T
THE MORXIXG OREGONIA3T. FRIDAT, JULY 13, 1917.
PROHIBITION FIGHT
NOT NEAR ITS END
Differences in House and Sen
ate Make Contest Likely
k in Conference.
LOBBIES ARE STILL POTENT
Kcsardless of Vote on Prohibition
in Food Bill, New Effort Will
Be Made to S ubmit Con
btitutional Amendment.
OREGOXIAN" NEWS BUREAU, Wash
Ington, July 12. The prohibition fight
in Congress is not ended, and it may
not end when the Senate and House
reach a final agreement on the proh
bition provisions of the food conserva
tion bill. What the ultimate outcome
will be is difficult to forecast, but it
probably will be indicated by the kind
of legislation which the Senate and
House put up to the President for ap
proval.
The House, in considering the food
bill, voted for a "bone-dry" United
States during the war. On the theory
that by stopping the manufacture of
whisky, beer and wine they would be
conserving food products, the House
voted to stop the production of those
liquors during the continuance of the
war.
The Senate, after considering all
manner of proposals, finally voted to
ignore beer and wines, and voted only
to stop the manufacture of whisky and
other distilled liquors, and is now wait
ing for the Gore substitute.
More Contests In Sight. -
With the House and Senate voting
for different propositions, the bill
must be adjusted in conference, and
after the, conference committee reaches
an agreement, its report must be ac
cepted by both Senate and House be
fore it can be sent to the President for
approval. So there are at least two
bitter fights in immediate prospect,
one in the conference committee and
the other in Senate or House, or both,
according to what the conference com
mittee agrees upon.
Any general attempt to withdraw
this liquor from bonded warehouses
will lead to another prohibition fight
in Congress to prohibit the sale of
whisky during the continuance of the
war, for such withdrawal would be
contrary to the professed intent of the
(senate in adopting the Robinson
amendment, though it might not be
contrary to the expectation of many
Senators who voted for that amend
ment. Senator Borah, for one, will
fight to suppress all whisky traffic if
he finds a general withdrawal of whis
ky from the warehouses in contempla
tion of the proposed purchase of all
Whisky by the Government.
Dry Amendment to Be Offered.
Regardless of what Congress ultl
mately does with the prohibition
amendments to the food bill, there will
be a renewed effort to get a vote on
the resolution submitting a prohibition
amendment to the constitutional
amendment to the states for ratifica
tion, and if the food bill passes in such
shape as to allow the withdrawal of
vast quantities of whisky from bond.
the fight to restrain the sale of whisky
during the war will be waged with full
force.
From the prohibition standpoint, the
lively fight in the Senate, and the
awitch of four Democratic and one Re
publican Senator on the whisky ques
tion demonstrated that the whisky in
fluence is still potent in Washington,
for it is no secret that the whisky lob
by was in evidence throughout the dis
cussion of the food bill; lobbyists were
found around the Capitol corridors and
In the Senate office building, yet their
activities were never investigated,
though the lobby investigating commit
tee is still in existence. It is true, also.
that the prohibition lobby was present
and active, but the whisky lobby
proved the more effective and ulti
mately won out.
It did not win everything; It could
not head off the injunction against the
manufacture of further whisky, but it
did contrive to get authority to sell all
whisky that has been manufactured to
date, and with a restricted supply it
can sell for fancy prices.
trainload left Auburn last Friday after
being assembled in less than three days..
A partial list of the orders piacea
by the committee was given out to
day. The list shows onl a portion of
these orders on which the mills are
actually working and includes mate
rial ordered for both the les Moines
and American Lake cantonments. The
list shows that orders for more than
14.000,000 feet of lumber now are being
made up at the different mills, and
members of the committee say that
many other orders have been prac
tically placed.
