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V V - --- , tr'$ f'" ' TO" ' - v '"V- '"' '" '" "' ' '"'"'' " ,'"''' '' '' ; ' " p-- ' ":' "''' '""". .:.. Los "Angeles 4 ;.'" St. Paul. 120 ' - voii xix.-NO.'ieo,.:. KM'PX'oS '-ii5 i Portland, Oregon, thukJday evening, January 6, 'mi. twenty. pages r U I price two cents 'tl&FVttYffXl ' . .' ' . , ' . . . . i . ' . , . .. - .. ".v, ' . .. . BY FALLING George Calkins, Seriously Injured, ; Without Medical Attention for 45 Minutes Due to Delay in Getting Him Into a Hospital. Caught beneath -an avalanche' 6i lumber when an old water tank at the,; abandoned gravel pit,. SLrty-sev- " enth and Halsey streets, fell upon him, George Calkins. 42, of 201 Cast Eighty-econd street: north, was seri ously Injured about 1 o'clock this afternoon. Calkins, in company jvith W. E. Gray. 43 East Eightieth street north, had pur chased the water tank from the owners of the pit and were' preparing to tear it down to cut into fire wood. The col lapse wm :,so sudden Calkins, did not have a chance to move from . under the tank. ' . Neighbors could not remove Calkins immediately and an emergency call waa - sent the police. Motorcycle Policeman J. D. Wright responding. When Wright Arrived Calkins had been removed. iThe Ambulance Service company was called. . For 45 minutes Calkins was held without entrance to any hospital. Ha was given relief at the emergency hos pital. The delay was occasioned by time necessary to gain a permit for entrance to the county hospital, where he jwas . finally -taken. The injured man had a severely cut head and a possible crushed cheat in addition to numerous minor cuts and bruises. Reauest that the man be Removed to the county hospital j Was maae . cy a relative. SUING FOR LIBEL . New 'York,' Jan. .(!. 'N. S.) Charging: that she had been held up as a social butterfly ; guilty of snob berjr and un-American conduct,. Mrsj. .Blanche Bonaparte of New York, Washington, Newport and Palm Beach, has begun a $100,000 libel suit against ' Town Topics, it was learned today. I' The plaintiff is the wife of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, great-grandson of 'Jerome Napoleon, king of Westphalia. ' She divorced her first husband, Harold Strebeigh, in Brooklyn, in 1914, and married Bonaparte shortly afterward. Mr. and Mrs. fionaparte are at present Hy ing at the Biltmore hotel . in this city. Mrs, Bonaparte set forth in her com plaint that 6he and her husband are persons of wealth and social standing and are accustomed to mingle with peo ple of wealth and standing in fashion able society. She alleges that she has been the object of a long campaign of ridicule by Town Topics, and quoted numerous extracts from the society: pa per to bear out her contention. In .deal ing with one extract the complaint sets forth that the defendant publication sought to create-the impression that she entertained European and monarchial ideas regarding persons who engaged in trade. Civilian Policeman Indicted Jor Killing City Official's Son Atlanta. Ga.. Jan. 6. (L N. S.) Rolfe Edmondson, Atlanta newspaperman and (Civilian policeman who was aiding a night watchman In ejecting two young' men from the Journal building. New YearU night.' when, C. E. Bowen. son of Building- Inspector C. J.- Bowen, was shot and killed, has. been indicted by the : Fulton -county grand Jury for mur der. Edmondson claims Bowen attacked him and the pistol was accidentally discharged.- s. WATER TANK ... . - - : : 1 - BONAPARTE SC ON Keep Payroll Dollar at Home Factory Wheels City's Assets By Marshall N. Dana There is said ' to be less unemployment- in Pbrtland than in any other -large American'-' city, r Mer chants here . complain less of strin gency. Portland bank ciearings have for months almost uniformly been surpassing, those of Seattle. Keep factories working. Keep men at work. Translate "Oregon quality" Into terms of hats, ' shoes, foods, shirts, ' brooms definite things to eat. wear and use. The consumers can't do this. The i manufacturers will have to let ' the peo . pie who want to keep Portland prosper . cue know their brands and the merits of ' their brands. HOME GOODS TRGED i ! Dealers and merchants who want their own business to continue good must help by becoming salesmen of the home prod , uets that keep the payroll dollar and the business dollar from getting away. Show the housewife shopper why she should buy the excellent goods of home manufacture. A ease in point came before the Ad club Wednesday when it planned a "Broom day" for the near future. . Roy Heath of the Portland Broom company said: Oregon Would Get Onfe More Congressman by Proposed Bill Washington, Jan. 6. ( 12 N. S.) The house census committee lale this afternoon reported favorably a bill providing for an increase In the membership of the house of repre sentatives from 435 to 483. This reapportionment bill is in ac cordance with the 1920 census. The plan reported is the ; Siegel plan which dis tributes the increased, membership over a number; of states. The bill provides for an increase in congressmen in the several states . as follows : " ; ; ' Alabama, 1 ; Arkansas, 1 ; California, 5 ; Connecticut. 1 ; Georgia, 1 ; Illinois, 3; Maryland, 1; Massachusetts, 2; Michigan, 4 ; Minnesota, i ; New Jersey, 2; New Mexico, l; New York, 4 ; North Carolina, 2 ; Ohio, 4 ; Oklahoma, 1; Oregon, 1 '; Pennsylvania, ! 4 ; South Car olina, 1;' Tennessee. 1 ; Texas, 3; Vir ginia, 1 ; Washington, 1 ; West Virginia, 1; Wisconsin, 1. . MANY MEASURES PROPOSED REB-ISTRICT1NG THE STATE The task of redisricting' the state to provide for an additional congressman has been occupying the attention of various members Of the legislature for some time, and it is certain that some bill, and probably a number ofthem, will be introduced at the coming ses sion. ! " ' "s( One plan that has been 'given much consideration contemplates the creation of a new district out of all that portion of Multnomah outsido of Portland to gether with a slice of the First district running as far south as Marion, in clusive. Another would I join Wasco to, the northern' part . of (the First dis trict as far. south , as might be neces sary to make an equable -distribution of population, and put Jackson . in ex change for Wasco in the Second district. Without doubt fine job of creating a new district will be difficult, for the woods are full of potential' congress men, all of whom would like to have the lines changed to their own advan tage, and most of these ambitious ones are members of the legislature from one county or another. ; Ontario Man Sought When Accounts Are Said to Be Short Ontario, Or., Jan. . (I. N. S.) Po lice of this city are searching; for A. L. Chance, for years manager of the local yard of the Boise-Payette Ijumber com pany.' Chance and his family disap peared several days ago. Since, hs dis appearance it is alleged there is;a short age in his accounts of between 115,000 and 320,000. ; It is alleged that Chance belonged to the same lodge ; as the "Angel of On tario," otherwise known as.Hirsch, who operated here near a year ago. . Chance is a capable business man, but" has the reputation here of being ad dicted to "wine and women" and his salary did not nearly meet the require ments of the high life he is believed to have led. , f . ' ' P. R.,L.&P. Applies For Power License On Clackamas Eiver Washington, Jan. S. (WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL). Ap plications to the federal power commis sion, .for licenses under the water power act within the last few days include one for a dam and power house . at Oak Grove on the Clackamas river by ' the Portland Railway, Light & Power com pany, to develop 22,000 horsepower Two application filed by H. S. Mc Gowan of McGowan, Wash., are for "developments on the Deschutes river at Metolius and reclamation sites. A. Mushen and G. D. Coonemiller of Lakeview want to develop 1000 horse power by dams in Deep crek and' Camas creek with pipe lines converging to same power house. That Portland consumes 12,217 doien brooms a year or 85 carloads. ' That three out of four brooms' used, here are of distant manufacture., -That one of four brooms used here are of Portland-manufacture. That part of : the time since November 19, all five local broom factories hive been shut down with a -dally payroll loss to the city of $1250. PAYROLLS ABE I,OST : Thathis factory, which, open, would employ 140 men and women, has been closed for lack of local support since November 19, with a weekly payroll loss to Portland of $5000, . That in normal times Seattle territory bought 35 per cent of the product of his factory. Spokane territory 20 per cent. Wyoming, Montana and Idaho 20 per cent, Portland territory 20 per cent, Port land as a city only 5 per cent. . 