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CANNED GOODS DUE
FOR DROP IfJ PRICE
Food Administration Makes
Prediction as Result of
License System.
FOOD PLEDGES ARE SIGNED
Reports, . Arter Four Days or Cam
paign, Show More Than 3,500,
000 American Women Volun
teer Aid in Conservation.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. An imme
diate drop in prices on canned vegeta
bles was predicted by the food admin
istration today as a result of putting
into operation the ' license system for
wholesale dealers. Many canned goods,
Miss Cornelia Marvin, of Salem, has
been named . to direct efforts to help
the libraries of Oregon outside of Port
land gather and get ready for use ref
erence materials having to do with
food economy. Mtss Frances Isom.
librarian of the Portland Central Li
brary, will direct the same work in
this city.
The Government is having a number
of cook books and recipe pamphlets
prepared especially to be placed in
public libraries as reference sources
for housewives seeking the latest hints
on food substitutions and economies.
The libraries will also be urged to pur
chase a. good list tt similar works, pri
vately printed, and to place exhibitions
having to do with food saving before
their patrons.
War Bread Exhibited.
..The Portland Central Library is stag
ing an exhibit of the black "war bread"
brought from France by Dr. W. T.
Foster, president of Reed College, with
three loaves of American "war bread"
beside it. The display was put in
place Wednesday and is attracting
much attention. The Woman's Ex
change of this city prepared the loaves
of American "war bread" according' to
directions issued from the food admin
istrator's office.
Under the now system of., licensing
wholesale dealers, put into effect by
the Government yesterday, the National
food administration counts on curbing
retailers of all food produsH who per
sist in overcharging the public. Ap
plication of the restrictive powers thus
created is expected to do perhaps more
than any other one thing to reduce the
cost of living for the American people.
GIRLS ARE LOYAL
Local Sororities at Eugene
Stand by President Wilson.
ANNE MARTIN REBUFFED
Advantage Taken of Privileges of
Chapter House Extended as Mai.
ter of Courtesy, in Endeavor
to Spread Propaganda.
s.
EUGENE, Or., Nov. ,1. (Special.)
Taking advantage of the courtesy ex
tended to them by the local chapters
of Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta
Phi, women's National sororities . of
which they are members. Miss Anne
Martin and Miss Iris Calderhead, who
are touring the country in the .Inter
est of the National Woman's party,
which is attempting to force President
Wilson Into a recognition of the Na
tional suffrage amendment, last night
tried to spread their propaganda among
COMPARATIVE STANDING OF PORTLAND DISTRICTS IN CITY DRIVE FOR HOOVER PLEDGE SIGNERS.
. District and Territory
Dist. A, Precinct 318, comprising farms, town of Linnton.
Dipt. B, Precincts Nos. 1 to 9, inclusive
Dist. C. Precincts Nos. 10 to 41. inclusive
Dist. D, Precincts Nos. 42 to 63, inclusive..
Dist. E, Precincts Nos. 64 to 87, inclusive....
Captain
, ...J. B. Schafer.
....George P. Dekum.
K. L. Gli.-san
. . . . L H. Hoffman....
.Joseph P. Ewing. .
Goal.
200
900
4.000
2.800
3,200
800
500
Dist. F, Precincts Nos. 88 to 95, inclusive, and No. 319 A. H McGowan
Dist. G, Precincts No. 96 to 98. inclusive L. E. Latonrette
Dist. H, Precincts Nos. 99 to 112, Inclusive... Hudson B. Hastings 2.000
Dist. J. Precincts Nos. 132 to 156V4. inclusive .- . T. M. Hurlburt 4.200
Dist. K, Precincts Nos. 113 to 131, inc. ; also includes Precincts 157 and 157 V4 A. A. Bailey 3.000
Dist. L. Precincts 158 to 172. inc.; also includes Precincts 206 to 214. Inc Arthur I. Moulton.. . 3.500
Dist. M, Precincts 173 to 183, inc.; also includes 198, 199 and 201 to 206, inc. ... Ferdinand E. Reed 3,000
Dist. N, Precincts 184 to 197, inc.; also includes Precinct 200 George R. Funk 2.500
Dist. O, Precincts 215 to 288. inc., and 235 to 249, inc L. B. Woltiing 4.600
Dist. r. Precincts 229 to 234, inclusive Charles C. Hall 1.500
Dist. Q, Precincts 262 to 278, inclusive Wilmot K. Royal 3,000
Dist. R, Precincts 252 to 261. inc. and 279 to 283V4. Inc C. H.Beard 2,700
Dist. S. Precincts 250. 251, 26114 and 285 to 287. Inclusive W. C. Alderson 800
Dist- T. Precincts 288 to 293. inclusive, and 284 : C. L. McKenna 1.000
Dist. V, Precincts 294 to 298, inclusive..., A. A., Muck 800
En- Re
rolled, fused.
