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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, JULY I, 1918.
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50 PROBABLY DEAD
IN IOWA DISASTER
Firemen Remove Thirty More
Bodies From Wreckage
of Ruff Building.
RESCUE WORK IN PROGRESS
Positions of Bodies Indicate That
Men. Burned Alive in Cells,
Pinned Under Wreckage.
Cause Xot Known.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, June 30. Burrowing-
deep under tons of wreckage,
liremen and volunteers today removed
30 more bodies from the wreckage of
the Ruff Building, which collapsed
yesterday afternoon at Fourth and
l-touglas, and announced that the toll
of the disaster may reach 50. It is
probable several persons were com
pletely incinerated, judging from the
condition of most of the bodies re
moved this afternoon.
Toiling feverishly, some of them so
weak they wobbled after their 22
hours, workers could see parts of
charred bodies still deep under smoul
dering timbers and so badly burned
they could not be sure they were men
or women.
Recu- AVork Continue.
The opening of the Chain Grocery.
lvhich was crushed uruer the walls of
the Huff Building, revealed the extent
of the disaster. Thirty-five volunteer
motor trucks removed debris so rapidly
this morning the ruins of the crowded
grocery were entered six hours ahead
of schedule.
Men found in the ruins were burned
alive in cells, pinned down by wreck
age, their positions indicated.
The cause of the disaster has not
been determined. Some of the persons
who were in the wrecked buildings at
the time of the collapse asserted that
it was caused by an ammonia explosion
in the Chain Grocery or the Beaumont
Slarket, while others declared it was
due to reconstruction work which was
going on in the Ituff Building.
Heath IJxt in Growing.
TV. J. Becker, vice-president of the
Ruff company, said that the first floor
of the building had been lowered eight
or 10 inches, but that this work had
been completed three days ago.
The wails of the building were not
touched, Mr. Becker said.
Following is the known death roll :
Alfred J. Hanson, Joe Awe. Ole K.
Roisum, Ole E. Running, tailor; John
l.ovinet, Mrs. Mabel Cavens, colored;
Ken G. Wood, Mrs. Hester C. English.
"Walter C. Nelson, 13-year-old son of
f. "IV. Nelson; Charles Kugel, Merlie
Kugel. Myrtle 1 longs lo, John Stolz,
James Harp, Mrs. Margaret Hale. Helen
Koebler, daughter of Mrs. Koebler, of
South Sioux City; Herman Federn,
Charles Nordstrom, J. Rohr, Roy Os
trander, Roy Schueller, a ged 1 5 ; Mrs.
V. A. Lofliss, Louis Soiset, J. P.
Schriever, John Simeon.
Seven unidentified women, one
thought to be Mrs. Koebler, of South
Sioux City, also have been taken from
the ruins, and seven unidentified men.
IV. S. S. Bl'Y THE LIMIT
ALLIED RED GROSS LURES
J A I' A -N i: SK COM MISSION" TO ST V D Y
AKKK RKL1LF UOltK.
ship as well as the quickness of eye
and mind.
Some men, of course, show more
proficiency than others in the school
of the soldier. The advanced student
the first to be transferred from the
Depot Brigade to some organization of
the division, being chosen generally for
work for which he has shown the
greatest adaptability during his initial
training.
Should the order ever come for the
formation of another division, it is
these , men of the Depot Brigade into
which Oregonians this week are go
ing that will by their present training
become by a slow process of transfer
ring, the nucleus of that division.
Camp W ell Organized.
Companies now known as the 10th
Company, 5th Battalion, for example.
will awake some fine morning to learn
that they are now Company A or what
ever the case might be, of the regi
ment. " Some will be infantry, some ar
tillery, some machine gunners and so
forth and from that day, with the foun
dation of training already received, will
start their intensified training along
the lines to which they are assigned.
As before stated the men will find
things much easier than did Orego
nians who preceded them. The camp
is thoroughly organized now and fur
thermore foreign officers have come to
aid in the work. Before long it is quite
probable that Yankee officers will re
turn from the -front on leave or inca
pacitated by wounds for active duty to
tell of the latest and best methods of
meeting and besting the Hun at his
own game.
Efficiency Jm Watchword.
