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VOLUME LXI.
THE DALLES, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1921.
No. 105.
GRAIN GROWERS
OF NORTHWEST
TO MEET HERE
AFFILIATION WITH NATIONAL
ORGANIZATION, PURPOSE OF
BIG MEETING.
SELLING PLANS DIFFER
EXECUTIVES TO .TAKE .UP NA
TIONAL RESOLUTIONS' 11
P0INT8.
To consider the resolutions passed
by the United .States Grain Growers,
Inc., setting forth the conditions un
der which the northwestern wheat 1
growers' associations may become af
filiated with the national organiza
tion, an Important meeting of execu-'
tives is to be held in The' Dalles Sat
urday, May 14.
lAmong those who will attend are
George C. Jewett, . general manager
of the Northwest Grain Growers, As
sociated; George A. Mansfield, presi
dent of the Oregon State Farm, bu
reau; C. A. Spence, grand master of
the state grange; A. R. Shumway,
president 'of the state farmers' union;
and Hector MacPherson, head of the
bureau of marketing of Oregon Agri
cultural college"
There have been differences in poli
cies between the national organiza
tion and those of the northwest, es
pecially in selling plans, which threat
ened to prevent a union of the two.
When the United States Grain Grow
ers, Inc., met in Chicago last month,
a special committee was appointed
to consider basic principles around
whTTch "ac6ns6lldationmight be ef
fected. This committee met and drew up a
set of resolutions, consisting of 11
points. These resolutions will be con
sidered at the meeting a week from
next Saturday.
(As they generally set forth the prin
ciples of the northwestern organiza-.
tions, there is little doubt but that
they will be approved, and the consol
idation will be effected. The first
step will be to secure ratification of
the resolution according to the con
ditions of the state involved.
The resolutions in substance, pro
vide as follows: I
The first clause provides the Wash
ington, Oregon and Idaho associations
may be permitted to join the national
organization on execution of a con
tract with the latter, incorporating the
points set forth below. i
First, all grain of the associated '
shall bo marketed through the nation.
aL i
Second, that such portion of the
grain as may be sold for export, not
to exceed one third of the total, be
marketed under the direction and at
the time required by the pooling com
mittee of the nationalassociatloa.
Third, in consideration of the cam
paign of the state association to in
crease their memberships, the Unit-'
ed States Grain Growers, Inc., will
not present its particular form of con
tract, or permit growers in the north
west to sign the national contracts
prior to January 1, 1924. This means
the growers in Oregon, Washington ,
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JUDGE LANOIS TO
RESIGN COURT JOB
FEDERAL COURT TO LOSE ONE
OF MOST PICTURESQUE
CHARACTERS.
ttf United PreM
CHICAGO, May 4. Kenesaw Moun
tain Landls will give up his job as
judge of the federal court here in or
der to devote all of his time to hU
position aa high baseball commUslon
er. His resignation, according to pres.
ent Indications, will take effect early
In June.
It has long been known among
Judge Landis' friends that he wouM
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LAD'S FISH POLE
HITS VOLTAGE WIRE;
HE'S ELECTROCUTED
CURRENT HURLS HIS BODY 150
FEET TO RIVER
BELOW.
By United Press
HARRISBURG1, Ore., May 4
Twelve-year-old Edwin Jensen met a
spectacular death here late yesterday
when he was accidentally electro
cuted and his body hurled 150 feet
from a railroad trestle into the Wil
lamette river.
The lad was fishing from the tres
tle with a metal-tipped rod. In whip
ping it back it came in contact with
a trolley-wire system carrying 60,000
volts. He was intsantly killed and
his body catapaulted through the atr
and into the water below.
The accident occurred in the main
line of the Oregon Electric railroad.
CITY MAY VOTE
RESIDENTS ON UPPER STREETS
ASK FOR MACADAM COUN
CIL OBJECTS. ,
(Residents of the upper part of the
city want macadam streets in front of
their homes. They want the city to
build these streets on a 75-25 basin,
the property owners to pay the long
end of the deal. The city has two ob
jectlons to this proposal, howevev. in.
the first place, Mayor P J. Stadelman
is of the opinion that macadam street
surfacing1 is waste of money and.
should the upper streets of the city
be surfaced in this manner, this prtt
cedure would preclude paving tor
years to come. And in the second
place, the city has not sufficient
funds to pay its 25 percent of the cost.
These facts were brought out last
night at the regular monthly meeting
of the city council, attended by a
delegation of property owners from
the upper sections of the city.
