THE MOItXING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1G, 1910. '. 1 i ': : J 1 WV1 . ;'" -1 REAL UN PROFITEER SOUGHT Complete Control of Prices and Distribution Urged. SENATE VIEWS PROBLEM Equalization Board President De clares. McXary Bill Does Not Carry Adequate Authority. WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. Complete government control of prices and dis tribution of sugar is necessary for the protection of ramily consumer? from profiteers, members of congress declared today before the house agri cultural committee. At the eame time G. A. Zabriskie, president of the sugar equalization board, advised the com mittee that continuance of the board would be useless unless it received control over prices and distribution. These powers, Zabriskie pointed out in a telegram to the committee, are not included In the pending- McNary bill. Opposition to the McNary bill, passed last week by the senate, led to an informal agreement among committeemen and house leaders to eliminate from the measure the provi sion repealing the licensing powers of the government as conferred by the food control act. Karly Action Is Proponed. Chairman Haugen said formal ac tion would bo taken tomorrow, under a plan calling for early action by the house. I,eadere, however, were doubt ful whether the bill, if amended, could lie finally disposed of by congress be fore the holiday recess. Simultaneously with the meeting of the agriculture committee, the house interstate ooimnerce committee to morrow will meet to consider a bill proposing an embargo on all sugar rxports. Sugar Kmbargo Proposed, Advocates of broad government control as well as the purchase of the Cuban crop told the committee that 'sky high prices' were threatened snl that the mere purchase of the Cuban crop only would aid profiteers by increasing the supply. For the first ten months of this year almost a billion and one-quarter pounds of sujar have been exported from this crfuntry, said Representative Uallinger, citing the equalization board as authority. The only general opposition to the bill was voiced by Representative Jlartin, democrat, Louisiana, who de clared it was "unnecessary" and blamed the shortage on congressional Kgitation for purchase of the Cuban crop and the recent longshoremen's strike which delayed deliveries. 'business buildings, the downtown area is now practically cleared of snow fall. From Broadway to the river and from Taylor to Oajc streets the business section was practically cleared of snow last night but the city's squadron of motor trucks with their ex-service men operators and street cleaners were etill attacking the drifts farther out. ' One of the minor perplexities that the etorm - tied traffic situation brought to Portland homes was the failure of the laundry to arrive. Like the bread and fuel wagon drivers, the laundrymen, who are used to com peting with all sorts of weather, were forced to give up the battle. As a consequence, washtubs that had been Idle for many months, tucked away in the basements, wece drawn into active service again. When snow is slushy, as it was yesterday, it is prolific of profanity from the chap who essays to shovel it away. For it sticks to the blade most stubbornly and declines to take the toss Into the street. There seems to be no way to prevent the annoy ance, unless one bangs tire shovel strenuously on the pavement. But one experimenter declares that he is humanity's benefactor through the novel preventive he has discovered. "I've tried this dodge and it works." he declared. "Coat the shovel blade with a thin film of melted paraffine. It's absolutely magic. The snow won't stick and your labors will be cut in half. Try it out for your selves." numbers Flooded With Work. Inasmuch as every plumber In Port land has a long waiting list of homes. where the cold wrought severe dam age to water pipes, repairs in many instances will not be possible for sev eral days. Now that thawing temper atures are at hand 'advice is timely on avoiding further damage, due to leak age when the broken IV Pes thaw and the consequent ruining of walls. If those whose homes hold frozen plumbing will turn off the water at once, and will open all taps, no further damage need be anticipated, it is said. Turning off the water will insure that no flooding or leakage will occur as the frozen pipes thaw, while opening the taps will relieve pressure and render explosions Im possible, it is said. FIRE BUILDERS INJURED COLD SPELL IS WANING (Cont limed From First PaRC) STOVE EXPLOSION' HESULTS IX DAMAGE TO HOMES. danger, though rain may be ex pected. In my judgment the ordinary winter rain or Oregon would not cre ate flood conditions. It would re duce the snow to half frozen slush, and the slush itself would retard the flow, of the water to tile streams, aiding in the gradual disappearance of the snow. Only a heavy, warm downpour need be feared. A sudden change to genial weather, while it would send the snow off rapidly, need cause no apprehension. The river would rise rapidly, it is true, but not eufficiently to bring about a flood. "The weather will probably warm up gradually, and the snow disappear in similar fashion. As long as the barometer stays up as high as it now is, however, one cannot predict that the cold snap is definitely broken, for it may turn again. But I have reason to believe that the worst is over with." Snow Falling in Bull Run. "While insisting that local water users should still continue to conserve the supply, abstaining from the prac tice of opening taps and faucets to prevent freezing, and instead turning off the home pipes in the basement at iiiKht. the water bureau officials found distinct encouragement yester day in improved conditions at the Bull Run intake. Reports received from Bull Run were that snow was falling, with the temperature 30 degrees above zero, on a descending barometer, and