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
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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
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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.
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To possess a literally perfect child is
by no means impossible. The expectant
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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-
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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. Government
officials have been thrown out of of
fice for offences less flagrant than
YOU
can eat
here at the
same old price
you- paid three
years ago ! ! ! ! !
In the Grille: Break
fasts and lunches, 25c
and up; dinners, 50c and
up. In the Pompeian
Restaurant : Breakfasts
and lunches, 25c and up;
dinners, 35c and up.
3fmpertal
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Manager.
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This style may be set on the Library Table or on a Cabinet
it may be had in
Dull Finished Mahogany
Fumed Oak
Weathered Oak
Golden Oak
Other Victrolas from $15 to $350 the terms are so easy
that while you are enjoying it in your home a few dollars
a month will pay for it.
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Victrolas and Records, Player Music, Music Cabinets,
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some that have been committed under
the cover of war secrecy during the
past three or four months.
Lincoln High Alumni to Meet.
The Lincoln High School Alumni
Association will meet tonight at 8
o'clock in room A, Central Library. It
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GEARHART PARK
CLATSOP BEACH
AUGUST 13 TO 18
INTERESTING CONTESTS DAILY
UNIQUE PRIZES FOR WINNERS
PLAN TO GO PROCEEDS, IN EXCESS
OF EXPENSES, WILL BE GIVEN TO A
WAR RELIEF FUND
Week-end round trips $3. Season $4.
Daily Seashore Limited 8:45 A. M.
Saturday Special 2 P. M. .
Kvening Express 6:30 P. M.
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.
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City Office 5th and Stark.
Station 10th and Hoyt.
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