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GOVERNMENT BUGS
FLEET PLANS AWAIT
AGREEMENT NEAR
RACING BOATS ARE
LOST IN EXPLOSION
RED ARMY ROUTED
IN FIGHT ON DVINA
STRIKERS IN PEORIA
AND DEPUTIES CLASH
THREE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN"
EXCHANGE OF SHOTS.
T GREY IS
RETURN OF DANIELS
FIRST PROFIT HOG
ON PEACE TREATY
SENT TO AMERICA
"0 ASSIGNMENTS TO NORTHERN
PORTS TO BE MADE YET.
VOGLER BOY IS HURLED 2 00
FEET THROUGH AIR.
VISGDUW
I
Retail Grocer Is Fined in
Binghamton, N. Y.
PALMER WARS ON HOARDERS
Clothing and Food Containers
May Be Included.
MILLION ASKED FOR FIGHT
Three Cabinet Officers Want Special
Appropriations for Campaign
on Price Abuses.
WASHINGTON", Aug. 13. Important
new developments in the government's
fight to reduce the high cost of living
came today.
One of the most interesting was the
announcement by Attorney-Generai
Palmer that the first federal conviction
for profiteering had been obtained.
District Attorney Lucey telegraphed
from Binghampton, K. T., that a retail
grocer had been fined $500 for selling j
sugar at 15 cents a pound. -No details
were given, and the law under which
the case was brought was not known
here.
"A few good cases for profiteering
in each state will settle that trouble,"
Mr. Palmer remarked.
In order to bring to book persons
guilty of raising prices exorbitantly or
hoarding food to advance prices. Mr.
Palmer submitted to the agriculture
committees of congress the draft of an
amendment to the food control act ex
tending its provisions to clothing and
containers of foods and feeds and pro
viding a penalty of $5000 fine or two
years' imprisonment, or both, for vio
lation of the law.
Report Mar Be Made Today.
Chairman Haugen of the house com
mittee announced that the amendment
would be considered immediately by a
subcommittee and that a report might
be made tomorrow.
It is Mr. Palmer's idea that this
amendment should be considered before
taking up other amendments suggested
by President Wilson to extend the ef
fective life of the food control act be
yond the war period.
Three cabinet officers asked special
appropriations from congress for the
campaign against inflated prices. Sec
retary Redfield requested $410,000 for
the work of the bureau of standards in
assuring full weight and measure
and of the bureau of fisheries in
introducing new fish foods. Secretary
Wilson asked for $475,000 "for the em
ployment of special agents and others,
and Mr. Palmer requested $1,000,000 for
the bureau of investigation and for the
expenses of the state food adminis
trator assisting the department of jus
tice. Another $200,000 was asked for anti
trust suits, especially that against the
five big packing companies. The at
torney-general also wants $300,000 for1
other work of the department, not di
rectly connected with the living prob
lem, such as the enforcement of war
time prohibition, prosecution of ap
peals and hiring of special assistants.
Asked today if he had any reports
indicating sufficient food held in stor
age to affect prices materially if re
leased, Mr. Talmer revealed that a
number of governors had appealed to
him to cut "red tape" in forcing on
the market "amazing quantities" of
foodstuffs now in storage. In some
cases, it was said the food has been
held longer than permitted by state
laws, but technicalities regarding in
terstate commerce had prevented the
governors from undertaking seizure or
prosecution.
Mr. Palmer ordered all district at
torneys to assist the governors.
Reports of excessive stocks of food
held in storage have been received from
at least six states, the attorney-general
said. He declined to be more specific,
but it was indicated that New Jersey
was one of the states.
Storage conditions also are engaging
the attention of the state food admin
istrators, several of whom have asked
if they were authorized to publish the
facts where it appeared that more food
was being held from the public than the
reasonable requirements of a dealer
demanded.
"I told them to go right ahead and
to use the names." Mr. Palmer an
nounced. "I am interested in getting
as much information on this subject
to the ultimate consumer as I possibly
can."
The effect of the government's cam
paign was indicated in the revision by
the war department of prices to be
charged for surplus army food. Re
ductions were made "to meet compe
tition by retailers."
