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VOL. XXXVII NO.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY
1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
8. ' PORTLAND, OllEUOX, SHNDAT MORNING, FEBRUARY 24,
e
WHEAT AT S2.05
PUD PRICE
Schedule May Cause
Hoover to Quit.
(WO PARITY DEMANDED
laia nacres KeDumationoi
Assurance Recently Giv-
t. en to Delegation.
i
rnt.OIUC.IK I O Mlsl MIV1MCCO
Federal - Food Administrator
Makes Promise That Jus-
tice Will Be Dene.
OREGONIA.V NEWS BUREAU,
Washing-ton. Feb. 23. Tw dollars
and five cent per bushel U to be the
rortiand and eatue wheat price lor
the 1918 harvest, the same as last I
year's price, under a general procla-
nation issued ty tr rreswent today.
ine same proclamation uses tnei
Chicago price at $0 antl the New I
York price U J 2-23.
. In addition, new crimarv markets
. . , . ,
have been established at Spokane. Po-
catello. Salt Lake and Great Falls,
-it , . . . . . . , .,
MonL. at each of which place the
price 15 lo be t- Hat. I
I
Mora (enters Develop. I
, ,
FoUowuif. the general proclamation
of the President today fixing the
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rc " r ijio
crop of wheat in the United States,!
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uC.-
oped,
On of these is purely economic and
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directly concerns the I acute North-
w..t which ha. Kn iinfoirlv trontswl I
in th establishing of a price of $2.05
bushel at rortiand.
Mr. Hoover May Resign.
The other disturbance is political
and may eventually result in the res
ignation of Mr. Hoover as Food Ad
ministrator.
It has been apparent for the last
Iay or two that the relations between
Mr. Hoover on one hand and Secre-
tary McAdoo and Chairman Hurley
on -the other have become strained.
Mr. Hoover today declared, in the
fc of President Wilson's nroclama
. .t .,. , I
tion to the contrary, that Portland!
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nouia oe piacea on a parity wiin
Chicago in the matter of price for
theat.
Action Forces Crisis.
It is believed that this action of the
Food Administrator will serve to force
a crisis in the differences existing be
tween him and the heads of the Na
tion's transportation system, which
can apparently have but one result,
that CI lorcing ne retirement oi one
Who has antagonized Mr. McAdoo. I
Thia schedule of Northwest "wheat I
prices is not at all in conformity with!
assurances -iven last week to a dele-
gaUon of Northwestern wheat grow-T
ers or to tne tongrescionat aeiega-im,nta mre) feared from the other
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SEAMEN'S BRAVERY
: WINS DISTINCTION
TEDFORD II. CAX REWARDED
Ton SAVIXG V. S. SUIP.
Ora Graves Honored for Heroic
Action on Cruise Pittsburg
Following Explosion.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. Detail! of
the acta of bravery for which Seaman
Ted ford H. Cann. naval reserve force.
1 and Seaman Or a Grave. United State
Navy, have been awarded the Navy
much-prised medal of honor and gra
tallies of $100 each, were made publ
tonight by Secretary Daniel in a gen
eral order to the service.
Cann. who ia a well-knwn New York
athlete. SOO-yard swimming champion
of America, and son of the physical
.t . . x- -I, T.f.-.-lt - I
th.-nr-t reservist .w wwin the
medal. When the U. 8. 8. May almost
waa awamped by a leak last November,
Cann volunteered to enter the bilge
flooded with eight feet of water, lo
cated the opening in a pipe connection
to the aea, returned to the hatch for
piece of cork and, going back into
Ing the ship.
Graves remained In a casement of
the cruiser llttsburg in South Amerl
can waters last July to remove pow
der and burning waste after the. ex
plosion of a three-Inch saluting charge
mixed with empty shells had killed on
shipmate, seriously wounded anothe
and had for a time stunned Gravea
Besides the powder there were a num
ber of saluting shells threatened by
the Are that followed the explosion.
