Morning Oregonian., May 26, 1917, Page 2, Image 2

THE MORNING OltEGOXIAN, SATURDAY, 3IAY 2G, 1917.
FOOD BILL STIRS
UP HEATED DEBATE
AMERICA'S FIRST OFFENSIVE OF THE WAR $2,000,000,000 LIBERTY
VIGIL FOR SPIES IN
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LOAN DRIVE STARTS.
Fine Si Ik Hosiery
A Prerequisite
Yes, nothing but the finest kind of Silk Stockings will complete
the Summer wardrobe of the fashionable woman.
They may be all white or solid colors or black; plain or daintily
embroidered with charming designs, but they must be of silk in
order to meet the dictates of fashion. Bronze, gold-brown, suede
and silver are the popular colors.
Our collection affords a broad choice of the latest styles and shades
qualities that will be hard to duplicate in the future.
80c, $1.15 to $1.50 Pair
U.S.IS REDOUBLED
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Mr. Cannon, in House, and Mr.
Reed, in Senate, Lead Fight
on Control of Supply.
Leak Revealing Flotilla's De
parture for Britain Star
tles Washington.
ALLIES BLAMED FOR PRICE
SECRET RADIO SUSPECTED
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Senator Declares Hoover Is Worth
Millions to Bulls and That $2 0
Flour Prediction Has In
fluenced the Market.
- "VASHINGTOX. May 15. Considera
tion of the Government's first food bill,
providing for a survey and measures
to stimulate production, got well under
way today in both houses of Con
gress. It will be kept under debate
almost' continuously until passed.
Kr.rb-mnklnir today was confined
largely to the opposition, vigorous if
not widespread, with Senator Reed and
T-Knoaker Cannon as the chief ob-
iectors.
Senator Reed declared that any law
which sought to interfere with supply
and demand was essentially wrong,
while Mr. Cannon insisted that the
whole survey programme was ill-ad
vikhH and unnecessary.
Mr. Cannon made an unsuccessful
effort to have stricken from the bill
the section authorizing the depart
ment nf agriculture to conduct an in
vpiiiF2tinn of the food situation. The
vntB in th committee of the whole
was 71 to 41. Chairman Lever of the
Agricultural Committee agreed to an
amendment giving witnesses the right
to refuse to testify at a point more
than 300 miles from home.
Shot Taken at Trust..
An amendment prohibiting the em
ployment by the Government of anyone
who has been connected with an organ
ization that has violated the anti-trust
low nt the United States also was
sdonted. It is aimed at certain organ!
rations which have offered their serv
ices to the Government.
indiMtiona tonlKht were that the
House might finish consideration of its
bill tomorrow. Prospect of final ac
tion in the Senate were uncertain.
Senator Reed opened the debate" with
a. statement as to the real condition
tit the wheat situation." There has
hoen no abnormal hoarding of wheat,
Senator Reed declared, adding that It
was only after the supply was low that
the nrlr.ps became high.
He auoted figures to show a world
shortage of 100,000,000 bushels and an
artificial shortage amounting to ap
proximately 300.000,000 bushels, duo in
cart to the shutting on or ttussia oe
cause of the war and lack of ships to
carry wheat from Australia.
Allies Also Blamed.
Large future purchases by the allies
were, in his opinion. responsiDie ior
larare measure in the rapid rise of
tirlces.
"I do not charge the allies with
gambling," he explained. ,
Senator Reed said such a condition
. could be remedied by negotiations be
tween this Government and the allies
putting an end to the situation.
He said another cause for the recent
advance in the price of wheat was the
statement attributed to Herbert C
Hoover that flour may advance to $20 a
barrel and wheat to $5 a bushel. '
"Hoover has been worth millions of
dollars thus far to the bulls," the Mis
' souri Senator declared, adding that
Americans must expect to pay high
prices as long as Government officials
announce to the world that it is about
to starve to death.
Arbitrary Power Opposed.
Consideration of a "food dictator"
and the hoarding of food by house
wives had helped to raise prices also,
he declared.
-- "We must regulate by law and not
by lodging arbitrary power in one
. . man's hands," declared Senator Sher
man. of Illinois, Republican. "Tou
can't stop gambling in bread wheat as
long as there is one bushel of wheat on
the market
In the House, where debate was pro
ceedlng at the same time, Republican
xeaaer Aiann assailed Assistant Secre
tary rooman, of the Department of
Agriculture, for saying that the time
might come when the United States
wouia De grinding potatoes for flour.
