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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX. S A TTTRT) AT, OCTOBER 16. 1915. FOREIGN ninm n GUI i It U 10 CURBED BY ALLIES Committee of Mystery, Repre senting All, Passes on Every Purchase Made. BRITAIN ACTS AS BANKER How, W hero and to W hat Extent Money Shall Be Spout Is lieter- mined by Dominating British . Influence on Board. NEW YORK, Oct. 13. Of the millions f dollars spent daily in this country by the allies for war supplies, not a dollar, it nas learned authoritatively, can be spent without the sanction of the British government, obtained from a committee sitting in London. The personnel of this committee has never been published, and probably never will be. It consists, however, of representatives of each of the allied nations from. Great Britain to Monte. xtegrro, controls absolutely the purchase of all war supplies in any foreign country, acts as a financial chck and supervisor over all the war chests of all the allies, and seeks to eliminate competitive bidding. Home Purchaitei TVot Restricted. Over purchases made in home mar kets by various nations, the committee holds no supervision. Its sphere is limited strictly to purchases outside the boundary lines of the nations at war and their colonies. The committee is designated by a French title, the English translation of which is "the international war sup plies committee." Under tho guidance of the commit tee the allies can refrain from a com petition which if permitted would st-nd prices to prohibitive levels and conse quently awell the cost of conducting the war. Instead of coming into the .American market when supplies are needed and waging a financial contest for them, the allies have adopted a system of placing one big order at a time in this country. "When the con tract for this order is signed the next nation's needs are taken up and an other contract is placed. This is main tained until all are cared for. Britain Acta aa Banker. Oreat Britain, as banker for the allies, dominates the committee. One of the chief functions of the British members is to act as a mouthpiece of the British treasury, allotting to other allied nations the amounts advanced by Oreat Britain to them for the pur chases of war. supplies in this coun try. Each country is financed to a cer tain extent in the case of Russia, al most -wholly by Great Britain. The British members advise the representa tives of other nations where and just how much Great Britain will permit them to spend at stated intervals, how much they will be permitted to con tract for in the United States with the British guarantee of payment and how the money shall be spent The only time the committee's plan failed of operation was about six months ago and the effects of the fail ure have not yet been eradicated. This was in connection with purchases by Russia in the United States. Russia has been notified by the British mem bers that she might spend a certain urn of money for war supplies in this country. The sum is believed to have been between $200,000,000 and J300.000, 000. Huge Commitments Make Trouble. Whether the allotment was fully understood by the Russian govern ment is not known, but what Russia did was to spend the sum allotted ana in addition make huge commitments in this country for further supplies. These commitments, covering many months, were said to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars a sum in excess of the amount allotted her by the British government. In making these contracts. Russia apparently failed to consult the com mittee. When the contracts became lue in part, Russia had insufficient funds to meet them and the commit tee, not having authorized the making or the contracts, had to devise quiekly some method of paying the bills. This was extremely difficult and the de moralizatlon of the foreign exchange markets in this country was attributed in no small measure to this cause. Since that time Russia has adhered strictly to the wishes of the commit tee. Bills Paid by British. In return. Great Britain is paying her hills here. Not only these bills, but those of Italy, and more recently ! ranee, are being paid today by Great uritaini A single financial house J. P. Mor Ran & Co. acts as the disbursing agency of the British government in tilts country. its disbursements are understood tu cover payments of all goods purchased for the allies here. Great Britain keeps a record of the amounts which her allies draw against her and separate transactions between the British government and those of he other allies provide for a settling of the score among the allies. The '00. 