THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JANTARY S8, GENERAL STRIKE ON IS EXPECTED SOUND Union Executives Vote for "Mass Action" Campaign. METAL TRADES SUPPORTED More Steel Ship Contracts Liikely to Be Canceled as Result of Action of Workers. for the Puget Sound Maritime District J Council of Carpenters and Joiners, and r. R. De Vaux, business representative of that body, are in Aberdeen making an effort to end the shipyard metal trades strike. While no definite statement could be obtained from either representatives of metal trades or carpenters as to specific proposals under consideration, the outlook was reported hopeful. Manager M. R. Ward, of the Grays Harbor Motorship Corporation, said the yards here are operating under the understanding that they are not af fected by the recent Emergency Fleet contract cancellation order as long as they are not forced to shut down. This is taken to mean that if the yards should be forced to suspend because of s cipation by the wood workers in the strike, the cancellation order would become operative. Every effort is be ing made by the companies to avert such a crisis. PACKERS HAVE BILL FOR MEAT CONTROL Legislation Being Drafted in Effort to End Woes. noma De torced to suspend because or' hortage of labor brought about ARMOUR. MORRIS DIFFFR trike conditions, or because of parti- I ""'""""J mwnniO UirTCn TACOMA METAL, WORKERS QITIT Macy Award Protested; Approxi mately 1000 Men Ont. FjATTLE. Jan. 27. Executive com T.ltteemen representing 130 unions af filiated with the Seattle Central La bor Council late today voted to cam paign for "mass action" anri a general j formed their men .triKe in rcDruary in support ui ua. 25,000 metal trades workers, who have neen on strike here since last Tuesday for higher wages. This vote was leached after the committeemen re jected a resolution offered by H. F. Jones, president of the Building Trades Council, asking that a general strike be deferred. Other developments In the strike sit uation in Washington cities today, af fecting some 35.000 men, were: Receipt of requests by more ship TACOMA. Wash.. Jan. 27. fSpe cial.) Protesting the Macy award, the sheet metal workers of Tacoma struck today. The Tacoma employers ln- it was reported by Secretary George Janssen of local union No. 150, that Monday a scale of $7.20 per day of eight hours would go into effect, while the men for some time have been getting $8. This was verified by E. A. Miller, who conducts one of the largest plants In the city. In December the men were notified that Tacoma firms would not pay $8. The matter, however, was adjusted for the time being by paying this rate in order to avoid interruption of neces sary work. Latter Says Federal Ownership Ac ccptable ir Payment Is Made Immediately. Ogden yards here and In Tacoma from the At Tacoma approximately 1000 metal United States Shipping Board asking : workers are now out. the first con that schedules of cost be prepared for , tingent being affected directly by the cancellation of steel contracts given by shipyard strike, affecting metal trades the Government. Preparing of telegrams and letters by the Metal Trades Council strike com mittee asking metal trades councils throughout the country to support the Washington strike and call general shipyard and metal trades strikes. Cancellation of ship contracts, it was : paid today by shipyard employers, could have no effect on the strike sit uation, inasmuch as the shipyards have been working for thr Government un der Government conditions. Union officials said every effort would be made to hasten the general strike referendum being taken by all unions in Seattle, but that It was not pi obable the result would be known in. time to lnauguarate the general etrike by February 1. TACOMA METAL WORKERS OCT Men Quit Work as Result or Differ ences Over Wages. unions, and today s development plac lng all contracts, jobbing and piping work on the inactive list. William Short, president of the Wash ington State Federation of Labor, does not think the sbipworkers' strike con cerns his organization. He said to day: "The conduct of the strike is purely the business of the metal trades or ganizations, and no request has been made as yet to the officers of the state federation for any advice or assistance, and until such request is forthcoming no attempt will be made to interfere with the conduct of the strike. "But should the time come in the development of the strike when the metal trades