Mann said such statements were un
- wise.
Representative Lever, of Smith
lina. in charge of the bill, retorted that
. iooa administrator is absolutely
Representative Em
dared that the greatest menace and the
1C4llc criminal was the "food baron.
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PTJRCH.VSIXG LIBERTY IsOAT BOND AT A "LIBERTY LOAN BOND BOOTH,"
SiEW YORK CITY.
Booths such as shown above are placed in the most conspicuous places on
the main floors of the big department stores and everyone who enters must
see them. An experienced bond salesman Is in charge of the booth in each
store and is ready to answer all questions about the loan. Reports from
every part of the country show the Nat ion's energies concentrated in a tre
mendous effort to make the issue a success. Millions of people are engaged
In the mighty campaign. Capital and labor are allied, bankers and workers
have joined hands and every art of advertising, as well as sermons, speeches,
parades and patriotic revivals, are being used to make America's 100,000,000
realize the loan must De made a success Dy tnetr united eitorts.
STATES' AID ASKED
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War Department Wants Re
cruits' Morals Guarded.
to
north of Jamiano and reached the out
skirts of Yersio.
The Austrlans have attempted
check the Italian advance on the south
em Carso by making violent counter
attacks south and east of Goriiia an
along the Vodice sector. At all point
of attacks the Austrlans were drive
back with heavy losses and east
Hill 652 on the Vodice, the Italians cap
tured the position from which the Aus
trlans emerged to the attack.
OBLIGATION DUE PEOPLE
SPY" IS PLAIN DESERTER
Tederal Authorities Say Fels' Stories
All Proved TJntrue.
SAN FRANCISCO. Mav 2K "Ror,'
Friedrich Fels, alias Lieutenant Frank
Fels, alias Frank Wolf, arrested here
May 10 as a German spy. is nothing
more than a common deserter from the
united states Aviation Corps at San
Diego, Federal officials declared here
today when they turned him over to
the military authorities for prosecution
as a deserter.
Fels, or Wolf, as he was krtwn in
the German hospital here, where he
was employed as a dishwasher, told
lurid tales of German spy plots in
America, and implicated Rudolph Fla
mendlnghe, who until 10 days o was
under arrest in Los Angeles as the sus
pected head of the spy organization on
the Pacific Coast. He was released.
Federal authorities declared that aft
er checking up the Fels stories they
proved - - true in every particular.
Airplanes Need Declared Vital.
WASHINGTON, May 25. Vital im
portance of immediate establishment
of airplane stations on the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts and at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, was urgea in a letter to Speak
er Clark today by. Secretary Daniels..
License to Wed Issued at T acorn a.
TACOMA. Wash.. May 25. (SpeciaL)
Edith Smith, Centralia. and Guy M.
Pbare, Ellensburg, was granted a mar
riage license here today.
Only Way to Train Efficient Army
Is to Remove Temptation and
Peril From AH Camps,
Says War Secretary.
WASHINGTON, May 25. Secretary
Baker made public today a letter he
has addressed to the Governors of all
states calling for co-operation in keep
ing the Army mobilization camps free
from improper surroundings and im
moral influences.
"Our responsibility in this matter is
not open to question," the Secretary
wrote. "We cannot allow these young
men, most of whom will have been
drafted to service, to be surrounded by
a vicious and demoralizing environ
ment, nor can we leave anything -undone
which will protect them from un
healthy influences and increased forms
of temptation."
"The greater proportion of this force
probably will be made up of young men
who have not yet become accustomed
to contact with either the saloon or
the prostitute, and who will be at that
plastic and generous period of life when
questionable notions of Indulgences
easily serve as outlets for exuberant
physical vitality.
Efficiency Is Neeeuarr.
"Not only have we an inescapable
responsibility in this matter to the
families and communities from which
these young men are selected, but. from
the standpoint of our determination to
create an efficient Army, we are bound.
as a military necessity, to do every
thing in our power to promote the
health and conserve the vitality of the
men in the training camps.
"I am determined that our new train
ing camps as well as the surrounding
zones within an effective radius shall
not 'be places of temptation and peril.
We are not going to be able to obtain
the conditions necessary without the
full co-operation of the local authori
ties. Will you give earnest consider
ation to this matter in your particular
state?
