Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, May 10, 1917, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY, 31 AY 10, 1017. 4 CREATION OF WAR CABINET POSSIBLE Weed of Ruling Body to Pre vent Confusion and Cross j Purposes Apparent. COLONEL HOUSE MAY ACT Secretaries Lane and McAdoo Are ' Mentioned as Other Possible Members of Body to Direct Fight Against Berlin. BT JOHN C ALLAN O'LAUGHLIN. WASHINGTON, May 9. (Special.) President Wilson may follow British practice and create a small cabinet committee to conduct the war. There Is a further possibility he will advo cate the establishment of three new cabinet office fod, munitions and transportation. The necessity -of lodging- control of war operatloins in the hands of a. few men has been demonstrated by hap penings in Washington. There has been a great deal of confusion 'and working at - cross-purposes. Certain men have been reaching out for more power, others have been holding tena ciously to power which they could properly surrender. Advisers Crltlclae Defense. Members of the advisory committee of the Council of National Defense have not hesitated to criticise members of the National Defense. Secretary Daniels has run counter to the munitions board; Secretary of Agriculture Houston has a problem on his hands in Herbert C. Hoover, the man who saved the Belgian people from starvation and other Cabinet offi cials are worried by relations they have with men who are performing yeomen service in the organization of Industry. Secretaries Busy Early and Late. The mere administration of the sev eral departments, particularly those of navy and war, entail a great deal of work. Mr. Daniels and Mr. Baker are st their desks from early morning till late at night. Secretary Baker has been compelled to devote most of his time to preparation for enforcing the draft law once it is on the statute books. In addition there are matters of sup plies, from suspender buttons to six- inch cannon, to be passed upon. Secretary Daniels is laboring to in crease the Navy, provide additional ships, arm vessels available, including merchantmen, nd attend to a thousand and one other questions which arise daily. Nation la Brine Orcanlaed. The Council of National Defense, consisting of five members of the Cab inet, has been occupied in arranging trie internal organization of the coun try for war. It must continue to de vote its energy and brains to this task. It is assisted by an advisory committee made up of the successful business men of the Nation. But there is lacking the body to advise the President in re gard to the actual conduct of the war. At present Mr. Lansing considers with Mr. Wilson all questions of foreign relations; Mr. Daniels dis cusses the bigger matters of naval policy with the Chief Executive, and Mr. Baker details the higher policy of the military to the men in the White House. At the bi-weekly Cabinet meetings there is a general discussion of . problems raised by the different members of the Cabinet. More Declared Needed. It is being impressed on the Presi dent, however, that something more is needed. What he must have is two. or better still, three men, whose bus! ness it will be to devote themselves to the consideration of the higher pol lcies to be pursued. Thus in England there is a ministry committee com prising Lloyd George, Lord Curzon, Bonar Law and sir Edward Carson This committee is kept informed of all the activities of the several members of the ministry. They decide what steps shall be taken by the navy to meet the sub marine menace; what action shall be taken with regard to Russia; what and where reinforcements ehall be sent and the like. If the Cabinet committee should be formed it is regarded as extremely likely that Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Secretary of the Interioj Lane win De two or its members. Lane and McAdoo Able. Mr. McAdoo is running the Treasury Department in highly efficient fashion and is handling the financial problems arising out of the war in a manner which has excited the admiration of able financiers of the United States and the British and French Commissions. Secretary of the Interior Lane has or ganized his department so that it runs itself, and he has proved a power on the Council of National Defense. Gossip associates the name of Colonel House with any big job the President has to offer. It is known the Colonel is exceedingly active in advising, the President on various important sub iccts, and it is possible, in