KrKulalon Irsrd aa Cure.
Federal regulation of cold storage of
food was urged in the senate today by
Senator McKellar, democrat, of Tennes
see, as a certain means of reducing
tha cost of living and as the only rem
edy for "the most outrageous piece of
profiteering that can be imagined."
The meat packers were charged by the
Tennessee senator with using . cold
ktorage facilities to .fix food prices.
Explaining his bill. Senator McKellar
aid it would limit the time foods could
be held in cold storage and has been
vigorously opposed by the packers.
Citing recent statistics of the federal
trade commission of food heldin cold
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Large Division of Modern Ships
Will Be Sent to the Colum
bia River In September.
OREGON'IAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington. Aug. 13. (Special.)
Representative McArthur was advised
today by Admiral William S. Benson,
chief of the bureau of operations of
the navy department, that plans for
dividing the Pacific fleet and sending
a portion of it to Puget sound and the
Columbia river will not take definite
form until Secretary Daniels returns
from the Hawaiian islands to San
Francisco on September 2.
A small portion of the Pacific fleet
now Is en route to Honolulu, but Ad
miral Hugh Rodman has most of the
fleet at anchor off San Pedro. This
main portion of the fleet will journey
northward by easy stages, stopping at
Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz and ar
riving in San Francisco on September
1, one day in advance of the return of
the Daniels party from the Hawaiian
islands. The presidential review will
take place at San Francisco on or
about September 5.
Admiral Benson said that the move
ments of the various vessels and di
visions of the Pacific fleet after the
presidential review would be deter
mined by Admiral Rodman after con
sultation with Secretary Daniels. Ad
miral Benson, however., already has
recommended that a large division of
modern type ships be sent to the Co
lumbia river.
Mr. McArthur said the people of Ore
gon and Washington would be given
ample notice of the fleet's movements
after the presidential review.
CHURCH TEACHES COOKERY
Manual Training School Also Is
Conducted for Kelso Boys.
KELSO, Wash., Aug. 13. (Special.)
A new departure in social service was
inaugurated by the Kelso Presbyterian
church when a vacation school opened
this week for the children of Sunday
school age. Rev. R. A. Walmsley, the
new'pastor of the'ehurch, is supervis
ing the school, which is devoted to
manual training, domestic science,
Bible study, games and recreations.
Capable teachers are in charge of each
department and there was an enroll
ment of 60 children the first day.
The girls receive instruction in cook
ing, sewing, etc., and the boys have
their manual training work. There is
also a kindergarten department for the
little tots.
BARLEY AND RYE PRICES UP
Exports Nullify Effect of High-Cost-of-Living
Agitation.
CHICAGO, Aug. 13. Agitation over
the high cost of living has not de
pressed the barley market. On the con
trary, the price of barley advanced 2 to
4 cents a bushel today and sales were
made at $1.52, the highest price yet this
season. Maltsters have been the most
active buyers and the impression pre
vails that there have been extensive
sales of malt to Europe.
Rye jumped with barley and closed
at 2-c to 3c advance. Export purchas
ing of rye today was estimated at
1,000,000 bushels.
FATE CHOOSES OFFICIALS
Yakima Park Board Is Selected by
Lottery From List of Names.
YAKIMA, Wash.. Aug. 13. (Special.)
Drawn by lot from a list suggested
by the Yakima Commercial club, Joseph
Tyson, Mrs. A. K. Larson and P. A.
Ditter were named by the city commis
sion Tuesday as a Yakima park board.
under the terms of an ordinance now
being drawn authorizing purchase and
development of parks.
An advisory committee consisting of
Mrs. H. M. Gilbert. Alexander Miller.
G. O. Shumate and H. Stanley Coifin
was named to assist the board.
WOMEN RUNNING COUNTY
Bend Officials Attend Elks Convcn
tion at Klamath Falls.
BEND, Or.. Aug. 31. (Special.)
Deschutes county offices were run by
women today, and will continue under
feminine management -until next week,
when Sheriff S. E. Roberts, Clerk J. H.
Haner and Treasurer Clyde M. McKay
will have returned from attending the
Elks' convention at Klamath Falls.
