Tbe Statesman rwttTN tk . iMied "wire report of. lh4 K9 soclated- Press.' the greatttt tid'HMt' reliable press as sociation la the world. " SALEM, cmKONVSATI i:VAV MORXlX7. AlHilST wTdI1. FLEET BIDS GOODBYE TO SAN DIEGANS After ;Two Gay Days at First .i Port Personnel Make Ready . To Be Off at Dawn for Los , Angeles and Thence North UfETE RIVALS DAYS OF EXPOSITION IN 1916 Auto Rides, Picnics, Sports, Aerial Circuses Among Forms of Diversion SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Aug. 8. Tlie i-acmc-ueca tonight was making it self ready to leave San Diego At dawn tomotrow ror Ias Afcgeles. AUiore 5000 or more otfieers and men ou leave were bidding San Diego fare well after a two-day visjt during which ail the city's hospitality v.as snowerrd upon them. In the liarhor sad offshore rapidly blinking, elec tric signals flashe.l between the sh!ps naa wireless message were oein? seat giving last minute instruction before sailing from AdPiiral llub . Rodman. commander in chief, to the I eouituanders of vessels. The 20 warships cf the fleet will weigh anchor nr. cast off from moor ing or docks at G o'clock tonuKiow mrning. Eight hours later they will be at San Pedio. . . City it Thronged. Fan Diego's streets, places of amusement ana parks were full to day. Every 'sailor who could possi bly be spared from the fleet was al lowed ashore and they came in relays of hundreds for a few hoars or for the day as circumstances permitted their officers to allow. .OUht thon-. sauds of visitors were here from the fruit ranches, farms, towns and cit ies of inland southern California. Every San Diegan, practical ly with out exception, found time to spend on the visiting seamen: Essential iiusJness' was conductd, but first attention was paid the sailors and officers. ' Automobiles would pick up a load of men from the fleet, from down town oints. drive them through the tity and ret.irn them only to take ut another crowd. The city plaza, in the heart of the downtown section was given over to serving the sailors with all kinds of food and drink with out cost by the Knights of Columbus Y. M. C. A. and local organizations. At Balboa Park, where the ex j position was held in 1915 and 1916, the women of San Diego Berved a lunch at a picnic to all sailors who came. Admiral Rodman alone de tailed 2200 men to the picnic, but hundreds of others on shore leave attended. An - athletic program at the stadium d:ew another 2200 al ' lotment sent by Admiral Rodman from the fleet and it, too. drew sail ors and civilians besides these. . Day light dances tonight In many halls with girls for every sailor were giv en. Petty ofifcers and enlisted men met in a swimming contest tonight at the plunge for service men. There was an organ recital at Balbna nark and many private social affairs were lield for the fleet personnel. In the early evening aviators at North Is land, both naval and military, gave flying exhibitions. Jlorc Coming. Fleet officials announced today the battleship Nebraska, cruiser St- attle ad tender Melville would join "the fleet at Los Angeles tomorrow. The super-dread naught Arizona will Join the main fleet at San Francisco September 1. when "a rendezvous i3 held there for the review planned to be held In honor of President Wil- son. Other vessels also "will have ar rived at San Francisco from the,east coast before that time, it was said Secretary of the Navy Daniels with Commander Foote; his personal aide, and several of the visiting ad- - mirals here wfth the fleet and from navy headquarters at Washington and San Francisco passed a busy day inspecting naval sites on San Diego (Continued on page 3) A GOOD HOME AT A BARGAIN PRICEIF TAKEN AT ONCE It is in the southern resi dence 'district'"' of Salem. Large lot. Will "sell at less than it would eost to build the house: $3000 Better act. This bargain will not keep. Better see me to day. 1 C W. NIEMEYER Masonic Bldg. Phone 1000 BERRIES STAND IN SUN : : : : : SPOOFTHEY BLOW UP COMPANY ASKS DAMAGES Loganberries will explode if left confined too long in the sun. ac cording to the alleeationa of Wnrt. hamB & Kerr Br Bos. of Portland. This company has asked permis sion of the court to file an answer in the action of the Willamette Valley Transfer company against F. A. Welch in Which the company seeks to recover $104 alleged to be one for t ansporting .S barrels of loganberries from Salem to Portland. The Wad'hams & Kerr