view of the situation which exists, that Mr. Wilson will prefer to have him in Washington rather than in New York. It is apparent to the authorities that something must be done to handle more efficiently the question of food, munitions and transportation. It is pointed out that Secretary of Agricul ture Houston has his work cut out for him in seeing that there is ample pro duction of foodstuffs and that there should be a man with equal powers to pass upon the question of food distri bution, prices, etc. lloo WaskSuiis- Z i 7 years ss4lInQu?s'fyIes' SecondJiooi Tk C 11. lxMorrisonal ronrtk' WOOD SUPPLY SHORT Fuel Famine for Portland Not Impossible. WINTER PRICES REMAIN Dealers .Declare Lower Rates Kot Fossiblc as Long as Workmen Turn to Shipyards Coal Believes Demand Somewhat. Is reported to have heard the disturb ance and to have warned Erickson. Then, it is said. Erlckson started for the boarder's room with a cleaver, cut open the door and entered the room, but Sauvie had escaped through the window. Mrs. Erickson told Sheriff Wilson that the sticking of a cartridge in the rifle saved her life. She said that he fired at least five shots in her direc tion. Erickson Is in jail without bonds. f 3 m ! S ea "Another of America' Exception al Hotels' Multnomah Hotel PORTLAND, OREGON 550 Rooms, with bath, from $1.50 day. GARAGE operated by the hotel for convenience of tourists. GRANT SMITH & Cc Owners. Krle V. Hauser. Pres. If. II. Cloutler. Mgr. Portland faces at least a. BO per cent shortage of cordwood for its next Win ter's supply, nor will this ' shortage be materially lessened before the snows come down from the north. Fuel dealers ascribe one cause, and one alone, to the deficit the many op portunities for labor in other vocations than whipping a crosscut saw, and the high prices paid elsewhere. And this despite the fact that advances of from 25 to 60 cents per cord have been made in the wood-cutting wage. What laborer would cut cordwood. asked one fuel dealer, "when he can find work at the shipyards, at dozens of places, with bigger wages and less labor? Woodcutters are not lazy, they are the best type of brawny laborers. but they naturally turn elsewhere when employment is plentiful, as it is now." Local fuel yards have for some time been drained of their supplies of sea soned cordwood. None is now to be had. Few woodcutters worked last Winter, and, although some are now cutting, and will work until July 1. they can do no more than hold the shortage at a standstill. The local arket is, and will remain, many inou- sands of cords short. Price Remains High. The shortage applies more to fir, which is the common fuel, than it does to hardwood, ash and oak. Dealers believe that the supply of hardwood will last, but say that the price will be higher. The price of fir, significant ly, has not taken its customary Sum mer tumble, but is quoted at the Win ter rate. Yet the city does not face real dep rivation or hardship, say the dealers. The cheaper grades of coal may be used, of which there is believed to be a- sufficient supply, and will prove to be more economical in both service and price, the dealers declare. n..i... nrimit that the car shortage is far from comforting, and that coal may be scarce later on. They cite the fact that mines which usually beg at this time for tne purcnaso ot nmrinrt have not yet caught up with their orders taken many months aso, owing to the lack of shipping iacimra Bay Early" Is Advice. 'i5 v ,rlv" is the advice of fuel j..i.r. i-ho nrotest that they are wholly disinterestea in mis uB.ivr.., r-l,.oa thv nnlnt out. will not lowel .v, i coaunn. ana. are equaiij im to increase when the heavy Winter demand sets In. u,., ,. .r, thlr suonlV OI wooa mm the bunkers of coal, tne iuei believe that they will be able to stave off the rigors of an actual fuel famine. by a narrow margin. TAVERN KEEPER IS IN JAIL WIFE ACCUSES AUGUST ERICKSON OF SHOOTING AT HER. SPOKANE SEED SUPPLYLOW Onion Sets Gone and Rutabaga, Beet and Mangel Are Needed. SPOKANE, Wash.. May 9. (Special.) There are no onion sets in Spokane and there is a shortage of rutabaga, mangel and beet seeds, accoring to L. C. Barrett, manager of the Spokaire Seed Company. "Chicago is our big onion market, but we haven't been able to get any sets from there for the last three weeks," said Mr. Barrett. "Rutabaga, mangel and beet seeds are largely im ported from Denmark. I understand the Danish government placed an em bargo against the export of such