Graves enlisted at San 'ranclsco,
land bis mother lives at Maxwell, N. 1L
INDIAN FIGHTER PENSIONED
Relief Is Granted to Captain O. C,
App!egate, Veteran of Modoc War
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wtrh
Ington, Feb. Through the efforts
If Representative Hawley. Captain O.
c- Applegate. of Klamath Kails. Or.
has been granted a pension of 2o per
month from March . 117. Captain
Apple.. e commanded Company B of
th. First Brigade of Oregon Mounted
Mmtl ,nd prrip.ted in the sever
fighting with the Modoc Indians in
Southern Oregon after the massacre of
General Canby and others.
In receut years he has been Inde-
f.trble In urging relief for the
mn who participated in the fighting
nRnium in. inuuni in life ilia ucu
and flnIi forced their surrender.
captain Appiegate supplied Keprc-
tentative llawley with many argu
meBU ,,,,,,,,. of th, w.rfar
that eventually secured the passage
'1t!e.ct ?f M,rc!! u"d,-r
which the -veterans of the Modoc War
and other Indian-wars since iS. are
being granted relief.
RUSSIAN. POLE IS SHOT
Peter Tat lion ski, Said to Re Pro
German, Wounded at Xccanlcuni.
SEASIDE. Or.. Kcb. 23. (Special.)
I'eter Tatllowski. a Russian I'ole. al-
leged to be pro-German, received a
number of gunshot wounda as the re-
" "c, n "oceoy
Necanlcum yesterday.
Mr. Horceny waa on his way home
when accosted by the Pole, who started
an argument. Enraged, TatllowsKl
beat Horceny over the head, severely
wounding, him. and received a
p.,rir- . thtL .rm ,nd mhoa
shot-
ider
In reply.
Both men are beinr held by Marshal
McCaulcy for Investigation.
RABIES FEARED AT UNION
.Mad Dog Goes on Rampage and Se
rious Results Are Kxpcctcd.
SALEM. Or, Feb. IJ. (Special.) An
epidemic of rabies at Union, following
,he ranipage of a mad dog. was re-
ported today to State Veterinarian
Lytle by Di A. G. Paddock, of thaU
cltv. lis said the stricken dog bit
half the dogs in Union, compelling
large -numbers of them to be killed.
'nd a: ,uckcd ran ai om
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animate
IN THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS CARTOONIST REYNOLDS FOUND MATERIAL
T
BLAME Of! HOOVER
Railroad and Food Men
Lock Hams.
GRAIN IS DECLARED MOVING
Transportation System Is Vig
orously Defended.
SPECIFIC CASES DEMANDED
Director of Railroads Says Mm
Hoover Deals in Generalizations
and Docs Xot Give Specific
Information Called For
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Prompt ad
justment of railroad transportation to
the country's food needs as Food Ad
ministrator Hoover may demonstrate
them, was promised today by Director-
General McAdoo. mho reiterated his
statement of yesterday that practically
all food offered for movement byrfarm-
ers and food dealers is being trans
ported. Railroad administration officials
pointed to the report that virtually no
ships In New York harbor were held up
by lack of food cargoes as proof that
the movement of foodstuffs is satis
factory, tome ships are detained at
riouth Atlantic and Gulf ports, they said.
because grain merchanta of the west
are not loading cars as rapidly as had
been expected.
Reporta to the Food Administrate
told of shortage of cars, however, par
tlcularly for the transportation of gral
products Eastward from Western prl
raary markets. The Railroad Admin
stratlon explained that if this condl
Ion exists it must be caused by the
(allure of shippers or the Food Ad
ministration to make specific requests
for cars.
Feed Shertaa-e LfH Emphasised.
The danger of a serious food short
age In the East was emphasized less
today by the Food Administrator. Kb
plying to a letter from Mr. McAdoo
promising to provide for every food
hlpment to which his attention was
called by tn Food Administration, Mr.
