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I VOL.. L.VII 0. 17,G84. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DC INVESTIGATION OF UL I Doc ah rnwiMFiMPFn SCHOOL HIT SOLDIER GUARD IS I SENATE DATE FOR DRY VOTE IS SET COMMONS REJECTS SHOT BY PROWLER u i lunu w j til mi & iuul BILLION AY BOARD CONCILIA ION BOARD REQUIRED FOB WAR Estimates of Year's Ex penses Mount Up. BY COSTS IS GOVERNOR'S PLAN PEACE PROPOSITION JLVYOR HAS SAMPLES TAKEN SECRETLY AND WEIGHED. - CORPORAL SUTTON' WOUNDED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT UP NEXT WEDNESDAY. AX P. R., L. &'P. PLANT. ' ' SOARING ARMY ASKS $5,278,636,000 Senate Committee Considers Sources of Revenue. MORE TAXES, M'ADOO PLAN Sentiment Strong That Nest Issue of Bonds Shall Be in Serial V Form Instead of for - 0 Years. 4 Interest May Bo Higher. WASHINGTON. July 28. The new war budget to carry the Government through to next July and to cover ad ditional credits to the allies promises row far to exceed $8,000,000,000 and Xnay mount to $10,000,000,000. "War Department estimates sent to Congress today call for new appropria tions of 15,278,636,000 for that branch of the military establishment alone. Kstimates totaling another $1,000,000,000 or more are expected tomorrow, when the other departments report their needs, and In addition Secretary Mc Adoo has Indicated that before the year Is out Congress will be asked for a. $2,000,000,000 appropriation to In crease the fund available for loans Abroad. Budget to Call for $7,000,000,000. As soon as the departmental reports ere In the appropriation committees of Congress will go to work on an immediate budget, which probably will total in the neighborhood of $7,000,000, 000. Meantime the Senate finance committee, which lias the war tax bill in charge, will meet tomorrow to con elder what part of the new expenditures is to be provided by taxation and on what commodities the new levies are to fall. The committee hopes to have a revised bill ready early next week. Congressional leaders do not expect to have to provide immediately for the additional credits to the . allies. ..as Treasury officials had indicated, that no appropriation for that purpose will e requested until the next session. Estimates Total $3,017,878,317. The gross estimates submitted by the War Department today totalled $5,917, 78,347, but that covered all existing and expected deficiencies in the depart ment funds, including upwards of $640 000,000 already appropriated for the aviation programme. This latter item will not be included in the budget, but Congress will have to provide revenues to meet it, since it was not on the ledger when the war tax bill was framed. How much of the new war expenses should be raised by taxation and how much by bonds or Treasury indebted ness certificates is a warmly debated question. Committee sentiment to night seemed to be in favor of in creasing the $1,670,670,000 war tax bill only to about $2,000,000,000, with au thorizatiou both for a new bond issue probably at a higher interest rate and in serial form and for issuance of Treasury certificates of indebtedness. More Taxes Jlc.Vdoo'i Flan. Secretary McAdoo is said to favor a much larger levy of taxes and a few committeemen favor increasing the bill's total by $1,000,000,000 or at least to $2,225,000,000. "Whether tiro interest rate on the new bonds shall be increased is causing much discussion. There is a strong sentiment that the bonds shall be in serial form instead of running for years. As to the sources of the new taxes, sentiment apparently is tending toward securing the bulk of the increase from war excess profits and incomes. Several War Department officials will Appear tomorrow before the finance committee to explain their new esti mates. Chairman Simmons said to night thai, while the present year's appropriations already total $9,226,000, 000. it is estimated that only about $5,000,000,000 of that will be spent dur ing the present fiscal year. The com mittee's tax bill has been drawn on that basis. Forts Are Expensive. The largest single item in the de partment's estimate is $2,468,613,000 for armament of fortifications. The estimates include the following appropriations for arsenals: Benecla, Cal., $91,500; Frankfort, Philadelphia, $2,630,000; Picatinny, Do ver, N. J., $40,000; Rock Island, 111., $1,645,200; San Antonio, Tex., $185,000; (Springfield. Mass, $445,000; Watertown, Mass., $741,50-0; . aterville. N. Y., $789, (00. For the protection of the Panama Ca nal a total of $1,595,525 is required. Other items include: Pay. $715,828,440;. transportation, $450,490,305; clothing and camp equip ment, $357,506,097; subsistence, $329. 