Morning Oregonian., November 21, 1917, Page 2, Image 2

THE MORNIXG OREGOXIAN. WEDNESDAY, NOVE3IBER 21, 1917.
SUPPLY SHIPMENTS
TO RUSSIA BARRED
Exports From This Country
Forbidden Until Situation
Is Clearer. .
GOODS ON DOCKS TIED UP
If Bolshevikl Gain Control and
Separate Peace Is Called For,
Embargo AV11I Be Made
. Permanent.
"WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. 'No ship
ments of supplies will be permitted to
go from the United States to Russia
until the situation in that country
clears. The American Government, be
fore allowing the export of goods al
ready on the docks, wants to know
Into whose hands they windfall on their
arrival.
If the Bolshevikl gain control and
pursue their programme, calling for a
peace with Germany, the embargo will
be permanent.
The provisional Russian government
was given credits amounting in all to
$325,000,000, of which' $191,000,000 al
ready has been advanced. Much of this
money has been spent for supplies now
awaiting shipment, and the Russians
have been given vessels for its trans
port. Shipments will be held up by
denial of bunker coal to the ships.
Thomas D. Jones, vice-chairman of
the War Trade Board, called at the
"White House today and conferred with
President Wilson. No statement was
forthcoming, but it was believed the
Russian situation was discussed.
Bolshevikl Are Condemned.
The State Department today had no
additional dispatches from Ambassador
Francis at Petrograd, but unofficial
messages coming from Sweden were
that General Kaledines, hetman of the
Don Cossacks, who held the master
hand in Russia through domination of
the country's coal and bread supply in
the Don Cossack region was marching
with an army on Varonez, 200 miles
eouth of Moscow.
Passengers arriving at the Swedish
frontier from Russia also reported that
soldiers were parading the Petrograd
streets bearing banners demanding a
constitutional assembly of all Russia
end declaring that the Bolshevikl
regime was more tyrannical than that
of Nicholas. The passengers believed
the present revolutionary government
must fall through lack of support of
the principal parties.
The only official dispatch reaching
the State Department today from Rus
sia announced that John F. Stevens,
head of the American Railway Commis
sion to Russia, had left Petrograd for
Vladivostok in connection with his
work of rehabilitating the Russian
railway system.
Amerlrnns Leaving Petrograd.
A dispatch from Tornea, dated yes
terday, reports the arrival there of sev
eral Americans from Petrograd In ad
vance of the large party being sent
away by Ambassador Francis. Petro
grad was said to be quiet, with theaters
open and trains running.
Kerensky is again reported to have
escaped capture and to have gone to
the front in an effort to get support.
According to Swedish newspapers, an
army corps is marching on Petrograd
under command of an army committee
determined to end the Bolshevikl
power.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 20. (By the As
sociated Press.) The American, French
and British representatives at the
border station of Tornea. opposite
Haparanda, have been stripped of all
actual power by Finnish revolution
ists, assisted by Russian soldiers. At
the outset the revolutionists refused to
recognize any diplomatic privileges
and detained properly accredited
couriers. They were induced finally to
desist from this attitude, but they are
bringing all conceivable obstructionist
tactics to bear to compel the entente
representatives to recognize them. Rec
ognition has been refused flatly.
Swedish Man Tou Up.
The revolutionists visited the Swedish
Consulate at Tornea and demanded that
the Consul place his automobile at
their disposal and he himself act as
thetr chauffeur. This he refused to do.
The revolutionists then tore the Swe
dish flag from the Consulate and de
parted, declaring that- they needed no
foreign Consuls in Tornea.
Ira Nelson Morris, the American Min
ister, learns from a competent source
that Petrograd. was quiet up to Friday
night and that the police were guard
ing the various legations and embas
sies. Fighting In Moscow has ceased. It is
reported to have been very sanguine.
Estimates of the number of dead reach
as high as 4000.
A general exodus of Americans from
Petrograd and Moscow by way of Si
beria has been arranged for the next
few days.
At the Nation's Capital.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. General
increase of discount rates, with spe
cial preference for commercial paper
secured by liberty bonds or Treasury
certificates of indebtedness, was recom
mended today by the Federal Reserve
Hoard's advisory cfrnncil at the end of
its quarterly conference with the Board.
