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THE 3I0RXIXG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1918. SOLDIERS' Kill MAY "THROTTLE SEDITION Crisis Develops in Milwaukee; Z Indictment of City's m Mayor Sought. SOCIALISM GETS NOTICE "Wheeler llloodjood. Jlrad of i'oanljr Coanril of IcfcDe. Inllmatra. ' That lie and Aoclatr Majr . Take lUdk-al Anion. MlLWAfKEF. Wis.. Mar.h 21 Wheeler R. Bloodgood. chairman, cf m County Council of lefene. told a .paper men today that be had pa pers drawn op to area the lndlrtm.nl of Mayor Moan-, Social Jut rtnom inated. tfcat Iloan a re -election aj Mar at being practiraliy assured, ha. illood- would see to hava Milwaukee ptaeod .ndrr military laar. might b-tter act now tban wait. aid Mr. fUoodgood. "The tlraa for action raa coma. "lf the peera machinery of Govern ment Is t na d ej ua t . to deal with a eltu- 'itQ like that In Milwaukee and tn ama other sections, there ar enough of as to releforre tbat machinery to wartime machinery. tslee Served Haaa. T aured Mayor Iloan In tha pr'- of many witnesses tbat I would hava him Indtcl.d and I assured him J fiat ha would never attain b Mayor r Milwaukee, said Mr. lUoodcood. 1 am seeking hla lndirtmnt on tha round of tha tforialtot platform Ito.lf, to wltkh Iloan aubeerlbad. It declares trial tha peopla did aol want tha war that publication of tha details . at tempts to hamper war production would disclose clues of perpetrators not now available. WESTERN TOUR ON TAPIS R. X. Slanfirld to Visit Columbia ami Willamette Valleys. SALEM. Or.. Marrh II. (Special.) Announcement was mada Wednesday ay Robert N. Slanfirld. candidate for tha United States Senate, that he will make another trip throughout the Western Oregon count Ira. Including those In the Lower Columbia Hirer Valley. - lie expects to to Into tho Columbia River countlea In the near future, and probably from there will atart throuab the Willamette Valley and Coast coun tiea. heading aouth after a brief stay In I ortland. Mr. tjtanfleld expressed plea eu re to- day at tha reception that waa given hint In Central Onion, and aald that the report, which have ao far been re relred from the Central Ore icon roun Ilea hava been fully op to expectation. Ilia next itinerary through Weatern Oregon will Include all of thla section, and be probably will make a number of alopa In Marlon County towns. 50 CALLED, 429 ON DUTY Clarkamaa Draft Officials Believe County Has Made Krrord. OREGON CTTT. Or, March II. Spe claL Although Uncle Bam haa called only & men to date from Clarkamaa County .registrants, atatiatica compiled by the local board ahow that there are already 42s Cla.a I men In the aerrlce of the 1'nited ftatea from thla county. The check up waa mada upon receipt of a telegram from Adjutant-Ueneral Williams, asking for atatiatica ahowlng number of Cla.a I men regiatered and the number now In the aerrlce. There have been 1650 registrations in the county, and In addition to the ill Cla.a I men now In the aerrlce. there are atlll available 4 men of thla rlaaa In the county. In addition there are I Cla.a 1 men who have appeals pending- for agricultural and industrial exeinplU n. MCEMORENOD IS GERMAN DEMAND Patriotic Peasantry of Central Empires Whipped Up by Adequate Propaganda. WOMEN AND BOYS TILL SOIL "He YVTio Withhold Food Is Traitor to llrotbers Dying at Front and Sin .galrtt Falhrrlaud," Teuton Slogan. thAt ttt.v do nut want tha war. and ' that It waa forced on them by the U'-LVE SUBJECTS "Tba ruling rlaa.ee ran mean only ore thing In America the i're.Mrnl I Kangcllt to Dlcu Dancing, Card ihi ' oagrea. Tnat is sention. "t hava two boys In France. Presl dent YVtlaon has assured them they .hall hot b-j atlarkrd In the rear as they bare been tn Milwaukee. leaf af Kla Oria.be. "I and hundreds of others next of Hn of tnooe boys In France, are or ganising now to assure rigorous prose- ruiion of the war. and I ear eolemnly thai tbe.a men are of tha quiet and de termined rharact.r which will not aland Playing. Theater-Going. BT CTRIL BROWN. (Coprrtaht. ISIS, by tha Preae Pubh.olne omp.ny. Published by arrangement with the New Tork World. ) STOCKJIOLM. Feb. 22. (Special.) After three food years of bitter experi ence and experimentation, involving boat of makeshift measures