K VOL,. VL.I. NO. 17,420. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HUGHES PROPOSES LIVING COST GOES HIGHER THAN EVER COURT REJECTS $1 VERDICT FOR GIRL PORTLAND VISITORS FOREST FIRE LOSS LESS THAN $500 FIGURE COVERS ENTIRE DAM AGE IN OREGON THIS YEAR. SHIPPERS CAN AID, WAR S END IN JUNE, UNFLINCHING POLICY GET REAL WELCOME . SPRQULE SAYS EVEX NEW LEVELS PREDICTED BEFORE END OF WINTER. JUDGE M'GIXX SAYS A AVAR D IS INHUMAN1 AND UNFAIR. 1917, IS FORECAST ass nil.. ' n Germany Expected To Bid For Peace. Entire Protection for Americans Advocated. RECENT LEGISLATION RAPPED Democratic Claims Picked to Bits by Candidate. : 7 STAND IS MADE FOR LABOR War Declared to Have Saved Busl-f0111 ness Disaster Adamson Bill Regarded as Serious Blow to Worklnginen. MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Sept. 20. Charles Evans Hughes, in his speech here tonight, outlined his attitude to ward the protection of American rights as follows: "I propose that we shall protect and enforce American rights on land and sea. I propose that we shall protect and enforce American rights on land and sea without fear and unflinchingly with respect to American lives. Ameri can property and American commerce. We have so unstated policies, no secret understandings, no Intrigues. We stanS four-squared to the world, representing the United States and its interests and its Interests "alone, first, last and al ways." Democratic Claims Answered. Mr. Hughes' reference to American rights was contained in a speech in which he made reply, one by one. to what he termed Democratic claims for having aided business, and outlined the Republican programme. In so doing he dealt chiefly with subjects discussed in President Wilson's speech of ac ceptance. The shipping bill was characterized as "a menace, the sooner removed the better." The Underwood tariff he called a measure "that must be undone 'If we are to have, a sure basis Of pros "perity In this country." He reiterated that the anti-trust law. Instead of being clarified by definition, had been made "more uncertain." "I-must say," he declared, referring to the Democratic party, "after having read several of their statutes that they are the most wonderful phrasemakers on record." Federal Rucrre Act Republican. The Federal reserve act, the nominee said, far from being a Democratic meas ure, pure and simple, was taken in great part from material supplied by a Republican commission and a draft of a Republican bill. "Whatever salvation from panlo we have had thus far is due to the en lightened foresight of the Republicans," Mr. Hughes said in connection with the extension of the Aldrich act during the threatened financial depression in the early days of the European war. The child-labor law, Mr. Hughes said failed to protect hundreds of thousands of children at work in various states under Democratic administration. "Call the roll 0f states." he said,' "and you will find that the states where children are emancipated from too early labor are Republican states and that the states where child labor still exists . are under Democratic control." Broader Act Required. The Federal workman's compensation law, the nominee reiterated, should be made to protect others than the Federal employes under Its scope. It should ex tend to all persons engaged In pursuits of Interstate commerce. In outlining Republican policies Mr. Hughes said he stood for protection of American rights, a protective tariff, for the principle of arbitration in indus trial disputes, the protection of labor, National resources and "the National Treasury," for efficiency in Govern ment and for "a Government according to the process 0t reasoning.". In his reference to the shipping bill and the Underwood tariff. Mr. Hughes said in part: "There are two acts which are stated to be aids to business which, on the other hand, were direct blows to American business. I will mention the last of these first, the shipping bill, a bill which is a menace to American in dustry. Shipping Industry Menaced. "It unjustifiably reduces the Govern ment to the shipbuilding business. It at this time may be practicable in oper ation because of the extraordinary con ditions which preclude the purchase of ships at normal, prices or the building of ships in jards already overworked. But it remains a menace to the shtp , ping industry and . the sooner that 'aid. to business' is removed as a menace, of that great Industry