Action on the recommendation prob
ably will be taken within two weeks
by the Board. Most of the Board mem
bers believed that under the uneasy
money conditions indicated by the lib
erty loan payments last week, some
thing should be done to discourage In
flation, promote sound conditions and
prepare for healthy absorption of fu
ture Government loans.
...
Reports that the shortage of one-cent
pieces had caused clearing-houses in
several Eastern and Middle Western
cities to determine to issue paper scrip
to be circulated locally instead of pen
nies, reached the Treasury today, and
were met by an immediate effort to
ship more small coins Eastward from
the Denver and San Francisco mints.
Five million one-cent pieces were on
the way to Chicago to relieve the short
age in the Middle West, and the move
ment of small coins will continued
through December to accommodate hol
iday shopping demands in Eastern
cities.
Within the six weeks ending Novem
ber 15, 62,600,000 new pennies and 15,
000,000 new nickels were put into cir
culation by the Treasury.
...
Opposition to the holding of aero
nautic expositions during the war was
expressed in resolutions made public
today by the National advisory commit
tee for aeronautics. For military rea
sons no developments of new types of
engines or planes can be exhibited, and
the committee felt that the distraction
of interest of manufacturers would not
be wise. The aircraft production board
of the Council of National Defense re
cently took a similar stand.
...
Secretary Houston announced today
that despite his conviction that the
Government . fees charged this year for
grazing privileges on the National
fc.ests are below the real value of the
forage, there will be no further ad
vance in those fees for the present.
There will be no substantial change in
the existing regulations governing the
issuance of grazing permits for- more
than a year.
...
The hopeful outlook for effectively
curbing the submarine menace, indi
cated in the speech of the British Pre
mier yesterday, will serve to increase
rather than lessen the pressure the
Washington Government Is putting up
on destroyer building and other anti
submarine measures.
This was indicated by Secretary
Daniels today In refusing to discuss de
tails of the part American vessels have
been playing in the campaign.
...
The Fuel Administration is consider
ing immediate withdrawal of the pri
ority under which all Middle Western
coal shipments have been going to lake
ports for the Northwestern territory.
When this is done, the coal will be di
verted to the East to relieve shortages,
particularly in New England.
...
Baltimore was selected today as the
1918 convention city of the Southern
Commercial Congress by the executive
officers in session here.
...
Packing-houses and the meat In
dustry generally are co-operating fully.
the Food Administration announced to
day, in support of a meatless Tuesday.
FRANCE IS APPRECIATIVE
HIGH
COMMISSIONER EXPRESSES
CRATITl'DE FOR AID.
Support of United States Depended on,
but AH Hopes Have Deen Sur
passed. Official Says.
PARIS, Nov. 19. "France found sym
pathy in the minds and hearts of the
people of the United States," said Cap
tain Andre Tardieu, French high com
missioner to the United States, in a
statement reviewing the work-of his
commission recently carried out in that
country.
"France knew she could count on the
United States," Captain Tardieu added,
"but all our hopes have been surpassed.
The commissioner gave a brief out
line of what was accomplished in each
effort for financial, armament, supply
and transportation aid, as well as mili
tary and naval co-operation. He paid
a tribute to the methodical and suc
cessful way in which the enormous
task was taken up. Captain Tardieu
said that the United States will have
loaned France $1,130,000,000 between
May and the end of December at 4 t per
cent. These loans had sufficed for the
payment of purchases made during that
period In the United States.
France has obtained 300 locomo
tives, 1250 miles of track and 5000
pieces of rolling stock," he said. He
expressed confidence that transporta
tion between the United States and
France would be greatly improved and
that the Increase in tonnage of mer
chant ships of the United States dur
ing 1918 will reach 50 per cent of the
total of last July.
"Besides furnishing France with
great quantities of rolling stock." said
Captain Tardieu, "the United States is
sending 680 locomotives to- its own
Army in France, which will lighten
Just so much the burden on the French
roiling stock."
THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE
Pure blood is the body's first line of
defense against disease.
