THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 2,-1917.
FLOUR PRICE CUT
40 -CENTS BARREL
Northwest Millers Set $11.20
as Figure Rate Is Effec
tive Tomorrow.
FURTHER REDUCTIONS AIM
Analysis of Law Shows Buyers Have
to Respect Price Set by Govern-
' hi cnt Hoarding of Grain
, Prohibited by Measure.
Contlnued From first Paye.
FRENCH WOMAN RECEIVES LEGION OF HONOR FOR SERVICES TO
THE WOUNDED.
ties. In accepting: the permit the trader
pledges himself to pay no more for
wheat than the price fixed by the Gov
ernment. Violation of the pledge results In
forfeiture of the permit.
The purpose of the law was to pre
vent speculation and maintain stability
of prices, both for the producer and
consumer.
Tho penalty against the buyers
serves to maintain a maximum and the
knowledge that' every grower has of a
threatened shortage In the world's sup
ply of grain is expected to maintain
the minimum at the same figure.
There will be no necessity for a.
farmer to sell his wheat at less than
the basic price so long as he knows
positively that the ' Government will
pay -that price it he doesn't sell It to
bis local miller.
Hoarding of Wheat Prevented.
Another provision of the law pre
vems millers from buying more than
a 30-day supply of wheat at a time.
This is to prevent mills from hoarding
supplies and also serves as a protec
tion in the event the Government com
mandeers a mill's stock.
For instance, if a mill laid in a heavy
supply or grain at the basic price and
the Government came along a little
later and demanded it at the same
price the mill would gain nothing on
the turnover and would lose its costs
of handling.
But with tho stock limited at all
times to a 30-day supply no individual
mill can lose much on such a. transac
tion. ,
In other words, the miller Is pre
sumed to mill all the wheat he buys.
It is understood here that the basic
price will apply uniformly to wheat
wold for local milling and for export
purposes. Wheat sold for local milling
will go at the same prices as wheat
told for export.
Chtcapro Price Governs.
While the Portland market. In nor
mal times, Is governed entirely by the
market at Liverpool and varies only a
few cents from the Chicago market,
under present conditions It is fixed by
the Chicago market, as all export wheat
must move across the continent
through Chicago to the Atlantic sea
board. Obviously, then, the local grow
ers must absorb the freight rate from
point of origin to Chicago. All wheat
of the same grade must meet at Chi
cago on a parity.
If, as some authorities have contend
ed, the local market should be brought
up to a parity with the Chicago market.
Northwestern wheat should enter Chicago-
30 cents higher than Illinois
wheat.
But were the Portland and Chicago
markets to be placed on a parity, the
natural movement for wheat would be
to the Pacific Coast terminals, where
the freight rates are 20 cents lower.
Practice 'Would Lower Price.
But such a movement would defeat
Jts own ends, said Max H. Houser yes
terday, for it would force a lower
price to the farmer than he is due to
under the proposed arrangements.
Tho presumption, in sending wheat
to Coast terminate, would be to export
it by water.
"As everyone knows, we are suffer
ing from an unfortunate scarcity of
tonnage," said Mr. Houser, "and if we
arc going to send an army over to
France our tonnage will be scarcer
still.
"If we send our wheat to Portland
and have to depend on the ships to
come here to get it, the tonnage rate
will be so high that the farmer, in
stead of getting $1.90 for his wheat
at the Interior, will get only J1.50 or
1.60.
"This Is clearly proven by the fact
that during the last year before the
food administration took over the
wheat movement all surplus wheat,
over and above local requirements,
.went ail-rail across the country, with
the exception of an occasional ship
ment on a steamer that happened to
be in the Pacific and which was wanted
cn the other side.
"With the exception of the tonnage
now being built here, virtually no cargo
upace will be available for this year's
crop, and this tonnage will be almost
negligible until after the first of the
year; even then it will not be great."
WHEAT GROWERS ARE TTXEASY
Walla Walla Farmers Waiting for
i Further Price Information.