In place of the regular incumbents
are: Sheriff. Mrs. Hazel Manion; clerk,
Miss Helen Foley; treasurer, Mrs. Clyde
McKay.
CAR SHORTAGE BEGINNING
Movement of Crops Having Effect,
Says Director-General.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. Car short
aee is beginning to be' felt, Director
General Hines said today, as the rail
road business picks up with the ad
vance of the season and the movement
of crops.
Mr. Hines believes the operating def
icit this month will be small.
STILLS SPOTTED FROM SKY
Airplanes to Make Path of Alabama
Bootlegger Rocky.
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Aug. 13 Use
of airplanes In locating illicit distiller
ies in the Alabama mountains was in
augurated today.
Deputy Marshal J. A. Wall made a
trip over the surrounding territory. He
announced later he expected several
arrests to foUoav.
Only 20 Republicans Are;
Needed to Ratify.
RESERVATIONS WILL BE MADE
Monroe Doctrine and Control
Over War Protected.
LODGE IN STRONG POSITION
Nature of Amendments Expected to
Depend Largely on Chairman
ot Senate Committee.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. (By the
Associated Press.) The trend toward
agreement on reservations in the peace
treaty reached the stage today where
the group of republican senators ad
vocating reservations received as
surances which they accepted as guar
anteeing democratic assent to their
programme.
Word reached members of the group.
it was said, that as soon as they could
pledge a score of republican votes for
reservations to the league of nations
covenant along the line recently agreed
on by seven republican senators, the
adm'n istration forces in the senate
would be willing to line up on that
basis for ratification of the treaty.
There was an intimation also that
the reservationists had reason to be
lieve their ranks eventually would in
clude Senator Lodge, chairman of the
foreign relations committee and repub-
ican leader of the senate.
Twenty Republican Enough.
Twenty republicans, it was declared.
would be enough with the administra
tion democrats to make up the two
thirds necessary for ratification. The
programme on which it is sought to
unite these elements contemDlates
reservations to further protect the
Monroe doctrine, to insure domestic
control over domestic questions, to am
plify the right of withdrawal and to
rortiry the power of congress to decide i
questions of -peace or war under ar
ticle 10.
At a meeting of the foreign relations
committee Senator Hitchcock gave no
tice that unless the committee com
pleted without undue delay its consid
eration of the treaty some independ
ent action might be expected on the
floor of the senate. Both the demo
crats and the reservation republicans
have been insistent that public senti
ment demanded disposition of the treaty
without delay.
Among many senators the day's de
velopments were interpreted as mark
ing the beginning of the end of the
long treaty fight.
Besides General Bliss and Colonel
House, both of whom were members of
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HEY, MR.
Mnnicip Motor Boat Landing is
...
I"' .vV nd Engineer of l ast
Hurt by Blast.
"wo 0 the finest motorboats on
tne river, two boathouses and the
new municipal motorboat landing at
the Motorboat club moorage at the
foot of Woodward avenue, on the east
side of the river, a short distance above
the Hawthorne-avenue bridge, were de
stroyed last night in a spectacular fire,
caused by the explosion of the gasoline
tank of one of the boats. An engi
neer employed in the boathouse when
the explosion occurred narrowly es
caped with his life by Jumping Into the
water, and sustained severe Injuries
about tho shoulder.
The two motorboats were the prop
erty of Fred W. Vogler. One of the
vessels was the cabinet cruiser Cr.ro
nado, valued at $14,000. one of the most
finely furnished small cruisers on the
river, while the other was the Vogler
Boy, well-known racing vessel, which
has taken part in many speed events
upon the water here. The accident oc
curred while the engineer employed by
Mr. Vogler was getting the Vogler Boy
ready for the races next Sunday.
The violent explosion which occurred
blew portions of the two boats through
the sides of the boathouse, lifted the
top of the house off and hurled the
body of the racing boat 200 feet through
the air to the motorboat clubhouse.
The flames rapidly spread to the ad
joining boathouse, owned by W. T.
O'Brien, and completely destroyed that
building. Mr. O'Brien's boat, the Ni
agara, was out on the river at the time
and so escaped destruction.