Hoover said:
I am certain tgat this assurance
from you will greatly quiet the grow.
ng apprehension in' the country of the
last few weeks."
Mr. McAdoo replied to this letter by
saying that Mr. Hoover nad failed to
point to specific cases of the failure of
railroads io move food shipments, and
repeated his request of yesterday.
oth officials explained that their
relations were entirely friendly and
that their efforts to clarify the food
and transportation situation did not
represent a controversy either in fact
or in spirit. Mr. McAdoo said he was
only trying to help Mr. Hoover and to
do the best possible for the country,
and that hla only antagonism was for
the Kaiser.
Iloever Faces Fatare.
Mr. Hoover, after giving out a copy
of his letter to the director-general, of
fered this comment:
"I have nothing more to aay. ' My
face is toward the future and not
toward the past."
Subordinate officials of the food and
railroad administrations, however, did
not display the same degree of friend
liness. Congestion on Eastern lines was only
slightly improve today over yester
day. Mr. Hoover's letter to Mr. McAdoo on
the food movement was as follows:
Great Relief Expresses.
"T am grateful for your note of the
22d.and I wish to expeess the great
relief of myself and my colleagues at
K'onrlufied on Case 2. Column 3.
100
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum terai re,
degrees; minimum. 3 de-.k-ec
TODAY'S Rain; fresh ,
..atldS.
. to Rusxla and 43 hours
In whi v ..epc Section 1. Paze 1
Chicaro a -tor shoots down German plane.
tweuoo l. paze 1.
Russia prostrate and Invasion by Germany
proceeds unimpeded. Section 1, paso 6.
Flnt non-slnkable vessel atarts on voyage
to ueiy iz-ooats. section X, page o.
foreign.
Kaiser's dream of world empire related by
uerara. Hectlon 1, page 1. ,
Deadly pneumonic plague menaces all North
cnlna. bection 1, page 7.
British war alms Indorsed by Inter-allied Is
bor conference. Section 1, page 7.
National. t
Food Administrator Hoover may resign aj
result of unfair price fixed for North
west .wheat. Section 1. page L
Dlrector-Gener-vl McAdoo throws blame on
Hoover. - Section 1. page 1.
Two . American sesmen win much-prized
meaalw, bection 1, page 1.
President fixes prices for 1918 wheat crop.
Section 1, page 2.
German Alliance exposed as dsngerous me
dium tor propaganda In United States.
Section 1. page 8.
Working agreement between capital and
labor sought. Section 1, page 4.
United States breaks all records in produc
tion of rifles. Section 1. page 5.
Compulsory food conservation In United
fataies (avored. Section 1, paga 7.
Domestic-
Judge Crum, accused of sedition. Impeached
by Montana House of Representatives.
bection 1. page s.
Reclamation Service to open Western Colo
rado lands. Section 1. page 4.
Selection of Will H. Hsys ss Republican
cnairman meets with lavor. bection J.
page 4. k
R porta.
Jsck Farmer sold to Cleveland by Salt Lake.
bection . page L
Rosebuds still have chance at hockey title.
bection Z. page 1.
Billiard mars to give exhibition at Multno
mah Club. Section 2. page 2.
Military and open track meet promises to
be big event or year, bection 3. page
Movement started to furnish tennis courts
for cantonments. Section 2, page 2.
Oregon "U" met men trsln for mstches wjth
Oregon Aggies. Section 2. page 2.
New faces to appear on fight card Wedna-
M. it. Kline and Oregon Alley teams to
howl sgalnst each other today. Section
2. page 3.
Basketball all-stars picked In Interscholastlc
League. Section 2. page 3.
Schedule for Oregonisn shoot to be in
nuunced Thuraday. Section 2. page 4.
Independent basketball championship to be
decided, bection 2, page 4.
farlfir Northwest.