185 1
823 13
1.956 18
923 5
777 6
556 20
965 35
1.270 92
2,100 ...
975 ...
990 ...
1,875 ...
865 9
1,120 3
765 ...
973 ...
2,172 48
933 6
955 46
825 25
Totals.
45.000 21,935 315
It. was said, were bought by dealers at
low prices last Spring and can be sold
at less than present market prices.
Dealers charging more than a rea
sonable profit are liable to forfeiture
Of their licenses.
Those charging more than the food
administration considers just wilt find
their supplies ' cut off in orders to
wholesalers to cease furnishing them
With goods.
The food administration today warned
dealers who have not applied for li
cense blanks that they will be charged
with violation of the food law if they
continue to sell goods.
More than 3,500,000 American women
are now voluntary members of the
food administration and have pledged
themselves to follow its directions as
to food conservation. This number,
the food administration announced to
night at the end of the fourth day of
its pledge campaign, will be doubled
by complet- returns from all states.
Reports tonight came ftfbm 36 states
and showed half a million signatures
as a result of the day's work. The aim
for the entire week is ten million.
Michigan leads with a total of 145,
000 cards signed: California is second
with 132,000, and New Jersey third with
120,000. In New York City, for which
returns are tabulated separately from
the state, 1C 3,000 cards have been
signed.
FOOD PLEDGES COME SLOWLY
Highest County to Date in Washing
ton Reports 42.6 Per Cent.
SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 1. Reports
received today at the office here of
Charles Hebberd. Federal food com
missioner for Washington, Indicated
that not more than 25 per cent of the
quota of food pledge signatures as
signed to this state have been ob
tained so far this week.
Lewis County's percentage, 42.6, was
the highest; Pierce County, with 40 per
cent, being second, and Spokane County,
with 36 per cent, third. King County,
with 11,000 signatures, led in the num
ber of pledges signed, but these con
stituted only about 15 per cent of her
quota, and covered only the city of
Seattle.
The number of signatures In other
counties was: Pierce, 10,000; Spokane,
9657; Whatcom. 3021: Snohomish. 2802;
Lewis, 1339; Grays Harbor, 1321; Pa
cific, 1278; Lincoln. 670; Columbia, 457.
i Hostility Shown in Texas.
HOUSTON, Tex.. Nov. 1. Open hos
tility toward signing the Federal food
pledge has broken out in school dis
tricts of Fayette and Dewitt counties,
according to advices received by Fed
eral Food Administrator A. Peden
Thursday morning.
FOOD CAMPAIGN ADVANCES
fContinoed From First Pace.)
according to messages sent out from
the Nationei administrator's office.
This Is the. message bearing on the
new food control development received
by Fred Lockley. state publicity agent,
from Ben S. Allen, head of the public
information division in Mr. Hoover's
office:
Action of Food- Administration, effective
November 1. cutting off supplies from re
tailers charging excessive profits through its
power to license wholesalers, ought to help
food pledge publicity, since it meets objec
tion that administration has not lowered
prices to consumer. War prices are always
high, but the administration, through vol
untary co-operation, is preventing speculat
ing, hoarding and excessive profit in con
trolling them. This is shown by wheat,
which doubled In price before the Food Ad
ministration began work. Since then flour
has been reduced from $17 to $11, effect
ing monthly saving of $60,000,000.
Food Administration is endeavoring to
unite the American peopfe in this food
pledge week, so that, acting together and
under central Governmental direction and
advice, they may effect these savings in
such manner that commodities which we
must export wheat, meat, fats and sugar
are not reduced to a point where greatly
increased prices to our own people are in
evitable. This can be accomplished if every
citizen wilt save a small amount of his
ordinary consumption of these commodities
by substituting other foods, of which we
have a great abundance, but which we can
not ship.
DALLAS PEOPLE SIGX PLEDGE
Pupils of High School Explain Ne
cessity of Iloovcrlzing.
DALLAS, Or.. Nov. 1. (Special.)
Dallas is being Hooverized this week,
and, under the guidance of the local
committee on food conservation, the
pupils of the Dallas High School are
making a house-to-house canvass, so
liciting the housewives to help In the
food-saving movement.
A large portion of the town has al
ready been covered and not one'woman
has refused to sign the pledge cards.
