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TIIE JUORXiS'O OREGOXIAX. - MOXliAT, AXUAUt 28, 1018. 8 SUICIDE FOLLOWS .ATTEMPT TO KILL Ex-Convict Attacks Wife, Then With Razor Cuts His Own Throat. REVENGE CAUSE OF DEED TVIdovr Woued, Won and Wed In Short Space of I'oor Days, Al though She Kotw ot Her Suitor's Character. CHEHALJS. Wash, Jan. JT. (Spe cial.) Myron L. Ta't. an ex-eonvlct from th Oregon Penitentiary, today make a murderous at'ack on his wife. Mrs. Lois Taft, at their Folsom-street home In Chehalis. beating the woman etfr the head with a hammer until he thought her dead, following which he rb(d into the house and cut his throat with a razor. When neighbors who had ruahed to the rescue of the shrieking woman broke through the bolted door Tatt was dead, with a (ipmt wound arrows hi throat. At the M. Helena Hospital. where she was hurried following- th assault. It was reported tonight that Jim. Taft would recover. The affair happened In broad day light, and before Taft had got back Into the house, a number of neighbor who heard the woman's screams were hurrying to the scene. Illfe tYMerf. Wea aad Wed la 4 Dr. Taft came to Chehalis last August from PnrtlanJ to vl.tt bis brother. Joe Taft. Nearby lived a widow. Mrs. Mark Lutman. whose husband hail dl-d In April previous. Taft. who bad a reputation for winning the hearts of women, made desperate love, and on four days' acquaintance Mr a. East man married him. Joe Taft was at Hood River working at the time, but his wife warned Mrs. r.istman of the kind of man Myron Taft was. and tried to dissuade her from marry Ina him. Jo Taft even re t'irtid to Chehalis. hoplnn to arrive in time to prevent the wedding, but .i. a day too late. EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM OREGON DIES AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY. :J. v :-r::nT Ail . i if - .X:--,-r - - : H . i . ' . . ' t -----k -- ' - 3 STATE MOURHS MR. FULTON'S PASSING News of Death Comes. to Po litical Friends and Foes as Distinct Shock. ' TRIBUTE PAID TO GENIUS riitRLEs r. rrL-rox. Mrs. Eastman and Taft did noMlve f III Till TO 1 1 fl I" I II htm arrested for threatening- to kill I Ul III I UL.1U1I ULIIU herself and chlMren. Taft Helear4 Freaa JalL Taft was held In the Lewis County Jiil here until last Thursday, when on account of his tubercular condition and promises to behave and quit the county forever, a ticket to Portland was bought for him and he went to that city, later writing; a letter to hia wife. Mnce Taft was released from Jail Mrs. Taft. fearlns; he miKht return. bad stayed at nttfhl with near neigh bora Lst nlcht. after dark. Taft returned to Cnehalis. slipped quietly to the fam ily home and pried open a window. hoping-. It la thought, to find his wifa. there, trap and slay bar. Ktrly tnis mnrninsr a lad named Wal ter Moore, who bad been watchtns; the Taft hous for Mrs. Taft. reported that someone bad broken Into the residence list nlsrU and it was also rumored that someone bad aeen Taft near there. !Natr4err aa la llldl At half past 10. o'clock Mrs. Taft. who bad arranged to ro to Tacoma tomor row to work, went to her home, accom panied by a neighbor. Mr. Messenger. Ex-U. S. Senator Passes Away at Portland Home. WIDOW AND SON SURVIVE Deceased for Manx Years Active I'lgore in Politics or Oregon and In Later Years of Life Promi nent JatAfralrs of Nation. i fan tinned Prom First raee.) the Intervening years he lias been prominently connected with the politl- I leal history of the state. In 1SS0. 19 packed her suitcase and started from nd 1SS he was re-elected to the Ptat the house. She bad no sooner got out side than Taft. who had been hiding; In the rear of the bulluinu In a closet. rushed Into the street In his stocking- feet and began to beat her bead and body with a hammer. The woman fell, wnunded with a dozen btowgT and he left her for dead. However, she rave another outcry and he returned and struck her acain. then dashed back to the house, locked the door ard committed suicide rather than be taken alive. Taft 9aalaa War Veteraa. Taft was a soldier In the Spanish American War. II- was 49 years of ace and was born at Portland, or. He had been a bad man all his life and had twice been sent up to the Oregon I'en Itentlary. Had be been captured this time It would have meant life under the cumulative sentence law. His fath er lives in California, a brother. Joe Taft. In Chehalla. and a sister. Mrs. Julia Stralraan. In Portland. Coroner Newell wtll hold no Inquest and the remains will probably be burled by the county. Mrs. Taft Is a daughter of Mrs. Wig-g-tns. of Llttell. and her fattver was Mm Masstnsham. a former resident of Claquato, who died some years ago. CIU.MINAIj RECORD LONG ONE Three Terms la Oregon Pending and One on Alcatrai Island Served. M. U Taft. alias the "Dirty-faced Kid." bad a long criminal record In t r (ton. He served a two-year terra the State Penitentiary for burglary, six months for a statutory offense, and another term for attempting; to bold up Mrs. Fred Anderson In ber bom at Arleta March i. 10S. For the latter oITensa ha was ar rested April 8. 