Organisation of 2uQ.0OO-acre Irrigation dis
trict planned. Section 1, page 8.
Oregon Agricultural College to prepare men
for Army service. Section 1, page .
Fourth ordnance class chosen. . Section 1,
page 10.
Lf.'oos t?ounty town, TCmpire, again waking up.
r Section 1. page 9.
Umatilla County announces new war drive
campaign methods. Section 1, page &.
Hens need care to make them pay. Section
1. page 10.
Commrrrlal and Marine.
California demand draining Northwest of
hay. Section 1. page 1.
New price rules cause rush to sell in Chi
cago markoia. Section 1. psge 21.
Potatoes continue to decline at leading pro.
ducing points.- Section 1, page 21.
Rttila lend early-advanco in slock market.
Section 1, page 21f
Shipbuilders snd Inspectors meet Snd con
sider plans to speed- up operations. Sec
tion 1. pegs 20.
Many Mg vesyels to be launched this week.
Section 1. page 20.
W. D. P. Iodon says V. S. will contract
for more wooden ships. Section '1, page 20.
Portland ud Vicinity.
Red Cross work covers wide field. Sec
tion 1, psge 11.
Liberty loan slogan-builders working for $30
prize, bection 1. page 12.
Portland provides for comfort of boys in
khski. Section 1. page 12.
Oreson Retail Merchants' Association plans
to elluilnato unnecessary expense. Sec
tion 1. page I'd.
"Father of Third Oregon" gets letters from
men oversaaa. bection 1. page 13. -
Portland forced to pay exorbitant prices for
fish. Section 1. page Jo. , .
Russia and Siberia rotten, says member of
John F. Stevens railroad parly. Section 1,
page 16.
Oregon mills forced to close because of car
shortage. Section 1, page li.
Late Mrs. B. A. Miller of Revolutionary
s t oc k-. Section 1. page 17.
Oregon Public Service Commission feels ac
tion vindicated. Section 1, page Is.
Proposed franchise ordinance for 5-cent fare
parti)" drafted. Section 1. page IS.
Hardships of crossing plains in 1&43 related
by pioneer woman, bection 1. psge It.
Oregon Lutherans conduct drive tor war
work funds, bection 1. page 19.
Weather report, data and forecast. Section
1. page 22.
Home Guard Visits Kelso.
KELSO. Wash., Feb. 23. (Special.)
Captain W. 11. Davolt, of the Kalama
Home Guard, and about 30 members
of that organization came to Kelso
this week to attend the show, "Who
Lt-ads the National Army?" pictures
f training camp scenes, and gave a
rill on the street in front of the
heater preceding the show. The Ka
lama Guard has assumed the duty
f guarding the Kalama Lumber &
Shingle Company mill at that place.
0FFEH5
PEACE TO RUSSIA
Frontier Lines to Be
' . Readjusted. '
WARSHIPS MUST BE INTERNED
Guarantee of Favored Nation
Treatment Demanded.
ANTI-HUN AGITATION TO END
Forty-eight Hours Specified as Time
Limit for Acceptance Ratifi
cation to Take . Place
In Two Weeks.
LONDON, Feb. 23 A Russian wire -
less government statement received
here tonight says: '
Germany wilL renew the peace ne-
gotlations and will conclude peace on
the following conditions:
"Both to declare the war ended.
All regions west of the line indi-
cated at Brest LitovsK to tne Kusstan
delegation, which formerly belonged to
Russia, to he no longer under the ter
ritorial protection of Russia;
In the region of Dvlnsk this line
must be advanced to the eastern fron
tier of Courland.
Iatervention Mast Cease.
The former attachment of these re-
eiu.io -" -
case involve for them obligations to-
ward Russia. Russia renounces every
claim to intervene in the internal af-
fairs of those regions.
Germany and Austria-Hungary have
the intention to define further the fate
of these regions In agreement with
their populations.