The city will be forced to call a
special election and vote special ini
provment bonds if the street improvK
ment petitions are granted, it was
pointed out by couhcilmen.
Although no definite action was
taken, the general concensus of opin
ion following the meeting was that
the issue will be placed before the
people, either at a special election or
at the state special election on June
7.
HOLD BIG BANQUET
DELEGATIONS FROM HOOD RIVER
AND STATE ASSOCIATION
ARE GUESTS.
With a large delegation of Hood
River automobile dealers in attend
ance, as well as representatives from
the State Automobile Dealers' asso
ciation, the Wasco County Automotive
Dealers' association last night was
host at a banquet given at Hotel
Dalles. Fifty local and visiting auto
mobile men sat down at the banquet
table.
H. R. Fancher of the local associa
tion gave a brief address, urging the
establishment of the cash basis in all
automobile transactions. C. A. John
ston told of the progress made in im
proving the new city auto park.
Among the guests were: Homer
Ross of McMlnnville, president of the
State Automobile Dealers' associa
tion; A. H. Brown of Portland, asso
ciation director, and James Castle of
Portland, secretary of the state asso
ciation. H, E. Burdette, landscape architect,
explained in detail the work already
done on the Improvement of the city
auto park. Following his talk, dealers
who bad seen the partly-completed
park agreed that The Dalles will bava
one of the best equipped and most ar
tistic auto parks in the west, if pres
ent plans are carried out.-
on macadamizing
AUTOMOTIVE
MEN
BUFGl'S BOATS .
SNATCH
DYING
FROM SEA GRAVE
EIGHT DIE IN SHIP'S FIRE 65
SURVIVORS ARE
LANDED.
BLAZE BELIEVED OUT
FLARES SECOND TIME, HOW
EVER, IGNITES NITRATE, EX
PLOSION FOLLOWS.
By United Press
SEATTLE, Wash., May 4 Sixty
five survivors of the Japanese steam
ship Tokuyo Maru, which burned at
sea olf the northern Oregon coast
Monday night, were safe in Seattle
today. They arived here last night
aboard the army transport Buford,
which reported eight dead from tho
disaster.
To the bravery and superb seaman
ship of Captain L. R. M. Kerr, Third
Officer O. Littchen and Fourth Of
ficer A. Erickson of the Buford, be
longs the credit for rescuing 22 of
the 65 survivors. The twenty-two, un
able to get into lifeboats, were
snatched from the water by the Bu
ford's boats, commanded by Littchen
and Erickson.
Fire started in tho Tokuyo early
Monday morning. Captain Suzuki or
dered the ship turned back to the
mouth of the Columbia. All hands
fought the flames and tho fire was
declared out. On resuming her cruise
the ship again burst, into flames,
this time reaching a bunker filled
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FESNERS KILL POLICEMAN;
WOUND ANOTHER IN RUSH
- By United Press
GLASCOW, May 4 Sinn Feiners
today killed one police officer and
wounded another in an attempt to
take a colleague, Frank Somers from
custody.
Somers was being transferred from
court to jail in a heavily guarded
patrol wagon, when Sinn Feiners
rushed the conveyance. One inspec
tor was killed and a detective
wounded. .
GERMAN PLANTS
Ant MMItO
TEUTON MANUFACTORIES, THUS
ABLE TO UNDER-SELL
U. S., CLAIM.
By John M. Gleissner
(United News Staff Correaoondent)
WASHINGTON, May 4 German
manufacturers are able to undersell
their American competitors because
of large indirect subsidies from the
government, according to Secretary
of Commerce Herbert Hoover.
He described the German indus
trial situation as revealed by a study
by the department of commerce, in.
testifying Tuesday before the houso
ways and means committee on the
tariff bill.
Hoover said that out of a total
German budget of 80,000,000,000
marks some 50,000,000 was practi
cally a subsidy to Industry in arti
ficially low prices for German goods.
Tho government he explained pays
railroad operating deficiencies loss
es from the operation of utilities ana
maintains living costs at a low point
by buying food and soiling it below
cost.
This process keeps down produc
tion costs, he said, but cannot con
tinue indefinitely, because the gov
ernment is meeting the expense
largely by the issuance of paper
money, which eventually would bring
inflation to the bursting point.
"German steel and other coromod
ItJes are being offered at price with
which no government can compete,"
Hoover said. "The government pays
three-fourths of tho charges of pro
duction. It is existing by printing
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IMS DEMAND
$33,750,000,000
FROM GERMANY
TEUTONS MUST MAKE ANNUAL
PAYMENTS OF $500,000,000,
TERMS.
