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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX. FltlDAT, AmiX, 20, 1917.
FOOD CONTROL BILL
TO BE INTRODUCED
Administration to Ask Power
to Supervise Production
and Distribution.
FAIR PRICES ARE INTENDED
Farmers' Organization Presidents
JnvKcd to Confer With Depart
ment, Whieli Is Building tJp
v Vast Body in Country.
WASHINGTON; April 19. Legisla
tion to give the Government a firm
prasp on food control, will be Intro
duced in Congress tomorrow.
Power will be asked for the Govern
ment not only to supervise production,
but to deal with distribution to Insure
a fair supply of food to every part of
the country at reasonable prices. It is
believed actual price fixing may have
a place in laws to be asked.
The food situation, officials realize,
presents one of the moBt serious prob
lems the country will have to meet
during the war.
The Department of Agriculture Is
building up an organization of state
and county boards through which to
reach both producer and consumer In
every corner of the country.
Former Leaders to Confer.
Secretary Houston today named R. A.
Pearson, president of the Iowa State
College of Agriculture, to serve Indefi
nitely as an Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture. At the same time he In
vited the heads of five of the great
farmers' organizations to come to
"Washington Monday for a food confer
ence. The farmers' society presidents com
ing Monday are:
I. O. Mahoney, of Wisconsin, of the
American Society of Equity.
Oliver Wilson, of Illinois, the Na
tional Grange.
II. I. Zimmer, of Indiana, the Ancient
Order of Gleaners.
C. S. Barrett, of Georgia, the Farm
ers' Union.
H. E. Stockbrldge, of Georgia, the
Farmers' National Congress.
Central Organisation Planned.
As outlined today by Mr. Houston,
the Department of Agriculture's plans
for meeting the food problem con
template a central organization in the
department, with state and county
branches. The department has a per
sonnel of 17.000 persons and agricul
tural colleges and state agricultural
tiepartments have as many more. Com
bined, the Secretary said, these agen
cies exceed those of any other three
nations of the world.
A food committee of the Council of
National Defense, which will be headed
by Herbert C. Hoover, will work with
the Agricultural Department In solving
food distribution problems. Mr. Hoover
is expected to arrive soon from Europe
to take up his duties.
of Vlmy Ridge as the greatest defeat
they have suffered since the war began.
This officer knows the ridge thor
oughly, having been stationed on it all
last Summer, and said he could not un
derstand how any troops could fail to
hold It. In Ma opinion the garrison
must have been demoralized before the
British attack began.
The Germans continue highly nervous
all along the front, the slightest in
crease in the British fire calling up
distress signals.
The German infantry are getting
better artillery support since the bat
tle of Arras, as a result of the bitterly
worded reports made regarding the
lack of this support previously. The
feeling Is so intense between the Ger
man infantrymen and artillerymen that
the British have found it necessary to
separate the prisoners belonging to the
two services to prevent fighting In
side the cages.
The newly called-un troops thrown
into the western :ine admit that the
artillery fire bewildered them. This
also is true of the German troops re
cently transferred from the eastern to
the western fronts. Prisoners from the
latter forces say that they had no idea
what war actually was like until re
cently, and ail became much depressed
when they saw the trenches they were
supposed to occupy all smashed and
torn by the British shell fire.
Prisoners taken in the last three days
tell of the spread of discontent In the
German army because of reduced ra
tions since April 15. iJach man for
merly received a half loaf of bread
daily. Now he has only one-third of a
loaf. This reduction, coming after the
Homme retreat, the defeat at Arras and
the beginning of the great French of
fensive, has caused much grumbling
among the troops.
NEW FORCES ENLIVEN BATTLE
Army's Establishment in "Rearward
Line" Admitted by Berlin.
BERLIN, via London. April 19. The
battle in the Champagne northwest of
Auberive yesterday continued into the
night, says today's official announce
ment. This morning the fighting in
creased in intensity as a result of- the
introduction of fresh forces.