"Germany is ready, after the com-
evacuate the -regions which are east of
the above line. So far, as it is not
stated otherwise, Livonia and Esthonia
must immediately be cleared of Rus
sian troops and Red Guards.
"Livonia and Esthonla will be occu
Died by German police. .until the date
when the .constitution of the respective
countries shall guarantee their social
security and political order. All in
habitants who were arrested for po
litical reasons must be released imme
diately. '
Peace With Vkralne Demanded.
"Russia will conclude peace with the
Ukrainian people's republic. Ukraine
and Finland will be immediately evac-
uated by Russian troops and Red
t ii arris -
"Russia will do all in its power to
inrA for Tnrlcev the orderly return of l
its Anatolian frontiers. Russia recog
nizes the annulation of the Turkish
r-onlfitlutinn
"Tha -m r 1 t Amnhi 1 1 eh t on of t h
Russian army, inclusive of the detach-
ents newly formed by the
present
government, must be carried out imme
diately.
Russian warships in the Black Sea,
the Baltic and the Arctic Ocean must
immediately either be sent to Russian
harbors and kept there until the con
elusion of peace or be disarmed. War
ships of the entente which are in the
epnere oi Russian auinoruy must oe
regarded as Russian ships,
Aretle to Stay Blockaded..
"Merchant navigation of the Black
Sesvand Baltic Sea must be renewed,
as stated in the armistice treaty. The
clearing away of mines is to begin Im
mediately. "The blockade of the Arctic Ocean
is to remain in force until the conclu
sion of a general peace.
"The Russo-German commercial
tready of 1914 must be enforced again.
In addition there must be guarantee
for the free export, without tariff,, of
(Concluded on Page 7. Column 2.)
WHEREON TO RASE THE SKETCHES BELOW.
CHICAGO AVIATOR
WINGS HUN PLANE
BIG- 2-SEATED MACHINE SHOT
DOWN OVER ENEMY LO'ES.
Total of 135 American Airplanes
Ely 882 Hoars In Day Five
V. S. Flyers Are Killed.
PARIS, Feb. 23. Vernon Booth, of
Chicago, of the Lafayette Flying
Corps, brought down a German air
plane in a fight several miles inside
the German lines.
Booth was on patrol duty when he
sighted his adversary in a two-seated
machine and attacked him at a height
' a several were ex-
-ui&iiieu ana soon tne uerinsus ocean
to descend. Booth followed the hos
tile airplane down until it dropped into
a forest .just inside the German line.
SAN ANTONIO.-Tex., Feb. 23. All
previous records for a total number of
flying hours were broken at Kelly
Field when a mark of 8S2 was at
tained Friday. This was obtained with
135 airplanes and an average of eight
I hours each. This Is the highest rec
ord made by any school in the country.
Altitude records were broken during
the week at Kelly Field when Major
H. B. S. Burwell', officer In charge of
fly'ng, went -up 18,000 feet.
PARIS. Feb. 23. Edward J. Lough
ran, of New York, flying on the French
1 front in a French squadrille, was
killed 10 days ago in an aerial combat.
FORT "WORTH, Tex.. Feb. 23.
American Cadet Franklin Fairchild was
killed today when his airplane fell
I near Everman Field. Fairchild cams
here from Pelham. N. Y.. Februarv 1.
He was the son of a New York Repre-
Bentatitve In Contrress.
Horace Higginbotham, former all-
American football star from Yale, and
cadet aviator at Hicks Field, near
here, was killed this afternoon when
the airplane in which he was flying fell
1000 feet. Ensign Frank Lynch, also
of the Naval Flying Corps, who yas
Piloting the plane, was probably fatally
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 23. Civilian
Flying Instructor Guy H. ' Reagel, of
Chicago, and Cadets Robert Gray, Jr.
I of Long Island. N. Y., and James H.