and mis akea and an encyclopedia of ordl- nancea and regulations, tier-man food strategy has at last crystallized Into certain oaarc principles. They are first consistently applied for the official food year of IslJ-lg (dating from har- est to harvest) and with minor varia- lons will guide Germany's food Dolicv for the balance of the war. Though It sounds like a platitude. he most Important factor ia the sys ematic stimulation of production to ha limit- of Germany's agricultural trength. to squeeze every no.alble dron of bread and potatoea out of Germany's war-impoverished soil; to make Ger many absolutely Independent and self- epemlent. aa if there were no nearby neutral and conquered countries. Thia truth waa slow to trickle into the bralna of Germany's economie gen eral staff, who neglected the root of all food hnrtira anil n..lBllv.A nl OFFERED I mot entirely on the control and dis- ii iuuuuh ok loousiuus until tne present food year. e Acreage lias Caae Back. Germanya acreage under cultivation haa gone back sharply and the yield per acre haa droppec, so that a "good" war crop la amaller than a mlddline or fair peace time harvest. This must queatlons: "la Card I'laylng Wrong?" la Theater-Going Harmful?- -Is Panctng sinful"' These have been contested queatlons In many churrhea. Three aervlrea will be held on Bun- tor a tkwlallat government In Mllwau-I day. which will bring the meetlnge at Bee or the stale of Wisconsin. I the t entenary Church to a close. "We are prepared to act. We shall, for I Th members of the 8rllwood Meth. Evangelist II. I- Stephens, who has been conducting a serlea of meetings at tha Centenary Methodist Episcopal I bo borne In mind when readina- offi-i t.nurcn. will speak tonight on three I German croo rennrt. Th.i. h. ii; potato crop, a life saver for Germany, waa entnuniastlraily hailed as "splen did." whereas In cold figures it was lO.uoo.ooo tons, or more than :0 per cent, lesa than the normal average crop for the decade before the war. The sharp shrinkage of land under cultivation mar be aathered from the instance, art If wa do not act martial I ooist nurrn nave aaaea jir. xiepnens I ract that the acreage of potatoes alone Canada., where they will conduct union campaign with 13 or IS churches uniting. law or aa indictment which will pr rent Hoaa from being sworn In again aa Mayor. I hope that It will not be put op to our organisation we call It ao far the next of kin.' but If it Is accessary we will not falter." Maae Dyaaaalte ( ark s'aaad. r!nouvi drnamlta to blow up tha K'irth fid of the city was found today 21 fe.t from, toe power-house of lb .National lirake A Rlectric Company whtrsi aaa ooverament contracts, it wsa made known today, KW TORK. Marrh II ITofc.or Pot Nearlng. formerly of the Uni versity of F'nnsylranla and of Toledo I etrer.ity. was lodar Indicted by the Federal grand Jury on the charge, of VI'Mattng the espionage act. The American tioctali.t JWlety. with waih) he is connected, was Indicted on the same charav. I AXC.KI.ES. Cal, March 51. RL cardo Florea Magon. known to Federal authorttlee through bis connection with .Mexican reroluttonary morements. and IJbrado Rivera, said to be a leader among Mexican radical... were arrested tore lodar charged wiih sedition. Their bail waa fixed at l'i.ew each. aedtttaa) la tldllaetal ( Barer. flth were charged In Ihe complaints with responsibility for an editorial In XvirrzivxxTfZzrs shipyards of coast lead leged. Incited t Insurrection. ana nia wire to conduct a two weeks I has gone back more than AO per cent meeting series at their church, which I during the war Stimulation of pro- win htiuib aoma i. nuno, i uuriion is tnus the vital probler solved. em to be CORVALLIS CANNERY SOLD Brownsville Plant Kn large Capac ity by Purrliase. RROWNSVIIJel. Or, March (Special.) According to Ira Hutrhlna. vice-prealdent of the Cr.con Cannera' Asaociatlon and manager of the Browna rille Cannery, the Corvallle cannery plant haa bean purchased by the Hrownsville Institution. This will mean a anuca greater rolume of buaineaa will be done by Ihe company thla season than formerly. The building at Browns ville will be enlarged and a greater force of workera will be employed. At a meeting of the atockhoidera re rently It waa decided to purchase