Morning Oregonian., June 26, 1917, Page 3, Image 3

THE 3IORSTNG OREGOXIAN. TUESDAY JUXE 2C, 1917
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FLOOD IS NEAR TO
TERRIFIED TOWNS
Workers Ready to Cut Away
' Dam to . Save Valley
From Destruction.
PRICE SEEMS ISOLATED
Property Loss Will Be $3,000,000
and Railroad Branch Is Wiped
Out Coal Mines Tied Tp.
Water Threatens Lives.
PRICE, Utah. June 25. A bank of
water five feet high, carrying debris
and huge boulders, has reached Kyune,
about 14 miles above here, following
the breaking of the Mammoth reser
voir, in Gooseberry Canyon, one of the
many tributaries of the Price River.
Sunday. The water has been racing
towards this point in a raging torrent
and every effort is being made to
prevent damage to the surrounding
country.
If necessary. earthworks on each
side of the Price River diversion dam,
two miles and a half above the city,
will be cut open to keep the water
within the river banks. Hundreds of
men have been rushed to the dam to
begin work at a moment's notice, to re
lieve the dam and prevent the valley
from being inundated.
Railroad Branch Gone.
A long stretch of track on the branch
line of the Denver & Rio Grande Rail
road between Colton and Scofield has
been washed out, but no damage to the
main line has been reported tonight.
The flood reached Colton at 9;30 this
morning but no damage has been done
to the town. The. water backed up
through the valley and damaged some
of the farmlands.
COLTON, Utah, June 25. Forty-five
miles of the Denver & Rio Grande main
line between this city and Price is un
der water as a result of the breaking
of the Price River Irrigation Com
pany's dam 12 miles northeast of Fair
view .Sunday afternoon.
(Bridges, culverts and roadbed have
been washed away. Price, a town of
about 1500 persons, is believed to be
marooned, communication havin
ceased.
Coal Mines Tied I'p.
The washout of the Denver & Rio
Grande will completely tie up the im
mense coal mines of Carbon County,
which are the chief fuel supply for the
smelters near Salt Lake City.
SALT LAKE CITY. June 25. Com
munication between Salt Lake City and
Price was cut off shortly after 9
o clock tonight. Both telephone and
telegraph wires are down. The crest
of Mammoth reservoir dam flood was
due at Castle Gate at 8 o'clock. No
word has reached here from that plac
since 7 o'clock.
The report that the "crest" of the
flood was due at Castle Gate is taken
to mean here that the dam had com
pletely gone out.
While officials of the Price River
Irrigation Company were unable to
give an exact estimate of the loss to
the dam, crops and property, they de
clared that the damage would prob
ably exceed $3,000,000.
WILSON CONTROLS EXPORTS
(Continued From First Page.)
international shipping control the
United States and Great Britain will
have the trade of the world in their
hands to direct in the manner best
calculated to assist in winning the
war.
The neutral export proclamation will
be hurried to prevent removal from the
United States of large supplies of
foodstuffs bought by the neutrals and
now stored in this country awaiting
shipment. The Government is deter
mined to hold neutrals to necessities.
American agents to be sent into the
neutral countries will keep the closest
check on re-exports and will be charged
with responsibility for seeing that
American supplies stop before reaching
the German border.
Every move under the act will be
made under Presidential proclamation
issued on the advice of the exports
council, which will meet every day to
discuss subjects of policy.
Bureau to Be Expanded.
The three Cabinet members and the
food administrator probably will name
representatives to take care of most
of the routine work. These men prob
ably will be Dr. E. E. Pratt, of the De
partment of Commerce; Lester V. II.
Woolsey. of the State Department; As
sistant Secretary Vrooman, of the De
partment of Agriculture, and a rep
resentative of the food administration.
Licensing will be done by the Com
merce Department's bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce, of which Dr.
Pratt is the head. The bureau will be
expanded by the addition of about 300
employes.
To cover the cost of operation Secre
tary Redfield will ask for $150,000 from
the President's emergency fund and
later will ask of Congress $750,000 to
carry the bureau through the year.
Collectors of Customs, who are under
the Treasury Department, will be
charged with preventing unlicensed
cargoes from leaving the country.
