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V ORDERS FOR PLANE SPRUCE ARE PLACED Northwest Mills to Supply 4 Eastern Factories With Mil-" , lion Feet Monthly. E. J. ALLEN IN CHARGE Portland Man Represents Govern ment and Allies in Negotiations v With, Lumbermen Hcaxl quarters Opened. Initial orders Tor airplane spruce, as gregating 1,000,000 feet a month, were placed here yesterday by E. T. Allen, representing the United States Gov - ernment. This business, as well as all subse quent airplane business to be placed here by the Government and the allies, will be handled through the newly or ganized Spruce Lumber Manufacturers' Bureau, which has been formed for the explicit purpose of co-ordinating: all spruce deliveries to the allied nations. Bureau Opens Headquarters. The bureau has established head quarters in the Yeon building:, with F. A. Douty jls chairman and J. P. Keating' as secretary. All spruce mills in Oregon and Washington are mem bers. All the business will be placed by Mr. Allen, representing the allied gov ernments, with this bureau and redis tributed by the bureau among the mem ber mills in proportion to their ca pacity. There is no question about the mills getting the business. Mr. Allen has placed a blanket order for the entire output of every spruce mill in the two states. However, he will make indi vidual contracts with each mill so that both the Government and the individ ual manufacturers will be well pro tected. Orders Expected Soon. Mr. Allen's permanent home is in Portland, but for the last few months he has been in Washington. IX C. rep resenting the lumber industry on the National Council of Defense. He came West with the airplane commissioners of the allied countries, but as Portland was the objective point of their jour ney the party broke up here and Mr. Allen remained. He will remain until the spruce movement is well under way. As soon as the Eastern airplane fac tories can estimate their individual needs they will send in their orders. The United States will buy spruce not only for itself but for all the allies. The price and specifications will be the same all around. The mills will fill orders indiscriminately on the same contract. Price of 105 Fixed. The price has been fixed, tentatively, at 10o a 1000 feet. This arrangement will be tried for a period of 30 days and if satisfactory all around at the end of that time it will be continued indefinitely. The only step necessary to get the business going good is to provide In spection. Mr. Allen and the bureau of ficials now are in telegraphic com munication with Washington on this subject. The manufacturers want the Government to provide their own in pectors It is probable that experi enced men who have been inspecting lumber' for private interests on the Coast will be taken by the Government and given Army commissions with full authority to act. AH inspecting is to be done at this end. GREEDY PACKERS HIT MEATLESS DAY PROTESTED OREGON STOCKMEN. BY Ruination of Important Industry Is i Seen In Beef Conservation In J,; Eastern Part of State. With beefsteak and all other meat products bringing the highest price on record in the Portland shops, the stock- growers of Kastern Oregon are protest ing acainst the proposal of "one meat less day a week" lest it demoralize the market and ruin the livestock industry. O. B. Robertson, cashier of the First TCational Hank of Condon, in a tele gram to The Oregonian last night as serted that the cattle growers of his district are not getting profitable prices on their stock now, and declared the present prices for dressed beef are due to "the greed of the packers.". He offers to send a committee to Portland to back up his contentions. Mr. Robertson's message in full fol lows: "Stockraisers of this section of Kast ern Oregon resent the resolution adopt ing one meatless day per week and request a hearing before final action is taken. . "Prices on beef cattle are demoral ized at the present time, due to the fact that the Portland market cannot absorb the supply. Many growers here are withholding shipments of their stock to Portland and are figuring on shipping to Kastern markets unless conditions improve. "Our steers on last Monday's market at Portland averaged little better than 7 cents and cannot be raised profit ably at this figure. "This action will assist toward de moralizing one of our leading Indus tries, and since there is an oversupply rather than a shortage this action is entirely illegal and uncalled for. "If you are paying exorbitant prices for dressed beef it is due to the greed of the packers and not to scarcity of the product. "Will send a representative to appear before a committee if you will advise convenient date. WILSON'S TYPIST DRAFTED President's Stenographer to Make j Is'o Exemption Claim. TRENTON'. N. J.. Aug. 15. Charles I.ee Swemm. private stenographer to President Wilson, was passed by divi sion draft board No. 4 here today as physically fit for military service in the National Army. He said he would not file a claim for exemption. J Huckleberries Are Plentiful. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Aug. 15. (Special.) An unusually heavy crop of huckleberries in the forests of Kla math County is reported. In both the Lake of the Woods district and at the "Big Patch" the supply Is heavier than for several years. Huckleberries will bring from 11 to $t.B0 per gallon this year In Klamath County. YOUNG GIRLS APPEAR AS CHARMING SPRITES IN MOUNT TABOR PLAYGROUND PAGEANT.. r fi . - LOCAL MEN NAMED Government Organizes $50, 000,000 Corporation. AGENCIES ARE PLANNED M. II. llouser In Charge of Portland Brancli and T. 13. AVilcox Will Represent Coast on Millers Regulatory Committee. WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. The food administration prepared today to take over the entire 1917 wheat crop if nec essary to stabilize prices throughout the year. It formed a $50,000,000 cor poration with all of the stock held by the Federal Government, to buy and sell wheat at the principal terminals. The move was the first of a series to be taken to reduce the price of bread. Millers already have agreed to put themselves under voluntary regulations and are working out with the food ad ministration a differential of profits. Distribution of flour by wholesalers and the baking of bread will be taken up next. Speculation to Be Ended. The hope of the Administration is to establish a scale of prices from the farm to the grocery store, eliminating undue profits and ending speculation. The maintenance of a standard price for wheat, its officials believe, la the first and most necessary step. In announcing the formation of the wheat corporation, the food adminis tration also made known the personnel of a committee which will fix a price to be paid for this year's wheat yield, and the names of 13 men who will act as purchasing aeents for the corpora tions at terminals. Hoover as Chairman. The wheat corporation will be put under the Administration's grain divi sion. Its chairman will be Herbert Hoover ' and its . president. Julius Barnes, a Duluth exporter, now serv ing as a voluntary aide in the food administration. The price-fixing com mittee will be headed by President Garfield, of Williams College, and will comorise 12 members, representing producers and consumers. The wheat corporation will handle all allied grain purchases and will Uo the buying for the American Government. If found advisable, it also will serve as broker for the milling interests, purchasing wheat for the flour mills to keep the market steady. The allies will be required to purchase flour in stead of wheat, on the theory that man ufacturing costs will be reduced and American Industry encouraged. Grain Men to Give Entire Time. ' All of the grain men who are taken into the food administration's grain division will 'disassociate themselves from business and give their entire time to the Government without re muneration. Authority to license grain elevators and milling concerns was given form ally to the Food Administration today in a proclamation by President Wilson. Mr. Hoover hopes that operation of the licensing system will make unneces sary any extensive Government pur chases of wheat except for the Govern ment itself, and for the allies. He be lieves a stable export price and proper supervision of exchange dealings will do more than anything else to keep prices on a constant level. Grain Men Approve Flan More than 100 representatives of boards of exchanges and elevator sys tems came to Washington today for a conference with officials of the Gov ernment's plans. At the end of an all day meeting they issued a statement approving the Food Administration's proposals. The following executve offcers of the corporation have been named: Herbert Hoover, chairman; Julius Barnes. Duluth. Minn., president: Gate W. McGarrah. New York, treasurer; F. G. Crowell. Kansas City, vice-president: Edward Chambers, Chicago, transporta tion director; Curtis H. Lindley. Fan Francisco, counsel; J. W. Shorthlll. 1'ork. b., cecretary. I'riees to Be Fixed. The personnel of the wheat price fixing commission waa announced as follows: Henry A. Garfield, president of "Williams College, chairman: Charles J. Barrett. Union City, Ga., pres ident of the Farmers' Union: William D. Doak. Roanoke, Va,, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Eugene K7 Funk. Bloomington. 