672.218; automatic machine rifles, $170,277,000; medical supplies and hos pitals, $100,026,000; horses, $51,751,466; signal service, $3,000,000; quartermas ter's department. $163,917,925; barracks and quarters, $S2.1 fii.000; civilian train ing camps. $2,119,000; engineer depart ment. $104,300,000; ordnance stores, am munition, $39,520,000; ordnance stores, supplies, $70,000,000; armored motor cars, $21,750,000, and submarine mines, 1700.000. The new war estimates will increase materially the technical labor required of Congress and probably greatly pro long the session. The Army estimates 4 probably will require passage of a new Army appropriation bill. Another and large deficiency appropriation measure is necessary and another naval defi ciency bill also U possible. Object Is to Have Standard Loaf Sold at Standard Price Allow ing Reasonable Profit. Bread now is to be the subject of investigation by Ivan Humason. inves tigator appointed by the City Council. Mayor Baker yesterday instructed Mr. Humason to go into the subject thor oughly and fairly to give the people of Portland complete detailed infor mation as to the legitimacy of present bread prices. The investigation was ordered after Mayor Baker secretly had E. D. Jones, City Sealer of "Weights and Measures, take samples of bread delivered at stores by various bakeries for weigh ing. The result of this Inquiry was that a large amount of bread was tak en and it was found that the weight for a 10-cent loaf varies from 15 ounces to 18 Vi ounces. Mr. Baker called officials of the Mas ter Bakers' Association into conference at his office yesterday and told them the results of his investigation of which they had known nothing pre viously. Mayor Baker said he hoped to have adopted a standard-size loaf . for a standard price, allowing a reasonable profit thereon1! AY FOR MEN IN CAMP AIM City Will Be Asked to Provide lor Employes Trying to Be Officers. An ordinance providing for the pay ment to city employes who have en tered the Officers' Reserve Training Camp at San Francisco, of the dlf f er ence between their salaries from the city and their salaries from the Gov ernment and also reserving their city positions for them on their return, will be presented to the City Council Wednesday by Mayor Baker. The proposal Is that all men who have gone into the service shall suffer no loss of salary as a result and shall be protected In their positions when they return. " The Mayor also provides in this measure that their going shall not prevent their having their annual vacation from the city.- MOVIE FIRE IS FATAL Caldwell Operator Iioses Ijlfe When Broken Reel Starts Flames. CALDWELL, Idaho, July 16. (Spe cial.) Horace Crookham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oeorge L. Crookham, of this city, lost his life by suffocation in. a firo which damaged the Huree Theater tonight. Crookham, an operator at the theater, became panic-stricken as the flames, which originated from a broken reel, enveloped the room. Not untl the fire had been extin guished was it discovered that he had escaped through a trap door leading into the attic. He was immediately rescued, but the five physicians sum moned were unable to revive him. Charles Beals, assistant operator. was severely burned. SHIPS' MACHINERY INJURED Siamese Government Interns Sub jects of Enemy Countries. BANGKOK, Slam, July 26. The ma chinery of the Austro-German steam ers which were seized after Slam had declared war against the central pow ers July 22 was found to be damaged. All masculine subjects of enemy countries have been interned and all enemy business will be wound up. Nine steamers, aggregating 19,000 tons, were seized by the Siamese gov ernment with its entrance into the war. They were owned chiefly by the North German Lloyd Company. OREGON PRODUCT PUSHED Mr. Hawley Asks That Loganberry Jam Be Put in Army Ration. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 26. "Feed the Army on loganberry jam," is the recommenda tlon made by Representative Hawley today to the War Department. Blackberry Jam is now part of the Army rations, but the department Is unable to obtain it in sufficient quan tities. Mr. Hawley recommends that the Oregon product be added to the ration. THREE FISHERMEN MISSING Strong Wind Off Mouth of Columbia Makes Sea Rough. ASTORIA. Or., July 26. (Special.) A strong wind has been blowing and high seas have been running outside the mouth of the river during the past few days and as a result several fish ing boats have met with mishaps. Three trollers, who reside at Ham mond, are reported to have been miss ing since Monday, when they left to troll outside the heads, and fears for their safety are felt. G0ETHALS TO GO TO FRANCE Ma jor-Gencral May Head American Army Engineers. WASHINGTON, July 26. Major- General Goethals is expected to go to France soon to head the American Army engineers, it was said today. He has expressed a wish for active service since the reorganization of the Shipping Board. Alarming Situation Is Shown at Meeting. FUEL PROBLEM MOST ACUTE Directors Told Oil Contracts Cannot Be Made. FRANKLIN UNIT IS KILLED Board's Recent Action on Salary - Increases Rescinded and New Plan Will Be Worked Out to Provide for Rises. POINTS I?f SCHOOL BOARD'S ECOXOMf PROGRAMME. Fuel situation so acute that coal burners will have to be sub stituted for oil burners, or slab wood may have to be used. Financial situation of Board so cramped because of tax limita tion, soaring prices, etc., that all possible construction, all pur chases of ground and everything