I new auto truck for use In gathering up the fruit In far-away pi acta It la expected that large quantities of erer green blackberries will be received and canned thla year. Germany's agricultural Droduction has reached the lowest level of the war. but it haa also touchrd rock bottom With concentrated attention Germany's I can eat their fill and keen fit for work . . v. ,m win oe increased. I exciuxtveir on official food ordinance. sideratlon. More specifically, it means that for the balance of the war. in the allotment of Germany'a harvest, the army (man and beast) comes first, then the civilian population, then breeding and draught animals, while all other animals have the last claim on any sur plus. There are no reliable, no even tp-, proximately accurate, crop statistics for the last harvest. Successive esti mates by experts hare varied by mil lions of tons. There is reason to be lieve that producers, for selfish rea sons, rery generally -turned In false figures: there is more than a suspi cion that the actual crops harvested have been underestimated rather than verestimated. And on thiabasis of uncertainty the whole complicated structure of Germany's food appor tionment and rationing has had to be built. The 1SU food problem Is complicated still further by the fact that Germany Just barely reached the last harvest with stocks of breadstuffs virtually exhausted, so that the surplus carried forward into the new food year are negligible. The moral pressure alone of America'a embargo has caused food Imports from neutral countries to shrink to such an extent that food Im ports In any but negligible quantities cannot be counted on during 1918 with the certainty that existed in 1915,1918 and the first half of 1917, when vast -quantities of foodstuffs were Imported. Crops Belorr Average. I Germany's crop of wheat and ry though at first officially characterised as a "good middle harvest," is now known to have been somewhat below the average the war average an though of good quality It Is not euffi clent to cover the guaranteed bread ra tlon, which nevertheless must be main tained and can only be maintained by stretching the breadstuffs with pota toes. Germany's potato crop, which will have to bear the. brunt of the de fenslve famine In 1918. voted "very good' and "splendid" by officialdom, was only fair (estimated at from 30, 000.000 to 35.000,000 tons good when compared with the 22.000,000-ton potato failure of 1918, decidedly poor compared with the 65.000.000-ton crop of 1915, un favorable compared with the peace-tim average of 4a.000.000 tons). The popular cry for a weekly pe capita ration of 10 pounds cannot be complied with; the above close calcula tion ia based on an unalterable ration of seven pounds. How close the army horses were to the starvation mark at the end of the last food year is betrayed by the fact that the state, at the Instance of the military authorities, hsd to offer the farmera a special apeed premium for the early threshing of oats. The lion's share of the small oata crop goes to the army: the slender remnant is reserved for agricultural and industrial horses only; there is nothing for the public. The bulk of the barley crop. 35 per cent less than that of the preceding year. Is reserved for the brewing of the army's beer In 1918. A small fraction is set aside for the manufacture of malt cof fee and malt extract for the public. Nor will the layman get an ounce of tne peaa and beans crop, which are confiscated for the army and the war industry workers. On the other hand. the beet sugar crop waa at least 50 per cent petier than in the preceding year, and beet sugar is counted on to help fill the gap caused by fat shortage. The nay crop waa a failure. Aalmala Pare Badly. n N'ot even disciplined German animals can vilin an even break in the weather Germany's crop figures must be calcu lated on to increase. Hardy Peaaaatry Suffer. The causes for the decrease In acre age and yield lay In the shortage of labor, the shortage and underfed con dition of draught animals, the shoe, age of fertilisers and the maximum prices and onerous official burden of rules and restrictions. No class of Germans hss suffered so severely as the hardy peasantry. The oerceniaae of physical fitness being considerably