1J0S. by Sheriff "Bob' Ftevens and Deputy Sheriff Leonard. He was Identified aa an ez-convlct by a bat which bad been given him at the jemtentlary. Taft also served a two-year sentence In the I'Dlted States military prison en Alcatras Island for deaertlon from toe Army. NEW YORK NEWSIES STRIKE Publishers and lealers Cannot A tree Over Wholesale Price. N EW TORK. Jan. ST. A etrike of all ti dealers and newsboys In Greater w Tork was called at a meeting; last night of the National Association of News Iealers and Stationers, as a re sult of a disagreement over the rate of II a hundred, demanded by the publishers for daily papers when the aivan.- In price to S cents became ef fotive yesterday. The news dealers demand a price of fl-2 a hundred. MEXICANS HOLD UP TRAIN Passengers Stripped of Valuables and SS Person Killed. EL PASO. Teg.. Jan. SJT. Mexican rebels, supposed to be members of the Cantuo Reyes- band, held op and robbed a passenger train on the Mexican Cen tral Railroad miles sooth of Chi huahua City, last Wednesday. Thirty five persons were killed. The bandits stripped the passengers of their valuables. Including their clothes, and rod off In the direction of 5rcasltos. News of the robbery was received In 1 Paso today In letters. Senate, serving with distinguish ability as President of the Senate tbe sessions of li.'i and 1901. lie bel a number of municipal offices In th city of Astoria and In 1S8S waa one o the Presidential electors from thi state, and carried Oregon s vote to Washington In the following- Febru ary. In lt4 he was a formidable can cldate for the gubernatorial nomina lion, but he was defeated by William P. l-ord. then Justice of the State Su preme Court, and afterward Minlste to Argentina. Mr. Faltea Cees Senate. In February. 10J. Mr. Fulton Wa elected United Slates Senator by th Oregon Legislature, and served a ful term of six years at Washington. By reason of his ability as a lawyer and statesman, he took a prominent par In the work of the National Congress, and rendered his state faithful and ef detent service as a legislator. In addiiton to his career In the law making bodies of stata and Nation. Mr. Fulton participated as a delegate from this state In a great many Republican National conventions, and had a voice in choosing his party's standard bearers and In shaping Its policies. He was a member of and attended the last three successive National Republican conventions In 1901. 1911 and 1S1. EAT LESS WHEAT IS PLEA (Contlnoed From First Page.) tnre pounds of wheat flour sold. For In stance, to sell a ex-pound sack of wheat flour a d.aler must In the same purchase, sell 17 pounds of on or mora of th substitutes listed below. Wits every 24-pound purchase of wheat flour must go a purchase ef eight pounds of a substitute, etc Substitute are aa follows: Barlsy flour, buckwheat flour, com flour, potato flour, and rica flour, corn meal, corn atarch. corn grtta, hominy, oat meal, roiled oats and nee. Wheat Tour Includes graham and whale wh.at flour. The rules Issnsd January 11 ISIS, cover ing the quantity of flour to be sold te sack cuaiomer. remain In full force and effect. Wlleax Sfcealders Task. The Oregon food administration Is leaving largely In the bands of T. B. W llcox. Federal Milling Commissioner. the task of limiting sales of wheat products by the mills to the Jobbers and wholesalers. That the restrictions promulgated at Washington In this matter will be executed to the letter and that hardship will thereby be worked on tbe little miller who has been doing custom grinding was In dlratrd last night by Mr. Wilcox. "The orders of the President. said Mr. Wilcox, "are to be law la our eyes. Tomorrow I will send letters Instruct ing ail millers of the state to abide by the restrictions laid down by the Presl dent and Mr. Hoover. Furthermore, In spectors are to be sent out to see to It that the regulations are enforced. !saall Ml tiers Bard lilt. "Many small millers of the etate will, fear, have to stop grinding, since ther do little but custom work. Some of them have been grinding wheat for patrons who u.e It for hog feed. This must be stopped immediately. It may be a regrettable hardship for them, but there seems to be no escape." Parley flour and potato flour are two substitute to Which Mr. Wilcox turning with hope. A few of the milk In which be Is Interested are