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TIIE MORNING OltEGOXIAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1917. IlNSPEGTiaH OF WAR BONDS FAVORED FOR RAISING WAR FOND MEMBERS OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT COMMISSION SNAPPED BY OREGONIAN PHOTOGRAPHER ON ARRI VAL IN PORTLAND YESTERDAY. GONTRAGTS IS NEAR 'Charges Persist That Vast Both Houses Said to Be Op posed to Increase of $2, 000,000,000 by Taxation. Sums Are Paid in Ways Suggestive of Graft. CONGRESS WATCHES MONEY 1 PEACE TALK NOT DESIRED jj I 41 l'TI i Reports That President Contem plates Drastic Action Against Disturbing Elements May Lead to Spirited Debate. WASHTXGTOX Aug-- 12. While the Fenate continues debate on the $2,000, 000,000 war tax bill this week. Initial eteps -will be taken on the House side of the Capitol toward raisins part of the additional 1 6.000,000,000, needed to carry on the war until July 1, 1918. More ready money, possibly $1,000, 000,000 or $2,000,000,000 will be neces eary to meet current expenses before Congress can appropriate at the next cession, so Secretary McAoo has ar ranged a meeting- with Democratic leader Kitchin, chairman of the House ways and means committee, for early in. the week, to discuss the situation. Members of the ways and means com mittee, both Democrats and Republi cans, have expressed willingness to pass without delay legislation for any reasonable amount the Government may require. Senate leaders are also ready to co operate. Sentiment for raising addi tional funds at this time by a bond is sue and certificates of indebtedness end not by taxation, is strong- in both Houses. Bonds May Be Taxable. Administration officials have not rtated the exact amount they desire now, but a request for more than $2,000,000,000 extra will be met with strong opposition in the House. A movement to make the next Issue of bonds or certificates taxable, and with 4 per cent interest instead of being non-taxable and bearing 34 per cent interest, is gaining Influential fol lowers In the House. Reports that a certain United States citizen acquired $60,000,000 worth of the first issue of liberty bonds In order to escape taxation has gained much currency in the House and helped en list advocates of the plan to tax the next issue. Senator Shannons, having- concluded his opening- statement Saturday, gen eral discussion of the revised House revenue bill will begin in the Senate tomorrow. Optimistic leaders hope to complete debate in two weeks, but if it is finished in less than a month many or the older members will be surprised. Substltnte to Be Offered. Senator La Follette will offer early this week his substitute for the pend ing bill, which would place virtually tne entire burden of taxation on war profits, incomes, liquor and tobacco. Senator Gore is expected to speak in support of the measure. ESSEX AIR RAID FATAL 'Continued From Flrt Pace.) warning was to draw crowds to the tea fronts to watch the Invaders. Thanks to the promptness of the British airships in attacking the raid ers, all these places escaped, and the onlookers saw aerial battles, though at a dim distance. None of these fights seems to have been prolonged, or, as far as is known, to have resulted seriously for the Invaders, whose plans seemed to be to avoid conflicts In order to Insure a safe return to their Vase. PARIS, Aug. 12. Two French, avi ators yesterday dropped bombs on X'rankfort-on-the-Maln, one of the most important cities of the German Empire, having a population of more than 300, 000. A B'rench official statement, an nouncing the raid, says it was in retal iation for the German aerial bombard ment of Nancy and the region north of Tarls. Both French machines returned un damaged. LONDON, Aug. 12. The loss or dam age of 16 German machines and the ap parent loss of 12 British airplanes is reported in the official statement from British headquarters in France, issued last night. The text reads: 19 Enemy Planes Go Down. "This morning the enemy again at tacked our new positions on the Ypres- Alenin road, and after heavy fighting. pressed back our line slightly in the Olencorse Wood. In the neighbor hood of the Ypres Railway, we gained ground on the right bank of the Steen Leek. We took 124 prisoners. Yesterday, for the first time in over 10 days, a full day's flying was possible. Enemy aircraft showed itself in a great many places, attempting to pre vent our artillery work and attacking our bombing machines. In spite of their efforts, a great deal of observa tion work was carried out by us. A large number of photographs were taken, and many targets on the ground gained effectively with machine gun fire. Six and one-half tons of bombs were dropped on enemy airdromes, ammunition depots and other points of military importance. Fighting was . very severe all day and th enemy was encountered in large for mation. Ten German machines were brought down by airplanes, five others were driven out of control, and another was driven down, out of control, by gunfire. Twelve of our machines are missing. A Perfect Baby To possess a literally perfect child is by no means impossible. The expectant mother should be calm and the