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' ' ' ' ' - K VOL. LVII. XO. 17,738. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V FLOOR PRICE FIXED AT 510.20 A BARREL Millers Announce Re duction of 40 Cents. NO LOWER NEED BE EXPECTED Mill Feed Also Takes Drop of $3 a Ton and May Fall More. BAKERS WILL REDUCE LOAF Declaration Is That Portland Is Kow Getting Bigger Loaves Than. Eastern Cities and Change ' Will Be Made. r-1 BREAD WILL BE REGULATED. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. Meas ures of co-operation to reduce the price of bread will be recom mended by the food administra tion within a short time to bakers, retailers and consumers. The Federal Trade Commission will complete, probably this week, an Inquiry into the cost of breadmaklng and distribution. As soon as its reports have been gone over the food administra tion will announce its views as to standards, shapes and compo sition of bread. At the same time it will make public its recommendations as to co-operation to reduce prices. Flour prices were reduced 40 cents a barrel yesterday and are now down as low as they will go this' year, ac cording to millers. The new price is $10.20 a barrel wholesale - for family patents. The cut was announced following a meeting of Northwestern Millers held In the office of T. B. Wilcox, chairman of the millers' committee of the Pa cific Coast. The meeting was the continuation- of a conference-of -mill ing men held ,ln Mr. Wilcox's office last week. At the same time announcement was made of a reduction of $3 a ton in mill feed prices. The flour quotation of $10.20 a bar rel will be maintained throughout Oc tober at least, but after that, when the carrying charges on grain increase, this will probably be added to the flour price. Th - flour quotation as fixed yesterday is based on the wheat price which the Government has named for the Pacific Northwest. But for the In crease in the wheat price recently made flour would be lower. Flonr Prices Compared. There has been a reduction of $1.40 a barrel in flour prices since the first announcement of a Government wheat price. As compared with the extreme high point in the flour market last May, flour bas declined $3.50 a barrel. The present price of $10.20 compares With a $4.80 market at the time the war started in Europe and $9.40 when the United States entered the war. A month later the price had climbed to $13.70. Although flour prices have been sharply lowered, there Is no indication that bread will be any cheaper here. According to H. II. Haynes, president of the Master Bakers' Association, the bakers can not reduce their prices and come out whole. "We have been selling bread right along below the market price of flour," said Mr. Haynes yesterday. "The bread price is, and has been, based on $9.50 flour. That was the average price of old crop flour and we never raised the bread price to cor respond with the extreme flour quota tion. Loaf Size Mar Be Reduced. "Now, with the flour market set definitely at $10.20 for Oregon patents. It looks as if the bakers will find it necessary to reduce the size of the loaf a little. We use Montana and Dakota hard wheat flours as well as local blue stem flour and this costs more than the home product. With Oregon flour worth $10.20, the Montana flour will cost us at least $10.75." Mr. Haynes has just returned from a trip to St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago and Minneapolis and in every city he found the bakers giving a smaller loaf for the money than in Portland. In some places the loaves were two ounces less in weight. The nearest approach to the Portland size loaf was in Chi cago and there the weight was a half ounce less than here. Feed Prices Fixed. The decline of $3 a ton in mlllfeed prices fixes the local market for the present $30 a tea on bran and $33 on shorts in carload lots at mills. It is not certain how long this price will hold, as the market will be governed entirely by supply and demand. Feed dealers believe a cheaper price will soon be announced, as the mills in the North west are going to turn out a larger quantity of millfeed this Winter than ever before in their history. Ail the wheat sold to the allies for export to Europe will be milled here before it Is exported, and this will greatly -acreage the supply of bran and shorts, which must be consumed at home. The big mills at Portland. Tacoma and Seattle will turn out about 20,000 tons of niill 1-ed a month, a quantity said to be con- (Concluded on Page 3. Column Li MILK AT 12V2 CENTS TO BE FAIR PRICE MAYOR'S COMMISSION MAKES RECOMJIESDATIOX. All Milk Dealers Urged to Adopt Rate of $3.75 a Quart for October. The Mayor's milk commission last night recommended 12 cents a quart for milk for the month of October as the price that will give the producer and the distributor a reasonable return and not pinch the consumer too much. The present price ranges from 10 cents to 16 cents. This recommendation will be trans mitted to Mayor Baker, who will urge upon all milk dealers to adopt