1 Which is better for a town, to have 140 men- and women working or idle? Who is-better credit to a merchant, a man or woman at work, or out of a job? " : The stations on the prosperity circle round which the payroll dollar rolls are producer, manufacturer, -dealer, mer chant, consumer. : - ' Each depends on all the others to keep Portland. Oregon , and the Pacific coast prosperoua 3 DEPUTIES WERE BRUTAL, SAYS WOMAN .- ... . Sheriffs' Men Used -Violence in Carrying Out Ejection Order, Says Mrs. J. Gorley; Woman Was Vile, Savs Deputy Pratt Charging brutal treatment by. a squad lot deputy sheriffs in the ejec tion, of herself and three small chil dren from the New York apartments Wedne sday morning, Mrs. J. .Gorley appeared before the court of domes tic relations for aid Wednesday afternoon. j An order of ejection was issued by Judge fTazwell's court six weeks ago, on charge! of the Gorleys being undesirable tenants, made Vby L. O. Ralston. 608 Marshall street, owner of the building. The sheriff's office on investigation found that the three children were suf fering from whooping cough and ob tained a stay of the order from Judge Tax well until the health board could give the family a clean bill of health. The quarantine was lifted yesterday. ' CHIEF DEPUTY IN CHARGE Chief Deputy Sheriff Martin Pratt, ac companied by Deputies R. O. Rector and E. C. Flaherty, went to the apartment to carry out the order and found Mrs. Gor ley deFiant and abusive, Pratt declared today, j According to - Pratt she refused to leave peaceably and when escorted out of, the building struck Deputy Rec tor in the mouth with her fist, causing his miuth to bleed, and kicked Flaherty. After taking Mrs, Gorley out of the apartment, , the deputies i removed the furniture to the street and covered it with tarpaulin to prevent damage from the weather. D. A. Ross, manager of the apartments, offered Mrs. Gorley the use of a room in the buildine" until she could I communicate with- her husband. who works, at the City laundry,! but the offer was refused. Pratt said. M TTO LODGINGS FOU3TD i Pratt then called Deputy Schirmer and iad the sheriffs automobile come to thj apartment. The family was taken (Cjpocludgd xn Pg Two; Column Two) LA ROCHE WILL DEFEND ETHERIDGE W. P,La Roche, city attorney, will represen John L. Etheridge, former president of Morris Brothers, Inc., who faciefl charges growing out of the failure of the bond house, as his permanent attorney and counsel. He made the decision this morning, and has arranged .with the mayor to retire- as city attorney effective Mon day morning:. The appointment of former City Attor ney Frank S. Grant to ucceed La Roche in the event Of the latter's retirement frc.n public service was announced Tues day by Mayor Baker, subject to the ap prcval of the council. A5 SOUSCES RESIGNATION La Roche formally announced his res ignation at the special session of the city council later in the morning. He gave no reason, but said it would be effective at the end of his vacation period, Janu-ar- 27. ' Mayor Baker announced that he would recommend that La Roche be designated asl special counsel for the dock commis sion, inasmuch as much of the work of thjj city attorney's office has been in problems of this commission to the det riAient of the general work at the city hall. - fFormal -ratification of the Grant ap pointment will be voted upon by the ctiuncil Friday afternoon. Commissioner Bigelow objecting to snap judgment in the matter, especially considering that tns city has so much litigation pending. MOLD CONFERENCE ' The mayor announced he had held a nference with Grant and that .if La oche's resignation is received in time. ant will be appointed this afternoon, so as to begin his duties Monday. . (Commissioners Barbur and Mann ex pressed hearty indorsement of Grant. Some suggestion had been 1 made by other commissioners that H. M. Tomlin spn, deputy, be promoted to be head of the city legal department but apparently tfce movement hadTiot gained sufficient headway t to disturb the mayor's ar rangements. f "Yes. I will defend Mr. Etheridge." La Roche said in ' announcing his de cision. "No case has ever appealed so strongly to my sense of fair play and jbstice. There is an angle of this case fwhich challenges , our Christian ciyilU ation. , , EEKS EARLY RETIREMENT I have asked the mayor to allow me o retire as early as possible as every ay is of value in preparing against he various activities directeu aeainst Mr. Etheridge.' The mayor named next onday and my resignation will be sent on that basis. : ; "I had planned o retire from public ffice and resume private practice in he spring. I shall miss the! la'ly and ntimale contacts with the. mayor and ommissioners, the men and women of the city hall, the boys of the press, and especially j with myoffice stiff. I will always retntmb their unfailing cour tesy and kindness to me. : look for ward, however, w'ith the . keenest ; pleas ure to stepping back into trie ranks of my brethren of the bar. j i i - "For my. successor,- there Is every good wish for success with itue ptoffef of any aid that I can renderi" White Maif Is Given Six Year Term for Theft From Chinese Following his conviction. ' in the circuit court several days ago, Thom as Cullen was sentenced to six years in the state penitentiary by Judge R. G. Morrow this morning. Cullen was found guilty of burglary and robbery in the theft! of a safe- con "taining about $1700 frow the residence of Ding Wing, Chinese tailor,, at Fourth and ' Halmon streets, November 20. Although Cullen filed' a motion for a new trial, he Indicated his wish to begin serving hia sentence at f once and will be taken to Salem today or Friday. The proceedings for a new trial will be car ried on by his attorneys, during his in carceration: i The safe containing ! much of the money was found in the brush along the roadside several days after the robbery. HIGH SALARIES An order allowing W. D. . W'hit corrtb, receiver for Morris Brothers, Inc to continue the; safety deposit vaults' at. 309 Stark i street, employ assistants, to make anj audit and han dle disbursements, was signed this morning by Federal Judge Wolver ton at the request of Griffith,. Leter & Allen, attorneys for the receiver. In order to conttnue - the - business Whitcamb represented to the court the need of several high-priced persons, with salaries ranging from $5 to $35 per day for seven hours' work Judge Wolver ton allowed the order, the close of which reads : "Having in mind that the cost to the bankrupt of the audit should be kept as low as possible." FIXES SALARIES ; j Whitcomb names theipersons and their salaries in his petition and " also re quested permission to pay $500 a month rent for the building, pay all telephone, telegraph and other incidental bills and to : take out . insurance on all - valuable property. - - -i ' The order allows Whitcomb to con tinue the safety deposit vault and collecX aU unpaid rentalsbut he is restrained frew "re-renting any of; the boxes after the present leases expire. He asks for two vault men, a guard at the main en trance, three stenographers and five bookkeepers to take care of the. vault business. W. L. Coleman is recom mended for head bookkeeper at a salary of $400 per mftnth, with a suggestion added that the, court later fix the amount of his salary.' . 1 HIGH SALARIES PAID Whitcomb also states that he has de posited to his account in three promi nent banks $106,000, which he. asks per mission to use in defraying the expenses allowed by the court. ' The five. Bookkeepe'rs requested are to receive salaries of $$00, two $150, one $85 and one $70 per month. Salaries for vault guards are set; at $200 and $150 per month and $100 for the gate watch man. A. night watchman was also re quested at $5.75 per ; day, a janitor at $100 per month and three -stenographers at $175, $150 and $110 per month. Whitcomb asserts that he knows each person to be competent.. The court or dered that each person could be dis charged upon 24 hours' notice, and that they were to be discharged as soon as their services were ho longer needed. . ONE PAID $35 DAILY' Following is a list bf the help allowed Whitcomb and daily salaries granted, to assist in auditing the books : i G. T. Witington, supervising account ant, $35 ; K. K. Bosworth, senior ac countant, $25; S. S. Malvern, E. T. Matheny, L. A. Dodge, W. H. Anderson, senior accountants,! each, $25; C. A. Ravenhill, junior accountant, $15; Mrs. O. L. Miller, statistics. $10 v: Mrs. A. Priddy, chief stenographer, $10. Burglar, Discovered At Work by Woman, Flees From House Returning home Wednesday night In the company of her son. Mrs. W. F. Wiggins. 