organizations feel that the services of the officers of the state federation can be of any value to them, we stand ready to respond. The state federation will gladly do anything within its power to serve the men on strike." TACOMA. Wash., Jan. 27. Attempts to secure mediation looking toward set- TACOMA, Jan. 27. Sheet metal ' nement or the shipyard and metal workers in Tacoma are out today, ow- trade workers' strike made their first ing to differences with employers on iappearance in Tacoma today. j. a. -L.ar.son ana U. re F leming. local representatives of the War Labor Board, ! held a conference with President H. P. Johnson and Secretary C. R. Barrett, of the Metal Trades Council, this after noon. According to Secreiarv Barrett. wage pcale of J8 per day. Recently he employing firms acceded to $8 for the time being, after having discussed . basis of S7.20, Seattle being in about the same position. The question hinges on the Macy scale, in which the sheet metal men claimed, with other metal Trades, the $8 scale. Seattle and Ta coma firms had conferences on the :natter, and while the Seattle men were out the Tacoma men had been held at work. The matter in Tacoma came to a close, in a conference of employers and workers Saturday, with the notice by the firms that the scale of $7.20 would hereafter prevail, which the men did not accept. The new differences involve job bing, building and pipe work In the sheet metal branch, the shipyard sheet inetal men already being affected by the shipyard strike. BAH FRANCISCO FEARS TIE-UP strike of 30,000 Sliipynrd and Other Workers Threatened. SAN FRANCTSCO, Jan. 27. A strike of approximately 30.000 shipyard and other metal workers in the San Fran- isco Bay region because of differences over the Macy wage award Is threat ened on February 1, according to an nouncement by H. A. Brotherton, United states Shipping Board special examiner in charge of industrial relations " in Southern Oregon and California, here loday. The conference committees of the workers and employers were dead locked early last week, but an agree ment was reached through the media tion of the Shipping Board, which is not proving satisfactory to the majority of the individual unions, Brotherton said. 'T can assure the men that if they engage in any prolonged strike the Government will cancel the contracts inder which they are employed and the yards will remain closed," Broth erton said. "The Government can do no more. It will stand by the Macy award." OAKLAND, Cal.. Jan. 27. Officers of the Oakland machinists' and shipyard laborers' unions today stated that no strike vote had been taken by their unions affecting the shipyards. The officers of the local boilermakers' union, however, said that the Pacific Coast district metal trades council plans a strike recommendation for February 10 in protest against the Macy award and demanding an $8 eight-hour day for mechanics and a $6 day for helpers. several citizens committees nave con ferred with union officials with a view to finding some way toward arbitra tion. Out of these steps today toward intervention the first hope of an early adjustment is seen, officals state, since the men walked out last Tuesday. Any bona fide effort to find a way out will be met in the proper spirit by the unions, it was asserted. The strike committee also gave out that according to wire advices from the East the Foundation Company of this city, which Is reputed to have con tracts for the construction of $75,000. 000 worth of steel ships for the French government, is willing to sign up an agreement on the demanded scale. The Foundation Company is now waiting permission from the Govern ment to construct ships for foreign contract, having asserted its intention to put In an eight-way steel plant here if It gains this permission. The company heretofore has built only wooden ships. ABERDEEN OUTLOOK BETTER Strike Settlemerft Appears to Be Not Far Away. ABERDEEN, Wash.. Jan. 27. (Spe cial.) The strike settlement appears near here. J. C. Ince, publicity agent Mnnyon'i Paw Paw Pills conceded to be the mildest, yet moit effective laxa tive that medical science can produce. Compounded to gently stimulate the stomach, liver and bowels to perform their natural func tion. Not a drug need that forcei nature or forms unnatural habits. They assist nature to help itself. A valuable purgative in cases of liver complaint, jaundice, bilious affections, impurity of the blood, sick headache, Costiveness and constipation. Prepared to assist nature to cultivate the habit of regularity in the operation of the bowel All druggists 30c a bottle. BAKER RAPS STEVENSON War Department boes Not Censor Opinions of People. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. In a formal statement today commenting on the testimony before the Senate propa ganda investigating committee .of Archibald Stevenson, who recently gave the committee a list of prominent persons who, he said, held radical or pacifist views. Secretary Baker said Stevenson never had been an officer or employe of the military intelligence service, and that the War Department did not "undertake to censor the opin ions of the people of the United States." 4.5 MILES A MINUTE MADE American Officer Flies at Rate of 2 70 Miles Per Hour. LAWTON. Okla., Jan. 27. Favored by a high tail wind. Lieutenant Robert H. Baker, in a De Haviland 12-cylinder plane, broke all previous records in a flight from Fort Sill to Oklahoma City last Saturday, when he made the 90 miles in 20 minutes flat, or at a speed of 270 miles an hour. Lieutenant Baker, who today con firmed a published report of the flight, said the time of 22 minutes previously given was erroneous. WASHrNOTON. Jan. 27 J. Armour, president of Armour told the Senate agriculture committee tonight at the conclusion of his tes timony that he and his counsel were drafting legislation for the regulation of the meat-packing Industry, which he expected to submit as a substitute for similar bills now before Congress. Before being presented, this legisla tion will be submitted to tho other big packing firms and the independents for their approval, Mr. Armour said. Ho added that he believed the plan which he had in mind would satisfy producer and consumer and remove "antagonism to the packers," which, he admitted, seemed general. Car Control Rapped. Mr. Armour reiterated that his oppo sition to control by the Government or by the railroads of refrigerator and livestock cars and stockyards was predicated solely on his fear that they could not be operated as efficiently as now. He said he believed private ownership of branch houses absolutely necessary, but declared Government operated branch houses for the small packers would not be opposed by the large companies. While Mr. Armour was finishing his testimony before the Senate committee Edward S. Morris, of Chicago, presi dent of Morris & Co., appeared before the House interstate commerce commit tee in opposition to the pending leg islation, which, he declared, would im peril the Industry and prove costly to the consumer. Mr. Morris had a pre pared statement of 134 pages, but at the suggestion of the committee he read only part of it. The entire state ment, however, was admitted to the record of the hearing. Prompt Payment Ankrd. Mr. Morris told the committee he had no objection to Government ownership of the meat Industry provided his com pany was reimbursed immediately for its property and investments. He said he would object, however. If payment was postponed, as "the industry would soon be in such a chaotic condition that a proper settlement would be Impos sible. "Unless Congress wants to have an other industry in the situation where the railroads are now," the witness said. "It should leave the meat industry alone. Oovernment regulation might causo the ultimate ruin of the In dustry, as well as resulting in a great increase in the cost of living." Mr. Morris declared that there was no monopoly of the meat Industry. Re plying to the statement of the Federal Trade Commission that there was col lusion among the five big packing firms in buying and selling Mr. Morris said the best proof that no combination existed was in the fact that prices of livestock had more than doubled in four years. Price Plot Imrur-.l. The witness charged that the pur pose or the market committee of the National Livestock Association, which he said was behind the investigation of the Federal Trade Commission, was to obtain higher prices for livestock. which would mean higher costs to the consumer. He suggested that It might be advisable for Congress to investi gate the uses to which the committee had put the fund of $150,000, which he said it received annually from the association. He asserted that he did not mean to intimate the fund was put to any "improper purpose," but said "its size would make it rather danger ous If It should happen to get Into the improper channel." Profits of Morris Company for the fiscal year ending November 3. 