A policy regarding food exports will
e formulated by the food administra-
Lighten the house
Keeping by serving a
ready-cooked, ready-to-eat
food that contains the max
imum of nutriment at low
est cost, and with the least
tax on the digestion. Shred
ded Wheat Biscuit is the
real autocrat of the break
fast table the one cereal
food that holds its own
against all comers, with
increasing sales every year.
It is a boon to the busy
housewife, a welcome relief
to the jaded stomach that
has wrestled with meat
and other heavy Winter
foods. Try it for breakfast
with milk or cream; for
luncheon or dinner with ber
ries or other fruits. Made
at Oakland. California.
tion to be approved by the exports
council. After the Department of
Agriculture's food survey shall be
made, a programme of food appor
tionment among the allied and neutral
countries will be prepared by Herbert
C. Hoover, head of the administration,
and this w'ill govern shipments.
Americans Get Food First.
The American food supply, it is made
clear, will be used first to feed this
country, second to feed the allies, and
what is ieft will go to neutrals.
President Wilson's statement of the
export control policy follows: "It is
important that the country should un
derstand Just what is intended in the
control of exports which is about to
be undertaken, and since the power is
vested by the Congress in the Presi
dent, I can speak with authority con
cerning it. The exports council will
be merely advisory to the President.
"There will, of course, be no prohi
bition' of .exports. The normal course of
trade will be interfered with as little
as possible, and o far as possible, only
its abnormal course directed. The whole
object will be to direct exports in
such a way that they will go first and
by preference where they are most
needed and most immediately needed,
and temporarily to withhold them, if
necessary, where" thy can best be
spared.
"Our primary" duty in the matter of
foodstuffs and like necessaries is to
see to it that the peoples associated
with us in the war get as generous a
proportion as possible of our surplus;
but it will also be our wish and pur
pose to supply the neutral ' nations
whose peoples depend Upon us for such
supplies as nearly in proportion to
their need as the amount to be divided
permits.
Prices to Be Checked Little.
"There will, thus, be little check put
upon the volume of exports And the
prices obtained for them will not be
affected by this regulation.
"This policy will be carried out, not
by prohibitive regulations therefor,
but by a system of licensing exports
which will be as simply organized and
administered as possible, so as to con
stitute no impediment to the normal
flow of commerce. In brief, the free
play of trade will not be arbitrarily
interfered with; it will only be in
telligently and systematically directed
in the light of full Information with
regard to needs and market conditions
throughout the world and the neces
sities of our people at home and our
armies and the armies of our Assist
ants abroad.
"The Government is taking, or has
taken, steps to ascertain, for example.
just what the available present supply
of wheat and corn is remaining from
the crops of last year; to learn from
each of the countries exporting those
foodstuffs from the United States what
their purchases in this country now
are, and where they are stored; and
what their needs are in order that we
may adjust things so far as possible
to our own needs and free stocks, and
this information is in course of being
rapidly supplied.
Plan Is Illustrated.
"The cases of wheat and corn will
serve as an illustration of all the rest,
of supplies of all kinds. Our trade can
be successfully and profitably con
ducted now, the war pushed to a vigorous-
issue, and the needs of our own
people and of the other peoples with
whom we are still free to trade effi
ciently met only by systematic direc
tion; and that is what will be at
tempted." Secretary Redfield explained tonight
the probable plan of licensing as fol
lows; "The quantity of the particular com
modity to be exported under license
will be determlnedi by the exports coun
cil, and upon the advice of the depart
ments concerned, and with such facts
as may be presented by the trade as
far as possible. No new machinery,
except that absolutely necessary, is
created to carry on the routine wor1
the responsibility for the adminis'
tive work- Is placed in a respon. j
executive department; each interested
executive department has a voice in de
termining the policies of export control.
The Secretary of State, on account of
the political significance of the con
sideration of the exports, has the final
decision as to the policy of export con
trol." AGED CONVICTS MISSING
COXCEHS FELT FOR SAFETY OF
TWO WANDERERS.
All Prisoners at Folaom, Cal., Locked
Up While Guards Comb
Country Near.
FOLSOM. Cal., June 25. All the con
victs at Folsom Prison were locked up
today while the guards combed the
surrounding country In an effort to
find Dick Larkin, aged . 75, and Bill
Nye, 73, who wandered away from
the prison ranch yesterday.'