firm explain- that in employing the trans fer company to haul the berries to Portland Welch was acting merely as their agent. They al lege that the transfer company was negligent and allowed the berries to stand in the sun until they began to ferment and that six or seven barrels exploded. They ask that the suit of the transfer company be dismissed and that they be awarded damages of $200. RIOT GUARDSMEN ARE WITHDRAWN Removal of Troops Made by ' Governor on Request of Mayor Thompson CHICAGO. Aug. .8 On request of Mayor Tho;ruon, state trocps wer-s ordered by Governor Lcwden remov- ed today from the scenes of last week's race riots and the stockyards today after a general strike of union workers had bady crippled packing companies and livestock dealers had notified producers to suspend ship ments to Chicago temporarily. Union leaders declared the strike would continue nntil jMjIice and deputy sher iffs also had left the yards. EDITORS FAVOR EXTRA SESSION State Association Adapts Res olution for Meeting of Legislature PORTLAND. Or., Aug. 8J At its annual convention held here today the Oregon State Editorial associa tion adopted resolutions favoring a special session of the Oregon legisla ture to act on the national woman's suffrage amendment and to amend the Roosevelt highway act passed ,by the voters last 'June so as to re move obstacles to federal aid now said to exist In the measure. . The officers elected were: Presi dent, C. E. Ingalls, Corvallis. re elected; vice-president, G. P. Cheney. Enterprise; ' secretary - treasurer. Lloyd Riches, Oregon Cliy, re-elected; v members executive (committee John E. Gratke, Astoria. WILSON CHARGED WITH "PLAYING POLITICS" AND "PASSING BUCK" BY 5000 STRIKING SHOP WORKERS Administration Hears Most Men Fast Returning to Johs Pending Adjustment of Wage Demands hy Hines Union Headquarters Confident of Amicable Settlement 14 Ar rests Made as Result of Car Walk Out DENVER. Colo.. Aug. 8. Charges that President Wilson was "playing politics" t.nd "passing the buck were voiced by striking railroad shop men at a :nass meeting attended by .".000 strikers here' this afternoon. Practically all shopmen in Denver walked out today, according to un ion leaders, who place the number of strikers at 6000. Railroad offi cials contend only SjOC men are out. A resolution calling upon the in ternational officers of the shopmen's unitno to call a general strike and Chus make the walkout legal was adopted this afternoon. Iotatoei Go Up. The price of optatoes here rose from five to six and one half cents a pound today as a result of the st ike. MEN FAST RETUIISISG 1IKAKS ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, Aug.' g.-Reports began to arrive at the railroad ad ministration late today from all the country saying that the striking shop men were returning to work 'pending the adjustment of their wage de mands by Director General Hines. Kansas City and" Cincinnati offi cials expressed belief that normal conditions would prevail tomorrow. At all places where men are out, lo cal officials of the railroad admin istration are cooperating with nnion chairmen in explaining the 'neces sity for going back to the job at once, which President Wilson made a prerequisite to opening of nego PEACE PACT IS RATIFIED BY BEGIUM Pending Action by League of Nations Belgians Seek Im mediate Guarantees by Re vision of Treaty of 1830 RUMANIANS CALLED TO TASK BY CONFERENCE Unofficial Report Says Bal kan Ally, Would Take . German Aid BRUSSELS. Aug. 8. The cham ber of deputies today unanimously ratified the peace treaty with Ger many. During the discus&ion of the treaty the foreign minister said: "The league of nations fails to of fer immediate guaranlees and com pels us to look to our own defense That is why we are seeking at Paris a revision of the treaties of 1830. "I wish to assure our delegates that the whole nation supports them Revision of the treaties will provide the required guarantees." Thte chamber also ratified the an nex to the treaty concerning the mil itary convention entered into by France. United States, Great Britain and Belgium. RUMANIAN' DKLEfiATE IS CAIXKD HKFORK X)XFEUEXCF PARIS. Aug. 8. (By The Asso ciated Press) Nicholas Misu, of the Rumanian peace delegation was called today before the supreme council on account of the Ruman ians refusal to comply with the de mands of the peace conference. M Misu denied that Rumania had brok