days Bhould be filled with sunshine and hap piness. Millions of women have used the safe, external, penetrating preparation known as "Mother's Friend." By Its use the abdominal muscles, which nature is ex panding, relax easily when baby is born. This naturally makes for in finitely less pain and danger at the crisis. "Write to The Bradfleld Regulator Co.. Dept. H. 33, Lamar Building, At lanta, Ga, for interesting free book "Motherhood and the Baby." Do not neglect to get a bottle of "Mother's Friend" from your druggist's tonight. It is a tried preparation and Is of the greatest value to expectant mothers. Adv. 1 "A rs4ss hi 1' s: - ' -J J'r; lr fr ; , ; -i 1 fK f - - .,, l 1 SPRUCE TO WIN WAR Foreign Aviators Say North west Can Help Allies. PORTLAND IS HOST TODAY French, British, Italian and United States Airmen Will Show Plc- tares of Operations In Eu rope at Auditorium. (Continued From First Pare.) form the native wood Into finished stock, The aircraft manufacturers say they are ready; the lumber mills say they are ready; the log operators say they are ready. The only possible weak link in the chain is the labor sup ply in the logging camps. ' If we cannot get men, we cannot turn out the logs, and the whole pro gramme of airplane construction, so necessary to win the war, will be in terrupted, says F. A. Douty, well known Portland spruce manufacturer, who has been traveling with the party. Four Allied Nations Represented. One of the prime objects of the com missioners' tour of the spruce belt is to determine precisely what action must be taken to secure an unfailing supply of wood. Four of the allied nations are repre sented in the party, as follows: Lieutenant-Colonel L. W. B. Rees, Great Britain: Major Raffaello Fer- fetti, Italy; Captain Henri Dourif, France, and E. T. Allen, United States. Mr. Allen, the official representative of the Government, is a Portland man. but since the beginning of the war has represented the lumber industry on the National Council of Defense at Washington. Other members of the party are W. C. Chadeayne, superintendent of wood construction of the Curtiss Aeroplane Company, and representatives of the aircraft board of the Federal Govern ment; C. K. Milliman, inspector of the Army Signal Corps; F. A. Douty and Howard E. Jayne, representing the spruce manufacturers of the Pacific Coast. The visitors arrived over the North ern Pacific at 2:40 yesterday afternoon, from Willapa Harbor, and were greeted at the Union station by Mayor Baker, Bruce Dennis, secretary of the State Council of Defense, and a committee from the Portland Chamber of Com merce. They went to the Portland Hotel, where suites, decorated with flags of the allied nations, and freshly cut Portland flowers had been reserved for them. Pictures to Show Aerial Fights. At noon today they will be guests of the members' council of the Chamber of Commerce, but the ctirnai or their visit will come at the Auditorium to night when a motion-picture exhibition showing aircraft activity on the French and Belgian fronts will be pre sented to the public This rare enter tainment will be absolutely free and the public is expected 'to turn out in numbers sufficient to pack the build ing. Everyone of the visiting officers has seen actual service at the front. Dur ing the course of the exhibitions to night they will tell. In their own words, some- of their most interesting experiences. Everyone of them has been decorated for bravery and dis tinguished services. They were select ed by their respective governments to come to America on the important mis sion of arousing the interest and en thusiasm of the people in airship con struction because eachis probably the best living authority on the subject in his respective country. "The airship corps aids every other branch of the service." said Leutenant Colonel Rees. "We are the eyes of the artillery and help the infantry in charges.- The airmen or the allies work together in all their actions and doubtless the American airmen will work with us when they enter the war." Sprnre Vitally Needed. "Spruce is the one vital necessity for airplane construction," added Captain Dourif, the French representative. "This West Coast country of which Portland Is the center, holds roost of tho available spruce; so you people here really have the key to winning the war." Major Perfetti, who was greeted by a delegation of .his Italian fellow countrymen, spoke enthusiastically of the part that Italy end her aerial squads are playing in the war. On ac count of the mountainous territory in which the Italian campaign is con- Kt4 Abo-re, Left to Right Major Perfetti, Italian Armri I. leutenant-Colonel Rees. British Royal Flytnc Corps I Captain Donrlf. Kreneh Aviation Serv ice. Insert E. T. Allen, of Portland, Representing United States Govern ment. ducted, airplanes have been particular ly useful. "Perhaps you have wondered, he continued, "why Italy entered the war. It was not a government move. It was not a political move. It was a peo ple's move. The people of Italy want ed war. They went in to fight for liberty, democracy and freedom." Mr. Chadeayne is the technical man in the group, although he handles a