of this country the better it will be for the shipping In terests. "Then there is that other 'aid to busi ness,' which has been so serious a blow to business. I mean the tariff formu lated in 1913, which removed the proper protection needed for the development of American industry. I have said that abuses had to a large degree been cor rected. Governor Phillpp (the chair man) was good enough to refer to some efforts that it came to my lot to put forth in that direction. Pnblic Interest Supreme. "I put the flag up in New York that the public interest was supreme. I have never , taken that flag down." Mr. Hughes reviewed the industrial depression. "What saved the situation?" he asked. (Concluded on Pago 3, Column 1.1 Canned Goods Soar With Cottons and Woolens; Women's Shoes Dou jble; Even Cigar Prices Rise. CHICAGO. Sept. 20. The cost of living- this Winter wilf" reach an unpre cedented scale and will affect every person. nomatter what object may be purchased, according to a table of comp"aratiire prices compiled here to day. Merchants and producers are vir tually unanimous in a forecast of fur ther Increases in prices which already advanced alarmingly within the last year. ' Food price. It is said, vary accord ing to quality and quantity, but it is the small purchaser at retalUwho must pay most. Wholesalers say canneries throughout the country have informed them that Fall and Winter deliveries will be only one-third normal, while the last vegetable crop is said to be nalf tne Quantity expected. I tannea xruix win do o per cent higher and canned vegetables- are ex pected by wholesalers to increase 410 Ijer cent in price. Paper bags, in which the housewife carries ' home her market purchases. have increased in cost from 95 cents in wholesale lots to $1.65.- This ad vance is typical of all paper products. Cotton goods have advanced between 25 and 35 per centr Woolens have kept pace with cottons. The best lines of women's shoes for Fall and Winter will cost twice as much as the same article last yeai. dealers say. Even collars, that two-for-a-quarter staple which men have known for gen erations, will be a thing of the past. Collars now have been advanced to 15 cents . each,, and the laundries which havS for years laundered collars "for 2A cents have announced that 3 cents each Vill be the future cost. Cigar jobbers raised their prices this week between $4 and $5 a 1000 to the dealer. 1 SCHOONER INCA IN PERIL Ctitter Snohomish Leaves Fort An- ' . ' geles to Give Aid. SEATTLE. Wash, Sept. 20. The United States coast guard cutter Snohomish left Port Angeles tonight to assist the five-masted schooner Inca in distress off the Umatilla Reef, south of Cape Flattery. The .Inca's plight was reported by the launch - Cleo, which sighted the schooner's distress signals at 11 o'clock this morning. The Inca is a lumber schooner of 1014 tons gross register, owned by George E. Billings, of San Francisco. She was bound from Melbourne to British Columbia to load lumber for Australia. ROBIN MAY CAUSE PENALTY Deserted Nest Shown as Evidence of Slow Viaduct Work. To demonstrate how slowly the con tractors worked on the Union avenue viaduct. George Edmondstone, special city engineer, showed the City Council yesteitday where a robin built its nest in the framework of the first link of the structure, laid egge, reared a family, and deserted the nest before the first link was completed. He recom mended that the contractor, Gieblsch & Joplin. be penalised for delays. The Council -looked the structure over yesterday and agreed to accept it. A total penalty of 1 1600 can be im posed. COW SAVES WOMAN'S LIFE Battle Fought With Bull That Nearly Kills Mrs. C. W. Bearden. LA GRANDE, Or., Sept. 20. (Spe cial.) Mrs. C. W. Bearden. of South La Grande, owes her life to a Jersey cow. Mrs. Bearden had gone to the out skirts of La Grande to milk the family cow, when she was set upon by a de horned bull from a neighboring pasture. She was bunted over and her collar bone broken, and several less serious wounds 'were inflicted. Mrs. Bearden explains that she had given up all hope of rescue, when hei own cow came ruuning to the scene, assailed the attacking beast and drove it away. PEAR INDUSTRY FILMED Movies Will Show Pictures of Rogue River Fruit. 