possible to eliminate will be cut. Bids for construction of third unit of the Franklin High School rejected . and construction post poned Indefinitely. Action of Board in increasing salaries of grade teachers and other employes last week rescind ed, but new schedule of rises will be worked out. - - To assist in fuel conservation, bathing at schools ordered dis continued during remainder of Summer season. To conserve space and avoid necessity for new buildings, sur vey of vacant rooms is ordered and . established " lines for each school, once laid down, will be adhered to rigidly. Great obstacles which have to be overcome under the most difficult of rcumstances last night caused the members of the Board of Education at special session to determine upon a policy of the most rigid retrenchment and financial conservatism compatable with absolute necessities. On top of several other very diffi cult problems came an announcement yesterday from the oil companies op erating In the city to the effect that they cannot enter into any contracts for fuel oil this year; that they may not be able to . furnish any definite amount and suggesting that the board prepare to burn coal or wood. This creates the most acute situation which has as yet come to the board. (Concluded on Page 8. Column 6.) Finding of "Live" Dynamite Fuse Leads to ' Belief That Assail- '"' ant Carried Explosives. t Corporal - William Sutton? Third Oregon Infantry, was shot through the right shoulder" at 10:20 last night . by an . unknown - prowler while on guard duty at Substation L, of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, at the foot of East Lincoln street. He will recover. The prowler, who was fired upon three times by Corporal Sutton, es caped toward Hawthorne avenue, ap parently unhurt.- He was challenged by the soldier and his right there ques tioned. He made a- surly reply and is said to have grappled with Corporal Sutton. .The shots followed and the man fled. The stranger used a revol ver. Sutton fired three shots, but appar ently did not hit his assailant. Wal lace Wager, another sentry on duty at the other end of the route, at once ran to assist his comrade, but, confused by the sound of the shots, ran in another direction. Two or three niinutes elapsed before he reached the spot where the melee occurred. By that time the prowler had escaped. Wager assisted the wounded soldier to the sen try headquarters at the sub-station and then returned to the scene of the shooting, where he found five feet of "live" dynamite fuse. , The police and Special Agents Lou Wagner and William Keller, who ar rived at the substation 10 minutes after the shooting, are convinced that the prowler either carried explosives which he threw into the river when chal lenged by the sentry, or else had pre viously hid the stuff and wars seeking to put his fuse to it and touch It off. Corporal Sutton was rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital, where it was found that his wound is not serious. FRENCH LOSSES ARE NIL Submarine Attacks of Week Against Six Merchantmen Unsuccessful. PARIS, July 26. During the week ending midnight July 22 not a single Frenci vessel either over or under 1600 tons was lost. . Six French merchantment were at tacked unsuccessfully during that time by submarines. Ships of all national! ties, numbering 1063, entered port and 9S7 departed. ROME, July 26. Two Italian steam ers were sunk and one small sailing vessel was damaged during the week ending- at midnight July 22. says an official announcement. Five hundred and ninety-three vessels, with a gross tonnage of 389,815, arrived, and 550 of a tonnage of 403,450 left port. FARM GIRL GETS $2 A DAY 16-Year-Old Maid Comes to Rescue in Montana Labor Shortage. HELENA, Mont, July 26. Unable to get men, a farmer near here has hired a 16-year-old girl at 2 per day as a field hand. She has "made good" with the plow and is the best worker he ever had, her employer says. IT'S UNCLE KAH'S BURDEN NOW. Executive Would Avert Industrial Strife. GRAVE TROUBLES FORESEEN I. W. W. Not Feared; Vicious- ness Held Checkmate. CHIEF JUSTICE IS NAMED In Appeal to Patriotism of Labor and Capital, Mr. Wilhycorabe Pledges Aid of State In Stamp ing Out Traitorous Vipers. SALEM, Or.. July 26 (Special.) Governor Withycombe announced today his plan for keeping Oregon free from labor disturbances by the creation of a board of conciliation and arbitration to which would be submitted all diffi culties which might arise between labor and capital. The personnel of this board would be made up of three mer, selected by and from the ranks of or ganlzed labor; three men selected by representatives of the employers, and as the seventh member the Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court, to be asked by the executive to serve as represent ative of the state. His decision to create such a board, with the sanction of the employer and the employed, 4s based upon broad pa triotic grounds. Realizing that Na tional safety depends In the greatest degree upon freedom from internal dis sension and strife, particularly from industrial