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VOL. XV. NO. 351.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1917. TWENTY PAGES.
L
IT
ON DRAFT
DEBATE IS SET
T
Selective Conscription Meas
ure to Be Voted by House
on 'Friday and Senate on
Saturday, Is Program.
INDICATIONS SAID TO
FAVOR PASSAGE OF BILL
Representative Mason, I
, nois, Hissed When Mak
; ing Attack on Wilson.
"Washington. AprH SC. (IT. P.) The
United Stat may have lo raise au
irmy of 6.000.0QO men before the war
.la. over. This was the declaration late
today by Senator MyerB. Montana, of
the military committee during me
fifth day ot debate on the administra
tis conscription bill Myers, favor
ing the draft, said he "believes fully
this country will send an army over
seas to fight In the trenches.
'.. Washington, April 26. (U. P.) The
house will act on the army bill to-
tnorrow.
The senate will vote late Saturday,
Conscription seems certain to win.
"f The lone drawn out debate in the
itrue on the question of mlsing 2,000
000 men by draft or volunteering will
nd tonight. This was decided today
by unanimous consent. Immediately
the. house convened.
Br the agreement; the house is to
continue to talk as long as it can stand
it today and this evening. Then to-
I' morrow Chairman Dent of the military
committee, who opposes the presi
dent's draft plan, and Representative
Kahn, California, ranking Republican
member of the same committee, wno
. . . . ' . I . . . . Mi U .11
leaaing me president b iirul, nm
make concluding arguments.
Speech Hissed by Gallery.
v Pyrotechnics started In the house.
Bcpresentative Mason, Illinois, de
knaAdlns that Colonel Roosevelt be
'permitted to raise an army for Im
mediate service m FTance, aeciarea
?th man in the White House has not
the couraire or political sagacity 10
Jermlt Colonel Roosevelt to enlist for
ftr ha will Droflt politically.
, From . floor and galleries Instantly
came alnwat-deafenlny-hissing. .which 1
continued several minutes.
Mason bitterly attacked the general
staffs selective draft plan. Ho said
nothing would please the kaiser more
than to sea an army of conscription
lsts "go to Europe to fight.
i Would See XoossTelt Go.
UPThey -call It the bill of the general
staff. he saia: "Derore iney get.
through they will call It 'general de
bility and general red tape." The gen
eral staff docs not want Roosevelt to
enlist. He applied at the White
House. ,
"'The president. I suppose, stamped
his application with red ink and re
ferred it to the secretary of war. Tbe
seeretary? referred it to the assistant"
(Ooocluded on Par Two Column One)
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AMERICAN BUSINESS
London Foreign Office Issues
Formal Announcement of
Decision,
" London, April, 26. (U. P.) The for
eign --of flee announced this afternoon
that the "blacklist" against American
firms had been withdrawn.
Raising of the blacklist will remove
the principal issue that threatened ill-
feeling between England ana tne unit
ed States. The original blacklist cov
ered 85 business firms. Several have
since been added.
Great Britain announced her black
list in July. 1916. It was a formal list.
Ing of certain firms all over the world
with whom British citisens were for-.
bidden to trade. Nearly a hundred
American firms were included nv tnis
prescribed catalogue.
v On July 26. Acting Secretary of State
Polk registered America's emphatic
protest at this discrimination in a note
Addressed to Sir Edward Grey. The
blacklist, this note said, "had been re
ceived with most painful surprise" by
the United States, and the government
i was "constrained to regard it
as inconsistent with triiA limticA
and sincere amity and impartial fair-
Mess which should characterize the
dealings of friendly governments with
one another."
.In, the diplomatic interchange which
followed England refused to relax the
blacklist on the Americans mentioned
and tne matter remained still an issue.
'.In raising the embargo today, Eng
land thus gives fresh proof of com
plete unity with her new ally, leaving
jX completely to the United States gov
ernment to make certain that enemy
firms do not trade.
