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niyiMl"M E!VESTHE LEASED WIRE REPORT OF. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; THE GREATEST AND HOST RELIABLE PRESS, ASSOCIATION 1HIHE MElD - ' ' - - X . r . ... ' i 1ATYGUTH YKAlt-Q. Ka - 8ALKM. UKrXlOX. hT.lAY MOHMXU, Jt XK SO." 1PIH. . .. , . rrtTWiTrT5 i f AR&IY BILL IS PUT THROUGH BY SENATORS No Specific Directions for " Raising Army of 5,000,000 Men Additions Made to Measure. VOTE TAKEN WITHOUT; A DISSENTING VOICE McCumber Amendment Re- jectedf-Yolwiteer Leg- . ions Authorized. WASHINGTON. June-29. In pass ing the twelve billion dollar army -appropriation, bill today' the senate emphasized sentiment for enlarging the army beyond the three million men provided in5 the measure, but declined while awaiting the war de partment'; Dew expansion program, specifically to direct the president to raise an army of 5.000,000. " After a week's debate and wlth . out a roll call .'or dissenting voice, the huge supply measure a world's record-breaker was sent to confer ence between the two houses, with a lew- to its enactment next Monday, when the appropriations are needed. 4 Several Items Increased. .None of the appropriations for the army's part In the war for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was reduced by the senate. Instead It increased many items, approved without change the house clause clothing the presi dent with unlimited authority to in crease the army by further draft calls and added scores of important legislative riders. A- futile effort was made today by senators desirous of specifically ordering an army Increase. An . amendment by .Senator McCumber of North Dakota, proposing to "direct" the president to enlarge the army to five million enlisted men as speedily as equipment and clothing could be obtained was rejected, 45 to 19. and an. amendment, by Senator Fall" of New Mexico, proposing an increase of 3.000.000 men went out viva voce. "V--; ; -.."v". - j"'Many senators, however, fearing this , actios, and the rejection yes terday of the Fall amendment to ex- - , (Continued on page 8) If Interested In i t 1 SILKS - A handsome lot of Black Chiffon and Suiting Taffetas in a wide range of qualities -IJfi to 42 inches Vide, at $1.50, $1.75, $185. $2.00, $2.25, 2.65 a yard. CREPES Black Crenes DcChine and Georgette Crepet unusually : 'good .' values all 40 inches wide, at $1.65, $1.95, $2.00, , $25 a yard. POPLINS Black Silk and Wool Poplins a beautiful, also a very 'dur able fabric, much in de mand at this time 40 inches wide $1.75 $2.J5 a yard. " Stayton Water Power Company is Dissolved Resolutions of dissolution wer filed at the office of Corporation Commissioner Schulderman Satur day hy the Stayton Water Power company and the following Portland firms: Botsford-Tyler company. Portland Police band, the O. K. Bar ber shops, and the Arleta Land com pany. J. Q. Mack & Co. of Portland filed resolutions showing a decrease of 'capital stock from $100,000 to $3,000. PAKADKS APPROVED. NE WYORK, June 29. President Wilson today approevd patriotic par ades In connection with conventions of representative men in a letter to Fred aHrper, grand exalted rulT of the Reneolevnt and Protective Order of Elks. YANKEES REACH . ITALY SAFELY General March Announces Arrival of First Ameri r can Contingent I WASHINGTON, Jane 29. Safe arrival In Italy of the first contin gent of military force which will rep resent the United States was an nounced today by General March, chief of staff. Sent direct from this country, the troops landed yesterdajr to supplant others ordered from France by General Pershing. Sanitary units compose the great er parts of the first arrivals but "other special units" also were in cluded. General March, reiterated the statement that the bulk of the competant American troops going to Italy will be sent from the western front, their' places being Immediately taken by new regiments from the United SUes. "No definite plan for the increase of these forces from the United Staes has been reached," Secretary Baker said later, in commenting upon the announcement. 