Near Ville-aux-Bois, the statement
says, the 'forest position became un
suitable to us and we established our
selves in a rearward line."
A local French attack near Braye-en-
Lannois succeeded, the statement says,
but assaults on the elevated front
along the Chemin-des-Dames and near
Craonne failed.
Documents captured from the French
indicate far-reaching objects of the
French attack launched on Monday,
the communication adds. At no point
were the hopes of the French realized
Their troops only approximately at
tained their tactical aims, to say noth
ing of their strategic objects.
The official statement of the cam
paign in France as given out tonight
reads:
Southeast of Arras the firing was
livelier. The artillery duel was more
intense on both sides of Craonne.
"French attacks occurred along the
Aisne-Marne Canal, the strongest be
ing against Brimont, which failed.
"In Champagne our counter attacks
compensated for the enemy gain of
terrain northwest of Auberive."
VILLA'S SOLDIERS '
ROUTED Ifl BATTLE
One Hundred Men Reported
Killed and 200. Horses
and Saddles Taken.
FORCE DRIVEN INTO HILLS
Francisco Villa In Person at , Head
of Troops Carranza Advance
Guards Driven Back
First Onrush.
at
JTJAREZ, Mexico, April 19. Villa
forces and government troops clashed
at San Miguel de Babieora Monday
afternoon for the first general en
gagement of the campaign being made
against Villa and his troops Dy General
Francisco Murguia, according to an of
ficial message received here late today
from the Chihuahua commander.
One hundred Villa soldiers were re
ported to have been killed in action,
200 horses and caddies captured and
the, Villa troops routed and driven into
the mountains by the cavalry in com
mand of General Favlla, the report
stated.
The Villa troops were commanded by
Francisco Villa in person. Jose Ynez
Salazar, Martin Lopez, brother of the
bandit who was executed for the Santa
Ysabel massacre, and other lesser chief
tains. The fighting started when Gen
eral Murguia's vanguard attacked
Villa's outposts on the Babieora ranch.
The Villa troops rode into action,
repulsing the advance guard of the
Carranza forces, after which the fight
ing became general, according to the
official statement.
RAIDER SUSPECT IS ARRESTED
Alleged Slayer of Mormon Cowboys
Taken at El Paso.
EL PASO, Tex., April 19. Prudenclo
Miranda, who at one time was alleged
have been the leader of the Mex-
cans who raided tne corner itancn,
ear Hachita. N. M., captured three
Mormon cowboys and later killed them.
was arrested here today Dy govern
ment officers.
Miranda and his friends denied he
was present at the raid, claiming he
was a fugitive from justice in El Paso
at the time.
more serious an American warship will
drop Into the harbor of Rio de Janeiro,
and by its presence and the conduct
of its officers will show the people that
the United States is behind the gov
ernment. With reference to Argentina, It Is be
lieved the government there will be
compelled to declare war. The people
object to the policy which found ex
pression in the embargo laid on food
stuffs because of their views that such
action was In the interest of Germany.
The government at Buenos Ayres is
alive to the sentiment which exists,
and for that reason is making vigorous
representations to the Berlin Foreign
Office in connection with the destruc
tion of an Argentine vessel by a Ger
man submarine.
There is no doubt the German cause
will suffer a serious blow if the West
ern Hemisphere should line up solidly
against it. German submarine bases
would become unhealthy, and German
raiders would not be able to obtain
supplies.
Embargo to Be Authorised.
congress In a few days will pass a
bill giving the President authority to
lay an embargo on exports whenever
in his judgment such action is expedi
ent. So far as men are concerned, Latin-
America will not assist the allies.
Some of the countries could do so, but
undoubtedly they will prefer to keep
troops at home In order to overawe
or suppress revolutionary movements.
ineir navies, however, will be free
for sea operations. Brazil has three
dreadnaughts, two battleships, half a
dozen cruisers, a score of destroyers
and a few submarines. Argentina has
two dreadnaughts, three battleships.
seven cruisers and 25 destroyers.
