VOL. LVIII. XO. 18,316
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Postoffice as Second-Class Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BAKERS WILL BOOST
BREAD UP ONE CENT
GROCERS COXTIXCED RISE IX
PRICE IS JUSTIFIED.
WILSON
DEMANDS
EDITORS OF NATION
ARE CITY'S GUESTS
All Sections Represented
at Convention.
PEACE CONFERENCE
WILL TAKEVACATION
WAR DEPARTMENT
WILL SELL FOOD
Price List Issued Ignores
Cost of Stores.
"TSIfFUBSISIIBt-
WAR DN PROFITEER
President Asks Congress
for Teeth in Law.
SWOP Oil SALEM
DELEGATES
.e ABLE TO
CENTRAL OREGON" BAR OR
GAXIZES AXD RAISES SCALE.
. IH OFF.
FOOD CONTROL STILL DESIRED
ational License Wanted for
Interstate Shippers.
STRIKERS AGGRAVATE CASE
sCabor Leaders Expected to Ticld to
Reason Retailers Blamed
lor Extortion.
WASHINGTON-. Aug. S. President
Wilson laid several specific proposals
before congress today for checking the
high cost of living, but at the same
time declared permanent results could
not be expected until peace-time bases
were fully restored by ratification of
the peace treaty.
High prices, the president told con
arress, were not justified by shortage
of supplies either present or pros
pective, but were created in many
cases "artificially and deliberately" by
"vicious practices."
Retailers, he said, were responsible
In large part for extortionate prices.
Strikes, the president warned the
labor world, would only make matter
worse and those who sought to employ
threats or coercion were only "prepar
ing their own destruction." Leaders of
organized labor, the president said, he
was eure would presently yield to sec
ond sober thought. .
Methods Called Criminal.
Illegal" and "criminal" were the
-words the president used in character
izing the methods by which some present-day
prices have been brought
about.
Present laws, he said, would be ener
getically employed to the limit-to force
out food hoards and meet the situation
as far as possible, but to supplement
the existing statutes he specifically
urged the following:
Licensing of all corporations engaged
in interstate commerce with specific
regulations designed to secure competi
tive selling and "prevent unconscion
able profits" in the method of market
ing. Extension of the food control act to
peace times and the application of its
provisions against hoarding to fuel,
clothing and other necessities of life'
as well as food.
A penalty in the food control act for
profiteering.
A law regulating cold -storage, limit
ing the time which goods may be held;
prescribing a method of disposing of
them if held beyond the permitted pe
riod, and requiring that when released
goods bear the date of storage.
Stampinx or Frier Sought.
Laws requiring that goods released
from storage for interstate commerce
bear the selling prices at which they
went into storage and requiring that
all goods destined for interstate com
merce bear the price at which they
left the hands of the producer.
Enactment of the pending bill for the
control of security issues.
Additional appropriations for govern
ment agencies which can supply the
pul!ic with full information as to
prii'cs at which retailers buy.
Early ratification of the peace treaty
so that the ".free processes of supply
and demand can operate."
Immediate steps by executive agen
cies f the government promised by
the president include:
The limiting and controlling of wheat
shipments and credits to facilitate the
purchase of wheat in such a way as not
to raise, but rather to lower the price
of flour at home.
Surplus Stocks for Sale.
Sale of surplus stocks of food and
clothing in the hands of the govern
ment.
The forced withdrawal from storage
and sales of surplus stocks in private
hands.
General recommendations include:
Increase of production.
Careful buying by housewives.
Fair dealing with the people on the
part of the producers, middlemen and
merchants.
That there be no threats and undue
insistence upon the interest of a sin
gle class.
Correction of "many things" in the
relation between capital and labor in
respect to wages and conditions of
labor.
In concluding the president made a
plea for deliberate, intelligent action,
reminding congress that an unbalanced
world was looking to the United States.
"We and we almost alone," he said,
"now hold the world steady. Upon our
steadfastness and self-possession de
pend the affairs of nations everywhere.
It is .in this supreme crisis this crisis
for all mankind that America must
prove her mettle."