disturbances, he asks that patriotism become the paramount de sire of every citizen and that the wage earner and the man who pays him, join in this move to conserve the Na tion by conserving peace among them selves. Grave Industrial Troubles -Ahead. . "The country is on the verge of a great industrial danger at this time," declared the Governor, In discussing his plan for eliminating disputes. "I am not afraid of the I. W. W. their propa ganda and their agitation are too vi cious and too contemptible to become a permanent menace. But I believe that this country is on the verge of grave industrial difficulties. "Oregon, industrially, is Just coming Into her own, particularly In the ship building industry, which is developing into colossal proportions. Not only are we building for the present, but for years in the future. The state Is at the dawning of its' greatest commer cial era. Nation's Fate In Balance. "Now is the time to put forth every effort to secure a permanent industrial peace. The Nation confronts at this time the greatest peril in its history and it Is the time for each and every (Concluded on Page 4. Column 1.) ' Sheppard Claims Necessary Major ity in Close Fight; Penrose and Underwood Are Opposed. WASHINGTON, July 26. National prohibition will be voted on by the Sen ate next Wednesday. By unanimous consent It was agreed tonight to take up Monday Senator Sheppard's resolu tion for a National prohibition amend ment to the Constitution and to dispose of It by Wednesday night. Foes of prohibition consented to the vote in order to clear tho resolution from the calendar, transmit it to the House and perhaps shift further agita tion on the subject from Congress to the states. They secured an agreement, however, for addition of a proviso re quiring the states to act within six years on the constitutional amendment, if submitted to them. The vote in the Senate probably will bo extremely close. Adoption would require two-thirds of the Senators present. Senator Sheppard predicted tonight an affirmative vote of 65 to 66 votes, just enough to approve the resolution, which " would then go to the House, subject to a similar two thirds vote. Ratification of the amendment would require affirmative, action by three fourths of the 48 states. Senator Penrose said he would vote and speak against the resolution. Sen ator Underwood also announced that he was opposed to it. FREE PH0NES PAID FOR Samuel Rill Turns $25,375 Over to Home Company Receiver. SALEM, Or, July 26. (Special.) The Public Service Commission today was notified by ex-Governor West, re ceiver for the Home Telephone & Tele graph Company, that Samuel Hill has paid $25,375 for 3171 installations of telephones for that company. Receiver West states that payment for the phones came as a voluntary gift, and that for more than a year prior to mak ing the offer Mr. Hill was not con nected with the -company either as offi cer or director. Mr. West also notified the commis sion today that the new tariff offering tltree months' service free for new sub scribers after -ugust 1 does not apply to subscribers installing their phones prior to August 1. ' MOTHER SEES GIRLS DROWN Daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGulrc Die in Sllctz River. NEWPORT, Or.. July 26. (Special) Lottie and Esther McGulre, aged 13 and 9, daughters of Mr. and Mrr Robert McGuire, of Siletz, drowned yesterday while bathing in Siletz River. The girls got into a deep hole and drowned before assistance could be summoned. The mother of tho girls witnessed the accident, but was unable to help. The bodies were recovered, shortly afterward. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS War. German kept In state of "nerves" by Brit ish. Page 2. Russians abandon rich corn country. Page 2. Foreign. Premier Venlzelo halls reassembling of CSreek Parliament as beginning of consti tutional government. Page 3. British Commons votes down peace resolu tion, page 1. Russian soldiers, workmen and peasants ap peal to army and navy. Page 2. National. Tear's war budget may require ten billion dollars. Page 1. Array officers speculate as to ratio of ex emptions in National Army. Page 3. Rivers and harbors bill is passed. Page 4. House to cease righting for committee on war expenditures. Page 3. National. Outlook too serious to debate millions for little creeks, says Borah. Page 0. T)omeHtic. San Jose appeals for troop Page 6. Roosevelt refuses to sit with Mayor Thomp son, of Chicago. Page S. Vote on prohibition resolution by Senate set for Wednesday. Page 1. Sport. Pacific Coast League results: T.os Angeles 7. Portland 3: s-an Francisco Oakland 4 Vernon 9. Salt Lake 7. Page 8. Batting big item In standing of Coast League teams. Page 8. Tennis matches In elimination play are close. Page 8. Leonard's title is deserved. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Settlement of car strike awaits outcome of adjourned conference. Page . State Fire Marshal wells makes first re port on Salem. Page 7. Albany College trustee to have another year to raise funds. Page 5. Governor Withycombe urges conciliation board to handle grave Industrial df putes foreshadowed by present unrest. Page 1. Commercial mnd Marine. Opening prune prices maintained despite lack of Lastern demand. . Page li. Wheat higher at Chicago on drouth report from Spring grain territory. Page 17. St. Paul stock little affected by cut In di vidend rate. Page 17. French to build new fleet under rule of Bureau Veritas. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Investigation of bread situation In Portland ordered by Mayor. Page 1. Newly mobilized troops spend day drilling. Page 4. State Commission acts Quickly on matters put up by Mr. Slrahorn. page 12. Pacific Telephone Company formulates plans lor ccu-prumoiions. rage u. Mazamas preparing for annual outing to Mount Jefferson. Page 13. Forest fire in Crater reserve Is curbed Page 7. Child dies after taking medicine and drug- gut and clerk are held. Page 11. Public Dock Commission locate big grain elevator at fet. Johns. Page 14. Chinese tong leaders. Indicted for murder. must enter pleas Saturday, rage 11. School Board hit by soaring costs. Page 1 Soldier guard is shot by prowler. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Reichstag Resolution Is Held Too Vague. FINAL VOTE IS 148 TO 19 Asquith Commends Plan Restate War Aims. to FALTERING DELAYS PEACE Former Premier Declares He Finds Nothing in German Attitude to Indicate Agreement AVitb. ; Purposes of Entente. LONDON, July 26. The House of Commons, after employing the whole evening session in a discussion of a peace resolution moved by James Ramsay MacDonald, Socialist and Labor member, defeated it by a vote of 1!S to 19. The announcement of the figures was received with some cheers and much laughter. The smallness of the numbers in the House when division was taken is an indication of the little interest shown by Parliament in any hope of a useful peace movement at the present junc ture and the conviction was voiced in an important statement by Herbert H. Asquith, the former Premier, that nothing was to be hoped from the present temper of the German Reich stag and people. Faltering Wonld Delay Peace. Mr. MacDonald, as shown by the vote, found very few supporters. George James Wardle. in behalf of the labor party, declined to have anything to do with this pacifist resolution. The speech of Andrew Bonar Law, the government leader in the House, dealt largely with the Russian crisis. He was certain that if anything could delay peace It would bo any sign of faltering. Philip Snowden. Socialist, said the debate disclosed that the British gov ernment, more than any other bellig erent, was standing In the way of an early settlement. He protested against more blood being shed to restore Alsace-Lorraine to France. New Statement Aaked. A little group of pacifists instituted the peace debate this afternoon by in troducing a resolution declaring that the German Reichstag resolution favor ing peace by an understanding ex pressed the principles for which Great Britain stood throughout and calling on the government, in conjunction with the entente allies, to restate their peace terms accordingly. Further, the resolution declares that the allies should accept the Russian proposal that the forthcoming allied conference on the war aims should, comprise representatives of the people and not solely spokesmen of the gov ernment. The resolution was moved by James Ramsay MacDonald, Socialist and labor member for Leicester, and was sup ported by Charles P. Trevelyan, Lib eral; Hastings B. Lees-Smith. Liberal; Philip Snowden, Socialist, and Arthur A. Ponsonby, Liberal. Mlehaells' Vagueness Scored. Mr. MacDonald agreed that his reso lution expressed the opinion of only a small minority, but he contended that this minority was ever growing. Stock holm had borne its fruit; the allied, conference would bear more, and the (Concluded en Page 5, Column l. HOW PRUSSIA SPl'S THE WEB OF TREACHEROUS DECEIT. By Former Ambassador Cersrd. "My Four Years in Germany," the remarkable relation of a monstrous scheme of world do minion, will appear In the daily and Sunday issues of The . Ore gonian, beginning Sunday, Au gust 5. When Mr. Gerard represented the United States in Germany he became possessed, bit by bit, of the evidence that convicts Prus slanism. In all history, ancient or modern, no more glaring case of treacherous intrigue has been presented, and the letters of the former Ambassador will bo the records of impartial history when the battle flags are furled. Were the German protestations of friendship for America borne out by the secret plans and con trivlngs of the Prussian clique? Mr. Gerard's letters form a con clusive answer In the negative. Was the world war forced upon Germany, or was it the fruition of plots toward the Prussianizing of the world? The evidence of those intrigues is in the letters. Of the reams of contribution on the world war, nothing that ap proaches in importance or clarity the Gerard letters has been of fered to the public. To follow their graphic course is to under stand much that hitherto has been clouded by surmise and dis sension and to gain a well-informed opinion on the issues involved.