Chile's navy, which is nro-Britlsh.
because trained by British officers. Just
as the Chilean army is pro-German be
cause of German Instruction, would
like nothing better than to help to
sweep the seas. Chile has three capital
ships, six cruisers and a number of
destroyers. Peru has only five small
vessels. All of Cuba's craft are now
on the outlook for German submarines.
The remaining countries of Latin
America have no warships worthy the
name.
PLATINUM SEARCH IS ON
NEED FOR HIGH EXPLOSIVE
WAR. IS GREAT.
FOR
CADETS TO GET DIPLOMAS
Commencement Exercises Are
gun at West Point.
Be-
WEST POINT, N. T"., April 19. Com
mencement exercises at the United
States Military Academy, advanced two
months because of the exigencies of
war, began today with special exhi-
,, bition drills and a review of the cadet
battalion. The graduation ball was
held tonight. The exercises will close
tomorrow when the 139 cadets of the
class of 1917 will receive their diplomas
In front of the battle monument of
Trophy Point.
Secretary of War Baker la expected
to address the graduates.
GERMANS ARE IN PANIC
(Continued From First Page.)
French lines for more than two years
have been on the edge of a plain com
manded by a range of low, wooded
hills on which the Germans were firm
ly established. It was out of the ques
tion for anybody to venture on
the "No Man's Land" between
the lines without receiving a
salvo, yet the French since Mon
day have advanced across the in
tervening space and driven the
enemy from some of the opposite slopes,
In this vicinity, prisoners have been
taken , in considerable batches. Many
email parties held out after the main
French lines had advanced, not know
ing that the whole German line had
been driven back. These little Islets of
men were left to be dealt with by the
reserves, who rounded them up at
leisure.
Artillery Fire Terrible.
The artillery fire frorh both the lines
Mannfactarlng; Jewelers Agree to Co
operate With Government In
Conserving Supply.
WASHINGTON, April 19. The De
partment of Commerce today started a
world-wide search for platinum, needed
for making high explosives and for
many peaceful industries in the United
States. Co-operation of manufacturing
jewelers of the country has been ob
tained to the extent of using the pres
ent supply as sparingly as possible
during the remainder of the war.
No large articles of platinum, such
as mesh bags and cigarette cases, will
be made hereafter, in line with thi
policy, and all of the metal, which is
nine times as precious as gold, that can
be spared to the trades will be relin
quished by the Jewelers.
Foreign commercial attaches nave
been asked to investigate conditions in
Australia, Tasmania and Borneo (chief
sources of supply), Colombia and Rus
uia, with a view to Increased American
mportations. The Geological Survey
also is combing the United States and
Alaska tor possible new sources.
NEW TARIFFS INVITED
RATE INCREASES ARE TENTATIVE.
LY PERMITTED.
Interstate Commerce Commission Takes
Action So Shippers and Others
Interested May Be Heard.
WASHINGTON, April 19. The Inter
state Commerce Commission today
issued a tentative order permitting the
railroads to file supplemental tariffs
increasing freight rates 15 per cent aa
applied 'or, effective June 1.
The order was made tentative so
that shippers and other interested or
was terriiic uermans nad brought ganizatlona. might state their views
up many guns which they were unable upon it at a hearing beginning here to
to get away again oerore the French morrow.
infantry in a superb dash surrounded At the close of the hearing, should
and captured them. An entire battery the Commission deem it desirable to
of six-inch guns was caught in this adopt another method in dealing with
way ano later tne weapons were used the applicatlc for a general increase.
against tne retreating Germans, who 1 the tentative order will be withdrawn
had abandoned thousands of shells for leaving the situation as it was before
each piece. the order was issued. All commodities
At divisional headquarters the Asso
ciated Press correspondent was in
formed of the fall of Vailly and Ville-
aux-Bois, both positions of the greatest
importance to the Germans.
with the exception of bituminous coal
and coke and or . upon which advances
already hava been made, are included
in the Commission's order.
t,oss of ridge depkesses AMERICAN FLIER IS KILLED
Captured Germans Say They Be
lieved Vlmy Impregnable.