1 1 MEDFORD, Or.. Sept. 20 (Special.) A. C Allen, district horticulturist. has recently taken moving pictures of the pear industry in the Rogue River Valley which will be shown through out the country. The pictures show in detail the growing of pears from the nursery to the bearing tree. Mr. Allen - also has taken some steelhead fishing scenes the last week which he will endeavor to sell to one of the -large movjng concerns which deal specially in weekly event features. YOUTH DIES IN HARVEST George Wright Is Killed In Hay Can yon by Separator. MORO. Or.. Sept. 20. (Special.) George Wright, son of Dell H. Wright, a farmer living east of Wasco in the Hay Canyon district, was Instantly killed this morning at the Wolford Belshe farm in the Monkland section. He was mangled while placing the drive belt onto the separator after the William Mahert machine had finished i-ovine to a new location. FIGHT CONTINUES FOR TERMS Teuton Break in France November Is Predicted. by ALLIES JOINTLY PUSH ON Early Series of Offers to Try and Disrupt Enemies and to Sway America Anticipated ' by Writer and Observer. . BY H. G. WELLS. (Published by Arrangement With the New York World. Copyright, 1916.) LONDON, Sept. 16. In my recent Journey along the front from the Adri atic to Arras, I found no question more abundantly discussed than the question when the war will end. My friend. Captain Loyson, of the French army, makes me declare that I pledged my reputation as a prophet that 'the war would end next June. The opinion I expressed in the glow of Loy son's festivities was that the Germans will make a public official bid for peace before the year is out. probably in November, and that the allies will get the peace they want by June. Higher Authorities Cited. Since then, an Interviewer Induced General Brusslloff to Bay that we shall get our peace In August, which exactly fits Lord Kitchener's opinion of a three years" war. My opinion, .however, has an authority behind it almost as good as General Brussiloff. It isn't by any means merely mine. Now, what are the main factors in this calculation? Upon the eastern, western, Italian and Balkan fronts, the central powers are being beaten. There may be temporary setbacks, but the broad fact remains. One cannot go near the fronts and doubt it. 4 Germans Beaten on Somme. On the Somme, I have seen it with my own eyes. ' lhe Germans there are entirely beaten in the air. They have lost the advantage of ground along the whole front of the Somme offensive. They have been skoved out of lines they prepared and strengthened for more than a year and a half, and are back amidst inferior defenses. They are often now In hastily made earth trenches. Their officers, as well as the men, are dispirited and surrender readily. Their artillery is now overmastered and. while the allies have their aero planes as eyes, the German guns are blind. Also they are outmunitioned. This, mind you, is upon a front of their maximum in strength and effort. What is happening upon the other fronts the maps and the tales of prison ers tell. The calculation of the end of the war Concluded on Pava 6. Column 1.) I fl C KEEP THE ) lA ft Jl D UHrj- Jury Is Declared to. Have Ignored Evidence In Woman's Suit for $10,000 for Fall. On the ground that it was "Inhuman and contrary to the evidence." Circuit Judge McGinn yesterday set aside & verdict for $1 damages brought by a Jury In the suit of Phoebe Brown against Ezra L Nixon, proprietor of The Vogue millinery shop at 385 Alder street. The young woman applied at the shop for a position as hatmaker September 13, 1915; was engaged by Mr. Nixon and told to hang her hat up in an alcove She walked to the designated place, stepped into an unnoticed aperture where steps went to the cellar, and fell to the basement. She' asked $10,000 damages for her Injuries. "I am going to set this verdict aside," announced Judge McGinn. "If that woman has been injured at all, she has been injured to the extent of more than $1. This is trlflirig. If she hasn't been injured she isn't entitled to one cent. This verdict finds that the de fendant was guilty of negligence and that his negligence was the cause of her injury. It isn't Just, it isn't fair, it isn't human. , "Enter the judgment. Mr. Clerk, and record that the court immediately sets it aside on the ground that it is in humane and contrary to the evidence." VANCOUVER HAS BIG DEAL St. Elmo Hotel Included In Prop erty Trade of $200,000. ' VANCOUVER. Wash.. Sept. 20. (Special.) The" transfer of Vancouver city property valued at more than $200. 