The foreign office emphasized that
i he blacklist remains operative against
neutrals. The sole change is exemption
of all American firms.
Cholera -and Typhus
Imaging in Turkey
' '." . r- ' "
- Petrograd, April 26. (I. N. S.)
Epidemics of cholerauid typhus , are
raging, throughout Turkey, say dis
patches from Tlf lis today. .The situa
tion is made more serious by the ex
cessive shortage of food and medicine.
NBO
OSES
BLAGKUST
AGAINST
11
WITHDRAWN
Health Bureau .
To Get Data on
Storage Food
If' Supplies Are Being Held for
Speculation, Move WU1 Start to
Make Them Disgorge.
Mayor Albee has instructed Inspec
tors of the health bureau to Inspect
all warehouses and cold storage plants
to determine the amount of available
foodstuffs stored in these places..
If It is found that speculators have
large quantities of foodstuffs stored,
efforts will be made to have them dis
gorge. Mayor Albee said today. He
would not say how this would be dons,
however.
The mayor learned from City Attor
ney La Roche that the health bureau
has he authority to act, and immedi
ately instructed the Inspectors to in
vestigate. A letter was sent to Vnlte( States
District Attorney Reames by the may
or Wednesday, calling attention to the
fact that 80.000 sacks of potatoes had
been held in -storage, but a reply has
not been received.
American Schooner
Is Sunk by U-Boat
Seven Shells Hit Percy BlrdsnJl; Tiring s
Was Without Warning aad Con tin- X
ned While Crew X.eft Snip.
Washington, April 26. (U. P.) The
American schooner Percy Blrdsall has
been sunk by submarine gunfire, ac
cording to a state department an
nouncement today. The crew was res
cued by a patrol boat soon after the
attack.
Nine or 10 shots were fired, seven
of which struck the vessel. Most hits
were below the water line. Firing was
without warning and continued while
the crew took to the boats.
The Percy Birdsall was a wooden
four-masted schooner of 1128 tons,
registered at Perth Amboy. N. J. She
was owned by J. Holmes and was built
in 1890.
Chancellor Insists
Strikes Must End
Geneva, April 26. (I. N. B.) The
labor situation in Germany is still
menacing despite the efforts of the
government to minimize it. Advices
tothis effect were received here today
from the border.
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Ger
man chancellor, has sent circular let
ters to the governors of the federated
states announcing that the government
is determined ta suppress ail future
labor troubleatvwitha.: strong hand.
Shorter hours, increased wages and
more food have been promised to wprk
men In many of the big munitions
plants. '
Government to Pay
Low Price for Steel
New York. April 26. (U. P.) Steel
manufacturers of the country will fill
the government's war orders at prices
ranging xrom 33 1-3 per cent to 61
2-3 per cent below the present market
quotations.
At a meeting of heads of th TTniteri
States Steel corporation, Republic
Steel and Midvale Steel
toda, it was decided to fill the
government's orders for bars at 42 Eft
base per hundred pounds, for plates at
i.au, and ior structural shapes at
$2.60. Today's Pittaburir nrW fnr
these materials are $3.76 for bars, $8
for plates and $4 for shapes.
Nevada First With
Full Quota for Army
wasnington. April 26. CTT t
ine state or Nevada is the first state
to furnish her full quota of recruits
to the United States army, the war
department announced today.
with zo enlistments yesterday Ne
vada's total reached 137 eleven more
man her pro rata share of recruits.
Pennsylvania led In recrultina-
terday with 181 men; Illinois was next
with 167; Michigan third with 116. and
New York fourth with 107.
Illinois is still leading with a total
oi ss recruits since April 1.
Goal Miners Secure
Increase in Wages
New Tork. April 2. (T. N. s v
Representatives of the anthracite coal
miners are retornlng to their homes
today confident that the wage increase
secured will relieve the tense situation
between operators and workmen. The
agreement signed here last night in
sures them a wage increase averaging
20 per cent and approximating $35.