(From a Staff Corresnondent of the Asso
ciated Press.)
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, April 19. via London. A Ger
man officer captured Tuesday frankly
fsaid that the Germans reerard the loss
Doctor Tells How to
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Xcw Tork Man First to Die Under
Own Flag in France.
PARIS, April 19. Edmond C. C
Genet, the American aviator whos
death was officially announced today,
was the first American to die in Franc
fighting under the American flag.
Genet, wno was a grandson of ex-Gov
ernor Clinton, of New York and great
grandson of "Citisen" Genet, French
Minister to the United States In Revo
lutlonary times, was killed near Ham
while escorting Sergeant Raoul Lauf
bery.
Genet was known as a daring an
skillful flier and was popular on ac
count of his cheery and optimistic na
ture. His home was in Ossining, N. Y
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VENEZUELA TO MEET ISSUE
People Pro-Ally and Severance
Relations Expected.
CARACAS. Venezuela. April 19. Th
Venezuelan Congress will meet tomor
row to deal with the policy to
adopted regarding the war.
As the great majority of Venezuelan
are openly pro-ally It is believed th
government will at least sever diplo
mat.it-' iviationi with. Germany.
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Grow a Garden and Can Part of It,
Is Advice Given.
TACOMA, Wash.. April 19. (Special.)
Officers of the women's clubs of Ta-
coma, representing 3400 women, today
eard how they can be of help In the
conservation of the food products or
the country. The meeting of the pres
idents' council of more than 40 differ
ent organizations was held in the wom
en's clubhouse.
Use the washboller seven days a
week instead of one." said Charles A.
Cole, county agriculturist, in advocat
ing the canning of great stores of sup
plies, which can be raised in hundreds
of backyard gardens in the city.
Grow a garden, and then can part
of it is a slogan which could well De
adopted with profit by everybody in
the city who has a bacKyara.
The women decided to co-operate in
garden planting.
SIX DIE IN FILM FIRE
Flames Spread to Hotels, but Guests
Escape Safely.
INDIANAPOLIS. April 19. Six per
sons are dead and a score or otners
are suffering from minor injuries as
a result of a fire, which is said to have
resulted from an explosion of moving
picture films In the office of a film
exchange in the Colfax Office build
ing and apartment house In the aown
town district here tonight.
The dead are:
Dr. Martha E. Keller, a physician;
Harry Rowland, 18, an employe of the
Cole Motor Company; Leona Griffin. IS;
Robert Griffin. 14; Mrs. Al. Urirrin,
mother of Leona and Robert; an uni
dentified woman.
The flames spread to the Linden and
Royal Hotels, but the guests escaped,
and damage to the hotels was slight.
The loss to the Colfax building is esti
mated at 65.000.
Parts In "The Private Secretary" Are
" Well Portrayed Fund for Home
for Dependents Sought.
A large audience at the Heilig Thea
ter last night was thoroughly amused
by a local presentation of Charles Haw
trey's three-act farce comedy, "The
Private Secretary," for the benefit of a
fund to be inaugurated for the erection
of a Masonic dependents home. The
play was given under the auspices of
the local Masonio lodges and chapters
of the Eastern Star.
Quite unusual in the characteristics
of amateur performances was the sys
tematic effort toward genuinely farcical
effects m which all of the players were
involved.
J. S. Roark. In the famous Dart of
air. jatiermoie. was real comic, while
T. F. Pierce, as the Rev. Robert Snauld-
ing, proved himself a thorough char
acter actor. In other roles were Fred
Vail, Myrta Henley and Mabel Black.
J. S. Eastman. John Kennedy, Stanley
Bowlby. S. Elliott Finch and Mary
cranio jjoDie, 11. s. Noonan and H. W.
Strong.
The play was staged under the direc
tion of Mna Louise Greathouse. In
cidental music was furnished by the
Al Kader Temple Shrine Band, led by
v rantt Liuc&s.