Dallas was one of the first cities in
the state to report the sale of its quota
of liberty bonds, and is making an ef
fort to outdo all others in reporting
a successful campaign in the food coiir
seivation movement.
Hood River Signs Pledge.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. Nov. 1. (Spe
cial.) Reports of County School . Su
perintendent L. B. Gibson, who was' re
cently appointed Hood River County
food administrator. Indicate that the
signing of the food pledge cards here
is quite general. All of the schools of
the county are taking an active inter
est in the work. '
GOAL SUPPLY WORRIES
NON-ESSENTIAL l.Dl STRIES
COME SECOND.
TO
a rat-hole trying to trap mice that she
might not succumb to hunger. God
knows I hope no such conditions again
come near the American people."
One of the most ardent expressions
of loyalty to the United States Gov
ernment elicited, in the canvass and
reported to state headquarters was
voiced by a German who served in
the Franco-Prussian war. When
pledge-card campaigners approached
Charles Vergin. of Arlington. Or., he
promptly signed the food pledge, mak
ing this comment:
"I was Prussian. I knew Prus
sianism and what it stands for, as I
served in the Franco-Prussian war. I
am now an American. God bless our
free country. I will not only sign the
card, but will do anything for my
adopted country.
Reports Poor In.
Typical of the county reports which
reached the desk of Manager Churchill,
of the state drive, yesterday, are these:
Sherman M. Miles, St. Helens, chair
man for Columbia County Expect to
make it 98 per cent for the country.
A. C. Miller. Enterprise, chairman for
Wallowa County Getting 100 per cent
reports from some districts.
Sam H. Baker. Grants Pass, chairman
for Josephine County Missouri Flats
signed up 100 per cent. The town of
Merlin sot all but one: Kerby, the pio
neer town of Josephine, all but two.
E. A. Huntley, a teacher, sends word
that all families of his district signed
up without any questions.
A- C Dixon. Eugene, chairman for
Lane County Reports indicate signa
tures now 97 to 100 per cent. Going
over ground second and third times to
Increase percentage.
Libraries of the state are being lined
np to help promote food conservation.
Domestic Demands and Orders for Op
erations Necessary for War Work
to Be Filled First.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. Regulations
designed to restrict the use of coal in
industries considered non-essential to
the conduct of the war will be en
forced soon by the fuel administration.
The plan under consideration provides
a classification of industries in order
of their importance and the issuance of
a general order to coal producers di
recting them to supply first manufac
turing plants engaged In war work.
Domestic consumers will be supplied
ahead of all industries and the regu
lations will contain special provisions
for taking care of their requirements,
An upward revision of coal prices
for mines which contain unusually
thin veins and for mines in the hands
of receivers to permit them to operate
at a profit is probable within a few
days. Heretofore price changes have
been general and have not been ap
plied except to entire districts.
Directors of the National Gas &
E!ectric Association protested today to
Fuel Administrator Garfield against a
proposed order limiting the use of coal
for electric display signs. Electric
display advertising. they declared,
should be classed with public utilities
and should not be done away with to
save a small amount of coal
ASTHMA SUFFERER
WRITE TODAY and I will tell you of the
simple home treatment for asthma and
bronchitis which has cured many after phy
tcians and' change of climate had failed. I
want you to try it at my expense. Drop me
a card and 111 mall you a 25c sample bottla
FREE. Geo. J. Thomuief, Box A-169. Sea
Alomes. xowa. Aav.
the university women of those sorori
ties and were flatly repudiated.
When Miss Martin and Miss Calder
head attempted to schedule meetings
in Eugene they were absolutely re
fused a hearing by the women of the
city and university, but today, as a
matter of sisterly courtesy, they were
invited to dinner at the Kappa Kappa
Gamma, of which Miss Martin Is a
member. Miss Calderhead being a mem
ber of the Pi Beta Phi. the members of
that society were invited to meet with
the guests in a social way. Before the
women of either of the fraternities
would consent even to this arrange
ment they were arsured that political
questions were not to be brought up.
Following the conventional social
amenities M'ss Martin opened a dis
cussion of National suffrage question
and the means she was advocating of
securing the passage of a. National
amendment. Considering her attack
upon the President for his refusal to
recognize the National Woman's party
as treasonable, the women refused to
hear her. They, also refused to allow
Miss Martin to read a resolution which
she wished to have them sign and
would have nothing ?o do with the
membership cards which she attempted
to distribute among them.
Miss Martin and Miss Calderhead left
tonight for California, where they will
visit the University of California and
Stanford.
