen
eral terminal plan.
CLUBS ENTER FHjHT
The business and ciyic Influence of
Portland will be aligned with the city
council jn the fight fop a union terminal
The Presidents' council of business and
civic clubs, constituting a membership of
more Jhan 10,000, went on' record
Wednesday evening in unanimous ap
peal t the Oregon-public service com
missions to bring to bear, for the sake of
securing an adequate terminal, all the
law on the statute books of the state
and, through the interstate commerce
commission, the compulsion provided for
in the 1920" transportation act adopted by
congress.
APPEALS TO COMMISSION
As the members of the Presidents
council, plus the president of the Cham.
ber of Commerce, the city attorney, the
city engineer and the engineer of the
dock commission, constitute the Union
terminal commission appointed by the
mayor, the action of Wednesday night
joins Official and business Portland in
(Concluded on Pwa Two, Col tuna Four)
CITY IS PREPARING
Arrangements for uniting : the
forces of the city government and
the ;street railway company in
waging joint battle against the storm
elements this winter, will be made
at a 'conference to be held on the
sixth' floor of the Electric building
tomorrow evening at -8 o'clock.
While the city authorities and the
streetcar company have been making
separate preparations for fighting storm
j conditions, this is the first step toward
combining all the forces in the city inter-
ested'ln keeping the channels of traffic
open during emergencies.
' The chief speakers at the conference
will be Acting Mayor Bigelow, who will
outline the method of the snow fighting
campaign the city will wage, and Vice
President F. L Fuller of th Portland
Railway, Light & Power company, who
has charge of the same work on behalf
of the traction company.
Arrangements will be made for an in
terchange of equipment by the city and
company so that both organizations will
be able to make the best possible use of
all available paraphernalia as soon as a
storm starts.
On, point to be particularly empha
sized) is the need of closer . cooperation
by the public and especially motor and
vehicular traffic of all .kinds. It is ex
pected steps will be aken to prevent the
recurrence ef such ruinous traffic block
ades! as followed the storm of 1919.
Bread in Pittsburg
Cut 2 Cents a Loaf
Pittsburg, Dec 16, I. N. F.) Na
tional and city bakers here today an
nounced a cut of 2 cents per loaf of
bread in all sizes. Biz loaves are cut
to 15 cents and small ones to 10 cents.
TOR STORM DANGER
ooat apo
msor s
Jeweled Watch
Missing, Then
Someone Cries
It isn't only flustered bridegrooms
who get so fussed at the great mo
ment that they missplace trifles like
the wedding ring or the string of
ancestral pearls that, the bride is to
wear for the ceremony. f
Wednesday was a hectic day for Miss
Madge Libby of New York, pretty 16-year-old
granddaughter of W. H. Libby,
for whom she was to christen a Stand
ard Oil tanker at Vancouver, Wash., at
noon. '
Miss Libby had arrived in a flurry In
the morning and a hurried breakfast'
was being served at the Benson for sev
eral members of the party, Including
Captain H..E. Mitchell, marine superin
tendent of the Standard Oil company,
and Mrs. Mitchell. Captain Mitchell
had been assigned the pleasant task of
making the presentation speech at the
launching when Miss Libby was to re
ceive a handsome jeweled wrist watch
from the officials of the Standard Oil
company. - .
Along with the feast. It was decided
that the watch should be shown to the
little sponsor so that she "wouldn't be
too much overcome" at the launching.
The watch was accordingly produced by
Captain Mitchell,' who left the table
shortly afterward. In the excitement of
a few telephone calls and the arrival
of more breakfast, the timepiece sudden
ly disappeared.' :
The house detectives were called, a
search was made of the corners of the
room and the party broke up in dis
may. '
Mrs. Mitchell in a moment of grief
which required the use of her handker
chief suddenly opened her bag and there
bright and ehining and ticking away
was the little wrist watch which she
had inadvertently slipped into her bag
for safe keeping during the more serious
business of breakfasting.
HELD BENEFICIAL
Portland men intimately familiar
with the Pacific coast operations of
the Shipping board, taken "with a
grain of salt" a statement of J. N.
Barde, vice president and treasurer
of the Barde Steel Product's-corporation
that J. NV Teal's effective ef
fprts to secure the withdrawal of
the Barde bid constituted "a fatal
error of the Shipping board."
The facts seem to bo that the surplus
properties of the Shipping board, covered
by the Barde bid, had been appraised
at $15,000,000 before the first call for
bids was made. In spite of this fart,
however. ,none of the concerns which
desired to bid on the materials was able
to secure an inventory covering the
materials for which they were expected
to submit bids.
BIDDING IS BLIND .
However, various Individuals and
concerns offered better bids than that
of Barde. They bid "blind," offering
to sell on a commission or brokerage
basis.
Later the appraisal was materially
reduced le1ow $15,000,000, and It was
on the second -basis that Barde sub
mitted his bid to sell the Shipping
board's surplus.
Under the Barde bid the government
was to receive 50 per cent of the ap
praised value as a minimum. Barde
was to keep all over thatN UP to 60
per cent of , the appraisal, or in other
words a commission of 10 per cent.
He was, further, to receive 25 per cent
of any sum received in excess of 61)
per cent of the appraisal, the remaining
75 per cent of the excess to go to the
Shipping board.
Some idea of the situation may be
gleaned from the circumstance that the
appraisal value had been reduced from
$15,000,000 to approximately $8,000,000,
a shrinkage of about one-half, as a
starter. After that the government's
gauranteed minimum was to be only
60 per cent of the lowered appraisal.