Camp Lewis is divided into the De
pot Brigade, the Auxiliary Remount,
the Base Hospital, the Quartermaster
Corps and the division in training it
self. All these units are separate unto
themselves, although all work toward
the same end. Transfers from one to
the other one are made, as square pegs
are found trying to fit into round
holes, for the Government is on the
lookout to have each man deliver his
maximum efficiency.
So the cantonment is never idle,
never still, but in the seething move
ments of the thousands of humans the
final goal is always in sight. The men
move in, are trained and find their
niche, forming the fighting whole that
oves on as a division, leaving behind
new men to come in, repeat the pro
cess, and follow on in their footsteps.
W. S. S. BUY THE LIMIT
COAL TO BE CONSERVED
WAR PROFIT TAX TO
BE CONFISCATORY
Federal Trade Commission's
Revelations of Profiteering
Basis of Legislation.
SENATOR BORAH TALKS
RADICAL FIEL REDUCTION TO BE
ORDERED SOO.
Visitor Are Welcomed nt American
I'ort by llliam I-Hurenre Kcane,
KepreMentinK War Council.
A PACI K1C PORT, June 30. Study of
Red Cross methods with a view to
Japanese co-operation in relief work
overseas is the purpose of an imperial
Red Cross Commission, headed by
Prince Yosh ih isa Takuga wa, which ar
rived here today and was welcomed on
behalf of national headquarters by
illiam Lawrence Ivoene, of ashingr-
ton, J. C, who came here to represent
Jlenry I. Pavison. chairman of the Red
Cross War Council.
Local Hod Cross officials joined in
the greting and have arranged to en
tertain the visitors and introduce them
to American war activities.
The visiting Commission, headed by
Prince Takugawa, includes Count K.
Katsu, Dr. A. O. Ninagawa, Dr. S. Saw
mura, Y. Naito, S. Kageyama, H. Yo
fhida, H. Furuaawa and I. Fijimori.
They expect to carry their investiga
tions to all allied countries.
W. S. S.-BI V THE LIMIT
CAMP LEWIS AGAIN READY
rontimicl Knmi First Pas.)
Manufacture of Electricity and Gas
Said to Show Waste In Every
City in Vnited States.
WASHINGTON, June 30. Reductions
In the quantity of coal consumed in
the manufacture of electricity and gas
will be put into effect soon by an
order which the fuel administration
announces is in preparation. The fuel
administration's announcement that de
tails have been worked out. says in
every city and village electricity is
wasted.
"The country needs now and for the
whole period of the war will need more
coal than it can possibly produce and
transport, says the statement. "Con
fronted by this condition, the fuel ad
mimstrator will order radical reduc
tions In the quantity of coal consumed
in the manufacture of electricity and
illuminating gas used for the purposes
specified. While the official order has
not yet been signed, it is expected that
It will provide for closer restrictions
in the New Kugland States, New York,
Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Delaware,
District of Columbia, and Maryland
than in other states where -the trans
portation of coal is not sut-h a tre
mendous problem.
"In any case, it is expected the order
will provide that no theater or other
outdoor lights shall be turned on until
the street lights shall have been light
ed. Unnecessary daylight use of elec
trie lights and electric advertising dis
plays probably will be ehut off alto
gether. The order will deal also with
store window lights and will extend to
all kinds of fuel, including gas and
oil."
W. S. S. BCY THE LIMIT
I. W. W. WORKERS JAILED
Three Alleged Agitators Caught in
"Neutrality Squad" Net.
their careers as members of the Na
tional Army.
Men Are CluNMf led.
It sometimes happens that not
enough men from one community ar
rive at once to form a complete com
pany and a sufficient number from the
next arrivals are taken to fill up.
.Following this first step in organi
zation the cards of the men are classi
fied by occupations and the latest in
novation is a practical testing school
for men claiming to know the various
trades.
If a man says he is a carpenter, he is
at once taken to an examiner and with
hammer and saw and oral questioning
made to prove his assertion. Similar
tests are immediately given men who
isay they are electricians, blacksmiths,
and so on down the line.
Many to Follow Trade.
This classification is the answer to
many of the folks at home who have
occasionally heard of their relatives
leaving camp after a seemingly short
period of training. l"ncle Sam in his
vast Army organization needs men of
many callings and once in a while the
call comes West for so many carpen
ters, machinists, etc. ihe cards are
examined and the men needed leave
camp now as infantrymen, but to do
the work of their trade.