000,000. The Increase is on a' sliding
scale, base, ranging from 11 per ent
to a max i mum of 35 per cent. Tho
agreement signed was for 11 months.
Farr Commandant
Of Training School
San Francisco, April 26. (U. P.)
Lieutenant Colonel Otho W. Farr, Sev
enth field artillery, was named today
commandant of the officers' reserve
corps training school, to be held at the
Presidio, beginning May 8. Lieutenant
Colonel F. W; Sladen will- be senior
instructor.
Red Cross Protests
Sinking of Vessel
Washington. April 26. f I." Nl R.
Confirmation of the fact that a gen
eral protest to - the German govern
ment against the torpedoing of en
tente, hospital ships have been made
by the international committee of the
Red Cross reached here this afternoon.
REPUBLIC FOR
OF NEW MOVE
Minister Stovall at Berne Re
ports Open Movement in
Switzerland to Spread the
Democratic Propaganda
PAPER IS ESTABLISHED
TO FURTHER. EFFORTS
Traveler Says Strike of 250,
000 in Berlin Shows the
Desire for Peace.
tifc (fc3r
Terms May Be Announced.
Amsterdam. April 26. (I. N.
S.) That Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg,
will make known
in the reichstag next .month the
terms upon which Germany will
make peace is announced here
today by the Tyd, a Roman
Catholic newspaper which fre
quently is well Informed.
The terms, it is declared, will
be very moderate and accept
able to the entente allies and
also to the United States.
,
Washington, April 26. (U. P.)
What may prove to be Important
moves to sweep aside Hohenzollernism
and replace It with a German republic
were reported officially to the state
department today from several sources.
According to a message to the sec
retary of state from Minister Stovall
at Berne, an open movement Is on In
Switzerland by, a committee of Ger
mans to spread 'the propaganda of re
publicanism and democracy. -
Dr. Roese Meyer, former editor of
the Berlin Morgen Post, leads the
Switzerland propagandists, who al
ready have established a paper. The
Freie Zeitung. to further their at
tempts to spread the doctrine of a
German republic In the Fatherland.
From other sources this govern
ment learns that the German people
"are Increasingly anxious" for peace.
Such a message was taken by a
traveler, arriving In a neutral coun
try, from Germany to state depart
ment ofjcJalajnha,nnamed.Jaeutgal
nation. This government's emclal so
telegraphed the state department to
day. It was stated that "the strike of
250,000 laborers in Berlin shows the
growth of the desire for peace."
Moreover, this , traveler declared.
Germany has reduced the bread t ra
tions from 1900 to 1600 grams a week.
As a result of the "continual strike"
at Ebling, the ' department of state
Is informed, orders wero Issued by the
commander-in-chief of that district
that all striking munition workers
who have been withdrawn from the
front in order to do munition work
would have to report immediately to
military-headquarters, if they did not j D Hetsel, director of extension serr
resume work before April 20. As alce of the Q A c Js aldins. ln ar.
result of this, work was immediately raneing" details
resumed.
Military Controls Germany.
Paris, April 26. (I. N. S.) Appar
ent efforts of Austria-Hungary to
break away from German domination
are meeting with greater obstacles
than at any other time since the war
began.
Frontier advices reaching here to
day said the military party In Ger
many is obviously in complete control
now and that the recent latitude al
lowed the Socialists is being cut down.
' Peace Hope Is Expressed,
' Amsterdam, April 26. (TJ. P.J
Thanks to the heroes of Arras and the
Aisne hope of an early peace was ex
pressed in a telegram sent by the
main reichstag committee today to
Field Marshal Hlndenburg.
Dispatches from , Berlin said the
message promised the entire German
people would devote all their strength
to the country's defense until peace,
which, it is hoped, would come soon.
Chicago Wheat Goes
To $2.60; Declines
Chicago. April 26. (U. P.) May
wheat soared to 12.60, the highest
price since Just after the Civil war. To
ward the close, however, speculators,
scared by the highest prices, toon
their profits and May went back to
$2.54 K. Just 3 cents above last
night's close.