772 East j Twenty-sixth street north, discovered a I burglar at work in her house. Rushing from the house to a next door neighbor Mrs. Wiggins telephoned to the police. Before the police; arrived the burglar made a graceful exit through an open window. Investigation revealed that he gained entrance by breaking' the glass panel in the rear door, which was then unlatched. Nothing was reported miss ing. j . s When Miss Brma Mosier.i 1066 East Twenty-second street, refused to open her door in response to the request of a burglar who presented himself at the window .to her house Wednesday night, attracting her attention by tapping, the intruder displayed ! profound ' conceit by then suggesting that she come outside. The arrival of a neighbor next door frightened the burglar away. Victor Peterson. Jri4 Glisan street, re ported to the police that several suits of clothing and $2.50 in change were stolen from bis room Wednesday night. Link River Dam to Go Forward, Ruling Washington. , Jan. .-r(WASHING-TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.) Secretary Payne of the interior depart ment has declined to delay construction of Link river ; dam on the Klamath project until his successor is appointed. RECEVER PAYS Request to this effect from the Amer ican Legion at Klamath Falls submit ted through Chamberlain and Sinnott brought the reply that the department sees no reason 'why the decision carefully-considered should be set aside. - ; - . . jf"Ti irninnr Tn . r: -. i . . s5i) Former Head of Morris Bros.' oii i i n f aJ tii ! Dona nouse frromises iq leu ' ' - i' History of His ConnectionjWith Firm j.Morris Hearing Monday. Johrv'L. Etheridge, when the prop er time arrives, will tell the jwhole story of his connection with and con-r duct of, the business and corpora tion of Morris Brothers, from the time he first begame associated' -with it to th'e date he left it. , . , His story wilV be told- not as a comi fesslon.'for it is insisted he has no con fession to make, nor for immunity from punishment, for it is contended that h4 neither has sought nor will seek im munity, but for the aid of the receiver and the benefit of the' creditors jof the institution. f WILL SPARE NO ONE I ' When the story of Etheridge 'is told it will, "let the chips fall where they may,'' whether on his own head, r upon the' shoulders of Fred S. Morris, or of any- other person "who has had to do with the management and business of the fallen bond house. Etheridge has made no public state ment up to this time on the advice of Charles C. Hindman, " Who, while serv ing temporarily, as his attorney and legal adviser, has advised him to with hold any statement until such aime as he has secured permanent counsel and acts under his guidance. NOT ALONE i In calm ., retrospect of what informa tion has developed from the various In vestigations conducted since the house of Morris fell the belief has grown in the. minds sof those who have been con-.' ductine the inamrv; that- Rtherids'at Hrvu not stand alone in responsibility for the difficulties bf the company and the con sequent -losses of its clients. What the balance of responsibility may be, or upon whose shoulders it will fnaHy fall, has not been definitely i n by facts so far unearthed, and Etheridge halds the key to the puizle fn his knoweledge and memory, MORRIS CASE' POSTPONED The hearing for Morris before United States Commissioner Kenneth Fraser on a charge of fraud in connection with the naturalization hearing of Etheridge, was postponed this morning from 2 o'clock Friday for - two weeks. The agreement was reached by United States Attorney Humphreys and Mar tin L. Pipes, counsel for Morris, to post pone the hearing, as certified copies of Etheridge's committment! to the . New Jersey prison have not been received. On " Monday next the attorneys for the receiver expect to resume the chancery hearing of Fred E. Morris be fore Special Master Robert Maguire. Continual