GERMAN FLEET AT LE6AU
PREPARATIONS TO AID ARMT
ATTACK SUSPECTED.
AUSTRIAN CRAFT ESCAPE
San Diego Fishing Boats Slip Away
to Mexican Port.
SAN DIEGO. Cal.. April 19. Fishing
vessels owned and operated by Aus-
trians at this port have fled to Mag-
dalena Bay, according to reports re
ceived here today from the lower Mex
ican boat. Eight of the Austrian ves
sels left port the day Austria-Hungary
severed relations witn tne unuea
States.
Federal officials admitted today that
they had requested authority from
Washington to seize the vessels but
that the request was not granted. The
Austrian skippers, who are said to
have feared such a move, sped out to
sea under cover of darkness the day
Austria broke with this country and
headed for the rendezvous at Magda
lena Bay.
Troops Are Massed on Northern Front,
Apparently for Drive on .
Russian Capital.
PETROGRAD, via London. April 19.
German preparations to attack the
northern front, supported by a Ger
man fleet, reports of which appear to
be well founded, bear out the war of
fice warning recently Issued that the
enemy means to march on Petrograd
The preparations consist of the mass
ing of troops on the Dvinsk-Riga front
and the concentration, of transports,
warships and shallow draft ships in
Baltic Sea ports.
A portion of the German fleet is re
ported to nave moved from Kiel to
Llbau.
It Is regarded here as extremely
probable that the plan is to cut off
Petrograd from the active army.
The German efforts to spread dis
content in the Russian army have de
veioped an ingenious device of loading
shells with -copies of Chancellor von
Bethmann-Hollweg's Reichstag speech
01 March as and firing them into th
Russian lines.
NEWIMDS ARE LIABLE
PRO-ALLY PRESS AROUSED
Measures Against Demonstrations in
Buenos Aires Criticised.
BUENOS AIRES, April 19. The news
papers, including La Epoca, criticise
what they term the too strict measures
taken yesterday to prevent pro-ally
manifestations. Some of the police used
their sabers to disperse groups of pa-
cifla citizens.
A great indoor meeting in honor of
the entente allies, the United States
and Brazil will bo held Sunday and
there will be publio manifestations in
the open.
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CUSE SLACKERS.
TO EI
Of
LATINS TO GET WAR AID
(Continued Prom F!rt Pag-e.
endeavoring to farce that country into
the war. Uruguay, Paraguay, Honduras
and Salvador eventually will side with
this country. Venexuela will be sym
pathetic in her attitude. Colombia is
still holding out for 1 25.0O0.OOO. but Ehe
will not get a dollar unless she gives
something in return.
Warship May Go to Brazil.
If the situation! In Brazil becomes
All of Military As; Wedded Since
Declaration Asalnat Germany
Liable to Service.
washi.nutos, April 19. Men o
military age who have married sine
a state of war against Germany was
declared will not escape their obllga
tion of military service under a W
Department policy formally announce
today. The department's etatemen
follows:
The War Department announces
that all men married since the out
break of war will be treated upon th
same basis as unmarried men insofar
as their military obligations are con
cerned. It is desired that the utmost
publicity be given by the press to this
announcement.
The department was moved to tak
tKis action in order that all men should
understand exactly what Is eontenv
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to fight Germany.
It was desired that thero should
arise no question of slackers upon th
score of marriages contracted aince
the outbreak of war with tha possible
construction "that the marriage In an
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tary duty might be evaded.
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2375 ENLIST IN DAY
ILLINOIS AGAIN LEADS IN REGU
LAR ARMY RECRUITING.
Pennsylvania and New lorlt Also En
roll More Than 200 Each Total
Unfilled Quota 180,803.
WASHINGTON. April 19. A total
net gain of 2375 recruits for the Army
s reported for yesterday in ina aany
recruiting bulletin made publio today
at the War Department.