1 "It should be em phasized that the shipment of fur ther increments depends largely up on future developments. FALL KILLS LIECTEX AXT. HOUSTON. Texas, June 29. Sec ond Lieut. Edmond R. Cole, of Jer sey City, N. J., was killed when his airplane crashed to the earth one mile northwest of Ellington field last night. Lieutenant Ronald Knapp who was also in the "airplane, was not hurt. The airplane was wrecked. LACK S NOW IS THE TIME TO. GET THBI We make a specialty of Blacks in fabrics of all kinds, and altbofjgh it-may seem a little Rtrange to suggest them in midsummer, don't delay your purchase because these are the best qualities obtainable and -our prices are below jnill quotations today. WOOLENS lack All Wool Dress Good and Coatings such as Serges, Poplins, Gabardines, Mohairs, Batistes, Hairline Serges A wonderful and immense stock priced at $1.25 toj $3.50 a yard. SATINS Black Dress Satins suitable, for all uses in Coats, Suits, Dresses and Trimming, etc -J$6 to 40 inches wide, at $1.75, $1.05, $2.25, $2.40 $1.35 a yard. CLOSED A - X AIL DAY . ) JULY41B iiy PACKERS ARE ACCUSED OF PROFITEERING Manufacturers of All -Basic Commodities Charged with Greed and Barefaced Fraud in Report REPORTS PADDED TO CONCEAL OPERATIONS Protest Made by Big Com panies Against Discover ies of Commission. WASHINGTON. June 23. Profit eering on a tremendous scale in piactically alt the basic commodities of life was reported to the senate to day by the federal trade commis sion as the result of an exhaustive Investigation. - "Inordinate greed and barefaced fraud as well as "war pressure for heavy production, the com m lesion repotted as the causes. ' Reappraisements of properties were made by great concerns when it became evident that the govern ment was about to fix prices on a basis of return on investment, the report, said.' and salaries, allowances and expenses were in many instances padded to show incieased cost of con ducting business. Five Manipulate Market. The outstanding feature of its in vestigation, the commission report ed was the evidence of a tendency to Increase and maintain prices against the force of competition. Of all big profits disclosed by the investi gation, the report said, the ptofits of the meat packers and those allied with them and by the flour millers, stand foremost, despite the fixing of prices by the government. - - Manipulations of the market by the five great packers Armour and company. Swift. Morris. Wilson and Cudahy the commission asserts, "embrace every device that is use ful to them without regard to law. ' The report charges that the five concerns have monopolistic control of the meat Industry and "are reaching for like domination la other ' pro 1 ducts. " 9140,000,000 rocketed. During 1915. 1915 and 1917. the report said. these companies -pocketed" $140,000:000. The experience with steel, flour and coal, says the report referring to price fixing, shows that a high stimulating fixed price, while estab lishing an ascending market pro duced an econimic situation "which Is fraught with hardship to the con suming public and - with ultimate peril to the high cost companies through such power of their low cost competitors. Where the government has fixed prlcs on the basis of fair return on net, investment, the repoit hints at padded depreciations. Increased sal aries of officials, new. construction charged oft as repairs, fictiuous val ues on raw materials and manipulat ed inventories. PACKERS MAKK ItEORT CHICAGO. June 25. Sharp re torts were made tonight by represent atives of Armour and company. I or ris and company, and Swift and com pany denying charges of profiteering made in the report of federal trade commission investigators at Wash ington. - The packers statements declared the present Is no time for any one branch of governmental activity to strike at the? packing Industry as It Is trying to supply the American army with meat. The statements, too. called attention to the fact that their profits were but a fractional part of a cent per pound of product and directed attention to the prices of meats to consumers and the prices paid for livestock to Indicate wheth er or not the packers have been prof iteering. FRANCHISE LAW TO BE TESTED Sait Against Spanieling Log ging Company and Ser vice Commission Begun. J. P. Logan who has operated the Kings Valley Flouring mill on the Luckiamute river in lienton county for fifty years, and who