000.000 Anglo-French credit loan just negotiated, it is said, will pro vide payment ror a large quantity of poods purchased here for Russia. delivered another address today on'the boat. C. C. Thomason, of the State Su perintendent's office, gave a steriop ticon lecture in the high school audi torium last night. GLENDALE PEOPLE ANXIOUS Offer of Expenses Made to Bring Road Survey Through Tovrn. CANFONVILL.E, Or.. Ovt. 15. (Spe cial.) Surveyors at work from Glen- dale to Wolf Creek and Cow Creek to seek the best grade on the Wolf cretK side of the mountain from Glendale. report that the grade is 19.8 per cent, while the Cow Creek crossing route is about 4 miles shorter and the grade is less than one-third that of the Glen dale route. Glendale people realized the differ ence was against them, they called a mass meeting and offerett to pay ex penses of the survey if it would fol- ow the road to Glendale DacK up tne south bank of the Cow Creek to the Cow Creek road. Beautiful Red Vine Lures Tourists to Poison. Portland Drug-gluts Prosper WBem Kaatrrn 'Visitors Pluck En chanting Poison Oak Leaves and Then I. earn Error. LOCAL, drug stores report an unprec edented sale of poison oak reme dies in the past few months, and there by hangs a tale the old, old tale of how evil always appears disguised in colors of beauty' and allurement. Just at this season of the year the poison oak changes Its hue from plain green to red, the most gorgeous red among all the colors that appear among the stretches of Autumn fo liage. Many do not recognize poison oak in this attractive scarlet disguise and to them the pretty leaves have a disas trous attraction. It is with visiting tourists, however, that the poison oak has played most false, for they don't even know, in many cases, that such an irritating thing exists. Time and again visiting tourists have come into the hotels laden with the graceful vines and brilliant leave's of poison oak, to learn all too late thtt manner of herb they 'had plucked. All of which is fine for the druggists who have poison oak remedies to sell, but. as the Civic Bureau of the Cham ber of Commerce would say, "a darned poor attraction to put up for visiting tourists from the East." There seems to be no way to com bat the danger, except for the Chamber or other organization to take steps to warn the tourists, through the hotel clerks, that, when they are out in the Oregon woods, if they see a graceful vine, or a slender shrub (it grows in both formal which has brilliant red leaves shaped in the general contour of a small oak leaf without the deep flanges in the edge that is a shrub to look at and not to pick, if they want to carry away a pleasant memory of their visit to Portland. MIRACLE DRAMA IS COMING Drama, Similar to 'Damaged Goods." Opens at National Tomorrow. Final performances of "The rrice of. Her Silence." featuring- Miss Florence IaBadie, will be griven at the National Theater today. The drama has created something of a sensation in Portland. - Appearing- on the screen with it will be "Everyheart," an unusual morality- play, and A Corner In Cats, comedy. "The Miracle of Life," a drama simi lar in Its handling to "Damaged Goods" but treating of the subject of. birth control, will be featured at the. Na tional tomorrow. AUTUMN t sports call for new apparel garments that will satisfy the crit ical taste of the young man and please the eyes of the admiring throngs that behold him. New York is sending me the latest styles in young men's Suits and Overcoats; they're on dis play here as soon as received something new nearly every day. $15 to $25 ' SATURDAY BOYS' DRESS-UP DAY $6.00 NORFOLK SUITS $4.95 Regular $6 Norfolk Suits with extra knickers; full lined and taped seams. The best suits you can find for healthy, active boys; special today at $4.95 BEN SELLING Leading Clothier, Morrison at; Fourth 50c Waists 39 New percales and mad rases in pleasing stripes; well-made and perfect-fitting. Saturday on only OIC VANCOUVER CLUB ASTIR COMMERCIAL BODY TO ' REORGAN IZE: AND increase; membership. Paul K. roladritrr With Executive Committee la at Work After Quiet Survey of Resources. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Oct. 15. (Spe-cial.)