The Oregon and Southwest "Washing
ton companies which received contracts
and the amounts are as follows:
Beaver Lumber Company. Portland. 2C1,-
1R8; Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, Eugene,
5oti,40-: Bridal Veil Lumber Company, Fort-
land. 103,164; Clark & Wilson Lumber Com
pany, Linn ton, S.".?.H5; Coast Range Lum
ber Company, Portland. ttU.OOO: Columbia
River Door Comnany. Rainier. Or.. ;U5..".P4;
Crossett Western Lumber Company, Wauna,
Or.. aJ.110; Doty Lumber & Shingle Com
pany. Doty. i:i'J.'220 ; Eastern & Western
Lumber Comoanv. Portland. 434,r27; Kails
City Lumber & Log Company. Portland. 241.-
34::: CJrays Harbor Commercial company,
Cosmopolls, 270.0O0; Hoqulam Sash & Door
Company, Hoquiam, 10,O0; Inman-Poulsen
Lumber Company, Portland, -i.ui-, l--ona
Mills Lumber Company, Leona. Or., 113,-
Leudlughaus Brothers. Dryaa, 1.1.
McKenna Lumber Company. McKenna,
li7."i: Northwestern Lumber Company, Ho
quiam, U26.14i; Peninsula Lumber Company.
Portland. 474. ei a: port tana buraurf
pany, Portland. 323.502; Hoult Brothers,
Portland. 8i.971; Charles K. Spaulding Log
ging Company. Portland, 87.840; West Ore
gon Lumber Company, Llnnton, Or.. 382.
43; West port Lumber Company. West port.
Or. 3'4.i.ir: Willamette Valley Lumber
Company. The Dalles. 184.324: Wind River
Lumber Company, f ortiana, i.s.so ieew
1 Comparative prices are misleading and often untrue Notice that we don9t use them!
UNION TO LOSE CHARTER
ELECTRICIANS SAID TO HAVE VI O-
LATED AGREEMENT.
International Officials Indorse Agree
ment as Drawn and as Rejected
by Local Vnlon
BUTTE, Mont., July 12. That the
Electricians' Union at its meeting last
night not only took exception to one
or two clauses in the agreement drawn
up by its strike committee with the
Montana Power Company, but made
flat rejection of the entire agreement
in its present form became known to
day, when union men began discussing
the situation as the result of last
night's action.
That the union's vote will bring
very serious difference in labor ranks
here is also acknowledged. The agree
ment was indorsed by the officers of
the Electricians' International Union as
being as favorable to the men as any
agreement in the country.
It was discovered today that the elec
tricians "on the. hill," who are on
strike, violated an agreement to give
30 days' notice of a strike when they
walked out. It was stated today that
the officers of the international who
are here will, at the regular, union
meeting tomorrow night, direct the
"hill" electricians to return to their,
work and carry out the provisions of
their contract. Failure to obey these
orders, it is said, may involve for
feiture of the union's charter in the
international.
NATION OBTAINS STEEL
AGREEMENT MADE WITH PRODUC
ERS OF BASIC PRODUCT.
DES MOINES GETS FIB j
TRAI.NLOAD REACHES DESTINATION
IN FIVE DAYS.
Northwest Companies Receive Orders
for 14,000,000 Feet of Lumber
for Two Cantonments.
T A CO MA, 'Wash., July 12. (Special.)
Twenty-four carloads of Douglas fir
lumber from the Pacific Coast arrived
at Des Moines today after being rushed
across the continent in less than five
days time, making a new record for
freight shipments, according to word
received today by the fir emergency
committee. The lumber will be used
in the construction of the new can
tonment at Ies Moines. The first
DON'T LOSE YOUR PUNCH
If you feel a growing dissatisfaction
with life and 'ill health seems to threat-
eu you without the symptoms of any
specific disease showing, your nerves
ate probably undernourished because
yuur blood is thin.
Take a moment to examine into your
own case. Have you lost the ability !
to make a quick decision and take
prompt action whenever necessary or
do you worry and hesitate in indeci
sion and consume an undue amount of
time over things that you used to do
Quickly? Are you prematurely old?
Don't let the arteries In your brain
pet hard. Don't let thin blood starve
your nervous system. Proper diet for
the first and a good tonic. Dr. Will
lams' Pink Pills, for the second are
What you need.
3 f you have any nervous troubles
write today to the Dr. 'Williams Medi
cine Co., Schenectady, N. Y for their
little book on nervous disorders. It
gives methods of home treatment and
directions regarding hygiene that every
one should have. A diet book will
also be sent free on request.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People are sold by your own druggist
or will be sent direct by mail, post
paid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per
box. six boxes for 92.50. Adv.
