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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1919)
THS DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAU SALEiJ, PREGON. TUESDAY, APRIL 1. 1919. PAGE FIVh Our purpose Is now M It has always been to serve the public in way that will meet their ap proval. The courtesy of our staff is unfailing. Ui:H;M3i.-U-mT1 3 ah Hawley Speeds Recess Time Inspecting Public Works Representative W. C. Hawley is spending his timo while ia Oregon vis iting the various localities inspecting iublic works in the course of construc tion and others proposed to be construc ted and interviewing his constituency relative to public matters. Ho plans on covering us much of the district as possible before the special session of congress is called and after spending "Wednesday in his Salem office attend ing to corespondcnce.'ho will go to Eu gene Thursday to attend the state con vention of tlio Federal Farm Loan asso ciations. I'ridny aftcrnoon ho will arrivo at To ledo where he will remain all night and Haturdny he will be at Newport. While in that locality he will inspect tne im provement of tho Yaquina river and waterway. Mr. Hawley in company with tho members of the wsstor commission nnd Other citizohs of Corvallis spent Mon day in examining certain public lands on the cast side of Mt. Chintimini, or Mary's Peak, desired for the protection of tho water supply of Corvallis, the Oregon Agricultural college and Philo math. Tho' area involved, is fourteen hundred acres. Ho returned from his trip to Corvallis this morning and will address the Six O'clock club at tho M. E. church this evening. Irish-American Delegates To Peace Conference Delayed BETTERHEKT OF POST StFYICE IS DISCUSSED' American Losses In Mecse- Argomie Rgkt 115,529 Postmasters And Business Men Consider Defects And Remedies, Washington, April 1 Suggestions for oeuermcut or the postal service were to be offered this afternoon at a con ference of postmasters and business men from all over the country. A spe cial committee was appointed to con sider the suggestions. Postmaster General Burleson, In wel coming the conferees, said the depart ment welcomed all criticism. But self ish criticism directed against policies intended t0 benefit the pubjio general ly would receive no consideration, he said. Among the business interests repre sented at the conference arc: Association of American Bankers; big I mail order houses and h I'nlt.i.i States Chancer of Commerce. 1 MlirA tlltm aKFnnfv :......... t .. . .. ' " - ....... v iil , -i '.) 1 mt... ins n 11 v welcomed to the conference y Colin Selph, postmaster at 8t. Louts, and prcs idunt of the National Postmasters' association. Businessmen and postmasters will eo- onerate in planning nation-wide cam paigns to better tho postal service in a couiniitto apnointed today nt the open ing meeting. Members of the commit tee are: C. J. Bell, representing the American Bankers' association; F. F. Pebeard, Merchants association, New York; Geo. Rosenberg, New York, publisher; A. B. Schmidt, general traffic manager Sears, Roebuck jc company; George A. Leon ard, postoffice inspector; Charles Janzier. New Orleans, postmaster; T. C, ratten, New lork postmaster; Colin Solph, St. Louis postmaster, committeo chairman. Taris, April 1. Official fig ures of the Meuse-Argonne bat tle, compiled by American gen eral headquarters and made public, today, thow the total American losses were 11525) Out of 631.4U3 men engaged. The American losses in the 47 days battle were apportioned as follows: Killed; 13,399; wounded, 69, 832; gassed. 18 664; shell shock ed, ,019; missing. 8,805. ' Is additioa to the Americans, there were 133,000 French en gaged. The total artillery ammuni tion used was 3,408 725 rounds. The expenditures averaged 72,. 