more than half a century, ago built dams to furnish water power for the mill has Instituted Injunction proceedings against - the Charles K. Spauldiar; Logging company of Salem and Vat public - service commission and will test the constitutionality of the boom franchise law passed by the last leg islature.' - r- : Suit is being brought in Polk county and the defendents are. cited to" appear within twenty days.' Ac- ' (Continued on pago 2) Two Stretches of Road Approved by Government Government approval has been re ceived ' by the state highway com mission for grading -the Union Telocaset stretch of road in Union county a distance of six miles. The estimated cost Is $30,000 to be shar ed equally by the state and the gov ernment. Approval also has been re ceived for the Elgin Mlnam improve ment of 93 miles between La Grande and Enterprise. The state and the government will share equally the estimated cost of $42,000. Bids on this project are now being advertis ed for and will he opened at a meet ing of the commission In Portland July 9. NTRSIXCi SC1IOOLH OT OPEV. NEW YORK. June 29. An army schoool of nursing with branch train ing centers In various military hos pitals throughout the country will be established Immediately by , the army medical department, according to announcement here tonight. REDULimOF COAL SOON TO BE ANNOUNCED Fuel Administration Now Pre paring Orders for Man ufacturers. ELECTRICITY AFFECTED Unnecessary -Use of Display and Advertising Lights to Be Checked, f WASHINGTON. June 29. Reduc tions in the quantity of coal con sumed In the manufacture of electric ity and gas will be put into effect soon by aa order which the fuel ad ministration announced today lslnl preparation. The fuel admlnlstrajT tlon'i announcemen that details have been worked out,' says In every city and Tillage electricity Is wasted. The country needs now and for the whole prelod of the war will need mora coal than It can possibly produce and transport," says the statement.; "Confronted by this con dition.' the fuel administrator will order radical reductions In the quantity of coal consumed In the manufacture'of electricity and lllural natlnc ass used for the ' purposes specified. While the official order has not yet been signed. It Is ex pected that It will provide for closer restrictions tn the new England states. New York. Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Deleware, District of Colum bia and Maryland, than In other states where the transportation of coal Is not such a tremendous prob lem. - ' In any case It Is expected, the order will provide that' no theater or other outdoor lights shall be turn ed or until the street lights shall have been lighted.' "Unnecessary daylight use of elec tric lights and electric advertising displays will probably be shut off al together. The order will deal also with store window light and will ex tend to all kinds or fuel. Including gas and oil. PROPAGANDISTS TAKEN IN RAID San Francisco. Apartment House Gives up Three Active LW. W. RAN FRANCISCO. June 29.-In a raid late tonight on apartment house In the downtown-district, the "neu trality squad" of the police depart ment took three men. said by polle to have been among the most active I. W. W. propagandists on the coast. They were Herbert Stredwick. secre tary of the Pacific coast headquart ers of the I. W. W.; Fred Landers. awitlng the outcome of a deporta tion charge laid by U. S. Commis sioner of Immigration Edward White, and John - Dymond. under indict ment In the federal district court at Fresno In connection with the burning of hay barns in the Mo desto district. - Dymond Is said by police Captain J. J. O'Meara. head of the neutrality squad, of being the chief sabotage propagandist of the I. W. W. in this section of the country. The men will pro baby be arralnged. Monday. nix; no convict idextified MA DILL. Okla.. Lougious Mc oill. a nerro convict. 