FIGURES ABE GIVEN
How the arrangement promised to
work out is shown by specific figures
in one " item. The Shipping board yet
haa from 75 to 85 marine boilers on
hand. These cost $12,000 each. They
were first appraised at $2500. The
second appraisal skinned the value down
to $1500. Under the Barde bid the
government was to be guaranteed $50,
The boilers are said to be now worth
$3000 each in the open market.
With this single illustration in point,
it is not believed by those who know
the inside facts that the Shipping board
stands to lose much money by the with
drawal of the Barde bid, brought about
by the activity of Commissioner TeaL
II CANCELLATION
Blue Sunday! Do You
Caterer Paints
By I'oiTerul Serric) i
New Yprk, Dec. 16. It is Janu
ary 2, 1921, at a New York hotel.
Father 'Knickerbocker awakes and
rings for Icewater. No service. Tele
phone for breakfast. No food is be
ing served. Turns on the. "hot" fau
cets, , the water is icy cold- Goes
down1 to the lobby; attempts to ad
dress the" first person he meets-
Sh-h, there must be no talking. Goes
to barber shop and meets sign
"Closed for day." . Pulls up at the
cigar counter; "Sorry, but there ,1a
to be no smoking today. No, we
have no newspapers; none today,
not a one." - .
Eaotblack sign "Will be back Mon
Two Couples irt Fashionable Hos
telry Sit on Intruder Until
Policeman Arrives; 2 Pals Es
cape; Jewels Torn Off Woman.
(By Cnitod Nrm)
New York, Dec; 16. A dainty, be
jewelled fist went crashing through
a window on the eecpnd floor of the
fashionable Astor hotel, and picrc- .
Ing screams reached Patrolman Tif
fany in the midst of a Broadway
traffic snarl. Abandoning hispost,
Tiffany raced up the stairs 6f the
hotel, flung his huge bulk against
the door of the apartment and
crashed into-the i room to find two
men and two pretty,- fashionably
dressed women struggling to hold
down a man on the bed. The man
gave up to Tiffany and then Broad
way heard of the most audacious
holdup of the year.
Owen C. Llnehwaite of Red Bank, N..
J., president and j general manager of
the New Jersey Motor Sales corporation,
came to New York with Mrs. Lihch
walte to see the motor board show at
which his firm is exhibiting. J. I Wor
ley, chief draftsman for a big aircraft
plant, and Mrs, Worley, came with the
Linchwaltes and ail put up at the Astor.
VISIT AFTER SHOW J ' i
At supper time 'Wednesday evening
the four returned from . the show and
went to the Llnehwaite suite. The two
women had been distinctly noticeable as
they passed through the lobby for their
good looks and Jewels and the hand
someness of their 'costumes.
The party had scarcely closed the ' door
of the room when a man stole in be
hind them with a handkerchief over his
face and. a pistol In one hand. ordering
them to throw upi their: hands. All four
thought some joke was being played,
when two other men walked in arid' all
doubt vanished under the cold gaze, of
two more pistol bores.
Four pairs of 'handiH went up nd
Llnehwaite was backed Into the bath
room y one of, the bandits while a sec
ond remained at the, door leading to the
(Conelttdtd on pace Tbre. Oolumn.Tm)
Washington, Dec, 1 6. (WASH
INGTON BUREAU OF TIIK.JOUK
NAL.) - Walter L. Tooze Jr. of
Portland arrived today, one of the
first of the shakers of the political
plum tree to come to .advise the
Republican delegation on proper distribution-of
rewards for tho- faith
ful. Tooze lost little time In con
sulting McNary and McArthur. No
results were, given out. ' -
The general impression ,1s that the of
fice seekers are uncertain where to make
the hardest drive. Reports circulated in
some quarters that McNary would sit
.back and let Stanfleld pass the pie are
discounted here. Senatorial courtesy
requires that both should be consulted
and that so far-as possible they should
agree. At present McNary and fc'tan
ficld are believed to be passing the buck,
with noncommittal statements .thai they
will talk things over later,
j Meantime some believe that McNary,
as senior senator after March 4, will
really have the. most to say, whllo
others are. looking to Stanfleld as the
more "practical" of the two and more
likely to insist that party patriots rhzll
be rewarded. -i -:
-Between these conflicting emotions the
plum seekers are having anxious days.
Colfax Fire Causes
I Damage of $35,000
Spokane, Wash., Dec. 16. Ffre threat
ening the entire Colfax business district
this morning caused a loss of $35,000, de
stroying a large garags and damaging
adjoining buildings, i Of 60 aulos in the
garage six were destroyed. Telephone
tables suffered $1000 damage.
1
Puritan View
day.. Signs alt over the place "No
service today, i Patrons will make their .,
own beds and clean their own rooms.
Patrons will run their own errands. - No
electric lights get. a candle from the
desk." I . .
Hark there is music from the dining
room. V.'"--'V' -fV';.:-;- ;;. v'";v -. ' ", ;v:-;'
; It is a hymn. " -.
' For it Is Puritan Sunday In Now York.
Fred A. Reed, former proprietor cf a
New York hotel, today suggested at a
luncheon of hotel men that January 2 be
set aside as a trial of the "blue laws."
There would be no work by anyone.
'Let's test this theory that a blue Sun
day, would enhance happiness and wel
fare," he said. "Such a day need not
necessarily be gloomy and he des
cribed a situation similar to the ..fix of
Father Knickerbocker in a New York
hots'
TOOZE JR., ADVISES
ON PLUM HUNTERS
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