en away from the peace conference, but explained that Rumanian offi cers in Budapest had ignored the su preme council's orders. The attitude of the Rumanians Is causing great embarrassment to the supreme council, it Is understood.' Rumania's violation of the peace conference's ordtrs at this time when the harvest renders her temporarily self-supporting is said to have sur prised conference members, who hold that Rumania's economic future depends upon the allies good will They expressed resentment at the unofficial statement of the Ruman ians that Germany will help them if the allies do not. l'KIDL MINISTRY IS INTERNED IS REPORT VIENNA, Thursday, Aug. 7. (By the Associated Press) The Ru manian forces of occupation In Bu- ( Continued on page 3) Unioa headquarters were equally confident that the shopmen would make it almost a one hundred per cent return. "We should be able to commence negotiations Tuesday with Director General Hines under terms of the president's letier with the men back at work," said act ins; President Jew ell of the railway section of the Am erican Federation of Iator. About 40.000 out of the estinvated 500.000 nitn in the shop crafts have walked out, according tn union esti mates. 14 ARRESTS MADE IN CONNECTION WITH STRIKE NEW YORK. Aug. S.-Public ser vice Commissioner Lewis Nixon an nounced late today that Lindley M Garrison, received of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company, had accept ed his services as mediator in the strike which for three days has par alyzed traffic on 4he surface, subwa and elevated lines operated by the romDanr. Mr. Garrison, according tn Mr, Nixon, also has asreed to meet a committee of his employes Fourteen arrests on charges of at tempting to destroy railroad prop erty were made today in connection with the strike Which vas indirectly responsible fo rthe deaths of two persons ana injury 10 neany j uu ers. P. J. Shea, strike director, assert ed anrooximtately 8700 of the com nanv's 13.000 employes had walked out. AUSTRIAN NOTE IS APPEAL TO ALLIES' HEART Burdens Unjustly Great De clare Austro-German Representatives SAD PLIGHT SET FORTH Plan of Debt Adjustment Held Unfair to Mass , of People COPENHAGEN. Thursday. Aus. 7. A summary of the Austrian note presented to the allied peace conw mission at St. Gevmain, France, yes terday, has been received here from Vienna. "If German-Austria's territorial demands' are fulfilled to the mini mum extent maintained for in the appendix to the note." says the sum mary. "eGrmtin-Austria will make efforts to live independently ond ib peace in this territory. She expects the league of nations will hear Ur in her hour of distress. "On the other hand German-Austria still is firmly convinced that the economic burdens imposed upon her by the pea -e treaty cannot :ea,lly be carried out and that If they are not substantially lightened she is bound to collapse. Plight is Pleaded. "It will be impossible for the next few montbs to deliver milking cows and cattle, as German-Austria's chil dren are perishing for lak of meat and milk. German-Austi la must, al low herself to be placed under the entente powers' financial control, but sue expects the repatriation com mittee will act with the considera tion demanded by her desperate po sition and grant the necessary cred its to obtain raw materials and food stuffs." The note urge3 amendment with a view to Investing a commission with plenary powe:s, regarding all economic and financial peace condi tions. It then argues the states which succeeded it and the injus tice of stipulations regarding war loans." lebt Division Not Liked. "It seems self-evident, the note continues, "that all states In what was formerly Austria Hungary should divide the debts -of . the old monarchy. Apart from the bank note debt, clauses in the peace treaty how a burden of debt for German- Austria of some forty billion marks. Thus two thirds of the entire debt of the Austrian states, without the note debt, is placed on the shoulders f onaifth of the former popuia tion." The note proposes, as in the case of pre-war. debts, that all debts shall be divided by the reparations com naision according to the ability of in diivdual btates to meet them. A sim- lar T-roposal is nsade regarding Aus- tro-Hungarlan bank notes held abroad. The note concludes with a refer ence to fettling accounts wiwetu German-Austria and other state of the fo-.