now grinding barley flour, particularly in Columbia County. That locality, he says. Is about the only one where his mills have been able to obtain supplies of bsrley. Unfortunately, he declares, a large portion of the barley produced in the state baa already been -shipped out. I do not know much about the poe- sthilltles of potato flour," said Mr. Wilcox, "but tha moment our asUlln engineer returns rrom the South he" is to be set at work on this problem. I hope it will be possible to utilize a portion of the potatoes Orepon pro duces in this way. If installment of any reasonable amount of machinery wtll fit our plants here to turn out po tato flour we will soon be engaged In making- It. The bakers of Portland face a serlons problem In attempting to turn out "victory" bread exclusively. The dearth of suitable substitutes is so complete, they say. as to make It an extremely difficult one for them. - "The changes now required of us. said H. F. Pittman. of the Lop Cabin Baking Company, last night, "are so radical, and the shortage of things w-e can use as substitutes In bread is so serious, that we are strictly up against it. Barley Floor Is Scarce. "Barley flour and oatmeal are the only substitutes we have been using to any extent that Is not now barred, we can't get enough barley flour. The supply we have on hand will not last three days If we begin using It In -vic tory loaves. The supply of oatmeal is larger, but here we are up against a decidedlly higher cost. Rice flour and ?orntneal are scarce and high." Mr. Itittman and other bakers say Ex-Cnlted States Senator Eulogized by All as Friend, Neighbor, At torney and Statesman Early Life Is Spent in Iovta. Announcement of the death of ex Unlted States Senator Fulton yesterday, aithnnsrh not unexoected. came as a dlsrtnct shock to his legion of warm personal and political friends. His death was deplored with equal feeling by those who, different from him po litically, joined with Republicans in paying deserved tribute to Mr. Fulton and eulogizing him as a friend, a neigh- bor. a lawyer and a statesman. The following; estimates of the worth of the man and the loss both the state and the Nation have suffered in his death were offered yesterday. Judge Henry E. McGinn In the po litical controversies which have taken place In Oregon efuring the last 32 years or so. It has almost always happened that Charles W. Fulton and I were ar rayed on opposite sides. I an sure that the highest tribute to his personal character and to his public career will come most from men like myself who were opposed to him politically. Dr. Hlllta Friend of Mr. Fnltom. There can be nothing said of the private virtues and the public char acter of Mr. Fulton to which I will not subscribe. He was well born. I mean by that, physically and morally born the greatest legacy which any human being can Inherit. Ke was born in Lima, Allen County, Ohio, in August. 1853. His early boyhood, from 1S65 to 1870, was spent at Magnolia, la. Here in boyhood days he formed an acquain tance with Rev. Newell Dwlght Hillis. of PlymouthwChurch, Brooklyn Henry Ward Beecher's old church which con tinued through life and which is ter minated only by the Senator s death. Mr. Fulton came to Astoria In April. 1875. lust after his admission to the bar, where he also spent some of his boy hood days. He early became a public figure in Oregon. He was elected to the Oregon State Senate In 1878, again in J 8 90. again in 1894 and again in 1898. personally acquainted with Mr. Fulton in a political and a business way for more than 20 years. I know of no other man in Oregon that I regarded more highly, both personally and pollt Ically. in the United States Senate he became a National figure and was one of the big men in the National Con gress. Aside from his ability as a statesman, he was recognized by both Democrats and Republicans as one of tbe country s ablest lawyers. He was a most honorable citizen, an able law yer and a distinguished statesman. His death is an irreparable loss to his state ana 10 oi3 country. Loss to State Menraed. John W. Mlnto Mr. Fulton was one of God's noblemen. He was one of Oregon's biggest and best citizens. He was a man of unquestioned integrity. whose word was supreme. As a mem ber of the Senate he was a National figure. At home he Was equally con spicuous for his ability and his service to the people. I had an intimate ac quaintance with Mr. Fulton for more than 30 years, and can say I never knew a more upright and honorable man. The state and Nation have sut fered a great loss in his death. M. a. Munly I am shocked by the news of Mr. Fulton's death. I knew him for nearly 30 years. I liked Charlie" Fulton. He was a genial. pleasant man, one of the