Other wheat months, after almost as
violent gains, registered loss over the
opening. Corn and oats followed wheat.
Cash grains kept their advance. No.
2 red wheat closed at $2.95 a bushel.
No. ; 2 white corn at $1.64; standard
oats at 75ic; rye at $2.02 and, bar
ley at $1.56.
Russia to Set Forth
New Aims in War
ui
Copenhagen, April 26; (I. N. S.)
The Russian government has begun
the preparation of a note for present a
lion to the other entente govern men'
petting forth the new war aims of
Russia, says a dispatch from Petrograd
today. It is understood that the re
publican government will reaffirm the
previous declaration that Russia will
not make a separate peace.
England in Favor of
Independent Poland
London. April 26. (I. N. S.) Eng
land today came oat in favor of au
tonomy for Poland." Chancellor t, A.
Bonar Law announced- in -.parliament
that this country -would use every en
deavor to see - that Poland realizes her
national alma. - - ,
- - ;r ':
ELIHU ROOT, former secretary of state, has been selected
as chairman of the commission which President Wilson
will send to Russia to help and advise the new govern
ment. Mr. Root announced today he has accepted the position.
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1, X'
E CAMPAI
STARTED HERE TODAY
H eadq uarters 0 pened With
it i ill vjiawiuiu hi ,if
Plan Bearing Fruit.
Portland headquarters for the big
Oregon' "food drive" were opened at
room 513, Oregon building, today. W.
H. Crawford, secretary of the Oregon
Development bureau of the Chamber of
Commerce, will be in charge.
President W. J. Kerr of the Oregon
Agricultural college, under whose
auspices the food preparedness cam
paign will be 'waged, visited Portland
iue jjiTjpoHeu Biaie-wiae losiering
of agricultural pursuits has already
obtained results. News comes from
Eastern Oregon that potato acreage
will be Increased 20 per. cent over pre-
vious years. Heavy increase in the
acreage in beans is reported.
All Areades to Be Used.
In carrying out its plans the central
organization will utilize all existing
agencies and coordination of efforts
will be accomplished.
County agents will scour the agri
cultural districts, preaching the gospel
of food preparedness and giving farm
ers every available assistance.
Agricultural college experiment sta
tlons will perform valuable aid.
The department of agriculture Is co
operating with the state agencies.
Seed sourees will be located and the
names of . those In need of seeds will
be listed. Financial help will be given
worthy farmers. .
Labor problems will be studied and
every aid given : farmers in the har
vesting of their crops. .Minimum
wages for this class of workers will
be fixed, according to present aims.
Marketing problems, one of the most
Important phases of the campaign,
will. In due time, receive attention.
Follow-up work will form one of the
objects. .
Railroads Lending Aid.
Portland's railroad companies aro
lending valuable aid. Demonstration
trains have already been doing good
work on the lines of the O-W. R. & N.
Co. Other roads. Including the South
ern Pacific, will Join. Vegetable rail
ing, poultry raising and canning, form
the three chief object lessons. - Food
economy will also be emphasized, and
committees to-carry onthe work will
be formed In each city.
Housewives will be urged to put up
fruit, vegetables and meats.
Shortage of cans and glass Jars
looms as a serious obstacle. It in
likely that the. drying process may havo
to be resorted to In many cases. In
struction in these lines will be fur
nished. Portland school officials have, prom
ised to enlist the eight paid people.
They will give advice and assistance
to amateur garde vers.
Local managers will meet each
morning to discuss problems arising.
These conferences will Include leaders
in the various organizations devoted
to vacant lot; and acreage garden
ing, etc ' ;
Bulletins will be issued keeping the
people informed on the general prog
ress, scope "and purposes of the cam
paign, ij.' "
Soldiers Exchange
Notes on Firing Line
Petrograd, April 26. (I. N. S.)