technical subject in a popular way. "The war," he says, "will be won In the air. "That Is certain. Germany realizes it as well as we do. Germany constantly Is improving her air ma chines, but she is running short of spruce and has begun to use substi tutes. Her substitutes are deficient as we have been able to learn by ob serving captured machines. Some of the German airplanes have crumpled to pieces in action. They have tried to overcome their deficiency in frame ma terial by improving their engines. "There is a sure but simple way of winning the war," continued Mr. Chadeayne, who himself is an aviator of skill and prominence, "and that is in superiority of numbers. "The allied countries need at least 50,000 machines on the western front. It would be better to have 100,000. With that number we could put the German air service out of commission, blind their artillery and demoralize their infantry. "If this Coast gives us the wood we will build the machines and Uncle Sam will furnish the men that will clean the German army out of the trenches." GARS CRASH,- ONE HURT COUNCIL CREST CAR HITS REPAIR CAR, INJUR1XG C. HILDRETH. Patrolman Says Work Car Had Ko Flagman Out to Protect It Ac cident Ties Up Traffic C. Hlldreth, 4208 Sixty-seventh street Southeast, a lineman for the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, was injured last night by the collision of a Council Crest car with a repair car which was fixing the trolley on Eliza beth street near Chapman street. Patrolman Stewart, who investigat ed, reported that the repair car had no flagman out to protect it from cars coming down the hill, and said that the Council Crest car, with about 60 pas sengers aboard, crashed into the other car at a high rate of speed. Hlldreth, who was working on the repair tower with L. A. Watter and W. H. Lehman, jumped to the pave ment as he saw the car coming, and broke both ankles. He was taken to a physician in an automobile driven by John C. Ainsworth, 583 Hawthorne Ter race, and later was removed to the Good Samaritan Hospital. Lehman Jumped Into a garden and escaped in jury. Passengers on the car were shaken by the collision, but none re ported injuries. Traffic on the Council Crest line was tied up for two hours on account of the accident. Girl Is Lost on Rainier. TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 12. Hope of rescuing Dorothy E. Haskell, the 15-year-old Tacoma girl who fell Into a crevasse in Nisqually glacier. Mount Rainier, was given up tonight. Forest rangers descended 300 feet into the crevasse without being able to see the body. XT NOBLE IS LATE Football Star Braves Training Camp Edict. DIFFICULTIES ARE MANY Candidate for Officer's Commission Allowed to Attend Own Wedding Only After Pleading With Colonel Sladen. PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12. (Special.) His white collar was slightly askew, the creases long since had departed from his service uniform, his face was redder than its wont and his hair was tumbled from the combing of nervous fingers; but at Just two minutes after the hour set for his wedding Elmer J. ("Cy") Noble, famed Washington football star, ar rived on the scene. Four minutes later the pretty young woman who had been Miss Corinth D. Smith, of Portland, was clasped in the arms of her husband, and Dr. J. H. Boyd, of Portland, beamed a benedic tion. "Cy'i" Friends Enjoy Situation. A few weeks ago the news became noised about Company Seven, Second Training Battalion, where "Cy" is reg istered, that "Cy was to be married in San Francisco before the close of camp. Friday "Cy" carelessly let slip the information that the big event was scheduled that night. He was the ob ject of much good-natured "kidding" from his mates 90 of them from then on, which culminated in- a roar of laughter at his expense when the an nouncement of Lieutenant-Colonel William M. Morrow, brother of Judge Robert G. Morrow, of Portland, and commander of the Second Training Battalion, was posted on the company bulletin board, ordering no one to leave barracks that night except on official business. "Cy" entered the office of his com pany commander. "Sir, I've got to get off .tonight, he said to Major W. S. Valentine. The company commander was sorry but he could do nothing for him. "Cy" would have to see the man higher up. He tried. It was then 6 o'clock the wedding was set for 7, and Lieutenant-Colonel Morrow could not be found at his office or at his home. Appeal Taken Higher. There was but one thing left to be done, an appeal to Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Sladen, commander-in-chief of the Reserve Officers' Training Camp. And he was an august personage. But the dilemma made "Cy" desperate. "This is Mr. Noble, candidate at Com pany Seven," explained "Cy," when he had Lieutenant-Colonel Sladen "on the wire." "I want to get away from camp to night and Colonel Morrow won't allow anyone In the Second Battalion to leave," complained "Cy. "And why do you wish to leave?" "I I'm supposed to get married in 15 minutes," explained "Cy." A deep, appreciative chuckle came back over the wire. "Go ahead," Bald the voice of Lieutenant-Colonel Sladen, shorn of Its austerity. And "Cy" went. MEDIATOR IS ON GROUND SOUTHERN PACIFIC CONFERENCES BEGIN TODAY. Employes Numbering; 850O Threaten to Strike Because of Unsatisfactory Replies to Complaints. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12. G. - W Hanger, of Washington, D. C, member of the United States Board of Media tion and Conciliation, who will arbi trate differences over which 8500 em ployes of the Southern Pacific Com pany threatened to strike two weeks ago, arrived here today. Mr. Hanger will meet representatives of the com pany and the four railroad brother hoods in preliminary conferences to morrow. The men threatened to strike unless certain of the company's decisions on grievance cases of the men were modi- fled in a manner satisfactory to- broth erhood officials. The walkout was de ferred pending the outcome of media tion efforts. , Plan as Suggested by Owen Amend ment Likely to Be Reintro duced Measure Does Not Reflect on President. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Aug. 12. Unless there is a change in Governmental methods of letting war contracts, there will be a renewed demand for the creation of a Congressional committee to Investigate and report upon the expenditure of war appropriations, and -ultimately this purpose will be achieved. The first at tempt failed, when the Owen amend ment to the food bill was finally de feated, largely at the personal behest of the President. From time to time evidence has been produced in Congress showing that there has been favoritism in the letting of Government contracts, and in some instances this favoritism has bordered closely on graft. Making due allow ance for a change In Governmental methods, made necessary by the war. there have been transactions put over in Washington that do not bear the light of day. When the Owen amendment to the food bill became a bone of contention between the two houses. Senators who had supported it in the first instance agreed to let it go, rather than hold up the entire food legislation. Disclosures Are Made. But the speeches made at the time of the adoption of this amendment by the Senate, and speeches made in both Houses at other times this session, have shown clearly the need for some Con gressional inspection of Government contracts. The disclosure that Arthur V. Davis, president of the aluminum trust, and chairman of the Aluminum Committee of the Council of National Defense, was awarding his great corporation vast contract for Army canteens and other aluminum Army supplies, without giving other concerns an opportunity to compete; the showing that J. F. McElwain, president of a big shoe concern, and chairman of the Shoe Committee of the Council, had awarded his firm a large Army shoe contract at prices higher than the bids of nu merous other companies, and the fact that William H. Childs, president of the Barrett company, and the whole com mittee on Coal Tar Products, was about to write into the War Depart ment specifications requirements which would have called for the use of his wet -known road dressing on all roads at Army cantonments these dis closures, and many others, all tend to show the necessity for some super vision of the expenditure of the billions of dollars which Congress has been ap propriating. Southern Lumber Favored. Thi.e have been charges that ex tortionate sums are being paid out by the Government for the building of cantonments for the Army; that South ern lumber has been bought at ridicu lously high prices; that labor on Gov ernment contracts has been paid double the normal wage by con tractors who are working on a per centage basis, and other charges too numerous to enumerate. These accu sations, some of which are substanti ated by known facts, have created a de cided distrust. The President, of course, is not aware of the details of what is going on In the various departments. He does not know what contracts are be ing let, to whom they are let, or how they are awarded. In the very nature of things he can not be burdened with details. He naturally assumes that the officials in charge are honestly and fairly discharging their duties. But so many of these matters go through the hands of higher officials in a perfunc tory way that they, as the President, are not informed as to tne details, and thus the graft creeps in. The Owen amendment decidedly was not a reflection upon the President, and while a few Senators supporting it may have so felt, the amendment itself cleared up this point beyond question of doubt. No action of the President was to be supervised, for he does not let contracts; no authority was con ferred on the committee to interfere with the. conduct of the war. as was done in President Lincoln a time. In normal peace times. 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Monday Morning Special, Beach to Portland. is expected the membership will be in creased by 100 names at the meeting. A special programme has been pro vided. Clarence Young will speak; Miss Ruth Pfaender will sing; James Thomas will offer a recitation, and Miss Lilah Rogers will provide a vocal music programme. wmmm Make Parlor Car Reservations Early City Office 5th and Stark. Station 10th and Hoyt. 1