it as the maximum price for the month of Octo ber. The commission will meet again about October 20 and make recommen dations for the month of November, taking into consideration feed prices for cows, weather conditions and other Winter obstacles and the general mar ket conditions. The commission recommends that the price of 1214 cents be apportioned 6 cents to the producer and 6Vi cents to the distributor. This is figured to return $2.90 a hundred pounds to the producer at the farm. Milk delivery now ranges from 10 cents to .16 cents a quart, or from $3 to $4.80 a month a quart. The new price of 12 cents a quart would figure up $3.75 a month a quart for a month of 30 days. COURT TO MAKE DECISION Last Unofficial Count Shows Den nett Iieadlng Mitcliel. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. On applica tion of William M. Bennett, candidate for the mayoralty nomination against Mayor John Purroy Mitchel in the Re publican primaries here last week. Su preme Court Justice Goff today Issued an order staying the board of elec tions from certifying to the Secretary of State the name of Mr. Mitchel as the Republican candidate for Mayor. Jus tice Goff announced that he will hear motions on the order Monday. The unofficial recount of the ballots showed Mr. Bennett leading Mayor Mitchel tonight by 383, with the votes in several districts yet to be inspected. The first official canvass by the board of elections gave the Mayor a lead of 335. HIGHWAY CONTRACT LET Stretcli Between Slosler and Clieno - with to Be Btfllt for 970,124. THE DALLES, Or., Sept 27. (Spe cial.) The contract for - the construc tion of the section of Columbia High way, between Mosier and Chenowith Creek, was awarded to the Elliott Con tracting Company, of Portland, after the bids had been opened by the County Court. The contract price was $70,124 for both grades. The bid for the grade from the Chenowith Creek to the top of Seven-Mile Hill was' $39,115 and from that point to Mosier $31,008. Work will be started at once. No bids were received on the Dufur Dalles road, and one. bid of $26,642 for the road from Dufur south was re jected by the Board. GERMANS JEER U. S. FORCE Airman's Note Says That American Army Is Too Small to Molest. BT HEY WOOD BROUN. WITH THE EXPEDITIONARY ARMY IN FRANCE. Sept. 27 (Special.) American forces have not arrived In France In sufficient numbers to disturb the Germans, apparently. This was seen yesterday when a hostile airplane circled high over the American camp, dropping a message weighted with a shell. There was a rush for the note, which was Immediately taken to camp head quarters. It read: "We have no in tention as yet of molesting you Amer icans, because you are not numerous enough to make you worth our atten tion." FRENCH LOSE 12 SHIPS Three Steamers Are Attacked Un successfully in Past Week. PARIS, Sept. 26. (Delayed.) The French Admiralty tonight announced tne roiiowing tosses Dy suDmannes or mines for the week ending Septem ber 23: "Over 1600 tons, seven, one previously. "Under 1600 tons, five, two previously. "Three steamers were attacked un successfully. No fishing vessels were lost." , ROME, Sept. 27. (Delayed.) One steamship of more than 1500 tons and six sailing ships of less than 100 tons each were sunk last week by mines or submarines, according to the weekly report from the Italian Admiralty. ALIEN DRAFT POSTPONED Secretary Lansing Hopes to Effect Treaties Shortly. WASHINGTON, Sept 27. Objections to enactment of any alien slacker leg islatlon at present, voiced by Secretary Lansing yesterday before the House military affairs committee, resulted to day in a committee vote to postpone action Indefinitely. Chairman Dent later said that the Secretary's statement that the State Department was negotiating with other countries to effect a result equivalent to enactment of ' "alien slacker" leg islatlon wa largely responsible for the vulc. HTADOO GIVES HEW LIBERTY LOW PLAN Issue To Be for 3 Billion or More. SUBSCRIPTIONS OPEN OCT. 1 Bonds to Run 10 to 25 Years a at 4 Per Cent. GENERAL TAXES ESCAPED Holders of New Issue May Exchange Paper if Sew Bonds Are Put Out at Higher Rate of In terest at Later Date. . WASHINGTON. Sept. 27. Secretary McAdoo tonight announced the details of the second Liberty Loan which will be offered to the public October 1. The chief features are: Amount, $3,000,000,000 or more, the excess not to exceed one-half of the amount of over-subscription. Interest Pot at 4 Per Cent. Term of bonds Maturity, 25 years; redeemable at the option of the secre tary of the treasury in 10 years. Denomination of bonds $50 and mul tiples of $50. Interest rate Four per cent, payable semi-annually on November 15 and May 15. Bonds Are Convertible. Terms of payment Two- per cent upon application, 18 per cent November 15, 40 per cent December 14, and 40 per cent January 15, 1918. The privilege of converting bonds of this Issue Into bonds of any succeeding issue bearing a higher interest rate than 4 per cent during the period of the war, is extended, and through an arrangement under which bonds will be printed with only four coupons in stead of 50 (to be exchanged at the end of two years for the bonds con taining the full number of coupons) deliveries will be prompt. In this man. ner the issue of interim certificates will be avoided. Subscriptions Open October 1. Secretary McAdoo'a announcement reads as follows: With the approval of the President, 1 h,ave determined to offer, on October 1917, $3,000,000,000 or more of United States of America 4 per cent convertible gold bonds due on Novem ber 15, 1942, and subject to redemption at the option of the United States at par and accrued interest on and after November 15. 