great lawyers of tha state, and a statesman of Na tional prominence. His genial and charming personality attracted and re tained friends. Although not ot the same political party, I came to know him intimately and counted him a most valued friend. He was a big law yer and a staunch friend. Tom Word The death of Mr. uiton is a loss to the state that cannot be supplied. He was one of tbe greatest men Oregon ever had in its public life. He was one of the best representatives tbe state ever sent to the National Con gress. Senator Fulton was a fearless man of strong convictions, who ren dered his state a great service. BORAH DEFENDS WILSON SENATOR ADDRESSES AN IMMENSE GATHERING AT BALTIMORE. People reared Not to Take Too Seriously Men Who In War Time Are In- -able to Forget Partisanship. TRUANT TEACHER IS FOUND 111. on Halsey Schoolmistress Flees Troubles and Comes to City to Take Employment. SEEMING MYSTERY CLEARS Mlgnon Swanson, Finding That Gos sip and Minor Friction Is Role in Country School, Quits "Without Notice. When her troubles as a countrv schoolmistress became greater than she could bear. Mignon Swanson. 27. teacher of a school near Halsey, Or., cast up her employment without notice to directors, friends or family, and came to Portland to study for the civil service. vFor several days Miss Swanson's ner tul-bed relatives, aided by the Portland police and Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin, of the women's protective division. have sought vainly for traces of the truant schoolmistress, fearing the possibility oi ue seeming mystery. Work Soon Foun Last night she was located at the Hereford residential note:. 735 shipbuilding work and hot now em ployed in it. as a part of the war labor reserve . now being registered. Men who enroll will not sacrifice inde pendence of action, and each is advised to remain at his present Job until no tified 'that a place in a shipyard is ready for him. The quotas include: Montana, 1583: Idaho, 1621: Wyoming. 618: Utah. 1660; Washington, 5906; Oregon. 3204; Cali fornia, 11,310. R. P. Bonham, United Stated immi gration inspector in Portland, who has been in charge of the Labor Depart ment's employment agency work. Is in charge of enrolling laborers In this dis trict. In this proposed reserve he will be aided by the United States Shipping Board's district office in Portland, L. J. Wentworth, Northwestern Bank build ing, and whatever agencies may be or ganized with the aid of the State Coun cil of Defense. The reserve was formally announced January 14. It is not likely there will be an im mediate need for more workers in the Portland district. More skilled labor ers would be taken on if they were available, perhaps, but a movement has been started within the last week to discourage the immigration of ordinary laborers from the Middle West at this time, as the supply here is ample. IN ENOUGH FOR JOBS LABOR SUPPLT AND DEMAND ARB EQUAL, SAYS REPORT. Need Said to Exist In Pacific Northwest for Loggers California Has Labor to Spare. NEW TORK, Jan. 27. Labor supply and demand in the United States are in exact balance, according to a statement Hoyt I issued today from the newly opened of- street, where she had bravely tackled f ice here of the United States Employ the problem of a new career by work-lment Service, attached to the Depart ing as a dining-room maid, while at tending a business college for the cov eted civil service course. i aion t tninK they would worrv.' Bald Miss Swanson, a trifle nervously. merit of Labor. Except for temporary Inconvenien ces, sayt the statement, 'practically every able and willing worker can be well employed during the current year 'Anyway it didn't matter. I stood it as I and the needs of every industry can In BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 27. Senator William K. Borah, of Idaho, in an ad dress to an immense Patriotic Defense League meeting in the Academy of Mu sic today vigorously defended President Wilson's Administration and Congress against what he termed "the wild criti cisms" of some men who, he said, could not forget partisanship, but whose real intention was to get at the bottom of some of the mistakes that have been made in the preparations for war. He said: There are a few men In these ctu- long as X could and then I simply had to go away." The briefest of interviews served to elicit the information that country school teaching, with the neighborhood gossips discussing pedagogy from every adverse angle, is a sore trial to tern perament. Worried to the veree of a a reasonable time be filled up to luu per cent." A summary of official reports of Fed eral directors of zones, not hitherto published, indicate: The principal California cities report the labor