seeds." RATE PLEA TAKEN UP Western Railways Argue for 15 Per Cent Increase. BIG DEFICIT IS FORECAST CANADIAN LOSSES, 89,843 Report Covers Casualties Since Be ginning of War. OTTAWA. May 9. Casualties among the Canadian expeditionary forces from the time the war began up to yester day had reached a total of 89.843 killed, wounded and missing, according to a report made tonight by the War Records Office. VICTORY WON BY RUSSIANS Force Breaks Through German Line on Roumanian Front. iJTROG.tAD, via London, May 9. Russian troops on the Roumanian front northwest of Senne yesterday broke through the- Teuton positions. They advance : towards Jenawer, says an official statement Issued today. I. H. Van Orsdall, Pendleton, Dies. PENDLETON, Or., May 9. (Special.) P. II. Van Orsdall. well-known farm er of this city, died at his home here last night, aged 49. He had been 111 for many months and had been fail Ing rapidly for the past few weeks. Hewas born in Ohio and came to Uma tilla County 2i years ago. He leaves a widow and two brothers, George and Perry Van Orsdall. here. His mother, Mrs. F. T. Best, and brother, John Van Orsdall, reside in Portland, dge of cosxs is cianp arenas Safety lies in a comprehensive knowledge of costs. But -the question is how to get it without too much labor and expense. The Comptometer enables you to get the facts quickly, easily and economically. It puts within easy reach exact knowledge of cost of each article produced or handled expense by departments, by salesmen, by territory ratio of sales to expense distributed in like manner comparative statements of gross and net profits month by month, week by week, or day by day. One Comptometer operator will easily do the work of three mental figure clerks which means that Comptometer service will expand your knowledge ' of costs threefold without increasing your clerical force. Bear in mind, also, that the Comptometer is just as effective on all the figure work of ac counting all possible combinations of adding, multiplying, dividing and subtracting, Invite a Comptometer man to come in and talk it over with you. He will analyze, step by step, not only your cost work, but your general accounting, payroll, statistical reports, etc and will show you by practical service tests, the exact application of the Comptometer to all of these figure operations. A copy of "Better Method of Accounting" tent free on request FELT & TARRANT MFG. CO., 1719 North Paulina Street, Chicago, I1L Portland, Or. Morgan Bldg. W. A. Bacon, Soliciting Agent. Office in principal cities Officers Discover Secret Wine Cellar and Government License When Place I Searched. OREGON CITY, May 9. (Special.) August Erickson, proprietor of the Clackamas Tavern, today was arrested on complaint of his wife that he had fired a volley of shots at her with a 40-40 rifle and that he had broken down one of the doors in -the tavern with a cleaver in an attempt to reach one of the boarders in the place. After Erickson had been arrested. Sheriff Wilson and Deputy District At troney Burke discovered a secret wine cellar with a large assortment of wines and whiskies. The wine cellar was found by accident. A little hole In the wall aroused the suspicions of the searchers, who investigated and found the concrete vault. A Government liquor license for 1917 also was dis covered. Kegs of home-made wine and a bottling plant were found. Erickson is said by his wife to have been intoxicated when he made the at tack on her. A. Sauvie, the boarder, Jitney Man Sentenced to Prison. CHEHALIS. Wash.. May 9. (Spe cial.) Judge Reynolds today sentenced Charles Moneymaker, convicted by a Jury in the Lewis County Superior Court on a charge brought by a 14-year-old girl, to five to six years in the penitentiary at Walla Walla. Mon eymaker was a jitney driver between Centralia and Chehalis. Counsel for Shippers Complain of Incompleteness of Data Pre sented Before Interstate Commerce Commission. WASHINGTON, May 9. The rail roads of the West represented to the Interstate Commerce Commission today thaf the requested 15 per cent increase in freight raes would fall by at least $20,600,000 to.' meet advanced operating costs already effective and anticipated. Forty-six Western roads, of systems operating 110,000 miles of lines, fur nished the information upon which this figure was computed by L. E. Wettllng, a statistician, the first wit ness to testify In their behalf. Mr. Wettling gave evidence to show that the general 16 per cent advance would