1927. The bonds will bear interest from November 15, 1917, and the interest will be payable on May 15 and November 15 in each year. Half, of Surplus to Be Allotted. "The exact amount of bonds to be issued under this offering will depend on the amount of subscriptions re- (Concluded on Page 5. Coiumn 4.1. WHO mmPk J ;SHIPPIMfr LOOSES ACTUAL CONDITIONS IN RUS SIA TO BE GIVEN READERS OF THE OREGON IAN BY FAMOUS "WOMAN. Rheta Childe Dorr has just re turned from -Russia, where she s p e n t three months close to the people, gathering ma terials for one of the greatest news serials' of the war. 'The Orego nia.n will begin publishing Mrs. Dorr's account of her observa tions and con clusions next Wednesday. Daily installments will follow for three weeks or more. Mrs. .Dorr will answer the questions that Americans are so anxiously asking: "What'manner of man is Kerensky? Is he a -strong leader?" and "Will he hold out? What about the wom en in the Legion of Death? What of the Bolshevikl,' the visionary radicals who are doing so much to handicap the new republic?" Mrs. Dorr will ( tell how sol diers gouge out officers' eyes; how workmen exact fabulous wages and then refuse to work; how agitators from New York tell Russian mobs that America has a ruler that out-kaisers the Kaiser; how thieves loot at will, and how nearly the present gov ernment approaches absolute powerlessness in the face of the universal anarchy that prevails. Every American will want to read Mrs. Dorr's wonderful story. It points the way to our duty toward a distracted and demor alized ally. ARCTIC SPECIMENS ARRIVE D. A. Cadzow, of Historical Museum, Home From Long Visit to North.'' VANCOUVER! B. C, Sept. 27. After six months spent on Arctic shores, D. A. Cadzow, of the American museum of National natural history" of New York, has arrived in Vancouver with one of the finest ethnological collec tions ever brought out of the north. He visited the Eskimos of the Mac kenzie River delta and of the Corona tion Gulf district, some of whom are blue-eyed presumably from an admix ture of Scandinavian blood, according to. VUhjalmur Stefansson, the ex plorer. WILSON'S PLEDGE HAILED Paris Papers Comment on Farewell to Minister of Missions. . PARIS. Sept. 27. Henry Franklin Bouillon, who was appointed to the newly created post of Minister of Mis sions Abroad in the recent organiza tion of the French Cabinet, returned today from his visit to the United States. The Paris newspapers comment ex tensively today on President Wilson's final assurance: "To the last man. to the last dollar, the whole force of the t?nited States Is at your service." SAID THE KAISER COULDN'T I '. IJM 2 y-xr1 libel a Chllde T Dorr. WAR TAX BILL PUT II1T0 FINAL F Conferees Raise Levy to $2,700,000,000. AGREEMENT REACHED ON BILL Three-Cent Postage Restored to Measure. CHECKS WILL BE TAXED System of Levying War Excess Prof its Taxes Rewritten as Com promise Between Honse and Senate Plans. WASHINGTON. Sept. 27. The war tax bill. Increased to raise about $2,700,000,000 Federal revenue in addi tion to $1,333,000,000 obtained under existing law, was completed late today by the Senate and House conferees. Presentation of the conference report to the House late tomorrow is planned. It will be considered first by the House, and the bill's enactment into law next week is regarded assured. Bill Increased Iurthcr. Additional taxes of between $250, 000,000 and f 300,1.00.000 ever the Sen ate bill, which totaled $2,416,000,000, were added by the conferees. As passed by the House the total was $1,S68, 000,000. Senate levies of $1,060,000,000 on war excess profits and $842,200,000 on in comes were substantially unchanged, the conference increases being divided among many items with a few new taxes added and many eliminated House provisions restored. The system of levying war excess profits taxes, however, was practically rewritten in a compromise between the Senate war profits and House excess profits sys tems. ' A minimum exemption of 7 per cent on invested corporate capital is said to be provided, with modified al lowances for intangible assets. Fostaire Tax Reaitored. The only" change" "in the Senate in come tax ; section was to rearrange and harmonize a few graduated sur taxes on Incomes over $50,000 without substantial change in revenue returns or Individual taxation. Normal taxes on Individuals and corporations