Oregonians having become members
of such and such a company iu the le-
pot Brigade now begin to learn their
first duties as soldiers. Starting in
with the simple formations, learned
probably even before olive drab uni
forms are issued them, they progress
to the point of receiving their rifles
and mastering the manual of arms.
luring certain hours of the day
"paper work" is given them indoors.
where facing blackboards for all the
world as they did in boyhood school
days, they assimilate with pencil and
papers the theory of war as it is taught
in this year of 1918.
. Field Work Tanaat.
Then comes the trench work and the
maneuvers in the field, the daylight
and finally the night firing at the A
or stationary rifle range. Then the B
range is used with hidden targets
unknown points and distances bobbing
up unexpectedly, to test the marksman
SAX FRANCISCO, June 30. In a raid
late last night on an apartment-house
in the downtown district, the "neutral
Ity squad" of the police department
ook three men, said by police officials
o have been among the most active I
W. W. propagandists on the Coast.
They were: Herbert Stredwick, sec
retary of the Pacific Coast headquar
ters of the I. W. W.; Fred Landers.
awaiting the outcome of a deportation
charge laid by United States Commis
sioner of Immigration Edward White:
John Dymond, under Indictment in the
Federal District Court at Fresno in
connection with the burning of hay
Darns in the Modesto district.
Dymond is said by Police Captain J.
J. O Meara, head ot fhe neutrality
squad, or being the chief sabotage pro
pagandist of the 1. W. W. in this sec
tion of the country.
The men probably will be arraigned
aionaay.
W. S. S. BCY THE LIMIT
BRIGHT FUTURE IN SIGHT
i
Socialists Expect to Become IHmi
nant Factor in National Affairs.
Fight Made in Senate to Take 8 0
Per Cent of Surplus for Govern
ment Will Be Renewed in
Xeit Revenue Bill.
WASHINGTON. June 30. (Special.)
Practical confiscatory taxation of
war profits under the forthcoming rev
enue bill is assured as a result of the
Federal Trade Commission's revela
tions of profiteering by many large in
dustries producing necessities of life
and war materials required by the
Government.
An extension of price fixing and an
overhauling of the existing price fix
ing machinery which failed to prevent
profiteering are also among the meas
ures that Congress will consider in
connection with the commission's find
ings. Some leaders in Congress are
giving their attention to the possibil
ity of enacting a drastic anti-profiteering
law.
Food Administrator Hoover, who was
out of the city today, will be called
upon for an explanation of the trade
commission's evidence that there has
been profiteering by the packers, the
flour millers and other food producers
despite the regulator powers con
ferred upon him by the Food Adminis-
ration law.
Conflict AVIth Commission Possible.
.Mr. Hoover's explanation may bring
him into conflict with the trade com
mission, with which he has not been
on the best of. terms for some time.
Mr. Hoover does not deny that there
has been profiteering by certain food
producing industries, notably some of
the flour millers, but he does contend
that adequate measures have been in
voked to deprive the offenders of their
swollen profits and prevent a repeti
tion of the offense.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, whose res
olution called upon the Federal Trade
Commission to furnish a statement of
excess profits and profiteering, said:
The report is very interesting. It
deserves consideration from every
standpoint.
Both Sides to Be Heard.
r irst or all we should of course
isten to what the companies mentioned
n the report have to say. We should
certainly hear both sides. But after
both sides have been heard and all
facts are considered, the Congress will
ikely have sufficient grounds for
egislation. The most effective way to
deal with such a situation, is through
taxation.
"'If these companies are making any
thing like the profits indicated they
should be called upon to turn them into
the Treasury of the United States. No
business institutions should desire
more than a modest profit in these
times and if the Government does its
duty toward the people no business
institution will be permitted to enjoy I
more than a modest profit.
Fight Will Be Made Attain.
'Last year a small group of Senators
endeavored to place our revenue law
upon a war profit basis and to take 80
per cent of all war profits in the way
of taxation. That fight will be made
again this year and we believe success
fully this time. We were charged at
that time with seeking to break down
our industries and to embarrass the
prosecution of the war. But such
charges will not avail aat this time in
my judgment.