541 a day. The greatest number of rounds used in one day was 313.07$. on September 26. There were SOS American air planes available for service. Planes ''crashed" or missing were 324. Enemy planes brought down totalled 194. One hundred and forty two tanks were employed. PRESSLEY IN NEW YORK. Sergeant Albert 0. Pressley, of this city, who won the dis tinguished service cross after he had captured a machine gun and 20 German prisoners sin gle handed, arrived in New York today aboard the trans port Kentuckian, according to press dispatches this afternoon. Peace Delegate From Eng. land New York, April 1. Sailing of the steamer LaTouruine carrying the Irish American delegates to the peace con ference was delayed today. At 1:30, half an hour after the scheduled hou for departure, the ship till was at her dock anil the delegation had not ap peared. Owing to the lack of tugs, it appeared likely La Touraino would not get away before tonight or possibly tomorrow morning. A big crowd of Irishmen was at the pier, waiting to cheer the delegates when they arrived. The delegates are Frank P. Walsh, formerly of the national war labor board; Edward F. Dunne, ex-governor of Illinois and Michael J. Ryan, law yer, Philadelphia. Tho purpose of these men, who were selected at the recent Irish convention in Philadelphia, is to ask the peace con ference to hear the accredited dele gatea of the Irish republic, who ask self determination. Po; nnior IS Retains On Kentuckian New York April 1. Among the of ficers returning to the United states board the transport Kentuckian, which docked here this morning, were: Charles M. Ross, Portland; Captain James W. Stewart, San Francisco; Cap tain Carlton B. Joeckol. Berkeloy; Lieutenant James W. Boyd, Jr., Wil lows; Captain D. J. Smith, fcaernmen to; Captain J. V. Richards, Spokane Wash; Captain Cloyd Rousch, Salem, Oregon. Brigadier General Vernon A. Cald well, commanding the 182nd brigade, returned with a Belgian war cross but declinod to say what he had received it for. 1 ' , ' v - v , - M Trade Commission Protests Cofbine Of Pattern Makers ua.ai.uiTuv4Na; nvicija4 Andrew Bonar Law, Lord Prlvf Seal and Leader of the House of Commons. Th Jonrsal Jc Departssant will prist you anything in tat stationery line do it right sal lavs yon real money. FUEL TARIFFS REDUCED Washington, April 1. The federal trade commission today Issued formal complaint against the Butterick com pany and subscribers and the Pictorial Review company, two pattern-making companies of New York City and have ordered them to appear beforo tho com mission fv hearings on May 13 and 14. renoctively. The Butterick company, it is charged, have contracted with some 20,000 re tail stores for the maintenance of fix ed re-salo price on Butterick patterns and for exclusion of competing put- terns and have refused to sell patterns to stores which insist on re-selling to the public nt their own prices. Tho Pictorial Review company it was stated, has entered into contracts with many thousand retail drygoods stores providing that it will repurchase out ef date or unsold patterns only on conditions that its standard resale prices aro observed and tho patterns of competitors excluded from sales. Tho action of these two companies, it is stated, cuts out all competition in . a .1. !1 .1-.. a large percentage or me reiau urj- goods trade. Chicago oVte For Mayor Is Largest In History Of City Chicago, April 1. Predictions of the largest vote ever cast in Chicago were made late today when election of officials announced more than 1330, 000 votes had boon dropped in tho ballot boxeg at 2:30 p. m. in the Chi cago mayoralty election. The total reg istered vote is 793,000. With an hour and a half remaining before the polls closed candidates' man agers declared the late rush would bring the total vote close to 700,000 'Long lines of voters were waiting to cast their Iballot at practically all downtown foiling places. Voting was orderly in most of the precincts. Only minor troubles were reported to the state's attorneys of fice . CoonSev Prescribes Cure For Bolshevisn In America Indianapolis, Ind. April L HowaiA Coonley, vice-president of the shipping board, told 350 business men of In dianapolis that bolshevism in tho Un ited States can be headed off by giving X. CAKCY CATHARTIC. Sf Portland, 0'., April 1. The railroads of this district were authorized today by the federal railroad administration to reduce the transportation rates on fuel wood shipments in Oregon. The re duction will be placed in effect about May 15 and will apply to cord and slab wood shipments which are carried prin cipally on the Southern Pacific, Ore' gon Eloetrie sand 8. P. k B. lines to Port- the workers an active interest itrthe land. The amount of the reduction will industries where they are employed. He be announced later, I said that bolshevism in the I'nited IMBBBaMBMMMMaM1,! States reached its crest is the recent i Seattle strike and that the intelligence 'of the American workinginan