and the lowered individual" exemptions as re vised in the t-enate were approved? Of the $250,000,000 to $300,000,000 ad ditional agreed to by the conferees, about one-third was placed upon post age. The House 1-cent letter tax, esti mated to raise $70,000,000, which was stricken out by the Senate, was re stored by the conferees, and their agreement for a graduated zone in crease" on second-class mall rates is estimated to raise some millions more. Another large Increase ordered was in passenger transportation and Pull- (Concluded on Page 3. Column 2.) SMILE? DRM Ships SUtiK. BRITISH IS" FREriCH I Z. ITALIAM 7 NOKWEG-AY "? SIAE0SM ? AME&CAY ? DANISH 9 GREEK "? .S. AMEfllCAH ? DUTCH ? JAPANESE ? POTUG-UESE' ? SPOKANE CARMEN'S WAGES BOOSTED WORKERS ACCEPT TERMS OF FERED BY COMPANY. Union Official Says Wage Lift Makes Traction Employes Best Paid in City. SPOKANE, Sept. 27. (Special) At today's meeting of the carmen of the traction system, comprising over half the membership of the local Carmen's Union, a practically unanimous vote was cast for the acceptance of the terms offered by the company. A 3-cent-an-hour increase In wages, the lowering from three years to two years for maximum pay and other minor concessions vere granted by the com pany in a proposition submitted to the carmen some time ago when they asked for an increase of 4 cents an hour in pay. But one concession of any im portance asked by the carmen tftat of transportation over the interurban lines of the company was refused, and that matter is still pending. The old 'and new scales compare as follows: First six months, old rate. 23 cents new, 30 cents: second six months, old rate. 29 cents; new, 31 cents; third six months, old rate. 30 cents; new, 32 cents; fourth six months, old rate, 31 cents; new, 33 cents; after fourth six months, old rate, 82 cents; new, 35 cents. Scale effective from September. We , are well satisfied with the action of the company," said John An derson. "Their proposition was fair in every respect and granted every major "request of the organization. The In crease in wages makes traction em ployes the best paid in the city." OPERATION IS DEFERRED senator Chamberlain's Condition Remains Unchanged. OREGONIAN NEWS -RTTTt -R AIT Wo. ington, Sept. 27. Senator Chamberlain's condition remains Dracticallv un changed, according to an n n n ml nnfm on tonight by Dr. Ganno, his physician. Because of the pain he is expert enciner t b a Rnfltnr i i-n f h..r tmnAmfA.t able, but Dr. Ganno in consultation wnn Jjr. s.euy decided tonight taat an immediate operation Is not neces sary, and it may be avoided altnthr This., however. Will rlnnrf nnnn V,.,.r the case yields to treatment. To quote ut. uaono, senator cnamberlain is "no out of the woods yet." His tempera ture Is moderately high, but no un favorable -symptoms ' have develops and unless there is a change for tu. worse, the Senator will not undei& an operation. PREMIER RESENTS CANARD Iiloyd George Charges Libel In Press Tale Hinting Cowardice. lXJiNDON, Sept. 27. Premier David Lloyd George has started nrnwp,lln for libel against certain newspapers wnicn announced that on the occasion or last Monday night's air raid he left London for his house at Walton Heath. The fact is the Premier started for France that night. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 73 degrees; minimum. Zt'2 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; moderate southerly winds. War. Australians hurl back Germans nine times. Page IS. English maintain gains east of Ypres. Page 8. Foreign. American officers in French training camp V eager for work. Page 4. Russian outlook dark. Page 2. National War tax bill revised to raise 2, 700.000 000 Page 1. President's commission to investigate labor conditions. Page 15. RooFevelt tells of ultimatum to Germany In 1002. Page -J. McAdoo announces plan of new Liberty loan. , Page 1. Government to requisition all merchant ships of 2500 tons or more. Page- 3. Fraud order is Issued against Portland lo cating concern. Page tt. Heflln'i charges to be investigated. Page 4. Domestic. La Follette flayed by Nicholas Murray But ler at New York bankers' convention Page S. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 7. Vernon a: Oaklut.d lo. Salt Lake e; Los Angeles 9. San Krancluco L Page 10. Guy Boy wins 2:12 trot at Salem. Page 1G. Bronson and Neff fight draw at Tacoma. Page 17. Previous world series title play Interesting: Page 17. Five boxing bouA set for tonight. Page 10. Pacific .Northwest. Portland day sets new record In attendance at State Fair. Page 14. Spokane carmen get increase. Page 1. Northwest benevolencies show Increase. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Oregon wools selling in Eastern markets. Page 21. Corn continues to decline, owing to fine crop outlook. Page 21. Shorr covering causes raily in stock market. Page 21. Fleet of city dredges will be busy with new Projects this Winter. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Housewives called upon to pledge themselves to aid Nation in war. Page 13. City Council takes over Ad Club's experi mental ffsh market and continue enter prise. Page 8. Flour price fixe,d at $10.20 a barrel, reduc tion of 40 cents. Page 1. Strike truce sought In- appeal by Mayor Baker. Page 1. Chamber of Commerce, In report, shows what is being done to advance city's in terests. Page 14. Way to exemption open for drafted men In cane of error. Page 7. Volunteers speakers begin today to talk of Nation's need. Page 8. War library funds come In slowly. Page 9. Ex-Ambassador Gerard to visit Portland In few days. Page 11. Directors recommend salary increase for manual training teachers. Page 17. Mayor Baker's milk commUslon recommends price of 12 H cents quart. Page 1. School heads take no acUon as to German textbook, page 15. Weather report, data and forecast. Page IS, STRIKE TRUCE Al OF MAYOR'S APPEAL Baker Urges Workers to Meet Employers, MEN'S LOYALTY APPEALED TO Unionists Generally Asked to Aid in Settlement. FEDERAL BOARD DUE SOON Suggested Plan Would Pat Men Back to Work While Government Is InvestigatingSafety or Sol diers Declared in Jeopardy. STRIKE: DEVELOPMENTS OF YESTERDAY". Mayor Baker issues patriotic tppeal to employers, employes and general public to end strike for sake of our boys at the front, who have offered their lives for the country. Mayor continues efforts to get employers and employes together for a conference. City's legal bureau and counsel for defense agree to open test cases against alleged pickets in Municipal Court this morning. G. Y. Harry, Federal mediator, receives wire from Washington officially notifying him that Ad justment Board will leave Wash ington next Wednesday for the Coast to investigate the situa tion. Attempts of shipbuilding plants to resume operations yesterday morning proved futile; only a few men appeared for work. SAX FRAX CISCO. Sept. 27. The strike of 30,000 metal trades unionists here, -which, was to have been ended to morrow morning, vum Indefinitely pro longed late tonlsht when members of the Boilermakers Union voted not to return to work under the terms of the temporary asreement promulgated Sun day, which had been accepted by m ma jority of the affiliated unions. The employer! Issued a statement that an a result f this action, the plants would remain cioaed tomorrow. Mayor Baker yesterday, in con tinuing his efforts to end the local shipbuilders' strike. Issued an appeal to the employers, their employes and the general public, asking all con cerned to make up their differences on patriotic grounds. He pointed out the various angles of the situation, espe cially dwelling upon the imperiling of the boys who have gone to the front, perhaps to pay with their lives for their devotion to the country, by a con tinuance of the tie-up. and called upon organized labor as a whole here to take a hand. The Mayor made a special appeal to all branches of union men and women to go to the general mass meeting at the Public Auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock and assert themselves in a pa triotic manner. This is the big event scheduled for today by the strikers, who engaged the place for it. Anyone carrying a card of the American Fed eration of Labor will be admitted. Temporary Truce Soufc-lit. Mayor Baker also engaged In efforts again yesterday to get the employers and the employes together for a con ference as to certain features of the situation, his whole thought being to bring about a temporary truce, pending the arrival of the special commission which Is to leave Washington for the -West next Wednesday to investigate shipbuilding conditions. Following Is Mayor Baker's formal statement: "After an exhaustive inquiry into the shipbuilding strike, I have found that lines of dispute are so squarely and tightly drawn that there is but one way the trouble can be settled finally, and that Is by Federal mediation. All other courses at our command appar ently have failed. Meaaaae to President Answered. I have assurance from the National capital that necessary steps are being taken by the Government as rapkliy as possible to bring the strife to an end. The disputes will be settled in this way on terms that must be satis factory to all concerned. I have, under date of today, September 27, a telegram from J. P. Tumulty, secretary to Presi dent Wilson, which reads as follows: 'your telegram received. Commis sion of the Shipping Board, of which V. Everett Macy is chairman, is about to proceed to the Pacific Coast to take up . existing labor disputes directly on the gronnd. Patriotism Appealed To. "This course will take a little time, and for this reason I appeal to the striking workmen, the employers, the labor leaders and to the public gener ally to rally to the cause of patriotism to the Nation and loyalty to our city and get the men back to work on the ships. Federal mediation has succeed ed in other cities and It will succeed here. There is nothing to gain and everything to lose by idleness in the interim. "The Nation is at war the greatest .Concluded uu Patfe lo. CVjIumw 4.V