1918. were only 7.24 per cent on the capital invested, Mr. Morris said, profit, he asserted, was only a more than one-half of what the Administration approved. Questioned by Representative Wins low of Massachusetts regarding the relative profits of producers and pack ers, Mr. Morris tald he believed that If the Investigation conducted by the Fed eral Trade Commission had covered all branches of the meat industry, instead of having been concentrated on the five big packing firms. It would have re vealed that the producers' profits were much the higher proportionately. much for its pavement. Whether com- parlson will be made with paving costs i In other states remains to be seen. Until the Investigation started there I was an impression that the pavement prices in Oregon were about 75 per cent of the costs of those In other states. 1 Judge Nickell. of Yamhill County. I was here today. He said the only com-1 viaim nis county has against tne com mission Is that the cost of building of a fence was too high. The particular fence in question was built by force account for Yamhill County, by Oskar Huber, and the only Interest the com mission had in It was when a man from the road department v as askedi by the county to check up on labor and materials as a matter of accommoda tion to the county. "Hot Air" Barrc. "No hot air," 1- the way Senator Rlt ner describes the rules which will govern the Thursday night meeting. "If a lawyer comes here from Oregon City and says that a road was built for so much, he will have to submit written data, together with specif lea- i tions. cost sheets and all Information which will have a bearing on his state- "For example. Senator Lafollette a few days ago complained that the com mission was mvmir about $23,000 a Co., i mile, when he knew of a road that had been paved for about fSOOO, and on In vestigation, it developed that the road the Senator wa referring to was of different construction, different mate rials, and the over-haul was different. No glittering generalities are wanted and no political speeches." Another cause of uneasiness existing between the Senate and House roads committees Is that the Senate outnum bers the House committee and there fore can outvote the latter. The at tention of Speaker Jones was called to this a week ago, but he did not see fit to Increase his committee. SALARY INCREASE STIRS WASCO COUNTY COURT PRE- PARES NEW MEASIRK. 'THE STORE THAT UNDERSELLS BECAUSE IT SELLS FOR CASH" The Last Week of Our January 1 -91 re-Inventory All Departments included. With the closing days of this great sale every section of the store has been searched in the endeavor to find all odd lots, broken lines, remnants and stir plus lots. All such goods have been repriced for immediate disposal. The saving possibilities thus placed before our patrons are far and beyond the ordinary. Savings that will not be possible for another twelve-month. Don't you fail to take advantage of these offerings. Bill Especially Designed for School Superintendent's Benefit Passes Before People Know It. THE DALLES. Jan. 27. (Special.) A rapid-fire fight is being made over the bill introduced In the Legislature to tncrease the salary of the County School Superintendent of thia county. Tho first known of the measure here was when It passed the House. The County Court Immediately undertook to head it off by the circulation of remonstrances. In the meantime. Sen ator J. R. Nickelscn, of this district, was asked to defer action on the meas ure In the Senate. Yesterday, local residents read in The Oregonian that th-i bill had passed the Senate and awaited only the signature of the Oovernor before becoming a law. Not anticipating such action, the Coun ty Court here has framed a bill which would give the County Court the right to fix the salaries of county officials and to appoint their deputies. This bill 'names the present salaries of local officeholders as a minimum and gives the court the right to Increase them at any annual session, or to subsequently reduce them to any figure not below the fixed minimum. If they see fit. County Judge Adklsson says he will call a mass meeting of all civic organ izations and taxpayers of the county to discuss the new bill before its sub mission to the Legislature. i FOR YOUR OWN BENEFIT COME SEE THE Handsome Coats $18.00 Which We Have Repriced to Sell This Sale for They are the season s choicest models in fashionable Velours and Wool Cheviots, coats selling regularly to double the above figures Truly, the creations of Fashion, saved from the price cutter's attention until the last handsome coats of fine quality velours and wool cheviots in styles with or without fur collars. Sizes from 16 to 48, in black, green, navy, brown and taupe. For your benefit come and see them if you do you'll not leave without purchasing one the unusual price reduction will prove a temptation few women will be able to resist. RESERVE OFFICERS NEEDED i He I total This little Food Peace-Time frmimlloiis May Given Men In Army. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. To make It possible to offer every officer who has served in the war a reserve commission in the grade for which he haa been found qualified. Secretary Baker said he would ask Congress for legislation amending the existing law limiting rank in the reserve corps. Since the armistice, he explained, there had been a surplus 6f officers In ovt-ry grade. "Th matter may briefly be summed up as follows." the letter says. "Demo bilization of the Army makes It Impossi ble to employ any additional officers for active duty, but on the contrary, neces sitates the discharge of many already In service. For officers not on active duty, but held in reserve, the need will always exist In time of peace. The War Department, therefore, has discontinued the appointment of officers for active duty, but offers to every man who has been found qualified for It, a commis sion In the United States Army with nactlve status." REVENUE BILL SATISFIES 'Continued From First Paife. 6 Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relief conferees had accepted the higher rates on war excess profits. Elimination of the second-class post age amendment had been generally ex pected. The proposal has been bitterly opposed by Representative Kltchin and others of the House conferees. It pro vided for repeal of the present zone rates on second-class mall based on the pro portion of news and advertising and for substitution of a new zone plan of one cent a pound on periodicals within the first and second-class par cel post zones and one and one-half cents a pound beyond that radius. The present rates have been vigorously at tacked by publishers as unjust and in some cases confiscatory. With the basis reached for settling these three vital disputes agreement on other provisions of the bill still left open was regarded as certain. mone these arc the amendment to prevent importation of intoxicating liquor into the District of Columbia for beverage purposes, the amendment of Senator Thomas, of Colorado, levy ing a tax of 100 per cent oh political campaign contributions In excess of $500 and that of Senator Trammel!, of Florida, to allow a bonus of one month's pay and uniforms to men dis charged from the military service. Conferees said the "bone dry" amend ment would be retained, but the fate of the others was in doubt. Other amendments remaining to be acted upon are several of the so-called "relief provisions of the Senate war excess profits section, some defendent upon the basis of agreement on rates reached by the conferees. Many Ad ministrative provisions also remain for final action. RELL-ANS VFOR INDIGESTION EIGHT BECOME BRIGADIERS One Major-Gcneral Nomination Con firmed by Senate. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. Nomina tions of Robert L. Bullard, now hold ing the temporary rank of Lieutenant General, to be a Major-General in the regular Army establishment, and of eight officers now temporarily Major Generals to be permanent Brigadier Generals, were confirmed today by the Senate. The new Brigadiers are George W. Read, Charles H. Muir, Charles T. Alenoher. J. W. McAndrew. William G. Haan. James G. Harbor, John L. Hines and Charles P. Sum.-ieral. SINGER'S FUNERAL TODAY Children of ShaUuck School Pay Tribute to Ml Kelly. The funeral cortege of Miss Dagmar Inez Kelly, the well-known contralto singer, wili leave the residence estab lishment of J. P. Finley & Son. Fifth and Montgomery streets, at 9 o'clock this morning and will proceed to St. Lawrence's Catholic Church. Third and Sherman streets, where mass for the dead will be celebrated at 9:30 o'clock. John Claire Montelth will be the solo ist. Interment will be at Mount Cal vary Cemetery. The services are pri vate by order of the Board of Health. The children of the Shattuck School yesterday bought a beautiful floral piece as a tribute to Miss Kelly. Miss Kelly had often drilled the children for entertainment and was a favorite with all of them. HOUSEKEEPERS Will Quickly Profit by These Underpriced Items Seamless Sheets $ 1 .48 Each Durable quality, 72x90 inches. Fringe Towels 11c Each They come 16x36 inches. Unbleached and honeycomb. 