T0KI0 NAMES AMBASSADOR
Vice-Minister of Foreign Afairs to
Succeed Viscount Ishii.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. K. Shi
dehera, vice-minister of foreign af
fairs in the Japanese cabinet, has been
appointed Japanese ambassador at
Washington to succeed Viscount Ishii,
according to cable advices received to
day from Tokio by the Japanese-American,
a local Japanese language news
paper. NEW CRISIS NEAR IN SPAIN
Present Cabinet's Fate May Be Made
Known Today.
MADRID, Aug.- 13. A ministerial
crisis is impending in Spain, and the
government has summoned all absent
deputies to Madrid.
The fate of the present cabinet is
expected to be determined at the meet
ing Thursday.
MISS FERN HOBBS RETURNS
Secretary to Former Governor Has
Year's Service as War Xurse.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Aug. 13. Miss Fern Hobbs,
secretary to former Governor West,
reached Washington today after a
year's service with the Red Cross in
France. Miss Hobbs returned by way
of Italy.
OFFICER, DOVT OVERLOOK ANY
Six Bolsheviki Battalions
Cut to Pieces.
ANGLO-RUSSIAN GAIN 12 MILES
Field Pieces, Machine Guns,
1000 Prisoners Taken.
CITIES IN VOLHYNIA FALL
Dubno and Lutsk Occupied by Foes
of Anarchy; Famine May Drive
Soviet From Moscow.
LONDON. Aug. 13. Six bolshevik
battalions were destroyed in a success
ful Anglo-Russian offensive on the
Dvina river on August 10. the war
office announced today. More than
1000 prisoners. 12 field guns and many
machine guns were captured.
The Anglo-Russian front on the
Dvina was pushed forward 12 miles.
The city of Vinnitza. in the Ukraine,
12 miles southwest of Kiev, has been
abandoned by the bolsheviki, according
to a wireless message from Moscow.
Lutsk Lost by Holxhrvikl.
In Volyhnia. anti-bolshevik forces
have occupied the railway center of
Lutsk, southeast of Kovel.
VIENNA. Aug.I7.- The fortress of
Dubno. in southwest Volyhnia. south
east of Lutsk, has been captured from
the bolshevik forces by the Ukrainian
army, according to Ukrainian official
reports received here today.
STOCKHOLM. Aug. 13. A serious
food crisis has occurred in Moscow and
there i general discontent there with
the soviet government, a dispatch from
Helsingfors to the Svenska Dagblad
says. In view of the situation, it is
added the soviet government is think
ing of leaving Moscow for Tula.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. Material
aid for Admiral Kolchak's retreating
army in Siberia is being rushed to
Vladivostok by the American govern
ment. It was said officially today that
.45,000 rifles and several million rounds
of ammunition already had been sent
from San Francisco and that additional
equipment would go forward this week
on an1 army transport.
Motor Vehicles Seat."
The amount of material ordered to
Siberia was not disclosed, but was said
to be "very large." and to include motor
vehicles and medical supplies ae well
as rifles and ammunition. The orig
inal consignment was materially in
creased after the recent reverses of
Kolchak's army, it was said.
ROME. Aug. 13. (Havas.) The Ital
lan troops attached to the allied expe-
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OF 'EM!
Riot Starts When Woman Is Struck
by Sniper Governor Orders
Troops to Scene.
PEORIA, 111., Aug. 13 Three persons
were shot and seriously wounded and
a score of other persons received cuts
ar.d bruises when several hundred
strikers and sympathizers charged the
Keystone Wire & Steel company's plant
in South Baronville, five miles from
this city, tonight.
A handful of deputy sheriffs who
have been guarding the plant where
a strike of 800 workers has been in
progress for several -weeks fought off
the rioters, returning volley for volley.
The seriously wounded are Reuben
Sommers and Alvin Sommers. who are
connected with the firm, and a night
watchman, who was shot in the back
by snipers. The Som mers were fired
upon with shotguns.
Sporadic outbreaks continued
throughout the day and resulted in the
shooting and slight wounding of two
strikers who had fired on the deputies.