000 was completed yesterday, when deeds conveying four parcels of busi ness property in the Vancouver busi ness district were filed. Gustav Freiwald. of Portland, was the grantor and, the new owners are the Washington Development Co.. a Dutch corporation. Included in the deal was the St. 'Elmo Hotel, the Ferry Hotel building, a two-story brick build ing. a block of unimproved property 1 at the Seventh-street entrance to Van couver Barracks. WIFE SEES TRAIN KILL John Smith, Walking With Family, Is Hurled 2 0 Feet to Death. John Smith, an employe of the West Oregon Lumber Company, at Llnnton was, struck by the Spokane, Portland & Seattle steamer train near the West Oregon Company's mill at 6:30 o'clock last night, and was killed instantly. Mr. Smith was walking hand in hand with his wife and one of his children when the accident occurred. He was hurled 20 feet, through a cattle guard and down the railroad embankment. Deputy Coroner Smith said that' nearly every bone in the man's body was broken. Mr. Smith was about 65 yeara old. Neutrality Declaration Issued. LONG BRANCH. N. J.. Sept. 20. Roumania's entrance into the war call lng for, another declaration of neu trality by the United States, President Wilson signed the document here to day. VILLA'S COME TO LIFE AGAIN. Grants Pass People Are Wonderful Hosts. SPLENDID COUNTRY IS SEEN Whole Party Marvels at Rich Variety of Resouroes. NEW RAILROAD INSPECTED Excursionists Enjoy Hospitality of Various Bodies and Delight In Every Minute of Busy, Interesting Day. BY ADDISON BENNETT. GRANTS PASS. Or.. Sept. 20. (Spe cial.) The Portland celebrities wno journeyed to this beautiful city on the Rogue via the Southern Pacific have been today the guests of the city, of the California & Oregon Coast Rail road, and some of the time guests or the Grants Pass Commercial Club. The latter occasion was on the banks of Deer Creek, about seven miles east of Kirbyville. where we partook of a splendid' lunch. It was so toothsome and welcome that several of the party filled their pockets as well as their stomachs. Many Sights) Knjoyed. We took in the County Fair, went through the sugar beet factory, and then went over the new railroad as the guests of President Robert Twohy and Vice-President R. B. Miller. But of the details of the trip I will say nothing now. Let It suffice that after the railroad ride and automobile rides of. 90. miles we are now dirty and happy on the porch of the handsome home of Vice-President Miller, with tile .band tooting by my side and a gi'eat table on the lawn spread with all the dainties of the season, and it is with - difficulty we can hold back Phil Metschan, John Scott and other heavy eaters until the hosts call time. " " People Are Optimists.' The Grants Pass people are a great lot of optimists. One and all they seem to think, actually believe, I guess, that they have the finest town on earth and the best climate the sun shines upon. In proof of the latter they tell that the new sugar beet fac tory will pay 60 cents per ton more for beets, than any other similar fac tory in the world and all because of the sunshine that puts more sugar in the beets. Well, that sounds good when one remembers that the growers will have more tons to the acre than any other growers. Record Time Is Made. Getting back to the 42-mile automo bile ride from Holland here -this after noon, Mr. Miller, John Carroll and the writer were the guests and auto mobile companions of Chauffeur A. E. (Concluded on Pas 4. Column 2.) Brush Land in Jackson and Jose phone Counties Greatest Hazard. Temperature Is Factor. SALEM.. Or., Sept, 20. (Special. Oregon suffered practically no loss from forest fires this year, according to State Forester Elliott, despite the fact that the timbered and brush area owned by the Government and private individuals and companies comprises approximately 22,000,000 acres. The entire damage from fires, Mr. Ellnit says, will be less than $i00. Last year the loss on privately-owned timSer lands totaled $29,00. Oregon has 13,125,000 acres within the National Forests, of which about 10.000,000 acres is commercial timber land. There are 10,000.000 acres of privately-owned timber land patroled by the state and timber owners. In addition to this area there are approx imately 2,000,000 .acres of brush land in the Southern part of the state. "Most of this brush land is in Jack son and Josephine Counties and it is here that the greatest fire hazard ex ists." said Mr. Elliott. "A total of 114 fires were reported to our office In July and the first part of August. 