111., pres ident of the National Corn Association. Edward F. Iarid. Fargo. N. D.. president of the North Dakota Agricultural College; Ft. Goodwyn Khett. Charleston. S. C. president of the Chamber of Commerce of the ITnlted States. J. W. Shorthlll. Tork. Neb., secretary of the National Council of Farmers' Co-operative Association: James W. Sullivan. Brooklyn. N. T., of the American Federation of Labor. D. J. Tabor, Bumsville, O., master of the Ohio State Grange: Frank w. Tauaaing. chairman of the Tariff Commit'sion : Theodore N. Vail, president of the Amer ican Telephone & Telegraph Company. Henry J. Waters, president of the Kan sas State Agricultural College. Wilcox Represents Coast. Milling interests named a committee to co-operate with the food administra tion In neaTOtiatms voluntary regula y: j ; & H : s if . THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TIIURSDAT, AUGUST 16. 1917. , -, - r., ts; . ' :: "rV ' ' tion of the milling industry. The com mittee comprises the following: James F. Bell. Minneapolis, chairman; A. P. Husband. Chica-go. secretary. Albert C. Lofing, Minneapolis, represent ing the Northwest. Andrew J. Hunt. Arkansas City, Kan., representing the Southwest. K. M. Kelley. Nashville, Tenn, represent ing tha Southeast. Mark N. Menuct, Toledo, representing the Ohio Valley. Theodore B. Wllrox, Portland, Or., rep resenting the Pacific Coast. Samuel Plnnt. St. Ixiuis. representing St. Louis and the state of Illinois. 51. H. llonser on Committee. Bernard A. Eckhart. Chicago, repre senting the cities of Chicago and Mil waukee. Twelve men were named by the food administration to represent the grain division at the various terminals. They are: Edward M. Flesh, at St. Louis: M. II. Houser. at Portland, Or.: C. B. Fox, New Orleans; H. H. Irwin, Philadel phia; P. II. Glnder, Duluth; Frank L. Carey, Minneapolis; George S. Jackson, Baltimore; H. B. Jackson, Chicago; Charles Kennedy. Buffalo; R. A. I.ewln, San Francisco: U. F. Piazzek, Kansas City; Charles T.'Neal. Omaha. BLUE GROUSE EATING HAY Klickitat Farmer Hcgs Permit Shoot Game Out of Season. to GOLDEXDALE, Wash., Aug. 15. (Special.) Del Brooks, owner of a farm in an isolated section on the Klickitat River near the mouth of the Little Klickitat, was in Goldendale yesterday trying to get a permit from the County Game Warden to shoot blue grouse be fore the season opens on September 1. Mr. Brooks says the absence of na tive feed for the birds, owing to the continued dry season, has caused them to accumulate in such numbers on his ranch that they are destroying his entire crop of bundle hay. WEST TO GET MORE CARS Railroads' War Board to Distribute 20,000 I'rciglit Carriers. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 15. More than 20.000 railroad freight cars have been ordered out of territory east of the Allegheny Mountains by the rail roads' war board for use of roads of the Pacific Coast, the South and Middle West, according to a telegram received here from William ISproule. president of the Southern Pacific Company and chairman of the Western division of the board, who is in New York. CAMP SITE IS SELECTED Oregon Men to Be in Force Mobil ized at Mineola, Long Island. WASHINGTON. Aug. 15 The Na tional Guard Division to go to France, representing 26 states and the District of Columbia., will be mobilized at Mineola, L. I., at a camp named Albert L. Mills, after the late Brigadier Gen eral Mills. The Oregon Field Hospital unit will.. be the 3rd Field Hospital of the 117th Sanitary train, included in the Division mobilized at Camp Mills. 15 MILLS ON 8-HOUR BASIS Tacoma Plants Concede Demand of Timber fWorkers Union. TACOMA. Wash.. Aug. 15. (Special.) The Defiance Lumber Campany sub mitted to the demands ,of the Timber Workers' Union today and granted an eight-hour working day with 10 hours' pay. This makes the fifteenth Tacoma mill and woodworking plant to go on an eight-hour scTudule. The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Com pany reported today that its plant was running satisfactorily, although union officials declared that but a few men were working there. C0RVALLIS COUPLE WED B. W. Johnson, ex-Postmaster, and Sirs. Brook, of O. A. C, United. . CORVALLIS. Or., Aug. 15. (Special.) Wedding chimes sounded today for B. W. Johnson and Mrs. Helen Brooks, well known, in the Valley. Mr. John son is & former postmaster of Corvallis and his bride head of the Oregon Agri cultural College domestic science de partment. Mr. Johnson also managed the famous O. A. C. orchards. Both are socially prominent here. Immediately after the ceremonv thev left for Portland. They will be at home at 428 South Third street after