The principal disorder, tonignt fol
lowed the shooting of a woman by a
sniper near the plant. She was only
slightly injured. Later a truckload of
strikebreakers approached the plant
and firing was renewed.
SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Aug. 13. Gover
nor Frank Lowden tonight ordered the
Tenth Illinois infantry, commanded bj
Colonel O. P. Yeager, of Danville, to
Peoria for riot duty.
PLANE MAKES QUICK TRIP
Distance That Takes 10 Hours by
Auto Done in 55 Minutes.
MEDFORD. Or., Aug. 1 3 ( Special.)
The Medford airplane, with Lieuten
ant Floyd Hart as pilot and George
Collins, exalted ruler of the Medford
lodge of Elks, as passenger, made the
first air flight from this city to Kla-n-ath
Fa:is today in 55 minutes. The
same journey by motor car takes at
least ten hours, while by train it is a
journey of a day or two, depending
upon connections at Weed, Cal.
The plane was sent over for the Elks'
conventicn at Klamath Falls, where
it will perform for the remainder of
the week and then visit various towns
in northern California, where the resi
dei ts will be given an opportunity to
take flights in the air.
WHEELER LOGGER KILLED
Flying
Choker Crushes
Skull of
Harry Bowcn.
WHEELER, Or., Aug. 13.-
(Special.)
Harry Bowen. a bucker aged 2S. was
killed at Comstock logging camp this
morning when his skull was crushed
by a flying choker. He was removed
to a hospital but lived only four hours
after the accident.
He is survived by his widow and one
son.
James Walters, a wood bucker em
ployed at Larkin Green Logging com
pany's camp at Blind slough, was killed
this afternoon by a log rolling over
him. He was 78 years of age and left
a son and two married daughters, who
reside in Portland.
200,000 MINERS RESUME
Mass Meeting Decides to End Strike
in Yorkshire.
IX5NDON, Aug. 13. The coal miners
of Yorkshire, where more than 2U0.000
men have been on strike since July 21,
decided today to resume work.
This action was taken at a mass
meeting at Barnsley.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Meat her
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature 76
degrees: minimum, 04 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; gentle west
erly winds.
Foreign.
Japanese planning new cable line to United
Stales. Page 2.
Distressed nations appeal to United States
Page 3.
Viscount Grey to be F.nfiland'g ambassador
to United States. Page 1-
America a last financial
quits. Page o.
export in . Paris
Red army-routtd by Anglo-British forces on
Dvina river. Page 1.
Supreme council of allies considering Rou
manian reply on Hungary. Page 2.
National.
Senate committee on public lands to report
favorably mineral-land leasing bill
Page 3,
Portion of Pacific fleet is expected to visit
Portland. Page 1.
Domestic.
Strikers in battle with deputies In Peoria
Pago X.
Three serious forest fires raging near
Eugene. Page o.
Two messengers' missing in New York with
9223,000 liberty bonus. Page 1.
Faciftc Northwest.
Two convicts escape. 'Page 6
Sports. Pacific Coast league results: Portland 1,
Oakland 5; San Francisco 2, Sacramento
0; Vernon 7, Seattle 0; Los Angeles 4
Salt Lake. Page 12.
Johnston and Griffin, northwestern . tennis
champions, face Australian team in na
tional tennis doubles. Page 12.
Manager Del Howard of Oaks haa eye on
first-division berth. Page 12.
Adoption of new boxing ordinance delayed.
Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
Winter wheat harvest In Oregon nearly com
pleted. Page 21.
Volume of trading in Chicago corn market
sharply reduced. Page 21.
Stock market Irregular with leaders lower
at close. Page 21.
Portland and Vicinity.
Food pirates on street markets to face con
viction. Page 10.
prices at pu'olic market no less than In
stores. Page 10.
Two racinjr boats are lost in explosion and
fire. Page 1.
Advance in bread prices to wait until fair
price committee acts. Page 14.
Commissioner Holman accused of misuse of
county property. Page 6.
Woman compelled to live with prirenta-in-law
held entit'ed to divorce. Page 20.