ARMY STOCKS TO BE SOLD
$100,000,000 Is Price Offered Tor
American Goods in trance.
PARIS, Aug. 8. An agreement for the
ale of American army stocks in France
for H00. 00.000 was signed yesterday,
aa Marcel Hutin in the Kcho de Paris.
He declares that arrangements mere
made for a long-time credit so that
France will not have to hear the high
rate of exchange which prevail at
present.
Advance in Few Days Follows Con
ference to Show Bankruptcy
Is Facing Producers.
Portland bakers will announce an in
crease of 1 cent in the retail price of
bread within the next few days. The
objections which the retail grocers
made to this advance several weeks
ago, and which forced the bakers to
turn to the old price, have been re
moved, and in increasing the price of
the present 10-cent loaf to 11 cents
the bakers have the sympathy and sup
port of the retail grocers.
Announcement to this effect was
made yesterday, following a conference
between the bakers and a committee
from the Portland Grocers' a- 1 Mer
chants' association.
The bakers, or most of them,- con
vinced the grocers that in many in
stances they are - not even breaking
even under present conditions. Several
of them said frankly that they were in
a perilous financial condition and would
be forced out of business shortly un
less they were allowed to make the
1-cent advance in the price.
"If we were to be absolutely honest
and square in the matter, I guess we
would have to say that we are now
convinced that the bakers were justi
fied in making that increase recently,"
said Edward A. MacLean, secretary of
the Grocers' and Merchants' association.
"The evidence laid before us indicates
that the bakers, perhaps not all, but
the average, were either losing money
or doing business at cost. That is the
condition today as shown to our com
mittee. "The bakers produced figures show
ing that they are selling bread for
nearly a half-cent less than the cost
of production in June."
JAP LINER IS CRIPPLED
Fushimi Maru Transfers Peace En
voys and Treaty at Sea.
SEATTLE, "Wash.. Aug 8. The Jap
anese liner Fushimi Maru, which left
here August 5 for the orient, tonight
was limping back to port with a
cracked cylinder head and her steam
steering gear out of commission, ac
cording to a wireless message received
here by the merchants' exchange. She
turned back when 500 miles off Cape
Flattery and will arrive here early
tomorrow.
Aboard the Fushimi Maru was a
party of Japanese army officials and
peace delegation attaches who are tak
ing to Japan the first official copy of
the peace treaty to reach the orient.
As the Fushimi was heading back to
the coast she passed the Canadian Pa
cific liner Empress of Russia bound
from Vancouver to the orient. The
Fushimi transferred the envoys to the
Russia at sea.
About five days delay to the vessel"!
schedule is expected.
PLANE WRECKED AT DALLAS
Machine, Propeller and Wings Torn
Orr, Rises; Then Crashes.
SfLVERTON, Or., Aug. 8. (Special.)
The airplane owned by the Beaver
Flying corporation of this city was
wrecked at Dallas this afternoon. L.
E. pranseen, pilot, and a passenger.
who fell a distance of 50 feet, escaped
uniniurrd.
The airplane took off at the Dallas I
field and was shooting up at a speed
of SO miles an hour when it hit a tree.
The machine went 20 feet or more
above the tree top after both wings
and the propellor had been broken.
The plane, which was of the Curtiss
type, was new. It was brought up from
L.iiiuiin. niiu n an uiucu lu 1 1 y m
Silverton Saturriav and SiinHav A nv
plane will be snt from Sacramento '
at once.
DEATH IS JOKE; MAN DIES
C. O. Bailey of Yakima Arranges
Kunrral, Drops Dead.
YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 8. (Special.)
Within a few hours after he had ar
ranged jokingly, with an undertaker
friend, the details of his funeral Charles
C. Bailey, known throughout the Yaki
ma valley and in Portland and Sound
cities, was found dead on the floor of
his room in a Yakima hotel. Apoplexy
was given as the cause.
Mr. Bailey was associated with the
Granger brick plant, and was secretary
of the Sunnyside irrigation district. He
was probation officer of the county 18
months, resigning last winter. Shortly
hfore his death. Mr. Bailey commented
on his robust health.