Camps May Be Sieved.
"I would suggest that your council
make itself responsible for seeing that
the laws of your state and of Congress
in respect to these matters are strict
ly enforced. This relates not only to
the camps established under Federal
authority, but to the more temporary
mobilization points of the National
Guard units. It relates, too, to the large
centers through which soldiers will
constantly be passing.
"If the desired end cannot be easily
achieved. I propose to move the camps
from those neighborhoods in which
clean conditions cannot be secured."
Local infantry attacks by the British
and the Germans and intensive artil
lery and aerial activity on the Arras
front may indicate a renewal shortly
of the intenstve fighting there. Around
Loos and Bullecourt, the northern and
southern ends of the Drocourt-Queant
switchline, both armies have made at
tacks but with no great success yet re
ported. Near Braye-en-Laonnols and east of
Craonne, on the Aisne front, the French
and the Germans have again been at
grips. In the region of Pantheon,
northwest of Braye, the Germans, after
an artillery bombardment, gained a
foothold in the French lines after sev
eral attempts. Immediate counter-attacks
by the French, however, drove
the forces of the German CroWn
Prince from most of the captured ele
ments. General Petaln's forces have occu
pied most of the Chevreux wood, east
of Craonne, after inflicting heavy
losses on the Germans and taking 30
prisoners. Two German battalions
were almost annihilated by the French.
Cable Message Escaping Censors
Regarded as Possible Means of
Sending Information to Foe.
Department Asks Aid.
WASHINGTON. May 25. Startling
information, revealing that German
spies not only still are at work in
this country, but that they have a
swift and sure means of communicat
ing America's war secrets to the fath
erland, came to the Navy Department
today in a cablegram from Rear-Ad
miral Sims at London telling of the
mining by German submarines of the
harbor entrance at Queenstown, Ire
land, four days before the arrival there
of the American destroyer flotilla.
The Admiral said the information was
positive. Immediate publicity was
given the fact, the department making
clear that its purpose was to let the
people know of the activity and suc
cess of Teutonic spies, and to empha
size the necessity for absolute secrecy
in connection with naval operations or
shipping movements.
The destroyers, now aiding in me
hunt for submarines in European
waters under the direction of Admiral
Sims, put into port at Queenstown on
May 16.
Place of Departure la Secret.
How long they were in crossing the
Atlantic or from what port they sailed
never has been announced, and until
word of their arrival came by cable
only a few persons in the United States
even knew of the Government s, de
cision ft send warships to Europe.
No ofliclal would comment tonignt
on the possible means by which the
news was conveyed to Germany. If it
did not go from a secret wireless plant
it must have been carried in some dis
patch that the allied cable censors
passed as innocent.
The result will be to redouble the
vigilance of the censors and of every
agency of the Government engaged in
rooting out the spy system. E-very
German known to have been connected
with the espionage work of his govern
ment already is under arrest or under
surveillance.
Callows May Be Penalty.
Other arrests may follow at any
time, and now that the country is at
war and the revelation of its secrets
may mean death to its sailors and sol
diers, swift punishment undoubtedly
will be dealt out to any convicted spy
Men now in custody operated when
the United States was a neutral. Spy
lng now is a very different thing, and
Is likely to lead to the gallows instead
of to comfortable detention quarters.
In announcing Admiral 8ims' dis
patch the Navy Department, through
the committee on public information,
said:
"The department calls attention to
this fact as proof that the German spy
system is still at work in this country
making imperative the need of secrecy
In connection with our naval opera
tions. The premature publication o
ship movements is particularly a source
of danger."
M'AOOO GIVES WARNING
HEAVY A NO DEADLY ARTILLERY
NEEDED TO ESD WAR,
Women's Spring Suits
Trig Norfolks Girlish Pleated Models and
the Severely Cut Styles for Slender Figures
at $14.65, $22.95 and $29.95
Belted and the Most Fashionable Models for Stout Figures
An unusual sale appealing strongly to women of limited means,
but who are no less exacting in their demands for smartness and
individuality in Suits. Here are the three smartest groups ever
drawn together on that you can asstfre yourself by actual com
parisons. Rich linings, superb tailoring and finish excellent
quality fabrics and correct, new colors they outrival those
shown in the most exclusive Eastern fashion centers.
Sale Imported Organdie Collars
Dainty and Beautiful Styles, with Picot O
Edge or Lace Trim tned, Priced at, each 0OL
Three for One Dollar.