INVASION IS PENALTY
RUHR WILL BE SEIZED UNLESS
GERMANY ACCEPTS REPARA
TIONS .
Final Ultimatum.
Allies demand $33,750,000,000
(present value.)
Payment.
' Three classes of gold "bonds
bearing five percent interest.
One issue to be delivered July 1,
the second in November and the
third as an allied commission be-
lieves desirable.
German exportatlons taxed
25 or 26 percent, expected to
yield $500,000,000 'a year.
Germany to make annual pay-
ments of $500,000,000 and to pay
$250,000,000 within threo months.
Penalty.
. Invasion of the Ruhr district
with gradually Increasing pies-
sure. Possibly a naval demon-
stration before German ports.
By ;Ed L. Keen
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
(LONDON, May 4. The allies today;
prepared to submit a final proposal to
yGjermany for settlement of the world,
war.
With .a demand that Germany pay
$33,750,000,000 to the allied countries,
tho supremo council notified Berlin
that penalties will be exacted If the
terms are not accepted by midnight
of a certain day, believed to bo May
12. "
The supremo council's note, provid
ing for payment of the uoot by bond
issues and exacting nn export tax.
"was to be transmitted to Berlin by the
allied reparations commission which
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iSHIP AGROUND
CALLS m HtLriTUG MAY HAVE
TROUBLE WITH STEERING GEAR,
CAUSE IN LITTLE
DANGER. I
By United Press
SAN FIlANfMSCO. Mav 4 Troublo
with the steering gear caused tho j
Santa Alicia to run aground at Mar-'
rowstone point, according to tho ma
line dopartmont of the San Fran
cisco Chamber of Commerce. Ad
vices received here today gavo tho
impression that tho crow was In lit
tle danger.
Tho message said that lighters
would bo drawn alongside and tho
cargo taken olf, after which It Is
believed.-'Siio could bo floated.
The Santa Alicia had aboard 3,000
tons of ore for smoltors. Up until
noon, officers of the W. R. Grace
company, owners of tho vessol, had
received no details of tho accident.
SEATTLE, Wash., May 4 Wire
less calls for assistance wero sent
out shortly aftor 2:30 o'clock this
morning by the W. It. Grace steam
ship Santa Alicia. Tho vessol Is ro
roiled aground and In distress at
Murrowstone point near Port Town
I end. The Santa Alicia was inbound
Sun Francisco to Seattle. '
ASTORIA, Or , May 4. The Santa
Alicia, reported aground and In dis
tress near Port Townsend, passed
the mouth of the Columbia bound
northward early yesterday.
She was one of the ships which
had been standing by tho Ill-fated To-(
kuyo Maru, which burned to. the
water's edgo and sank. J
MCARTHUR TO FIGHT
FOR WEST iCOAST
NAVAL DEFENSES
BREMERTON, SAN DIEGO, MARE
ISLAND, COLUMBIA MOUTH
FACILITIES NEEDED.
(Chronicle's Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, Mny 4 "The
navy is our first line of defonse, and
hence it is of vital importance thai
wo maintain powerful fleets, and
adequate shore facilities on both
oceans," declared Representative C.
N. McArthur today in announcing
his Intentions of renewing his fight
before congress for ample naval pro
tection for the Columbia river.
"At the present timo there are
ample shore facilities on the Atlan
tic const, but the yards, docks and
other shore accommodations on the
Pacific are entirely inadequate," con
tinued Mr. McArthur. "The govern
ment has spent much money in the
development of fortifications and
equipment at Pearl Harbor and In
the Hawaiian Islands, and this, of
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NEGRESS CALM IN
Tl
REFUSES TO GET EXCITED OVER
WINNING OIL
CASE.
By Harry C. Taylor
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
DALLAS, Tex., May 4 A nogress
today sat in a tumbledown shack In
tho negro quarter, stoically refusing
to got excited over a battle involv
ing millions of dollars, which attor
neys aro waging about hor claims
to oil lands.
Lillio Taylor, tho negross, explain
ed to newspapermen that her "health
is porcly, and besides I ain't no
hand to talk no-how."
She merely Bhrjggcd her shoul
dors when Informed that tho Louis
iana supreme court had upheld hor
title to oil fields near Homer, which
have already produced almost $6,000,
000 worth of oil.