'said to have been Identified as the man who at tempted to attack the wife of a for mer Uvlng near here, and who later is said to have stabbej the woman, inflicting' probable fatal injuries.' was lynched early today by a mob of 500 persons, according to informa tion received here tonight. - TIIE YEATIIER Sunday fair; moderate winds. - ' 's " rcsterly EARLY LIFE RENEWED AT HOM COMING Days of Youth Lived Again When Pioneers Gather in Willson Park from All Parts .of Northwest EVENT OCCASION FOR REUNION OF FAMILIES Dinner Served Out-of-Doors and Informality Marks Day's Pleasure. In benediction not heavily, as that of an oppressor the hand of time rests upon the heads of Oregon pioneers. If the hundreds who gath ered for Salem's home-coming yester day fairly represent ' the f orelopers who tamed the wilds of Oregon In the years agone. Few there were who had not seen their seventy winters, one was a non ogenerian and one sprightly woman with queenly white hair was the first white child born J a Salem, seven ty seven years ago. but all of them lived anew the days of youth. They sang songs that the younger gener ations did not know, they recalled the courting days of half a century ago and joked at remembrance of the frivolities of yotth as if they had occurred only last week. When the Tlands were served on table spread beneath the trees I Willson park those men and women In their CO's and ?0's and SO's ate with tkt ap petites of plow-boys and hired girls, and. after dinner some of those old chaps smoked cigarettes with utter abandon. ... . Waa First White Child. In the past there bss been some dispute as to'who was the first white Child born In Salem, hut all doubt was dispelled yesterday. That dis tinguished person was on the grounds sad she Is Mrs. Maria Campbell Smith, now living In Portland. Mrs. Smith was bom In Salem in 11(1. seventy-seven years age. 'Time has dealt kindly with her and she talks like a girl. One of those who reminisced yestar day was Glenn O. Hoi man of Dallas. Mr. Holman Isn't so old. but he re members a long wsy back at that. "I Just saw Hattie Looaey. said Mrs. Holman. "the first Urns in forty, three years. She nsed to be Hattie Clark. I took her to a party in the fall of 74 and that was the last Una I saw her until todsy. I knew her the minute I heard her voice and It didn't take her long to recognise me either." Mrs. Looney lives at Jef ferson. Oliver Beers rsn Into an old neigh bor he hadn't seen for sixty years, A. N. Moo res and Justice George H. Burnett had the history and records of nearly everyone present at tongue's end. They pointed out A. B. Crossan who came to Salem sixty years ago and engsged la the mer cantile easiness and was afterwsrdi postmaster and fire commissioner. There was A. F. Teatoa. the oldest msa living who ever ran a famltare store In Salem, and Dan Bass who was born here, now one of the own ers of the Hotel Fry In Seattle. San ford Watson, when asked where bis present home Is. said: "Anywhere my hst's off. He came In HO, but has been passing recent years la Los Angeles. Chamherlin UrU Meet. Yesterday's home-comlag was the occasion for many a family reunion. For the first time In years the six Cbamberlin sisters were together. They are Mrs. O. A. Waller. Monroe; Mrs. Charles R. Weller. Ra!m Mrs. George WBelt. Spokane; Miss Ellen Chamberlln, Berkeley; Mrs. J. L. Sennits. Portland, and Mrs. Charles B. Moorrs. Portlsnd. AH formerly lived In Salem. ' Among those who have attained distinction since leaving Salem and who came home yesterday were Ste phen F. Chad wick and M.-rk Fuller ton. both members of the Washing' ton supreme court and residents of Olympla. Itwas a happy thought of the committee to place on the program Mrs. Hallle Tarrlsh nurd all. While the pioneer folk were 'on the sunny side of middle lire they heard Hattie Parrisk sing as a girl and when they heard her again yesterday they re marked that her voice had lost none of the richness of years gone by. .I jtfst know everybody here, and I wish they would never go away. said Mrs. -Durdall - almost tearfully. "Whyv I have known them since 1 was barely big enough to walk sad I want them to stay right here. Etrarskm Forewooa Feat a re. Automobiles awaited ' the trains yesterdsy and upon their arrival lan the forenoon the visitors were taken on a motor excursion 'about the city to note' changea that bars ' taken place since they left to make their homes elsewhere. The automobiles brought up at Willson park where dinner was served, followed by the progrssn. ' ' The program of the af ternooa op ( Continued on page 2). NICARAGUA TO CELEBRATE. MANAGUA. Nicaragua. June 