Healthy blood contains small amounts
of antitoxins that neutralize the poi
sons of invading germs or destroy the
germs themselves. That is why so
many people exposed to disease do not
contract it. Those whose blood is weak
and therefore lacking in defensive
power are most liable to Infection.
Everybody may observe that healthy,
red-blooded people are less liable to
attacks of cold and the grip than are
pale, bloodless people.
To build up the blood there Is one
remedy that has been "a household
word for a generation. Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People. They tone
up the entire system, make the blood
rich and red, strengthen the nerves,
increase the appetite, put color in the
cheeks and lips and drive away that
unnatural tired feeling. Plenty of
sunlight, good wholesome food and
fresh air will do the rest.
Two books, "Building Up the Blood'
and "Whst to Eat and How to Eat,"
give just, the information that every
mother of a growing girl needs. They
are free. Write for them today to the
Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Schenec
tady, N. Y. Tour own druggist sells
Pr. WilUama' Pink Pills. Adv.
CHARGE IS SMUGGLING
Three Arrested in San Francisco to
Keturn. to Portland for Trial.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Nov. 20.
especial.) Mrs. Viola Pruett. John T.
Skelly and William Mooney, wanted in
Portland on a charge of smuggling
liquor into Oregon from- this city.
waived hearing before United States
Commissioner Francis Krull and con
sented to their removal to Portland for
trial.
Mrs. Pruett. Skelly and Moonev were
charged in secret indictments returned
by the.October Federal grand jury with
importing a quantity of whisky into
this state from San Francisco in viola
tion of the Reed amendment.
County Building to lie Improved.
ROSEBURG, Or., Nov. 20. (Special.)
The County Court. In making up its
Duagec lor' tne year 1918, will include
the sum of SoO.000, to be used In in
stalling a modern heating plant and
making needed improvements to the
Courthouse, as well as building a new
jail, the latter structure having "been
condemned regularly for the past 10
years by every grand Jury empaneled
during that period.
Dr. Xansen Calls at White Jlonse.
TVASHTVflTnV Nnv 9n Tw i?.ij.
Nansen, head of the Norwegian Eco
nomic Mission to the United States,
called at the White House today and
was understood to have discussed with
President Wilson conditions in Nor
way and the matter of exports to that
country from America.
NATIONS ARE LINKED
Historic Downing-Street Build
ing Scene of Allied JCouncil.
WAR NEEDS CONSIDERED
Flour Ordered at Pendleton.
PENDLETON. Or., Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) The Pendleton roller mills today
received its second order for 8000 bar
rels of flour to be manufactured for
the Government. It is. ex pec ted that an
equal amount will be required from the
mills here each month.
Japanese Is Arrested.
T. Makino, a Japanese, of 65 North
Tenth street, was arrested last night
by Special Officers Scott and Jefferies
and charged with violating the prohi
bition law. The officers seized ten gal
lons of sakl aa evidence.
Commissioners Take Stock of Re
sources and Necessities of Both
Countries and of Continental
Allies as Well.
X.ONDON, Nov. 20. None of the allied
war councils which have occurred in
the past three years have occasioned
the same Interest as today's historic
meeting of the American war mission
and the British war cabinet for tight
ening the links that chain the Anglo
American war efforts. The scene is
the dingy old residence in Downing
street which has served the Prime Min
isters of many generations as both
home and office, and the room is the
council chamber where the cabinets
meet and where the destinies of the
empire have been shaped since the days
of the American Revolution.
Lord Reading, the Lord Chief Justice,
presided, with Andrew Bonar Law,
British Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and Oscar T. Crosby, assistant secre
tary of the American Treasury, at the
table beside him. The military and
naval heads of both governments and
officials representing other depart
ments of war work, were grouped to
gether. The general work of the committee
constitutes the talcing of stock of the
resources and needs of both countries
and to some extent of the continental
allies.
Conference Opens at Noon.
The conference met at noon, as had
been planned. Lord Reading was the
first to arrive. He had a five-minute
chat with Premier Lloyd George and
then prepared to greet the distin
guished men from America and the
British participants. Some of these
came on foot and others in motors
driven by khaki-ciad chauffeurs.