Manufacturers Assure Car Builders of
Enough Steel for Speedy
Construction
WASHINGTON', July 12. Formal an
nouncement was made by Secretary
Baker today that an agreement had
been reached with representatives of
the American steel Industry in confer
ence here under which the entire prod
uct of the industry would be made
available for the Governments war
purposes at a price to be determined on
the basis of a cost-of-production in
quiry being conducted by the federal
Trade Commission.
On their side, the Government repre
sentatives assured the steel men that
reasonable profits would be included
the price fixed, and that provision als
would be made to care for the expan
sion of the industry to meet new de
mands.
Steel manufacturers. Secretary Red
field announced today, have assured
railroad car builders of enough steel
to insure speedy construction. Ther
are now building in this country about
80,000 cars and some 2000 locomotive
The agreement, coming immediate!
after a statement by President Wilson,
outlining his views on the price ques
ion, was taken as Indicating the pol
icy the Government will pursue toward
business during the war. Governmen
officials generally, it is known, favo
system insuring the fullest co-opera
tion of industry and desire that ar
rangements may be made whereby it
will be made, it is declared, to arrive at
price agreements which will give the
Government supplies at costs reason
able for both the seller and purchaser.
FAIRGROUND DEAL PENDS
Proposal That Clarke -County Buy
Tract to Be Considered.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. July 12. (Spe
cial.) The proposition that the
county buy the Clarke County fair
grounds at about $445 an acre, or about
$14,000 in all. including administra
tion building, racetrack, grandstand
and other buildings thereon, will be
discussed at a mass meeting at the
fairgrounds Wednesday. July 18.
The County Commissioners M. E.
Carson, Abe Miller and John P. Kig
gins will be present. It is generally
believed that the fair would have
paid well had the Columbia River In
terstate bridge been completed before
It went into bankruptcy.
Santisentic Gives Skin Comfort.
Instantly rplieTes. cure nd prevents otaafl r
Irritated skin. Cools and sooth's. You'll like 1U
cleanly, healtiy odor. . 60c All druiisiata.
Adv.
FORT WORTH MOB FEARED
Murderer May Be Spirited Into State
and Hidden by Officers.
Captain of Detectives Young', of Fort
Worth. Tex., will arrive in Portland
this morning and with Constable Toll
Johnson will start on the return trip
with Rufus Coates, confessed murderer,
and Clyde Tucker, his alleged accom
plice. Saturday.
Mr. Johnson says that at the time
he left Fort Worth sentiment was run
ning high, but he would not say wheth
er or not he and Captain Young would
return Coates and Tucker to Fort
Worth. It is the opinion of the police
that the men will be spirited into the
state and placed in jail in some town
other than Fort orth.
South American Conference Off.
BUENOS AIRES. July 12. The con
gress of neutral toutrt American na
tions to formulate a common policy m
respect of problems arising from th
war has been postponed indefinitely,
Phone your want ads to Th OiesO'
nian. Main 70.0, A 6093.
THERE are still a good number of snaps
in our sale of USED PIANOS and
organs ! For instance !
There are piano players at $10.'
' Seventh floor Lipman, Wolfe &' Co.
DON'T worry if you break your eye
glasses bring the pieces to our optical
department we'll have new ones ready in
a jiffy.
, Second floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
R
Women who know the most about skirts and
values will be intensely interested in this
emarkable sale of SKIRTS at
$8.75
Novelty walking skirts!
Yes, and dress skirts, too! ft
83 of them in all, and there's not one of the 83 but would
sell for just about double this Friday sale price.
Some of them are of woolens, others are
of silks, most of them in sports styles and
patterns.
And note this! They're all SAMPLES
that means there's j"ust one of a kind!
We believe it will be wise for women to come early, for
such skirts as these will not linger long when they're selling
at about half price!
Third floor Lipman, W olfe & Cttt,
Dress and utility
GOATS at $16.50
Women will find much about this sale of coats at $16.50 to
thuse over.
The styles are the ones most in vogue right now; the colors
and the fabrics are the most popular, too, and as far as values
are concerned well, you're going to wonder and wonder how
they can be sold for so little!
They're all 48-inch coats, belted models with big collars and
fancy pockets! Some are of wool velour, others of wool poplin;
the colors include gold, apple, green, rose, tan. navy and
Copenhagen! Third floor Lipman, Wolfe Sr Co.