"The two old fellows probably would
have been paroled long ago," said War
den J. J. Smith today, "if we had not
thought they were too feeble to be al
lowed outside. We have been nursing
them along, trying to keep them alive.
They would be out on the farm one
day and in the prison Tiospltal the
next. At first . we thought they had
gone fishing, but when' they failed to
come back it became evident they had
walked away. Perhaps they are too
weak to get back, so we are looking
for them."
Larkin has been in Folsom most of
the time for 37 years for thefts, while
Nye had served most of a 14-year term
for manslaughter. No trace of the oM
men has been found.
AIR RAIDS BRING CRISIS
Continued From First Fan.)
ever valuable, cannot possibly offset
the harm thus done.
But there is still another and per
haps even greater item to be debited.
Anyone who has watched the progress
of the war from the first day closely
and from vantage points in England
cannot fail to know the character and
value of Lord Northclif fe's services.
For most of the racial and tempera
mental faults of the British, this one
man has had the cure.
In the hand of such a man as North
cliffe, the press became a whip that
scourged England out of Inaction and
kept the ministers awake and alive to
an emergency that permitted neither
rest nor delay..
Women of Woodcraft Meet.
L.A GRANDE, Or., June 25. (Special.)
Women of Woodcraft from Morrow,
L'matiila. Baker. Gilliam, Wallowa,
Malheur and other Eastern Oregon
counties met at La Grande today to
attend the seventh annual district con
vention of the order. The grand banker.
Bertha Sumner Leach, of Portland, and
the grand manager, Mrs. Anna MardelL
of Helena. Mont., are among the
notables present. Election of delegates
and other important business is
coming up.
Xltrate Bed to Be Examined.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. June 25. At the request of
Senator Chamberlain, the Geological
Survey will make a detailed examina
tion of a supposed nitrate bed recently
discovered near Bend.
Head The Oregonian classified ads.
EARLY SETTLEMENT
If! CHINA FORECAST
Coalition Cabinet Formed With
Representatives of Both
Factions as Members.
U. S. NOTE EFFECTIVE
Entry Into War Will Be Expedited,
Although Election of and Rati
fication by J'ew Parliament
Will Require Months.
WASHINGTON. June 25. Early set
tlement of China's troubles was fore
cast today In dispatches to the State
Department telling of the beneficial ef
fect of the recent American note. Other
dispatches to the Chinese legation an
nounced the formation of a coalition
Cabinet including representatives of the
secessionists and Pekin press reports
giving added details of the abandon
ment of military measures by the
southern provinces.
The new Cabinet, according to lega
tion advices, is to be a coalition body,
with representatives of both the con
stitutionalists and the militarists.' Li
Ching Shi, whom President Li had un
successfully sought for Premier after
the dismissal of Tuan Chi Jul, notified
the legation that he had accepted the
post in the belief that the two factions
had solved their differences and that
peace was at hand.
General Wang " Shlh Chen, former
chief of the general staff, is named as
Minister of War, after having been
named for a similar position in the
secessionist government. Admiral Sir
Sah Chen Ping is Minister of the Navy.
The American note to China urging
both factions to compose their differ
ences, about which so much misunder
standing centered, was reported to the
department as having created a very
favorable impression in China. Great
Britain. Japan and France declined to
follow this country's course of action
on the ground that any suggestions
from outside would be apt to have a bad
effect.
The settlement of the internal crisis
will expedite China's entrance into. the
war, according to opinion here. All
parties In China are said to have been
in favor of war, but to have refused to
enter it under the former leadership
It will be necessary, however, to
await the final ratification of the new
Parliament, whose election will require
several months, owing to the compli
cated electoral machinery.
WARLIKE PREPARATION'S EXD
Southern Provinces Are Willing; to
Compromise.
Ft-KIN. June 25. All provinces
which declared their independence of
tne present Pekin government have
now ceased their warlike preoarations.
Leaders of the southern provinces
wnicn were in revolt telegraphed Pekin
that they were willing to compromise,
providing a new election were soon
held without military interference.
General Chang-Hsun. the military
governor or Anhel Province, who came
to Pekin after the President dissolved
Parliament, expressed hope that a set
tlement of the crisis will be reached.
Administrative affairs have become
disorganized through lack of a Cab
inet, while the various government de
partments have a mass of documents
requiring answering.