18-inch Toweling 39c Yard Heavy All-Linen Crash Toweling in plain white. White Bed Spreads $3.48 Extra heavy and large. Cotton Blankets $2.48 Pair Gray Blankets. 64x76 inches. Your Choice at 25c Yard Best Standard Quality Ginghams All Desirable Styles and Colors Cotton Suitings Plain and Stripe Styles Muslin Cambric Of Fine Soft Finish White Nainsook 36-inch, fine soft finish. All to go at, yard 25c Store Opens at 8:30 A.M. Saturday at 9 A.M. The Most in V alue The Best in Quality Store Closes at 5:30 P. M. Saturday at 6 P. M. PILLSBURY MILLS CLOSED Bis Plant Shut Down ror First Time in Months- MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 27. The entlr rMIIsbury flour milling system was shut down today, for the first time In many months. "We have made more flour than we could sell, so we shut down for a day," said C. A. Loring, president- of the company. ROAD OFFENSIVE TO OPEN tContinued From First Pace.) Cold Cause Grip and Influenza LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablet, re move the cause. There Is only one "Bromo Quinine." E. W. GROVE'S asffnarura on th box. 30c Adv. the profits on contracts recently let would give a good start. A hasty glance at the number of lobs the commission has outlined for 1919 indicates that a score of plants would be needed and a plant would cost around $50,000, It is said. The commission bought, a few months ago a paving plant which it has not used, but the plant has been used as a club over contractors and has kept down the price materially. As to cost of paving, much will be said. Clackamas County claims to have laid pavement for $1.01 a yard. The commis sion will probably admit that the price was about right for the kind of pave ment received. There are lobby ru .ors to the effect, however, that not all the cost Items are Included In the Sl.ul mstlsrially increase the cost per yard and that various expenses which would have not been Included. Three or four men are mentioned as loaded with statistics to illustrate that tbjft Highway Commission is paying; too POWERS ACT IN UNISON (Continued From Fliat Paite.) premc council to consider how many allied and American troops shall be kept on the western front held a meeting today and received teport trom experts concerning the situation on the Rhine and in Germany. Much Vet to Be Done. Progress, it la reported, was made In clearing up the situation, but much re mains to be done before the committee Is in a position to make a final recom mendation to the turreme council con cerning; the exact number of soldiers of each nationality required for garri son purposes In Germany and the main tenance of the frontier against any possible contingency. It Is learned that the determination or the American War Department to return the American troops now in Eu rope to their homes will not be af fected by any decisions reached by the committee. There will be no departure from the plan arranged for the return of the troops, allowance having been made in advance for the retention in Germany and Russia of all American soldiers regarded as forming a fair MUot.i for the Cnlted States. SOCIALISTS ARE WATCHED sWISS AUTHORITIES ISSUE STRINGENT REGCLuVTIOXS. with full realization of Its dangerous possibilities. He gave as one of his reasons for believing that Germany should be fed and supplied with raw materials that such action would make Industry possible and prevent Bolshev ism spreading. Regarding the American delegate who failed to get passports for the conference, M. Brantlnsr criticised the United States for Its attitude In thla respect, but said he understood the wide difference between the American Socialist and the European Social Democrat. BANK CONTROL CHANGES Hamilton Man Buys Stock in Morion Institution. MORTON. Wash.. Jan. 54. (Special.) Control of the Stat Bank of Mor ton has been obtained by H. S. ("roth era, who conducts a bank at Hamilton, where he reside. The stock was pur chased from A. N. Cheney, cashier of the Little Falls State Bank, of Vader. and from other non-resident stock holders, according to Mr. Crotliers. At the meeting this week of the di- ers appointed members of the mlssiams decided upon at the aessslon of the peace conference on Saturday. Jules Cambon. of