Corporation declared dummy and or
fianL&cd for ir- ' Rnn UL '
British Ex-Foreign Secre
tary to Head Embassy.
APPOINTMENT PLEASES LONDON
England Is Believed to Have
Picked Her Best Man.
PUBLIC CAREER UNSULLIED
Jingoes Fear Ifim but Have "o Word
to His Discredit; Advocate of
League of Nations.
BY JAMES M. TUOHV.
Cop right by the New York World. Pub
lished by arrangement.
LONDON. Aug. 13. (Special Cable.)
Viscount Grey's appointment as tempo-'
rary ambassador to Washington wai
announced today. The appointment is
the best that could be made, according:
to the general consensus of opinion
here. Viscount Grey will remain until
a permanent ambassador is named.
Not only his experience as foreign
minister, but his lofty personal charac
ter and his consistent desire for good
relations between England and America
particularly equip him for what is now
recognized to be the most important '
diplomatic post in the British service.
He is a liberal in the best sense of the
word, and before the war was the only
foreign minister in the European gov
ernment free from imperliastic taint.
His principles are to him his life
blood: he is incapable of opportunism
and, in point of consistency and hon
esty, will represent what is best in
English public life at Washington.
Sense of Duty Moves Him.
The fact that he snould have allowed
himself to be persuaded to accept th
post and that this government should
have exhausted every effort to induce
him to do so is proof that he is acting
from a high sense of duty. biing con-
incea or true supreme importance to
this country or good relations with
America and that the government Is
also sensible of its immense respon
sibility in filling this office at this
time.
Viscount Grey can look back on a
public caraer unsullied by a single
blemish, and the American govern
ment can f-eel secure of straight deal
ing at his hands.
Though the British jingoes have
disliked and feared him. no one has
ever hinted a word to his personal dis
credit, and whenever he spoke in the
house of commons he carried more
wright than any other member in It.
He has no fondness for public speak
ing. His diction is noted for its sim
plicity, so there is always thought be
hind his words, and his sincerity never
fails to impress any audience.
AriMtotTattc Hauteur Mlkxlng.
Utterly without affectation, his con
stitutional shyness and reserve detract
nothing frcm a singularly charming
personality and a remarkable natural
dignity. Thousrh descended from one
of the very oldest families in the Brit
ish peerage, his ancestors filling the
highest office in the state centuries
back, he is without a trace of aristo
cratic hauteur, and he is thoroughly
democratic.
The tragedy of his life was the death
of hi.- wife in 1906 as the result of an
accident. She came to meet him at a
railroad station near their home, driv-
ing a high-spirited horse in a light
buggy, and on the way back the horse
fell. She was thrown out and died as
a result.
He is deeply interested in nature
study and is a recognized authority on,
the subject, while his favorite relaxa
tion is fly-casting fishing, on which
he has written a book prized by all
anglers. He has gone little into so-,
ciety. though naturally all doors were
open to him, and his friendships are
few but firm.
Prime Minintry Within Grasp.
The time he could spare from his
public duties he preferred to devote to
reading or to retirement in his country
home, up in Northumberland, where he
is held in deep respect and esteem.
From his earliest days in parliament
he was marked out as the future lead-
er of the liberal party, and if his am
bition led that way he could have been
prime minister years ago. His succet-s
has been one of high character as well
as high ability, with the natural gff t
for inspiring confidence and respect.
His intense belief in the necessity for
a league of nations, of which he has ail
along been a strong advocate; his dis
belief in jingoism and militarism, has
freedom from insular prejudice and his
devotion to peace mark him out as pu
excellence the man to improve the re
lations of the two countries. He is In
no way implicated in the dubious poli
cies or methods of the government by
which he has been appointed, and has
stipulated for and received a free hand
in conducting his mission at Wash
ington. LONDON". Aug. 13. Viscount Grey,
former British secretary of sta-ce
for foreign affairs, has agreed to
represent the British government at
Washington pending the appointment
of a permanent ambassador.
Lord Grey is consenting to go to
Washington temporarily. Andrew Bonar
Law. government spokesman, said In
the house of commons today, in ordar
tonciuded on Fae 3, Column 2.)
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