supply far in excess of the demand, due to the annual influx of with her new employer. Girl Wins Champion. cial times who are unable to forget Then came the story in The Orego- their oartisanshiD. but they must not nian from Albany, which told of the be taken too seriously, for let me assure missing schoolmistress, Mignon Swan- . wo. .,",,", you that, as a whole. Congress is strain-I eon. The manager of the Hereford saw State Senate In 1893 tnd In 1901 and ln ,every nervs ana spending days ana . mm . . ,oo tj. weeks of enersry in the Ereat task of room maid. ""I t..". J .1 "V. " tumme- a neace-lovinir Nation into a I "U seems that you have a front- ate "in T February, im. .nd took W. rt "eShtlnr machine and doing everything Page ' wrUo-up. Miss Swanson," she i -j.. i' r. ' , . ., In Its nower to nut the Nation on its commented. . x,cCc..icr u. m.. fi-.Btin8. Dasi8. , bee of you Whereupon Miss Swanson confided In MM K. 1 . nHHAH 1 I ,1.11 k-. 4. 1 . r 0 . . . ..... - .,rUir. I not to Judice Congress by the few who ' lu But" ' sne won In the Senate he became and was a I T.itiniR Thft t:mic nf transformation I an Instant champion. It was resolved National figure. He stood with such i ,r nne and In order to have no to BB-Y no more about the matter than en as Senators Snooner and Bailev I .i.,i,.. mnHa the Administration as the great constitutional lawyers ofwouiHhave to be divine." the rtenate. His loss will be mourned by none more than by his old associates WATERLOO, la., Jan. 21. United of the United States Senate. Since his States Senator William S. Kenyon, in retirement from the Senate in 1909 he an address today, referred to what he has practiced law In this city. He was termed "the unfortunate criticism of the Administration Dy senator tnam berlain." He said that helpful crit icism was needed, but that harmful criticism would make bad matters worse. He said that the United States Navy was beyond criticism and was, in his opinion, ably directed by Secretary I Miss Swanson to her relatives, and par ticularly to her father, who is nervous breakdown, the distraught "floaters" to escape the cold weather schoolmistress ' soueht surcease in I elsewhere. flight. Portland, Or., and Seattle, Wash., de- Through an employment agency she clares that it is impossible to supply secured the position at the Hereford, the demand for loggers, telling Mrs. S. M. Walls, the manager, Chicago is described as being In "easy that she wished to work while studying condition, with 10,000 applied for to at the business college. Quiet, refined balance every 10,000 seeking jobs." ana industrious she madA a distinct I "hit' 0. S. TIES BUSS RIFLES HALF MILLION GUNS DIFFER OXLT IN BORE FROM ENFIELD. the most loveable of men. He .is sur vived by a widow and son and 'several brothers and a sister. The world will be lonesome for many of his old assocl ates because of his taking away. He was the life of any company in which he was. He had a laughter that was seemed necessary, and to aid in the young woman's ambition to free her self from the schoolroom shackles. "You know how they talk in the country," said the manager. "I gath ered that the neighborhood gossips had a great deal to say about how she taught the school, and that the poor girl could find no other solution than to quit. . Of course, she acted ill ad visedly in not telling her people, but my sympathies are all with her." Lack of direct communication from War Department, After Conference With Russian Ambf-sndor, AgTees to Aelmburse Manufacturers. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. Rifles or- dere' by the Kussian government from the Remi: .-ton Arms Union Metallic Company at Bridgeport, Conn., and the Westinghouse Company at Springfield, Mass., will be taken o.er by the Gov- ernmen-- More than hair a million rifles, differing only in bore from the Ame icanized Enfield, .re involved. The desire of the War Department to hold together the trained workmen In the two plants while these factories are 5 5?"vj;r-.;ss xrur """" - "- -- national and well as a state loss, used In any quantity. At present it Is . . not offered In appreciable quantity by Patriotism la Landed. Oregon dealers. 3a-T Bowerman, Mr. Fulton's law partner In the death of Senator Ful Brraa Prices to oo IP. ton the state has lost one of its ablest One disclosure of yesterday's inves-1 lawyers, as well as Its most eml ttgatlon Is that the price of bread In nent statesman, to whom many had Portland Is due for a rise. I looked with hope for patriotic service Intimations have been given by Ad-(in the near future when we si..