1 The president of Nicaragua haa de creed the Fourth of July a holiday throaghout th republic "as a mark of homage to and admiration for the United States as the bulwar kof de mocrack with which Nicaragua la al lied In the great war. - Military commanders are charged to celebrate ' the day with due so lemnity. . J. A. 3UTCHELL DIES. ' - RIDGE FIELD. Conn., June 2S. John A. Mitchell, editor of Life, died at his summer home here late today, following a stroke of apoplexy suf fered earlier in the day. . HEAVY HAND. OF UNCLE SATiI FELT - - - - t Local Restaurants and Drink ing Places Losing Help Before Law Hits. Uncle Sam's heavr hand la belnr felt in 8alem and several restaurants and soft drink emporiums hsve been forsaken by . their male clerks or waiters who ir klar m nIriTm.n that will' receive favorable consider ation when the "woi or fight law becomes ooerstlve tomorrow 1 Ti law Is to be applied through the pro cess or re-eiassincauon of question naires. Attoar thniut moat 4lrttv f rt. ed by the regulation are maie'attend- anis m noteis ana clubs, employes In restaurants sad drinking places, elevator operators, ushers and ' at tendants for sports games and other amusements, persons" employed In domestic service and male sale clerks. The vacation of these rlinM of employment by men will leave many of them open for women. in the reclassification process slngte men on farms will be placed la 'Class I. learlnr their' elaces en farms for married men from the oc cupations mentioned above' as sf- rectea oy me -work or fight" law. and If the latter do nof ret lnfu the creditable occupations they w!ll ne arsnea.. Many men are to be removed from Cla-u 4 to Class 9 from which recruits are to be drawn rrom ny the draft Broceaa. A large number of heartaga are peaalag on broDosed transfers frera r"L ia a tn Class 2. Twsaty-flva easea are al- reaay sisiea ty tie local board and the hearings will begin Tuesday of this week. The board la working on the plan of getting a dean slate or siagle men Into Class 1 before transferring from Class 2 and these transfers will be deferred until all p reseat Class 1 njn sre drafted.- Ia trsajfenisg the naln sources will he from those who have Claimed exemctlea aa rrminAa ot agrionltaral occupation or de- rvnaeaia oiner man wires and child ren. Early Experiences, in Sclem Are TcH uiUtterlcr Home-Coming Program by Gtorge . Uhnes cf Oregon Historical Society Hade Uis Start Seiilz Type la the absence of George II. Hlmes from the home-coming celebration ia Salem yesterday, a letter written by him to A. N. Moo res was read by Justice George II. Burnett psrt of the program la Willson park. The letter recites experience of -Mr. lllmcs In the esrly days of SaJm and calls ap names that are familiar to the pioneers. Mr. Illm Is cur stor and aaalstant secretary of the Oregon Historical society. Ills let ter In part follows: Strictly spesklng. p-rbap. I have no right to claim the distinction or being a former resident of Salens: but owing to ray good fortuneja be ing ordered to go there on Septem ber 22. 18C. and my arrival three days later at a cost of llt.io. and la process of time becoming allied to a fine member or a fine family la the Capital City. I oeght to be gratefsl tn you and all others for the wllllag aea upon your part to recognise me aa one of your number. ' "For this I am truly grateful. "Mr first night ln,Salem was that of Monday, September 2(. Hi 4. The night before I stayed St Sam Brown's. HelpasaL He kept the stage station there. Supper, bed. breakfast, very good. Arrived In Salens at 10 a. m- heavy froet. and I was chilled to the marrow' Soon as f was thawed out began setting type In the second floor st "Iroore'a Corner." two rooms hsvlng been rented by Henry U Plt tock. 4hen state printer. In which a handpresa and a lot of type had been Installed tn order to do the neces sary Incidental work for the legisla ture then In session.7 Mr. PlttOck hsd personal charge of the' work, al though the late J. C. Moreland. al ways declared he was the foremsn. The office force was. la addition to those named, Jo. Henderson, E- T. Gunn. T. F.. McElroy (both called from Olympla), Mr. Clark and Mr". Ballard and myself. Ia addition to the Increase' in population caused by the