Suit pending in the circuit court
of appeals of Now, Orleans will com
plete tho establishment of her title,
if she wins, and will probably muko
her the richest negross in tho world.
NO WORD COMES TO EXPLAIN
DISAPPEARANCE MONTH
AGO.
By Up'ted Nowb
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4. Naval
offlcoia hero today recallod tho myc-
terlous disappearance of tho Collier
Cyclops when no word wan received
In regard to tho naval tug Conostoga,
now 37 days out from Maro Island, on.
route to Pearl Harbor.
Tho Conestcga loft hero on March
27 towing a barge. At tho last lopor'
rocolvod at tho iuival hoadeiuartors
on April 8, the commander, Llouton
ant 13. L. Jones, said that tho lug wan
trying to rido out a hurricane, 500
miles from Honolulu. Her tow had
broken loose and sho was trying to lo
cato It, tho messago said,
Since that day, tio-.v nearly a month
ago, no word ban coiuo from tho ship'
Dispatches from Washington roroiv
od at naval hpnriqiiartorx horo have
ordered a fleet of vowdii to go from
Honolulu In search of tho Cotio'Hoga
A squadron of seaplanes will accom
pany thorn to aid In the search,
Fear that tho tug had bcon lost In
the hurricane was expressed horo bv
oafating men familiar with condi
tions In Hawaiian watorH,
Lieutenant E, L. Jones, command-fn-
officer, is said to bo from Boston
whoro tho rocords show thut ho lived
with his parents prior to his ontrancn
Into tho sorvlco.
Boatswain F. L, Itelngold, executive
"fflcor, Is from Portsmouth, Va.
T MELONS
u
STORM
II. S. NAVY TO
MASS
SHORTLY
IN PACIFIC SEA
EVERY SHIP TO CONCENTRATE
ON WEST COAST, SAYS OF
FICER. LENGTH OF MOBILIZATION IN
WE8TERN OCEAN NOT
DIVULGED.
(Chronicle's Washington 'Bureau.) '
WASHINGTON. Mny 4. Every
fighting ship and nil supply ships of
the United States nnvy will mass to
gether on the Pacific coast within the
next- four months.
This statement was made today on
the authority of one of tho highest na
val officials In Washington.
Just how long 'this mobilization in
tho western ocean will last no one
hero can oven guess, but It is likely t
to be for the most of the summer
It has been suggested that tho, con.
centratlon mny coincide with the pro
posed trip of President Harding to
Alaska and several cities on the
coast.
If such is the' case, the president
will probably review this greatest na
val pageant of any . time in the His
tory of the United States.
WAGE CONTROVERSY KEEPS "
SEAMEN ON STRIKE
By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 4. With dif
ferences over working conditions prac
tically adjusted, tho wage controversy
today threatened to defeat efforts to
modiato tho seamen's strike.
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IT DOESN'T PAY TO ARGUE
WITH STONE POLICEMEN
It doesn't pay to nrguo with
a policeman.
J. D. McClnln, local grocer,
today admits tho truth of thlB
police court proverb, following
a tangle this morning with tho
stone pol'coman doing traffic
duty at tho Intersection of
Third and Court streets. Mc-
Claln was driving his automo-
bllo south on Court street and
took his eyes off tho road for a
second to wuvo at Chief of Po-
M Uco Frank Hcutor, who was bus-
lly engaged in watering tho city
hall lawn. Tho next Instant -K
nutomobllo and concrete cop ,
mot, to the damago of each.
! 'I'h:' cop was overturned, -k
breaking electric light wiring -k
connections and seriously dam- -k
-k aKlnc Kb stony exterior.
"No, my car wuBn't very bad- -k
ly damaged," McClain oxplnlned,
following tho accident. "Asldo -k
-k from two brokon springs, a bad- -k
ly twisted framo, soveral smash- -k
ed fendors, a smashed running
-k board and possible Internal In- -k
Juries, it seems to bo In pretty -k
-k good shape."
1 ARE KILLED BY
POLISH
DISTRICT QUIETED BY ITALIAN
TROOPS WHO SUFFER
CASUALTIES.
Ujr United Pre
BERLIN, May 4 Sevontoon por
tions wero killed at Antonlenhuotto,
uppor Silesia, yestorday by Polish
rlotors, according to reports hero to
day. Tho district was said to havo been ,
julotoil by Italian troops who suffor- 1
od soino casualties,
Tho dlsturbanco grew out of false
reports that certain portions of up-,
w Silesia had boon awarded to Po
land by the allied uuprome council.
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