Webb, Rome. Ga.. were killed at Park
I Field, near Memphis, today when the
airplanes in which the men were fly-
I ing collided and fell about S00 feet.
DRIED POTATOES ORDERED
I Salem Company Gets Contract for
600 Tons of Dehydrated.
1
SALEM, Or.. Feb. 23. (Special.) The
Salem Kings Products Company today
received telegraphic advices that the
Government has awarded it a contract
to furnish bOO tons of dehydrated po
tatoes for the Army. This represents
t.000,000 pounds .of potatoes in their
original state.
Just how much this contract amounts
to In money was not given out, but all
told the company expects to receive
about $250,000 worth of contracts for
ucayuitiicu piuuucis, uiuiuuin put
toes- carrots, onions ana ouier vege-
tabics,
CCIU ATHR CTII I IMPRflVINR
lw - ,",,BW, VI i-i. Hill IIWIIIIU
Mr- Chamberlain Reported Making
Good Progress Toward Itecovery.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. Senator
Chamberlain's condition continues to
1 m rtrrt v-r fnllnwtncr ills rpppnt nnpratinn
K appendicitla. He is regarded now
as well on the way toward recovery.
The Senator was reported today as
abJe t0 takJ Ught nourlslhment.
ABERDEEN DRAWS CHECK
V. W. C. A. Receives $825 of New
War Chest Fund.
ABERDEEN, "Wash., Feb. 23. (Spe
cial.) The first check drawn upon
Aberdeen's new war chest fund was
issued today to the Y. W. C. A. for
$825. Hereafter all drive levies as
sessed to the city will be paid out of
this war chest fund, subscriptions to
which amount to about $6000 a month
now.
KAISER'S DREAM
WORLD EMPIRE
Gerard Paints Picture of
German Monarch.
EUROPE'S RUIN IS PLANNED
"Others Failed, but My Mailed
Fist Will Succeed," Is
Ruler's Proud Boast.
WOE BROUGHT ON WORLD
Ambition of Triumphal Entry
Into Fallen Cities Great
Obsession of William II.
Mr. Gerard's second book, writ
ten since his departure from Ber
lin upon the severing of diplo
matic relations with imperial
Germany, has been secured by
The Oregonian for exclusive
newspaper publication in Ore
gon. It will appear simultane
ously in daily installments in this
and other newspapers licensed by
the Public Ledger. Any infringe
ment of the Public Ledger's copy
right will be prosecuted.
BY JAMES W. GERARD.
American Ambassador at fhe German Im
perial t. ourt, July IJtl.J. to February 4,
1H17. Author of "My Four Vears in Germany-"
(Copyright, 11)18,- by Public
Ledger Company.)
To the American mind the Kaiser
is the personification of Germany.
He is the arch-enemy upon whom the-
world places the responsibility for
this most terrible of all xtars. I have
sat face to face with him in the'palace
at Berlin where, as the personal rep
resentative and envoy of the Presi
dent of the United States, I had the
honor of expressing the viewpoint of
a great nation. I have seen him in
the field as the commanding1 general
of mighty forces, but I also have
seen him in the neutral countries
through which I passed on my return
home and in my own beloved land
in the evidence of intrigue and plot
ting which this militaristic monarch
has begotten and which is today "the
Thing," as President Wilson calls it,
which has brought the American peo
ple face to face with kaiuorism in the
greatest conflict of all history.
What manner of man is he? What
is his character? How much was ho
responsible for what has happened?
how much his, general staff? What
of the Crown Trince and what of the
neutral peoples and their rulers whom
Germany has intimidated and would
fain subjugate if it suited her pur
pose? These are the questions " I
shall attempt to answer out of my
experiences in Germany and my con
tacts with the rulers of other coun
tries in my journeys to and from Ber
lin and Washington.
Incident Hitherto Unpublished.
To illustrate the craft of the Kaiser,
I believe I can perform no better
service to Americans than to reveal
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 3.)
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