study of the records of Mor ris Brothers since the suspension of the hearing on Monday last has shed new and important light upon the tangled history of the bonding concern, it is understood, which will 'make the (Concluded on Pace Two. Column Three) FATHER RESCUES ' TOTS FROM FIRE Aroused from sleep by the cough ing of his children, Ralph Hahnyice president of the Sterling Food Prod ucts company, saved his famfly from death, when his home at Rivefwood caught' fire from a: defective flue at 11:30 o'clock Wednesday night. The home was totally destroyed, the loss amounting to approximately $10,000, partly covered by Insurance. The Hahn family had' retired "for the night. Four children and the maid slept on the? second-! floor of-the home and Hahn slept on the first floor. The strained choking cough of one of the children who breathed the, smoke from the smouldering flames awakened Hahn. Hastening to the second floor he' picked, up two of the children and called to the maid to get, the two older children. Just . as the maid . carried the older children down the stairs the stairway became enveloped in flames. Within 45 minutes the entire ; building was de stroyed. When the alarm from the Hahn fire spread to Portland fire companyNo 2, stationed at Fourth and Montgomery streets, hastened- to the home, but the flames had gained headway that could not be checked. - The gardener's house was not burned, although that and its contents were the only items that escaped the flames. Hahn saved from the fire the trousers and jacket he wore. Youth Who Defied Police Is Sentenced Tikima, Wash.. JanC . Albert Mo ran, known to th police as "The Prowler;" who 10 days ago wrote a letter to the police ridiculing them for their inability to catch him after a bold robbery of the J.- S. Leuth resi- l dehce. pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of burglary ;. and was sentenced by -Judge G. B. Holden , to serve two to 15 years in the state reformatory at Monroe. Moran, signing his name as "The Prowler," did up., a. package of stolen jewelry and non-negotiable paper and sent it t the. police. , , v ; CALLED SNOB, SHE BRINGS SUIT MRS. JEROME NAPQLEON BONAPART of New York and. her husband, who jjs the great grandson of Jerome Bonapart, king bf Westphalia and brother of the Em peror Napoleon. Mrs.j Bonapart has brought suit for $100,000 damages against Town Topics! New York society paper, which she alleges has made her the object of a campaign of ridicule. if "J , It --"tvTaa-HAT'Ofi tasbinffrn. .Tan fi'. I. "M: S Information reached Secretary of the Interior ,Payne today that fears are felt for the safety of the United and lher States mail boat Pulitzer crew of seven men, missing Bincej De cember 15 in the icy waters! offj the Alaskan cwaSt. ' ' j j 'j; i The vessel was last seen 3n the Straits of Shelikof on her regular rip from Seward to Unalaska, according fii ad vices reaching Washington. The mes sage to Secretary Payne said t had not been determined yet whether the Pulitz er carried any passengers, j J ! Vessels will be dispatched from Alaskan stations to search fo her - Dr. Andrew C. Smith, owner and op erator -of the auxiliary schooner Jo seph Pulitser, reported as missing in the straits of Shelikof, ' Alaska, ex prereed .himself as being j confident as to the safety of the vesses. j THe last report I had from; the ser was on December 5," said Dr. Pulit &mith. "At that time she was atiUyak,6n the south side of Kodiak island. .Her (desti nation was Unalaska. I think she has put to sea on account of tfie jheavy weather that hast prevailed. The vessel is a good sea boat and is well supplied with provisions and until ; such thne as something definite comes,' ! am not wor ried."' ' - - j , The Joseph Pulitaser was built as pri vate yacht for the New Tork financier whose name she bears. Later she be came a pilot boat off the; mouth jof the Columbia river and was equipped with auxiliary power. The Port of Portland afterward leased her to the city of Port land and Commissioner Dan Kellaher at tempted to supply the public market with deep sea fish, using the Pulitzer as a source of supply from the Oregon! banks. Isfo business. - Dr. . Smith secured : the craft to act as a supply boat for his sheep farm in Unalaska, 'Acting in this capacity she was carrying the United States mails. ' i, . ' - Confessed Slayer Of Vale Business Man Is Indicted "Vale; Jan. '.George Howard, 24-year-old murderer of George Sweeney, Vale business man, was Indicted -by the Mal heur county grand jury Wednesday and will go to trial for his life at the January term of-the circuit' court. 