nigner man in tne cities, the land has been combed clean of able-bodied The lIg food quilt, stretched to the limit, barely covers the German peo ple, leaving the animals out in the cold. For farm horses, which are placed in a preferred class, a per capita ration of two pounds of oats a day has been decreed. Some slender provision will also be made for city draught horses. draught oxen and breeding animals. tor the rank and file of livestock however, there is nothing left except a prohibition, whose Infringement en tails heavy punishment. Sooner than aee their cattle starve to death on their hands, the agrarians must either break the law or ruth- M,:i i ' '-SJ I'"! Bring Coupon With You It Is Good for 20 Extra S. & H. Trading Stamps Today and Tomorrow BRING THIS COUPON AD VET 20Extra"20 "S. & H." Trading Stamps on your first $1 cash pur chase and double on the balance. Good on first floor and in basement today and Satur day, March 23 and 33. A careless remark dropped in a streetcar may furnish a spy with the missing link in a long chain. . When in doubt don't say it. A Good Guaranteed Washable Chamois Just what you need for polishing your machine or cleaning windows. Special Special Prices in RUBBER GOODS 3-quart Red Rubber, Molded Fountain Syringe, one- Q" year guarantee Combination Hot Water Bot tle and Fountain Syr- Q inge J)J- Rubber Bathing Caps, 25?? to $1 S1.65 A light oak MISSION LAMP with stained glass panels. Spe cial now at ' TOILET PAPER7 "Waldorf" tissue, one OQ, dozen Ot7lv "Bonaf id" tissue, four rolls. "Snow White" crepe '7Q one dozen JV 98c Ask to see the new Combination Coin' , nd Bill Purse we are now showing. Posi tively the'most practical and convenient purse of its kind. Made of Morocco and Russia calf. !' AUTO STROP SAFETY RAZOR The best, quickest, safest and cheapest razor. 30 days' trial. Special Military (gfj QQ We carry a complete assort ment of MORSE GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDS Oregon-grown Qnion OA -Sets, lb : -SUl, These spring -showers will remind you that you need an UMBRELLA We have a few left from De cember stock, at a discount of one-third. Colors, blue, lavender, green and novelties. The best rainproof Umbrella for man or woman youH find for. $1.19 BOSS TRIANGLE POLISH MOP W..'- .1 .1, , I'll". l tv,'!- iiijmliiajliiiililikl.iU-uii" BOSS" Cedar Mod Triangular, strong, long thread. Special, with one quart of Cedar 3 INSIDE FLOOR PAINT 13 colors fresh stock. Quarts 77i Gallons $2.79 FLAT-TON E washable wall paint. Quarts. . .$1.00 Gallons .$3.35 A good, strong Putty Knife with every $1.00 purchase. As there has been a strong advance in wholesale prices on paints, oils and lead, this may be your last opportunity to buy at these prices. $1.50 Oriental Cream. .. .$1.25 Nikk-"Marr Cream 50r Nikk-Marr Balm 500 Nikk-Marr Dressing ..500 60c Java Riz Powder 390 50c La Blache Face Powder 390 Azurea Face Powder. .. .$1.50 Mennen's Talcum Powder for men 100 and 150 Cucumber and Elderflover Cream, jars 500 and 750 Gouraurd's Medicated OPT Soap SDC Theatrical Cold Cream, Q r lb pound OUt Colgate's Natural Odor irt- Toilet Soap, 3 for. 1UC 13c Geranium Bath Soap QPT, 3 for : ODL $1.00 Miolena Freckle Orrt Cream OOC $1 Wood-Lark Freckle OP Cream ODt 1 case Ivory Soap, 100 bars S5.65 EASTER, MARCH 31 Particular cards for particular people. ajgxTaywSTfatat MAamu.mo-nontnti7i Always "3. A EL" Stamp First Three Floors' men. InclJrtlnc the middle -aged I lessly laughter lirestock which, being lanastrum. Tilled only by women. I emaciated, will yield little in jneat and boys under IS. Invalids, old men, war I prove no material addition fo the food prisoners much riven to sabotsae and supply of the people. The enforced layins; down on the )ob. and the rela- I killing; off of virtually all but draught lively small proportion of soldiers who I and breeding animals means a further FERRIS IS QUIZZED Federal Ship Designer Denies Any .Wrongdoing. said, with Major-General Goethals, at that time general manager of the corporation. Ut'RI.IXi-.ToX. VI.. Marrh St. A n. nee of 11 years In the Federal I'en t'entlary at Atlanta waa Imposed by r 4r I jT)je Howe Innar on Rev. larrnre If Waldron. a Haptist rler- a man of Windsor, convicted Tueaitay tttaht of disloyal utterances and oppos ing the Coierament s military srrvlce plana Monrl.K. Ala.. March II. Fire t"nib with fuses attached siere lakru fmra the iNanuili schooner Ifike mlt here today before the ship satird for the West Indies. XKW ORLKAN., March "I A reao I'ltlnn urg-ine that "cuilty enemy spies la America should he dealt with by fir- tnc squads before brick, wall adopted by the Louisiana rankers A enriatton at Ihe clnatnc sesaioa of Its annual convention here today. 