that it was expected that yesterday after noon's snow storm would soon trans late itself to rain. With the rise in temperature and the unlocking of the ice-bound streams, the flow at the intake increased, and danger of a local water shortage lessened In cor responding degree. Fnel Deliveries Increase. Fuel deliveries livened up yester day with the reduction of the snow drifts in residential districts, but it is still far from normal and will remain so until vehicle motor traffic in the by-streets is practicable as it will be only when the snow has passed prac tically away. Dealers were continu ing their policy of making deliveries wherever possible, and "getting through somehow' where hardship was reported from lack of fuel. Milk deliveries were also slightly improved, Dut with no prospect of a return to normal until the snowfall melts away and country and city traf fic Is as it was before the storm. The stellar hard luck story of milk dealers Is that of the Fernwood dairy. One of its trucks, sent into the country Sunday for the collection of a supply from its snowbound farmer producers, reached Montavilla that afternoon with a cargo of two tons of milk. At Kast Sixty-fourth and Glisan streets misfortune overtook them when the truck crashed with a Montavilla street car, to the consequent loss of the greater part of the load. The truck itself was damaged to the ex tent of $300. Mills Loss Is Regretted. "I wouldn't care about the truck," said the driver, as he surveyed the . wreckage, where the snow was slushy with the precious lacteal fluid, "but It's tough to lose all this milk. If you'd heard the little kiddies actually crying for it, as I have, you'd feel just the same." Central heating plant, the cold weather suspension of which brought frigid home atmospheres to Westover Terrace residences, is again running normally, with a full supply of fuel oil. Satisfactory service had been re sumed yesterday to all patrons, with the exception of those homes where the residents had neglected to turn off the water when the system was closed down owing to the bursting of mains. Failure of patrons to turn off the water when the mains burst and when their homes were invaded by the frost is said to be entirely re sponsible for the several heating dif ficulties that now remain along the system. Downtown Area Cleared. Except for the trackage slush and the snow that is continually being dumped from the roofs of office and Farm House Totally Destroyed and Owner Badly Burned Woman Has Narrow Escape. ABERDEEN. Wash., Dec. 15. (Spe cial.) The farm house and outbuild ings of Warren Mowbray, of the up per Wynoche, were completely de stroyed by fire yesterday. The fire, which was of unknown origin, started In a clothes closet. Mowbray was badly burned in an endeavor to save a part of his household goods. An attempt to start a kitchen fire with gasoline resulted in G. E. An derson, a Cosmopolis mill worker, be ing seriously burned about the legs and hands Saturday night and also started a fire that completely de stroyed his two-room house and con tents. The explosion which followed the ignition of the gasoline blew Anderson through a window. Neigh bors who heard the explosion rushed to ti3 rescue. The gasoline was used by mistake, Anderson believing he had a can containing kerosene. He is expected to recover. An explosion of the kitchen range at the home of Charles Mitchell of Monlesano, wrecked the kitchen. Mrs. Mitchell narrowly escaped serious in jury. She was coming out of the pantry with a bowl of pancake dough when a kettle flying by the door knocked the bowl from her hands. She was not hurt. RETEVT 1 RODS OF EXPECTED OF WILSON Message Will Be Presented to Congress Today. CUMMINS PRESSES BILL Disaster to Lines Predicted if Laws Are Xot Enacted Before Ke . turn to Private Owners. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Dec. 15. A rumor of wide circulation in Washington to night was that in a special message to congress tomorrow President Wil son would say the failure-of the re publican majority in the senate to ratify the peace treaty has left the country technically at war, therefore preventing his return of the railroads to their owners on January 1. It is further said that such a step will be Justified in the message by failure of congress to enact the nec essary legislation for the rehabilita tion of the roads. An air or satisfaction around the offices of the high men In the rail road administration today is cited to night as one of the best evidences that the rumor is backed by some body's knowledge of facts. CUMMINS URGES ACTION WHEAT ACREAGE SMALLER Agricultural Department Estimates 11,719,000 Less Than 1918. WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. A decided decrease in the acreage planted for winter wheat this fall is shown in first estimates today by the depart ment of agriculture. The total of 38.770.000 acres is 11.719,000 les3 than the record acreage in 1918. Condition of the crop on Decem ber 1 was 85.2 per cent of normal or four points lower than the ten-year average. Acreage planted to rye also showed a marKeu cecrease, the area being 5.&30.UU0 acres. Area and conditions of winter wheat in Washirgton are 519.000 acres, 84 per cent of normal. i . Colds Cause Heaoactie and rains Feverish Headaches and body pains caused from a cold are soon relieved by taking LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. There Is only one "Bromo Quinine." EX. W. UBOVE'S signature on the box. 30c Adv Failures Predicted If Keturn Pre cedes New Legislation. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. Congress was warned today that if the rail roads were turned back to their own ers without enactment meanwhile of legislation for protection of the prop erties, two-thirds of the roads would bo in hands of receivers within 30 days. Chairman Cummins of the sen ate interstate commerce committee, that drafted the pending railroad bill, declared the senate could not afford to set aside or delay its consideration in view of the apparent determina tion of President Wilson to end gov ernment control the first day of the new year. Breaking Into the debate while sen ators were pleading to postpone ac tion on all railroad legislation until after recess. Senator Cummins told the senate its duty was plain. Cummins Urges Action. Senator Cummins insisted congress should turn back the roads if satis fied the people believed in that policy. "They can go back on January 1 in perfect safety," he said, "if the coun try is assured of the bill's enactment in one month's time." In hope of expediting the measure the senate remained in session tonight. but as new fields of argument were opened there developed little indica tion of final action this week. Lead ers insisted, however, that the bill would be passed by a "narrow margin before Saturday," when the holiday rfcess is expected to begin. During the all-day debate the prin cipal attacks on the Cummins bill were made by Senators Lenroot. re publican, Wisconsin, and Stanley, democrat, Kentucky, the former in sisting that the roads should be re tained by the government until spring. Anti-Strike Clause Fought. Senator Stanley, speaking in sup port of his amendment to eliminate the anti-strike provision, assailed the section as "the most drastic and ex asperating" ever devised to afflict la boring people. The anti-strike provision. Senator Stanley asserted, was put In the bill over the protest of 2,000.000 railroad men, who had declared they would not wear the yoke. It was so drastic, he added, that if a man, ejnployed with his wife in a waybill office, took a better job with another road and the wife went with him, both could be arrested and put in jail for conspiracy. General discussion of the anti strike clause brought numerousr efer ences to the coal strike and Senator Stanley in arguing against anti strike laws said that in the case of the miners they were held back both by an injunction and by solemn no tice of the president of the United States that their strike was unlaw ful. "They would not have gone back to S- & II- Green stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co. Main 353. E60-21. Adv. No One Need Buy Guticura Before He Tries Free Samples 9op Ointment, Tmleimi. Se. rttrrwhrn. Sanploa t i-M of Oittnrt LWr.ri, Dvpft. X, MtUtUa, Mm. A writing machine not a talking machine The Noiseless does not believe it is the duty of a typewriter to im itate a machine-shop. Noise makes ' barren ground on which to garner thoughts. Instead of wasting half your time fighting noise, you can now give all your time to uninterrupted thinking. Consider what that means in terms of achievement! 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Federal Judge An derson, as devoid of the touch of human sympathy as a piarble col umn," declared Senator Stanley. Senator Cummins Interrupts. Senator Cummins interjected that if there had been a law under which the miners' dispute could have been submitted . to an impartial tribunal there would have been no strike. Even within sound of the growl of the bolshevist. Senator Stanley ccn tinued, attempts were being made to try out new-fangled ideas, and he pre dicted that It might not be long be fore . "hygienic uplifters" tried to form some sort of a commission to select wives for men. The Benate later went to work on amendments. One by Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana,- permitting the roads to retain all earnings for new construction work for ten years, was adopted, as was an amendment by Senator Jones, republican,. Washing ton, limiting jurisdiction of the trans portation board over water transpor tation to inland waterways. An amendment by Senator Curtis, Kan sas, extending the bill's provision to shortline railroads was passed over temporarily. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. A bill proposing public ownership and gov ernment, operation of the railroads was introduced today by Senator Norris, Nebraska, and referred -to the Interstate commerce committee. It would create a federal railroad cor poration, managed by five directors, appointed by the president, and have $10,000,000,000 of stock with addi tional "employes' stock" subject to subscription only by railroad em ployes equal to one fourth of the book value of the railroad property. The public would be permitted to subscribe to the general stock of the company, which would be authorized to take over existing railroad prop erty by condemnation proceedings and also ouua new lines. The bill also provides for Issuance of government bonds for financing the corporation and would limit its stock dividends to 6 per cent with excess earnings reverting to the government. Astoria Reports Mild Day. ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 15. (Special.) The weather is much milder in As toria. This , morning the thermom eter registered 24 degrees above zero, eignt degrees higher than on Sunday. The snow has melted slowly all day, while the wind is still blow ing from the east. Although the thermometer still is high, the indi cations are the wind will shift to the southeast and Dring rain or snow be fore morning. Ladles Read M. Sichel's adv. on page 5. Adv. ifilfa Our Real Business " If there is anything we can do to make the Novo Engine more satisfactory, more Reliable than it is, we do it. Our business is not making engines to sell, it is furnishing Reliable Power, in the form of Engines and Outfits. . . . Hovo Enfinam, ti to 15 H. P. Furnished to owrara on 4sone. eroien, distillate, natural or artitlciml tlms. Outfit for Pumping, tiointing, Air Compreiainj, Sawing. Apply lor lull information N New York: Wool worth Building OVO engine c- Clarence. E. Lmtnt . Vtce-Pre s . 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