The famous INNOVATION TRUNKS
make their Portland home in our Sub-Basement!
You'll find a world of other good baggage
here, too!
Sale JUNIOR SUITS at
$7.95
About half t!'.eir usual price!
Small women and juniors will fairly revel in this display of
pretty suits. There are pleated and belted models, with pockets
and collars of the newest cut. If you can wear a junior girls
size you can hardly afford to miss this sale! There are suits
of gabardine and granite cloth, with silk-lined jackets and wide
collars of silk or broadcloth. All the seasonable colors.
A wonderful lot of
JUNIORCOATStogoat$9.95
They're such remarkable values that we expect them to go like
the wind. And they will, too, when junior size folks come in
and try them on. Fourth floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
Just see! 1
r a rr-v t t a ooivr a rr- '
12c ea.
Lily bowls flower baskets vases
comports bonbon bowls in tbe
fashionable and most effective
black glass! A striking background
for flowers! We've only a limited
supply, 60 we've decided to make the
rule no deliveries no phone orders
and no C. O. D. orders.
6th Floor, Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
Specials in bud and
FLOWER VASES
Thin blown flower vases, 8-
inch 10i
Tapered bud vases lot
Engraved glass baskets 19
Cut and engraved vases 196
Etched bud vases, 6-inch. .. .39
Etched bud vases, 8-inch. .. .49
Large engraved baskets 59
Cut triangular bud vases 490
Large triangular bud vases... 59
Hand engraved bud vases, 6
inch 546
Hand engraved bud vases, 8
inch 690
Hand engraved flower vases,
10-inch 696
Hand engraved flower vases,
14-inch $1.09
6th Floor, Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
A wonderful sale of
FILET LACE, 22c
A special lucky purchase of these laces
many of them copies of real filet lace
patterns makes it possible for us to
offer these edgings and insertions at so
low a price.
Main Floor, Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
or
sake A sale of
coolness
men's Shedaker
Distinctly Summery
GRASS FURNITURE
Outfitting for one's own home isn't a thing of seasons,
generally speaking, but these grass chairs and tables
speak of coolness and fresh air so emphatically that we've
chosen them to exploit in this Summer outfitting time!
Rocking chairs $8.00, $8.75 to $11.00
Steamer chairs and couches. . . .$13.50, $17.75
Tables $7.95, $8.25, $9.95 $11.00
Stools and tabourettes . .$1.75, $2, $2.25, $2.45
Kiddles' chairs and rockers $2.45, $2.65
Fifth floor Lipman, Wolfe 6r Co.
UNION SUITS
Lot 1 79c Lot 2 98c
Lot 3 $1.29, two for $2.29
Lot 4 $U9, two for $2.39
Lot 5 $1.59, two for $2.59
They're the well-known
Sh.eda.ker Athletic Union
Suits, with the patent
closed crotch. Made of
such soft, cool, ma
terials as nainsook,
madras, soisette, silk
mercerized materials.
silk mull, and silk
uppers with the more
durable madras
pants.
Washington-street
entrance, mam floor,
Lipman-Wolfe Co.
LOOK for our Base
ment advertisments
in other papers tonight
it gives many of the
reasons why our Base
ment Store is growing
by leaps and bounds!
Today in our SEMI-ANNUAL SHOE Clearance we are going
feature LOW SHOES and OXFORDS at greatly reduced prices!
to
A special chance to buy
Doctors'- Dentists Cooks' Barbers
COATSandAPRONS
There's going to be a sharp ad
vance in price on coats and aprons for
dentists, laboratory workers, barbers,
cooks, sodla fountain men, bakers,
butchers, etc.
Here's an opportunity to buy these
garments at old prices that will mean
dollars and dollars' worth of savings
for men who buy enough now to fill
their needs.
White coats, $1.25, $1.35
Of heavy twill and duck; military
collars and detachable buttons. Some
with V necks.
White duck coats, $1.50
With military collars and frog fas
teners. Cooks' coats, $1J25
Made double breasted, of heavy twill.
Doctors' and dentists' coats, $2.00
With military collars and detachable buttons. Braid trimmed.