produce $135,300,000. Higher cost of labor and other items" of oper ation to which the roads already are committed have increased their ex penses by $126,100,000, he said, -while wage adjustments and further In creases In the costs of material will add another $29,800,000 when existing contracts expire. Statistics dealing with profits showed that in 1916, the biggest year in their history, the Western roads received a net return of slightly less than 6 '4 per cent on the property Investment. Mr. Wettling declared that If the roads had paid this year's prices last year they would have made a profit of only 3Vi per cent. Representatives of the Western roads began presentation of their case late today after executives of lines in the Southeast had told the Commission that an increased rate of at least 15 per cent was necessary for them prop erly to conduct their businesses. Mr. Wettling was the only witness for the Western group heard before adjournment. Counsel for shippers complained to day that spokesmen for several roads had not presented all the data desired. They were told by counsel for the roads that any information omitted had been, left out through misunder standing and would be furnished later if requested. . Executives of Western lines waiting to be called Include W. B. Biddle, pres ident of the St. Louis. San Francisco and R. H. Alshton, president of the Chicago-Northwestern. where he is wanted on an indictment for assaulting a Kansas City schoolboy. Thaw Is still in a Philadelphia hos pital, where he was taken after an at- empt at suicide. The Governor took the stand that the Pennsylvania courts had held Thaw to be Insane and that he therefore was unable to make his defense againat such a surrender. It Is understood that the New York authorities will appeal. Rad The Oregonlan classified ads. THAW EXTRADITION DENIED Governor of Pennsylvania Holds IU' sane Man Cannot Be Taken. HARRI9BURQ, Pa., May 9.-Governor Brumbaugh today refused to extradite Harry K. Thaw to- New York City The Bayer F Cross Your Guarantee of Purity 9 Tablets in Pocket Boxes of 12 Bottles of 24 and 100. Capsules in Sealed Packages of 12 and 24. The trade-mark "Aspirin" (Reg. U. S. Pat. Office) is a guarantee that the mono aceticaddester of salicylic acid in these tablets and capsules is of the reliablo Bayer manufacture. 4 OKL . T3 Hk 2m NSTRUCTOR GETS OVATION 175 Lincoln Students Give Send-Off to G. Ii. Koclin on Way to Camp. George L. Koehn, instructor at Lin coln High Schoool, was escorted to the Union Depot by 175 students of Lincoln High last night as he entrained for San Francisco to attend the Offi cers" Reserve training camp. There were between 75 and 80 girls marching in squads at the head of the column, and 100 or more boys fol lowed. They left from West Park and Market street about 7 o'clock, marched to Taylor, thence to Broadway, to Alder to Sixth and to the depot. When within a few blocks of the depot the boys hoisted '"Prof" Koehn to their shoulders and gave him a "rah, rah" send-off as they deposited him along side the Pullman car. Americans in England to Enlist. LONDON, May 9. An energetic cam paign to persuade Americans in the United Kingdom to tender imraediatelv to the United States Government their services for such war duties as they are capable of performing has been undertaken by the American Society of London. There are thousands of Amer ican citizens in Great Britain. Thomas Williams, Veteran, Is Dead. PENDLETON, Or.. May 9. (Special.) Thomas Williams, veteran of th- Civil War, died at his home here last night, aged 74. His wife is the only survivor. Mr. Williams was a member of the Second Pennsylvania Provincial Cavalry. The U. A. R. took charge of the funeral. nnnna!jnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Ttad Th Orronian clans. flw! ads. II AMC'CB ID LI !AMO ID if nuiC X rf the Apollo was for seven years the only oo-note player piano on tne market If the Apollo is now the only player piano that actually uses the piano keys If the Apollo is the only player with a motor that automatically winds and re winds the roll without pedaling If our competitors will admit that this motor is right (as they do) If you can accent the melody note or omit it entirely, playing only the accompani ment, and in any desired key. If these things are facts, then is not the Apollo at Ira. it worthy of con ndVr tion ? Thirty minutes with the instrument will tliminaU thi IPS. 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