"HANDCUFF KING" CAUGHT
Speeder Pays but Tells Court" He Was
Hurrying to Theater.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Aug. 8. Spe
cial.) Vic D. Hardendee, styling him
self the "handcuff kingr." was arrested
here Wednesday night on a charge of
speeding and was fined $10 and costs
by Justice Charles Hoss.
Hardendee told the court that he was
hurrying to Olympia to fill a theatrical
engagement.
STEAMSHIP HITS ISLAND
North Star Strikes Near Yarmouth,
X. S. 280 Passengers Safe.
BOSTON, Aug. S. The steamship
North Star struck on Green Island,
nine miles south of Yarmouth. N. S.,
in a fog at 6:40 A. M. today. The re
moval of her passengers, 2S0 in all. and
their transfer to Yarmouth was ac
complished without accident. The
North Star left Boston for Yarmouth
last night .
STATE EXTENDS WELCOME
Dedication of Taat at Oregon
City Features Today.
BANQUET WILL BE TONIGHT
Party Grov.s as It Travels Through
Northwest and Entertainments
at Every Stop Are Many.
Tired and travel-worn, but full of
enthusiasm over northwestern hospi
tality, the 216 editors with their wives
and children making up the National
Editorial association tour, came in on
a special train from Seattle a little
after 5 P. M. yesterday.
The visitors, who are from almost
every section of the United States, have
been travelling two weeks, coming
through Canada and enjoying one of
the most novel conventions ever put
on by as large an organization. They
will open the first business session of
the 34th annual meeting at the Elks
lodge rooms this morning.
State Editors Provide Welcome.
The editors were greeted at the
Union station by members of the state
association, which held a business
session in the city yesterday, and were
taken shortly afterward to Laurelhurst
park for dinner and a reception in
charge of a committee of local business
men. - Here they were greeted by
Mayor Baker and C. E. Ingalls, presi
dent of the state press association.
George E. Hosmer of Denver, chairman
of the national legislative committee.
made the response.
Entertainment of the visiting pub
lishers and editors last night included
a jolly stag party. This was held at
the rooms of the Portland Press club.
Trills Taken by Day Only.
Good weather favored the tourists all
the time they have been on the road.
The tr-tin. In charge of '"Bill" Wilke,
publisher of the Gazette of Gray Kagle,
Minn., and Guy V. Hardy of Canyon
City, Colo., president of the association,
after leavir.g Edmonton, traveled only
in the daytime. Nights were spent in
towns alofig the road, where entertain
ment was furnished.
At Edmonton the editors were enter
tained at a reception in the house of
parliament and were addressed by the
lieutenant-governor. Ten days were
spent in Canada, the train leaving Van
couver, B. C, Thursday night, reaching
Seattle in the morning and going
through as far as Chehalis. Wash.,
where the town tendered a luncheon
A few Washington people were added
to the group, but the main party from
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Division Scheme Just
Worked Out.
PARIS, Aug. 8. The peace confer
ence will adjourn for a vacation dur
ing September, the Intransigeant an
nounces. The American, English and
Italian delegates, says the paper, will
return to their homes.
The conference reached a solution of
the Thracian problem yesterday, ac
cording to the Intransigeant. by divid
ing Thrace Into a number of parts,
some going to Greece and others being
designated to form the future free state
of Constantinople and a new free state
t-nder the league of nations.
The solution arrived at. according to
the Intransigeant, provides for divid
ing Thrace into eastern and western
Thrace.
Eastern Thra:e will be divided into
three parts, Greece getting two of hem
t.nd a third being designated as part
of the future free state of Constanti
nople. Of western Thrace, a quarter is to be
given Greece and the other three
o barters are to constitute a free state
to be set up under the league of na
tions. OREGON TO BE LINE SHIP
Veteran Fighter's Active Service
Iays Are "ot Yet Over,
SAX FRANCISCO, Aug. 8. The his
toric old battleship Oregon, now being
outfitted at Bremerton, is to take her
place again in an American fleet when
she joins Admiral Rodman's Pacific
armada around September 6. . Accord
ing to the 12th naval district head
quarters here, the Oregon is not com
ing here to be used merely as an
aquatic grandstand for reviews and
other occasions, but she will become
an actual entity of the fighting units.