' WALLA WALLA. Wash., Sept. 1.
(Special.) Walla Walla farmers are
waiting for further information on
wheat prices before deciding what
they can do. They are still feeling
resentful at the price fixed, claiming
that while the wheat price is lowered
the price of bread and other commod
ities is not.
Several expressed the opinion that
the Government should have an
nounced its prices earlier and not
waited until harvest . work was all
done. Had the price been fixed earlier
many of them who had poor stands of
wheat would not have threshed it.
Relying on higher prices, they went
ahead and threshed wheat which ran
six bushels or more to the acre, paying
around J6.50 an acre for the threshing.
Some who had these poor stands re-
seeded in the Spring, using wheat
which coSt them as high as $2.25
bushel.
It is reported at the Farmers' Union
headquarters that many farmers who
had poor yields will give up their
places this year. However, many will
change their minds, on second thought,
it is believed.
The farmers who own their own
land and have big equipments say they
have no choice but to go ahead and
raise wheat, as they are not equipped
to do anything else.
There was no buying or selling here
today, and none is expected until some
thing more definite is known.
WHEAT PRICE PROTESTS WAXE
Sentiment in Baker County Chang'
Jng to Support of Federal Action.
BAKER, Or., Sept. 1. (Special.)
Although many Baker County wheat
producers were at first inclined to ob
ject to the uovernment a action in nx
Ing the maximum price. sentiment
craduaJly in changing. Kearly all
serf. 'W-id
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MADAMS CHARLOTTE MAITHE ON DUTV.
Madame Charlotte Maitre, the wife of the Deputy from the district of Saone-et-Loire,
has been made a Chevalier of the Legion of-Honor for her services
as a Red Cross nurse to the wounded on the Alsatian front. Previously to
this honor she had received the Croix de Guerre with two citations . for brav
ery. She also was awarded a. gold medal for fighting epidemics and has re
ceived the insignia of the wounded. Now as a culminating reward for her
services and her courage in braving' d eath to aid the wounded, Mme. Maitre
has been awarded the Legion of Honor. This photograph, which has just ar-.
rived in this country, shows Mme. Maitre transporting a wounded soldier on
a mule litter, aided by a member of the Red Cross, who is leading the mule,
while she rides beside the wounded 'man. The photograph was taken on the
Alsatian front, where Mme. Maitre was - wounded last June..
dealers and jobbers are agreed that no
improvement could be made now.
M. S. Bond, one of the most exten
sive producers in the county, is of the
opinion that the Government has done
the right thing.
"It is true that many of the growers
have stored wheat with the expecta
tion that they would get a bigger price
for it. and they are naturally disap
pointed," Mr. Bond said today. "How
ever, I believe that the broader view
should be taken and the farmers should
realize that each must do his bit toward
winning this war.
"As I think of the thousands of our
young men willing to sacrifice their
lives for their country, I feel like I
am doing nothing more than my share
if I am compelled. to sacrifice a little
profit In order that those boys may not
suffer from want of bread."
Mr. Bond's single objection to the
new rate is that the price is based upon
the Chicago market, which puts the
Western grower at a disadvantage.
The Middle Western grower, he says,
may get nearly the maximum for his
wheat, while the Western grower is
compelled to pay differential equal' to
the freight, even though he sells in the
local market. - "
T. P. Bergman, prominent Jobber,
says that the price is as nearly fair
to everyone as is possible.
50 CALLED IN DRAFT
District Board Certifies Men to
Adjutant-General.
3 COUNTIES REPRESENTED
UMATILLA MEX DIS SATISFIED
Farmers Say West Treated Unfairly
in Wheat Prices.
PENDLETON. Or., Sept. 1. (Special.)
While Umatilla County farmers are
not at all satisfied with the price of
wheat as they understand it has been
fixed by the Government, $2.20 for No.