-11 need mlnlstrator Ayer that present prices the useful assistance of honest, cana cannot be maintained In this city. Thelbie men. While he was a sturdy ad established retail prices, 9 cents for vocate of the political principle which the lS-ounce loaf and 13 cents for the he espoused, yet,, In the present crisis. 11-dudcs luai, are, biivwu iv uwu i iLu(,nitn ii w ijaiLjr lines am. ad Infectious and which would drive awav I Daniels. He further said that all any fit of blues. I competency in the Army or elsewhere UI all the public men that have ever! should be eliminated Immediately. been In Oregon none was more loved. being reorganized to manufacture ma- rancher near Lebanon, led to the wild- I chine guns is the principal reason for est surmise. Word was received by the action. H1f$IBi. CLEARED OP CHICAGO WOMAN TELLS OF SLUG GING OF NAVY JACKIE. "Blllle" Laverne, In Confession. Dis closes Part She and Others Played in Affair. the puzzled directors, through the em ployment agency which got Miss Swan son her new position as a maid, that they should secure another teacher. Then came an equally enigmatic mes sage, directing that her trunk be sent to 73o Hoyt street. The fact that the Hereford employs another young woman of almost Iden tical surname threw investigation off the track for a time. Miss Grace S wen son, 17. who lived with her mother at a nearby address and who worked at the Hereford, served in this manner to add to the muddle. After a series f conferences. In which the Russian Embassy was repre sented, it was decided, that the de partment would, In effect, take over the contracts, i.mb rsing the manu facturers in a manner .vhich will per mit a gradual reduction through the next few months for the force engaged on rifle, contr its. It IS understood the Russian Em bassy reiuested and obtained an op tion on the rifles in the h-.- of event ually being able to pke them over. shown unfair to the bakers and dis tributors In Investigations conducted from Mr. Ayer's office, even before the new regulations came from Washing ton. The bakers and dealers, in a spirit ot patriotism, made little complaint. Bread prices will be one of the topics ability as an advocate. He possessed of discussion at a meeting of food ad- an immense fund of knowledge of his muted a fealty to none save a united country. Oregon possessed no more patriotic citizen. as a lawyer mr. f'uiton for many years stood at tha front -nf th. hoe - . ' 1 i t i 1 I ....... rincaptAca ior ne possessed a rare combination of IU"UIUUU xunu, m ""j He.n lenrnlncr- In law .v. . . I Was cleared a WRY. " o - u . " w 1 hit . uu UOUt&l I ... , - ., lae young woman ioia me uonuo ir real name is Mrs. John Albert scnuttz. CHICAGO. Jan. 27. (Special.) With the confession of Wilhelniina ("Billie") Laverne, 22 years old, the last trace of mvsterv surrounding the slugging of Riehard Bundick, a Louisiana jackle at the Great Lakes Naval Station, with a piece of gaspipe, by John Dell Claude BIG GUNS ROAR II. ITALY Teuton Attack on Italian Lines Near Piave Mouth Is Repulsed. . Fire Menaces Navy-Yard. BOSTON. Jan. 27. Fire of unknown origin was discovered in an oil-tank building in the Boston Navy yard early today by a special police officer. The flames were extingmsned by worKmcu before they could cause much damage. mlnistratdrs of the Coast states, to be held in Portland February 4 and &. Meatless Days Explained. For the reason that no changes In "meatless" day regulations now In force in Oregon are made by the Presi dent's proclamation, Mr. Ayer has no new orders to Issue in this connection. 'Meatless" days and meals In this state continue, until March 13, to be defined simply as "porkless" days and meals. All forms of pork, including lard, are barred from use at one meal each day and every Tuesday and Saturday. Householders and others affected by tory and especially of that of our coun try. His own sturdy honesty made him forever the enemy of sham and hypocrisy and an admirer of worth and virtue wherever found. Young Lawyers Advised. I have never known a man of kind lier impulses. ro young lawyer ever asked In vain for his gratuitous as sistance In planning how to win his first case. Many a litigant with a meritorious case procured his assist ance without more compensation than aISO admitted, according to the police, mo Biamuus. . that she aiifforested to Claude and Dunn To have casually met Senator Fulton that they rob a West Madison-street ROME, Jan. 27. There was artillery activity yesterday along the entire front in Northeastern Italy, the Italian War -Office announced today, forces last night attempted She boasted that her husband is a proacn tne Italian lines at capo tiie, Naval Lieutenant stationed at Goat near the mouth of the .Plave Klver, but Island, San Francisco Bay. Following were promptly repulsed and in a coun- her confession the police held