President Wilson, if he is able to
come, is expected to review the Pa
cific fleet from the decks of the Ore
gon, but the old battleship will be un
der Admiral Rodman's direction and
not under the direction of the local
naval authorities, it was announced.
The length of time, the Oregon will
remain with the fleet has not been
determined, it was announced.
ANOTHER WAR CALLED OFF
Great Britain and Afghanistan Sign
l'cace Treaty.
LONDON', Aug. S. Peace has been
made betn-een Great Britain and Af
ghanistan. A' peace agreement was
signed at 11 o'clock this morning.
Official announcement of peace was
made this afternoon.
AIRSHIP TO SAIL FOR INDIA
British Dirigible Expected to Start
Next Week.
LONDON". Aug. 8. The British diri
gible R-33, sister ship of the R-34.
which recently completed a round trip
across the Atlantic, probably will start
on her flight to India next week, it
was announced today.
ALL SECTIONS TO GET SHARE
Distribution Will Be Made From
13 Centers.
GRAIN CORPORATION HIT
Blame Given for Alleged Kailnre
to Protect Farmers on Price
of Wheat.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. The war de
partment made public today a complete
price list on all subsistence stones avail
able for sale to the public through the
parcel post or through municipal sell
ing agencies. Costs of the commodities
to the government, the department said,
had been disregarded entirely in fixing
the prices of sale, which are materially
lower than prevailing marloet rates.
The prices quoted are f. o. b. and
from storage points in each of the 13
districts into which the country is
divided for war department subsist
ence purposes. The department now is
redistributing the food supplies in the
13 areas in order that each may have
its proportion per population of the 72
articles offered for sale.
The price tables include the price
per can or individual units in each case
and also the price per case or large
containers. It also shows the gross
weight per can and per case ip order
that the public may arrive at the price
they will have to pay by adding parcel
post rates from the nearest distribut
ing point to the home of the con
sumer to the f. o. b. prices quoted.
Freigrht o Be Added.
Municipal selling agencies will com
pute freight charges on these shipments
to be added to the price quoted by the
war department. On the parcel post
distribution no orders will be received
direct by the war department, but only
through the postoffice department,
which will requisition the supplies by
case or larger package, the postmasters
in turn breaking these shipments
up into unit packages of a single can
or several cans.
Sales to municipalities at the new
prices will begin as soon as the sur
plus property officers at the various
zone supply offices and depots have re
ceived the quotations made public to
day. Sales to individuals through the
parcels post will be inaugurated Au
gust 18.
Seme Lraatina; Quotations.
Quotations on some of the leadiag
commodities are:
Bacon. 94.15 per can of 17 pounds:
corned beef, 55 cents for can of 1.36
pounds; baked beans, 5 cents for can
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Increased Cost of Livin
Is Eiplana-
(ion of Action
Setting
$2.50
Minimum for Any Service
BEND, Or.: Aug. 8. (Special.) The
cost of litigation in Deschutes county
took a 50 per cent lump last night,
when attorneys of the 18th judicial dis
trict, responding to the call of Circuit
Judge T. E. Duffy, met in Redmond,
organized the Central Oregon Bar as
sociation and adopted a standard fee
scale.
One class of professional services was
boosted 100 per cent, for hereafter it
will cost at least 1100 to dissolve the
marriage bond Instead of $50. as has
formerly been the case. The minimum
fee to be charged for any service will
be $1.50. The. advance, declared by the
new bar association Is the first in 15
years, and was deemed necessary be
cause of increased living costs.
Officers were elected as follows: M.
E. Brink of Prinevllle. president: J. A.
Wilcox of Redmond, and L. M. Bechtel
of Prinevllle. vice-presidents: Charles
w- Erskine of Bend, secretary: Ross
Farnham of Bend, treasurer; M. R.
t-lliott of rrinevllle, C. S. Benson of
Bend and Jay P. Upton of Prineville.
chancellors: Willard P. Wirtx of Prine
vllle, counsellor.