Northern at Chicago, they are not
ready to give up. They are still hope
ful that the est will receive more
consideration. They are unable to un-
stand the disparity of prices here and
in Canada, which will permit the allied
governments to buy here cheaper than
in their own country. Furthermore,
they believe that there must be consid
eration given the fact that water trans
portation Is available for the farmers
of the West and that a price at Pacific
Coast terminals less than that fixed at
Chicago will discriminate against the
Western grower. They point to the
relatively large amount of shipbuilding
on the Coast as available for little else
than the carrying of wheat and its
products, and consider that should
carry weight in the fixation of the
price.
This Is the opinion of practically all
the farmers and buyers of this district,
and unless further developments in the
situation give the West an equality
with the farmers of the East and Mid
dle West, the farmers are prepared to
make a strong protest. They have a
feeling that in the singling out of wheat
for regulation they aro unjustly treated.
but are willing to abide by that deci
sion if they receive fair treatment in
the matter of prices.
$2 WHEAT IS SATISFACTORY
Washington Growers Want That
Price at Puget Sound Terminals.
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 1. (Special.)
Washington wheatgrowers will be
satisfied if they can get $2 a bushel
at Puget Sound terminals, said P. J.
Sweeney, state grain Inspector, today.
Mr. Sweeney returned to Tacoma from
Spokane, where he attended a meeting
of National agricultural experts and
also investigated the grain situation
"I learned on my trip also that my
original estimate of 27.000,000 bushels
for the state's wheat crop this year
will be about right," he said. "This
figure Is just a little better than 60
per cent of what the normal crop should
have been.
Of Those Summoned to Serve 3 0
Are From Columbia County, 16
From Clatsop County - and
Four From Washington.
The district exemption board of Dis
trict No. 3, with headquarters in Port
land, last night certified to Adjutant
General White as called for military
service and not exempted or discharged
the names of 30 men called in the first
draft from Columbia County, 16 from
Clatsop County and four additional
from Washington County.
These are the first names certified
from Columbia and Clatsop. '
The men certified from Columbia
County are as follows: Orville D. Gar
rison, of Scappoose; William Pringle, of
Mist; A. G. Dimos. of Goble; John And
erson, of Rainier; John Leonard Hossa,
of Quincy; Louis W. Boesel. of Warren;
Albert Erickson, of Clatskanie; Fred
erick R. A. Wist, of Scappoose; Raf
faele Valpianni, of Firwood; Curtis
Ray, of Prescott; Elmer F. Hendrick
son, of Quincy; George E. Christie, of
St. Helens; Burrell P. Graves, of St.
Helens; Johnnie Biggs, of Clatskanie;
Ernest Johnson, of Firwood; T. Henry
Williams, of Prescott; Jerry Preston,
of Rainier: Konrad Koller, of Deer Is
land; Frank Ligski, of Scappoose; Or
ville Raymond Walt, of Aumsville;
Louis E. Anderson, of Rainier; Howell
Stanley Thomas, of Goble; George Wolz,
of fet. Helens; Elmer P. Cook, of Rain
ier; Edward Mellen. of Apiary; Emil
Randa, of Kerry; James. E. Huffman, of
Vernonia; Louis Mattson, of Quincy;
Martin Hendrickson, of Inglis; Tracy
A. f archer, of Rainier.
Those certified from Clatsop County
are: Jim Paris,' of Astoria; John Sofus
Vatn, of Astoria; Frank Christ, of As
toria; Jacob Jurgeson, of Astoria; Ed
ward hi. Sagen, of Astoria; Bert Arthur
Powell, of Astoria; Bertens I. Carlson
of Astoria: Edward Moilanen. of As
toria; ' George A. Bambrick, of Flavel;
John August Markstrom, of Astoria
William James McKeever, of Jewel;
John Kallunki, of Astoria: Wayne Eric
Maunula, of Astoria: Louis E. Spencer,
of Seaside; Peter T. Hjorton, of As
toria: John Johanson, of Olney.
Those certified from Washington
County are: Charles Henry Schmidlin.
of Buxton; Enoch Israel Will, of Forest
Grove; Henry Kemper, of Forest Grove
Otto Hamel. of Portland.