Here's another one of those extraordinary underpriced offerings
that are never found outside of this store. It's a special pur
chase and sale of fine sheer Organdie Collars, in dozens of
dainty and beautifully embroidered styles others lace trimmed
or finished in the Picot edge all brand new goods.
Special Sale Two Tone Shoes
Shoes with 9-inch top, Louis heel and flexible soles. They come
with white rein-skin top with vici kid vamp. Battleship gray,
with gray cloth top; also with black kid vamp, with silver gray
top. All sizes. Most fashionable models for women, pr. $7.00
Misses' and Children's
Pumps
Two Strap and Bar Styles
Sizea 5 to 8 on sale. . . .$1.50
Sizes 8x to 11 at $1.75
Sizes ll'j to 2 at $2.00
Sizes 2', to Vt at $2.50
Boys' and Misses'
Sandals
Willow Tan Calf Sandals in
Two Strap Styles
Sizea 5 to 8 on sale at. . . .09
Sizes 8Vj to 2 on sale. .91. lt
Sizes 2 'j to 6 on sale.. $1.50
A Hair Brush Sale
Anticipating the advance of prices
we purchased an exceedingly large
stock of Hair Brushes. Our patrons
are now in a position to profit ac
tordingly. 25c Each
For solid back Hair Brushes in ebony
or natural finish. They come with
white and with black bristles.
50c Each
Keepclean aluminum and solid back
Hair Brushes in ebonoid and coco
bola finish. They come with black
or with white bristles.
75c Each
Pure bristle Hair Brushes with solid
back in ebonoid or natural finish;
black or white bristles.
$1j00 Each
Ebony and fox wood solid back Hair
Brushes; also Pearson's rubber cush
ion brushes. They come with white
or mixed bristles.
$125 Each
Real ebony and foxwood solid back
Hair Brushes of the finest quality;
the best white or mixed bribtles.
Drag Sundry Sp 'Is
Lustrite Nail Enamel l)k
Tiz, for tender feet !
L8rge can Arch Foot Powder. ..i!5
Pompeian Night Cream 20c
Sempre Giovine :$Oc
Hinds' Cream : -10
Palmero Face Lotion 50
Woodbury's Facial Cream 200
Store Opens
at 8:30 A.M.
Saturdays
at 9 A.M.
The Most in Value The Best in Quality
Store Closes
at 5:30 P. M.
Saturdays
at 6 P. M.
awaiting bottoms to carry them to
Hawaii. The lack of shipping has
caused the piling up of immense car
goes here.
The steamer Hyades, which left here
a few days ago, took 4000 tons of
Hhookw, an quivalnt of 79 carload.
Orders are coming to the mills rapidly
from the Islands. Tscoma furnishes the
major share used In the Hawaiian fruit
packing industry.
Medical Reservists Called Out.
OliEQON'lAN NKWS BURKAl, Wash- Kwcrvr rnri.
ington. May !5. First Lieutenants
George H. Buck and Donald V. True
blood, of the Medical Reserve Corps,
have been ordered to report respective
ly at Portland and Seattle to examine
applicant" for the Engineer Enlisted
T A
DAMMASGH IS GALLED
ORDERS RECEIVED TO REPORT AT
PORT RILEY.
Commission aa First Lieutenant. Medi
cal Section, Officers' Reserve Corps,
Held for More Tkan Year.
Dr. F. H. Dammasch, Coroner of
Multnomah County, who is a First
Lieutenant in the medical section. Of
ficers' Reserve Corps, United States
Army, has been called to the colors
and will report to Fort Riley in Kan
sas the first week In June.
Dr. Dammasch, who has held his com
mission for the last year and a half,
received orders to report last night.
The summons requested him to reach
the fort as soon as possible around
Jane 1.
Dr. Dammasch Is married and has
three children. He lives at 292 East
Twenty-second street. He announced
last night that he would shape hla af
fairs and be ready to move in four or
five days.
Dr. E. S. Smith, chief deputy, prob
ably will take charge of the office
of Coroner.
Fort Riley was established in 1852
at what is considered the geographical
center ot tne United states. It was
originally named Camp Center. It is
located on 19,899 acres of land and pro
vides a station for United States Cav
airy troops and the post-graduate
school of the Field Artillery, United
States Army. It has accommodations
for 50 officers, 1350 men and 1000
horses.