'eapeilaaty . Fatarte. Other resolutions urard that Interned enemy alien who are physically able .Meter Itloomrirlil Point Out rxd I'rosrr Made In ffrl. LOS A.VOKI.KS. Marrh II. The ship yards or tbe nest Coast are far In ad vance of those on the Atlantic sea board with their proportionate ahare of war construction, accord In a to Meyer Hloomfleld. of Boston, head of the Industrial service of the Kmer aenry Kleet Corporation, which is en. saael tn constructing merchant ship- pins under the direction of tha United Males Shipping Hoard. Mr. Bloom field, while In Loa Angrlea today, aald: couia oe spared from tne front on farming furloughs, Germany's once famous intensive agriculture has todav lost lis punch. These causes are being remedied, in Part at (cast. The productiveness of the patriotic peasantry Is being wnippea up oy an adequate propa ganda. KVery hundredweight of oats nd breadstuffs. every pound of but ter, every quart of milk, the peasants are told, "helps to bring about ulti mate victory and an honorable peace." And the peasantry Is responding, as It has always done. Labor of ftcaoelbaya Employed. The Jungmannen (.organisation of boya being put through a preliminary course of seml-mllitary training to prepare them for compulsory military service! of the cities are being sent by tens of thousands out to the land. where they work for their board with incresse in the milk shortage and. ultimately, little or no meat. The food authorities have wiselv de creed the drastic operation of cutting down the stocks or cattle and pigs to the bone. Hesentful agrarians were officially comforted with the argu ment that this measure, particularly pigs, was "absolutely necessary in or der to end the war victoriously." The unsuspected connection between pigs and patriotism ia responsible for the fact that Today virtually all German hogs have died for the Fatherland the resultsnt pork has been confiscated for the Army and until such time as Germany's stock of pigs can be built up again, pork has vanished from the menus of the masses. (Continued Tomorrow.) NATIONAL WEAL' IS FIRST Tliat "o Sloan , " ' " '.:,". V .k , . . ' Pocket money thrown In. Kast ,1 I k aonr?... T'.k" Vi Jungmannen for 1S18. and the fuller to launch a concrrt ahlp MTXr th ,,o , i.k. J.0:"'. , " '" Pb"-'- cma?ciu"r;n0m.?.r,...r ""o '.'ncreJ. 1 " - WOMAN'S RANCH SA,fD Germany's 191S harvest. In addition to the Jungmannen, thou- sanda of schoolboys will be sent out to the land to work during the farm- ng season. Another Important acces- be tompelled to work, and that Con-1 Klamath Fall Kxprrlrncr Trouble slon of farm labor la expected from COl'BT HOLDS OTH TO SANATA- RIVM FOR OPERATION VOID. CITY PROTECTION URGED cress be requested to pasa more drastic law for the punishment of German gents. fV ASHIXOTON. March Jl To make ie PublK generally a ltl element in The Governments spy trap Is being considered by Government officials, who advocate the abandoning of the reaent practice of suppressing Infor ynatlon of tha activities of enemy a en Is and the substitution of a policy of wide fmHtrit V. TH trr or h new ptrt-e fa In Getting Police) and Firemen. EWARE OF DUTAT10 Corliss Laced Stocking inr.tL si rroRT fee Varicose .Veins i:K A - Hi t: a aad all ut:. runt m k tAaakable. aejaefasla as darakle. elaa- sa al rtlrh. $1 EACH - TZ IV.ri Home Treatment Far all leg a lee re, all rraasdlea. imm avaefc tea, (all dtreellaaa. i:'Xm $5.oo 4x ni o1jr for fr booklet No. t Il4 murnDl blank. Corliss Limb Specialty Co. IS Oirt Mssrt, Baataa. Maae, " t. I m KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. March II (Special.) An urgent apeal for more adequate potlce and fire protection waa made at the regular meeting of the flty Council here last night by mem bers of the Klamath Falls Business Men's Association, who