-The Vancouver Cdmmercial Club will bo reorganized, rejuvenated, reno vated and revived. The work already has begun and will continue -night and day for the next month or six weeks. The man at the wheel Is Paul E. Poin dexter, who, for the past 20 years, has made a study of city building and com munity organization in the United States. Mr. Poindexter has been mak ing a quiet survey of Vancouver and its resources and needs. An executive committee of five mem bers. W. J. Kinney, chairman; Donald McMaster, J. H. Elwell. C. W. Davis and C. C. Turley, was appointed. - "Vancouver now fully realizes that to come into its own it must have a real, representative, bueiness-like or ganization if it is to compete success fully with its neighbors," said Mr. Poin dexter tonight. "You can't ge't game by using blank cartridges. Vancouver has great' natural advantages and great opportunities. Now its citizens realize that through a central representative organization an organization that serves as a brain, the dynamo of the community, that they can place Van couver in the first rank where it right fully belongs. It will be only through a representative organization, taking in trades, professions and industries, that this can be accomplished." A campaign will be Instituted to ob tain a much larger membership than at present. EDUCATORS BURY WOMAN Centralia School Officials Are Mrs. Turner's Pallbearers. CENTRALIA. Wash., Oct.15. (Spe cial.) A fitting -testimony to her work while a member of the Centralia School Board was the fact that leading educators acted .as pallbearers at the funeral yesterday of Mrs. I. S. Turner, who was killed the fore part of the week when an auto overturned on the National Park Highway near Frances. The pallbearers included J. M. Layhue, city superintendent; George Barner and J. C. Watson, the remaining members of the School Board, and DeFore Cramblitt, H. E. Rogers 'and E. K. Harkness. principals of the Logan, Edison and Washington schools. -The funeral was held from the Chris tian Church. The Degree of Honor, of which Mrs. Turner was a member, had charge of the graveside ceremony. Oregon City Couple Seek: Divorce. W&ATCHEE, Wash.. Oct. 16. CSpecial.) William 8. Knowlton, of Leavenworth, has brought suit for an absolute divorce from his wife, Maggie May Knowlton. In his complaint he alleges that she deserted him -without cause last year and has since refused-to consider a reconciliation. The Knowl tons were married in Oregon City, -December 28. 1908. Their community property consists of four lots in Leavenworth.- He -asks that her interest in the property be extinguished. There are no children living; UNIVERSITY HEAD NAMED DR. RAY LTM1.V WILBUR IS PRESI DENT OF STANFORD. New Official Is Graduate From Instltu. tion He Will Have la Charge After First of Tear. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal., Oct. 15 Appointment of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur as president of Stanford Uni versity was announced today. He will succeed President Bramer January 1. Dr. David Starr Jordan, the present chancellor of the university, resigned as Its first president in 1913. At that time, when President John Casper Bramer, then head of the geology de partment, was made president, he an nounced that when he reached the age of 65. In May, 1915, he would step down. Last May, in answer to the request of trustees and faculty, he consented to remain as president until his successor was appointed. On October 14. when he was notified of Dr. Wilbur's appointment. . he formally tendered his resignation. Dr. Wilbur was born at Booneville. Ia., April 13, 1875, the son of Dwight Locke Wilbur and Edna Marie Lyman Wilbur. He received his A. B. degree at Stanford in 1896 and his master's degree a year later. Oregon Women Get Pensions. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington.. Oct. 15. Widows' pensions of $12 a month have been granted to Hai ti B. Hill, Portland: Ohrlstianna Ken- When You Reach Any One of 43,792 Pacific Telephones in Portland It means saving of time sav ing of energy saving of money. This is possible in Portland to day, for, on an average, 270,000 calls are handled every day by our 600 operators. There are very few homes and practically no places of business that do not use the Pacific Telephone. "A smile in your voice wins even when you telephone" The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company Main Business Office Oak and Park Streets Broadway 4920 WHY NOT TRY IT You Will Surely Find That Crescent Baking Powder is the last word in scientific 1 e a v e n 1 n g it raises th dough, and raises It better. Sold by Grocers. POUND CAN.... .25c dall. of Burns: Ida D. Scott, of Port land, and Margaret I. Wafer, of Al bany, -and a pension of $21 a month has been granted Harrison J. Rhodes, of Rlckreall. "Tell Fruitgrowers Truth" Slogan. UOSEBl'RG, Or, Oct. 15. (Special.) "Tell the fruitgrowers the truth about crop conditions.' w.s the slo gan adopted at a meeting: of the offl ? cers of the Western Oregon Fruit Dis tributors held in Roseburg. Anions ' those in attendance at the meeting -were -C. A. Malboeuf, general manager.