GIRL IS STRUCK BY AUTO
Severely
Miss
Cristel Xickles Is
Bruised and Stunned.
Miss Cristel Nickles. of 331 San Ra
fael street, was struck by an automo
bile driven by Bernhart Hansen at the
corner of San Rafael street and Union
avenue yesterday and sustained severe
bruises. While yet stunned from the
shock she was carried to her home by
Detective -H. IT. famlth and a passerby.
Her injuries are not considered serious
however.
Hansen Is a laborer, living at 1731
Portsmouth avenue.
GRAIN MUST BE INSPECTED
Attorney-General Furnishes. Opinion
to Public Service Commission.
SALEM, Or., Sept. 1. (Special.) All
grain coming Into a class B terminal
warehouse must be graded by the grain
inspection department, whether marked
Not for terminal weight and grade'
or not so marked. This was the opinion
furnished the Public Service Comrais
sion today by Attorney-General Brown.
Any class A warehouse refusing to
allow such weight and grade might be
subject to criminal prosecution. It is
held, but class B warehouses are not
subject to such prosecutions. There
are no class A warehouses so far. This
opinion, it is stated, does not apply to
private warehouses, but only to ter
minal warehouses.
Two Americans Wounded.
OTTAWA, Ont., Aug. 31. Among the
wounded in today's casualty lists are
B. Bowron, Steiiacoom, Wash and A.
Stevens, Auburn. Wash.
Read The Oregonian classified ads.
HIGH TAX SECTION
IS LOST, 62 T0 17
Johnson Amendment to Take
Profits Rejected on First
Test Vote.
LA F0LLETTE SPEAKS LONG
Radicals Privately Admit Opponents
of Heavy Taxation Hot Likely
to Pass Debate on the
Measure Spirited.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Voting be
gan today in the Senate's contest over
war profits taxation in the revenue
bill, and In the Initial clash the so-,
called radicals met decisive defeat.
The Senate rejected. 62 to 17; the
amendment of Senator Johnson, of Cal
ifornia, leader of the high tax group.
for a maximum levy of SO per cent o
this year's war profits, estimated be
tween $3,000,000,000 and $4,000,000,000,
instead of $1,268,000,000 provided in the
bill.
Senator La Follette promptly entered
the fray with an amendment propos
ing i. total war profits tax of 76 per
cent. He made a vigorous three hours
sp ech in its support, but did not con
clude, and the Senate recessed until
Monday prepared to work through the
holiday upon the Wisconsin Senator's
amendment and his others for levies
ranging down to o2 per cent.
Both Sides Claim Victcry.
Both sides tonight claimed victory as
a result of the first test vote today,
which was preceded by spirited
speeches, including Senators Johnson
and La Follette for tho high tax group
and Lodge, Simmons and Penrose of
their opponents. The so-called con
servatives were confident that the La
Follette amendment and others
proposing higher war tax profits taxa
tion all will be rejected.
Although determined to continue the
fight next week for higher rates, many
of the radical group tonight privately
conceded defeat. A few thought It
possible they could carry an amend
ment for a flat tax o'. 40 to 50 per
cent but others admitted tho com
mittee provision probably would stand.
Hleh Tax Leaden Disappointed.
Disappointment at the small vote for
Senator Johnson's 60 per cent tax
amendment was privately expressed by
the high tax leaders, and some believed
that their maximum strength would
not go above 35 or 40 per cent for the
minimum Increase provisions pending.
Senator Johnson opened the fight
with an impassioned plea for increas
ing tax levies on "swollen fortunes."
He advocated taking the largest per
centage possible of war profits, leav
ing normal peace time prof-its un
touched. If not taxed this year, the
California Senator said, millions would
go untaxed.
Two Billions Demanded.
"We lio not hesitate to break hearts,
to break bodies," he said, "but we hesi
tate to take profits made out of our
blood and bone."
Senator La Follette said at leant $2,-
000,000,000 of distinctive war profits
should be taken by the Government.