araacrted that the lack of men In both departments aid the City liable to serious mlafor- tine and that. If present conditions continued, the Insurance compantea would In the near future, raise the rates substantially. A. I. Miller, replying for the Coun cil, assured tha delegation that the body was doing all It could to secure t additional competent men. i t Official Culty List. n Bfsa Xi'-a m0 (Mai. I" t-rru--xr-s;-'r'; WEEKS CSVSlfil; f WEEKS WASHINGTON. Marrh 31 Sia en listed men were killed In action and II mlsstnr are reported in today's casualty list, issued by the War l'e- partment. Two men were killed by accident, nine died er disease, two were severely wounded In action and 1J lightly wounded. killed la ariloa PrlTs!es Stanley Debler. Ernest B Fu.k.rsnn. Rolrt H. Horr. Will- lass J. Mr K.j. Lloyd L. Morrill, William U Sh.pard. Died . f secldeal Frlratee W'UUa J Him Buret t T. Wade. lted af dlaeaae Arperal Oeoraa E. Ftt- lead, pneumonia: privates Midney J. And.r- on. nnealns'.tu: rr Brlner. appradlrltla wtluam M Dubry. sn.umonla. aul J. Far- aum. aaeumonia: Iwrala A. lrArthur. mn Insula: tai.l f. MrCsrrhv. emkeliam Franrt. ui;laa. aglna ladovicl; Joaeph Ma- raa. pneumoala. . Mbvlns la aciUi Sergeant Joha A. Khee haa. Fruatea ll.rry R. Htmey, ICusena F. rar-.laa. Albert M. Kenrvedr. drover oi lltheuser. Wllitam F. Marvin. J.raea M raa, leia F. rvc.iinr, William F. UCan aor. Joaeph IteKl. t'arl SebsltX. Wounded aev.foiy rnvan Orla C. Arrb y. FrKaie Aibort R. Tlbbalta. Weoaded ..ishi'r r-orporais Tarl c. Dr rad. Alnd-r Vmettser. Prlvalea John Howler. rUeCiea feme. Jlmej Uougherir. Kooort W. i:r.cr. Vornoo Jwhnosw. Freder ick P Kins. al-haol aleh.lea. Hoy aloat. rmrr Oslo. Hioshoa J. Navla. ILuarDa J. ea.aahard. Atucua IU Tkomaa. the home garrisons. Tha "dismantling" of the east front will release an im mense amount of able-bodied farm labor. Germany's nitrate plants have in creased their output to such an ex tent that not only are the require ments of the sir industry fully cov ered, but there Is an . Increasing sur plus available as fertilisers for the farmera. Consequently, an Increase in the yield per acre must be reckoned with aa at least a strong probability. Mrs. Mary N. B. Morrison Freed From Paying S3O00. Thereby Paving Farm Froaa Virtual Cenflaratlon. Sr-nate Committee , 'loiu Fee Was Accepted From Interests: Expert Appears Capitol at Own Request. WASHINGTON. March 21. Theodore E. Ferris, formerly chief ship designer for the Emergency Fleet Corporation, denied today before the Senate com merce committee that he ever baa ac cepted any compensation from outside interests while serving: with the cor poration or that he had been guilty of any wrongdoing. Mr. Ferris, who appeared before tne committee at his own request, resigned upon the request of Rear-Admiral Bowles, assistant general manager of the corporation, after testimony had been given before the committee that he had accepted a fee from the Sloan Shipbuilding'Corporation, of Seattle. "I have always, in my proiession. said Ferris, "enjoyed the reputation or absolute probity. Carelessness I may possibly have been guilty of that is matter or opinion out i mive noi Barring catastrophal weather condi.- attention. While there she signed a note and mortgage. on her ranch. In the sum of 15000 to pay for a sur gical operati she bega and Its owner. Dr. Frank C. Hart, to have the note and mortgage set aside on tbe ground that her signature to them was obtained by coercion, threats and undue influence. -Judge Eakin held in his decision to day thst the note and mortgage are void. The court apparently thought lions, the prognostication for the har vest of 1918 must be regarded as dis tinctly favorable. Unless there Is a complete crop failure, Germany's last food crisis will have been passed in the Spring and Summer. Another principle of German food strategy beginning to be rigorously applied, ia that every last ounce of food must be taken away from the producers above their bare require ments. Thla applies particularly to ASTORIA. Or., March 21. (Special.) As a result of a decision handed down today by Judge Eakin. of the Circuit Court, Mns. Mary N. B, Morri son will save her S00-acre Clatsop Plaina ranch from practical confisca tion. 11 appeara mat aeverai inunins hiu . , , -...I-.