Illinois again led In the numoer -.r
men accepted witn zt; rinnjjnui
followed with 210; New -ork. third.
with 222; Missouri, fourth, wlttt
and Texas, fifth, with 105.
Utah reported no results ror the cay.
The figures are for the regular Army,
and the total of the quotas apportioned
to the states to be filled is 183. sas.
Since the President issued the proc
lamation declaring that a state of war
existed, the Navy and Marine corps
have recruited a total ot men.
The Navy's gain is 10,060 men and the
Marine Corps 2390.
The net increase in the enlisted per
sonnel of the Navy yesterday was 1330,
that of the Army 2375.
when bandits dynamited a railroad
train, according to announcement here
tonight.
Stock Show to Honor Flag Day.
UNION, Or.. April 19. (Special.)
At a meeting of the Union Stock Show
Association held last night It was de
cided that June 14, National Flag day.
which falls on the second day of the
Stock Show, would be fittingly ob
served here. Plans are being laid for
a great patriotic cnebration at which
it is proposed to have all of Eastern
Oregon participate.
A young man keeps company with a
girl before marriage, but after the
ceremony she is lucky if he does.
SAFE ROBBERS ARE FOILED
Citizen, Awakened by Xolse, Faces
Revolver, Then Calls Posse.
HUBBARD, Or., April 19 (Special.)
-The barking of a dog in the darkness
of the morning and the quick action by
the telephone of IS. M. pierce, a Hub
bard real estate man, frustrated a
planned safe robbery here early today
when three men broke into the Jewelry
store of Ernest Hoffman and carted
away the small safe, in which had been
placed the gems, watches and other
Jewelry, to the value of close to $500,
Mr. Pierce. awaKenea Dy tne roDpers,
next door, investigated, and was held
at the point of a revolver while two
of the men removed the safe. As soon
as released Mr. Pierce called other
citizens and when the posse found the
safe the robbers had fled.
PEACE CONFERENCE FEARED
Berlin Writer Says Austrian Pro
posal Would Destroy Germany.
AMSTERDAM, via London. April 19
The proposal of Count Czernin. Aus
trian Foreign Minister, for a peace con
ference of all the belligerents. Is at
tacked by Count von Reventlow In
the Berlin Tagea Zeitung as meaning
ruin to the German Empire. von Re
ventlow declares that Count Czernin
took no account of the fact that the
German Empire is now fighting a bat
tie "which must lead to victory." He
declared that a conference on the basis
of the principles recommended by the
Austrian Minister would destroy Ger
many Internally and externally.
Mexican Train Blown T'p.
NUEVO LAREDO. Mex, April 18.
Nineteen government soldiers were
killed and several bandits lost their
lives at Talia, near Torreon, April 11
Black Murder Case Dropped.
GALVESTON. Tex.. April 19. Th
case of George Ryan, accused of mur
der In connection with tha death of
William Black, an antl-Catholio lec
turer, was dismissed on motion of the
state in the District Court today.
CARD OF THANKS.
W. T. Matlock wishes to express to
his many friends and those of his late
wife his great appreciation for the
many kindnesses shown by them in his
bereavement. .Ad V.
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UNION PACIFIC
follows the flag
Union Pacific System
stands able and glad to
give to the Nation the
same supreme service
in time of war as in
. time of peace.
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$20
Reward
For return of this
dog white bull
terrier with
orange spot
on left ear.
Taken from
1435 Bel
mont Street.
Phone Tabor
6246.
KRYPTOK
The glass you can use for near
and far. Kryptoks why, that's our
middle name. We fit more ot them
than anyone else in the city. Look
at our prices on all glasses.
Lenses Sphero in your own
frame St.OO
Lenses Sphero In Aluminum
frame SL50
Lenses Sphero in gold-filled
frame , .'.KUO
Lenses Sphero (curved) In G. E.
glass mounting $5.50
Kryptolc Lemaes SS.OO to S1S.OO
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STAPLES, THE JEWELER
S0 MORRISON ST, Between 3d and 4th.
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