Progress of the War.
.Absolutely'. Removes
Indigestion. Onepackage
proves it. 25cat all druggists."
Snntrarn, Tan and Freckles
Prevented by timely use of Smntlseptic. Instantly
relieves mmburn. Cools, sootbes and heals skiD.
LOc All druggists. Take it on your outings.
FROM Plava. on the Isonzo, to the
Adriatic Sea, the Italians and Aus
trlans are fighting bitterly and the
troops of General Cadorna are making
steady progress, especially on the
southern end of the 21-mile front.
North and south " of Jamiano, eight
miles south of Oorizia. the Italians
have driven the Austrlans back and
taken additional important positions.
The gains here are a direct menace to
the defenses of Trieste. The fighting
is made harder because of the barren,
hilly country. Cadorna's men, however,
have taken two strongly, fortified hills
RATS IN PORTLAND ARE ILL
City to Investigate Epidemic Dis
covered by Killing Rodent.
The city will be asked to investi
gate an apparent epidemic among rats
in Portland as the result of the killing
of a large rodent on Second street near
Burnside street last night in the stair
way leading to a restaurant. The rat
was killed by William Qulnlin, of
Lents, with the aid of several firemen
whom he called. The rodent measured
considerably more than a foot in
length and offered little resistance.
Mr. Qulnlin believes the rat showed
evidences of being diseased and re
ported the matter to the police.
Realization of Xecesaary Dnrden. He
Says, Mast lie Brought to Every
Han and Woman.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. May 25. Secre
tary William Q. McAdoo. of the Treas
ury Department, appealed to business
men and bankers here today to sub
scribe to the liberty loan because it
would Insure the greatest amount of
service possible by American troops
sent to Europe.
We must give our sons the best that
we can, the latest and newest rules.
the heaviest and deadliest artillery and
the finest accoutrements," he said. "We
must not fight on paper. V e have not
entered the conflict for sport. We in
tend to destroy military autocracies.
"The more quickly we bring to every
man and woman in tms country, a
realization of the burden of the war,
the quicker we will end it."
Submarines have crossed tne Atlan
tic Ocean of which no mention has been
made in news dispatches. Secretary
McAdoo told an audience at Kansas
City, Kan., late today. His remark
came while he was speaking or tne
fact that new inventions, principally
the undersea craft and the airplane.
had destroyed American Isolation and
made possible attack from overseas.
The remark was unexplained and he
made no further reference to it, either
in his speech or in private talks later.
DIKE REMOVAL SANCTIONED
Cost of $31,000 to Be Borne bjr Co
lumbia River Interests.
OREOONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, May 25. The Chief of Army
Engineers today advised Senator
Chamberlain he has no objection to the
removal of the dike in the Columbia
River, near Holbrook, or two dikes
near, the mouth of the Willamette.
There are no Government funds
available, but if local Interests can
raise the necessary S31.UU0 the De
partment will sanction the work.
CAR SHORTAGE BILL PASSED
Washington at Park
Starting Tomorrow
Sregina badet
P;l THm Vompir pf franc
ALBERT SIGNER
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Br Cecil B. De MiHo.
and
Jennie Macpherson
Sleevd by
CECIL B. DE MLLE
Also tomorrow the screamingly
funny two-act comedy,
"Lonesome Luke in
Tin Can Alley"
Starting Tomorrow at the
'PEOPLES
JL Alder at West Park
It's Mary Pickford's greatest. There
will be no advance in prices.
Measure la Sent to President
His Approval.
for
WASHINGTON, May 26. The bill
giving the Interstate Commerce Com
mission further power to prevent car
shortages was sent to President Wil
son for approval tonight.
The Senate accepted minor changes
in phraseology made by the House.
CARGOES LIE IN TACOMA
10,000 Measurement Tons of Snooks
Await Ships for Hawaii.
TACOMA, Wash., May 25. (Special.)
Sixteen thousand measurement tons
of box shooks are on the docks here
j Last times today, Carlyle Black
well and June Elvidgre in a
powenui modern arama:
'The Social Leper
Also Mollie King in "The Mys
tery of the Double Cross." Last
times today at the
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Washington at Park
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Only today Your last chance
Doug
Fairbanks
In the laughing hit of a lifetime.
"In Again Out
Again"
The picture you'll surely
enjoy. See it today.
PEOPLES
Alder at West Park