GERMANS NOT WELCOME
Fellow-Countrymen In Mexico Re
ceive Refugees Coolly.
MEXICO CITY, June 25. (Corre
spondence of the Associated Press.)
The German residents in Mexico City
are not pleased at the arrival of Ger
mans from the United States and the
refugees are still less pleased with the
reception accorded them by their
countrymen, according, to stories told
by some of the men who fled from
the United States at the declaration of
war.
The Germans without lobs are given
two meals a day at a second-rate hotel
and assert they have Bmall relish for
the fare. There are 52 refugees from
the United States registered at the
German consulate. Several have re
cently departed for the west coast.
BRITISH STEAMER IS SUNK
American Vessel Rescues Crew and
Fires on Submarine.
MONTREAL. June 25. The British
steamer Ortolan, a vessel of 2145 tons
gross, owned by the General Steam
Navigation Company, of London, was
torpedoed and sunk by a German sub
marine June 14 and three members of
her crew lost their lives, according to
survivors of the ship who arrived here
today.
An American vessel, which was about
four miles from the scene of the sink
ing, came to the rescue and several
shots were fired at the submersible
from guns on board that ship.
2 NEGROES ARE LYNCHED
Florida and Texas Blacks Accused
of Attacking White Women.
GALVESTON, Tex., June 25. Chester
Sawyer, a negro accused of attacking
a white woman, was taken from jail
oy a moo early today and hanged.
PUNTA GORDA. Fla.. June 25. Shep
Trent, a negro, was taken from officers
near Cleveland, Fla., four miles from
here, last night and shot to death. He
had been arrested for an attempt to
assault a white woman Saturday.
BELGIANS TO VISIT WEST
Mission Will Make Most Extensive
Tour of Any Foreign Body.
WASHINGTON. June 25. The Bel
gian diplomatic mission has tenta
tively arranged a trip through the
United States extending to the Pacific
Coast. Invitations have been received
from scores of cities and it is prac
tically settled that the mission will
make the most elaborate tour of any
of the foreign visitors.
Russian Liberty Loan Gains.
PETROGRAD. June 2S.-r-Subscrip-tlons
to the 2.000.000.000-ruble Russian
"liberty loan" today approached the
1,500,000,000-ruble mark.
Phone your want ads to The Orego
niatL, Main 7070, A 6035.
Innovation " r
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Silk
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BRASSIERES 89c
They're entirely made of cjuny and all
over lace, reinforced under arms. You'll
say they're the handsomest brassieres you've
seen in many a day.
Fourth floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
All REFRIGERATORS
On easy payments nothing down and $1 a week
King Cotton wants every home to have a new refrigerator; that's
why he has marked these solid oak, white enamel lined refrigerators
so sensationally low. Yes, we're proud of them, and so is King
Cotton.
No. 101 25-lb.
I c e capacity 20
ln. wide 14-in.
$9.50
$10.95
deep 38-ln. high.J
No. loz 30-IO. 1
ice capacity 21
ln. wide 15-in.
deep 3S-in. high.J
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ice capacity 23
ln. wide 16-in.
deep 40-in. high-
No. 105 75 - lb.'
ice capacity 26
ln. w i d e 18-in.
deep 44-in. high...
$12.50
$19.15
Take lunch in
the Basement
today, 25c
CAMP GRIND HARDER
Weeding-Out Proems Finds
Presidio With 2500 Left.
AX BEING SWUNG FREELY
Of S000 at Start Only 650 Are to
Be Commissioned Second Half
of Period Will Be Devoted to
Teaching Trench Warfare.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 25. (Spe
cial.) Life at the reserve officers'
training camp, now entering the last
half of the three months' period of
preparation required of candidates for
commissions, daily becomes more of a
test for the "survival of the fittest,"
and the competition for place among
the 650 who are finally to be chosen
for active service constantly becomes
keener.
Under the Impartial eyes of the Army
physicians and instructors the 3000 men
who started in their training here May
15 have gradually been reduced in num
ber until today, according to reports,
the number of men In training is ap
proximately 2500. The weeding out
process is going on continually, and
under orders received this week from
the War Department men will be re
leased from the camp when, in the
Judgment of their instructors, they
have been found unqualified to become
officers of the new Army.