'I j"' " ; Howard murdered hia victim n broad daylight near Vale in September for the possession of an old automobile and carried the body, about in: a. trunk in the back of -the car for a whole day before he threw it into the Owyhee river at Watson. -Later he became; scared, that it would rise to the surface of the water and reveal his crime, so he dragged out the almost decomposed body arid buried it in a garden near his home. The mur der was discovered when Sheriff H. Lee Noe traced.;it'.dow? and secured .a con fession from Howard two-months .latex. ' ;: ., ! I. , i: " . , . . ." &4f v: ft M t - ; ' 1 EsfNGINALASKA C "' Tt - . j it ' ; 2 , OF S. P. TO COAST BLOCKED '-Through train service on all he branch lines of the Southern Pacific to the , coast was r abandoned this morning when a giant elide at Sum mit on the Yaquina branch 'and sev eral, slides on the Tillamook branch closed those lines to traffic. Re pairs have not been completed at the scene of jjfhe washout on thft Coos Bay line near Cushman. - Officials of the Southern I"acific expect to,'iget a jtrain through to Coos Bay on temporary tracks this 'evening.' The elide on-the Yaquina-branch' cannot be Cleared up for several days, but passen gers will be transferred. - Several slides have, occurred on, the Tillamook branch, and tickets are being sold as far as Cochrane; only. It will probably-be sev eral days; before through service to Til lamook will be resumed. Main lline passenger trains of the SouthernlPacific were delayed from four to eight- hours Wednesday, night and this morning by the? freight .wref k which oc curred at Hugo'! Wednesday morning. Four cars of the wrecked! freights train were derailed and the wreckage was not citared up until 5:20 o'clock. Wednesday afternoon. : Cause of the accident has not been determined. NEW SL.IDE TIES UP COOS . S. P. BRANCH COMPLETELY Marshfield, Or., Jan. 6. Railroad traffic -In the Coos Bay section is de moralized aa the result of one bf the worst storms in years. The storm is over today but the temperature was much loer during the night No mall was received : or sent out Wednesday and none today. Coos Bay was without mail from the outside for the first time since the railroad was completed.! In addition to the big slide near Cush man. along the Siuslaw river, a long slide occurred near there, making it im possible to transfer passengers and malL Several trees fell over the track at Bufo, near Lakeside, but these : have been re moved by the wreck train. This morning the regular train north left on time, but will go only as far as Gardiner for accommodation . oft . trav elers. On account of heavy rains the ground is soft and more slides may oc cur. IB nothing more happens it is hoped to get passengers through to Eu gene Friday and passengers and mail .In from the outside.. Train service to Myrtle Point and Powers is , also cut off on account of the Coquille river being over the tracks near Ooquille. .The river rose six inches Wednesday night, ' but . as the rain has stopped ft is expected to recede. It will be several days before train service . to the Coquille valley is restored.- - ,.!;,! -,; .. v - FLOOD DANGER REMOVED BY COLD SNAP OVER STATE "Colder! weather all over,' Oregon with a new fall of snow in the mountains has practically ended all danger of a serious flood from the Willamette river, accord ing to EV L. Wells, weather man, this morning. The river stood at IS feet nine inches the same stage as Wednesday noon and . White the' water in reported to be' (Coactedod Pate ThM, Ooium Four ) am LINES TARIFF BILL Approval ok Emergency Measure on Tariff by Chairman of Fi nance Committee Found Con tradictory of! His Recent Stand. By J.Bart Campbell wjort .ampDru l, ian. 6. (I. N. S.) S' Penrose of Pennsyl- Washington, Senator Boies ' vanla-; chalrmaniof the senate finance committee, anopneed this afternoon that he would support the temporary omnibus tariff I bill, passed by the house. ". ''.'