is too powerful for the Russian idia to com 1 - bat. I Coonley advised employers to cense tnlking to tho men about pay and hour and muko an effort to stimulate their : interest in the work. Transport Canopic Bringing I Americans Back From Italy Wasliinglon, April 1. Canopic is on the high Children wake up with 'a Clean Tongue, Sweet Stomach, Gear Head. All Feverishness, Biliousness and Constipation Gone! Delicious Laxative! -The transport seas, bringing home some troops from Italy, tne I war department announced today. The ltrooi, which were sent to Italy at the jlime of the Austrian drive, have late l Iv been concentrated at Genoa and i trniifjKjrted from there to Marnilies. !fpn whiih the Canopic sailed on ! March . The Canopic is due in New lork April 10 with the 3.t24 infantry, field an l stuff, detachment of the headquar ter company, detachment of supply company, d'-'aeliinent of machine K"u cs'pany, detachment of medical de pa'tnii'M; (b-'.ucliiReiit of base hospital li2 for Camp Vpton; casual eonipany -ilj, -New Jersey. TWO SECUET TEEATIE3 The Gasoline Problem of Supply and Demand The second of a series of three statements The war directed attention to the need of petroleum conservation. Speaking on this subject, Mark L. Requa, General Director, Oil Division, United States Fuel Administration, recently said: . "The disproportion between the supply of and demand for gasoline b enormous and constitutes a critical problem. "Projected at the percentage of increase, 1904-1914, we should require in 1927 something like 700,000,000 barrels of petroleum. In 1918 our total production was only 350,000,000 barrels." To meet this situation both the petroleum and au tomobile industries have for several yean been mak ing every effort. The problem has been approaches from every angle: (a) The oil producers are constantly prosptcting for new fields. They have sunk many wells and arc doing everything possible to increase petroleum production. (t) The oil refiners, with the help ol their chemi cal enfineers, are ever devising new and im proved processes, of refining by which they squeeze every possible drop of gasoline out of each barrel of petroleum. j(c) The automotive engineers have aided much in gasoline conservation by their constant improvement of automobile engines and methods of carburization. Their efforts are to secure the operation of automobiles on grades of gasoline that permit the maximum production of this motor fuel from each bar rel of crude oil and which, at the same time, will give the greatest power and mileage from each unit of gasoline consumed. All these methods are succeeding to a marked de gree, and yet gasoline consumption is increasing much faster than production, , Facing these bald facts last summer, it became evident to President Wilson and the United States Fuel Administration that there was virtually as great need for gasoline conservation aa for food conserva tion. r i' In consequence the United States Fuel Adminis tration requested Eastern states to discontinue en tirely all non-essential use of passenger automobiles, and for a time this request was so extended that' only automobiles in Government, emergency or war service were in useon Sunday. These limitations were not extended to the Western states, because at the time there was enough gasoline being produced in California for Pacific Coast needs and its distri bution did not require the use of transcontinental transportation facilities needed for war. It was part of this same campaign to conserve gasoline that led President Wilson to appoint a Gov ernment committee to determine and adopt standard specifications for gasoline and other petroleum prod ucts. This committee consisted of the United States Fuel Administration and representatives of the War and Navy Departments, the United States Shipping Board, the Director General of Railroads, the Bureau of Mines and th Bureau of Standards. The committee was assisted and advised by tech nical experts from each of these departments and bodies. After extended discussion, exhaustive tests and experimentation, this Government committee adop ted standard specifications for gasoline, not only for aviation purposes, but also for general motor use on laud and sea. These United States Government specifications were drawn up with a view to providing a grade of gasoline that would meet every practical require ment