Admiral Jellicoe, chief of the naval
staff, arrived with Sir Eric Campbell
Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty.
Lord Robert Cecil, the Minister of
Blockade, walked unaccompanied from
the Foreign Office. The crowds dis
played deep interest in General Tasker
H. Bliss, chief of staff of the American
Army, and Admiral William S. Benson,
who arrived, separately with their
aides.
The Earl of Derby. British Minister
of War, and General Sir William Rob
ertson, chief of the Imperial staff at
army headquarters, arrived in a motor
car a few moments before Lieutenant
General J. C. timuts, who drove up
alone.
Everybody asked for Colonel E. M.
House, head of the American mission,
but Colonel House did not attend the
meeting, his secretary, Gordon Auchih
closs, representing him.
The question asked Mr. Bonar Law
was whether President Wilson had re
quested Colonel House and General
Bliss to attend the first meeting of the
supreme war council and had cabled
that the American Government consid
ered unity of plan and control to be
essential for the allies. The Chancellor
replied:
"President Wilson selected Colonel
House to take part not only in the
inter-allied conference, but in the su
preme war council, with General Bliss
as his military adviser. There ought
to be no misunderstanding. We hive
that information quite officially."
Progress Reported at Clone.
The conference lasted an hour and a
half, the members having frequent re
course to the mass of statistics and
official documents at their command.
There was little formality about the
proceedings. Lord Reading started
them by explaining the purposes of the
meeting, and a general discussion fol
lowed. At the close the conferees re
ported that satisfactory progress had
been made.
News Notes About War.
Orders establishing a zone within
which vessels may load or unload mu
nitions at San Francisco became effec
tive November 20. The order was is
sued after arrests of several alleged
German agents arriving here on ships
from the South Seas, two of whom have
been interned at Angel Island. Fed
eral authorities refuse to confirm a
report that they discovered a plot to
blow up several munition carriers.
Oversubscription of the $35,000,000
V. M. C. A. war fund Is officially an
nounced by the National war work
counril of the organization. Total sub
scriptions cannot be computed until
full returns have been received from
many states which have not reported.
Imprisonment for life was the sen
tence imposed by Justice Pelletier on
Charles Edouard Monette, one of the
alleged dynamiters arrested in connec
tion with the attempt several months
ago to blow up the Summer home of
Liwra Liieisian, puDiisner or tne Mon
treal Star.
An appeal asking all men not Amer
ican citizens In California. Utah, Ne
vada and Arizona to enlist in the
British or Canadian military forces
through United States Army recruit
ing stations has been issued by A. Car
negie Ross, British Consul-General.
The trial by court-martial of a
French prisoner of war has brought
out the hitherto suppressed fact that
the commissary storehouse at Augs
berg, Bavaria, containing hay. straw
and flour from last year's crop, to the
value of nearly 1,W)0,000 marks, has
been destroyed by an incendiary fire.
The prisoner admitted having set the
fire and was condemned to death.
Great Britain has not only decided
not to issue passports to anyone de
siring to attend the so-called peace
conference In Switzerland, but the gov
ernment will also consider the with
drawal of passports from any British
subject, resident in Switzerland, who
may attend the conference.
The Spanish government has Issued
a special warning that Spain will re
gard any flight of American airplanes
over her territories as in violation of
neutrality and will instruct the mili
tary to fire.
The American Officers' Club In Lon
don was opened officially November 20.
The Duke of Connaught and Harry
Brittain, of the English branch of the
Pilgrims' Club, which organized the
club, spoke.
An official report from Berlin de
nies the statement made by the Brit
ish A.dmiralty on Sunday that a Ger
man mine sweeper was sunk in the
engagement of Saturday off Helgoland.
It says, however, that a fishing steam
er is missing.
A few weeks ago the Female Orphan
Society of New Orleans, one of the pio
neer institutions of the United States
In caring for widows and orphans, cel
ebrated the 100th anniversary of its
organization.
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While Prices Are Reduced
This week every Overcoat in the store is marked at a
special reduced price; this includes not only our splendid
Overcoats for men, but the fine "Utility" coats for women,
now being; shown on our third floor. These Coats are
made from the same cloth as the men's, and they are in
great demand. Just now we have the largest stock of
Boys' Overcoats that we have ever shown all made just
as the boys want them in the latest models. Buy this
week and save.