BELGIANS RATIFY PEACE
Action Taken Vnanimonsly
Chamber of Deputies.
by
BRUSSELS, Aug. 8. The chamber of
deputies today ratified the peace treaty
with Germany.
The vote was unanimous.
During the discussion of the treaty
the foreign minister" said:
"The league of nations fails .to offer
immediate guarantees and compels us
to look to our own defense. That is
why we are seeking at Paris a revision
of the treaties of 1830.
"I wish to assure our delegates that
the whole nation supports them. Re
vision of the treaties will provide the
required guarantees."
The chamber also ratified the annex
to the treaty concerning the military
convention entered into by France, the
United States, Great Britain .and Bel
gium. B0LSHEVIKI ADMIT LOSSES
British Bombardment Destroyed
Many Buildings; Army Retreats.
LONDON. Aug. 8. A bolshevik wire
less communication, dated Thursday
and received today says:
"An enemy flotilla, consisting prin
cipally of British ships, bombarded
Ochakov (41 miles northeast of Odessa)
Tuesday night. More than 500 shots
were fired, which destroyed many of
the buildings. Enemy ships also bom
barded Stanislavov."
The communicatipn says the bolshe
vik troops are retiring under enemy
pressure on the western front, but it
claims notable advances for the bolshe
viki on the eastern front.
"MILWAUKEE" WORKS FAST
Electrification of Coast Division to
Be Ready in Month.
TACOMA. Wash., Aug. 8. (Special.)
According to President Karling. of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul line,
electrification of the coast division
east of Tacoma will be completed with
in another month. Completion of this
improvement will leave but 200 miles
of the road between the coast and the
eastern slope of the Rockies under
steam operation.
When this gap will be changed over
to electric line depends on financial
developments. Mr. Earling said.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 76
dcicreea; minimum. 50 degress.
TODA V'S Fair; sentle westerly winds.
Forelg-n.
W. T. Ellis iisserlB allies mre betraying- weak
nations of near eut. Pf '2. ,
Peace conference to take vacation. Page 1.
Roumania's roup aeaenled by peace confer
ence. Page 2.
National.
Repeal of wheat price guarantee is urged
In senate committee. 1'aKe 1.
President demands war on. profiteers in
speech to congress. Page 1.
Wilson's address favorably taken in con
frets. Page '13.
Colombian treaty held up in senate. Page 20.
. Oonteatic.
State troops withdrawn from Chicago stock
yards. Page 20.
Wheat crop drops 221.000,000 bushels.
Pass 21.
San rtegos heart opened to visiting sailors.
Page 6.
Oregon marines land from France. Page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
Fee for divorce is doubled by newly organ
ised central Oregon bar. Page 1.
Guilt of murder suspect held at Olympia
doubted. Page 14.
Salem center of suffrage cyclone. Page 1.
Sports.
Pacific Coast league results: Portland S.
Seattle 6: Vernon 5. San Francisco O;
l.os Angeles 8. Oakland 4; Sacramento 2,
Salt Lake 1. Pag 1Z.
Salt Lake Bees become factor in pennant
race. Page 12.
Picking of fly casting winner at Sellwood
difficult. Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
Grain standard demonstrations to be held
at valley points. .Page 21.
Cora higher at Chicago in expectation of
bullish crop report. Page 21.
Advance in active stocks Is steady. Page 21.
Longshoremen's demands are discussed; no
decision is reached. Page 20.
Port land and Vicinity.
Bread to Jump one cent. Page 1.
Nation's editors arrive. Page 1.
Romance started under "spirit control" ends
in divorce court. Page 10.
Export flour to be offered in northwest as
move to cut coata. page lj.
Oregon profiteers are to be prosecuted.
Page lo.
State editors" association favors suffrage ses
sion. Page G.
Phone rates based on schedule nearly year
old Page 9.
1 ,WeaUter re Dart, data and forecast. Fa-e 2,1.
Statehouse Stormed by
Rival Delegates. .