Both Senators declared that the fi
nance committee leaders, in bringing
In their compromise amendments to
add $500,000,000 to the war profits sec
tion, had been driven and forced by
sentiment In the Senate and throughout
the country for higher taxation.
Chairman Simmons and Senators
Lodge and Penrose made spirited ex
planatory replies, to the effect that
the committee had not changed its
provision for war profits taxation, but
had acceded to the demand for increases
by providing for further . taxation of
ordinary excess, including peace period
profits.
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POLICE STOP CARS
Motorboata, Canoes and Yachts Join In
Excursion to Paradise Point, Sit
uated on Lewis IUver.
Few members of the Portland boating
clubs will bo found at home today, as a
big exodus was marked from the Port
land Rowing Club, the Portland Motor
boat Club and tho Oregon Yacht Club
last night.
The Portland Rowing Club members
are canoeing down the river and prob
ably will go as far as the mouth of the
Willamette. They passed the night on
one of the Islands and will spend today
and tomorrow enjoying themselves on
the warm sands of the shores ot the
Columbia.
About 25 canoes went down at dif
ferent times of the afternoon and a few
more will leave down this morning:
The Yacht Club and the Motorboat
Club have combined their fleets and
will be found passing the day at Para
dise Point on the Lewis River.
Commodore Boost got back In time
to make the trip and pulled up anchor
on the Artisan last evening.
The yachtsmen from the Oregon Club
made an early start and were on the
ground as early as the others. The
combined fleets made quite a showing
as they trailed down the river Just be
fore sundown.
They will all return to Portland to
morrow evening.
ALBANY MEN RECALL DATE
Ascent of Olalla Butte 35 Years Ago
Marked by Celebration.
ALBANY, Or.. Sept. 1. (Special.)
On August 31, 1882, Cyrus H- Walker
and Andrew McCoy ate lunch together
on the summit of Olalla Butte, highest
point in the Cascade Mountains be
tween Mount Hood and Mount Jeffer
son. Yesterday they celebrated the
35th anniversary of that event by eat
ing lunch together at a local hotel.
Thirty-five years ago both were em
ployed at the Warm Springs Indian
Agency. Mr. Walker was agency clerk
and Mr. McCoy was teacher of tho In
dian school. Both have been residents
of Albany for a great many years. Mr.
Walker Is the oldest living white man
born west of the Rocky Mountains hav
ing been born at the site of the old
Whitman' mission, near Walla Walla, in
1S38. Mr. llcCoy is a son of John Mc
Coy. first County Judge of Linn
County.
Appeal to Wilso to Be Made.
OREGON CITY, Or., Sept. 1. Spe
cial.) Ernest J. Baurer has notified
the local board that he will appeal his
claim for exemption to the President
after having been turned down by the
appeal board in Portland for alleged
fraudulent affidavits.
Steps Taken to Avert Riot in
San Francisco.
TWO WORKMEN ARRESTED
Bolts and Pieces of Steel in Pockets
Support Rumor That Iron Work
ers Intended to Mob United
Railroads Cars.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 1. Request
of Chief of Police D. A. White halted
operation of United Railroads cars at
8 o'clock tonight to avert threatened
riots in connection with the strike
of 1750 platform men of the com
pany. Fifty policemen, earlier In the
evening, appeared at the Union Iron
Works and began to search several
thousand metal trade workers home
ward bound who were boarding the
city-operated steam trains. It was re
ported the workers had prepared to
mob United Railroads cars.
Following discovery of bolts and
pieces of steel on two workers and
their arrest on charges of carrying
concealed weapons In a time of riot
ing, the workers refused to board the
train and walked home.
"We are acting now entirely upon
the suggestion of the chief of police,"
said President Lilienthal of the United
Railroads tonight. "The police asked
us to stop operating the cars at 8
o'clock and we have. Tomorrow and
Labor Day we shall act upon the ad
vice of the police."
house for six months and next year will
build a cannery and process both fruits
and vegetables. .