-mer monarchy, declaring that stipulations not capable of fulfill ment must be removed ana tnese questions regulated by the repara tions commission in order not to pro long the peace negotiations. "It would be or maispuiaDie vaiue fr all parties." the note adds, "if the members of tbe German-Austrian deputation were heard and called up on to give oral explanations befo-e the committees." COTAjfSQUICK WORK SAVES PAY . i Tug Commandeered at Last Moment and Fleet s Gobs Get Money SAN DIEGO. Cal., Aug. 8. The ten thousand or more sailors on the Pacific fleet would have had a mon eyless t-.lp to Sab Diego had it not been for tne quick action or captain Q. R. Venable, fleet paymaster on the flagship New .Mexico. The cap tain has sailed nearly a million miles in L'ncHe Sam's service. The night before the fleet steamed away from Fortress Monroe. Captain Venable discovered that $2,000,000 sent him by Washington was iniesing. The money should have betn addressed care of the boat at Fortress Monroe and after imich messaging by tele phone and telecraph the fleet pay master found trace of tne gold in Norfolk. All the flagship's launches were in service and Captain Venable prac tically commandeered a tug that had Just arrived from Bermuda and put- tine an armed guard on ooara, sia.x ed for Norfolk. The skipper of thi tue had ever been Into Norfolk and had to pick out his course at night by lighted buoys. The money was located in an express office, placed on the tug and arter negotiating the narrow channel aws put saftly aboard the New Mexico a few hours befo.e the rieet sailed. . Liverpool Tramway Strike Ends; Work Starts Saturday LIVERPOOL. Aug. 8. The strike on the tramways of this city waa set tled today. Work will be resumed Saturday. PRICE LIST ON FOOD IS MADE PUBLIC War Department Tells How to Get Provisions Through Postoffice at Rate Far Be low Retail Figure ! SALES TO INDIVIDUALS TO BEGIN AUGUST 18 Bacon a 25 Cents; and Oth er Things in Proportion Are Offered WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. The war o'cpanrtHut made public today a com idete price ibu on all subsistence stores available for sale td the pub lic through the parcel post or through municipal selling agencies. Cost or the cononiditifS to the gov ernment, ine deitment said, had been disregarded entirely in fixing the pricts tf sale which are material ly lower than prevailing market prices. PHce F. O. II. Storage Poiat. The 1 ieea o.ioted are free on board and from siorare points in each of the thirteen district intn which the country Is divided for war depart nunt subsistence purposes. Tbe department now is redistribu ting the food supplies In the thirteen areas in o:ler that each may have its proportion per population of the tZ articles offered for sale. The price tables include the price per can or Individual units in each i case and also the price oer cas or large containers. It also shows the i gross wetsrht per can and per case in order that the public mar arrive at the price they will have to pay by adding parcel post rates from the nearest distributing point to the home of the consumer to the free on board prices quoted. Orders Through PoKtoffice. . . Municipal selling agencies will compute freight charges on these shipments to be added to the price quoted by the war department. On the parrel post distribution no or ders will be received direct by the war department but only through the postoffice department which will requisition the supplies by case or larger package, tbe postmasters In tarn breaking these shipments up in to unit packages of a single can or several cans. Sales to municipalities at the new prices will begin as soon as the sur plus property officers at the various zone supply offices and depots have received the quotations made public today. Sales to individuals through the parcel post will be Inaugurated August IS. Htre Are a Few IMcen. Quotations on some of the lead ing commodities are: Bacon. $4.15 per can of 17 pounds; corned beef. S3 cents for can of 1.36 pounds; baked beans, j cents for can of 1 pounds; sweet corn, in cents per 2U pound can; dty beans. 16.49 per 100 pounds; crackers. 5 and C cents a opund; army flour. $6 per 100 pounds; macaroni. 7 rents per 1 pounds: rolled oats. 12 cents per 2' pounds; seeded tatsins, 10c per pound: rice. $6.74 per 100 lbs.; tomatoes, nine cents per tHO-t.ound can, and white corn meal, f Z..