Silk mercerized coats, $2.75
Of tan silk mercerized material with twill silk braid trimming.
Plain waist aprons 30c
Heavy bib aprons ' 40c
Heavy French aprons 50c
Butchers' frocks $2.25 and $2.75
Cooks' caps 20c, three for 50c
Main floor Lipman, W olfe & Co.
I
LUST GAMPS NAMED
Routing of Troops to Mobiliza
tion Points Completed.
CALL WILL COME SUNDAY
cient for the men have already been
obtained.
The fact that the Guard Is to be
under training even before drawing
for the selective army begins indicates
that of the men drawn the first to see
service will be those assigned to fill
vacancies in the Guard or the regulars.
Today's recruiting figures show that
the regulars were short a little more
than 39,000 men. which probably will
be reduced to less than 30,000 before
the draft forces become available. The
best obtainable estimates of the Na
tional Guard strength indicate that
they will need less than 100,000 men
when they go to camp.
Guard Will Be TTnder Training Be
fore Draft Becomes Effective
and First Men Selected Will
Fill Gaps in Banks.
"WASHINGTON, July 12. Selection
of camp sites for the National Guard
was completed today when Secretary
Baker approved Hattiesburg, Miss.,
and Alexandria, La., and announced the
change of the Fayetteville, K. C, site
to Charlotte, N. C.
Routing of the guardsmen from all
states to their camps for training
preliminary to their departure for
France . was immediately worked out
by the military bureau and the list of
assignments submitted to Major-Gen
eral Bliss, acting chief of staff, for
approval. None of the bureau's recom
mendations were" revealed.
The first increment of the Guard
will be called into the service of the
Federal Government next Sunday al
though the draft clause of the Na
tional defense act will not be applied
to any of the Guardsmen until Augusts.
Movement to the camp sites can begin
within a few dajs as supplies suffi-
and West Virginia, on trial charged
with violation of the Sherman anti-
Geologlcal Investigators Drowned.
1NVER1IERE. B. C, July 12. Charles
W. Drysdale, Ottawa, chief of a gov
ernment geological survey party, and
William J. Gray, a university student
of Vancouver, his assistant, were
drowned yesterday when the raft in
which they were attempting to cross
the Kootenay River, upset.
Coal Operators Are Acquitted.
NEW YORK, July 12. The jury in
the case of the semi-bituminous coal
operators and companies in Virginia
Time and again la
dies looking in our
windows say, "Oh, if
I had only seen these
coats before I bought
mine.'
J. M.
Acheson
Co.
362 Alder, near Park.
trust law. brought In a verdict today
of not guilty for all the defendants
Attention
Stenographers!
Harold H. Smith, the fastest typewriter
operator living; in the West, and instructor
of typewriting: in the State College of Washing-ton,
is attending: the N. E. A. Convention.
You can have an opportunity of seeing
him give a demonstration at Meier & Frank's
Auditorium, 6th floor, between 12 and 1:30
on Friday, the 13th.
Come to the Underwood Office, 10th and
Stark Sts., on Friday, the 13th, from 5 to
6:30 P. M., and meet him. He will be glad
to demonstrate expert methods by operating
the Underwood Typewriter for you at that
time. f
v
ft
LONGING
fc FOR A CHILD
Youngr Wife Almost in De
spair. Now has Beautiful
Baby GirL
There is nothing more charming than
a happy and healthy mother of children,
and indeed child-birth under the right -conditions
need be no hazard to health
or beauty. Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound has brought jov to
many childless women by restoring them
to normal health. Here is a notable case.
Omaha, Neb. "I suffered from fe
male troubles when 1 was seventeen
years old. At eight
een I was married
and my trouble was
no better so I con
sulted a physician
who said that there
was not much I
could do and I could
not have children.
I read of Lydia E.
Pinkham's V e g e
table Compound and!
decided to try it,
and it has proved
worth its weight in gold to me for I am
not only well but have a baby girl, so
when I hear of any woman suffering as
I was I tell her of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound." Mrs. W.
Hughes, 19 Majestic Apts., Omaha, Neb.
In many other homes, once childless,
tiiere are now children because of tha
fact that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable)
Compound makes women, normal,
healthy and strong,
f Am
IV'-''!
Will htLJ