Sale Prices
Men's
$15.00
$20.00
$25.00
$30.00
$35.00
Coats
Coats
Coats
Coats
Coats
Overcoats
now S13.50
now $17.50
now $21.50
now S2G.50
now $30.00
Women's Overcoats
$18.00 Coats now S15.00
$20.00 Coats now S17.50
$22.00 Coats now. . . . . .S20.00
$25.00 Coats now S22.50
$27.50 Coats now $23.50
Boys' Overcoats
$ 5.00 Coats now S 4.25
$ 7.50 Coats now $ 6.75
$ 8.50 Coats now $ 7.75
$10.00 Coats now S S.50
$12.50 Coats now S10.50
$15.00 Coats now $12.50
ROWNSVILLE
WOOLEN MILL STORE
Morrison at Third Street
Manufacturers and Sellers of Fine Clothing for Men, Women and Boys
HARMONY
SIGH
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War Will Not Be Hampered by
Railroad Strikes.
MEDIATION AGREED UPON
Concessions Made by Both Railroads
and Brotherhoods Counted Com
plete Assurance That Tie
Ups Will Be Averted.
WASHINGTON'. Nov. 20. Concessions
made by both the railroads and the
heads of the four brotherhoods as a re
sult of the present wage issue, is taken
by officials as complete assurance that
America's warfare against Germany
will go forward to the end unhampered
by the possibilities of transportation
tieups over wage differences.
The oTfer of the roads to place their
interests in the hands of the 1'resident
for such decision as he may deem neces
sary, and of the brotherhoods to me
diate any questions of wages, it was
pointed out today at the office of the
Board of Mediation and Conciliation,
have not been limited as to time. They
will be effective until peace is won.
Officials believe that such unquali
fied adhesion to the principle of set
tling disputes through discussion elim
inates whatever chance there might be
of a traffic strike due to misunder
standings, and the coming negotiations,
commencing Thursday at the White
House, when President Wilson will con
fer with the brotherhood representa
tives, are looked upon as likely to make
this still more certain.
Wordi that two strikes had been
averted by the attitude of railroads
arid employes toward the war reached
the Board of Mediation today. Wage
differences which threatened a walk
out of engineers and firemen on the
New York, New Haven & Hartford will
be arbitrated through an agreement
readied by the two sidn;. The man
agement of the fit. Ixu1s & tan Fran
cisco cleared away misapprehensions
of their men by notifying the Railroad
War Board here that they were willing
to meet their employes for a discis
sion of grievam-es over working con
ditions and mediation is expected to
forestall a rupture.
ITnion Tabernacle Proposed.
ABERDEEN', Wash.. Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) A hundred Aberdeen citizens
now stand ready to subscribe heavily
towards the erection of h union taber
nacle in this city, says Rev. T. II.
Simpson, pastor of the First Presby
terian Church, who is fostering the
plan here, lie would .have the taber
nacle centrally situated and have all
denominations unite one each week in
holding services there.
The Increase in the membership of
all Christian churches in the I'nited
States during the last 16 years lias
been 94 per cent, though the popula
tion has- increased only fil per cent.
NEXT NUMBER
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Author-Statesman
ARMORY
Thurs. Night, Nov. 22
Single Admission 50c
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Trade
Acceptances
BUSINESS is slow to appreciate
the value of the Trade Accept
ance. The Federal Reserve Sys
tem urges this as a great step in strength
ening credit and facilitating collections.
No one should hesitate to ask for or
' to give a Trade Acceptance. In mer-
'- 1 1 .tzjT cantile transactions it takes the place of
4; open accounts, and offers a much
ipTT'fcV stronger basis for bank credit When
r. 'indorsed bv a member bank, the red-
era! Reserve Rant rnnsidprs the? Trade
Acceptance a desirable investment.
In this, our new Banking Act "is
pointing out to business a way better to
utilize its credit.
Any of our officers will be glad to
explain fully the many advantages of
the Trade Acceptance.
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