Hundreds of tons of evergreen ber
ries are within a radius of eight miles
of Toledo. Pickers will receive at least
3 cents' per pound. These berries re
quire no 'syrup and' the demand, says
Mr. Osbrn. will .be greater than the
supply. . .
Pendleton Wants Grain Tnspcctor.
PENDLETON, Or., Sept. 1. (Special.)
- Believing that a Federal grain In
spector should be stationed here, farm
ers of the district have petitioned - the
Oregon Public Service Commission to
that end. Thfcy contend that, since such
a large amount of grain is grown in
this district. It should be inspected be
fore consii'i ment to the terminal markets.
Ford taves Red Cross Half Million.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1. A gift of
$500,000 from tne Ford Motor Company
to the Red Coss was announced today
by the War Council, in the form of a
credit on the Ford factories for half
a million dollars' worth of automo
biles, ambulances, parts, etc., as the
Red Cross may designate.
POSSE TAKES UP TRAIL
Warden Gets Clue to Whereabouts of
Escaped Wife Murderer.
SALEM. Or.. Sept. 1. (Special.) A
posse from the State Penitentiary.
headed by Warden Murphy, is out in
the hills near Sublimity, south of here,
tonight on what is believed to be a hot
trail of Jan William Hassing, Port
land wife murderer, who escaped from
the penitentiary about 10 days ago. A
report from what Is considered a re
liable source informed the prison au
thorities that a man answering Has
sing's description was seen between
the hills and Sublimity early this
evening.
Hassing bears two strongly marked
scars, one in each cheek, where a bullet
passed through his fece, and if once
seen well there would be little trouble
in identifying him, prison officials
state. If the posse fails to locate its
man tonight the guards and warden
probably will continue to beat up the
surrounding territory tomorrow.
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Announcement to the Home Owner
The East Portland Landscaping Co., the most unique establishment on the
Pacific Coast, is under the management of Mr. C. G. Welty, formerly land
scape architect of the Swiss Floral Co., whose broad experience and orig
inal ideas in landscaping are invaluable to those seeking correct treatment
of their garden, lawn, etc.
A new accounting system has been adopted, which will be in charge of
Mrs. Leatch. making it easy to determine the actual cost of work done at
any time.
Call and see us at any time. A phone or written message will be re
sponded to promptly.
HERE IS WHAT WK FEATURE.
Country homes and parks planned and planted in the various foreign
effects.
Rustic walls and eteps, walks and driveways.
Alpine gardens and aquariums designed to conform to your sur
roundings. Artistic porch boxes made to order and planted to suit.
Wire, pipe or wood frames for climbers.
Special work of any kind skillfully executed.
Plans and estimates' furnished without charge.
East Portland Landscaping Co.
Charles G. Welty, Manager, East Slxu and Prescott Streets. Phone Wood
lawn SU-tl.
WHISKY SHIPMENT SEIZED
J. Richardson Held for Transport
ing Liquor Into Dry Territory.
Approximately 200 quart bottles of
whisky were found yesterday in trunks
and suitcases belonging to J. Richard
son, former boatswain of the steamer
Breakwater. He was a passenger on
the Rose City which arrived in Port
land early yesterday. Richardson was
arrested by Deputy Sheriffs Ward and
Christof f erson, and admitted his boot
legging operations, say the officers.
Richardson was boatswain of the
Breakwater when a raid by Sheriff
Hurlburt's force about four months ago
resulted in the confiscation of about
2500 bottles of liquor. He was arrest
ed at that time but was acquitted by a
District Court Jury. He was turned
over to the Federal authorities yester
day and will be held under a Federal
charge of transporting liquor into dry
territory.
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TOLEDO GETS BIG CANNERY
Five-Ton Plant Will Handle Ever
green Blackberry Crop.
TOLEDO. Or., Sept. 1. (Special.)
W. R. Osborn, of Amity, left for home
today after completing arrangements
to Install a five-ton per day canning
plant here to handle the evergreen
blackberry crop for this season. He
has leased the Port ofToledo's ware-
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