52 of them being in Jackson and Josephine Counties. These fires were extinguished without damage of consequence." One of the reasons for the. greater frequency of forest fires in Jackson and Josephine Counties than in other counties of the state, is said to be the higher average temperature in those sections during the Summer' months, Mr. Elliott said. FIREMAN HAS CLOSE CALL Battalion Chief Uolden Almost Falls From Roof. Battalion Fire Chief Holden had a narrow escape from plunging nine stories from the top of The Oregonian building to the street pavement last night during a small fire in a store house on the too of the building. Chief Holden was standing on 'the parapet directing the firemen when he was struck in the face by a loose end of hose. He slipped and fell, hovering for a second over the abyss, but finally pulled himself safely inside the para pet. The fire started In the storage-room on the roof. The cause is believed to have been a spark from the. chimney. The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze. DRUNKEN FISHERS IN PERIL Visitors to Liquor Ship Are Snatched From Death hy Coast Guards. ASTORIA, Or.. Sept. 20. The liquor traffic conducted by the schooner Tramp nearly cost" the lives of two fishermen yesterday, when their boat was snatched from destruction on the south jetty by Captain Wicklund's life- savers. Both men were intoxicated to a point of utter helplessness. The Coast Guard crew reports that the Tramp sailed south yesterday. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS rk. W H YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 79 . 1 I a.rMI uegreeB, " -- - TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. Politics. Senator Stone denies surrender to ferce In i .- i.ci.l.ilnn. Pare 5. eiR :luu -" - Presldenfs atand on prohibition is made Usue In California. Page 8. Governor Johnson controls California Repub- UCtt 11 X wb.."-. yir Hughes takes stand xor unmncmns policy to protect Amcntiu riauio. r ao . Med ford Hushes alliance launches campalsn i.t. 1. .. . m mK.tx Pal. 0. Whitman apparently nominee. Doth of Re publicans ana rruRicMiia ..w, . lorn, rase War. Germans deliver hard counter attacks on Somme. ftge o. Great battle btlng wased In Dobrudja. n uni ultimatum to Berlin Pass T. War's end In June. 1U17. Is forecast by ob server, rasi . Britain has test equipped army in world, says Lord Derby. page 3. i'orelgn. Million Chinese made homeless by flood, Page a. Domestic. ci.h.. r.nwed In New York. Page 6. Cost of living- (on to new high levels. Page 1, Sport. pacmc coast "flB . , ......... . ... . . -. Oakland 3; Los Angeles 4. San Francisco 1; Vernon lu, ciu xto Jcss -Willard comes today with Sells-Floto 1 TavA 1R ... Phillies win two games from PRtsburg and gain on Brooklyn. Page 18. Red Sox triumph over contenders, beating jjetroii. - 1 " " Pariflo Northwest. Portland excursionists are given big wel come at Grants Pass. Page 1. Rogue River valley expects little benefit from rural credits law. Page 10. All is ready at Pendleton for opening of T..... ,1 -tin Pasti 5 Scientist and mariner win three-day battle Wltn angry itnu -n a. Governor launches Washington County Fair. Page 8. Total forest fire loss In Oregon this year reported less than S500. Page 1. " Commercial and Marine. Rapid advance In California hop market. Page 23. Chicago wheat fluctuations due to Rou manian war news. Page S3. Advance lo Wall-street stocks slows down. Page W. Schooner Geo. E. Billings la back. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Southern Pacific head says shippers can help relieve car shortage. Page 1. Judge McGinn sets aside verdict given woman for fall. Page 1. E. E. Miller denies conspiracy In transfer of water rights. Page 15. Intent to defraud held necessary to convict Homer Ford of forgery. 