-V per hundred pounds. MEXICAN PROBE POYER IS GIVEN Committee to Investigate Oat- rages and Recommend Remedial Action WASHINGTON. Aug. X. Blank et authority to bring out all 'he factM about Mexican outrages on Ameinrt cans and American property and to formulate a remedial program, was given to the foreign relations com mittee today by the senate. By unanimous vote a resolution directing the Inquiry was adopted after its provisions had) been stif fened In committee so as to uake subject to investigation "any and all acts of the governments of Mexico and Its cl'.izens'ia derogation of the rirhts of the United States or its citizens." Fall Lead Sub-Committee. Later Chairman Lodge named a sub-conmiittee headed by Senator Fall. Republican. Ntw Mc-xiro. to do the actual work of examining wit nesses and collecting information The sub-committee will begin its task within a few days. The provision authorizing the com m it tee also to recommend what mcas ures shall be taken to prevent fur ther outrages was added at the sug gestion of Senator Ashorst. Demo crat, Arizona. ITnder this clause it is sail a definite Mexican policy will be formulated and submitted as recommendation to the administra tion. In the opinion of some foreign re lations me-.nbers the task before the committee will be a matter of months STEP. OFF TRUCK FATAL MAN TRIES TO GET HAT - FALL FRACTURES SKULL PENDLETON, Or.. Aug. 8. His attempt to recover his hat. which had blown from his head while he was riding on a trnck last night, cost Bert K. Akera, his life. Akerc. who was an employe of the Penland Transfer company, either rell from the truck while it was la action or stepped off in such po-. si tion as to throw him heavily to the ground. Hit skull was crushed and he died today. DANIELS SAYS .; ACT UNOFFICIAL Secretary Not Aware Papers Had Rodman Speech Which Was Cancelled SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Ang. f. Secre tary Daniels authorized a statement today in which he told briefly of th circumstances that led to Admiral Rodman's announcement last night at a banquet that a speech he had prepared In advance would have to remain In his pocket, as Secretarp Daniels had censored it and told him not to use iu Secretary Daniels said: "Admiral Rodman showed me copy of a speech that he had written, and I commented upon it and ad vised that a certain paragraph be omitted. I did not know that I was acting In any official capacity as censor at the time, nor did I know that the speech had been sent broad cast in advance. Had I known that copies were In the hands of the news papers I would have made no ob jection to the use of the speech. Commeat Informal "The sneech was shown me and I commented nnon It In an Informal manner." - A paragraph tn the admiral's speech which the secretary thought should be eliminated referred to pos sible fnture wars. Admiral Rodman future wars. . Admiral Rodman laughingly said today that the whoU arair amounted to nothing and D didn't bother me a bit. JAP SHIP LIMPS BACK INTO PORT Vessel Transfers Envoys and Copy of Treaty to Russia At Sea SEATTLE. Aug. 8. The Japanese liner Pusiral Mm. which left hens August S for the Orient. Is llmpin? back to port with a cracked cylinder bead and her steam steering gear out of commission, according to a wireless message received here by the merchant's exchange. She turn ed back -hen 30 miles off Cape Flattery and will arrive here early tomorrow. Aboard the Fusiml Marn was a aprty of Japanese army officials and peace delegation attaches who are taking to Japan the first official copy of the peace treaty to reach the Orient. As the Fusiml was heading back to tbe coast she passed the Ca nadian Pacific liner Empress of Rus sia bound from Vancouver to the Orient. The Fusiml transferred the envoys to the Russia at sea. ALIENS MENACE RIVER SALMON Foreigners Not Permitted to Fish in Colombia Kill Baby Fish PORTI-AND. Aug. 8. Allen fish ermen from the ports around Puget Sound aie ai-cnsd by John Larson. a deputy fisn warden or Astoria, or destroying almon in vast numbers just off the mouth of the Colombia river. In a rport made to the Ore gon game ana fish commission I-ar- son declared the very lire of the salmon fishing industry was being menaced hy the operations of the aliens, who operate outside the riv er because their lack of citizenship disqualifies them under the law f-r-ru fishing inide the river. All Dsn which they catch and which are too small to