legislature and the ususl comple ment of clerks, lobbyists, and other hangers-on. the state fair was being held. - Hence the city was crowded to the utmost, and 1 found it diffi cult to get lodgings anywhere. The persons above mentioned arrived in Salem a week or more ahead or ma. and had secured quarters, railing to find a bed anywhere," I hired a pair -of blanket! for 2S cents a nlht, paid SoL Durbia 25 cents for RESOLlfflOIS EXTEND HE forcontp,::, Hundreds of Short Line Rail roads Returned to PHt: Management Before "Pc: sage of BILL SOME RETAIffED TO V STAY IN RIG SYSTL" I Others May Be Taken On by Gorerciaect Aga'a Later ox WASHINGTON. Jane II. R! lutioas to extend from Jsly I to Jan uary 1. next, the time la which t? government may relinquish col tret over certain railroads, were- aie;u i ' late today by the house asd if: . with provisions forbid d leg relic oit of a road where a com pet: r cr coaaectiag llae la retained. D:::.--encea between the resolutions ct. further actios by Ue house et sary. HCSTDRED TTRXED RACK WAKJILSCTON. Jsse At t 179e short llae railroads vers t.r; ed.back to private maaasersest t day by the railroad admiti.Uii: i a few hoars before cosgreaa r.' legislation Intended to pretest i- relinquishment of many of thcra. r -twees Sfit and et the ro J. re linquished had sought to rtsuis t ri der government maaagt&eat. A -. t 400 short lines were retained aa a past of ike aatloaai system. Aanonacemeat of the action withheld bi the raUroad idc'.;!r.: . tlon until less than aa hc-r tc -t the legtalatlon which wcsVd ti topped tt waa fit ally eaactel. it waa explained ' that the rccrt made necessary by the ral!rcl at. provision requlrlag tae g-rfrz t to decide before J!y 1, wfcica she: Usee would be rtUJcei a&i t:-k, relinquished. Railroad adralalatratloa cfflc!- also explained that since the UfU.. Uoa was not taken up hr eitaer rf the hoosea of cr KTis ssul 4 o c: k 4hls afternoon tty reuU not In-- whether tt would be enacted. n -legislation therefore. Is virtually t;! Ufled. . ' t ' May It Take Back. More tkaa 1209 of Ue roads term ed back to private tsaaagemect - (Coatinsel on -page I). aa much tar as I coali carry, ar. 1 made a bonk on the prist: of r.re floor .and contlsued that plan for a week, at the ead of wtleh I ecort i a room a bed. rather I jt cr ania's hotel, on the eat site r tl street near the appraa of the r.i covered bridge, of asrUJag bat fra graat memory. 'I remaiaed at ic Mosamaa hotel aatXl October 17. ar t then began board! a g at the lf:su bouse, built by Charles Eseaett. a ploaeer of 1141. la 1151.' tcistt It will be remembered, rslaed a ten paay of velaateers la response o the call by Governor Ceorge U Carrr on October lt.'-lSSS, for a 1 orce u suppress the ladlaa hostilities tMt were laevldeace throughout aH Or goa territory frosa north to soau. The same condition existed In Wash ington territory, and volunteers wrre called for there by Governor I'-xn I. Stevens, forces from both terri tories united la righting the t ?U of Walla Walla, near the prtM-ct city of Walla Walla, Waahisr'oa. and there Captain Dennett was kill ed on December 7. ltlS. Ttr ts no doubt In my mind that he was ee of the discoverers of gold near rat ter's fort n January 24. 114 1. That waa 'a notable discovery, and ia sfterwarda It was heralded thtw j fr ont the earth, and resulted la the great movement ot gold hunters Into California la 19 4. ' 1 , " "More than two years before this dsta, however, to be precise, ta the fsU' of 1 5-the Bonney family, well known' In Oreron; psrtlcnUriy In the vleUIty of Woodburn. start ing from minols In the sprir- cf that year tor Oregon, were Ic. - 1 to go to California.' The wlatcr - spent Upon one of the trlbutsr',,- r' Feather river." Two r the girl cf the. Urn Hy one of.lh.rm afterward became the wife of C OBoynton of Woodburn in strolling along the little tributaries of this strra-. found from time to time small yar -clea of bright yellow metal : they thought 1 might he S; pect kind or sand. Two or three. t spoonruls of this sturr were, cr " which excited their curiosity, spring or 141 a surgeon t wttb Kreaonfa dettrfctr,? - . ed to the Bonney carr:? -advice and was thowt-.i He at oace Usted. it ani It sold, bat was att' TUac 'lle toot it t3 :