German soldiers are making unremit
ting efforts to parley with the Rus
sians. Near Riga the Germans put up
signs v reading-. "Do. not r attack. ' We
iU not." f t . r s
FOOD
DRIV
GN
OREGON
FORMALLY
V
ELIHU ROOT WILL BE
TO BE SENT TO RUSSIA!
Setection land Acceptance Is.
Waken as Sign brCamplete
Political. Unity in U. 'S.
Washington. April 26. Eiihu Root,
former secretary of state, today ac
cepted the chairmanship of the Ameri
can commission which is going to
Russia.
Root conferred with President Wil
son today for an hour as to the pur
poses of the commission, and then
talked with Secretary Lansing. He
would not discuss in any way the com
mission's plans In fact, would say
nothing whatever as to his connection
with it, preferring to let Secretary
Lansing make any anouncements to
the public.
The full personel of the commlsolon,
which, in addition to Root, is to In
clude railroad experts, financial ' au
thorities and two or three prominent
representatives of America's business
and scientific life, will be announced
very soon.
Realizing the need of immediately
exerting assistance of all kinds to the
Russian government. It is the purpose
of the president to, send the. commis
sion abroad as .quickly as the business
affairs of the members can. be set
tled.
1 However, the same secrecy as to de
tails of leaving and route will be main
tained as- was practiced concerning the 1
French and British commissions sent!
here.
Root s selection and his acceptance
was taken as the final sign of a com
plete American political unity for the
war. Root having, been one of the presi
dent's political critics and Roosevelt s
former premier.
Daylight Saving to
Be Voted onFriday
The - city r council probably Friday
will consider the resolution suggested
by Will II. Daly, commissioner of
public utilities, calling upon business
men and. other Portlanders to- co
operate in .a plan to save daylight by
moving the clock an hour ahead. The
resolution - is .being drafted by the
city's legal , bureau.
The plan is meeting with approval
generally ; In . the Pacific coast cities.
In Seattle and-Tacoma all organiza
tions' are ' cooperating in the move- j
ment.
American Prisoner
Taken by Germany
London. April 28. (I. N. S.) The
American consul at Crtasgow this af
ternoon reported - that the Germans
had taken their first American prls-
oner of war.
Captains of merchantmen sunk by
submarines are usually , taken prison
ers by Germany, and this dispatch may
mean that an American ship has been
sunk. ' .'
Sinking of 55 ; Ships
; Arouses- Criticism
. London April 2. il: . N. S.) An
nouncement of the sinking of 65 more
ships by German submarines : led to
pessimistic criticism of the shipping
situation by many newspapers today.
"If fuller details were furnished the
case would be found stilt worse, said
the "Times. "-'In commenting upon? the
reticence of the . admiralty'
EA
OF COMMISSION
SOLID WALL OF
i
Germans Launch Terrific
Counter Attacks Against
British Around Gavrelle
but Fail to Make Gains.
GROUND IS COVERED
WITH GERMAN DEAD
Carnage Is Declared to Be
Greater Than in Any Other
Battle of War.
I Trench Capture Satire Segment.
With the French Armies in
the Field. April 26. (U. P.)
Thirteen hundred German prls-
Mrt oners and 180 machine guns
were captured In one swoop of
French forces around Ville aux
Bols, according to a complete
$ tally given out at general head- $
quarters today.- The total of
all captures in the fighting
jjt around Ville aux Bols was 11
cannon and 3210 prisoners in-
3 eluding one entire Bavarian
regiment with all Its officers
except the coldtiel.
The French evelopment oc-
curred April 17, but until to-
day the censor withheld de-
tails.
London, April 26. (U. P. Complete
repulse of a violent massed counter
attack by German forces against new
British positions around Gavrelle was
announced In Field Marshal Halgs of
ficial statement today.
Early at night the enemy again
endeavored to attack out new positions
at Gavrelle," he said. "His troops were
caught In our artillery barrage and
completely repulsed."