"I have no sympathy with an attack
on big business simply because it is big
or successful. But every man in these
days must serve according to his abil
ity. Until this war is over and until
the war debt is paid, those who have
the genius and ability to make money
should gladly contribute of their abil
ity and genius in the way of turning
over all profits above a reasonable
profit to the Government. Hundreds
of thousands of people are denying
themselves the comforts and neces
saries of life in order to save and to
contribute to the Government. Under
such conditions no one should wish and
no one should be allowed to take for
his private gain more than a modest
profit or more than a modest income.'
W. 8. S. BUY THE 1XMIT
NAVAL BILL COMPLETED
Matter of Bonus Payments to Work
men Left Unchanged.
NEW YORK. June 30. Socialism wil
become the dominant factor in National
and international affairs after the war
Morris Hillquit told 300 delegates to
the party's state convention here yes
terday.
Citing the birth in Russia of a "new
proletarian republic, the first of its
kind in history, Mr. Hillquit, -who pre
sided, declared that as a result of the
war "a new world has arisen out of the
ruins of the old."
With the aid of the I. W. W., which
was described as having rallied to the
Socialist standard. Socialism will poll
an astounding, staggering vote at the
next election,' said speakers, who as
serted that more than 100 I. W. W.
members on trial in Chicago are "un
der courtmartial by a strongly en
trenched capitalistic class."
The convention sent a telegram of
sympathy to the I. W. W. defendants
and collected $205 to assist them..
V. S. S. BI T THE LIMIT
SOLDIERS DIME AT ALBANY
Five Hundred Men Luncheon Guests
of Red Cross Chapter.
ALBANY. Or.. June 30. (Special.)
For the third successive day tho Albany
Chapter of the Red Cross served dinner
this afternoon to a trainload of drafted
Californians bound for Camp Lewis.
Almost 500 men were served. After the
splendid dinner the men were enter
tained with a musical programme and
an address by Rev. G. H. Young. The
drafted men then entertained with
songs by a quartet and talks by indi
viduals. Today's contingent is characterized
as the most appreciative of their re
ception of any served here.
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and a patriotic duty
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WASHINGTON, Juno 30. Congress
completed the 91,610,000,000 naval ap
propriation bill late Saturday an3 sent
it to the Fresiuent for his signature.
Senate amendments proposing the
rank of Lieutenant-General for the
commandant of the Marine Corps, au
thorizing payment of bonuses to Gov
ernment employes on naval work and
providing: for promotions from the
,N'avy staff to the line were stricken
from the bill In a conference report
adopted by both houses.
An agreement on th question of
bonus payments to workmen leaves in
effect the present law. which prohibits
both the bonus and stop-watch system
of speedinjr up work.
U . h. &. BI V THE LIMIT
CLATSOP SOLDIERS LEAVE
Ten Men Sent South and 18 Will Be
Sent to Vancouver Today.
ASTORIA. Or.. June 30. (Special.)
Ten Clatsop young: men left last even
ing tor San Francisco under orders to
report at the Mechanical School of
Arts for special training as auto me
chanics. They are: A. H. Crohn. Allen
Hubler, A. J. Onklta. F. F. Parker. E.
J. Doane, L. B. Murray, H. F. Klopfer,
Guy Larson, Joe H. Quinn and W. J.
Baker.
Tomorrow morning: 18 limited serv
ice men will leave for Vancouver Bar
racks to join the Spruce Division. The
local board has summoned 103 class 1
men to report on July 6 and from that
number 62 will be chosen to leave tor
Fort McDowell on the tollowing day.
W. 8. 8. BIT THE LIMIT
Statue May He Melted.
WASHINGTON, June 30. The statue
of Frederick the Great, recently re
moved from the grounds of the War
College in Washington, would be
melted and moulded into a "New Lib
ertv Bell," under a bill introduced yes
terday by Representative Taylor of
Colorado.
V. S. 8. BUY THK UMIT
Burleson Girls Enter Service.
WASHINGTON, June 30. Misses
Lucy and Sidney Burleson, daughters
of Postmaster-General Burleson, have
entered the naval service as second-
class yeomen and have been assigrned
to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
struck: a rut and overturned yesferday.