- n Vila om Mrs. Morrison went to the SrT Johns . Vi. ...-.-t . u in, i . . . i 1 1 ., . I.. ... that T wo. to receive a commission or compensa tion of any sort in connection with at any time been guilty of any wron or Imnroner act or purpose. Ferris denied that he ever nan naa anv connection with the Sloan corpora tion. but said he had done work for the Clinchfleld Navigation Company. Soldiers Must See Dentist. OREGON CTT. Or., March 21. (Spe cial.) The local board was notified to day by the War Department that the 15 registrants who are to leave for Camp Lewis this month must have their teeth put in first-class condition Immediately. Dr. Clyde Mount has charge of this work and registrants are asked to get in touch with him at once. Railroad Men Commissioned. PENDLETON, Or., March 21. (Spe cial.) C. E. Powell, yardmaster for the O.-W. R. & N., at Rieth, has received a commission as First Lieutenant in the 31st Engineers, operating department according to word here. The news of his advancement -has been the signal for the enlistment of several other em ployes bf the railroad, among whom are Edward Hines, Roy Blake and Reuben Hascall, yardmen, and John Ormand. conductor. The men have heen ordered to report at Vancouver on Monday. Centralia Red Cross Sends Supplies. CENTRAL! A, Wash., March 21. (Special.) Three more boxes of. sup plies were shipped this week by tho Centralia Red Cross chapter to the Seattle headquarters. The shipment included leggings, bandages, dish towels', handkerchiefs, napkins, wash. cloths, operating caps, bed Jackets, pajamas, sox. wristlets. sweaters, scarfs and helmets. .ratior'rhrrrturn'hrm; V S Such" ,., .-,, ment. he continued. Such a tnlnf n suit against tne sanitarium . . . . ..K. ... .,, - j(, .w.r r, Prank o H.rt to was-not only not thought of, but it d g did not occur to me that anyone else would think of it.' In going with the Fleet Corporation. Mr. Ferris said, he had a clear under standing that he waa to serve only part of hla time and that he waa to be permitted to retain his private prac- ....... v. ..... ........ . . ,. . - . . j .v . voia. ana court auu.rviiiir inguRai - ... . . I-russla. where the "pull" of the pow- Khat the defendants llook .e...i...'.t Th" "rw"""t wa ne erful conservatives, and agrarian In terests was so strong In Berlin that until now food ordinances and poli cies have alwaya spared the agricul turist. The stocks of foods hoarded and consumed by tbe peasantry and the agrarlana under this system have the plaintiff's serious i.lncss and weakened condition. to exact an ex orbitant fee, especially when the tes timony showed the plaintiff had Paid the sanitarium S7M.au In cash for hos pital fees and had also settled with I Dr. Frank E. .Smith, tha surgeon who I been so Immense that In future the I performed the operation. farmer will be ruthlessly stripped of all that he raises above a ration which strll averages about it per cent higher than that of the city dweller. Appeal te Parrtollaaa Made. To lure the last particle of surplus food away from the farmer the pa triotic propaganda is again invoked "He who withholds food Is a traitor to his brothers dying at the front" and "sins against the Fatherland." To make sure of getting the last scrap of foad away from the agrarian the law now provides heavy tine and punishment for withholding Another thing that undoubtedly fig- ured materially in the rase waa the introduction of an agreement whereby the attorney who drew the note and I mortgage was to receive I100O as his I fee when the note was collected. 2 Your Piano mass eacn nunaay nereatter. 1 ne Knighta of Columbus, aided by the Catholic women of Tacoma- and Olym- fdod Information or for untruthful crop pis. will serve the morning meal to the reports. The district authorities have the responsibility for rounding up all food stocks in acrarlan hands. A last principle of, food strategy is that human beings must be considered before animala. and that of the latter,! See classified ad, men wanted. West tha more useiui must receive iirst con-I Linn Mills, page 1. Adv. Breakfast to Follow Mass. TACOMA. Wash.. March 21. (Spe ciaL) Catholic soldiers at Camp lwis h tifactorv service. 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