Appalling bosses Reported.
Germany Is now suffering her most
appalling losses of the war in the des
perate endeavors of her army staff to
stop the British drive by sheer weight
of humaa-masses op'posmg'lt. ' North
of the Scarpa river today, where the
British fought ahead almost inch by
Inch in the face of great masses of
men, the carnage was greater than
that suffered by the enemy since the
war started.
Front dispatches today carried the
idea that the Germans, realizing no
trench works could stand against the
levelling fire of the British artillery,
were seeking to make a wall of living
human beings against the advanpe.
Plre Mows Sown Troops.
Into the closely packed troops oppos
ing the British fire did terrific work.
Thousands of mangled bodies are flung
over the battlefield along the Scarpe,
mostly Germans. The -British losses
have been exceedingly low, consider
ing the ferocity of the fighting.
That the terr'-ble mortality of the
German troops Is undermining their
morale Is apparent by statements of
prisoners. The German troops all of
them picked divisions are literally
driven into the fighting line now
Kaay aiad to Surrender.
Those who survive the deadly ac
curacy of the British artillery fire and
the pounding of the British infantry
attacks are exceedingly glad to be tak
en prisoners.
Today it appeared that the British
and the enemy were deadlocked to the
north of the Scarpe. The drive toward
Doual along this line was being op
posed with the Germans every re
source. To the south, however, the
British pressure could not be resisted
and they were slowly moving forward.
French Stop Two Attacks,
Paris. April 26- (U.. P.) Two tre
mendous German attacks made on a
front of more than a mile and a half
west of Cemy were smashed unavall-
lngly against Jfrench lines arid re
pulsed amid Tavy losses to the
enemy, today's rencn oinciai state
ment declared.
Powerful German counter attacks at
two other places on the French front
were likewise repelled
The war office statement Indicated
that all along the French front the
Geimans were making violent at
tempts to loosen the grip of French
troops on their new positions. Some
bitter fighting was reported from half
a dozen different points. .
'On the shores of the Olse," the
statement said, "a German patrol was
easily repulsed.
"North of the Aisne several Ger
man attempts to eject our troops from
the plateau and the Ladles' Highway
were unsuccessful.
Two powerful attacks on a front of
two kilometers west of Cerny were
smashed on tne French lines, the Ge:
mans losing heavily. One other at
tempt at Hurteblse farm also failed
"In the Champagne, in the region of
Pompelle, in front of Navarla and
Tahure, several German attacks only
resulted in our capture of prisoners."
Terrific Fighting, Says Berlin.
Berlin, via London, April 26. (TJ.
P.) Terrific fighting In which British
attacks were repulsed and by which
German troops won their way to the
eastern boundary of Gavrelle, was de
tailed in today's official report.
- Around Arras, the statement said.
there were only local attacks, tout
south df the Scarpe there were waves
of attack, always without artlllerylng.
which in some sections leached con
siderable violence. - At Gavrelle Ger
roan troops are now situated on the
eastern boundary.
On the French front, around Chemln
I des Dames ridge, the statement said
the German position was improved and
lti prisoners were taken. An enemy
attack alone a front of two miles was
sanguinarily repulsed.
TROOPSWITHERS
DURING
ATTACK
Farmers Are to
Be Given Use
Postal Savings
GoTernment Resources Approximat
ing $100,000,000 Will Be Used
to Relieve Food Situation.
Washington, April 26. (U. P.) To
aid the farmers of the nation In meet
ing the food situation, the' govern
ment today took steps to throw re
sources approximating $100,000,000
into the breach.
The action was announced by the
treasury department that all postal
savings deposits will be made immedi
ately available for loans to farmers.
BRITISH
POST HOLDS
BY KILLING
OFF EVERY ASSAILANT
Germans, at Terrible Cost,
Manage to Regain Part of
Guillemont Farm;
By William Philip Simm.