Miss Treblthlck and ether occupants of
the ear escaped with slight injuries,
they being thrown clear of the machine.
W. 8. 8. BCY THK LIMIT
coumbia imversitv to become, p cn PRnSS RFPflRTQ FIIKinS
SCHOOL FOR SOLDIERS.
Compulsory Military Intrurtioa Will
Be Inaugurated. Men Betas:
Trained for Offlcere.
NEW YORK. June 30. Columbia
University, said to have the largest
student enrollment in the world.
about to become "a school for the eol
dier." President Nicholas Murray
Butler, in an announcement today, out
lined the plans for Introducing com'
pulsory military training for the unl
versity's under-graduates and for en
rolling all etudents of Columbia Col
lege in the reserve officers' training
corns next Fall.
Men not physically fit for army lire
will be nut through a course of train
ing carefully devised by Colonel John
P. Flnley, United States Army, retirea;
Professor George L. Meylan and Dean
Herbert E. Hawks, that will, it Is ex
pected. develop them physically and by
the end of the complete course make
them eligible for commissions as offi
cers In the Army.
The plan, as announced, differs
somewhat from that adopted by other
big colleges, which divided the student
body vertically by giving two distinct
curricula, one consisting solely of mili
tary work and the other of the studies
normally leading to the bachelor of arts
degree. Columbia men. on "the con
trary, will be trained quickly for mili
tary service and made eligible lor lur
ther camp training leading to shoulder
bars and spurs. At the same time they
will be fitted for civil life after the
war. The students, in other words, will
not be divided by the choice of courses
into those who sacrifice civil educa
tion for military training and those
who sacrifice military training for civil
education.
W. S. S. BI T THELIMIT
Auto Accident Is Fatal.
BILLINGS. Mont., June 30 James
Treblthlck, of Sand Point. Idaho, was
Instantly killed and Mrs. CharlesoGood
all. of Park City, was badly cut and
bruised when the automobile In which
they were traveling near Shepherd
Subscriptions in Second Drive Reach
$170,038,394.
WASHINGTON, June 30. Red Cross
subscriptions In the second war fund
drive amount now to tl70.038.394 with
returns still coming in, national head
quarters today announced.
The first fund amounted to $110,475.-
125. of which 317.g95.211 was refunded
to or retained by local chapters. A
financial statement Issued today shows
Red Cross receipts from all sources
during the 11 months ending May 31
were 1 17.544. :84. which, with S3.134.04
on hand July 1, last year, brought the
society's total funds to $120,879,188. Of
this II 2,090.633 came from the second
war fund drive. Total appropriations
during the period were 3100.985.498. ot
which $83,745,212 had been expended to
May 31. Unencumbered resources were
$19,593.60 on May 31.
W. S. 8. BCY THE LIMIT
LABOR LEADER IS NAMED
Samuel 43ompers Blected Member of
League to Enforce Peace.
NEW YORK. June 30. Samuel
Gompers. president of . the American
Federation of-Labor, and several labor
leaders have been elected members of
the executive committee of the league
to enforce peace.
Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton, for
mer Minister to Holland, also was
elected to membership on the com
mittee. W. 8. 8. BIT THE LIMIT
YANKEES FEARED BY HUNS
America's Part in World War Felt
by High German Officials.
Isn Ambassador, declared In a speech
last night before the Maryland State
Bar Association.
"I observe that in the Reichstag and
throughout Germany," he said, "it Is
now known that a new, vital, dominant
force has not only entered Into this
war, but Is determined to throw all it
possesses Into the scale for the ideals
upon which Its political system la based
and which are tha only principles for
which America, has ever been drawn
Into war."
W. 8. 8. BUT THE LIMIT
Montana Men Are Assigned.
BUTTE, Mont., June SO. Forty-four
men will leave tomorrow night in a
contingent for Vancouver Barracks in
ducted for the .prure service, accord
ing to announcement made last night
by the exemption board. These com
prise the County contingent. The city
contingent, comprising 105 men. also
for spruce service, will leave tomorrow
nlrht.
UNION
DENTISTS
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, June 30. The
vital part which America Is playing In
the world war has at last begun to
dawn upon the people of Germany de
spite the efforts of the German govern
ment to conceal it. Lord Reading, Brit-
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