France, presided. The official statement, giving the names of the members appointed, fol lows: The representatives of the powers with special Interests met this after noon at 3 o'clock at the Quai d'Orsay under the presidency of Mr. Jules Cam bon. Ambassador and French delegate at the peace conference, to appoint members of the mission in accordance with the decisions of the plenary ses sion of Saturday, January 25. The following were appointed: Iengue of nations Paul Hymans, Belgium: Epitaclo Pessoa. Brazil; Wel lington Koo.'plenlpotentlary, China: M R. Vesnitch. Serbia; Janne Uatalkha Reis, minister plenipotentiary, Portu gal. Brlrlmn's Representative In named. "Responsibility for the war Belgium, not yet appointed: Serbia. Slobodan Yovanovitch: Roumania, Mr. Rosenthal; Greece. M. Politis; Poland, not yet ap pointed. International labor legislation Bel gium, M Vandervelde and M. Mahairr : Cuba- A. S. Bustamante: Poland, not yet appointed: the Czecho-Slovak re public. M. Benes. "Regulation of port, waterways and railroads Belgium, not yet appointed: China. H. E. Thomas and C. T. Wang. Plenipotentiary delegates; Greece. M. Ooromilas; Serbia, M. Trumbltch; Uru guay, Carlos Blanco." The members from the five great powers on these missions were named Saturday. The committee appointed by the su Undesirable Characters Not to Be Admitted as Delegates lo Coming Conference. GENEVA. Jan. 27. The Swiss au thorities have Issued stringent regula tions regarding the entrance Into Switzerland of Socialist delegatea to the conference at Berne. Among others. Frledrlch Adler. the Austrian who killed Cnur.t Stuergkh. the Austrian Premier, has been refused admittance, although his passport had been vised. BERNE. Switzerland. Jan. 26. (By the Associated Press.) A tone of care fully modulated optimism as to results expected from the international labor nnH Socialist conference now assem bling here characterized the views ex pressed today oy lljaimar "". Swedish Socialist leader. M. Branting mentioned the visit paid to Paris by Arthur Henderson. British labor leader, and his conference with Foreign Secretary Balfour as an indi cation that the peace conference in tended to attach weight to the de mands and desires of labor. The Swedish Socialist leader ex pressed whole-hearted Indorsement of President Wilson's ideas regarding the making of the peace, although he ap peared somewhat skeptical as to whether these ideas would triumph completely. He was extremely pessimistic as to the German workmen's future, declar ing that the situation In Germany was extremely critical ana ne rearea tne ...nil imlexa relief came quickly. Bolshevism was referred to by M. nnniinc in terms of sarcastic con demnation, although he said he apoke rectors and stockholder. W. W. Morse, present cashier, was re-elected. Presi dent Crothers states that it is th In tention to increase the capitalisation of the bank by about .50 per cent. The officers and directors of th bank now are: President. H. 8. Croth ers: vice-president, Joseph Mo-jrcroft. of Randle: cashier. W. W. jaVe: C. B. Smith and F. M. Broadbent. f Morton. STATE BODY TO DISBAND California Food Administration in End Activities January 31. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 27. With the exception of It grain corporation, the t'nited States Food Administration in California will end Its activities on Friday. January 31. it wna announced here today. The Federal Food Administration will remain operative until peac is signed and will handle all business of the disbanded state organization. bT t Mr. Ralph Graham Tells How Cuticura Healed Pimples "My trouble began with pimples on my face. They would start with a red spot ana come to s head, and they were soft. They were scattered ail over toy lace and itched so that I Irritated them by scratching. My (ace was disfigured while the pimples lasted. "I tried many remedies but had no success, and I was troubled with the pimples for about (our years. Then I used Cuticura Soap and Oint ment. I found relief and when I had used two cakes of Cdtlcura Soap and two boxes of Cuticurs Ointment I was healed." (Signed) Ralph Gra ham. Post FaUs. Idaho. June 1.1918. Once dear keep your skin healthy and clear by using Cuticura Soap and Ointment (or every -day toilet purposes and Cuticurs Talcum to powder and perfume. Starpte rna br BUn AMrmm poat-eard Cuicar. ZMpx. a. I ' Sold ilbut 5vjp OiBOBOTt a id Hc. T.U-am 2SC H 11 THU ! 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