With the British Armies Afield,
April 26. (U. P.) One single British
post, defending Just a part of Guille
mont fsrm. emerged 1 victorious todsy
from one of the fiercest fought of the
countless scattered actions marking a
day replete with bitter fighting by
killing off every man of their German
assailants.
It was over a field carpeted with
German dead. around Guillemont.
Here, during the night the British had
battered forward to take the farm and
a stretch of front 2000 yards east of
Lemplre. Hill 140, to the-nortlf. had
fallen Into British hands, after a
swaying, desperate battle.
Post Stands Adamant.
Hardly had the Tommies started to
dig themselves in on this hard-won
ground when the Teutonic counter
attack came In blinding force., The
enemy's guns dug great burial hol?s
for the thousands of their dead but It
HkewTke, by sheer intensity, gave tho
advancing Germans a Drier roouioi-i
All over the fsxm the battle raged.
The enemy managed, at terrible cost.
to regain part of it.
But to the west, the one British
"post stood adamant. 'On it beat wave
after wave of the attack. The last
and most violent caught full in the
face the tremendous fire of the de
fenders' machine guns, halted, wavered
and literally melted Into heaps of
dead and twisted shape- The British
held the line.
Terocity Abates a Trifle.
The Bame sort of fighting was in
progress at a score of places on tne
British front today, but it naa abated
Just a trifle from the ferocity or tne
night attacks. There has been no ume
for the most part to bury the dead.
The Germans, particularly, have been
too occupied in reinforcing their bleed
ing division and in trying, to launch
counter attacks to take care of their
now useless fragments. Lverywhere
they littered the fields today.
Despite these tremendous counter
attacks which the enemy, prodigal of
his men. Is hurling all along the line,
the British are holding their most im
portant gains.
Air rigatlng Xissseas.
Tho fighting today for the most
part is along the Scarpe. The enemy
Is losing not only In thousands by
counter attacks, but everywhere the
deadly accuracy of the British artil
lery is adding to the toll.
Cold, wintry weather, with lowering
clouds, lessened the air fighting from
the tremendous scale on which the
warfare of the skies has been waged
during the paat few days of clear, sun
shiny weather.
Publishers Oppose
Press Censorship
New York. April 26 (I. N. 8.)
Strong protest against war news cen
sorship featured the meeting Wednes
day of the American Newspaper Pub,
Ushers' association at its annual con
vention in the Waldorf-Astoria, Hop-
well L. Kodgers, president of the as so
elation, said American editors can be
trusted not to publish the whereabouts
of our armies or fleets or give any
ather Information helpful to the enemy.
Kewanaoer "funnies are threatened
by the shortage of print paper. It
was a serious topic of discussion t
today's session as to the advisability
of cutting out "features" and "comics"
as a paper conservation measure.
Members generally conceded the
question of eliminating tho comics was
matter for the public to decide.
Wild-Game Eggs
Knitting Machine
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LOST Female pit terrier, brlndle
with white breast; reward.
Wanted MlsceUaasous ' 8
WANTED to buy 100O cords 4 ft.
cordwood. Money advanced.
Swap Column 25
WOMAN wsnts Guernsey, Jersey
or grade fresh cow in good con
lition. Will give old-style high
grade piano in good condition,
rosewood case, steel sounding
board: will not become tinpaimy.
v Tor Bale HUscellAaeou l
KNITTING machine, almost new,
J15. BUck typewriter and case,.
$10, or trade. j
Fouttry, Pigeons aad et Stock 37
WILD game eggs by mall. Golden.
. Silver, China pheasants and wild
mallard duck; cheap. '.
If your most urgent need is not
met In today's wants send, bring
or phono you Want Ad to The
Journal. . Wants cost but a trifle
and are far reaching In their In
fluence. . --Jr.
PO IN
AUCAMIL
BE APPOINTED
FOOD DICTATOR
Herbert Hoover or Secretary "
of Labor Wilson Possibly
May. Be Named as Result
of Conference. '
COMMISSION MAY BE
FORMED AMONG ALLIES
Domination of Other War Di
visions Will Also Probab
ly Be Allotted U. S. .