and yet allow maximum production. They deal with the problem on the basis of the best utilization of our petroleum resources, and the maintenance of reasonable prices to the consumer. Drafted as they were by impartial Government ex perts, these United States Government gasoline specifications are today being generally considered s the most .practical standard for gasoline. They insure an efficient and satisfactory' gasoline and at the same time have duo regard for the necessity of .petroleum conservation. The gasoline being furnished today is more pow erful and gives greater mileage than the gasoline of ten years ago. Its uie is made possible by the im provements in automobile engines and methods of carburization. To go back to the gasoline of ten' years ago would be to accept a more highly volatile but less powerful gasoline giving less mileage. It would also result in decreasing the production and increasing the cost of gasoline. All Red Crown gasoline now being supplied in the Pacific Coast states is refined to conform with '.he United States Government standard specifications. It has the full, uniform chain of boiling points nec essary for full-powered, dependable gasoline: Low boiling points for easy starting, medium boiling points for quick, smooth acceleration, and high boil ing points for power and mileage, STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) ( FLY TO NORTH POLE riPP WEARS BHANTT London, April 1. Cnptain Robert Raitlctt of Hew York plain to fly to the north polo in June, starting from a haso at Cape Columluu, it wus an-1 MORE UNITS ABSIONED I of Ohio anrl I'vimsylvania drafted iiirn, '"'I has sailed from Genoa, where t uold Jacksonville, Kin., April 1. Wulti-r Washington, April l.The foUowIni medal was presented to the entire rcci- Kipn is wearing a ulianty over Ms lift organizations have been assigned to jnent for valorous fightini with the glim today. 1'ing Hodie's liner took a curly convoy, tho war department an- armies of Italyi . . ; i : wicKcu iiouiwi in vcmoniays rivo to bounced today! Mm nounccd today. 1" i f- f 1 1 1 nn 1 the Ynnnigans, Bsrtlctt, who is 14 years old. started "thor "' his polar explnrntions as a HieniluT nf the I'cary expedition in 1897. Ho head ed the Oi mid inn go ernmeiil exposition In ttl4-14 when he erusaed on the ire tn jfmir iriiine between the Yankee regmars Huso hospitul 71; llltli engineers and & Siberia. aw: KOREANS BTAOE RIOT. Pi-kin. Mar. .'if). Twenty thousand Koreann singed a great demonstration in Hooul on Mareh S!fl, affording to de layed ditipatchw received here today. Th' military was railed out and many casualties resulted. I'nris, April 1. Tbe Jnnmat Dei Delisis today publifhed two secret treat- i between Bulgaria and Austria Hun- . . j 2".ry r.'iwinz tne concessions '"' jj, T O f the for;Tier fur entering the war on the jii Of 11111 tCOpl si'ie oi tne central powers. u I i:.::-- 'I ll 1 1 llicro wcrs no train ; w.lru pioneer infitnlry; ,17Jnd aer(, ki ii :t r I rors ; nnlmiuee i-iiHiiil cijii..int. J'J 1 k 1 to 37, ineliHive; iiiiinl rentpiinv H, n napoitution corp'; il'iui cbthiiig mil : .'iiiiitli btiti-liriv rnn.panv nnd I I'M aero leplueeiiienl Kiiiiadioii. I I JAPAN WARNS CHINA. InTcsses wcfijht and ulrcnglh of Uiln, 4.-;i'-te, ncroim poop!. It Is tn. ..r.ijr Uu'Iii-l lorm i.f p!io.tiate timt ! the i,cr"S dirw-t, Vm h 'ulc-illy j-:. f'Tia of pli'iphate na'nrnlly . . ij brain and owe cells, 'i.l by Init.'cl.ti orlrr a irnn.rHu I"? cf fcrtil-' tlen or niMiiPjr P.i, s. t- vi:A W F'n'ii: II i i !'. I lio.phnti. tM kind thnt pbjaiclana pre"Tll London April , The .laiimi 'e mi;., inter to Cliiim narneil the ( hiii'sf jnv eminent that in the event Jnpune.-s eoniiiiereinl interesis sufer f hi ' i;jt h iliw-li'snre i f secret agreement, ( hina would be held responsible for the him, according lo a news agency it;-.ntih received from I'ekm tonuv. BTEAaiSRS COLLIDE. ' Hover, Knif., Apr! t.--Tlie xlevnirr j 'Inn Mni'lloel, n and HiUi'en were in eiliisli.n off hi uth IForeliind (Kent) today. Wirelcus culls fer help were r" 'ceived from both steiimers. Later a hrir elty tugs were reported towing the :'lun Mucli'Hcn to this port. vr ? V',.-- . ... i V TANKS LEAVE ITALY. Apt I - An to th" New York cs.ble;;c:im frrni Hop fcnsiil general here t'Nlay. nays .'i'.'iid I'nited fc-tates infantry, com) ifficinl 1 1 it I . :i n tlio d .c t v.: HOW crj.'u'jii' ntsowtNO CMIUOREN