13. Firemen ask investigation and report by city on double platoon system. Page 13. Portland Realty Board will discuss high way problems at luncheon today. Page 11. Interstate Bridge .Commission gives fran chise to P. R., U. P. Company to cross new structure. Page 10. Business letters brought to court to show existence of cement trust. Page 9. Weather rcj)(irt, data and forecast. Page 10, Fast Handling of Cars Relieves Shortage. HEARING IS LIVELY AT TIMES 'Northern' Rail Lines Planning Interchange of Traffic. PORTLAND TO BE GATEWAY Object Is to Provide Greater Market for AYillumette Valley Mills, Says President of South ern Pacific Railway. The Oregon Public Service Commis sion's investigation of the Western Oregon car shortage yesterday revealed that the shippers, as well as the rail roads, can aid materially in relieving the situation. William Sproule, president of the Southern Pacific, who was on the stand a greater part of the afternoon, told in what manner the railroad is plan ning to give relief. . His most important revelation was that the Southern Pacific traffic de partment now is arranging with the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and other so-called "northern" lines for an interchange of traffic through the Portland gateway. Large Market la Object. This plan, he explained, is not de signed so much to relieve the car shortage as it is to provide a greater market for the Willamette Valley. It was the opinion of Mr. Sproule and of other Southern Pacific officials thac the shippers are, in a measure, to blame for the existing shortage on account of their unneessary delays in loading and unloading cars. The question of efficiency was tin- der discussion at frequent intervals, but was emphasized because of its ab sence in the lumber movement and not because of Its presence. "Efficiency Expert Considered. This situation may lead the Com mission to consider seriously the ap pointment of an "efficiency expert" to co-operate with the railroad and th shippers in the distribution, loading and unloading of cars. The hearing yesterday gave the rail roads a chance to explain the existing shortage and the circumstances that caused it. Officials of the Southern Pa cific were particular to assert, though. that their statements were to be ac cepted as an explanation rather than as an apology. The rail officials also emphasized the tremendous increase in business in Western Oregon during the present year, the lumber traffic alone show ing a gain of 14,552 cars in six months. The lumber manufacturers and otier shippers will have their inning today. Only one of their number testified yes terday. He was Charles MCGowau. manager of the EwaunaBox Company, of Klamath Falls. Mr. McGowan's com pany has been suffering severely from the car shortage. He complained, too. that his competitors are getting better car service than he. Dally Capacity 10 Cars. The Kwauna plant, running day and night, has a capacity of nearly 10 cars a day. This year it has contracts with California fruit growers for approxi mately 1200 carloads of box snooks. In ability of the Southern Pacific to pro vide cars has resulted in serious loss of business. Some orders have been canceled and much new business has been rejected. Under normal conditions the plant would have shipped 160 cars a month since the first of May. The actual ship ments were May. 116 cars; June. 100 cars; July, 116 cars; August. 134 cars. The difference between these figures and 160 cars per month represent a dead Toss to the company. Mr. McGowan said the Klamath Man ufacturing Company, whose production is only half the volume of the Ewauna plant, is getting as many cars as he Is. Ben C. Dey," general attorney for the Southern Pacific, insisted that the prac tice of the railroad in providing cars is to distribute them pro rata accord ing to the orders. Mr. McGowan drew the conclusion that the Klamath mill Is ordering more cars than it needs, with the expectation of meeting its actual needs, while he is ordering only his actual needs and getting fewer than he needs. Actual Needs May Govern. Members of the Commission sug gested that the railroad endeavor to determine the actual needs of the ship pers and be governed thereby as well as by the volume of the car orders. J. H. Dyer, assistant general man ager for the Southern Pacific, ex plained that this practice already has been inaugurated and will be followed even more generally in the future. Insinuations that the Southern Pa cific discriminates in its car distribu tions in favor of California shook makers further enlivened Mr. Mc Gowan's testimony. He said that the California Pine Box & Lumber Com pany is able to make deliveries when his plant is not. and that its salesmen frequently tell their customers that the Ewauna plant is unable to get cars. At the morning session W. R. Scott, operating vice-president of the South ern Pacific, informed the Commission that the shortage at the Ewauna plant ' (Concluded on Pag 12, Columa 1.) t