Washington, April 26. (I. N. S.)
Senators Gore, of Oklahoma, Smith, of
Georgia, Smith of South Carol lni,
Page of Vermont, and Kenyon of low,
were appointed today by the senate
agriculture committee as a sub-committee
to act with the department of
agriculture In drafting emergency food
legislation.
Washington, April 26. -(U. P.)
That come one ' American possibly
Herbert Hoover or Secretsry of Labor
Wilson within the next few months
will become food dictator of the
United States and her allies was lnd'-
cated by developments at the inter
national war conference of the allies
here today.
More end more the war council's' pro
ceedings are crystallising Into a monu
mental campaign to feed the allies.
r mance and snipping porblems are
coming to be considered comparatively
collateral, though vital.
It was tsken foreranted today that
It will be the policy of the allies, after
America has made her preliminary
contributions to her fighting sister na
tions in men. money, foou. shipping
and other things, to entrust the United
States with absolute control of certain
phases of the war.
That food will b en of the orob-
lems' left entirely In American hands
Is believed certain.
This will mean that one man or
small group of men will be named by
President Wilson absolutely to domi
nate the production and distribution
of all food In the United Sta tee. Eng
land, France, .Ualy. Russia, Cuba and
the other allied countries.
Ijagg-a Com 'sstcf gsgy tea. '-
It is deemed probable that this step
will Involve the organisation of an
lnter-ally food commission, compris
ing a director general of food for each
nation with the American .dictator as
the head of the commission.
This. It was officially pointed out.
has been the allies' method of handling
all its problems. England dominates
war finance. Other phases, which It
is desired shall not he discussed, as
they are not generally known, are
under the respective direction of some
one or other of the other allies.
Domination of War divisions other
than food may be allotted to the Unit
ed Slates, but food wllj be the most
important.
The real crux of the conferences
going on here todsy la the interna
tional reorganization of the war since
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WOULD NOT DEPRIVE
PRESS OF FREEDOM
Chief Executive Expresses
Himseif Oosed to Muz
zling Papers During -War.
Washington. April ZC, (I. N. 8.)
President Wilson, in replying today to -a
letter from Arthur Brisbane, editor
of the New York Evening Journal, de
clared he would never permit the
espionage law, now awaiting enact
ment In congress, to prevent honest'
criticism of the administration.
"I shall not expect or permit any
part of this law to apply to me or any
of my official acts, or In any way to1
be used as a shield against criticism,
wrote the president. "While exercis
ing the great power of tho office I
hold, I would regret. In a crisis like
tho one through which we ar now
passing, to lose the benefit - of patri
otic and intelligent criticism
The text of the president's letter
follows:
"My Dear Mr. Brisbane I sincerely
appreciate the frankness of your In
teresting letter of April 20, with refer
ence to the so-called espionage bill
now awaiting action of congress.
"I approve of this legislation, tout 1
need not assure you and those Inter
ested -in it that whatever action 4be
congress may decide upon, so far as I
am personally concerned. I shall not
expect or permit any part of this law
to apply to roe or any of my official -acts,
or in any way to be used as a
shield against crltlclsm
"I can Imagine no greater disservice
to the country than to establish a
system of censorship that would deny
to the people of a free republic like '
our own their indisputable right to
criticise their own .public officials.
While exercising the. great powers of
the office I hold, I would regret In a
crisis like the one through which we
are now passing to lose the benefit; of '
patriotic and Intelligent criticism.
"In these trying times, on can feel
certain only of his motives, which he
must strive to purge of selfishness of'
every kind, and await with patience
PRESIDENT
WILSON
for the Judgmentvof a calmer day to -vindicate
-the wisdom of the course lie - j
has tried coneclentiously to follow.
"Thanking you for having written to 1
me, cordially and sincerely yours.- -r
: fWOODROW WILSON.- -
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