The discharge board has had its
hands full during the last two weeks
especially, and considering that upon
its decision hangs the fate of a candi
date's hopes for a commission that
body is "remarkably calm and careless
like." At least this is the opinion of
a man from the Fifth Company of the
reserve officers' training camp after
having been sentenced to discharge be
cause of flat feet.
"While I waited for them to pass
verdict on me." he mournfully said. "I
saw the board coolly decree the de
parture of a number of others, and
then I knew my fate also was sealed.
Some were rheumatic, some had weak
hearts, and others like me had fallen
arches."
Argument and pleas for leniency
were ineffectual for the rejected candi
date summoned before the discharge
board because of physical disability.
There'll be plenty of admiration for these
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And there'll be crowds of early buyers too, for such stunning suits as these are
rare, indeed, outside the covers of Vogue and Vanity Fair. N They have skirts of
striking poster stripes in vivid colors on a ground of white, or poster spots in green
and gold on a ground of blue. The belted coats, the wide collars, the cuffs and
pockets mark them with the stamp of distinction and newness. And besides they
are just one more proof of the already recognized fact that nowadays the most
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Here are two very
Splendid items from Japan
60 -in. Jap table cloths
95c
These splendid imported table cloths
always sell at much more than 95c
You ought to buy two or three of
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Ice capacity 31
in. wide 19-in.
deep 4S-in. high..
No. 121 65 - lb.
Ice capacity 21
in. wide 16-in.
$25.00
$17.60
deep 50-in. high..
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As they told one with a Major's com
mission: "We must retire you from active
service. Tour eyes are weak and your
feet would not stand the long marches.
We have to look out for those things,
you know. A 20-mile hike would put
you out of business, and the men who
go to France must be physically able
to withstand every kind of hardship,
from the officers to the enlisted men."
This week the Ninth Company and
the First Troop left the Presidio for
the Government rifle range at Fort
Barry across the bay. After five days
they will return and other companies
are scheduled to follow them on the
range until all have the course In rifle
instruction.
With the completion of the first half
of the training period, which was de
voted largely to instruction in the or
dinary close and extended order forma
tions of the squad, platoon, company
and battalion, the camp now enters
upon the second phase of intensive
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The reign of King Cotton will come to an end next
Saturday night! You'd better plan to do what buy
ing you can while the prices are at the present low
level!
Watch the windows every day.
30 -in. Jap crepes
. 29c
Some of them are in pretty Japanese
kimono patterns; others are in plain
colors and in neat stripes!
Second floor Up man. Wolfe Sr Co.
King Cotton's favorite
BILLIE BURKE
$2.1 9
The Billie Burke dress is Fashion's
favorite, too, and it's no less favored by
women everywhere. These are of charm
ing stripes in an excellent quality of
gingham.
Crepe Billie Burkes, $2.98
This is a special price for these winsome
frocks of plain and striped crepe, with
collar, cuffs and belt to contrast.
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training in trench warfare and other
methods of combat now In use upon
European battlefields.
Recular Army officers, many of
whom have passed the last few years
as observers with the belligerent
armies, have been detailed to supervise
the instruction. and the lectures,
which are a part of the daily instruc
tion, bring the war very close to the
students. Of all the things which are
being impressed deeply upon the men
here by their instructors, the one re
peated the most often is the necessity
that every officer be thoroughly
schooled before he is placed In charge
G. A.
Official Train
Of Big Red Cars
To Forest Grove
TODAY
Leaves Union Station
Leaves City Station, 4th and
Special Hound Trip Fare $1
City Ticket Office, 131 Fourth St.
Main 880 A-6704
John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES
Pictorial
Review
Patterns
Just 5 days more!
King Cotton's own
Cotton floor mops
16-ounce mops . ,33c
22-ounce mops 48c
32-ounce mops ' 59c
King Cotton says: "These cotton mop?
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any mop stick!" - Basement.
the
of men going into action. And despite
the need of quickly obtaining officers,
no man here will receive his commis
sion and fee called for active service
unless he has proved himself fully up
to the standard sec Those in charge
of the camp are .insistent upon this
point.
Repatriation Bill Introduced.
WASHINGTON. June. 25. Senator
Fletcher introduced a bill today for the
repatriation of Americans now fighting
in the allied armies.
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