Septc ber 15. Commission Is Declined. ROSE BURG, Or.. Aug. 15 (Special.) C. C. Kelley. assistant State Highway Engineer, with headquarters in Rose burg, has received word that he has been commissioned First Lieutenant in the Engineers' Corps. He will not ac cept because of the pressure of official .duties. t - i St - , & I t 5' Above Morning Lights. Georgia Clark, lilmu l,e Fevre and Catherine K n te la nd. llrlow Dirothj- Hall. GIRLS GIVE PAGEANT "Awakening of Spring" Pro duced on Mount Tabor. GROVE FORMS SETTING Affair Is in Charge of Miss Violctte Aiuerlge Following Play, Boys of Laurellmrst Have Good Baseball Game. Br ADDISON BENNETT. There was given at the beautiful playgrounas on the crest of Mount Tabor yesterday afternoon a pa geant entitled "The Awakening of Spring," the participants being a bevy of the young misses who are regular patrons of those grounds, which are owned and conducted by the city; Miss Violette Amerige being in charge of the girls' sports and plays. And it was this very capable young lady who man aged the affair of yesterday in a way to not only make it a holiday worth while for the participants, but also for some 300 or 400 of their parents, friends and playmates composing the audience. No more beautiful setting could be imagined for an outdoor pageant than the grove far up the western slope of Mount Tabor. Perhaps it was warm down in the city, but up there the air was like balmy Spring, or perhaps more like "the awakening of Spring," show ing that Miss Amerige had well named the dances 'given by her students, for it was she who had drilled them, and drilled them well, in their various parts. The dances were given on the green sward in the center of the grove, and to make it more lifelife there were a large number of fir branches placed as a background, or more properly at the rear of a stage. It was through these fir boughs that the entrances and exits were made, and the dancing and posing were to the accompaniment of a graphophone. The programme was as follows: "Awakening: of Spring," Dorothy Hall, gr IS. "Sunbeams. " Louise Elmel. Clara Kinnely. Bessie Worthlnglon. May Worthinston, Ann Erickson and Wiima McKensie. ages six. "Morning Liflfhts." Dorothy Hill. Catherine Kneeland. Georgia - Clark and Elinor Le Fevre. ages 13. "Shepherds' Gavotte." Ora "Decrevel, Dor othy Hille. Leola Clark and Georgia Clark, ages 1.1. "Butterflies." Erma Welch, Florence Pick. Georgia. Clark. Dorothy Hill. Dorothy Mochscheld, Annette Hochscheid. Catherine Kneeland. Eleanor LeFevre and Evelyn White, ages 11. "Sky and Clouds." Dorothy Jewell, Dor othy LeFevre, Klenor LeFevre and Grace Warren, ages eight. Of course the ages given are ap proximate only, or perhaps It would be better to say they are about the av erage. ' Surely all of the participants are entitled to praise for the. manner in which they performed their various steps and poses, but it is also true that great credit should be given for the dainty costuming. Each number was roundly applauded by the audience, but no encores were permitted. After the pageant the Ty Cobbs of Laurelhurst Park playgrounds met the Tris Speakers of the Mount Tabor play grounds in a game of baseball, the director of boys' sports, Omar N. Blttner, of the Mount Tabor play grounds, being the factotum in chief. Here were Cicotte and Alexander the Great as the opposing pitchers that is. Cicotte and Alexander in the em bryo. They may never achieve the fame of the originals, but they had more fun at their game yesterday than .either of their. sr&a-t prototype will Him : .'tftTO'frdT tike prices els wi The standard touring models will be advanced as follows: FOUR from $985 to $1 SIX from $1250 to $13 Other models will advance proportionately. Order your: Studebaker Car at once and save money have in a world's series. As to the win ners, I know not, for it was a long-drawn-out game, there being more runs, more hits, more muffs than I took note of. But. all to the great en joyment of players and spectators. LA GRANDE IS LONESOME Farewell Given to Vnit Ofr to Join "Rainbow" Division. LA GRANDE. Or.. Aug. 15. (Special.) La Grande is lonesome today. Only the home guards remain to lend the military air that has been La Grande's. first. Company M, Third Oregon, stationed here four months departed. Last night saw the farewell to the La Grande Field Hospital unit. News that the unit is to be part of the "Rainbow" division to see service in France at once came a few hours before the train left, adding pangs to the grief of mothers and sweethearts and ginger to the joy of the youngsters at being away to active duty so soon. Not since the days of the Spanish American War has there been such scenes as last night. The midnight farewell was devoid of hysteria. YOUTHFUL VOLUNTEER ILL Otis Wagner, of Kstacada, Taken to Post Hospital at Vancouver. KSTACADA, Or.. Aug. 15. (Special.) Otis Wagner, of Cstacada, a sopho more in the high school, who enlisted in the first call for volunteers, was taken from his home here today in a Government ambulance to the post hos pital at the Vancouver Barracks, where he will be placed under Government physicians in an attempt to restore his health. Wagner, who was a 180-pound foot ball star of last Fall, was a victim of pneumonia while at the Clackamas en campment a month or two ago, but since returning home has developed de cided tubercular tendencies. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Wagner. APPLE MEN'S PLEA DENIED England Will Not Make Concessions to Oregon Growers. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Aug. 16. Secretary Lansing to day notified Senator Chamberlain that the British Foreign Office is not will ing at this time to make any conces sions to Oregon or other American ap ple growers seeking a market in the United Kingdom. The State Department presented an inquiry without punch in it and this British reply is the result. Latah Has 82 Men' Available.' MOSCOW. Idaho, Aug. 15. (Special.) Latah County has 82 men out of the 300 ordered to report for examination who passed the physical examination and who have not claimed exemption. Twelve men failed to report. One of these, John Wilson Brigham, 21 years old, living at Lenville, shot off his big toe two days before the examina tion. Practically all the others are aliens registered in the lumber camps of Potlatch and BovilL They will be reported at once by the local exemp tion board to the Federal authorities to run down. Read The oregoniaa classified ads. bet If be mere The Studebaker Corporation of America Wholesale Only Chapman and Alder Streets Oregon Motor Car Co. RETAILERS Park and Davis Sts. Fhone Broadway 616 FIVE JAPANESE ESCAPE SAILORS SWm ASHORE FROM STEAMER KH.NKO.V HARU. Immigration Inspector Watklna Kails ' to Locate Missing Men. and Ves sel Puts to Sea Shorthajided. Between the time the Japanese steamer Kenkon Maru VIII left here Tuesday night and daylight yesterday morning, five little brown men made their escape by jumping overboard and swimming ashore. They were not missed until noses were counted yes terday, and hardly had a check been made when a sixth took advantage of an opportunity as the vessel passed Puget Island, and overboard he went. Captain Jim Smith, pilot of the steamer, saw the last Nipponese make the dive, and hailed a passing launch with a megaphone, advising the oper ator of the escape and asking him to apprehend- the Japanese. It is not known if he succeeded. W. F. Watkins, inspector of the United States Immigration Service here, in charge during the absence in British Columbia of R. P. Bonham, spent all of the afternoon in an endeavor to locate the missing men between Portland and the mouth of the Willamette River, without success. The ship went to sea late yesterday, heading for Shanghai, and it is fully expected rewards will be paid for the men, while the immigration authorities are ready to defray the transportation expenses of any who catch them. The .noJl ''''' '" i Coqmnd Bad ef Wheal, a 4tff VH'"."W!M, trie;, SiHmd Yost.' v i I Off Nicely mj C NotKlng quite lilce a strengtliening, "N"'" I sustaining dial of 050 85 men range in age from 19 to 25 years. One escaped from the ship while at Portland, and reward was offered for him, while the sa-me reward was paid by the skipper ihis time for a Jap anese who escaped from the ship when she was in port three years ago. THREE BROTHERS ENLIST Wives Are to Itim Aberdeen Store Willie Men Serve Country. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Aug. 13. (Spe cial.) The three Hilliard brothers Clarence, Andrew and Lewis who operate a grocery store here, all volun teered today for the Naval Coast Re serve Service. All three are married and their wives are to run the store during their ab sence. Forest Tire Dangers Lessened. SALEM. Or., Aug. 15. (Special.) State Forester Elliott said today that forest conditions, as far a.n fire danger is concerned, have been materially im proved the last 24 hours. Dangerous winds have died down, and while no rain is reported from any section, nevertheless he believes the danger is materially decreased. Oil Jumps 20 Cents a Barrel. INDEPENDENCE. Kan.. Aug. 15. An increase of 20 cents a barrel, said by producers to be the largest single advance in the history of the mid-continent field for crude oil. was posted here today by the Prairie Oil & Gas Company. The new price is $1.90.