her on a ter-attack the Italians brought back charge of being an accessory to a rob- prisoners. Bombs dropped by Tentonic bery. airplanes on Treviso and Mestre claimed According to the police she said that six women victims, tnree oeing Kiueu. Bundick had displayed two $50 bills on Three hospitals at Mestre were dam the nisrbt of December 23 in the home aged by the explosions. of Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps, and that she Aerial activity was notable from had declared her willingness to John Lake- Garda to the sea. British air Dell Claude and Raymond Dunn, the men brought down two machines with- two Jackies under arrest, to divide the in the enemy lines and one in names, proceeds of a robbery with them, bne tne statement; says. John S. Parsons Suicide. NORFOLK. Va.. Jan. 27. Commander Enemy j0hn S. Parsons, of the Naval Reserve, to ap- shot and killed himself in his office here today. He had been suffering from a nervous disorder. the restrictions on wheat products are WOuld arouse admiration, but to have drva-oods tore requested to note this official designa- been his associate and reallv know him "5m,S Uon of foods barred "On wheatless days and in "wheat- less meals of other days, use no crack era, pastry, macaroni, breakfast food or other cereal food containing wheat and use no wheat flour in any form, except the small amount that may be needed -or thickening soups or gravies, or for a binder in corn bread or other cereal breads." "As to bread," concludes the new Government order. "If yon bake it at home, use other cereals than wheat. and It you buy it, buy only 'war bread." VICTORY LOAF IS REALITY BAKERS READY TC COMPLT WITH CONSERVATION ORDER. War Bread Will Contain Five Per Cent Sabatltate for Wheat Flonri Cereals May Be I sea. WlSHTf!TnN. Jan. 7 Rakera will begin tomorrow the manufacture oflna " "" OI , mo" distinguished he Victory loaf, a war bread contain Rillie" denied that she knew any- attached one by the tenderest ties and thing of the murder of John Becker, a in his death I have lost my best friend jackle, who was found with a crushed as well as the man I most admired. skull In the Sharpless building on No- Wallace McCamant, Associate Jus-1 vember 11. A charge of murder has tlce Oregon Supreme Court The state been lodged against Claude and a can ill afford to lose Mr. Fulton. He charge of assault with Intent to kill was a high-minded citizen, zealous and I has been made against Dunn. courageous in the service of the people. He hated demagogues and despised shams and insincerities. He was a loyal, dependable friend and one of the strongest lawyers of the Oregon bar. Colonel Samuel White, chairman Democratic stata central committe "Charlie" Fulton was my exceedingly good friend. I' feel his death very keenly and regard It a personal loss. Our associations were most Intimate. The state has lost a useful citizen whose place cannot . easily be filled. He was a pure, patriotic citizen. His ideas were high and ennobling. He had no other desire but to serve the Nation and the-people In whatever ca paclty he might be called upon to fill. His death is a distinct loss to the bar of the state, to the state and to the Nation Ability aa Lawyer Praised. J. P. Kavanaugh, Circuit Judge- In the death of Mr. Fulton the state SERBIAN SAINT HpNORED Subscription of $130 Taken for Ben efit of Red Cross. Ing a per cent- substitute for wheat flour prescribed by the rood Adminis tration as a. part of Its 1918 food con servation programme. At the same time grocers will sell to householders wheat flour only when the purchaser uya an equal amount of some other ceraaL Th percentage of substitute flours used by baking establishments will be Increased gradually until a 2a per cent ubstttutlon la reaotied on February 24. As substitutes the bakers may uso Ither some other cereals or flours made from potatoes or beans. Hotels, restaurants ana other public atlng places will ba required to ob serve the regulations laid down for baking establishments. i citizens. . His public service 1 as been continued and varied and much Im portant state and Federal legislation waS Introduced and pressed by him to final enactment- He was a lawyer of distinguished ability. He was a warm and genial friend and many will find his passing a deep personal sorrow. R. S. Bean. United States Judge I knew Mr. Fulton very well for 30 years. From that acquaintance I re garded hi in an upright, honorable, high-minded man. . His conduct as a lawyer was exceptional. He was al ways open, frank, honest, courteous to tbe court and opposing counsel. His example to the other members of the bar was especially to be commended. Ralph E. Williams. Republican Na tional Commltleeaaa 1 have been OIL