-' of the association : C. A. Brand, presi dent, and F. W. Franz, secretary. Ver bal reports of the officers indicated that the apple crop was short in all. u sections of the country, presumably on if account nf thf prolonged dry weather. STABBING IS YET MYSTERY Woman Victim at Seattle Identified as False Accident Defmuder. SKATTI.H. Wash.. Oct. la. Mrs. Jean Thomas, who was dangerously stabbed Wednesday night by a man who at tacked her at Klghth avenue and King street, was identified by the police yes terday as Mrs. Myrtle Maud Johnson, who served a term in the Washington Penitentiary for making false accident claims against public, service corpora tions. Mrs. Johnson, who admitted her identity, has a record of more than 50 accident claims aiiatnst corporations, extending from Kansas City to the Pa cific Coast, according to the police. There Is much mystery about the stabbing. When first taken to the city hospital she said she had been robbed. She "ater denied this, but would give the police no definite information con cerning her assailant. TEACHERS ON EXCURSION Franklin and Benton County Insti tute Has rrogrammc on Rives. PASCO. Wash.. Oct. 15. (Special.) The joint teachers' institute being held in Pasco for Franklin County and Benton County went on an excursion up the Columbia River today. The steamer "Twin Cities" was chartered for the day and the instructors taken aboard where the regular programme of the day was carried out. Superintendent Durham. of - King County, addressed the institute yester day, ou community ceuter work and MlllUmlM nllllllHiilnlili UUIIIHm UUIlllllUllimiTTTTTTn glTmfflTfTTfl , pnmmiumihmn.iumuuiiiiiiimmTT ti .Jic a Ml : J swjtf i v H t-uiinmniiiiiiiiiiiMn.TiL rniiin; ,:ni! id tfSffef tSH U-Br at the Stores Listed Below 7S MjfcK' fl V:.-vh -All Specialists in Their Line. f- TJ 1 -- - n I ' 'i t ' The Convenient Shopping Time . fcWMllll '1 1111! '.! 1 WWW MM H Ml HTTT ATURDAY night is a gala occasion at the establishments listed below. For the convenience of those unable to shop at other times they remain open. Extraordinary efforts are put forth to make your visit interesting and advantageous. You are invited to visit these stores whether your pur chase be large or small or whether you merely call to inspect. M.em.hers by ' Invitation The Saturday Night Shopping Service C.H.Baker Shoes, 270 Morrison. 270 Washington, West Park and Washington. Bufftim & Pendleton Men's Clothiers and Furnishers, 311 Morrison street. Felix Block - Jeweler and Silversmith, . 283 Morrison street. C. C. Bradley Co. Men's Hatters and Furnishers, 352 Washington. Clarke Bros. florists. Cut Flowers and Potted Plants. 287 Morrison. A. & C. Feldenheimer , Jewelers, Silversmiths, Park and Washington. The Florsheim Shoe Shop Men's Shoes. 350 Washington Street. Irwhi'Hodson Co. Stationery, Printing. Engraving, 387 Washington. Jaeger Bros. Jewelers, Diamond Merchants. 131 Sixth street. The Juvenile , Clothes for Kiddies. 143 Sixth Street. Bet. Aider and Morrison. Knight Shoe Co. . Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes, Broadway and Morrison. Laue-Davis Drug Co. Druggists. Prescription Pharmacists. Third and YamhilL Lion Clothing Co. . Men's Clothing. Shoes, Furnishings and Hats. Fourth and Morrison. Leffert Jewelry Co. Jewelers, Silversmiths, 268 Washington street. Lennjon's Gloves, Hosiery. Umbrellas, 303 Morrison. Mat his Clothier, Furnisher, Hatter, 147-149 Sixth street. Powers Furniture Co. Furniture, Draperies, House Furnishings. Third and YamhilL. ' Phegley & Cavender Clothiers, Furnishers and Hatters. Fourth and Aldar. Rosenthal & Co. Hanan Shoes, Main Store, 12 Tenth street. Branch. 308 Washington street. Samuel Rosenblatt & Co. Clothiers. Furnishers and Hatters. 266 Morrison. Ben Selling Clothier. Furnisher and Hatter. Fourth and Morrison. Sherman-Clay & Co. Pianos. Talking Machines. Records. Sixth and Morrison. M. Sichel Men's Furnisher and Hatter, 331 Washington. Staiger Shoe Co. Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes. 292 Washington. Max M. Smith Florist. Cut Flowers and Plants. 141 Sixth sU. near Alder. Woodard, Clarke & Co. Druggists. Wood-Iark Building. West Park and Alder.