HflLFW mark passed
$1,000,000 GRADE CROSSyVG PROJECT
. 60 PER CENT DO.XE.
City Engineer Laurgaard Estimates It
Will Be Year Before nig V un
dertaking Is Finished.
Portland's $1, 000, 000 grade crossing
project on the East Side is virtually 60
per cent complete, according to reports
made yesterday. The O.-W. R. & N.
Company has practically completed its
excavation work the full length of the
project, from about 1000 feet east of the
city limits to a point near East Twenty-ninth
street. Laying of permanent
tracks in the new roadbed is to be
started soon.
The complicated viaduct at East
Thirty-seventh street and Sandy boule
vard Is about half done. Construction
of forms and making of excavations is
well under way at East Forty-seventh
street. A long concrete subway carry
ing the large water main under the
tracks at this point has been completed.
The Fifty-third-street viaduct has not
been started yet.
At East Sixtieth street one large
abutment has been nearly completed
and forms are being placed for another.
Abutment walls on part of the ap
proaches have been finished. At East
Sixty-seventh street the abutments are
being formed and at East Seventy
fourth they are nearly finished.
Forms are nearly finished at East
Eighty-second street and considerable
cement has already been poured.
City Engineer Laurgaard estimates
that it will take about one year yet
to complete the entire project. The
Sandy boulevard crossing will be com
pleted in about three months.
GRONNA ASKED TO RESIGN
Opposition to "War Measures Is
Basis for Request.
VELVA. K. D., Nov. 1. The National
American Association, an organization
whose announced purpose is to pro
mote loyalty to the Government, was
organized here today and immediately
petitions were circulated asking for
the resignation of United States Sena
tor Gronna, of North Dakota.
The petitions cite Senator Gronna's
opposition to war measures as the basis
for the request for his resignation.
SPOKANE MILK WAR NEAR
Distributors Refuse to Grant In
crease Producers Demand.
SPOKANE. Wash., Nov. 1. A de
mand by milk producers of the Spokane
district for an advance in price from
4 to approximately 30 cents a gallon
for- milk, beginning tomorrow, was de
nied by distributors at a meeting of
representatives of producers and dis
tributors here today. Producers said
they could not state whether milk
would be supplied the distributors to
morrow morning or not.
H. is. Findley, president of the pro
ducers' association, said they might ar
range to deliver to the larger consum
ers in bulk. Distributors suggested
that they might ship milk from out
side the district to supply their cus
tomers.
"If it comes to a milk war we can
stand the loss longer than they can,"
said Mr. Findley, "but we don't want
to have trouble."
Musket
A remarkable coat, tailored at
Fashion Park developed over
the lines of a French officer's
storm coat.
Hudson Seal or Beaver collar
or collar of self material
READY-TO-PUT-ON
$35 $40 $50
. Fir
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BEN SELLING
LEADING
CLOTHIER
Morrison Street at Fourth
Men, Main Floor Young Men, Second Floor $15 and $18 Clothes, Third Floor
RICHES SOUGHT AGAIN
DAVE LOt'TH BATTLES FOR 914,000
ENTRUSTED TO FRIEND.
Man Once Employed as Swamper la
North End Saloon Says His Keep
er Violated Contract.
Dave Louth, saloon swamper in the
palmy days of the North End. over
whose gray head have swept more than
three score years, is fighting in Circuit
Judge Staplejon's court for a fortune
of J14.000. won in a legal battle from
his mother's estate and entrusted by
him to his former employer, Morrell
Woodard.
That was seven years ago. In return
for ' the swamper's patrimony, Wood
ard, keeper of the saloon where he was
employed, was to provide a comfortable
home for Louth for the rest of his days.
He now seeks to recover the 14,000 on
the ground that Woodard has failed
to keep his part of the contract.
This is the second time the old
swamper has battled for the $14,000.
The first time he won it fair in a court
decision and now he seeks to process
it back again.
Louth, as a youth, was wayward. He
last saw his mother when he was a
child of 6 years, until he met her by
accident In Portland 40 years later.
She was wealthy and the son who eked
out his living by working around sa
loons was nothing to her. When she
died, she had cut him off without a
penny.
But he took the case to court and
won through the mazes of the law. It
was Woodard, he said, who helped him
get the money then.
But with the fortune in his grasp,
this man of the fatal weakness for
drink, who had not the mtfral fiber to
shun whisky, took a sudden resolve
not to spend his mother's money in
dissipation. He entered into an agree
ment with Woodard and the money was
placed in trust with him. upon condi
tions. After the money was safe, where in
a moment of weakness he could not
spend it. Louth continued swamping
out the Woodard saloon. Eery day he
was given a pint of whisky for his
work, he said yesterday in testifying
in his own behalf.