PRICES COMPARED 2 FIGURES ARE BASED ON . AUGUST REPORTS OF REFINERS. Bulletin Shows Prices Are From 70 to 184 Per Cent Higher Than Dnr lnc Month of Jane. ' Serbian people of Portland commem orated the memory of St. Sava last night at a meeting in Alisky Hall. A programme was carried out and a sub scription of $130 taken for the bene- of Serbian Red Cross. St. Sava was a Crown Prince who in e 14th century gave up the crown and devoted his life to the schools. His praises were sung in the native tongue at the meeting by the 150 Serbians present. As a result of the meeting a ladies "beehive" was organized to make things needed In relief work among Serbian soldiers and refugees in the islands of the Adriatic and Mediter ranean seas. DAILY METEOROLOGICAL RETORT. PORTLAND, Jan. -7. Maximum temper ature, 53 decrees; minimum. 43. River read ing:. 8 A. M., 8.5 feet; change in last 24 hours, 0.3 foot fail. Total rainfall (f P. M. to 5 P. M.), .03 inches; total since Septem ber 1, 1917, 25.06 Inches; normal. 25 Inches; excess, .06 inch. Sunrise, 7:38 A. M. ; sun set, 5:0 P. M. ; total sunshine, 2 hours and 50 minutes; possible sunxhine, 9 hours and SO minutes. Moonrise. 6:15 P. M. ; moonset, 7:40 A. M. Barometer (reduced to sea level) 5 V. M.. 30.26 Inches. Relative humidity at noon, 73 per cent- THB WEATHER. STATIONS. : S Stata of Weather WAR ORPHANS ADOPTED Salina, Kan., Assumes Responsibil ity for 36 French Children. SALINA, Kan., Dec. 27. As a Christ mas present L A. Pribble, of Salina, sent a cablegram to Field Marshal Jof fre at Paris, saying Salina had adopted 36 French orphans. The orphans were adopted by the lo- Ifceattle cal Council U. C. T., the First M. E.. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. Fuel oil prices are the subject of a special bul letin issued tonight by the Federal Trade Commission, showing wide varia tion between th cost of oil, plus re fining, and tbe sale price, particularly in the East and Middle West. The figures are based upon August reports of the refinerB. The commission notes that published quotations show that prices now are from 70 to 184' per cent higher thah they were in June. Following are the August figures in cents for "representa tive cost, refining charge and sale price at district centers: I ft D H P it M New Jersey and Eastern Territory UiibUUlt Cost. 3.34c: reflnlnsr. .94c: Dries at Pittsburg, 8c . I Ship Labor Reserve to Be Enrolled Isdlana and North Mississippi valley I . cost. 2.04c: refining. .47c: nrice at Government Chicago. 5.75c Oklahoma Cost, 1.85c; refining, .58c; WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. Quotas as price at Tulsa, 3.6c ' I signed to each state in the three weeks' Gulf Coast Cost. Z.14c; refining-. .33c: campaign for a voluntary shipbuilding price at Fort Worth, 4c I reserve of 250.000 men were announced California cost, l.sec; rerimnsr, .23c: I today by the Department of Labor. price at San Francisco, 3.45o. Xha object Is to enroll men fitted for Baker ...... Boise Boston Calgary .... Chicago .... Denver Des Moines . Duluth Kureka ..... Galveston ... Helena Jacksonville tJuneau Kansas City Los Angeles Marshfleld .. Medford Minneapolis New Orleans., New York ... North Head North Yakima Phoenix Pocatello Portland Koseburs Sacramento . . St. Louis Halt L.ake .... San Diego . San Francisco. 161 S6IO.00I..IS IClear 20 38 0.00 .. XW'Pt cloudy , .. iDiii.uu . ..s uiear Church and individuals and, business firms here. QUOTA IS 3204 Spokane . . . Tacoma . . .. Tatoosh Island fValdez Walla Walla.. Washington .. Winnipeg 41! 42 84 -12' '44 20 441 12 4.1 4 40 14 16 44 52j 40 30! 40 40 14 381 SiO.OOlOiNW 14i0.016 B 30:0. 041 8!N 1010. 141 8!NE -2l0.0012!NE 5LM0.00121N 4i0.0114NW 12.11. 00 .. W 0.00 0.C8I: 0.1 0.00 0.02 .SB 61NE 10IN ..IE 4!NW 4iNW 70 32; 1 60 56 54 8!0.00 76 I 8 S lSI0.16il0iN 4i0.0Hl20lNW 50'O.OOJ 8.NW 540.08 6;SW 200.02110ISE 53:0. 081 4iSW 52 0.00 . .IN !0.00(. . NW 16 U. 20112 NE 28! I. .SW 020.08I10INW 64)0.00 . . NW 4K'0.00'10iNE 4n;0.00l. . 42 . . . . 6ISW Bli:0.02ilflSW 4S0.16i20iW 20io.uui. .Ink 50 6'SW 2010.041 SINE -4l0.00il8tSB PU cloudy Cloudy Clear Snew Cloudy Pt. cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Snow Clear PL cloudy PU cloudy 14l.SE IClouily iClourr Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy hnow Cloudy Clear Clear Snosr Snow Clear Clear Cloudy Cloudy Pt. cloudy Cloudy Cloudy . ft. cloudy Clear Cloudy ' Pt. cloudy tA. M. today; P. M. report of preceding day. FORECAST. Portland and vicinity Monday fair, mod erate westerly winds. Oregon Monday generally fair, moderate westerly winds. Washington Monday probably rain west portion, fair east portion; moderate westerly winds. Idaho Monday fair. . EDWARD L. WELLS, Meteorologist, '