GOVERNOR TAKEN BY SURPRISE
Demands for Ratification Ses
sion Stoutly Preached. -
0LC0TT REITERATES STAND
State and National Leaders Decide to
Start New Campaign to Win
Meeting of LegUlators.
SALEM, Or., Aug. S. (Special.)
Two suffrage delegations, each repre
senting widely difrerent national and
state organizations, and each bent on
getting the first conference with ths
governor, swooped down on the exec
utive offices here today to press their
claims for a special session of the atats
legislature to ratify the Susan Anthony
suffrage amendment to the federal con
stitution.
Neither delegation knew of the oth
er's intention to visit Salem until they
met on the train and the race from the
depot to the statehouse added enthu
siasm to their visit.
Mrs. Joseph Hill Edilh Knight
Holmes), in charge of the delegation
which included Miss Marjorie Shuler
of New York City, personal representa
tive of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, pres
ident of (the National Women's Suf
frage association, and Mrs. J. G. South,
daughter of ei-Governor W. O. Bradley
of Kentucky, outwitted their suffrage
sisters by hiring a taxicab at the :-..
tion and arriving at the capitol unher
alded. Drastic Aets frowned On.
Miss Shuler was for 10 years special
writer on the Burralo Express and was,
one of the six women who witnessed
the signing of the federal suffrage
amendment to the constitution in
Washington.
"We are not here to stags any bon
fires in front or The capitol or picket
your representatives." said Miss Shuler.
"but. on the contrary, Tt is our peaceful
mission to corns to Oregon and ascer
tain the attitude of the governor re
garding the ratification proposal. V
consider ourselves members of the con
servative wing of the surrrage organi
zation, and deplore the more drastic
acts of our sister organizations in the
past."
tiovernsr Stands Firmly.
In a subsequent conference with the
women Governor Olcott explained his
position on the suffrage question and
reiterated his former announcement
that he would not call the lawmakers
together until such time as a majority
of the members of both houses had re
quested a special session and had
agreed to waive per diem and mileage.
The women explained that 14 states
already had ratified the amendment,
Utah and Indiana had called special ses
sions for that purpose, but that SS
states in all were necessary to Insure
the women of the United States the
right to vote at the next presidential
election.'
The delegation left the governor's
office expressing satisfaction with the
conference and a determined effort to
meet with the governor's requirements.
Mr. Olrott Shows Proof.
Miss Vivian Pierce, member of the
national woman's suffrage party, and
admittedly one of the suffragists who
picketed the national capital for sev
eral weeks prior to the adoption of the
Susan Anthony suffrage amendment,
and Clara Wold, of the Oregon suf
fragist committee, conferred with the
executive this afternoon. Miss Pierce
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..waa viu miu representatives
and 10 senators already had asked for
a special session of the legislature, but
this was refuted by the governor, who
presented the original letters showing
that nly 17 representatives and eijrht
senators had voluntarily asked for rat
ification of the amendment through a
special assembly of the lawmakers.
Call Legislators Shows.
Miss Pierce charged that the gover
nor was quibbling over the phraseology
of the letters, and that the intent of
the missives was to ask for a specsT
session. The governor met this ac
cusation by handing to the visitors a
copy of his original statement contain
ing the terms imposed upon the legis
lators in the event they desire a spe
cial legislative gathering.
The executive called also the) atten
tion of the women to many of c let--ters,
including one from the Multnomah
delegation, in which the legislators
said they would attend the session a-rrd
waive mileage and per diem In tlxa
event he (the governor) felt inclined to
call them together. It is the governor's
contention that these letters do not
come within the realm of voluntary
requests for a special session.
The women proposed to start a new
campatgn to get the legislators to re
quest a special session rather titan
"pass the buck" back to the governor.'
Mrs. Hill beaded Ijer delegation as
personal representative of Mrs. Elliott.
Corbett, acting president of the Oregon
Equal Suffrage alliance. a
Miss Shuler and Mrs. South will re
port the results of the conference to
their national headquarters.
SALEM. Or.. ug. 8. '(Special.)
Provided Governor Olcott calls & spe
cial sessfon of the legislature on tha
showing of a bare majority of rr.ero-
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