"If I drank more than that In a day,
I had to pay for it," he said. "And If
I played pool in the saloon, or bought
cigars or cigarettes, I paid for them,
too."
For nearly six- years Dave Louth
lived at the Woodard home by virtue of
the trust fund agreement, but finally,
he testified, conditions became such
that he had to leave. At one time
Woodard and his wife, he said, took a
trip to California, leaving him alone in
the house witho"ut a cent. Later.
Woodard moved to Redding, Cal., where
he now conducts a saloon.
Cash Registers Installed.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Nov. 1. (Spe
cial.) The new cash registers, which
automatically print tickets, have been
Installed on the toll stations at the
Interstate bridge and hereafter the
ticket sellers will ring up each fare
and the register will print the neces
sary ticket. In the past, printed tick
ets have been torn from books. The
new machines, installed at the sugges
tion of Auditor Alec C. Rae. are ex
pected to prove more satisfactory and
assure absolute accuracy. They cost
approximately $600 each, one being at
each end of the bridge.
BEET SUGAR ON WAY EAST
Railroad Congestion Causes Delay
in Transportation.
XEW YORK. Nov. 1. A large supply
of beet sugar from the West is being
held up because of embargo and rail
road congestion, according to James 11.
Post, president of the National Refin
ing Company, and chairman of the
A'merican refiners' committee of the
Federal, food administration.
Commenting on the sugar situation
today Mr. Post warned that conserva
tion of the supply is a necessary patri
otic duty, but said he believed relief
will soon be had.
Vaeolt Spar Yard Moved.
CASTLE ROCK. Wash.. Nov. 1.
(Special.) The spar yard owned by E.
W. Demorest. of Tacoma, which has
been located nt Yacolt. has been .-iioved
to Silver Lake. The reason for mov
ing Is to procure the proper timber and
get lengths.
BETTER THAN CALOMEL
Thousands Have Discovered Dr.
Edwards Olive Tablets are
a Harmless bubsutute.
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets the substi
tute for calomel are a mild but euro
laxative, and their effect on the liver ia
almost instantaneous. They are the result
of Dr. Edwards' determination not to treat
liver and bowel complaints with calomel.
His efforts to banish it brought out theso
little olive-colored tablets.
These pleasant little tablets do the good
that calomel does, but have no bad after
effects. They don't injure the teeth like
strong liquids or calomel. They take hold
of the trouble and quickly correct it. Why
cure the liver at the expense of the teeth?
Calomel sometimes plays havoc with tha
gums. So do strong liquids. It is best nob
to take calomel, but to let Dr. Edward
Olive Tablets take its place. '
Most headaches, "dullness' and thar
lazy feeling come from constipation and
a disordered liver. Take Dr. Edwards
Olive Tablets when you feel "loggy" and
"heavy." Note how they "clear" clouded
brain and how they "perk up" the spirita.
10c and 25c a box. Ail druggists.
Be Patriotic Sign Your Country's Pledge to Save the Food
Castle Rock Lutherans Have Fete.
CASTLE ROCK. Wash., Nov. 1.
(Special.) The German Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Castle Rock cele
brated the quadrl-centennlal of the
reformation of the church last Sunday.
The services were opened by an organ
prelude. The speakers of the day were
Rev. C. Schinck. of Portland, and Rev.
H. Reike, of Winlock, Wash. Dinner
was served at the parsonage by the
Ladles' Aid.
Phone your want ads to The Ore
gonian. Main 7070. A 6095.
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A special sale of these
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silks, in such dainty, smart
styles. They're so good look
ing at the price you will want
several. The styles are the
newest and best, in plain ef
fects, embroidered or lace
trimmed, tucked and pleated,
full fronts, large square col
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A Sale of Dresses!
Remarkable
Values at....
of Serges and Silks
Dresses of this character were never sold at
anywhere near $15.00. We secured 65 smart,
new Dresses at a low price the reason for
making this sale possible. You will benefit
greatly if you attend. The serges are of ex
cellent heavy quality; the silks of satins and
messalines; the new surplice collar a feature
of one style, others in clever draped sides,
basque fronts, loose tailored effects so desir
. able for street or business wear.
A score of fetching styles to select from.
Come Friday and see these unusually
good dresses at $15 DO.
New Velour Coats $1 O.50
Just in
Two especially smart styles, one with chic high
waist, gathered back, belt and buckles, full Kerami
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Nothing but the season's
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interested in a new Hat can
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Choice $4.75