('.' , Penrose's announcement was regarded" as a complete. iversal. of his declara tion recently thai he was opposed to the passage of the bill or of any temporary or "pop gun" tariff legislation at thU time. He issued a formal statement at the conclusion df a hearing on the bill today after he had consulted with Ken-' ator Smoot, Republican, Utah, a sup porter of, the biH, and others of its Ke- publican sponsors. F,: J. Hageiibarth, Salt Ike City,- president of the National Wool Gnpwers'1 executive officer of the association and National LlvestJ ck asnoria-tton, told the senate committee that falling prices and the loss of the market brought Ameri- ran wool .men face to face with ruin. He explained how South American wool had fallen in prfice, cutting the feet from. under America n - producers and how manufacturers faced sudden and heavy cancellations of orders for woolen goods and how it all contributed to destroy the wool business. ' . The. house wa ys and means committee started today with schedule A. which embraces chemicals, oils and paint. The schedule will continue to occupy its at tention tomorrow. Penrose's Announcement " ; is alarming to business '.:"'' By Robert J. Bender United Frtwe BU(f Comwpcmdent New York. (Jan. oT-rWhen Senator Bo1s Penrose the other day declared "It does hot, maki 'much difference who is1 mir secretary of state, the senate will htaie the wyf fir .our foreign policies." he greatly disturbed business Interests that want a (peace footing established by this country soon and politicians who are ' in touch with the trend of thought of business. As a result the last tvo days have developd a number of long distance phone calls between New York and President- Klect Harding s counselors In Ohio, and thare -will be a number of conferences in fVashingtori this week between roern- (Concludi'd oh I'kk Two, Colamn Four) In the salnip issue that" it admits "Our back ip to the" Wall." that Se attle lost. $126, 000, 0CK0 in foreign trade last ypar and that to assume the $J5,00jb00 purchase price bur den of the municipal railways would "bankrupt the'- city,v the Seattle Times of January 2 recordsthe pur pose' of Seattle business Interests to contest theiibterstate commerce com mission decision of the Columbia ba sin rate ase. " .-. : "What we have we'll hold," is the en . tirely selfisW slogans "of Seattle in de manding reversal of the rate decision. Seattle fears disaster from the rate decision in rdnnection with her other businessj troubles. The "order of the In terstate commerce commission was that Portland anjd Vancouver be .given- a rate advantage of 10 -per cent in -the freight m.ovement.to and from the rich 4200 square f mile sons , south of Snake river. Only one of the-production items of the rorje is 10.000,000 or more bushels of I grain annually. " The ion Lincludes su4h important-' Inland towns as Pendleton. Walla Walla, Milton, Freewater, paco and Kennewick. The.Keattfe Times" devotes a full front page to thestartling business arid com merce plight of that "city -and nearly as much space to that city'-s embarrassment on page 7 i jof the same. issue, January 2,' to the efty's . trade apprehensions. That1 So ait tie will have- to fight or face uin the essence '."of the Times' confession ; rf the near bankruptcy of the Puget- piognd metropolis. - Effort onj Seattle's part to defeat the rate decislnln is not feared locally, be cause, the : interstate commerce ccmmli sion'a order is regarded as hsvin been based upor a narrow rather than a broad intef iretation of justice to the In terior and the ports" of. the Columbia. At the same time the strength of Port land and Vancouver and of that part of the Colombia basin affected by the order - will be joined In opposition to aihy - disruJtive move' Seattle aryl her companion cIUes may attempt. Atlanta Streetcar j Men Get Advance I Atlanta,! Ga., Jan. 6. (1. N. S.) Streetcar tnotormen and conductors re ceivers 2 (tents in hour rise by a union contract covering 1921. just signed by the Georgia Railway Power company and representatives'- of the Streetcar Men's union. The scale now paid Is: Forty-four cents an hour for the first: three .months' service ;i 46 cents an hour next nine i months and after one year, 4f cents an hour. t -