be sold, he charged are be ing destroyed. AUSTRIAN WHO CLAI EXBIPTION AND.YHO WOULD FIGHT FOR AUSTRIA IN ANOTHER WAR : REMAINS AUSTRIAN BY COUNTY CLERK'S ORDER PORTLAND. Or.. Aug. S. "Sup pose there should be another war, would yon fight. for this country. asked Deputy County Clerk Easter, In charge of naturalization, of Mat Recich. Austrian, who appeared be fore him today seeking Hrst papers. "No; If I have fighting to do. ITI MR. WILSON GIVES PLANS 1: TO CONGRESS High , Prices - Due to . Vjcious Practices Says President Early Ratification of Treaty Will Help is Declaration STRIKES .WILL HINDER, , , IMMEDIATE ADJUSTMENT it Rigid Enforcement of Present Law and Legislatidn With KickUrxed WASHINGTON. Apg. .Presi dent Wilson 'laid several specific pro posals before congress today tor checking the high cost of living, bat at the same time declared permanent results conld not be expected until peace time bases were fully restored by ratification or the peace treaty. High price, the ! president . told congress, were not justified by short age of supplies either present or proa pectlve. bnt were created fn many cases "artificially and deliberately" by "vicious practices,"" Retailers, he said, were responsible In large part for extortionate prices. Strike Defeat CHrw EjmIs. " Strikes, the' president warned the labor world, would only make mat ters worse and those who sought Is employ threats or coercion were only preparing their own destruction. Leaders of organized labor, the pres ident said, he was tare wouU prseni ly yieia id second sooer mongai. , . "Illegal-, and "criminal were the J words the president used In charac terizing the methods by which some present day prices have been, brought aboat. Stronger Laws Vrged. . . . Present laws, he said, would be energetically employed to the limit to force ont food hoards, and 'meet the situation, no far. as possible, but Fo supplement the. existing statutes he specifically nr?.id the following: Licensing of all co:?dratlon "en gaged In interstate .commerce". with specific regulation designed .to se cure competitive selling and pre vent unconscionable profits' In tne method of marketing. Extension of the food control act to peace times and the application of Its provisions against hoarding t fuel, clthlag and other necessities ot life as well as food. resalty for Profiteering. A penalty in the food control act for profiteering.' A law regulating cold storage, lim iting the time wliich goods may be hell; prescribing a method of dis posing of then if beld beyond the permitted period and rtqalriag . tfcat when released goods bear . the -date of storage. Laws requiring that goots releas ed from storage for Interstate com merce bear tha selling prices at which they went into storage and re quiring that all goods destined for Interstate comsnerce bear' the . price at which they left the Lands of the producer. .... Enactment of the pending bill for the control for security laaJes. 1 ... Additional appropriations for gov ernment axencies which can supply the public jwlth fall Information, as to prices at which retailers buy. Early Rallflratlnw Held Imperative Early raUfteatton ot tbe fpeace treaty so that the -freer processes of supply and demand can operata. . Immediate steps . by executive sgenciea of the government promised by the president Included: The limiting and controlling of wheat shipments and credits to facil itate the purchase of wheat la sncb a way as not to raise, bat rather to lower prices of floor at home. Sale of surplus rt;xks or rooo ana clothing In the hands of lhe govera ment. . The forced withdrawal from stor age and sales of . ssrplns stocks . In private hands. General recommendations Inclao- ed: Increase of orod action. Careful baying by housewives. Fair deabng with the people on the part of the producers, middle men snd merchants. ,,, Threats Disparaged. That there be no threats sad -due insistence upon the Interest of a sinsle elaM. " Correction of "nianv things," la the relation between capital and la bor la rerpect to wages and condi tions ot labor. , ; In continuing the president made (Con tinned on page 2) go back to Austria snd do It. was the. reply of a man who had been 19 years in the United Stales and is working at a local shipyard. (Its registration csrd showed be bad claimed exemption from service oa account of being an enemy alien. Easter refused Peclcb bis papers. tiations. , -